Re: Updating packages in Jails

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/02/2010 22:13, Gary Gatten wrote: > Hopefully this isn't considered a hijack, but what are the *main* diffs > between jails and vm's? I've never worked with jails but read about > them several times. Do they allow controlling of CPU cycles, Memory > regions, etc. in the same manner as the f

Re: Updating packages in Jails

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/02/2010 21:09, Adam Vande More wrote: > Anyways, host and jail need to run the exact same kernel. Normally I'll > build my kernel and install it into the base as well as each individual jail > so everything is consistent. It's not so much 'nee

Re: for vpn connection

2010-02-08 Thread Dánielisz László
hi, i'm going with pptp but still can't manage it to work, in case i'll then i'll let you know :-) On 2010.02.08., at 21:36, Yavuz Maşlak wrote: I use freebsd7.2 I have an iphone. I wish to establish a vpn connection between the iphone and my freebsd server as client to server. What sort of

Re: for vpn connection

2010-02-08 Thread Dánielisz László
hi, i also choose poptop and pptp but i'm still getting errors while connecting, would you be so kind to send me some configuration files? lászló On 2010.02.09., at 4:40, Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010, Yavuz Ma?lak wrote: I use freebsd7.2 I have an iphone. I wish to establish a vp

re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8

2010-02-08 Thread Tiv
Hi there --- I'm writing this to tell you how much FreeBSD has gone downhill since version 5.3... I don't know who's bright idea it was to remove the xorgcfg and the xorgconfig programs, but they should be beaten sensless with an IBM AT keyboard. Also if you REQUIRE that dbus and hald be ena

display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-08 Thread Gary Kline
Is there any app or web site where you can select from a bunch of math symbols and arrange them on-screen? I'm not talking about a program to solve; just display. And i think you can describe things in english like "sqrt(2)" in OOo, and have that sq root sign

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 8, 2010 12:53:22 PM -0600 Eric Petersen wrote: Hey guys, I have a web/ftp server loaded with FreeBSD. This was done a couple of years back. Since then the person or persons that did the original install have gone out of business and cannot be found. Currently I have an issue lo

Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question

2010-02-08 Thread Martin McCormick
I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found out my problem with getting sysinstall to use the hard drive rather than garbaging up mfs every time. The problem is not something you can set in the partition editor or disklabel editor. It is found in the very first menu which oddly

Re: for vpn connection

2010-02-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010, Yavuz Ma?lak wrote: > I use freebsd7.2 > > I have an iphone. I wish to establish a vpn connection between the iphone > and my freebsd server as client to server. > What sort of softwares shall I use for it ? I just went through this for Linux/iPhone last week. The easiest f

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-08 Thread J65nko
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Eric Petersen wrote: > Hey guys, > > I have a web/ftp server loaded with FreeBSD. This was done a couple of years > back. Since then the person or persons that did the original install have > gone out of business and cannot be found. > > Currently I have an issue lo

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
> I have a web/ftp server loaded with FreeBSD. This was done a couple > of years back. Since then the person or persons that did the original > install have gone out of business and cannot be found. Have you tried booting in single user mode? Olivier _

for vpn connection

2010-02-08 Thread Yavuz Maşlak
I use freebsd7.2 I have an iphone. I wish to establish a vpn connection between the iphone and my freebsd server as client to server. What sort of softwares shall I use for it ? Could you give me an example? any advances? Thanks ___ freebsd-questio

PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-08 Thread Eric Petersen
Hey guys, I have a web/ftp server loaded with FreeBSD. This was done a couple of years back. Since then the person or persons that did the original install have gone out of business and cannot be found. Currently I have an issue logging into the ftp. I hooked a monitor up to the server an

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread J65nko
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:46 AM, alex wrote: > I do suspect personally that the ext4 filesystem is the reason for the > difference here, since ext4 has a number of features such as deferred disk > writes etc. Even deleting a large file off that raid array I can see a > difference, prior to reform

Re: Cheating OS fingerprinting

2010-02-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 7, 2010, at 5:54 AM, yavuz wrote: > I want to cheat os fingerprinting tools ( primary nmap) in my freebsd > machine. Assume I am using freebsd 8 and I want to be seen as a windows xp > machine when someone scans my ports. I'll try not to second-guess this goal, but you should be aware that

Re: NTP Stratum

2010-02-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 8, 2010, at 6:16 AM, DAve wrote: > I am syncing with three server from N.us.pool.ntp.org. I have no fudge > configured. > > ]# ntpq -c peers > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset > jitter > ===

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Monday 08 February 2010 21:19:01 Mihai Donțu wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010 12:54:26 Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > > Even deleting a large file off that raid array I can > > > see a difference, prior to reformatting, i deleted a 190GB file off the > > > raid, under UFS the delete took quite so

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Monday 08 February 2010 14:09:48 Peter Steele wrote: > I've set up a system with gpart and have the swap partition first followed > by root, var, and so on. This works fine but I've seen documents that > always have root first, then swap. Is there any reason that root should be > the first pa

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: > ps: ZFS also has its own export stuff, but it is my understanding that >putting a line in /etc/exports is sufficient. I've never used ZFS, >so others will know more than I. > My understanding (from having used NFS and ZFS, haven't loo

Re: Need help troubleshooting NIC

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Galvez
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:24:39PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Mike Galvez wrote: > > > Over the weekend one my servers went down due to extended power failure. > > The file system reports clean, but something has gone sideways with > > networking. The server i

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread Rick Macklem
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: So I guess the above one is the more 'transparent' one with respect to the future, when NFSv4 gets mature and its way as matured into the kernel? Yea, I'd only use "mount -t newnfs" if for some reason you want to test/use the experimental client fo

Re: Need help troubleshooting NIC

2010-02-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Mike Galvez wrote: > Over the weekend one my servers went down due to extended power failure. > The file system reports clean, but something has gone sideways with > networking. The server is a Dell 2950 running 7.0 release, and it's been > working fine for well ov

Need help troubleshooting NIC

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Galvez
Over the weekend one my servers went down due to extended power failure. The file system reports clean, but something has gone sideways with networking. The server is a Dell 2950 running 7.0 release, and it's been working fine for well over a year. It uses the BCE driver. Ifconfig shows it to be up

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread Rick Macklem
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: Oh, and you should set: sysctl vfs.newnfs.locallocks_enable=0 in the server, since I haven't fixed the local locking yet. (This implies that apps/daemons running locally on the server won't see byte range locks performed by NFSv4 clients.) However, b

RE: Updating packages in Jails

2010-02-08 Thread Gary Gatten
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Adam Vande More Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 3:28 PM To: Jason Cc: Richard L. Houston; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating packages in Jails On Mon, Feb

afp+freebsd

2010-02-08 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi, Okay, I just met a wierd thing, I have a local fbsd server with afp running on it, it works great with user "A" but with user "B" i can not connect with Finder and gives me the error: "There are no shares available or you are not allowed to access them on the server" I checked the permis

Re: Problem building GCC - Postfix install from ports failed

2010-02-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Danny Edge wrote: > I was advised to try this again. New install FreeBSD 7.2 R, installing > Postfix from cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix && make install clean > > I receive the following error near the end of the install: > > checking whether -fkeep-inline-functions is

Problem building GCC - Postfix install from ports failed

2010-02-08 Thread Danny Edge
I was advised to try this again. New install FreeBSD 7.2 R, installing Postfix from cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix && make install clean I receive the following error near the end of the install: checking whether -fkeep-inline-functions is supported... yes updating cache ./config.cache creating ./con

Re: Updating packages in Jails

2010-02-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jason wrote: > Use this as a starting point >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html >> >> Anyways, host and jail need to run the exact same kernel. Normally I'll >> build my kernel and install it into the base as well as each individual >> jail >> so

Re: [WORKAROUND] Re: /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libjpeg.so.10, needed by /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)

2010-02-08 Thread Heino Tiedemann
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:13:08 +0100 > "O. Hartmann" wrote: > >> Since yesterday's portsnape and attempt updating my ports, ALL >> FreeBSD boxes (running FreeBSD 8.0/amd64) fail to update ports via >> 'portmaster -av' at the same point with the following error. >> >> It s

Re: Updating packages in Jails

2010-02-08 Thread Jason
Use this as a starting point http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html Anyways, host and jail need to run the exact same kernel. Normally I'll build my kernel and install it into the base as well as each individual jail so everything is consistent. Why do they need to run the exact same

Re: Updating packages in Jails

2010-02-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Richard L. Houston wrote: > Hi everyone, > > First off I am new to FreeBSD. I use Linux professorially and really > looking forward to getting some FreeBSD boxes in production as well. My > apologies if my questions are noobish and I have tried Googling for some of

Updating packages in Jails

2010-02-08 Thread Richard L. Houston
Hi everyone, First off I am new to FreeBSD. I use Linux professorially and really looking forward to getting some FreeBSD boxes in production as well. My apologies if my questions are noobish and I have tried Googling for some of them but with limited results so I figure I would ask for help f

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:12:25PM -0500, Derek Buttineau wrote: > > > On 2010-02-08, at 2:58 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > > Can you provide a URL for some discussion of this? I hadn't heard that > > > FreeBSD was moving to Clang. > > >

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:12:25PM -0500, Derek Buttineau wrote: > On 2010-02-08, at 2:58 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > Can you provide a URL for some discussion of this? I hadn't heard that > > FreeBSD was moving to Clang. > > > Here's last year's status report where they talk about it: > > h

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:11:26PM -0700, Ben Schumacher wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > Can you provide a URL for some discussion of this?  I hadn't heard that > > FreeBSD was moving to Clang. > > A quick search yielded these links: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Derek Buttineau
On 2010-02-08, at 2:58 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > Can you provide a URL for some discussion of this? I hadn't heard that > FreeBSD was moving to Clang. Here's last year's status report where they talk about it: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-May/049873.html It was also i

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Monday 08 February 2010 12:54:26 Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > Even deleting a large file off that raid array I can > > see a difference, prior to reformatting, i deleted a 190GB file off the > > raid, under UFS the delete took quite some time (well over 10 seconds), > > under ext4 the deletion of

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Ben Schumacher
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > Can you provide a URL for some discussion of this?  I hadn't heard that > FreeBSD was moving to Clang. A quick search yielded these links: http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2009051100335NWBD

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread b. f.
On 2/8/10, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:37:30PM -0500, b. f. wrote: > >> > You can even >> >leave gaps between partitions if you want, but that is pretty crazy >> >since it just wastes some of the available space. >> > >> >There have been quite a lot of recommendations on h

Re: portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread Dánielisz László
I resolve that problem, by the handbook I added 0 3 * * * root portsnap -I cron update && pkg_version -vIL= Now it works awesome! From: Warren Block To: b. f. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Dánielisz László Sent: Mon, February 8, 2010 9:03:39 PM Subjec

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:00:00PM +, Frank Shute wrote: > > AFAIK, the system compiler is going to be clang in the future and for > ports you'll install a compiler from ports. Can you provide a URL for some discussion of this? I hadn't heard that FreeBSD was moving to Clang. -- Chad Perri

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:37:30PM -0500, b. f. wrote: > > You can even > >leave gaps between partitions if you want, but that is pretty crazy > >since it just wastes some of the available space. > > > >There have been quite a lot of recommendations on how to lay out a disk > >for best performance

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:01:05AM +1100, alex wrote: > Frank Shute wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:41:29AM +1100, alex wrote: > > > >>I see a number of factors putting freebsd behind: > >> > >>* The teams stubbornness with compiler/base tools (wont move away from > >>gcc 4.2.1 because they

Re: portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, b. f. wrote: This can happen if the ports tree or index file is outdated. csup/portsnap, run pkgdb -Fu, and try it again. I think you meant 'portsdb -Fu'. The pkgtools often run 'pkgdb -u' and 'pkgdb -aF' automatically, and a full-blown 'pkgdb -F' or 'pkgdb -L' usually isn

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread b. f.
> You can even >leave gaps between partitions if you want, but that is pretty crazy >since it just wastes some of the available space. > >There have been quite a lot of recommendations on how to lay out a disk >for best performance, based on the observation that disk access times >vary depending on

Xorg question with Dell Inspiron 1764

2010-02-08 Thread doug
I would recommend against Dell without seriously investigating the hardware on the system you are interested in. I needed a system and in an emergency and did not want to wait for shipping (silly me). The system is an Inspiron 1764. If anyone has an xorg.conf file for this system, it would be

Re: Follow Up Question On Upgrading And Ports

2010-02-08 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 2/8/2010 12:30 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 08/02/2010 17:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> My ordinary practice with production FreeBSD machines is to: >> >> - Regularly (weekly), update the sources, rebuild and reinstall world >> and kernels. > > This implies you're running one of the -STABLE br

Re: portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread b. f.
>This can happen if the ports tree or index file is outdated. >csup/portsnap, run pkgdb -Fu, and try it again. I think you meant 'portsdb -Fu'. The pkgtools often run 'pkgdb -u' and 'pkgdb -aF' automatically, and a full-blown 'pkgdb -F' or 'pkgdb -L' usually isn't required unless there is an erro

Re: net/samba34: after upgrade from samba33 -> samba34 no client can connect to samba34-server anymore!

2010-02-08 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/08/10 16:03, jhell wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 06:43, ohartman@ wrote: After upgrading from samba33 to samba34 from most recent ports, no Windows_XP and Windows_7 client is capable of connecting to the samba server anymore! I use the same config as before, did a testparm (it shows this ah

Re: Follow Up Question On Upgrading And Ports

2010-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Daneliuk writes: > 3) If I do an in-place upgrade to 8.x (I'll probably wait until 8.1) >and immediately follow it with a 'portupgrade -arR', will I be >guaranteed that every port will be migrated to the very latest >8.x libs? You want 'portupgrade -af' instead. [You can add the

Re: Follow Up Question On Upgrading And Ports

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/02/2010 17:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > My ordinary practice with production FreeBSD machines is to: > > - Regularly (weekly), update the sources, rebuild and reinstall world > and kernels. This implies you're running one of the -STABLE branches, rather than -RELEASE: updates to -RELEASE hap

Follow Up Question On Upgrading And Ports

2010-02-08 Thread Tim Daneliuk
My ordinary practice with production FreeBSD machines is to: - Regularly (weekly), update the sources, rebuild and reinstall world and kernels. - Regularly (several times a week), do a 'portupgrade -arR' - Somewhat frequently do a 'pkgdb -F' IOW, I keep the OS, kernels, and ports fairly up-to

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/08/10 15:01, Rick Macklem wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: Mounting the filessystem via mount_newnfs host:/path /path works fine, but not mount -t nfs4 host:/path /path. The mount command can be either: mount -t nfs -o nfsv4 host:/path /path or mount -t newnfs -o nfs

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/08/10 15:08, Rick Macklem wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: Mounting the filessystem via mount_newnfs host:/path /path Oh, and you should set: sysctl vfs.newnfs.locallocks_enable=0 in the server, since I haven't fixed the local locking yet. (This implies that apps/da

Re: Can loader.conf give you NATD support?

2010-02-08 Thread John
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:39:14AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, John wrote: > > > The natd man page says it is still necessary to create a customer > > kernl with > > > > options IPFIREWALL > > options IPDIVERT > > > > Is that still true, or can it be accomplished vi a loader.c

Re: The first file loaded is?

2010-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:23:41AM -0500, Decker, Ross wrote: > I'm just starting my adventure into BSD along with C++. I know that > this OS gives you all the source files that are used in the OS. What I'm > asking, is what is the name of the first file that is loaded and where > is the source f

Re: Can loader.conf give you NATD support?

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/02/2010 15:39, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, John wrote: > >> The natd man page says it is still necessary to create a customer >> kernl with >> >> options IPFIREWALL >> options IPDIVERT >> >> Is that still true, or can it be accompl

Re: net/samba34: after upgrade from samba33 -> samba34 no client can connect to samba34-server anymore!

2010-02-08 Thread jhell
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 06:43, ohartman@ wrote: After upgrading from samba33 to samba34 from most recent ports, no Windows_XP and Windows_7 client is capable of connecting to the samba server anymore! I use the same config as before, did a testparm (it shows this ahaead: Load smb config files from

netflow vs pcap

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Tancsa
I am trying to deploy more visibility into parts of my network and started to look at netflow. However, I often find for some deployments, I need full pcap headers to see what had been going on. e.g. customer calls after the fact saying, "~ 36hrs ago, there was a 'problem'. Do you know what ha

Re: Can loader.conf give you NATD support?

2010-02-08 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, John wrote: The natd man page says it is still necessary to create a customer kernl with options IPFIREWALL options IPDIVERT Is that still true, or can it be accomplished vi a loader.conf? It's a kernel option, so you probably can't do it at runtime. Consider using pf in

Re: portupgrade, batch mode?

2010-02-08 Thread Neil Short
. > use the > the --batch switch or put BATCH="yes" in make.conf IIRC. > That particular make.conf is in /etc > > But IMHO, remembering to always give portupgrade the -C > switch is the > way to go. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, D?nielisz L?szl? wrote: do you have any idea why it is not upgrading: root# portversion -v|grep php php5-5.2.12 > succeeds port (port has 5.2.10) php5-pcre-5.2.12> succeeds port (port has 5.2.10) php5-session-5.2.12 > succeeds port (p

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread Rick Macklem
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: Mounting the filessystem via mount_newnfs host:/path /path works fine, but not mount -t nfs4 host:/path /path. The mount command can be either: mount -t nfs -o nfsv4 host:/path /path or mount -t newnfs -o nfsv4 host:/path /path (The above was what

Re: The first file loaded is?

2010-02-08 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/08/10 15:23, Decker, Ross wrote: I'm just starting my adventure into BSD along with C++. I know that this OS gives you all the source files that are used in the OS. What I'm asking, is what is the name of the first file that is loaded and where is the source file for it? I want to start wi

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread Rick Macklem
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: Mounting the filessystem via mount_newnfs host:/path /path Oh, and you should set: sysctl vfs.newnfs.locallocks_enable=0 in the server, since I haven't fixed the local locking yet. (This implies that apps/daemons running locally on the server

Re: Breaking the sendmail code / sendmail for dummies

2010-02-08 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, John wrote: ... So - I did all that you suggested, and it sure looks like it worked, but I still have a question. It did both the hostname.mc and the hostname.submit.mc files and .cf files, but I didn't do anything to the hostanme.submit.mc file. Am I still OK? Yes, editin

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:01:05AM +1100, alex wrote: > > Frank Shute wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:41:29AM +1100, alex wrote: > > > >>Hi Guys, > >> > >>Today I reformatted a machine (network server) thats run FreeBSD nonstop > >>for at least the last 3 years and installed linux on it. I

mozilla and thunderbird tray icons missing

2010-02-08 Thread Yuri
Those two icons went missing. When they are running windows and panel tabs show some generic X icons instead. Ho does xserver determine which icon to show for the particular app? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

The first file loaded is?

2010-02-08 Thread Decker, Ross
I'm just starting my adventure into BSD along with C++. I know that this OS gives you all the source files that are used in the OS. What I'm asking, is what is the name of the first file that is loaded and where is the source file for it? I want to start with the very first line of code and see if

VirtualBox crashes after system upgrade

2010-02-08 Thread Yuri
I updated the system, both kernel and ports. It's 8.0-STABLE. vbox ports were reinstalled after the kernel: virtualbox-ose-3.1.2_1 virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.1.2_1 Now my system crashes when I try to start the virtual machine. Anybody has the same problem? Yuri __

RE: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Steele
>The root partition should always be the 'a' partition, but it doesn't have to >be the first in physical order on the disk (ie. starting at cylinder 0). So >long as partitions don't overlap (with the >historical exception of the 'c' >partition, which should cover the whole drive) you can put th

RE: What is correct syntax in boot.config fo GPT partitions?

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Steele
>I've used the syntax > >1:ad(1,a)/boot/loader > >in boot.config to specify the boot device. This doesn't work with GPT >partitions. What's the correct syntax in boot.config for GPT partitions? I looked at the source code to boot.c and there doesn't seem to be anything specifically related to GP

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/02/2010 14:09, Peter Steele wrote: > I've set up a system with gpart and have the swap partition first > followed by root, var, and so on. This works fine but I've seen > documents that always have root first, then swap. Is there any reason > that root should be the first partition or can it

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:09:48AM -0600, Peter Steele wrote: > I've set up a system with gpart and have the swap partition first followed > by root, var, and so on. This works fine but I've seen documents that always > have root first, then swap. Is there any reason that root should be the > f

Re: NTP Stratum

2010-02-08 Thread DAve
Jon Radel wrote: > DAve wrote: >> Afternoon from Blizzard central in Indiana, >> >> I have three DNS servers across the state that I have installed and >> configured ntpd on. They seem to be working well except they are >> announcing themselves as Stratum 0 servers. >> >> As many times as I have re

Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Steele
I've set up a system with gpart and have the swap partition first followed by root, var, and so on. This works fine but I've seen documents that always have root first, then swap. Is there any reason that root should be the first partition or can it follow swap space? __

Re: Breaking the sendmail code / sendmail for dummies

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/02/2010 13:11, John wrote: > So - I did all that you suggested, and it sure looks like it worked, > but I still have a question. It did both the hostname.mc and the > hostname.submit.mc files and .cf files, but I didn't do anything > to the hos

Can loader.conf give you NATD support?

2010-02-08 Thread John
The natd man page says it is still necessary to create a customer kernl with options IPFIREWALL options IPDIVERT Is that still true, or can it be accomplished vi a loader.conf? Thanks! -- John Lind j...@starfire.mn.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Breaking the sendmail code / sendmail for dummies

2010-02-08 Thread John
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:28:20PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, John wrote: > > > A little background - elwood will be the mail hub. Any e-mail > > originating from within my local network should be re-written to > > eliminate the specific host name and only use the higher lev

net/samba34: after upgrade from samba33 -> samba34 no client can connect to samba34-server anymore!

2010-02-08 Thread O. Hartmann
After upgrading from samba33 to samba34 from most recent ports, no Windows_XP and Windows_7 client is capable of connecting to the samba server anymore! I use the same config as before, did a testparm (it shows this ahaead: Load smb config files from /usr/local/etc/smb.conf max_open_files: sysc

NDISulator bug on amd64

2010-02-08 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 1/16/10, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 1/11/10, Paul B Mahol wrote: >> On 1/11/10, Bob Johnson wrote: >>> On 1/9/10, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 12/16/09, Bob Johnson wrote: > I'm using an ExpressCard for wireless networking because there seems > to be no driver for the internal card in

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Monday 08 February 2010 05:46:07 alex wrote: > Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > The fact that the limit is 86MB/sec (which is very low for a raid0 array) > > makes me think the box suffers from sub optimal network performance > > during a simple stream test like yours. This could be due to FreeBSD > >

Re: portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread b. f.
László wrote: >Thank you everybody! >Actually I use cvsup, and it is up to date, but now I give a try with portsnap. It sounds like your index file or your portsdb are older than the rest of your ports tree. Try running 'portsdb -Fu'. b. ___ freebsd-qu

Booting from USB flash drive

2010-02-08 Thread Aiza
When I plug a USB stick into Freebsd 8.0 probe messages are displayed on the master console. One of the messages contain the rev level like 2.00/1.10. Is this info being retrieved from the USB stick? Is there a Freebsd command to show this information? Is there some way under ms/windows to di

NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I set up a NFSv4 server located on a FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 box (most recent world). It seems I successfully set up the NFSv4 service and this results in a successful mount of a file system by another FreeBSD 8.0 box. But their is a weirdnes I do not understand. Mounting the filessystem via

freebsd 8.0 on asus 1201 HA

2010-02-08 Thread Maurizio Boriani
Hi all, I've installed freebsd 8.0 on an asus EeePC 1201 HA. All works ok but xorg. This netbook use Poulsbo chipset and GMA 500 graphics. Someone has a working xorg.conf for this? Is there specific video driver on freebsd or should I use vesa? Using vesa someone knows specific monitor freq

Re: portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread Dánielisz László
Szia Zsolt! Thank you everybody! Actually I use cvsup, and it is up to date, but now I give a try with portsnap. László From: Artifex Maximus To: Dánielisz László Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, February 8, 2010 10:34:53 AM Subject: Re: portupg

Re: portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread Artifex Maximus
Szia László! 2010/2/8 Dánielisz László > hi, > > do you have any idea why it is not upgrading: > > root# portversion -v|grep php > php5-5.2.12 > succeeds port (port has 5.2.10) > php5-pcre-5.2.12> succeeds port (port has 5.2.10) > php5-session-5.2.12 > succ

Re: portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread Christer Solskogen
2010/2/8 Dánielisz László : > hi, > > do you have any idea why it is not upgrading: > > root# portversion -v|grep php > php5-5.2.12                 >  succeeds port (port has 5.2.10) > php5-pcre-5.2.12            >  succeeds port (port has 5.2.10) > php5-session-5.2.12         >  succeeds port (por

Re: [WORKAROUND] Re: /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libjpeg.so.10, needed by /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)

2010-02-08 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:49:11 +0100 Leslie Jensen wrote: [ .. ] > >> Make output: > >> > >> > >> /usr/bin/ld: warning: libjpeg.so.10, needed > >> by /usr/local/lib/libmng.so, not found (try using -rpath or > >> -rpath-link) > > > > portmaster graphics/libmng > > portmaster x11/kdelibs3 > > por

portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread Dánielisz László
hi, do you have any idea why it is not upgrading: root# portversion -v|grep php php5-5.2.12 > succeeds port (port has 5.2.10) php5-pcre-5.2.12> succeeds port (port has 5.2.10) php5-session-5.2.12 > succeeds port (port has 5.2.10) php5-simplexml-5.2.12

Re: [WORKAROUND] Re: /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libjpeg.so.10, needed by /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)

2010-02-08 Thread Leslie Jensen
2010-02-08 08:55, Ion-Mihai Tetcu skrev: On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:44:53 +0100 Leslie Jensen wrote: 2010-02-07 15:37, Ion-Mihai Tetcu skrev: On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:36:55 +0100 Leslie Jensen wrote: [ .. ] For the moment the workaround, when you get to this, is to: mv /usr/local/lib/li