Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/23/10 11:04, Mike Clarke wrote: That's very similar to my experience too but I'm getting the feeling that I might have to move over to KDE4 before much longer due to reduced KDE3 support with some of the apps: Same here. I delayed trying KDE4 since my old box was too old; as soon as I

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/23/10 18:22, Adam Vande More wrote: If you tried on KDE 4.1, 4.2, then yes things have improved a lot. 4.3 was pretty big update in terms of stability, and 4.4 has been far more solid than not. I tried 4.5.1 on 8.1/i386 with every port updated, on a 4-core AMD CPU with a Radeon HD

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/23/10 10:46, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 23, 2010 a las 09:36:03AM +0100, Frank Shute escribió: My belief is that people who are comfortable with Gnome/KDE are people who are familiar with working in a GUI such as Windows® and haven't come from the commandline.

Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

2010-09-24 Thread Andy Wodfer
I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE. I can't get GD enabled. I have installed latestes php5 from ports aswell as php5-extensions and enabled GD on the option screen: cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 make deinstall make clean make rmconfig make install clean cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions make deinstall

Re: Problem adding 1TB SATA disk to system

2010-09-24 Thread Andy Wodfer
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:13 PM, freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, Your email was unable reach the intended person that you were sending it to. For more information on our business please click on the following link: Click here for our website

Re: Problem adding 1TB SATA disk to system

2010-09-24 Thread Andy Wodfer
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.comwrote: Andy Wodfer wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 release (will upgrade to 8.1 STABLE tonight). However, I'm having big problems adding a new harddrive to the system. I want a separate 1TB SATA installed to recover

Re: Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

2010-09-24 Thread John
On 24/09/2010 12:52, Andy Wodfer wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE. I can't get GD enabled. I have installed latestes php5 from ports aswell as php5-extensions and enabled GD on the option screen: cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 make deinstall make clean make rmconfig make install clean

Re: Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

2010-09-24 Thread Andy Wodfer
[snip] I had to install a new server and was surprised the extensions never loaded. However I knew from other installations that for example the gd extension should be in extensions.ini - I looked in there and it was absent. So what I had to do is to search for it. Before I did that, I had

lagg trouble

2010-09-24 Thread Leif Walsh
I have the following in /boot/loader.conf: if_iwn_load=YES iwn5000fw_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES and the following in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_em0=up ifconfig_iwn0=ether 00:1f:16:0c:46:82 wlans_iwn0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=WPA cloned_interfaces=lagg0

Re: Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

2010-09-24 Thread John
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 03:02:40PM +0200, Andy Wodfer wrote: [snip] I had to install a new server and was surprised the extensions never loaded. However I knew from other installations that for example the gd extension should be in extensions.ini - I looked in there and it was absent.

Re: Will FBSD Squid port create squid user and group?

2010-09-24 Thread Thomas-Martin Seck
* Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com [gmane.os.freebsd.questions]: Hi folks, I guess this is a two-faceted question: 1.) If I install Squid from a port, will in create the recommended squid user and group for me, or will I need to pre-create a squid user and group prior to Squid running? Yes.

Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-24 Thread Rick Miller
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, vrwmil...@gmail.com wrote:  Is it possible to take a port, make a package of it and put it in the packages directory of my own media? Sure it's easy.  When build a port you can

Mount order for ZFS, jails, and nullfs

2010-09-24 Thread Torbjorn Granlund
In jails, I'd like a local ZFS /, a read-only nullfs-mounted /usr, and a local /usr/local. (I'd also have read-only nullfs-mounted /bin, /lib, /libexec, but let's forget about that for now.) This way, I can upgrade the master /usr once, in one place, and have all jails inherit it. And my dear

Re: Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-24 Thread vrwmiller
On Sep 24, 2010 10:54am, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, vrwmil...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to take a port, make a package of it and put it in the

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: I'm not too sure what you're asking certain window should be moved by default to specific workspaces. Since

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience on what path to follow? KDE? any other? Using fluxbox here for ages (used olvwm, ctwm, and fvwm[2] before. It's low overhead, very low cpu/disk/memory

Little question about device driver name

2010-09-24 Thread David DEMELIER
Hi folks, I just wonder why if_bridge(4) is prefixed by if_ for device name. Every other device name like lagg(4), gif(4) are not prefixed with this same one. Is there any reason that bridge is prefixed with it ? (I don't know if there is other device like that, but what I saw in conf/NOTES

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I love Fluxbox too for its lightweightness and configurability. If you find it too minimalistic, I think that XFCE can be a good compromise also since it runs quite fast compared to KDE and Gnome while having most of their functionalities. XFCE is also compatible with Compiz... On Fri, Sep 24,

Re: Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

2010-09-24 Thread Andy Wodfer
[snip] how bizarre. Does phpinfo() show gd? Sorry for the simple question, but it is inportant ; No it doesn't. Here's the long output of phpinfo() PHP Version 5.3.3 System FreeBSD webserver.domain.no 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009

Re: Little question about device driver name

2010-09-24 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:04:06PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Hi folks, I just wonder why if_bridge(4) is prefixed by if_ for device name. Every other device name like lagg(4), gif(4) are not prefixed with this same one. if_bridge was based on bridge. I assume that when the updated

Re: Linux filesystems accessible from FreeBSD 8-stable?

2010-09-24 Thread krad
On 23 September 2010 18:59, Leif Walsh leif.wa...@gmail.com wrote: I can't seem to get a definitive answer on this from the internet, there's a lot of conflicting information. I have some data drives formatted with ext4, which I'd like to access from freebsd, preferably without totally

Re: Mount order for ZFS, jails, and nullfs

2010-09-24 Thread Torbjorn Granlund
krad kra...@gmail.com writes: use zfs mount/umount How? The zfs mount command does not work anyting like the mount(8) command but for ZFS volumes. The zfs mount mounts a volume using its mountpoint property. But if that's set to legacy, then zfs mount will hardly work, since it cannot

Re: Mount order for ZFS, jails, and nullfs

2010-09-24 Thread krad
On 24 September 2010 17:03, Torbjorn Granlund t...@gmplib.org wrote: In jails, I'd like a local ZFS /, a read-only nullfs-mounted /usr, and a local /usr/local. (I'd also have read-only nullfs-mounted /bin, /lib, /libexec, but let's forget about that for now.) This way, I can upgrade the

Re: Mount order for ZFS, jails, and nullfs

2010-09-24 Thread krad
On 24 September 2010 18:52, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 September 2010 17:03, Torbjorn Granlund t...@gmplib.org wrote: In jails, I'd like a local ZFS /, a read-only nullfs-mounted /usr, and a local /usr/local. (I'd also have read-only nullfs-mounted /bin, /lib, /libexec, but let's

Re: Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

2010-09-24 Thread Michael Powell
Andy Wodfer wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE. I can't get GD enabled. I have installed latestes php5 from ports aswell as php5-extensions and enabled GD on the option screen: cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 make deinstall make clean make rmconfig make install clean cd

Re: Linux filesystems accessible from FreeBSD 8-stable?

2010-09-24 Thread Leif Walsh
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: Im not 100% sure  (probably about 60% actually) but cant you mount ext4 as ext2? From what i vaguly remember there will be some limitations but its worth having a look # mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad4p1 /mnt mount: /dev/ad4p1 : Invalid

Re: which perl?

2010-09-24 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi, Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. Should I leave this as is or should I be using

Re: Linux filesystems accessible from FreeBSD 8-stable?

2010-09-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 01:59:40PM -0400, Leif Walsh wrote: I can't seem to get a definitive answer on this from the internet, there's a lot of conflicting information. I have some data drives formatted with ext4, which I'd like to access from freebsd, preferably without totally

Filesystems

2010-09-24 Thread Derek Funk
There was a post some time ago someone was complaining that FreeBSD still uses and archaic filesystem and not a new FS like ext4. Some replied, seeming like a code contributor, with a very sounded reply. What is that reply? Derek ___

Re: Linux filesystems accessible from FreeBSD 8-stable?

2010-09-24 Thread Aaron
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:21, Leif Walsh leif.wa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: Im not 100% sure  (probably about 60% actually) but cant you mount ext4 as ext2? From what i vaguly remember there will be some limitations but its worth having a

Re: Linux filesystems accessible from FreeBSD 8-stable?

2010-09-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 08:48:00PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 01:59:40PM -0400, Leif Walsh wrote: I can't seem to get a definitive answer on this from the internet, there's a lot of conflicting information. I have some data drives formatted with ext4, which I'd

Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com writes: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, vrwmil...@gmail.com wrote:  Is it possible to take a port, make a package of it and put it in the packages directory of my own media?

Attempting to use the kernel debugger over the serial port not working (well)

2010-09-24 Thread Patrick Mahan
All, Cannot seem to find anything on the net to collaborate my experience with remote KGDB over a serial port. Here is my setup - +--+-+--- | | |

Re: Filesystems

2010-09-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/09/2010 21:05:45, Derek Funk wrote: There was a post some time ago someone was complaining that FreeBSD still uses and archaic filesystem and not a new FS like ext4. Some replied, seeming like a code contributor, with a very sounded reply. What is that reply? ZFS or words to that

automake

2010-09-24 Thread ajtiM
Today I tried on my FreeBSD 8.0 portmaster -ad === Gathering distinfo list for installed ports === Starting check of installed ports for available updates === The devel/automake15 port has been deleted: Outdated, ports migrated to automake19 === Aborting update Thanks in advance. Mitja

Re: automake

2010-09-24 Thread Balázs Mátéffy
Hi, Try this: portmaster -od /usr/ports/devel/automake19/ automake-1.4.6_5 or your automake version, look it up with pkg_info | grep automake Hope this helps! If needed try to update everything that was depending on automake! BR, Balazs. On 24 September 2010 23:20, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com

Writing to MBR

2010-09-24 Thread tom oakes
Hello, I have done a clean install of freebsd 8.1 on /dev/ad4s1a with the following: # Intel Core 2 Duo Dual-Core E6300 2.8GHz 1066MHz 2MB Cache Processor # ASRock G31M-S R2.0 Core 2 Quad/ Intel G31/ FSB 1600(OC)/ DDR2/ AVL/ MATX Motherboard # 4GB (2X2GB) DDR2-1066 PC2 8500 Dual Channel

Multiple Machines

2010-09-24 Thread David Allen
Multiple Machines This is sort of a best practices kind of question so all comments are welcome. I'm wondering what folks are doing when setting up multiple (more than 1, but less than 10) machines. Consider, for example, some ordinary files such as the following: /root/.cshrc

Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-24 Thread Devin Teske
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 10:54 -0400, Rick Miller wrote: I've created the package and copied it to the networked media. How do I edit the INDEX file so that it knows how to get the file? HINT: If you created the package from the ports tree, you can say make describe in the package's top-level

Erlang and Java

2010-09-24 Thread Chad Perrin
Does anyone know of a reason that installing lang/erlang would fail if a java/diablo-jdk port failed to install? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Erlang VM really should *not* depend on Java. Right? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp6tfLZs6IEJ.pgp

Re: Multiple Machines

2010-09-24 Thread Karl Vogel
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:04:45 -0800, David Allen the.real.david.al...@gmail.com said: D I'm wondering what folks are doing when setting up multiple (more than D 1, but less than 10) machines. Consider, for example, some ordinary D files such as the following: D /root/.cshrc

Re: Erlang and Java

2010-09-24 Thread zaxis
Erlang doesnot depend on java. I have installed erlang sucessfully just by `make install clean` without java. Chad Perrin wrote: Does anyone know of a reason that installing lang/erlang would fail if a java/diablo-jdk port failed to install? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Erlang VM