Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 03), Support (Rudy) said: > Below is part of the cron... Seems like any random cronjob can get > clogged up... load varies from 0.2 to 1.0 on this dual-core box. I > rebooted the box -- cron's continue to slowly pile up. > > One of the cronjobs that is 'stuck' is this on

BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics

2007-12-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Percentage Change in November from October: Overall - 2.5% Broken down as: DesktopBSD + 31.8% ( 737 hosts) DragonFly+ 9.5% ( 23 hosts) FreeBSD + 8.4% (5008 hosts)

Re: How to stop screen from resizing my window??

2007-12-03 Thread Erwan David
Le Mon 3/12/2007, Jim Riggs disait >> I connect to a FreeBSD server from OSX (via iTerm). I then start up >> screen. >> >> And it resizes my windows to 80 characters wide. This doesn't happen on >> linux. >> >> My understanding is this has something to do with the termcap entry and >> 'WS', but

Re: FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE build error

2007-12-03 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:13:41 +0100 "Jack Raats" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After a sucessfull build of the kernel and world, make installworld gives the >following errors: > >install-info --quiet --defsection="Programming & development tools." >--defentry="* libcom_err: (com_err).

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-03 Thread Support (Rudy)
Below is part of the cron... Seems like any random cronjob can get clogged up... load varies from 0.2 to 1.0 on this dual-core box. I rebooted the box -- cron's continue to slowly pile up. One of the cronjobs that is 'stuck' is this one: /root/bin/raid-status.sh which can be found here: ht

Problems with my tape drive.

2007-12-03 Thread perikillo
I have been working with this tapa drive: HP StorageWorks Ultrium 232 Tape Drive With FreeBSD 6.1-p16 and my scsi card is: aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=6, 32/253 SCBs I have running bacula since 1.38.10 with this tape drive, the i update to 1.38.11 not to many changes, more than a

Host malfuntion: Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet

2007-12-03 Thread Anjang Aki
whenever i do host [hostname] the following messages will appear: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ host freebsd.org freebsd.org has address 69.147.83.40 ;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet. ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~

Re: Confusion about installing X and release upgrading?

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Zachary Kline wrote: "Kevin Kinsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Zachary Kline wrote: Hi, I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 release with security patches from Releng6-2. This is in a Qemu virtual machine, if only because I don't know of any other system which

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Rudy wrote: cron jobs seem to get stuck. Not always, but within a day, there are at least 20 stuck. It is not always the same cronjob that does the sticking. :) When this occurs, I can run ps ax| grep cron and get a bunch of lines like this: 51921 ?? D 0:00.00 cron: running job (cro

PVR/DVR software on FreeBSD

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
I'm aware of the existence of MythTV, but don't know a heck of a lot more than that it exists. What PVR/DVR software do you (the population of this list) recommend for use with FreeBSD? What online resources do you recommend for guidance in setting it up (both for hardware compatibility and confi

cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-03 Thread Rudy
cron jobs seem to get stuck. Not always, but within a day, there are at least 20 stuck. It is not always the same cronjob that does the sticking. :) When this occurs, I can run ps ax| grep cron and get a bunch of lines like this: 51921 ?? D 0:00.00 cron: running job (cron) 51922 ??

Re: How to stop screen from resizing my window??

2007-12-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I connect to a FreeBSD server from OSX (via iTerm). I then start up screen. And it resizes my windows to 80 characters wide. This doesn't happen on linux. My understanding is this has something to do with the termcap entry and 'WS', but as far as I can tell that isn't being set anywhere. Also

Re: How to stop screen from resizing my window??

2007-12-03 Thread Jim Riggs
I connect to a FreeBSD server from OSX (via iTerm). I then start up screen. And it resizes my windows to 80 characters wide. This doesn't happen on linux. My understanding is this has something to do with the termcap entry and 'WS', but as far as I can tell that isn't being set anywhere.

Freebsd http mirrors

2007-12-03 Thread cuongvt
Could anyone know the http mirror of Freebsd ISO file? for some reason, ftp is prohibitied in my area. Thanks you -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Freebsd-http-mirrors-tf4940867.html#a14143773 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: mail problem, using postfix & dovecot

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
Erik Cederstrand wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: I have my mail system running on my FreeBSD server. It uses postfix outgoing, and dovecot to manage the Imap server, and finally Seamonkey either locally or from one of my other machines, to read/write my mail, it makes for a very portable mail syste

Re: Confusion about installing X and release upgrading?

2007-12-03 Thread Zachary Kline
"Kevin Kinsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Zachary Kline wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 release with security patches from >> Releng6-2. This is in a Qemu virtual machine, if only because I don't >> know of any other system which will let

Re: sudo never asks me for a password

2007-12-03 Thread Tom McLaughlin
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 20:01 -0800, Kamil Kisiel wrote: > On Nov 23, 2007 7:31 PM, Kamil Kisiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2007 7:16 PM, Christopher Cowart > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 07:09:36PM -0800, Kamil Kisiel wrote: > > > > On 11/23/07, Chris

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > [Repost from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at > least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should > remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the future (estimates > if and when needed v

Re: laptop

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:57:25PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > > My Thinkpad R52 works like a charm. T series Thinkpads are basically the > big brother of R series Thinkpads, and also work exceedingly well (my > favorite laptop of all time was a T24p). That was a typo. I meant to type T42p, not

RE: SSH disconnects very troubling

2007-12-03 Thread Anne Moore
Thanks, Kevin. This may well work with the SSH, but it's actually disconnecting all my clients, telnet, Oracle, etc. There is a config for telnet, but nothing for Oracle (that I know of). Also, ldap, etc. It's the strangest thing!! thank you though for response Anne -Original Message- F

Re: laptop

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:42:11PM +0545, Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: > > But since you mentioned that the primarily use of this laptop will be > for gaming purposes, I don't think that FreeBSD is the right OS for this > stuff. Of course, I could be wrong because I don't play games on my > FreeBSD

Re: laptop

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:01:48AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > ThinkPad T23 is around $200 and ThinkPad T30 is around $300. They would > work like a charm with FreeBSD. > If you are going to spend $500 you might as well by new lap top. > Personally, I would not buy anything else but Thin

How to stop screen from resizing my window??

2007-12-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I connect to a FreeBSD server from OSX (via iTerm). I then start up screen. And it resizes my windows to 80 characters wide. This doesn't happen on linux. My understanding is this has something to do with the termcap entry and 'WS', but as far as I can tell that isn't being set

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 1. What is more important to your personal use of FreeBSD (the ports system, the underlaying OS, some other aspect)? 2. How frequently do you interact with the ports systems and what is the most common interaction you have with it? Portupgrade a few times a mont

viability of QUOTA support as a KLD?

2007-12-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, It seems most of the things I want to do under freeBSD have been turned into nice KLD modules. However, I'm still forced to do a kernel recompile for QUOTA support. Is there some major reason it cannot be made into a KLD as well? -Dan Mahoney -- "It would be bad." -Egon Spengler

Re: SSH disconnects very troubling

2007-12-03 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:22 PM 12/3/2007, Anne Moore wrote: Hi All Whenever my users connect to my FreeBSD system, they are automatically disconnected after 1 minute of inactivity. This happens no matter if they are connected to our Oracle instance or SSH or Telnet, or anything. It's like the server "hangs-up" on

Re: SSH disconnects very troubling

2007-12-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 06:22:40PM -0500, Anne Moore wrote: > Hi All > > Whenever my users connect to my FreeBSD system, they are automatically > disconnected after 1 minute of inactivity. This happens no matter if they > are connected to our Oracle instance or SSH or Telnet, or anything. It's >

SSH disconnects very troubling

2007-12-03 Thread Anne Moore
Hi All Whenever my users connect to my FreeBSD system, they are automatically disconnected after 1 minute of inactivity. This happens no matter if they are connected to our Oracle instance or SSH or Telnet, or anything. It's like the server "hangs-up" on them after no activity for a minute or so.

Re: [freebsd-questions] Any experience using cellphone as a modem on FreeBSD?

2007-12-03 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > I have Motorola cellphone with data package on it and FreeBSD laptop. > It would be very nice to have internet everywhere. > Anybody uses/used cellphone this way? > > I know internet connectivity can go through the special cable and maybe > through > Bluetooth. > > I guess from FreeBSD side

xorg on ATI Mobility Radeon X600

2007-12-03 Thread Steven Friedrich
I'm running the latest xorg release available in FreeBSD ports collection. I have several computers and had quite a bit of trouble making the transition to the modular xorg release. I believe my laptop made it thru the modular updagrade but has since stopped working. I have tried to re-instal

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:19:15AM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > 1. What is more important to your personal use of FreeBSD (the ports > system, the underlaying OS, some other aspect)? Yes. (i.e., mu) > 2. How frequently do you interact with the ports systems and what is > the most common int

Re: named / BIND 9.4.1-P1 /etc/named/master ownership

2007-12-03 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD
On Mon, December 3, 2007 23:44, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > Philip M. Gollucci wrote: >> Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: >>> Ok.. In the /var directory there is no dump directory. So solving this >>> I >>> should do the following: >>> >>> hulk# mkdir /var/dump >>> hulk# chown bind:bind /var/d

Re: named / BIND 9.4.1-P1 /etc/named/master ownership

2007-12-03 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: >> Ok.. In the /var directory there is no dump directory. So solving this I >> should do the following: >> >> hulk# mkdir /var/dump >> hulk# chown bind:bind /var/dump Well, if its relative to the chroot, its /var/named/var/dump --

Re: named / BIND 9.4.1-P1 /etc/named/master ownership

2007-12-03 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: > Ok.. In the /var directory there is no dump directory. So solving this I > should do the following: > > hulk# mkdir /var/dump > hulk# chown bind:bind /var/dump > > Is that correct? I believe so. > > Whilst I am on the BIND topic, does BIND automatically r

Re: Confusion about installing X and release upgrading?

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Zachary Kline wrote: Hi, I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 release with security patches from Releng6-2. This is in a Qemu virtual machine, if only because I don't know of any other system which will let me redirect the serial port over a Telnet session. All that being said, I am slight

Re: named / BIND 9.4.1-P1 /etc/named/master ownership

2007-12-03 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD
On Mon, December 3, 2007 23:29, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: >> When I change the ownership, problem goes away. >> How can I get the problem away without changing the ownership? > in the options {} section > what do you have for: > > options { > // Relative to the chroot directory > // n

Re: named / BIND 9.4.1-P1 /etc/named/master ownership

2007-12-03 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
> When I change the ownership, problem goes away. > How can I get the problem away without changing the ownership? in the options {} section what do you have for: options { // Relative to the chroot directory // named_chrootdir="/var/named" directory "/etc/namedb";

Re: named / BIND 9.4.1-P1 /etc/named/master ownership

2007-12-03 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD
On Mon, December 3, 2007 23:03, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: >> In /etc/rc.conf I got the following. >> hulk# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep named >> named_enable="YES" >> named_uid="bind" >> named_chrootdir="/var/named" > grep named /etc/defaults/rc.conf > # named. I

FBS7.0-4B, named does not build with buildworld

2007-12-03 Thread Erik Norgaard
> Check your make.conf DOH! You're right, I was migrating from another system where I had build of named disabled. If you ever pass by where I live, I'll invite you for a beer ... Cheers, Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Any experience using cellphone as a modem on FreeBSD?

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Yuri wrote: It's unfortunate that even though cell phone already has IP connectivity that built-in browser works through it's still necessary to go through dialup/PPP to get this to laptop. I guess I will give it a try too. Hmm, some cellphones basically run Linux "underneath", don't they? T

Confusion about installing X and release upgrading?

2007-12-03 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 release with security patches from Releng6-2. This is in a Qemu virtual machine, if only because I don't know of any other system which will let me redirect the serial port over a Telnet session. All that being said, I am slightly confused by the stuf

Re: mail problem, using postfix & dovecot

2007-12-03 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Chuck Robey wrote: I have my mail system running on my FreeBSD server. It uses postfix outgoing, and dovecot to manage the Imap server, and finally Seamonkey either locally or from one of my other machines, to read/write my mail, it makes for a very portable mail system, but I am now convinced

jabberd will not start on reboot, only starts manually

2007-12-03 Thread Pollywog
I am running FreeBSD 6.2 with Jabberd installed from ports: jabberd-2.1.18 When I reboot the machine, jabberd will not start, but it will start if I manually restart it with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jabberd restart /var/log/messages shows: jabberd/c2s[989]: mysql: connection to database failed: Can

Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:26:07PM -0500, Chess Griffin wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows > >> Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows > > > > Probably. You will have to divid

Re: named / BIND 9.4.1-P1 /etc/named/master ownership

2007-12-03 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: > In /etc/rc.conf I got the following. > hulk# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep named > named_enable="YES" > named_uid="bind" > named_chrootdir="/var/named" grep named /etc/defaults/rc.conf # named. It may be possible to run named in a sandbox, man security for named_e

Re: FBS7.0-4B, named does not build with buildworld

2007-12-03 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi: > > I have recently tried to update to the latest snapshot, it appears that > named is not built/installed with build/installworld build targets: > > The installed named depends on libcrypto.so.4 and libc.so.6, but > installworld, delete-old, delete-old-libs deletes the

named / BIND 9.4.1-P1 /etc/named/master ownership

2007-12-03 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD
Hi list, I've got the following. Everytime when I start /etc/rc.d/named I get the following issue. hulk# /etc/rc.d/named start etc/namedb/master changed user expected 0 found 53 modified gid expected 0 found 53 modified Starting named. If I leave it like this I get the following

Re: Any experience using cellphone as a modem on FreeBSD?

2007-12-03 Thread Yuri
Quoting Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've done it, and it's painfultook me the better part of two days to get > > working. The main sticking points are you need to dial some arbitrary number > > that your provider won't be able to tell you without spending 5 hours on the > > phone,

mail problem, using postfix & dovecot

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
I have my mail system running on my FreeBSD server. It uses postfix outgoing, and dovecot to manage the Imap server, and finally Seamonkey either locally or from one of my other machines, to read/write my mail, it makes for a very portable mail system, but I am now convinced I have one major b

Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In addition to the bellow mail, I giving processor details > > AMD Turion? 64 Mobile Technology > > > > Hi, > > Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows > Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows > > HP Compaq

FBS7.0-4B, named does not build with buildworld

2007-12-03 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I have recently tried to update to the latest snapshot, it appears that named is not built/installed with build/installworld build targets: The installed named depends on libcrypto.so.4 and libc.so.6, but installworld, delete-old, delete-old-libs deletes these as they have been obsoleted

Re: Any experience using cellphone as a modem on FreeBSD?

2007-12-03 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Monday 03 December 2007 02:08:52 pm Yuri wrote: > I have Motorola cellphone with data package on it and FreeBSD laptop. > It would be very nice to have internet everywhere. > Anybody uses/used cellphone this way? > > I know internet connectivity can go through the special cable and maybe > throu

Any experience using cellphone as a modem on FreeBSD?

2007-12-03 Thread Yuri
I have Motorola cellphone with data package on it and FreeBSD laptop. It would be very nice to have internet everywhere. Anybody uses/used cellphone this way? I know internet connectivity can go through the special cable and maybe through Bluetooth. I guess from FreeBSD side it should look like U

Bind 9.3.4P1 Wouldn't run in Sandbox in FreeBSD6.2p9.

2007-12-03 Thread Martin McCormick
I don't know if this is a bind question or a FreeBSD question since it could be either. We've run bind in a sandbox for some years. After the latest security upgrades to FreeBSD6.2.9, bind refused to start. If I change ownership of /var/named to root:wheel and run named as root, it works

Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread Chess Griffin
Jerry McAllister wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows >> Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows > > Probably. You will have to divide your hard disk. > I have successfully been doing that will Partition Magic (

Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:15:22AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-30 16:06, "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am trying to build all of FreeBSD from a Linux Machine and seem to be running into problems. We have farm of build

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-03 Thread Jorn Argelo
--- Begin Message --- Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: RW wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [1]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. I

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-03 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Jorn Argelo wrote: > RW wrote: >> On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 >> Jorn Argelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write >>> to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. >>> >> I think vi will also fail unless it has acces

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-03 Thread Jorn Argelo
RW wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. I think vi will also fail unless it has access to termcap, so you'd need /usr mou

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-03 Thread RW
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write > to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. I think vi will also fail unless it has access to termcap, so you'd need /usr mounted too.

Re: Calculating checksum in ports

2007-12-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:51:57 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bsd wrote: > > Hello, > > > > There is a way to calculate the checksum in ports using make with > > an argument… > cd /usr/ports/... > make sums That should be: make makesum (assuming the intent is to update d

Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
> Hi, > > Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows > Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows Probably. You will have to divide your hard disk. I have successfully been doing that will Partition Magic (7.0) but recently got V 8.0 and

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Repost from [EMAIL PROTECTED] As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the f

Re: Issues configuring cyrus-imapd

2007-12-03 Thread David Robillard
> Greetings > > I'm trying to configure cyrus-imapd on a FreeBSD (6.2) mail server. The > only guide Google pointed me to is this one, who seems a bit outdated : > > http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~venkat/tutorial1.html > > So I tried to follow it, making all the changes I could figure out. > First, I ins

Re: Calculating checksum in ports

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bsd wrote: > Hello, > > There is a way to calculate the checksum in ports using make with > an argument… > > I can't remember the name of the argument… > cd /usr/ports/... make sums For more detail see ports(8) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft System

Calculating checksum in ports

2007-12-03 Thread bsd
Hello, There is a way to calculate the checksum in ports using make with an argument… I can't remember the name of the argument… Gregober ---> PGP ID --> 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz P "Pleas

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Reko Turja
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:19:15 +0200, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. What is more important to your personal use of FreeBSD (the ports system, the underlaying OS, some other aspect)? The "form follows function" of the whole FreeBSD kernel/userland and ports. Licensing ;)

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread cpghost
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:19:15 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Repost from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Please don't cross-post from questions@ to stable@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 3. What is the single best aspect of the current system? That you can add custom patches to the csup-ped

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > > 7. Same as question 6 but for your answer on question 3? This should read: 7. If the new system corrected the worst aspect of the current system but broke the best aspect of it would you use the new system? - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Syste

RE: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-12-03 Thread Jan Catrysse
> -Original Message- > From: Jan Catrysse > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 2:18 PM > To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary? > > Dear subscribers, > > I am currently running a production server: > FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE > Onboard Inte

RE: DOH! ata_alloc_composite failed!

2007-12-03 Thread Jan Catrysse
> -Original Message- > From: Jan Catrysse > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 2:18 PM > To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: DOH! ata_alloc_composite failed! > > Dear subscribers, > > I am currently running a production server: > FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE > Onboard Intel ICH8R Raid 1

Re: Download freebsd sourcecode for building in machine not have internet connection

2007-12-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:20:57 -0800 (PST) cuongvt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > sarek wrote: > > > > to allow for csup/cvsup'ing the source code. > > > Yes, it is solution for freebsd on usb stick. > But you know, They are hosting internal LAN for file sharing, so I > think usb solution is

[RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Repost from [EMAIL PROTECTED] As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the future (estimates if and whe

Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux

2007-12-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-02 20:13, "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed/bootstrapped NetBSD pkgsrc on the linux box. This comes > with bmake(which I think standas for bsdmake). pkgsrc is a very different ``beast'' altogether. It knows enough to bootstrap itself on any host wi

Re: rmuser

2007-12-03 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:28 PM 12/2/2007, Lubomír Matoušek wrote: Dear list, I have the following problem when when using rmuser (freebsd 6.2): Is this the entry you wish to remove? yes Remove user's home directory (/home/jakub/abcd)? yes Removing user (abcd):ipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or d

Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread manikandan . x . balachandran
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Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread manikandan . x . balachandran
Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows HP Compaq Presario V3000z RAM - 1.5 GB DDR II 533MHz NVIDIA Graphics Card 6150 NVIDIA Chipset motherboard 80GB Fujitsu HDD Thanks in advance Cheers B

FreeBSD make on other platforms [was: Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux]

2007-12-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-03 08:08, Micha?l Gr?newald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have tried GNU Make 3.80 as well as pmake. And I can't seem >> to find bmake for Linux. > > I have found in my vaults a script that downloads pmake source from > your f

Re: Anyone running Plesk ... ?

2007-12-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:09:31 -0400 "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But there is no /usr/local/etc/rc.d/psa.sh to stop / start the server, and no > psa-* related ports installed ... as if it installed all the dependencies, > but > not the components themselves ... > > If I try a

Re: Anyone running Plesk ... ?

2007-12-03 Thread Vince
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Hi ... > > I run a web hosting company, and one of the most often asked question is > whether we have a control panel, to which we generally say no ... recently, a > new client signed up and looked to install Plesk on his VPS, but has been > unable to get it to work

Re: Download freebsd sourcecode for building in machine not have internet connection

2007-12-03 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 03 December 2007 11:20:57 cuongvt wrote: > sarek wrote: > > to allow for csup/cvsup'ing the source code. > > Yes, it is solution for freebsd on usb stick. > But you know, They are hosting internal LAN for file sharing, so I think > usb solution is not suitable ;) > ANy idea? You probably

Re: Download freebsd sourcecode for building in machine not have internet connection

2007-12-03 Thread cuongvt
sarek wrote: > > to allow for csup/cvsup'ing the source code. > Yes, it is solution for freebsd on usb stick. But you know, They are hosting internal LAN for file sharing, so I think usb solution is not suitable ;) ANy idea? Tnx in advance -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.

Re: Download freebsd sourcecode for building in machine not have internet connection

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 cuongvt wrote: > > > sarek wrote: >> Oops forgot to mention an other solution would be to install >> FreeBSD on the USB device then do a cvsup on it... do a search >> for "FreeBSD on a Stick" on google and there is a step a guide to >> do just this. >>

Re: Download freebsd sourcecode for building in machine not have internet connection

2007-12-03 Thread cuongvt
sarek wrote: > > Oops forgot to mention an other solution would be to install FreeBSD > on the USB device then do a cvsup on it... do a search for "FreeBSD on > a Stick" on google and there is a step a guide to do just this. > Sorry for my unclear English, I mean after download it to USB drive

Re: Download freebsd sourcecode for building in machine not have internet connection

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 cuongvt wrote: > I know that we can use cvsup to download all Freebsd source code > then make buildworld. But is there a way to download it manually? I > means, I have friends that have PCs but not have interenet > connecttions, so they may come to int

Download freebsd sourcecode for building in machine not have internet connection

2007-12-03 Thread cuongvt
I know that we can use cvsup to download all Freebsd source code then make buildworld. But is there a way to download it manually? I means, I have friends that have PCs but not have interenet connecttions, so they may come to internet cafe, download source code to portable USB drive then make buil