Re: stop portmanager from building mysql-client-4.1.22

2007-07-27 Thread Adam J Richardson
x27; after "server" might be screwing thing up. Ypu might try this also: IGNORE|databases/mysql4*| That should prevent any version '4' of mysql being build. How about the HOLD_PKGS section in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf? Does portmanager pay attention to pkgtools.

Re: ICH8R and SATA drives at boot

2007-07-27 Thread Adam J Richardson
press it again. No remote reboots for me. And FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 doesn't start the second CPU, for some reason. So you're not alone in having unreasonable and uncooperative hardware. These things just don't bother me enough to get me talking about it much. [It's F

Re: panic : swap_pager

2007-07-27 Thread Adam J Richardson
rials. All hail Michael Lucas. :P HtH Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: recover corrupt 6.2 installation

2007-07-27 Thread Adam J Richardson
you have a friend with a CD burner, how about using FreeSBIE? At least that will get you a working FreeBSD system to work with. Then you can examine the drive further. Might be a good idea to mount the damaged drive read only, so you don't do further damage. HtH, Adam J Richa

Re: porteasy vs portupgrade

2007-07-27 Thread Adam J Richardson
Hi Fergal, Ack! I mean Feargal! Sorry... Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: porteasy vs portupgrade

2007-07-27 Thread Adam J Richardson
.. I think somebody out there has shares in a company that manufactures replacement "r" keys... -fr Heh. :D Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: awk question

2007-07-27 Thread n j
> > > awk '{print $(NF-1)}' user.csv > > Yup, those blank lines will kill it for sure. A sed filter to > remove blank lines ahead of the awk statement should allow it to > work properly. Or awk only i.e. no sed: awk '!(/^$/) { print $(NF-1) }' user.csv -- Nino __

Re: Upgrade xorg 6.9 to 72

2007-07-26 Thread Adam J Richardson
pendency in my ports database. [Apologies if this was asked already - I haven't read the list for a while.] Adam J Richardson ps. monju-bosatsu# uname -a FreeBSD monju-bosatsu.dreamtrack.dnsalias.com 6.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Thu Apr 19 12:37:39 BST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Re: usb driver for use with kmobiletools and nokia

2007-07-26 Thread Adam J Richardson
, but perhaps it'll help you. Another bit of advice was to recompile the kernel with "device ucom", but that might be a bit out of date since the GENERIC config contains pretty much everything now. Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions

Re: porteasy vs portupgrade

2007-07-26 Thread Adam J Richardson
lly use pkg_cutleaves, which AFAIK is nothing whatsoever to do with portupgrade. Running "sudo pkg_cutleaves -x" is my idea of a good time. I'm definitely a minimalist. BTW: Miguel, you should try portmaster as well as portupgrade and see which y

Re: porteasy vs portupgrade

2007-07-26 Thread Adam J Richardson
when I got mad with portupgrade. It's great that it has no dependencies, but I didn't like it at all. Can't remember why - it just didn't work for me. I think portupgrade probably ruined me with things like portversion and pkg_deinstall. I'm too lazy

Re: porteasy vs portupgrade

2007-07-25 Thread Adam J Richardson
e time and had to upgrade all my apps when I'd installed them. :/ Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: switch fromto gnome

2007-07-21 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
to install/try GNOME (unless you're short on storage, of course). Are you *sure* you want to uninstall *all* KDE-related apps? -- Conrad J. Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: freebsd-update question

2007-07-18 Thread n j
The cause for this confusion is the fact that patches 5 and 6 were for a userland utility (file) and a library (libarchive), not for the kernel. So for these patches, the kernel (which contains the release-level string) isn't rebuilt and so it isn't updated. 1) change the update mechanism to upda

freebsd-update question

2007-07-18 Thread n j
Hello, while updating my FreeBSD box, freebsd-update reported: Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. ... No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p6. However, uname -a reveals: FreeBSD my.hostname.here 6

Re: sftp and tab completion

2007-06-21 Thread n j
On 6/18/07, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've got a simple question. Does sftp, the one that comes with > FreeBSD 6.2's openssh, do tab completion? I've read that it could, but Use lftp (/usr/ports/ftp/lftp). Lftp supports sftp protocol and does tab completion. Regards, -- N

Re: what is pkg_create doing?

2007-05-31 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
d changing or unsetting them to see what may happen. If you're curious, though, it may be worth experimenting with, although I would certainly advise against disabling the precautionary backup package creation before the new port is successfully installed. -- Conrad J. Sabatier <[EMAIL PR

Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-05-31 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
Not actually one of the "worst" error messages, per se, but one I found most amusing the first time I saw it: Running procmail's "mailstat" program without any arguments yields the following: Most people don't type their own logfiles; but, what do I care? :-) --

Re: Java on the BSD Desktop?

2007-05-30 Thread n j
I guess if everyone here on this list gives his/her two cents to this topic we're having a nice java advocacy flame war. ;-) The main characteristic of a flame war is to disparage other people's arguments while maintaining that your arguments are the best, no? That's why I'm not going to try and

Re: Java on the BSD Desktop?

2007-05-29 Thread n j
I am wanting to write a gui frontend to pkg_cutleaves. I see that it is just a simple perl script so, it would be quite simple to just put a gtk frontend on it and call it a day. However, I am starting to write a good amount of code in java and was wondering what others think about java as the d

Re: compiling kernel problem

2007-05-27 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
UPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile #DOCSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile > If you are using older version than 6.1 use cvsup. FWIW, if you want to checkout the actual CVS repository, you still need to use cvsup as well. Unfortunately, csup does not yet support

Re: Locked Myself Out - Cannot "su"

2007-05-27 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
uot; cons25l1on secure This *should* allow you to use single-user mode once again as root. Then, make sure that any user you want to have su capability is listed in /etc/group under the "wheel" entry: wheel:*:0:root,foouser After that, any other problems you may enc

Re: ....

2007-05-20 Thread David J Brooks
On Sunday 20 May 2007 02:49:49 pm * ** wrote: > Hello. > idont know if this is right mail. nut i try anyway. =) > im trying to install freebsd on my computer, but when the installation > is finish and i should login. i type in my account name and password. > byt then i only get to something that lo

Re: cdrtools question

2007-05-15 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Mon, 14 May 2007 14:36:45 +0200 Volker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm unable to help with your real problem but switching from cdrtools > to cdrtools-devel goes like this: > > `portupgrade -o sysutils/cdrtools-devel cdrtools' This breaks sysutils/hal. - Herbert ___

Re: Fluxbox crashes when I startx

2007-05-10 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Tom Evans wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:21 -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Since Fluxbox has moved from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local I haven't been able to start it, it just crashes I followed the instruction on how to edit the menu file but it still crashes and I get this line. Has anyone

Fluxbox crashes when I startx

2007-05-10 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Since Fluxbox has moved from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local I haven't been able to start it, it just crashes I followed the instruction on how to edit the menu file but it still crashes and I get this line. Has anyone had this problem with Fluxbox? I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 release. FreeFontPath: FP

Re: port updates

2007-05-04 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
3.2 > > After doing portupgrade I see that its still at 3.1.8 > > When do the ports get updated- ? The ports tree was just frozen yesterday (May 3) in anticipation of the upgrade of Xorg to 7.2. -- Conrad J. Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

tiny console screen...

2007-05-01 Thread David J Brooks
I know I've seen the fix for this before, but now that I need it I can't find it. I'm setting up a laptop with FreeBSD 6.2. The screen display in X is fine, but the terminal session screens are tiny, center on the display with several inches of black margin. How do I get it to use the entire s

RE: No SMB/Samba support on Windows Home Editions

2007-04-27 Thread GARRISON, TRAVIS J.
Windows Home editions cannot join an Active Directory domain, but they can access smb shares. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of L Goodwin Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:50 PM To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: No SMB/Samba support on

RE: Single Instance Service

2007-04-26 Thread GARRISON, TRAVIS J.
> -Original Message- > From: Peter Ankerstål [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:08 AM > To: GARRISON, TRAVIS J. > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Single Instance Service > > GARRISON, TRAVIS J. wrote: > > I am look

RE: Single Instance Service

2007-04-26 Thread GARRISON, TRAVIS J.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olivier Nicole > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: GARRISON, TRAVIS J.; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Single Instanc

RE: Single Instance Service

2007-04-25 Thread GARRISON, TRAVIS J.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GARRISON, TRAVIS J. > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:04 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Single Instance Service > > > I am looking fo

Re: postfix question

2007-04-25 Thread n j
You would probably get better assistance if you asked this question on the Postfix forum. True. However, I did google through a lot of Postfix resources (documentation, forums, mailing lists...) and didn't find what I was looking for. I posted this question here hoping that someone already ran i

Re: postfix question

2007-04-25 Thread n j
Hello Oliver, Would it help to pimp your transport map? #In the case of delivery via SMTP, one may specify host- #name:service instead of just a host: # # example.com smtp:bar.example:2025 You can replace bar.example with the IP address of the other interfac

postfix question

2007-04-25 Thread n j
Hello, does anybody know is it possible with Postfix to "route" e-mail based on either the inet interface message came from or the sender of a message? I'm using Postfix v.2.3.8 on a multihomed machine and have two smtpd's defined in master.cf. What I would like is that mail submitted through smt

Single Instance Service

2007-04-24 Thread GARRISON, TRAVIS J.
I am looking for software that will run on FreeBSD that is similar to Microsoft Single Instance Service. The Single Instance Storage Filter is a file system filter that manages the duplicate copies of files on hard-disk volumes. This filter copies one instance of the duplicate file into a cent

Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help?

2007-04-23 Thread Adam J Richardson
sing, and I like having kernel.debug around so I can backtrace kernel panics. I'll have a go with all my kernels, see if one of them boots the unusable AP. I'm off for a couple of weeks though, so I might not respond for a while. Thanks, Adam J Richardson

Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help?

2007-04-23 Thread Adam J Richardson
at=flowed On Apr 20, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Adam J Richardson wrote: > Finally, mptable shows what's really going on: > "MP Config Base Table Entries: > -- > Processors: APIC ID Version StateFamily Model Step Flags > 3 0x11BSP, usable 6

Re: Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's

2007-04-23 Thread Adam J Richardson
Don O'Neil wrote: bogus user & group ID's Hi Don. Could you create the bogus user and group in /etc/passwd and /etc/group and thus log in with rights to those files? Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: cannot compile thunderbird 2 and firefox 2 from ports

2007-04-23 Thread Adam J Richardson
x your problem. Perhaps gtk2 needs an upgrade? Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: MS Windows emulator or VM with USB support

2007-04-20 Thread Adam J Richardson
equirement, but it's free and I hear it runs on FreeBSD pretty well. Hope this helps, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 174, Issue 15

2007-04-20 Thread Adam J Richardson
ils to ports-mgmt. That's the cause of "missing key: categories". Anyway, do this and see if it fixes the problem: cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade make all install clean Hope this helps, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questio

SMP only detects one CPU - help?

2007-04-20 Thread Adam J Richardson
this, or do I have a broken CPU, unlikely as it seems? Any help is appreciated. Does it seem likely that upgrading both CPUs to the highest Pentium-IIIs I can find, which I was thinking about doing anyway, would fix the problem? Thanks, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

ppp(8) Over Dedicated Serial Link

2007-04-19 Thread Crist J. Clark
#x27;s an always up serial line between the hosts. But it's not working. What's the right way to do this? Do I actually need to go in and mess with the gettytab(4)? Why can't the ppp(8) just talk directly to the other end? -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-18 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 17 Apr 2007 at 17:18, Kris Kennaway boldly uttered: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:45:44PM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > Re: Kris's assertion, I guess I could have lived with that if it > > weren't for the fact that the installer doesn't give you any clue of

Re: Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-17 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 17 Apr 2007 at 11:34, Sean Murphy boldly uttered: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:51:19AM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > I'm trying to install the 200703 snapshot of 6.2-STABLE, and no > matter what server I select, no matter w

Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-17 Thread Philip J. Koenig
3 snapshot i386 bootdisk-only ISO image. TIA, Phil -- Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: [Fwd: Re: I like Ubuntu]

2007-04-17 Thread n j
Hopefully that helps answer some of your questions. Overall, I find the FreeBSD ports system to be more flexible, but an acceptable runner-up for purposes of binary package-based OSes in my opinion is Debian. Just to add my .02$ to this topic, speaking from a perspective of a FreeBSD lover in a

Re: GUI

2007-04-16 Thread David J Brooks
On Monday 16 April 2007 08:38:10 pm Jim Priovolos wrote: > Any tips on how to make FreeBSD start with a GUI login screen? > > I chose gnome and X-Windows in the install and they run in a weird limited > way if I start them up after logining in to a command line. But it doesn't > start in a way that

Re: trouble printing from opera

2007-04-15 Thread David J Brooks
On Sunday 15 April 2007 10:15:14 pm Garrett Cooper wrote: > > I've never found a way to make non-KDE apps print from the KDE print > > manager. My solution has been to print to pdf and then load that into > > Kpdf and print from there. If there's a better way to do it, I'd love to > > learn how. >

Re: trouble printing from opera

2007-04-15 Thread David J Brooks
On Sunday 15 April 2007 09:49:57 pm you wrote: > im running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3, with KDE, cups, and most current opera. > i can print from everything else i use (which is i guess just kmail... but > i did test from konqueror, and that works too), but i cannot get opera to > send a job to my pr

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-13 Thread David J Brooks
On Friday 13 April 2007 12:21:43 pm Claude Menski wrote: > Why is freebsd better then ubuntu? It's easier to spell. -- In 1869 the waffle iron was invented for people who had wrinkled waffles. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: looking for something like an embedded ftp server

2007-04-11 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 12:26:42 pm Derrill Guilbert wrote: > I've been given an old machine, and asked to turn it into an ftp server. It > will got on its own IP, separate from the one our LAN uses. It will have > three read-only users and maybe five read/write users. It will contain > design d

xorg broken after using portupgrade

2007-03-29 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running FBSD release 6.2 and after updating my ports with portupgrade I can start xorg. I'm getting this error message: waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kil

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 09:08:30 am Ivan Zenzerović wrote: > hello again. > > I made a mistake during post install config. I put a name that I don't want > for my computer, and when I logon as root it's written in the comand line. > How di I change it? > > Ivan Edit /etc/rc.conf .. find the lin

Re: regular portsdb maintanence

2007-03-27 Thread David J Brooks
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 07:25:48 pm Michael P. Soulier wrote: > How are dependencies lost anyway? Beyond reading the source, is there a > document that tells me how pkgdb works? Have you looked at 'man pkgdb'? -- America is a melting pot. You know, where those on the bottom get burned, and th

Re: Hard Drive problems

2007-03-27 Thread David J Brooks
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 02:29:29 pm Jason Gretz wrote: > Hey guys I am adding a hard drive to my FreeBSD 6.1 box and it stalls > during booting and makes a beeping noise. I know the hard drive is good > because I just swapped it out of another FreeBSD box… > > So I’m kinda stumped, is there anyway

Re: /tmp write failed, filesystem is full

2007-03-27 Thread David J Brooks
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 09:17:07 am Michele Endrici wrote: > Hi, can anyone help me find a solution to a make problem?? I'm trying > to build a kernel for FreeBSD 6.2 with a new driver but the make > fails. I tryed in both the old and new school ways but it didn't work > anyway. Here is the error

Re: Uptime

2007-03-22 Thread David J Brooks
On Friday 23 March 2007 01:45:16 am Stan Cooper wrote: > Hi; > How do I determine the uptime of my server? > Thanks, > Stan2 Oddly enough, by typing 'uptime' at the command prompt. David -- An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms. ___ freebs

portmanager or portupgrade?

2007-03-21 Thread n j
Hello, first off, I'm looking for a ports upgrading solution on my box, not trying to start a religious debate over which one is better. I'm interested in hearing what other FreeBSD admins are using and, if possible, why they prefer one over the other. I have some experience with portupgrade only

FW: /usr parition is empty!

2007-03-16 Thread Bret J. Esquivel
From: Bret J. Esquivel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 3:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: /usr parition is empty! Help! I'm currently stumped at a client of mine. Their /usr partition on this 6.1 box is completely empty. The problem arose when no one

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-16 Thread Brian J. Conway
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:13:41 -0800 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Brian J. Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Th

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-15 Thread Brian J. Conway
rfectionist and would prefer it not to be there. Perhaps I need to start from stratch with some em* cards, they've been working well for me everywhere else. (Original discussion: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-March/144227.html) Brian J. Conway _

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-11 Thread Brian J. Conway
s possible, but I've tried 3 different 3c905C's between the two (top-most) slots I'm using for them, and they all have the same symptom, though never both at the same time. They also worked flawlessly before this latest install (though admittedly, the old install was 4.x, as mentioned).

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-11 Thread Brian J. Conway
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:57:59 -0500 "Brian J. Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I > > disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not > > related with NICs, bu

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-10 Thread Brian J. Conway
ying off the web archive.) Brian J. Conway ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: logout from gnome panel stops responding.

2007-03-10 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
ot solve your particular problem, but it's worth a try, at least. HTH -- Conrad J. Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-09 Thread Brian J. Conway
robed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1999781040 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec ipfw2 (+ipv6) initialized, divert loadable, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to deny, logging limited to 500 packets/entry by default ad0: 38146MB at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: CDROM at ata1-master UDMA33 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Brian J. Conway ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: slice/booting problem

2007-03-05 Thread J. W. Ballantine
The third party boot manager does play nice, I've had this setup working before (with the same BM [smartboot]), and everything worked fine. Thanks -- In Response to your message - > Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:45:51 -0500 > To: "J. W. Ballantine&qu

slice/booting problem

2007-03-02 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I have a two disk system, and I'm trying to install FBSD6.2 on slice 2 of the second disk, a configuration that I've had working in the past. I'm using the Standard installation, select the second disk (ad1) and create a slice (ad1s2) and then create the partitions within that slice. On that dis

IPFW rule syntax

2007-02-28 Thread n j
Hello, I have observed the following behavior in IPFW (note the asterisks): ipfw add 1000 allow tcp from 10.1.2.3 to 10.3.2.1 ** in gets added to the rule list as: 01000 allow tcp from 10.1.2.3 to 10.3.2.1 *dst-port * in? Why does IPFW convert my "" to "dst-port " an

Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise.

2007-02-21 Thread n j
What would be the best sizes for the disk partitions so that I don't run out of space on any of them while also leaving the maximum amount of space possible for the future software to be installed? While I'd certainly go with a single partition as a solution for your setup, if you really insiste

Re: Sun jdk 1.6? Any port?

2007-02-21 Thread n j
Is there any plan to port Sun JDK 1.6 to FreeBSD? FYI, I'm running JDK6 in Linux compatibility mode for an application that uses RMI, JDBC, threads and runs as a daemon (24/7) and I had no problems so far, the setup looks very stable. Hope it helps, -- Nino

Makefile knobs

2007-02-06 Thread n j
Hello, I have a question regarding the various knobs one can set while building a port. The problem as I see it is that the user usually has to be a makefile lingo expert (okay, not an expert, but you catch my drift) to decipher all the various options and set perhaps only the one he really needs

How to burn IFO, VOB... files to make a playable DVD

2007-01-14 Thread Carl J
Hi! I ripped the ifo, vob... files from a DVD. But I don't know what programs to use to burn them to a DVD-R so that the resulting disc would be playable on an external player (assuming the external player accepts DVD-R) It seems growisofs only takes files or whole-disc-image. And cdrecord and bu

How to burn IFO, VOB... files to make a playable DVD

2007-01-14 Thread Carl J
Hi! I ripped the ifo, vob... files from a DVD.But I don't know what programs to use to burnthem to a DVD-R so that the resulting discwould be playable on an external player(assuming the external player accepts DVD-R)It seems growisofs only takes files or whole-disc-image.And cdrecord and burncd

How to burn IFO, VOB... files to make a playable DVD

2007-01-14 Thread Carl J
Hi! I ripped the ifo, vob... files from a DVD. But I don't know what programs to use to burn them to a DVD-R so that the resulting disc would be playable on an external player (assuming the external player accepts DVD-R) It seems growisofs only takes files or whole-disc-image. And cdrecord and bu

Mapping USB ugen 802.11g adapter to ndis

2007-01-12 Thread Brian J. McGovern
All, I have a USB 802.11g (DLINK) adapter that I would like to use to access a wireless network. I've been able to download the Windows drivers, convert them in to the kernel module, and load the module. However, when I plug the adapter in, the ugen driver picks it up. His

Absence

2007-01-02 Thread j . digout
Je suis absent jusqu'au 7 janvier inclus. En cas d'urgence, à partir du 3 janvier, vous pouvez contacter au secrétariat Mastère : Tricia BOBY (05.61.29.47.10 ou [EMAIL PROTECTED]). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

GLX (openGL) not working with Nvidia driver

2006-12-30 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running 6.1 release and every time an application needs to use GLX like xscreensaver I get this error: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on displa

Re: [NMLUG] Signing a document with my SSH key, not a PGP key?

2006-12-29 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
r (encryping, signing, web-of-trust), and use SSH keys for what they are meant for (point-to-point network authentication) and if you want to correlate them, you can sign your SSH key with your OpenPGP key. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpMVyE7VMe5Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: reposted question

2006-12-20 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
Well, if it were me, I'd simply do: # rm -r /home/ncvs Then I'd change "prefix='home/ncvs" to "prefix=/usr", just so I could cvsup the ports tree if I ever wanted to. But after makeing that change, I'd run: # portsnap fetch extract And know that that next time I wanted to update the ports

Re: Legato Client for freeBSD.

2006-12-18 Thread n j
One is to enable FreeBSD's Linux Compatibility and use Letgato's Linux client (I suppose they have one?) I actually tried this. And the client actually works. However, I haven't found a way to escape Linux compatibility chroot - i.e. backing up /usr actually backs up /compat/linux/usr. Of course

Re: Legato Client for freeBSD

2006-12-15 Thread n j
6.0.2 Legato client that used(?) to be in the ports works fine for me on a 6.1 box, while 5.5.2 works fine on my 4.9 box. I'm quite certain we are using current 7.x Legato server. As far as security is concerned, local users are not a problem, while firewall takes care of remote problems. Of cours

Re: system bootup console setup

2006-12-15 Thread J. W. Ballantine
gt; > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:00, J. W. Ballantine wrote: > > Ok, I should be able to find this somewhere > > in the documentation, but I can't (must be looking > > for the wrong key words). > > > > When the system boots, the consoles nee

Routing Question

2006-12-12 Thread Bret J Esquivel
Hi, I have a cable modem at my office with a /28 allocated. I have a FreeBSD 6.1 firewall/router in between the cable modem and the switch to other nodes. My question is how could I add static routes to say my web server having an external IP address but still going through the firewall box? NA

Routing Question

2006-12-11 Thread Bret J. Esquivel
Hi, I have a cable modem at my office with a /28 allocated. I have a FreeBSD 6.1 firewall/router in between the cable modem and the switch to other nodes. My question is how could I add static routes to say my web server having an external IP address but still going through the firewall box? NA

system bootup console setup

2006-12-06 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Ok, I should be able to find this somewhere in the documentation, but I can't (must be looking for the wrong key words). When the system boots, the consoles need to be initialized and defined somewhere. I want to change the definition, but I can't find the startup script that init's them. Whic

Looking for a cookbook on Oracle clients...

2006-12-04 Thread Brian J. McGovern
All, I have a task that requires I extract a data set from a MySQL server, and push it on to an Oracle (9i) server. I figured I'd go the ODBC route, and installed unix_odbc_driver and its dependencies. However, its pretty clear that I don't fully understand what I'm doing, and ea

Re: freebsd desktop

2006-11-26 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 26 November 2006 13:15, probsd org wrote: > Regarding my earlier email "Do not install FreeBSD as a desktop" > > I don't care how long I have been using FreeBSD, or yadda yadda or yadda > > when I cvsup ports, update the databse, and install www/firefox and go to > a website I expect

Re: Apache port compile error

2006-11-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 25 November 2006 05:31, VeeJay wrote: > Hi > > > When compiling apache20 from ports and enabling/diabling knobs, I am > writing the make command as follow; > > #make WITHOUT_MODULES="charset-lite include env setenvif status autoindex > asis cgi negotiation imap actions userdir alias so"

Re: Installworld Problem... Please help!!!

2006-11-19 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 19 November 2006 06:47, VeeJay wrote: > Hello, > > Please help!!! > I have CVSup'ed my 6.1 Fresh Install. No problems with buildworld or kernel > build, but I am getting failures > during installworld. When I give this command in single user mode: > > # make installworld > > A Partial out

Re: Qmail & Vpopmail From Ports

2006-11-18 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 18 November 2006 20:54, Rachel Florentine wrote: > 7883- Original Message > From: Tom Ierna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I've installed qmail/vpopmail many ways - from source, using the > > instructions from qmailrocks and most recently using the instructions > > found here: > > >

Re: firefox 2.0 and flash 7

2006-11-04 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 04 November 2006 09:24, Michael S wrote: > Thanks for the tip. I will try it out. > Just don't remove the old symlinks in /usr/X11r6/lib/browser_plugins, if you take them out, firefox won't open. Put in the new ones in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins and you should be good to go. Don

Re: firefox 2.0 and flash 7

2006-11-03 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 03 November 2006 16:06, Michael S wrote: > Good day all. > > I am running 5.5 RELEASE and I have just upgraded > Firefox from 1.5 to 2.0. Flash 7 was working very well > under 1.5, however after upgrade it didn't. Moreover, > flash doesn't appear anymore in the about:plugins. > > Has anyo

Re: Sound under qemu

2006-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Roznowski
> Hmm. Those warning messages don't stop me from getting sound. Does > sound work on the "real" system? [Unfortunately, I don't recall > exactly how qemu interacts with the sound devices.] Thanks for reminding me that the sound was coming out of the headphone j

Sound under qemu

2006-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Roznowski
warning: command 0xe,2 is not truly understood yet Can somebody help me/point me in the right direction? Thanks, -SR -- Stephen J. Roznowski([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: Dell PERC 5/i mfi status?

2006-10-31 Thread J. T. Farmer
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Bret Esquivel wrote: Mathieu, I was actually asking if there is an "amrstat" type utility that I can check the array status while in production. Thanks for the advice on 6-STABLE, I Well, it was sysutils/megarc for PERC/4. On PERC/5 mfi(1), it's

Netflow sensor/generator for Freebsd

2006-10-31 Thread n j
Hello everyone, I'd like to inspect the flows in and out of my fbsd boxes. In order to closely simulate a true netflow-capable router, I found out I need three components: flow sensors, flow collector and flow analyzer. There are quite a few solutions for collecting and analyzing flows, even som

Re: Ralink wireless driver help

2006-10-30 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Thanks simon, but I already decided to change to an atheros card, too many problems with this one plus no one is working for the betterment of this driver any more. - Original Message - From: "Simon Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL

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