Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-04-03 Thread docblue
his message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/How-to-prevent-gam-server-from-running-tp5487726p5614491.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

how often to update ports?

2012-03-30 Thread Robert Huff
Aleksandr Miroslav writes: > How often do you folks update your ports/packages. I was manging > two servers for years for my personal web/email, and I've rarely > gone for more than 3 months with any single package being not up > to date, usually about once a month I wo

how often to update ports?

2012-03-30 Thread Aleksandr Miroslav
How often do you folks update your ports/packages. I was manging two servers for years for my personal web/email, and I've rarely gone for more than 3 months with any single package being not up to date, usually about once a month I would update all my ports. Recently, in the past few mont

How to suppress PAM/sshd root login warnings?

2012-03-29 Thread Duckbreath
My system has root login via sshd disabled, and it is going to stay disabled. I don't care if the whole of the entire internet tries to login as root, because: Root login is disabled. However, syslog likes to print little warnings on my console, and in my auth.log, everytime some bot tries. I

Re: satisfying package dependencies from installation DVD when building a port -- HOW?

2012-03-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 15/03/2012 17:11, Robert Urban wrote: > I seem to have found the "problem". I read somewhere that PKG_PATH should > have > the path to the top of the hierarchy, i.e., /cd/packages, and not > /cd/packages/ or /cd/packages/All, because pkg_add was capable of > adding the hierarchical component,

Re: satisfying package dependencies from installation DVD when building a port -- HOW?

2012-03-15 Thread Robert Urban
On 03/14/2012 05:50 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:11:55 +0100, IMAP List Administration wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've just installed 9.0-RELEASE (amd64) in a KVM/Qemo VM on debian linux, >> which >> is extremely painful because of the abysmal I/O performance, and would like >> to >

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:30:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:58:30PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:58:30 +1000 > > From: Da Rock > > Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? > > To: freebsd-questions@fr

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-14 Thread Da Rock
On 03/15/12 05:30, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:58:30PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:58:30 +1000 From: Da Rock Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 03/14/12 13:09, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 13

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:58:30PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:58:30 +1000 > From: Da Rock > Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > On 03/14/12 13:09, Polytropon wrote: > >On Tue, 13

Re: satisfying package dependencies from installation DVD when building a port -- HOW?

2012-03-14 Thread Polytropon
d by PKG_PATH. If there's still an error, can you provide the command you entered plus the output? Maybe adding -v helps to give some more information. > I'm guessing it would be pointless to try to use a (remote) URL in > PACKAGEROOT, > as the "-r" flag *must* be g

satisfying package dependencies from installation DVD when building a port -- HOW?

2012-03-14 Thread IMAP List Administration
stat package file". I'm guessing it would be pointless to try to use a (remote) URL in PACKAGEROOT, as the "-r" flag *must* be give in order for pkg_add to honor the setting, and god knows how the ports system calls pkg_add, if at all. I had a long look in the docs, but this st

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Da Rock
". :-) The player command is something like % mplayer tv://1 -vo x11 -ao sdl -tv driver=bsdbt848:device=/dev/bktr0 and similarly mencoder can be used (-ovc and -oac need to be adjusted accordingly) to encode to a file. I'm not sure how to handle TV ("antenna") input

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
something like % mplayer tv://1 -vo x11 -ao sdl -tv driver=bsdbt848:device=/dev/bktr0 and similarly mencoder can be used (-ovc and -oac need to be adjusted accordingly) to encode to a file. I'm not sure how to handle TV ("antenna") input as I've always been using a r

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:02:24 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > if it means buying a card, then, nope. i assumed that the > bits were streaming thu my cable to firefox and that thedre > was some program that could collecte these data and stash > them in, say , /tmp. i'm using lin

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 04:14:52PM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:14:52 -0500 > From: Josh Tolbert > Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > On 3/13/12 4:06 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > >

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Josh Tolbert
ings, but they work great with MythTV, VLC and others for recording. Using VLC, I've recorded some videos of a local band on a morning show that have ended up on YouTube...I can send links if you want to see how it looks, although that station only broadcasts in 480i. For what it's

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:39:38PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:39:38 +1000 > From: Da Rock > Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [ ...] > > >>>Additionally, there may be an opti

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:52:36PM -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:52:36 -0500 > From: Joshua Isom > Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > On 3/11/2012 3:28 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > >

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Stas Verberkt
Bernt Hansson schreef op 13-03-2012 12:12: On 2012-03-11 21:28, Gary Kline wrote: or is that illegal, too? Depends on jurisdiction. Indeed, Dutch and Belgium legislation, for example, permit making copies for personal use, which originates from recording the radio with a tape deck, which is

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread FBSD UG
doesn't VLC do that too? On 11 mrt 2012, at 21:28, Gary Kline wrote: > guys, > > i made the mistake that conrad did when replying. i could make e > excuse liked only getting five hours sleep, etc, bujt i wont. > > here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-12 Thread Da Rock
On 03/13/12 12:27, Shane Ambler wrote: On 12/03/2012 10:16, Da Rock wrote: On 03/12/12 07:19, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:28:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? I've been using a Broo

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-12 Thread Shane Ambler
On 12/03/2012 10:16, Da Rock wrote: On 03/12/12 07:19, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:28:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? I've been using a BrookTree ("Haupauge WinTV") PCI car

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-11 Thread Da Rock
On 03/12/12 07:19, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:28:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? I've been using a BrookTree ("Haupauge WinTV") PCI card for capturing from TV which worked

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-11 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:28:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > here us a FBSD qauestion.... how can i capture any tv stream---or > radio stream for later replay? I've been using a BrookTree ("Haupauge WinTV") PCI card for capturing from TV which worked very good using the standard

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-11 Thread Al Plant
Gary Kline wrote: guys, i made the mistake that conrad did when replying. i could make e excuse liked only getting five hours sleep, etc, bujt i wont. here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? or is that illegal, too? gray Aloha

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-11 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/11/2012 3:28 PM, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i made the mistake that conrad did when replying. i could make e excuse liked only getting five hours sleep, etc, bujt i wont. here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? or is that illegal

oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-11 Thread Gary Kline
guys, i made the mistake that conrad did when replying. i could make e excuse liked only getting five hours sleep, etc, bujt i wont. here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? or is that illegal, too? gray -- Gary Kline kl

Re: XFCE - how to edit menu ?

2012-03-07 Thread jb
Da Rock herveybayaustralia.com.au> writes: > ... > > What I found is you start by right clicking on the application menu > > and show properties where you can change from default to custom file > > menu - ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu matches the default and > > is an xml file. > > .

Re: XFCE - how to edit menu ?

2012-03-07 Thread Da Rock
- Office - Orage Globaltime - System - Bulk Rename Terminal Thunar File Manager - Applications Menu - Help How can I edit the menus ? Also, how to rename Applications Menu to e.g. just Menu as it would better reflect applications and system (utilities) components ? I

Re: XFCE - how to edit menu ?

2012-03-07 Thread Shane Ambler
Rename Terminal Thunar File Manager - Applications Menu - Help How can I edit the menus ? Also, how to rename Applications Menu to e.g. just Menu as it would better reflect applications and system (utilities) components ? I started looking at this a while ago, this is

Re: XFCE - how to edit menu ?

2012-03-04 Thread perryh
jb wrote: > How can I edit the menus ? > Also, how to rename Applications Menu to e.g. just Menu as > it would better reflect applications and system (utilities) > components ? > > FB9-release, XFCE 4.8 Dunno how FreeBSD's XFCE port does this since I don't use XFCE,

XFCE - how to edit menu ?

2012-03-03 Thread jb
Thunar File Manager - Applications Menu - Help How can I edit the menus ? Also, how to rename Applications Menu to e.g. just Menu as it would better reflect applications and system (utilities) components ? FB9-release, XFCE 4.8 jb ___ freebsd

Re: How much space do I need on "/" for a 7.4 to 8 stable upgrade?

2012-02-22 Thread Michael Powell
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Joe Moore > wrote: > >> >> I have 65MB of free space on "/". Is that going to be enough? I've >> already moved tftpboot to /usr, cleaned out /root, /boot/kernel.old, and >> /tmp. >> >> What else could I clean out if I need more space? I'm

RE: How much space do I need on "/" for a 7.4 to 8 stable upgrade?

2012-02-22 Thread Joe Moore
-Original Message- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnel...@allantgroup.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:33 PM To: Joe Moore Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much space do I need on "/" for a 7.4 to 8 stable upgrade? In the last episode (Feb 22), Joe Moore

Re: How much space do I need on "/" for a 7.4 to 8 stable upgrade?

2012-02-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 22), Joe Moore said: > I need to upgrade a server from 7.4 stable to 8.x stable. > > I running buildworld as I write this, and plan to build a GENERIC kernel. > > The root disk partition is 248 MB which was probably the auto default size > when the server was originally b

Re: How much space do I need on "/" for a 7.4 to 8 stable upgrade?

2012-02-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Moore writes: > What else could I clean out if I need more space? I'm thinking some > executables in /rescue. "ls -l" shows most of them being 4MB each but that > can't be right. Since they are all links to the same executable, you won't save anything unless you delete all of them, which

RE: How much space do I need on "/" for a 7.4 to 8 stable upgrade?

2012-02-22 Thread Joe Moore
From: Adam Vande More [mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:16 PM To: Joe Moore Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much space do I need on "/" for a 7.4 to 8 stable upgrade? On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Joe Moore wrote: I have 65

Re: How much space do I need on "/" for a 7.4 to 8 stable upgrade?

2012-02-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Joe Moore wrote: > > I have 65MB of free space on "/". Is that going to be enough? I've already > moved tftpboot to /usr, cleaned out /root, /boot/kernel.old, and /tmp. > > What else could I clean out if I need more space? I'm thinking some > executables in /rescu

How much space do I need on "/" for a 7.4 to 8 stable upgrade?

2012-02-22 Thread Joe Moore
I need to upgrade a server from 7.4 stable to 8.x stable. I running buildworld as I write this, and plan to build a GENERIC kernel. The root disk partition is 248 MB which was probably the auto default size when the server was originally built. I remember having to do some scrambling during the

Re: CUPS 1.5.2 not working, like to test 1.4.x, how?

2012-02-21 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:23:19 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:46:52 +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > > Is there any documentation available on how to retrieve old ports > > from the cvs-attic? I just don't know how, so that I could test my > > assumpt

Re: CUPS 1.5.2 not working, like to test 1.4.x, how?

2012-02-20 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:46:52 +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > Is there any documentation available on how to retrieve old ports from > the cvs-attic? I just don't know how, so that I could test my assumption > that CUPS 1.4.x should be working for my setup. There

CUPS 1.5.2 not working, like to test 1.4.x, how?

2012-02-20 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
documentation available on how to retrieve old ports from the cvs-attic? I just don't know how, so that I could test my assumption that CUPS 1.4.x should be working for my setup. Thanks and cheers, -- Christopher TZ GMT + 1h signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-20 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
> to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and > > once this thing is started, there's no stopping it. > > > > PolicyKit is like that too. :) > > > I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it. I >

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-20 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
> to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and > > once this thing is started, there's no stopping it. > > > > PolicyKit is like that too. :) > > > I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it. I >

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-20 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
> to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and > > once this thing is started, there's no stopping it. > > > > PolicyKit is like that too. :) > > > I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it. I >

Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

2012-02-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:27:07PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:27:07 +0100 > From: Polytropon > Subject: Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools? > To: Gary Kline > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-

Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:32:07 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > w can i move a file from my home filesystem to my one disc drive > without using a GUI? i don't have a graphic interface on my FBSD > system and want to save a 600MB file to my cdrom? > > thanks for tips on what i have Long forgotten! I

Re: [OT] Build deps caching (was: How to prevent gam_server from running?)

2012-02-16 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 08:00:28AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 16/02/2012 02:44, Nikola Pavlović wrote: > > (Yes some of the stuff in that list can be > > weeded out with pkg_cutleaves but they end coming back as build > > dependencies of other stuff that I do need). > > You know that portma

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote > Any clues, anyone? I'm really worn out from trying to solve this one. I've not heard of gam_server but try cd /var/db/pkg/gam_server* ; more ./+REQUIRED_BY same result with pkg_info -R gam_server* BTW for window manager I have been using /usr/ports/

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/02/2012 02:44, Nikola Pavlović wrote: > (Yes some of the stuff in that list can be > weeded out with pkg_cutleaves but they end coming back as build > dependencies of other stuff that I do need). You know that portmaster(8) has the capability to delete build-only dependencies? If you create

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-15 Thread Nikola Pavlović
nd > once this thing is started, there's no stopping it. > PolicyKit is like that too. :) > I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it. I > can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from. Whether > it's GNOME or XFCE

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Bertrand
seem to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and once this thing is started, there's no stopping it. I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it. I can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from. Whether it&#x

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-15 Thread Warren Block
's no stopping it. I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it. I can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from. Whether it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some add-on tool somewhere is launching this thing, and I

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-15 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
ist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU > > hog, and once this thing is started, there's no stopping it. > > > > I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable > > it. I can't even figure out where exactly it's being sta

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Bertrand
's no stopping it. I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it. I can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from. Whether it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some add-on tool somewhere is launching this thing, and I just p

How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-15 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
ooked and still can't figure out how to disable it. I can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from. Whether it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some add-on tool somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain don't want it! :-) Any clues, any

Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

2012-02-13 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Feb 13 13:37:30 2012 > Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:32:07 -0800 > From: Gary Kline > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Cc: > Subject: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools? > > > w can i move a file from my home file

Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

2012-02-13 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
be able to open a console and execute scp.  --  Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com > > From: Gary Kline >To: FreeBSD Mailing List >Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 4:32 PM >Subject: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

2012-02-13 Thread Gary Kline
w can i move a file from my home filesystem to my one disc drive without using a GUI? i don't have a graphic interface on my FBSD system and want to save a 600MB file to my cdrom? thanks for tips on what i have Long forgotten! gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org

Re: How to create 2 versions of a port

2012-02-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
rmat. > > I would like to leave the current version in the ports as is which works > fine with the 8.x world and add a second version that only works with > 9.0 and newer. > > Question is how do i change the port description of the current port to > say it supports 8.x wit

Re: How to create 2 versions of a port

2012-02-09 Thread Doug Barton
Please don't cross-post to -questions. Please follow up on -ports. Doug -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/ __

How to create 2 versions of a port

2012-02-09 Thread Fbsd8
the ports as is which works fine with the 8.x world and add a second version that only works with 9.0 and newer. Question is how do i change the port description of the current port to say it supports 8.x with out re-adding the complete port again? I know I have to add the new port version

/dev/ulpt0 -- How is it created?

2012-02-08 Thread Robert Huff
Ronald F. Guilmette writes: > I am rather hoping that whatever that mechanism is, that I can > diddle it somehow so that every time /dev/ulpt0 gets created, it > will be created with perms set to 0666. > > (Sorry, yes, I'm almost totally ignorant about how these k

RE: /dev/ulpt0 -- How is it created?

2012-02-08 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ronald F. Guilmette > Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 1:58 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: /dev/ulpt0 -- How is it created

/dev/ulpt0 -- How is it created?

2012-02-08 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I can diddle it somehow so that every time /dev/ulpt0 gets created, it will be created with perms set to 0666. (Sorry, yes, I'm almost totally ignorant about how these kinds of transient device nodes get automagically created these days.) ___ fr

Re: How to build 9.0 from source?

2012-02-07 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 5 February 2012 09:15, james wrote: > I installed 9.0 without sources. > > Now I'd like to try building the kernel (or specifically the mfi driver), so > I've tried to get the sources. > > The handbook says (in 9.55) to use sysinstall to get the source > configuration - but that doesn't seem to

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-06 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Feb 5, 2012 3:38 PM, "Chris Whitehouse" wrote: > > On 04/02/2012 16:49, Waitman Gobble wrote: >> >> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> >>> On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hello

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 04/02/2012 16:49, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined

Re: How to build 9.0 from source?

2012-02-05 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, james wrote: I installed 9.0 without sources. Now I'd like to try building the kernel (or specifically the mfi driver), so I've tried to get the sources. The handbook says (in 9.55) to use sysinstall to get the source configuration - but that doesn't seem to work and wh

Re: How to build 9.0 from source?

2012-02-05 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, james wrote: I installed 9.0 without sources. Now I'd like to try building the kernel (or specifically the mfi driver), so I've tried to get the sources. The handbook says (in 9.55) to use sysinstall to get the source configuration - but that doesn't seem to work and wha

Re: How to build 9.0 from source?

2012-02-05 Thread Outback Dingo
s no /usr/src/UPDATING to check per 9.5, and 'cd > /usr/src;make buildkernel' tells me: > > make: don't know how t make buildkerel. Stop. > > /usr/src was empty before I set up the 'sys' link (which in my case points > to a zfs volume). > > It seems wr

How to build 9.0 from source?

2012-02-05 Thread james
etch seems more like an 8.x source set, I fetched src.txz and unpacked it and sorted out the /usr/src/sys link, and 'make' in the root of that builds the boot code ok. However, there is no /usr/src/UPDATING to check per 9.5, and 'cd /usr/src;make buildkernel' tells me: mak

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-04 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Waitman Gobble wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Waitman Gobble wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> >>> On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse w

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-04 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Waitman Gobble wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > >> On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-04 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse >> wrote: >> >> Hello >>> >>> I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a >>> combined wireless switch and led.

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is suppo

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-04 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Hello > > I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a > combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but > the light stays red. > > The light is supposed to show red for wireless off a

ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless on. I found some sysctls that control it: d

how safe is kern.geom.part.check_integrity=0 ?

2012-01-29 Thread Julien Cigar
Hello, I upgraded today a gmirror'ed machine from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE, but the system fails to mount my root mirror with an error 19 when I try to boot with the 9.0 kernel. I read that adding kern.geom.part.check_integrity=0 could solve the problem, but I haven't found any statement on

Re: email hosting - How do you do it?

2012-01-28 Thread Zane C. B-H.
avoid it like the plague. Managing it is a bloody PITA given how incomplete it is in so many ways. > First choice so far is postfix, but almost all the virtual hosting > 'howtos' require an SQL database, or editing files by hand. The SQL > part seems like an overkill for ~20-50 email

Re: email hosting - How do you do it?

2012-01-27 Thread Hub- FreeBSD
part >>> seems like an overkill for ~20-50 email accounts, the editing files by >>> hand seems like a pain and requires me doing everything but I'd rather >>> let >>> people manage their own domains. >> >> SQL == SQLite for me … you don't need m

Re: email hosting - How do you do it?

2012-01-27 Thread Peter
s' require an SQL database, or editing files by hand. The SQL part >> seems like an overkill for ~20-50 email accounts, the editing files by >> hand seems like a pain and requires me doing everything but I'd rather >> let >> people manage their own domains. > >

Re: email hosting - How do you do it?

2012-01-26 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Jan 26, 2012 3:39 PM, "Hub- FreeBSD" wrote: > > > On 2012-01-26, at 5:51 PM, Peter wrote: > > > Hello, > > I've been on qmail/vpopmail combo forever and am looking to build a new, > > mail server. > > > > First choice so far is postfix, but almost all the virtual hosting > > 'howtos' require a

Re: email hosting - How do you do it?

2012-01-26 Thread Hub- FreeBSD
On 2012-01-26, at 5:51 PM, Peter wrote: > Hello, > I've been on qmail/vpopmail combo forever and am looking to build a new, > mail server. > > First choice so far is postfix, but almost all the virtual hosting > 'howtos' require an SQL database, or editing files by hand. The SQL part > seems li

email hosting - How do you do it?

2012-01-26 Thread Peter
ts, the editing files by hand seems like a pain and requires me doing everything but I'd rather let people manage their own domains. Just curious on how everyone else does small/medium/large email hosting so that the users have an easy option to change passwords, manage their domains, q

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, robert perry wrote: = From Da Rock: Maybe try openprint.org? Thank you all for your suggestions. I was able to review each and I think they'll be helpful. I almost forgot how much fun this could be. That should be http://www.openprintin

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread robert perry
- Original Message - From: "robert perry" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:39 PM Subject: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers I intend to purchase a multifunction printer (including fax, scanner, & copier) and return to utilizing the BSD operating s

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Robert Bonomi
"robert perry" wrote; > > I intend to purchase a multifunction printer (including fax, scanner, & > copier) and return to utilizing the BSD operating systems. Early research > indicates that few printer manufacturers formally support the FreeBSD or > Unix operating systems but imply that driv

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 05:39, robert perry wrote: I intend to purchase a multifunction printer (including fax, scanner, & copier) and return to utilizing the BSD operating systems. Early research indicates that few printer manufacturers formally support the FreeBSD or Unix operating systems but imply tha

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:39:37 -0500, robert perry wrote: > In the past, I remember visiting certain websites that provided > links to drivers but have forgotten the address. Could someone refresh my > memory or provide an address that could help? Maybe you're thinking about linuxprinting.org whi

How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread robert perry
I intend to purchase a multifunction printer (including fax, scanner, & copier) and return to utilizing the BSD operating systems. Early research indicates that few printer manufacturers formally support the FreeBSD or Unix operating systems but imply that drivers may still be available elsewh

Re: How to destroy a zombie zpool

2012-01-21 Thread Daniel Staal
#x27;t ask me how i know.. it will take a few hours dd'ing from /dev/zero to your devices but it is well worth it when you do any major surgery on drives that had zfs at one point and you want to use them over again with zfs --As for the rest, it is mine. Thanks; I finally had some more ti

Re: How to destroy a zombie zpool

2012-01-16 Thread Robert Boyer
, glabel and gpt uuid's - how to screw up MacOS/Darwin the easy way… On Jan 16, 2012, at 11:19 PM, Fritz Wuehler wrote: >> I've got a weird problem... I was working on installing 9.0 w/zfs on my >> laptop, messed up, rebooted, *formatted the drives* and restarted. Got &g

Re: How to destroy a zombie zpool

2012-01-16 Thread Fritz Wuehler
things. 'zpool import' lists it, but it can't import it because the disks > don't actually exist. 'zpool destroy' can't delete it, because it's not > imported. ('No such pool') Any ideas on how to get rid of it? zfs is famous for fucking i

Re: How to destroy a zombie zpool

2012-01-16 Thread Matt Mullins
elete it, because it's not > imported.  ('No such pool')  Any ideas on how to get rid of it? It sounds like your /boot/zfs/zpool.cache file still has the pool listed. I can't find definitive documentation to this end, but I think "zpool export " might remove the ent

Re: How to destroy a zombie zpool

2012-01-16 Thread Robert Boyer
x27;zpool destroy' can't delete it, because it's not > imported. ('No such pool') Any ideas on how to get rid of it? > > Daniel T. Staal > > --- > This email copyright the author. Unless

How to destroy a zombie zpool

2012-01-16 Thread Daniel Staal
' lists it, but it can't import it because the disks don't actually exist. 'zpool destroy' can't delete it, because it's not imported. ('No such pool') Any ideas on how to get rid of it? Daniel T. Staal

how to look debug info

2012-01-15 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hi in sys/net/netisr.c I have found: SYSCTL_PROC(_net_isr, OID_AUTO, work, CTLFLAG_RD|CTLTYPE_STRUCT|CTLFLAG_MPSAFE, 0, 0, sysctl_netisr_work, "S,sysctl_netisr_work", "Return list of per-workstream, per-protocol work in netisr"); how to look that info? -- С

How much of the manual needs adjustment for 9.0?

2012-01-15 Thread james
but its not clear to me how many of the functions of sysinstall are still supposed to work with a 9.0 release. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: how to force 'device' sources to not compile?

2012-01-09 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On Behalf Of ??? ??? >>> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 1:40 PM >>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> Subject: how to force 'device' sources to not compile? >>> >>> I have errors while compile kernel

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