Re: request

2009-12-20 Thread Peter Boosten
Isn't Iran one of the countries US does not export to? That could explain the unability to download... Peter -- HTTP://www.boosten.org On 20 dec 2009, at 06:38, Marwan Sultan dead_l...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello Akbar, Before submitting a question, make sure its a proper question!

Re: request

2009-12-20 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Peter Boosten wrote: Isn't Iran one of the countries US does not export to? That could explain the unability to download... Shirley, there are mirrors outside the US. Downloading isos by dial-up can be a pain, but a good ftp client which can restart reliably makes it

How to make VirtualBox have higher (full screen) resolution?

2009-12-20 Thread Yuri
I can only run Linux in VirtualBox with 800x647 resolution. How can I make it larger or just full screen? Thanks, Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

problem with wiki.freebsd.org

2009-12-20 Thread subbsd
Hi http://wiki.freebsd.org on the same page ( http://wiki.freebsd.org/Developers, http://wiki.freebsd.org/RecentChanges ...) return: --- Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru Meditation: XID: 93399885 Varnish --- ___

Re: How to make VirtualBox have higher (full screen) resolution?

2009-12-20 Thread Yuri
Oleg Ginzburg wrote: You need for Install Guest Additional How do I do this? I have VBOXADDITIONS_3. CDROM image in the virtual Linux. But how to install it? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

file and directory permission

2009-12-20 Thread Roby Sadeli
Hi there. I have been using FreeBSD for some time but my skill is getting really rusty. I install nginx via the ports collection and it works just fine. The data files (html) is located in /usr/local/www/ and the directory permission is as follows: drwxrwxr-x 5 root wheel512 Dec 20 15:54

Re: file and directory permission

2009-12-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
Roby Sadeli wrote: Hi there. I have been using FreeBSD for some time but my skill is getting really rusty. I install nginx via the ports collection and it works just fine. The data files (html) is located in /usr/local/www/ and the directory permission is as follows: drwxrwxr-x 5 root wheel

Re: How to make VirtualBox have higher (full screen) resolution?

2009-12-20 Thread Ed Jobs
On Sunday 20 December 2009 12:24, Yuri wrote: Oleg Ginzburg wrote: You need for Install Guest Additional How do I do this? I have VBOXADDITIONS_3. CDROM image in the virtual Linux. But how to install it? mount it in the guest (linux) system and there is a file callled

debugging slow network

2009-12-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I seem to have a very slow network connection at work. All local switches are supposed to be gigabit, and my network card is gigabit as well. But download speed seems to be much lower. I'm not a networks person, but I understand there could many factors affecting the speed. There appear to be a

Re: request

2009-12-20 Thread Robert Huff
Lars Eighner writes: Isn't Iran one of the countries US does not export to? That could explain the unability to download... Shirley, there are mirrors outside the US. Downloading isos by dial-up can be a pain, but a good ftp client which can restart reliably makes it possible.

Editing a binary file

2009-12-20 Thread Mark Terribile
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:33:49AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: ... truncate -4 myfile should get rid of the last four bytes. Maybe there's a similar efficient way to truncate the start of a file. This

Re: binary package dependencies

2009-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robin Becker ro...@reportlab.com writes: I would like to know how to use self compiled ports made with make install together with the packages which can be downloaded with pkg_add -r I'm in the process of upgrading an old freebsd 6.0 server to 8.0 and have decided to try and use

Re: debugging slow network

2009-12-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 01:22:50PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I seem to have a very slow network connection at work. All local switches are supposed to be gigabit, and my network card is gigabit as well. But download speed seems to be much lower. Are we talking download from the

portupgrade and checksum mismatch

2009-12-20 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi been trying to portupgrade firefox3 for about a day but keep getting a checksum mismatch error and the build stops. What do I need to do to get it to upgrade? Jamie pgps5KOt9v59v.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: portupgrade and checksum mismatch

2009-12-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jamie Griffin wrote: been trying to portupgrade firefox3 for about a day but keep getting a checksum mismatch error and the build stops. What do I need to do to get it to upgrade? Try deleting the firefox sources you downloaded previously and start again. It seems your download somehow got

Interesting hostid

2009-12-20 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Freebsd-questions. Why hostid is so simpel? Dec 20 19:54:15 vpn_shadow kernel: Setting hostuuid: ----. -- С уважением, Коньков mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___

Source of closed port RST responses

2009-12-20 Thread DAve
I am routinely seeing these entries in one of my servers logs. Limiting closed port RST response from 373 to 200 packets/sec The server sits behind a PIX firewall, so I am suspicious of what is trying to connect to a closed port. I don't see in any other logs what port is being hit, or what IP

Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Modulok
List, Just a suggestion: In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete? Something like: fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8). fdisk may not work correctly. If you see errors such as fdisk: Class not

Ghostscript8 portupgrade failure

2009-12-20 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi I've now got a different problem when trying to portupgrade ghostscript8 and the build fails with an error: (new compiler error). I had a problem with ghostscript the last time it need upgrading. I think then I removed it from the system and just built the new port. This time, I have a number

Re: Source of closed port RST responses

2009-12-20 Thread Jon Radel
DAve wrote: I am routinely seeing these entries in one of my servers logs. Limiting closed port RST response from 373 to 200 packets/sec The server sits behind a PIX firewall, so I am suspicious of what is trying to connect to a closed port. I don't see in any other logs what port is being

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Ondřej Majerech
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:40:48 +0100, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Just a suggestion: In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete? Something like: fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8).

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:40:48PM -0700, Modulok wrote: Just a suggestion: In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete? Something like: fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8). fdisk may not work

Re: Ghostscript8 portupgrade failure

2009-12-20 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Jamie Griffin wrote: I've now got a different problem when trying to portupgrade ghostscript8 and the build fails with an error: (new compiler error). I had a problem with ghostscript the last time it need upgrading. I think then I removed it from the system and just built

X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:00:05PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 09:48:03PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've built X without hal, but get this error on X -configure: Actually when running `X -configure` or when trying to use the resulting

Re: X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-20 Thread Marius Strobl
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:10:10PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:00:05PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 09:48:03PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've built X without hal, but get this error on X -configure: Actually when

Re: Source of closed port RST responses

2009-12-20 Thread DAve
Jon Radel wrote: DAve wrote: I am routinely seeing these entries in one of my servers logs. Limiting closed port RST response from 373 to 200 packets/sec The server sits behind a PIX firewall, so I am suspicious of what is trying to connect to a closed port. I don't see in any other logs

Re: X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:20:12PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:10:10PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:00:05PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 09:48:03PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've built X without

Re: Source of closed port RST responses

2009-12-20 Thread David Horn
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:37 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: I am routinely seeing these entries in one of my servers logs. Limiting closed port RST response from 373 to 200 packets/sec The server sits behind a PIX firewall, so I am suspicious of what is trying to connect to a

Re: SUIDDIR on ZFS?

2009-12-20 Thread Emil Smolenski
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:37:31 +0100, Ben Schumacher m...@benschumacher.com wrote: At any rate, I've been considering switching this to a ZFS RAIDZ now that FreeBSD 8 is released and it seems that folks think it's stable, but I'm curious if it can provide the SUIDDIR functionality I'm currently

Re: Ghostscript8 portupgrade failure

2009-12-20 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 03:03:09PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: The ghostscript8 problem has been fixed, so update your ports tree again and portupgrade will work. Hi Warren, thanks for the information. I just updated my ports tree and tried to build it again using make first, then portupgrade

portsnap fetch update

2009-12-20 Thread ajtiM
I did portsnap fetch update and I have in /usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde4 now. I thought that is version 2.1 but it is 1.6 still... I did check http://www.freshports.org/ but there are no koffice-kde4 and search also didn't find it. Is it something wrong on my system (FreeBSD 8.0) or is

Re: [FR]Lien mort sur install-pre (floppies)

2009-12-20 Thread James Phillips
Translation: Good day, In the pre-installation section of the handbook (french version) the link to the boot-floppy images is broken. Regards, Pierre-Yves Le Borgne Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:26:43 +0100 From: Pierre-Yves Le Borgne pylaterr...@gmail.com Subject: [FR]Lien mort sur

Re: ld-elf related problems

2009-12-20 Thread b. f.
I'm running 8.0-RELEASE amd64, and various applications randomly coredump and exit with signal 10; this has started apparently after installing numpy from ports, which also pulled gcc44. Right after that basically all apps i had running crashed, and they wouldn't start. The error was something

Re: ld-elf related problems

2009-12-20 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Hi, I'm running 8.0-RELEASE amd64, and various applications randomly coredump and exit with signal 10; this has started apparently after installing numpy from ports, which also pulled gcc44. Right after that basically all apps

Re: Ghostscript8 portupgrade failure

2009-12-20 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Jamie Griffin wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 03:03:09PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: The ghostscript8 problem has been fixed, so update your ports tree again and portupgrade will work. Hi Warren, thanks for the information. I just updated my ports tree and tried to build

Re: [FR]Lien mort sur install-pre (floppies)

2009-12-20 Thread b. f.
Bonjour, Sur http://www.freebsd.org/doc/fr/books/handbook/install-pre.html , un lien indiqué ( ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/) est mort. Cordialement, Pierre-Yves Le Borgne Bonjour. Sorry, my French is terrible. But I will reply in English -- hopefully

Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network

2009-12-20 Thread Mel Flynn
Hi, I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. I'm faced with two cable modems from the same ISP, with the same gateway. I can't lagg(4) the interfaces, since specific IP's are bound to specific modems. So I'm

Setting fonts and other defaults in Xorg

2009-12-20 Thread doug
In trying to upgrade Xorg and firefox I ended up learning about portmaster and how to solve some things in xterm that have been bugging me for longer than I will admit to having and not fixing. First portmaster. If you find portupgrade too complex or for any other reason do not want to use

Re: Interesting hostid

2009-12-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 20): Why hostid is so simpel? Dec 20 19:54:15 vpn_shadow kernel: Setting hostuuid: ----. It's probably reading the value from your BIOS, and older ones don't actually put a unique value in there. If you run kenv smbios.system.uuid,