Re: PID 11 using 400% CPU

2011-07-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 05), manish jain said: > On 30 June 2011 10:26, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jun 30), Manish Jain said: > > > > > >I have a strange problem with my 8.1 box. After booting, the hard > > >disk goes into a full-spe

Re: PID 11 using 400% CPU

2011-06-29 Thread Dan Nelson
lder with one thread per CPU that accounts for time the CPU isn't doing any work. If you want to reduce it's "CPU use", run other CPU-intensive processes :) BTW, Windows has the same thing if you look at task manager; it's c

Re: Performance of a USB ZIL for ZFS

2011-06-26 Thread Dan Nelson
;re an NFS server. You'll see a couple syncs per commit on a database server, but compared to the amount of regular reads and writes on your average system, you'll save under 1% of the writes by adding a fast ZIL. And remember, the ZIL is just a write log. Everything that gets written to

Re: pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0 gives wrong -I dir

2011-06-25 Thread Dan Nelson
ins a single file: glibconfig.h. On FreeBSD, this file is in /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/ along with all the other headers (headers don't belong in /lib/ anyway). Try putting the attached patch into the files directory of the glib20 port. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com No

Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?)

2011-05-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 18), Gary Kline said: > should i use tr or sed to turn "\t" into " "? --i.e., tabs into spaces. tr or expand (depending on whether you want to honor the intent of the tab or not). sed is overkill. -- Dan Nelson

Re: License for console fonts

2011-05-09 Thread Dan Nelson
ixel taller than a default ROM font, which really makes it stand out. The 8x8 font was copied from the 8x16 font, but at 8x8 there really isn't much personalization you can do, apart from decide "serifs, or not?" :) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com __

Re: ZFS Striping and Optimizing Capabilities

2011-04-09 Thread Dan Nelson
Ideally you should expand pools before they get too full, or zpool export/import them into new pools if you want good distribution over all disks. There have been hints for the last few years of a "bp rewite" feature appearing, but it has never materialized

RaLink RT2760 + RT2720

2011-04-05 Thread Dan Gavin
k bar [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xe200, size 65536, enabled cap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0 If anyone could be of assistance it would be greatly appreciated. My ultimate goal is to use this as an AP. Thanks, Dan ___

Re: Place to install library of shell functions

2011-04-05 Thread Dan Nelson
. Ports that install scripts into /usr/local/lib probably either don't have separate script and lib install paths in their makefile (tcl probably), or their scripts aren't meant to be called directly (firefox). -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com _

Re: how to enable NCQ on Intel ESB2 AHCI SATA controller/ST31000340NS

2011-03-23 Thread Dan Nelson
ng should be supported by the controller. Looking at the ahci.c source, there is a quirk "AHCI_Q_NONCQ" that disables NCQ, but it it only used for VIA VT8251 chips. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: User authentication on Linux with FreeBSD OpenLDAP backend fails: pam_ldap: error trying to bind as user/Failed password for

2011-03-18 Thread Dan Nelson
enticate over a non-encrypted connection. Try switching pam_ldap to ldaps (in your pam ldap.conf, either change your "uri" lines to ldaps:// or add the line "ssl on") and see if that works. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com _

using freebsd-update to update jails and their host

2011-02-27 Thread Dan Naumov
right in thinking I could also use this by first upgrading my host and then running this command to write the /basejail over with the updated files from the host to bring them into sync? I still don't know how I would then fix the /etc under each individual jail though.

Re: booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2

2011-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
tage 3 (i.e. running > /boot/loader), because i want to speed up the boot time. I don't think that's been possible for a long time. /boot/loader shouldn't add more than a fraction of a second if you set its timeout to 0. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___

Re: Can RAID driver be loaded from loader.conf?

2011-02-09 Thread Dan Nelson
t fine. /boot/loader uses BIOS calls to read both the kernel and any modules listed in loader.conf, so if it can load the kernel, it should be able to load the modules too. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: top: where to find process state descriptions (i.e. STATE usem)?

2011-02-07 Thread Dan Nelson
er the kernel. There isn't one comprehensive index. "usem" sounds like maybe a semaphore operation? A quick grep of the kernel doesn't show any strings starting with "usem", though. Maybe if you run "procstat -k " on one of those processes you ca

Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-06 Thread Dan Nelson
; port. > What is this all about? What will be consequences for FreeBSD? Will a > lot of FreeBSD users move to that distribution? I expect Debian users will try GNU/kFreeBSD and like it so much they wtill switch to full FreeBSD. -- Dan Nelson

Re: serial config handbook: /boot.conf or /boot.config

2011-02-01 Thread Dan Nelson
/usr/src/sys/boot that reads a "/boot.conf". boot2 reads "/boot.config", and the loader will read "/boot/boot.conf" but that path is deprecated. I have -D in /boot.config on my SOL-enabled Dell 1950, which allows for both serial and keyboard input during the boot process

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > ZFS lets you add and detach mirrors on the fly, since you're not > > changing the capacity of the pool itself.  Sure, you're going to lose > > the conte

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: > >> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> > My question is: is it possibl

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
iginal disk. You'll end up with two mirrored vdevs in the pool. Performance probably won't be as good as a real mirror, though, since zfs doesn't know that two of its physical disks share a spindle. Original: pool1 da0 da1 New: pool1 mirror da0 da2p1 mirror

Re: How to adjust man page line length

2011-01-17 Thread Dan Nelson
vironment variables or the physical TTY. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: Can one Download Old Packages?

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Nelson
t; systems didn't have it installed. Actually, /dev has been managed by the devfs virtual filesystem driver since FreeBSD 5 (maybe even before that), so a reboot should repopulate /dev with the correct data. There shouldn't be anything that rsync would be able to sync. --

Re: Cannot build openjdk6 on Fbsd 8.1

2011-01-09 Thread Dan Nelson
me reason libxul isn't installed, try manually installing it, then re-run the openjdk6 build. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: Configuring BCE Interrupt Coalescing on 8.1-RELEASE

2011-01-06 Thread Dan Nelson
http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/bce/if_bce.c?v=FREEBSD81#L1012 -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed

2010-12-31 Thread Dan Langille
are not logged in. The system could be altered so you see this icon regardless. If clicked, and not logged in, it could prompt you to login, or register. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: printing from inside Linux firefox

2010-12-06 Thread Dan Strick
On Sat 4 Dec 2010, Frank Shute responded to my previous question: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 07:22:34PM -0800, Dan Strick wrote: > > > > ... > > > > I tried printing to a file, but both the Linux and FreeBSD Firefox > > programs create slightly strange postscrip

Re: printing from inside Linux firefox

2010-12-06 Thread Dan Strick
On Fri, 4 Dec 2010, Warren Block responded to my previous email: > > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Dan Strick wrote: > > > > I tried /usr/ports/www/firefox which installs as firefox3, a native > > FreeBSD Firefox program. It will print via lpr, but It won't > > do flash

printing from inside Linux firefox

2010-12-03 Thread Dan Strick
problem. There are sometimes when I just *have* to be able to save a postscript image (e.g. a map) and print it later. My sister tells me that I should be using MS Windows because that always works correctly. I don't know how to prove her

Re: snmp cpu

2010-11-30 Thread Dan Nelson
20994258 Total: 2648 Percent: 0.2 11.7 67.519.9 0.7 0.3 4.0 79.316.0 0.3 -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: trying to sysctl(3) a char value

2010-11-24 Thread Dan Nelson
ou can also take a look at /usr/src/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c to see how it printed the numbers. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: Got an error: Unknown option "DDB_CTF"

2010-11-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 22), Weihang Wang said: > On Nov 22, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Nov 22), Weihang Wang said: > >> I am a totally newbie to FreeBSD. I am building a custom kernel based > >> on FreeBSD 6.0 kernel (I have to use t

Re: Got an error: Unknown option "DDB_CTF"

2010-11-22 Thread Dan Nelson
ich doesn't exist in the 6.* branch. You might also want to try running your application on FreeBSD 8.1 after installing the misc/compat6x package. Backwards binary compatibility support is very good. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com __

Re: a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Dan Nelson
me is, try something like this: Bad example, since df also auto-sizes its columns :) I think /usr/bin/rs can do column auto-balancing, but every time I try to make it do what I want, I fail. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ fr

Re: a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Dan Nelson
your output (or take two passes over your input data). I seem to remember /usr/bin/find doing this dynamically by expanding columns as it saw values that were larger than the previous max, but apparently not (I just tested it). -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___

Re: system utilities job

2010-11-13 Thread Dan Nelson
492258114 8753 <<<<<<<<<< > > #systat -v > 30 dtbuf3 totfr 12744 re0 266 > <<<<<<<<<< vmstat shows the average rate since boot. systat shows the average rate over the last

Re: top different output

2010-11-13 Thread Dan Nelson
n its own line: without H: 12 root 18 -60- 0K 144K WAIT 624.2H 2.39% intr with H: 12 root -32- 0K 144K WAIT 377.9H 2.78% {swi4: clock} 12 root -68- 0K 144K WAIT 245.9H 0.39% {irq22: fxp1} --

Re: how to overwrite the content of a file

2010-11-11 Thread Dan Nelson
if=/dev/zero of=file count=4 > > but dd(1) opens the file with O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC which for sure will > give away the old blocks and adquire new blocks. Any idea? conv=notrunc (note that this will only help with ufs; zfs is always copy-on-write, so newly-written data never overwrit

Re: zfs snmpd disk status

2010-11-09 Thread Dan Nelson
0 0 00% $ pkg_info | grep net-snmp net-snmp-5.5_4 An extendable SNMP implementation -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 03), Gary Kline said: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 12:55:28AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Nov 02), Gary Kline said: > > > On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 03 November

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread Dan Nelson
to watch my network activity. Replace em0 with your nic device. Gkrellm is a gui app that gives you little network histograms for each interface, but they're little :) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: FreeBSD Doesn't "See" Crucial C300 SSD on Marvell Controller

2010-11-01 Thread Dan Olson
it might, how do I "use mvs" when attempting to install? (The DVD does have the fixit environment available.) Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions, Jud Try the ahci driver or lower the speed to 3Gbps and see if that works. Dan ___ fr

Re: mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-30 Thread dan
On 10/29/2010 20:05, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/10/29 Adam Vande More: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:53 AM, dan wrote: On 10/29/10 13:22, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:13 AM, danwrote: Thank you for your research and prompt response. The module was available. I tried

Re: mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-29 Thread dan
On 10/29/10 13:22, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:13 AM, dan wrote: Thank you for your research and prompt response. The module was available. I tried both: kldload in command line and adding it in loader.conf. Note. In case the module has not been been loaded,as a user

Re: mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-29 Thread dan
On 10/29/10 01:00, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Dan-- On Oct 28, 2010, at 3:45 PM, dan wrote: 'mount_msdosfs -L en_US.UTF-8 /dev/da0 local/mnt/' executed by a non root-user prints out the following "mount_msdosfs: msdosfs_iconv: Operation not permitted" and then stops with

mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-28 Thread dan
Hello :-) 'mount_msdosfs -L en_US.UTF-8 /dev/da0 local/mnt/' executed by a non root-user prints out the following "mount_msdosfs: msdosfs_iconv: Operation not permitted" and then stops with error 71 on console. Later, the same command, executed by the same user, completes correctly if some t

mount_msdosfs -L ... [odd behaviour ?]

2010-10-28 Thread dan
Hello :-) 'mount_msdosfs -L en_US.UTF-8 /dev/da0 local/mnt/' executed by a non root-user prints out the following "mount_msdosfs: msdosfs_iconv: Operation not permitted" and then stops with error 71 on console. Later, the same command, executed by the same user, completes correctly if some t

Re: IP aliasing and Postfix

2010-10-26 Thread Dan Nelson
0 broadcast > inet netmask 0xff80 broadcast > media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT ) > status: active I usually set up aliases with a /32 netmask, which seems to be a hint to the kernel that outgoing packets shouldn't use that IP. I then put the correct netm

Re: /usr/local/lib/compat and /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

2010-10-21 Thread Dan Nelson
n /usr/local/lib/compat to /usr/local/lib32 then to avoid problems. 32-bit apps shouldn't look for their shlibs in /usr/local/lib on a 64-bit system. You can manually move any remaining ones by using the "file" command to identify 32-bit files, then moving them (or removing them if you

Re: migrating to openldap

2010-10-13 Thread Dan Nelson
dr/txt/ldif/base.ldif Make sure you have exported that variable. By default variables are shell-local and child processes won't see them. Try running export LDAP_BASE and see if that helps. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___

RE: mouse problems....

2010-10-11 Thread dan p
> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:41:52 -0700 > From: kl...@thought.org > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: mouse problems > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 08:26:45PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > I'm lost. Aday ago when I rebooted my old Dell, the mouse wouldn't > > work. A hour ago I

Re: Boot loader/kernel error

2010-10-09 Thread Dan Nelson
ands that it runs immediately, and I don't think you can stop the loader from parsing loader.conf. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: LDAP Authentication from console

2010-10-06 Thread Dan Nelson
include system account include system session include system passwordinclude system , so I know everything uses the same configuration. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___

Re: [fbsd_questions] i386 vs amd64, on intel_64

2010-10-04 Thread Dan Nelson
(size_t, intptr_t, etc, or int32_t and int64_t for when you know you need a particular word size) instead of assuming that a pointer will fit in an int, your code should compile on either 32- or 64-bit machines with no conditional code. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/s

Re: [fbsd_questions] i386 vs amd64, on intel_64

2010-10-04 Thread Dan Nelson
inaries, since /usr/include/machine/* are all amd64 headers and you end up with things like struct FILE with wrong-size elements. There was a thread a few weeks ago discussing this. If you need to generate 32-bit executables, you'll need to do it inside an all-32-bit chroot or a virtual machin

Re: 64-bit PGP isn't Decrypting.

2010-10-04 Thread Dan Nelson
source tree that the pgp port uses is 14 years old. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

2010-10-02 Thread Dan Nelson
it without the tee, then run your regular portupgrade later with tee. Instead of using tee, I use /usr/bin/script, which gives child processes a real tty to interact with, so full-screen apps work correctly. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com __

Re: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
you can post your problems here and hopefully someone will help. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
strings `which make` | grep -B1 MAKE_VERSION > > > > Or in a makefile... > > > >/usr/tmp/Makefile: > >all: > > @echo "MAKE_VERSION='$(MAKE_VERSION)'" > > > >make > >MAKE_VERSION='5200408120'

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
ebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ; patches for 6, 7, and 8 are available there, and freebsd-update has fixed binaries if you use that. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: pkg_config Version Numbers

2010-09-29 Thread Dan Nelson
aries you're installing weren't linked with any out-of-date shared library versions, though. That'll cause runtime linker errors when you try and run affected commands. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-que

Re: Problems upgrading p5-IO-Compress

2010-09-26 Thread dan
On 26.09.2010 19:31, Ron wrote: On Sep 26, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 09:44:06AM -0700, Ron wrote: I went to upgrade my ports this morning and saw this: p5-Compress-Zlib-2.015< needs updating (port has 2.030) (=> 'archivers/p5-IO-Compress') p5-IO-Compr

Re: Unable to access CDROM device to play music

2010-09-25 Thread dan
On 25.09.2010 22:31, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:09:23 -0400, Carmel wrote: I am using FreeBSD 8.1 / amd64 with Platform Version 4.5.1 (KDE 4.5.1) if that matters.Before updating my system to FreeBSD 8.1 / amd64, I had the 7.3 /32 bit version installed. I completely erased the HD p

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev

2010-09-20 Thread dan
On 20.09.2010 09:17, Henry Olyer wrote: Not that I blame the people behind FBSD. I am amazed that it's so robust. But of course, since I purchased this ASPIRE laptop (model 7741Z,) for FreeBSD I'd like to run that on it. So far, well, maybe Billy Gates has finally gotten his memory back, mayb

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-19 Thread dan
On 19.09.2010 13:34, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:27:13 +0200 dan articulated: 2 - HP Photosmart C3180. Once I installed HPLIP and adjusted some permissions I used a hp sw tool to update the CUPS printers' database (all with the __default__ 8.1 kernel). I then Succesfully prin

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-18 Thread dan
On 17.09.2010 02:45, Chabane HEMDANI wrote: I'm computer science teacher at university of Tizi-ouzou in Algeria. I'm using FreeBSD since 2007 when I "discover" it by chance when searching in the Web something about Linux. Since that date, I always invited and recommended to my students to ins

Re: Exporting ZFS Pool

2010-09-08 Thread Dan Nelson
256m d1 d2 > > (f84104b2)[cyber...@akisha /tmp/zp]$ sudo zpool create pool /tmp/zp/d1 > > /tmp/zp/d2 Try using mdconfig to attach these files as disk devices. "mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /tmp/zp/d1" and "-f /tmp/zp/d2" (you'll get two md# devices), t

Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading

2010-08-31 Thread Dan Nelson
. Link your program statically and bypass the dynamic linker completely. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: change file creation time on msdosfs

2010-08-27 Thread Dan Nelson
it, it should be relatively easy to import the changes. Otherwise you'll probably have to look at how birthtime is currently handled in ufs, and make it work in msdosfs. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: Telnet Secure login SRA?

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Nelson
/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-August/220263.html Looking at that tcpdump output, it looks like qmail accepted the connection then immediately dropped it. You'll have to look at your qmail logs to find out why. If it's not generating logs, try running truss or ktrace on the listening

Re: sendmail, queue intervals and ETRN

2010-08-18 Thread Dan Nelson
o this? What I'm after is a solution that > avoids MAILER DAEMON messages, etc. as a result of the mailhub host being > unavailable. Easiest way would be to raise the warning timeout on your smarthost to be longer than your expected poweroff duration. define(`confTO_Q

Re: fetchmail ssl certificate verification problem in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-08-16 Thread Dan Strick
on. I have looked very very hard for documentation on this stuff in an obvious place but have not found any. Where should I have looked? Thanks, Dan Strick mla_strick at att.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

problems starting vncserver with KDE

2010-08-15 Thread Dan Langille
I'm trying to start VNCServer with KDE 3 on FreeBSD 8.2-stable. All ports were built today from a fresh portsnap. tightvnc-1.3.10_3 I'm lost now... Suggestions? $ cat ~/.vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/ho

Re: fetchmail ssl certificate verification problem in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-08-15 Thread Dan Strick
tchmail with the fetchmail sslcertfile option. At least fetchmail is now happy. Thanks for the help, Dan Strick ___ 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"

fetchmail ssl certificate verification problem in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-08-15 Thread Dan Strick
wn certificate authority systems? Thanks for any information you can provide. Dan Strick mla_strick at att.net ___ 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: Documentation on how to build 32bit applications on amd64?

2010-08-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 13), Yuri said: > On 08/13/2010 09:24, Dan Nelson wrote: > > Try adding -B/usr/lib32 to your first gcc line. The specs file should > > be modified to add this automatically when you pass -m32, imho. > > Thank you Dan, this flag worked. >

Re: Documentation on how to build 32bit applications on amd64?

2010-08-13 Thread Dan Nelson
. > > Is there a documentation how to cross compile 32 bit apps on 64 bit > platform? Try adding -B/usr/lib32 to your first gcc line. The specs file should be modified to add this automatically when you pass -m32, imho. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Telnet => servname ai_socktype error

2010-08-12 Thread Dan Nelson
127.0.0.1: Connection reset by peer That sounds like you connected but qmail crashed or otherwise uncleanly closed the socket. Does a tcpdump on lo0 show any interesting activity when you try that command? -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com __

Re: ZFS data from snv_b134 to fbsd

2010-08-12 Thread Dan Nelson
OpenSolaris won't upgrade pool versions > automatically, so this shouldn' t be a problem. You can also explicitly create lower-version pools with "zpool create -o version=14 ...", if you need to create one from a machine with a newer kernel. -- Dan Nelson

Re: zfs data on disk

2010-08-11 Thread Dan Nelson
More info than you probably want: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Spontaneous Reboots with Virtualbox Kernel Modules

2010-08-11 Thread Dan Nelson
ng it to play with other OSs, I de-installed virtualbox and haven't > > tried it since. > > Has this behavior already been documented anywhere? I run 3 VirtualBox vms at home on an 8.1-stable host and haven't had it panic or reboot on me. -- Dan Nelson dn

Re: nscd perform-actual-lookups not working

2010-08-09 Thread Dan Nelson
t nscd cache in nsswitch.conf or disabling > perform-actual-lookups everything works fine. I don't think it's ever worked for me, either. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Text mode screen size max. compatibility

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Nelson
trapped the SIGWINCH signal (which is sent on terminal size changes) yourself, ncurses will install its own handler. It will queue a virtual KEY_RESIZE keypress that you can check for in your input loop. You can then redraw your display to fit the new window size. -- Dan Nelson

Re: getpwent bug?

2010-07-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 21), Jens Rehsack said: > On 07/16/10 18:13, Dan Nelson wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > > In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: > >> On 07/16/10 15:07, Dan Nelson wrote: > >>> In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: &g

Re: Samba gives "invalid PT_PHDR" after upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.3-RELEASE

2010-07-19 Thread Dan Nelson
ingle-user mode. A better method would be to copy (not move) the file to a backup location, then either use mv or install to install the new version. Also, the programs in /rescue/ are statically linked so they can be used to recover if you end up losing ld-elf.so.1 or other critical shared libs. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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 there a script to upgrade i386 system to amd64 ?

2010-07-18 Thread Dan Nelson
the 32-bit snapshot came in handy (so I had access to the 32-bit binaries after my port upgrades finished and could dump using old binaries then reload using the new ones as I discovered problems). -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: getpwent bug?

2010-07-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: > On 07/16/10 15:07, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: > >> Could you please take a look to my other mail (getgrent related) - there > >> seems another bug ... > > > >

Re: getpwent bug?

2010-07-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: > 2010/7/16 Dan Nelson : > > In the last episode (Jul 16), Ashish SHUKLA said: > >> Well, OP is also invoking 'endpwent()' after every 'getpwent()' > >> invocation which according to GNU/Linux's g

Re: getpwent bug?

2010-07-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 16), Ashish SHUKLA said: > Dan Nelson writes: > > In the last episode (Jul 15), Jens Rehsack said: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I detected an issue with getpwent on my FreeBSD test box: > >> > >> perl -MData::Dumper -e &#x

Re: Sata Tape Drives

2010-07-15 Thread Dan Nelson
/sys/conf/NOTES: device atapist # ATAPI tape drives , which might work. The "atapicam" or "ahci" device may also make sata tapes show up as if they were scsi devices. Try "ahci" first. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ahci http://www.freebsd.o

Re: getpwent bug?

2010-07-15 Thread Dan Nelson
#x27;, '/bin/ksh', 0 ]; This output looks wrong, unless NetBSD has three identical root lines at the top of its passwd file. > Taking a look to > http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/D/DBD-Sys.html#DBD-Sys-0.01, this > issue is not limited to FreeBSD 7.3 - it occures on Free

Re: jail date and time

2010-07-13 Thread Dan Nelson
the host. Are you sure you don't just need to set the timezone in your jail (run tzsetup, or copy the hosts's /etc/localtime into the jail)? -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: livefs hard links

2010-07-08 Thread Dan Nelson
ate hardlinked files with the same starting LBA number, and assuming FreeBSD's cd9660 driver uses that value for its inode number, everything should work. Either the ISOs aren't built with mkisofs, or the driver doesn't use the LBA number for the inode number. -- D

Re: fetchmail certificate verification messages

2010-07-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 07), Marco Beishuizen said: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > CA Roots are also self-signed, btw :) Addtrust is a valid CA Root, and is > > the root for some certificates signed by Network Solutions and Comodo (and > > probably others

Re: fetchmail certificate verification messages

2010-07-05 Thread Dan Nelson
do (and probably others). Marco, the fetchmail manpage mentions a --sslcertfile option; try adding "--sslcertfile /etc/ssl/cert.pem" to force fetchmail to use the ca_root_nss file you installed previously. IMHO openssl should automatically consult that file, but apparently it doesn

Re: fetchmail certificate verification messages

2010-07-03 Thread Dan Nelson
oot" cert at the top. Installing the security/ca_root_nss port (make sure you enable the ETCSYMLINK option) will probably silence it. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: 'file' Command Giving False Positives

2010-07-02 Thread Dan Nelson
gdir/msdos and rebuild & reinstall /usr/src/lib/libmagic/ . -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed?

2010-06-30 Thread Dan Nelson
Maybe you had installed a port at some point in the past that required it, but the port has been uninstalled since then? -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Boot to ZFS on FreeBSD 7.3

2010-06-29 Thread Dan D Niles
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 19:27 -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > > Any suggestions for getting FreeBSD 7.3 to boot to ZFS? > > > > Can you try the following at the loader prompt, where you see the > FreeBSD boot options? > > load zfs > load opensolaris # should not be necessary, but just to be sa

Boot to ZFS on FreeBSD 7.3

2010-06-28 Thread Dan D Niles
e necessary for 7.3, but I tried it anyway. Still seeing "can't load 'kernel'." Any suggestions for getting FreeBSD 7.3 to boot to ZFS? Thanks, Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: which /etc/src.conf options prevent moused rebuilding?

2010-06-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 23), Anton Shterenlikht said: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:47:25AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jun 23), Anton Shterenlikht said: > > > I've an old slow i386 running -current r209398 > > > > > > Because it&#

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