py26-dbus

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Brennan
While upgrading python to 2.6.x (by following /usr/src/UPDATING and running 'cd /usr/ports/lang/python && make upgrade-site-packages -DUSE_PORTMASTER') I get the following error msg from devel/py-dbus. Attached is the config file from the build-process. I can reproduce this by independently running

pkg_info and an active /usr/ports is slow

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Telting
ed to. Most importantly there is no command line option to skip it. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-question

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:01:48 -0500, Chris Brennan > wrote: > > Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which > is > > why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can downl

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Brennan
n Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 24/12/2010 03:27, Chris Brennan wrote: > > Bit of an odd question. But I will try. Is it possible to set up some > > mechanism (in freebsd or maybe gentoo (doesn't matter to me

fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Brennan
Bit of an odd question. But I will try. Is it possible to set up some mechanism (in freebsd or maybe gentoo (doesn't matter to me)) to pop/imap into my mail location and download everything as storage and then I imap to my local machine to read my mail. I realize I can pop/imap directly into my mai

Re: AMD Athlon64 Mainboard - NOT SPAM: please check it out :)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 December 2010 13:57, Da Rock wrote: > On 12/23/10 23:16, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> On 23 December 2010 11:44, Da Rock >>  wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Thanks, but Athlon64 is a 939. Yeah, it may not be worth salvaging, but I >>> thought

Re: AMD Athlon64 Mainboard - NOT SPAM: please check it out :)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
getmsg.cgi?fetch=411819+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2010/freebsd-questions/20101128.freebsd-questions suggests this board http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPE.cfm?typ=H&IPMI=Y which looks like it covers what you want. Chris _

Re: AMD Athlon64 Mainboard - NOT SPAM: please check it out :)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Rees
t *your* Athlon64 is a 939? Sorry you're not having much luck. If I knew the Aussie market I'd help you to pick something comparable, but that's better left to someone more local for you! Hope you get some results soon. Chris ___ freebsd

Re: AMD Athlon64 Mainboard - NOT SPAM: please check it out :)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Rees
om.au You _are_ dreaming about the 4x SATA though IMO; I'd just get an expansion card. Or get a cheap bundle with new MB/CPU; it's not always worth salvaging an old CPU like that. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - > "Dave" wrote: > > > Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! > > > > Bit of an oversight that I suspect > > Fixed in r216651 :) > IIRC ';' isn't a valid bash comment ... (whic

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Rees
Your PATH isn't set. # fsck / # mount -uw / # /bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf Or (can't remember where des is kept) # fsck /usr # mount /usr # /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf Good luck! Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won

Re: LG Vortex (VS660)

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Da Rock < freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: > Well thats new :) > > I've been playing with a HTC Android, disk access is fine, but trying to > get the tethering working. > > Whats usbconfig say? And is it every time you plug in, or does it come go

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:51 PM, RW wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:26:43 -0700 > Keith Seyffarth wrote: > > > > > > gdbm the core.dump and see if that helps (you may need to enable > > > symbols in > > > > Thanks for the information, but I'm not sure what you mean by "gdbm > > the core.dump." G

Re: A jail with a dash in its name

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Rees
re's no problem of having a dash in a hostname, so why should it be > in a jailname? > You tried single quotes? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

devel/py-dbus

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
I've been trying to do a portupgrade -a for the last month and I have been running into snags of all sorts. This one is with python The system is FreeBSD7.3/i386 (PIII/800Mhz, 384MB of ram) FreeBSD ziggy.xaerolimit.net 7.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p3 #8: Sun Oct 24 01:53:03 EDT 2010 r...@zi

LG Vortex (VS660)

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
I have an LG Vortex (android2.2) phone, I'm pretty sure it's a VS660 and when I plug it into my fbsd8.1 laptop I get this Dec 20 19:31:36 blackdragon kernel: ugen1.3: at usbus1 Dec 20 19:31:36 blackdragon kernel: umass0: on usbus1 Dec 20 19:31:36 blackdragon kernel: umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only;

Re: SEBSD is dead?

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:11 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > I've seen various HOWTOs about how to craft new rules to permit things > like this, but many of them seemed to be out of date or referred to > tools that don't ship with RedHat. Documentation is thin and the rule > syntax is so cryptic it

Re: freebsd bootloader / boot0cfg and multiple disks?

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Henrik Hudson wrote: > I'm trying to get the FreeBSD boot loader to to boot off multiple > disks, but I can't seem to get it to see my 3rd disk. > > FreeBSD 8.2-PRE amd64; stock kernel with sound card, ahci and PF added > > disk layout: > ada0: freebsd main instal

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > I'm not sure what else to try. Any suggestions? > gdbm the core.dump and see if that helps (you may need to enable symbols in your kernel as well as in the port in question to get a core.dump w/ enough info to be of use). You may also try

Re: Website Feedback

2010-12-19 Thread Chris Rees
> > Very Respectfully, > Matt Hi Matt, There's already a 'chat room' set up, but there are a few different ones, listed here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/support.html#IRC Hope that helps, Chris _

Re: Spam with fake address from the list?

2010-12-16 Thread Chris Brennan
If you search the list for the last 2 weeks you will see some extensive posting about it. Use my name and Ian as reference points in your search. There are a few clues there to help you squash this issue. (Sorry for the top-post). -- Sent from my Droid On Dec 16, 2010 6:40 AM, "Michelle Konzack"

Re: pass for single user mode

2010-12-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 11 December 2010 16:55, K. Yura wrote: > 2010/12/11 Chris Rees >> >> Have a look at /etc/ttys. >> Chris > Thank you very much No problem. Don't forget that although you've now made it non-trivial to break into your computer with console access, it'

Re: pass for single user mode

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Rees
Have a look at /etc/ttys. Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 11 Dec 2010 16:34, "K. Yura" wrote: > > FreeBSD .dlink 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1

Re: Postfix and Gmail

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Redd Vinylene wrote: > Anybody hooked their Postfix servers up with Gmail to use it as a client? > I'm tired of all this using mutt on several boxes, setting up virtual MySQL > accounts and domains with crap webapps. Figured I'd just use Gmail for it > all and be

Re: xpbargains.net spam [was: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)']

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:41:48 -0500 > Chris Brennan wrote: > > > Does GMail provide access to the full headers? > > Click the down arrow and select "Show original". > > -- > Bruce Cran > Awesome! Th

Re: xpbargains.net spam [was: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)']

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Brennan
nformative. Thanks. But my question is this. Does GMail provide access to the full headers? For example when I click 'Show Details' I see the following and not much else > fromPaul B Mahol > sender-timeSent at 4:30 AM (GMT+11:00). Current time there: 2:35 AM. >

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-12-10 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 12/10/10, Chris Brennan wrote: > > Umm... what's the dea w/ this? More spam? > > Not my spam. > > If you still think that I actually really send this to you I can not help > you. > Well no Paul, I wasn&

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Paul B Mahol 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 > We look f

Re: What is loading my server so much?

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > I do not understand. > > Doc says these: > > "max_connections cost ~ 400 bytes of shared memory slot, plus lock space > (see max_locks_per_transaction)." > > Even if I had max_connections = 5000, total shared memory required would be > way belo

Re: more dns weirdness

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Paul Macdonald wrote: > the wider issue is that freebsd whois will use tld.whois-servers.netcnames to > resolve appropriate whois servers and that > whois-servers.net has nameservers from one sole provider (ultradns), > which is still having problems. > > I'm not

Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Weihang Wang wrote: > Clipped for brevity. https://help.*ubuntu*.com/community/VirtualBox/Networking https://wiki.*ubuntu*.com/VirtualBox http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=667952 http://www.virtual

Re: more dns weirdness

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Paul Macdonald wrote: > > still debugging dns issues that are no doubt to do with wider issues: > > someone here might know who to tell? > > #whois amazon.com > > Whois Server Version 2.0 > > Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered > with ma

Re: mountroot prompt in the middle of updating - can't get past it

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > That worked... > > I think I'll try the update process again. > > Anything else you can recommend? > > Thanks, > > Did you read /usr/src/UPDATING ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: autoconf and automake

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 12/9/2010 12:54 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote: > > pkgdb -L > pkgdb -Fa > -o replace the installed port with a port from a different origin (From 'portmaster') -o, --origin=ORIGIN Specify a port to upgrade the following pkg with (fr

Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Weihang Wang wrote: > Hi, > > I do not configure a DHCP server. When my FreeBSD 6.0 is booting, there are > several DHCPDISCOVERY messages, finally it shows no DHCPOFFER received. Do I > need to configure a DHCP server myself? If I need a DHCP server? Where it > s

Re: libphp5.so

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Ivan Frosty wrote: > yeah well ports cant download. i dont have internet, usually i > download packages from a cyber then just do pkg_add when i get home. > so really make doesnt work for me. however i installed php5,mysql and > apache from a cd. but making php wo

Re: devel/gobject-introspection throws up because of python

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
Sadly this didn't work for me. I for the same error. -- Sent from my Droid On Dec 7, 2010 10:28 AM, "Lowell Gilbert" < freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Chris Brennan writes: > >> While trying to compile audio/tagtool on a FreeBSD7.3 (x86) machi

Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Weihang Wang wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone tell me how to enable Bridge mode? > > I just change the network settings of my virtual machine, change it to > bridged mode. I also select the eth0, which is the physical interface of my > system. > Then in my virtual m

Re: dhclient doesn't work over wireless

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Michael wrote: > > Again, other systems doesn't seem to have any trouble with getting IP from > this DHCP server and wired interface (em0) works fine too. > > Any ideas please? > A question first, is this a VirtualBox VM? If so, you'll need to either install the b

Re: FTPD not working properly on jail

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Joseph Bashe wrote: > But he mentioned he needs some sort of 'virtual' (I'm assuming chroot) > feature; this is not possible with sftp afaik. > > With some clever mapping of $HOME into the chroot, why wouldn't that be possible? _

Re: Jarupon has sent you a private message

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Jarupon Mahiphot wrote: > > ___ > 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: Terrible Clock Skew

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Dave Cundiff wrote: > Hi everyone, > bad button battery maybe? when the system is under load, it's diverting what ever processor time to correct for the skew elsewhere (guessing). If it is a bad battery, setup NTP to reset your system clock more frequently. __

Re: FTPD not working properly on jail

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
> > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:49 PM, krad wrote: > > > WHy not try sftp? Probably more secure and a dam site easier to setup. > I second this. SFTP is a ton easier, it's setup by default to work when SSH is setup/installed on any system. ___ freebsd-ques

Re: RecursiveDependencyError

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > Stuck on this problem. It is not happening for all ports, but for several > pear ports. I tried a 'pkgdb -fF' and it reported no errors, what else can I > do to find the cause of this when trying to install the pear-Mail and others > on

Re: libphp5.so

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Ivan Frosty wrote: > isnt it possible for some one to get me their libphp5.so so i can > download ? i installed php and all the dependancies but i used pkg_add > because i dont have internet apparently. so i cant do make, make > install. so is it possible i get th

Re: usb devices

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Justin V. wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Chris Brennan wrote: > > Does usbconf show that it was indeed registered? The kernel may see it and >> fail to pass it to the USB subsystem for what ever reason. >> >> -- Sent from my D

Re: usb devices

2010-12-07 Thread Chris Brennan
Does usbconf show that it was indeed registered? The kernel may see it and fail to pass it to the USB subsystem for what ever reason. -- Sent from my Droid On Dec 7, 2010 8:26 PM, "justin v" wrote: > Aloha world.. > > For whatever reason, today, when i plugin my USB devices they are not > showin

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-07 Thread Chris Hill
x27;s downright impenetrable to someone who has never seen it before. With ee, a newb has a fighting chance. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: -- Could NOT find XMMS: the nowplaying dataengine will NOT support XMMS 1.x

2010-12-05 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote: > Build of kdebase4-workspace claims: > > -- Could NOT find XMMS: the nowplaying dataengine will NOT support XMMS 1.x > > I have the xmms port installed and I rebuilt kdelibs. > > Why won't it see it? > > > xmms or xmms2? IIRC, xmms was disc

Re: Need to compile kernel for 2 or more processors?

2010-12-05 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > > I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I am sorry in advance. > > I am doing my guideline of the activities I need to do to change an old 2 > processors INtel 386 machine with 1GB of ram and 30GB of hard disk. The > mach

devel/gobject-introspection throws up because of python

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Brennan
While trying to compile audio/tagtool on a FreeBSD7.3 (x86) machine devel/gobject-introspection decides to throw up and I got this: (the install was via portmaster -d) checking for /usr/local/bin/python2.6 version... 2.6 checking for /usr/local/bin/python2.6 platform... freebsd7 checking for /usr

Re: bash command line - can not type "c" char (not echoed)

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Rees
Glad you solved it. Are you aware that packages and ports are identical once installed? Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 3 Dec 2010 11:35, "JB" wrote: > Hi, > > this happens both in console and g

Re: Support for hard drives > 2 TB?

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Thomas Mueller > wrote: > > Can FreeBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard > drive > 2 TB? Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the hard-drive > firmware can make sector size

Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Brennan
> Thank you so much, you do me a great favor!! Hope this also works for > Chris! > > Best, > W.W. > > Good, glad it works for you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: Got an error: Unknown option "DDB_CTF"

2010-12-02 Thread Chris Brennan
> > Hi Chris, > > I use FreeBSD version 8.1, the host OS is Ubuntu 10.10. The host OS could > connect to the Internet correctly. This host uses a private IP address. Yes, > I allowed the VM software to install the bridge adapter now, when booting > there are some msgs &qu

Re: Got an error: Unknown option "DDB_CTF"

2010-12-02 Thread Chris Brennan
> > Hi, > > I will try and see whether the same method works for me. If it could not > get network access. I am afraid I could not use virtual machine and might go > back to run FreeBSD on real hardware. Thank you very much, > > Best, > W.W. > > Weihang, The whole point of the VM right now is to t

Re: Got an error: Unknown option "DDB_CTF"

2010-12-02 Thread Chris Brennan
> > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for your kind help. Now I am running FreeBSD on Virtualbox as a > guest OS on Ubuntu. But I got some other problems. I have searched on the > Internet but could not find a solution work for me. > Now the guest OS does have network access. When using

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Chris Brennan
Thanks all for the feedback, problem solved, details below. Bruce -> "/dev/ad0s1" did the trick ... I was in such a hurry, I forgot to actually look further, I was in a hurry and got impatient :P. "file -s /dev/DEVICE" is a nice little trick, gonna have to tuck this one away for another rainy day

USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Chris Brennan
I have a need to use a thumb drive on my FBSD8.1/amd64 laptop and when I plugged it in before leaving to make sure I could mount it, I discovered I couldn't. /var/log/messages produced this: Dec 1 11:38:22 blackdragon root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x0324 product 0xbc06 bus uhub1 Dec 1 11:38:

Re: Broken port?

2010-11-29 Thread Chris Brennan
> > > On 11/29/10 19:34, Modulok wrote: > >> List, >> >> I tried to install django with sqlite support from ports and got the >> error shown below. What do I do to fix this? Do I email a port >> maintainer or something? I used portsnap to update my ports collection >> before trying the install. I'm

Re: firefox fails to launch

2010-11-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:50 PM, bluethundr wrote: > hi list > > I finally got KDE 4 running on my FreeBSD 8.1 box! It was a happy day > as it took several days to compile... > > However after installing the firefox port I get a dialog box claiming that > > "firefox is already running but not

Re: next question....

2010-11-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 27 November 2010 17:12, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 11/27/2010 12:06 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: >> You need to add yourself to the 'wheel' group to su or you need to add the >> proper line to /usr/local/etc/sudoers to sudo correctly. >> > no sudoers on my sy

Re: Digital camera (Canon)

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Hill
group usb add path 'da*s*' mode 0660 group usb # # 20091231: added the following for 8.0, since usb is handled # differently now. Hoping this will make gtkam work. add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group usb HTH... -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrom

Re: Software Update

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Steven Susbauer wrote: > On 11/27/2010 07:01 PM, RW wrote: > >> On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:36:09 -0500 >> Chris Brennan wrote: >> >> My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is >>> weather th

Software Update

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is weather this pulls updates from packages or ports. P.s. I think I asked this before but it got lost in some other hubbub. So appologies if I did ask already. ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Dave wrote: > On 27 Nov 2010 at 11:22, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Dave wrote: > > > > > > > > > > /usr/ports/sysutils/screen/ > > > > > > > > > > Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it was built > > > with a

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
> Hi. > > As I now have ssh working, I can indeed have multiple logins running in > indipendant windows on another box. (because I have it) I'm using PuTTY > on Win2k. > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ > > It appears to wo

Re: next question....

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dave wrote: > $ su > su: Sorry > $ sudo > sudo: not found > $ uname -a > FreeBSD FBSD.67MK181QZ 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 14 > 22:55:09 BST 2010 > r...@fbsd.67mk181qz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PPSGENERIC i386 > $ > $ > > You need to add yourself to

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-26 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Dave wrote: > Yes, I found that, good info. I'm relying on the freebsd.org site man > pages and documentation among others, as I'm finding it too inconvenient > (bad short term memory) using the man pages on the system. At least I > can have the website pages

Re: Mirror Site Requirements.

2010-11-25 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Walter Gonzalez Flores < wgonza...@gtdinternet.com> wrote: > Hello everyone!. > > I work for an ISP and we would like to be mirror site for downloads. What > are the requirements for this?. > You might consider looking at the handbook, specifically http://www.fre

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: > Ditto, pretty much mirrors what I read. I forget the site, perhaps > Panasonic? It was a cell manufacturer and published all sorts of data on > different chemistry cells. Good info for my EV project too! And yes, many > people sell batteries

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Julian Fagir wrote: > Hi, > > > I just looked into a batt for my daughters dell, her li-on lasted 14 > > months, now on "full" charge it only lasts 40 mins... Terrible. If you > > can get 2 years out of a batt ur lucky. I read some tech docs on li-on > > cells;

Re: libm alternative in ports

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > does anybody if there's an alternative for libm in the ports dir? i need > it, > because the newest snapshots of mplayer require log2() and log2f(), which > the > base libm doesn't support. > > cheers. > alex > > This is what

Re: Got an error: Unknown option "DDB_CTF"

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Weihang Wang wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply. Yes, now I still got problems. I have checked the > release notes of versions later than 6.0, almost every version has not so > few changes in their network protocols kernel. For example, some functions > were r

Re: Got an error: Unknown option "DDB_CTF"

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Weihang Wang wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks again. The transport protocol is not implemented by me, but I need > to run this protocol to see the behavior of this protocol. So now I have no > idea about the implementation of the transport protocol and don't know > whether

Re: materials

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Tim Kellers wrote: > The New Jersey Institute of Technology offer an online open source unix > certification series of classes. International students are eligible to > participate in the program and can be candidates for certification. > > http://adultlearner.nj

Re: openssl version - how to verify

2010-11-20 Thread Chris Rees
On 20 November 2010 17:34, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:56:05 + > Chris Rees articulated: > >> >> > > While I agree with your point in this context, the statement >> >> > > "The number of _UNDISCOVERED_ bugs, on the o

Re: openssl version - how to verify

2010-11-20 Thread Chris Rees
No, it's not 'obvious', just like many other things. People believed Aristotle's assurances about the rate of things falling for nearly 2000 years until Galileo and Newton pointed out 'obvious' flaws in his method. Again, link? Chris ___ 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: adding/updationg a Port

2010-11-20 Thread Chris Rees
to do to get this port added? > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=148777 > I've posted a followup to the bug report. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: Escaping from shell-scripts

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Julian Fagir wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning a service with a login-user-interface. Thus, I want to > restrict > the user somehow to this script and to do nothing else. > > The straight-forward way would be to write this script, have all input > parsed > by read and

Re: Thanks.

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Brennan
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:25:31 +0330, Mohsen Mostafa Jokar < > mohsenjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello. > Didn't Mohsen Mostafar Jokar post this same question last week? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Does MAC version of iTunes work on FreeBSD?

2010-11-16 Thread Chris Rees
tible framework under FreeBSD. > > -- > Nathan Vidican > nat...@vidican.com Neither does the Windows version. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1347 You could however try gtkpod, rhythmbox or Amarok if your goal is to sync your iPod. Also, please

Re: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 in both standard-supfile and stable-supfile

2010-11-16 Thread Chris Rees
ut RELENG_8_1 you'd have that tag in standard-supfile. If you get what I mean... I'm supposed to be a teacher too! Chris ___ 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: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 in both standard-supfile and stable-supfile

2010-11-16 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:09 PM, wrote: > I was wondering why both the stable & standard supfiles on FreeBSD-8.1 / > amd64 both have the exact release tag: > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 > > Shouldn't they be different? What would be the correct tab for each supfile > respectively? > _

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:02 AM, b. f. wrote: > On 11/16/10, b. f. wrote: > ... > > > > ttp://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/144724 > > The above should be http://... , of course. > > b. > I've seen him elsewhere on the list so I will shoot him an e-mail then (unless he responds to

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:17 PM, b. f. wrote: > Chris Brennan wrote: > ... > >My Hiccup as the subject suggests is about my Wireless Card. > >I have been following the handbook ( > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/config-network-setup.html) on how to > use > &

Re: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Rees
picture because the archives are > usually filled with a higher number of issues than success stories -- > which is true of nearly ANY mailing-list)? > -- > Cheers, > Devin Teske I'm afraid that we can rely on Wojciech to constantly recommend that you go back to

Re: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 November 2010 19:59, Peter Boosten wrote: > He's consistent in any case (a quick google search reveals this 2008 > message): > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg192926.html Consistent, but still just spouting uninform

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Rees
looks like a homework question. Chris ___ 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: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Rees
ility and algorithms and can think - after reading how ZFS is designed > will understand that. When did you ever 'repeat' that in the first place? Can you provide a link, I don't recall seeing anyone say that ZFS is a toy. Chris ___ f

Re: IPFW at startup.

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Rees
It's not a great idea to hack the rc.d scripts, they can be clobbered when updating. Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 15 Nov 2010 08:45, "Wojciech Puchar" wrote: simply edit /etc/rc.d/ipfw and ma

Fwd: Fw: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jerry Date: Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:05 AM Subject: Fw: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? To: Chris Brennan Has anyone gotten repeated forwards from the above user or is it just me? -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:06:55AM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Chad Perrin > wrote: > > > > > > What would you have me do -- beat a live horse? I'm not inclined to >

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:08:02 -0500 > Chris Brennan wrote: > > > It's part of my signature it's not like I am spamming *just* my > > sig to the list. > > > > Did you know... > > If you p

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 > >> Chris Brennan wrote: > >> > &

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 > Chris Brennan wrote: > > > Did you know... > > If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, > > but what's w

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 06:44:01PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > > I think it's safe to say that either a) Mr. Silveira has unsubscribed > from > > the list or b) learned to keep his mouth shut and scampered o

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: > Let's start a thread listing dead horses to beat: > > M$ vs Novell > "Unix" vs "Linux" > Mainframe vs "PC" > DAS vs SAN > Top-posting vs Bottom posting > Blah blah blah vs Yada yada yada > > How ironic, I was just having this debate w/ a frien

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote: > >> Must we continue to beat this already dead horse? >> > > Apparently the answer is yes, when we're not beating the equally > dead horse of the CLI

Re: glibc-2.4

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Michael Powell wrote: > Chris Brennan wrote: > > > I've got a freebsd7.3 box running on an old VAIO PIII. For the most part > > Ziggy chugs along quite well as my backup internal webserver and dns > > slave. > > > > una

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