Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a yes. i do cat file /dev/lpt0 :) never used cups and never will. but i use lpd and postscript to pcl filter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 23:48:47 Tim Judd wrote: I include the following ldd output in case it's helpful. What could possibly be the issue here? Mark ### # ldd /usr/sbin/named /usr/sbin/named: libcrypto.so.4 = /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x281ff000) libxml2.so.5

Re: Compiling FreeBSD with GCC 4.3+

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
Hi David, On Monday 20 April 2009 21:48:39 David Naylor wrote: There has been an article recently published by phoronix (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=pcbsd_vs_kubuntunum=1) that compares PC-BSD to Kubuntu. Kubuntu uses GCC 4.3.3 compared to FreeBSD's GCC 4.2.2. There

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 01:38:26 Tom Worster wrote: portmaster -a -x mysql-server portmaster mysql-server reboot No no no. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start. Reboot is for kernel upgrades. And never use reboot unless in single user mode, cause reboot is really fast reboot: it doesn't

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 20/4/09 23:36, Keith Seyffarth wrote: Googling that shows it to be a file shared with Windows boxes when you're running samba. I don't know if you set up samba or not, but I would ignore this error for now. It's likely unrelated to the printing problem that you're having. OK.

Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
Hi, Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the skew operation, but really change the time. Backwards is my primary concern but if it can be turned off completely it's fine with me.

Re: Driver Problem: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet

2009-04-21 Thread Alexander Tarasov
Hello again. Can anybody help? Or no one? 2009/4/9 Alexander Tarasov mr.ta...@gmail.com With GENERIC I have same problem. My network card is Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet.. (14e4:1684 subsystem 1025:014b). I think, it's BCM5764. 2009/4/9, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com: 2009/4/9

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mister Olli
hi, I have the same problem on some fileservers I do the administration for. But in my case the users send the files via SSH to the server. A solution for this, based on some OS mechanism would be really great :-) Anyone ever had to solve that problem? Regards, --- Mr. Olli On Mo, 2009-04-20

Re: About fetchmail

2009-04-21 Thread 张臻
Thanks, Mel. I found the reason is that sendmail failed to start because I replaced /usr/lib/libssl.so.5 with /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.5. After I rebuild the world, it got OK. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:20:17PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 20 April 2009 12:20:15 张臻 wrote: Today when I

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the skew operation, but really change the time. Backwards is my primary concern but if it can be turned off

Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

2009-04-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:16 PM 4/19/2009, lyd mc wrote: Hi derek, Correction on step 4, it should be: \alydio.mc, |/usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc thanks, alyd --- On Mon, 4/20/09, lyd mc alydi...@yahoo.com wrote: From: lyd mc alydi...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:39:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the skew operation, but really change the time. Backwards is

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mark Stosberg
We had problem with named starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server, managed by /etc/rc.conf. The startup script failed with errors about shared library libm.so.2 failing to load because of something related to libxml2.so.5. Later, when I then tried starting it via /etc/rc.d/named

Re: Driver Problem: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet

2009-04-21 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:41:24 +0700 Alexander Tarasov wrote: Hello again. Can anybody help? Or no one? Please, don't top-post, do what you were recommended and show the results. 2009/4/9 Alexander Tarasov mr.ta...@gmail.com With GENERIC I have same problem. My network card is Broadcom

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mark Stosberg wrote: We had problem with named starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server, managed by /etc/rc.conf. The startup script failed with errors about shared library libm.so.2 failing to load because of something related to libxml2.so.5. Later, when I then tried starting it via

Re: Encrypted slice with geli

2009-04-21 Thread Bernt Hansson
Giorgos Keramidas said the following on 2009-04-20 23:59: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Hello list! I was thinking of makeing a slice encrypted with geli. My question is: does geli init -s 4096 /dev/ad* erase the data on the slice. The handbook

Re: Atom 330 testing

2009-04-21 Thread P.Moulin
Testing a mini-ITX Intel D945GCLF2 motherboard with Atom 330 processor. Hi, [sorry to re-open this one month old thread] I have also this D945GCLF2. All is running nearly fine, but on heavy load and after the system is powered up for a couple of days, it panics. The system is running 7.1-RC1

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 14:21:12 Manolis Kiagias wrote: Mark Stosberg wrote: We had problem with named starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server, managed by /etc/rc.conf. The startup script failed with errors about shared library libm.so.2 failing to load because of something

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:17:40 Mister Olli wrote: hi, I have the same problem on some fileservers I do the administration for. But in my case the users send the files via SSH to the server. A solution for this, based on some OS mechanism would be really great :-) umask(1). -- Mel

Re: Encrypted slice with geli

2009-04-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net: Giorgos Keramidas said the following on 2009-04-20 23:59: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Hello list! I was thinking of makeing a slice encrypted with geli. My question is: does geli

Advertising Opportunity With freebsd.org

2009-04-21 Thread Elliot.Dean
Hi there, My Name is Elliot, I came across your site http://www.freebsd.org/ I'm interested in placing a Text link on your home page. We are a Price comparison Site called CheckCost UK. We have a huge range of Products under Computers, Electronics, Software, Appliances and many more from

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mister Olli
hi, no does not work, since using SSH / SFTP does not involve starting a shell. so umask settings don't work. Regards, --- Mr. Olli On Di, 2009-04-21 at 14:36 +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:17:40 Mister Olli wrote: hi, I have the same problem on some fileservers I

legal aspects in order to use the open source sw fsck_msdosfs

2009-04-21 Thread Stefan Beskow
Hello, My name is Stefan Beskow and I work as a configuration manager within Ericsson AB. I am investigating the legal aspects of the use of open source sw within a project. Could you please help me with information about license issues and copywriting issues ea for the fsck_msdosfs ? What is

xview problem

2009-04-21 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear alll pardon the re-post, I thought I would check again if somebody has found a solution for this, since my last e-mail. I am running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 on an i386 machine and I am unable to use applications that depend on xview. For example, when I try to run clock, I get: Assertion

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mark Stosberg
Agreed. Bind 9.5 and higher from ports has XML statistics support. That explains the xml and iconv. ldd -a /usr/sbin/named should show you which one wants libm.so.2 which is from the 4.x days. If you don't need these statistics, I would suggest turning them off through make config. This

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Tim Judd
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the skew operation, but

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread RW
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:09:09 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:39:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: * Don't run 'ntpd -g' as the documentation tells you is the modern and accepted method. Instead, run 'ntpdate' as a separate process

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote: The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the problem entirely, since the real problem is not the step, but the fact that it happens in the background, and after a delay. Care to expand on that? Dovecot won't stop if root issues a

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:11:52 Tim Judd wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust

Re: legal aspects in order to use the open source sw fsck_msdosfs

2009-04-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 08:33:00 am Stefan Beskow wrote: Hello, My name is Stefan Beskow and I work as a configuration manager within Ericsson AB. I am investigating the legal aspects of the use of open source sw within a project. Could you please help me with information about license

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 15:13:47 Mister Olli wrote: no does not work, since using SSH / SFTP does not involve starting a shell. so umask settings don't work. Then you're using the wrong system for the task. The OS can't make assumptions about what the ownership/modes of a file should really

IPFW/Dummynet/Bridging with VLAN trunks?

2009-04-21 Thread Howard Jones
I'm trying to use Dummynet+IPFW and bridging to make a packet shaper that runs across multiple VLANs. So my intended set up is: [users]-[Aggregate Switch]=[FreeBSD]=[Upstream Switch (with IP interfaces for each vlan)]-The World where - is a single VLAN, and = is a tagged dot1q trunk. The aim is

Correct use of fsck_msdosfs

2009-04-21 Thread Even Rognlien
Good afternoon, We are using fsck_msdosfs in one of our products, and are trying to comply with the conditions in the correct way. We get a bit confused with the copyright notices, and hopy you are able to clarify this for us. Inside the source files found at

Re: Compiling FreeBSD with GCC 4.3+

2009-04-21 Thread David Naylor
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:32:04 Mel Flynn wrote: Hi David, On Monday 20 April 2009 21:48:39 David Naylor wrote: There has been an article recently published by phoronix (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=pcbsd_vs_kubuntunum= 1) that compares PC-BSD to Kubuntu. Kubuntu

Re: Compiling FreeBSD with GCC 4.3+

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 17:37:50 David Naylor wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:32:04 Mel Flynn wrote: Hi David, On Monday 20 April 2009 21:48:39 David Naylor wrote: There has been an article recently published by phoronix

Re: Problems watching video with the Radeon HD 3850

2009-04-21 Thread A. D. Plas
Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:35:45PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: Roland Smith wrote: For the best performance, you'll have to update to a recent 7-STABLE, or wait for the upcoming 7.2 release. The kernel support code for graphics chips has been updated since the release

Re: Compiling FreeBSD with GCC 4.3+

2009-04-21 Thread David Naylor
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 17:58:15 Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 17:37:50 David Naylor wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:32:04 Mel Flynn wrote: Hi David, On Monday 20 April 2009 21:48:39 David Naylor wrote: There has been an article recently published by phoronix

No sound with in Gnome gtk programs, qt programs do have sound

2009-04-21 Thread Aniruddha
I can't get any sound with programs such as mplayer and exaile. However vlc (qt) and Gnash have working sound (on the same desktop!). Gnome's soundmixer doesn't recognize my soundcard (intel_hda). This appears to be the problem. I searched the FreeBSD Gnome project page but didn't find a

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread RW
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote: The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the problem entirely, since the real problem is not the step, but the fact that it

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by errors

2009-04-21 Thread Agus
2009/4/14 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:40:51PM -0300, Agus typed: Hi guys, Yesterday i suddenly start receiving this errors... first i noticed it cause i couldnt login and bash threw it.. then su... /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found,

Re: Atom 330 testing

2009-04-21 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, P.Moulin wrote: Testing a mini-ITX Intel D945GCLF2 motherboard with Atom 330 processor. Hi, [sorry to re-open this one month old thread] I have also this D945GCLF2. All is running nearly fine, but on heavy load and after the system is powered up for a couple of days, it

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Mel-- On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:06 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the skew operation, but really change the time. Perhaps I've missed it elsewhere in

Re: Correct use of fsck_msdosfs

2009-04-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Even Rognlien wrote: Good afternoon, We are using fsck_msdosfs in one of our products, and are trying to comply with the conditions in the correct way. We get a bit confused with the copyright notices, and hopy you are able to clarify this for us. Inside the source files found at

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:31:33 RW wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote: The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the problem entirely, since the real

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Now I'm also wondering how ntpd handles securelevel 2. man init suggests that stepping the clock by more than a second is disallowed: 2 Highly secure mode - same as secure mode, plus disks may not be opened for writing

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by errors

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:33:37 Agus wrote: 2009/4/14 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:40:51PM -0300, Agus typed: Hi guys, Yesterday i suddenly start receiving this errors... first i noticed it cause i couldnt login and bash threw it.. then su...

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 20:29:18 Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Now I'm also wondering how ntpd handles securelevel 2. man init suggests that stepping the clock by more than a second is disallowed: yes, so does it bail or retry till skew wins over the

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 20:29:18 Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Now I'm also wondering how ntpd handles securelevel 2. man init suggests that stepping the clock by more than a second is disallowed: yes, so

Re: IPFW/Dummynet/Bridging with VLAN trunks?

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Cowart
Howard Jones wrote: I'm trying to use Dummynet+IPFW and bridging to make a packet shaper that runs across multiple VLANs. So my intended set up is: [users]-[Aggregate Switch]=[FreeBSD]=[Upstream Switch (with IP interfaces for each vlan)]-The World where - is a single VLAN, and = is a

Re: Problems with Xorg after portupgrade

2009-04-21 Thread mv
On Sun, 19 April 2009 03:14:35 Manolis Kiagias wrote: Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: Hello, This week upgraded my Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop from FreeBSD 7.0 to FreeBSD 7.1 and also csup'ed my ports and portupgraded them and I am not able to start X correctly. When I invoke startx, it

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by errors

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Powell
Agus wrote: [snip] What is the output of ldconfig -r ? Sorry for the delay.. was too busyy... No output... just this ldconfig -r /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints: search directories: Sounds like the hints file is missing or damaged. These live here: /var/run/ld.so.hints for a.out and

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:43:30 Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Mel-- On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:06 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the skew operation, but

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: [ ... -x option... ] Hmm, that might work. Thanks! Sure. It should be surprising that your clock would jump by 6 seconds. Do you have adequate upstream timesources (ie, at least 4) configured, is your local HW clock busted somehow, or are

No route to host when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Redd Vinylene
Hi, I'm trying to connect to my friend's FTP server but I'm getting a No route to host when trying from my NAT workstation. It works just fine when I connect from my NAT server though. Internet - NAT server (192.168.187.1) - NAT workstation (192.168.187.2) I've been suggested ftp-proxy. It

CD Burning

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Chambers
I have found that burning software is unable to detect my cdrom. I would assume that this is because acd0 is listed in fstab as read-only. I am just a little worried that changing it to rw might wreck a cd (already burnt) one day. Since cp or mv to /cdrom won't work, I guess my fear is unjustified

Re: CD Burning

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Vandemore
Christopher Chambers wrote: I have found that burning software is unable to detect my cdrom. I would assume that this is because acd0 is listed in fstab as read-only. That is not correct. I am just a little worried that changing it to rw might wreck a cd (already burnt) one day. This will

FreeBSD's interaction with MS-DOS partitions

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Chambers
Hi, I have noticed that some programs have trouble interacting with my ms-dos partition. For example, I attempted to download a torrent with ctorrent. Works perfectly if I am saving to the bsd partition but my whole system freezes if I use the ms-dos partition. I mount it in /etc/fstab as

Re: No route to host when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Redd Vinylene wrote: I'm trying to connect to my friend's FTP server but I'm getting a No route to host when trying from my NAT workstation. It works just fine when I connect from my NAT server though. Internet - NAT server (192.168.187.1) - NAT workstation

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 21:07:34 Chuck Swiger wrote: Try contacting your ISP for nearby NTP sources, Anchorage, AK, is special that way. I'll check with ACS if they have one, but if they don't, even traffic to the local competitor (GCI) goes through Seattle. -- Mel

Re: No route to host when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Redd Vinylene wrote: I'm trying to connect to my friend's FTP server but I'm getting a No route to host when trying from my NAT workstation. It works just fine when I connect from my NAT

Re: No route to host when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Redd Vinylene wrote: Yeah, the default route is set. Routing works just fine. In fact, it's been working for years. It's just this one FTP server that it won't connect to. Then it could be a legitimate error being returned by a remote router, also.

Re: CD Burning

2009-04-21 Thread Rafał
Hi Chris, Setting cd as rw doesn't really make sense as you don't use filesystem tree to burn things on cds but use software that communicates with cd burner directly (through driver). Problem with using cd burner is most probably because of access rights. Try running that burning software

Re: No route to host when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Redd Vinylene wrote: Yeah, the default route is set. Routing works just fine. In fact, it's been working for years. It's just this one FTP server that it won't connect to. Then it could be a

Re: No route to host when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Vandemore
Redd Vinylene wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Redd Vinylene wrote: I'm trying to connect to my friend's FTP server but I'm getting a No route to host when trying from my NAT workstation. It works just fine when

perl script failed at different stages

2009-04-21 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I guess this is not a REAL freebsd problem, but I am running a perl script on freebsd7.0/perl 5.10 system. This script failed with segmentation fault at different stages with different input files, and sometimes the script actually finishes and gives the reasonable output. So does this mean

Re: CD Burning

2009-04-21 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:50:47PM -0700, Christopher Chambers wrote: I have found that burning software is unable to detect my cdrom. *What* burning software? /usr/sbin/burncd should recognize the drive. If you are trying to run cdrecord then you need device atapicam added to your kernel

Re: perl script failed at different stages

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Vandemore
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, I guess this is not a REAL freebsd problem, but I am running a perl script on freebsd7.0/perl 5.10 system. This script failed with segmentation fault at different stages with different input files, and sometimes the script actually finishes and gives the reasonable

Re: No route to host when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Redd Vinylene wrote: I think I just got some help on IRC: Pulpie is it on the local network of your firewall and not this computer? me yes! Pulpie thats why you can't connect to it Suggestions on how to fix this problem using pf would be greatly appreciated

Re: Problems with Xorg after portupgrade

2009-04-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
mv wrote: On Sun, 19 April 2009 03:14:35 Manolis Kiagias wrote: The default screen when not running a WM/DE is no longer the familiar screen pattern / X mouse pointer, but a black screen. Go figure... You maybe having a working X and not know it. I had the same issues starting

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread RW
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:23:14 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:31:33 RW wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote:

Customized Remote Install

2009-04-21 Thread Scott Seekamp
I've done a lot of searching and maybe this capability doesn't exist, but I am looking to do this: I am at my company's HQ, we have a new field office that I am setting up a FreeBSD server. The technical knowledge at the site windows only, so I basically have someone I can have put a CD in

Re: Customized Remote Install

2009-04-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:42:32 -0600, Scott Seekamp sseek...@risei.net wrote: My hope was that I could make an automated install CD/DVD that configured all the options I want AND change some base config files so I can actually get to the box (or install an SSH key). [...] I'm open to other

Re: FreeBSD's interaction with MS-DOS partitions

2009-04-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ms-dos partition. For example, I attempted to download a torrent with ctorrent. Works perfectly if I am saving to the bsd partition but my whole system freezes if I use the ms-dos partition. I mount it in /etc/fstab as /dev/ad0s2 /d msdosfs rw 0 0 Is this behaviour the result of the 0 0? no.

Re: Customized Remote Install

2009-04-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:51:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:42:32 -0600, Scott Seekamp sseek...@risei.net wrote: My hope was that I could make an automated install CD/DVD that configured all the options I want AND change some base config files so I can actually

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mister Olli
Hi, I understand your point. But since a application can modify it to a arbritary value there must be some way to keep the app from doing nasty stuff. FreeBSD has MAC implementations ;-))) Regards, --- Mr. Olli On Di, 2009-04-21 at 17:02 +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009

Re: Encrypted slice with geli

2009-04-21 Thread Bernt Hansson
Bill Moran said the following on 2009-04-21 14:41: In response to Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net: Giorgos Keramidas said the following on 2009-04-20 23:59: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Hello list! I was thinking of makeing a slice

Re: CD Burning

2009-04-21 Thread ovi freebsd
Christopher Chambers wrote: I have found that burning software is unable to detect my cdrom. I would assume that this is because acd0 is listed in fstab as read-only. I am just a little worried that changing it to rw might wreck a cd (already burnt) one day. Since cp or mv to /cdrom won't work,

Disk usage analysis

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Chambers
Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and folders are taking up the most space? -- Christopher Chambers ccha...@interchange.ubc.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Disk usage analysis

2009-04-21 Thread Robert Huff
Christopher Chambers writes: Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and folders are taking up the most space? If this isn't a FAQ, then search the mailing list archives. This question, or something leading to it like out of disk space, comes up

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Vande More
Christopher Chambers wrote: Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and folders are taking up the most space? du -hd 1 | sort -n http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=duapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-21 Thread Tim Judd
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Christopher Chambers wrote: Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and folders are taking up the most space? du -hd 1 | sort -n du -kd 1 | sort -rn Shows in ENV{BLOCKSIZE} the

Re: Encrypted slice with geli

2009-04-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:42:11AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: Bill Moran said the following on 2009-04-21 14:41: In response to Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net: Giorgos Keramidas said the following on 2009-04-20 23:59: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson

Re: Customized Remote Install

2009-04-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:47:11 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:51:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:42:32 -0600, Scott Seekamp sseek...@risei.net wrote: My hope was that I could make an automated install CD/DVD that

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:08:18 -0700, Christopher Chambers ccha...@interchange.ubc.ca wrote: Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and folders are taking up the most space? See man du. Just for terminology: In UNIX (so in FreeBSD), there are no folders. Folders are