Re: Oops... {upgrading, using a script and pkg_version}

2007-03-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi people, A day or three ago somebody posted a neat upgrade script (or snippet of) using a shell for loop and pkg_version. I was going to save, thought I saved it to ~/Mail/freebsd. Can't find it. Anybody knw which post

Re: safe0 and kernel panic

2007-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Further to my previous mail. On 3/20/07, Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: safe0 mem 0xf612-0xf6121fff irq 22 at device 10.0 on pci0 safe0: cannot allocate DMA tag device_attach: safe0 attach returned 6 While running cryptokeytest from

Re: Using TSC without disabling ACPI

2007-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vlad GALU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello list, I've been trying to use TSC without disabling ACPI and I failed. Is there a way I can achieve that? As long as ACPI was in use, the system always chose ACPI-fast. It varies a bit with the FreeBSD version, but did you try setting the

Re: Building a custom FreeBSD ISO install image

2007-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
rm foo; fi cd: can't cd to /ncvs/FreeBSD/release/usr/src/sys/conf *** Error code 2 Is the CHROOTDIR correct? Do you think the CVS tree is complete? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Kernel error

2007-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
with signal propagation on short ethernet cables. I haven't read the 83815 spec; if you want more details, you will need to do so. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd

Re: safe0 and kernel panic

2007-03-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install SafeNet 1141 support in one of the freebsd boxes here. according to safe(4), I have to add device safe into my kernel config and compile to enable hardware crypto acceleration. But after I boot with safe module enabled I get a kernel

Re: Slim Server

2007-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jason Gretz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey guys, I tried installing Slim Server from /usr/ports/audio/slimserver and I am getting this error: Makefile out-of-date with respect to /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/Config.pm /

Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5

2007-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ken Cochran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello -questions: This is most certanly a FAQ but I'm not yet finding the kind of answer I need... I have a couple of old FreeBSD systems that I can't (yet) update to the new Daylight Saving Time rules (based on the email message that came out on

Re: Freebsd-Update Stable Dist's

2007-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I built my latest server I used a FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE-200608 ISO image that was produced on one of the serveral 'snapshot' sites However, I was going to run freebsd-update to check for any patches, etc.. That may need to be applied and it says it

Re: Problems with SSH and Realtek driver

2007-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexander Schlichting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had a problem with the sshd disconnecting incoming connections after a few seconds of inactivity. I tried a lot and found no solution for this so I ended up with trying the latest driver from here :

Re: Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:52:20 -0600 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should add a line: /usr/bin/su [to your username] OK, I'll try that. A way to do this without needing special permissions to touch system files is to use cron; it has an

Re: Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:52:20 -0600 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should add a line: /usr/bin/su [to your username] OK, I'll try that. A way to do this without needing special permissions

Re: Where can I get a nVidia driver for FBSD amd64

2007-03-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks, FreeBSD 6.2-amd64 I have been searching around for nVidia drvier without result. X window can't work properly on this box. However I'm not alone. Please visit following sites http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545page=15

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:22:32 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backup+restore will be defrag you mean : backup, format, (reinstall if needed, depending on method of backup) and restore - or simply restore on top (if you backed

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
science terminology, it can be described quite tersely. UFS fragmentation is a way of avoiding internal fragmentation from wasting too much space. MS-DOS-FS fragmentation is an example of external fragmentation in the storage space. They don't really have anything to do with each other. -- Lowell

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-02-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 28 February 2007 04:32, Christian Baer wrote: Good morning[1], folks! I am currently setting up a Sun U60 with FreeBSD. A few amount of apps will be installed on it, when I'm through with it. And that is where it gets a little frustrating.

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS *SOLVED!*

2007-02-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Auty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess the trick here was not considering that user space apps would be trying to do a kldload, and that calling upon a module that is either missing in /boot/kernel or /boot/modules or resides outside of /boot can trigger these panics. That is

Re: ffmpeg build fails

2007-02-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andriy Babiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found the header file in /usr/src/sys/sys directory. Actually, the content of the folders looks the same. I'm not sure why the file was missing in the /usr/include/sys. Note that this means your system is installed improperly; soundcard.h should

Re: services file question

2007-02-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steel City Phantom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been trying to figure out an issue with my newest bsd server. i am trying to get jboss to run but nothing outside of the local machine can access it. i have been working on this for a while and am completely out of ideas except for one, but

Re: Reg. Third party Software installation

2007-02-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
subbu ramanN [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am subburaman from bangalore.I am having FreeBsd OS.Now i want to install the google earth software.I have downloaded googleearth.bin file.How can i install ? Kindly give me the guidlines. Installing third-party software is best done

Re: replacing port in outgoing packets to any host

2007-02-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, participants! In constant effort to prevent trojans to send spam following question came to my mind. Is there any way to replace port number for all outgoing packets? Long version: I want to block outgoing port 25 completely for network behind NAT

Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram ?drive?

2007-02-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the fixit disk (to get the tools without having the hard disk mounted at all). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: xDSL n Dial up connection ??? help

2007-02-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
-- in the worst case, you might need to set one up yourself using a ping of some upstream router. Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise.

2007-02-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
everything installed. Greg Lehey has been recommending this approach in his books for at least a couple of editions now. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd

Re: Update and install new packages immediate after installation

2007-02-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
satimis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please advise after installation completed how to read on CVS on the website to fetch fresh ports and src tree that I need installing further packages and updating the system. Also how to read about its package management and how to startup. I expect first

Re: Question about syscon

2007-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ronggui [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whenever I start the FreeBSD, it takes about one minutes to get the syscon service ready. Is there any way to speed up the process of start-up? Do you mean sc0? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: local ports FTP

2007-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Svetoslav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I'm from Bulgaria I work in www.nra.bg http://www.nra.bg/ administrator I want to make feebsd local ftp ports site PLS help me how I do this ?? For mirroring the ports tree, the way to do it is explained in a document on the subject:

Re: Release 6.2

2007-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
York Rapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for a DVD Image of Release 6.2 to download, but unfortunately (stupid as I am ;-)) I cannot find it. Can you give me an information or a link of a mirror. The FreeBSD Project does not release official ISOs larger than CD size. The extra

Re: serious performance problems with 6.2 Release

2007-02-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steven H. Baeighkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, We are having some bizarre performance problems on a freshly installed 6.2 Release server. This is a supermicro superserver 6022c dual 2.0 Xeon with 2GB RAM. These CPUs do support hyperthreading. We have done significant testing with

Re: Using newer version of pgp by default

2007-02-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Freebsd-6.2 I have both GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) and versions 2.0.2 installed. I wanted to remove the older version; however, it seems that some programs depend on it. Both 'sylpheed', 'pine' and KMail insist on using the older version for pgp.

Re: How to mount the squashfs file?

2007-02-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ronggui [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can FreeBSD 6.2 support this file? Thanks. No. Nothing but Linux supports it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Renaming log files while archiving - newsyslog?

2007-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to set up automatic archiving of logfiles and thought about using the standard newsyslog for it. My problem though is that during archiving the logs should be renamed to something like basename.YY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS so the archived files should

Re: Tuning Question

2007-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
top(1) gives memory sizes, they are in bytes rather than pages as the manual indicates. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: spamd permission problem

2007-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
a stale script for starting it? I believe it's supposed to start as root and only drop to the spamd user after it has opened its sockets. Or maybe it's starting twice? You could check whether the port is already held... (using sockstat). Be well. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: CD/DVD Catalog

2007-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone who can recommend a good CD/DVD catalog program? Kind of depends on what you're looking for. I can't find any at the moment, but I know I've looked at a few in the past. They seem to be focused on indexing for feeding into music players (e.g.,

Re: Tuning Question

2007-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Cy Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Top's output, as is free memory on all O/S's these days, is bogus. It's the size of the free memory pool which is available for immediate allocation. Used memory is just as useless. It doesn't matter how much is swapped out, what matters is how much

Re: Connection timed out

2007-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to resolve a connection timed out problem. The problem occurs when I attempt to ssh, or http to my freebsd host from my windows (2K) box. About 3/4 of the time I get a Connection timed out when I attempt to ssh into the freebsd host.

Re: Error compiling/upgrading Azureus

2007-02-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE .. ran CVSUP Today so all my ports/src is all up to date. No matter what i try i cant get the new version of Azureus to compile .. any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated. == [javac] symbol :

Re: Can't Login at the Console on FreeBSD 6.0 Release

2007-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
JP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I'm not quite sure what happened here, someone with root access, who probably shouldn't have had it managed to make a mess of things. He claims he was trying to install source files and on reboot he could no longer login to the system. I am able to boot into

Re: eterm/port

2007-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
error) --- Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed ___ 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: eterm/port

2007-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't use eterm, but I'm seeing it too when I looked into it. Strangely, neither eterm nor imlib2 have changed in a couple of months, and the sandbox built them properly since then. Hmm. imlib2 isn't deleting properly, either. pkg_delete

Re: error compiling linux-base-fc4

2007-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All build fails with the following error === Generating temporary packing list ** Missing pkg-descr for autoconf-2.13.000227_5. *** Error code 1 The full sequence is copied below: - ===

Re: ImageMagick and Gallery2

2007-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joacim Melin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to install ImageMagick from the ports-distribution for FreeBSD 6.0 on a sparc32-box but I'm unsure if I did something wrong or if the ports package is messed up since there are no binaries installed for ImageMagick? How do you know there are no

Re: port install vim no gettext feature

2007-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I install vim from port /usr/ports/editors/vim, In gvim, use :version command: Big version with GTK GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): +arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent +clientserver +clipboard

Re: rc.conf ...need help

2007-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don Munyak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was tweaking the /etc/rc.conf file and apparently had a typo. Now the system boots into single user mode. I know what my error is syslogd_enable=YES {left off the first } How can I edit rc.conf while in single user mode. I've tried vi ee, but system

Re: sshd never restarts

2007-01-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD 4.9 openssh-3.6.1_6 so I have a script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sshd.sh that I use to restart sshd but sshd most of the time never comes back. there is nothing relevant that makes it to /var/log/messages if I start sshd manually with

Re: CVSup question

2007-01-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Charlie McElfresh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE In an effort to update my ports collection, I ran CVSup, with the line ports-all in my cvs_supfile After the update finished, I noticed that some of my ports that were there before, notably php5-cgi, were

Re: network problem

2007-01-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using bt to download files and i know this is bad for netowrk... Not particularly; just make sure it isn't grabbing all of your bandwidth. sometimes my firefox returns the site not found on some popular sites, such as yahoo and google, and it

Re: ports with -DBATCH

2007-01-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm writing a script to install a series of ports, and would like to use the following: cd /usr/ports/foo/bar make WITH_OPTION1=yes WITH_OPTION2=yes WITHOUT_ANOTHER=yes -DBATCH install That works as expected, but I would also like those settings

Re: boot0 Bootloader questions

2007-01-22 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: Problems with custom kernel fbsd 6.2

2007-01-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
James Hein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for trying to help, but that didn't seem to be it. It did the same thing, with the same error. Can you think of anything else that may be wrong? I'm considering rebuilding it again with debugging on, and using script to output it to a log. It has

Re: Kernel Compiling Problem

2007-01-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Xu-Long Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some problem in my kernal file and it suggests that: one code error devicesbp # SCSI over FireWire (Requires scbus and da) Note the comment: Requires scbus and da ___

Re: fsck operation

2007-01-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to be an authoritative voice on this, however. Also note that the filesystem type might affect the answer; I only checked the code for FFS. Be well. Lowell Gilbert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Strange Emacs autoloaded library

2007-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have removed the files menu-bar.el.gz menu-bar.elc from /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp. But load-history variable still shows me /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/menu-bar.elc loaded and menu-bar appeared at emacs startup. What is this? Any other

Re: Natd is not working as expected

2007-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ross Penner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've configured my freebsd computer to be the gateway for my home network using the guidelines in the handbook. All the required kernel options are enabled and the entries in /etc/rc.conf have been added. I'm unsure what the problem could be and I'm

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed isc-dhcpd and it is working fine. But I don't want to hardcode the nameservers in the dhcpd.conf, because my ISP is changing them sometimes. It would be perfect if there is a way dhcpd to read the nameservers from /etc/resolv.conf Not

Re: Vivitar USB camera support

2007-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone happen to know where I would find a how-to for downloading and displaying images from a Vivitar ViviCam 3825? I see several digital-camera utilities of one sort or another in the ports, but none whose index entry mentions Vivitar. That camera seems to

Re: FreeBSD 3.4 / 4.5 - 2007 DST Changes

2007-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Cormany, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have a few older FreeBSD systems running 3.4 and 4.5. Are there patches for the 2007 daylight savings time US change for these FreeBSD versions? If so, where can I find them? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/zoneinfo/

Re: question

2007-01-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post, and please don't override my mail-header directions to post back to the list. Juan Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:38:00 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to copy hardlinks as hardlinks

2007-01-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm doing some backups with rsnapshot, and I want to copy those backups to a DVD. Although 'df' and 'du', shows that to total space used for it is less then the total capacity of the DVD disk (~ 3.5GB), growisofs/mkisofs are treating hardlinks as files

Re: Problem with built-in USB memory card reader

2007-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexander Pohoyda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Everything works perfect if the system is started with a memory card inserted into the reader. The problem arises when the system is started without the memory card inserted. Since the reader is built-in (permanently attached to the motherboard),

Re: gdm automatic login

2007-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alla Gofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Joe! I followed the suggestion that you gave in following link about gdm automatic login http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-August/054439. html and my portable computer also hangs on login screen after I reboot. The

Re: termcaps: xdm vs. startx

2007-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So if I run xdm on startup, when I log in, my up arrow gives '[[A' instead of command history, backspace, other keys have similar effects. If I log in then do startx, everything works as expected. It's really not an issue for me, I'm just curious. I

Re: question

2007-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Juan Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I installed freeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on my Compaq ADM4, and when I input the command, Xorg -configure, theres some errors: dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/newport_drv.so: Undefined symbol XAAFall back0ps (EE) Failed to load

Re: FreeBSD on Mini-ITX has web page latency

2007-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bob McIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Usability studies say that a person won't wait more than 4 seconds for a web page download. FreeBSD using Konqueor or Lynx takes more than 10 seconds. This is puzzling since ftp transfers at 400kbs, pings of freebsd.org take 80ms, and top shows CPU is

Re: How to reset /dev/dsp ?

2007-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Luke Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running FreeBSD 6.1. My sound device shows up like this in my dmesg: pcm0: Intel ICH5 (82801EB) port 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xdc00-0xdc3f mem 0xfc001000-0xfc0011ff,0xfc002000-0xfc0020ff irq 17 at device 31.5 on pci0 pcm0: primary codec not ready! pcm0:

Re: gnupg: discarding older version

2007-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running: /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL= produces this output: gnupg-1.4.6_2 needs updating (index has 2.0.1) Running: pkgdb -Fv produces this output: Checking for origin duplicates Duplicated origin:

Re: FreeBSD on Mini-ITX has web page latency

2007-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. bobmc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, it seems that the driver and the hardware works so there must be a problem in the generic part of the software. There are plenty of tools for networking analysis but I am not a networking adept. So I will carefully repeat the

Re: Making world doesn't change all ownerships?

2007-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a test machine where some users changed a number of directories to be owned by www:www by mistake. The machine was unusable. After rebuilding from sources the machine was usable, but I noticed that a number of files still were owned by www.

Re: Unable to connect to remote X server using X -query

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
of environment in years (so take that with a grain of salt). I would try debugging through the init file (.xinitrc, if the user has one) -- perhaps putting some checkpoints in that script which will write out to local files. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: problem with samsung flash

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ivan Frosty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello there, i have freebsd 6.1 pentiumII 355mhz processor and 128mb of ram. everytime i put my samsung 512mb in tha usb the machine doesnt boot it halts where the error be at if i pull it out it boots.then if i put it back in i get an

Re: mergemaster and vimdiff

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dan Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anyway to use vimdiff with mergemaster. Not easily; the diff(1) command is hard-wired into the mergemaster script. However, you could do your own comparison with MM_EXIT_SCRIPT. Also, remember that mergemaster is just a shell script itself, and you

Re: SATA disk problem

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have 2 identical drives in my machine. [snip] HOW to enable write cache on second drive? According to man 4 ata, there is a loader tunable hw.ata.wc which does this. However, it supposedly defaults to enabled, and applies to all drives.

Re: glchess port does not work

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
B. Hansmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone tried the glchess port in 6.2-RC2-amd64? When I try to start it, it just prints these error messages and quits: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/local/bin/glchess, line 7, in ? app = glchess.main.Application() File

Re: ghostscript - port - titles

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am curious about the retitling of current versions of ghostscript released under gnu public license. In /print/ghostscript version 8.15.x is ghostscript-gpl whereas version 7.07x is ghostscript-gnu. Am I missing something here? Does portupgrade handle

Re: a Q about mixer

2006-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: one quick question, how can I change the default of mixer?? when I reboot the system, the mic and rec are always zero, and I have to adjust them so i can use skype, kinda pain in the butt, thx!! In recent versions of FreeBSD, it should happen

Re: problems compiling Maildrop

2006-12-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Auty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it just me having problems with this port? I'd really appreciate if somebody could confirm whether or not they are getting this error so I know whether or not to bug the port maintainer. It seems to build in a clean environment:

Re: Help with a flash memory

2006-12-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a flash memory myflash with 1Gb. Ubuntu Linux and Fedora detects and mounts it automatically. But I don't know how to mount it in FreeBSD 6.1 . Can somebody tell me how to mount it? I wanna know how to mount it in console mode. Try the FreeBSD

Re: freebsd on i386-type internet appliance and cf card

2006-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, I've installed freebsd on a compact flash card sucessfully in my laptop (or so it looks - sysinstall completes to /dev/ad4, copies everything, no errors, etc) with the regular harddisk removed (for safety, of course). Only it won't boot on the

Re: nonstandard ports tree location

2006-12-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello to all, Not long ago, I ran cvsup successfully. In the example cvs-supfile, the following opening lines exist: # base=/var/db #   This specifies the root where CVSup will store information #   about the collections you

Re: .bst files installation

2006-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Saifi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: .bst files installation Sent: 19 Dec '06 00:20 Saifi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which package in ports need to be installed in order to have .bst files installed ? The .bst files

Re: .bst files installation

2006-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Saifi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which package in ports need to be installed in order to have .bst files installed ? The .bst files are required when specifiying the \bibliographystyle{} in .tex files. Note that you are using LaTeX, not TeX. Any version of LaTeX should do (if I remember

Re: Dealing with bad blocks on a hard disc

2006-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marc van Woerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, my notebook's hard drive seems to be damaged: Dec 18 15:49:13 hokage kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=9919567 Dec 18 15:49:13 hokage kernel: g_vfs_done():ad0s1f[READ(offset=1360723968,

Re: Palm Tx + jpilot

2006-12-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Armin Arh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:16:46AM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: In /etc/devfs.conf: perm cuaU0 0666 but then: ## l /dev/cuaU0 crw-rw 1 uucp dialer - 0, 113 Dec 15 05:00 /dev/cuaU0 The /dev/devfs.conf permissions only apply when i run

Re: FreeBSD FAMP on a mini-itx/embedded platform

2006-12-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nicolas Blais [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking to make a light FreeBSD-Apache-MySQL-PHP system out of a VIA EN 5000 system. It would replace my home file/web server which currently runs 24h/7d with a silent and energy-wise bundle. I did something similar (

Re: /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/eel linker error

2006-12-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The strange thing is that after running portupgrade -rf pkg-config\*, I tried to run it again and it started to upgrade everything again. I think this is bad. No, that's exactly what -f means to portupgrade. ___

Re: /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/eel linker error

2006-12-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What am I going wrong? Please help! System: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #4: Thu Nov 30 13:33:49 CET 2006 The ports tree was updated yesterday, then I ran portupgrade -a It was completed today. Then I ran portinstall gnome2 and got this error: grep:

Re: Automount

2006-12-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After some kind advice from this mail list, im trying to set up an amd automount so that my external hard drive doesnt have to be on all the time for the main server to boot. My fstab for the drives (there is two drives contained within a Sun

Re: Freebsd Fail to boot

2006-12-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Thomas Wahyudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have freebsd 6.1 and 6.2 RC1 and i trying to install to my desktop computer using old motherboard ASUS P4S533 but everytime install is finish and trying to boot from HD its make my coumputer reboot and reboot again seems something wrong with boot

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet host one second ago. How does it work? $ ifconfig

Re: acpi and boot problem

2006-12-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
leo fante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I've installed freebsd 6.1 on an old pc on which I've configured several services. Everything worked fine since last week when the motherboard died. I've replaced the mobo and found that now the acpi could work (with the old motherboard the

Re: Automount

2006-12-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just installed an external SCSI hard drive in the form of a sun StorEdge. All is working well. The StorEdge has two drives called da0 and da1 respectivly. I've put entries into /etc/fstab so that they are mounted on boot as /s and

Re: Xorg: How to change background?

2006-11-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also try installing graphics/xv (xv -root -quit image_file.png) Which also comes with the nifty bggen command... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: portsdb -Uu hung

2006-11-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I seem to be having the same problem described in http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22211, with no system calls shown by truss. My instinct is that it's unlikely to be related, even if the symptoms look similar. Unfortunately, the

Re: Xorg: How to change background?

2006-11-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can Xorg show another background than grey grid, for example black screen? Sure. Try xsetroot(1). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: firefox build error

2006-11-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Drew Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Laurence Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Firefox build from ports is exiting with this error: cc -o gtk2xtbin.o -c -DMOZILLA_INTERNAL_API -DOSTYPE=\FreeBSD6\ -DOSARCH=\FreeBSD\ -DBUILD_ID=00 -D_IMPL_GTKXTBIN_API

Re: firefox build error

2006-11-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Laurence Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Firefox build from ports is exiting with this error: cc -o gtk2xtbin.o -c -DMOZILLA_INTERNAL_API -DOSTYPE=\FreeBSD6\ -DOSARCH=\FreeBSD\ -DBUILD_ID=00 -D_IMPL_GTKXTBIN_API -DUSE_XIM -I../../../dist/include/xpcom

Re: cvsup problems....

2006-11-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I usually use cvsup5.us.freebsd.org. but it has not given me any new bits for several days now. And if I use ANY other server what usually takes five minutes, takes 30-minutes to an hour (or they just hang). Which is terribly annoying. I've tried

Re: cvsup problems....

2006-11-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/18/06 11:37, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I usually use cvsup5.us.freebsd.org. but it has not given me any new bits for several days now. And if I use ANY other server what usually takes five minutes, takes 30

Re: Block Size (FreeBSD File System)

2006-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read this below quoted information that to increase performance, one can set a Block Size. If so, how much? Could some genius advise what to do? Take the defaults. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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