Re: Network sort of stops working with the em (intel) driver under load.

2010-05-31 Thread Michael Powell
mark rowlands wrote: > Newly built and cvsupped system,with GENERIC kernel, when copying > large amounts of data over a gigabit link via scp the network will > hang after a couple of gig. I can then no longer login via ssh. If I > leave it be, after about 12-24 hours I can then login again. (A

Re: what would take to allow binary upgrade to amd64?

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Powell
Rob Farmer wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Eitan Adler > wrote: >> I know that attempting to change from i386 to amd64 is is not possible > > The proper procedure for such an upgrade is as follows: > > 1) download and burn the relevant amd64 iso > 2) update your backups > 3) reformat

Re: I can't install php5-mhash from ports

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Powell
Yavuz Maşlak wrote: > I use freebsd7.3 . I ran portsnap update . > > I can't install php5-mhash from ports > cd /usr/ports/security/php5-mhash > # make > ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found > ===> License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE > ===> Extracting for php5

Re: Upgrading default Apache1.3 to Apache22 port??

2010-05-29 Thread Michael Powell
Kaya Saman wrote: [snip] > > It seems to have worked I just go into the config and check it; only > that part seems missing?? Maybe it's in a different place then /etc in > FreeBSD and I haven't worked it out yet. Even apache22 daemon is not in > /etc/rc.d. > > Oh well am sure will all be fi

Re: Is the freeBSD mailing list using an automated ticket system?

2010-05-20 Thread Michael Powell
James Phillips wrote: > Sorry about the blank post (hit enter by mistake): I feel I may have > received a phishing e-mail. This may explain why somebody pasted their > root password on the mailing list over the last few days: > [snip] The answer is no. Some script kiddie thought it might be fun

Re: [#24506597] apache 2.2.15_7 upgrade fails

2010-05-19 Thread Michael Powell
dedica...@midphase.com wrote: > > Hi, > > Let us know the server IP in question, along with the root login details > so we could check further. And, of course, since this content is currently being mirrored on the public mailing list freebsd-questions it will be publicly available. While most

Re: Interpretting 3Ware error messages

2010-05-18 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 18/05/2010 15:43:25, Doug Poland wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a 7.2-R i386 system running a 3ware 9500S-4LP SATA 150 >> controller with 4 SATA drives. I recently starting seeing the >> following in my logs >> >

re: building apr1 fails

2010-05-18 Thread Michael Powell
DA Forsyth wrote: [snip] >> I just updated Apache to 2.2.15_5 yesterday and it builds fine when >> the above mentioned option is turned off. It was actually the day before yesterday, when it was still 2.2.15_5. > Yes indeed, I upgraded the main server yesterday and it built fine > except for h

Re: Apache web server being attacked

2010-05-18 Thread Michael Powell
Aiza wrote: > I put apache13 in a jail and left inbound port 80 open in my firewall. > There is no domain name pointing to my web server. The content there is > a small apache web application that fools web > email address harvest programs into harvesting bogus email address from > web page. http

Re: building apr1 fails

2010-05-18 Thread Michael Powell
DA Forsyth wrote: > Hiya all > > Going round in circles here tryign to update apache 2.0 to 2.2 > I have read UPDATING and it says to uninstall apache before updating > apr. Yes - the presence of 2.0 conflicts with 2.2 so it is necessary to remove first. > However, apr will not build, giving

Re: glabel nor tunefs save my labels

2010-05-10 Thread Michael Powell
Demelier David wrote: > Hi, > I was trying to follow this guide to make labels : > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html > > It does not work here, I boot single user and ran these commands : > glabel label usr /dev/ad0s1f [snip] If there was older software o

Re: FWIW, a datapoint.

2010-05-10 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: > > Hopefully no one will face this, but the only way around getting > past pcbsd seems to be via an over-the-wire upgrade. The > 8.0-bootonly.iso for the i386 failed to boot. About two hours > ago tho i was able to csup ports from its 07jan to 10may status. > Next I will pull

Re: php-cgi 5.3.x and APC 3.1.3

2010-05-07 Thread Michael Powell
Joe Auty wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get the APC user cache to work for me... It works with PHP > installed as an Apache module, but not as a CGI. I run Apache with the event mpm. This may, or may not be wise, but I've been doing it for a while now and had no problems with it. I also use

Re: Space on root partition

2010-05-07 Thread Michael Powell
Chip Camden wrote: > When partitioning the drive, I took the defaults -- which seems to create > a root partition that's too small. I'm at 59% usage, and every time I > install a new kernel I have to rm /boot/kernel.old to get it to go. > > Two questions: > > 1. Is there an easy way to resize p

Re: FreeBSD 8: gdbm.h: No such file or directory

2010-05-03 Thread Michael Powell
perikillo wrote: > Hi. > > I want to install http://www.csamuel.org/software/vacation/ > > Version vacation-1.2.7.0, the INSTALL say: > > "under FreeBSD type 'gmake' to compile > the program. To install it you will need to do (as root) 'make install' > or, for FreeBSD, 'gmake install'." > T

Re: help

2010-05-02 Thread Michael Powell
Peter Winn wrote: > Could someone help me? I am running freebsd 7.2 and trying to connect > to my ISP using pppoa. > I have a usb Alcatel speedtouch modem but the driver cannot find the > modem. The kernel says the modem > is - cdce0: usb0 on uhub0but when I look in /dev I cannot see > that

Re: 8.0 upgrade & geometry does not match label

2010-04-29 Thread Michael Powell
Reinhard Haller wrote: > Hi, > > as far as I know my disk is not operating in dangerously dedicated mode. > Despite this I'm unable to upgrade to freebsd 8.0. Here is what the > gpart, mount, bsdlabel say. > [snip] > > I remember problems with the initial sysinstall because of geometry > proble

Re: Postfix signal 11

2010-04-27 Thread Michael Powell
Ron wrote: > After I did a big portupgrade on the April 25th, I am now getting a lot > these... > > +pid 53508 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) > +pid 28553 (smtp), uid 125: exited on signal 11 > +pid 28569 (smtp), uid 125: exited on signal 11 > +pid 28657 (smtp), uid 125: exi

Re: Which CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2010-04-24 Thread Michael Powell
C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Michael Powell > wrote: >> I think this matters more to third party ports software builds than it >> does the system. I thought that large pieces of the kernel were designed >> to not make much, if any, use the variou

Re: Installation queries

2010-04-24 Thread Michael Powell
Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > Jorge Biquez wrote: >> I would like to hear if possible your comments and advice on this >> taht's related .. >> >> What if you have a to have several OS and distros to study or give >> consulting and developing services. I have this scenario now and I >> guess I hav

Re: Which CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2010-04-24 Thread Michael Powell
Mike Clarke wrote: > > I have a AMD Athlon 4850e which is described as "Athlon 64 X2" > Dual-Core" processor. > > /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf lists recognised CPU types, but which > of athlon64, athlon-mp or athlon-xp is the most appropriate for this > CPU? I've been using "athlon64" so fa

Re: KDE 4.4.2

2010-04-24 Thread Michael Powell
ajtiM wrote: [snip] >> > ...and again my question: why upgrade on 4.4.2 after two months if >> > 4.4.3 coming out in the end of the month?? The version 4.4 was out in >> > February 9th! >> >> Because the release of this software on FreeBSD does not happen on the >> same day as KDE releases it. It

Re: KDE 4.4.2

2010-04-23 Thread Michael Powell
ajtiM wrote: > On Friday 23 April 2010 13:39:44 Bruce Cran wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 07:58:12PM +1200, Andrew Hill wrote: >> > Hi does anyone know if kde 4.4.2 is in freebsd ports? >> >> It's not yet - a big upgrade to Xorg and KDE is being worked on so I >> guess it'll be available in a

Re: Disk Usage

2010-04-23 Thread Michael Powell
ill...@gmail.com wrote: > On 22 April 2010 12:02, Jerry wrote: >> I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD-8.0/amd64. Previously, I had >> FreeBSD-7.3/i386 installed. It appears the the size of "/" has >> increased dramatically. >> >> $ df -H >> Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted

Re: question about FreeBSD installing

2010-04-21 Thread Michael Powell
王跃辉 wrote: > hi > I have a problem when I try to install FreeBSD as client OS on a Linux > OS. Sorry, but this does not make any sense to me. How are you trying to install FreeBSD on Linux? FreeBSD is an operating system, not an application. > following the instruction I find that I can't

Re: mplayer/mencoder build problems

2010-04-21 Thread Michael Powell
Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello again list! > > > I'm having problems building mplayer/mencoder. Did a csup today > 2010-04-21 but that did not help. If someone can point me to > the problem. > > cc -O2 -pipe -O -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -I./libavcodec > -I./libavformat -Wdisabled-

Re: lighten kernel

2010-04-21 Thread Michael Powell
xyz wrote: > Thank you for your answer. > But how I can only choose the intel agp driver, without all others by > puting "agp" in the kernel configuration file? > Please don't top post - it is bad form. I think you may be confusing "agp" driver and video driver. The agp support in the kernel i

Re: Disabling DNS

2010-04-20 Thread Michael Powell
Leslie Jensen wrote: > On 2010-04-20 15:41, pe...@vfemail.net wrote: >> >> I can change named_enable="YES" to named_enable="NO" in the /etc/rc.conf >> file. Should I delete the following line from the /etc/rc.conf file that >> says: [snip] > > > I would suggest that you remove both lines. > >

Re: Disabling DNS

2010-04-20 Thread Michael Powell
pe...@vfemail.net wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD server that, among other things, used to provide DNS for > a handful of domain names and a small network. All DNS is now provided by > new machines. On the old machine, DNS starts when the machine boots, and > bind continues to run lots of useless n

Re: pyglet segfaults on FreeBSD 8.0/amd64/nVidia

2010-04-14 Thread Michael Powell
Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: > Hello, > > First of all, let me apologize for the re- and cross-posting , but > after a couple of weeks scouring the web and forums to no avail, I > thought I would try again and query the FreeBSD mother source... > > I installed pyglet from the ports (latest version as

Re: downgrade php5

2010-04-14 Thread Michael Powell
doug schmidt wrote: > After upgrading to php 5.3.2, we have a few in house applications that > broke and our developers will not be able to work this out for at > least another week or so, so I need to downgrade back to 5.2.12 in the > mean time. > > I've used portdowngrade lang/php5 and lang/php

Re: Default labeling and space for rebuilding the kernel.

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Powell
Leon Meßner wrote: > Hi, > > if one uses the default labeling with current installer it is not > possible to rebuild the kernel (GENERIC). It fails on installing the > wlan.ko. > > Isn't that wrong somehow ? > > ===> wi (install) > install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_wi.ko /boot/kernel > insta

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-03-28 Thread Michael Powell
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > Hi, > > > As announced before, a few big commits, that touch some thousands ports > are being done: png, curl, x11, gnome, kde4. The target ETA is 6-7 > April. > > The first one was done, update of graphics/png (including a shared lib > version bump), with about 5000 po

Re: Enough Is Enough

2010-03-27 Thread Michael Powell
Programmer In Training wrote: [snip] > > When jpeg-x (not a typo) is built, the port needs to be automatically > looking forward to see what all depends on it (and if anything depends > on that) and possibly asking the user if they want to upgrade all those > programs to ensure they link to the pr

Re: mysql can't running

2010-03-23 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: > m.anis wrote: > >> Please help, mysql can't running >> i had installed it and using phpmyadmin >> when i check /etc/rc.d/mysql-server status ^ This indicates to me that you just unzipped a tarball

Re: delete directory

2010-03-23 Thread Michael Powell
Aiza wrote: > This directory named empty has read/exec permissions. > How do I delete it? > > # /usr/jails/newjail/var >ls -l > total 2 > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 21 22:53 empty > # /usr/jails/newjail/var >cd empty > # /usr/jails/newjail/var/empty >ls -l > total 0 > # /usr/jails/newjail

Re: mysql can't running

2010-03-23 Thread Michael Powell
m.anis wrote: > Please help, mysql can't running > i had installed it and using phpmyadmin > when i check /etc/rc.d/mysql-server status > it says mysql is not running phpMyAdmin will not work until you have configured config.inc.php correctly. > when i tried /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe & > startt

Re: Also have a dead box [ WAS: Re: OT: dead box ]

2010-03-23 Thread Michael Powell
Corey John Bukolt wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:23:34 + (06:23 CDT) Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> When you press the power button does the cpu fan or the power supply fan >> spin for a moment then stop? That's a sign that something on or plugged >> in to the motherboard has blown. Unplug things

Re: ezjail

2010-03-21 Thread Michael Powell
Mark Shroyer wrote: > On 3/21/2010 1:10 AM, Aiza wrote: >> I don't have sources installed on my system. Just use the binary >> Freebsd-update function. At new releases I do a clean install. >> I only have a single public IP address. >> >> Now I would like to play with jails. One for postfix, apac

RE: How do I fix the broken python26 port in 7.2-RELEASE ?

2010-03-20 Thread Michael Powell
George Sanders wrote: > > >> Virgin 7.2-RELEASE install. >> >> I run: >> >> csup -h cvsup4.freebsd.org -i ports/lang/python26 -g -L 2 >> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile > >> >> and now I have a /usr/ports/lang/python26/distinfo

Re: NAT overflow

2010-03-18 Thread Michael Powell
Anton wrote: > >Hello everyone, > >I'm kind of noob in FreeBSD particularily, and in Unix systems at all >:- ). But, I've already mastered an router on freebsd 7.2, which >worked fine u ntil I installed their MySQL with huge database. > >Now, once a day, I have a problem - u

Re: How do I fix the broken python26 port in 7.2-RELEASE ?

2010-03-17 Thread Michael Powell
George Sanders wrote: > Virgin 7.2-RELEASE install. > > I run: > > csup -h cvsup4.freebsd.org -i ports/lang/python26 -g -L 2 > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile > and now I have a /usr/ports/lang/python26/distinfo that looks lik

Re: FreeBSD Support Cycle

2010-03-08 Thread Michael Powell
mailinglist wrote: > I'm possibly considering building a FreeBSD based NAS to provide NFS > storage for vSphere in a production environment. I would use FreeBSD-8, > amd64 variety. What is the expected EOS & EOL dates (end of support/end > of life) for FreeBSD 8? I'm not sure if the EOL questio

Re: Hi - identifying cause of crash - a how to please

2010-03-02 Thread Michael Powell
David Southwell wrote: > Hi > > I have a specific situation which causes a system crash on freebsd 7.2 p3 > amd64 on intel quad core. Can someone teach me how to trace the cause? > > The crash is repeatable in the following circumstances: > > > (a) User logs in > (b) % startx > (c) kde4 loads

Re: left over restore file restoresymtable

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Powell
Aiza wrote: > The man for restore says this. > > Note that restore leaves a file restoresymtable in the root > directory to pass information between incremental restore passes. > This file should be removed when the last incremental has been restored. > > What root directory is this talking abou

Re: Limiting Port

2010-02-22 Thread Michael Powell
Alex Terente wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with my FreeBSD system, i have installed a gameserver on > it and after a period of time, the port 11002 (login port) is closed. What > i can do to resolve this? > Two things spring to mind at first, possibly a way to get started. First, establish

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-10 Thread Michael Powell
b. f. wrote: > On 2/8/10, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:37:30PM -0500, b. f. wrote: [snip] >>> If you're laying out a new disk, you may as well take a few minutes >>> and get the most out of it, even if you're not going to invest in a >>> lot of new hardware. >> >> The sys

Re: amd64: Fatal Trap 12 in high load situations

2010-02-06 Thread Michael Powell
ms80 wrote: [snip] > > Thank you for your reply. > I'm using two of this: OCZ3P1333LVAM4GK > (OCZ DDR3 AMD Edition, rated for 1333MHz at 1.65V). My Board is rated for > 1066 - 1600 MHz memory, and neither the website nor the manual say > anything about limitations with memory. Anyway: I didn't ov

Re: amd64: Fatal Trap 12 in high load situations

2010-02-06 Thread Michael Powell
ms80 wrote: > Hi > > I have a problem installing / upgrading FreeBSD 8.0-release on a new > machine. > > The computers specs are: > > cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 > board: Gigabyte MA790GPT-UD3H > ram: 4x2GBytes DDR3/1333 > hdd: 2xMaxtor STM31000528AS > nic: 4x Intel(R) PRO/1000 [snip] > > > So here

Re: GCC broken?

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Powell
Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello listreaders! > > I'm trying to build qt4-webkit 4.6.1 > But it fails or i fail to build it. Is it GCC? > The machine is not overheating an has a low load, it's my desktop. > I just did this upgrade a few days to maybe a week ago with no problems. > > Stop in /usr/

Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions?

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Powell
John wrote: > If this isn't the right list - if I should try another let me know - > but since this is the mysql-server-5.4.2 package, and since you > folks have been so helpful, I thought I'd give it a go. > > Anyway, the system is 8.0-RELEASE and that package is installed, > and I can't start t

Re: Weird build errors only on 3rd core of quad core CPU

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Powell
Pieter de Goeje wrote: > I am suspecting a broken CPU, but am not sure. > > These commands: > cd /usr/ports/sysutils/hal > cpuset -c -l 2 make > > Will always result in errors, for example this one: > > gmake: *** No rule to make target `...@maintainer_mode_true@', needed by > `config.h.in'. S

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

2010-01-23 Thread Michael Powell
insecur...@malandrines.net wrote: > Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! > > help me please See my reply to message: "SunFire x2100 fails" -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: SunFire X2100 fails

2010-01-20 Thread Michael Powell
Julian Fagir wrote: > Hello, > > I recently got a SunFire X2100 to play with (first version, not M2). > Linux (Debian) and 7.2-RELEASE works without problems, just installs > straight-away and runs fine (currently 31 days uptime). > But 8.0-RELEASE does not work, neither when being upgraded nor w

Re: Missing all ttyv* device nodes after upgrade 7.0 -> 7.2

2010-01-20 Thread Michael Powell
Morgan Wesström wrote: >>> These dmesg lines are from another 7.2 machine and I am missing them >>> from the output of this newly upgraded machine: >>> >>> sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 >>> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> >>> vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on >>> isa0

Re: Missing all ttyv* device nodes after upgrade 7.0 -> 7.2

2010-01-19 Thread Michael Powell
Morgan Wesström wrote: > Morgan Wesström wrote: >> Morgan Wesström wrote: >>> I obviously did something wrong somewhere but I can't figure out what. >>> All console device nodes /dev/ttyv0 - /dev/ttyvf are missing after I >>> upgraded a machine from 7.0 to 7.2. The serial console node /dev/ttyd0 >

Re: Errors on UFS Partitions

2010-01-16 Thread Michael Powell
The-IRC FreeBSD wrote: > Hi, > > I am sorry if I am asking a question that might have been brought up > before I have attempted to research my issue but it has many angles it > might be listed under so please bare with me. > > We have had ongoing problems with UFS Errors on our root partition (a

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Powell
> Matthias Apitz wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based >> desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e. >> some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required. >> I'm always forced to launch a VM w

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Powell
Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based > desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e. > some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required. > I'm always forced to launch a VM with XP to wa

Re: Converting i386 to amd64

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Michael Powell wrote: >> Greetings everyone: [snip] >> >> Thanks in advance for the wielding of any clue sticks. :-) > > This sort of process /is/ possible, but it is a lot more involved than > you're anticipating. Unless you

Converting i386 to amd64

2010-01-11 Thread Michael Powell
Greetings everyone: This is probably a pretty dumb question, but it's never really come up for me before. I am at a crossroads with regard to some hardware upgrades, and for a couple of them I have been putting off making the change to 64 bit. These are server boxen with no concerns for desktop

RE: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

2010-01-09 Thread Michael Powell
Don O'Neil wrote: > Ok... well, your idea is a good one, but it seems that the port is broken. > > I did a port update, which brought in the latest php build info from > December, but when I run 'make' (without even editing the Makefile to add > my own other modules I need) I get this: If instal

Re: Setting root password on mysql 5.4

2010-01-09 Thread Michael Powell
jaymax wrote: > > Does anyone know how to set root password on a new mysql installation from > the post? This is the very first thing performed on a brand new fresh install. The canonical procedure (and I haven't had to do it in a while so it is possible it may have changed) looks something lik

Re: port-MESS with apache22

2010-01-08 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: > Thought I'd better get more specific: > I rebooted, apache is running. > I deleted the apache2 directories -- > but lo and behold, it is the php5 port that is stubborn and absolutely > insists on creating these directories. > What in Hades is going on? [snip] Don't know if this pertai

Re: Possible mysql.sock problem | ERROR 2002 (HY000)

2010-01-07 Thread Michael Powell
jaymax wrote: > > Thanks !!! > Got it resolved after adding > mysql_socket="/usr/tmp/mysql.sock" to the rc.conf file > Removing the /etc/my.cnf file as the aetting were redundant with those > used in the compilation > deinstalling and reinstalling both the server and the client > [snip] The "ne

Re: geometry does not match label

2009-12-30 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] > > You should know that the ad0/ad1 will result in a fairly drastic > performance hit. This is a master/slave arrangement on the same channel. > You really really should get another cable and do the ad0/ad2 arrangement. > And, of course, as soon as

Re: geometry does not match label

2009-12-30 Thread Michael Powell
Robin Becker wrote: > I'm just setting up a software raid mirror using geom; everything seems to > be working fine and the mirror is slowly synchronizing. > > Because of cabling constraints this is a mirror rather than a duplex (I > haven't used mirror before) so the gm0 components are ad0/ad1 ra

Re: strange find process

2009-12-25 Thread Michael Powell
Anh Ky Huynh wrote: > Hi all, > > At 2:00 am today, I turned my laptop on and suddenly found a strange > process: > > $ ps xauw | grep find > ... find -sx ./bin -type f > ( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x ) >( -perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s ) -exec ls -liTd {} + > > What is the

Re: location of discussion of lives

2009-12-25 Thread Michael Powell
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: > Good morning, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Can you help me to negotiate the > FreeBSD website? I am trying to find a general discussion about "livefs." > I have not been successful at entering the correct sequence of search > terms to find a general discus

Re: samba3.x - 3.0 won't compile, 3.2 and 3.3 can't be installed

2009-12-23 Thread Michael Powell
Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > For quite some time now I'm trying to get samba 3.x installed on my > FreeBSD 7.2 System. > > The symptoms in short: > > o) 3.0 - doesn't compile > > o) 3.2, 3.3 - can't be installed because of installation dependencies > to samba4-devel-4.0.0.a8_2, talloc-1.3.1

Re: Re-compiling PHP changes server responsiveness

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: [snip] >> I get: "[warn] (2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the >> 'httpready' Accept Filter, and no new errors in >> /var/log/httpd-error.log" four times >> >> Tried adding accf_http="YES" to /boot/loader.conf, and re-booting of >> course. > > This is just a w

Re: is this booting info correct?

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Powell
Fbsd1 wrote: [snip] > > The number of hard drive primary-partitions/slices is determined by the > motherboard BIOS (Basic input output system), not the operating system. > Standard motherboard BIOS limits hard-drives to 4 main divisions > [snip] Not quite true. The only thing contained within t

Re: black hole test

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Powell
Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Wednesday 16 December 2009 22:05:06 Peter Wemm wrote: >> Daignostic message to trace mailing list processing, please ignore. > > You have heard of freebsd-test@ , haven't you? Uhmm, he is the mail admin and this list was down; don't you think he should be able to te

Re: disk with high frequency noise only on FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Michael Powell
James Phillips wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 11 Dec > 2009 23:52:50 +0200 > From: ly4uk Root >> Subject: disk with high frequency noise only on FreeBSD [snip] > > Now, this post is interesting. I'm sure many people with a software > background may be tempted to write this report off as completely > i

Re: lynx failure....

2009-12-12 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, this is what I see both here on my desktop, and on a > remote server, magnesium.net. Using lynx: > > > Looking up www.thought.org > Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org. > Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. > > lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.th

Re: use DD mode or not? and how to set up?

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Powell
Tom Worster wrote: > options for setting up gmirror include DD or standard mode. i don't know > about others. > > i'm about to install 8.0-RELEASE on a system with two 750g sata disks that > i want to run as a mirrored pair. > > what are the pros/cons of the different options? > > and what abou

Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread Michael Powell
J.D. Bronson wrote: > What if we tried a custom kernel and removed these lines: > > options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. > options GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization > > I think that might remove these 'errors'. > My kernel already has these rem

Re: WINE on 6.3

2009-12-05 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: > On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:47:00 +0100 > Andrea Venturoli wrote: > >> Hello. >> Is WINE usable on 6.3/i386? >> I cannot seem to start any win32 program and before I spend time into >> it, I thought I just ask. >> >> My interest is almost limited to running a simple console app that >> d

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Powell
Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] > > We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the > less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? > Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such a > patch exist? > Uhmm, this may sound a little strange, but why not use the one included as p

Re: 2 processes reproducible read same file with different speed

2009-11-27 Thread Michael Powell
cronfy wrote: > Hello. > > I've noticed a very weird behavior of 2 Apache processes that shold read > the same file to process a request (they configured to read it on every > request). One spends about 6ms to read the file, and second spends about > 114ms (I used ktrace to find this out). Every

Re: NO_PROFILE versus WITHOUT_PROFILING

2009-11-27 Thread Michael Powell
Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Friday 27 November 2009 12:45:54 Frank Staals wrote: >> When I was setting up my system for a complete rebuild I came across >> something unclear to me; I always used NO_PROFILE in my make.conf, >> however from what I've read specific make options to build the >> kerne

Re: mysql60-server??

2009-11-25 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: >> kwik one: >> >> in his build-server stuff [6.2], jon horne said to use >> mysql50-server. i see the latest is mysql60 >> >> should i go ahead and use the latest mysql database? or just do as the >> >> instruction say? [snip] > > Prior to that w

Re: BTX Loader crashes -- Help wanted

2009-11-21 Thread Michael Powell
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [snip] >>Try 8RC3 and see if any difference. I believe some work in this area may >>have occurred. > > I just tried it. Alas, same result. I follow the -CURRENT and -STABLE mail lists as well as this one. Though this particular problem does not pertain to me, I seem t

Re: BTX Loader crashes -- Help wanted

2009-11-20 Thread Michael Powell
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > Who should I be talking to if the BTX loader is crashing on my > specific hardware configuration, and what specific info do I > need to be gathering for him/her in order to have hope of getting > the problem rectified? > > I'd pulled stuff out of the system in ques

Re: panic? i386 on dell duo

2009-11-17 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: [snip] > > my network bud down in dallas is helping me get the dell as my > new server. my old hp kayak is from 1998 and on its death-bed. > > okay: i have 7.2-R, i386. installs fine. jon horne changed the > IP that the op sys | DHCP suite chose from 10.47.0.112 to > 10.47.

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: > > due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am > currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question > about doing a "custom" install that would let me slice the drive into > more that four pieces. > > i am building, by default, > > /,

Re: networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage

2009-11-11 Thread Michael Powell
umage wrote: [snip] >> In my case the router does get the renewed ip, as I described earlier. >> However, even after waiting 8+ hours, the system will not recover from >> the outage properly (reason unknown). That's what this thread is all >> about. > When I started the system today, I found that

Re: networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage

2009-11-07 Thread Michael Powell
umage wrote: > On 7. 11. 2009 19:07, Jason wrote: >> Have you tried restarting routing? >> >> /etc/rc.d/routing restart >> >> I have found the same symptoms with other outages and not performing the >> above. >> >> I have done "/etc/rc.d/netif restart" and "/etc/rc.d/routing restart". >> [snip] >>

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Michael Powell
Roger wrote: > Hello all, > > I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. > Some ports, like "lsof" require the existence of /usr/src. > What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized > with the production release. > When the installed was perfor

Re: /etc/fstab + embedded spaces

2009-11-03 Thread Michael Powell
carmel_ny wrote: > I was attempting to create this entry in the /etc/fstab file. It is to > a WinXP machine. > > //u...@bios/My Documents /laptop smbfs rw,noauto 0 0 > > It fails because 'fstab' does not allow embedded spaces in device > names, not does it allow enclosing the name in quotes. >

Re: Why after packages update my 'startx' gives me a message: Protocol not supported by server.

2009-11-01 Thread Michael Powell
Yuri wrote: > It keeps repeating this line in original terminal, putting line ".." in > between. So it looks like this: > Protocol not supported by server. > .. > Protocol not supported by server. > .. > Protocol not supported by server. > .. > > > Now I have to start just 'Xorg', it starts bare

Re: dhcpd related issue - not giving up

2009-11-01 Thread Michael Powell
Dánielisz László wrote: > I don't give it up, doing some tcpdump on my BSD I can see the dhcp > request reaches the machine, the dhcpd is running, but why doesn't gives > any IP? > > # tcpdump -i rl1 -n port 67 or port 68 > tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decod

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Powell
Michaël Grünewald wrote: [snip] > > I have backups of the data contained in the broken, so the data on this > disc are not a concern. I have however a question: How do I verify that > a hard-drive is accurately working if its firmware will hide the bad > sectors as long as possible? > [snip] As

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:03:12PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > >> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 4:32:45 pm Erik Norgaard wrote: >> > Jonathan McKeown wrote: >> > > Just as a matter of interest, if you want to rip sendmail out of >> > > the base system, which MTA would you

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Powell
Scott Bennett wrote: >>> Alexander Best wrote: > Hi, >> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: >> permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 >> so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that >> address. [snip]

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Alexander Best wrote: >> Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: >>> Hi, >> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: >> permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 >> so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that

Re: incorrect info in mysql docs

2009-10-25 Thread Michael Powell
Chris Whitehouse wrote: > hi, > > I just noticed this at > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/automatic-start.html > > On FreeBSD, startup scripts generally should go in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. > The rc(8) manual page states that scripts in this directory are executed > only if their basename

Re: PHP5 + fastcgi + apache2.2 ... how to for FreeBSD?

2009-10-20 Thread Michael Powell
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Is there one somewhere? I'm finding *alot* of Debian ones dealing with > their whole apget stuff, but would like to find something that "speaks > normally" :) > [snip] Install your choice of flavor of Apache. Me, I'm using the event-mpm for testing to verify the wa

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] >> >> > I think you're trying to take the meaning of "should" a little too > far... to keep it simple, and without trying to intellectualize it, it > simply means (and this can change within certain contexts) "normally, it > should work" (in our context, here) but there is no im

Re: phpMyAdmin install stopped in dependency 'libXau-1.0.4'

2009-10-15 Thread Michael Powell
Kikachi Kozumi wrote: > Hi, > > I tried installing phpMyAdmin in an ezjail created jail already > installed with apache22, mysql and php5 running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE > i386 with no X11 (headless). > The port install failed when dependency 'libXau-1.0.4' configure > couldn't find gnome-config: >

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