Re: Updating/patching network card driver?

2007-12-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nomad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed FreeBSD 6.2 on my computer but the network card (bge) wasn't detected properly. On troubleshooting the problem I found the driver for this family of NICs isn't appropriate to my particular release. I would prefer to stay with the RELEASE branch

Re: Problem With PoEdit

2007-12-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Victor Subervi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've never used X before...grown to love the command line ;) I didn't have X cranked up...don't even know how to do that. I just entered poedit at the command line and assumed X would kick in. Should I start X? How? See the FreeBSD Handbook section

Re: Problem With PoEdit

2007-12-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Victor Subervi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi; I installed poedit from the port on 5.5. I didn't have X11 before, so it took a very_long_time. Once installed, I tried to fire it up: # poedit Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly? What do? I don't know the program, but it

Re: is there a port to 'copy' audio from one soundcard to another in realtime?

2007-12-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Say I have multiple usb audio devices, and I want to make a simple 'mixer' - anyone know how to do that? You could try just using cat(1) to copy between the devices... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: ReiserFS and /etc/fstab: rw or ro?

2007-12-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed Ubuntu on a second hard drive. (Got fed up waiting for things like VMware Player 2.) I've booted into FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE and I'm looking at my /etc/fstab. Is it safe to specify rw for my ReiserFS partitions, or should I stick

Re: Hopefully an easy header rewriting problem for Postfix

2007-12-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Clint Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I essentially want to rewrite all envelope senders of the form: @host.my.domain to just @my.domain The examples in the Postfix docs seem to make it seem like the patterns only allow you to specify explicit recipients at the end of a rewriting rule,

Re: Hopefully an easy header rewriting problem for Postfix

2007-12-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Clint Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Dec 07, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The myorigin variable is what you need. See postconf(5) for more things you can do with it. ( myorigin (default: $myhostname) ( The domain name that locally-posted mail appears to come from

Re: Maybe this is a bug, should I report it?

2007-12-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But why is it that portupgrade feels the need to upgrade gpg to gpg2, when gpg is still in the tree? I'm running a portupgrade -rf gettext, and didn't previously have gpg2 installed. security/gnupg is gpg2, and has been for about a year.

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x (do not cross filesystems) was intended for. It failed, however, as df shows 20k blocks in /, and rsync filled up the target slice

Re: Need help with backup shell script

2007-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And the key to = 30 days would involve find. I like to put the date in the names of the backup files. That way the date is a little less fragile... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: gnupg keysize

2007-11-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peo Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When browsing: http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#INTRO It says: The size of a DSA key must be between 512 and 1024 bits. It also says: The ElGamal key may be of any size. Who and why has defined this? The OpenPGP standard. [Actually, the

Re: USB Console?

2007-11-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerahmy Pocott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if there is any way to put the console on a USB port? Since serial and parallel ports are becoming things of the past and many systems don't come with them any more.. Serial console on USB? I think it should work okay with a USB

Re: strange error when building cups

2007-11-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found ===Verifying install for cups.2 in /usr/ports/print/cups-base === cups-base-1.3.3 is forbidden: remote execution

Re: IPFW/Divert problem...

2007-11-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
-- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: IPFW/Divert problem...

2007-11-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 6, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: firewall_enable=YES firewall_script=/etc/ipfw.sh FWIW, ipfw.sh ONLY has count rules it it. There isn't any NAT/etc going on here. Also, IPFW was compiled with DEFAULT TO

Re: /usr/bin/whatis replaced by a script (correct?)

2007-11-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peo Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When running rkhunter 1.3.0 I get those warnings: ...snip /usr/bin/whatis' has been replaced by a script: /usr/bin/whatis: Bourne shell script text executable /usr/sbin/adduser' has been replaced by a script: /usr/sbin/addu ser: Bourne shell script

Re: fsck gave up on me!

2007-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have been using FreeBSD 6.2 for a couple of months now with no major snags. Until now. I did a portupgrade this morning and afterwards, when I logged in as a user into Gnome, my desktop was missing most of the programs (Accessories, System Tools,

Re: 5.2.1 to 6.2 Migration.

2007-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris Haulmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I thought I would ask the question before I do it the hard way 1. Can FreeBSD be upgraded from 5.2.1 to 6.2 ? Yes. if so ... 2. Can it be done through an ssh connection, or MUST I make the trip to the farm

Re: 5.2.1 to 6.2 Migration.

2007-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chris Haulmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Grant Peel wrote: I thought I would ask the question before I do it the hard way 1. Can FreeBSD be upgraded from 5.2.1 to 6.2 ? Yes. 2. Can it be done through an ssh connection

Re: cp --verify?

2007-10-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see a --verify switch on cp, so I presume it does not. Is there an automated way to ensure a copy has gone well byte-for-byte without writing a script to filter diff? I want to be relatively sure my family pics are in the destination and not

Re: Now can't get past the copyright info. What next?

2007-10-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a FreeBSD 4.9 Samba file server that boots but hangs after the Regents of the University of California text. Is there some way to fix this? Boot from a CD? Put the hard drive in another computer? Those would be good things to try.

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it. The manual says: If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD clients that have no support

Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification.

2007-10-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently noticed that Apple's new OS, Leopard, is Unix certified. I'd imagine that the big reason that FreeBSD hasn't done this yet is: It costs a lot of money. Yes, and has to be re-done regularly. That said, if in theory one were to

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it. The manual says: If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD clients that have no support for password shadowing (which is most of them), you will have to disable the

Re: Regarding Flow of sendto (UDP) using IPv6.

2007-10-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Prasad Dandra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have some doubts regarding the BSD stack flow. I am very much interested to know the code flow from sendto (UDP case) upto udp6_output function when used in IPv6 client (simple client) and also how the local port and destination address are assigned

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olivier Nicole wrote: Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't remember

Re: How to mount USB memory (Thumb Drive) and then to copy files

2007-10-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
williamkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could anybody assist me on how to mount a USB memory drive/thumb drive, so that I can copy file to and from it. Thank you. Or, alternatively, install the mtools port, which will let you copy files back and forth without mounting the device into your

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: adduser(8) doesn't know anything about NIS. I don't know any automated way of adding users to a NIS map, but my home network is small enough that I don't bother. I was using pw, which claims

Re: Hello sir

2007-10-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:07:33AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello sir i would like to run freebsd.sd to supoort freebsd on Sudan .. do i need to follow any steps before i run it and join freebsd.org as mirror ? Mohammed Tayeb SysAdmin.

Re: /usr/X11R6 before /usr/local in ldconfig?

2007-10-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joshua Isom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I noticed the other that that in -STABLE that /usr/X11R6 was in front of /usr/local for libraries. This results in any port that uses a library from another port to look for /usr/X11R6 first, and then /usr/local. I don't know if this would cause any

Re: Samba and Swat are not restarting the daemons.

2007-10-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lisandro Grullon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have install samba version:3.0.26a from ports, the daemons appear to be working fine by enabling the apropiate parameters in rc.conf, yet I am speriencing the issue where SWAT is showing as the smbd and nmbd are not running nor will they

Re: setting up a cvsup mirror

2007-10-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to setup a local cvsup mirror on my local machine (someone told me if you do it right you don't need to hand apply uncommitted patches) I suspect you're a bit confused. The definition of uncommitted patches is that they aren't *in* the cvs

Re: help, make installworld fails!!

2007-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
I pay less attention to e-mail messages with lots of exclamation points in the subject (because they're usually spam). You might want to consider that in the future... Dino Vliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: === include (install) creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh touch: not found Try

Re: How to install harvard style

2007-09-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ronggui [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In order to install the harvard bibliography style , I have to edit 'Makefile' setting 'bstdir', 'stydir', 'htmldir' and 'docdir' to values appropriate to your LaTeX installation. My question is how to figure out he bstdir etc.? It should be fairly easy to

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Currently I have done a build/installworld build/install/kernel using a i386 CPUTYPE (w/ SMP and APIC set in the kernel (I am using the default sys/i386/conf/GENERIC) do I need to change this to amd64 for a intel duo e6850? (I have had several

Re: File size discrepancies

2007-09-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Modulok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, the size of a directory itself can differ when the contents is identical? This is news to me. If you delete files from a directory, the storage used for the directory entries is not freed. ___

Re: File size discrepancies

2007-09-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Modulok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a file hierarchy of about 18GiB which was copied from a UFS 2 file system one hard disk to a UFS 2 file system on a gmirror array. The size of the two hierarchies differ by 12 bytes according to du(1). No errors were reported by cp(1) during the copy

Re: IPFW + NATD FORWARDING

2007-09-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
mr. phreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am having trouble with my IPFW+NATD forwarding. I know a lot of people have and I've googled my ass off. Still I can't get it right. I'm trying to forward port 1213 in/out for dc++ usage. this is my setup: __WAN router (192.168.1.1) | |

Re: Bandwidth filter with ipfw don't work

2007-09-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
### Thanks Dark Night Rider ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lotfi kecir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HI, thank's for your post. to give answer to your answer: i rent a dedicated server (Fedora 6) witch has qmail installed on. and in my old Server witch is in our office turn has Postfix. The new sever has as Admin panel Plesk. I already create all email

Re: Multiple NICs - custom protocol development

2007-09-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Len Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, thanks for the response; It's nice to see some community support. Here is what I am trying to do: I am building a custom MAC protocol for a wireless system that has different software on the head end and the clients. It is not peer-to-peer,

Re: Multiple NICs - custom protocol development

2007-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Len Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a host on my local 192.168.0 / 24 subnet that works fine in getting to the Internet via a default route.via a wireless connection. I want to develop some custom link protocols and I have placed two Ethernet NICs in the box. I want to be able to send

Re: CDRW Stopped Working Moving to 6.x

2007-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:35:24AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking at the dmesg(1) from the last boot, # fgrep cd0 /var/run/dmesg.boot acd0: CDROM CRD-8400B/1.06 at ata1-master UDMA33 Makes

Re: tunnel ipsec whith racoon2-20070720a

2007-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ckd ckd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, i'm looking for some experience using racoon2 to create tunnel IPSEC between 2 freebsd 6.2 gateways. i followed the procedure described in freebsd handbook, but whne i start iked, i get the follow message : iked: [INTERNAL ERR]:

Re: Xorg errs after updating ports

2007-09-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING (which may itself have been updated after you did your ports download, so you may not yet have this advice on your hard disk): Users of nvidia-driver will have to make sure Composite extension is turned off and start Xorg with the following command: $

Re: Xorg errs after updating ports

2007-09-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An updated nvidia-driver should be released soon. I know one of the issues is some kernel mods nvidia needs but regardless is their any kind of ETA? Kernel modifications are not needed for this. NVidia don't release their development

Re: Xorg errs after updating ports

2007-09-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:45:29AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING (which may itself have been updated after you did your ports download, so you may not yet have this advice on your hard disk): Users of nvidia-driver

Re: nVidia driver with Xorg 7.3?

2007-09-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone tried the current nVidia-driver with the new X.org 7.3? I heard that there was a general (non-FreeBSD-specific) incompatibility

Re: CDRW Stopped Working Moving to 6.x

2007-09-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking at the dmesg(1) from the last boot, # fgrep cd0 /var/run/dmesg.boot acd0: CDROM CRD-8400B/1.06 at ata1-master UDMA33 Makes me think the system is not recognizing the device as CDRW, only CDROM. You're right, and that's the key point to

Re: nVidia driver with Xorg 7.3?

2007-09-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone tried the current nVidia-driver with the new X.org 7.3? I heard that there was a general (non-FreeBSD-specific) incompatibility, but just saw that 7.3 was now in the ports system. It's broken. Apparently the X.org drop uses a new ABI.

Re: nVidia driver with Xorg 7.3?

2007-09-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone tried the current nVidia-driver with the new X.org 7.3? I heard that there was a general (non-FreeBSD-specific) incompatibility, but just saw that 7.3 was now in the ports system

Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable

2007-09-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also . . . portaudit fails because it cannot connect to freebsd.org, so it's more than just the website, though the @freebsd.org mailing lists still seem to work (obviously). Portaudit uses http to fetch the XML document, so you're not seeing anything

Re: Sony Ericsson: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a, 0 (repeated)

2007-09-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Snow Mountains [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: I have a Sony Ericsson phone, but it isn't a USB device. Thanks Lowell for your response. Do you attach your Sony Ericsson to computer at all, for example if you use it as camera? Is there any other option, or something

Re: Sony Ericsson: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a, 0 (repeated)

2007-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Snow Mountains [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I posted this question 10 days ago, got no replies. Is it possible nobody here installed CD release of FreeBSD 6.2 and has Sony Ericsson mobile phone or something similar which causes similar problem? :-) Maybe summer time is the cause :-) So let me

Re: Dumb question about DES/MD5 in /etc/master.passwd

2007-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
João Carlos Mendes Luís [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This question must be really dumb, but I cannot find its answer. In a somewhat recently updated RELENG_6 FreeBSD, whenever I run the program /usr/bin/passwd to change an users password, it encrypts the password using DES. I have

Re: Mouse not working after removing ULPT

2007-09-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chad Hanamaikai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to get my printer setup. I remove ULPT from my kernel, compile, and reboot. Printer is recognized as ugen. So I fire up X and realized my mouse is not moving. The mouse stays lit up once it gets recognized at boot. I am running -stable.

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry. What I really had in mind was the ports tree itself, which I had an option during install to add. BTW, I answered yes to this and so had that which was on the 6.2 install disc. Based on the other responses, it is looking like perhaps that is not

Re: Mouse not working after removing ULPT

2007-09-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chad Hanamaikai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Hmm; I haven't seen these symptoms. Are you running moused? If not, definitely try that. ___ Intresting I am using moused and my mouse works. Why was I able to not have to have

Re: samba / remote windows machine / nagios

2007-09-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
alexus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does anyone knows how i can monitor for a date file on a remote windows machine from my freebsd through samba client i guess, so result can be reported to nagios? I can't think of a way to be automatically notified, so you would need to check the file

Re: What is proxy user for?

2007-08-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Riaan Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anybody know why there is a proxy user? pf, apparently. I am trying to get an understanding what the different users in /etc/passwd are for. A more general question probably would be, Is there any documentation/resource that gives

Re: Pesky File

2007-08-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
For the record, both of the answers that have already been posted are described right in man rm. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: system crash/reset

2007-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ghirai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, with xfce. Suddenly, everything froze. Couple seconds after that, the system resets. I ran fsck and everything seem to be ok. This is what /var/log/messages looks like right before reset: Aug 22 01:19:55 deimos kernel: umass0: BBB

Re: IPFW Questions.

2007-08-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering what the concensus is on using dynamic rules in IPFW. Every once in a while, I suppose there is a DoS attaclk that causes me to see hundreds of: +ipfw: install_state: Too many dynamic rules in my security log. I am sure i read

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Christopher Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used for storing data. They have the /boot/mbr

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into the GEOM architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the same tasks -- any advantages/ disadvantages

Re: Error in pkg_version.. package is corrupt

2007-08-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
reinstall the ports. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD Embedded in 3rd Party Applications and Appliances?

2007-08-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pervaiz Choudhry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are trying determine cost and benefits of supporting FreeBSD platform for OEM market. Does any one have data on the installbase for FreeBSD Embedded in 3rd party applications and appliances? We are looking for ball park numbers. There is no

Re: apply a patch in Freebsd

2007-07-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Caio Figueiredo Abecia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the Freebsd 6.2 version. I got a problem installing from my DVD ROM drive, and I found a patch in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/111084 . I wonder if I could try this patch to solve my problem. What may I do to get a

Re: dump -L

2007-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Victor Sudakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cpghost wrote: I always use dump -L to dump a live filesystem. However, when I restore the dump, I sometimes get messages like foo.txt (inode 12345) not found on tape or expected next file 12345, got 23456 I'm seeing this too. It's always

Re: ssh X11 forwarding not working on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
I would guess that it's an xauth(1) problem. Make sure that XAuthLocation is set ,in sshd_config(5), to the right path for the xauth executable (probably /usr/local/bin/xauth, if you've done the update to X.Org 7.2. That's just a shot in the dark, though; the most certain way of finding the

Re: Root access loggin

2007-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tom Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could even go so far as to limit what he can use sudo on. $man sudo Giving him full root access is probably not a good idea. In practice, this approach *is* effectively giving him full root access. Once you have to give the tech the ability to edit

Re: lang/php5 port present no options within sysinstall

2007-07-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Balin Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to your handbook under the Apache HTTP Server section sysinstall is supposed to present me with an OPTIONS menu when I try to install lang/php5 but it never has and I've been pulling my hair out trying reinstall from scratch, etc. I noticed

Re: Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

2007-07-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:14:28 -0400 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My PC box have this Ethernet adapter (Linux kernel description): Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology

Re: upgrade from python 2.4 to 2.5

2007-07-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
vuthecuong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did anyone already upgrade from python 2.4 to 2.5? Yes. It is in the ports tree and has been for quite a while. It is not fully backward-compatible, though, so it is not yet the default version. How can I upgrade to python 2.5 using portupgrade?

Re: port installation problem

2007-07-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When trying to install CUPS and also when installing Gnome-light, I get the same error messsage, really, the exact same: === cups-1.2.10_1 depends on executable: espgs - not found ===Verifying install for espgs in /usr/ports/print/cups-pstoraster ===

Re: Garbled text in xterm

2007-07-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Hmm. I've never heard of any symptoms quite like this. A few stabs in the dark: What happened if you used no xorg.conf at all? Did you get the same xterm problem? Do you have a locale set? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

2007-07-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My PC box have this Ethernet adapter (Linux kernel description): Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0) Attansic is now part of Atheros, but I can't find enough information on that card to try

Re: Enabling A Serial Port On 6.2

2007-07-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But ... the entry did not end with a newline and init apparently thus didn't recognize it. Ending the line made everything happy. I am submitting this as a (very minor) bug, since I do not believe this to be correct behavior (but what do I know ;) ...

Re: Enabling A Serial Port On 6.2

2007-07-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suspect that there are a great many places - shell scripts and C source code leap to mind - where the lack of a terminating newline at the end of a file does not cause the line to be ignored altogether. In both

Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u..

2007-07-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post. Dinesh Pandian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/5/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dinesh Pandian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please help me out with a really annoying little problem that bugs me everytime I try to install applications from ports. When I

Re: /boot/device.hints only work for some devices in FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can I get knowledge of how device.hints works? e.g. maybe it can only work with device that is not managed by a PNP BIOS or maybe it only manage ISA devices but not PCI devices? It sounds like you haven't read man device.hints. That is a good place

Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u..

2007-07-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dinesh Pandian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please help me out with a really annoying little problem that bugs me everytime I try to install applications from ports. When I try to run portupgrade -a or portmanager -u, when Make fetches the files from the servers, fetch normally hangs

Re: /dev/ttyv2: No such file

2007-07-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
: No such file or directory Do those devices exist? Have you configured devfs to not show them? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: unable to boot due to error in loader.conf

2007-07-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tamouh H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since people were talking about modifying kern.hz , I went the extreme and added kern.hz=10 to loader.conf , obviously the system didn't load properly. It panics during boot process. This is 5.4-Stable, I've tried all other boot modes and the only option

Re: partition problem

2007-06-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
erik freaks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: please help me when I try to install freebsd 6.2(when make partition) I got this message: No disk found ! Please verify that the disk controller is being probed properly during boot time please help me my Motherboard is Asus P4P8X, harddisk IDE

Re: net interface Link state changed to UP too late at boot time

2007-06-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Roberto Nunnari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ..but on the other box (the em0 one that at the second retry will succed to mount the NFS FS) is there since I upgraded it from 5.3-RELEASE to 6.1-RELEASE Again.. any hints? I think you're looking for the early_late_divider as described in the

Re: crontab configuration in FreeBSd -6.2

2007-06-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
See the FAQ entry titled Why do I keep getting messages like “root: not found” after editing my crontab file? http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: truecrypt volume

2007-06-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Daniel Leal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to open an encrypted truecrypt volume in FreeBSD 6.2 previously created in MS windows? I don't see any way to do it directly, no. The code I found is tightly tied to the platform (Linux or Windows). Mounting it in a virtual machine might

Re: Xorg build problem - font-misc-misc

2007-06-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've _almost_ successfully upgraded to 7.2 xorg. For some reason, I'm getting a failure when building font-misc-misc and this stops other crucial ports getting built. At present, if I try to run 'X' I get the dreaded cannot find font fixed' error. I sync'd my ports

Re: Upgrading Xorg from 6.9.0 to 7.2

2007-06-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sereno Ternullo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks, I'm encountering problems upgrading Xorg from version 6.9.0 to 7.2 I followed the procedure described in /usr/ports/UPDATING [...] # portupgrade -aP -x 'gstreamer*' Even though my computer spent 24 hours compiling, when I typed #

Re: Regular Freezes

2007-06-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
SigmaX asdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My FreeBSD 6.1 gateway box keeps freezing totally. It seems to happen when there's a large burst of network traffic on my internal interface (i.e. download, flash movie, I-radio). I've already done a memtest, and it came out clean. Any ideas as to

Re: More XORG_UPGRADE questions

2007-06-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Blah Blatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the responses to the previous ones. If I have successfully upgraded to xorg 7.2, and later I want to do a portupgrade of my installed ports to a newer version, and those include xorg or some xorg-related ports, do I have to again make sure

Re: problem making gnome-applets

2007-06-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Network Problem in FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5

2007-06-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post; I had to delete the earlier comments from this message because it had become impossible to follow. When you hit the connection limit, does anything appear in the logs? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: Permanent apache patch

2007-06-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
in the tree in that particular directory. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: fusefs-ntfs

2007-06-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anton Galitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 6/24/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anton Galitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have this problem while compiling fusfs-ntfs: mount_fusefs.c:72: error: `MOPT_STDOPTS' undeclared here (not in a function) mount_fusefs.c:72: error

Re: dhcrelay

2007-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I have a set of FreeBSD 6.2 firewalls. They each have 3 interfaces in them. One interface connects to the 10.94/16 network, the other connects the 192.168.4/24, 192.168.5/24 and 192.168.8/24 networks. Here is a

Re: fusefs-ntfs

2007-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anton Galitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have this problem while compiling fusfs-ntfs: mount_fusefs.c:72: error: `MOPT_STDOPTS' undeclared here (not in a function) mount_fusefs.c:72: error: initializer element is not constant mount_fusefs.c:72: error: (near initialization for `mopts[12]')

Re: Problem with openldap-sasl-client port?

2007-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 08:37 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Just tell pkgdb 'no' and then tell it the correct alternate package name. (You can use tab completion there; very handy) After that, things should go smoothly. Thanks. I tried this, but

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