On Thu 2012-12-06 16:13:40 UTC+0100, Ralf Mardorf (ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com)
wrote:
how do I have to set up PPPoE?
This doesn't work: [1]
In what way does it not work?
In your example, at the very least you should be able to ping 213.191.89.25:
tun0:
I'm using /usr/sbin/ppp for PPPoE over an ADSL modem in bridged mode:
# ifconfig tun0
tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1492
options=8LINKSTATE
inet 203.217.27.170 -- 203.215.15.252 netmask 0x
inet 203.214.46.107 -- 203.215.7.251
On Tue 2012-11-20 11:49:38 UTC+1100, andrew clarke (m...@ozzmosis.com) wrote:
In the meantime I've switched to using mpd5 (/usr/ports/net/mpd5) and
/sbin/ipnat. So far, so good:
# ifconfig ng0
ng0: flags=88d1UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu
1492
inet
On Mon 2012-11-19 07:55:16 UTC-0500, Daniel Feenberg (feenb...@nber.org) wrote:
The only way for FreeBSD (or Linux, for that matter) to survive in a
world where hardware vendors care only about Windows, is to make sure
that FreeBSD only depends upon features that Windows uses.
In a world
On Sat 2012-11-17 01:28:02 UTC-0500, Matthew Pope (mp...@teksavvy.com) wrote:
Could anyone be kind enough to recommend a free, or share their own
FreeBSD VM image that has bind pre-configured in a jail, and / or an
Apache web server pre-configured in a jail, for a non-commercial site?
I'd
On Sun 2012-10-21 18:10:06 UTC+0100, Arthur Chance (free...@qeng-ho.org) wrote:
Now that portmaster officially supports pkgng I've converted to using
it. Is there any reason to keep the old pkg_* programs around, or can I
delete them and add WITHOUT_PKGTOOLS to my /etc/src.conf? I'm running
Is /usr/bin/lint still useful to anyone? Here, even the simplest of
C programs does not parse without errors:
$ cat null.c
int main(void) { return 0; }
$ lint null.c
null.c:
lint: cannot find llib-lc.ln
Lint pass2:
$ uname -r
9.1-RC2
I'm not sure how to generate llib-lc.ln. Evidently this
On Mon 2012-10-22 11:31:36 UTC+0900, Rei Okamoto (okam...@mix-net.co.jp) wrote:
I want to build the test server as close to the
actual server as possible, such as considering the
OS's version 4.11 to be close enough to 4.7, but
as I try to install PHP4 with a following command,
Like others
On Sun 2012-10-21 18:21:59 UTC+0200, Patrick Lamaiziere (patf...@davenulle.org)
wrote:
I'm updating an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.1 with 64 MB ram (44MB
available) but now FreeBSD 9.1 panics at boot time:
panic: kmem_malloc(4194304): kmem_map too small: 24584192 allocated?
That's one
On Tue 2012-10-16 20:38:47 UTC+0530, Jack (jacks.1...@gmail.com) wrote:
I'm new as a FreeBSD user, and trying to configure my
pppoe connection.
After reading handbook and searching on various forums,
I prepared the ppp.conf file, and tried starting the ppp via
# ppp -ddial adsl
Here
On Wed 2012-10-10 10:16:35 UTC+0200, René Mercier (realmo.merc...@gmail.com)
wrote:
Bonjour,
Je suis sous Debian, mais travaillant dans les réseaux, je souhaiterai
passer sur FreeBsd pour sa stabilité et pour sa sécurité,, je vois
qu'actuellement il y une 9 rc1, pourriez vous s'il vous
On Wed 2012-10-10 10:02:48 UTC+0100, Anton Shterenlikht (me...@bristol.ac.uk)
wrote:
From: andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com
PS. This is an English-speaking mailing list.
What's the problem?
If there are non-english posts
and non-english helpful replies,
who suffers?
You
On Tue 2012-10-09 15:54:23 UTC-0500, ajtiM (lum...@gmail.com) wrote:
I saw that is no more iso for FreeBSD RC1. Now is for RC2. Is it possible or
better safe to use freebsd-update to update 9.1 RC1 to RC2, please?
You can use freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC2.
Safe? You probably wouldn't
On Wed 2012-10-03 11:26:38 UTC+0200, Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote:
On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:50:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I got sent a pdf file, version 1.6, with annotations.
xpdf can view the file, but not the annotations.
Please suggest a pdf viewer from ports that
On Wed 2012-09-05 19:38:54 UTC+0200, OriS (site.free...@orientalsensation.com)
wrote:
I've been trying to find a page on the Internet where an example is posted
explaining how to mount sshfs from /etc/fstab, but I can't find any!
Have you tried running sshfs from cron? eg. run crontab -e as
On Thu 2012-05-17 15:17:13 UTC+0200, Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote:
Search for LS_COLORS in the environment variables section
of man csh. However, I've always been satisfied with using
$LSCOLORS as ExGxdxdxCxDxDxBxBxegeg. :-)
Before I discovered $LSCOLORS I used gls from
On Thu 2012-05-03 19:17:05 UTC+0200, Leslie Jensen (les...@eskk.nu) wrote:
After a reboot my system now has the following label
FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0
How come it downgrades the label from p6 to p3 when upgrading to p7.
This is a FAQ. There's a thread about it here:
On Thu 2012-05-03 20:48:17 UTC+0200, Leslie Jensen (les...@eskk.nu) wrote:
Short answer: The patch level (-p3) displayed by uname -r after a
reboot will not change if freebsd-update has not touched the kernel.
...
I have read similar answers and was partly aware of this.
But I was just
On Sat 2012-03-31 20:32:04 UTC+1000, R Skinner
(ro...@herveybayaustralia.com.au) wrote:
Stupid question, but I need to clarify and make sure I'm right here:
what should I see as the running process if clang is compiling? ATM I
see cc1plus.
clang for C, clang++ for C++
I'm trying to set
On Fri 2012-02-10 16:12:06 UTC+, Matthew Seaman
(m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk) wrote:
In addition, I don't believe it solves the OP's initial problem of the
argument list being too long! You'd probably need to use the xargs -n
switch here.
Go and read the xargs(1) man page
On Tue 2012-02-07 23:17:16 UTC+, RW (rwmailli...@googlemail.com) wrote:
On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:56 +
Matthew Seaman wrote:
ls -1 | xargs rm
but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces.
In addition, I don't believe it solves the OP's initial problem of the
On Sat 2012-01-07 15:05:55 UTC-0800, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net
(leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net) wrote:
(5) What device driver must be installed for the sound board to be
able to receive a m.i.d.i. over u.s.b. signal? This signal would be
generated by a musician's keyboard, and would
On Sun 2011-12-04 11:06:29 UTC+0100, Dick Hoogendijk (d...@nagual.nl) wrote:
Why do I get a warning if I use freebsd-update about a renewal of my
FreeBSD installation within the next two months because after that time
it will nog be supported anymore?
Presumably you mean 8.2-RELEASE.
On Mon 2011-08-01 17:05:02 UTC+0200, Dick Hoogendijk (d...@nagual.nl) wrote:
But I'm confused about the gpart thing I did on the original disks.
$ gpart show
= 34 156301421 ad4 GPT (75G)
341281 freebsd-boot (64K)
16283886082 freebsd-swap
On Mon 2011-08-01 09:37:55 UTC-0500, Dan Nelson (dnel...@allantgroup.com) wrote:
In the last episode (Aug 01), Dick Hoogendijk said:
OK, my freebsd system runs on ZFS boot. W/ solaris getting larger disks
for a pool was quit easy. Simply replace one disk from a mirror for a
larger one,
On Mon 2011-08-01 16:30:50 UTC+0200, Dick Hoogendijk (d...@nagual.nl) wrote:
OK, my freebsd system runs on ZFS boot. W/ solaris getting larger disks
for a pool was quit easy. Simply replace one disk from a mirror for a
larger one, wait for the resilvering and after this replace the second
On Wed 2011-05-04 12:50:05 UTC-0400, Chris Brennan (xa...@xaerolimit.net) wrote:
I have an old PIII running FreeBSD7.3 currently, ports is all kinds of
screwed up, when I did my first cross-version upgrade from 6.x to 7.x, I
didn't know I had to rebuild ports, I subsequently upgrades though
On Fri 2011-02-25 17:26:52 UTC+, Neil Long (n...@cymru.com) wrote:
Just noticed how large /var/db/freebsd-update has grown on a box I
just upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 (but I can't recall when I started
using it).
Is there a recommended approach or just rm the directory if I have
no need
On Mon 2010-12-06 08:17:17 UTC+0100, Zbigniew Szalbot (zszal...@gmail.com)
wrote:
From time to time I want to archive a quite a few directories to
download them conveniently. I have been using tar to do it, endingin
up with a tar.gz file. But the problem with it is that I do not have a
unix
On Tue 2010-10-19 21:21:00 UTC-0400, Karl Vogel (vogelke+u...@pobox.com) wrote:
me% perl -0pe 's/\025\n/\025/g;' blah | od -c
Nitpicking a little, but Perl isn't part of the FreeBSD base any more.
Most FreeBSD users probably have it installed, though (perhaps as a
dependency)...
On Tue 2010-10-19 15:08:45 UTC+0200, Matthias Apitz (g...@unixarea.de) wrote:
Before I programm it in C (or whatever), is there any normal shell tool
to filter a (large) binary file and change any occurance of 0x150a to
0x15 (i.e. delete \n but only if it follows a char 0x15)?
I'd be
On Wed 2010-09-08 16:03:20 UTC-0700, Guojun Jin (g...@ubicom.com) wrote:
I remember that ls can output date in digital like following format
before
-rw-r--r-- 1 user Domain Users54323 2010-09-08 14:12 crash.log
Instead of Sep 08 2010 or Sep 08 11:07
But I cannot find
On Thu 2010-09-09 13:11:39 UTC+, Pala, Santosh (santosh_p...@keane.com)
wrote:
The ls command with -E switch will give the required output.
Hmm, not in FreeBSD 7.3:
23:19 ozzmo...@blizzard [~]/bin/ls -E
ls: illegal option -- E
usage: ls [-ABCFGHILPRSTUWZabcdfghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]
On Wed 2010-09-01 09:02:45 UTC-0700, Ed Flecko (edfle...@gmail.com) wrote:
I'm looking in some documentation for Squid, which I'm installing on a
FBSD 8.1 server, and it says I need to create a squid user and a squid
group because I'm building/installing from source.
All of this is done
On Tue 2010-08-31 09:56:19 UTC-0400, Kyle Dippery (k...@engr.uky.edu) wrote:
hostname# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from
On Sun 2010-07-18 12:21:42 UTC-0400, Robert Ames (roberta...@hotmail.com) wrote:
If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point
and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine
via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably
MS-DOS based)
On Thu 2010-07-08 12:34:29 UTC+0200, Julien Cigar (jci...@ulb.ac.be) wrote:
Am I the only one to have sort: write errors since a few days with
portsnap ? :
Same here. No idea why!
16:46 ozzmo...@blizzard [~]sudo portsnap fetch update
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors
On Thu 2010-06-24 18:36:13 UTC-0700, zaxis (z_a...@163.com) wrote:
/dev/ad4s8 on /media/G (ext2fs, local)
The /dev/ad4s8 is an empty partition. Now i want to move /var and /usr to
it. Do i need to format /dev/ad4s8 to UFS ?
I would reformat it as UFS unless you plan on dual-booting Linux on
On Thu 2010-06-24 23:28:27 UTC+, Svavar Ingi Hermannsson
(sva...@security.is) wrote:
I just wanted to notify you that the Icelandic ftp mirror site doesn't seam
to be working.
ftp.is.freebsd.org
21:48 ozzmo...@blizzard [~]host ftp.is.freebsd.org
ftp.is.freebsd.org is an alias for
On Sun 2010-06-06 18:44:10 UTC+0100, peter harrison
(four.harris...@googlemail.com) wrote:
I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably
with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well.
Anyone willing to make a recommendation?
thttpd?
On Sun 2010-06-06 13:37:58 UTC+, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas (terie...@gmail.com)
wrote:
i have seach to net but i haven't find a way to update my system from
8.0-release to stable-8.
can you tell me a way to do this?
My immediate thought was that if you can't work out how to update your
On Mon 2010-05-10 17:35:45 UTC-0800, David Allen
(the.real.david.al...@gmail.com) wrote:
1. Why doesn't cal(1) hilight the current day? Hell, some days I'm
not even sure what day or week it is, so after typing 'cal', I have to
type in 'date', and then sit there for a few seconds to
On Fri 2010-05-07 11:53:03 UTC+0200, Bastien Semene
(bsem...@cyanide-studio.com) wrote:
I wish to log the 'ps' command output in a file through a cron job.
If I execute the command on the console, the result lines are
truncated depending on the number of columns of the client console,
what
On Sun 2010-04-11 08:14:48 UTC+0200, Jos Chrispijn (ker...@webrz.net) wrote:
Can someone tell me if there is a way of generating an email on the
moment that someone logs in to my FreeBSD server?
By which method? SSH?
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On Tue 2010-03-30 11:55:18 UTC-0400, Robert Huff (roberth...@rcn.com) wrote:
If I go to
http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-questions.html;, the
last weekly archive is dated March 07.
What's up with that? :-)
Mar 07 means the week preceding March 7, 2010. It looks
On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (st...@ibctech.ca) wrote:
The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III
processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB.
I run FreeBSD 7.2 on a headless 1 GHz Pentium III with 256 MB RAM.
...
Again... so long as
On Wed 2010-02-10 14:24:34 UTC+0100, Alexander Best (alexbes...@wwu.de) wrote:
thanks goes to jilles on #freebsd-bugbuster. he told me that -delete doesn't
delete directories recursively.
so what i'm bow using is
sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -exec rm -rf {} +
On Tue 2010-02-02 12:44:41 UTC-0800, Gary Kline (kl...@thought.org) wrote:
is there such a converter that sends m$ Works [.wps] to odt?
AbiWord.
And a quick-and-dirty shell script to convert all .wps (Microsoft
Works) word processor files in the current directory to .odt
(OpenDocument Text):
On Tue 2010-02-02 16:35:42 UTC-0800, Gary Kline (kl...@thought.org) wrote:
outstanding! but if abiword can grow wps [thru hook or crook], i might as
well
use abiword [?]
I think AbiWord will only read WPS format, not write it.
pps: i did try abiword, first, just
% abiword
On Mon 2010-01-04 20:32:54 UTC+0800, Paul Shi (shih...@hkusua.hku.hk) wrote:
I am looking for a FreeBSD release which is most similar to 4.4 BSD-Lite and
I chose FreeBSD 2.0.5, the oldest release since 4.4 BSD-Lite. However, after
downloading iso file from archive
Hi,
I notice FreeBSD 7.2's pkg_add, pkg_create, etc don't have support for
the xz compressor, evidently due to lack of support for the xz format
in bsdtar. Does bsdtar support xz in FreeBSD 8.0? Failing that, is
xz support for the pkgtools something being looked at in future?
xz's compression
On Wed 2009-12-23 12:05:40 UTC-0700, Modulok (modu...@gmail.com) wrote:
Is there a software method (not a microwave oven) to destroy a CD-R?
Something like:
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/acd0?
Obviously the above doesn't work, but the idea is there.
I suspect most CD burners are designed
On Fri 2009-12-11 16:57:06 UTC-0500, Steven Friedrich (free...@insightbb.com)
wrote:
I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out.
I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4.
When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist.
It's just a script, so I copied it
On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com)
wrote:
pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf
kern.ipc.semmni=32
kern.ipc.semmns=512
hint.apic.0.disabled=1
According to the loader.conf man page these should all be in the format:
kern.ipc.semmni=32
kern.ipc.semmns=512
On Fri 2009-12-11 07:30:01 UTC-0500, Carmel (carmel...@hotmail.com) wrote:
It is really hard to push the merits of an operating system when you
have to give detailed instructions to the potential end user on how to
get a mouse to work, when all they have to do in a Win32 based system
Last
Hi,
I just stumbled across a bug in the version of tcsh supplied with
FreeBSD 7.2.
$ uname -a
FreeBSD blizzard.phoenix 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Oct 2
12:21:39 UTC 2009
r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
$ which tcsh
/bin/tcsh
$ tcsh
On Thu 2009-12-03 14:46:26 UTC+0100, Andrea Venturoli (m...@netfence.it) wrote:
Now uname -a reports 6.3p13, although cat /usr/src/UPDATING gives:
...
20091203: p14 FreeBSD-SA-09:15.ssl,
FreeBSD-SA-09:17.freebsd-update
Disable SSL renegotiation in order to protect against
On Tue 2009-12-01 10:00:16 UTC+0100, Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote:
?4).? WordPerfect 5.1?
Could be a problem to run it natively.
WordPerfect 5.1 will run under the DOSBox emulator.
http://www.dosbox.com/
/usr/ports/emulators/dosbox in the FreeBSD Ports tree.
Hi,
I have an old 200 MHz Pentium Pro. A slow machine by today's
standards but my intention was to put a minimal installation of
FreeBSD 7.2 on it (ultimately installing to a CF or SD memory card
using an IDE adapter), turning it into a very basic home office
firewall and not much else.
One of
On Wed 2009-11-11 12:35:55 UTC-0600, Jason Fried (r...@churchofbsd.org) wrote:
I have a fairly old install and not much room on my ROOT is there a way to
prevent freebsd-update from installing .symbols files.
In /etc/freebsd-update.conf:
IgnorePaths /boot/kernel/*.symbols
From reading the
On Sat 2009-11-07 19:19:52 UTC-0800, Randi Harper (ra...@freebsd.org) wrote:
Don't bother with any of that. Just use portsnap. It's also part of
base, and was written by the same person that wrote freebsd-update.
It's lovely and much faster, although some people may argue with me on
that.
On Tue 2009-11-03 06:57:12 UTC-0500, carmel_ny (carmel...@hotmail.com) 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
On Tue 2009-11-03 14:07:37 UTC-0600, Adam Vande More (amvandem...@gmail.com)
wrote:
windows path's have alternate eg c:\Test~1
Yes, files and paths may all have an MS-DOS 8.3 equivalent (I think
this option can be disabled in NTFS), however Windows SMB shares do
not.
\\host\My Documents is
On Sun 2009-10-04 15:15:05 UTC+0200, herbert langhans (herbert.raim...@gmx.net)
wrote:
I just compiled a nice, slim kernel on my laptop, but I dont want to
carry all the kernel sources around there.
Is it ok just to #rm the content of the /usr/src directory? And will I
get it completely
On Sun 2009-10-04 16:29:08 UTC+0200, herbert langhans (herbert.raim...@gmx.net)
wrote:
Can you please tell me about the issue with freebsd-update. Does it mean if I
run:
#freebsd-update fetch
#freebsd-update install
- it will overwrite my self compiled kernel? Good to know indeed!
No, I
On Sun 2009-08-23 10:24:53 UTC+0200, Vincent Zee (zen...@xs4all.nl) wrote:
=== Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
=== Extracting for netatalk-2.0.4,1
= MD5 Checksum mismatch for netatalk-2.0.4.tar.bz2.
= SHA256 Checksum mismatch for netatalk-2.0.4.tar.bz2.
I'm getting a
On Wed 2009-07-15 22:27:35 UTC+0200, Michelle Konzack
(bsd4miche...@tamay-dogan.net) wrote:
Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two
machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no
special hardware?
I do not know hoe much a feet is in
On Wed 2009-05-13 12:51:46 UTC+0530, manish jain (invalid.poin...@gmail.com)
wrote:
I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in
single-user mode.
You may be able to use /rescue/vi.
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On Mon 2009-05-11 23:17:09 UTC+0930, Daniel O'Connor (docon...@gsoft.com.au)
wrote:
Recreating a disk - slice/parttion/newfs - is one of the main things
to do under a fixit. You should have fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs
there as well as restore for sucking dumps back in.
Depends what sort
On Thu 2009-05-07 17:19:47 UTC-0700, Nerius Landys (nlan...@gmail.com) wrote:
What is the most recommended IRC client that runs in a terminal?
irssi
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On Wed 2009-05-06 14:32:47 UTC+0200, giorgio novello (gio@vodafone.it)
wrote:
Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best
seller
The OP is likely trolling, but reminded me of the Lazarus project.
It's loosely based on Borland Delphi and is apparently quite
On Wed 2009-05-06 10:40:46 UTC-0400, Daniel Underwood (djuatde...@gmail.com)
wrote:
There appear to be several clients capable of working with DynDNS.com
services here:
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/dns.html
E.g., dns/inadyn, dns/ipcheck
Can anyone make recommendations? My goal in using
On Thu 2009-04-23 05:05:25 UTC+1000, andrew clarke (m...@ozzmosis.com) wrote:
durep seems to have no concept of security :-) So how did you go about
restricting unwanted people from viewing its output?
I'm referring to the CGI version of durep here, of course
On Wed 2009-04-22 10:46:14 UTC-0400, Mikel King (mikel.k...@olivent.com) wrote:
I used to run durep on my shared servers.
durep seems to have no concept of security :-) So how did you go about
restricting unwanted people from viewing its output?
Regards
Andrew
On Thu 2009-03-12 22:37:13 UTC-0700, prad (p...@towardsfreedom.com) wrote:
one of the neat things i've found about freebsd vs linux is the
'instantaneous' rm.
when you remove a large file or a substantial directory, freebsd does
it right away ard you get your prompt back, while with every
On Fri 2009-03-13 12:15:24 UTC-0700, Gary Kline (kl...@thought.org) wrote:
guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is nearly
full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio files.
mp3, ogg, and .flag. i cross backup among my servers and would
On Sun 2009-03-01 08:50:48 UTC-0800, James (ja...@slohall.com) wrote:
For some reason when i type uname -a on my desktop, which is running 7.1, all
I see is this:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD me 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 08:58:24 UTC
2009
On Tue 2009-01-06 10:50:39 UTC-0600, Kevin Kinsey (k...@daleco.biz) wrote:
IANAE, but (and I don't intend a personal offense) this is a very
convoluted configuration. Having PHP4 and PHP5 side by side isn't
something I'd try on one box
Presumably one could make use of FreeBSD's jails then
On Thu 2009-01-01 01:03:12 UTC+, Bruce Cran (br...@cran.org.uk) wrote:
is there a C-beauitful//reformatter in ports? need one Badly!!
It's not in ports, but /usr/bin/indent reformats C code.
I prefer the GNU version. devel/gindent in ports.
$ cat ~/.indent.pro
-kr
-bl
-bli0
-bls
-i4
On Sun 2008-12-14 19:28:16 UTC+0500, FuLLBLaSTstorm (fullblastst...@gmail.com)
wrote:
Recently I've run freebsd-update on my desktop machine, but it failed
saying that it cannot save its files anymore to /var because the
filesystem is full.
If you are short on disk space then from what I can
On Sat 2008-12-13 17:02:48 UTC-0500, Glen Barber (glen.j.bar...@gmail.com)
wrote:
i did something to evolution (or mail) so it sends a your mail was
opened
on u...@foo.com. i've been hunting thru the mutt docs; i do not
see how to
get a similar ack from mutt as
On Sat 2008-12-13 19:05:35 UTC+, Matthew Seaman
(m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk) wrote:
Ports aren't actually frozen at the moment. Neither are they
completely open for any sort of updates. Instead they're in a 'slush'
-- no sweeping changes permitted, no major changes to the
On Sun 2008-12-14 16:50:09 UTC+0100, Wojciech Puchar
(woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) wrote:
Hi everybody somebody cand explain me wich are the difference among
freebsd, NetBsd and HPUX?
NTG.
I had to look up what NTG stood for. Not This Group? Is
freebsd-questions a group?
NEHTBAA (Not
On Wed 2008-12-03 10:36:29 UTC+0200, DA Forsyth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
How do I get freebsd-update to fetch through a proxy that requires
authentication? I cannot find any options in the man pages.
freebsd-update is a /bin/sh shell script. Looking at the source I can
see it uses
On Wed 2008-12-03 16:31:29 UTC+0100, Wojciech Puchar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs
cvs checkout -rRELENG_7 src
waited over an hour, no files got fetched
what i'm doing wrong?
Looks like the server is down:
$ export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs
$ cvs
On Tue 2008-12-02 19:26:40 UTC+0530, Masoom Shaikh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
How would you guys uninstall a meta-port?
can try `pkg_delete -a`
No Masoom, this is wrong advice. pkg_delete(1) manpage:
-a, --all
Unconditionally delete all currently installed packages.
On Tue 2008-12-02 00:41:58 UTC-0600, Javier Vasquez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I was reading chapter 4 of the handbook, as well as chapters 24 and
26... If I got it clear, I pretty much might get the base system
updated by using freebsd-update script. Ports collection can get
updated with
On Tue 2008-12-02 09:28:44 UTC+0100, Mel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Portupgrade -PP is detrimental for bandwidth. It's not really portupgrade's
fault (well, partially, it shouldn't offer the feature), because it will
quite often download Latest/foo.tbz, unpack it entirely and then say oops,
On Tue 2008-12-02 17:22:53 UTC+0100, Mel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Yes, this happens. -PP is not ideal for regular updates but it's
still useful for when you have a new FreeBSD install with no packages
installed, and want to get up and running quickly, grabbing the most
recent binaries
On Mon 2008-12-01 09:51:46 UTC+0100, Viktor ??tujber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.html.
The subject was a documentation issue where a man page mismatched the
actual system
On Sat 2008-11-29 20:39:47 UTC+0100, Jos Chrispijn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Can someone hint me how I can block ports for let's say 30 minutes if
someone repeatedly tries to do a SSH login?
I use ipfw as firewall...
security/sshguard-ipfw works well for me.
On Wed 2008-11-26 20:45:34 UTC-0800, gahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
i did freebsd-update fetch and i got message:
No updates needed to update system to 6.3-RELEASE-p6
what does that suppose to mean? My current system (this one is online) is p4.
Did you run freebsd-update install?
Did
On Tue 2008-11-25 07:16:44 UTC+0100, Zbigniew Szalbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I hope you can clear my doubts. When I use freebsd-update to update a
machine with a custom kernel, do I need to fetch sources before I
rebuild the kernel or are they fetched by freebsd-update utility?
On Tue 2008-11-18 11:21:02 UTC-0500, Gary Hartl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd.
I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or
something like that feeding to my tv.
550 MHz will be a bit slow for
On Tue 2008-11-18 17:06:44 UTC-0500, michael ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
550 MHz will be a bit slow for playing DivX/XviD movies, especially if
they're high definition (beyond 640x480 approx). Presumably Windows
is installed on it at the moment, so you can give the Windows version
of VLC a
On Tue 2008-11-18 19:02:48 UTC-0500, Gary Hartl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I am running FBSD-stable 6.0 on some Sun Netra X1's so it is sparc64.
There is no video card on these puppies. But I seem to recall that we ran
solaris X using WinAXE or VNC or something like that
I'm wondering if
On Tue 2008-11-18 16:47:20 UTC-0700, Kelly Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
With the release of FreeBSD 6.4 imminent, I'd like to prepare for an
upgrade from FreeBSD 6.2 - 6.4.
Have you considered using freebsd-update? From memory, it supports 6.2.
Please excuse my ignorance but in my mind
Hi,
I'm getting an Invalid address error trying to run Windows apps
under WINE. wineconsole cmd works OK though, and so does winefile.
The error seems to only occur with apps that aren't supplied with
WINE, eg.
C:\Program Files\Winampwinamp.exe
wine: could not load LC:\\Program
On Fri 2008-11-07 15:13:03 UTC-0800, Steve Watt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
% mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur
% mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur
% mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur
% ls -ld */dir1/new
drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/
What file system are you using?
On Wed 2008-11-05 13:02:27 UTC+, Robin Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I'm trying to do some benchmarks for a new/improved version of CPython
and would like to know if gcc 3.4.4 as distributed with FreeBSD 6.1
handles the -fno-gcse option reasonably. I looked in the man page, but
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