Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello all, I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format of the arguments and/or output of a base perl function having changed

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Yes I know how to use the OS, I'm more sking for historical rivia reasons. -Dan I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 21 June 2008 01:02, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello all, I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format

Re: error message when starting smartd: FAILURE - SMART status=51 ...

2008-06-21 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:38:25PM +1200, Steven Samuel Cole wrote: Also, the disks are SATA300, the controller supports SATA150 only; there is a jumper on the disks that limits them to SATA150 which I removed. Could that be relevant ? Yes, it could be relevant. Several controllers have

Re: Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog...

2008-06-21 Thread Agus
2008/6/20 David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thank u all very much guysi will see if i do a graceful or simply a restart cause i dont think the apache will be getting too many connections all the timebut that clarifications was quite good Davidand thank u for the

ipnat gre and pptp

2008-06-21 Thread Zinevich Denis
Hi. Does anybody know how to make ipnat map/or proxying pptp traffic ? Problem is: mpd server with pptp - somwhere in internet. Gateway with ipnat. Clients behind gateway can not access pptp server at same time. I found something like: map bce1 0/0 - 0/0 proxy port 1723 pptp/tcp but it doesn`t

Re: FreeBSD fdisk how to?

2008-06-21 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hi, Well, fdisk(8) is somewhat cumbersome to use. Personally I tend to invoke sysinstall(8) to create new slices (can be done after install too.) Much easier to use. OT, but: does sysinstall's fdisk also support gmirror and gstripe devices? Or do I need to use fdisk to make slices there?

Re: FreeBSD fdisk how to?

2008-06-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:26:01AM +0200, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hi, Well, fdisk(8) is somewhat cumbersome to use. Personally I tend to invoke sysinstall(8) to create new slices (can be done after install too.) Much easier to use. OT, but: does sysinstall's fdisk also support gmirror

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-21 Thread Julian Stacey
I'm looking for somebody to host some web sites for me. Ideally I'd like a complete machine, but a jail would do too. I can find plenty of Linux-based offerings, but the only one I can find with FreeBSD is in Germany and requires me to be resident in Germany. Can anybody point me to one

Permissions and SANE/scanimage

2008-06-21 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, my scanner works perfectly when I log in in as root. As an unprivileged user, I just get this error message: $ scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner

Re: Permissions and SANE/scanimage

2008-06-21 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:36:24PM +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, my scanner works perfectly when I log in in as root. As an unprivileged user, I just get this error message: $ scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2008-06-20 19:40:04 UTC-0400, DAve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: No unused perl install, no issues with software getting confused about which perl to run, no need for... what was that command to use the port perl instead of the base perl? I cannot remember anymore. The command was

Re: Enforce minimal file/ dir permissions

2008-06-21 Thread Mister Olli
hi hi... after looking at the mac_bsdextended docs I found out, that it will not solve my problem: When access to a file system object is attempted, the list of rules is iterated until either a matching rule is located or the end is reached -- From

Re: Permissions and SANE/scanimage

2008-06-21 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Samstag, 21. Jun 2008, 12:53:37 +0200 schrieb Marc Fonvieille: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:36:24PM +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: my scanner works perfectly when I log in in as root. As an unprivileged user, I just get this error message: $ scanimage -L No scanners were

ipw driver in 6.3 vs. 7.0

2008-06-21 Thread David Gurvich
Hello, I have not been able to get ipw, intel 2100, to associate with any ap in 6.3 but have been able to use the ipw driver in 7.0 with no difficulty. Has anyone successfully used the ipw driver in 6.3 and how? I can find instances of people connecting with 6.0 but none with 6.3. What changed

Re: New to FreeBSD

2008-06-21 Thread John Almberg
Interested in who uses FreeBSD and in what way FreeBSD is better than Linux for servers. Everyone else has tackled the book part of this question. I'll answer the second... I also switched from Linux to FreeBSD (Actually, the complete path was VAX Unix - MS-DOS - Windows - Linux -

Re: New to FreeBSD

2008-06-21 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, John Almberg: Interested in who uses FreeBSD and in what way FreeBSD is better than Linux for servers. In short, FreeBSD is stable, it's under control, and you always know what to expect. It seems to me, that is the minimum requirement for an operating system. FreeBSD has given me

Re: New to FreeBSD

2008-06-21 Thread David Gurvich
Hello, I have installed FreeBSD on a server and on a laptop. The laptop is more important in indicating some of the changes in FreeBSD. After all, you need graphics, wireless, sound, etc. for a good experience. All of these currently are and have been issues for both Linux and FreeBSD. I

Re: New to FreeBSD

2008-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
In short, FreeBSD is stable, it's under control, and you always know what to expect. It seems to me, that is the minimum requirement for an operating system. i FULLY agree with you. and it's incredible that vast majority of software on market fail this minimum requirement!!

Re: ACPI CA Embedded Controller (EC) error messages MSI notebook

2008-06-21 Thread Alexander Sack
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have a MSI-1034 (M662) Core2 Duo. Attached is my (patched) asl. Dunno | if it can be of any use for you, though | | | | Thanks Pietro,

Re: Why doesn't cons25 have cs in termcap info?

2008-06-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:32:58PM -0400, Kitche wrote: Since some ports actually need cs(change_scroll_region) to run for example tmux is one. I believe tmux does not change the term correctly which could be the issue as well. But according to the author the term needs cs to even run. I m

Re: Why doesn't cons25 have cs in termcap info?

2008-06-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:23:38AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:32:58PM -0400, Kitche wrote: Since some ports actually need cs(change_scroll_region) to run for example tmux is one. I believe tmux does not change the term correctly which could be the issue as well.

Re: New to FreeBSD

2008-06-21 Thread Modulok
John Almberg: Interested in who uses FreeBSD and in what way FreeBSD is better than Linux for servers. Documentation. FreeBSD is well documented. The Manual pages are complete and of high quality. The handbook is excellent. On too many linux distributions I have been reading through a manual page

Re: New to FreeBSD

2008-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Documentation. FreeBSD is well documented. The Manual pages are complete and of high quality. The handbook is excellent. On too many linux distributions I have been reading through a manual page or hand book of sorts, when the book suddenly ends halfway through, with various snippets such as: I

Re: xbox360?

2008-06-21 Thread Andrew Berry
On 20-Jun-08, at 6:44 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i found here http://www.freebsdos.com/news/2008/01/23/freebsd-and-the-xbox-360/ that Some of you may be aware that since the middle of 2005 it is possible to run FreeBSD on the Microsoft Xbox and later also on the Xbox 360. does it mean

Re: New to FreeBSD

2008-06-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:56:23 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Documentation. FreeBSD is well documented. [...] most common linux manual page: This page is outdated and incomplete. look at info or even better - on www.something.org That's evil(TM), but it's also true

Re: New to FreeBSD

2008-06-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:41:12 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:56:23 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Documentation. FreeBSD is well documented. [...] most common linux manual page: This page is outdated and incomplete. look at

shellscript conditional to check for external disk

2008-06-21 Thread Helge Rohde
Hello List, I need to write a backup script, and one of the required actions would be a copy of the backup to an external firewire drive. I would like to make this as easy as possible for the local staff, so i'd like to check whether the drive is attached, if necessary mount it, copy over the

Re: shellscript conditional to check for external disk

2008-06-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Helge Rohde wrote: Hello List, I need to write a backup script, and one of the required actions would be a copy of the backup to an external firewire drive. I would like to make this as easy as possible for the local staff, so i'd like to

Re: shellscript conditional to check for external disk

2008-06-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 09:44:09PM +, Helge Rohde wrote: Hello List, I need to write a backup script, and one of the required actions would be a copy of the backup to an external firewire drive. I would like to make this as easy as possible for the local staff, so i'd like to check

Re: shellscript conditional to check for external disk

2008-06-21 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 09:44:09PM +, Helge Rohde wrote: Hello List, I need to write a backup script, and one of the required actions would be a copy of the backup to an external firewire drive. I would like to make this as easy as possible for the local staff, so

Re: shellscript conditional to check for external disk

2008-06-21 Thread RW
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:47:31 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use glabel(8) to give the device an unique label. There is no telling which device /dev/da0s1d is pointing to! After labeling you can check for /dev/fstype/yourlabel, which should be unique. I think that should be:

Re: error message when starting smartd: FAILURE - SMART status=51 ...

2008-06-21 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
Uwe Laverenz schrieb: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:38:25PM +1200, Steven Samuel Cole wrote: Also, the disks are SATA300, the controller supports SATA150 only; there is a jumper on the disks that limits them to SATA150 which I removed. Could that be relevant ? Yes, it could be relevant.

Portsnap behind proxy squid not update

2008-06-21 Thread Edgardo Nuevo
Hi I have a proxy (squid) that gives Internet to a set of pcs, one of them is a FreeBSD 6.2, when wanting to upgrade ports ( portsnap fetch) gives me the messages following: PC1 # fetch portsnap Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org Mirrors ... 4 Mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-06-01 - 2008-06-21

2008-06-21 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

Re: Portsnap behind proxy squid not update

2008-06-21 Thread Sahil Tandon
Edgardo Nuevo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a proxy (squid) that gives Internet to a set of pcs, one of them is a FreeBSD 6.2, when wanting to upgrade ports ( portsnap fetch) gives me the messages following: PC1 # fetch portsnap Did you mean (and actually type) 'portsnap fetch'? [...]

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 7:02 PM -0400 6/20/08, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello all, I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format of the