Re: game advice

Momchil Ivanov wrote: > On Friday 06 July 2007 11:49:51 Peter Boosten wrote: >> Momchil Ivanov wrote: >>> You can try the mame emulator (it is in ports). There were a lot of games >>> for 8 bit consoles when I was about 8 years old :) and believe me, they >>>

Re: Adding a new command

Lisa Casey wrote: > Hi, > > Once I get this new system going I promise I'll quit pestering you folks > :-) > > Got another question. This should be simple to answer. I've done this > before but can't seem to replicate it this morning. I have a few scripts > my employees use to do things such as

Re: severely OT; re PUTTY [ssh]

Gary Kline wrote: > I was able to find, ldown load and instal the DOS/Windows ssh > utility, but am having trouble scp'ing stuff between my BSD side > and my W2K server. Anybody know what file I have to modify to > get permission on the windows computer? Gary, Search fo

Re: password failure- after mergmaster

David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:06:01PM -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: >> OOOPSS- >> >> I got mergemaster to run- but now that the system restarted the root password >> and my password are invalid- >> >> I can ONLY start in single user mode- > > You let mergemaster clobber the pa

Re: password failure- after mergmaster

David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:29:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: >>> Having read this I must admit that it's a complete mystery to me why >>> mergemaster would touch your password file at all... &

Re: Turn off server when shutdown

Ivan Carey wrote: > Hello, > I am using FreeBSD 6.2 Release > When I run shutdown on my server it stays on and says: > "The operating system has halted" > "Please press any key to reboot" > > Is it possible to have the server turn off? > shutdown -p now (-p = power down. Your BIOS must suppor

Re: FreeBSD-6.1 bootup hangs after power failure

Pollywog wrote: > Because of your experience as described in this thread, I think I will put > off > installing FreeBSD on my desktop machines until I have an uninterruptible > power supply (UPS) installed. Hmmm, it's just the experience of one person. I've encountered several power failur

.snap

Hi all, Is it possible to mount a filesystem with it creating a .snap directory? I mount a different partition for mysql under /var/db/mysql, but since there's a .snap directory, mysql thinks there's a .snap database (the name is actually a bit complexer). Thanks in advance for your answers. Pe

Re: .snap

Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:59:04 +0200 > Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Is it possible to mount a filesystem with it creating a .snap directory? >> >> I mount a different partition for mysql unde

Re: .snap

Erik Trulsson wrote: > > Mounting a partition does not create a .snap directory. > The .snap directory is created when you create the filesystem (see the -n > option to newfs(8)). > > If you do not want the .snap directory then you can just delete it like any > ordinary directory. Ah, great, tha

Re: Upgrading SpamAssassin 3.1.6 -> 3.2.1

Alex Pietjouw wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm running a FreeBSD 6.2-Release machine with sendmail, clamav and > SpamAssassin 3.1.6 which is working great. > I've recently updated my ports collection with CVS and "pkg_version" told me > that there's a new SpamAssassin version available in the ports.

Re: awk question

P.U.Kruppa wrote: > Hi (and sorry for this slightly OT question), > > I would like to extract the second last field of each line of a file > called user.csv . > So I try > > awk '{print $(NF-1)}' user.csv > awk: trying to access out of range field -1 > input record number 1, file us

Several version of gcc

Hi all, Next to the standard gcc there seem to be two others on my system, installed as dependencies for other packages. These are gcc_4.1.3 and gcc_4.2.1, both with a date behind there name. Since these packages seem to be updated daily (at least once a week) and updating these packages take fo

Re: Several versions of gcc

Peter Boosten wrote: > Hi all, > > Next to the standard gcc there seem to be two others on my system, > installed as dependencies for other packages. > > These are gcc_4.1.3 and gcc_4.2.1, both with a date behind there name. > > Since these packages seem to be update

Re: Several version of gcc

Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:41:50PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Next to the standard gcc there seem to be two others on my system, >> installed as dependencies for other packages. >> >> These are gcc_4.1.3 and gcc_4.

Confused about version

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, What should I be running when updating my sources? RELENG_6 or RELENG_6_2? Or is there no difference? When running RELENG_6, how often would I have to make buildworld? TIA Peter - -- http://www.boosten.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Vers

Re: Confused about version

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 01/08/07, Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> What should I be running when updating my sources? RELENG_6 or >> RELENG_6_2? Or is there no difference? > &

Re: getting fair share of CPU for processes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hi Bill and all, > >>> So I am wondering it it is OK for me to limit the spamd user to how much >>> CPU power it can get? I saw in the Handbook that it is possible to limit >>> resources per user. Do you think it is a good th

Re: Mount an external hard drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberth Sjonoy wrote: > Hello, I have an external serial ata hard drive, I connect to my > computer through the usb, but I can't figure out what device in /dev > which is teh hard driver, how do I figure that out? > What's in your dmesg output when y

Re: Mystery of increasing disk usage

Bill Moran wrote: > > If I remember correctly, the most common reason for this is files that > have been deleted, but have not had all references to them closed (i.e. > file descriptors). > You remember correctly: I've seen this happening with Apache logfiles that had been deleted but Apache didn

Re: Mystery of increasing disk usage

Peter Boosten wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: >> If I remember correctly, the most common reason for this is files that >> have been deleted, but have not had all references to them closed (i.e. >> file descriptors). >> > You remember correctly: I've seen this ha

Re: Convince me, please!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pollywog wrote: > > I hope I do not get flamed for saying this... FreeBSDers don't flame :-) > > I am a new arrival to *BSD though I have used Linux for ten years. I think > that if you want a working system right off the bat, PC-BSD or DesktopBS

Re: No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p7?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > >> >> It might be nice to have freebsd-update update this portion of the >> kernel even if thats the only part thats updated. > What me bugs most is that if you do make installworld, freebsd

Re: No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p7?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > >> What me bugs most is that if you do make installworld, freebsd-update >> still wants to update everything. > > Oh, why does it do that? freebsd-update maintains a separate database or > something of what's to be updated

Re: Partitioning question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alain G. Fabry wrote: > > Is it possible after the installation of current on the 3rd partition that I > can use my data files > (home directories) without messing up the permissions/etc? > As long as the UIDs are the same it should work. Peter -

Re: Problem with dump over SSH: Operation timed out

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bram Schoenmakers wrote: > Dear list, > > There is a problem with performing a dump from our webserver at the data > centre to a backup machine at the office. Everytime we try to perform a dump, > the SSH tunnel dies: > [snip] > * The client (where

Re: Convince me, please!

Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:07:53 +0200 > Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, I think you're right. Most FreeBSD users are used to do things the >> 'command line way'. > > I think it is more a 'Unix users'

Re: Question about failover with ISC DHCP

Lacayo, Luis F wrote: > > > HI all, > > > > I am looking to replace my current DHCP server with the ISC. Right now > I have to servers which are working with split scopes. Some of my > schools need over 600 IP's, so I have the school with a 255.255.240.0 > which give them 16 Class C, n

Re: deinstall all apps installed from ports

Erno Immonen wrote: > 2007/8/17, vuthecuong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just for reference only: >> I wonder how can I remove all apps, yes, all apps installed from ports >> so that only >> freebsd 6.2 OS remains just by one command. >> I use portupgrade. >> Thanks > > rm -rf /usr/local/* /usr/X

Re: deinstall all apps installed from ports

Erno Immonen wrote: > 2007/8/17, Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yeah, right... why not 'rm -rf /' :-S >> >> pkg_delete -a >> >> -- >> http://www.boosten.org >> > > Ports are installed into /usr/local/*, /usr/

Re: ls there any way to limit the server resource per user?

ann kok wrote: > Hi all > > I have desktop computer to our user access to use eg: > web browser. office > > ls there any way to limit the server resource per > user? > Have a look a login.conf (man 5 login.conf) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ f

Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?

Eric Crist wrote: > On Aug 24, 2007, at 9:05 AMAug 24, 2007, Gerard wrote: > >> On August 24, 2007 at 09:32AM Eric Crist wrote: >> >> > > I've got Postfix with Dovecot and virtual users setup. What I'm looking > for is some filtering based on the flags SpamAssassin sets, so that I > can route

Re: Squid + Clamav to scan http proxy traffic

Ovi wrote: > Hello > > Does anybody have experience with setting up Squid + Clamav to work as > http proxy antivirus? > I've tried last days such setups with c-icap (which worked few months > ago) + clamav + squid, without success. > Also I've tried using SquidClamav_Redirector, a python script, w

Re: CVSup

Mel wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2007 12:31:33 Grant Peel wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Can I use >> >> src-all and ports-all in the same supfile? >> > Nope. But you can update them at the same time if you don't mind the IO and > network traffic: > csup /path/to/ports-supfile & csup /path/to/src-su

Re: Last CVSup question.

Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:25:51AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: >> I have always found the mergemaster process confusing. > > Mergemaster is very useful tool for updating those files. > Updating: yes, but I never managed to merge two files successfully and always end up making

Re: how to change isc-dhcp3-server replies? (was: isc-dhcp3-server issues with windows 2000 client)

Joe wrote: > Hello, after running tcpdump for a while I discoverd what is going on with my > dhcpd server and why some clients are not able to get an IP address from it, > in particular windows clients. It turns out it is not just win2k but any > windows. > > It seems that the dhcpd server is

Re: hosts is ignored

Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > I have the feeling to be blind but I cannot find out why my FreeBSD 6.2 > machine ignores hosts. > > host.conf says > > hosts > dns What is host.conf used for? Never heard of it. Put the following line in your resolv.conf lookup file bind Peter -- http://www

Re: hosts is ignored

Peter Boosten wrote: > > What is host.conf used for? Never heard of it. > Ah, found it... ra# cat host.conf # Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf, do not edit hosts bind Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: fbsd & sendmail as MTA

> On Thursday 13 September 2007 03:46, Jack Stone wrote: >> We're switching our MTA from postfix to sendmail on a purely mail relay >> server and all is running just fine except for one minor essential. >> >> Is there any way to have sendmail perform the same service as the You'll have to look for

Re: fbsd & sendmail as MTA

> Having said that, Postfix bundles a lot of the functionality of many > milters. If you are happy with the way Postfix works, why do you have > to switch to Sendmail? > I use both (on different machines) and they both have their 'charms' :-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x

> Yes, we have it running, on 3.0.2, but I remember it taking a bit of > fiddling, and can't remember the details. Does 6.2 still have that time- and ACPI issue in ESX3? I've got it running in ESX2.5, but it indeed needed some (or much) fiddling :-) - disable ACPI in the VM - kernel frequency at

WAS: Samba/User ID issue for wheel group members - newbie poster

Where did this come from? Are the FreeBSD servers building queues (watch the dates)? Received: from hub.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13BDD16A4C5; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:11:16 + (UTC) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Delivered-To: f

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x

> The good news is that VMware releases "VMware Tools" as open source, I > hope this will improve the support for FreeBSD guests. > > http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ > Indeed this is good news. Thnx. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-q

Re: reminder email notification utility

Jim Pazarena wrote: Is there a utility available which can take a database of dates & events and email out a reminder? I know that I could create something using at, but seems to me that I saw a utility already designed for this. I have missed one too many birthdays /misc/birthday in the p

Re: /etc/groups gone

On 21 aug 2008, at 18:05, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I have managed to remove /etc/groups (rm instead of vi, was already sleepying). Luckily only a few groups (2-3) was created earlier. No backup, "of course". I believe the file system is still correct, it

Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

Walt Pawley wrote: > At 9:59 AM +0200 8/22/08, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > wump$ ls -l Desktop/klog > -rw-r--r-- 1 wump 1001 52753322 22 Aug 16:37 Desktop/klog > wump$ time sed "s/ .*//" Desktop/klog > kadr1 > > real0m10.800s > user0m10.580s > sys 0m0.250s > wump$ time perl -pe 's/ .

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

Paul Chvostek wrote: >> This is an attempt to isolate every MAC address that >> appears and then sort and count them to see who is having >> trouble or, in some cases, is causing trouble. > > Then you still may want to use awk for some of that... > > cat /var/log/dhcpd.log | \ >

Strange traffic originating from httpd

Hi all, Just today I noticed some strange UDP4 traffic from my webserver to an IP address unknown to me, connecting to port 8000 (UDP). Sockstat showed httpd (running as www) as the culprit. Does anyone know what could cause this? I run several websites (Joomla, Wordpress, Coppermine, Nucleus),

Re: Strange traffic originating from httpd

Quoting "Peter Boosten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all, Just today I noticed some strange UDP4 traffic from my webserver to an IP address unknown to me, connecting to port 8000 (UDP). Sockstat showed httpd (running as www) as the culprit. Does anyone know what could cause this

Re: Radius Authentication

MattAD wrote: > I would just like to know if anyone on earth has been able to get the > pam_radius module working on FreeBSD, using a windows domain username > through ssh... ??? This has become a mystery to me. My /etc/pam.d/sshd > config looks like so: I don't have a direct answer to your qu

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Olivier Nicole wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting >> the system? >> >> Best regards, >> >> Olivier >> > > There are two ways of doing this, both described in the FreeBSD FAQ here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting > the system? > Compile your own kernel with this option: # Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT Peter -- http://www.boosten.org

Re: syslogd logging

fquest wrote: > Is there a way to re-configure how syslogd presents the date > in the syslog files? > > Presently, the date is usually MMM DD > > I would prefer MMDD > > however I cannot find anywhere where this is possible. > It isn't. Consider syslog-ng from the ports. Peter -- http:

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

John Almberg wrote: > > On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > >> John Almberg wrote: >>> I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a >>> database server running mysql. These machines are in two different >>> locations. I'd like to allow the application s

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

John Almberg wrote: > > I tried this, and not surprisingly, it didn't work. Now I'm trying to > debug it... > Maybe some mixup in the keys? In my example ssh tries to read the private key of root on the connecting server, so the server where the database is located, because init is run as root.

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

Peter Boosten wrote: > John Almberg wrote: >> I tried this, and not surprisingly, it didn't work. Now I'm trying to >> debug it... >> > > Maybe some mixup in the keys? In my example ssh tries to read the > private key of root on the connecting serve

Re: Fwd: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

John Almberg wrote: > > Where 'admin' is the user I am logging into on the remote machine, and > 'example.com' is the hostname of the remote machine. I guess equivalent > to the following? > > ttyv7 "/usr/bin/ssh -nNTx -R 3306:127.0.0.1:33006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>/dev/null 2>&1"unknown on

Re: tool to recover fat partition

Wojciech Puchar wrote: > no idea. there are tools if your data was only jpeg images - > ports/graphics/recoverjpeg > > but there are such tools for DOS and windoze. you may use qemu to run them > Maybe you can reconstruct the partition with forensics software like sleuthkit (in ports) or helix3

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > this will add lots of i...ts that are unable to configure mail program > and subscribe. is having as much "users" as possible really good for > FreeBSD? i don't think so. There's no law or even a policy against i...ts using FreeBSD. If all people were specialists in Fre

Re: Problem starting slapd

On 23 jun 2009, at 16:39, Carmel NY wrote: FreeBSD-7.2 openldap-server-2.4.16_1 I just installed this port. For some reason it will not start correctly. I have all of the information entered in the /etc/rc.conf file and the slapd.conf and ldap.conf files are configured correctly. There is n

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

On 23 jun 2009, at 16:06, Daniel Underwood wrote: Looking at my ~/.ssh directory, I see the following permissions: -rw-r--r-- Which I understand to be equivalent to 644. I read here that ~/.ssh ought to have permissions 700. Which is prefera

Re: configuring and ssh tunneling xorg from a headless FreeBSD machine

Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello list. > > I have the following setup: a Windows Vista x64 SP1 machine (my > primary desktop) and a FreeBSD 7.2/amd64 running on a home NAS system > that's relatively powerful (Intel Atom 330 dualcore, 2gb ram). I would > like to be able to run xorg and a simple desktop on

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:46:43AM -0400, Steve Bertrand typed: >> John Almberg wrote: >>> On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: You can fix the security problems by dumping Bind and using djbdns. > > What security problems? This one ? :) > http://blogs.zdn

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

Steve Bertrand wrote: > > I like whatever works in regards to the situation I'm facing ;) And that's the best possible reason one could have! ;-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

Daniel Bye wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a >> "pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7" - only to discover that everything that > > Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of > >

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:52:21AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:28:52PM -0600, Modulok wrote: >>> I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all >>> about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing >>> s

Re: eclipse install

Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:00:08 +0200, Coert Waagmeester > wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> What is the best way to install eclipse on FreeBSD 7.2? >> >> On Linux I installed java, and downloaded the newest eclipse. > > On FreeBSD, you don't need to download things manually via a web

Re: measuring mysql usage

John Almberg wrote: > Anyone know of a tool that can measure mysql usage per mysql user? > > My database is getting hammered by something, but I'm having a hard time > figuring out what. It seems to come and go. Perhaps I have one or two > websites that are just getting a lot of traffic, and maybe

Re: CMS

Paul Schmehl wrote: > I manage a couple of FreeBSD servers for a friend. He's gotten all > excited about content management and thinks that's the way to go. The > system he's familiar with is Windows only. I've done a little research, > but I'm wondering if anyone reading the list has experience

Re: pf, ssh related question

On 17 okt 2009, at 11:53, Dánielisz László wrote: Hello, I have the following annoying thing: all the time I runpfctl -F all - f /etc/pf.conf I got disconnected from my remote machine. Do you have any idea how can I avoid this? You cannot avoid when you flush all your current states.

Re: Accessing LDAP via web

Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi Carmen, > >> I have email clients on my laptops that can access the LDAP server when >> connected via my LAN. When traveling that is not readily possible (is >> it)? Therefore, how can I accomplish this or is it not possible? >> >> Remember, I am not attempting to admini

Re: Anyone out there using SSL-Explorer?

Kurt Buff wrote: Per a private message (thanks, Peter) I learned that 'ant run' is deprecated, and I should instead use 'ant start'. This seems to have no effect, as the output is the same. The README does talk about a wizard, which, after pondering all of this overnight, seems to mean some G

Re: Gutman Method on Empty Space

Marc Silver wrote: Hi there, Check out /usr/ports/security/wipe/ - It should meet your requirements. Or always 'rm -P' :-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: xorg-drivers-7.3

Bob Hall wrote: I'm trying to update xorg-drivers-7.3 on an old machine. I didn't know that the i810 drivers do the job of the i740 drivers, so I selected i740 in the config screen when I ran portmanager. Unfortunately, this conflicts with i810, and unfortunately, this choice I made is preserved

Re: WPA and static IP

Vince Hoffman wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if there is a way to specify WPA ad a static IP for an interface in /etc/rc.conf I've had a quick look though the handbook and google but all the examples use WPA and DHCP. ifconfig_ath0="WPA inet 192.168.13.8 netmask 255.255.255.0" works for

Re: cron to attach a gz file

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I know I can use mail -s "logfile " < /var/log/httpd_access.log in cron to email the content of a log file to a particular email address but how do I make that log file a binary attachment (*.gz)? gzip -c /var/log/httpd_access.log | uuencode httpd_access.log.gz

Re: cron to attach a gz file

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I can use mail -s "logfile " < /var/log/httpd_access.log in cron to email the content of a log file to a particular email address but how do I make that log file a binary attachment (*.gz)? gzip -c /var/log/httpd_access.log | uuencode httpd_access.log.gz | mail

Re: A non FreeBSD question.

अनुज Anuj Singh wrote: Hi, It may start flame, Next lines may seem funny but I want to see what people think say, sorry i am posting here, just to get an idea. Cause i am also one of the open source user/lover and my most of the time goes with computers over freebsd/linux. If someone is away fro

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by "evolution"

Quoting "E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libicui18n.so.36" not found, required by "evolution" error, I can see that the new version of icu installed "

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

Quoting Shawn Barnhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: When you installed the tools, did they require X to be operational? I'm not planning on running X. Neither am I, so no X here. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

Quoting Shawn Barnhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I know this is a major nuisance, but I can't remember how I dealt with it in the past. My most recent stab at using ntpd with minpoll 4 polling of a local ntp time source isn't working, the clock drift prevents any sync from happening (but I'll admit

how to debug crashing X-app

Hi all, I'm having trouble with my local X server, I think: If I start nethack(-qt), it throws me out of my X session, right back to the xdm login prompt. If I start nethack from another machine (on the same X server) the same happens. If I use another X server, for instance xming (on Window

Re: Security Patches and Reboots

Chris Maness wrote: If I do a security update via freebsd-update, and it contains kernel related binary patches. I am assuming I need to reboot. Is this correct? Correct! Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

mysql client

Hi all, Just after upgrading the mysql client to mysql-client-5.1.23 on 6.3, it seems that it's completely ignoring ~/.my.cnf. Anyone else has this problem? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

disk error

Hi all, Just found these messages in my logfile. Is it something to worry about? I've never seen them before upgrading to 6.3. ra kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=281550271 ra kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51 error=4 LBA=281550271 ra kernel: g_vfs_done():

Re: disk error

Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 17:59 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, Just found these messages in my logfile. Is it something to worry about? I've never seen them before upgrading to 6.3. ra kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=281550271 ra k

Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Are you asking if FreeBSD can be made to run the ESX software so that a FreeBSD server can virtualize multiple systems, or are you asking if an ESX server can create a virtual machine that FreeBSD can run in? If your using the commercial ESX product I would assume you wo

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

Terry Sposato wrote: Ted / Jeff, Could you please let me know where to download these free vm tools. The only description at google I can find is that of the actual VMWare Tools by VMWare. If you point me to a download link that would be great! Although my name isn't Ted or Jeff I will p

Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: On Tue, March 18, 2008 11:40, Peter Boosten wrote: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Just to confirm. This one runs on RELENG_7_0? Kernel modules for FreeBSD, including an experimental port of HGFS to FreeBSD. It allows dymanic memory

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

Scott Bennett wrote: Now that I've upgraded to X.org 7.3, I'm wishing that I hadn't done it. Firefox hangs the server, using lots of CPU time, and the only way to get the screen, keyboard, and mouse access again is to power the machine down and up again, and then reboot. The xscreensaver

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

Norberto Meijome wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:19:19 +0100 Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looks like you're having a problem with your window manager, instead of Xorg. Mine (with enlightenment-devel) works like charm. None of the issues you describe anyway. in

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

Ken Gunderson wrote: [snip] Looks like you're having a problem with your window manager, instead of Xorg. Mine (with enlightenment-devel) works like charm. None of the issues you describe anyway. Peter So how would you explain that I am seeing same type of behaviors in straight "startx" wit

Re: Gcc and make not producing executable

Eduardo Cerejo wrote: Objective is to create a makefile which will create an executable named main. The books has this code in the Makefile: CC=gcc CFLAGS=-Wall main: main.o hello_fn.o clean: rm -f main main.o hello_fn.o The book says this should create two object files named main.o

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

Mark Ovens wrote: The other thing I've noticed is, on my box at least, that the problem always starts when I move the mouse (not every time of course) so could it be Xorg 7.3 not playing nicely with the mouse driver - or the USB driver since my mouse is a USB one? Which may explain why some p

Re: Gcc and make not producing executable

Eduardo Cerejo wrote: On Linux systems, there is no base system 'make', so GNU make is installed as 'make'. On FreeBSD systems, there is a base system make that is maintained by the FreeBSD project, so GNU make is installed as 'gmake'. The main differences in making with them is that GNU make a

Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE

Novembre wrote: Anyhow, smbd was looking for libgnutls.so.13 which I don't have, but I do have a libgnutls.so.26 and libgnutls.so in /usr/local/lib/ (the latter is a symlink to the former). Also, libgnutls.so.15 exists in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/. So what I did was creating a symlink to libg

Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE

Novembre wrote: I've read UPDATING before doing anything, but I assumed that " portupgrade -faP " also covers that part about gnutls as well. Isn't it true? Unless portupgrade did upgrade samba first and then gnutls, which means it's not smart enough! Am I wrong? Probably not :-) In my expe

Re: i have questions

Ko Htoo wrote: Are you crazy ? you are bastard .!$%$#@@[EMAIL PROTECTED]&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]&[EMAIL PROTECTED]@%#&^%#% dump is the command to backup. If not sure, please ask, instead of flaming a guy for his good advice! Peter -- http:

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

Scott Bennett wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:09:54 +0100 Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The only problem I'm having since 7.3 btw (I forgot about that, but just remembered) is everytime I start nethack-qt (either local or remote) X restarts, kicking me out of

Re: wpa_supplicant not starting with /etc/rc.d/netif

Oleg Dolgov wrote: "ifconfig_ral0="WPA DHCP" ifconfig_ral0="DHCP WPA" Both worked for me, so that should not be the problem. I've had my deal of issues with that ral driver though. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

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