Re: ports have made me lazy

2009-10-03 Thread Michael Powell
Vince Sabio wrote: I need to install zlib (not zlibc), and AFACT it is not included in ports. When I look at the zlib web site, I see that there are several (not a lot, but several) dependencies for the installation -- and I think, OH NO, NOT DEPENDENCIES! Or something like that. I blame

Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Powell
Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi Michael, Michael Powell schrieb: patch I got. I use cvsup11 because it closest to me (in the Verizon datacenter in Ashland, Va.) but I have had that server go stale before. Might try csupping ports again from something a little higher up in the hierarchy. why

Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: Jerry wrote: [snip] No problems on my machines. PHP 5.2.11 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Sep 24 2009 19:08:59) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies [snip] Will look into it a little more

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Powell
Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: Hi, I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal users (about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading on other discussions I noticed that qmail and other programs are suggested. I am wondering if qmail is thought to be

Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:03:37 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Found the problem. The mailheader patch for 5.2.10 clashes with the Suhosin patch for 5.2.11. I rebuilt PHP with Suhosin and without mailheader patch and now it's all happy again. Now my php -v

Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:03:37 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Found the problem. The mailheader patch for 5.2.10 clashes with the Suhosin patch for 5.2.11. I rebuilt PHP with Suhosin and without mailheader patch and now it's all happy again. Now my php -v

Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-26 Thread Michael Powell
Today I did a portupgrade of PHP from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11. This broke both lighttpd and Apache web servers, on which I run PHP as FastCGI. I do not know if this affects those who use mod_php as I do not use it. I use mod_fcgid instead. Execute php -v at a prompt and it will spew the following

Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-26 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:34:25 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: [snip] If you are using FastCGI the workaround is to do make config in lang/php5 and deselect the Suhosin option. There is something very broken in the Suhosin patch as far as CLI and FastCGI

Re: net.inet.ip.random_id possible ASA problems?

2009-09-24 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: B. Cook wrote: [ big snip ] So after 6 hours of cisco techs.. all they could come up with is a ... possible duplex mis-match.. *sigh* So dropping my pf rules (which contain scrub settings) made no difference, I found the above URL which seeme to point to

Re: DHCP client questions

2009-09-20 Thread Michael Powell
Mel Flynn wrote: On Sunday 20 September 2009 21:19:28 stan wrote: I have several machines (such as a mailserver) which _MUST_ have fixed names. I have played around with /etc/dhcllient.conf, but not managed to get this working. I can get IP addresses, and various things such as default

Re: Microsoft Dynamic DNS

2009-09-19 Thread Michael Powell
stan wrote: I have a situation at work, where I need a FreeBSD machine to be in the corporate DNS. We have been bought out, and the new owner says no static DNS entries. They use some Microsoft technogly where the client machiens register thier names with the corprate DNS. In a correctly

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Michael Powell
and it won't be given to the community. Michael Powell wrote: Quoted from ~freebsd.security.general: The bug was fixed in 6.1-STABLE, just before release of 6.2-RELEASE, but was not recognized as security vulnerability. This is another bug. The former one affected only 6.1, this one affects

Re: sSMTP, this mailing list, and helo errors

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Powell
Chad Perrin wrote: I moved email from a FreeBSD 6.2 machine to a FreeBSD 7.2 machine. On both machines, I'm using sSMTP[1] to send email to a mailserver managed by a shared hosting server, with SSL/TLS authentication. Everything works, except for one small problem -- sending email to this

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: Mikel King wrote: Hasn't 6.x been End Of Lifed? I mean considering that 8.0 is expected to be released either later this month or early next, and 6.x will be officially retired at that time, is it possible that this was overlooked? Personally I don't think it's ever

Re: ftpd virtual www hosts

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Powell
Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:10:35 -0400, Peasoup i...@peasoup.com wrote: Next I go to vipw to change the user's home dir to something in the www area, which is owned by www:www. This is where my problems start with being denied. I am assuming that uploading to the unprivileged

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Michael Powell
Ivan Voras wrote: John Almberg wrote: I am using PHP, in fact. I've listed all the loaded modules below, and marked the ones I added with an '*'. I need the proxy modules because I use Apache as a front end for Mongrel. This WITH_MPM=worker sounds interesting. I'll have to read up on it.

Re: cc -march questions

2009-09-04 Thread Michael Powell
Scott Bennett wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:28:09 -0400 Daniel Molina Wegener d...@coder.cl wrote: 2009/9/3 Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu What exactly does cc -march=prescott enable cc to do? Does it include instruction scheduling for the pipeline structure of the Prescott

Re: [Fwd: about vbox and freebsd]

2009-08-22 Thread Michael Powell
John Francis Lee wrote: I got an answer to my question, posted here, from ... but I've been instructed not to post to individuals but to the list so I copy the Mak's response here : snip Your CPU is 64-bit from what I can see. From a bit of Googling, others have encountered this problem,

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time

Re: about vbox and freebsd

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
Mak Kolybabi wrote: On 2009-08-21 06:12, John Francis Lee wrote: My problem is that I'm told right at the onset of the install that CPU doesn't support long mode Your CPU is 64-bit from what I can see. From a bit of Googling, others have encountered this problem, and it seems to have to

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] Ok, I normally do something like that... problem here was that I made the mistake of thinking that an interesting little script I found was good for updating... but, I was sadly mistaken. The error was due to a badly downloaded ports tree. That fixed, all works fine. I

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-14 Thread Michael Powell
Ian Smith wrote: [snip] Smells like flakey hardware .. intermittent, inexplicable glitches. It might survive hours on one workload, minutes on another, no sense to it? All that I am seeing is that there is either a problem with the bios (which I even reinstalled and that changed

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Michael Powell
Roland Smith wrote: [sni[p] - Powersupply: check the voltages (preferably under load) with a monitoring app like mbmon. If that's not possible, check in the BIOS. A failing powersupply can give weird unreproducable errors. If you have ever heard a popping noise from the machine it

Re: Freebsd-update question

2009-08-08 Thread Michael Powell
Richard Mahlerwein wrote: [snip] I currently have my little westell DSL router set to be my DNS for all my boxes behind it. While a neat little box, it has its issues from time to time. Should I at least point my DNS to the DNS it uses to save an extra relay? Depends. I don't know if the

Re: Fwd: Boot failure

2009-08-07 Thread Michael Powell
Tim Judd wrote: On 8/7/09, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Looks like your hardware is dying/dead. Sadly, I agree. Reset BIOS CMOS data (hardware jumper on motherboard) Enter RAID controller BIOS, (re)set your boot drive But it looks like a fundamental BIOS control issue

Re: Boot failure

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Powell
Identry wrote: Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1 and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from that, if not it could be a controller issue. If you can then its probably your OS/kernel but at least you now have access to your

Re: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Powell
Polytropon wrote: [snip] Personally, I do think it's a pity, because FreeBSD (in my experience, since FreeBSD 4.5) is stable, easy to use (once you have the basic Unix concepts on board), and astonishingly well-documented. It's also supported by one of the friendliest and most knowledgeable

Re: cvs tag usage

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Powell
David Southwell wrote: I am confused about the usage of the tag for src. I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices: _7_BP _7_2_BP _7_2_0_RELEASE _7_2 But could not find anything that told me where -p2 fits into this!! # uname -a 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 fresh install

2009-08-01 Thread Michael Powell
GrimJow Espada wrote: Hi I have installed FBSD 7.2 and when i try to set up xorg using xorgconfig or xorg -configure it doesnt work any more, any changes on the command? thanks Try Xorg -configure instead. May want to read too:

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-30 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot sector screwed up? Usually there are more than 1 file system present. The MBR will have no bearing on any other than the one you need to boot from, and this is usually the / - aka root. Having a screwed up MBR

Re: freebsd.org/ports site seems to have lost its style sheet

2009-07-20 Thread Michael Powell
Jeff Dickens wrote: Do a search and see what I mean. Any idea who to tell? Looks normal to me here. Only a search or two and some refreshing, but still don't see anything wrong. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-16 Thread Michael Powell
David Kelly wrote: Since when does one have CSMA/CD when configured as full duplex? All full duplex ethernet connections are point to point, machine to machine, or machine to switch. There is no multiple access on full duplex. No chance of collision. You are running Ethernet, right?

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-16 Thread Michael Powell
David Kelly wrote: [snip] But it is turned off. A full duplex switch does not echo the sender's bits back to the sender's receiver. A full duplex switch buffers the incoming bits, reads the header, selects an output port, and then starts sending the bits to that one port out of the FIFO.

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Powell
David Kelly wrote: Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no special hardware? IIRC the classic ethernet problem limiting the distance between the farthest points on a network had to do with

Re: Industrial Intelligent Wi-Fi (I2W)

2009-07-12 Thread Michael Powell
Mkt-Exemys wrote: This is a message in multipart MIME format. Your mail client should not be displaying this. Consider upgrading your mail client to view this message correctly. So when are you going to get a clue and use a mail client that doesn't do this? As far as this message

Re: activate apache mod_rewrite

2009-07-12 Thread Michael Powell
Ray wrote: On July 12, 2009 05:58:07 pm Gregory T Helton wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:09:24 -0600 Ray r...@stilltech.net wrote: Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64 I have never used mod rewrite before, but I am about to be hosting a php website that does use it and I

Re: Industrial Intelligent Wi-Fi (I2W)

2009-07-12 Thread Michael Powell
Glen Barber wrote: Mark it as spam and move on, please. This is not the first email from this person/bot. Will do. Have been putting it off, but I see it spammed out to other lists beside this one. Was wondering if he even knew what he was doing. But I can plonk him. 'Nuff said. -Mike

Re: question about a driver - Gigabit - HP NC362i

2009-07-10 Thread Michael Powell
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:33:37PM +0100, João Pagaime wrote: hello all any chance of the following NIC working with the latests freeBSD release: Embedded HP NC362i Integrated Dual Port Gigabit Server Adaptor FreeBSD's hardware release notes dont look very

Re: Portupgrade not handling dependencies

2009-07-08 Thread Michael Powell
b. f. wrote: But I have seen portupgrade something and then a subsequent run shows this port as being 'newer' than the version it's supposed to be. I've [snip] also noticed a few times it seemed like it was upgrading the same version(s) over again. I just chalked this up to the ports system

Re: Portupgrade not handling dependencies

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Powell
Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: snip] As seen above, libtheora built and installed just fine, but ffmpeg was skipped for some reason. I ran portupgrade -a again and all worked fine. This ways also occuring when I ran portupgrade -arR. Ports tree is updated with cvsup each night. I don't

Re: error when complie kernel.

2009-07-06 Thread Michael Powell
tang huu trong wrote: Dear all. i got a problem while complie my kernel to support PAE. below is my process. 1 - cp /usr/src/sys/i386/GENERIC /root/kernels/MYKERNEL 2 - cd /usr/src/sys/i386 3 - ln -s /root/kernels/MYKERNEL 4 - vi /usr/src/sys/i386/MYKERNEL 5 - add line options

Re: libtool shared

2009-06-28 Thread Michael Powell
alexus wrote: I'm trying to compile something and I'm getting these lines while I'm doing ./configure checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no checking whether to build shared libraries... no I went and even recompiled libtool # ./configure | grep -i share checking whether

Re: libtool shared

2009-06-28 Thread Michael Powell
alexus wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Michael Powellnightre...@verizon.net wrote: alexus wrote: [snip] company policy not too use ports, any other suggestions? Change this company policy as it is unproductive. Sounds like something implemented by those lacking experience with

Re: Checksum mismatches when csup-ing.

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Powell
Paul van der Zwan wrote: On 23 jun 2009, at 05:55, Frank Shute wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:17:40PM +0200, Paul van der Zwan wrote: The last few days I see a dozens of Checksum mismatches when csup-ing src-all from cvsup.freebsd.org. No errors appear on ports-all. Is there a

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Powell
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:35:56PM -0500, Dan Nelson typed: In the last episode (Jun 22), Ruben de Groot said: My main concern here is if applying the trivial patch I posted would break anything in the http protocol layer. And if not, why isn't the POST method

Re: cannot find -lltdl

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Powell
kalin m wrote: Chris Rees wrote: 2009/6/23 kalin m ka...@el.net: [snip] Why aren't you using ports? there isn't ports for all that i need compiling with 5.2.10. Yes there is. You install the main PHP5 port first, then follow up by installing the php5-extensions port. When

Re: Checksum mismatches when csup-ing.

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Powell
Paul van der Zwan wrote: [snip] Well at least I am not the only one seeing these errors. I think we can rule out a local problem and will have to wait for someone to fix this. Note: I use cvsup to maintain a local copy of the cvs repository. It is not clear if you too is doing that, or if

Re: enable IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT for GENERIC kernel

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Powell
subbsd wrote: Hello maillist, Whether there is a way for booting GENERIC kernel with ipfw_load=YES and 65535 allow ip from any to any rules without recompile kernel with options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT ? This is single options who force me customize my own kernel with

Re: (no subject)

2009-06-13 Thread Michael Powell
Fred Terp wrote: This is a dumb Question which I should know the answer to. I can get gdm to recogize my logins but xdm and wdm wont accept my username/password entrys what am I forgetting? Not sure if this will help, but are you configuring the ttyv8 line in /etc/ttys?

Re: FreeSBIE

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Powell
Chris Neudorf wrote: Hello, I'm not sure who to contact about this, but there is a problem with the freesbie.org website. I can't seem to connect to it. With Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1.0, I get the error message Network Timeout, The server at www.freesbie.org is taking too long to respond. and

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Michael Powell
Leslie Jensen wrote: [snip] I tried that as well, same error unfortunately mount -t udf /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount_udf: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument So is this a new MS filesystem that no one but Vista users can read? I'm afraid we'll properly see more of these problems unless support is

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Michael Powell
Leslie Jensen wrote: Michael Powell skrev: Leslie Jensen wrote: [snip] I tried that as well, same error unfortunately mount -t udf /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount_udf: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument So is this a new MS filesystem that no one but Vista users can read? I'm afraid we'll properly

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:13:30 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote: The nv can easily be installed along with Xorg. The nvidia driver is more complex as it relies on the linuxolator to function, so there is a larger number of dependencies. This is incorrect: I

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: [snip] Simple, but wrong. The driver is not a Linux driver, if you go to the nVidia site you will see that there are separate Linux and FreeBSD drivers. You don't need to load linux.ko at all if you built nvidia.ko without Linux support. [snip] Aha! You're right! Something

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
Carmel wrote: On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:13:30 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote: [snip] The nv can easily be installed along with Xorg. The nvidia driver is more complex as it relies on the linuxolator to function, so there is a larger number of dependencies. But when it comes

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
LoH wrote: [snip] What I have found to work is to make the nvidia-driver port, but not install it (to get the dependencies). Then I would download the recent driver from nVidia's website (as of this email, 185.18.14), untar it and install that instead. If nvidia-xconfig doesn't work

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:59:30 -0600 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now src.conf = world, make.conf = ports Please don't top post. It makes

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-07 Thread Michael Powell
Carmel wrote: I have an nVidia Geforce 6150LE chip on the motherboard. Should I install the x11/nvidia-driver or the NV driver in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers? Would it cause a conflict if I tried to install both and do I even need both of them? Install the nvidia driver if your install is

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Powell
Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Powell
Wojciech Puchar wrote: This is one place where FreeBSD is very good. It will give you performance on slightly downlevel hardware that Windows Server just can't touch. is really pentium 4 downlevel hardware? sound like a joke to me. Sorry - it wasn't really intended that way. Please note

RE: repeating error message from ssh

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Powell
Dave wrote: Hi, Thanks everyone for the information on this. I'm not running anything ipv6, i'd like to turn this off completely. The dns for my network unfortunately due to lack of computers is being provided by a 2wire gateway 2701, if anyone has any information on this thing's dhcp or

Re: The quest for linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Powell
Martin McCormick wrote: I have run across a couple of other ports that required the acceptance of a software agreement and the process was relatively painless, but this one makes up for all that and then some. For hours today, I have been wading through the Oracle web site trying to

Re: The quest for linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: I have run across a couple of other ports that required the acceptance of a software agreement and the process was relatively painless, but this one makes up for all that and then some. For hours today, I have been wading through the Oracle

Re: ethernet card not working

2009-06-03 Thread Michael Powell
David Collins wrote: Hi, I have just gotten an old ethernet card, not entirely sure how old it is but it has pulse H1012 on one of the chips and appears as ethernet device fxp0 in freebsd 7.0. When I plug an ethernet cable between this card and another computer (freebsd 7.2) ifconfig

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Michael Powell
Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: Hello, I have setup FreeBSD recently, can somebody help me with one interesting thing - Bind9 slave DNS server, everything is works great, but I got a problem with extended logging of xfer, etc. Bind9 started in chroot: root 7880.0 0.1 3156 1004

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Powell
Kent Hauser wrote: Sorry I was less than clear. I've been running XP + FreeBSD dual boot forever. After installing 7.2 (rebuilding from source), the XP partition wouldn't boot. When I selected F1 at the boot menu, the system just hung. I booted from an old 6.2 install disk I had around

Re: pfsync in GENERIC?

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Powell
Steven Schlansker wrote: [snip] Hm. I was actually under the impression that you wouldn't gain much by compiling your own kernel (except for maybe some disk space). Is that not the case? Is there a strong reason to compile your own kernel for production machines? The discussion online

Re: why integer size says 4 bytes on 64 bit processor

2009-05-25 Thread Michael Powell
Shakil Khan wrote: Hi All, Pardon me if I am writing this mail to the wrong group as I am too new to BSD and programming stuff. You can redirect me to right group without howling. By seeing some recent conversations(About the top status ;)) in this group it made me nervous to ask for a

Re: silly Q: any script running before make install /w ports ?

2009-05-24 Thread Michael Powell
Robert Joosten wrote: Hi, I have a standard umask of 0077 on a box. I grabbed irssi from ports, but he doesn't connect to any irc server... running it as root will. Now I suspect that umask setting of mine. Why not leave it at 022? That leaves me with a silly question: is there any

Re: P2B-D and ACPI or SMB anyone?

2009-05-21 Thread Michael Powell
Andre Albsmeier wrote: Hi, found this old P2B-D board with two 1GHz CPUs and don't want to throw it away ;-) Has anyone got it running with ACPI and without the interrupt storm on irq20? Judging from old mailing list messages it was blacklisted in 5.3 so ACPI got disabled but since it

Re: 7.2-PRERELEASE using RELENG_7?

2009-05-16 Thread Michael Powell
Gabe wrote: I'm a bit confused as to why I have 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Mar 20 02:16:04 PDT 2009 but yet my cvsup config was asking for RELENG_7. Isn't the PRERELEASE tag supposed to be RELENG_7_2? Now that 7.2 has actually been released the RELENG_7_2 tag will

RE: php5 pcre

2009-05-16 Thread Michael Powell
Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: Mel Flynn [mailto:mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net] Sent: zaterdag 16 mei 2009 11:59 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Subject: Re: php5 pcre I thought I was the only one this had happened to. :) In my case I resolved

Re: 7.2-PRERELEASE using RELENG_7?

2009-05-16 Thread Michael Powell
Gabe wrote: From: Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net Subject: Re: 7.2-PRERELEASE using RELENG_7? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, May 16, 2009, 4:27 AM Gabe wrote: I'm a bit confused as to why I have 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Mar 20 02

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Powell
Manish Jain wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in single-user mode. [snip] From all the discussion I have walked through on the issue of where to place vi, it does appear FreeBSD has

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Powell
Pieter Donche wrote: FreeBSD 7, KDE 3.5 To install Matlab (in linux compat mode), one must execute the matlab install program as root. The installer is graphical. When from a KDE terminal window, I switch to root (# su -) and try a graphical program, e.g. # xpdf, I get Can't open display.

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-13 Thread Michael Powell
Chris Rees wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:51:46PM +0530, manish jain wrote: I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in single-user mode. This sounds simple (and should be if all you have is a single partition), but there are problems. For starters, terminfo can't

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Powell
Saifi Khan wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit

Re: Help creating bpf0 device (bpf won't do it for me)

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
D C wrote: Hello, I'm in the final stages of setting up a new wireless connection but have been having problems getting bpf running. For some reason, even though bpf has been compiled into a new kernel, the system won't automatically create a bpf0 device. On boot, the system complains

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
Paul Schmehl wrote: I have a problem with amd. It's not working right, and I don't think I can fix it without rebuilding it. [snip] I'd like to rebuild amd without having to rebuild world as well, although I'll do that if I have to. [...] I think you can just cd to

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: I have a problem with amd. It's not working right, and I don't think I can fix it without rebuilding it. [snip] I'd like to rebuild amd without having to rebuild world as well, although I'll do that if I have to. [...] For the userland

Re: Changing NIC

2009-05-08 Thread Michael Powell
Jos Chrispijn wrote: - FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE I am about the change the (working) nic of my FreeBSD server with a gigabit one. Logically I think it would be good to add the new nic first and test it and if it is working, just remove the old one (or leave it without cable). Is that the common

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 released?

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Powell
Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: Christer Solskogen wrote: How come http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ have the isos for 7.2-RELEASE while the announce have not? typicaly the images are uploaded first before the announcements are made. Then they give a day or two for all the mirrors to

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard keyboard switching

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: I am rather surprised and disappointed that no one has any ideas about using and/or installing a French-Canadian keyboard on FreeBSD. That is a terrible bug in FreeBSD and a worse slur on the Québecois (or Quebeckers) or are we being neglected and still considered The White Niggers

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by errors

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Powell
Agus wrote: [snip] What is the output of ldconfig -r ? Sorry for the delay.. was too busyy... No output... just this ldconfig -r /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints: search directories: Sounds like the hints file is missing or damaged. These live here: /var/run/ld.so.hints for a.out and

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Powell
Tim Judd wrote: [snip] Long story short, BTX is what brings the PC BIOS/CMOS code execution from 16-bit real mode, to 32-bit protected mode. I've had repeated problems with name-brand PCs that result in a BTX halted. Whiteboxes/custom builds tend to work the best (and IMHO, last the

Re: Upgrading from 6.3 to 7.1 -- how dangerous?

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: I need to upgrade a live, production server from 6.3 to 7.1. I can't afford to have any troubles with this server. I have Absolute FreeBSD and a few other BSD books, and the upgrade process looks fairly straightforward. That's the theory... Real world question: how

Re: NSS library

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Powell
Christopher Chambers wrote: Hi, I was attempting to configure some software. Configure told me that: missing required NSS library 'nss3' A search of my hard drive and the net came up dry. Who writes the library and were can I download it? - Regards, Chris Chambers Take a look at:

Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael Powell
Ltcddata wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:08 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring

Re: Struggling to remove package.

2009-04-17 Thread Michael Powell
Brent Clark wrote: Hiya I seem to be struggling with removing a perl bsdpan package. I tried: # pkg_delete bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110 But I get pkg_delete: package 'bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110' doesn't have a prefix I even went to ~/.cpan/build/IO-stringy-2.110-SFns8F/ and ran # make

Re: questions about Fatal Trap 12

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: Glen Barber wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Ray r...@stilltech.net wrote: I Just had the power supply die on this machine. Could a failing power supply cause this type of issues? Absolutely. Seconded. Power supply issues have caused me this kind of grief

Re: make in the port tree: where can I find documentation?

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Powell
sebovick wrote: Hello, I'm a long time user of BSDs, and I don't find man pages or documentation on the way I can master the port collection (specialy the fonction of make). I found this, interesting: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html, but some interogations

Re: Xorg and nvidia-driver-173 ABI

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: I picked-up the most recent xorg update a couple of days ago, and since then X has been failing to start with the binary nvidia driver, and is leaving the following in Xorg.0.log: (EE) NVIDIA(0): This video driver ABI is not supported. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Use the -ignoreABI

Re: low-level format before install?

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: Thanks for all the tips. At least I have something to start with. The guys in the data center reinstalled FreeBSD (the filesystem was totally corrupted again), and then ran what they called SMART test, which might be smartctl, and said the hard drives look good. I am

Re: how to recover after power outage

2009-04-05 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: On Apr 5, 2009, at 4:41 AM, Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:59 AM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: Blast... my beautiful FreeBSD servers were rudely switched off when my data had a power outage a couple hours ago. They restored power about 30

Re: how to recover after power outage

2009-04-05 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: [snip] Okay, so the machine is back online and I can log in again. The hardware is only 18 months old or so... good quality stuff, so hopefully nothing is physically damaged. We'll see... Unfortunately, mysql isn't working at the moment... will make a backup of data

Re: keep-state and divert

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Powell
Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, I have read some recommendations on combining a stateful firewall with divert, e.g. http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD-Security/2003-06/0078.html and http://nuclight.livejournal.com/124348.html (the latter is in Russian). Do I understand

Re: keep-state and divert

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Powell
Victor Sudakov wrote: [snip] I have looked at your ruleset. First you have: [dd] $fwcmd add divert natd ip from any to me in via ppp0 $fwcmd add divert natd ip from 10.10.0.0/8 to any out via ppp0 $fwcmd add check-state [dd] and only later you have your keep-state rules:

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Powell
Harold Hartley wrote: I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to install on windows like ubuntu does. Sorry - I am not quite certain what you mean by this. FreeBSD is an operating system, just as Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc are different operating systems. If

Re: Q: FreeBSD 7.1 stable boot failure

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Powell
John H. Nyhuis wrote: Greetings, I just re-installed an old file server from stable 6.1 to 7.1 stable, and I'm having a problem with my 3ware 7000-2 card. After sysinstall completes, and I try to boot from the SCSI HDD (not connected to the 3ware) for the first time, the system hangs

Re: What Is Needed For SimpleXML Support in PHP?

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Powell
Bill Moran wrote: Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: I have php5-5.2.9 installed on my FBSD 6.3 system. I am attempting to use a php script that fails with: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string() Googling suggests that this function is part of the PHP software

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