Re: Acroread not working

2006-10-16 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:00:56 +0530 Subhro wrote: I have installed acroread from the ports collection. I am running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE. When I am trying to run the same from the command line, I am getting quite a few errors. I have pasted the error below. Try to follow the advices at

Re: libphp4.so not installed from /usr/ports/lang/php4 and mod_php4 is gone??!!

2006-10-16 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:42:24 -0500 Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But still I get nothing. Perhaps mod_php is no longer available for FreeBSD 5.4? Please post the output of: `pkg_info -L php4-4.4.4` `cat /var/db/ports/php4/options` Joerg -- | /\ ASCII ribbon |

Re: canary mismatch on efree()

2006-10-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-10-14 18:27, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) and PHP/4.4.4 with Suhosin-Patch. All of a sudden I get this in my log: [Sat Oct 14 19:54:32 2006] [error] ALERT - canary mismatch on efree() - heap overflow or double efree detected (attacker

RE: libphp4.so not installed from /usr/ports/lang/php4 and mod_php4is gone??!!

2006-10-16 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lane Sent: maandag 16 oktober 2006 1:41 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libphp4.so not installed from /usr/ports/lang/php4 and mod_php4is gone??!! So ... now the question

Re: libphp4.so not installed from /usr/ports/lang/php4 and mod_php4 is gone??!!

2006-10-16 Thread Lane
On Monday 16 October 2006 01:56, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:42:24 -0500 Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But still I get nothing. Perhaps mod_php is no longer available for FreeBSD 5.4? Please post the output of: `pkg_info -L php4-4.4.4` `cat

Multi-CPU Question

2006-10-16 Thread Payne
Hi all, Hello I have a question. I got a box. I got a strange message... SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! Is there a place under /proc that I can see if the first processor still working? Do I need to reboot the box, what does that message mean? Why does it happen? Thanks Payne

Re: Multi-CPU Question

2006-10-16 Thread Lane
On Monday 16 October 2006 04:01, Payne wrote: Hi all, Hello I have a question. I got a box. I got a strange message... SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! Is there a place under /proc that I can see if the first processor still working? Do I need to reboot the box, what does that message mean? Why

Re: Multi-CPU Question

2006-10-16 Thread Payne
Lane wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 04:01, Payne wrote: Hi all, Hello I have a question. I got a box. I got a strange message... SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! Is there a place under /proc that I can see if the first processor still working? Do I need to reboot the box, what does that message

Re: Multi-CPU Question

2006-10-16 Thread Lane
On Monday 16 October 2006 04:26, you wrote: Lane wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 04:01, Payne wrote: Hi all, Hello I have a question. I got a box. I got a strange message... SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! Is there a place under /proc that I can see if the first processor still

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Alexandre Vieira
On 10/16/06, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux has iSCSI...which hands Fbsd a real beating in the server space. I work on projects at more customers than I can keep track of that -have- to use Linux in the middle of Fbsd farms just because of the amazing lack of iscsi support. Linux

Re: Multi-CPU Question

2006-10-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 16 October 2006 12:26, Payne wrote: Where in /proc can I see that? Unlike Linux, FreeBSD shows only process and kernel thread information in procfs. The equivalent interface for seeing/changing system options is sysctl. Try sysctl hw | less. For example: root:0:~# sysctl -d hw.ncpu

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Jeff Mohler
That was after I left Netapp for a spell (and later came back once the vacation ran out) and it was supported before then by _something_ linux. That was fall of 03. Not trying to debate..just it'll still be 08 before it's likely to be universally supported. On 10/16/06, Alexandre Vieira

Re: Flash Plugin not working

2006-10-16 Thread Michael S
I followed the link below (just executed the commands, I can't read Portuguese) and everything worked fine. http://www.unixlike.com.br/?p=%2081 --- Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on i386 hardware. I have installed linux-firefox and

Re: Acroread not working

2006-10-16 Thread Michael S
Have you enabled Linux emulation in your /etc/rc.conf ? Do you have the linux_base and related (linux_gtk, linux_XFree) ports installed? Have you also added linuxprocfs to your /etc/fstab file? --- Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Folks, I have installed acroread from the ports

Re: atapicam trouble

2006-10-16 Thread Johan Johansen
I still have the same problem as below, even when running 6.2-BETA2 from a FreeSBIE - cd. I wonder if this could have to do with badly supportet motherboard, ASUS P5B, since I dont see any temp-readings with sysctl. cpuTemp and MBTemp are displayed under bios-config. Another funny thing, if I

I am such a fool! How to recover my data?

2006-10-16 Thread Kyrre Nygård
Hello, thanks for checking this out! My hard disk and I are in a rather tight situation right now. I believe my partition table's system ID is messed up. Other things are probably messed up too, however I have not done anything which would constitute a format of my data -- hence I hope that

Deinstalling X-windows

2006-10-16 Thread Chris
I could swear this was asked but I don't recall the answer and I've googled bsd till blue. Since starting portupgrade, I've noticed the majority of time is spent bringing various X ports up to date. I was thinking of make deinstall all of X as we use only command line. To explain, we have

Nvidia on CURRENT...

2006-10-16 Thread Anders Troback
Hi, X can't use the nvidia module and kldunload nvidia causes: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode. Any ideas? Thanks!!! PS. CURRENT cvsuped 6 hours ago! -- Anders Trobäck http://www.troback.com/ Windows: Where do you want to go today?

Re: I am such a fool! How to recover my data?

2006-10-16 Thread Kyrre Nygård
I forgot to mention that yeah, everything thinks my hard drive is FAT now. I disconnected hard drive 2 long time ago too, so it's out of the picture. And if gpart fails me now, I have no idea what to do. I hope I don't have to invest in some proprietary data recovery software. All the best,

Re: Deinstalling X-windows

2006-10-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Chris wrote: Can I deep six them, or, because they are now in the base, should I keep them for the integrity of the installation? I apologize that I can't test this myself, I don't have a non- production machine to play with just now. xorg-clients-6.9.0_3 X client programs and related files

Deinstalling X-windows

2006-10-16 Thread Robert Huff
Chris writes: Can I deep six them, or, because they are now in the base, should I keep them for the integrity of the installation? I apologize that I can't test this myself, I don't have a non- production machine to play with just now. I believe there are ports that require X

Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

2006-10-16 Thread Scott T. Hildreth
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 11:30 +0200, Martin Hudec wrote: Hello, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: He can't, DBD::Oracle uses oci underneath so he needs the Oracle client to get the shared libraries. Mike you also need to compile or install a linux perl and then install DBI DBD::Oracle

Re: Acroread not working

2006-10-16 Thread Subhro
Thanks for your reply Michael. Here is the output: phoenix# pkg_info | grep linux linux-atk-1.9.1 Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary linux-expat-1.95.8 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library linux-firefox-1.5.0.7 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla

Re: Acroread not working

2006-10-16 Thread Michael S
My setup is quite similar: linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7 XFree86 libraries, Linux binary linux-aspell-0.50.4.1_1 Spelling checker with better logic than ispell (linux versi linux-atk-1.9.1 Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary linux-expat-1.95.8 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat

Re: Deinstalling X-windows

2006-10-16 Thread Chris
On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Erik Norgaard wrote: Chris wrote: Can I deep six them, or, because they are now in the base, should I keep them for the integrity of the installation? I apologize that I can't test this myself, I don't have a non- production machine to play with just now.

Re: Nvidia on CURRENT...

2006-10-16 Thread Joao Barros
On 10/16/06, Anders Troback [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, X can't use the nvidia module and kldunload nvidia causes: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode. Any ideas? Thanks!!! PS. CURRENT cvsuped 6 hours ago! Try recompiling the nvidia module. When recompiling a new kernel

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Bob M.
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 15:26 -0700, William Tracy wrote: I even compiled my own kernel so that I'm all 1337. :-) What does this mean? So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. I would think if you spend enough time

Re: mimedefang with LDAP-enabled sendmail

2006-10-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 15 October 2006 22:19, Jonathan McKeown wrote: sendmail -d0.1 -bt /dev/null gives me Version 8.13.6 Compiled with: DNSMAP LDAPMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF

slice vanishing

2006-10-16 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Hi, I've been running BSD, for several versions, as a VMWARE client on a persistant disk. Recently, following an update to 6-stable/pre-release, the label for slice that the system was on has been removed. When I try and boot the system, it reads and loads the kernel but it fails when it trys

Re: Deinstalling X-windows

2006-10-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Chris wrote: I really appreciate the responses, they answer what I asked but also another question I didn't ask, but was worrying about. We DO use ImageMagick and for the first time, I've installed it from ports. I didn't find any reference to WITHOUT_X11 in the man make.conf but immediately

Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

2006-10-16 Thread Scott T. Hildreth
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 17:18 +0300, Vladimir Terziev wrote: I'm also interested of mixing native FreeBSD libraries and Linux once, if it's possible ... I tryed to install a DBD::Oracle module with natively build FreeBSD perl and Linux Oracle Instantclient. After some hacking of

Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

2006-10-16 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: I didn't either, but I am going to try. :-) Martin, how did you do this? Well, as I've already had linux compatibility present in the system, I've installed instantclient for linux and built DBD::Oracle. Currently I have it uninstalled

Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

2006-10-16 Thread Vladimir Terziev
I'll be very thankful if you provide working instructions how to intermix FreeBSD and Linux libraries. Thanks in advance! Vladimir On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:51:01 +0200 Martin Hudec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: I

Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

2006-10-16 Thread Vladimir Terziev
I'm also interested of mixing native FreeBSD libraries and Linux once, if it's possible ... I tryed to install a DBD::Oracle module with natively build FreeBSD perl and Linux Oracle Instantclient. After some hacking of DBD::Oracle's make file, i managed to build native

Re: atapicam trouble

2006-10-16 Thread Josh Carroll
Johan, I have a PR submitted for this problem. I do not think it is particular to Asus P5B boards, as I tried a Gigabyte DS3 board and it had the same problem. PR is here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103602 I'm unable to copy a file from a udf-mounted DVD regardless of whether

Upgrading in the same RELENG without shutdown ?

2006-10-16 Thread bsd
Hello, I have CVS-UP configured to follow RELENG_5_4 I was wondering if there is a way to patch (upgrading from 5.4- RELEASE-p8 to a higher version) my system without going into the classic : # make -j4 buildworld # make -j4 buildkernel # make -j4 installkernel # shutdown now And booting

Re: Upgrading in the same RELENG without shutdown ?

2006-10-16 Thread Jonathan Horne
Hello, I have CVS-UP configured to follow RELENG_5_4 I was wondering if there is a way to patch (upgrading from 5.4- RELEASE-p8 to a higher version) my system without going into the classic : # make -j4 buildworld # make -j4 buildkernel # make -j4 installkernel # shutdown now And

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Simon Gao
I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux. With Gentoo, version release does not matter that much, you can always

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Jonathan Horne
All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. i would recommend that you change the people who you are asking your technical questions to. i personally tend to get really upset when someone tells me one thing, then thru my own research, i find out that they didnt know shit from

Re: Upgrading in the same RELENG without shutdown ?

2006-10-16 Thread david coder
i save myself some time by removing files from subdirectories of /etc whose contents i never modify, using the -i option to mergemaster the 2nd time. you might (or might not) find the following scripts useful, edited to meet your needs (the 2nd is obviously intended to be run in single-user): #

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 16, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Simon Gao wrote: I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux. It's not the

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Jeff Palmer
At 01:45 PM 10/16/2006, Simon Gao wrote: I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux. With Gentoo, version

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Robert C Wittig
Simon Gao wrote: Linux supports more devices than FreeBSD, especially new devices. So??? What's so compelling about that? BSD has a Dever little Clevil... Oops! I mean a Clever little Devil. ...and all that Linux has, is that obviously intoxicated Penguin. Daemon is a gas, whereas Tux is

Re: squirrelmail

2006-10-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:50:31AM +0800, jan gestre wrote: On 10/16/06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:41:32PM +0200, albi wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:37:44 + (UTC) justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I`ve got a problem with squirrelmail when i

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Palmer wrote: At 01:45 PM 10/16/2006, Simon Gao wrote: I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However,

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Robert Huff
Jeff Palmer writes: Whoever gave you the 'wipe and reinstall' advice for the 5.x to 6.x migration was insane. Need is the wrong word; there are plenty of people who have upgraded across major release boundaries to prove the contrary. Are there reasons to wipe and reinstall?

Re: squirrelmail

2006-10-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:22:31AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:50:31AM +0800, jan gestre wrote: you have to recompile apache with php support. I'm using PHP all over the place; which port are you thinking of? Never mind. Following a modified

kldunload -f has no effect

2006-10-16 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
I need to 'kldunload -f drm' in order to go into suspend to ram with my thinkpad (suspend works fine with dri disabled). Unfortunately, despite the claims of the manpage the '-f' flag does not alter the behaviour of the kldunload tool. How do I get drm unloaded?

Teletronics wlan 200mW card supported under 5.x?

2006-10-16 Thread Gordon Pedersen
Has anyone got the Teletronics XI-325HP 200mW PRISM 2.5-based PCMCIA card to work under freebsd 5.4, which I currently run? or 6.x? The Teletronics XI-325HP 200mW PRISM 2.5-based PCMCIA card is high on my list of possible cards with external antenna jacks to buy. Older reports say they had to

Choosing Bash and Gnome

2006-10-16 Thread Robe
Hi, This is the first time I use FreeBSD. I've the version 6.1. During the installation I've choose the Bash as the shell and Gnome. However when I'm in the shell I see that it's not Bash. And when I type *startx* the Graphical environment is not Gnome. Does anybody know how can I use Bash

Squid diskd msgget error in jail

2006-10-16 Thread Johan Hendriks
Hello i have installed FreeBSD 6.1 with jail created with ezjail One jail i want to use as a squid proxy I installed squid 2.6.3 and al works fine except for the diskd cache. This is what i get from the jail /var/log/maillog Oct 16 12:26:54 proxyserver (squid): msgget failed Oct 16 12:26:54

Re: Teletronics wlan 200mW card supported under 5.x?

2006-10-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 10/16/06, Gordon Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone got the Teletronics XI-325HP 200mW PRISM 2.5-based PCMCIA card to work under freebsd 5.4, which I currently run? or 6.x? The Teletronics XI-325HP 200mW PRISM 2.5-based PCMCIA card is high on my list of possible cards with

Re: Nvidia on CURRENT...

2006-10-16 Thread Anders Troback
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:31:15 +0100 Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/06, Anders Troback [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, X can't use the nvidia module and kldunload nvidia causes: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode. Any ideas? Thanks!!! PS. CURRENT

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread William Tracy
Well, thanks for all the replies. I didn't mean to rub anybody the wrong way, and if I did, I'm sorry. :-P Up until now, I've basically been running FreeBSD more or less like just another Linux distro, and was beginning to wonder if I was really missing out on something by doing that. That, and

Re: Choosing Bash and Gnome

2006-10-16 Thread Michael S
Gnome: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html bash: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/shells.html --- Robe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is the first time I use FreeBSD. I've the version 6.1. During the installation I've choose

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday October 16, 2006 at 02:00:57 (PM) Jonathan Horne wrote: didnt know shit from shinola. I haven't heard that since I was a kid. Just in case someone does not know where the saying originated from: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/114000.html -- Gerard It is not the OS's job

Network MSN/Chat sniffer for Freebsd?

2006-10-16 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Hello All, does anyone know where we can get a MSN/Chat sniffer for Freebsd? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading in the same RELENG without shutdown ?

2006-10-16 Thread bsd
From what I have read so far I guess I'll stick to the 'classic' procedure and boot in single user to do the merging things. A little trip to my Data Center // Thanks. Le 16 oct. 06 à 20:01, david coder a écrit : i save myself some time by removing files from subdirectories of / etc whose

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:45:55AM -0700, Simon Gao wrote: I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux. With

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:38:59PM -0700, William Tracy wrote: Well, thanks for all the replies. I didn't mean to rub anybody the wrong way, and if I did, I'm sorry. :-P Up until now, I've basically been running FreeBSD more or less like just another Linux distro, and was beginning to wonder

Re: Teletronics wlan 200mW card supported under 5.x?

2006-10-16 Thread Gordon Pedersen
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:34:55PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 10/16/06, Gordon Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone got the Teletronics XI-325HP 200mW PRISM 2.5-based PCMCIA card to work under freebsd 5.4, which I currently run? or 6.x? Older reports say they had to flash

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux. With Gentoo, version release does not matter that much, you can

Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

2006-10-16 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello Vladimir, Vladimir Terziev wrote: I'll be very thankful if you provide working instructions how to intermix FreeBSD and Linux libraries. Thanks in advance! I sense bit of irony here, but I hope I just have wrong feeling :). Mixing BSD and Linux libs? Well - what do you

openoffice for amd64

2006-10-16 Thread Stroganov A. V.
Hello I've FreeBSD 6.2 prerelease for amd64. When i start OOo, which i installed using package from Good-Day, these messages are printed: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libstdc++.so.6 not found, required by javaldx /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libstdc++.so.6 not found, required by

python-mode in emacs

2006-10-16 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Emacs doesn't seem to load files in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp installed by ports. E.g python-mode installs files in this directory, but python-mode is not available in emacs afterwards. I have to manually tell emacs to look in these files. Are there any way to get emacs to automatically

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:41:31PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux.

Re: python-mode in emacs

2006-10-16 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:56:01AM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Emacs doesn't seem to load files in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp installed by ports. E.g python-mode installs files in this directory, but python-mode is not available in emacs afterwards. I have to manually tell emacs

Re: python-mode in emacs

2006-10-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Emacs doesn't seem to load files in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp installed by ports. E.g python-mode installs files in this directory, but python-mode is not available in emacs afterwards. I have to manually tell emacs to look in these files. Are there any way

datalink VPN ?

2006-10-16 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello Gurus, After reading the handbook part http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html I have two questions please, I have a dynamic IP in both, my main office and one of the branches How i'm going to tell vpn configuration, tunnel gif0 devices that its a

Redistribution of FreeBSD

2006-10-16 Thread Doel-Mackaway, Richard
I am currently developing course material for students relating to server installations. Does the FreeBSD license allow me to download FreeBSD and redistribute that download to students? ** This message is intended for the

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:38:59 -0700 William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the record, I really, really, like Debian (and now Ubuntu). I understand that there are packages that allow the Debian packaging system to run on top of the FreeBSD kernel, and I'll definitely have try that out

Re: Redistribution of FreeBSD

2006-10-16 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Monday 16 October 2006 18:44, Doel-Mackaway, Richard wrote: I am currently developing course material for students relating to server installations. Does the FreeBSD license allow me to download FreeBSD and redistribute that download to students? Yes. You can even charge them for it if

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jim Stapleton wrote: I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux. With Gentoo, version release does not matter

Re: python-mode in emacs

2006-10-16 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
cpghost wrote: Well, it doesn't cause any harm to add to your ~/.emacs ;; Add python-mode (autoload 'python-mode python-mode Python editing mode. t) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '(\\.py$ . python-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) Are there any way

Re: python-mode in emacs

2006-10-16 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: In emacs do ESC-x describe-variable load-path which tells you where emacs is looking. /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp shows up! Make sure you environment does not set EMACSLOADPATH which would override compile-time defaults. This is not set. Svein Halvor

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-16 Thread Danial Thom
--- Mark Linimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:01:08PM -0400, Michael Butler wrote: For everyone's benefit then, please feel free to submit your patches along with your technical analysis. I think his best bet is a fork, instead. Then he can tell all the people

bittorrent consuming 100% cpu

2006-10-16 Thread Matthew Rench
Hello, Due to the recent security advisor, I upgraded my python port. Foolishly, I managed to upgrade from version 2.4 to 2.5, which forced me to also upgrade my bittorrent port (from version 3.x to 4.20.2_1,1). Unfortunately, I now find that the bittorrent console app

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Anders Gulden Olstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Tracy wrote: So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. I like the separation of the complete OS and third part software in Ports Collection. I love the ability to

portaudit thinks a vulnerability just disappeared

2006-10-16 Thread James Long
I have a 4.11-RELEASE system. Prior to doing some minor portupdates, I had this portaudit report: Checking for packages with security vulnerabilities: Affected package: php4-4.4.1_3 Type of problem: php -- open_basedir Race Condition Vulnerability. Reference:

Re: Upgrading in the same RELENG without shutdown ?

2006-10-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to patch (upgrading from 5.4- RELEASE-p8 to a higher version) my system without going into the classic : Considering that the system is like 10,000 km away,I cannot pay it a visit when I need to boot to single mode. So, I doeverything in multi user

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
No offense to those who swear by it (and I know this is a bit off-topic), but genkernel is shit. It's kernel compiling for people who are afraid of forgetting make commands.. -Garrett I agree, but since I couldn't get a decent custom kernel booting, that was my only option. And speaking of

Re: Redistribution of FreeBSD

2006-10-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:44:52AM +1000, Doel-Mackaway, Richard wrote: I am currently developing course material for students relating to server installations. Does the FreeBSD license allow me to download FreeBSD and redistribute that download to students? Yes. Read about it on the FreeBSD

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-16 Thread RoBeRT B
If you see/grep Danial Thom in FreeBSD related, consider this: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88q1/13785.8.html http://amasci.com/weird/flamer.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_war My personal fav' is the first link... How do we know that 'DT' even exists? Hmmm. DT - S, go

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jim Stapleton wrote: No offense to those who swear by it (and I know this is a bit off-topic), but genkernel is shit. It's kernel compiling for people who are afraid of forgetting make commands.. -Garrett I agree, but since I couldn't get a decent custom kernel booting, that was my only

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Robert Huff
Anders Gulden Olstad writes: I love the ability to upgrade from one major release to another using source upgrade - without doing a complete reinstall, as with the Linux distros I've used. It is worth noting that at least once - I think it was 3.x - 4,0 - this was not the

User vs Kernel mode

2006-10-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have an application that is running on virtual tty 0, i start it the following way: /etc/ttys ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Door cons25 on secure /etc/gettytab Door: :ht:np:sp#115200:al=door: /etc/passwd door:*:0:0:Run the door program:/usr/local/door:/usr/local/door/door

Re: User vs Kernel mode

2006-10-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 October 2006 at 9:35:14 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I have an application that is running on virtual tty 0, i start it the following way: /etc/ttys ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Door cons25 on secure /etc/gettytab Door: :ht:np:sp#115200:al=door:

Re: FreeBSD Loader

2006-10-16 Thread Eric Schuele
On 10/15/06 10:35, Nathan Lasseter wrote: Hi I tried to install FreeBSD, but Windows hogs all the drivespace. Now after aborting the installer, every time I power on, the Loader appears. How do I remove it? Google fdisk /mbr: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69013 HTH Thanks Nathan.

Re: User vs Kernel mode

2006-10-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
Processes always start in kernel mode, because they're started by the kernel. They typically spend most of their time in kernel mode (for example, whenever they're idle or waiting for I/O). An active process may switch back and forward between kernel mode and user mode thousands of times a

Automated installations

2006-10-16 Thread valentin_nils
Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? Best regards Nils Valentin

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread jan gestre
Ok, make that 3: Ports I really don't miss rpm hell. yeah the ports make me fell in love with FreeBSD, the only thing that came close to FreeBSD ports is the gentoo portage, note came close but not really at par. ___

Re: Automated installations

2006-10-16 Thread George Allan
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:46:08AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently

Re: User vs Kernel mode

2006-10-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 October 2006 at 9:52:17 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Processes always start in kernel mode, because they're started by the kernel. They typically spend most of their time in kernel mode (for example, whenever they're idle or waiting for I/O). An active process may switch back