Re: wvstreaams + wvdial on FreeBSD 8.1 AMD 64

2010-08-30 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear FreeBSD users, > > I have run out of ideas to troubleshoot a difficult task: > > get wvstreams and wvdial to work on FreeBSD 8.1. > > Why don't you just use the native ppp in FreeBSD? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,K

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-08-30 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time? > > I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from... > > > > Will p

Can I know how many bytes were allocated by malloc in my process?

2010-08-30 Thread Yuri
google-perftools malloc library has such feature. But does FreeBSD system allocator have it? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questi

Re: Can I know how many bytes were allocated by malloc in my process?

2010-08-30 Thread Ivan Voras
On 08/30/10 11:59, Yuri wrote: google-perftools malloc library has such feature. But does FreeBSD system allocator have it? Maybe getrusage(2) can help you, though it also counts non-malloc() allocations. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: IBM server SAS controller support?

2010-08-30 Thread Ivan Voras
On 08/27/10 16:23, Baldur Gislason wrote: I have an IBM 7945 server with an LSI Logic ServeRAID (MegaRAID) M1015 controller and I'm wondering if there's any way to install FreeBSD on this box? So you have tried and failed? There are lists of devices here: http://man.freebsd.org/mfi http://ma

Re: killall -9 program-name does not work

2010-08-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:14:58 + Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear fellow FreeBSD users, > > I have a cron script that plays music in the morning when I arrive at > work. > > in ~/.xalarm I have two lines, one that calls xterm and one that calls > mplayer and plays a series of music files in a p

Re: wvstreaams + wvdial on FreeBSD 8.1 AMD 64

2010-08-30 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Antonio Olivares > wrote: >> >> Dear FreeBSD users, >> >> I have run out of ideas to troubleshoot a difficult task: >> >> get wvstreams and wvdial to work on FreeBSD 8.1. >> > > Why don't you just u

Re: wvstreaams + wvdial on FreeBSD 8.1 AMD 64

2010-08-30 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Antonio Olivares > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Odhiambo Washington >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Antonio Olivares >> > >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Dear Fr

Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

2010-08-30 Thread Leslie Jensen
Hello After upgrading to xorg-7.5 on 8.1-RELEASE I've got a problem with X not reading my /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi --- type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp< /merge> logiitc se ---

How to make ushare support ape format music file

2010-08-30 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! I'd like to build a upnp server with ushare in my FreeBSD box. Also, my multimedia player can play the ape format music file, how to make ushare support the ape format file,? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Add a SSL certificate authority

2010-08-30 Thread Bastien Semene
Hello, I'm trying to add a certificate authority unsuccessfully. The Equifax certificates authority seems not to be registered in FreeBSD, so I tried to add it on my server. I'm logged in root and in its homedir. #uname -a FreeBSD svn.cyanide-studio.com 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Fri

What made my FreeBSD server freeze?

2010-08-30 Thread peter
When I awoke this morning my FreeBSD box was frozen -- completely unresponsive at the console -- and displayed these messages on the console: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -resetting ata0: resetting devices ad0: removed from configuration done Aug 30 03:09:25 ab

Re: What made my FreeBSD server freeze?

2010-08-30 Thread Ivan Voras
On 08/30/10 13:24, pe...@vfemail.net wrote: When I awoke this morning my FreeBSD box was frozen -- completely unresponsive at the console -- and displayed these messages on the console: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -resetting ata0: resetting devices ad0: removed fro

Re: Dell Latitude E6400 and Touchpad

2010-08-30 Thread Mike Barnard
anyone on this... Synpatics Touchpad on FreeBSD 64-bit? On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Mike Barnard wrote: > Hi, > > I have a dell as mentioned in the subject. I have been trying to get the > touchpad horizontal scroll and vertical scroll to work with no avail. > > I have hw.psm.synaptics_su

Re: Add a SSL certificate authority

2010-08-30 Thread Eric Masson
Bastien Semene writes: Hi, > I'm trying to add a certificate authority unsuccessfully. > The Equifax certificates authority seems not to be registered in > FreeBSD, so I tried to add it on my server. You can use the security/ca_root_nss port to retrieve the Mozilla Project root CA list and then

jail devfs.rules not loaded at boot

2010-08-30 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, I have a 8.0-RELEASE, i386 box with 2 jails. Here is my rc.conf: jail_enable="YES" # Set to NO to disable starting of any jails jail_list="dns www" # Space separated list of names of jails jail_dns_rootdir="/jails/dns" # jail's root directory jail_dns_hostname="dns" # jail's hostna

Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP

2010-08-30 Thread krad
On 30 August 2010 06:00, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:39 AM, krad wrote: > >> >> SFTP is better than scp if you just want to transfer files, as the users >> dont have to have shell access to the box to use the openssh SFTP system. >> As >> mentioned above dont confuse sftp

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-30 Thread krad
On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten > wrote: > > Rename them, copy, then rename them back? > > Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, > transfer the archive, untar it; rename afterwards if needed. :-) > > > >

Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP

2010-08-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:30 PM, krad wrote: > > sounds like a bodge to me > Sounds like FUD to me. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-30 Thread krad
On 27 August 2010 19:15, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:54:52AM -0700, Jason wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Gary Kline thus spake: > > >On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: > > >>On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400 > > >>Glen Barber

reboot options

2010-08-30 Thread Chip Camden
Is there a way to specify which boot option to choose on the next reboot? I often find that I'll start a reboot and then get distracted by something else and miss my chance to specify which way to boot before the beastie screen times out. A nit, I know -- but bothersome to a nitwit such as I. --

Re: reboot options

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:43:33AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Is there a way to specify which boot option to choose on the next reboot? > I often find that I'll start a reboot and then get distracted by > something else and miss my chance to specify which way to boot before the > beastie screen ti

System mail

2010-08-30 Thread Rem P Roberti
At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

2010-08-30 Thread Bernt Hansson
Put this in your .xinitrc setxkbmap se 2010-08-30 15:06, Leslie Jensen skrev: Hello After upgrading to xorg-7.5 on 8.1-RELEASE I've got a problem with X not reading my /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi --- terminate:ctrl_alt_bks

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad wrote: > On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten >> wrote: >> > Rename them, copy, then rename them back? >> >> Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, >> transfer the archive, unt

Re: reboot options

2010-08-30 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Daniel Bye on Monday, 30 August 2010: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:43:33AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > Is there a way to specify which boot option to choose on the next reboot? > > I often find that I'll start a reboot and then get distracted by > > something else and miss my chance to spec

Re: System mail

2010-08-30 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:59:46 -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: > At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/, which > is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail > delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? No. Per definition, a mail client (

Firebird 2.1.3

2010-08-30 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, does anyone successfully compiled Firebird 2.1.3+ on FreeBsd 7.2 or superior?. I'm on 8.1 amd64 and can't compile it. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

DHCP server and bridge, mixed w/ some static IP assignments

2010-08-30 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm trying to add some sort of DHCP server functionality to my router box running FreeBSD 7.1. First, let me explain the current network. This is how my rc.conf is currently configured, and everything is running smoothly: gateway_enable="YES" hostname="speedy.i" ifconfig_fxp2="DHCP" # Connecting

Re: Dell Latitude E6400 and Touchpad

2010-08-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:59:55PM +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: > > anyone on this... Synpatics Touchpad on FreeBSD 64-bit? > Mike, since you haven't received a reply from this list, your best bet is probably to post to the freebsd-mobile list. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shut

Re: Firebird 2.1.3

2010-08-30 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
This is my procedure to compile it: export CFLAGS="-DAMD64" ./configure --without-editline gmake ... and after a while I get this: ... /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libsupc++.a(tinfo2.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/libsupc++.a: cou

Re: Dell Latitude E6400 and Touchpad

2010-08-30 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Frank Shute on Monday, 30 August 2010: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:59:55PM +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: > > > > anyone on this... Synpatics Touchpad on FreeBSD 64-bit? > > > > Mike, since you haven't received a reply from this list, your best bet > is probably to post to the freebsd-mobile l

nopassword ssh/scp going from freebsd to ubuntu linux?

2010-08-30 Thread Gary Kline
can anybody point me to the web directions of howto automate the % ssh -i /home/kline/.ssh/Zeropasswd-id zen so i can get around with fewer keystrokes? and automate some backup stuff? tia, guys. -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a rel

Sorrrrry!

2010-08-30 Thread Gary Kline
i got it. i got confused by known_keys and authorized_keys yes it is tim e for french roast:_) *sigh* -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http:/

Error message with "portsnap"

2010-08-30 Thread Jerry
Portsnap, which had always worked flawlessly on my FreeBSD-8.1 / amd64 machine, had suddenly started spewing out this error message(s): == Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from port

howto un-chmod 755 /usr/local?

2010-08-30 Thread Steve Franks
Would you believe me if I said a script I use daily went awry? Is there a list of the proper permission modes for things in /usr/local to get a working system back, aside of starting over? Is there a better way? I've already tried and "upgrade" from the 8.1 cd, which doesn't seem to have affecte

Re: howto un-chmod 755 /usr/local?

2010-08-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Steve" == Steve Franks writes: Steve> Is there a list of the proper permission modes for things in Steve> /usr/local to get a working system back, aside of starting over? I think you can use mtree(8) to repair your system, with the masters in /etc/mtree/*. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stoneh

Re: fetchmail ssl certificate verification problem in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-08-30 Thread Carl Johnson
Dan Strick writes: > I just installed FreeBSD release 8.1 and rebuilt the fetchmail port. > Now I get messages like these when I run fetchmail: > --- snip --- > > I can get rid of the message by removing the ssl option from the user > line but then fetchmail would not even try to use ssl. Why wo

Re: Error message with "portsnap"

2010-08-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/08/2010 24:23:52, Jerry wrote: > Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap6.FreeBSD.org... done. > Fetching snapshot metadata... fetch: > http://portsnap6.FreeBSD.org/t/1ad44e525a0145a9daea915d8a8827be69a292caf91f9e22aac825eed3be2e41: > No address record Looks like a transient problem with the D