Re: [solved]: to move csup 90 to subversion 91rc

2012-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Darrel levi...@iglou.com writes: For ports would it be better to match -fbsd91, like this: svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/ports/releng/9.1 ports On 03/09/2012 17:29, Lowell Gilbert wrote: I'm not sure whether there's any equivalent to tracking RELENG_9 (as opposed to tracking RELENG_9_1

Re: [solved]: to move csup 90 to subversion 91rc

2012-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Darrel levi...@iglou.com writes: On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org writes: On 03/09/2012 17:29, Lowell Gilbert wrote: I'm not sure whether there's any equivalent to tracking RELENG_9 (as opposed to tracking RELENG_9_1) under the branching scheme

Re: Upgrading perl

2012-08-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jack Stone ja...@sage-american.com writes: uname -a FreeBSD mail.sagedata.net 7.0-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p9 #2: Sun Jan 18 19:59:27 CST 2009 Running perl5.10 (yeah, old!) This is a production server. Been playing catchup on ports including perl as UPDATING recommends: portupgrade

Re: Inbox driver

2012-08-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Venkat Duvvuru venkatduvvuru...@gmail.com writes: If a driver module misses the deadline to make it inbox , I think that it's gonna be part of the next Freebsd release. The sources show up in the svn repository, probably this is one confirmation that it's gonna be part of the next release..Is

Re: Upgrading perl

2012-08-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jack Stone ja...@sage-american.com writes: Actually, on other servers with the same upgrading needs, perl-5.12 installed without any issue. My intention is to upgrade perl in increments to get well past EOL. You're somewhat on your own, then; I can't test any of my ideas before suggesting

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
antonin tessier antonintess...@live.fr writes: I have a problem when I try to build my own kernel. I had never got such a one; here is my kernel configuration file and the building errors that it makes. You left out some devices that are required by other devices in your configuration. for

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kode5.net writes: [ Lowell Gilbert wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 9:23:14 -0400 ] antonin tessier antonintess...@live.fr writes: I have a problem when I try to build my own kernel. I had never got such a one; here is my kernel configuration file and the building

Re: Support

2012-07-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andy reckingbal...@gmail.com writes: I was trying to install the free bsd to my mac computer its an ibook g3 with a 20gb hard dive i was using the powerpc version and it was working fine then i got to the part were you have to set up the hard drive i got some kind of err so i turned off my

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com writes: Mr U writes: is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2 hours Humorous answer: Yes - get a more powerful computer. or even just build on a more

Re: Removing sendmail from an installed system

2012-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Darren Pilgrim list_free...@bluerosetech.com writes: I'm removing sendmail entirely from an installed system. I had WITHOUT_SENDMAIL in /etc/src.conf when I updated to RELENG_8_3, but that left an old version of sendmail rotting away on disk. This is the list I have so far: /etc/mail/*

Re: Ports building automatically with default options?

2012-07-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Reko Turja reko.tu...@liukuma.net writes: Ghost in the machine? :D I just saw on the ports list that it has just been fixed. Looks like a typo in ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. Sorry for doubting you... Good luck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Nasty reference loop in login.conf

2012-07-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jakub Lach jakub_l...@mailplus.pl writes: 1. Hope I can still log in single user mode and correct /etc/login.conf? I'm afraid of md5 - sha512 change. It's not a problem. New passwords will be created with SHA512, but old ones in MD5 (or, for that matter, DES or Bluefish or several other

Re: Why is Gluster not available in FreeBSD?

2012-07-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.com writes: A question I would like to ask, if no one minds. Whys is Gluster not available in FreeBSD? It is that Gluster just cant run on FreeBSD, or no one can port it? http://wiki.freebsd.org/GlusterFS ___

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:23:29 -0500, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to use ports specifically and not the pkg_add tool to get software. Getting the ports tree with

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org writes: 2012/07/12 13:19:56 -0400 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org = To Kaya Saman : LG URLs as well as FTP. For ones that aren't, (and assuming the rather LG silly security policies won't allow for an external web-based FTP proxy

Re: changing md5 hashed for sha

2012-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de writes: For setting the dafault hash used to hash /etc/master.passwd, it has been recommended changing md5 for something more secure in the sense of being more expensive to crack. The handbook describes the procedure used in

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Felder f...@feld.me writes: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will not be column aligned,

Re: cvsup of RELENG_8_1

2012-06-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jim Nasby j...@nasby.net writes: I keep getting this error when trying to update source on 8.1: TreeList failed: Error in /var/db/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_8_1: 13890: Could not parse status record. Delete it and try again. Have you tried deleting

Re: how to filter network by MAC and IP at the same time

2012-06-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bill Yuan byc...@gmail.com writes: i am using freebsd 9.0 as a firewall and i want to filter the traffic by the mac and the ip at the same time, for example, i only allow my laptop MAC Address 1 can go throught the firewalll when it's using IP IP Address 1 for how to config the firewall

Re: Chromium - fails to compile

2012-05-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at writes: On one of my systems (FreeBSD 9.0 AMD64; kernel/system current as of today; all ports up to date) chromium (ports/www/chromium) fails to compile. Here's what I get: third_party/skia/src/opts/SkBitmapProcState_opts_SSSE3.cpp: In function 'void

Re: How to indicate source directory in other than /usr/src?

2012-05-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Thomas Mueller muelle...@insightbb.com writes: How does one indicate a system source directory location when in other than /usr/src? I'm not sure I understand quite what you're asking, but I'll have a try anyway. That could be necessary when in another directory, for instance running

Re: Synchronising jails

2012-04-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Frank Staals fr...@fstaals.net writes: Hey Everyone, I'm looking for a way to synchronise two jails. More specifically, I would like to keep/maintain an exact copy of a given jail. As an example: Suppose I build a jail A on some system (in my particular case build with ezjail) , and I copy

Re: find sources to build Handbook and FAQ for FreeBSD?

2012-04-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com writes: Does anyone know where the source(s) for the FreeBSD Handbook and FreeBSD FAQ are found? The best approach for you is probably the supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile Which is documented in the in the fdp-primer, the FreeBSD

Re: Problem compiling emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod 4.1.8_2

2012-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk writes: On Friday 16 March 2012, Lowell Gilbert wrote: My best advice is: clean out the directory for that port, update again, and see if the problem is the same. I've now deleted everything in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod and downloaded

Re: Problem compiling emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod 4.1.8_2

2012-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bernhard Froehlich de...@freebsd.org writes: Pointyhat has triggered the same compile error so it is real. Probably avg has a clue how to fix it. A (quick) look at pointyhat only shows me amd64 errors. My main build server (on amd64, building for i386 and amd64) doesn't see those problems,

Re: USA Anonymous CVS

2012-03-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dan Lists lists@gmail.com writes: From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html USA: anon...@anoncvs1.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs (For ssh, use ssh version 2 and no password is required.) SSH2 HostKey: 2048 53:1f:15:a3:72:5c:43:f6:44:0e:6a:e9:bb:f8:01:62

Re: Problem compiling emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod 4.1.8_2

2012-03-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk writes: portmaster -a fails with: cc -O -pipe -march=athlon-mp -DRT_OS_FREEBSD -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -w -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS -DRT_ARCH_X86 -Werror -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc

Re: Problem compiling emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod 4.1.8_2

2012-03-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk writes: portmaster -a fails with: cc -O -pipe -march=athlon-mp -DRT_OS_FREEBSD -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -w -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:27:08 +0400 Andrey Chernov articulated: {snip} 1) Was there anyone NOT CC'd in that last post? Me. Should I feel left out? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How much space do I need on / for a 7.4 to 8 stable upgrade?

2012-02-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Moore joe.mo...@holidaycompanies.com writes: What else could I clean out if I need more space? I'm thinking some executables in /rescue. ls -l shows most of them being 4MB each but that can't be right. Since they are all links to the same executable, you won't save anything unless you

Re: corrupted tar.gz archive - I lost my backups :)/:(

2012-02-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pegasus Mc Cleaft k...@mthelicon.com writes: It recreates something, but the most important files, which reside in subfolders of the given tar.gz archives are gone, i.e. the subfolders are empty. The gunzip strategy you mentioned yields the same as a regular tar -xvf file.tar.gz. Pegasus,

Re: corrupted tar.gz archive - I lost my backups :)/:(

2012-02-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
krad kra...@gmail.com writes: Just another silly thought try the tar j flag rather than the z flag, as you might have got your compression algorithms confused. Try the xz one as well just in case The system tar (based on libarchive) will figure all of this out for you, regardless of which

Re: Querying a cvsup server

2012-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: Is there a way to query one of the FreeBSD cvsup mirrors, something like 'svn list -v svn:...' (only with cvs or csup)? I'm looking to find the revision or date of a file. Anonymous CVS is probably the best approach for you. It's covered in the

Re: make release custom kernel conf not found

2012-01-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com writes: Thanks Rob... I put the kernel conf file in the source tree as opposed to linking to it and it certainly did compile the custom kernel. What confuses me (not that I expect you to have the answer) is that Chapter 9 of the handbook has a tip that

Re: Blocking until the network is ready at boot?

2012-01-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
kpn...@pobox.com writes: What's the correct way to get the rc.d scripts to block until the network interface is _fully_ ready to carry traffic? According to rc.conf(5), netwait_enable is what you want. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Blocking until the network is ready at boot?

2012-01-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
kpn...@pobox.com writes: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:09:00AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: kpn...@pobox.com writes: What's the correct way to get the rc.d scripts to block until the network interface is _fully_ ready to carry traffic? According to rc.conf(5), netwait_enable is what you

Re: df command reports wrong value after fd have been released

2011-12-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bastien Semene bsem...@cyanide-studio.com writes: I removed a file from /var using all my filesystem space, then restarted the process that handled its file descriptors. I then, for another reason, had to reboot the system. During the boot I had a warning saying that the filesystem is full.

Re: options atapicam and/or device ATA_CAM in kernel config?

2011-11-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com writes: The handbook does contain some oblique and scattered references to the new code, or at least to constructs that are common to both the old and the new code, but the addition of a brief discussion of the differences between the new and old ATA code in the

Re: options atapicam and/or device ATA_CAM in kernel config?

2011-11-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com writes: What is the role of options atapicam and device ATA_CAM in kernel config file? Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but will it make things go awry? Is ATA_CAM deprecated? They are redundant and incompatible.

Re: options atapicam and/or device ATA_CAM in kernel config?

2011-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net writes: What is the role of options atapicam and device ATA_CAM in kernel config file? Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but will it make things go awry? Is ATA_CAM deprecated? As far as I can see, ATA_CAM isn't

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found

2011-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert travelin...@cox.net writes: Greetings [robert@dell64] ~ uname -a FreeBSD dell64.shasta204.local 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #34: Fri Nov 18 06:43:01 PST 2011 root@dell64.shasta204.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I have two Lexar Professional 600X 16GB compact flash

Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?

2011-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Try the FAQ entry titled The du and df commands show different amounts of disk space available. What is going on?. You can find it at: http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?

2011-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
rtsit rt...@yahoo.com writes: I did reboot the machine a few times, hoping that any process in memory that still claimed ownership of an open part of the disk would release it. There are other things that can cause disk space to seem to disappear, but there is a reason that one is in the FAQ

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com writes: I just use tar for this. ( cd /path/to/src ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /path/to/obj ; tar xf - ) I was going to launch into an explanation of shell quoting, but come to think of it, tar is how I do this too. On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Chris

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris cpubur...@gmail.com writes: The tar one-liner is similar what I used to use on Gentoo and Arch linux, so I thought it strange that it isn't working here. I'm still having problems though, since the command returns Can't create '$FILENAME' for all files found. It would have been a

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com writes: Oh, and what kind of filesystem is on the USB device? msdosfs. Sorry; I trimmed that from what I quoted. - Lowell - M On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Chris cpubur...@gmail.com

Re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine

2011-11-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com writes: i'm based in ukraine. on 29 Oct 2011 ukraine went to winter time, i.e. we put our clocks one hour back. the current time in ukraine is 8.49 pm; the output of 'date' is: :; date Fri Nov 4 22:49:48 FET 2011 i tried resetting my

Re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine

2011-11-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net writes: В Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:43:57 -0400 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org пишет: Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com writes: i'm based in ukraine. on 29 Oct 2011 ukraine went to winter time, i.e. we put our clocks one hour

Re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine

2011-11-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com writes: the actual current time is 10.21 pm. Your system's clock may be off as well... any idea when an updated time zone file will become available? It's already in the FreeBSD tree:

Re: trouble setting timezone for ukraine

2011-11-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com writes: On 11/04/11 22:46, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Alexander Kapshukalexander.kaps...@gmail.com writes: the actual current time is 10.21 pm. Your system's clock may be off as well... any idea when an updated time zone file will become available

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jon Schipp jonsch...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei bsdlis...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/03/2011 03:18 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 RELEASE)? In vain of 'free' in Linux. I know you can check the

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jon Schipp jonsch...@gmail.com writes: You wouldn't want to know when your machine has reached periods of high memory utilization? No, I want to know when my machine would perform better if it had more memory. Keeping memory in use when it otherwise would be free means I get *better*

Re: postfix INST_BASE option

2011-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com writes: Could you comment on the pros and cons of using INST_BASE=on in postfix on a production server? I wouldn't describe either the pros or the cons as particularly strong. If you're not going to use sendmail, you might want to remove it. If you do

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com writes: On 23/10/2011 09:03, John R. Levine wrote: checking for tparm in -lncurses... no but that's not correct. libncurses should certainly contain that symbol. I get a 'yes' there on my stable/8 machine. As -lncurses is part of your LDFLAGS ... hmmm...

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com writes: On 23/10/2011 09:03, John R. Levine wrote: checking for tparm in -lncurses... no but that's not correct. libncurses should certainly contain that symbol. I get a 'yes' there on my stable/8 machine. As -lncurses is part of your LDFLAGS ... hmmm...

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:08:50 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're running ssh on the standard port. I used to have lots of 'break-in attempts' before I moved the ssh server to a different port. Is

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:08:50 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're running ssh on the standard port. I used to have lots of 'break

Re: multi-boot

2011-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
d...@safeport.com writes: I have a system with two physical disks with a version of FreeBSD installed on each disk. With various 7.x systems I had: F1 disk1 on slices ads5x F5 disk2 on slices ads6x I installed 8.2 on disk2, incorrectly saying leave the mbr alone. So when I boot from

Re: Maximum gif(4) interfaces

2011-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim ihsan.juna...@gmail.com writes: I need to build a system that need to terminate a number of 6-in-4 and 4-in-4 tunnels. Can someone point me to a direction, with gif auto-cloning and on GENERIC, what is the maximum number of gif interfaces/tunnels that can be

Re: multi-boot

2011-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
d...@safeport.com writes: On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Lowell Gilbert wrote: d...@safeport.com writes: I have a system with two physical disks with a version of FreeBSD installed on each disk. With various 7.x systems I had: F1 disk1 on slices ads5x F5 disk2 on slices ads6x I installed 8.2

Re: small du(1) question

2011-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com writes: On Oct 19, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Alexander Best wrote: The default blocksize is 512 bytes. The -B option flag lets you tell du to assume a different filesystem blocksize. so when running freebsd on a hdd with a blocksize of 4k, a simple 'du -h' will

Re: ports/distfiles via NFS or SSH

2011-10-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Kryszkiewicz tundra2b...@gmail.com writes: I have several machines networked using NFS mounts or SSH and scp. Only one machine has internet connectivity - a laptop (machine vbear) with a wireless card (I'm in a temporary location for a few weeks and only wireless is available here). I

Re: lock order reversal @ FreeBSD 9.0B3

2011-10-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
That looks like LOR #261, known not be a problem. [ http://ipv4.sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/lor.html ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org writes: ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one could do 'mount -o audiocdfs /dev/cd0 /media/cd' and then all tracks appear as RAW pcm audio files. maybe fuse comes with something like this? /dev/acdntm is no longer supported?

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net writes: A dialog box dislplaying the following, Unable to mount Audio Disc You're not supposed to mount an audio disk. There's even a FAQ entry titled Why can I not mount an audio CD?

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net writes: Thank You for the replies. Got the part about not mounting an audio CD. I wasn't trying to. Inserting the disc in the drive brought up the error message. Mounting a data CD or DVD acts normally and the filesystem on it can be accessed.

Re: X on Xterminals but not on console

2011-10-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com writes: FreeBSD-8.2 with Xorg: Is there a way one can specify that your never have X on the console (just the login: prompt) but still have X on any other X-windows termnal (an KDM login window) and graphical environment Sure. It's all in how you configure KDM.

Re: About suidperl in FreeBSD

2011-09-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com writes: I need suidperl for openwebmail. I include ENABLE_SUIDPERL=true in /etc/make.conf and compile with make -DENABLE_SUIDPERLTRUE install clean Even so there is no /usr/bin/suidperl anywhere. Any advise? I'm missing something? The things you've

Re: Overwrite bsd tar

2011-09-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Esimorp E eesim...@yahoo.com writes: [prom@pcbsd-2112] /home/prom# ls -la /usr/bin/tar lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  6 Jul 18  2010 /usr/bin/tar - bsdtar [prom@pcbsd-2112] /home/prom# ls -la /usr/local/bin/gtar ls: /usr/local/bin/gtar: No such file or directory [prom@pcbsd-2112] /home/prom#

Re: best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface

2011-07-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com writes: I have both ethernet (the default route and such) and ppp done via ppp -ddial the man page for ppp(8) says tun0 will not have an IP assigned until a single packet is sent on it... what is the best way to have one packet sent on it (ping only

Re: How to add sio to 8.2 ?

2011-07-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com writes: I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x. Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration? Or would this be fraught with all kinds of deep

Re: Problems with the Asus P8h61 -m pro motherboard

2011-07-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matevž Markovič ivwcorporation.mat...@gmail.com writes: I just installed the FreeBSD 8.2 on my computer, but unfortunately my integrated network card was not recognised. Only the loopback and plip (or something like that) interfaces are present in the sysinstall / ifconfig -a. I have the Asus

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

2011-07-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ssgriffonuser ssgriffonu...@gmail.com writes: I'm having difficulty getting sendmail set up on my server. I can send and receive to localhost and I can send to external networks but I can not receive from external networks (I receive a 550: Address rejected). Netstat says sendmail is

Re: options used to compile packages

2011-07-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com writes: David Arendt wrote: Hi, well I don't actually now which package it was, but I compiled gdm (so it should be one of it's dependencies). A compilation resulted in a non working gdm (something with pam support not found on execution). Upon

Re: when compile,gcc can not work?

2011-07-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
jyl_2006 yilinjing2...@gmail.com writes: For some reason,I want to compile the source code of mozilla,so i can not use port. Then you need to have more knowledge of what you're doing than the ports system requires. It looks like it's the configure script that fails, but you have shown very

Re: when compile,gcc can not work?

2011-07-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
jyl_2006 yilinjing2...@gmail.com writes: Anyone who encounter this problem? checking whether the complier (*gcc -L/usr/local/v6/lib*) works... no The gcc version is 4.2.1 20070719 .And if I complie a simple program such as hello,world. It works well,but when I compile mozilla,it shows the

Re: buildworld from FreeBSD 8.1 to FreeBSD 8.2

2011-07-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
krad kra...@gmail.com writes: On 11 July 2011 14:07, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi lenzi.ser...@gmail.comwrote: Em Seg, 2011-07-11 às 11:48 +0400, hasanhasanli Hasan escreveu: I had problem with upgrating FreeBSD 8.1 to FreeBSD 8.2 after that I typed make buildworld It gives error.

Re: what is the RIGHT(TM) way to configure background DHCP?

2011-07-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
deeptec...@gmail.com deeptec...@gmail.com writes: moving [ http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-June/231301.html ] to the freebsd-hackers list, as there doesn't seem to be enough 1337 people in the freebsd-questions list. : You might want to try rewording your question,

Re: MySQL update

2011-06-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Glenn McCalley gl...@mail.bnetmd.net writes: Trying to update MySQL from 4.1 to 5.5. Updating mysql-client first. Make works great, but make install refuses to install saying 5.5 conflicts with 4.1, run pkg_delete for 4.1. pkg_delete for 4.1 refuses to deinstall as all the php52 packages

Re: e2fsprogs trouble on freebsd

2011-06-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lucas Araujo larauj...@gmail.com writes: I'm trying to install systemimageer on freebsd 8.1 .But I'm having troubles with the e2fsprogs package.When I use the ./configure in the directory of SI package the system says: - libuuid

Re: Tell a minimum requirement for RAM for virtual machines (virtualbox)

2011-05-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vladislav V. Prodan univers...@ukr.net writes: Tell choice OS (8.2, 8.2-CURRENT or 9.0-CURRENT, FS (UFS or ZFS) and the minimum amount of RAM for use in such schemes: 1) the interaction of multiple routers with established quagga (bgpv4, bgpv6, ospf) 2) the work of two different modes of

Re: how to diagnose server freeze with ddb?

2011-05-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
cronfy cro...@gmail.com writes: I have a server that freezes under high load sometimes. It is on FreeBSD 7.3. It does not respond neither by network nor to keyboard. In the same time I can hit Ctrl-Alt-ESC and go to debugger - it works. What can I try to do in DDB to find out the reason of

Re: 8.2 crash after 8 running hours ?

2011-05-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr writes: I've experienced a strange problem at 8.2-release after a fresh install on three ( 3 ) differents machines ( all HP ) FreeBSD 8.2 stops running without any sound ( machines freezed ) after running well during approx 8 hours. It happened on 3

Re: make the iso image

2011-05-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
mohammad abedini abedini.erics...@gmail.com writes: 1. i install freebsd and make the new kernel, i like make the iso install CD in new install FreeBSD how can i do this? If you've downloaded the image already and have a CD burner in your machine, burncd(8) will burn it for you, although

Re: conky problem

2011-05-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
pwnedomina pwnedom...@gmail.com writes: Ive just setup conky in my fluxbox startup file the thing is that when fluxbox starts i see it running but then suddenly disappears, i see its running on background but how can i make it to appear in the screen? Hard to say what the problem is: Have

Re: kernel and buildworld questions

2011-05-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mage m...@mage.hu writes: On 05/10/2011 10:16 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: It is not necessarily the -O. It can also be the -march=native ... gcc46 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -L. -rdynamic main.o dmydln.o dmyencoding.o dmyversion.o miniprelude.o array.o bignum.o class.o

Re: Kernel errors after upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

2011-05-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Fitzpatrick rob...@webtent.org writes: After following the handbook Chapter 24 to upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2, I am getting kernel errors for various postfix commands... May 9 08:54:13 mx3 kernel: pid 57056 (trivial-rewrite), uid 125: exited on signal 11 May 9 08:56:46 mx3 kernel: pid

Re: i messed up, need to do fsck and also uncomment the /usr line if /etc/fstab

2011-05-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com writes: I had an old FBSD 7.2 CD. good enough for this I thought. I booted from that but now I need to mount the file systems on my hard drive. How do I do that? I agree,, once I get the /etc file system mounted I can edit the file. Okay, next.. How do

Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error

2011-05-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com writes: Trying to build thunderbird-3.1.10 on a FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 machine and getting this error: gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/mail/thunderbird/work/comm-1.9.2/mailnews/import' gmake[6]: Entering directory

Re: Firefox URL Address Bar does not work under 8.1-RELEASE

2011-05-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com writes: Hi list, I hope that you can offer some suggestions to help make some sense of this odd situation. The situation is that we install FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE onto standard Intel workstation hardware. We then add about 400 packages to the system. On top of

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
kron24 kro...@gmail.com writes: Dne 4.5.2011 11:42, Modulok napsal(a): By the way, in reference to the commands above the -j option is for bzip2, so the extension should be .tbz o_O Thanks everyone! I went with the following, because it works regardless of space characters in filenames.

Re: Ports and Packages

2011-05-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mohammed Gamal mohammed.ga...@live.com writes: Hi ,uname -a output: FreeBSD hti-community.co.cc 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 18 02:24:46 UTC 2011 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 1-where to get php-5.3.6.tbz and

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Modulok modu...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if this is a problem on FreeBSD... Process A requests memory. Process A Stores a plaintext password in memory or other sensitive data. Process A terminates and the memory is

Re: libreoffice not builds (sorry for codepage problem)

2011-04-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Гуляев Гоша gosha-n...@yandex.ru writes: Hi all! I'm try to install editors/libreoffice on my machine: OS: 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Wed Apr 20 15:18:53 YEKST 2011 i386 ls /var/db/pkg | grep jdk diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_13 jdk-1.6.0.3p4_22 RAM: 2Gb + 4Gb swap file Hard disk space

Re: Stopping Less from creating Log Files

2011-04-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu writes: This is a minor problem but I use more to read Email messages from nmh. If one forgets what screen one is in, it is possible to start typing and create a log file of the message in which ever mailbox directory one is reading out of.

Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
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Re: Finish upgrading remote server without physically being there?

2011-03-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd writes: On 3/2/11 5:15 PM, Ed Flecko wrote: Thanks Damien. :-) Two questions - 1.) If rebooting into single user mode isn't obviously a requirement...I wonder why so many tutorials, books, etc. tell you to do this? Rebooting single user ensures that

Re: Finish upgrading remote server without physically being there?

2011-03-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd writes: On 3/2/11 7:07 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: I do this all the time too, but if the new kernel doesn't boot, you end up in more trouble than needing an extra reboot. The reboot part is definitely important -- you can reboot into multiuser mode and do

Re: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

2011-03-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com writes: I confess I'm more familiar with Windows and for years I have Ghosted PCs as a very fast way to get an entire PC back online in the event of a drive failure. I can easily get a PC back online within the hour using ghost (or some drive imaging software).

Re: mergemaster -U ask for a lot non-user modified files

2011-02-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com writes: I also noticed that even with the -F flag, mergemaster still asks for files that only differs by CVS id, see : -# $FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc,v 1.37.2.2.2.1 2010/06/14 02:09:0 6 kensmith Exp $ # +# $FreeBSD:

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