Re: under X, frozen keys, no mouse

2010-04-05 Thread herbert langhans
Henry, you may have installed xorg with the HAL-option on. If you want to try without it go to the /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server. Use #make config, switch off the HAL support and #make reinstall. Cheers herb langhans On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 10:54:03PM -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: I

Re: under X, frozen keys, no mouse

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box.  It has a built-in video card, this isn't a top of the line superfast machine. But it is important for me to press it into service. I tried using a couple of Option lines in

Re: SSH root login with keys only

2010-04-05 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 05/04/10 01:35, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: PasswordAuthentication is already disabled (by default). I need to disable ChallengeResponseAuthentication however: /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 131: Directive 'ChallengeResponseAuthentication' is not allowed within a Match block Same thing for

svn commit problems with sourceforge due to svn

2010-04-05 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Hello, I'd like to commit my new release of sysutils/automounter to the sourceforge svn repository, so that I can branch the release. Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with OpenSSL: svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: OPTIONS of

Re: USB disk boot issues

2010-04-05 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:38:53 -0500 Peter Steele wrote: We clone systems from specially prepared USB flash sticks and this all works well, except that occasionally the flash stick fails to boot. It fails at the mount root step, saying that it cannot mount the specified root partition. We use

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2010 19:48:14, Alejandro Imass wrote: But honestly pun aside unless(){} is far more readable than if(!){} and _especially_ if you are programming in an exception manner as you correctly point out. Every language should have an unless

Re: SSH root login with keys only

2010-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2010 22:04:35, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: Is it possible to configure sshd such that both conditions are met: 1. Root will be able to login only by using keys 2. Normal users will still be able to use pam/keyboard-interactive Only by

Re: SSH root login with keys only

2010-04-05 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 05/04/2010 10:01, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/04/2010 22:04:35, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: Is it possible to configure sshd such that both conditions are met: 1. Root will be able to login only by using keys 2. Normal users will still be able to use pam/keyboard-interactive Only by

Re: SSH root login with keys only

2010-04-05 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 05/04/2010 10:17, Vincent Hoffman wrote: On 05/04/2010 10:01, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/04/2010 22:04:35, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: Is it possible to configure sshd such that both conditions are met: 1. Root will be able to login only by using keys 2. Normal users

setting sendmail.mc options?

2010-04-05 Thread Jeff Hamann
I'm sure this isn't the correct place for this question, but I'm not sure where to go as I only use my FreeBSD Unleashed to admin my sendmail. I'm a newbie at this and could use a little help. I'm trying to configure sendmail, using the freebsd port, to only relay mail once a day (I hate

Re: Configuring IPFW IP range [FreeBSD-questions] {offlist}

2010-04-05 Thread Carmel NY
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 19:11:42 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com articulated: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Apr 4 08:12:11 2010 Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 09:11:47 -0400 From: Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:

RE: USB disk boot issues

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Steele
You can try to solve the problem by: - # echo kern.cam.boot_delay=1 /boot/loader.conf - We've put a pretty sizeable delay already directly in the kernel. There is now a noticeable pause before the mount root step is about to be performed. We don't see the problem often now, but

Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-05 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi Dan, Peter, Thank you for your enlightening replies. On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:40:35AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2010-Apr-04 23:54:55 +0200, Jeremie Le Hen jere...@le-hen.org wrote: Yeah, you are right. I should have mentionned that I do not want necessarily a high-performance NAS,

Re: under X, frozen keys, no mouse

2010-04-05 Thread Henry Olyer
I see: Setting master xclock: not found Dropping master While the root screen has: drm0: Intel i845G GMCH on vgapci0 vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster info: [drm] AGP at 0xf000 128NB info: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 I have: hald_enable=YES in the boot up conf

Re: under X, frozen keys, no mouse

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: I see: Setting master xclock: not found Dropping master While the root screen has: drm0: Intel i845G GMCH  on vgapci0 vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster info:  [drm]  AGP at 0xf000 128NB

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie,      Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie I had a look at the thread - thanks..,

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread S Roberts
Hi Masoom, Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie,      Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote:

Re: SSH root login with keys only

2010-04-05 Thread Marcin Wisnicki
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:01:08 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2010 22:04:35, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: Is it possible to configure sshd such that both conditions are met: 1. Root will be able to login only by using keys 2. Normal users will

Re: svn commit problems with sourceforge due to svn

2010-04-05 Thread Marcin Wisnicki
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:08:36 +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: Hello, I'd like to commit my new release of sysutils/automounter to the sourceforge svn repository, so that I can branch the release. Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with OpenSSL: svn: Commit failed (details follow):

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom,   Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Leslie,  

Re: svn commit problems with sourceforge due to svn

2010-04-05 Thread Marcin Wisnicki
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:26:16 +, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:08:36 +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: It seems svn is linked to both the base system version of OpenSSL (0.9.8k) and the package (1.0.0): ldd /usr/local/bin/svn |grep ssl libssl.so.7 =

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread S Roberts
Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom,   Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread S Roberts
Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom,   Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-05 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Jeremie Le Hen jere...@le-hen.org wrote: Nonetheless I'm a little worried by what you said about the lack of ECC. Computers has been used for years before ECC came out and obviously they worked :).  Do you really think it might happen to be a problem?  Would an

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Matthew As far as I know, perl and its descendant ruby are the only Matthew programming languages that let you put the condition test after Matthew the action, despite this being exceeding familiar in human Matthew languages.

ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread Walter
I want to parse ftp error messages in auth.log and use the ip address in inserting a block into ipfw. It works, except when ftpd spits out the host-specific url rather than the ip. Adding -h to the ftpd command in inet.conf didn't help. Can someone tell me how to do this, or point me to code (C)

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: Hello Masoom, I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** FreeBSD, please? EasyBCD worked for me on

Re: ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/05/10 10:08, Walter wrote: I want to parse ftp error messages in auth.log and use the ip address in inserting a block into ipfw. It works, except when ftpd spits out the host-specific url rather than the ip. Adding -h to the ftpd command in inet.conf didn't help. Can someone tell me

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-05 Thread parv
in message 867homm1qf@red.stonehenge.com, wrote Randal L. Schwartz thusly... Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Matthew As far as I know, perl and its descendant ruby are the Matthew only programming languages that let you put the Matthew condition test

Compiling

2010-04-05 Thread tristan
How would i go about compiling the FreeBSD source code (to build my own) in an Ubuntu machine? (windows 7 is also available). What programs do i need? Were can i download the source code? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread S Roberts
Hello Warren, Great to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:10:47 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: Hello Masoom, I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hi Masoom,   Good to hear from you.., On

Re: ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter wrote: I want to parse ftp error messages in auth.log and use the ip address in inserting a block into ipfw. It works, except when ftpd spits out the host-specific url rather than the ip. Adding -h to the ftpd command in inet.conf didn't

Re: Compiling

2010-04-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/04/2010 15:35:05, tristan wrote: How would i go about compiling the FreeBSD source code (to build my own) in an Ubuntu machine? (windows 7 is also available). What programs do i need? Really you need FreeBSD already installed if you want to

Re: Compiling

2010-04-05 Thread Mikle Krutov
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:35:05AM -0400, tristan wrote: How would i go about compiling the FreeBSD source code (to build my own) in an Ubuntu machine? (windows 7 is also available). What programs do i need? Were can i download the source code? Why do even need this? Also, i doubt any one had

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Leslie Jensen
so here is one trick if you got guts to try :). I recently got saved with this trick you have Win7 pre-installed, now free up some space and let FreeBSD install, select the option do not touch mbr. Next boot you will find Win7 gone. Boot from Win7 CD and let it install at same location where

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread S Roberts
Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:56:39 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, S Roberts sta...@vickiandstacey.com wrote: Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010

theme

2010-04-05 Thread tristan
In some FreeBSD pictures, i see a dock at the bottom. how do i get this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread Walter
Greg Larkin wrote: Hi Walter, Did you send a HUP signal to inetd so it rereads the config file? kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` Hope that helps, Greg I actually rebooted (after a boo-boo). So, Yes, inetd was restarted. ___

How to create a base distribution set?

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Steele
One of the distribution sets that comes on a standard release DVD is base. This includes the core set of binaries as well as the files under /etc and a few other text files. Running make installworld doesn't collect everything that's needed. Is there a make option to gather all of the files? I

Re: theme

2010-04-05 Thread Modulok
Could you post a link to an example image? It sounds like you're describing the features of a window manager of some sort, in which case that would be a separate program. Examples of window managers/desktop environments would include fluxbox, gnome, awesome, kde, etc. It could be any one of them,

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-05 Thread RW
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:57:17 +0100 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've always found that 'unless' makes a great deal of sense when used in the alternate syntax: do_foo() unless $condition ; As far as I know,

Re: SSH root login with keys only

2010-04-05 Thread Modulok
You should also consider posting your patch and related content to, 'freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org'. -Modulok- On 4/5/10, Marcin Wisnicki mwisnicki+free...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:01:08 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2010

why use diablo JDK/JRE ?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
what is the need for FreeBSD Foundation to maintain dialbo JDK/JRE binaries when packages for openjdk are available on ftp servers ? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/java/openjdk-7.0.86.tbz stupid me, never realized, just assumed that openjdk binaries cannot be

Re: How to create a base distribution set?

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/5/10, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: One of the distribution sets that comes on a standard release DVD is base. This includes the core set of binaries as well as the files under /etc and a few other text files. Running make installworld doesn't collect everything that's needed.

How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Steele
We have a USB boot stick based cloning process that we're considering porting to a DVD based media. I'm not sure though that it's possible due to the restrictions I've seen in the mfsroot environment we'd have to use. For example, in our USB disk procedure, we create partitions using gpart and

why use diablo JDK/JRE ?

2010-04-05 Thread Robert Huff
Masoom Shaikh writes: what is the need for FreeBSD Foundation to maintain dialbo JDK/JRE binaries when packages for openjdk are available on ftp servers ? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/java/openjdk-7.0.86.tbz stupid me, never realized, just

RE: How to create a base distribution set?

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Steele
I use make distributionin /usr/src to create the rest of the /etc files. That seems to be exactly what I need. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: SSH root login with keys only

2010-04-05 Thread Peggy Wilkins
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: I missed the rest of this thread so sorry its its been said already. As far as I knew the directive PermitRootLogin without-password in /etc/ssh/sshd_config should accomplish what was requested. However a note later

Re: ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter wrote: Greg Larkin wrote: Hi Walter, Did you send a HUP signal to inetd so it rereads the config file? kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` Hope that helps, Greg I actually rebooted (after a boo-boo). So, Yes, inetd was

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: This is a new, windows 7 preinstalled machine that came with **NO** windows 7 install disks. It's nice to make the first boot of a factory-fresh system from a backup CD like clonezilla and back up all of the partitions on the drive. That's before

Re: ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread Walter
On 4/5/10 10:08 AM -0500, Walter wrote: Walter, I do some similar sounding things for my gateway just to keep the logs from filling up with attack drivel. But it's not quite the same problem as your question, so I don't do what I'm about to recommend - it's more complex, involving several

Re: ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread Walter
Greg Larkin wrote: Instead of standard ftpd, give lukemftpd a try. I tested it briefly, and failures are reported like so: : FTP LOGIN FAILED FROM 192.168.xxx.yyy Finally, instead of writing your own parsing script, sshguard monitors your FTP logs, SSH logs and other services that you

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-05 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
Just a status update: PNG and cURL are in, and png fall-outs are believed to be fixed. Xorg update has gone through an -exp run on Pointy and our xorg team is working on fixing the approx. 60 ports with problems. I will begin -exp runs for Gnome and KDE updates tonight or tomorrow morning.

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread S Roberts
Hello Warren, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:04:19 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: This is a new, windows 7 preinstalled machine that came with **NO** windows 7 install disks. It's nice to make the first boot of a factory-fresh system from

Re: theme

2010-04-05 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:41:19 -0400, tristan tristan.n...@gmail.com wrote: In some FreeBSD pictures, i see a dock at the bottom. how do i get this? When reading a dock, NeXT-oriented window managers such as WindowMaker come into mind (which I am traditionally using, but with the dock on the

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
Ion-Mihai, Does this fix the following issue? I have installed FreeBSD 8.0 and updated it to current p2 I try to use konqueror and I get There was an error loading the module About-Page for Konqueror. The diagnostics is: Cannot load library /usr/local/kde4/lib/kde4/konq_aboutpage.so:

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Ion-Mihai, Does this fix the following issue? I have installed FreeBSD 8.0 and updated it to current p2  I try to use konqueror and I get  There was an error loading the module About-Page for Konqueror.  The

Re: SSH root login with keys only

2010-04-05 Thread Marcin Wisnicki
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:38:01 -0500, Peggy Wilkins wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: However a note later in the default sshd_config file regarding the UsePAM setting says 'Depending on your PAM configuration,  PAM authentication via

csup vs cvs

2010-04-05 Thread doug
Yesterday I was updating an 8.0 stable system to pick up a change I specifically needed. The change was MFC'd Apr 4th at 11:38. I waited until about 8PM and ran cvs from cvsup2.FreeBSD.org. When the change was not there, I waited until Apr 5th, a bit after midnight. When I still did not pick up

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-05 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 05/04/2010 18:03, Peter Steele wrote: We have a USB boot stick based cloning process that we're considering porting to a DVD based media. I'm not sure though that it's possible due to the restrictions I've seen in the mfsroot environment we'd have to use. For example, in our USB disk

Re: svn commit problems with sourceforge due to svn

2010-04-05 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 05/04/2010 15:31, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:26:16 +, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:08:36 +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: It seems svn is linked to both the base system version of OpenSSL (0.9.8k) and the package (1.0.0): ldd /usr/local/bin/svn

RE: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Steele
It sounds like http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ would be helpful to you. (I havent used it yet due to lack of time but it looks good.) Hmmm, that just might do the trick. I'll check it out, thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

example C code for reading db hash files

2010-04-05 Thread Jim Sander
Is there a handy C code reference or examples for db files? (google has not been kind to me) I have a tied hash from Perl using DB_File, and need read only access in a C program. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread RW
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:10:37 -0500 Walter walte...@earthlink.net wrote: On 4/5/10 10:08 AM -0500, Walter wrote: If, by host-specific url you mean the name associated with the IP address, you should be able to get the IP address by using the host command. host xxx does the trick.

Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Apr-05 12:20:12 +0200, Jeremie Le Hen jere...@le-hen.org wrote: Nonetheless I'm a little worried by what you said about the lack of ECC. Computers has been used for years before ECC came out and obviously they worked :). Not really. Most early computers had fairly extensive error

Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-05 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Apr 5 16:34:40 2010 Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 07:34:05 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org To: Jeremie Le Hen jere...@le-hen.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardw...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX

Re: example C code for reading db hash files

2010-04-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Jim Sander jimsan...@mac.com wrote: Is there a handy C code reference or examples for db files? (google has not been kind to me) I have a tied hash from Perl using DB_File, and need read only access in a C program. You mean a reference... like this?

Re: example C code for reading db hash files

2010-04-05 Thread Jim Sander
Thank you - but unfortunately, that doesn't help (it was the first place I checked actually) - I assume because of historical changes, but possibly because I'm missing something obvious. http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/ api_reference/C/dbopen.html vs.

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/5/10, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: We have a USB boot stick based cloning process that we're considering porting to a DVD based media. I'm not sure though that it's possible due to the restrictions I've seen in the mfsroot environment we'd have to use. For example, in our USB

RE: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Steele
But ... why are you constricting yourself to use mfs_root? I have many times ran FreeBSD completely from CDrom, which will give you all 700 (or a DVD, 4.3G) usable space. I'd be happy to help, if you have questions. but please direct the questions to the mailing list. The reason I was

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/5/10, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: But ... why are you constricting yourself to use mfs_root? I have many times ran FreeBSD completely from CDrom, which will give you all 700 (or a DVD, 4.3G) usable space. I'd be happy to help, if you have questions. but please direct the

Re: example C code for reading db hash files

2010-04-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Jim Sander jimsan...@mac.com wrote: Thank you - but unfortunately, that doesn't help (it was the first place I checked actually) - I assume because of historical changes, but possibly because I'm missing something obvious.

Finding port dependants

2010-04-05 Thread Aiza
The ports make file tree is so very large now a days (21491 ports). Doing portsnap to download the complete ports system just to install 3 ports is massive over kill. I have been doing package installs because the resources consumed in disk space (inodes used) and no compile time is such a

ttyu0 link down

2010-04-05 Thread Jay Hall
Ladies and Gentlemen, Earlier today, I had to dial into a server to check a link from both sides (a router was down). This evening, when I connected to the server I am not able to connect to the modem. From dmesg uart0: 16550 or compatible port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0:

RE: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Steele
If FreeBSD cannot write to /tmp or /var on boot, it automatically creates a MFS filesystems for those mountpoints and mounts them during boot. You don't need to do anything. It works as the same readonly compactflash environments out there. D'oh! Man, wish I had known that. I just tried it and

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:36:32PM +0100, RW wrote: IMO this is a bad mistake that other languages were quite right not to copy - a test shouldn't come after a block of code unless it's evaluated after the block (as in repeat...until) There are more things in heav'n and earth, Horatio, than

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/5/10, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: If FreeBSD cannot write to /tmp or /var on boot, it automatically creates a MFS filesystems for those mountpoints and mounts them during boot. You don't need to do anything. It works as the same readonly compactflash environments out there.