kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed

2007-04-14 Thread Luke Dean
The latest version of Opera claims to be faster by taking advantage of shared X memory if I set the sysctl kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed. I don't like to change sysctls from their default settings unless I understand the consequences. I've been unable to find a manpage that describes this

Re: Syslog not logging remote host

2007-04-14 Thread Doug Hardie
On Apr 13, 2007, at 22:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:48 PM 4/13/2007, you wrote: Janos Dohanics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying capture logs from m0n0wall, but the log file is empty. Here is my configuration: On the logging machine, in /etc/rc.conf: syslogd_flags=-a

Re: Mysql Hogging all system resources

2007-04-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 13), Don O'Neil said: Nevermind on the badly formatted number... I specified the full path /usr/bin/nice and it worked ok this time :-) However, I still want to know if there is a way to specify a nice level for an entire users processes. If you create a login class

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I think it is also true that depending on your hardware a FreeBSD workstation or laptop can be a

Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
Once I opened up SSH to the outside world, my machine has been hammered once or twice a day most days, with username failures. None of the usernames would fit a username on my system (except root), and I have ssh set to deny root logins, and only use SSH2. Additionally, I have the following in

Re: Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Jim Stapleton schrieb: Once I opened up SSH to the outside world, my machine has been hammered once or twice a day most days, with username failures. None of the usernames would fit a username on my system (except root), and I have ssh set to deny root logins, and only use SSH2. Additionally, I

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Victor Engmark
On 4/13/07, Claude Menski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is freebsd better then ubuntu? More useful documentation (the Handbook is great) and easier to debug than any Linux distribution I've ever tried (including Mandrake, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, SUSE 6.3, SLED, Debian, SLC, and MEPIS). There's also

Re: Mysql Hogging all system resources

2007-04-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I did this: In my login.conf file (assuming that all you have to do is change whatever you don't want to be the default): nice:\ :priority=5: In the user entry I put 'nice' in field 5. When I rebuilt the login.conf db, nothing

Re: Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have DSA. I will change it to a nonstandard port, but I was wondering what your oppinion on a good way to check if this is the result of me being hacked, or just someone loosing interest. On 4/14/07, Gabor Kovesdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton schrieb: Once I opened up SSH to the

Re: test

2007-04-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Hangmn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING LIST That's a powerfully effective method of getting things done. First off, the use of the word FUCKING is a well-known method to convince people to come to your aid. I believe it was Napoleon who stated, By inserting 'FUCKING'

Re: Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Once I opened up SSH to the outside world, my machine has been hammered once or twice a day most days, with username failures. None of the usernames would fit a username on my system (except root), and I have ssh set to deny root logins, and

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Paul Butler
Message: 17 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:21:43 -0500 From: Claude Menski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I like Ubuntu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Why is freebsd better then ubuntu? I find

Re: Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Jim Stapleton schrieb: I have DSA. I will change it to a nonstandard port, but I was wondering what your oppinion on a good way to check if this is the result of me being hacked, or just someone loosing interest. Well, I think the latter. If you have an up-to-date system with up-to-date

Re: Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Martin Hudec
Jim Stapleton wrote: I have DSA. I will change it to a nonstandard port, but I was wondering what your oppinion on a good way to check if this is the result of me being hacked, or just someone loosing interest. If you are hacked, then something might or might not be going on your system

Re: test

2007-04-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:28:29 +1200 Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/14/07, Hangmn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING LIST No, no, this is the FreeBSD Questions list. The Fucking List is down the hall, third door to your right. Just ignore the funny noises there.

astro/google-earth

2007-04-14 Thread Steinar Bormer
Greetings, On 2007-04-13 astro/google-earth was updated. See: URL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108864 The Makefile now says nothing about FORBIDDEN, but 'make' still gives the following output: , | # make | === google-earth-4.0.2735 has known vulnerabilities: | =

Re: Complete loss of network on 6_STABLE

2007-04-14 Thread Drew
Thank you. I don't know if there was a change to the driver, or if something suddenly changed on my end, but the sis0 interface is now configured in the place of the nve0 interface, and we'll go from there and figure things out. I'm going to stick my neck out and say I've got a cable problem

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Philipp Wuensche
Brett Glass wrote: I just read with some concern the announcement that Sun's ZFS has been integrated into the FreeBSD kernel. This would mean, unfortunately, that FreeBSD is now covered by the CDDL, which is a viral license similar to the GPL. Has FreeBSD abandoned its longstanding practice of

Re: astro/google-earth

2007-04-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
Steinar Bormer wrote: Greetings, On 2007-04-13 astro/google-earth was updated. See: URL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108864 The Makefile now says nothing about FORBIDDEN, but 'make' still gives the following output: , | # make | === google-earth-4.0.2735

gimp: install conflicts

2007-04-14 Thread White Hat
FreeBSD-6.2 I have a question regarding gimp-devel, the meta-port for Gimp. This port installs both: graphics/gimp-app which has this in its Makefile: CONFLICTS= gimp-1.* gimpshop-[0-9]* gimp-app-devel-[0-9]* And graphics/gimp-app-devel Whose Makefile contains this notation: CONFLICTS=

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
There is a huge problem in that the CDDL is viral. It infects products with which it is combined. You can read the text of the CDDL at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php Section 3.1 of the CDDL is the portion which is essentially equivalent to the GPL. This is part of the nastiness

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Bill Moran
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:51:23 -0600 Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a huge problem in that the CDDL is viral. It infects products with which it is combined. You can read the text of the CDDL at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php Section 3.1 of the CDDL is the

Samba and mountd spin

2007-04-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
I recently removed a lot (!!!) of packages from my 6.2-STABLE system as I no longer wanted to use it for a desktop, but still wanted it to be my home server. When I rebooted it yesterday for nonrelated reasons, it hung on the Samba startup. Further testing shows that whenever I try to

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:12 AM 4/14/2007, Bill Moran wrote: How is this any worse than the GPLed stuff in /usr/src/contrib? It's in the kernel. And the announcement went as far as to say that it is part of FreeBSD. --Brett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Philipp Wuensche
Brett Glass wrote: There is a huge problem in that the CDDL is viral. It infects products with which it is combined. You can read the text of the CDDL at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php Section 3.1 of the CDDL is the portion which is essentially equivalent to the GPL. It

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Colin Percival
Brett Glass wrote: There is a huge problem in that the CDDL is viral. It infects products with which it is combined. This is why zfs isn't part of GENERIC. We've distributed tainted kernel modules for a long time, and there's nothing wrong with that -- GPL/CDDL taint doesn't cross dynamic

Re: test

2007-04-14 Thread Hangmn
You group of elitist fucks...the unsub link is FUCKING USELESS On 4/14/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Hangmn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING LIST That's a powerfully effective method of getting things done. First off, the use of the word FUCKING is a

Re: test

2007-04-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 01:18:46PM -0400, Hangmn wrote: You group of elitist fucks...the unsub link is FUCKING USELESS Sounds like you are the elitist jerk. A couple of days ago I wrote a long explanation about how a person could have trouble getting off a list and also how some useless

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:55 AM 4/14/2007, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Example: You create a binary from two source files. 1. one BSD one CDDL. If you distribute this binary, you have to provide the CDDL part (and all modifications to it) as source under CDDL license. You are not required to provide the source of the

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Philipp Wuensche
Brett Glass wrote: At 10:55 AM 4/14/2007, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Example: You create a binary from two source files. 1. one BSD one CDDL. If you distribute this binary, you have to provide the CDDL part (and all modifications to it) as source under CDDL license. You are not required to

Re: test

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 08:22:53AM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:28:29 +1200 Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/14/07, Hangmn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING LIST No, no, this is the FreeBSD Questions list. The Fucking List is down

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I think it is also true that depending on your hardware a FreeBSD

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:17:20PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I think it is also true

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 14/04/07, Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:55 AM 4/14/2007, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Example: You create a binary from two source files. 1. one BSD one CDDL. If you distribute this binary, you have to provide the CDDL part (and all modifications to it) as source under CDDL license.

Re: Errors running UNIX-System V ELF executables [I've been hacked!]

2007-04-14 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:51:18 -0600 Dan S. wrote: Hello to all, Hopefully someone can help me progress past a pair of ELF Binary Type 0 not known ELF Interpreter /compat/linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 not found errors. Some steps may help you: 1. load linux.ko -- kernel part of linuxulator. 2.

Re: Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On April 14, 2007 7:25:46 AM -0400 Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once I opened up SSH to the outside world, my machine has been hammered once or twice a day most days, with username failures. None of the usernames would fit a username on my system (except root), and I have ssh set

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Paul Butler wrote: Message: 17 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:21:43 -0500 From: Claude Menski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I like Ubuntu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Why is freebsd better then

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:17:20PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chris
Garrett Cooper wrote: Paul Butler wrote: Message: 17 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:21:43 -0500 From: Claude Menski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I like Ubuntu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Server Load

2007-04-14 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Last week I enabled DEFLATE in apache. I have since disabled it, due to it (I think), sotting the serever load sky high. Since disableing it, the server load has not decreased by much, but I have narrowed it down to Apache (2.2) or mysqld that is shooting the load up. The high server

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 10:47:09AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: At 10:12 AM 4/14/2007, Bill Moran wrote: How is this any worse than the GPLed stuff in /usr/src/contrib? It's in the kernel. And the announcement went as far as to say that it is part of FreeBSD. From what I've seen thus far,

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread doug
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I think it is also true that depending on your

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:57:44AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Well, we have some problems sometimes with cyclic dependencies (portinstall / portupgrade and friends), and people aren't really happy when names of categories / packages get changed (like what's happened

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:52:18AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Also, it's Linux-based so documentation in terms of manpages are most likely non-existent, like with Gentoo Linux. That's by no means universal among Linux distributions. Debian actually provides

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I think it is also true

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Philipp Wuensche
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Brett Glass wrote: So CDDL does not require to license add-ons under CDDL, GPL does. In this terms, FreeBSD is basically an add-on to the ZFS module ;-). The most relevant part of the CDDL seems to be

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread doug
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:17:20PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI switching to FreeBSD

Re: Server Load

2007-04-14 Thread Martin Hudec
Grant Peel wrote: Last week I enabled DEFLATE in apache. I have since disabled it, due to it (I think), sotting the serever load sky high. Since disableing it, the server load has not decreased by much, but I have narrowed it down to Apache (2.2) or mysqld that is shooting the load up. The

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
At 12:27 PM 4/14/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you are not. Because it appears that the whole thing is not covered by the CDDL. Read the license. If you distribute a product that includes the code, you are bound by the obligations listed in the license (to distribute source code, not

Re: FreeBSD Native JDK/JRE

2007-04-14 Thread patrick
You could also just install the pre-built, Sun-sanctioned build: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml On 3/3/07, Chris Bowlby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As luck would have it, 2 minutes after posting this message, I managed to find this URL:

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Paul Butler thusly... If, however, heart-stopping speed appeals to you, you want intelligently planned technology with the latest stable applications, you are operating web servers, or you just plain want to get expertise in real Unix then there is nothing

Re: FreeBSD Native JDK/JRE

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
patrick wrote: You could also just install the pre-built, Sun-sanctioned build: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml On 3/3/07, Chris Bowlby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As luck would have it, 2 minutes after posting this message, I managed to find this URL:

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:34:29PM -0500, Chris wrote: To me, apt-get is certainly cleaner and superior to portupgrade/portmanager. Perhaps someday either or will be as reliable as apt-get. Just my opinions of course. In my experience, portupgrade is more reliable than apt-get. I have

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:34:46PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: But some of the manpages are out of date, like for the coreutils (I think mv/cp was one of them?). I like the comment in there about Stallman liking infopages but Debian-ites having to create a manpage :). I personally hate

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 04:15:43PM -0400, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Paul Butler thusly... If, however, heart-stopping speed appeals to you, you want intelligently planned technology with the latest stable applications, you are operating web servers, or you just

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:09:46PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Brett Glass wrote: So CDDL does not require to license add-ons under CDDL, GPL does. In this terms, FreeBSD is basically an add-on to

linux-flashplugin9 with Mozilla Firefox

2007-04-14 Thread Olivier Regnier
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 with Mozilla Firefox |2.0.0.3,1 and i tried to install linux-flashplugin9. First step, i installed |linuxpluginwrapper : |cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper make install clean| Step two, linux flash plugin: |cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin9 make install

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 01:27:15PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: At 12:27 PM 4/14/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you are not. Because it appears that the whole thing is not covered by the CDDL. Read the license. If you distribute a product that includes the code, you are bound by the

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:36:24PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:09:46PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Brett Glass wrote: So CDDL does not require to license add-ons under

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:01 AM 4/14/2007, Colin Percival wrote: GPL/CDDL taint doesn't cross dynamic linking. Richard Stallman claims it does. The proposed Version 3 of the GPL makes it even more explicit. --Brett Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 4/15/07, Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:01 AM 4/14/2007, Colin Percival wrote: GPL/CDDL taint doesn't cross dynamic linking. Richard Stallman claims it does. The proposed Version 3 of the GPL makes it even more explicit. Look... instead of letting this degenerate into one of

USB key device nodes

2007-04-14 Thread Michael W. Lucas
Hi, This strikes me as odd. I have a 1GB USB pocketknife that doesn't give me the right device nodes until after I try to mount it. The mount attempt seems to create the proper device nodes. The USB drive shows up on insertion like so: Apr 14 19:09:41 stretchlimo kernel: umass0: SWISSBIT

Re: locking down scsi device id's in 6.2

2007-04-14 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:51:12 -0400 Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks. Still no good, basically it just brought me back to where i was. Do you know anyone else who might have an idea on this? Thanks for all your help. Dave. Perhaps I have been leading you on a wild goose

ISO-IMAGES-i386: 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso defect?

2007-04-14 Thread M. Lutz
Hello FreeBSD team, having tried several times to access 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso from e.g. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 I failed because after about 140MB download no further data can be received. Could it be that this iso-image is defect? It doesn't matter which

Re: ISO-IMAGES-i386: 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso defect?

2007-04-14 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 14 April 2007 19:44:59 M. Lutz wrote: Hello FreeBSD team, having tried several times to access 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso from e.g. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 I failed because after about 140MB download no further data can be received. Could it be

Re: test

2007-04-14 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 14 April 2007, Hangmn said: You group of elitist fucks...the unsub link is FUCKING USELESS On 4/14/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Hangmn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING LIST That's a powerfully effective method of getting things done.

Re: make index on FREEBSD_4_EOL

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Benjamin Lutz wrote: Hello, Is make index on FREEBSD_4_EOL supposed to work? I'm getting breakage in the gstreamer-plugin ports. If there's no easy fix, could someone send me an INDEX file that matches the state of the ports tree at FREEBSD_4_EOL? Cheers Benjamin Ports support for 4.x

Re: make index on FREEBSD_4_EOL

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Benjamin Lutz wrote: Hello, Is make index on FREEBSD_4_EOL supposed to work? I'm getting breakage in the gstreamer-plugin ports. If there's no easy fix, could someone send me an INDEX file that matches the state of the ports tree at FREEBSD_4_EOL? Cheers Benjamin

Re: make index on FREEBSD_4_EOL

2007-04-14 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 14 April 2007 20:42:19 Garrett Cooper wrote: If there's no easy fix, could someone send me an INDEX file that matches the state of the ports tree at FREEBSD_4_EOL? if you use cvsup to get your ports, you could add this tag line to your supfile: *default release=cvs tag=.

Re: locking down scsi device id's in 6.2

2007-04-14 Thread Dave
Hi, Thanks. That did it! I now have the tape drive right where it's suppose to be and the burners on 1,0,0 and 1,1,0 cd0 and cd1 which is what i originally wanted. For reference here is my modifications to /boot/device.hints: # custom devices hint.scbus.0.at=ahc0 #find this with dmesg

[OT] can sed handle this situation? (might require variable)

2007-04-14 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Dear list. I could not find a mailing list about 'sed' (there is an very inactive Yahoo Group though) so I wish to try some luck here. Sorry for OT. I've got a situation that looks like require using variable and not possible to process with sed. But I am not sure. Can someone suggest me if this

Re: ISO-IMAGES-i386: 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso defect?

2007-04-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 02:44:59AM +0200, M. Lutz wrote: Hello FreeBSD team, having tried several times to access 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso from e.g. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 I failed because after about 140MB download no further data can be received. Could

Re: [OT] can sed handle this situation? (might require variable)

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Dear list. I could not find a mailing list about 'sed' (there is an very inactive Yahoo Group though) so I wish to try some luck here. Sorry for OT. I've got a situation that looks like require using variable and not possible to process with sed. But I am not sure. Can

hot swap with gmirror

2007-04-14 Thread Ivan Carey
Hello, Is hot swap of a drive possible with gmirror? Also is it possible to setup a spare mirrored drive and store it until it is needed to replace a faulty drive. Thanks, Ivan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

multiple mirrored drives with gmirror

2007-04-14 Thread Ivan Carey
Hello, Is it possible to have more than 2 drives in a mirror? For example traditionally a mirror will have 2 drives, can 4 drives be in a system and all be mirrored by gmirror? Thanks, Ivan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

can't print to disk from Firefox

2007-04-14 Thread perryh
I got an error when trying to print *to disk* from Firefox/1.5.0.6: Printer Error There was a problem printing because the paper size you specified is not supported by your printer. This message makes no sense at all when printing to disk, since there's no way

Re: hot swap with gmirror

2007-04-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 12:55:02PM +1000, Ivan Carey wrote: Hello, Is hot swap of a drive possible with gmirror? I think you need hardware support to be able to do hot-swap of drives. At least that was the way it used to be. jerry Also is it possible to setup a spare mirrored drive and

Re: how does one get portupgrade back

2007-04-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
Bill, Thank you for this. Until I got my high speed line, I didn't even think about updating. It would simply take too long. Consequently, I've not kept in memory certain things like the file you reference above. Thank you. Andy (High speed is awesome. I just updated Firefox to 2.0.0.5,

Recompiling the vim port for gui capability

2007-04-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I recently updated some of my ports (due to the fact that I now have a high speed connection to the Internet at home). One of the ports I updated was vim. I used portupgrade -r vim_port_name and let it do its thing. All went well, but now gvim no longer exists. When I was try to execute

Re: Recompiling the vim port for gui capability

2007-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I recently updated some of my ports (due to the fact that I now have a high speed connection to the Internet at home). One of the ports I updated was vim. I used portupgrade -r vim_port_name and let it do its thing. All went well, but now gvim no longer exists.

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:34:29PM -0500, Chris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: [[ ... ]] In my case this included leaning to think in 'Unix', and reaching an understanding with (rather than of) regular expressions, sed, and awk.

The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-03-25 - 2007-04-14

2007-04-14 Thread Dan Langille
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Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chris
Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:34:29PM -0500, Chris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: [[ ... ]] In my case this included leaning to think in 'Unix', and reaching an understanding with (rather than of) regular expressions,

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-04-14 12:34, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:52:18AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Also, it's Linux-based so documentation in terms of manpages are most likely non-existent, like with Gentoo Linux. That's by no means universal among

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chris
Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:10:17PM -0500, Chris wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:34:29PM -0500, Chris wrote: Gary - Not so - upgrading Ubuntu is pretty much a click. Have a look at this URL and you'll see 2 ways to upgrade

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 01:58:17PM -0500, Chris wrote: Actually - Ubuntu's default isn't KDE, it's Gnome. Kubuntu is what you want if you prefer the K environment - however, that's not to say that if you install Ubuntu, you can't install KDE (or XFCE4 - that happens to be Xubuntu).

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chris
Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 01:58:17PM -0500, Chris wrote: Actually - Ubuntu's default isn't KDE, it's Gnome. Kubuntu is what you want if you prefer the K environment - however, that's not to say that if you install Ubuntu, you can't install KDE (or XFCE4 - that happens to be

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:34:46PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:52:18AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Also, it's Linux-based so documentation in terms of manpages are most likely non-existent, like with Gentoo Linux. That's by no means

Re: [OT] can sed handle this situation? (might require variable)

2007-04-14 Thread Parv
Darn, forgot to copy to the dear list; so here it is (sent to OP previously) ... in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Zhang Weiwu thusly... Dear list. I could not find a mailing list about 'sed' (there is an very inactive Yahoo Group though) so I wish to try some luck here. Try,