Reading a Video CD from a DVD drive on 7.0

2008-04-11 Thread Joshua Isom
I recently made the upgrade to 7.0, and my girlfriend had some video cd's she wanted help with(end result is putting two pal vcd's on one ntsc dvd). I had a couple she'd given me before that were actually dvd's so I first put the new ones in my dvd drive and tried using mplayer on them, but it

Re: Milters or SpamAssassin plugings

2008-04-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Robert Davison wrote: I'm running the base Sendmail with Mailscanner and SpamAssassin from the ports. A simple question I'm installing SPF to help the fight against spam. Which is the most efficient way of doing it.Sendmail milter or the p5-Mail SpamAssassin plug-in. They both do the s

Re: Question About Ports Update Cycle

2008-04-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Is there some regular interval at which new ports are processed by the FreeBSD team? I submitted a port (for a very minor utility) 3/20/2008 but it is still not in the tree. I'm not complaining in the slightest - the folks who do this work are volunteering their time, and I

Re: dump restore pain and suffering

2008-04-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 05:51:21PM -0700, Kevin Sanders wrote: > I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very > little success. Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD > 7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f > /mnt/test.root.dump, formating the

Re: dump restore pain and suffering

2008-04-11 Thread Kevin Sanders
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Sanders wrote: > > I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very > > little success. Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD > > 7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f > > /m

Re: Get available entropy

2008-04-11 Thread RW
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:41:22 +0300 Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Is there an app in the base install that can show the available > entropy? Also, how would you do this programatically? From 5.0 onwards FreeBSD uses Yarrow for /dev/random. It never blocks, and only keeps entropy s

Re: Chown PRoblem..HELP PLEASE

2008-04-11 Thread Jon Radel
Ruel Luchavez wrote: > Hi ALL, > > i make a new directory in my server using "mkdir [name of folder], then when > i wan to view the folder i use "ll" and this is the view: > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 512 Apr 11 11:05 [name of folder] > > when i want to change the owner[root] into a certain name

Re: FreeBSD7 + Intel video chipset 965 + X11R6

2008-04-11 Thread Ghirai
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:04:40 -0300 "Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for such a quick response. > > 1. How could I verify which driver is being used? > > 2. I went it the post-install configuration and tried downloading the Intel > driver package but it failed... g

Re: dump restore pain and suffering

2008-04-11 Thread Eric
Kevin Sanders wrote: I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very little success. Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD 7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f /mnt/test.root.dump, formating the drive and trying to restore -rf /mnt/test.root.d

dump restore pain and suffering

2008-04-11 Thread Kevin Sanders
I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very little success. Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD 7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f /mnt/test.root.dump, formating the drive and trying to restore -rf /mnt/test.root.dump. /mnt is a ufs for

Chown PRoblem..HELP PLEASE

2008-04-11 Thread Ruel Luchavez
Hi ALL, i make a new directory in my server using "mkdir [name of folder], then when i wan to view the folder i use "ll" and this is the view: drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 512 Apr 11 11:05 [name of folder] when i want to change the owner[root] into a certain name (ex.ruel) using the command: chown -

RE: FreeBSD7 + Intel video chipset 965 + X11R6

2008-04-11 Thread Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)
Thank you for such a quick response. 1. How could I verify which driver is being used? 2. I went it the post-install configuration and tried downloading the Intel driver package but it failed... giving me error -1 and states to look at debug screen but I have no idea where to see that. _

PHP5 install error on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-04-11 Thread Joseph Simmons
I can't seem to install PHP 4 or 5 from the port collection or PHP5 from PHP's website. I'm new to FreeBSD so I'm not sure I'm overlooking something rather simple or if I'm missing some other program or something like that I have Apache 2.2.6 installed and running, I've tried to install PHP sev

Re: Question regarding mail and dns server on Alix/Soekris?

2008-04-11 Thread David Duong
Luke Dean wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, David Duong wrote: I'm planning to redoing my home network. I currently have one server (Opteron 170) that is currently a NAS, Email, and DNS server (btw, the main OS is FreeBSD). I was thinking of purchasing an Alix2c3/Soekris 5501 and use it as a Emai

Re: FreeBSD7 + Intel video chipset 965 + X11R6

2008-04-11 Thread Ghirai
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:57:23 -0300 "Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > First off I'm a total newbie to FreeBSD and the UNIX world. > > I installed FreeBSD 7 about 1 wk ago and I'm about to give up at this point > as I'm having video problems but it seems like su

FreeBSD7 + Intel video chipset 965 + X11R6

2008-04-11 Thread Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)
Hello all, First off I'm a total newbie to FreeBSD and the UNIX world. I installed FreeBSD 7 about 1 wk ago and I'm about to give up at this point as I'm having video problems but it seems like such a great OS I want to fix it. My video hardware: Integrated onboard Intel video card, 965 ch

Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2008-04-11 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
Wow ! Thanks a lot releasing your for free Sr. ! I'm a fairly newcomer to FreeBSD and the link to your book couldn't have come in a better time ! I highly appreciate your contribution and will spread the word over those around me so they have access to the book to =D Once again: Thank you ! Bles

Get available entropy

2008-04-11 Thread Ghirai
Hey, Is there an app in the base install that can show the available entropy? Also, how would you do this programatically? Thanks. -- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: Milters or SpamAssassin plugings

2008-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:04 PM 4/11/2008, Robert Davison wrote: Thanks, but that was not exactly what I was asking. I know I can configure it in MailScanner, but - which is the best way of doing it. Through Sendmail as a milter or the p5-mail-SPF plugin ?? Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 04:10 PM

Re: Milters or SpamAssassin plugings

2008-04-11 Thread Robert Davison
Thanks, but that was not exactly what I was asking. I know I can configure it in MailScanner, but - which is the best way of doing it. Through Sendmail as a milter or the p5-mail-SPF plugin ?? Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 04:10 PM 4/11/2008, Robert Davison wrote: I'm running th

Re: Milters or SpamAssassin plugings

2008-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:10 PM 4/11/2008, Robert Davison wrote: I'm running the base Sendmail with Mailscanner and SpamAssassin from the ports. A simple question I'm installing SPF to help the fight against spam. Which is the most efficient way of doing it.Sendmail milter or the p5-Mail SpamAssassin pl

Milters or SpamAssassin plugings

2008-04-11 Thread Robert Davison
I'm running the base Sendmail with Mailscanner and SpamAssassin from the ports. A simple question I'm installing SPF to help the fight against spam. Which is the most efficient way of doing it.Sendmail milter or the p5-Mail SpamAssassin plug-in. They both do the same, but is one a bette

umass causes panic on 7 amd64

2008-04-11 Thread Steve Franks
I've got an 7.0 amd64 system that plugging in any umass device will cause it to immediately crash. You can plug in any ugen, ucom, or ums with no ill effects and they work fine. Modern man cannot live without the usb flash device. Anyone have any ideas? I have 7.0-rc1 i386 on a laptop that also

chio: /dev/ch0: CHIOMOVE: Device not configured

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Chvostek
Hiya. I have a media changer: install# grep ch0 /var/run/dmesg.boot ch0 at isp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 1 ch0: Removable Changer SCSI-5 device ch0: 400.000MB/s transfers ch0: Command Queueing Enabled ch0: 48 slots, 2 drives, 1 picker, 0 portals I can read status info from it: instal

Re: USB Flash Drive Permissions

2008-04-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:30:25 +0200, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For setting permissions on hotpluggable device nodes, you need to look > at devfs.rules. See > http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html#hotplug Excellent stuff :) >> I catted the pipe of devd and saw my device at

Re: spamassassin and amavisd with stock sendmail

2008-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:12 PM 4/11/2008, Eric Melville wrote: I've got a very plain and standard sendmail configuration running on a machine as a primary mail exchanger. After years of running without any kind of automated spam filtering, it's just gotten too poor and I have to turn to rejecting mail. I installed

Question About Ports Update Cycle

2008-04-11 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Is there some regular interval at which new ports are processed by the FreeBSD team? I submitted a port (for a very minor utility) 3/20/2008 but it is still not in the tree. I'm not complaining in the slightest - the folks who do this work are volunteering their time, and I get/respect that. I'm

Re: ZFS-Pool is lost after reboot ( amd64 )

2008-04-11 Thread Peter Schuller
> If I run zpool import x1 it works. But as you say it should do it by its > own. Maybe it whould be the best to open a bugreport ? In addition to what has already been mentioned by Ivan Voras, make sure your /boot is not the subject to strangeness. Specifically, imported pools are kept track of

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-11 Thread Mel
On Friday 11 April 2008 16:42:57 Shelby Cain wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 00:35 +0200, Mel wrote: > > It translates to "be verbose about restoring factory settings", because > > without arguments it will restore the built-in set. > > Why does "factory settings" not include scanning the built-in s

Re: Pkg_info corrupt for some packages

2008-04-11 Thread Mel
On Friday 11 April 2008 18:28:31 Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:32:32PM +0200, Aijaz Baig wrote: > > I was trying to find a way to list all the packages on my > > system and I came across this little article and accordingly > > issued the command *pkg_info | grep 'package nam

Re: zfs list and non-root user

2008-04-11 Thread Mark Kane
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008, at 15:13:16 +0200, Norman Maurer wrote: > Hi all, > > is it normal that I can't do a 'zfs list' ( for example ) as non-root > user ? > > $ zfs list > internal error: failed to initialize ZFS library > > I think there is really a use case for use some zfs commands as > non-

spamassassin and amavisd with stock sendmail

2008-04-11 Thread Eric Melville
I've got a very plain and standard sendmail configuration running on a machine as a primary mail exchanger. After years of running without any kind of automated spam filtering, it's just gotten too poor and I have to turn to rejecting mail. I installed the spamassassin and new-amavisd port, set th

Re: USB Flash Drive Permissions

2008-04-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 09:36:40AM -0700, Loren M. Lang wrote: > I would like to setup my USB flash drive to have special permissions > when I plug it into my desktop. Specifically, I would like it to be > owned by my user so I can user mount the msdos fs on it. I added an To mount as a normal u

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2008-04-11 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that a

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2008-04-11 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

small kdm fonts at login promt

2008-04-11 Thread LtCdData
Hi... After installing FreeBSD 7.0 Release i found the kdm login promt to be tiny, so much so i cant actually make out the text at all. I have since been in kcontrol as su and put the font sizes all the why upto 48, this has only made a marginal difference ( i can now only just make out what the

Re: Pkg_info corrupt for some packages

2008-04-11 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:32:32PM +0200, Aijaz Baig wrote: > I was trying to find a way to list all the packages on my > system and I came across this little article and accordingly > issued the command *pkg_info | grep 'package name' *and I saw > the following on the screen instead: > > pkg_info

USB Flash Drive Permissions

2008-04-11 Thread Loren M. Lang
I would like to setup my USB flash drive to have special permissions when I plug it into my desktop. Specifically, I would like it to be owned by my user so I can user mount the msdos fs on it. I added an entry to /etc/devfs.conf for the device it was creating, but the permissions did not get app

Alex from Romania

2008-04-11 Thread ALEX ALEX
Hi My name is Alex and I am from Romania, Bucharest and I love FREEBSD My personal web site is www.alexshop.ro. I have on my web site a download link for FREEBSD 7. I hope it is OK with you. I want for future to offer, for free, CD with FREEBSD. So, can I use Ubuntu logos and banners, please? All

Alex from Romania II

2008-04-11 Thread ALEX ALEX
Sorry for Ubuntu mistake :-) I love Ubuntu too but I love FREBSD more :-)) Can I use FREEBSD logos and banners, please? All the best from Bucharest and congratulations for your exceptional job Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Pkg_info corrupt for some packages

2008-04-11 Thread Leslie Jensen
Aijaz Baig skrev: Hello, I was trying to find a way to list all the packages on my system and I came across this little article and accordingly issued the command *pkg_info | grep 'package name' *and I saw the following on the screen instead: pkg_info: the package info for package 'Terminal-0.

Re: [7.0] Openldap client

2008-04-11 Thread karim . bourenane
Hi Paul Thanks you for your reply. I updated all ports with csup, and now is good for nss_pam package. I see on Freebsd gnat report same problem : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=117886 Best Regards, thanks you for all help Karim Bourenane Orange Business Services / Equant RO&SI / I

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-11 Thread Shelby Cain
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 00:35 +0200, Mel wrote: > > It translates to "be verbose about restoring factory settings", because > without arguments it will restore the built-in set. Why does "factory settings" not include scanning the built-in system library path /usr/lib? From the man page, it woul

Pkg_info corrupt for some packages

2008-04-11 Thread Aijaz Baig
Hello, I was trying to find a way to list all the packages on my system and I came across this little article and accordingly issued the command *pkg_info | grep 'package name' *and I saw the following on the screen instead: pkg_info: the package info for package 'Terminal-0.2.8' is corrupt pkg_i

Re: [7.0] Openldap client

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, April 11, 2008 16:03:24 +0200 Konrad Heuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unbale to install nss_ldap from padl. I've error : => nss_ldap-257.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. => Attempting to fetch from http://ww

Re: [7.0] Openldap client

2008-04-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 11 April 2008 16:03, Konrad Heuer wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > fetch: http://www.padl.com/download/nss_ldap-257.tar.gz: size mismatch: > > expected 229242, actual 229299 > > > > Anyone, can tell me, how to install openldap client on Freebsd 7-Stable ?

Re: [7.0] Openldap client

2008-04-11 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unbale to install nss_ldap from padl. I've error : => nss_ldap-257.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. => Attempting to fetch from http://www.padl.com/download/. fetch: http://www.padl.com/download/nss_ldap-257.tar.gz: size mi

Re: StartKde

2008-04-11 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Thursday 10 April 2008 16:51:03 Barry Walker wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm not sure if this is the proper place for this posting, but I am trying > to determine what is causing my KDE problems. > > Here's what I get > > u85 50 ps -ef |grep kde > bjwalker 11622 11076 0 17:45 pts/200:00:00 gre

Re: Comments on DRAC IV, V, VI w/ FreeBSD 6.3, 7.0

2008-04-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 13:39 -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anybody have any comments, suggestion, feedback, compatability The DRAC5 is an abomination to professional computer operators everywhere. It runs Linux, and to use the remote VGA console or remote Virtual Media, yo

zfs list and non-root user

2008-04-11 Thread Norman Maurer
Hi all, is it normal that I can't do a 'zfs list' ( for example ) as non-root user ? $ zfs list internal error: failed to initialize ZFS library I think there is really a use case for use some zfs commands as non-root user.. Thx Norman ___ freebsd-

Re: Apache - warnings in httpd-error.log about duplicate definitions

2008-04-11 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 11 April 2008, Mel wrote: > On Friday 11 April 2008 12:52:56 Mike Clarke wrote: > > Every time I start up Apache (1.3.41) on my 6.3 system I get lots > > of warnings in httpd-error.log about duplicate definitions of > > constants and functions. [snip] > So... > How did you get php4 and

Re: Apache - warnings in httpd-error.log about duplicate definitions

2008-04-11 Thread Mel
On Friday 11 April 2008 12:52:56 Mike Clarke wrote: > Every time I start up Apache (1.3.41) on my 6.3 system I get lots of > warnings in httpd-error.log about duplicate definitions of constants > and functions. The timestamps suggest that this only started happening > after I ran portupgrade on 23r

[7.0] Openldap client

2008-04-11 Thread karim . bourenane
Hi Team I'm unbale to install nss_ldap from padl. I've error : => nss_ldap-257.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. => Attempting to fetch from http://www.padl.com/download/. fetch: http://www.padl.com/download/nss_ldap-257.tar.gz: size mismatch: expected 229242, actual 22

Re: QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-11 Thread Mario Lobo
On Friday 11 April 2008 07:17:21 you wrote: > Hi Mario, > > > > > 1) # rc.conf > > > > ifconfig_re0="up polling" <- no IP here ! > > autobridge_interfaces="bridge0" > > autobridge_bridge0="tap0 re0" <- important even if tap0 does no

Re: if_bridge - what i do wrong

2008-04-11 Thread Mario Lobo
On Friday 11 April 2008 05:36:16 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > exactly this! thank you very much! > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Mario Lobo wrote: > > On Thursday 10 April 2008 10:02:55 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> ifconfig: BRDGADD tap0: Invalid argument > > > > I had this problem once because my kernel was o

Apache - warnings in httpd-error.log about duplicate definitions

2008-04-11 Thread Mike Clarke
Every time I start up Apache (1.3.41) on my 6.3 system I get lots of warnings in httpd-error.log about duplicate definitions of constants and functions. The timestamps suggest that this only started happening after I ran portupgrade on 23rd March. I can run portupgrade again tonight to see if t

RE: Apache22 Installation

2008-04-11 Thread Johan Hendriks
>AOA >I m new FreeBSD 7. And i m trying to install Apache 22 on FreeBSD but not >able to install how would i do this. Please help me in this regard. -- >Thanks >Farooq Hussain Try the ports system #cd /usr/ports/www/apache22 && make install clean Also try to read some good guides from here

Apache22 Installation

2008-04-11 Thread Farooq Hussain
AOA I m new FreeBSD 7. And i m trying to install Apache 22 on FreeBSD but not able to install how would i do this. Please help me in this regard. -- Thanks Farooq Hussain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-11 Thread Andrew Cid
Hi Mario, > > 1) # rc.conf > > ifconfig_re0="up polling" <- no IP here ! > autobridge_interfaces="bridge0" > autobridge_bridge0="tap0 re0" <- important even if tap0 does not exist yet > cloned_interfaces="bridge0" > # the bridge g

Re: ZFS-Pool is lost after reboot ( amd64 )

2008-04-11 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:12:55 +0200, Norman Maurer wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 10.04.2008, 22:50 +0200 schrieb Toni Schmidbauer: > If I run zpool import x1 it works. But as you say it should do it by its > own. Maybe it whould be the best to open a bugreport ? i had problems importing a zpool when

Re: ZFS-Pool is lost after reboot ( amd64 )

2008-04-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Norman Maurer wrote: > If I run zpool import x1 it works. But as you say it should do it by its > own. Maybe it whould be the best to open a bugreport ? Do you have zfs_enabled="YES" in rc.conf ? If you upgraded FreeBSD from an earlier release, remember to run mergemaster. signature.asc Descr

Re: if_bridge - what i do wrong

2008-04-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
exactly this! thank you very much! On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Mario Lobo wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008 10:02:55 Wojciech Puchar wrote: ifconfig: BRDGADD tap0: Invalid argument I had this problem once because my kernel was out of sync with userland. When I recompiled world, the problem went awa

Fwd: Bind from ports

2008-04-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Forget it. I tried one more time and all went well. Sorry to have bothered! Zbigniew Szalbot Original Message Subject: Bind from ports Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:20:16 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hello, When installing bin

Bind from ports

2008-04-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, When installing bind9 9.3.4.1 from ports, I get the following error. [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 60 packages found (-0 +1) . done] [Gathering depends for dns/bind9 done] ---> Installing 'bind9-9.3.4.1' from a port (dns/bind9) ---> Building '/usr/ports/dns/bind9' ===> Cle

Re: ZFS-Pool is lost after reboot ( amd64 )

2008-04-11 Thread Norman Maurer
Am Donnerstag, den 10.04.2008, 22:50 +0200 schrieb Toni Schmidbauer: > At Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:22:42 +0200, > Norman Maurer wrote: > > All is fine till I reboot. The pool is just disappearing :-/ > > have you tried to import the pool? > > zpool import x1 > > or just > > zpool import > > to list