Boot failure after installation

2007-04-08 Thread L Goodwin
Hello. I tried posting this issue a few hours ago, but it did not appear in my inbox, so I'm trying once more. I've included details of the install in case it matters (sorry about length). I'm having trouble getting FreeBSD 6.2 to boot after installation. After a "successful" install, (re-)boot

Re: Sysinstall does not install GENERIC kernel

2007-04-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:23:38AM +0400, Belov, Sergey wrote: > > > hit the same bug too with FreeBSD-6.1. To workaround this, i've just > > added the distribution set "GENERIC" to dists (this value wasn't > > mentionned on the sysinstall manpage by the way :-( ) > > So try with this: > > dists=b

Sysinstall does not install GENERIC kernel

2007-04-08 Thread Belov, Sergey
> hit the same bug too with FreeBSD-6.1. To workaround this, i've just > added the distribution set "GENERIC" to dists (this value wasn't > mentionned on the sysinstall manpage by the way :-( ) > So try with this: > dists=base GENERIC catpages info manpages proflibs kernel > distSetCustom Thank y

Re: Strange makefile errors in multiple ports

2007-04-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:30:14AM -0700, Oliver Iberien wrote: > I seem to have messed something up somewhere, and peculiar instructions seem > to have found their way in. An example is below: > > ---> Checking for the latest package of 'devel/gettext' > ---> Fetching the package(s) for 'gette

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-04-08 Thread Robert Huff
Michael P. Soulier writes: > >Might as well paint "PLEASE KICK ME!" and an arrow pointing > > down on your back > > I'm used to binary-package distributions that seem to try a lot > harder to not break. I suppose that ports is evolving, and it > used to be worse, so I shouldn't com

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 04:11:51PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:10:17PM +0400, Yuri Grebenkin wrote: > > > >>Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all. > >>Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch? > >>What do you t

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 08 April 2007 18:11:51 Garrett Cooper wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:10:17PM +0400, Yuri Grebenkin wrote: Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all. Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch? Wha

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 08 April 2007 18:11:51 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:10:17PM +0400, Yuri Grebenkin wrote: > >> Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all. > >> Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch? > >> What do you think? > > >

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:10:17PM +0400, Yuri Grebenkin wrote: Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all. Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch? What do you think? My guess (really a SWAG) is that it's bettter to leave thin

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:10:17PM +0400, Yuri Grebenkin wrote: > Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all. > Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch? > What do you think? My guess (really a SWAG) is that it's bettter to leave things just happily

Re: input/output error on hd - resolved

2007-04-08 Thread Marty Landman
As a follow up to the previous thread on which I was the OP have followed the advice given, contacted Ian Dowse who kindly walked me through fixing my hard drive. Here is a synopsis as best as I can do to explain what was done: First find out the offsets of the bad sectors, and check with dd that

Re: Should sudo be used?

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 4/7/07, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: > Also, although telnet is a hole nowdays for logging in to a system with > an id and password for the very reasons you have given, it still has > a use. You can use it to easily poke at a port and check the response >

Re: perl/script and retval

2007-04-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Olivier Regnier wrote: my $retval=0; my $doc_supfile="/etc/doc-supfile"; # Downloading doc files print "===> Downloading doc files\n"; system("/usr/bin/csup $doc_supfile if (! $retval) { print "abort"; exit; } I don't know what happened with retval but that doesn't work corr

Re: Package management question

2007-04-08 Thread Chris Kottaridis
Thanks. Sounds like I should stick with Mysql 5.0 for now, But, it's good to know about the portupgrade and portmanager commands. I wasn't aware of them. Thanks Chris Kottaridis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Yuri Grebenkin wrote: > Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all. > Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch? > What do you think? > >> Hello again all, >> I was wondering if there was an automatic, and possibly timed means to >> spin down disks available in e

Re: advice on anti-spam tools

2007-04-08 Thread Martin Hudec
Angelin Lalev wrote: My e-mail server is running the latest spamassassin with all of the blacklist enabled and etc. but I still receive over 20 spam messages a day ("image" spam mostly). The situation with other users may be worse. That's why I was thinking about some tool that 1. store incomi

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
Just wonder if it's better for an HDD not to spindown at all. Maybe it's safer to spin in peace than to park/launch? What do you think? > Hello again all, > I was wondering if there was an automatic, and possibly timed means to > spin down disks available in either ports or the base system,

Re: Skype can't connect.

2007-04-08 Thread Paris Jones
Doug Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 06:55:58PM -0700, Paris Jones wrote: > // Weirdness, why did all the messages disappear? > > I would first like to say sorry Garret, my previous questions were not in good > detail. [recap of a problem often requoted recently on l

Re: perl/script and retval

2007-04-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-04-08 17:38, Olivier Regnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I written a small script in sh : > # Downloading doc files > echo "===> Downloading doc files" > /usr/bin/csup $doc_supfile > RETVAL=$? > if [ $RETVAL != 0 ]; then >echo "abort" >exit 0 > fi This script has a mino

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-04-08 00:26, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Try using Perl only, instead of forking sed(1), like this: > > [...] > > | sub supfile_set_default_host($$); > > | sub supfile_set_default_host($$) > > | { [...] > Interesting. Is that old perl syntax (v4,

Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hello again all, I was wondering if there was an automatic, and possibly timed means to spin down disks available in either ports or the base system, by chance. Just trying to cut down on energy use, and increase my disks' lives :). TIA, -Garrett

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-04-08 09:28, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olivier Regnier wrote: > The file has to exist that you're trying to modify, otherwise it'll give > up :). Permissions issue? > > Better to do that section may be: > > my $tmpsupfile; > my $supfile = "/etc/standard-supfile

Re: mail server blues

2007-04-08 Thread adams
My company had a similar issue, we required a fairly turnkey solution for e-mail. If you don't have the time/want to actually set it up your self, and just want it to work I would suggest you try www.tnpi.net I didn't do the installation myself, I paid Matt's group to do it. Other than a few cus

Re: mail server blues

2007-04-08 Thread Apatewna
O/H Eric έγραψε: qmail is horrible and outdated. heres a ton of reasons not to use it: But thats just my opinion! =) I use qmail and I am happy with it, following a composition of "what suits me best" from the following sites: a) http://www.freebsdrocks.net/ provides the basic walkthr

Re: advice on anti-spam tools

2007-04-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Angelin Lalev wrote: Hi List, My e-mail server is running the latest spamassassin with all of the blacklist enabled and etc. but I still receive over 20 spam messages a day ("image" spam mostly). The situation with other users may be worse. That's why I was thinking about some tool that

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-04-08 11:40, Olivier Regnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas a ?crit : > >Try using Perl only, instead of forking sed(1), like this: > > > >,--- > >| > >| #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw > >| > >| use strict; > >| > >| #

bind9 in a jail

2007-04-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
i was setting up bind9 today in 2 jails. 1 jails is the master, and the other the slave. i am reloading 2 machines that were previously physical machines, into these jails. the master went fine, both internal and external views work as expected. setting up the slave, was not so smooth. i re

Re: Broadcom BCM5721 Ethernet Not Recognized on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-04-08 Thread alex
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x165914e4 chip=0x165914e4 rev= 0x11 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express' class= network subclass = ethernet Obviously your device is recognized and a driver has be

Re: perl/script and retval

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Olivier Regnier wrote: > Hello, > > I written a small script in sh : > # Downloading doc files > echo "===> Downloading doc files" > /usr/bin/csup $doc_supfile > RETVAL=$? > if [ $RETVAL != 0 ]; then >echo "abort" >exit 0 > fi > > I want to rewritte this code in perl script. > > my $retv

Strange makefile errors in multiple ports

2007-04-08 Thread Oliver Iberien
I seem to have messed something up somewhere, and peculiar instructions seem to have found their way in. An example is below: ---> Checking for the latest package of 'devel/gettext' ---> Fetching the package(s) for 'gettext-0.16.1' (devel/gettext) ---> Fetching gettext-0.16.1 /var/tmp/portupgr

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Olivier Regnier wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas a écrit : >> On 2007-04-07 17:31, Olivier Regnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I have a problem with my perl script with the command sed. Here is a >>> example of my code: >>> >> >> Don't use system("sed ...") in Perl. It's consider

perl/script and retval

2007-04-08 Thread Olivier Regnier
Hello, I written a small script in sh : # Downloading doc files echo "===> Downloading doc files" /usr/bin/csup $doc_supfile RETVAL=$? if [ $RETVAL != 0 ]; then echo "abort" exit 0 fi I want to rewritte this code in perl script. my $retval=0; my $doc_supfile="/etc/doc-supfile"; # Downloa

Cloning

2007-04-08 Thread Richard Rice
Any ideas on cloning an IBM T60 Thinkpad with G4U (Ghost for You)? The T60 comes with a recovery partition. First I killdisk the drive, re-install Windows XP. Then I want to capture an image with G4U so that I can clone other T60 machines. Is this possible with G4U? My present imaging software, Ima

ip fast forward on 6.2

2007-04-08 Thread J.D. Bronson
Is it proper to enable 'ip fastforwarding' on 6.2 when running pf ? I am attached to a cable modem (10MB speed) and only use DHCP. I have a 6.2 machine thats being used as a router and of course ip forwarding is enabled...but when I try to enable ip fastfowarding, I see throughput drop or surge

Re: Sysinstall does not install GENERIC kernel

2007-04-08 Thread roudoudou
Le Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:28:40 +0400, "Belov, Sergey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I found a strange problem while making automatic install disk from > official iso 6.2-RELEASE. > > I've made a custom install.cfg: > > ## > # This is the installation config

Re: Package management question

2007-04-08 Thread Gerard
On Sunday April 08, 2007 at 03:37:04 (AM) Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > mysql 5.1 is not ready for mainstream, AFAIK. > > You can install ports-mgmt/portupgrade and then use > "portupgrade -o databases/somenewport someoldport" > to upgrade an installed port to another one. > > pkg_delete -f oldpor

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-08 Thread Olivier Regnier
Giorgos Keramidas a écrit : On 2007-04-07 17:31, Olivier Regnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my perl script with the command sed. Here is a example of my code: Don't use system("sed ...") in Perl. It's considered poor style, since Perl can do the same witho

Re: FreeMat 3.0 doesn't call functions and help

2007-04-08 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le Sam 7 avr 07 à 21:24:05 +0200, Vittorio De Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : > Besides if I ask for the "help on line" (OR helpwin) the following error > messages pops up > > "The file modules.txt is missing from the directory where I think help files > should be." > > I think I d

Re: Broadcom BCM5721 Ethernet Not Recognized on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-04-08 Thread Björn König
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x165914e4 chip=0x165914e4 rev= 0x11 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express' class= network subclass = ethernet Obviously your device is r

Re: Package management question

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 4/8/07, Chris Kottaridis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need a little advise on FreeBSD package management, I am kind of new to the FreeBSD package management thing and so I am sure this is a very basic question. I just installed 6.2 and apparently it installed the mysql-client 5.0 package. I w

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-08 Thread Josh Carroll
Interesting. Is that old perl syntax (v4, etc)? Just curious because most of the documentation and examples switched to: No, he's using a function prototype. In this particular case, he's saying the supfile_set_default_host function will take two scalars as arguments. For more info: perldoc pe

Re: tcl84 on FreeBSD 6.2 make error (new user)

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Ben Madin wrote: > G'day all, > > I'm sorry but I am new to FreeBSD, and I am not sure what tcl84 is, but > when I tried to install gdal, using portmanager after many hours it told > me that tcl84 had an error, so that was that. > > when I went to ports/lang/tcl84 and tried make install clean it

tcl84 on FreeBSD 6.2 make error (new user)

2007-04-08 Thread Ben Madin
G'day all, I'm sorry but I am new to FreeBSD, and I am not sure what tcl84 is, but when I tried to install gdal, using portmanager after many hours it told me that tcl84 had an error, so that was that. when I went to ports/lang/tcl84 and tried make install clean it didn't work either. ther

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-04-07 17:31, Olivier Regnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> I have a problem with my perl script with the command sed. Here is a >> example of my code: > > Don't use system("sed ...") in Perl. It's considered poor style, since > Perl can do the same wit

Re: Package management question

2007-04-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chris Kottaridis wrote: > I need a little advise on FreeBSD package management, I am kind of new > to the FreeBSD package management thing and so I am sure this is a very > basic question. > > I just installed 6.2 and apparently it installed the mysql-client 5.0 > package. I want to get mysql up t

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-04-07 17:31, Olivier Regnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I have a problem with my perl script with the command sed. Here is a > example of my code: Don't use system("sed ...") in Perl. It's considered poor style, since Perl can do the same without having to fork a shell/sed proc