How to have two active network interfaces on a laptop

2009-04-11 Thread Leslie Jensen
I'm wondering how I should handle my laptops network interfaces. I'm often forced to wait for bsdstats, ntpd and sshd to time out if I'm not connected. Even if I am connected on one interface the default gateway is assigned to the interface that is not connected. I've found some information

How can I use BD-RE with UFS on geli?

2009-04-11 Thread SAITOU Toshihide
I tried BD-RE with UFS on geli but didn't success. What was wrong the below? * BDR-S03J, Pioneer SATAT BD/DVD/CD Writer * FreeBSD 7-STABLE (Apr. 5) 1. when insert BD-RE: [/var/log/messages] acd0: FAILURE - READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 (cd0:ata6:0:0:0): READ TOC/PMA/ATIP

RE: questions about Fatal Trap 12

2009-04-11 Thread Paul Hamilton
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ray Sent: Saturday, 4 April 2009 01:45 To: freebsd general questions Subject: questions about Fatal Trap 12 Hello, I have received a kernel Trap 12 error several times

Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-11 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:49:31 -0500, >> Adam Vande More said: A> A shot in dark at the problem is upgrading firefox also upgraded perl A> from 5.8.8 to 5.8.9(possibility w/ threaded perl). No, I installed perl-5.8.8 by hand back when the ports version was somewhere around 5.8.4; this ha

Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-11 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Karl Vogel wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:44:14 +0200, Polytropon said: P> Why don't you use echo -n which suppresses the newline instead of involving P> another program to do something that echo can do on its own? This is how P> FreeBSD does it in its system scripts.

(OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock :(( Thanks Chris ___ freeb

Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-11 Thread Adam Vande More
Karl Vogel wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:31:06 -0500, Adam Vandemore said: A> How do you handle major builds that use FBSD specific patches A> asterisk for example? Fortunately I haven't had to build asterisk or anything else that large. If I did, I'd probably try building un

Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/9 Gary Gatten : > Yup - tried samba3 and a couple others.  None of them liked a function about > current_time in krb5. > > What's up with the top posting thing?  You don't like the most recent stuff > at the top? > No, top posting is horrible! And frowned upon in this community http:

Re: csup vs freebsd-update

2009-04-11 Thread Adam Vande More
Andrei Brezan wrote: Hi all, I have a strange problem with csup and freebsd-update. I'm using 7.0-RELEASE-p11. If i do: # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester : > Chris Rees wrote: >> >> 2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester : >>> >>> Yuri wrote: I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things >>> >>> mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. >>> >> >> Yuri had already written ONE LINE below your

Re: Can I resume the perl upgrade?

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/11 David Southwell : > On Friday 10 April 2009 11:43:33 kime...@gmail.com wrote: >> Paul Schmehl wrote: >> > --On Friday, April 10, 2009 11:17:00 -0500 Paul Schmehl >> > >> > wrote: >> >> According to /usr/ports/UPDATING, if you want to upgrade to perl5.10, >> >> you do >> >> the following:

Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-11 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:44:14 +0200, >> Polytropon said: P> Why don't you use echo -n which suppresses the newline instead of involving P> another program to do something that echo can do on its own? This is how P> FreeBSD does it in its system scripts. Some of my scripts date back to 199

Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-11 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:31:06 -0500, >> Adam Vandemore said: A> How do you handle major builds that use FBSD specific patches A> asterisk for example? Fortunately I haven't had to build asterisk or anything else that large. If I did, I'd probably try building under Solaris first, an

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-04-11

2009-04-11 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

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> >> I am following this discussion too. >> I was actually thinking of some less drastic method to make a FreeBSD >> desktop easier to build and less time consuming. >> Currently there are at least two projects based on FreeBSD that offer >> reasonable BSD desktops without

Re: questions about Fatal Trap 12

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/9 Ray : > On Friday 03 April 2009 11:44:31 Ray wrote: >> Hello, >> I have received a kernel Trap 12 error several times now and am trying to >> figure it out. >> the error occurred today, and the previous time was about two weeks ago. >> last time I had to run fsck manually if that proves an

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> I could also distribute the ports tree ... >> > > I wonder if it's necessary to distribute the entire ports tree. > Perhaps it would suffice to distribute a timestamp for csup/cvsup > to retrieve the appropriate version. > > Yes

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi guys, When you have a minute please would you have a look at a proposal for changes to the packages system I posted which is kind of a ports equivalent of freebsd-update involving a 'ports-snapshot'. The original post is here http://lists.free

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-11 Thread perryh
Manolis Kiagias wrote: > I could also distribute the ports tree ... I wonder if it's necessary to distribute the entire ports tree. Perhaps it would suffice to distribute a timestamp for csup/cvsup to retrieve the appropriate version. ___ freebsd-questi

Re: /usr/bin/calendar in cgi script

2009-04-11 Thread Charles Howse
On Apr 11, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Charles Howse writes: Now, when I run that script in a terminal, the output is perfectly formatted, multiple lines (if there are multiple events on this date), date first, event, year. Just right. But, when I put that in an "include" state

Re: /usr/bin/calendar in cgi script

2009-04-11 Thread Brad Mettee
You'll need to put it in a " " html block to preserve the formatting. Or you can try to substitute the '\n' into '' somehow (been a while since I did search/replace in an include so I can't be more specific). At 03:02 PM 4/11/2009, you wrote: Hi, I have a cgi script on my website that runs:

/usr/bin/calendar in cgi script

2009-04-11 Thread Robert Huff
Charles Howse writes: > Now, when I run that script in a terminal, the output is perfectly > formatted, multiple lines (if there are multiple events on this date), > date first, event, year. Just right. > > But, when I put that in an "include" statement in a webpage, the > output is

/usr/bin/calendar in cgi script

2009-04-11 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I have a cgi script on my website that runs: /usr/bin/calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history Now, when I run that script in a terminal, the output is perfectly formatted, multiple lines (if there are multiple events on this date), date first, event, year. Just right. But, wh

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-11 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:34:51 +0700, kyanh wrote: > I just use the default setting from Pidgin. I don't know what is > the kind of sound though I guess that's *.wav. For WAV files, the play command from the port audio/sox is fine. I think it's a bit "heavy" to employ mplayer for this simple job.

FreeBSD 8.x, Xen 3.3.x Dom0 support

2009-04-11 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Does anybody know the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen 3.3.x ? The discussion threads on -xen and -virtualization are fairly sketchy on this topic. Any pointers or observations ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application

2009-04-11 Thread Manish Jain
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/11 Manish Jain : Hi all, After weeks of fumbling and struggling, I have made my full transition from Linux to FreeBSD, thanks in no mean measures to the assistance of this forum. I've got my FreeBSD 7.1 x86 system set up exactly as I wanted it and now I am looking to

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by errors

2009-04-11 Thread Agus
2009/4/11 gabe g : > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Agus wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> Yesterday i suddenly start receiving this errors... first i noticed it >> cause i couldnt login and bash threw it.. then su... >> >> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by

Re: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application

2009-04-11 Thread Manish Jain
Robert Huff wrote: Erik Gustafson writes: Have you tried the ports multimedia/mplayer or multimedia/vlc? I can't live without mplayer on my desktop and it usually "just works" on everything i try to play. I use mplayer too, but (as far as I know) the list of supported codec

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > Hi guys, > > When you have a minute please would you have a look at a proposal for > changes to the packages system I posted which is kind of a ports > equivalent of freebsd-update involving a 'ports-snapshot'. > > The original post is here > > http://lists.freebsd.org/p

Re: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application

2009-04-11 Thread Robert Huff
Erik Gustafson writes: > Have you tried the ports multimedia/mplayer or multimedia/vlc? I > can't live without mplayer on my desktop and it usually "just > works" on everything i try to play. I use mplayer too, but (as far as I know) the list of supported codecs hasn't changed in seve

csup vs freebsd-update

2009-04-11 Thread Andrei Brezan
Hi all, I have a strange problem with csup and freebsd-update. I'm using 7.0-RELEASE-p11. If i do: # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-11 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester : Yuri wrote: I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. Yuri had already written ONE LINE below your quote: I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but it didn't fi

Re: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application

2009-04-11 Thread Erik Gustafson
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Manish Jain wrote: > > Hi all, > > After weeks of fumbling and struggling, I have made my full transition from > Linux to FreeBSD, thanks in no mean measures to the assistance of this > forum. I've got my FreeBSD 7.1 x86 system set up exactly as I wanted it and > n

Re: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/11 Manish Jain : > > Hi all, > > After weeks of fumbling and struggling, I have made my full transition from > Linux to FreeBSD, thanks in no mean measures to the assistance of this > forum. I've got my FreeBSD 7.1 x86 system set up exactly as I wanted it and > now I am looking to move one s

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester : > Yuri wrote: >> I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things > > mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. > Yuri had already written ONE LINE below your quote: > I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but it didn't finish after an

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:56:17 +0700, kyanh wrote: >> Second, the sound files you are using might simply be a bit low on >> the volume side. You may want to load them into something like >> audacity to increase their loudness. > > The problem is that I use Pidgin's default sound files. I cannot > l

The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application

2009-04-11 Thread Manish Jain
Hi all, After weeks of fumbling and struggling, I have made my full transition from Linux to FreeBSD, thanks in no mean measures to the assistance of this forum. I've got my FreeBSD 7.1 x86 system set up exactly as I wanted it and now I am looking to move one step further - and that is one b

Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:21:31 +, Da Rock wrote: >> Can you show us the *exact* deferral message? >> >> It may be greylisting from the FreeBSD.org mail servers. > > Ok. This is the exact message: > > Apr 11 16:26:40 postfix/smtp[1325]: > 488851744F: to=, > relay=mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.8

Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-11 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 07:57:36AM +, Da Rock wrote: [...] > > I thought it sounded like dns too. But I was under the impression that only a > reverse lookup was used against the Server name sent by postfix. I have > specifically requested a ptr record in the arpa zone, and I can run a > re

Re: disk usage statistics

2009-04-11 Thread Michal
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Could you suggest me how can I get my disk usage statistics in terms of percentage of the possible disk activity (like in gstat) or megabytes per second (like in iostat), please? systat then type :vmstat I need something not interactive, command that prints what it kn

RE: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-11 Thread Da Rock
> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:42:31 +0700 > From: o...@cs.ait.ac.th > To: rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server > > > Apr 11 16:26:40 postfix/smtp[1325]: > > 488851744F: to=, > > relay=mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52]:

Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-11 Thread Peter
Da Rock wrote: > If I resolveip for my ip address it shows up my mail server name, and > YET I still get deferred rejection from the freebsd mx's. I had this problem before - freebsd mail server needs some time before it sees DNS changes...will be fine in a few hours. Peter __

Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Apr 11 16:26:40 postfix/smtp[1325]: > 488851744F: to=, > relay=mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52]:25, delay=100211, > delays=100114/49/48/0.35, dsn=4.7.1, status=deferred (host > mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52] said: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: > cannot find your hostname, [] (in reply to RCPT TO c

RE: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-11 Thread Da Rock
> From: keram...@ceid.upatras.gr > To: rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server > Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:08:19 +0300 > > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:31:22 +, Da Rock > wrote: > > I know this may be OT, but I could