Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 8, 2007 11:55 AM, Expresso Digital ISP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know what is the diference between 7.0 and 6.3 and why create a newest version and after old version. 6.X is the last of versions meant primarilly for single

Re: TCP/IP questions

2007-11-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 08 November 2007 18:40:58 Bram wrote: Nikos Vassiliadis schreef: On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:02:44 Bram wrote: Hi all, Can you change the timeout for a tcp connection ? I need to do the following: start a tcp connection , unplug the network cable (it's actually wifi

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 8, 2007 11:55 AM, Expresso Digital ISP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know what is the diference between 7.0 and 6.3 and why create a newest version and after old version. 6.X is the last of

Re: install

2007-11-09 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 11:09 -0500, Leonard Lilla wrote: Wow, Talk about a horrible install. Install this CD, now that now this now that now this now that!!! It goes on and on. Please do think about people that are trying your install and are less knowledgeable and install

Help:how to install .diff files on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-11-09 Thread 冉俊秀
Hello, I am a freshman in FreeBSD OS. I have downloaded somelibcap_1.10-14.diff.gz http://download.chinaunix.net/download.php?id=11494ResourceID=5757 and libcap-1.10.tar.bz2 http://download.chinaunix.net/download.php?id=11495ResourceID=5757 .The instruction says it can be installed on

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
Albert Shih wrote: Le 08/11/2007 à 19:32:39+0100, Roland Smith a écrit On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:48:47PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: Concerning this, I've cvsuping to 6-CURRENT on a dual-core desktop. The system is running well, but I'd really like to move up to 7. Can it be done

Re: Help:how to install .diff files on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-11-09 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 17:48 +0800, 冉俊秀 wrote: Hello, I am a freshman in FreeBSD OS. I have downloaded somelibcap_1.10-14.diff.gz http://download.chinaunix.net/download.php?id=11494ResourceID=5757 and libcap-1.10.tar.bz2

[OT] Rotate logs for openbgpd

2007-11-09 Thread Valerio Daelli
Hi we use openbgpd-4.0 from ports. We would like to rotate its logs with newsyslog but if we send the daemon the HUP or USR1 signal it does not close its old, already-rotated log file. Does anyone by accident know the correct signal to get openbgpd close its old log file? Maybe we should use

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-09 Thread Albert Shih
Le 09/11/2007 à 06:12:48+0100, Roland Smith a écrit On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:14:13PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: Be careful if you not using standard shell becauseif you using a shell come from ports Root should _never_ use a shell from ports. You can use the 'toor' account for

Re: problems using ls with for_in (SH)

2007-11-09 Thread Vince
Sdävtaker wrote: Im trying to get a file with all the md5 hashes of one directory. My initial script was this: #!/bin/sh for file in $(ls) do echo $file md5 $file done The problem is with the file names who contains whitespaces becouse the for_in passed each word as one

Re: how can i install gnome2 through console

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
James A. Harrison wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 23:06 +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 12:30 +0200, Ananias Uushona wrote: I was installing gnome2 through x interface but I realize that its very hard especially to beginners but I got it right is that I did n't have the

Re: install

2007-11-09 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
But, do install the ports tree - note, that's the ports tree/skeleton not the whole bunch of actual ports. With csup being a part of the base systems now don't install even this because csup will nuke most of it anyway and spew a bunch or warnings. This might be a little advanced for a

Re: problems using ls with for_in (SH)

2007-11-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:49:24PM -0300, Sdvtaker wrote: Im trying to get a file with all the md5 hashes of one directory. My initial script was this: #!/bin/sh for file in $(ls) do echo $file md5 $file done The problem is with the file names who contains whitespaces

Re: What kind of audio device is this?

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
P.U.Kruppa wrote: dmesg says I have got ugen0: vendor 0x0d8c PnP Audio Device, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.10, addr 4 on uhub0 on board. What is this? Do we have a driver for it? snip Of course I tried # kldload snd_driver but all I get is # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver

Re: Should I just go ahead on 7.0?

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
Garrett Cooper wrote: You should be fine now (pending any bugs found in the beta/release process), because 7-CURRENT's source has been essentially frozen since August I believe.. -Garrett Hi Garrett, It should be ok to upgrade straight from 6.3-PRE to 7.0-PRE, right? I just need to change

Re: thunderbird eats all memory and dies

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
Yuri wrote: Hi, Beginning from the time I last reinstalled FreeBSD from scratch I have my thunderbird dying with the following message: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): St9bad_alloc Abort trap (core dumped) This is after it grows in memory to over 1GB

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Bill Vermillion
Ang utong ko ay sasabog sa sarap! exclaimed [EMAIL PROTECTED] while reading this message on Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:00 and then responded with: Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 23:42:08 -0500 (EST) From: Darren Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell On Tue, 30 Oct

Re: STILL cannot login as kline!

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
Gary Kline wrote: This is what is in my ~/.xsession-errors file: (process:1038): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. snip file '/var/tmp/gconfd-kline/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory) Can't remove file

Using 2M/4M pages

2007-11-09 Thread Richard Andrades
Hello, Does anyone know if there is support for using the large page sizes with the x86 CPUs? Thanks, Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

pkgdb failure

2007-11-09 Thread J. W. Ballantine
After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild all the packages from portupgrade -af I started getting the following error messages. The first once, the second multiple times, even after I moved the pkgdb.db and did a pkgdb -fu. [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or

Re: cmos clock to utc time code?

2007-11-09 Thread RW
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:56:44 -0800 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Brent Jones wrote: There's no time zone setting in a cmos clock. Just set the time to whatever UTC is, and you should be good to go. Ideally though, you should have the system do an

Re: Should I just go ahead on 7.0?

2007-11-09 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Adam J Richardson wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: You should be fine now (pending any bugs found in the beta/release process), because 7-CURRENT's source has been essentially frozen since August I believe.. Conceptually frozen but there have been some fairly large changes since then... but your

Re: Ports problem

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
Desmond Chapman wrote: /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink if it exists at all.Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20070519) for the

Help:Install RPMS on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-11-09 Thread 冉俊秀
Hello,I have just install rpm-3.0.6 via /usr/ports/archivers/rpm. And I get some ERROR like below when trying to install libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm via rpm. host# /usr/local/bin/rpm -Uvh libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by libc5compat-1.0-5

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac

2007-11-09 Thread Greg Groth
James Jeffery wrote: Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on it so that i can keep up with college assignments.

Re: Ports problem

2007-11-09 Thread RW
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 + Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Desmond Chapman wrote: /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink if it

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
Andrew Falanga wrote: Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the directions (I have the script file as UPDATING suggests to prove it :-), but the upgrade didn't work as the X server failed to start after I rebooted. I'm hoping some kind person here will know the answer

Re: Ports problem

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
RW wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 + Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Desmond Chapman wrote: /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink

Re: Congratulations

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
Chris wrote: ... Does that mean I have to share the winnings with everyone on the list?! Yes. Hurry up, I'm broke. :P Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

clocks and dualboot

2007-11-09 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a dual boot vista and freebsd machine I use ntpdate on the FB machine but then when I go into vista it reports for a different time zone (sometimes UTC other times PST)... ntpdate always corrects this on reboot but how do I keep the date

Fetch error for Port upgrade

2007-11-09 Thread Donovan R. Palmer
I am trying to do a port upgrade and get the following error. ! x11-servers/xorg-server (xorg-server-6.9.0_5) (fetch error) How do I fix this? I have this problem on other packages as well. T.I.A. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

strange error when building cups

2007-11-09 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found ===Verifying install for cups.2 in /usr/ports/print/cups-base === cups-base-1.3.3 is forbidden: remote execution of

Re: clocks and dualboot

2007-11-09 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Friday 09 November 2007, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have a dual boot vista and freebsd machine I use ntpdate on the FB machine but then when I go into vista it reports for a different time zone (sometimes UTC other times PST)... ntpdate always corrects this on reboot but how do I keep the

Re: strange error when building cups

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found ===Verifying install for cups.2 in /usr/ports/print/cups-base === cups-base-1.3.3 is

Re: Help:Install RPMS on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-11-09 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Hi, On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 21:52 +0800, 冉俊秀 wrote: Hello,I have just install rpm-3.0.6 via /usr/ports/archivers/rpm. And I get some ERROR like below when trying to install libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm via rpm. host# /usr/local/bin/rpm -Uvh libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm error: failed

Re: clocks and dualboot

2007-11-09 Thread Mark Tinguely
I have a dual boot vista and freebsd machine I use ntpdate on the FB machine but then when I go into vista it reports for a different time zone (sometimes UTC other times PST)... ntpdate always corrects this on reboot but how do I keep the date correct on the vista side? As Mihai

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac

2007-11-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:03:30AM +, James Jeffery wrote: Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on it

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-10-29 20:50, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports collection, because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) fails or is updated

RE: how can i install gnome2 through console

2007-11-09 Thread Ananias Uushona
, by the way!], just to answer your question, do not remove Xorg as you will need it to support Gnome. Regards, Adam J Richardson __ NOD32 2648 (20071109) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been using the following for some time: keramida su - Password: root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash bash -l I know it

Re: strange error when building cups

2007-11-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found ===Verifying install for cups.2 in /usr/ports/print/cups-base === cups-base-1.3.3 is forbidden: remote execution

Re: strange error when building cups

2007-11-09 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:18:20PM +, Adam J Richardson wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found ===Verifying

Re: strange error when building cups

2007-11-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:18:20 + Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found

Re: Should I just go ahead on 7.0?

2007-11-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
Adam J Richardson wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: You should be fine now (pending any bugs found in the beta/release process), because 7-CURRENT's source has been essentially frozen since August I believe.. -Garrett Hi Garrett, It should be ok to upgrade straight from 6.3-PRE to 7.0-PRE,

Re: pkgdb failure

2007-11-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
J. W. Ballantine wrote: After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild all the packages from portupgrade -af I started getting the following error messages. The first once, the second multiple times, even after I moved the pkgdb.db and did a pkgdb -fu. [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db:

Re: Fetch error for Port upgrade

2007-11-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: I am trying to do a port upgrade and get the following error. ! x11-servers/xorg-server (xorg-server-6.9.0_5) (fetch error) How do I fix this? I have this problem on other packages as well. T.I.A. Most likely you just updated your ports (which are severely out

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been using the following for some time: keramida su - Password: root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash

OT: Looking for some inpiration with UPS setup

2007-11-09 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, Apolgies for the slightly OT post, but I'm hoping that some of the ammased expertise might be able to suggest a solution. I've a FreeBSD fileserver, a solid state router (Linksys box running OpenWRT) and a couple of gigabit switches that I'd like to move onto a UPS (I'm primarily

Re: strange error when building cups

2007-11-09 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam J Richardson wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found ===Verifying

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2007-11-09 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2007-11-09 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: install

2007-11-09 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Leonard Lilla on 11/08/07 10:09 Wow, Talk about a horrible install. Install this CD, now that now this now that now this now that!!! It goes on and on. Please do think about people that are trying your install and are less knowledgeable and install using your 2

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac

2007-11-09 Thread Arend P. van der Veen
Hi, Has anybody had success using Parallels on the Mac? I have been using it to support windows but had GUI problems with FreeBSD (with X and xfce4). They do not support FreeBSD 6.2 (according to their documentation). Thanks, Arend Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:03:30AM

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-09 16:34, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ discussing `su -m' option ] Also the only way I know on FreeBSD to interactively become a user with no real shell (true, nologin etc). It should be possible to type: su username i.e. here's an ftp session on my laptop:

recurring kernel panic

2007-11-09 Thread Kelly Martin
I'm getting daily kernel panics. The server was running fine for about a month, the only changes I've made recently have been to update all my ports. It's running on older i386 hardware, no special devices attached. Here's the console message I'm getting (copied by hand): - Fatal trap 30:

Re: pkgdb failure

2007-11-09 Thread J. W. Ballantine
Thanks, I thought it was something like that, that's why i rebuilt th pkgdb. -- In Response to your message - Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:30:47 -0800 To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: IPFW show format question...

2007-11-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, everything I've read says that ipfw show displays rule number, packets caught, bytes matched, and rule. The problem I'm having is that it seems that the bytes, at least on some rules, is way out of whack. I'm capturing

Re: Should I just go ahead on 7.0?

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
Garrett Cooper wrote: Adam J Richardson wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: You should be fine now (pending any bugs found in the beta/release process), because 7-CURRENT's source has been essentially frozen since August I believe.. -Garrett Hi Garrett, It should be ok to upgrade straight from

Re: install

2007-11-09 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 complaints are not accompanied by solutions. The installer has been a bikeshed for many years; everyone seems to know what color it should be, how many windows it should have, how many doors to install, what type of lighting it needs, how many

Re: shell programming

2007-11-09 Thread Eric Crist
On Nov 9, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Bill Banks wrote: I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? Well, it depends on what you're using. If you're using sh, see `man date`. If you're using perl, it's quite complicated. In short, with sh,

shell programming

2007-11-09 Thread Bill Banks
I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? -- --- Bill Banks 508-829-2005 Wachusett Programming Ourweb http://www.ourweb.net http://www.ourwebtemplates.com

Re: recurring kernel panic

2007-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kelly Martin wrote: I'm getting daily kernel panics. The server was running fine for about a month, the only changes I've made recently have been to update all my ports. It's running on older i386 hardware, no special devices attached. Here's the console message I'm getting (copied by hand):

Re: shell programming

2007-11-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:46 AM 11/9/2007, Bill Banks wrote: I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? I do this in ksh, but it should work in sh too: DATE=/bin/date TODAY=`$DATE +%m-%d-%Y` TIME=`$DATE +%H:%M:%S` echo Backups started $TODAY at $TIME

Re: shell programming

2007-11-09 Thread Bill Banks
thanks Eric Crist wrote: On Nov 9, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Bill Banks wrote: I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? Well, it depends on what you're using. If you're using sh, see `man date`. If you're using perl, it's quite

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-09 16:34, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ discussing `su -m' option ] Also the only way I know on FreeBSD to interactively become a user with no real shell (true, nologin etc). It should be possible to type: su username i.e.

sata gives: taskqueue timeout, followed by reboot

2007-11-09 Thread Dieter
FreeBSD 6.2 running on AMD64 ad6 is sata disk connected to nforce4-ultra Moving a filesystem via dump|restore pipeline, source is ad6 (mounted read-only), dest is a sata-via-usb disk. ad6 also has root and var, so there could have been other disk activity, but dump would have been the lion's

Re: recurring kernel panic

2007-11-09 Thread Kelly Martin
On Nov 9, 2007 10:41 AM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks pretty suspicious to me, I'd guess your hardware has failed. This same hardware has run OpenBSD for years. Not sure how to track down a hardware failure, unfortunately.

Re: recurring kernel panic

2007-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kelly Martin wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 10:41 AM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks pretty suspicious to me, I'd guess your hardware has failed. This same hardware has run OpenBSD for years. Not really relevant. When something makes the transition from working to broken there

Re: What kind of audio device is this?

2007-11-09 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: dmesg says I have got ugen0: vendor 0x0d8c PnP Audio Device, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.10, addr 4 on uhub0 on board. What is this? Do we have a driver for it? snip Of course I tried # kldload snd_driver but all I get is

Re: Autoattach geli device but not at startup

2007-11-09 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi RW, RW wrote: I think it would just be easier to write a script to handle the attach, fsck, and mount. yeah, seems to be the best solution, thx for the tip. Bye Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs,

Re: install

2007-11-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: complaints are not accompanied by solutions. The installer has been a bikeshed for many years; everyone seems to know what color it should be, how many windows it should have, how many doors to install, what type of lighting it needs, how many penguins should be

Re: install

2007-11-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Reid Linnemann wrote: The installer has been a bikeshed for many years; everyone seems to know what color it should be, how many windows it should have, how many doors to install, what type of lighting it needs, how many penguins should be accommodated in the rafters, and what relative

Re: Help:Install RPMS on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-11-09 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Ƚ¿¡Ðã wrote: Hello,I have just install rpm-3.0.6 via /usr/ports/archivers/rpm. And I get some ERROR like below when trying to install libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm via rpm. host# /usr/local/bin/rpm -Uvh libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: /bin/sh

OT: disk clone app

2007-11-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi everyone, sorry for the off-topic, but im ready to pull the last hairs off my head- a few months I downloaded an open source disk clone program for a friend of mine but it was like 3 am, it worked great booted from floppy and cloned the drive- Now that I really need I can find it for the life

Re: recurring kernel panic

2007-11-09 Thread Rob
Kelly Martin wrote: I'm getting daily kernel panics. The server was running fine for about a month, the only changes I've made recently have been to update all my ports. It's running on older i386 hardware, no special devices Like the others said -- I'd seriously suspect hardware problems.

Re: OT: disk clone app

2007-11-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, sorry for the off-topic, but im ready to pull the last hairs off my head- a few months I downloaded an open source disk clone program for a friend of mine but it was like 3 am, it worked great booted from floppy and cloned the drive- g4u? Steve

Re: OT: disk clone app

2007-11-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, sorry for the off-topic, but im ready to pull the last hairs off my head- a few months I downloaded an open source disk clone program for a friend of mine but it was like 3 am, it worked great booted from floppy and cloned the drive- Now that I really need

About make release

2007-11-09 Thread Victor M. Blood
Hi, All. release can be build by calling commands: make release.1 ... ... make release.7 ... etc. Why need to chroot and build world again ?, may be I do not understand all cobweb of release making process... May be exist any target-name that starts release build stages without chroot? -- With

Re: Help:Install RPMS on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-11-09 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hello Beyondran, On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 21:52:57 +0800 冉俊秀 wrote: Hello,I have just install rpm-3.0.6 via /usr/ports/archivers/rpm. And I get some ERROR like below when trying to install libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm via rpm. host# /usr/local/bin/rpm -Uvh libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm error:

Re: Ports problem

2007-11-09 Thread Chuck Robey
Adam J Richardson wrote: RW wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 + Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Desmond Chapman wrote: /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. In the current version,

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Chuck Robey
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been using the following for some time: keramida su - Password: root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash bash

flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

2007-11-09 Thread John
I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't work. It made me recall, in reading up on

where did the peak mbuf stat go ?

2007-11-09 Thread Juri Mianovich
FreeBSD 4.x, netstat -m: 70/4336/26624 mbufs in use (current/peak/max) Never any doubt - if peak=max, I hit the limit. Super useful. Furthermore, by watching the peak I can see when I am getting close, rather than waiting for denied requests to pile up after the fact. FreeBSD 6.x, netstat -m:

Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

2007-11-09 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't work. It made me recall,

Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

2007-11-09 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't

Install problems on Dell Vostro

2007-11-09 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I'm having difficulties getting 6.2 installed on these new Dell 'Vostro' systems. The BIOS is a Phoenix - AwardBIOS and it reports the version as 1.0.3. With the SATA controller set to IDE mode (default) in the BIOS booting FreeBSD will hang just before entering sysinstall, booting

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-09 18:10, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: i.e. here's an ftp session on my laptop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# fgrep ftp: /etc/passwd ftp:*:1003:1003: user:/home/ftp:/usr/sbin/nologin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# su ftp [EMAIL

Install problems on Dell 'Vostro'

2007-11-09 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I'm having difficulties getting 6.2 installed on these new Dell 'Vostro' systems. The BIOS is a Phoenix - AwardBIOS and it reports the version as 1.0.3. With the SATA controller set to IDE mode (default) in the BIOS booting FreeBSD will hang just before entering sysinstall, booting

nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd

2007-11-09 Thread John Smith
Can anybody please explain to my what the differences are between nanobsd, picobsd and tinybsd. They all seem to be doing the same (creating a minimal FreeBSD image that can be used in embedded systems), or is this not right? I've searched the internet but can't really find a page that clearly

USB Console?

2007-11-09 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, Firstly sorry for my recent double post mx1.freebsd.org was rejecting my mail for some reason.. I was wondering if there is any way to put the console on a USB port? Since serial and parallel ports are becoming things of the past and many systems don't come with them any more.. Serial

Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

2007-11-09 Thread icantthinkofone
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the

Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

2007-11-09 Thread icantthinkofone
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the

Re: problem of install 7.0 on notebook

2007-11-09 Thread Zhang hw
7.0-beta2-amd64's boot stop at the same place as beta1.5. 2007/11/3, Zhang hw [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thank you, David! The verbose logging messages: --- pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 4.0 on pci0 pcib2: domain

Re: Install problems on Dell Vostro

2007-11-09 Thread McCy Ron
Jerahmy Pocott wrote: Hello, I'm having difficulties getting 6.2 installed on these new Dell 'Vostro' systems. The BIOS is a Phoenix - AwardBIOS and it reports the version as 1.0.3. With the SATA controller set to IDE mode (default) in the BIOS booting FreeBSD will hang just before

Re: pkgdb failure

2007-11-09 Thread matti k
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:06:54 -0500 J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild all the packages from portupgrade -af I started getting the following error messages. The first once, the second multiple times, even after I moved the

Can someone please help me get gdmchooser running, again?

2007-11-09 Thread Lane Holcombe
I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1, compiled locally on Tue May 8 16:39:25 CDT 2007 I was able to use gdmchooser on X.org 7.2, but after upgrade to 7.3 (and GDM 2.20.1) she says no serving hosts were found after scanning the local network When I first started this email, I got this from

Re: Can someone please help me get gdmchooser running, again?

2007-11-09 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:12:20PM -0600, Lane Holcombe wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1, compiled locally on Tue May 8 16:39:25 CDT 2007 I was able to use gdmchooser on X.org 7.2, but after upgrade to 7.3 (and GDM 2.20.1) she says no serving hosts were found after scanning the

Re: shell programming

2007-11-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 09 November 2007 20:02, Eric Crist wrote: On Nov 9, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Bill Banks wrote: I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? Well, it depends on what you're using. If you're using sh, see `man date`. If you're using

Re: Can someone please help me get gdmchooser running, again?

2007-11-09 Thread Lane Holcombe
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 08:28 +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:12:20PM -0600, Lane Holcombe wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1, compiled locally on Tue May 8 16:39:25 CDT 2007 snip gdm was compiled WITHOUT IPv6 support, and I've got ipv6_enable=NO

Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

2007-11-09 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:08:12 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok,

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