Re: A question for developers

2009-08-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 17 August 2009 04:14:18 Steve Bertrand wrote: Manish Jain wrote: You are right. Syntax highlighting only works well with X. On the console, to the best of knowledge, there is no way to change the colours through vim's rc files. Syntax colour changing does work via .vimrc on the

Possible bug with IPv6 ICMPv6 handling

2009-08-21 Thread Doug Hardie
I have found what to me seems like a bug with ICMPv6 handling in IPv6. However, before submitting a PR I wanted to check to be sure that its not a misunderstanding on my part. The network setup. A host (A) connected to a router (B) connected to another host (C) on a separate network.

Re: Ruleset anomaly

2009-08-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:08:00PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: I'm running freebsd 7.2p3 and I believe I started seeing the following messages after the p3 patch. /etc/rc: WARNING: devfs_set_ruleset: you must specify a ruleset number /etc/rc: WARNING: devfs_apply_ruleset: you must

Can't boot from install cdrom/dvd ( was kein Betreff )

2009-08-21 Thread Olaf Leidinger
Hi! Try disabling AHCI. I had to do that on an Intel board. Hope it does help. :-) Well, it doesn't. The problem is that it doesn't find the DVD device (which is IDE). But I figured out that I can boot from USB just fine. The image of 8.0 BETA 2 works fine (I can install and boot that

Re: Flash10 with 8.0-BETA2 and Firefox 3.5.2

2009-08-21 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:02:28AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: So you should not run it as root. Let me clarify: I did not run it as root until after it didn't work as a normal user. Or at least I thought I didn't. Now, having removed the link in /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins and

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:29:26AM +, b. f. typed: Lane Holcombe wrote: Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror

enquiry

2009-08-21 Thread keith cak
Dear Sir, May i know how to change the IP address in freeBSD . Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

HP Proliant DL580 G5-installation freezes (FreeBSD 7.2 i386)

2009-08-21 Thread datatek
Dear all: I'm having troubles installing Freebsd 7.2 (i386) on a HP Proliant DL5= 80 G5(Intel): The system boots from the Install-CD, and while probing the hardware, = it suddenly freezes. The last line on the console is VGA: . anyone can show me hot to solve it?

g_vfs_done() WRITE error

2009-08-21 Thread Martin Laabs
Hi, I have a brand new HDD and I copied my system and home directory to it. While copying my home directory I got the following errors at dmesg and /var/log/messages: Aug 21 08:49:16 pc kernel: g_vfs_done():ufs/home[WRITE(offset=50879299584, length=32768)]error = 1 Aug 21 08:49:51 pc last

cvsup*.*.freebsd.org and authentications

2009-08-21 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, in the last few months more and more cvsup-servers are printing error-messages like them: host# csup ports-supfile Connected to 212.118.165.142 Authentication required by the server and not supported by client host# Even cvsup has problems with them. What does the error messages

7.2 dying with Kernel Trap 12

2009-08-21 Thread Zetinja Tresor
My 7.2 FreeBSD server has started to crash with kernel trap 12. I googled around and most of the topics I found were about faulty RAM or other harware problems. This is VMware vitual machine so I see no way of hardware problems as we even tried to move the machine around VMware nodes to see it's

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time

Re: cvsup*.*.freebsd.org and authentications

2009-08-21 Thread enterhaken
Am Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:48:39 +0200 schrieb Stevan Tiefert stevan-tief...@kabelmail.de: Hi Stevan, I connected to cvsup5.de.freebsd.org a long time with no errors. Jochen Hello list, in the last few months more and more cvsup-servers are printing error-messages like them: host# csup

Re: about vbox and freebsd

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
Mak Kolybabi wrote: On 2009-08-21 06:12, John Francis Lee wrote: My problem is that I'm told right at the onset of the install that CPU doesn't support long mode Your CPU is 64-bit from what I can see. From a bit of Googling, others have encountered this problem, and it seems to have to

Re: enquiry

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Jobs
On Friday 21 August 2009 07:32, keith cak wrote: Dear Sir, May i know how to change the IP address in freeBSD . Thank you. depends on what you are using. dhcp/static ip configuration? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: enquiry

2009-08-21 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
You can do it in the /etc/rc.conf file you can see the examples in the /etc/defaults/rc.conf On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:32 AM, keith cak keith...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir, May i know how to change the IP address in freeBSD . Thank you. _ -- Aftab Jahan Subedar CEO/Software Engineer

Re: about vbox and freebsd

2009-08-21 Thread Duncan Hutty
Mak Kolybabi wrote: On 2009-08-21 06:12, John Francis Lee wrote: My problem is that I'm told right at the onset of the install that CPU doesn't support long mode Your CPU is 64-bit from what I can see. From a bit of Googling, others have encountered this problem, and it seems to have to do

Re: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1

2009-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: Howard Goldstein h...@queue.to writes: It's like the cat dragged in firefox2 despite use of 3.5 for actual browsing :( Is there a good way to resolve these dependencies through firefox3 or 3.5 short of ditching gnome? Yeah,

Re: enquiry

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
keith cak wrote: Dear Sir, May i know how to change the IP address in freeBSD . If it is a one-time change: % ifconfig em0 208.70.111.88/24 If you need it to remain across a reboot, use rc.conf as Aftab suggested. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: enquiry

2009-08-21 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Friday 21 August 2009 00:32:20 keith cak wrote: Dear Sir, May i know how to change the IP address in freeBSD . man 5 rc.conf man 8 dhclient man 8 ifconfig Thank you. [SNIP] Best regards, -- .O. | Daniel Molina Wegener | FreeBSD Linux ..O | dmw [at] coder [dot] cl | Open

Re: No Device Node assigned for HD?

2009-08-21 Thread Rob
I should clarify my statement a bit. FreeBSD notices the channel starting up when the disk is inserted, but it doesn't recognize that there is a disk there. I usually see something like: da2 at hptrr0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da2: HPT DISK 0_2 4.00 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device once I

Security cams/DVR, using FBSD?

2009-08-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Hello, I seem to have a problem --- fairly small pieces of equipment are disappearing occasionally. It's a couple hundred dollars here or there, but it's starting to add up. I'd like to set up a box or two with a camera feeding an HDD for later review. Is there a hardware/software combination

Re: Remounting a drive as read/write crashes the system and no dmesg.boot

2009-08-21 Thread Norbert Papke
On August 20, 2009, Scott Schappell wrote: I cannot get the system to generate a dump, even though dumpon verified it's set to the swap drive but /var/crash stays empty. I have dumpdev=AUTO in rc.conf and dumpdir=/var/crash as well. If you don't have it already, you may also need

Re: Remounting a drive as read/write crashes the system and no dmesg.boot

2009-08-21 Thread Scott Schappell
Looking at info.0 I see: Dump header from device /dev/ad0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 155131904B (147 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Fri Aug 21 08:27:45 2009 Hostname: arthur.silvertree.org Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD

Re: Security cams/DVR, using FBSD?

2009-08-21 Thread Tim Judd
On 8/21/09, Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz wrote: Hello, I seem to have a problem --- fairly small pieces of equipment are disappearing occasionally. It's a couple hundred dollars here or there, but it's starting to add up. I'd like to set up a box or two with a camera feeding an HDD for

Re: Security cams/DVR, using FBSD?

2009-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Hello, I seem to have a problem --- fairly small pieces of equipment are disappearing occasionally. It's a couple hundred dollars here or there, but it's starting to add up. I'd like to set up a box or two with a camera feeding an HDD for later review. Is there a

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread PJ
Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:12 PM, PJaf.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22,

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread PJ
Lane Holcombe wrote: I'm all over this! Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Lane Holcombe wrote: I'm all over this! Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you

Re: Installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread b. f.
from same script. Let me know, please, if it's ok? Well, not quite. == #!/bin/sh # # Update source, docs and ports LOCAL_DIR=$(pwd) You don't need to change directories if you change some of the commands slightly, so the above line and the last line are unnecessary. cd

Re: Possible bug with IPv6 ICMPv6 handling

2009-08-21 Thread David Horn
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Doug Hardiebc...@lafn.org wrote: I have found what to me seems like a bug with ICMPv6 handling in IPv6.  However, before submitting a PR I wanted to check to be sure that its not a misunderstanding on my part. The network setup.  A host (A) connected to a

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] Ok, I normally do something like that... problem here was that I made the mistake of thinking that an interesting little script I found was good for updating... but, I was sadly mistaken. The error was due to a badly downloaded ports tree. That fixed, all works fine. I

What should be backed up?

2009-08-21 Thread John Almberg
I am currently using rsnapshot to back up these directories on a FreeBSD 7.2 webserver: /etc /usr/home /usr/local /var/cron These directories contain all the data and config files that I use... I think... Question: am I missing anything crucial? Thanks: John

Re: What should be backed up?

2009-08-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:33 PM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: I am currently using rsnapshot to back up these directories on a FreeBSD 7.2 webserver: /etc /usr/home /usr/local /var/cron These directories contain all the data and config files that I use... I think...

Re: What should be backed up?

2009-08-21 Thread Frank Wissmann
John Almberg schrieb: I am currently using rsnapshot to back up these directories on a FreeBSD 7.2 webserver: /etc /usr/home /usr/local /var/cron These directories contain all the data and config files that I use... I think... Question: am I missing anything crucial? Thanks: John

Re: What should be backed up?

2009-08-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:33 PM, John Almberg wrote: I am currently using rsnapshot to back up these directories on a FreeBSD 7.2 webserver: /etc /usr/home /usr/local /var/cron These directories contain all the data and config files that I use... I think... Question: am I missing anything

Re: What should be backed up?

2009-08-21 Thread John Almberg
QUOTE My general advice is to back up everything and then explicitly excluding those things that you know that you don't need. Here is my exclude list from my rsnapshot.conf exclude /var/log exclude /var/tmp exclude /usr/obj exclude /usr/ports/distfiles

Re: Security cams/DVR, using FBSD?

2009-08-21 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:01:50 -0500, Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz wrote: I'd like to set up a box or two with a camera feeding an HDD for later review. Is there a hardware/software combination you use or recommend for video monitoring? There are very simple but still powerful tools. Sadly,

Re: What should be backed up?

2009-08-21 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, August 21, 2009 16:14:22 -0500 John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: That raises another question... How feasible is it to restore a server from these backups? Is it really possible to install 7.2 on a new machine and then just copy the backed up data onto the new machine? I

Best kernel ethernet device driver

2009-08-21 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, I once had a problem in linux sometimes connecting to windows file sharing with CIFS is extremely slow. After too much searching, I discovered the problem was a buggy kernel device driver for some lame ethernet card I bought. Which kernel ethernet device driver works best under

Re: Best kernel ethernet device driver

2009-08-21 Thread Tim Judd
On 8/21/09, Chris Stankevitz cstankev...@toyon.com wrote: Hello, I once had a problem in linux sometimes connecting to windows file sharing with CIFS is extremely slow. After too much searching, I discovered the problem was a buggy kernel device driver for some lame ethernet card I bought.

Re: Accidentally moved /libexec/ld-elf.so.1

2009-08-21 Thread Stew Houston
I appreciate the help thus far; as /rescue/csh in single user mode has moved me past my first hurdle. However, being the blundering newbie I am, I was working in the /tmp directory, which seems to have been cleared (or is empty for whatever reason in the current state.) If it has been wiped, my

Re: Accidentally moved /libexec/ld-elf.so.1

2009-08-21 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Stew Houstonstewhous...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate the help thus far; as /rescue/csh in single user mode has moved me past my first hurdle.  However, being the blundering newbie I am, I was working in the /tmp directory, which seems to have been cleared (or

Re: Possible bug with IPv6 ICMPv6 handling

2009-08-21 Thread Doug Hardie
On 21 August 2009, at 11:33, David Horn wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Doug Hardiebc...@lafn.org wrote: I have found what to me seems like a bug with ICMPv6 handling in IPv6. However, before submitting a PR I wanted to check to be sure that its not a misunderstanding on my part.

Re: Accidentally moved /libexec/ld-elf.so.1

2009-08-21 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:28:47 -0400, Stew Houston stewhous...@gmail.com wrote: However, being the blundering newbie I am, I was working in the /tmp directory, which seems to have been cleared (or is empty for whatever reason in the current state.) Cleaning the /tmp directory at startup usually

Re: PPPoE server (high traffic in WDM network)

2009-08-21 Thread muhammad usman
Hi, I've little off topic suggestion regarding network design. The solution you are implementing will mean to make hundreds of users share the same broadcast domain. As all your FTTH and other DSLAMS would be working in bridge mode. This scenerio is not safe as if anyone of your clients will

Re: Accidentally moved /libexec/ld-elf.so.1

2009-08-21 Thread Polytropon
Replying to my own message in order to clarify: On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:53:43 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:28:47 -0400, Stew Houston stewhous...@gmail.com wrote: However, being the blundering newbie I am, I was working in the /tmp directory, which seems

Re: Accidentally moved /libexec/ld-elf.so.1

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
Polytropon wrote: Replying to my own message in order to clarify: On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:53:43 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:28:47 -0400, Stew Houston stewhous...@gmail.com wrote: However, being the blundering newbie I am, I was working in the /tmp

Re: Remounting a drive as read/write crashes the system and no dmesg.boot

2009-08-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 21 August 2009 07:34:11 Scott Schappell wrote: Looking at info.0 I see: Dump header from device /dev/ad0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 155131904B (147 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Fri Aug 21 08:27:45 2009 Hostname:

Re: Accidentally moved /libexec/ld-elf.so.1

2009-08-21 Thread Stew Houston
Thank you all for the wonderful help. I've recovered the file and the system is fully operational. The solution that worked was: Single User Mode /rescue/sh /rescue/mount / /rescue/mount /tmp /rescue/mv /tmp/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 /libexec As I spent my entire youth on Windows, I can honestly say

Re: Suspend/Resume on Thinkpad x40

2009-08-21 Thread Joe Snikeris
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ian Smithsmi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:03:29 -0500 Joe Snikeris j...@snikeris.com wrote:   First off, I apologize if this is not the right forum for this   question.  I was torn between posting this in mobile, ACPI, X11 and   here.  If I

Re: Suspend/Resume on Thinkpad x40

2009-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Joe Snikeris wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ian Smithsmi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:03:29 -0500 Joe Snikeris j...@snikeris.com wrote:   First off, I apologize if this is not the right forum for this   question.  I was torn between

/etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-21 Thread Nerius Landys
I am trying to figure out why DNS lookups are not possible right after the named process has been launched (during bootup). I am kind of a newb at diagnosing these sorts of issues, but as an attempt to figure out what's wrong, I added the following lines to the very bottom of my /etc/rc.d/named:

/etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-21 Thread Nerius Landys
I am trying to figure out why DNS lookups are not possible right after the named process has been launched (during bootup). I am kind of a newb at diagnosing these sorts of issues, but as an attempt to figure out what's wrong, I added the following lines to the very bottom of my /etc/rc.d/named: