using ntfs-3g

2009-03-28 Thread marco.borsat...@poste.it
You have suggested the good solution, thank you. Marco Borsatino -- Original Header --- From : beni b...@brinckman.info To : freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc : marco.borsat...@poste.it Date : Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:30:04 +0100 Subject : Re: using ntfs-3g

Re: freeBSD 6.4

2009-03-28 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi Mario! Did you installed the right vga driver? Did you make de right xorg.conf for Xserver? Please check this. Anyways, you can send your top processes, but I think that the Firefox uses the more from CPU, by the way, what is your load? Laci From: Mario

Re: [pkg_add] PACKAGESITE weirdness - URL not correct for dependencies?

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 26 March 2009 21:46:07 L Campbell wrote: Okay, so apparently there's some serious weirdness in the logic in src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/url.c, in fileGetURL. This function takes two parameters, base and spec, and has the following behavior -- snip behavior and patch Yes, it is a

Re: most signals not being delivered to processes

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 26 March 2009 21:50:36 Ian Rose wrote: However, hopefully the problem has gone away. Another member of our team thinks that somehow the issue is related to some system services (sshd and dhcpd) failing to completely detach from their controlling terminal due to a setuid wrapper

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 27 March 2009 15:42:27 Barnaby Scott wrote: Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one reason or another, place to download application source to? Most systems I use or inherited use a variation of

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-28 Thread Robert Huff
Mel Flynn writes: Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one reason oranother, place to download application source to? Most systems I use or inherited use a variation of ~/src ~/cvs or ~/svn,

Re: WINE installation problem

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 26 March 2009 14:10:48 RW wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:20:38 +0100 Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.net wrote: Hi, My WINE was running fine, but while performing a portupgrade I got an error message. So I decided to remove WINE and reinstall. Now I can't install it

Re: How to list all the installed packages...

2009-03-28 Thread Ghirai
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:05:04 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, Is there a way to show a list of all installed packages that are not required by any other package? Some thing like pkg_info -aR where the Required by: field is empty. Ultimately, that would give a

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:45:33 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:03:59AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's certainly not

nvidia-drivers crash computer on X start

2009-03-28 Thread Anders Holmström
I'm having something of a problem. X.org will not start whenever I load the drivers installed from the latest nvidia-drivers port. The error also happens with the older versions of said drivers. The error doesn't occur with the normal nv drivers. What happens: 1) $ startx 2) The normal startup

Re: nvidia-drivers crash computer on X start

2009-03-28 Thread RW
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:53:43 +0100 Anders Holmström holmstrom.and...@gmail.com wrote: The current xorg.conf I'm using is listed below. It was generated with X -configure. I've used many different xorg.confs, but they've all more or less been using the same settings as below, I don't know if

About boot from GPT

2009-03-28 Thread Bingzheng Wu
Hi men, FreeBSD 7.1 supports booting from GPT partitions. I want to know more about it. Without GPT, MBR reads the Disk Partition Table(DPT), and read the first sector of the boot partition. If map the bootable GPT-partition in to DPT in MBR, then the boot code in MBR reads this partition, just

Re: nvidia-drivers crash computer on X start

2009-03-28 Thread rasz
RW wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:53:43 +0100 Anders Holmström holmstrom.and...@gmail.com wrote: The current xorg.conf I'm using is listed below. It was generated with X -configure. I've used many different xorg.confs, but they've all more or less been using the same settings as below,

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 252, Issue 11

2009-03-28 Thread Roy Stuivenberg
Hello :) Thank you very much! I added the line in ipfw script, loaded the script, and was able to send the email with attachment. Then tried again without the line $cmd 00151 allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 3 (after reboot) and it didn't send the email. So including the line did the trick ..

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 08:39:32AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:45:33 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:50:40 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at

Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 28 March 2009 13:06:44 Robert Huff wrote: Mel Flynn writes: Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one reason oranother, place to download application source to? Most systems I use

Re: nvidia-drivers crash computer on X start

2009-03-28 Thread rasz
Anders Holmström wrote: did you try Option AllowEmptyInput off in Serverlayout section under screen, keyboard, mouse? I was told by a guy on the nvnews.net forums that I should put machdep.disable_mtrrs=1 in my /boot/loader.conf. Apparently he had had the same problem and he said it was

Re: nvidia-drivers crash computer on X start

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 28 March 2009 13:53:43 Anders Holmström wrote: The current xorg.conf I'm using is listed below. It was generated with X -configure. I've used many different xorg.confs, but they've all more or less been using the same settings as below, except when I tried NvAGP which didn't seem

Re: How to list all the installed packages...

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 27 March 2009 10:12:57 Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Is there anything about build dependencies in cutleaves? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves/files/ pkg_cutleaves?rev=1.2 I do not see it at a quick glance. No. Typically one knows the leaves that

Re: nmap as user works, root doesn't

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 26 March 2009 03:39:15 Jimmie James wrote: Can anyone make sense of this? Straight DSL connection, no router. using -e [any interface] results in the same errors nmap-4.76 As root: #nmap -v -v google.ca Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT Warning:

Too many active children of 'whole'

2009-03-28 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Using FreeBSD 8.x snapshot 200902, On a 160GB SATA HDD, i tried creating a 25GB slice and then selected 'install a standard MBR (no boot manager)', the installer gave a warning as: Disk Slicing warning: Too many active children of 'whole' What exactly does this mean ? thanks Saifi.

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 26 March 2009 16:39:18 Frank Shute wrote: ~/.xinitrc is only run when you use startx and ~/.xsession is used when you run the display manager xdm(1). I believe kdm also uses xsession. This is all IIRC. I haven't used a display manager for sometime and I've never used kdm.

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:49:48 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Virtual desktops. What are you referring to? Visit the power toys URL for further information. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx Thanks for that. Did they use to be called

Re: FreeBSD Networking Questions / vlan, lagg, routing, FIBs, ezjail

2009-03-28 Thread Peter Cornelius
Now, it is my suspicion that the apparent need for promisc at the router end indeed is an apperent one and not really the router's fault but rather the other end's. The other end, in this case, is the server below. If the server, with its single MIB, default-routes its packets through one

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
got completely off topic. please get that discussion off the list FreeBSD is not windows program, but standalone OS. Possibly it can be run under windows and some kind of VM but it should be discussed on windows support list etc. ___

Which is the best Free BSD for each of my computers?

2009-03-28 Thread Christopher Schneider
Free BSD Team, iMac with the 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with Mac OS X version 10.5.6 Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac8,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed:2.8 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 6 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-28 Thread Chris Rees
2009/3/28 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com: Mel Flynn writes:   Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I    can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible    for one reason oranother, place to download application source to?  Most systems I use or inherited

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Harold Hartley
Wojciech Puchar wrote: got completely off topic. please get that discussion off the list FreeBSD is not windows program, but standalone OS. Possibly it can be run under windows and some kind of VM but it should be discussed on windows support list etc.

Re: web based file sharing

2009-03-28 Thread Karl Vogel
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:13:12 +, Terry te...@bluelight.org.uk said: T Just looking for a way to give easy access over the internet to some files T for multiple users. Web based would be ideal as they all know how to open a T browser. Try drall, it's easy to set up and works like a

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread perryh
Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: If the connection is down, I am probably NOT using the PC. Hell, if the power is out for more than 30 minutes, my UPS is dead so I am most definitely not using the machine. So you never experience connectivity problems for any reason other than a local power

Heller-Johnson syndrome (Re: installing freebsd on windows)

2009-03-28 Thread perryh
Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists. Johnson's Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within the organization. Author unknown: If someone *does* know what is going on in the organization, that person must be

if anyone needs OOo 3.0.1 i386 package

2009-03-28 Thread Ghirai
Seeing as good-day.net only has packages for amd64, i figured i'd make one; it only took about 9 hours or so :P http://ghirai.com/openoffice.org-3.0.1.tbz (~130MiB) Created with pkg_create -b on 7.1. Tried to install on another box and it worked fine, provided you have the required deps

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-03-28

2009-03-28 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Powell
Harold Hartley wrote: I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to install on windows like ubuntu does. Sorry - I am not quite certain what you mean by this. FreeBSD is an operating system, just as Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc are different operating systems. If

Re: if anyone needs OOo 3.0.1 i386 package

2009-03-28 Thread Tim Judd
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Seeing as good-day.net only has packages for amd64, i figured i'd make one; it only took about 9 hours or so :P http://ghirai.com/openoffice.org-3.0.1.tbz (~130MiB) Created with pkg_create -b on 7.1. Tried to install on

qemu-launcher problem

2009-03-28 Thread AN
I am trying to run qemu-launcher from the command line and receive the following error: # qemu-launcher Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display

Re: Can't upgrade to 7.1-RELEASE

2009-03-28 Thread Reinis Ivanovs
I thought I should mention that I'm booting off of ZFS, perhaps that's related to my problem. R. http://dabas.untu.ms/ On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 02:41, Reinis Ivanovs da...@untu.ms wrote: Hello, I'm trying to upgrade a 7.0 system to 7.1-RELEASE, and it isn't working. I switch to the

Can't upgrade to 7.1-RELEASE

2009-03-28 Thread Reinis Ivanovs
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade a 7.0 system to 7.1-RELEASE, and it isn't working. I switch to the superuser, do freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE, and then when I try running freebsd-update install, I get this: .chflags: ///.profile: Operation not supported Any hints as to what could be the

Re: Can't upgrade to 7.1-RELEASE

2009-03-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, .chflags: ///.profile: Operation not supported Could that be that you are running with some kernel security level? sysctl -a |grep kern.securelevel And that your file /.profile has some flag set on it? ls -lo ./profile Then you will need to reboot in a lower level so you can either

gvinum RAID 5+0?

2009-03-28 Thread Mike Manlief
Hello, How does one configure gvinum for RAID 5+0 (distributed parity nested in stripe)? The configuration I've tried seems to be incorrect. Config: drive a device /dev/ad10 drive b device /dev/ad12 drive c device /dev/ad14 drive d device /dev/ad4 drive e device /dev/ad6 drive f device

Re: [pkg_add] PACKAGESITE weirdness - URL not correct for dependencies?

2009-03-28 Thread L Campbell
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Thursday 26 March 2009 21:46:07 L Campbell wrote: Okay, so apparently there's some serious weirdness in the logic in src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/url.c, in fileGetURL. This function takes two

analyzing httpd-error.log

2009-03-28 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I'm running 6.4-STABLE, Apache22, logwatch and Webalizer. Webalizer is doing what it's supposed to with httpd-access.log, but when I give it the error log to process is coughs, spits and spills out errors with no data processed. My research hasn't turned up a good solution for

Stock OpenSSL is multithread or not?

2009-03-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am trying to use Pound (/usr/ports/www/pound). From the documentation I read; Warning: as Pound is a multi-threaded program it requires a version of OpenSSL with thread support. This is normally the case on Linux and Solaris (for example) but not on *BSD. Is that still true on

Re: analyzing httpd-error.log

2009-03-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Webalizer is doing what it's supposed to with httpd-access.log, but when I give it the error log to process is coughs, spits and spills out errors with no data processed. My research hasn't turned up a good solution for webalizer and -error.log. The format of error log is pretty