Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! Bit of an oversight that I suspect Fixed in r216651 :) IIRC ';' isn't a

Re: A jail with a dash in its name

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Rees
There's no problem of having a dash in a hostname, so why should it be in a jailname? You tried single quotes? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:51 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:26:43 -0700 Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: gdbm the core.dump and see if that helps (you may need to enable symbols in Thanks for the information, but I'm not sure what you mean by

Re: LG Vortex (VS660)

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Well thats new :) I've been playing with a HTC Android, disk access is fine, but trying to get the tethering working. Whats usbconfig say? And is it every time you plug in, or does it come good

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: I'm not sure what else to try. Any suggestions? gdbm the core.dump and see if that helps (you may need to enable symbols in your kernel as well as in the port in question to get a core.dump w/ enough info to be of use). You

Re: freebsd bootloader / boot0cfg and multiple disks?

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Henrik Hudson li...@rhavenn.net wrote: I'm trying to get the FreeBSD boot loader to to boot off multiple disks, but I can't seem to get it to see my 3rd disk. FreeBSD 8.2-PRE amd64; stock kernel with sound card, ahci and PF added disk layout: ada0: freebsd

Re: SEBSD is dead?

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:11 PM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: I've seen various HOWTOs about how to craft new rules to permit things like this, but many of them seemed to be out of date or referred to tools that don't ship with RedHat. Documentation is thin and the rule syntax is so

LG Vortex (VS660)

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
I have an LG Vortex (android2.2) phone, I'm pretty sure it's a VS660 and when I plug it into my fbsd8.1 laptop I get this Dec 20 19:31:36 blackdragon kernel: ugen1.3: LG Electronics Inc. at usbus1 Dec 20 19:31:36 blackdragon kernel: umass0: LG Electronics Inc. LG Vortex USB Device, class 0/0, rev

devel/py-dbus

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
I've been trying to do a portupgrade -a for the last month and I have been running into snags of all sorts. This one is with python The system is FreeBSD7.3/i386 (PIII/800Mhz, 384MB of ram) FreeBSD ziggy.xaerolimit.net 7.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p3 #8: Sun Oct 24 01:53:03 EDT 2010

Re: Website Feedback

2010-12-19 Thread Chris Rees
, Matt Hi Matt, There's already a 'chat room' set up, but there are a few different ones, listed here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/support.html#IRC Hope that helps, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Spam with fake address from the list?

2010-12-16 Thread Chris Brennan
If you search the list for the last 2 weeks you will see some extensive posting about it. Use my name and Ian as reference points in your search. There are a few clues there to help you squash this issue. (Sorry for the top-post). -- Sent from my Droid On Dec 16, 2010 6:40 AM, Michelle Konzack

Re: pass for single user mode

2010-12-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 11 December 2010 16:55, K. Yura yy.gu...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/11 Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com Have a look at /etc/ttys. Chris Thank you very much No problem. Don't forget that although you've now made it non-trivial to break into your computer with console access, it's still easy

Re: xpbargains.net spam [was: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)']

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Brennan
+11:00). Current time there: 2:35 AM. toChris Brennan x...@xx.xx ccFreeBSD-Questions xx...@xx.xx, Mark x...@xx.xx dateMon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:30 AM subjectRe: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' The above header just arrived as I was typing this so I thought

Re: xpbargains.net spam [was: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)']

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:41:48 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Does GMail provide access to the full headers? Click the down arrow and select Show original. -- Bruce Cran Awesome! Thanks Bruce. Now I

Re: Postfix and Gmail

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.comwrote: Anybody hooked their Postfix servers up with Gmail to use it as a client? I'm tired of all this using mutt on several boxes, setting up virtual MySQL accounts and domains with crap webapps. Figured I'd just use Gmail

Re: pass for single user mode

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Rees
Have a look at /etc/ttys. Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 11 Dec 2010 16:34, K. Yura yy.gu...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD .dlink 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-12-10 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/10/10, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Umm... what's the dea w/ this? More spam? Not my spam. If you still think that I actually really send this to you I can not help you. Well no Paul, I wasn't

Re: libphp5.so

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Ivan Frosty ivanfro...@gmail.com wrote: yeah well ports cant download. i dont have internet, usually i download packages from a cyber then just do pkg_add when i get home. so really make doesnt work for me. however i installed php5,mysql and apache from a cd.

Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Weihang Wang weih...@vt.edu wrote: Hi, I do not configure a DHCP server. When my FreeBSD 6.0 is booting, there are several DHCPDISCOVERY messages, finally it shows no DHCPOFFER received. Do I need to configure a DHCP server myself? If I need a DHCP server?

Re: autoconf and automake

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 12/9/2010 12:54 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote: pkgdb -L pkgdb -Fa -o replace the installed port with a port from a different origin (From 'portmaster') -o, --origin=ORIGIN Specify a port to upgrade the

Re: mountroot prompt in the middle of updating - can't get past it

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: That worked... I think I'll try the update process again. Anything else you can recommend? Thanks, Did you read /usr/src/UPDATING ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: more dns weirdness

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote: still debugging dns issues that are no doubt to do with wider issues: someone here might know who to tell? #whois amazon.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered

Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Weihang Wang weih...@vt.edu wrote: Clipped for brevity. https://help.*ubuntu*.com/community/VirtualBox/Networking https://wiki.*ubuntu*.com/VirtualBox

Re: more dns weirdness

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote: the wider issue is that freebsd whois will use tld.whois-servers.netcnames to resolve appropriate whois servers and that whois-servers.net has nameservers from one sole provider (ultradns), which is still having problems.

Re: What is loading my server so much?

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Laszlo Nagy gand...@shopzeus.com wrote: I do not understand. Doc says these: max_connections cost ~ 400 bytes of shared memory slot, plus lock space (see max_locks_per_transaction). Even if I had max_connections = 5000, total shared memory required would be

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, Your email was unable reach the intended person that you were sending it to. For more information on our business please click on the following link: Click here for our website http://www.xpbargains.net

Re: usb devices

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Justin V. v...@yeaguy.com wrote: On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Chris Brennan wrote: Does usbconf show that it was indeed registered? The kernel may see it and fail to pass it to the USB subsystem for what ever reason. -- Sent from my Droid On Dec 7, 2010 8:26 PM

Re: libphp5.so

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Ivan Frosty ivanfro...@gmail.com wrote: isnt it possible for some one to get me their libphp5.so so i can download ? i installed php and all the dependancies but i used pkg_add because i dont have internet apparently. so i cant do make, make install. so is it

Re: RecursiveDependencyError

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick li...@webtent.netwrote: Stuck on this problem. It is not happening for all ports, but for several pear ports. I tried a 'pkgdb -fF' and it reported no errors, what else can I do to find the cause of this when trying to install the pear-Mail

Re: FTPD not working properly on jail

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:49 PM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: WHy not try sftp? Probably more secure and a dam site easier to setup. I second this. SFTP is a ton easier, it's setup by default to work when SSH is setup/installed on any system. ___

Re: Terrible Clock Skew

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Dave Cundiff syshack...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, bad button battery maybe? when the system is under load, it's diverting what ever processor time to correct for the skew elsewhere (guessing). If it is a bad battery, setup NTP to reset your system clock more

Re: Jarupon has sent you a private message

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Jarupon Mahiphot jaru...@quepasa.comwrote: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: FTPD not working properly on jail

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Joseph Bashe joseph.ba...@gmail.com wrote: But he mentioned he needs some sort of 'virtual' (I'm assuming chroot) feature; this is not possible with sftp afaik. With some clever mapping of $HOME into the chroot, why wouldn't that be possible?

Re: dhclient doesn't work over wireless

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Michael mlmichae...@gmail.com wrote: Again, other systems doesn't seem to have any trouble with getting IP from this DHCP server and wired interface (em0) works fine too. Any ideas please? A question first, is this a VirtualBox VM? If so, you'll need to

Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Weihang Wang weih...@vt.edu wrote: Hi, Could someone tell me how to enable Bridge mode? I just change the network settings of my virtual machine, change it to bridged mode. I also select the eth0, which is the physical interface of my system. Then in my

Re: devel/gobject-introspection throws up because of python

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
Sadly this didn't work for me. I for the same error. -- Sent from my Droid On Dec 7, 2010 10:28 AM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net writes: While trying to compile audio/tagtool on a FreeBSD7.3 (x86) machine devel/gobject

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-07 Thread Chris Hill
downright impenetrable to someone who has never seen it before. With ee, a newb has a fighting chance. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: usb devices

2010-12-07 Thread Chris Brennan
Does usbconf show that it was indeed registered? The kernel may see it and fail to pass it to the USB subsystem for what ever reason. -- Sent from my Droid On Dec 7, 2010 8:26 PM, justin v v...@yeaguy.com wrote: Aloha world.. For whatever reason, today, when i plugin my USB devices they are

Re: Need to compile kernel for 2 or more processors?

2010-12-05 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mxwrote: Hello all. I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I am sorry in advance. I am doing my guideline of the activities I need to do to change an old 2 processors INtel 386 machine with 1GB of ram and 30GB of

Re: -- Could NOT find XMMS: the nowplaying dataengine will NOT support XMMS 1.x

2010-12-05 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Steven Friedrich free...@insightbb.comwrote: Build of kdebase4-workspace claims: -- Could NOT find XMMS: the nowplaying dataengine will NOT support XMMS 1.x I have the xmms port installed and I rebuilt kdelibs. Why won't it see it? xmms or xmms2? IIRC,

Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Brennan
, you do me a great favor!! Hope this also works for Chris! Best, W.W. Good, glad it works for you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Support for hard drives 2 TB?

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: Can FreeBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard drive 2 TB? Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the

Re: bash command line - can not type c char (not echoed)

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Rees
Glad you solved it. Are you aware that packages and ports are identical once installed? Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 3 Dec 2010 11:35, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, this happens both in console and gnome xterm

devel/gobject-introspection throws up because of python

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Brennan
While trying to compile audio/tagtool on a FreeBSD7.3 (x86) machine devel/gobject-introspection decides to throw up and I got this: (the install was via portmaster -d) checking for /usr/local/bin/python2.6 version... 2.6 checking for /usr/local/bin/python2.6 platform... freebsd7 checking for

Re: Got an error: Unknown option DDB_CTF

2010-12-02 Thread Chris Brennan
Hi Chris, Thanks for your kind help. Now I am running FreeBSD on Virtualbox as a guest OS on Ubuntu. But I got some other problems. I have searched on the Internet but could not find a solution work for me. Now the guest OS does have network access. When using ifconfig, the virtual

Re: Got an error: Unknown option DDB_CTF

2010-12-02 Thread Chris Brennan
Hi, I will try and see whether the same method works for me. If it could not get network access. I am afraid I could not use virtual machine and might go back to run FreeBSD on real hardware. Thank you very much, Best, W.W. Weihang, The whole point of the VM right now is to try and

Re: Got an error: Unknown option DDB_CTF

2010-12-02 Thread Chris Brennan
Hi Chris, I use FreeBSD version 8.1, the host OS is Ubuntu 10.10. The host OS could connect to the Internet correctly. This host uses a private IP address. Yes, I allowed the VM software to install the bridge adapter now, when booting there are some msgs no DHCP offers received. Actually I

USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Chris Brennan
I have a need to use a thumb drive on my FBSD8.1/amd64 laptop and when I plugged it in before leaving to make sure I could mount it, I discovered I couldn't. /var/log/messages produced this: Dec 1 11:38:22 blackdragon root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x0324 product 0xbc06 bus uhub1 Dec 1

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Chris Brennan
Thanks all for the feedback, problem solved, details below. Bruce - /dev/ad0s1 did the trick ... I was in such a hurry, I forgot to actually look further, I was in a hurry and got impatient :P. file -s /dev/DEVICE is a nice little trick, gonna have to tuck this one away for another rainy day when

Re: Broken port?

2010-11-29 Thread Chris Brennan
On 11/29/10 19:34, Modulok wrote: List, I tried to install django with sqlite support from ports and got the error shown below. What do I do to fix this? Do I email a port maintainer or something? I used portsnap to update my ports collection before trying the install. I'm on 8.1-RELEASE

Re: next question....

2010-11-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 27 November 2010 17:12, Paul Cartwright p...@pcartwright.com wrote: On 11/27/2010 12:06 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: You need to add yourself to the 'wheel' group to su or you need to add the proper line to /usr/local/etc/sudoers to sudo correctly. no sudoers on my system: $ cd /usr/local/etc

Re: firefox fails to launch

2010-11-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:50 PM, bluethundr bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: hi list I finally got KDE 4 running on my FreeBSD 8.1 box! It was a happy day as it took several days to compile... However after installing the firefox port I get a dialog box claiming that firefox is already

Re: next question....

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: $ su su: Sorry $ sudo sudo: not found $ uname -a FreeBSD FBSD.67MK181QZ 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 14 22:55:09 BST 2010 r...@fbsd.67mk181qz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PPSGENERIC i386 $ $ You need to add

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
Hi. As I now have ssh working, I can indeed have multiple logins running in indipendant windows on another box. (because I have it) I'm using PuTTY on Win2k. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/ It appears to work well.

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: On 27 Nov 2010 at 11:22, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: /usr/ports/sysutils/screen/ Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it

Software Update

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is weather this pulls updates from packages or ports. P.s. I think I asked this before but it got lost in some other hubbub. So appologies if I did ask already. ___

Re: Software Update

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Steven Susbauer ste...@too1337.com wrote: On 11/27/2010 07:01 PM, RW wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:36:09 -0500 Chris Brennanxa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is weather this pulls updates from

Re: Digital camera (Canon)

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Hill
'da*s*' mode 0660 group usb # # 20091231: added the following for 8.0, since usb is handled # differently now. Hoping this will make gtkam work. add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group usb HTH... -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-26 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Yes, I found that, good info. I'm relying on the freebsd.org site man pages and documentation among others, as I'm finding it too inconvenient (bad short term memory) using the man pages on the system. At least I can have

Re: Mirror Site Requirements.

2010-11-25 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Walter Gonzalez Flores wgonza...@gtdinternet.com wrote: Hello everyone!. I work for an ISP and we would like to be mirror site for downloads. What are the requirements for this?. You might consider looking at the handbook, specifically

Re: Got an error: Unknown option DDB_CTF

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Weihang Wang weih...@vt.edu wrote: Hi, Thanks for your reply. Yes, now I still got problems. I have checked the release notes of versions later than 6.0, almost every version has not so few changes in their network protocols kernel. For example, some

Re: libm alternative in ports

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, does anybody if there's an alternative for libm in the ports dir? i need it, because the newest snapshots of mplayer require log2() and log2f(), which the base libm doesn't support. cheers. alex This

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Julian Fagir g...@physik.tu-berlin.dewrote: Hi, I just looked into a batt for my daughters dell, her li-on lasted 14 months, now on full charge it only lasts 40 mins... Terrible. If you can get 2 years out of a batt ur lucky. I read some tech docs on

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Ditto, pretty much mirrors what I read. I forget the site, perhaps Panasonic? It was a cell manufacturer and published all sorts of data on different chemistry cells. Good info for my EV project too! And yes, many

Re: materials

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com wrote: The New Jersey Institute of Technology offer an online open source unix certification series of classes. International students are eligible to participate in the program and can be candidates for certification.

Re: Got an error: Unknown option DDB_CTF

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Weihang Wang weih...@vt.edu wrote: Hi, Thanks again. The transport protocol is not implemented by me, but I need to run this protocol to see the behavior of this protocol. So now I have no idea about the implementation of the transport protocol and don't know

Re: adding/updationg a Port

2010-11-20 Thread Chris Rees
to do to get this port added? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=148777 I've posted a followup to the bug report. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: openssl version - how to verify

2010-11-20 Thread Chris Rees
'obvious' flaws in his method. Again, link? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: openssl version - how to verify

2010-11-20 Thread Chris Rees
On 20 November 2010 17:34, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:56:05 + Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com articulated: While I agree with your point in this context, the statement The number of _UNDISCOVERED_ bugs, on the other hand, is an infinite one

Re: Thanks.

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:25:31 +0330, Mohsen Mostafa Jokar mohsenjo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Didn't Mohsen Mostafar Jokar post this same question last week? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Escaping from shell-scripts

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Julian Fagir g...@physik.tu-berlin.dewrote: Hi, I'm planning a service with a login-user-interface. Thus, I want to restrict the user somehow to this script and to do nothing else. The straight-forward way would be to write this script, have all input

Re: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 in both standard-supfile and stable-supfile

2010-11-16 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:09 PM, pigskinwhite...@icqmail.com wrote: I was wondering why both the stable standard supfiles on FreeBSD-8.1 / amd64 both have the exact release tag: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 Shouldn't they be different? What would be the correct tab for each supfile

Re: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 in both standard-supfile and stable-supfile

2010-11-16 Thread Chris Rees
that tag in standard-supfile. If you get what I mean... I'm supposed to be a teacher too! Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Does MAC version of iTunes work on FreeBSD?

2010-11-16 Thread Chris Rees
]. Chris [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Nomenclature ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: IPFW at startup.

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Rees
It's not a great idea to hack the rc.d scripts, they can be clobbered when updating. Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 15 Nov 2010 08:45, Wojciech Puchar woj...@tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: simply edit /etc/rc.d/ipfw and make

Re: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Rees
' that in the first place? Can you provide a link, I don't recall seeing anyone say that ZFS is a toy. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Rees
a homework question. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 November 2010 19:59, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: He's consistent in any case (a quick google search reveals this 2008 message): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg192926.html Consistent, but still just spouting uninformed FUD. Chris

Re: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Rees
back to using technology from 20 years ago, because keeping up with anything current scares him, and he can't be bothered to research anything properly, instead making sweeping statements about things he knows little about. Chris ___ freebsd-questions

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:17 PM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Chris Brennan wrote: ... My Hiccup as the subject suggests is about my Wireless Card. I have been following the handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/config-network-setup.html) on how to use 64-bit Windows

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:02 AM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: On 11/16/10, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: ... ttp://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/144724 The above should be http://... , of course. b. I've seen him elsewhere on the list so I will shoot him an

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: On Nov 13, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Did you

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:08:02 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: It's part of my signature it's not like I am spamming *just* my sig to the list. Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:06:55AM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: What would you have me do -- beat a live horse? I'm not inclined to subject

Fwd: Fw: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Date: Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:05 AM Subject: Fw: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? To: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net Has anyone gotten repeated forwards from the above user or is it just me? -- Did you know

glibc-2.4

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
I've got a freebsd7.3 box running on an old VAIO PIII. For the most part Ziggy chugs along quite well as my backup internal webserver and dns slave. uname -a - FreeBSD ziggy.xaerolimit.net 7.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p3 #8: Sun Oct 24 01:53:03 EDT 2010

Re: ssh authentication error

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org That's the permissions of my authorized_keys, I believe that's 0600, some systems require a much more restrictive 0400 octal. -rwxr--r-- 1 chris chris 622B Jun 28 21:36

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:38:10PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: You would have starved before now if other people had your attitude. Not at all. It does indeed involve indulging others to do what you described.

Re: glibc-2.4

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.comwrote: Chris Brennan wrote: I've got a freebsd7.3 box running on an old VAIO PIII. For the most part Ziggy chugs along quite well as my backup internal webserver and dns slave. uname -a - FreeBSD

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.netwrote: On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote: Must we continue to beat this already dead horse? Apparently the answer is yes, when we're not beating the equally dead horse of the CLI vs GUI debate

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Let's start a thread listing dead horses to beat: M$ vs Novell Unix vs Linux Mainframe vs PC DAS vs SAN Top-posting vs Bottom posting Blah blah blah vs Yada yada yada How ironic, I was just having this debate w/ a

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 06:44:01PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: I think it's safe to say that either a) Mr. Silveira has unsubscribed from the list or b) learned to keep his mouth shut and scampered off into the dark

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 11/10/10 13:24, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello out there, [...] I think that the general opinion is that Gentoo has the closest thing to that

UFS Snapshots and iowait

2010-11-10 Thread Chris St Denis
I have started using mount -u -o snapshot as part of my backup process in order to have a week worth of local differential backups to allow quick and easy recovery of lost/overwritten/etc files. The snapshot of the partition (~250G and 2.3 million inodes used. ~10GB of data change per day)

Re: CPU testing software?

2010-11-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Richard Morse remo...@partners.org wrote: Hi! I've been having problems with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE crashing. This morning, it had hung -- it wasn't responding to any input, but there was no error message on screen. I ran MemTest86+ (which worked; MemTest86

Re: [2nd try] OpenGL 3.3 and 4.0/4.1 for FreeBSD?

2010-11-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:38 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:34 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Sorry to repeat my question: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail

Re: Anybody know apt-get ?

2010-11-07 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.comwrote: I need to get sources for the Linux version of certain programs that reside in a package called bsdutils. I have built and installed the apt-get program and now I'm just trying to use it, and things are going

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-11-07 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: It is faster/easier to fix NDISulator than to port ndiswrapper to FreeBSD. No doubt it would be faster and easier to fix NDISulator then to port ndiswrapper. This at least answers my question as to weather ndiswrapper

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-11-07 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/7/10, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: It is faster/easier to fix NDISulator than to port ndiswrapper to FreeBSD

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