Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-08 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
KEY='8a0283ceb2478ad5bec8e611dfc6299b' TOKEN='oc0f+hmaYdsqXkcC+UqfrUKB+a1JiYX8pJHB6oYPIEY=' VERSION=5.0 On 12/7/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can you email me the output of /var/db/bsdstats? - --On Thursday, December 07, 2006

Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )

2006-12-08 Thread Frank Bonnet
Vince wrote: Vince wrote: Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince Vince, OK i'm going to have a try with it I'll let you know how it worked. -- Kind Regards Frank Bonnet

Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Friday, December 08, 2006 11:20:23 +0300 Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KEY='8a0283ceb2478ad5bec8e611dfc6299b' TOKEN='oc0f+hmaYdsqXkcC+UqfrUKB+a1JiYX8pJHB6oYPIEY=' VERSION=5.0 Thanks, fixed ... On 12/7/06, Marc G.

Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)

2006-12-08 Thread 张韡武
在 2006-12-08五的 06:53 +,Matthew Seaman写道: ??? wrote: Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great firewall of China: 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; 2) I run this command on my desktop: $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server; 3)

Re: Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday December 07, 2006 at 04:57:31 (PM) Kay Abendroth wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: On Thursday December 07, 2006 at 03:39:59 (PM) Robert Huff wrote: Gerard Seibert writes: I have tried for two days now to update 'jacket' but without success. Built for me six hours

Dell PowerEdge 1950 with PERC 5/i SAS

2006-12-08 Thread Daniel Foster
Hi, I've seen at least one report of 6.1 being run successfully on a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with a PERC 5/i controller using SAS RAID. I can install 6.1 without any problems but when it comes to boot from the RAID array, kernel cannot be found by the loader. What am I missing? -- Daniel

Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )

2006-12-08 Thread Frank Bonnet
Frank Bonnet wrote: Vince wrote: Vince wrote: Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince Vince, OK i'm going to have a try with it I'll let you know how it worked. Well :-( it does not work it

Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)

2006-12-08 Thread Fabian Keil
张韡武 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great firewall of China: 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; 2) I run this command on my desktop: $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server; 3) everybody in the office edit

Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)

2006-12-08 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, ~_ wrote: Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great firewall of China: 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; 2) I run this command on my desktop: $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server; 3) everybody in the office edit

Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits ) egg and chicken problem ...

2006-12-08 Thread Frank Bonnet
Frank Bonnet wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Vince wrote: Vince wrote: Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince Vince, OK i'm going to have a try with it I'll let you know how it worked. Well :-( it

ACPI-1304 SMP porblem

2006-12-08 Thread Ispas Dorin
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz (3000.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf62 Stepping = 2

Re: Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-08 Thread Kay Abendroth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Gerard Seibert wrote: On Thursday December 07, 2006 at 04:57:31 (PM) Kay Abendroth wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: On Thursday December 07, 2006 at 03:39:59 (PM) Robert Huff wrote: Gerard Seibert writes: I have tried for two days now to

tools for bdb

2006-12-08 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello I need to manipulate my sasldb because I copy this db from one server to an other server. After the successfull copy I have to change some stuff in that db file with the tools db_dump and db_load but I have no idea where I get this tools from. Any hints are welcome. -- Regards Martin

Portupgrade hung. What do I do?

2006-12-08 Thread Henry Lenzi
Hi -- I was following the path of enlightenment to gnome upgrade, and the portupgrade process hung. It is a fact, there's nothing I can do about it. My question is: how do I gracefully make this thing stop (i.e., not smash the computer)? Ctrl-C doesn't work, for instance. And what do I do

Re: Portupgrade hung. What do I do?

2006-12-08 Thread Henry Lenzi
Hi * -- Funny thing, ps ax does to tell me the PID of portupgrade. The process stopped while fetch a postgresql tarball. ps should list portupgrade or at least fetch, right? TIA, Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)

2006-12-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 08 December 2006 07:12, Vince Hoffman wrote: On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, å¼ é~_¡æ­¦ wrote: Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great firewall of China: 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; 2) I run this command on my desktop: $ ssh -L

Re: NTPD not keeping time

2006-12-08 Thread Kris Anderson
Just a follow up, Turned off NTPD and the clock is still drifting. I set the clock around 1200 on Dec 7th, and the time is reported as Dec 7th 22:20 PST 2006. Have a burning question? Go to

Building system libs with debugging symbols

2006-12-08 Thread Micah
The gnome maintainers need me to rebuild libpthread and libc with debugging symbols in order to get a more complete stack trace of a firefox crash. How exactly do I go about doing that, since those libs are part of world? Do I have to rebuild world or can I just rebuild those libs? What mods

RE: NTPD not keeping time

2006-12-08 Thread Kris Anderson
After poking about vmware's web site I've done the following. Installed VMWare tools for FreeBSD and activated it. Also, from the toolbox I checked of sync clock. Not yet implemented: /boot/loader.conf and disabling APIC. I'll try this later.

Re: Building system libs with debugging symbols

2006-12-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 08), Micah said: The gnome maintainers need me to rebuild libpthread and libc with debugging symbols in order to get a more complete stack trace of a firefox crash. How exactly do I go about doing that, since those libs are part of world? Do I have to rebuild world or

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2006-12-08 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

2006-12-08 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: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?

2006-12-08 Thread Tuareg
On 12/5/06, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 21:49, Wasp King wrote: is there a way that one can specify a log place to see daily logs like you receive from [EMAIL PROTECTED], when sendmail is turned on? there must be a way to enable only local mail delivery...but

compilation problems with some code from Linux

2006-12-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm trying to port some code from Linux to FreeBSD and I've got an issue that revolves around something I've never dealt with before. The code includes the following header: #include sys/ucred.h Apparently, program is attempting to make use of the xucred structure defined in there,

Re: how do I do this special proxy?

2006-12-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 7, 2006, at 9:53 PM, 张韡武 wrote: We got a Windows file server in the next office, I have a FreeBSD host in my office. I wish to let it listen on 135/139 port (I am not sure which one is used for Windows file sharing), and forward any request to the Windows file server as if this FreeBSD

Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?

2006-12-08 Thread Lane
On Friday 08 December 2006 11:16, Tuareg wrote: On 12/5/06, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 21:49, Wasp King wrote: is there a way that one can specify a log place to see daily logs like you receive from [EMAIL PROTECTED], when sendmail is turned on?

Re: compilation problems with some code from Linux

2006-12-08 Thread Lane
On Friday 08 December 2006 11:21, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I'm trying to port some code from Linux to FreeBSD and I've got an issue that revolves around something I've never dealt with before. The code includes the following header: #include sys/ucred.h Apparently, program is attempting

Re: compilation problems with some code from Linux

2006-12-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-12-08 10:21, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to port some code from Linux to FreeBSD and I've got an issue that revolves around something I've never dealt with before. The code includes the following header: #include sys/ucred.h Apparently, program is

Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-08 Thread Karl Sinn
Hi, I am completely new here, and I did not find the answer to my problem. Not in the FreeBSD Handbook and not in the Installations instruction. I have SuSE 10.1 installed with Grub. I wanted to try FreeBSD, and I installed it on hdd (Linux-name) I think it is ad3 for FreeBSD. During the

Attempting to write a mouse driver for the GunCon2...help?

2006-12-08 Thread Tony Shadwick
---BeginMessage--- I'm trying to figure this out, and I'm not sure what to do. The GunCon2 is a usb device intended for the PS/2. I have it's communications protocol worked out, FreeBSD picks the gun up and gives it two devices, /dev/ugen0 and /dev/ugen0.1. ugen0.1 is a character device

Fwd: Attempting to write a mouse driver for the GunCon2...help?

2006-12-08 Thread Tony Shadwick
---BeginMessage--- I'm trying to figure this out, and I'm not sure what to do. The GunCon2 is a usb device intended for the PS/2. I have it's communications protocol worked out, FreeBSD picks the gun up and gives it two devices, /dev/ugen0 and /dev/ugen0.1. ugen0.1 is a character device

Attempting to write a mouse driver for the GunCon2...help?

2006-12-08 Thread Tony Shadwick
---BeginMessage--- I'm trying to figure this out, and I'm not sure what to do. The GunCon2 is a usb device intended for the PS/2. I have it's communications protocol worked out, FreeBSD picks the gun up and gives it two devices, /dev/ugen0 and /dev/ugen0.1. ugen0.1 is a character device

Re: processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O (was: Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output )

2006-12-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:41:51PM +, Dieter wrote: However, I don't know what you mean by data is lost. Data should never be lost from the filesystem regardless of how slow the I/O is happening, unless there's something else going wrong (e.g. driver bug). Also, rtprio should

Re: Fwd: Attempting to write a mouse driver for the GunCon2...help?

2006-12-08 Thread Tony Shadwick
Sorry for the list spamming. My mail server burped. :( Also, PS2 as in Playstation 2, not the serial port PS/2. I'm trying to figure this out, and I'm not sure what to do. The GunCon2 is a usb device intended for the PS/2. I have it's communications protocol worked out, FreeBSD picks the

How to install the same port twice but at different locations?

2006-12-08 Thread Alexis Dorais-Joncas
Hi all, Subject says it all. I would like to install the package phpMyAdmin on two different locations on my server. Is this doable? If so, how? I'm using FreeBSD g-noc.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

Re: How to install the same port twice but at different locations?

2006-12-08 Thread Lane
On Friday 08 December 2006 13:58, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: Hi all, Subject says it all. I would like to install the package phpMyAdmin on two different locations on my server. Is this doable? If so, how? I'm using FreeBSD g-noc.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13

Re: How to install the same port twice but at different locations?

2006-12-08 Thread Alexis Dorais-Joncas
Lane a écrit : On Friday 08 December 2006 13:58, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: Hi all, Subject says it all. I would like to install the package phpMyAdmin on two different locations on my server. Is this doable? If so, how? I'm using FreeBSD g-noc.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu

Re: periodic passwd change?

2006-12-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I can't see how to prescribe periodic passwd change, only how to set expiry time. At the moment I put the following line in the root's crontab: 2 2 2 * * pw usermod shterenl -p `date '+\%d-\%m-\%Y'` This makes a user's passwd expire once a month. Is there a

Re: How to install the same port twice but at different locations?

2006-12-08 Thread Lane
On Friday 08 December 2006 14:57, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: Lane a écrit : On Friday 08 December 2006 13:58, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: Hi all, Subject says it all. I would like to install the package phpMyAdmin on two different locations on my server. Is this doable? If so, how?

Re: How to install the same port twice but at different locations?

2006-12-08 Thread Micah
Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: Lane a écrit : On Friday 08 December 2006 13:58, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: Hi all, Subject says it all. I would like to install the package phpMyAdmin on two different locations on my server. Is this doable? If so, how? I'm using FreeBSD g-noc.net 6.0-RELEASE

Re: How to install the same port twice but at different locations?

2006-12-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 08 December 2006 15:57, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: Lane a écrit : On Friday 08 December 2006 13:58, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: Hi all, Subject says it all. I would like to install the package phpMyAdmin on two different locations on my server. Is this doable? If so, how?

acpi woes and dead filesystem

2006-12-08 Thread Steve Franks
So, I got my desktop system (read: personal cpu, not a server) all set up, been using it for a couple weeks, all is happy. Now, I'm a bit of a tree-hugger, see, so I tend to like to suspend my computers insted of leaving them on perpetually. As such, tried acpiconf -s3 initially (others say

Re: How to install the same port twice but at different locations?

2006-12-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 8, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: I think you misunderstood my problem. I know how to install a port to a specific location using PREFIX. What I want to achieve is to have one port installed twice. For example, I want one whole instance of phpMyAdmin to be in

Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)

2006-12-08 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:25:59 +0800 张韡武 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great firewall of China: 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; 2) I run this command on my desktop: $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server; 3)

Re: acpi woes and dead filesystem

2006-12-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 8, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Steve Franks wrote: Now, I'm a bit of a tree-hugger, see, so I tend to like to suspend my computers insted of leaving them on perpetually. You might try turning them off entirely...? As such, tried acpiconf -s3 initially (others say unsupported). Seemed to go down

Re: How to install the same port twice but at different locations?

2006-12-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: Hi all, Subject says it all. I would like to install the package phpMyAdmin on two different locations on my server. Is this doable? If so, how? I'm using FreeBSD g-noc.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL

Re: How to install the same port twice but at different locations?

2006-12-08 Thread Alexis Dorais-Joncas
John Nielsen wrote: What I have done in the past is create slave ports. Say the port you want to install twice is in ports/category/foo. Make a new directory ports/category/bar. Inside that directory, create a Makefile similar to this: PORTNAME= foo PKGNAMESUFFIX=

Re: Unable to build jackit-0.102.20

2006-12-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday December 08, 2006 at 08:50:36 (AM) Kay Abendroth wrote: Could you comment all compiler flags you set in /etc/make.conf and rerun the build? Please post your build-log again after that if sth. changes. The only global setting in the /etc/make.conf file is: NO_PROFILE=true

ask to borrow 6.1-RELEASE /etc/ttys

2006-12-08 Thread 张韡武
As every careless stupid user would do, today I have destroyed my /etc/ttys. Luckily I didn't reboot after I destroyed this file. (Yes I know I should backup before editing /etc/ttys, the fact is I didn't try to edit it at all, it's a typo that made me pipe the output of some app to this file)

Re: ask to borrow 6.1-RELEASE /etc/ttys

2006-12-08 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Friday 08 December 2006 14:14, 张韡武 wrote: As every careless stupid user would do, today I have destroyed my /etc/ttys. Luckily I didn't reboot after I destroyed this file. (Yes I know I should backup before editing /etc/ttys, the fact is I didn't try to edit it at all, it's a typo that made

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-08 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Friday 08 December 2006 20:18, Karl Sinn wrote: Hi, I am completely new here, and I did not find the answer to my problem. Not in the FreeBSD Handbook and not in the Installations instruction. I have SuSE 10.1 installed with Grub. I wanted to try FreeBSD, and I installed it on hdd

Re: ask to borrow 6.1-RELEASE /etc/ttys

2006-12-08 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 08 December 2006 17:56, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Friday 08 December 2006 14:14, 张韡武 wrote: As every careless stupid user would do, today I have destroyed my /etc/ttys. Luckily I didn't reboot after I destroyed this file. (Yes I know I should backup before editing /etc/ttys, the

ACPI Support Question for FreeBSD 6.2-RC1

2006-12-08 Thread Jeff Royle
Greetings List! I believe my ACPI issue is simply a support issue but I need this confirmed with some direction on a possible solution if available. The short version of the problem: In dmesg I get this: acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR The motherboard being used is a Asus P5MT-S. Is this

Problem with KYOCERA KPC650

2006-12-08 Thread Sung Park
Hi, folks I'm working on KYOCERA KPC650 to get internet access in 6.1 freebsd box. I couldn't get ucom0 dialer interface. I keep getting ugen0. Does anyone know about how to swap ugen0 to ucom0? Should I need to patch kernel or else? Anything will be helped to me. Thank you.