matlab 2009a

2009-05-16 Thread Pieter Donche
FreeBSD7-amd64 linux_base-fc-4_14 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64) When running the install script, I get cat: /proc/cpuinfo: No such file or directory Error: Your computer's processor is missing the SSE2 instructions that are required for MATLAB to run correctl

7.2 disc1 & bootonly cds not recognized as bootable

2009-05-16 Thread Fbsd1
Running 7.1 and trying to do clean install of 7.2. Downloaded both disc1 and bootonly iso files because the 7.2 release announcement says this. Note: late in the testing cycle it was discovered some machines do not recognize the i386 disc1 as bootable (they just fall through to booting off th

altq

2009-05-16 Thread irix
Hello Freebsd-pf, Sorry for my english. OpenBSD team is abandon the altq project. Maybe FreeBSD team does not come as OpenBSD team. In Kernel is present "options ALTQ_CDNR # Traffic conditioner", that is may be used for simple ingress traffic shaping (like dummynet). Maybe y

Inspiron 15 (aka 1545)

2009-05-16 Thread Bob Johnson
This question has sort of been asked before, but I never saw a clear answer, so here it is, in the hope that someone can save me some time: I need a cheap, simple, reasonably light laptop, but not a tiny display, and I'm looking at the Best Buy pre-configured Inspiron 15 (i.e. Inspiron 1545). Anyo

Re: mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-05-16 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Sunday 26 April 2009 11:12:12 Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: >> Bruce Cran wrote: >>> On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:10:42 +0200 >>> >>> Peter Schuller wrote: I recently began testing mergemaster -U since the perpetual "review

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-05-16

2009-05-16 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili

run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting... for xpt_config

2009-05-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi all I'm trying to install on a new motherboard ASUS M3N78-EM. While booting from CD I'm getting run_interrupts_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config This is repeated a few times then installation stops and the machine stops responding. I've tried various versions,

ok, here is a more taional query involving NEW computers.

2009-05-16 Thread Gary Kline
i used google's search protocol to get around those of craiglist.org. that gave me a series of new and used dual- and quad-core (*Intel*) bozen for my new fbsd server and firewall. and i spent hours scoping out which is the fastest for the least cost. i had zero idea how many dozen of kinds of du

Re: ipnat port-range

2009-05-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Odhiambo ワシントン skrev: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:09 PM, alexus wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:58 PM, alexus wrote: i need to redirect bunch of ports, or port-range from outside to my jail # /etc/rc.d/ipnat reload /etc/rc.d/ipnat: DEBUG: checkyesno: ipnat_enable is set to YES. /etc/rc.d/

Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports

2009-05-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:24:42AM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Friday 15 May 2009 19:26:00 mfv wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 13:53:35 Mel Flynn wrote: > > > On Monday 11 May 2009 15:21:24 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > But, I very often wish there was a convenient way to see some of those >

Re: Problems with PolicyKit and device mounting

2009-05-16 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 15:32 -0400, David Karapetyan wrote: > Hello all. I am currently running 7.2-Release. I followed the > instructions at the freebsd project website for configuring gnome; > furthermore, I edited my Policy Kit to allow user 'bobo' to mount > removable drives. However, when I

Limiting resources in cron jobs

2009-05-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have a jail where the www user runs hourly cron jobs. On rare occasion, these jobs get stuck in a seemingly infinite CPU loop - a Python script calls Ghostscript and that child process never returns - and I have to manually kill them. I'd like to use login.conf to set resource limits so

Re: Query regarding "write" system call.

2009-05-16 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, 16 May 2009, Abhiman Yashpal Karkera wrote: > Hi all, > I am a newbie to Freebsd OS. I had a query regarding performing writes onto > a disk. > > Generally when we want to write some data we first copy the data from the > processes user space to the kernel buffer and hand this buffer to t

Re: synchronize time

2009-05-16 Thread Mel Flynn
Hoi Roy, On Saturday 16 May 2009 17:01:25 Roy Stuivenberg wrote: > I seem to be unable to change my systemtime to synchronize with time > servers. > I'm using 7.2 stable and gnome2. > policykit.conf = > > > > > > > > > > > And ntpd_enable="YES" in rc.

synchronize time

2009-05-16 Thread Roy Stuivenberg
Hello, I seem to be unable to change my systemtime to synchronize with time servers. I'm using 7.2 stable and gnome2. policykit.conf = And ntpd_enable="YES" in rc.conf. Regards, Roy. ___ freebsd-questio

Query regarding the write sysem call

2009-05-16 Thread Abhiman Yashpal Karkera
Hi all, I am a newbie to Freebsd OS. I had a query regarding performing writes onto a disk. Generally when we want to write some data we first copy the data from the processes user space to the kernel buffer and hand this buffer to the device driver who then goes and initiated a write to the h/w.

Query regarding "write" system call.

2009-05-16 Thread Abhiman Yashpal Karkera
Hi all, I am a newbie to Freebsd OS. I had a query regarding performing writes onto a disk. Generally when we want to write some data we first copy the data from the processes user space to the kernel buffer and hand this buffer to the device driver who then goes and initiated a write to the h/w.

Re: FreeBSD on Dell Studio 15

2009-05-16 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Aditya Sarawgi wrote: > I'm getting Dell Studio 15 and Dell Vostro 1510 (same config) in around the > same price. The main > difference being Studio 15 has a ATI radeon HD 4570 and Vostro 1510 has > nvidia 8400 GS. So for which one > should I go for ? How about purchasing

Re: 7.2-PRERELEASE using RELENG_7?

2009-05-16 Thread Michael Powell
Gabe wrote: > >> From: Michael Powell >> 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

Re: 7.2-PRERELEASE using RELENG_7?

2009-05-16 Thread Gabe
> From: Michael Powell > 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 02:16:04 PDT 2009 but yet

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 >

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 wil

7.2-PRERELEASE using RELENG_7?

2009-05-16 Thread Gabe
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? -gabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

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RE: php5 pcre

2009-05-16 Thread Mark
-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 it by going into th

Re: php5 pcre

2009-05-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 11:13:41 Mark wrote: > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gorbatovsky > Dmitry Sent: vrijdag 15 mei 2009 11:04 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: php5 pcre > > > Whe

Re: csup source tree as of a certian date

2009-05-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 14 May 2009 20:56:37 Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > > Have you tried: > > *default date=2009.04.28.23.59.59 > > > > Back when I had to get the old XOrg, *default date' in my ports-supfile > > returned me to sanity ... > > > > -- > > Don Readdon_r...@att

Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports

2009-05-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 19:26:00 mfv wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 13:53:35 Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Monday 11 May 2009 15:21:24 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > But, I very often wish there was a convenient way to see some of those > > > messages and especially messages about things one has to do duri