Re: [Fwd: Re: src.conf: WITHOUT_SOMETHING]

2008-08-02 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:15:59 -0500 Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will mention that not having sendmail, you may break something (but I'm not sure if that particular knob means that there will be no local mailer at all). Depends - you may have postfix installed and /etc/mail/*

Re: src.conf: WITHOUT_SOMETHING

2008-08-02 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:04:32 +0200 Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's say I add WITHOUT_SOMETHING to /etc/rc.conf, and remake and reinstall my world. for the record, /etc/src.conf , not /etc/rc.conf is the file that should have these options. B _

Software RAID options for a media server

2008-08-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Guys, As my dream of a hardware based SCSI RAID root disk was so soundly dashed, I have been trying to figure out the most appropriate software implementation for a media server. Which sw RAID is best for streaming media? The options I have are: RAID1z, the redundancy is not my concern

Re: no toe capability on...

2008-08-02 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hey, no toe capability on 0xc2e66400 Looks like this is was fixed 7/31/2008: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_offload.c.diff?r1=texttr1=1.4.2.1r2=texttr2=1.4.2.2 That was fast! Bye, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: mount_msdosfs usb flash stick

2008-08-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
da0s1 On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, joeb wrote: On 6.2 release of FBSD trying to mount a usb flash memory stick. The stick has a msdos file system on it and has been loaded with files using windows xp. When I plug the stick into my FBSD box I get console msg about da0 device as usb flash memory stick.

get periodic to not scan a partition

2008-08-02 Thread B. Cook
hello all, I have a machine doing backups with backuppc (excellent program btw) and I have them being stored in /exports /dev/ad4s1h 57G 31G 21G60%/exports /dev/ad4s1h on /exports (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates) it is now almost 6:20 am and periodic has been running

Re: get periodic to not scan a partition

2008-08-02 Thread Christian Hiris
On Saturday 02 August 2008, B. Cook wrote: hello all, I have a machine doing backups with backuppc (excellent program btw) and I have them being stored in /exports /dev/ad4s1h 57G 31G 21G60%/exports /dev/ad4s1h on /exports (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates) it is now

Re: get periodic to not scan a partition

2008-08-02 Thread RW
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 06:22:17 -0400 B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all, I have a machine doing backups with backuppc (excellent program btw) and I have them being stored in /exports /dev/ad4s1h 57G 31G 21G60%/exports /dev/ad4s1h on /exports (ufs, local,

Re: get periodic to not scan a partition

2008-08-02 Thread B. Cook
On Aug 2, 2008, at 8:19 AM, RW wrote: On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 06:22:17 -0400 B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all, I have a machine doing backups with backuppc (excellent program btw) and I have them being stored in /exports /dev/ad4s1h 57G 31G 21G60%/exports

Re: X won't start up; No matching Device section

2008-08-02 Thread Helge Rohde
On Saturday 02 August 2008 02:30:22 David Gurvich wrote: Have you loaded all the kernel modules you need and installed xf86-video-chips? I am not aware of any kernel modules that i would have to load explicitely. And, yes, as indicated by the Xorg.log snippet, the chips driver is present.

Re: get periodic to not scan a partition

2008-08-02 Thread RW
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 08:30:20 -0400 B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 2, 2008, at 8:19 AM, RW wrote: On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 06:22:17 -0400 B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all, I have a machine doing backups with backuppc (excellent program btw) and I have them being

gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread mcassar
hi, i have a new freebsd 7-release installed and very new to anything outside windows and may have jumped into the deep end to soon- but freebsd is the only thing i liked and want to keep, mess around with and hopefully learn something; so all i know is what i got from the handbook and the net

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread RW
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 15:50:48 +0200 mcassar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: firstly - i have installed kde3 and xfce4 from packages (like most of it - xorg,etc) and have tried updates before with different results. i don't mind messing things up, as long as i can somehow surf or check mails - but

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread mcassar
On Saturday 02 August 2008 17:32:53 RW wrote: On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 15:50:48 +0200 mcassar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: firstly - i have installed kde3 and xfce4 from packages (like most of it - xorg,etc) and have tried updates before with different results. i don't mind messing things up, as

Re: I can't make world without the games group?

2008-08-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
Adding WITHOUT_GAMES=YES to /etc/src.conf most certainly didn't work. Why does FreeBSD pack so much, pardon my language, bullshit anyway? Yes, one or two (out of one or two million) might need it, but can't we make it available to them in some other way? As a module or a port or something?

jail_box_ip=insert hundreds of ips here

2008-08-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
Hey, I got a couple of hundred IPs, is there an easy way to add them all to jail_box_ip=ip1,ip2,ip3 without making like the longest line ever? Like this? jail_box_ip=66.252.2.4,\ 66.252.2.5,\ 66.252.2.6,\ Unfortunately that doesn't look too good. Nor does: export x=$(cat ips);export

Re: pxeboot

2008-08-02 Thread davidcollins001
Hi, Thanks both for your replies. I think the top of that article applies to me, in that I am trying to do something that I don't fully understand! I am fairly confident that I have the DHCP and TFTP setup correctly in as much as I get pxeboot on the booted machine (and I have gotten it working

Re: jail_box_ip=insert hundreds of ips here

2008-08-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
Here's what I got so far: http://pastie.org/246189 And this is just wishful thinking I guess: http://pastie.org/246190 On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I got a couple of hundred IPs, is there an easy way to add them all to jail_box_ip=ip1,ip2,ip3

Re: I can't make world without the games group?

2008-08-02 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 06:48:27PM +0200, Redd Vinylene wrote: Why does FreeBSD pack so much, pardon my language, bullshit anyway? Because no one has done the necessary QA work to factor things out and make them work. mcl ___

Re: I can't make world without the games group?

2008-08-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2008/8/2 Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Adding WITHOUT_GAMES=YES to /etc/src.conf most certainly didn't work. Why does FreeBSD pack so much, pardon my language, bullshit anyway? There can be, and has been, said the same about nearly every part of the base system, at some point. Perhaps

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread Michael Powell
mcassar wrote: [snip] I only tried csup on ports once and wasn't too sure i should since the handbook or somewhere mentioned the ports tree should be empty the first time you run it; and got the impression you should only use either or (csup vs portsnap). I can only speak to cvsup or csup

Re: jail_box_ip=insert hundreds of ips here

2008-08-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
Redd Vinylene wrote: Hey, I got a couple of hundred IPs, is there an easy way to add them all to jail_box_ip=ip1,ip2,ip3 without making like the longest line ever? Like this? jail_box_ip=66.252.2.4,\ 66.252.2.5,\ 66.252.2.6,\ Unfortunately that doesn't look too good. Nor does: export

Re: I can't make world without the games group?

2008-08-02 Thread RW
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 18:48:27 +0200 Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adding WITHOUT_GAMES=YES to /etc/src.conf most certainly didn't work. Why does FreeBSD pack so much, pardon my language, bullshit anyway? It's largely a consequence of having a coherent OS, rather than a kernel and

Re: jail_box_ip=insert hundreds of ips here

2008-08-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
jail_box_ip=$( jot -w 66.252.2.%d -s , 124 4 ) What a gorgeous solution ;) Thanks man! On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redd Vinylene wrote: Hey, I got a couple of hundred IPs, is there an easy way to add them all to jail_box_ip=ip1,ip2,ip3 without

Re: jail_box_ip=insert hundreds of ips here

2008-08-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
Can something similar be used for my ifconfig_rl0_aliasN=inet 66.252.2.N netmask 255.255.255.255 as well? On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jail_box_ip=$( jot -w 66.252.2.%d -s , 124 4 ) What a gorgeous solution ;) Thanks man! On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread mcassar
On Saturday 02 August 2008 19:38:20 Michael Powell wrote: I can only speak to cvsup or csup (which I use) but I'd like to point out a very common mistake wrt either. It is a good idea to have two different sup files, as they will need to download different collections of material. For example

Reducing 124 ifconfig lines in rc.conf to just 1

2008-08-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
Greetings! I got 124 ifconfig lines going from ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet 80.252.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.255 to ifconfig_rl0_alias124=inet 80.252.2.127 netmask 255.255.255.255. Is it possible reducing it all to just 1 line using a for loop or jot or something? -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene

Client only supports checkout mode

2008-08-02 Thread kalin m
hi all... why would i get : Client only supports checkout mode when i do; csup /cvsup_file on a new freebsd 7 install what does it mean?! thanks... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 18:32:53 +0200, mcassar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: damn, thanks - I had mistaken stable to be what is release; i had come across the difference at some point but didn't realise when i tried cvsup (which i also mistook to be more recent than csup). First of all, a hearty

Re: jail_box_ip=insert hundreds of ips here

2008-08-02 Thread Lars Kristiansen
Redd Vinylene skrev: Can something similar be used for my ifconfig_rl0_aliasN=inet 66.252.2.N netmask 255.255.255.255 as well? This is not as elegant, but may help in a similar way: alia=-1; while [ $alia -lt '123' ] ; do alia=$(($alia+1)) ; ips=$(($alia+4)) ; echo

Using CPUTYPE=core2, Penryn instructions support

2008-08-02 Thread Jakub Lach
Hello. From what I understand, gcc42 does not support core2 option. How it's possible that some people are using it with FreeBSD -CURRENT (and it's not used as mere prescott alias). http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-CPUTYPE-p10787174.html Is -CURRENT using newer version of gcc, despite licensing

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread Robert Huff
Michael Powell writes: I can only speak to cvsup or csup (which I use) but I'd like to point out a very common mistake wrt either. It is a good idea to have two different sup files, as they will need to download different collections of material. For example this: *default

Re: Reducing 124 ifconfig lines in rc.conf to just 1

2008-08-02 Thread Polytropon
Hi! On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 21:11:47 +0200, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! I got 124 ifconfig lines going from ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet 80.252.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.255 to ifconfig_rl0_alias124=inet 80.252.2.127 netmask 255.255.255.255. Is it possible reducing it all to

Re: Reducing 124 ifconfig lines in rc.conf to just 1

2008-08-02 Thread Polytropon
Hi! On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 21:11:47 +0200, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! I got 124 ifconfig lines going from ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet 80.252.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.255 to ifconfig_rl0_alias124=inet 80.252.2.127 netmask 255.255.255.255. Is it possible reducing it all to

Re: The best way to upgrade my FreeBSD and its jails

2008-08-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
Sorry, JAILS=/usr/jail for jail in $JAILS/*; do mergemaster -p -D $jail make installworld delete-old delete-old-libs DESTDIR=$jail mergemaster -i -U -D $jail done :) On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, JAILS=/usr/jail for jail in

Re: Reducing 124 ifconfig lines in rc.conf to just 1

2008-08-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
Cool! But isn't that to define the entire class? In my case it's just *.3 to *.127, do you mean I can just ifconfig_rl0_aliases=inet 80.252.2.3/127 netmask 255.255.255.255 or something? Probably not but worth a try ;) On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redd

Re: Reducing 124 ifconfig lines in rc.conf to just 1

2008-08-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 21:11:47 +0200, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! I got 124 ifconfig lines going from ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet 80.252.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.255 to ifconfig_rl0_alias124=inet

Re: jail_box_ip=insert hundreds of ips here

2008-08-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
Actually: jail_box_ip=$( jot -w 66.252.2.%d -s , 124 4 ) gives me: Aug 2 20:10:50 mother root: /etc/rc: WARNING: devfs_set_ruleset: you must specify a ruleset number Aug 2 20:10:58 mother root: /etc/rc: ERROR: jail: No IP address has been defined for box On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Lars

Did a makeworld now my jails won't start!! Uh oh..

2008-08-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
Greetings, i just did a makeworld of my main system and both my jails (http://pastie.org/246273) but now my jails won't run. i get Starting jails:/etc/rc.d/jail: WARNING: devfs_set_ruleset: you must specify a ruleset number devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_SAPPLY: No such process here's my main

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread mcassar
On Saturday 02 August 2008 21:43:43 Robert Huff wrote: Michael Powell writes: I can only speak to cvsup or csup (which I use) but I'd like to point out a very common mistake wrt either. It is a good idea to have two different sup files, as they will need to download different collections

Re: Did a makeworld now my jails won't start!! Uh oh..

2008-08-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
I tried changing camel_ruleset and box_ruleset to devfsrules_jail in rc.conf, it got rid of the devfs_set_ruleset: you must specify a ruleset number but whenever I try to SSH into one of my jails I seem to have logged onto the main system. I'm confused :( On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Redd

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread mcassar
thanks alot for that. i mean, apart from your general overview of freebsd (system, project and community), which gives me an idea how things are done, what's happeniing and where things are, you really put me at ease with trying to figure out these warnings, or at least what to expect and

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-07-13 - 2008-08-02

2008-08-02 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

undocumented tar --unlink switch

2008-08-02 Thread perryh
Around line 37 of /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/extract.c there's an invocation of /usr/bin/tar with a --unlink switch, which I don't see mentioned in the tar(1) manpage. Anyone happen to know what this does, or do I need to dig into the code? ___

Re: undocumented tar --unlink switch

2008-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 02), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Around line 37 of /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/extract.c there's an invocation of /usr/bin/tar with a --unlink switch, which I don't see mentioned in the tar(1) manpage. Anyone happen to know what this does, or do I need to dig into

Re: undocumented tar --unlink switch

2008-08-02 Thread Josh Carroll
Around line 37 of /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/extract.c there's an invocation of /usr/bin/tar with a --unlink switch, which I don't see mentioned in the tar(1) manpage. Anyone happen to know what this does, or do I need to dig into the code? My guess was that it was the long option

Re: Backspace Key Not Working

2008-08-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 26/07/08 Schiz0 said: Hey, I have an annoying problem that I'm not sure how to solve. Here's my setup: PuTTy = My FreeBSD 6.2 box = Production FreeBSD 7.0 box All via SSH, of course. Now, on my FreeBSD 6.2 box, the backspace key works fine all the time. However, when I connect from

tracker could not connect to server --rtorrent

2008-08-02 Thread luizbcampos
On using rtorrent a sudden message appears up on the screnn --tracker could not connect to server -- I should warn udp ports are disabled on rtorrent.rc despite my machine is behind pf. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list