Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the product, he should look into it. I'm probably a bit paranoid, but when someone who is not using their

freebsd-update - Automatic merge

2010-02-16 Thread Peter Kirk
Updating freebsd 7.2 to 8 and fan the following command freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE Everything goes through fine but then it gets to a point and its says The following file could not be merged automatically: /etc/amd.map Press Enter to edit this file in vi and resolve the conflicts

freebsd-update server

2010-02-16 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Hello, I have a need to ship updates to a customized freebsd install, and thought that freebsd-update could serve me. However http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/projects/freebsd-update-server/ is rather old and misses amd64 builds. There must be newer code around since freebsd-update can be

RE: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-16 Thread Dan Naumov
I don't know, but I plan to test that scenario in a few days. Matt Please share the results when you're done, I am really curious :) It *should* work... I made changes a while back that allow for multiple vdevs to attach to the root.  In this case you should have 3 mirror vdevs attached

freebsd-update - Automatic merge

2010-02-16 Thread Peter Kirk
Updating freebsd 7.2 to 8 and fan the following command freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE Everything goes through fine but then it gets to a point and its says The following file could not be merged automatically: /etc/amd.map Press Enter to edit this file in vi and resolve the conflicts

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Fbsd1
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the product, he should look into it. I'm probably a bit paranoid, but when

FTP troubles with Roundcube vacation plugin

2010-02-16 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I'm in trouble with vacation plugin which perform an FTP session at localhost , for an obscure PAM/FreeBSD reason the FTP session is not always working ... The machine runs FreeBSD 7.2-R with Dovecot 1.2.10 imap server Any clarification welcome ! Thank you. Sometimes it works well

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the

Re: iso license

2010-02-16 Thread Ross Cameron
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:43 PM, tristan tristan@hotmail.com wrote: the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz  is under some compilation copyright. what does this mean, and can i freely edit the iso, rename it, and sell it? can i get a copy of the license for the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz? i

Re: NOW what?

2010-02-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:32:29AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: [...] If you look is /usr/ports/audio you will find the festival ports. 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel512 Jan 25 20:13 festival 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel512 Jan

Re: freebsd-update server

2010-02-16 Thread Jason
I have not built on 8.0, however the update code should work just fine on a custom kernel. The article I wrote is for amd64. I am doing that myself, and I have written an article on it. It is also pending a commit to the FreeBSD Documentation Project.

Re: freebsd-update - Automatic merge

2010-02-16 Thread Steve Franks
Search the list archives for emails pertaining to mergemaster.rc - it worked wonders for me! Steve On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Peter Kirk pete...@korbitec.com wrote: Updating freebsd 7.2 to 8 and fan the following command freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE Everything goes through

Re: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question

2010-02-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a function, or command line utility, to escape a string, making it suitable to be input on the command line? For example, this escape utility would take a input of te st and create an output of te\ st. Other things such as quotes and single

Re: Fn key events in Devd

2010-02-16 Thread Anselm Strauss
Thank you, that did it. Anselm On Feb 16, 2010, at 03:18 , David Horn wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, is there a way to see all events going through devd? cat /var/run/devd.pipe should work for what you need too see from devd.

'gmirror clear' error

2010-02-16 Thread James Smallacombe
After using gmirror on a 7.2-STABLE server for 6 months, a hardware failure followed by a corrupted file system (wouldn't boot cleanly) required that I bring up a new server and copy over some of the file systems to the new server. I use only one slice, but with the following BSD partitions:

Re: cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE

2010-02-16 Thread William Bulley
According to Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com on Mon, 02/15/10 at 16:39: webkit-gtk2 wants gnome-config to build gstreamer to support video. You can disable the VIDEO option in the webkit-gtk2 config settings, or just disable HELPBROWSER in the graphics/gimp-app port. Last I looked, the

/usr/src/UPDATING

2010-02-16 Thread Jamie Griffin
I have a really simple question about updating my system. Does /usr/src/UPDATING say when I need to update the kernel and world (obviously after updating the sources using csup/cvsup). I've been assuming it does but i'm not sure i'm following it correctly. Or, does it just have information

netcat (/usr/bin/nc) buffer size too small - alternate utilities?

2010-02-16 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm communicating with a server that uses UDP packets. The server receives a UDP packet, and responds with a UDP packet by sending one to the initial sender. The request packets are always very small in size, but the response UDP packets can be up to 9216 bytes in size. I am using netcat like

Re: netcat (/usr/bin/nc) buffer size too small - alternate utilities?

2010-02-16 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm communicating with a server that uses UDP packets. The server receives a UDP packet, and responds with a UDP packet by sending one to the initial sender. The request packets are always very small in size, but the

RTL8192SE WLAN

2010-02-16 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hey, anybody got the RTL8192SE wireless chip to work with FreeBSD? I bought a Asus 1201N laptop. I successfully compiled the Windows XP driver with ndisgen(8). The driver loads and the device is there. On the FreeBSD EeePC wiki it says it's a 8191 chip, but when I look at the driver download

Re: /usr/src/UPDATING

2010-02-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:35:27 + Jamie Griffin j...@mythic-beasts.com wrote: I have a really simple question about updating my system. Does /usr/src/UPDATING say when I need to update the kernel and world (obviously after updating the sources using csup/cvsup). I've been assuming it does

Re: RTL8192SE WLAN

2010-02-16 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 2/16/10, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, anybody got the RTL8192SE wireless chip to work with FreeBSD? I bought a Asus 1201N laptop. I successfully compiled the Windows XP driver with ndisgen(8). The driver loads and the device is there. On the FreeBSD EeePC wiki it says

Re: /usr/src/UPDATING

2010-02-16 Thread Jamie Griffin
It describes updates to the branch and gives any special instructions. Since you are using a security branch all the the updates are security related or severe bugs. So look at the most recent update, currently p2 and compare it with the end of your version string. You don't have to

FreeBSD 7.3 RC1 - gmirror - changed devices name

2010-02-16 Thread Gabriel Lavoie
Hello everyone, I just upgraded my system to 7.3 RC1, from 7.1, to test it. I had a lot of trouble with my gmirror setup as none of my providers were recognized. It happened that the HARDCODED flag was set on both my providers and my hard disk drives device nodes changed name from 7.1 to

Re: /usr/src/UPDATING

2010-02-16 Thread Leslie Jensen
2010-02-16 19:35, Jamie Griffin skrev: I have a really simple question about updating my system. Does /usr/src/UPDATING say when I need to update the kernel and world (obviously after updating the sources using csup/cvsup). I've been assuming it does but i'm not sure i'm following it