Mount floppy image

2010-01-31 Thread Leslie Jensen
I'm trying to mount a floppy image following the instructions on: http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/beginners/mdconfig_mount_images To mount a floppy image, create a virtual device, /dev/md0, for the floppy image. # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:08:05PM -0500, Jeff Mitchell wrote: ie: This machine has a lot going on .. wiki's (ie: apache et al), mysql databases, mailing lists, and a dozen hand rolled applications. (Hey, someone has to write custom emulators of ancient systems to keep BBSes alive,

Re: Mount floppy image

2010-01-31 Thread Leslie Jensen
2010-01-31 09:27, Leslie Jensen skrev: I'm trying to mount a floppy image following the instructions on: http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/beginners/mdconfig_mount_images To mount a floppy image, create a virtual device, /dev/md0, for the floppy

Re: Mount floppy image

2010-01-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 09:27:48AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm trying to mount a floppy image following the instructions on: http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/beginners/mdconfig_mount_images To mount a floppy image, create a virtual

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-31 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Kurt Buff wrote: For make, do the following, after csup (or an alternative):      cd /usr/ports      make search name=samba | less or      cd /usr/ports      make search key=samba | less Then browse that list to see what most particularly applies to your

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-31 Thread krad
On 30 January 2010 23:42, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48, Joe Springer joe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-31 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
On 31.01.2010 06:08, Jeff Mitchell wrote: Strikes me most people will recommend (3) -- nice big new drive, no risk of destroying a working machine (can always slap old drive back in), easy migration of service by service, etc and so on. Strikes me as a PITA, but then again .. the others are

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I did recently an unplaned update of a machine out of the same time. You will face so many changes that simply setting up the machine newly might be less work. Of course, do a good backup to at least two media and then install the new version. One thing I experienced was a bit strange.

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 31 January 2010 pm 19:18:35 Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: On 31.01.2010 06:08, Jeff Mitchell wrote: Strikes me most people will recommend (3) -- nice big new drive, no risk of destroying a working machine (can always slap old drive back in), easy migration of service by service, etc

knutclient-0.9.4 (sysutils/knutclient) - Cannot compile

2010-01-31 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
Hello, Today I set up my system to monitor my UPS using NUT (sysutils/nut). Everything went smoothly. I also noticed that there is a KDE client for NUT, named knutclient, and it lies at sysutils/knutclient, so I decided to give it a try. Unfortunately it cannot complete the compilation, due

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-31 Thread Robert Huff
Erich Dollansky writes: Remember, the USD stack was rewritten from scratch. It it my understanding that in most cases the new USB stack should ve compatible with the old USB stack, at least to the extent that programs that compile and run under $OldUSB should compile and run under

Re: Problems with make clean

2010-01-31 Thread Frank Wißmann
Kevin Kinsey schrieb: Frank Wißmann wrote: Hi, Beasties! I just installed the new VirtualBox through ports. It worked fine, but now I have trouble cleaning the directory. Neither make clean nor a rm -rf work/ do what they are supposed to. Here is the output: rm:

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-31 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
On 31.01.2010 13:45, Erich Dollansky wrote: Strikes me most people will recommend (3) -- nice big new drive, no risk of destroying a working machine (can always slap old drive back in), easy migration of service by service, etc and so on. Strikes me as a PITA, but then again .. the others are

Re: Generating normally distributed random numbers.

2010-01-31 Thread Jason Lenthe
I am working on a project where I have the need to generate normally distributed random positive integers, preferably unsigned 64 bit (or even longer if possible) integers. More specifically, I will need the ability to supply the expected value and the standard deviation for the desired

Re: Nehelem 64 bit, kern conf and /etc/make.conf

2010-01-31 Thread b. f.
I just installed FreeBSD 8.0 (amd64) onto my new Nehalem-based system. CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5506 @ 2.13GHz (2128.00-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x106a5 Stepping = 5

Re: Generating normally distributed random numbers.

2010-01-31 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-01-31 15:53, Jason Lenthe wrote: I am working on a project where I have the need to generate normally distributed random positive integers, preferably unsigned 64 bit (or even longer if possible) integers. More specifically, I will need the ability to supply the expected value and the

VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, folks! I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is Command can't be executed in german. I also tried with full pathname /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VboxBFE, but that doesn't work either. Where should I look for a solution?

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Glen Barber
Hi Frank, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Hi, folks! I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is Command can't be executed in german. I also tried with full pathname /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VboxBFE, but that doesn't work either.

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Frank Wißmann
Glen Barber schrieb: Hi Frank, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Hi, folks! I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is Command can't be executed in german. I also tried with full pathname /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VboxBFE, but that

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Glen Barber
Frank Wi?mann wrote: Glen Barber schrieb: Hi Frank, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Hi, folks! I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is Command can't be executed in german. I also tried with full pathname

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Frank Wißmann
Glen Barber schrieb: Frank Wi?mann wrote: Glen Barber schrieb: Hi Frank, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Hi, folks! I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is Command can't be executed in german. I also tried with full pathname

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Glen Barber
Frank Wi?mann wrote: Is your user in the vboxusers group? OK, now he is. But either as root or as normal user I get the same result as in the message in the last mail described. Ok, three questions: 1.) Did you log out after adding yourself to the group? If not, open a new

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is Command can't be executed in german. I also tried with full pathname /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VboxBFE, but that doesn't work either.

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is Command can't be executed in german. I also tried with full pathname

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, Warren! Warren Block schrieb: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is Command can't be executed in german. I also tried with full pathname

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, Warren1 Warren Block schrieb: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is Command can't be executed in german. I also tried with full

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, Glen1 Glen Barber schrieb: Frank Wi?mann wrote: Is your user in the vboxusers group? OK, now he is. But either as root or as normal user I get the same result as in the message in the last mail described. Ok, three questions: 1.) Did you log out after adding yourself to the group?

Re: Printing via ulpt0 extremely slow

2010-01-31 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:08:14PM +0100, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: hello, world\n I have a system with a handful of kernels I chose from with grub. Recently compiled 8-STABLE systems show strange printing behaviour. While a one year old 8.0-CURRENT #0 r185532 has no problem printing to my

devel/poco-ssl BROKEN. Can I use TRYBROKEN?

2010-01-31 Thread cpghost
Hi, devel/poco-ssl has been marked BROKEN= bad plist for some time now. Since I urgently need it for devel work, and as I would prefer to use the port rather than compile POCO directly (which works too), I'm considering bypassing this BROKEN setting with: .if ${.CURDIR:M*/devel/poco-ssl}

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Hi, Warren1 Warren Block schrieb: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is Command can't be

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, Warren! Warren Block schrieb: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Hi, Warren1 Warren Block schrieb: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, Glen! Glen Barber schrieb: 2.) What version of VirtualBox is this? virtualbox-ose-3.1.2 and above do not require procfs(5); lesser versions do. When I try to mount /proc via fstab and mount -u -a I get the following error message: mount: proc : Invalid argument The line in

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Warren Block schrieb: ... The GUI is /usr/local/bin/VirtualBox. All of the others are command-line interfaces. I only have this in /usr/local/bin: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 33 30 Jan 20:45 VBoxBFE@ - /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VBoxBFE

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, Warren! Warren Block schrieb: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Warren Block schrieb: ... The GUI is /usr/local/bin/VirtualBox. All of the others are command-line interfaces. I only have this in /usr/local/bin: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 33 30 Jan 20:45 VBoxBFE@ -

System Crash + Firefox-3.5.7

2010-01-31 Thread Jerry
I have been experiencing one or two system crashes a day for over a week now. For no apparent reason, when starting Firefox, the system will freeze for approximately 10 seconds or so, then reboot. This does not happen every-time. It seems to happen maybe every third or forth time, although that is

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:35:02 +0200, Elias Chrysocheris elias...@cha.forthnet.gr wrote: Unfortunatelly, spaces are not allowed in fstab syntax. Fortunately. :-) Allow me a little sidenote about correct terminology: I also have tried it before and figured out that there is no way to insert

iwi and wlan-cloning

2010-01-31 Thread Torgeir Hoffmann
Hi all, After installing 8.0-release I followed all the howtos on cloning my iwi0 device to wlan0 to setup the wireless. The manual configuration: ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0 wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 dhclient wlan0 works well. However, trying to get this done

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Warren Block schrieb: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Warren Block schrieb: ... The GUI is /usr/local/bin/VirtualBox. All of the others are command-line interfaces. ... Maybe you turned off the QT4 option in the VirtualBox port config?

Re: Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-31 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation on a good GPS receiver/board for use with NTP/FreeBSD to create a stratum 1 public time server? Anything with a PPS output. The Garmin GPS 18 LVC is probably the cheapest option. Preferably something above the

Re: Re : Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-31 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Alexandre L. axel...@ymail.com wrote: You can see here : http://www.meinberg.de/english/ Meinberg is one of those companies that don't even put price information on the web site: If you have to ask, you can't afford it. -- Christian naddy Weisgerber

Server compromised Zen-Cart record company Exploit

2010-01-31 Thread James Smallacombe
Whoever speculated that my server may have been compromised was on to something (see bottom). The good news is, it does appear to be contained to the www unpriveleged user (with no shell). The bad news is, they can still cause a lot of trouble. I found the compromised customer site and

Re: Problem with sftp server, static linking, pam and nss_ldap.

2010-01-31 Thread Piotr Buliński
Hi, problem solved. It is only FreeBSD 9 (CURRENT) issue. If anyone would have problem like this, solution is available here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-January/015236.html Regards -- Piotr Buliński Informatyka na Wydziale Elektrycznym Politechnika Warszawska

Re: iwi and wlan-cloning

2010-01-31 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Torgeir Hoffmann twhof...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, After installing 8.0-release I followed all the howtos on cloning my iwi0 device to wlan0 to setup the wireless. The manual configuration: ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0 wpa_supplicant -c

Re: iwi and wlan-cloning

2010-01-31 Thread Torgeir Hoffmann
On 31 January 2010 22:51, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Torgeir Hoffmann twhof...@gmail.com wrote: However, trying to get this done automatically seems not to work: wlans_iwi0: not found ifconfig_wlan0: not found if I have rc.conf

Re: Re : Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-31 Thread dalescott
With a clear view of the sky, pretty much any receiver but the lowest grade (havIng a 1pps output) should behave about the same. Ceramic patch antennas should have a decent ground plane. If the antenna is small (e.g. most puck antenna/receivers) put in on a 10in or 12in round metal disk (also

Re: Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-31 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Christian Weisgerber wrote: Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation on a good GPS receiver/board for use with NTP/FreeBSD to create a stratum 1 public time server? Anything with a PPS output. The Garmin GPS 18 LVC is probably the cheapest option.

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-31 Thread Jeff Mitchell
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: # Not totally true. 5.4 was released in 2005 whereas newest motherboard with # which I faced personally problems booting from USB was from 2003. And it # actually declares that it can boot from USB. 5.4 seemed to actually have many issues

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 01 February 2010 am 08:12:56 Jeff Mitchell wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 5.4 seemed to actually have many issues with USB; some devices including 7.2. USB was the main reason why I left the machine on 6.x. I planned then an direkt update to 8.0 when it

Re: Swap Partition First? Something is still Wrong.

2010-01-31 Thread Martin McCormick
When referring to the slices in a FreeBSD partition, which is correct, ad0s1a or ad0s1-1? One of the problems in setting up install.cfg is that I am not sure if it is not configuring the disk because the designations are wrong or if I am telling fdisk to do something that it can't

Re: apache22 and new hostname???

2010-01-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 05:58:16PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: Gary, But I do need the basics of having/serving/hosting two domains on one computer. What you are looking for are called virtual hosts. See the examples in /usr/local/etc/apache22/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. The Apache

mysql silently failing to start - suggestions?

2010-01-31 Thread John
If this isn't the right list - if I should try another let me know - but since this is the mysql-server-5.4.2 package, and since you folks have been so helpful, I thought I'd give it a go. Anyway, the system is 8.0-RELEASE and that package is installed, and I can't start the server. Not only can

Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions?

2010-01-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:34 PM, John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: If this isn't the right list - if I should try another let me know - but since this is the mysql-server-5.4.2 package, and since you folks have been so helpful, I thought I'd give it a go. Anyway, the system is 8.0-RELEASE and

Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions?

2010-01-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 31), John said: If this isn't the right list - if I should try another let me know - but since this is the mysql-server-5.4.2 package, and since you folks have been so helpful, I thought I'd give it a go. Anyway, the system is 8.0-RELEASE and that package is

Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions?

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Powell
John wrote: If this isn't the right list - if I should try another let me know - but since this is the mysql-server-5.4.2 package, and since you folks have been so helpful, I thought I'd give it a go. Anyway, the system is 8.0-RELEASE and that package is installed, and I can't start the

transparen tproxy for HTTPS.

2010-01-31 Thread hasanhasanli Hasan
I have problems with squid. For Http squid is working. But for https squid is not working.For example I want to see gmail.com FireFox gives next Message: Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long.IE 8.0 doesn't work and give message. FreeBSD 7.1, I try it in squid-2.7.7_2,3.1. Both of them

/root permission reset on boot

2010-01-31 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 i386, and even after I chmod 700 /root, after a reboot it goes back to permission 755. 1. What's the reason for this? There must be a good reason and I would like to know it. Everything in FreeBSD just makes sense and is well designed (honestly, no sarcasm here). 2. Would

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-01-31 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 31/01/2010 7:32 μ.μ., Frank Wißmann wrote: Glen Barber schrieb: Frank Wi?mann wrote: Glen Barber schrieb: Hi Frank, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Hi, folks! I want to launch my freshly installed VB with the run-command under KDE 3.5.10, but it won't start. All I get is Command can't be