Re: Cannot install php5-gd!!!

2009-01-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
perikillo wrote: Hi people. I want to install some ports that depends this module php5-gd (phpmyadmin example), I update my ports every day, but I still getting this error: bacula# pwd /usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd bacula# make install clean === php5-gd-5.2.8 has known vulnerabilities: =

Re: Installing OpenSSL from ports, how to remove base-openssl?

2009-01-16 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org writes: For a certain customer that wants to use a later version of OpenSSL (base is at 'e' while ports is at 'j') I installed /usr/ports/security/openssl. This is all fine, but now I have two sets binaries and libraries of OpenSSL on that system.

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-16 Thread Michael Powell
ThinkDifferently wrote: Michael Powell-6 wrote: In your motherboard BIOS is there any entry that controls which controller boots first? If so set it to boot from the add-in card first instead of the onboard controller. In my BIOS there is the following... Hard Disk Boot Priority

can't work with a file starting with dash space '- ' ?

2009-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
By mistake I saved an email attachmed as it was called, probably from MS world: - Reviewer Comments - FFEMS - Closure paper.pdf Now I cannot delete, or rename it. % cp -\ Reviewer\ Comments\ -\ FFEMS\ -\ Closure\ paper.pdf z cp: illegal option -- usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n]

Re: can't work with a file starting with dash space '- ' ?

2009-01-16 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:33:13AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: By mistake I saved an email attachmed as it was called, probably from MS world: - Reviewer Comments - FFEMS - Closure paper.pdf Now I cannot delete, or rename it. % cp -\ Reviewer\ Comments\ -\ FFEMS\ -\ Closure\

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 21:44 -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? I don't know. It's been $years since I've had to use a Windows install CD for such a thing. If it's win32, my experience would have me recommend

Re: Sun sucks

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 03:47 +, RW wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:10:10 -0500 Ansar Mohammed ans...@gmail.com wrote: After registering Sun complains that they don't like my ID and I need to provide more information. I create another account. Same problem. After 3 months I finally get

est1 device_attach error 6

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
Similar to the age0 problem in my previous post the enhanced speed step on this laptop on the second core of the cpu has the same problem- athough this doesn't appear to be power related (ac or battery that is). Where does this place the issue- acpi?

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind

iwn driver on 7.1

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
I've tried the driver on 7.0- 8.0 current is out of the question as it still doesn't fully function either- but I'm trying to sort out 7.1 (might as well, I have many other issues to work out so I might as well fix them on this :) ). The driver patches compiles (iwn-7 from gavin), but when I load

Re: programs...

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
What about Miro? On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 23:19 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:43:09AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:03:29PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've going to give away what I think could be at least a multi-thousand

USB problem during install

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
I was just running a check to see if I could install FreeBSD on my tv server and check the driver situation, but the cdboot failed with a usb issue- address not found. This occurred for 7.1, 7.0, and even 6.4. In my search I found many different reasons why it could be, but they were several years

How to copy only skeleton files while creating a existing user's homes directory?

2009-01-16 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, I have the following situation: Users are stored in OpenLDAP. I need to create homes directories on new machine memebers in the pool of workstations and do not want the usage of an automated creation of loggin in user via pam_mkhomedir. Creation should be done manually. My question: is

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 18:07 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:08:16PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I'm afraid it's gone from bad to worse. The 7.1 system may have recognised the ethernet adapter, but it seemed to fail writing to the hard drive. I got

age0 driver power issues - device_attach error 6

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
I'm getting issues similar to what others have seen in the pre-release 7.1. I'm using the release version because it supposedly has this driver, but the issue is when I'm on battery it'll work and load the driver, on ac forget it. Its on a laptop with an iwn device so I'm in for real hell - but

Re: How to copy only skeleton files while creating a existing user's homes directory?

2009-01-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 16 January 2009 12:48:38 O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I have the following situation: Users are stored in OpenLDAP. I need to create homes directories on new machine memebers in the pool of workstations and do not want the usage of an automated creation of loggin in user via

sysutils/gnome-power-manager fails to compile

2009-01-16 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, During upgrading gnome, done exactly as described in /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20090110), during the phase of portupgrade -aOW the build process stops in sysutils/gnome-power-manager: . . . gmake[2]: Leaving directory

Re: [Fwd: iwn driver on 7.1]

2009-01-16 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: From: Da Rock rock_on_the_web at comcen.com.au I've tried the driver on 7.0- 8.0 current is out of the question as [...] The driver patches compiles (iwn-7 from gavin), but when I load it goes through the channels and errors and finally dies with a full page fault.

Re: Bios chip update suggestions

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Fbsd1 wrote: I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. The company is now out of business. It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick. I want to find an bio's update that adds booting from usb memory stick. I know the desktop uses AWARD bio's chip

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:11 -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Hello I notice that when you write zeros to the first sectors of the pen drive it gets mad about it and you must make fsck and disklabel TWICE... the first time, it complains, the second time it works fine I assume you

no browser starts, possible dbus-launch problem?

2009-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
After recent upgrade of many ports I cannot start either firefox2 or kazehakase on alpha FBSD 6.4-release. (Both worked fine before the upgrade). When I try to launch either browser I see something like this: % ps ax|grep dbus 94452 ?? Ss 0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork

Runtime de/encryption

2009-01-16 Thread Marco
Hello List, i'am using the geom framework for quite a time. I'am happy about gbde/geli implementations(beside the race condition in geli) however, i wonder since some time, as the data may get exposed on a running server(as the partitions decrypted) is there a way to do some kind of runtime

zfs on i386 trauma :P

2009-01-16 Thread B. Cook
Hello all, We had a raid card die in a dell box and reinstalled FreeBSD 7 and restored from backups.. the problem is amd64 didn't boot on the box and the person doing the restore wanted to 'help' and changed from ufs2 to zfs.. while being a noble effort, he was testing on amd64 and didn't think

Re: zfs on i386 trauma :P

2009-01-16 Thread Vincent Hoffman
B. Cook wrote: Hello all, We had a raid card die in a dell box and reinstalled FreeBSD 7 and restored from backups.. the problem is amd64 didn't boot on the box and the person doing the restore wanted to 'help' and changed from ufs2 to zfs.. while being a noble effort, he was testing on

Upgrading Jails

2009-01-16 Thread David Allen
I have a test system where I've accumulated a large number of jails. To update them (I'm not using the method outlined in the Handbook), I'd like to avoid mounting /usr/src and /usr/obj within each and then jexec-ing a shell but instead, perform everything on the host system directly. Would the

Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hi, For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5 running on a Windows XP PC. Is there an easy way to import from the hard disk to a guest OS? Suppose I have the hard disk connected to the XP box? -- Best regards, Odhiambo

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-16 Thread ThinkDifferently
Michael Powell-6 wrote: ThinkDifferently wrote: In my BIOS there is the following... Hard Disk Boot Priority [Press Enter] 1. SCSI-0:: RocketRAID 3120 SATA C 2. Bootable Add-in Cards So what happens when you choose 2. Bootable Add-in Cards, save the setting and

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

2009-01-16 Thread Brian McCann
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: This seems to be a bit of a sideline... but how does it work if you move the disk around? Assuming generic kernel, you should be boot that kernel on practically any machine- right? But I had trouble with it not

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:20:50 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk,

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:40 PM, James Seward james...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5 running on a Windows XP

Did FreeBSD lose 83% of core developers?

2009-01-16 Thread Konrad Heuer
Hello everyone, bsdconferen...@youtube (http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tvI6JCXD0) presents a talk of Jason Dixon (BSD is Dying, Jason Dixon, NYCBSDCon 2007) mentioning what I ask within the subject: Did FreeBSD lose 83% of core developers? I never heard about that. What's the background

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:20:50AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:08:02AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:20:50 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread DAve
Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:40 PM, James Seward james...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5 running on a Windows XP PC. Is there an easy way to import from the hard disk to a guest OS? Suppose I

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-16 Thread ThinkDifferently
Another user wrote: Try to reload a boot manager with the new boot order. It may be the bios is renumbering the drives with the boot order. I have several plug in cards and have had to to this. Boot manager is on ad0 but boot order looks to ad6 first. You could use another manager like

Re: age0 driver power issues - device_attach error 6

2009-01-16 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 1/16/09, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I'm getting issues similar to what others have seen in the pre-release 7.1. I'm using the release version because it supposedly has this driver, but the issue is when I'm on battery it'll work and load the driver, on ac forget it. What

Re: age0 driver power issues - device_attach error 6

2009-01-16 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 1/16/09, Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/16/09, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I'm getting issues similar to what others have seen in the pre-release 7.1. I'm using the release version because it supposedly has this driver, but the issue is when I'm on battery it'll

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware server to another. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:28 PM, James Seward james...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread Steve Polyack
DAve wrote: While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware server to another. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html DAve VMware Converter on supports source physical

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread DAve
Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:28 PM, James Seward james...@gmail.com mailto:james...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com mailto:dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: While I have not tried it, it claims it can make

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:41 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: Nope, the starter edition is free. Believe me, if we had to pay for it, my boss wouldn't let me use it 8^( What are the restrictions on the starter version? Maybe one of those is why I ended up not using it. If it will do

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread michael
Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: Could you kindly share the steps you followed? It looks like that's what I have to do, as this app is commercial and I don't have that money now:-) Here's a page that describes the process:

Re: Did FreeBSD lose 83% of core developers?

2009-01-16 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Konrad Heuer kheu...@gwdg.de wrote: Hello everyone, bsdconferen...@youtube (http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tvI6JCXD0) presents a talk of Jason Dixon (BSD is Dying, Jason Dixon, NYCBSDCon 2007) mentioning what I ask within the subject: Did FreeBSD lose 83%

Re: Runtime de/encryption

2009-01-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:59:34PM +0100, Marco wrote: Hello List, i'am using the geom framework for quite a time. I'am happy about gbde/geli implementations(beside the race condition in geli) however, i wonder since some time, as the data may get exposed on a running server(as the

RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread Tim Kellers
My Machine: Dell 2850 PE w/ 12 GB of Ram www# uname -a FreeBSD www 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #2: Tue Jan 6 19:24:57 EST 2009 r...@www:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DELL64 amd64 When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet,

BUG or FEATURE

2009-01-16 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Questions. I have two routing tables, three LAN: one internal, two external. I have connected VIA VPN to server through internal LAN. if in firewall I add: setfib 1 all from internal.lan.ip to any The packet inside VPN tunnel is marked to have fib 1 and will leave router acording

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Kellers kell...@njit.edu writes: My Machine: Dell 2850 PE w/ 12 GB of Ram www# uname -a FreeBSD www 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #2: Tue Jan 6 19:24:57 EST 2009 r...@www:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DELL64 amd64 When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:35:33 -0500 Tim Kellers kell...@njit.edu wrote: I've never noticed this (the slow decline of Free) before on any machine I've had. Maybe that just means it has happened and I haven't noticed it, but I don't know. FreeBSD has worked like that for a long time, it

FreeBSD 7.1, PF errors - Cannot allocate memory

2009-01-16 Thread Mike Sweetser - Adhost
Hello, We've recently upgraded our PF firewalls from FreeBSD 6.3 to FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2. Since doing so, we are receiving intermittent errors on reloading the PF configuration. At first, we receive Cannot allocate memory errors on specific table names. These tables worked properly on

Re: vipw and bash login shell

2009-01-16 Thread Daniel Howard
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Kurt Bigler k...@breathsense.com wrote: Hi, When I used vipw to change the login shell to /usr/local/bin/bash (which is listed in /etc/shells, and was built from ports), subsequent ssh login attempts fail (password rejected). If I change the shell back to

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread Tim Kellers
Thanks to all who responded. I am familiar with the FAQ and what it says about memory handling. This is my first time with installed RAM over 8 Gig in an AMD environment so I was just making sure there wasn't something going on that looked odd to anyone else. Tim RW wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan

Re: Cannot install php5-gd!!!

2009-01-16 Thread perikillo
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.comwrote: perikillo wrote: Hi people. I want to install some ports that depends this module php5-gd (phpmyadmin example), I update my ports every day, but I still getting this error: bacula# pwd

skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Rem P Roberti
I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. Rem ___

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and it now shows 1436M free in the Mem: line I've been watching the number and it has been slowly decreasing over the 5 days since its

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. Rem This problem

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. Rem This

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Friday 16 January 2009 13:02:30 Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Friday 16 January 2009 13:02:30 Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:02:30PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the nail on the head! I will try this soon. Yup.

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the

Re: age0 driver power issues - device_attach error 6

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 17:19 +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 1/16/09, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I'm getting issues similar to what others have seen in the pre-release 7.1. I'm using the release version because it supposedly has this driver, but the issue is when I'm on

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Rem P Roberti
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 13:02:30 Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Rem P Roberti
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:02:30PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 18:05 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Rem P Roberti
Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: This did the trick for me. I just installed skype and: will-try# ls -l

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Rem P Roberti
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 13:02:30 Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out

Freebsd standards compliance

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
I'm just in the middle of researching the core of Freebsd (for want of a better term) so I can understand how to fix and create software and drivers. Can people clarify my understanding here? According to wikipedia Freebsd is only mostly compliant with POSIX, yet BSD/OS is fully- why would this

Help with: atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6

2009-01-16 Thread ThinkDifferently
I need help with this. I'm trying to create a software RAID1. I followed the instructions in man page http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atacontrolsektion=8apropos=0manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE atacontrol(8) atacontrol(8) wrote: [snip] A quick and dirty way to create such a

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Joakim Fogelberg
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: This

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Rem P Roberti
Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Friday 16 January 2009 15:15:13 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Rem P Roberti
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 15:15:13 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Friday 16 January 2009 15:32:47 Rem P Roberti wrote: Beech Rintoul wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 15:15:13 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Rem P Roberti
What happens if you do: /usr/local/share/skype/skype as a normal user? Same thing: Permission denied. Wierd, and you're sure that binary is executable by all? -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 78 Jan 16 16:15 skype Rem ___

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Joakim Fogelberg
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: This did the trick for me. I just installed skype and: will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/ | grep skype

Re: Freebsd standards compliance

2009-01-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:03:39 +1000, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: According to wikipedia Freebsd is only mostly compliant with POSIX, yet BSD/OS is fully- why would this be? There are parts of FreeBSD that are deliberately BSD compliant instead of POSIX compliant, because this

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:06 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and it now shows 1436M free in the

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Joakim Fogelberg
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:25:19AM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:06 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5

Re: Freebsd standards compliance

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 03:21 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:03:39 +1000, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: According to wikipedia Freebsd is only mostly compliant with POSIX, yet BSD/OS is fully- why would this be? There are parts of FreeBSD that are

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Rem P Roberti
OK...get this. As stated earlier I did a complete reinstall of Skype. I shut down the system for a while, and when I brought it back up and called Skype from a user's command line the licensing window came up, followed by the sign on window . But when I try to log on it tells me that another

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Joakim Fogelberg
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 15:15:13 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Joakim Fogelberg
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Joakim Fogelberg joafog.li...@gmail.com wrote: COPYTREE_SHARE= ${SH} -c '(${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 | ${CPIO} -dumpl $$1 /dev/null \ 21) \ ${CHOWN} -R ${SHAREOWN}:${SHAREGRP} $$1 \

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Rem P Roberti
I have 7.1-RELEASE-p2 installed. compat.linux.osrelease: 2.6.16 linprocfs mounted linux_base-f8-8_10 I changed to root (su -) before I installed skype. root's shell is /bin/csh. umask is 22. I can\t recall that I should have done anything creative with the root account. I just removed skype,

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:14:10 -0500 David Scheidt dsche...@panix.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:25:19AM +, RW wrote: Although, looking at the output of top, most of the memory is in the inactive state. As I understand it cache pages go from active to cached, and the inactive

Re: [Fwd: Re: programs...]

2009-01-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 03:22:40PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: What about Miro? Somelike like miro is a start, but may need a special or different kind of interface. Say that you KNOW you want to hear a show on the BBC every week. [Sure, just set it up on Google,

Re: portupgrade - portmaster?

2009-01-16 Thread Tim Judd
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Having used portupgrade for several years I'm thinking to make the switch to portmaster since both of them seem to be fully supported as far as upgrading ports is concerned. Anything to consider when going from portupgrade to portmaster? Caveats/pitfalls? Is there

Re: Flash for FreeBSD - GNOME - Firefox

2009-01-16 Thread Tim Judd
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Is there a port that emulates Adobe Flash? i.e. Adobe's download site says 'Platform not supported' is there a port or package thats can be used to view Flash content in Firefox? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-16 Thread Tim Judd
Grant Peel wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: snip Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home,

Re: vipw and bash login shell

2009-01-16 Thread Kurt Bigler
on 1/16/09 11:16 AM, Daniel Howard danny...@toldme.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Kurt Bigler k...@breathsense.com wrote: When I used vipw to change the login shell to /usr/local/bin/bash (which is listed in /etc/shells, and was built from ports), subsequent ssh login attempts