Re: "make deinstall" within /usr/ports/lang - need to recover default language installs

2013-03-19 Thread Rob Navarro
/database for freeBSD 9.0 standard sysinstalls languages that I can view and use to re-install (via pkg_add -v -r perl etc) ? [there must a config file for sysinstall to use itself] Kind regards, Rob > lang/ contains all languages and so on ruby, lua, python, perl.. Of > course you remove

"make deinstall" within /usr/ports/lang - need to recover default language installs

2013-03-19 Thread Rob Navarro
rossing my fingers that I need not re-install the OS... Kind regards, Rob ___ 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: Strange delays in ZFS scrub or resilver

2013-02-24 Thread Rob Rati
A bit of a stab in the dark here, but are any of the disks in your array Advanced Format drives? If so, did you create a pool with a block size of 4k? Lastly, are all the partitions on your disks (if any) aligned to 4k sector boundaries (in the case of the Advanced Format disks)? Rob On Feb

Re: Re[2]: newfs create to little inodes

2012-04-16 Thread Rob Farmer
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Something about -your- installation is causing you to run out of inodes. > This is a release engineering issue in 9.0, not just his installation. The defaults are screwed up. See bin/162659. -- R

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Rob
ther issues, but I remember making about 3 hacks to the tools to get it working. Rob On 3/7/12 11:05 AM, David Jackson wrote: Many of your issues are non-issues, as your suggestions were implemented in some form long ago. For example, updated applications are compiled and available online. Yo

Re: Querying a cvsup server

2012-02-07 Thread Rob Farmer
reebsd-mirrors/cvsup-stats-global.php -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: make release custom kernel conf not found

2012-01-31 Thread Rob Farmer
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > Thanks Rob... > > I put the kernel conf file in the source tree as opposed to linking to > it and it certainly did compile the custom kernel. > > What confuses me (not that I expect you to have the answer) is that > Chap

Re: make release custom kernel conf not found

2012-01-29 Thread Rob Farmer
release built.  I appreciate any advice and feedback.  Thanks. > The kernel is built inside the chroot, so all paths are really /app/release/. Your symlink points to /app/release/root/kernels/MYKERNEL. It will be easiest to get rid of the symlink and copy the actual file into you

SSD for ZIL suggestions?

2012-01-13 Thread Rob
I'm looking at getting a couple of SSDs to act as ZIL drives on FreeBSD 8/9 systems. Are there any recommended drives? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

9.0-RELEASE and RealTek (re) watchdog timeout

2012-01-13 Thread Rob
corrected ecap 0002[140] = VC 1 max VC0 ecap 0003[160] = Serial 1 1234567812345678 Rob ___ 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: Revision control advice

2011-12-21 Thread Rob Byrnes
t; My 2c's anyway. HTH >>> >>> ___ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsu

Re: AHCI driver and static device names

2011-12-14 Thread Rob
ng dynamic device names. The fact that you have to use them to ensure your system doesn't break horribly when you do something simple like add a disk is a clear indication of a broken design in the ahci driver imho. Rob ___ 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: AHCI driver and static device names

2011-12-14 Thread Rob
Can glabels, gpt, and zfs all work together? I have a system where I have disks with 4 gpt partitions. Partitions 2 and 3 are part of gmirror arrays, and partition 4 is part of a zfs pool. glabel says it writes to the end of the partition, which I believe zfs also writes to doesn't it?

Re: AHCI driver and static device names

2011-12-14 Thread Rob
ing to use labels to get static functionality (increases the likelihood of something going wrong for a disk replace operation if I forget to label), but I'll give gpt labels a try. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: AHCI driver and static device names

2011-12-03 Thread Rob
to enable the functionality) Rob On 12/3/11 3:44 AM, Denise H. G. wrote: On 2011/12/03 at 10:51, Rob wrote: I was getting ready to install the latest FreeBSD 9-RCs image, and I found that 9 now defaults to using the ahci driver for sata disks. This would be great if it weren't for th

Re: AHCI driver and static device names

2011-12-03 Thread Rob
be to use tunefs or a partitioning tool to label each partition, which is even more ugly imo. Rob On 12/2/11 9:27 PM, Derrick Ryalls wrote: Look for disk labels, I think glabel is the command. Then you use /dev/label/mylabel etc for the disks. Let me know if this isn't enough to find the

AHCI driver and static device names

2011-12-02 Thread Rob
should be. Is there a way to use the ahci driver and get static device names? Rob ___ 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"

wireless help with wep authentication

2011-11-20 Thread Rob Clark
nd for authenticating with the passkey from the router. Any help appreciated, I can provide further info and things I've tried -- most things in the handbook wireless section, minus wpa_supplicant.conf. Thanks In Advance, Rob ___ freebsd-ques

AMD 850/950 support?

2011-09-02 Thread Rob
rmine ata support for those southbridges? Rob ___ 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"

SATA SDD cards

2011-06-15 Thread Rob
Has anyone tried using an SATA SSD card (SATA add-on card that is a SSD drive) in FreeBSD? I was looking at an OCZ RevoDrive and was wondering if anyone had tried using one of those specifically, or any SATA SSD card in general. Rob ___ freebsd

Re: Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit (cont)

2011-06-14 Thread Rob
ith the source tree I haven't had cause to look. If so just tell me to go read the respective doc. :) Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Re: Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit (cont)

2011-06-14 Thread Rob
On 6/14/11 8:06 AM, Ondrej Majerech wrote: On 06/09/2011 15:49, Rob wrote: On 6/6/11 8:39 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: You need to rebuild your kernel with options COMPAT_FREEBSD32 # Compatible with i386 binaries included. I noticed that when I tried to build the ports, but I don't

Re: Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit (cont)

2011-06-13 Thread Rob
On 6/9/11 4:55 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 10:49:37 Rob wrote: On 6/6/11 8:39 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: On Monday 06 June 2011 17:56:53 Rob wrote: I was attempting to install virtualbox on my 8.2-p2 64-bit system this weekend, and hit a rather curious situation. The pre

Re: Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit (cont)

2011-06-09 Thread Rob
On 6/6/11 8:39 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: On Monday 06 June 2011 17:56:53 Rob wrote: I was attempting to install virtualbox on my 8.2-p2 64-bit system this weekend, and hit a rather curious situation. The pre-packaged version of virtualbox retrievable by pkg_add is 3.2.12 (which looks in ports

Re: Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit

2011-06-06 Thread Rob
On 6/6/11 8:13 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: On Monday 06 June 2011 17:56:53 Rob wrote: I was attempting to install virtualbox on my 8.2-p2 64-bit system this weekend, and hit a rather curious situation. The pre-packaged version of virtualbox retrievable by pkg_add is 3.2.12 (which looks in ports

Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit

2011-06-06 Thread Rob
around has produced old e-mail threads indicating this was a problem as of 2 or so years ago with the 3.x release. If it's not possible to build w/o the 32-bit libs, what do I need to install? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: SATA Host Adapter Recommendation

2011-05-21 Thread Rob
hould work fine. I should probably verify that soon. Rob On 5/21/11 9:26 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote: I am looking to get 2 sata host adapters. The mandatory requirements are good freebsd support and hot swap capability. I plan to use gmirror. I have discovered that my onboard chipsets don't su

No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-14 Thread Rob Clark
S" ...and these were there prior to the ports update. I figured this "issue" may be of some value since I did not do any src updates. I'll be glad to try to help or test this further, but keep in mind I'm not a coder. Thanks, Rob ___

Re: post-installation of CDDL files

2011-03-12 Thread Rob Farmer
___ > 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" > Install it manually. Go to src/cddl/l

Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-08 Thread Rob Farmer
b plugin from IcedTea is available in 6). -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Rob Farmer
s svn in the user's ssh session and manipulate the repo's files directly (this allows users to accidentally or intentionally trash up the repo, so svnserve is safer if you don't fully trust all your committers. Plus you have to watch for permission and umask issues with svn+ssh). -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Rob Farmer
tips.com >> > > btw, would you stop putting ads on your signature? it's annoying > LOL - how hypocritical. This thread was four days dead then suddenly two people show up and start pushing this mksh shell, which seems to be part of some obscure OpenBSD fork. If

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Rob Farmer
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Rob Farmer predatorlabs.net> writes: > >> Have you used the default FreeBSD shell (tcsh) recently? > > tcsh is not a shell. Well, it’s an interactive command line > interpreter, not a bad one compared to what e

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Rob Farmer
ed - basically it seemed to say "some keyboards are screwed up, so rather than fix them would everyone stop using this character please." I have a good feeling what the success rate of that will be. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-24 Thread Rob Farmer
ursive - kdelibs4 depends on hal, then other stuff depends on it. If it could be configured to work without hal, most likely the rest of the list would be just fine. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Run your own portsnap mirror?

2011-02-10 Thread Rob Farmer
ining why this might not be a good idea, though. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: shutdown computer after the halt command

2011-02-07 Thread Rob Farmer
at happened. > Just did - it kills all process and moves to the syncing disks stage. Nothing rc related is touched. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Rob Farmer
single file, though Vmware has an option to split it up for these situations. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: manual page formatting issues

2011-02-05 Thread Rob
Yep, that was it. Thanks very much Yuri. On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Yuri Pankov wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 02:24:31PM +1000, Rob wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (running on VMWare Server 2.0.2) and am > > having some odd is

manual page formatting issues

2011-02-04 Thread Rob
s are pretty much the default, including the "Connection->Data->Terminal-type string" set to xterm. The pager in both sessions is set to more. I've played around with various terminal settings, to no avail. Can someone please offer some pointers as to how I mi

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rob Farmer
else. >  So I have no idea where the program is storing the profile info. > > Rem > I think /usr/local/bin/opera is a shell script that sets a couple environment variables and starts the real binary, so maybe you could open it and see if there are any clues. Otherwise, I have no other

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rob Farmer
because the regular user can't write there. I would save any bookmarks or other useful items and then delete the folder. I haven't run into this in FreeBSD but you can get similar problems in Windows if a global profile is created in C:\Program Files\Op

Re: Can't install - Octave, SuiteSparse

2011-01-27 Thread Rob Farmer
od but it was corrected next time the port was updated. I would suggest the reporter try again with a recent version - I suspect it will work fine. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: Should I use the standard-supfile or stable-supfile?

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Farmer
ed: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Farmer
To load sem on every boot put the following into your /boot/loader.conf: sem_load="YES" == -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Rob Farmer
ets up a couple environment variables and runs the real binary. You need to gdb the real binary (which is in /usr/local/lib/firefox or somesuch - its not in any remotely normal $PATH). Since the environment stuff the script does is required for it to start,

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-29 Thread Rob Farmer
Supposedly, English has a lot more homonyms than other languages. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: SD/CF card reader

2010-12-27 Thread Rob Farmer
have been removed from current recently (large discussion of the details): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2010-December/023131.html Even Windows doesn't bother with the alignment in recent versions. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-quest

Re: java

2010-12-26 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 16:59, xinyou yan wrote: > $javac helloworld.java     //No problem > $java   helloworld.class It should be "java helloworld" (no extension). -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Portupgrade status [Was Re: Portmaster general questions and problems]

2010-12-26 Thread Rob Farmer
D5 distinfo broke it and it stayed broken for over a week with no indication given that a fix was in the works. On the other hand, Doug Barton has been very responsive to issues with portmaster and fixed this problem less than 48 hours after it appeared. Hence my recommendation to switch. -- Rob

kernel config file according to config(5): inconsistent ?

2010-12-25 Thread Rob
ght? Same inconsistency for "nodevices" with the syntax in the manpages and the real config file Rob. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

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

2010-12-22 Thread Rob Farmer
sh -x to see more detail. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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"

FBSD 8: custom kernel config ends boot at "mountroot>". Plz. help!

2010-12-19 Thread Rob
fig file? Especially the GEOM_PART_* at the end might be the culprit, although this configuration used to work for 7.3. Thank you! Rob. # My kernel config file: cpuI686_CPU identMYKERNEL options SCHED_ULE# ULE scheduler options PREEMPTION# Enable ker

Re: FreeBSD .dlink 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #1: Tue Nov 9 21:13:03 MSK 2010 r...@.dlink:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

2010-12-04 Thread Rob Farmer
loader.conf to get it automatically every boot. If you are going to manually build things in /usr/src, you should run make obj in the directory first, to create a directory in /usr/obj for output. Otherwise, your .o files and such are mixed in with your sou

Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE

2010-12-03 Thread Rob Farmer
is (right now) called 9.0 for cases where a version number is necessary, because that is what will be branched from it next, but it will become 10.0, 11.0, etc. without a new branch in CVS once more stable branches exist. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articl

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-18 Thread Rob Farmer
s, it may not be worth adding, from a bloat point of view. I would say it is probably safe for your port to assume csh is /bin/csh, though. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Farmer
tent, > instead ${SH} exists. Interesting - I assumed it would be listed in bsd.commands.mk, but it seems to not be. Most of the base system tools are. In any case, glad to hear you got it working. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Farmer
d covers a lot of common problems: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ -- Rob Farmer ___ 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"

ZFS and 4k sector drives

2010-11-15 Thread Rob
ame sector size? Rob ___ 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: JMicron JMB363 PCIe controler doesn't work

2010-11-13 Thread Rob Farmer
ch Puchar, interestingly enough): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-May/199607.html Writing more mail to complain about too much mail is self-defeating. That's why I don't reply to stuff like the devil thread - it just

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Rob Farmer
working copy at once, nor can they commit at exactly the same time. The difference is that locking is done at the application layer, rather than by the OS itself. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:48, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Thu Nov 11 23:20:20 2010 >> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:21:51 -0800 >> From: Rob Farmer >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: Tips for installing

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:06, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:21:51 -0800, Rob Farmer > wrote: >> I'm not saying the CLI is universally bad - if you gain competence >> with a set of programs that you use frequently, it can be very >> efficient. It doe

Re: mergemaster comparing everything.

2010-11-12 Thread Rob Farmer
NG_8_1 1.5.36.1 for RELENG_8 1.5 for MAIN (current) There are many more 1.5.x revisions for other branches. These shouldn't exist - the file hasn't changed since 2000 and 1.5 should just be tagged with for all releases since then. -- Rob Farmer _

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Rob Farmer
uter users will never give up the GUI, because it involves investing in computer skills and they don't see that as terribly worthwhile - they just want to get started on their work. I think some UNIX fans are reluctant to accept this, and in doing so li

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-11 Thread Rob Farmer
limiting me to the programs I know or am willing to read documentation for. I never read documentation for GUI programs - I jump right in and look through the menus to find what I need or realize the program isn't adequate and move on. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: pseuadofs security announcement...

2010-11-11 Thread Rob Farmer
210188, it was fixed in r196859. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-09 Thread Rob Farmer
still points out one of the biggest problems with the CLI - there is a barrier to entry in knowing what commands to run with what arguments to make everything work the way you want. File > Print was easy for your office staff to figure out. The CLI equivalent apparently wasn't. I think many here are underestimating the value of GUIs, because they have been running many of these traditional UNIX commands for years (or decades) and are also technically oriented enough that learning them in the first place wasn't a big deal. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: portupgrade fails to run or do anything

2010-11-07 Thread Rob Farmer
of unreviewed patches. So I would say portupgrade is unmaintained and thus encourage people to move to portmaster. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: portupgrade fails to run or do anything

2010-11-07 Thread Rob Farmer
e port names, but no longer, which is why I > suspect that I have a screwed up database. Perhaps it is fallout from recent infrastructure changes? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2010-October/205680.html Portupgrade doesn't seem to have an active maintainer, so perhaps try

Re: SSHgaurd and PF

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Farmer
.conf (don't forget to restart syslog) and it should be working - I'm not sure what the threshold for sshguard to block someone is, but you could test it - just make sure you have a way to get back in if it works and your IP is blocked (or wait for the next script kiddie). -- Rob

Re: SSHgaurd and PF

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Farmer
- if that isn't working, then check to see if your ftp server is logging to syslog under auth or authpriv. If not you'll need to change the setup to get the logs from the right place. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: SSHgaurd and PF

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Farmer
t you mentioned sets up the table and has pf drop the connection attempts, but you need to configure syslog to fill the table with IPs of attackers. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: SSHgaurd and PF

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Farmer
probably a shared web hosting account that was compromised by a bad php script - even if you successfully complain (assuming it is a legit hoster that cares) and they do something about it, there are thousands more. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questi

Re: Continuing problem with "portsnap"

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Farmer
FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. This is a separate issue due to bad DNS - the list of mirrors is obtained from: host -t srv _http._tcp.portsnap.freebsd.org and falls back to just portsnap.freebsd.org if it doesn't work. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Can't install - Octave, SuiteSparse

2010-10-27 Thread Rob Farmer
h 4.5.2.20101014 on amd64 current recently. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Rob Farmer
nd to wait for something to go wrong before checking (you can tell by the regular threads where people report a problem it already addresses.) -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: how to disable SCTP kernel in FreeBSD

2010-10-25 Thread Rob Farmer
t show up this way unless you run kldstat -v (and it can't be unloaded since there's no module). I'm not familiar with SCTP, but I bet you can shut it off/control it with sysctl (assuming it does anything by default). To completely delete support for it will require building a c

Re: libxul compilation problem

2010-10-17 Thread Rob Farmer
onfiguration, but that assumes a decent amount of swap - I'll bet sysinstall's recommended partitioning would give you 2 GB. Try mailing the maintainers (ge...@freebsd.org) and see what they say. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: libxul compilation problem

2010-10-16 Thread Rob Farmer
multiple CPUs/cores. You can try running with "make -DDISABLE_MAKE_JOBS" to just run one at a time - maybe you have enough memory for that but not multiple jobs at once? -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: libxul compilation problem

2010-10-15 Thread Rob Farmer
need more swap - Mozilla stuff is not know for being light on resources. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-09 Thread Rob Farmer
On Oct 9, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 09:47:04 -0700 > Rob Farmer articulated: > >> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 05:30, Henry Olyer >> wrote: > >> "Surrilous" isn't an English word, nor an obvious typo of one, so I >> h

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-09 Thread Rob Farmer
ess some of it. (For example, the one about making a video and DMCAing it was only re-posted to the list after it was sent to me and I publicly replied). -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-09 Thread Rob Farmer
; > Disagree?  Well, re-read what you wrote.  See what I mean? I *still* see no explaination of why the EAR doesn't apply or why I am wrong - just tangents about my world view, etc. The only other person who actually addressed the issue of US export laws, Robert Bonomi, largel

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 21:47, Jarrod Slick wrote: > @rob, > > Kinda wish you would make a video wherein you read your above statement from > a teleprompter with a green-screened American flag billowing in the > background.  You might want to add in a statement about your dee

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Rob Farmer
t that since key parts of FreeBSD are contributions by people in the US and are then exported, it just might actually be affected by what US lawmakers say about exports. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-07 Thread Rob Farmer
r messages says things like "El 07/10/2010" and "Rob Farmer escribió" and you seem unwilling to actually talk about US law, I'm curious to know where you attended law school and what states you are licensed to practice in, since you seem to be offe

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-07 Thread Rob Farmer
yer about doing such an export, it is reasonable to expect that they would bring this up, rather than just summarize license terms on a one-off basis. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Fwd: Canon Support Centre - Ref # 00066023

2010-10-06 Thread Rob Hurle
with Linux (Debian and Red Hat) (see below). This same software seems to be provided for all of the Canon LBP series printers. Cheers to all, Rob Hurle -- Forwarded message -- From: Techsupport Date: 7 October 2010 14:19 Subject: Canon Support Centre - Ref # 00066023 To: "

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Rob Farmer
eBSD never touched the license header. However, I am going to do it next time to avoid confusions. ( http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-October/222451.html ) I don't think this makes a bit of difference (it fact it would be somewhat misleading) since the export restrictions are

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Rob Farmer
nd such allow people in the embargoed countries to download code - I've seen a brief reference saying Sourceforge was forced to IP ban these. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Rob Farmer
f you are in the US, these laws regarding what may be exported to where always apply, regardless of what the license says. Making the license more visible may be a good idea, but doesn't materially change the situation any. -- Rob Farmer

Re: rebuilding world - is "chflags -R noschg *" necessary?

2010-09-23 Thread Rob Farmer
s with immutable flag set? > Is this step really necessary? It will happen on amd64 if you build the lib32 bits (i386 compatibility libraries). -- Rob Farmer > > many thanks > anton > > -- > Anton Shterenlikht > Room 2.6, Queen's Building > Mech Eng Dept > Bris

Re: why is the PHP stuff line "off" by default in ports/lang/php5?

2010-09-20 Thread Rob Farmer
er work to do that, then, as I said, don't reply and let someone else explain it. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: why is the PHP stuff line "off" by default in ports/lang/php5?

2010-09-20 Thread Rob Farmer
ml [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-June/151384.html -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: why is the PHP stuff line "off" by default in ports/lang/php5?

2010-09-19 Thread Rob Farmer
e. > > Not a problem when you have the horsepower and time to build it, but a > significant loss of ability to install apache+php from packages, as you > once could from the CDs .. guess I just got spoiled back there in the > olden days :) Adding a slave port would proba

Re: virtaullBox AMD64 32bit lib

2010-09-15 Thread Rob Byrnes
> > I make post about this error in  freebsdforums but they can not help me > please see link > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17607 > > they said problem is ccache and I disable and remove ccache  ,but still I > have that probelm > please help me I had a sim

Re: CPU temp munin plugin

2010-09-15 Thread Rob Byrnes
2010/9/15 Dánielisz László : > Hi, > > What plugin do you use in munin to get values of your CPU? There are several, and some have dependencies on other software - what cpu are you using? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Farmer
7.1.1 build-282343. It has kernel modules for 8.0 i386 & amd64. http://www.predatorlabs.net/dl/vmware-tools-freebsd-711.iso -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Farmer
naries for releases and open-vm-tools is marked broken on current. -- Rob Farmer > > current# pwd > /usr/ports/emulators > current# mv vmware-guestd6 vmware-guestd6.old > current# tar xzf ~guru/vmware-guestd6.tar.gz > current# cd vmware-guestd6 > current# make > ==

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