Re: /usr/sbin/ppp doubling connections on tun0

2012-11-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 11/20/2012 2:49 AM, andrew clarke wrote: I'm using /usr/sbin/ppp for PPPoE over an ADSL modem in bridged mode: # ifconfig tun0 tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1492 options=8LINKSTATE inet 203.217.27.170 -- 203.215.15.252 netmask 0x

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread jb
Robert Bonomi bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com writes: ... You gave portsnap two commands - one succeeded and the other failed. Nope. I gave ONE command: 'portsnap fetch update'. FALSE TO FACT. No way. UNIX command (on a command line, also called CLI), is anything

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:15:16 + (UTC) jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Robert Bonomi bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com writes: You persist in repeating your error. ... Well, yes - CLI applies to many environments (not only OSs), with the same basic format. Why don't the pair of

SSD for FreeBSD NAS device

2012-11-20 Thread bsd
Hello, I have just acquired an Intel R2312GZ4GC4 which I have equipped with a Adaptec RAID 51245 and 6 WD red disks of 3To - It'll come with 32Gb of Kingston ECC RAM. I am planing to use It as a backup device on a second hosting facility to backup couple of critical servers of mine.

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread jb
Steve O'Hara-Smith ateve at sohara.org writes: ... Educate yourselves, please. It's scary when one confuses command arguments with a command because some nitwit described/called it that way. jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-20 Thread Mike Meyer
Zach Leslie xaque...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.fossil-scm.org/ l I'm not fossil user, but it's BSD licensed in written in C. Also, this particular tool bails out on the unix philosophy, with its web gui, ticket tracker etc. Do one thing. Do it well. I would argue that git bails on that

Re: Recent security announcement and csup/cvsup?

2012-11-20 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/20/2012 12:45 PM, Mohacsi Janos wrote: Dear Ollivier and all, I have problem with the portsnap: I maintain a private repository under the /usr/ports: There is a /usr/ports/tmp where I store new ports to be tested, and submitted. The portsnap is removing unrecognized local files.

Re: PPPoA section of FreeBSD Handbook

2012-11-20 Thread RW
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:51:51 +1100 andrew clarke wrote: On Tue 2012-11-20 11:49:38 UTC+1100, andrew clarke (m...@ozzmosis.com) wrote: In the meantime I've switched to using mpd5 (/usr/ports/net/mpd5) and /sbin/ipnat. So far, so good: # ifconfig ng0 ng0:

Tuning modern (i.e. 9.x) FreeBSD Systems for 'servers' - any guides?

2012-11-20 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, We've got a number of 9.x systems in service - replacing a number of older 6/7/8 ones. In the olden days (going back quite a while) you had to fiddle around with stuff like NMBCLUSTERS, MAXUSERS etc. In fact, if you have a look around Google it's littered with guides/articles for this

Re: /usr/sbin/ppp doubling connections on tun0

2012-11-20 Thread Fbsd8
andrew clarke wrote: I'm using /usr/sbin/ppp for PPPoE over an ADSL modem in bridged mode: # ifconfig tun0 tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1492 options=8LINKSTATE inet 203.217.27.170 -- 203.215.15.252 netmask 0x inet

Re: SSD for FreeBSD NAS device

2012-11-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 20), bsd said: I have just acquired an Intel R2312GZ4GC4 which I have equipped with a Adaptec RAID 51245 and 6 WD red disks of 3To - It'll come with 32Gb of Kingston ECC RAM. I am planing to use It as a backup device on a second hosting facility to backup couple of

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Nov 20 03:17:25 2012 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com Subject: Re: portsnap Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:15:16 + (UTC) Robert Bonomi bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com writes: ... You gave portsnap two

Dispatching software that works

2012-11-20 Thread NetDispatcher
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Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread jb
Robert Bonomi bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com writes: ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface ... The general pattern of an OS command line interface is: prompt command param1 param2 param3 ... paramN No argument -- for _that_ meaning of the word. That, however, is not

Re: LSI 2008 drivers

2012-11-20 Thread Cejka Rudolf
Alltek Supplies Tech Support/Customer Service wrote (2012/11/19): Good afternoon, We're looking to build a ZFS storage device with FreeBSD version 8.3, however, the Supermicro based hardware comes with LSI 2008 SAS controller card and we were told that LSI / Supermicro doesn't have a driver

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:46:55 + (UTC) jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Educate yourselves, please. It's scary when one confuses command arguments with a command because some nitwit described/called it that way. jb Well with nearly 30 years in unix software development I do know a

Xorg got stuck sometimes

2012-11-20 Thread David Demelier
Hi there, Sometimes, Xorg got stuck but I can't reproduce it always. When it appears, Xorg just stop being usable and mouse / keyboard can't be used also, switching to tty does not work at all and the screen is frozen. But I still can use ssh to connect the broken host and shutdown it

Re: Xorg got stuck sometimes

2012-11-20 Thread Hooman Oroojeni
Try to rebuild Xorg with WITHOUT_NOUVEAU. That maybe helpfull. Cheers On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:38 PM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.comwrote: Hi there, Sometimes, Xorg got stuck but I can't reproduce it always. When it appears, Xorg just stop being usable and mouse / keyboard can't

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Nov 20 11:14:25 2012 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com Subject: Re: portsnap Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:12:46 + (UTC) Robert Bonomi bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com writes: ...

Help needed : acroread needs libcanberra-gtk-module.so

2012-11-20 Thread Manish Jain
Hello, This is the first time I am seeing a problem with running Acrobat Reader (on a fresh FreeBSD-8.3-i386 installation) : /root # Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module: libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message:

HP proliant dl385 startx freezes machine

2012-11-20 Thread Kenneth Hatteland
I have a Proliant 385 dl with a Ati Rage XL graphics card ( which should correspond with the Mach64 driver) I have installed xorg as I have done a zillion times, and used Xorg -configure to set it all up. I have then edited the .conf file as usual, accordingly to the handbook. I have added LXFE

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread jb
Robert Bonomi bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com writes: ... the authors of the portsnap docs (and the _numerous_ other applications that describe the use of certain keywords used as input to that appication ARE correct -- despite your boneheaded denial of that fact. Yes, it is a keyword,

The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2012-11-20 Thread peter weismann
I find two native FreeBSD ports for OPERA. With that I want to say, I am not using Linux-Opera anymore. But since some time, I had installed www/opera-devel and www/opera at the same time and played with them. Now I see, that opera has a greater release-level then opera-devel. That makes no

Re: Xorg got stuck sometimes

2012-11-20 Thread David Demelier
On 20/11/2012 19:18, Hooman Oroojeni wrote: Try to rebuild Xorg with WITHOUT_NOUVEAU. That maybe helpfull. Cheers On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:38 PM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com mailto:demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Sometimes, Xorg got stuck but I can't reproduce

portmaster + unknown dependency problem

2012-11-20 Thread Laszlo Nagy
I have a 8.2-STABLE system. Last port upgrade was about a year ago. (I know, this is bad.) I was trying to update all ports, by following the UPDATING file. As it turned out, some ports has been deprecated/deleted. I have a problem in particular with the py-bittornado-core port. I do not need

boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread freebsd
Hello, I recently installed a 9.1-RC2 system using gmirror with MBR, and swap in first bsdlabel. orsbackup# gpart show =63 3907029104 mirror/gm0 MBR (1.8T) 63 63 - free - (31k) 126 3907028979 1 freebsd [active] (1.8T)

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread Gary Aitken
On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: Hello, I recently installed a 9.1-RC2 system using gmirror with MBR, and swap in first bsdlabel. orsbackup# gpart show =63 3907029104 mirror/gm0 MBR (1.8T) 63 63 - free - (31k) 126

Re: The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2012-11-20 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 20 November 2012 13:23, peter weismann p...@weispit.eu wrote: I find two native FreeBSD ports for OPERA. With that I want to say, I am not using Linux-Opera anymore. But since some time, I had installed www/opera-devel and www/opera at the same time and played with them. Now I see, that

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread freebsd
On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... Not UFS No ada0 No boot Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2 I previously used binary update to migrate from 9.0 to 9.1, via: freebsd-update upgrade

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-20 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:08:13PM -0800, Zach Leslie wrote: http://www.fossil-scm.org/ I'm not fossil user, but it's BSD licensed in written in C. Baptise Daroussin probably could tell us more about fossil pro and cons. This misses one of of the main points raised in the original

Re: SSD for FreeBSD NAS device

2012-11-20 Thread Shane Ambler
On 20/11/2012 20:54, bsd wrote: Hello, I have just acquired an Intel R2312GZ4GC4 which I have equipped with a Adaptec RAID 51245 and 6 WD red disks of 3To - It'll come with 32Gb of Kingston ECC RAM. I am planing to use It as a backup device on a second hosting facility to backup couple of

Re: eGalax USB touch panel on ExoPC Slate vs. FreeBSD and X11

2012-11-20 Thread Bill Paul
I am pleased to see others having success at getting tablet input to work. I tried and failed with 8.x on my Fujitsu T-1010. Question: The button emulation. Did you add that or was it already there? I want to use Squeak Smalltalk on a tablet and the three button mouse emulation is a big

after youtube .swf, black xterm text = transparent

2012-11-20 Thread Gary Aitken
After doing a number of port upgrades to try to get firefox 16 to play youtube audio again (still doesn't), I now see that when I put an xterm window over a particular portion of the display, the black areas on the xterm are transparent, and are showing a portion of a youtube page which is no

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote: On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... Not UFS No ada0 No boot Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2 I previously used binary update to