Re: Errors on UFS Partitions

2010-01-16 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:30:09AM -0500, The-IRC FreeBSD wrote: > Thanks everyone for their input it has helped greatly. > > Does anyone know a way to toggle soft-updates on a UFS non-root partition > while the system is live or without having to recreate the partition? Sure. Use the tunefs(8) u

Re: Errors on UFS Partitions

2010-01-16 Thread The-IRC FreeBSD
Thanks everyone for their input it has helped greatly. Does anyone know a way to toggle soft-updates on a UFS non-root partition while the system is live or without having to recreate the partition? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: To jail, or not to jail?

2010-01-16 Thread Peter
> I've been having fun playing with jails on my home server. There's one > for databases, one for a webserver, another for using as a play shell > server, etc. We use jails heavily at work for encapsulating services, > and I can make a pretty good argument there for doing so. In general, > though,

Re: OOo question.....

2010-01-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:27:59AM +, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Saturday 16 January 2010, Gary Kline wrote: > > > this may be offtopic but it does deal with our OO.org port. > > a friend sent me a very nice "slideshow" in powerpoint format. I've > > saved it (and the original) somew

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread RW
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:08:30 -0600 Kirk Strauser wrote: > On 01/16/2010 02:26 PM, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > > What is the particular scenario that the new conflicts handling > > broke for you? Often you really want to ignore locally installed > > packages and then it's better to override LOCALBASE t

Re: Errors on UFS Partitions

2010-01-16 Thread Michael Powell
The-IRC FreeBSD wrote: > Hi, > > I am sorry if I am asking a question that might have been brought up > before I have attempted to research my issue but it has many angles it > might be listed under so please bare with me. > > We have had ongoing problems with UFS Errors on our root partition (a

Re: Errors on UFS Partitions

2010-01-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 16), The-IRC FreeBSD said: > I am sorry if I am asking a question that might have been brought up > before I have attempted to research my issue but it has many angles it > might be listed under so please bare with me. > > We have had ongoing problems with UFS Errors on ou

Re: Server set up

2010-01-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:34:17PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: NTFS comes with "NT" versions of Windows, that is, NT, Windows 2000, and everything since then. W95 and W98 used FAT filesystems. Fat32 was the default for Win98 IIRC. I know a lot of MS Windows users like to pr

Errors on UFS Partitions

2010-01-16 Thread The-IRC FreeBSD
Hi, I am sorry if I am asking a question that might have been brought up before I have attempted to research my issue but it has many angles it might be listed under so please bare with me. We have had ongoing problems with UFS Errors on our root partition (and any additional partition that did n

Re: need a Mencoder expert

2010-01-16 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 16 January 2010 20:13:34 Neil Short wrote: > I have a VOB file that I need to convert to something playable on a Sony > Walkman NWZ-E344. > > The walkman wants an ASF container, resolution of 320x240 (or less), wmv9 > codec, wma 2 codec, 30 frames per second, video bitrate of less than

Re: Sound (micro-)interrupts with 8.0 stable/snd_hda/mplayer/vlc

2010-01-16 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 16 January 2010 19:17:18 Thomas Hummel wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not really sure what the right list is since I cannot isolate the part > of > the system which cause the problem : > > I could use a little help on a weird sound issue I'm struggling with : > > 1. Description : > ---

Re: changing place of .core files

2010-01-16 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Yuri Pankov wrote: Check core(5). HTH, Yuri Thanks, this is what I was looking for. Regards, Marco -- Never argue with a woman when she's tired -- or rested. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

To jail, or not to jail?

2010-01-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
I've been having fun playing with jails on my home server. There's one for databases, one for a webserver, another for using as a play shell server, etc. We use jails heavily at work for encapsulating services, and I can make a pretty good argument there for doing so. In general, though, do you

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
On 01/16/2010 02:26 PM, Pav Lucistnik wrote: What is the particular scenario that the new conflicts handling broke for you? Often you really want to ignore locally installed packages and then it's better to override LOCALBASE to /nonex or something similar, instead of disabling conflict handling.

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:26:28 +0100 Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Greg Larkin píše v so 16. 01. 2010 v 13:58 -0500: > > > That's exactly what I proposed. The bsd.port.mk could be patched to > > support a new variable ("EARLY_CONFLICT_CHECK=yes" or somesuch) that > > shifts the check-conflict target fro

Re: changing place of .core files

2010-01-16 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:23:52PM +0100, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > Normally when a program crashes, it places a .core file in the > homefilesystem. Is there a way of changing the filesystem where > FreeBSD places it's core dumps? > > Thanks in advance, > Marco > > -- > Rule #7: Silence is not a

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread b. f.
On 1/16/10, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Greg Larkin píše v so 16. 01. 2010 v 13:58 -0500: > >> That's exactly what I proposed. The bsd.port.mk could be patched to >> support a new variable ("EARLY_CONFLICT_CHECK=yes" or somesuch) that >> shifts the check-conflict target from its old position (part of

Re: changing place of .core files

2010-01-16 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, RW wrote: On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:23:52 +0100 (CET) Marco Beishuizen wrote: Normally when a program crashes, it places a .core file in the homefilesystem. Is there a way of changing the filesystem where FreeBSD places it's core dumps? cd to another directory before start

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Greg Larkin píše v so 16. 01. 2010 v 13:58 -0500: > >> That's exactly what I proposed. The bsd.port.mk could be patched to >> support a new variable ("EARLY_CONFLICT_CHECK=yes" or somesuch) that >> shifts the check-conflict tar

Re: changing place of .core files

2010-01-16 Thread RW
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:23:52 +0100 (CET) Marco Beishuizen wrote: > Normally when a program crashes, it places a .core file in the > homefilesystem. Is there a way of changing the filesystem where > FreeBSD places it's core dumps? cd to another directory before starting the program.

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread RW
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:01:47 -0500 "b. f." wrote: > >Wait a minute; rewind. Isn't that what "make -DDISABLE_CONFLICTS" > >does? > > I believe that he is talking about changing _when_ the check for > conflicts is made; whereas DISABLE_CONFLICTS ignores the check, > regardless of when it is made.

changing place of .core files

2010-01-16 Thread Marco Beishuizen
Normally when a program crashes, it places a .core file in the homefilesystem. Is there a way of changing the filesystem where FreeBSD places it's core dumps? Thanks in advance, Marco -- Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence. Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Pav Lucistnik
Greg Larkin píše v so 16. 01. 2010 v 13:58 -0500: > That's exactly what I proposed. The bsd.port.mk could be patched to > support a new variable ("EARLY_CONFLICT_CHECK=yes" or somesuch) that > shifts the check-conflict target from its old position (part of the > install sequence) to its new posit

Re: Secure method for fetching freebsd sources ?

2010-01-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Angelin Lalev wrote: Greetings, Which is the *secure* way of fetching freebsd sources? Cvsup looks prone to MiM attacks, CTM looks promising, but only if I have been member of the appropriate ctm list since the release of 8.0. (it seems that the ctm deltas on the ftp are not signed.). Do FreeBSD

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:18:15 -0600 Programmer In Training articulated: > That does nothing for conflict resolution, though. That's a big > concern for me because in the past, only one distribution of Linux > (not having used any of the BSD's before, cannot comment on them > except for what I'm se

Re: bsdar/netstat issue

2010-01-16 Thread Maxim Ianoglo
Hello, i just was able myself to find out why netstat was showing different output on i386. My i386 machine was updated on 28 November, netstat was modified on 25 November, so seems that CVS server from which I have updated sources was a little bit outdated. Thank you. -- Maxim Ianoglo On Tue

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/16/2010 1:01 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > Best: > > check for conflicts early, error out early if there are conflicts so > one doesn't waste hours compiling something and checking/installing > dependencies and so on > > Middling: > > check for conflicts late > > Worst: > >

need a Mencoder expert

2010-01-16 Thread Neil Short
I have a VOB file that I need to convert to something playable on a Sony Walkman NWZ-E344. The walkman wants an ASF container, resolution of 320x240 (or less), wmv9 codec, wma 2 codec, 30 frames per second, video bitrate of less than or equal to 768k. I cannot seem to get a mencoder (nor ffmpe

Re: A question about ptrace

2010-01-16 Thread Ali Polatel
Ali Polatel yazmış: > I'm trying to port a program using ptrace from Linux to FreeBSD. Answering myself after some more reading and trying... > assert(0 == ptrace(PT_TO_SCE, pid, 0, 0)); The third argument of this call should be 1 not 0. -- Regards, Ali Polatel pgpVCOf0yCg27.pgp De

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 01:01:47PM -0500, b. f. wrote: > >> Since some folks like the old behavior and some folks like the new > >> behavior, what do you all think of a user-selectable make.conf option to > >> choose where the check-conflicts target appears in the port build sequence? > >> > >> Reg

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b. f. wrote: >>> Since some folks like the old behavior and some folks like the new >>> behavior, what do you all think of a user-selectable make.conf option to >>> choose where the check-conflicts target appears in the port build sequence? >>> >>> Reg

Sound (micro-)interrupts with 8.0 stable/snd_hda/mplayer/vlc

2010-01-16 Thread Thomas Hummel
Hello, I'm not really sure what the right list is since I cannot isolate the part of the system which cause the problem : I could use a little help on a weird sound issue I'm struggling with : 1. Description : When playing audio files, the sound has from few to many "

Secure method for fetching freebsd sources ?

2010-01-16 Thread Angelin Lalev
Greetings, Which is the *secure* way of fetching freebsd sources? Cvsup looks prone to MiM attacks, CTM looks promising, but only if I have been member of the appropriate ctm list since the release of 8.0. (it seems that the ctm deltas on the ftp are not signed.). Do FreeBSD cvs servers support ss

Newbie gmirror questions

2010-01-16 Thread Dino Vliet
Forwarded Message: Newbie gmirror questions Newbie gmirror questions Saturday, January 16, 2010 12:34 AM From: "Mike Clarke" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I'm about to upgrade to more disk space and I'm tempted use this as an opportunity to get two disks and implement gmirror. Before I go

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread b. f.
>> Since some folks like the old behavior and some folks like the new >> behavior, what do you all think of a user-selectable make.conf option to >> choose where the check-conflicts target appears in the port build sequence? >> >> Regards, >> Greg >> >I'd love that. The new behavior isn't a bad de

wpa_supplicant - Did I do something wrong?

2010-01-16 Thread P.
Hello, Last night I installed FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my Acer Aspire One 150 Bw (Model NO: ZG5), I had no problems installing it. The problems started when I was configuring the Wireless card (Atheros 5424/2424). In /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf I put: network={ ssid="Thomson40BE60" psk=""

Re: getting firewall logs via /etc/periodic/daily ?

2010-01-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'd like to receive the firewall logs together with the usual /etc/periodic/daily email. What's the easiest/safest way to achieve this? Shall I add my own script under /etc/periodic/daily? Shall I modify an existing script, e.g. 310.accounting? Sure -- you can add you

getting firewall logs via /etc/periodic/daily ?

2010-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'd like to receive the firewall logs together with the usual /etc/periodic/daily email. What's the easiest/safest way to achieve this? Shall I add my own script under /etc/periodic/daily? Shall I modify an existing script, e.g. 310.accounting? Please advise many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht R

SOLVED: Re: syslog - ipmon(8) logs to a wrong log file?

2010-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 04:23:37PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT ia64. > I've ipfilter built into the kernel, > with logging enabled: > > options IPFILTER > options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK > options IPFILTER_LOG > > It works fine, but log

syslog - ipmon(8) logs to a wrong log file?

2010-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT ia64. I've ipfilter built into the kernel, with logging enabled: options IPFILTER options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK options IPFILTER_LOG It works fine, but logs to a wrong file. I run ipmon with -Ds options: # ps ax|grep ipmon 740 ?? Ss

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
On 01/15/2010 10:57 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: This change was based on a recent PR (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=137855) and made it into the tree a couple of weeks ago: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk.diff?r1=1.631;r2=1.632 Since some folks like the old beh

Re: Force use of latest version of Apache

2010-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
On 1/16/10 7:52 AM, Carmel wrote: As a relatively new user of FreeBSD, I am confused about what to put in the '/etc/make.conf' file to force the use of Apache22+. I was thinking that perhaps: APACHE_PORT=www/apache22 might be correct. I was reading the bsd.apache.mk file and noticed t

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-01-16 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 16 January 2010 00:34:52 Mike Clarke wrote: > I'm about to upgrade to more disk space and I'm tempted use this as an > opportunity to get two disks and implement gmirror. Before I go ahead > there's a few aspects of mirroring I'm not sure about and would > appreciate some advice. > > I'

Re: NDIS panics (Was: Can I rescan for new PCI devices? Or should hotplugging Expresscards work?)

2010-01-16 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 1/11/10, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 1/11/10, Bob Johnson wrote: >> On 1/9/10, Paul B Mahol wrote: >>> On 12/16/09, Bob Johnson wrote: I'm using an ExpressCard for wireless networking because there seems to be no driver for the internal card in my laptop (and NDIS panics the syst

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Sáb, 2010-01-16 às 07:00 -0500, b. f. escreveu: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:57:35PM -0500, Greg Larkin typed: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Craig Whipp wrote: > > > > > > On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > > >> Until recently, it seems lik

Force use of latest version of Apache

2010-01-16 Thread Carmel
As a relatively new user of FreeBSD, I am confused about what to put in the '/etc/make.conf' file to force the use of Apache22+. I was thinking that perhaps: APACHE_PORT=www/apache22 might be correct. I was reading the bsd.apache.mk file and noticed that several older settings were depr

Re: Problem w/ mysql extension installation

2010-01-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
jaymax wrote: phpmyadmin requires the mysql extension which is apparently not included in the mysql54 ports Well, PHP modules aren't provided at all by the mysqlNN-{client,server,scripts} ports. You want databases/php5-mysql or databases/php5-mysqli I have certainly been able to install phpmy

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread b. f.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:57:35PM -0500, Greg Larkin typed: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Craig Whipp wrote: > > > > On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > >> Until recently, it seems like port dependencies were handled at > >> installation time. Lately, th

A question about ptrace

2010-01-16 Thread Ali Polatel
I'm trying to port a program using ptrace from Linux to FreeBSD. For this reason I'm trying to understand how ptrace on FreeBSD works. Below is a sample program I've written which fork()'s and executes "true" after calling PT_TRACE_ME. Having read the manual page of ptrace I assume the printf() in

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:57:35PM -0500, Greg Larkin typed: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Craig Whipp wrote: > > > > On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > >> Until recently, it seems like port dependencies were handled at > >> installation time. Lately,

Re: OOo question.....

2010-01-16 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 16 January 2010, Gary Kline wrote: > this may be offtopic but it does deal with our OO.org port. > a friend sent me a very nice "slideshow" in powerpoint format. I've > saved it (and the original) somewhere in the evolution directory so > all the photos are safe. fi

Re: GELI file systems unusable after "glabel label" operations

2010-01-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:38:14AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: > >2) Create the geli device /dev/daXsYP.eli, and then create a label on that, > > yielding /dev/label/bar. [not sure what the utility of this is, since the > > label will only appear after the geil provider has been attached] > > >

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 16/01/2010 6:57 π.μ., Greg Larkin wrote: > Craig Whipp wrote: > > > On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > >> Until recently, it seems like port dependencies were handled at > >> installation time. Lately, they're handled any time I try to do > >> anything with a port. I absolutel