Re: cvs tag usage

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Powell
David Southwell wrote: > I am confused about the usage of the tag for src. > > I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices: > > _7_BP > _7_2_BP > _7_2_0_RELEASE > _7_2 > > But could not find anything that told me where -p2 fits into this!! > > > # uname -a > > 7.2-RELEASE-

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 fresh install

2009-08-01 Thread Michael Powell
GrimJow Espada wrote: > Hi I have installed FBSD 7.2 and when i try to set up xorg using > xorgconfig or xorg -configure it doesnt work any more, any changes on the > command? thanks > Try Xorg -configure instead. May want to read too: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

Difficulty in installing ncurses.

2009-07-31 Thread michael green
7.2-RELEASE #0. Generic kernel. Full installation from DVD. I'm trying to install ncurses because I want to run FoxPro Unix, which expects a terminfo database. I did this: # cd /usr/src/contrib/ncurses [Enter] # ./configure [Enter] The last line of output is config.status: error: cannot find

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-30 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: > What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot > sector screwed up? Usually there are more than 1 file system present. The MBR will have no bearing on any other than the one you need to boot from, and this is usually the "/" - aka "root". Having a screwed up MB

Re: freebsd.org/ports site seems to have lost its style sheet

2009-07-20 Thread Michael Powell
Jeff Dickens wrote: > Do a search and see what I mean. > > Any idea who to tell? > Looks normal to me here. Only a search or two and some refreshing, but still don't see anything wrong. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-16 Thread Michael Powell
David Kelly wrote: [snip] > > But it is turned off. A full duplex switch does not echo the sender's > bits back to the sender's receiver. A full duplex switch buffers the > incoming bits, reads the header, selects an output port, and then starts > sending the bits to that one port out of the FIF

Re: Problems following PHP upgrade

2009-07-16 Thread Michael Doyle
On 16 Jul 2009, at 18:14, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:06:19 +0100, Michael Doyle a écrit : I am having problems following upgrading a specific port, and I would like advice on how to proceed in diagnosing the fault. The application showing symptoms of unreliable

Re: Problems following PHP upgrade

2009-07-16 Thread Michael Doyle
On 16 Jul 2009, at 18:14, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:06:19 +0100, Michael Doyle a écrit : I am having problems following upgrading a specific port, and I would like advice on how to proceed in diagnosing the fault. The application showing symptoms of unreliable

Problems following PHP upgrade

2009-07-16 Thread Michael Doyle
I am having problems following upgrading a specific port, and I would like advice on how to proceed in diagnosing the fault. The application showing symptoms of unreliable behaviour is "WebCalendar 1.2.0b1" (a php application) http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php?topic=About FreeBSD 6.4 stable

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Powell
David Kelly wrote: > > Since when does one have CSMA/CD when configured as full duplex? All > full duplex ethernet connections are point to point, machine to > machine, or machine to switch. There is no multiple access on full > duplex. No chance of collision. You are running Ethernet, right? CS

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Powell
David Kelly 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? > > IIRC the classic ethernet problem limiting the distance between the > farthest points on a network had to do

Re: What does one call name server registration?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael David Crawford
cout interprets that as a request to establish NS and GLUE records for a new name server! Clearly, I myself have a lot of studying to do. The Wikipedia article on the Domain Name System is very helpful, for anyone else wanting info on this topic. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.co

What does one call name server registration?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael David Crawford
mselves a clue on my behalf. Thanks! Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: Industrial Intelligent Wi-Fi (I2W)

2009-07-12 Thread Michael Powell
Glen Barber wrote: > > Mark it as spam and move on, please. This is not the first email from > this person/bot. > Will do. Have been putting it off, but I see it spammed out to other lists beside this one. Was wondering if he even knew what he was doing. But I can plonk him. 'Nuff said. -M

Re: activate apache mod_rewrite

2009-07-12 Thread Michael Powell
Ray wrote: > On July 12, 2009 05:58:07 pm Gregory T Helton wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:09:24 -0600 >> >> Ray wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64 >> > I have never used mod rewrite before, but I am about to be hosting a >> > php website that does use it and I ca

Re: Industrial Intelligent Wi-Fi (I2W)

2009-07-12 Thread Michael Powell
Mkt-Exemys wrote: > This is a message in multipart MIME format. Your mail client should not > be displaying this. Consider upgrading your mail client to view this > message correctly. > So when are you going to get a clue and use a mail client that doesn't do this? As far as this message perta

Re: question about a driver - Gigabit - HP NC362i

2009-07-10 Thread Michael Powell
Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:33:37PM +0100, João Pagaime wrote: >> hello all >> >> any chance of the following NIC working with >> the latests freeBSD release: >> >> Embedded HP NC362i Integrated Dual Port Gigabit Server Adaptor >> >> FreeBSD's hardware release notes dont l

Re: Portupgrade not handling dependencies

2009-07-08 Thread Michael Powell
b. f. wrote: >> But I have seen portupgrade something and then a subsequent run >>shows this port as being 'newer' than the version it's supposed to be. >>I've [snip] >>also noticed a few times it seemed like it was upgrading the same >>version(s) over again. I just chalked this up to the ports s

Re: Portupgrade not handling dependencies

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Powell
Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: snip] >> As seen above, libtheora built and installed just fine, but ffmpeg was >> skipped for some reason. I ran portupgrade -a again and all worked >> fine. This ways also occuring when I ran portupgrade -arR. >> >> Ports tree is updated with cvsup each night. I don

Re: error when complie kernel.

2009-07-06 Thread Michael Powell
tang huu trong wrote: > Dear all. > > i got a problem while complie my kernel to support PAE. below is my > process. > > 1 - cp /usr/src/sys/i386/GENERIC /root/kernels/MYKERNEL > 2 - cd /usr/src/sys/i386 > 3 - ln -s /root/kernels/MYKERNEL > 4 - vi /usr/src/sys/i386/MYKERNEL > 5 - add line "optio

Re: portupgrade says nothing to do but portversion disagrees

2009-07-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Actually, I'm not sure cvsup is updating my ports tree properly... > > Connected to cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org > Updating collection ports-all/cvs > Finished successfully I just changed to cvsup1.freebsd.org and the diff

portupgrade says nothing to do but portversion disagrees

2009-07-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
sqlite3-3.6.13 < needs updating (port has 3.6.14.2) tcl-8.4.19_2,1 < needs updating (port has 8.4.19_3,1) vim-7.2.171 < needs updating (port has 7.2.209) weechat-0.2.6.2 < needs updating (port has 0.2.6.3) xcb-proto-1.4

Re: portupgrade says nothing to do but portversion disagrees

2009-07-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 03/07/09 Michael P. Soulier said: > For weeks now my usual portupgrade test has returned the same thing. Actually, I'm not sure cvsup is updating my ports tree properly... Connected to cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org Updating collection ports-all/cvs Finished successfully Normally there'

Re: libtool shared

2009-06-28 Thread Michael Powell
alexus wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Michael Powell > wrote: >> alexus wrote: [snip] > > company policy not too use ports, any other suggestions? Change this company policy as it is unproductive. Sounds like something implemented by those lacking experience with F

Re: libtool shared

2009-06-28 Thread Michael Powell
alexus wrote: > I'm trying to compile something and I'm getting these lines while I'm > doing ./configure > > checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no > checking whether to build shared libraries... no > > I went and even recompiled libtool > > # ./configure | grep -i share > checkin

Re: Checksum mismatches when csup-ing.

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Powell
Paul van der Zwan wrote: [snip] >> > Well at least I am not the only one seeing these errors. I think we can > rule out a local problem and will have to wait for someone to fix this. > >> Note: I use cvsup to maintain a local copy of the cvs repository. >> It is not clear if you too is doing that

Re: cannot find -lltdl

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Powell
kalin m wrote: > > > Chris Rees wrote: >> 2009/6/23 kalin m : [snip] >> >> >> Why aren't you using ports? >> > > there isn't ports for all that i need compiling with 5.2.10. Yes there is. You install the main PHP5 port first, then follow up by installing the php5-extensions port. When

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Powell
Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:35:56PM -0500, Dan Nelson typed: >> In the last episode (Jun 22), Ruben de Groot said: >> > >> > My main concern here is if applying the trivial patch I posted would >> > break anything in the http protocol layer. And if not, why isn't the >> > P

Re: Checksum mismatches when csup-ing.

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Powell
Paul van der Zwan wrote: > > On 23 jun 2009, at 05:55, Frank Shute wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:17:40PM +0200, Paul van der Zwan wrote: >>> >>> The last few days I see a dozens of Checksum mismatches when csup-ing >>> src-all from cvsup.freebsd.org. >>> No errors appear on ports-all. >

automount and sshfs

2009-06-19 Thread Michael Grant
d use to automatically run the sshfs command when something accessed a particular directory? Michael Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &qu

Why obsoleted if_watchdog interface ?

2009-06-16 Thread Michael Gass
I installed an old 3Com network card in my machine (Pavilion 4455) and it works fine, but I get the following warning in dmesg ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0 ep0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ep0: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:69:4f:7c ep0: [I

Re: enable IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT for GENERIC kernel

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Powell
subbsd wrote: > Hello maillist, > > Whether there is a way for booting GENERIC kernel with > ipfw_load="YES" > > and > > 65535 allow ip from any to any > > rules without recompile kernel with options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT ? > > This is single options who force me customize my own kerne

Re: vim question...

2009-06-14 Thread Michael K. Smith
On 6/14/09 7:46 PM, "Gary Kline" wrote: > > > the main reason i don't use vim is because of its [u]ndo > command. as most of you can understand, there are a whole slew > of times when i need to undo something. too often in vim, > hitting 'u' --- sometimes > once accidentally --- has result

Re: (no subject)

2009-06-13 Thread Michael Powell
Fred Terp wrote: > This is a dumb Question which I should know the answer to. I can get gdm > to recogize my logins but xdm and wdm wont accept my username/password > entrys what am I forgetting? > Not sure if this will help, but are you configuring the ttyv8 line in /etc/ttys? http://www.fre

XC86Config mouse settings for VirtualBox?

2009-06-12 Thread Michael David Crawford
VirtualBox 2.2.4 under Fedora 10 on an x86_64 Xeon e5420 box. Thanks! Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes

2009-06-10 Thread Michael David Crawford
Frank Bonnet wrote: It seems ZFS would match his needs , why don't use it ? Does ZFS really work on FreeBSD? It seems like every day someone is posting about ZFS either getting corrupted or panicking their kernel. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We

Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes

2009-06-10 Thread Michael David Crawford
Could you use several large hard drives each with several partitions that each have one filesystem? With eight drives and eight partitions on each, you would multiply the maximum total number of inodes by 256. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assum

Re: FreeSBIE

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Powell
Chris Neudorf wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not sure who to contact about this, but there is a problem with the > freesbie.org website. I can't seem to connect to it. With Mozilla Firefox > 3.0.1.0, I get the error message "Network Timeout, The server at > www.freesbie.org is taking too long to respond

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Michael Powell
Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > Michael Powell skrev: >> Leslie Jensen wrote: >> >> [snip] >>> I tried that as well, same error unfortunately >>> >>> mount -t udf /dev/acd0 /cdrom >>> mount_udf: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument >>>

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-09 Thread Michael Powell
Leslie Jensen wrote: [snip] > > I tried that as well, same error unfortunately > > mount -t udf /dev/acd0 /cdrom > mount_udf: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument > > So is this a new MS filesystem that no one but Vista users can read? I'm > afraid we'll properly see more of these problems unless suppor

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:59:30 -0600 > Tim Judd wrote: > >>If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should >>be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now >>src.conf = world, make.conf = ports > > Please don't top post. It makes following

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
LoH wrote: [snip] > What I have found to work is to make the nvidia-driver port, but not > install it (to get the dependencies). Then I would download the recent > driver from nVidia's website (as of this email, 185.18.14), untar it and > install that instead. If nvidia-xconfig doesn't work immedi

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
Carmel wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:13:30 -0400 > Michael Powell wrote: > > [snip] > >>The nv can easily be installed along with Xorg. The nvidia driver is >>more complex as it relies on the linuxolator to function, so there is >>a larger number of depend

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: [snip] > > Simple, but wrong. > > The driver is not a Linux driver, if you go to the nVidia site you will > see that there are separate Linux and FreeBSD drivers. You don't need > to load linux.ko at all if you built nvidia.ko without Linux support. > [snip] Aha! You're right! Someth

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-07 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:13:30 -0400 > Michael Powell wrote: > >> The nv can easily be installed along with Xorg. The nvidia driver is >> more complex as it relies on the linuxolator to function, so there is >> a larger number of dependencies. This is in

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-07 Thread Michael Powell
Carmel wrote: > I have an nVidia Geforce 6150LE chip on the motherboard. Should I > install the x11/nvidia-driver or the NV driver in > x11-drivers/xorg-drivers? Would it cause a conflict if I tried to > install both and do I even need both of them? > Install the nvidia driver if your install is

Re: please recommend a disk-exercising program?

2009-06-07 Thread Michael David Crawford
ost of the utilities are DOS boot disk images. You make either a floppy or a CD from them, then boot off of it. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http:

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Powell
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> This is one place where FreeBSD is very good. It will give you >> performance on slightly downlevel hardware that Windows Server just can't >> touch. >> > is really pentium 4 "downlevel" hardware? sound like a joke to me. Sorry - it wasn't really intended that way. Pleas

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Powell
Valentin Bud wrote: > Hello community, > > I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 > CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. > > I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar > configuration > and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server > u

Re: The quest for linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: > Martin McCormick wrote: > >> I have run across a couple of other ports that required the >> acceptance of a software agreement and the process was >> relatively painless, but this one makes up for all that and then >> some. >> &g

Re: The quest for linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Powell
Martin McCormick wrote: > I have run across a couple of other ports that required the > acceptance of a software agreement and the process was > relatively painless, but this one makes up for all that and then > some. > > For hours today, I have been wading through the Oracle > web site trying to

RE: repeating error message from ssh

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Powell
Dave wrote: > Hi, > Thanks everyone for the information on this. I'm not running > anything ipv6, i'd like to turn this off completely. The dns for my > network unfortunately due to lack of computers is being provided by a > 2wire gateway 2701, if anyone has any information on this thing's dhcp or

Re: ethernet card not working

2009-06-03 Thread Michael Powell
David Collins wrote: > Hi, > > I have just gotten an old ethernet card, not entirely sure how old it > is but it has pulse H1012 on one of the chips and appears as ethernet > device fxp0 in freebsd 7.0. > > When I plug an ethernet cable between this card and another computer > (freebsd 7.2) ifco

Re: Intel NIC issues

2009-06-02 Thread Michael L. Squires
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: Using kenv smbios.system.product might be a good indication of what you have too. Running "kenv smbios.system.product" on two of my machines with Supermicro motherboards gives me "P4SSE" and "P4DC6" which are both correct. I know Super

RE: Can One Query an Oracle 10 Data Base under FreeBSD?

2009-06-02 Thread Michael L. Squires
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Gary Gatten wrote: Surely there's a native Oracle SQL or ODBC client in the ports collection. Have you checked there? -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Martin McCormick Sent: Tuesda

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Michael Powell
Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: > Hello, > > I have setup FreeBSD recently, can somebody help me with one interesting > thing - Bind9 slave DNS server, everything is works great, but I got a > problem with extended logging of xfer, etc. > Bind9 started in chroot: > > root 7880.0 0.1 3156

Re: pfsync in GENERIC?

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Powell
Steven Schlansker wrote: [snip] > > Hm. I was actually under the impression that you wouldn't gain much > by compiling your own kernel (except for maybe some disk space). Is > that not the case? Is there a strong reason to compile your own > kernel for "production" machines? The discussion on

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Powell
Kent Hauser wrote: > Sorry I was less than clear. > > I've been running XP + FreeBSD dual boot forever. After installing 7.2 > (rebuilding from source), the XP partition wouldn't boot. When I selected > "F1" at the boot menu, the system just hung. > > I booted from an old 6.2 install disk I had

Problems with IPv6 CARP Interface in PF

2009-05-27 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
There is no change if I run with just one PF box. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Mike -- Michael K. Smith - CISSP, GISP Chief Technical Officer - Adhost Internet LLC mksm...@adhost.com w: +1 (206) 404-9500 f: +1 (206) 404-9050 PGP: B49A DDF5 8611 27F3 08B9 8

Re: something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
looks up now. -- Michael Scheidell, CTO Phone: 561-999-5000, x 1259 > *| *SECNAP Network Security Corporation * Certified SNORT Integrator * 2008-9 Hot Company Award Winner, World Executive Alliance * Five-Star Partner Program 2009, VARBusiness * Best Anti-Spam Product 2008, Netw

Re: something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
Steve Bertrand wrote: Michael Scheidell wrote: none of my freebsd systems can surf to www.freebsd.org anymore. ah. I see problem.. you didn't look up the host I documented. freebsd.org is different then www.freebsd.org host freebsd.org freebsd.org has address 69.147.

something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
just hangs. telnet www.freebsd.org 80 Trying 2001:4f8:fff6::21... Trying 69.147.83.33... on freebsd 6.4 i386 just hangs -- Michael Scheidell, CTO Phone: 561-999-5000, x 1259 > *| *SECNAP Network Security Corporation * Certified SNORT Integrator * 2008-9 Hot Company Award Winne

Re: why integer size says 4 bytes on 64 bit processor

2009-05-25 Thread Michael Powell
Shakil Khan wrote: > Hi All, > > Pardon me if I am writing this mail to the wrong group as I am too new to > BSD and programming stuff. You can redirect me to right group without > howling. By seeing some recent conversations(About the top status ;)) in > this group it made me nervous to ask for

Re: What do ASCII codes 128-159 stand for?

2009-05-25 Thread Michael David Crawford
standard. which as I have mentioned, is a seven-bit standard. Just to clarify, are you saying that ASCII is a 7-bit standard? Innocently, Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgm

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-24 Thread Michael David Crawford
ts of them by the end of the year. Is there a FreeBSD ARM port? There's not one for 7.2. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen

Re: silly Q: any script running before make install /w ports ?

2009-05-24 Thread Michael Powell
Robert Joosten wrote: > Hi, > > I have a standard umask of 0077 on a box. > > I grabbed irssi from ports, but he doesn't connect to any irc server... > running it as root will. Now I suspect that umask setting of mine. Why not leave it at 022? > That leaves me with a silly question: is there

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-22 Thread Michael David Crawford
able to get at the contents of that particular jail. But all of the jails are just subdivisions of a single operating system; I can't run other OSes within them. [1] http://www.oggfrog.com/free-music-software/ No, there is nothing to download yet. Real Soon Now. Mike -- Michael Davi

Re: P2B-D and ACPI or SMB anyone?

2009-05-21 Thread Michael Powell
Andre Albsmeier wrote: > Hi, > > found this old P2B-D board with two 1GHz CPUs and don't want > to throw it away ;-) > > Has anyone got it running with ACPI and without the interrupt > storm on irq20? Judging from old mailing list messages it was > blacklisted in 5.3 so ACPI got disabled but sin

Re: 7.2-PRERELEASE using RELENG_7?

2009-05-16 Thread Michael Powell
Gabe wrote: > >> From: Michael Powell >> Subject: Re: 7.2-PRERELEASE using RELENG_7? >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Date: Saturday, May 16, 2009, 4:27 AM >> Gabe wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > I'm a bit confused as to

RE: php5 pcre

2009-05-16 Thread Michael Powell
Mark wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Mel Flynn [mailto:mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net] > Sent: zaterdag 16 mei 2009 11:59 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Mark > Subject: Re: php5 pcre > > >> I thought I was the only one this had happened to. :) In my case I >

Re: 7.2-PRERELEASE using RELENG_7?

2009-05-16 Thread Michael Powell
Gabe wrote: > > > I'm a bit confused as to why I have 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE > #0: Fri Mar 20 02:16:04 PDT 2009 but yet my cvsup config was asking for > RELENG_7. Isn't the PRERELEASE tag supposed to be RELENG_7_2? > Now that 7.2 has actually been released the RELENG_7_2 tag wil

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Powell
Pieter Donche wrote: > FreeBSD 7, KDE 3.5 > To install Matlab (in linux compat mode), one must execute the > matlab install program as root. The installer is graphical. > When from a KDE terminal window, I switch to root (# su -) > and try a graphical program, e.g. # xpdf, I get Can't open displa

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Powell
Manish Jain wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: >> On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: >> >>> I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in >>> single-user mode. [snip] > > From all the discussion I have walked through on the issue of where to > place vi, it does appear

RE: BGP

2009-05-13 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
> > is there a way to have FreeBSD work as BGP router and/or at least > failover between 2 different ISPs? > I, as some random guy on the Internet, would recommend Quagga and, yes, it will work with 2+ ISP's on single device (server). It's well established and in use for transit-facing Interne

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-13 Thread Michael Powell
Chris Rees wrote: >> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:51:46PM +0530, manish jain wrote: >>> I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in >>> single-user mode. This sounds simple (and should be if all you have is >>> a single partition), but there are problems. For starters, terminfo >

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Powell
Saifi Khan wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> > >> > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are >> > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the >> > legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. >> >> FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: > >> I have a problem with amd. It's not working right, and I don't think I >> can fix it without rebuilding it. > [snip] >> >> I'd like to rebuild amd without having to rebuild worl

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
Paul Schmehl wrote: > I have a problem with amd. It's not working right, and I don't think I > can fix it without rebuilding it. [snip] > > I'd like to rebuild amd without having to rebuild world as well, although > I'll do that if I have to. > [...] I think you can just cd to /usr/src/sys/mod

Re: Help creating bpf0 device (bpf won't do it for me)

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
D C wrote: > Hello, > > I'm in the final stages of setting up a new wireless connection but have > been having problems getting bpf running. For some reason, even though > bpf has been compiled into a new kernel, the system won't automatically > create a > bpf0 device. On boot, the system compl

Re: Changing NIC

2009-05-08 Thread Michael Powell
Jos Chrispijn wrote: > - FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE > > I am about the change the (working) nic of my FreeBSD server with a > gigabit one. > Logically I think it would be good to add the new nic first and test it > and if it is working, just remove the old one (or leave it without cable). > Is that the c

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 released?

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Powell
Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > Christer Solskogen wrote: >> How come http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ have the isos for 7.2-RELEASE >> while the announce have not? >> > > typicaly the images are uploaded first before the announcements are made. > > Then they give a day or two for all the mirror

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: > I am rather surprised and disappointed that no one has any ideas about > using and/or installing a French-Canadian keyboard on FreeBSD. That is a > terrible bug in FreeBSD and a worse slur on the Québecois (or > Quebeckers) or are we being neglected and still considered "The White > Ni

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-26 Thread Michael David Crawford
ommunity. That would be a better use of the community's limited resources. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen _

Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-26 Thread Michael David Crawford
, with /home being a symbolic link. If I'm running FreeBSD out of one MBR partition (or slice), can I mount a directory that's in a different one? Thanks for your help! Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Pow

freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Jr.
t you recommend I look at? Sorry I have so many questions but I just ordered a new sager laptop and I do not really want to have to use windows vista if I don't have to, and I think it would be fun to learn how to use freebsd. Thank you, Mi

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-23 Thread Michael David Crawford
newfs will fail. I experienced this the other day, and have been meaning to file a bug report about it. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen __

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by errors

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Powell
Agus wrote: [snip] >> What is the output of "ldconfig -r" ? >> >> > > Sorry for the delay.. was too busyy... > > No output... just this > > ldconfig -r > /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints: > search directories: > Sounds like the hints file is missing or damaged. These live here: /var/run/ld.so.hints

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Powell
Tim Judd wrote: [snip] > Long story short, BTX is what brings the PC BIOS/CMOS code execution from > 16-bit real mode, to 32-bit protected mode. > > I've had repeated problems with name-brand PCs that result in a BTX > halted. Whiteboxes/custom builds tend to work the best (and IMHO, last the >

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Michael David Crawford
g problem that you're having. Windows client computers can download printer drivers from their print servers. I imagine the above DLL is meant to enable that. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virt

RE: esxi and freebsd vlans

2009-04-20 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
oblem, but the 192.168.1.x addresses don't work. I've tried setting the vlan id on the vSwitch to none and to 22, but in neither of the two cases does it work. ---- [Michael K. Smith - Adhost] You will need to make sure the switchport facing your server is set to 802.1Q trunk and has

Re: NSS library

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Powell
Christopher Chambers wrote: > Hi, > > I was attempting to configure some software. Configure told me that: > missing required NSS library 'nss3' > > A search of my hard drive and the net came up dry. Who writes the > library and were can I download it? > > - > Regards, > Chris Chambers Take a

Re: Upgrading from 6.3 to 7.1 -- how dangerous?

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: > I need to upgrade a live, production server from 6.3 to 7.1. I can't > afford to have any troubles with this server. I have Absolute FreeBSD > and a few other BSD books, and the upgrade process looks fairly > straightforward. That's the theory... > > Real world question: how

showing dependency information in ports

2009-04-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
on forward dependencies? I suppose I could write one but it seems like this must have been done already. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.&quo

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Lednev
Andrew пишет: Hi All, Does anyone have any suggestions for a lightweight webserver that will run php? Apache is too bulky for what I need and thttpd won't allow me to run php. www/lighttpd and www/nginx(-devel) are definitely the most common choice ___

Re: Struggling to remove package.

2009-04-17 Thread Michael Powell
Brent Clark wrote: > Hiya > > I seem to be struggling with removing a perl bsdpan package. > > I tried: > > # pkg_delete bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110 > > But I get > > pkg_delete: package 'bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110' doesn't have a prefix > > I even went to ~/.cpan/build/IO-stringy-2.110-SFns8F/ and

Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael Powell
Ltcddata wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:08 +0100 > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: >> > > I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring >> > > tool (

LDAP / login.conf user classes

2009-04-16 Thread Michael Helmeste
Hi all, What is the best mechanism for applying classes from /etc/login.conf to users in LDAP (via pam/nss ldap modules)? Is there a special schema / attribute that the FreeBSD ports of these modules will look to for determining the login class, or some way to map a custom attribute? Thanks

Re: questions about Fatal Trap 12

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Glen Barber wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Ray wrote: >>> I Just had the power supply die on this machine. Could a failing power >>> supply cause this type of issues? >> >> Absolutely. > > Seconded. Power supply issues have caused me this kind of grief more

Re: make in the port tree: where can I find documentation?

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Powell
sebovick wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a long time user of BSDs, and I don't find man pages or > documentation on the way I can master the port collection (specialy the > fonction of make). > I found this, interesting: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html, but some > interoga

Error Message when starting Apache

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Heitmeier
After installing Apache 2.2 it does not start and apachectl start fails with the error message /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "xchgptr" not found, required by "libapr-1.so.3" Searching on the Web and archives did not reveal anything, please let me know how to resolve this, thanks! ___

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