Re: AHCI and Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L

2010-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:29:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: The Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L has an ICH7, one PATA port, and four SATA ports. This one now has the latest BIOS, F10. Is it possible to run AHCI on this motherboard and chipset? Only some ICH7 chipsets are able to run with AHCI.

Re: Booting from floppy to install 8.1

2010-07-30 Thread perryh
Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: Should I be able to do a network install of 8.1 using a 7.3 boot floppy set? (I'm not planning to set up zfs, at least initially.) ... I once net-installed FreeBSD using a boot CD from an earlier version; I think it was a disk one rather than

Are there tools for binary update(security etc.) of applications?

2010-07-30 Thread Luca Renaud
I updated my system from FreeBSD 8.0 to 8.1 using the tool freebsd-update.As far as I know this tool only updates the core system and user land utilities,thus,all other apps are not updated. I use the gnome desktop,and I regularly receive the warning from Software Updater that I have 240,or

Re: Booting from floppy to install 8.1

2010-07-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
I once net-installed FreeBSD using a boot CD from an earlier version; I think it was a disk one rather than boot-only ... If you use boot floppies, use only the two (or is it three?) needed to boot the install system. If I've understood the 7.3 set correctly it's now up to five: the

Re: Are there tools for binary update(security etc.) of applications?

2010-07-30 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:16:55 +0100 Luca Renaud renaud.l...@gmail.com wrote: My question is: update them through the ports system?(compiling them all?) or binary update? Are there tools capable of doing that using the command line?(binary update of apps not in the core system or userland

IPFW with MAC address configuration

2010-07-30 Thread Carmel
I am trying to set up a rule using IPFW that utilizes a MAC address rather than an IP one. ipfw -q allow log tcp from MAC 00-14-A4-43-8E-BA to me 137 in via nfe0 setup keep-state Would that work, assuming the machine I want to allow access has that MAC address? -- Carmel ✌

Installation - no disks detected

2010-07-30 Thread Prateek Sharma
Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD-8.1 on a server with the LSI SAS 9200 disk controller card. Before the partitioning step the installer says disks not found.. However, just after freebsd boots , i get the diagnostic message saying something like: Drive C: is disk ad0 Drive D: is disk

Re: IPFW with MAC address configuration

2010-07-30 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/30/2010 01:18 PM, Carmel wrote: I am trying to set up a rule using IPFW that utilizes a MAC address rather than an IP one. ipfw -q allow log tcp from MAC 00-14-A4-43-8E-BA to me 137 in via nfe0 setup keep-state Would that work, assuming the machine I want to allow access has that

Re: IPFW with MAC address configuration

2010-07-30 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/30/2010 01:18 PM, Carmel wrote: I am trying to set up a rule using IPFW that utilizes a MAC address rather than an IP one. ipfw -q allow log tcp from MAC 00-14-A4-43-8E-BA to me 137 in via nfe0 setup keep-state Would that work, assuming the machine I want to allow access has

Re: How to mass recompile broken packages?

2010-07-30 Thread Unga
--- On Thu, 7/29/10, Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: How to mass recompile broken packages? To: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 11:00 PM 29.07.2010 17:31, Unga wrote:

Re: How to mass recompile broken packages?

2010-07-30 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
30.07.2010 17:04, Unga wrote: Ok, the portupgrade process was not fully automated, I had to manually compile few. Two packages still get listed in the rebuild file, I removed them and recompiled, but still get listed. One of the packages is firefox, but the firefox works well. Therefore, I

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:30:45AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, July 30, 2010 14:06:07 +1000 Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: . . . Now about that sex toy.. It's a girl thing, Paul. Or rather, a girls thing .. and no, I didn't forget an apostrophe. Hope that

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, July 30, 2010 14:06:07 +1000 Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 321, Issue 11, Message: 20 On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:20:24 -0500 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:03:07 -0400 Jerry McAllister

Re: Installation - no disks detected

2010-07-30 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 30 July 2010 05:58:02 Prateek Sharma wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD-8.1 on a server with the LSI SAS 9200 disk controller card. Before the partitioning step the installer says disks not found.. However, just after freebsd boots , i get the diagnostic message

Re: possible NFS lockups

2010-07-30 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:29 AM, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: I have a production mail system with an nfs backend. Every now and again we see the nfs die on a particular head end. However it doesn't die across all the nodes. This suggests to me there isnt an issue with the filer itself

Re: Upgraded cups - no cups printer in firefox after the, upgrade

2010-07-30 Thread Kenneth Hatteland
Yes Antonio, it was gtk2 and libgnomeprint.. thanksbookmarked it this time ;) kenneth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Correct syntax of supfile to keep ports upgraded?

2010-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:20:57AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to learn how to keep my FreeBSD 8.0 updated (patched with security updates) the correct (I know that's subjective) way. snip To keep my ports up to date, do I simply need to add: ports-all tag=. to this file

Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

2010-07-30 Thread Carl Johnson
I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the system. Gnus will start up, but it just reports that there is no mail. It did work one time with

Correct syntax of supfile to keep ports upgraded?

2010-07-30 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, I'm trying to learn how to keep my FreeBSD 8.0 updated (patched with security updates) the correct (I know that's subjective) way. Here's what my supfile looks like now: # If you add any of the ports or doc collections to this file, be sure to # specify them with a tag value set to .,

IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?

2010-07-30 Thread Carl Johnson
I have running versions of 7.3 and 8.0, so I tried experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I ran into a couple of problems. I have an 8.0 system that is running a IPv6 tunnel to sixxs.net, and it is running rtadvd to act as the gatway for my network. On the 8.1 system I enabled IPv6 in

Re: Correct syntax of supfile to keep ports upgraded?

2010-07-30 Thread Ed Flecko
Thank you Roland; I didn't know portsnap is part of the base install. :-) From a book that I have (Absolute FreeBSD - 2nd Edition), it says PORTSNAP VS. CSUP Use either portsnap(8) or csup(1) to update the Ports Collection, but not both. The two tools are incompatible. csup is most useful if

Re: Correct syntax of supfile to keep ports upgraded?

2010-07-30 Thread Balázs Mátéffy
Hi, If you want to stick with cvsup, or csup, you can use the example port updating supfile (if you have the example files). for example: csup -L 2 -g -h cvsup10.us.freebsd.org/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile You can check the example file, what csup or cvsup needs in the supfile, and

Re: Correct syntax of supfile to keep ports upgraded?

2010-07-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Roland; I didn't know portsnap is part of the base install. :-) From a book that I have (Absolute FreeBSD - 2nd Edition), it says PORTSNAP VS. CSUP Use either portsnap(8) or csup(1) to update the Ports

Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?

2010-07-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 30/07/2010 18:48, Carl Johnson wrote: I have running versions of 7.3 and 8.0, so I tried experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I ran into a couple of problems. I have an 8.0 system that is running a IPv6 tunnel to sixxs.net, and it is running rtadvd to act as the gatway for my network.

Re: Correct syntax of supfile to keep ports upgraded?

2010-07-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com writes: To keep my ports up to date, do I simply need to add: ports-all tag=. to this file before running csup or cvsup? Yes. Or just use /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Correct syntax of supfile to keep ports upgraded?

2010-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:12:36AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: Thank you Roland; I didn't know portsnap is part of the base install. :-) From a book that I have (Absolute FreeBSD - 2nd Edition), it says PORTSNAP VS. CSUP Use either portsnap(8) or csup(1) to update the Ports Collection, but

sudo -K/-k ineffective

2010-07-30 Thread me
Hi, Upon doing sudo some-command as a normal user (non-root), sudo asks for password only once, subsequent invocations of sudo doesn't ask for password - even though I do sudo -k or sudo -K in between. Although sudo starts asking for password after the time stamp expiry. in other words: % sudo

vidcontrol / vesa mode regression in 8.1-RELEASE

2010-07-30 Thread Tobias Rehbein
Hi list. I just upgraded my laptop to FreeBSD 8.1 and this time it's the first time I actually have a regression: I can't switch my console to high resolution using vidcontrol or allscreen_flags in rc.conf. My kernel configuration contains VESA and SC_PIXEL_MODE: t...@sushi

Re: sudo -K/-k ineffective

2010-07-30 Thread Chris Rees
It's by design. There's a timeout that you can set, try man sudo. Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 30 Jul 2010 21:43, me gurpreet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Upon doing sudo some-command as a normal user (non-root), sudo asks

Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?

2010-07-30 Thread Carl Johnson
Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk writes: On 30/07/2010 18:48, Carl Johnson wrote: I have running versions of 7.3 and 8.0, so I tried experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I ran into a couple of problems. I have an 8.0 system that is running a IPv6 tunnel to sixxs.net, and it is running

Re: AHCI and Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L

2010-07-30 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:29:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: The Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L has an ICH7, one PATA port, and four SATA ports. This one now has the latest BIOS, F10. Is it possible to run AHCI on this motherboard and chipset? Only some

Re: Are there tools for binary update(security etc.) of applications?

2010-07-30 Thread perryh
Luca Renaud renaud.l...@gmail.com wrote: I updated my system from FreeBSD 8.0 to 8.1 using the tool freebsd-update. As far as I know this tool only updates the core system and user land utilities, thus, all other apps are not updated. Correct. I use the gnome desktop, and I regularly

Re: sudo -K/-k ineffective

2010-07-30 Thread Michael Toth
On 07/30/2010 06:00 PM, Chris Rees wrote: It's by design. There's a timeout that you can set, try man sudo. Chris Chris, That is not by design. sudo -K should remove the timestamp -- sudo -K The -K (sure kill) option is like -k except that it removes

Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

2010-07-30 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the system. Gnus will start up, but it just reports that

Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

2010-07-30 Thread Carl Johnson
Byung-Hee HWANG b...@izb.knu.ac.kr writes: Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the system. Gnus

Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

2010-07-30 Thread Anonymous
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the system. Gnus will start up, but it just reports that