Re: Future development of Jail

2007-12-31 Thread Karl Triebes
On Dec 31, 2007 5:51 PM, Andy Dills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not that I have a pile of money laying around I could throw at it, but the > thing I wish for most from FreeBSD is a more mature and robust jail > implementation. Specifically, the ability to implement per-jail quotas and > resource

Now sendmail won't even start (update)

2007-12-31 Thread Andrew Falanga
With every sendmail process turned off (verified using ps -aux | grep sendmail, and netstat -naf inet and lastly sockstat | grep sendmail; ok, ok, overkill); I've determined that nothing on the system is listening on port 25 except sendmail. Andy ___

Future development of Jail (was Re: corporate backers of freebsd)

2007-12-31 Thread Andy Dills
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Colin Percival wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Yes, Gary, there are companies who also fund FreeBSD work in several > > ways [...] Some examples which I recall off the top of my head are: > > Don't forget pair Networks, which has generously supported phk, andre, > and m

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread cpghost
On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:28:35 +0800 Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Victor Subervi wrote: > > toward a low-level language. I am not good in any :( I'm thinking > > Java's > > Assembler? > > > probably my best bet, just because there are more Java programmers > > out there th

Re: How to not start syslogd

2007-12-31 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Dec 31, 2007, at 9:13 AM, DAve wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Yep. It was a typo. I should let this be a reminder to always copy and paste such things into email instead of retyping. Small hint shown to me many years ago when enabling things in rc.conf. If I want to startup ipfilter f

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-31 16:57, Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Yes, Gary, there are companies who also fund FreeBSD work in several > > ways [...] Some examples which I recall off the top of my head are: > > Don't forget pair Networks, which has generously supported

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: The support of Isilon Systems for VFS locking, which was then 'ported' back to FreeBSD. Jeff Roberson worked with Isilon Systems to bring VFS locking to FreeBSD, and it is not part of the official kernel ^^^

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Colin Percival
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Yes, Gary, there are companies who also fund FreeBSD work in several > ways [...] Some examples which I recall off the top of my head are: Don't forget pair Networks, which has generously supported phk, andre, and myself on our respective "sponsored FreeBSD coding" fundr

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-31 23:14, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Monday 31 December 2007 18:10:55 Gary Smithe wrote: >> In short, here's my question: >> Canonical, RedHat, IBM, Novell, and a slew of others are funding / >> supporting Linux development and pushing some of that development >> into the fr

Now sendmail won't even start

2007-12-31 Thread Andrew Falanga
HI, Ok, a couple of days ago, Josh Tolbert told me to check out his site for how to setup sendmail+SMTP AUTH+SSL/TLS. So, I went to your (Josh's) site and followed the directions. Now however, sendmail doesn't even want to start. Actually, more correctly, it doesn't want to stay running. If

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 31 December 2007 18:10:55 Gary Smithe wrote: > > In short, here's my question: > > Canonical, RedHat, IBM, Novell, and a slew of others are funding / > supporting Linux development and pushing some of that development into > the free community, so that all can benefit from full-time deve

Re: ssh + kerberos: problems w/ -current to openbsd 4.2 KDC

2007-12-31 Thread Tom McLaughlin
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 14:07 -0600, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > have most of the machines here doing ssh authentication via kerberos > against a heimdal KDC running openbsd 4.2-release. I have a similar setup here with an OpenBSD 4.2 KDC and a FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 machine and I remember it being a has

Re: Building FreeBSD from source on OS X?

2007-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-31 16:33, "Johan A. van Zanten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings. > Recently i acquired an intel-based Mac mini and would like to build > FreeBSD on it, but the mini needs to be (always) running OS X, because > of other duties (DVR) it has. > > Is it possible to build FreeBSD from

Re: Why aren't more secure download options offered?

2007-12-31 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 31 December 2007 04:25:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello FreeBSD representative, > BTW, this is a mailing list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

Re: Why aren't more secure download options offered?

2007-12-31 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 31 December 2007 04:25:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello FreeBSD representative, > > I am new to the FreeBSD community. In the past I have typically installed > a linux variant in my home systems, but recently decided to give FreeBSD a > try since I could not find a distribution that fi

Building FreeBSD from source on OS X?

2007-12-31 Thread Johan A . van Zanten
Greetings. Recently i acquired an intel-based Mac mini and would like to build FreeBSD on it, but the mini needs to be (always) running OS X, because of other duties (DVR) it has. Is it possible to build FreeBSD from source on OS X running on intel hardware? I've tried the straight forward

Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.

2007-12-31 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 31 December 2007 01:53:15 pm Jim Stapleton wrote: > Thanks. I feel stupid now (through my own stupidity and not the fault > of anyone here but me). > > I should have looked at that before. I have always done a minimal > install of FreeBSD (well, for 6.1 and 6.2, didn't use FreeBSD before

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread neal
On Monday 31 December 2007, Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi; > Way OT here...but don't know where else to ask ;) > I'm considering starting an open source project for > language translation. Initially, I'll write this in > python (with both MySQL and OpenLDAP for different > needs). But the processing w

NFS issues ??

2007-12-31 Thread Chris Maness
I am trying to mount a Linux box with NFS from my FreeBSD box, with the command: # mount_nfs4 192.168.1.66:/home/chris/ /mnt/nfs/ where the IP is the Linux box and the share is /home/chris When I run the command I get: mount_nfs4: /mnt/nfs: No such file or directory Now /mnt/nfs exists and

Re: "Drop in" replacement for imap-UW?

2007-12-31 Thread RW
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:42:14 -0600 Joe in MPLS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having issues when multiple clients try to access the same user's > mailbox. Typically the TREO will do a scheduled check for new mail > while Thunderbird has it already open. Research indicates that this > is a limit

Re: "Drop in" replacement for imap-UW?

2007-12-31 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 31 December 2007 01:42:14 pm Joe in MPLS wrote: > I've been running imap-UW on FreeBSD 6.x STABLE for a while. Clients are > mostly Thunderbird, TREOs and Horde (running on the same box. > > I'm having issues when multiple clients try to access the same user's > mailbox. Typically the TRE

Re: installing linux after freebsd (multi-boot)

2007-12-31 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
> "अनुज" == अनुज Anuj Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: अनुज> On Dec 31, 2007 1:29 PM, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ,--[ On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 09:03:08AM +0530, अनुज Anuj Singh wrote: >> >> [snipped] >> >> | > >> On 30/12/2007, <[EMAIL

"Drop in" replacement for imap-UW?

2007-12-31 Thread Joe in MPLS
I've been running imap-UW on FreeBSD 6.x STABLE for a while. Clients are mostly Thunderbird, TREOs and Horde (running on the same box. I'm having issues when multiple clients try to access the same user's mailbox. Typically the TREO will do a scheduled check for new mail while Thunderbird has

ssh + kerberos: problems w/ -current to openbsd 4.2 KDC

2007-12-31 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
have most of the machines here doing ssh authentication via kerberos against a heimdal KDC running openbsd 4.2-release. the freebsd 7.0beta4 host i recently installed will not allow machines to ssh into it using kerberos credentials but it (freebsd host) does successfully get and use tickets fr

Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.

2007-12-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks. I feel stupid now (through my own stupidity and not the fault of anyone here but me). I should have looked at that before. I have always done a minimal install of FreeBSD (well, for 6.1 and 6.2, didn't use FreeBSD before that), and have not had any problems getting the man pages before. Is

Re: Boot Menu Damaged

2007-12-31 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:46:04AM -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 9:50 AM Subject: Re: Boot Menu Damaged On Mon,

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread DAve
Gary Smithe wrote: > Good Day All and Happy New Year, > > I'm not looking to incite anyone, but here comes a BSD vs Linux > question. Yes, I tried searching the archives and found nothing. > > I used FreeBSD back in 2000 for a few firewalls, but due to certain > influences I switched to Linux af

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Kurt Buff
On Dec 31, 2007 10:10 AM, Gary Smithe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've seen where Cisco and Juniper are using FreeBSD, and assuming > there are other big names, do they directly fund or contribute to the > community? If memory serves, Yahoo! also is a substantial user of FreeBSD, though I don't h

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
BTW, someone wisely suggested looking up what the industry uses. This from Google: ¨translation software¨java 2,350,000 hits ¨translation software¨¨c++ 224,000 hits Hmmm... Victor On 12/31/07, Victor Subervi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Annoted :) > > On 12/31/07, Robert Huff <[EMAIL P

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
BTW, someone wisely suggested looking up what the industry uses. This from Google: ¨translation software¨java 2,350,000 hits ¨translation software¨¨c++ 224,000 hits Hmmm... Victor On 12/31/07, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Victor Subervi writes: > > > Yeah, this is what ha

corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Gary Smithe
Good Day All and Happy New Year, I'm not looking to incite anyone, but here comes a BSD vs Linux question. Yes, I tried searching the archives and found nothing. I used FreeBSD back in 2000 for a few firewalls, but due to certain influences I switched to Linux after a couple of years. I'm inter

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
Annoted :) On 12/31/07, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Victor Subervi writes: > > > Yeah, this is what happens when some ding-a-ling asks a wide open > > emotionally sensitive question on an issue he knows nothing about > > LOL. Do it all in C? Interesting. Much easier, much more

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
Now that's the smartest suggestion yet! Victor On Dec 31, 2007 1:56 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > RW wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:04:07 -0400 "Victor Subervi" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Thanks for the comme

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:04:07 -0400 "Victor Subervi" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks for the comments. It's a serious project. It appears that >> no one has yet done anything substantial in open source for >> translation, which is a

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread RW
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:04:07 -0400 "Victor Subervi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the comments. It's a serious project. It appears that no > one has yet done anything substantial in open source for translation, > which is a $12 billion/yr industry. If I were you, I'd look into what lang

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
Thanks for both :) Victor On Dec 31, 2007 1:50 PM, Victor Subervi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, this is what happens when some ding-a-ling asks a wide open > emotionally sensitive question on an issue he knows nothing about LOL. Do it > all in C? Interesting. Much easier, much more support f

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Victor Subervi wrote: >> Hmm. Why did you switch to Java? > > Rich system API, everything inherits from Object (helps in many > situations), the relization that 99% of time I was using ptrs it > was only to keep a ref to some

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
Yeah, this is what happens when some ding-a-ling asks a wide open emotionally sensitive question on an issue he knows nothing about LOL. Do it all in C? Interesting. Much easier, much more support from the community. Will look into it. Is jquery installed server-side? TIA, Victor On Dec 31, 2007 1

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Victor Subervi wrote: > Hmm. Why did you switch to Java? Rich system API, everything inherits from Object (helps in many situations), the relization that 99% of time I was using ptrs it was only to keep a ref to some struct in RAM (the only time I hav

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 11:57:01 Dec 31, Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi; > Way OT here...but don't know where else to ask ;) I don't think so. > I'm considering starting an open source project for language translation. > Initially, I'll write this in python (with both MySQL and OpenLDAP for > different needs). But the pr

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
Hmm. Why did you switch to Java? Also, that email address for Henry bounced :-} Could you check it? TIA, Victor On Dec 31, 2007 1:31 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Victor Subervi wrote: > > Thanks. I'll drop him a line. > > F

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Victor Subervi wrote: > Thanks. I'll drop him a line. Forgot to mention that as far I know it is straight Java also. As a side note to those who are knocking Java a few things need to be dismistified: I don't know if I am the exception but I kn

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

2007-12-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Darren Spruell wrote: On Dec 28, 2007 8:49 AM, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the absence of egress filtering on the firewall, that would definitely be an advantage. Does anyone use BIND for filtering in a small to medium business environment then? How does it perform? Performs

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
Thanks. I'll drop him a line. Victor On Dec 31, 2007 1:24 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Victor Subervi wrote: > > Thanks for the comments. It's a serious project. It appears that no > > one has yet done anything substantial

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Victor Subervi wrote: > Thanks for the comments. It's a serious project. It appears that no > one has yet done anything substantial in open source for > translation, which is a $12 billion/yr industry. Go figure. Sounds > like C++ is the way to go. Now

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
Perfect. Yet another reason to choose c++ Thanks, Victor On Dec 31, 2007 1:14 PM, Victor Subervi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yuck. Steering clear of Java ... > :) > Thanks, > Victor > > On Dec 31, 2007 1:05 PM, Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Victor Subervi wrote: >

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
Yuck. Steering clear of Java ... :) Thanks, Victor On Dec 31, 2007 1:05 PM, Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Victor Subervi wrote: > >> Good point. Most legacy s/w is in C++. I'm assuming from lack of > comment > >> that C# is as yet an unborn language ;) > > there is another

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Ivan Voras
Victor Subervi wrote: >I know that one has to install all sorts of s/w and > rebuild the kernel for working with Java. Is that true of C++ as well? Or is > it like C, native to FBSD? It's native - it's the GNU c++ compiler (g++). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Victor Subervi wrote: Good point. Most legacy s/w is in C++. I'm assuming from lack of comment that C# is as yet an unborn language ;) there is another very simple problem with languages like C# or Java. In the case of C, it is the developers machine which has to have the proper software

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
Thanks for the comments. It's a serious project. It appears that no one has yet done anything substantial in open source for translation, which is a $12 billion/yr industry. Go figure. Sounds like C++ is the way to go. Now, getting back on topic :) I know that one has to install all sorts of s/w an

Re: dlopen(), atexit() on FreeBSD

2007-12-31 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Giorgos Keramidas writes: > The __cxa_finalize() function is not called by atexit(), but by exit() I see. > Since the program is going to exit and have all its dlopened shared > objects be unmapped, it's probably ok to skip the dlclose() step in > this example. > Just for the record: I've

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Ivan Voras
Victor Subervi wrote: >I'm thinking Java's > probably my best bet, just because there are more Java programmers out there > than any other language (I think). That's almost always the *worst* reason for choosing a language. On similar basis, you might want to do it in PHP since "a lot of people

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
> > Good point. Most legacy s/w is in C++. I'm assuming from lack of comment > that C# is as yet an unborn language ;) > TIA, > Victor > > On Dec 31, 2007 12:28 PM, Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Victor Subervi wrote: > > > toward a low-level language. I am not goo

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Victor Subervi wrote: toward a low-level language. I am not good in any :( I'm thinking Java's Assembler? probably my best bet, just because there are more Java programmers out there than any other language (I think). But what about C++ or C#? Your comments I would use a combination ou

Re: Imaging to new system

2007-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 11:10 -0700, Darren Spruell wrote: >> On Dec 30, 2007 10:54 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I have a server running 5.4-RELEASE using RAID-5 on an Intel RAID >> > controller that I need to move to faster

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
Java not low level? It's a scripting lang? Doesn't compile? C is easy enough. C++ is tough but would be necessary. What about C#? Forget it? TIA, Victor On Dec 31, 2007 12:02 PM, Frank Staals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Victor Subervi wrote: > > Hi; > > Way OT here...but don't know where else t

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Frank Staals
Victor Subervi wrote: Hi; Way OT here...but don't know where else to ask ;) I'm considering starting an open source project for language translation. Initially, I'll write this in python (with both MySQL and OpenLDAP for different needs). But the processing will be heavy duty, so I need to look t

Re: Port Updates for 6.1

2007-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Don O'Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the safest and cleanest way to update the ports in /usr/ports for a > 6.1-STABLE install? I don't want to risk breaking anything, I just need some > updated ports so I can install the latest SpamAssassin port. http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#caniad

Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Victor Subervi
Hi; Way OT here...but don't know where else to ask ;) I'm considering starting an open source project for language translation. Initially, I'll write this in python (with both MySQL and OpenLDAP for different needs). But the processing will be heavy duty, so I need to look toward a low-level langua

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Re: Boot Menu Damaged

2007-12-31 Thread E. J. Cerejo
- Original Message - From: "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 9:50 AM Subject: Re: Boot Menu Damaged On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:17:51AM -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6 stable and I lost

Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND

2007-12-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Dec 30, 2007 12:31 PM, Darren Spruell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 30, 2007 9:52 AM, Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I then installed dnsmasq, which is able to read domain info from the hosts file. Just for the fun of it, I loaded domains from all th

Re: upgrading mplayer fails on linux-pango

2007-12-31 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:23:58 -0500 Dave wrote: >Trying to upgrade my ports. And mplayer is failing on the > linux-pango dependency. The error from linux-pango is that elf binary > type "3" is not known and the install fails with an error 2. Does > anyone have a fix for this? Did you (kld)load

Re: How to not start syslogd

2007-12-31 Thread DAve
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Dec 30, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > >> Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Putting >>> >>> syslogd_enable="NO" >>> >>> into /etc/rc.conf did not prevent it from starting. >> >> The above works on every system I've done it to (which is quite

Re: How to not start syslogd

2007-12-31 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Dec 30, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Putting syslogd_enable="NO" into /etc/rc.conf did not prevent it from starting. The above works on every system I've done it to (which is quite a few). I suspect you've either got a typo in y

Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.

2007-12-31 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > None of the default man pages were installed on my system when I > installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot some part of the > install (accidentally forgot to click something). Does anyone know how > I can trivially obtain the base instal

Re:I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.

2007-12-31 Thread Philip Brown
you can install this from sysinstall: here is a link to full instructions: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-install-man-info-pages-and-other-package-set.html hope this helps, Phil ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.

2007-12-31 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:41:05 -0500 Jim Stapleton wrote: > None of the default man pages were installed on my system when I > installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot some part of the > install (accidentally forgot to click something). Does anyone know how > I can trivially obtain the base in

Re: Boot Menu Damaged

2007-12-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:17:51AM -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 6 stable and I lost my boot menu after reinstalling xp > and tried to fix it by booting with instalation cd and run "fdisk -B -b > /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0" it restored it but when I boot I get the mountroot> > prom

I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.

2007-12-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
None of the default man pages were installed on my system when I installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot some part of the install (accidentally forgot to click something). Does anyone know how I can trivially obtain the base install's man pages? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton __

Re: Small Unix install

2007-12-31 Thread DAve
Erik Cederstrand wrote: > DAve wrote: >> Good morning, >> >> I am looking for a small install for an old laptop. I have an old but >> quite reliable Toshiba 330CDT that used to be my personal laptop. I ran >> FBSD 3.x/4.x on it for years but it has been wiped and in a closet for >> years. I want to

Re: installing linux after freebsd (multi-boot)

2007-12-31 Thread अनुज Anuj Singh
On Dec 31, 2007 1:29 PM, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ,--[ On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 09:03:08AM +0530, अनुज Anuj Singh wrote: > > [snipped] > > | > >> On 30/12/2007, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > >> > | > >>> Hello , > | > >>> I have freebsd6.2 installed with Fedora c

Re: Is it possible to mount OpenBSD FFS partitions in FreeBSD?

2007-12-31 Thread Seth Brundle
2007/12/31, Nikola Lečić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:44:33 +0100 > "Seth Brundle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > # ls /dev/ad* > > /dev/ad4/dev/ad4s1b /dev/ad4s1e /dev/ad6 > > /dev/ad4s1 /dev/ad4s1c /dev/ad4s1f /dev/ad6s4 > > /dev/ad4s1a /dev/

Re: pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix

2007-12-31 Thread Mon Si
Peter Boosten wrote, on 12/30/07 18:04: > Quoting Eric Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Dec 28, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >>> Mon Si wrote: Dear list, I'm experiencing problems when I try to portupgrade the xorg-driver port. The old version of the port can't

Re: Is it possible to mount OpenBSD FFS partitions in FreeBSD?

2007-12-31 Thread Nikola Lečić
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:44:33 +0100 "Seth Brundle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # ls /dev/ad* > /dev/ad4/dev/ad4s1b /dev/ad4s1e /dev/ad6 > /dev/ad4s1 /dev/ad4s1c /dev/ad4s1f /dev/ad6s4 > /dev/ad4s1a /dev/ad4s1d /dev/ad4s1g /dev/ad8 Just for the record, 'm

Re: Is it possible to mount OpenBSD FFS partitions in FreeBSD?

2007-12-31 Thread Seth Brundle
2007/12/31, Nikola Lečić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:16:50 +0100 > "Seth Brundle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2007/12/31, Nikola Lečić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:58:17 +0100 > > > "Seth Brundle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > >

Re: Is it possible to mount OpenBSD FFS partitions in FreeBSD?

2007-12-31 Thread Nikola Lečić
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:16:50 +0100 "Seth Brundle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/12/31, Nikola Lečić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:58:17 +0100 > > "Seth Brundle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > # mount /dev/ad8s1a /mnt/ > > > mount: /dev/ad8s1a : No such fi

Re: Is it possible to mount OpenBSD FFS partitions in FreeBSD?

2007-12-31 Thread Seth Brundle
2007/12/31, Nikola Lečić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:58:17 +0100 > "Seth Brundle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > # mount /dev/ad8s1a /mnt/ > > mount: /dev/ad8s1a : No such file or directory > > > > (I thought that the first -- and only -- partition on OpenBSD would > >

Re: Is it possible to mount OpenBSD FFS partitions in FreeBSD?

2007-12-31 Thread Nikola Lečić
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:58:17 +0100 "Seth Brundle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > # mount /dev/ad8s1a /mnt/ > mount: /dev/ad8s1a : No such file or directory > > (I thought that the first -- and only -- partition on OpenBSD would > show up as 'slice 1' on FreeBSD.) (The disk area occupied by

Is it possible to mount OpenBSD FFS partitions in FreeBSD?

2007-12-31 Thread Seth Brundle
[Second try, first email disappeared in the way to the list server...?] Hi list, I'm in the mid of migrating my workstation from OpenBSD/amd64 to FreeBSD/amd64. I have three hard discs installed in it (two identical 250GByte SATA300, and one 500GByte SATA300 drive). When still running OpenBSD, I

Re: dlopen(), atexit() on FreeBSD

2007-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-30 18:49, Markus Hoenicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I bumped into a platform-specific problem when using the Firebird > database client library in a dlopen()ed module on FreeBSD. libdbi > (http://libdbi.sourceforge.net) is a database abstraction layer which > dlopen()s available

Is it possible to mount OpenBSD FFS partitions in FreeBSD?

2007-12-31 Thread Seth Brundle
Hi list, I'm in the mid of migrating my workstation from OpenBSD/amd64 to FreeBSD/amd64. I have three hard discs installed in it (two identical 250GByte SATA300, and one 500GByte SATA300 drive). When still running OpenBSD, I copied all data I want to transfer to the 500GByte drive; I plan to run

Re: Boot Menu Damaged

2007-12-31 Thread Nikola Lečić
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:17:51 -0500 "E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 6 stable and I lost my boot menu after > reinstalling xp and tried to fix it by booting with instalation cd > and run "fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0" it restored it but when I > boot I get the mo

Re: remote x session

2007-12-31 Thread Frank Staals
Jonathan Horne wrote: well, the part i didnt mention before, was the method behind the madness. its actually a jail-host, with 3 jails running. my intention, is to keep the latest of kde, gnome, and xfce built on each, and just remotely attach to (or forward) its x session from my main workstat

Re: installing linux after freebsd (multi-boot)

2007-12-31 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
,--[ On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 09:03:08AM +0530, अनुज Anuj Singh wrote: [snipped] | > >> On 30/12/2007, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > >> | > >>> Hello , | > >>> I have freebsd6.2 installed with Fedora core 7 and rhe4. | > >>> I am installing rhel5 , when linux installation process starts I ge