Re: Mixing different versions of PHP extensions

2010-05-11 Thread Antonio Kless
2010/5/11 Toomas Aas toomas@raad.tartu.ee Is it possible to rebuild just the php52-gd extension to a newer version of php52-gd-5.2.13 and have it working with existing php5-5.2.9 and all the existing extensions, or would it be asking for trouble? It is possible as a interim measure,

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-11 Thread perryh
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for NAS that works well for both FreeBSD and Windows clients? IME, among commercial offerings, virtually all support SMB (via Samba) but only the high-end (large relatively costly) ones support NFS also. (A

freeBSD 8.0

2010-05-11 Thread Chohwora
Hello, I am trying to download freeBSD version 8.0 I would like to find out, for a complete installation of a freeBSD 8.0. how many disks does it contain? I mean does it have disk1, disk2, etc? After downloading in ISO image, how do I burn it on a Cd so that it can be installed as a bootable

Re: freeBSD 8.0

2010-05-11 Thread Aiza
Chohwora wrote: Hello, I am trying to download freeBSD version 8.0 I would like to find out, for a complete installation of a freeBSD 8.0. how many disks does it contain? I mean does it have disk1, disk2, etc? After downloading in ISO image, how do I burn it on a Cd so that it can be

Re: freeBSD 8.0

2010-05-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Various leading lights of the FreeBSD project dropped from the CC -- you really only need to ask on freebsd-questi...@... or even better, *read* the archives where your questions have certainly been answered already many times. On 11/05/2010

Problem with Custom Kernel

2010-05-11 Thread Heshmat Ismail
Dear Sir, My name is Heshmat Ismail.The output of uname-a is:- FreeBSD  8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #12: Tue May 11 11:05:22 UTC 2010 heshmat@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  i386 After I have built and installed my custom kernel  (MYKERNEL),i installed xorg and ran the command startx but

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-11 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:00 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for NAS that works well for both FreeBSD and Windows clients? IME, among commercial offerings, virtually all support SMB (via Samba) but only the

Re: md5(1) and cal(1)

2010-05-11 Thread Robert Huff
Warren Block writes: 1. Why doesn't cal(1) hilight the current day? cal on FreeBSD 8 does highlight the current date. Confirmed for both xterm and whatever the console driver is using. Robert Huff ___

rookie question about PACKAGESITE

2010-05-11 Thread Coert
Hello all, I started using FreeBSD about a week ago, and I really like the system. Have been using Linux for the last few years. One noob question though, according to the Handbook on Packages and Ports, I can use packages for either RELEASE, STABLE, or CURRENT. How exactly would this

Re: rookie question about PACKAGESITE

2010-05-11 Thread Ross Cameron
Hey hey Coert Nice to see another GLUG member on here. The link below will answer you're question. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html In general give the FreeBSD Handbook a read, in my concerted little opinion it is the gold standard in how any

Re: rookie question about PACKAGESITE

2010-05-11 Thread RW
On Tue, 11 May 2010 13:42:52 +0200 Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, I started using FreeBSD about a week ago, and I really like the system. Have been using Linux for the last few years. One noob question though, according to the Handbook on Packages and Ports, I can use

How do I align 4k drives?

2010-05-11 Thread Gabe
Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a new 1TB WD10EARS drive which has the Advance Format deal and requires alignment but despite all of my efforts I've been unable to figure out. Help? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How do I align 4k drives?

2010-05-11 Thread Steve Polyack
On 05/11/10 07:58, Gabe wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a new 1TB WD10EARS drive which has the Advance Format deal and requires alignment but despite all of my efforts I've been unable to figure out. Help? Sysinstall does not make it easy. The Advanced fdisk function

Re: Finding out when a child process forks or calls exec

2010-05-11 Thread Dan McNulty
Hi all, I have been experimenting with ptrace to determine when a child process forks or calls exec. Particularly, I have explored tracing every system call entry and exit similar to what the truss utility does, and for my case, the performance impact of tracing every system call is too great.

is it safe to crossbuild 6.4 i386 on 7.3 amd64 box?

2010-05-11 Thread pluknet
Hi, That's sort of for the record. I faced with issue where I wasn't able to boot a box w/ kernel built with subj scheme. On build box with 7.3-amd64 installed: 1. prepare world/kernel in an existing chrooted 6.4-S environment = doesn't work (see below) 2. prepare world/kernel just cd'ing to

Re: glabel nor tunefs save my labels

2010-05-11 Thread David DEMELIER
Thanks for all your answers. mark...@melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f tunefs: POSIX.1e ACLs: (-a)disabled tunefs: NFSv4 ACLs: (-N) disabled tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l) disabled tunefs: soft

Re: md5(1) and cal(1)

2010-05-11 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 10 22:25:31 2010 Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 17:35:45 -0800 From: David Allen the.real.david.al...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: md5(1) and cal(1) 1. Why doesn't cal(1) hilight the current day? Because we're waitng for

Re: glabel nor tunefs save my labels

2010-05-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Thanks for all your answers. mark...@melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f snip tunefs: volume label: (-L) usr It's weird, as you can see the label is set but nothing in /dev/label, /dev/ufs,

Re: md5(1) and cal(1)

2010-05-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:26:35PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 10 22:25:31 2010 Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 17:35:45 -0800 From: David Allen the.real.david.al...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: md5(1) and cal(1) 1.

Re: glabel nor tunefs save my labels

2010-05-11 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/5/11 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Thanks for all your answers. mark...@melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f snip tunefs: volume label: (-L)                                 usr It's weird, as you can see the label is set

Re: md5(1) and cal(1)

2010-05-11 Thread Karl Vogel
On Mon, 10 May 2010 17:35:45 -0800, David Allen the.real.david.al...@gmail.com said: D 1. Why doesn't cal(1) hilight the current day? I'm not sure, but it's easy enough to script. See below the signature. If you don't have /bin/ksh, change the first line to #!/bin/sh. You

Re: glabel nor tunefs save my labels

2010-05-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:46:57PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/5/11 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Thanks for all your answers. mark...@melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f snip tunefs: volume label: (-L)            

user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm planning on setting up a workstation in our library for the SOLE purpose of scanning flash drives. My users are 100% windows users, and have never used anything else. In case you are curious, all usb ports are disabled on ALL windows machines. So the question is I want to make this

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Gary Gatten
If that's all your doing on that system, maybe some restricted shell with automagical scan script would be fine? Just a thought. Avoid GUI's if you can! -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Paul

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 11 May 2010, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I'm planning on setting up a workstation in our library for the SOLE purpose of scanning flash drives. What do you mean by scanning flash drives? Scanning for files, viruses, images, what? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
For virus/malware Sorry bout that -Original Message- From: Warren Block [mailto:wbl...@wonkity.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:49 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: user friendliest gui On Tue, 11 May 2010, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I'm planning on setting

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
My users here, no gui = machine is broken From: Eitan Adler [mailto:li...@eitanadler.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:48 PM To: Gary Gatten Cc: Jean-Paul Natola; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: user friendliest gui On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Gary

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 18:51:44 + Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: user friendliest gui My users here, no gui = machine is broken From: Eitan Adler [mailto:li...@eitanadler.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:48 PM

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Eitan Adler
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: If that's all your doing on that system, maybe some restricted shell with automagical scan script would be fine? Just a thought. Avoid GUI's if you can! Why? For most users GUIs are far easier to understand and use.

Re: md5(1) and cal(1)

2010-05-11 Thread Eitan Adler
D 2. Why doesn't md5(1) have a check option? Seems to me requiring a D manual inspection is error-prone at best, and makes scripting D unecessarily complicated. Would something like the attached patch be good? It adds a -c option for a string to check against. It prints [failed] if the

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Eitan Adler
Why?? Because, In this case, the GUI is entirely -un-necessary-. The user doesn't have to do anything other than stick the flash drive in the USB port. My users here, no gui = machine is broken makes it very necessary. Anyway if you want a really simple GUI try icewm or dwm. The former

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 11 May 2010 14:07:10 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Why?? Because, In this case, the GUI is entirely -un-necessary-. The user doesn't have to do anything other than stick the flash drive in the USB port. The machine does everything else. *WITHOUT* any

Disk can't be found, boot stops at mountroot

2010-05-11 Thread Leslie Jensen
System 7.2-RELEASE I made the first reboot after freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE freebsd-update install and I'm now stuck at the mountroot prompt that says trying to mount from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ROOT MOUNT ERROR The command ? to list valid boot devices gives List of GEOM managed disk devices:

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 11 May 2010 22:30:08 +0300, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: My users here, no gui = machine is broken And they *do* use computers? :-) makes it very necessary. Sure. Anyway if you want a really simple GUI try icewm or dwm. The former recently had a thread on its

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread osp
On Tue, 11 May 2010 18:49:51 + Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: For virus/malware Sorry bout that -Original Message- From: Warren Block [mailto:wbl...@wonkity.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:49 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject:

Re: VirtualBox: no network

2010-05-11 Thread Anselm Strauss
Okay, so it works with the stock kernel when I don't load the module and don't start the vboxnet service on boot, but just manually load the vboxnetflt module when the system is up. Then I start virtualbox and the network works fine. Unfortunately there is no indication what kernel modules are

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Will it pop-up a message saying your drive is clean? If so then great -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Bonomi Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 3:07 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE:

Re: how to force end-of-line in man page source

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:36:20PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: I don't like the way some lines in the man page have the last word in the sentence broken in 2 and hyphenated. Is there some escape code I can put at the end of the line in the source code to suppress this? You can generally override the

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-11 Thread Chip Camden
Thanks for all the replies. FreeNAS looks like the ticket. BTW, sharity-light is marked as broken in the ports -- does not compile. I'm on 8.0-STABLE amd64. On May 11 2010 06:43, Andrew Gould wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:00 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chip Camden

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: Will it pop-up a message saying your drive is clean? If so then great -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert

Re: Disk can't be found, boot stops at mountroot

2010-05-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: System 7.2-RELEASE I made the first reboot after freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE freebsd-update install and I'm now stuck at the mountroot prompt that says trying to mount from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ROOT MOUNT ERROR The

Re: Disk can't be found, boot stops at mountroot

2010-05-11 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-05-12 00:06, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu mailto:les...@eskk.nu wrote: System 7.2-RELEASE I made the first reboot after freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE freebsd-update install and I'm now stuck at the

Re: Disk can't be found, boot stops at mountroot

2010-05-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: On 2010-05-12 00:06, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu mailto:les...@eskk.nu wrote: System 7.2-RELEASE I made the first reboot after freebsd-update -r

dumping a raid member with 'dd' for insurance...

2010-05-11 Thread George Sanders
A 3ware raid5 array I had died. It looks like the data is intact, and there are two good recovery methods: 1) a toolchain from 3ware that, if it doesn't work, will destroy the data. This method is free, and I can do it myself. 2) professional forensic services. Costs a lot. I'm going to

Re: dumping a raid member with 'dd' for insurance...

2010-05-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On May 11, 2010, at 3:35 PM, George Sanders wrote: [ ... ] I am planning on attaching each individual member of the raid5 array to a test FreeBSD system, and run: dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/data/disk/image.file Two questions: - is that a complete 'dd' command, or do I need to specify

replies from mpcustomer.com

2010-05-11 Thread Adam Vande More
Recently, when posting to this list, I've been getting replies to my messages like below: Any ideas what's going on? Hello, This is an automated response to inform you that your question has been entered into our system, and will be reviewed shortly. Your ticket has been submitted into the

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Robert Bonomi
From andrewlylego...@gmail.com Tue May 11 16:46:38 2010 Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:46:50 -0500 Subject: Re: user friendliest gui From: Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com To: Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org Cc: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com,

Re: replies from mpcustomer.com

2010-05-11 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 00:35:39 Adam Vande More wrote: Recently, when posting to this list, I've been getting replies to my messages like below: Any ideas what's going on? See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-May/216214.html . -- Bruce Cran

Re: replies from mpcustomer.com

2010-05-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On May 11, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: Recently, when posting to this list, I've been getting replies to my messages like below: Any ideas what's going on? Yes. Some childish person presumably forged a subscription of this mpcustomer.com support address to the

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
These tasks may be trivial to all members on this list, but to a novice like myself, seems a bit overwhelming to be honest. As far as the touchscreen goes , thats a nice thought, but not in our budget. I'd prefer to spend ~300 dollars on the reciept style printer. Can someone point me in

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-11 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: These tasks may be trivial to all members on this list, but to a novice like myself, seems a bit overwhelming to be honest. As far as the touchscreen goes , thats a nice thought, but not in our budget. I'd prefer to spend ~300 dollars on the

Re: Problem with Custom Kernel

2010-05-11 Thread Tim Judd
On 5/11/10, Heshmat Ismail real_precious_st...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear Sir, My name is Heshmat Ismail.The output of uname-a is:- FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #12: Tue May 11 11:05:22 UTC 2010 heshmat@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 After I have built and installed my custom

Odd routing issue...

2010-05-11 Thread Glenn Sieb
Running: FreeBSD caduceus.wingfoot.org 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #42: Fri May 7 19:22:48 EDT 2010 r...@caduceus.wingfoot.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDALS amd64 I'm getting a route added upon reboot with the hostname of the box, going to lo0. It's preventing things like, pinging

Re: Odd routing issue...

2010-05-11 Thread Ed Jobs
On Wednesday 12 of May 2010 06:07, Glenn Sieb wrote: I'm getting a route added upon reboot with the hostname of the box, going to lo0. It's preventing things like, pinging itself. I can manually delete the route, but.. where is it being set to begin with?! well, that behaviour is what i would