Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding

2009-04-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote: > I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd-current for > some time, apparently some ports require rebuilding as they are kernel > specific, like hal, so I wonder how to rebuild those ports automatically? If you switch to

Re: mkisofs and directories

2009-04-15 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Am Dienstag, den 14.04.2009, 23:22 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Alexander Best < alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote: this is a question that's always been bugging me: when i give mkisofs a directory as argument it

Re: Need to change screen resolution...

2009-04-15 Thread Bill Moran
"Q. Taylor" wrote: > > Hello > > I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the > default 720x426 (I think). The monitor I use to view all my servers via KVM > switch - the font is too big on the screen - if I could increase the screen > size to maybe 1028x756 that wou

Re: Need to change screen resolution...

2009-04-15 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:33:45 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Yes, of course. Why not? :-) Reason: All this magical autodetect, autoset and autoguess doesn't work on my ancient GPU (ATI Radeon 9200). And I haven't done the "big update" of X yet, because I prefer to ke

Re: Need to change screen resolution...

2009-04-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Q. Taylor wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the > default 720x426 (I think). The monitor I use to view all my servers via KVM > switch - the font is too big on the screen - if I could increase the screen > size

Re: Need to change screen resolution...

2009-04-15 Thread Polytropon
Hi Quin. On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:10:01 -0600, "Q. Taylor" wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the > default 720x426 (I think). [...] if I could increase the screen > size to maybe 1028x756 that would be great. > > Any one knowing please email

Need to change screen resolution...

2009-04-15 Thread Q. Taylor
Hello I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the default 720x426 (I think). The monitor I use to view all my servers via KVM switch - the font is too big on the screen - if I could increase the screen size to maybe 1028x756 that would be great. Any one knowing plea

Re: from very early this morning...

2009-04-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:47:11AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > > >(But if a dual or a quad sucks up too > >many watts, that blows much of the original purpose of cutting my > >footprint. > > > Newer cpu's(multicore vs single) are pretty efficient, here's an article > so you don't have to ta

Re: where to grab source tarball?

2009-04-15 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:10:49 -0400, John Almberg wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory > is empty. "Absolute FreeBSD" glibly says to "grab the source tarball > from a FreeBSD mirror". > [...] > But it isn't clear to me which tarball I need to 'grab', or

IPFW missing feature

2009-04-15 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Freebsd-questions. The tablearg feature provides the ability to use a value, looked up in the table, as the argument for a rule action, action parameter or rule option. This can significantly reduce number of rules in some configura- tions. If two tables are use

Re: where to grab source tarball?

2009-04-15 Thread John Almberg
On Apr 15, 2009, at 4:10 PM, John Almberg wrote: I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory is empty. "Absolute FreeBSD" glibly says to "grab the source tarball from a FreeBSD mirror". Never mind. I figured out how to do this using csup, which will help with lat

FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding

2009-04-15 Thread Eugene L.
I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd-current for some time, apparently some ports require rebuilding as they are kernel specific, like hal, so I wonder how to rebuild those ports automatically? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

MailScanner & sendmail

2009-04-15 Thread Bob Willcox
I asked this question in freebsd-ports (in a different way as I thought maybe I could clarify the situation some by rewording it) the other day and didn't receive any reply so I thought I try here this time. I have a 7.2-prelease system that I am trying to get sendmail and MailScanner running on a

where to grab source tarball?

2009-04-15 Thread John Almberg
I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory is empty. "Absolute FreeBSD" glibly says to "grab the source tarball from a FreeBSD mirror". I found a list of mirrors here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors- ftp.html But it isn't clear

Freebsd, VMware and pertition alignment

2009-04-15 Thread Marcelo Souza
Hi All, Trying to fine tunning an installation of FreeBSD 7 (amd64) on an ESXi server. Anyone here has experience with partition alignment as described here: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/resources/608 My conclusion is that in the RAID/VMFS side, my system is aligned, but I'm not sure about FreeBS

Re: What flash players should be used from ports?

2009-04-15 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM, John Gage wrote: > You have three viable choices, I'd recommend the third: > 1. ports/graphics/gnash or gnash-devel (high CPU utilization on FreeBSD) > 2. ports/www/swfdec-plugin [ ports/graphics/swfdec itself is a > standalone flash player, the plugin port instal

Re: Problem: FreeBSD 7.x && ssh v2 && nss_ldap

2009-04-15 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 04/15/2009 01:33 AM, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > I see a problem on two systems running FreeBSD 7.0 or 7.1 which are > configured as OpenLDAP clients using the nss_ldap module. > > When someone logs on using ssh protocol version 2 the session will not > be initialized correctly. The user will only

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:33:46 -0400, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > Problem is not to select an operating system to use but it is easiness of > usability of FreeBSD especially for the new beginners . The thing with "easieness of usability" is... well... it depends on what you are used to. Those w

Re: mkisofs and directories

2009-04-15 Thread Walt Pawley
At 4:48 PM +0200 4/15/09, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: >> unix naming convention normally dictates the following: >> cp -r /cdrom/dir /mnt/ >> # will create /mnt/dir and everything under it >> cp -r /cdrom/dir/ /mnt/ >> # will copy contents of dir into /mnt >That was what I thought it should do - but

IPFW, KERNEL, sysctl: has no effect changing DUMMYNET.io_fast

2009-04-15 Thread KES
Hi, Freebsd-questions. This change sysctl net.inet.ip.dummynet.io_fast=1 has no effect for packet flow, bug man says: Fast mode allows certain packets to bypass dummynet scheduler if packet flow does not exceed pipe's bandwidth flow does not exceed pipe limit, but packet flow latency is affected

Re: Which one of these two is the correct version?

2009-04-15 Thread barbara
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM, barbara wrote: > > > > Hello FreeBSD Gnome users, > > > > > > I have been a KDE user because gnome installation/upgrade presents such a > > > pain to me most of the time. Today I decided to upgrade gnome from 2.24 > > --> > > > 2.26 but decided to visit the gnome

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:16:02 +0300, Manolis Kiagias > wrote: > > OTOH, you may not want to spend so much time if you just need to have an > > average user's desktop. > > If this case, go with PC-BSD. Looks like "Windows", feels like > "Windows

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:16:02 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: OTOH, you may not want to spend so much time if you just need to have an average user's desktop. If this case, go with PC-BSD. Looks like "Windows", feels like "Windows", still is FreeBSD. :-) (Honestly, it

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:16:02 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > OTOH, you may not want to spend so much time if you just need to have an > average user's desktop. If this case, go with PC-BSD. Looks like "Windows", feels like "Windows", still is FreeBSD. :-) (Honestly, it's not *that* bad and offe

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:44:40 +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > Automounting > is a fiddly thing, and is not necessary for the majority of > applications; remember FreeBSD is primarily a server OS. Well, I'm using it exclusively as a desktop since 4.0, what am I doing wrong? :-) No, honestly: There are

Re:Which one of these two is the correct version?

2009-04-15 Thread barbara
> Hello FreeBSD Gnome users, > > I have been a KDE user because gnome installation/upgrade presents such a > pain to me most of the time. Today I decided to upgrade gnome from 2.24 --> > 2.26 but decided to visit the gnome pages first to see what is said. This is > after looking at /usr/ports/UPDAT

Re: Which one of these two is the correct version?

2009-04-15 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM, barbara wrote: > > Hello FreeBSD Gnome users, > > > > I have been a KDE user because gnome installation/upgrade presents such a > > pain to me most of the time. Today I decided to upgrade gnome from 2.24 > --> > > 2.26 but decided to visit the gnome pages first to

How to check which FIB has a given process

2009-04-15 Thread KES
Hi, Freebsd-questions. I can set process to have some FIB setfib X /some/programm How to check which FIB has some process? -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: hard drive performance

2009-04-15 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/15 Bruce Cran : > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:54:13 +0200 (CEST) > Alexander Best wrote: > >> hi there, >> >> i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other >> one UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries: >> >> ad0: 238474MB at ata0-master SATA300 >> ad1: 157066MB at ata4-mas

Re: Can't log-in anymore

2009-04-15 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/15 Ruel Luchavez : > Hey.. > > Thanks for your reply..lucky for me I have solve my problem...:-) > > > How did you solve it? It's always best to say what you did, in case someone stumbles on this thread using Google; even a link to somewhere explaining is better than nothing. > ...FreeBS

Re: [PHP] putting variables in a variable

2009-04-15 Thread Ray
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 16:33:33 Ray wrote: > Sorry, > I replied to OP, not list and then forwarded it to the wrong list to. Sorry for the spam. :( Ray ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Manolis Kiagias > mailto:sonic200...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > (I have also written a complete set of steps for this - currently in > Greek only, but I will translate it sooner or later) > >

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:50:38 +0300 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > FreeBSD *can* automount. The problem for the time being is pulling a USB > flash drive without unmounting. Looks like this will no longer be a problem on FreeBSD 7.2+. It works fine already on 7.2-Prerelease/RC1. Andreas -- GnuPG key

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > (I have also written a complete set of steps for this - currently in > Greek only, but I will translate it sooner or later) > Such a write-up really will be very useful , because part in the FreeBSD Handbook

Re: mkisofs and directories

2009-04-15 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Dienstag, den 14.04.2009, 23:22 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Alexander Best < > alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote: > > > hi there, > > > > this is a question that's always been bugging me: > > > > when i give mkisofs a directory as argument it always ads the c

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Odhiambo Washington wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has >> FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external >> drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on >

IPFW: table approvement

2009-04-15 Thread KES
Hi. Is it right place to post ideas? If it is lets suggest next approvement IPFW has 'table' command each table entry has some 'tablearg' There are situations when you need each entry has multiple values. For example: #NAT table 1 add 10.0.1.0/24 1 table 1 add 10.0.2.0/24 2 #PIPE table 2 add

Re: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server

2009-04-15 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > just another man that wants to get everything not just for free, but not > even without much knowledge. > > learn and MAKE IT YOURSELF, that it will fit exactly to your needs. > > > Or - provide services fo

Re: ipfw: bandwidth limiting

2009-04-15 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Wojciech Sorry for the delay but in the past I was very busy. I use now the folowing: $ipfwcmd pipe 1 config bw 80kByte/s $ipfwcmd add pipe 1 ip from any to 192.168.10.0/24{100-254} via em1 $ipfwcmd queue 1 config pipe 1 weight 1 mask dst-ip 0x $ipfwcmd add queue 1 all from any to

Re: Splash screen color issues

2009-04-15 Thread Eugene L.
Fbsd1 пишет: Eugene L. wrote: Hello everyone, I have a FreeBSD 7.1-Release (generic kernel), and I am trying to make splash screen feature work properly, so I followed the procedure described in handbook and the splash screen actually loads, except the black is now white, red is violet, etc.

Re: 7.1 System Crashing

2009-04-15 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: > APseudoUtopia wrote: >> >> My FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 system has gone down a few times in the last >> two days. I'm trying to figure out why, but there is nothing in >> /var/log/messages or dmesg about the incident. >> >> Here's the output from the `l

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hello List, > > For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has > FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external > drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on > FreeBSD. > I have seen severa

Re: hard drive performance

2009-04-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:54:13 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other > one UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries: > > ad0: 238474MB at ata0-master SATA300 > ad1: 157066MB at ata4-master > UDMA100 > > i've tried to

Re: Corrupt libraries

2009-04-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Ruel Luchavez wrote: > Hi List.. > > Is there any way how to determine a corrupt libraries in Freebsd 7.0? > > or is there any command how to check libraries? It depends on what do you need it for. Out of the box, there is no way to check if the libraries have been changed / corrupted from the t

Re: How to "portinstall -P" packages that alter ther names via PKGNAMESUFFIX?

2009-04-15 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/15 Panagiotis Christias : > RW wrote: >> >> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:24:59 +0300 >> Panagiotis Christias wrote: >> >>> The setup works quite well and has saved us a lot of time and effort. >>> Currently we are looking for ways to automate as much as possible the >>> whole process. One of the

Re: hard drive performance

2009-04-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other one > UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries: > > ad0: 238474MB at ata0-master SATA300 > ad1: 157066MB at ata4-master UDMA100 > > i've tried to test the drives' performances using the follow

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/15 Odhiambo Washington : > Hello List, > > For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has > FreeBSD under the hood. No! It has Darwin under the hood, but uses the FreeBSD userland. > When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external > drive) to a Mac, it gets au

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hello List, > > For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow > has FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, > external drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not > happen on FreeBSD. > I have seen sever

Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, April 15, 2009 a las 02:50:03PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington escribió: > Hello List, > > For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has > FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external > drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted,

Re: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server

2009-04-15 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, Dnia 15-04-2009 o 13:58:04 Wojciech Puchar napisał(a): just another man that wants to get everything not just for free, but not even without much knowledge. Hmm... who says I want to get everyting for free (without trying and learning)? Have you read my post? I did make a note about

Re: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server

2009-04-15 Thread Outback Dingo
ISPCP, sysCP, DTC GNUPanelhttp://gnupanel.org/ OpenPanel http://www.openpanel.com/ ispCP Omega http://isp-control.net/ RavenCore http://www.ravencore.com/ 2009/4/15 Zbigniew Szalbot > Hello, > > Do you know any decent provider-like software which would handle adding new > domains, ftp a

Re: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server

2009-04-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just another man that wants to get everything not just for free, but not even without much knowledge. learn and MAKE IT YOURSELF, that it will fit exactly to your needs. Or - provide services for 1$/year like there are lots of today. crappy and all the same - but cheap. Maybe you will earn 10

hard drive performance

2009-04-15 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other one UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries: ad0: 238474MB at ata0-master SATA300 ad1: 157066MB at ata4-master UDMA100 i've tried to test the drives' performances using the following commands: dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/nu

Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hello List, For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on FreeBSD. I have seen several questions being asked on this list abo

Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server

2009-04-15 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Do you know any decent provider-like software which would handle adding new domains, ftp accounts, sql databases & mail accounts to the server? Preferably something in ports but I am not sure if there is any such thing? I am not going to become a provider :) but I am just looking for

Re: How can I use BD-RE with UFS on geli?

2009-04-15 Thread SAITOU Toshihide
In message: <20090412.134212.26081.to...@ruby.ocn.ne.jp> SAITOU Toshihide writes: > I tried BD-RE with UFS on geli but didn't success. > What was wrong the below? P.S. BD-RE with UFS is the same result (not usable). 1. format the disk dvd+rw-format is failed but after this

Re: Can't log-in anymore

2009-04-15 Thread Ruel Luchavez
Hey.. Thanks for your reply..lucky for me I have solve my problem...:-) ...FreeBSD roCKS.. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Wednesday 15 April 2009 03:58:08 Ruel Luchavez wrote: > > Hi.. > > > > I know someoene here can help fix my biggest problem so far. > > >

Problem: FreeBSD 7.x && ssh v2 && nss_ldap

2009-04-15 Thread Konrad Heuer
I see a problem on two systems running FreeBSD 7.0 or 7.1 which are configured as OpenLDAP clients using the nss_ldap module. When someone logs on using ssh protocol version 2 the session will not be initialized correctly. The user will only get his primary group affiliation but no affiliati

Re: Can't log-in anymore

2009-04-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 April 2009 03:58:08 Ruel Luchavez wrote: > Hi.. > > I know someoene here can help fix my biggest problem so far. > > I can't log-in any more in my FreebSD box > the serverver always complain > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:shared object "lib.so.7" not found, required by sh > Enter full pat

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:02:08 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote: > > > make all-depends-list > > Two things: > 1) It surpresses config target and if a port has OPTIONS set, then you may > get surprised once you've configured the port and ticked/unticked an optio

Re: Corrupt libraries

2009-04-15 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:22:12 +0300, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi List.. Is there any way how to determine a corrupt libraries in Freebsd 7.0? or is there any command how to check libraries? Hello, I'm not sure of this but ldd should point out if a lib is corupted. ___

Which one of these two is the correct version?

2009-04-15 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hello FreeBSD Gnome users, I have been a KDE user because gnome installation/upgrade presents such a pain to me most of the time. Today I decided to upgrade gnome from 2.24 --> 2.26 but decided to visit the gnome pages first to see what is said. This is after looking at /usr/ports/UPDATING and not

Re: What flash players should be used from ports?

2009-04-15 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On 4/15/09, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote: > > > > > Currently running i386. I'm using firefox 3.0.4 (need to upgrade, wow > > didn't realize that). > > > > > > > Hy, > > > There are several ways to use flash player in FreeBSD X environment. One is, > as someone previously pointed out, gnash. An

Re: from very early this morning...

2009-04-15 Thread Adam Vande More
(But if a dual or a quad sucks up too many watts, that blows much of the original purpose of cutting my footprint. Newer cpu's(multicore vs single) are pretty efficient, here's an article so you don't have to take my word for it. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-cpu-power-consumpt