The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-11-12 - 2006-12-02

2006-12-03 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following numbers reflect those systems that reported in on the 1st day of the month of December, compared against the 1st day of the previous month. Since the point of this is to be run monthly, out of periodic monthly, the 1st of the month

Re: Please HELP!

2006-12-03 Thread VeeJay
Hi Thanks you. But it does not work? I have spend whole night to solve this problem... but still haven't had it work On 12/3/06, Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VeeJay wrote: Hi I am sorry to post this question here but I am desparet to get my freebsd box work soonest

Re: acpi and boot problem

2006-12-03 Thread leo fante
From a quick look at /boot/beastie.4th, I think that setting acpi_load in your loader.conf will do the job. also it is written in loader.help but I've already tried and it doesn't work. thanks anyway for the advice ___

Re: Tools for FreeBSD development

2006-12-03 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Kevin Sanders wrote: On 12/2/06, Alexander Kabaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally think that having a dedicated box in disk-less configuration is the best option out there. The ability to quickly go through series of hands/reboots without any associated fsck runs

gdm-autologin not working properly

2006-12-03 Thread Lars Udo
Hello folks. I'v set up gdm-autologin at /etc/pam.d/ and done everything as told in faq ( http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q23 ) It asks for user to pass in, is this normal behavior.. because i expected that when i fire up my computer, it automatically logs in and starts gnome

Routing Issue?

2006-12-03 Thread Yousef Adnan Raffah
Hello Everyone, I have a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE box that has two network cards (Dual Homed?). Each card is on a different network, as following (from /etc/rc.conf): ifconfig_fxp0=inet 192.168.20.36 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.210.6 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: Please HELP!

2006-12-03 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sunday December 03, 2006 at 03:32:10 (AM) VeeJay wrote: Hi Thanks you. But it does not work? I have spend whole night to solve this problem... but still haven't had it work Please don't top post. If you don't know what that means, Google for it. Now, do you have the following:

FreeBSD Schwag

2006-12-03 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Hello All, I have been to the usual suspects (freebsdmall.com etc) looking for polos with the new freebsd logo. Where can I get schwag with the new logo? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Routing Issue?

2006-12-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Yousef Adnan Raffah wrote: Hello Everyone, I have a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE box that has two network cards (Dual Homed?). Each card is on a different network, as following (from /etc/rc.conf): ifconfig_fxp0=inet 192.168.20.36 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.210.6 netmask

Re: VoIP behind NAT and FreeBSD

2006-12-03 Thread Kurt Dethier
Marwan Sultan wrote: First thanks for you all, for the cooperating, My setup is as follow, Router - vr0 FreeBSD fxp0 - Switch - Clients Two NICs attached, vr0 connected to the router (internet interface) has the static 192.168.0.2 fxp0 connected to the Switch connected to clients

RE: Western Australian Daylight Savings changes

2006-12-03 Thread Murray Taylor
Have a current ports tree cd /usr/ports/misc/zonefile make install this gets the correct (and current) timezone file tzdata2006p.tar.gz and does all the right stuff for you. Make sure that you follow the last instruction from the build as you have to manually run tzsetup at the end. mjt Murray

Re: ssh client affecting fonts?

2006-12-03 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 1 December 2006, at 11:28, Eric wrote: oops im an idiot. try this URL http://mikestammer.com/upload/portconfig.png Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again. If you think this is a

Re: What Did I Do To My Server?!

2006-12-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:57, Rachel Florentine wrote: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/zope/instance2/var/Data.fs.lock' Ugh. OK, here's the problem: the Zope port (un?)intentionally screws up the permissions of the installation. Specifically, it unsets the

Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-03 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:09:18 -0400 Marc G. Fournier wrote: Since the point of this is to be run monthly, out of periodic monthly, the 1st of the month is when all hosts should be 'renewing' their information ... I have some diskless workstations running FreeBSD. Sure users are not supposed

Re: FreeBSD Schwag

2006-12-03 Thread David King
Hello All, I have been to the usual suspects (freebsdmall.com etc) looking for polos with the new freebsd logo. Where can I get schwag with the new logo? I just ordered a few from http://bsdmall.com/ When I say just, I mean that I ordered them four months ago and they just got to me

Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-03 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 12/3/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Numbers are up from November, which is what we hope for ... not drastically, but 7.5% isn't shabby either: For those wishing to see more formal stats, or more detail, please check out

intel wireless 3945 driver situation :(

2006-12-03 Thread gb
Hi All, My boss gave me a new laptop but it has the 3945 intel wireless card. I know that this was not supported and there is only one experimental driver out there. Any news on whether or not this thing will be supported. Anybody get it to work? thanks G

How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-03 Thread a
My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet host one second ago. How does it work? $ ifconfig rl0:

Xorg: How to change background?

2006-12-03 Thread a
Can Xorg show another background than grey grid, for example, black screen? Elisej Babenko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

missing pkg-descr

2006-12-03 Thread Charlie Root
Dear FreeBSD, The following happens to me A LOT: --- Installing the new version via the port === Installing for perl-5.8.8 === Generating temporary packing list ** Missing pkg-descr for perl-5.8.8. *** Error code 1 Stop in /data/ports/lang/perl5.8. *** Error code 1 Many ports fail

Re: ssh client affecting fonts?

2006-12-03 Thread Eric
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 1 December 2006, at 11:28, Eric wrote: oops im an idiot. try this URL http://mikestammer.com/upload/portconfig.png Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try

Re: missing pkg-descr

2006-12-03 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 12/3/06, Charlie Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD, The following happens to me A LOT: --- Installing the new version via the port === Installing for perl-5.8.8 === Generating temporary packing list ** Missing pkg-descr for perl-5.8.8. *** Error code 1 Stop in

Re: Xorg: How to change background?

2006-12-03 Thread a
Don't pay attention to my post sent a week ago. Sorry for inconvenience, but this is problem of ISPs, not my. Elisej Babenko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Xorg: How to change background?

2006-12-03 Thread rloefgren
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can Xorg show another background than grey grid, for example, black screen? Elisej Babenko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: gdm-autologin not working properly

2006-12-03 Thread trip
The fingers of Lars Udo typed on 03/12/06 12:08: Hello folks. I'v set up gdm-autologin at /etc/pam.d/ and done everything as told in faq ( http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q23 ) It asks for user to pass in, is this normal behavior.. because i expected that when i fire up my

Openwebmail Zlib::compress

2006-12-03 Thread Robert Davison
I've recently updated my ports, and openwebmail is no longer working, giving me the following error... Software error: Undefined subroutine Compress::Zlib::memGzip called at /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/ow-shared.pl line 1175. For help, please send mail to the webmaster

Changing password for GELI encrypted diskpartitions

2006-12-03 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: The man page doesn't seem to say anything about this: How do you change the pass phrase for an encrypted partition (geli)? (I found that on boot the password must be entered with US keyboard layout and suddenly I couldn't figure out how to type it. Problem is solved, no data lost I just

Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Sunday, December 03, 2006 19:43:41 +0300 Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:09:18 -0400 Marc G. Fournier wrote: Since the point of this is to be run monthly, out of periodic monthly, the 1st of the month

Re: Changing password for GELI encrypted diskpartitions

2006-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12/3/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: The man page doesn't seem to say anything about this: How do you change the pass phrase for an encrypted partition (geli)? . . . Secondly: Is the passphrase protecting the key file or the partition itself? (just for curriosity). From a

Re: Please HELP!

2006-12-03 Thread Derek Ragona
Which version of FreeBSD are you running? Which version of apache? Have you updated either recently? -Derek At 05:51 PM 12/2/2006, VeeJay wrote: Hi I am sorry to post this question here but I am desparet to get my freebsd box work soonest possible. I have installed apache20 on my

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-03 Thread Atom Powers
On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet host one second ago. The ARP table is a cache of known ARP-IP addresses. If there are no

umass mount woes

2006-12-03 Thread Neil Short
I got a new whiz-bang mp3 play from SanDisk. I went with SanDisk because they have always worked so well with non-windows for me. Anyway, I'm having a bit of a problem mounting it. Other umass devices work fine on my system. Any help will be appreciated. The device is a Sansa c240. as a usb

Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-03 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:05:04 -0400 Marc G. Fournier wrote: If its diskless, will each reboot end up reporting as a whole new host each time, or is there some way of saving that /var/db/bsdstats across reboots? We use memory mounted /var. :-( Ok, let's only our servers do the reporting. WBR

Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Monday, December 04, 2006 02:07:08 +0300 Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:05:04 -0400 Marc G. Fournier wrote: If its diskless, will each reboot end up reporting as a whole new host each time, or is there

BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following numbers reflect the change in reporting numbers between October and November 2006. These include both those that reported *on* the 1st of the month, as well as those changes over the course of the month. Since the point of this is

Re: umass mount woes

2006-12-03 Thread ajm
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:56:12PM -0800, Neil Short wrote: I got a new whiz-bang mp3 play from SanDisk. I went with SanDisk because they have always worked so well with non-windows for me. Anyway, I'm having a bit of a problem mounting it. Other umass devices work fine on my system. Any

Invitation to deliver LinuxTop20 talk

2006-12-03 Thread Saifi
Hi Abrar: On behalf of TWINCLING Society I would like to invite you to deliver Linux Top20 talk. Please confirm your availability. thanks Saifi +91 - 99897 13507. TWINCLING Society freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/ TWINCLING Society a registered society under Andhra Pradesh

equivalent to date -a

2006-12-03 Thread perryh
Does FreeBSD have an equivalent to the Solaris date -a command, i.e. a command-level interface to adjtime(2)? I didn't see any mention of a -a switch in the manpages for date(1) or gdate(1), nor anything applicable in apropos, and a grep for adjtime in likely-seeming parts of /usr/src didn't turn

Re: equivalent to date -a

2006-12-03 Thread Bachilo Dmitry
В сообщении от Понедельник 04 декабря 2006 11:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] написал(a): Does FreeBSD have an equivalent to the Solaris date -a command, i.e. a command-level interface to adjtime(2)? I didn't see any mention of a -a switch in the manpages for date(1) or gdate(1), nor anything

Re: equivalent to date -a

2006-12-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 03), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does FreeBSD have an equivalent to the Solaris date -a command, i.e. a command-level interface to adjtime(2)? I didn't see any mention of a -a switch in the manpages for date(1) or gdate(1), nor anything applicable in apropos, and a grep

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-03 Thread a
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:53:44PM -0800, Atom Powers wrote: On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet host one second ago. The

Sierra Wireless MC5720 help

2006-12-03 Thread Andy Miller
I have a Sierra Wireless MC5720 that came with my Lenovo T60p laptop. The card is fully activated and known to work in Linux and Windows. I am attempting to get the card working in FreeBSD, but not having much luck. The umodem driver claims to support the device, but as of yet I have not been able