Hmmm... I didn't know there was a maximum swap size on FreeBSD 4.10 of
1677216 blocks... Is there an easy way to reduce this partition without
redoing the entire install?
sdb
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I know that the FBSD handbook gives the reader the impression that
IPFW is the only firewall available to FBSD, but that is a false
impression. FBSD has IPFILTER which is also a built in firewall.
PF is also in ports, which is interesting. That's appealing
How do you generate the hexkey for 'xauth add displ proto hexkey'
There doesn't seem to be a keygen program anymore...
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The aaccli from the CD complains about an incorrect ABI version of the
libncurses.so.5 - it's wrong, the so.5 is really missing, this issue
can be solved by exporting a LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointing to
/cdrom/bootcd/usr/lib in the current shell, or by copying the library from
the CD into
Top posting is irritating. So is scrolling through 20Mb of unedited text
to get to a one line response, which is often Yes, I've seen this too.
Spelling flames are irritating too. And the most irritating of all is
reading messages on a mailing list which deal only with issues of
netiquette.
What
How does one get consistant behavior of the backspace key in emacs and
gnometerm? I've fed xmodmap
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L
keysym BackSpace = Delete
and then
echo
Any mathoids have a way to implement isnormal() on FreeBSD, 4.7?
Thanks,
Scott
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Fernando Gleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On 24 Dec 2002, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
Any mathoids have a way to implement isnormal() on FreeBSD, 4.7?
it would help if you tell us what isnormal() is.
Fer
It returns non-zero if its argument is normalized (i.e
a bug, boy, I'd sure appreciate hearing about it.
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FreeBSD 4.7 libm lacks this function
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Use at your own risk.
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/* You will need the source
A couple of weeks ago I wrote:
How does one get consistant behavior of the backspace key in emacs and
gnometerm? I've fed xmodmap
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L
recently I discovered problems with my FreeBSD nfs server.
I mount my /home/user from my linux box via automounter/nfs from my server.
They are connected with a switch on a 100baseTX Ethernet. Now, whenever
I copy large files from a local driver to my home dir or do anything
else that
Last night I built the mozilla-vendor port and followed the
instructions for adding java by building jdk1.3.1. The build/install
completed with no errors, but when I run mozilla I am getting the
following error:
gLoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
Thaddeus J. Quintin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Greetings-
I've looked around in google and the FreeBSD archives and I've seen this
question asked many times, but never found the answer.
I would like to map my alt keys to be meta keys. Is there any
reason why I shouldn't do that? Is there a
Hello All,
I am interested in playing with SMP and am curious if there is anyone
out there using the following combo with success:
Athlon AMSN2400Box
Gigabyte: GA-7DPXDW
I plan on using 4.8 for the moment.
Thanks in advance and please pardon the newbie nature of this
question.
Scott
Hello,
I upgraded from 4.7 - 4.8 today, and sysinstall claimed that the
installation failed, saying it couldn't even install the bin
distribution set...
However, it boots with the 4.8 kernel, and all the modification times
I have checked in the system directories say Apr 3 of this year, the
same
Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:12:55AM +0300, Adrian Pircalabu wrote:
You're right, I'm right, it's a matter of taste, somehow.
The mailer.conf method is preferred as it doesn't wipe itself out when
you upgrade your system with buildworld/installworld.
Matthew Graybosch writes:
On 20:49 Thu 28 Aug , Scott Ballantyne wrote:
You can always set the NO_MAILWRAPPER=true and NO_SENDMAIL=true flags
in /etc/make.conf.
I thought you were supposed to also set sendmail_enable=NONE in
/etc/rc.conf as well.
Well, that makes it a lot less
Hi Ralph,
When I manually send mail to root from either inside the box or from
elsewhere, it is properly received by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (an external domain).
Any and all comments would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
It sounds like you have it setup properly. It works fine for me
Are you using gnome? I've noticed similar behavior. Mozilla will often
show the gnome foot print in black, and things are quite
unreadable. It depends on the site. I've also observed similar things
in other applications from time to time. I don't know if it's a bug in
gnome, X or the applications.
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:27:16PM -0400, Ralph Dratman wrote:
Gary,
Thank you for your reply. Your comments are informative but I still
don't know what to do!
For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root.
Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily
I find I can't install linux_base or linux_base-8 without running as
single user. This is quite odd, since I haven't had this problem
previously.
If I'm running multi-user (as toor), the build stops when installing
glibc. In linux_base, there's actually a coredump, in linux_base-8, it
just
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Scott Ballantyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If I'm running multi-user (as toor), the build stops when installing
glibc. In linux_base, there's actually a coredump, in linux_base-8, it
just stops. This happens even running the GENERIC kernel (I had
inetd will wait for a very long time if there is no portmapper and you
try to start an RPC service (duh). While it's waiting, it won't
service any other requests, which will cause mysterious non-RPC
service failures, made more mysterious by them suddenly working a bit
after a reboot.
Perhaps it
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 19:01, Jason Crawford wrote:
FreeBSD users.. also watch how Scott claims he is about freedom of
choice, yet proceeded to lock you into only one option for a RAID
card, which would seem to be anti-choice... and being pro-choice would
have pushed for open docs a long time
I am trying to use dump/restore to backup my filesystems to DVD. I am
using a DVD+RW, format it with dvd+rw-format -force /dev/cd0, and then do:
dump -0 -b 32 -B 4590208 -f /dev/cd0 /
to backup the root filesystem. I do this after going to single user
mode.
It seems that dump is perhaps not
It seems the AAC_COMPAT_LINUX kernel option that I needed to run
aaccli for an Adaptec RAID card (2120s) is no longer available in
5.3. Is there a replacement, or another way to run aaccli?
Thanks,
sdb
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Tamouh H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writers:
Once all done and you can see linux binaries, go to the Port:
/usr/ports/sysutil/aaccli
make install distclean
Thanks so much! I had been using the aaccli from the Adaptec CD, which
does need the AAC_COMPAT_LINUX option and wasn't aware
Running 5.3-RELEASE.
After many years of using FreeBSD, and as many reboots or more, I had
occasion to reboot today, and a few hours later discovered to my
horror that the system time had suddenly been moved ahead to the year
2020!
I did the best I could with the resulting mess, but I am curious
Hi,
Doing a source upgrade from 8.1-8.2, all went well up to the installworld
step:
Reboot into single user mode:
mount -u ./
zfs mount -a
cd /usr/src
make installworld
It goes fine up to this point: (copying by hand)
===sys/boot/i386/zfsloader (install)
cp zfsloader.sym zfsloader.bin
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Scott Ballantyne boyva...@gmail.comwrote:
===sys/boot/i386/zfsloader (install)
cp zfsloader.sym zfsloader.bin
cp:No such file or directory
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src/sys
Hi,
Having a ZFS filesystem on root, such that zfs list shows:
zroot with a mountpoint of LEGACY
zroot/tmp with a mountpoint of /tmp
zroot/usr with a mountpoint of /usr
etc.
How do I create a snapshot of / ?
zfs snapshot zroot/usr@March_10_2011
works fine.. but that snapshots only /usr, not
Following up on my own question:
zfs snapshot zroot@MARCH_10_2011 is the way to go.
Sorry to trouble you.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Scott Ballantyne boyva...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
Having a ZFS filesystem on root, such that zfs list shows:
zroot with a mountpoint of LEGACY
zroot
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
mer...@stonehenge.comwrote:
Adam == Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com writes:
Adam On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Randal L. Schwartz
Adam mer...@stonehenge.comwrote:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=94557postcount=19
I want to upgrade devel/icu. In updating tells me to use
portmaster -r icu
This starts to rebuild gnome2-fifth-toe which wants to rebuild straw.
But straw is marked DEPRECATED and portmaster won't rebuild it. I
pkg_delete doesn't want to delete it because gnome2-fifth-toe depends
on it.
I
I've never seen this before, but when ssh'ing to my server today, I
got:
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed
I was able to log in using my vendors KVM access, and didn't see
anything particularly odd. I hadn't changed anything. I restarted
sshd, but that didn't help.
The log files
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:15 PM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 April 2011 15:22, Scott Ballantyne s...@ssr.com wrote:
I've never seen this before, but when ssh'ing to my server today, I
got:
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed
Was this multiple log-in failures
I know this is ancient technology, but we have a pile of exabyte tapes
made on an 8200 and would like to recover some of the data on them.
We have an old 5.3 machine which has an adaptec 2120S, and the Exabyte
is connected to that. The kernel identifies the Exabyte on boot, but
it's all downhill
Hope someone can help...
I finally upgraded firefox, and in the course of this, libnotify.so.1
seems to have been deleted, which is required by evolution.
So I tried deinstalling evolution, and then reinstalling:
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Hello,
Trying to build ghostscript9 it fails because it is unable to make
./obj/../soobj/ld.tr.
I've looked in UPDATING and also googled, with no luck. I've appended
the output from make at the end.
Thanks in advance
Scott
gmake[1]: Entering directory
Hi,
I've been trying to update libnotify and libproxy following the
instructions in UPDATING, which is to do
portmaster -r libnotify-0
This trys to install ghostscript9, and fails. Apparently ghostscript9
conflicts with ghostscript8-8.71_6, which presumably is the reason for
the failure.
Could
Hi Mathew,
On 09/09/2011 15:13, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
I've been trying to update libnotify and libproxy following the
instructions in UPDATING, which is to do
portmaster -r libnotify-0
This trys to install ghostscript9, and fails. Apparently ghostscript9
conflicts
On 10/09/2011 16:12, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
gnome-art is peculiar. There is nothing in that directory but the work
directory, no makefile or anything. And nothing I can find in UPDATE
about alacarte or gnome-art.
=20
Any further thoughts, if you have time?
That is an ex-port
Hi,
After upgrading to Java6, I am having a problem when I launch the Java
application that my bank/broker uses. It halts with Start: applet not
initialized. Unfortunately, FreeBSD is not a 'supported platform'
for my bank/broker, and they won't provide any support.
It does work on Windows
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Hi,
After upgrading to Java6, I am having a problem when I launch the Java
application that my bank/broker uses. It halts with Start: applet not
initialized. Unfortunately, FreeBSD
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Scott Ballantyne s...@ssr.com wrote:
Hi,
After upgrading to Java6, I am having a problem when I launch the Java
application that my bank/broker uses. It halts with Start: applet not
initialized. Unfortunately, FreeBSD is not a 'supported platform
Hi,
I just upgraded from 8.2 - 9.0 using freebsd-update, my first time
for the binary upgrade. Since the upgrade, I've been getting these
unable to load gnomesegvhandler messages from various software, such
as emacs.
Any idea what I can do to fix his?
The upgrade went fairly smoothly,
Another little problem in 9.0 is building openjdk6. Should anyone else
get this message while compiling:
Unable to load ZIP library: /usr/local/diablo-jrel.6.0/lib/amd64/libzip.so
or something similar, adding
libz.so.4 libz.so.5
to /etc/libmap.conf seems to solve it.
Have a nice day :)
Scott
Hi,
Not sure if this should be here orin freebsd-emulation, but thought it
worth a try:
Freebsd 9.0-RELEASE (GENERIC)
VBoxMange --version: 4.1.10_OSEr76795
Installed from Ports.
Window 7 as guest.
I can't access the host optical drive from the guest OS. I was able to
install it by dd'ing the
Good Morning everyone,
I updated my ports this morning, built youtube-dl, and after finding
some software wouldn't work, rebooted. Now X doesn't start, and when I
tried to start emacs, it seems that libpng, required by emacs, has
vanished.
So my current theory is that I should just rebuild all
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com writes:
Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to
FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD
is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to
work.
I have scoured
Hello,
I'm upgrading from FreeBSD 5.3 to 8.1 --- much wonderful work has been
done clearly, I'm very impressed and hat's off to the developers.
Unfortunately I've hit a snag with X. I have an LG Flatron W2253, a
5750 graphics card and I have not been able to get them to work with X
at all.
Hello Brian,
So if you return to the tty that you started X from (maybe by Alt-F1) and
hit Ctrl-C, that doesn't kill your X session? Reboot seems a bit drastic.
That's correct. It kills the X session, but the terminal remains dark,
and switches to 'lower power' mode. Using ctrl-alt-f1 or
Hi Warren,
Does the black screen show a mouse pointer? No escape including
ctrl-alt-f1?
No mouse pointer, nothing. The X process will be shutdown with a
ctrl-c or ctrl-alt-delete, but the screen remains blank, in power
saver mode.
Nothing I do makes any difference on the monitor.
Try
Hi,
Running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (GENERIC) (amd64)
ASUS P6T6 MB
# kldload snd_driver
# cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
Installed devices:
pcm0: HDA Analog Devices AD1989B PCM #0 Analog (play/rec) default
pcm1: HDA Analog Devices AD1989B PCM #1 Analog (play)
Hi Frank,
You write:
Just a guess, but does:
# sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1
help?
If so, you can set it permanently in /etc/sysctl.conf
Yes it does, and *thank* *you*. However, it only works with earphones,
not speakers. Any idea what I can do about that?
And... do you have the
Hi Tim,
You write:
I finally kldload(ed) snd_* and went through the list of the loaded
modules until I eliminated useless loaded modules and found the one that
actually let the sound files play. It was a pain in the butt, but it
worked.
What does kldstat say for your .ko loaded sound
I am trying to get a Belkin Wireless G notebook card running on a Sony
VAIO laptop, FreeBSD 6.1.
I followed the advice in the handbook and copied the following files
from the Belkin CD to the if_ndis directory:
rt61.inf and rt61.sys
and ran
ndiscvt -i rt61.inf -s rt61.sys -o
Paul A. Procacci wrote:
Victor Farah wrote:
Hello
I'm running qmail and I created an smtproutes file, inside my
/var/qmail/control/ directory. I then sent a killall -ALRM
qmail-send, but it doesn't seem like it uses that smtproutes file I
made. I start qmail using supervise
Hi,
If anyone has used a Dazzle DVC100 with Freebsd, or knows how to
capture video with this on Freebsd, I'd appreciate some advice.
Thanks!
Scott
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Hi,
I'm using a ZFS mirror, and had a disc fail. I had a spare unused disc
in the case, and just switched over to that, after partitioning it
with gpart. ZFS is great, just have to say that.
But I'm not sure about the correct way to bring the new swap partition
online. Do I use gmirror label, as
Hi,
I'm trying to mount a 4 TB drive (The Seagate Backup-Plus) on FreeBSD
9.0 Generic, using
mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
It fails with:
g_vfs_done() da1s1[READ(offset=0, length=1042)]error=22
mount_ntfs: /dev/da1s1 bad argument
However, I can mount a 2 TB ntfs drive with no problem, using
Hello,
Thanks to Dan Nelson I was able to mount my 4 TB drive using
ntfs-3g. Now I need to export it over NFS, and it doesn't work.
I'm using a bootable ZFS system, if that makes any difference. I don't
see why it should.
Basically, I can export a directory as long as a ntfs-3g filesystem is
I wrote:
Hello,
Thanks to Dan Nelson I was able to mount my 4 TB drive using
ntfs-3g. Now I need to export it over NFS, and it doesn't work.
I'm using a bootable ZFS system, if that makes any difference. I don't
see why it should.
Basically, I can export a directory as long as a
Hi,
I'm running Windows 7 under VirtualBox 4.2.6_OSE, and it seems the ALT
key doesn't work. I need to use Photoshop, and there are a few
operations that require a combination of holding down the ALT key and
using a left-mouse-button click.
I've googled and found reports on Linux from 2011 of
On 29 Jun 2013 16:24:57 -, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
Hi,
I'm running Windows 7 under VirtualBox 4.2.6_OSE, and it seems the ALT
key doesn't work. I need to use Photoshop, and there are a few
operations that require a combination of holding down the ALT key and
using a left-mouse
Hi,
I have the current situation:
sdb@gigawattmomma$ zpool status zroot
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
zroot ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/disk0 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/disk1
Hi,
I'm following the recipe at the end of man portmaster for deleting and
reinstalling all my ports, which I have done many times in the
past. This time, I am getting errors on the portmaster -Faf step
involving deleted ports, and I'm not sure how to deal with this
easily. If the ports aren't
Hi,
I'm following the recipe at the end of man portmaster for deleting and
reinstalling all my ports, which I have done many times in the
past. This time, I am getting errors on the portmaster -Faf step
involving deleted ports, and I'm not sure how to deal with this
easily.
What
On Mon, 14 oct 2013, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
What errors, exactly?
Well, for example:
portmaster -Faf
it starts to fetch a bunch of files
it finds a port which has been deleted, such as
linux-base-fc4
and it says
Adam Vande More wrote:
It does seem like a bit
of over-kill to quit updating ALL ports because one is long
gone. Seems like it could do the others.
So it should continue on and potentially build 1000's of ports with broken
linking and dependencies? Portupgrade will do this if you
On Mon 14 Oct 2013 Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
On Mon, 14 oct 2013, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
Actually, the last time I updated my ports was when I installed 9.0,
and I used
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