Re: blog-site questions....

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, If there are any people who are into maintaining web logs/blog, this might be _the_ place to ask. O/wise, type 'd' now. One thing I've heard several times is that blogging is a good way of promoting one's own

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: [.. trimming ccs, selectively quoting and de-gmailing a bit ..] Trimmings! Oh nevermind. I don't know what possessed me to go and look at the debug window. But I do

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: [.. trimming ccs, selectively quoting and de

Re: Portupgrade status

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:37 PM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 January 2011 17:54, Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@gnix.co.uk wrote: so can i just ask, is portmaster or another port upgrading tool recommended over portupgrade now because i'm going to be upgrading all my ports soon

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Brennan
I was not around the computer yesterday to reply to these in a timely matter and replying to each one just got confusing since gmail appends all of my replies to the bottom of the thread and not after the person I replied to. I got the reply header to each person and went that route | Reply

Re: cshrc to bashrc??

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Brennan
Note that csh does automatically use % or # according to the first setting. I'm not sure how bash handles this. man bash and search for PROMPTING, everything you can pass PS1 is there # is \# the command number of this command I don't see how a '%' is handled tho, what does it do is

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Brennan
Yes - true enough. Was thinking partition table and typed 'mbr'. It's all good, I got the cmd right in the end, but alas, it helped me not! Mmm .. it's not clear from Chris' original message exactly what he did. I clarified that in a subsequent reply with considerably more detail :D

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: I have a 2GB MicroSD card that I am going to toss 8.2BETA1 on, hopefully later today and see where that gets me. 2GB MicroSD card was a bust, use a 60GB hard-drive and wrote the image to that, it booted it just fine

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Well, what's commonly called 'the partition table' is bytes 0x1be-1ff of the MBR, so I was confused by your writing to sector 1 rather than 0, but have a new theory to test, seeing Chris isn't making any progress; this

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: I don't expect this to be anything like that. Please show a) how many slices you allocated and how big this FreeBSD slice is and b) how you partitioned the FreeBSD slice into (and sizes of) / /var/ /usr [/tmp?] and

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Goodo. I'll try chopping a bit too .. Cleaning out my cruft, leaving only yours :D Assuming that's 'oseek=0', which is the default anyway. yes, a typo in my e-mail only, I got the cmd right in the installer. Fair

Re: Problem with 'portsnap'

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Brennan
2010/12/28 Istvan Galgand igalg...@freemail.hu On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 07:51:58AM -0500, Jerry wrote: For the past few days, I have been having problems updating my ports tree via 'portsnap'. It continually gives errors similar to the following: quote Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org

Upgrading python and it's ensuing issues

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Brennan
So, in the course of actually upgrading all of my ports (via portmaster -a), which I've been trying to do for weeks and weeks now. 1) 'portmaster -o lang/python26 lang/python25' was successful 2) Python 2.6.6 is installed. 3) 'cd /usr/ports/lang/python make upgrade-site-packages

Re: Openoffice

2010-12-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:08 AM, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday December 27 2010 18:57:59 Jerry McAllister wrote: I install OO from ports but my questions is if FreeBSD thinks to swith to LibreOffice? Is the future of OO the same as Open Solaris? Thanks. Hi, It has been a

Re: Problem with 'portsnap'

2010-12-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: apparently, portsnap will only work successfully once every five or six attempts. In some cases, I receive a message that no mirrors were found and the program halts immediately. Has anyone else been experiencing

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.comwrote: Try zeroing out the mbr: Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 and: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adx oseek=1 bs=512 count=1 where x equals your drive number. This will zero out

a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-27 Thread Chris Brennan
I've got an HP Business Class laptop (dv2700) and the original 250G SATAII drive is going bad. So I bought a new drive, got a great deal on an SATAII 750G drive for it, bios sees the drive fine. The old drive had FBSD8.2/amd64 installed and it ran fine. I wanted to reinstall to make some partition

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

Re: pkg_info and an active /usr/ports is slow

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Chris Telting christopher...@telting.orgwrote: Just wondering about the interaction of pkg_info (no args) and having a ports directory. Without it it's blazing fast, with it it is just slow and sometimes just breaks during the listing. There is nothing in

Re: randomising tracks: scripting question

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:04 PM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Frank Shute wrote: I generally play my tracks of an album like so: for track in $(cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u); do mplayer $track done They then play in the correct order. How would I go about randomising the

Re: py26-dbus

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke mar...@freebsd.orgwrote: You need to reinstall devel/pth. Joe Joe, thanks, that did the trick, py26-dbus was correctly built and installed. I would never have thought to reinstall devel/pth first. Why wasn't this pulled in first by 'cd

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:39:58 -0800 Ron (Lists) rg.li...@rzweb.com wrote: ok, so libltdl-2.2.10 is already installed? Why is that an issue? Why doesn't portmaster just happily skip it since it's already installed? What

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

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)) to pop/imap into my mail

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:01:48 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net 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

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 br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk 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

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:51 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:26:43 -0700 Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net 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

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 good

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net 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

Re: freebsd bootloader / boot0cfg and multiple disks?

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Henrik Hudson li...@rhavenn.net 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

Re: SEBSD is dead?

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:11 PM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us 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

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: LG Electronics Inc. at usbus1 Dec 20 19:31:36 blackdragon kernel: umass0: LG Electronics Inc. LG Vortex USB Device, class 0/0, rev

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

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

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Brennan
+11:00). Current time there: 2:35 AM. toChris Brennan x...@xx.xx ccFreeBSD-Questions xx...@xx.xx, Mark x...@xx.xx dateMon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:30 AM subjectRe: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' The above header just arrived as I was typing this so I thought

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 br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:41:48 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Does GMail provide access to the full headers? Click the down arrow and select Show original. -- Bruce Cran Awesome! Thanks Bruce. Now I

Re: Postfix and Gmail

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.comwrote: 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

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 one...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/10/10, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net 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't

Re: libphp5.so

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Ivan Frosty ivanfro...@gmail.com 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.

Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Weihang Wang weih...@vt.edu 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?

Re: autoconf and automake

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com 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

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 kurt.b...@gmail.com 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

Re: more dns weirdness

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com 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

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 amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Weihang Wang weih...@vt.edu wrote: Clipped for brevity. https://help.*ubuntu*.com/community/VirtualBox/Networking https://wiki.*ubuntu*.com/VirtualBox

Re: more dns weirdness

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com 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.

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 gand...@shopzeus.com 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

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 one...@gmail.com 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 http://www.xpbargains.net

Re: usb devices

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Justin V. v...@yeaguy.com 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 Droid On Dec 7, 2010 8:26 PM

Re: libphp5.so

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Ivan Frosty ivanfro...@gmail.com 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

Re: RecursiveDependencyError

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick li...@webtent.netwrote: 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

Re: FTPD not working properly on jail

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:49 PM, krad kra...@gmail.com 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. ___

Re: Terrible Clock Skew

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Dave Cundiff syshack...@gmail.com 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

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 jaru...@quepasa.comwrote: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: FTPD not working properly on jail

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Joseph Bashe joseph.ba...@gmail.com 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: dhclient doesn't work over wireless

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Michael mlmichae...@gmail.com 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

Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Weihang Wang weih...@vt.edu 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

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 xa...@xaerolimit.net writes: While trying to compile audio/tagtool on a FreeBSD7.3 (x86) machine devel/gobject

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 v...@yeaguy.com wrote: Aloha world.. For whatever reason, today, when i plugin my USB devices they are

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 jbiq...@intranet.com.mxwrote: 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

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 free...@insightbb.comwrote: 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,

Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-03 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Weihang Wang weih...@vt.edu wrote: Hi Martes, I have tried the first two interfaces which are said to be supported by FreeBSD, they do not work. Surprisingly, now I choose the option Intel PRO/1000 T Server and in NAT mode, it works now Thank you so

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. sfour...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net 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

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

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 ifconfig, the virtual

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 try and

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 no DHCP offers received. Actually I

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

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 when

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 on 8.1-RELEASE

Re: firefox fails to launch

2010-11-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:50 PM, bluethundr bluethu...@gmail.com 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

Re: next question....

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk 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

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/http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/ It appears to work well.

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 d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: On 27 Nov 2010 at 11:22, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: /usr/ports/sysutils/screen/ Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it

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. ___

Re: Software Update

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Steven Susbauer ste...@too1337.com wrote: On 11/27/2010 07:01 PM, RW wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:36:09 -0500 Chris Brennanxa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is weather this pulls updates from

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 d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk 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

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

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 weih...@vt.edu 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

Re: libm alternative in ports

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org 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

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Julian Fagir g...@physik.tu-berlin.dewrote: 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

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com 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

Re: materials

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com 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.

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 weih...@vt.edu 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

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

Re: Escaping from shell-scripts

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Julian Fagir g...@physik.tu-berlin.dewrote: 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

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, pigskinwhite...@icqmail.com 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

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

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:17 PM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com 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 64-bit Windows

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

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:02 AM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: On 11/16/10, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com 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

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 ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: On Nov 13, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Did you

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 br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:08:02 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net 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 play a Windows 2000 CD

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 per...@apotheon.com 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 per...@apotheon.com wrote: What would you have me do -- beat a live horse? I'm not inclined to subject

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

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Date: Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:05 AM Subject: Fw: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? To: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net Has anyone gotten repeated forwards from the above user or is it just me? -- Did you know

glibc-2.4

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
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. uname -a - FreeBSD ziggy.xaerolimit.net 7.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p3 #8: Sun Oct 24 01:53:03 EDT 2010

Re: ssh authentication error

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:58 PM, xSAPPYx xsap...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:06, Jerrin slackma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On a mac system i generated the key using ssh-keygen -t dsa and copied .ssh/id_dsa.pub to /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys on a Freebsd server, but

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

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:38:10PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: You would have starved before now if other people had your attitude. Not at all. It does indeed involve indulging others to do what you described.

Re: glibc-2.4

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.comwrote: 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. uname -a - FreeBSD

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 corky1...@comcast.netwrote: 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 vs GUI debate

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 ggat...@waddell.com 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

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 per...@apotheon.com 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 off into the dark

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 br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward

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