FreeBSD GSM Bluetooth Phone

2007-12-04 Thread Cy Schubert
Could anyone point me in the direction of documentation outlining how to setup a Bluetooth phone for wireless Internet access (when WiFi is unavailable). Thanks. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.komquats.com and http://www.bcbodybuilder.com FreeBSD UNIX: [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD GSM Bluetooth Phone

2007-12-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007 08:34:11 schrieb Cy Schubert: Could anyone point me in the direction of documentation outlining how to setup a Bluetooth phone for wireless Internet access (when WiFi is unavailable). Thanks. Depends on the protocol your phone uses to access the net. For PAN

Re: Buildworld problem

2007-12-04 Thread Venkatesh K
I am so sorry. forgot to add details about my system. I am running FreeBSD 6.2. Here is uname output. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p9 #0: Thu Nov 29 04:07:33 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Thanks, Venkatesh K On Dec 4, 2007 2:32 PM, Venkatesh K

Buildworld problem

2007-12-04 Thread Venkatesh K
Hi, make buildworld failed for me. Here is the error log. --- cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DRL_NO_COMPAT -DMI_OUT=1 -DTUI=1 -I. -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb/../arch/i386

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the future (estimates if and when needed vary from ASAP to 10-15 years). I have volunteered to

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-04 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Repost from [EMAIL PROTECTED] As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the

Problem building R from the ports

2007-12-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am trying to upgrade /usr/ports/math/R I am using gcc 4.2.3 because at some stage it was needed by some other ports, so it is now the version in use. But I have the following problem with the fortran libraries. gcc42 -std=gnu99 -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include

Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-04 Thread manikandan . x . balachandran
thank you Manikandan Balachandran JPMC IB TO - Jupiter STS Tel: +44 1202-325271 Cell: +44 7891649680 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- JPMorgan Chase, 18 Christchurch Road Floor 1, Bournemouth, BH1 3BA , UK

mfsroot issues

2007-12-04 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Hi! I'm trying to set up a TinyBSD mfsroot image with which to upgrade a machine remotely. I've run into a few problems along the way, though. First of all, I cannot seem to get the kernel to use the preloaded mfsroot as the root device as long as the boot disk's /etc/fstab has a root listed. It

Problem controlling brightness

2007-12-04 Thread Liyu,She
Hello folks, I am using FreeBSD 7.0 Beta3 on Acer Aspire 4710Z.But soon after the boot menu I completely lose control of display brightness. I cannot control the brightness under both console and x. I also tried to modify the keyboard section into this(I can't find a exact match so I chose

Re: SSH disconnects very troubling

2007-12-04 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 02:40:35 Anne Moore wrote: Thanks, Kevin. This may well work with the SSH, but it's actually disconnecting all my clients, telnet, Oracle, etc. There is a config for telnet, but nothing for Oracle (that I know of). Also, ldap, etc. It's the strangest thing!! No

Re: Buildworld problem

2007-12-04 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Venkatesh K wrote: === gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdbserver (all) make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p9 #0: Thu Nov 29 04:07:33 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 What code version are you trying to compile? The same as your

Re: Problem controlling brightness

2007-12-04 Thread Liyu,She
Hello, Thanks, but it's not nvidia. It says Intel 82945GM(945GM GMCH) SVGA controller in dmesg and Mobile Intel Graphics Media in WinXP driver from acer.com.cn. On Dec 4, 2007 8:02 PM, Firas Kraiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:44:26 Liyu,She wrote: Hello folks,

Re: Buildworld problem

2007-12-04 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Venkatesh K wrote: make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop obrien 2007-12-03 21:05:20 UTC FreeBSD src repository Modified files:(Branch: RELENG_6_3) gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/amd64 Makefile gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/i386 Makefile gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb kgdb.h Log:

Re: Problem controlling brightness

2007-12-04 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:44:26 Liyu,She wrote: Hello folks, I am using FreeBSD 7.0 Beta3 on Acer Aspire 4710Z.But soon after the boot menu I completely lose control of display brightness. I cannot control the brightness under both console and x. I also tried to modify the

problem with dual disk/ dual boot installation

2007-12-04 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
hi, below is my original question and the response I received (I'm not yet subscribed to the list, so I found this only in the archive. sorry for breaking the thread. If you care to respond, please CC me directly). ===CUT dear list,

Re: FreeBSD GSM Bluetooth Phone

2007-12-04 Thread Christian Walther
Hi there, On 04/12/2007, Cy Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone point me in the direction of documentation outlining how to setup a Bluetooth phone for wireless Internet access (when WiFi is unavailable). Thanks. I'm using ppp over bluetooth with a Nokia N95. Works flawlessly. A

RE: SSH disconnects very troubling

2007-12-04 Thread Anne Moore
That's awesome. Great idea! I'll do just that... Thank you for your help. -Anne -Original Message- From: Nikos Vassiliadis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:47 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Anne Moore Subject: Re: SSH disconnects very troubling On

ECCN# of the freeBSD V6.1

2007-12-04 Thread takahiro . ishihara
We would like to export a personal computer which FreeBSD Ver6.1 was installed in from Japan. Could you tell me the ECCN# of this software? Best regards, Ishihara - Takahiro Ishihara RF Coil Technologies Group MRI Systems Development Department

Re: jabberd will not start on reboot, only starts manually

2007-12-04 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:04:16PM +, Pollywog wrote: I am running FreeBSD 6.2 with Jabberd installed from ports: jabberd-2.1.18 When I reboot the machine, jabberd will not start, but it will start if I manually restart it with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jabberd restart /var/log/messages

Re: ECCN# of the freeBSD V6.1

2007-12-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007 15:30:09 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We would like to export a personal computer which FreeBSD Ver6.1 was installed in from Japan. Could you tell me the ECCN# of this software? Uh, FreeBSD has an ECCN? I'd wonder. -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development

add/remove disks in gmirror

2007-12-04 Thread Eugene M. Minkovskii
Hi all! I use FreeBSD 6.2 I want to try use gmirror to constract raid5, so I do following: # dd if=/dev/zero of=zero0 bs=1024 count=102400 # dd if=/dev/zero of=zero1 bs=1024 count=102400 # dd if=/dev/zero of=zero2 bs=1024 count=102400 # mdcontrol -a -t vnode zero0 # mdcontrol -a -t vnode zero1

Fwd: Buildworld problem

2007-12-04 Thread Venkatesh K
Thanks for the reply. What do you suggest? Shall I turn off the build of gdbserver? Thanks, Venkatesh K On Dec 4, 2007 5:45 PM, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Venkatesh K wrote: make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop obrien 2007-12-03 21:05:20 UTC FreeBSD src

Re: jabberd will not start on reboot, only starts manually

2007-12-04 Thread Gerard Seibert
On December 04, 2007 at 10:11AM Daniel Bye wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:04:16PM +, Pollywog wrote: I am running FreeBSD 6.2 with Jabberd installed from ports: jabberd-2.1.18 When I reboot the machine, jabberd will not start, but it will start if I manually restart it

RE: FreeBSD make on other platforms [was: Re: Building FreeBSD onLinux]

2007-12-04 Thread Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)
Hi Giorgos, The build failed for me 'with a syntax error before __dead2 '. Are there any special include files I am supposed to have? I had trouble with the autoconf version I had installed and had to upgrade to the latest. Then I was able to move past, autoconf, automake, configure.

Re: FreeBSD make on other platforms [was: Re: Building FreeBSD onLinux]

2007-12-04 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) wrote: Hi Giorgos, The build failed for me 'with a syntax error before __dead2 '. Are there any special include files I am supposed to have? I had trouble with the autoconf version I had installed and had to upgrade to the latest. Then I was able to

Re: FreeBSD make on other platforms [was: Re: Building FreeBSD onLinux]

2007-12-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-04 08:29, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Giorgos, The build failed for me 'with a syntax error before __dead2 '. Are there any special include files I am supposed to have? I had trouble with the autoconf version I had installed and had to upgrade

make buildworld (6-STABLE) - stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdbserver

2007-12-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After cvsup-ing one of my 6-STABLE machines, cleaning up /usr/obj I started the usual build process with make buildworld. However after some minutes it died with the following messages: === gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb (cleandir) rm -f i386fbsd-tdep-fixed.c nm.h tm.h xm.h kgdb main.o kthr.o trgt.o

Re: ECCN# of the freeBSD V6.1

2007-12-04 Thread David J Brooks
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 08:30:09 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would like to export a personal computer which FreeBSD Ver6.1 was installed in from Japan. Could you tell me the ECCN# of this software? Best regards, Ishihara If the ECCN for the computer hardware won't suffice, then use

Determining kernel?

2007-12-04 Thread Patrick Baldwin
I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF line. Is there any way to get a running FreeBSD system to tell me what kernel is being used?

Re: Determining kernel?

2007-12-04 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Patrick Baldwin wrote: I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF line. Is there any way to get a running FreeBSD system to tell me what

Re: Determining kernel?

2007-12-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Patrick Baldwin wrote: I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF line. Is there any way to get a running FreeBSD system to tell me what kernel

Re: ECCN# of the freeBSD V6.1

2007-12-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:30:09PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would like to export a personal computer which FreeBSD Ver6.1 was installed in from Japan. Could you tell me the ECCN# of this software? Best regards, Ishihara Hi Ishihara, I've done a bit of googling and I believe

Re: jabberd will not start on reboot, only starts manually

2007-12-04 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:11:32 Daniel Bye wrote: Try removing the # BEFORE: LOGIN line from the jabberd control script. I haven't tested it, but from a cursory glance at the respective control scripts, it feels like a sane first guess... What exactly does this do? It worked. I first

Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics

2007-12-04 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 05:55:17 Marc G. Fournier wrote: For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to set things up. Is it recommended to do this on more than one home machine running FreeBSD, or just one of them?

Re: Determining kernel?

2007-12-04 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Patrick Baldwin wrote: I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF line. Is there any way to get a running FreeBSD

Re: Determining kernel?

2007-12-04 Thread RW
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:36:15 -0500 Patrick Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF line. Is there any way

script to upgrade 6.0 to 6.2

2007-12-04 Thread Le Cocq Michel
can you tell me what you think about this article ? I test on a computer in my lab, it seems to work, but I don't know exactly what it does ? http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-11-26-freebsd-6.1-to-6.2-binary-upgrade.html M ___

Re: Determining kernel?

2007-12-04 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Patrick Baldwin wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Patrick Baldwin wrote: I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF line. Is there any way to

Re: jabberd will not start on reboot, only starts manually

2007-12-04 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 06:06:00PM +, Pollywog wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:11:32 Daniel Bye wrote: Try removing the # BEFORE: LOGIN line from the jabberd control script. I haven't tested it, but from a cursory glance at the respective control scripts, it feels like a sane

Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics

2007-12-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 05:55:17 Marc G. Fournier wrote: For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to set things up. Is it recommended to do this on more than one home machine running FreeBSD, or just

Re: script to upgrade 6.0 to 6.2

2007-12-04 Thread Colin Percival
Le Cocq Michel wrote: can you tell me what you think about this article ? I test on a computer in my lab, it seems to work, but I don't know exactly what it does ? http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-11-26-freebsd-6.1-to-6.2-binary-upgrade.html I recommend following the instructions at

Re: jabberd will not start on reboot, only starts manually

2007-12-04 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 18:28:42 Daniel Bye wrote: Check out the manual for rcorder(8), and look at the CAPITALISED files in /etc/rc.d. Essentially, LOGIN is a dummy service - it is used to control startup of services that should start late in the boot process. The jabberd control

looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread David Banning
Often I have to maintain my fbsd box from outside locations. I have tried using webmin but sometimes outside computers stop me from running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Schiz0
On Dec 4, 2007 2:11 PM, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Often I have to maintain my fbsd box from outside locations. I have tried using webmin but sometimes outside computers stop me from running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain

Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics

2007-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, December 04, 2007 18:18:21 + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 05:55:17 Marc G. Fournier wrote: For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to set things up. Is it

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread David Banning
mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? ...You can't just SSH into your box and use vim? Let's say I'm in a library in some remote town. The only SSH I know that is

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? ...You can't just SSH into your box and use vim? Let's say I'm in a

Problem with wireless on 7.0 BETA3...

2007-12-04 Thread Peter Harrison
I've just installed 7.0-BETA3 on my laptop. It was running 6-STABLE, but rather than buildworld etc. I opted for a fresh install from CD (subsequently updated to catch the security notification). It's a cheap Dell Inspiron and doesn't come with wireless, so I use an Asus WL-167g USB adaptor,

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:11:31PM -0500, David Banning wrote: Often I have to maintain my fbsd box from outside locations. I have tried using webmin but sometimes outside computers stop me from running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:09:11PM -0500, David Banning wrote: mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? ...You can't just SSH into your box and use vim? Let's

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread David Banning
running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? I use putty to ssh to remote servers and use

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Schiz0
On Dec 4, 2007 3:14 PM, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PuTTY has no installer - It's just a binary. Actually there is a windows installer for putty - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: script to upgrade 6.0 to 6.2

2007-12-04 Thread Le Cocq Michel
Colin Percival a écrit : Le Cocq Michel wrote: can you tell me what you think about this article ? I test on a computer in my lab, it seems to work, but I don't know exactly what it does ? http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-11-26-freebsd-6.1-to-6.2-binary-upgrade.html I

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Chess Griffin
* Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-04 15:29:47]: In response to David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? ...You

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Olivier Mueller
Le 4 déc. 07 à 21:09, David Banning a écrit : mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? ...You can't just SSH into your box and use vim? Let's say I'm in a library in some

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Chess Griffin
* Chess Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-04 15:39:55]: Along these same lines, you can keep a copy of Portable Vim [1] and Portable PuTTY [2] on a usb stick and run them from Windows. They work as-advertised and are pretty handy. [1] http://portablegvim.sourceforge.net/ [2]

mfi Driver messages

2007-12-04 Thread Terry Sposato
Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD AMD64 on a Dell 2950. I am running hardware mirroring. The RAID gets picked up by the mfi driver and everything works fine. I get the following messages on the console and am just wondering what exactly is happening. I imagine the driver is just checking the

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Kurt Buff
On Dec 4, 2007 1:05 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PuTTY has no installer - It's just a binary. Actually there is a windows installer for putty But you don't need to use it. All you need is the executable.

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:14 PM 12/4/2007, David Banning wrote: running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? I

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:14:05PM -0500, David Banning wrote: running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui

GBDE and GELI security

2007-12-04 Thread Chad Perrin
I've read reports to the effect that GBDE is vulnerable to online dictionary attacks unless two-factor authentication is used. The only such report I can find now is this discussion of NetBSD's CGD, where its author contrasts it with GBDE: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6384 Is this still the

Re: Any experience using cellphone as a modem on FreeBSD?

2007-12-04 Thread Karel Miklav
This is in my /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, except for the asterisks: # Connect to *** over IrDA and GSM phone. First install birda and # create connection over IrDA: #ircomm -d /dev/cuad0 -m 115200 -y /dev/ptypf -v 2 # then connect with: ppp -background gsm. gsm: set log Phase tun command set

copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-04 Thread Steve Franks
I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x (do not cross filesystems) was intended for. It failed, however, as df shows 20k blocks in /, and rsync filled up the target slice with 50k blocks, so obviously it blew right

Re: make buildworld (6-STABLE) - stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdbserver

2007-12-04 Thread Venkatesh K
Hi, I think you did not see an earlier thread started by me started by me. I am also facing similar problem and you will find more details if you go through the thread. It seems gdb Makefile is the culprit. Right now I have commented out build of gdbserver and buildworld is running. Let's wait

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
Andreas Pettersson wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 1. What is more important to your personal use of FreeBSD (the ports system, the underlaying OS, some other aspect)? 2. How frequently do you interact with the ports systems and what is the most common interaction you have with it?

Character 208 acts strangs in console, when moving mouse

2007-12-04 Thread Willem Hendriks
When i display character 208 in my console and move my mouse, i see the strangest things. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8, with default screenmap and console settings. http://www.xs4all.nl/~whendrik/download/mouse wget and cat that file in a console to see the effect. I tried it on my laptop and

Re: Character 208 acts strangs in console, when moving mouse

2007-12-04 Thread Reko Turja
When i display character 208 in my console and move my mouse, i see the strangest things. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8, with default screenmap and console settings. http://www.xs4all.nl/~whendrik/download/mouse wget and cat that file in a console to see the effect. I tried it on my laptop and

What is best method to debug freezes/hangs?

2007-12-04 Thread yar
My question is how best to go about debugging sporadic freezes and hangs. Just looking for general methods.On a couple of our IDS systems there are sporadic hangs or freezes that occur every couple weeks or so, that are recoverable by either system reboots or taking out and reinserting the

Re: Problem with mkisofs -dvd-video

2007-12-04 Thread Jeremy Gransden
On Dec 3, 2007 12:01 AM, Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21:42:47 Dec 02, Jeremy Gransden wrote: HI List, What is the correct procedure to create a dvd-video iso. I have tried the following and receive an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mkisofs -dvd-video -o

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-04 Thread lveax
On Dec 5, 2007 12:38 AM, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x (do not cross filesystems) was intended for. It failed, however, as df shows 20k blocks in /, and rsync

Re: Problem with mkisofs -dvd-video

2007-12-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:23:50 Dec 04, Jeremy Gransden wrote: I say almost because the dvd will not play in my standalone dvd player, but will play on both my macbook, and freebsd machine. I will look into the dvdauthor, and mencoder docs to see if i can figure out why. If you have a problem with standalone

Re: What is best method to debug freezes/hangs?

2007-12-04 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
yar wrote: My question is how best to go about debugging sporadic freezes and hangs. Just looking for general methods.On a couple of our IDS systems there are sporadic hangs or freezes that occur every couple weeks or so, that are recoverable by either system reboots or taking out and

Re: GBDE and GELI security

2007-12-04 Thread RW
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:04:23 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read reports to the effect that GBDE is vulnerable to online dictionary attacks unless two-factor authentication is used. The only such report I can find now is this discussion of NetBSD's CGD, where its author

Maybe this is a bug, should I report it?

2007-12-04 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
But why is it that portupgrade feels the need to upgrade gpg to gpg2, when gpg is still in the tree? I'm running a portupgrade -rf gettext, and didn't previously have gpg2 installed. -Dan -- this is too stupid even for irc -mtreal, EFnet #macintosh, 09/15/2K, 12:33 AM Dan

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 22:14, David Banning wrote: running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html

./configure question for AIX

2007-12-04 Thread Rogelio
I have a question on compiling Nagios' NRPE on AIX (which I'm assuming would be similar to FreeBSDl, as I'm trying to use Autotools on ksh). I'm used to always running tar -zxfv file.tar.gz, but this time I had to run (I think) like tar z and then tar xfv to get it unzipped. In that directory, I

FreeBSD NFS server Linux clients

2007-12-04 Thread Ian
I'm trying to get some opensuse 10.3 clients to access nfs shares on a FreeBSD 5.5 server. It works fine most of the time, but every so often when using big programs like openoffice firefox, the program will stop responding for a couple of minutes. After doing some googling, I enabled lockd