portsnap and portupgrade question

2010-05-27 Thread Coert
Hello all, Thanks for the awesome OS! I am a Linux user and I just started using FreeBSD. It is awesome, and the Handbook as well! I am following Chapter 24 of the Handbook to update my system. First I completed the freebsd-update Then I ran portupgrade -av Then I ran portsnap. When I

NANOBSD dhclient freeze

2010-05-27 Thread Dimitar Vassilev
Hello, I'm having an issue with dhclient on nanobsd. It requests a lease and never exits truss /sbin/dhclient vr0 __sysctl(0xbfbfe684,0x2,0xbfbfe68c,0xbfbfe690,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0) mmap(0x0,328,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_ANON,-1,0x0) = 671698944 (0x28095000) munmap(0x28095000,328)

Re: Cloning question

2010-05-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 26 May 2010 22:33:16 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ipv6canada.com wrote: I've written a few howto's on backup/restore/cloning in the past, but now I have a question that I hope to have quickly answered. I'm not looking for criticism on my approach, only on whether it will work. With

debian compatibility

2010-05-27 Thread Jim Pazarena
can I please be directed to any on-line reference as the procedures involved in executing a Debian binary on FreeBSD 8? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: portsnap and portupgrade question

2010-05-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 May 2010 08:23:58 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: First I completed the freebsd-update Then I ran portupgrade -av Then I ran portsnap. It's a bit confusing to me. Why do you first update your installed ports, then the ports database? I would thing it would make more

Re: debian compatibility

2010-05-27 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 May 2010 23:44:36 -0700, Jim Pazarena fqu...@paz.bz wrote: can I please be directed to any on-line reference as the procedures involved in executing a Debian binary on FreeBSD 8? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/linuxemu.html Basically see 10.2 (next page). --

Re: portsnap and portupgrade question

2010-05-27 Thread Coert
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010 08:23:58 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: First I completed the freebsd-update Then I ran portupgrade -av Then I ran portsnap. It's a bit confusing to me. Why do you first update your installed ports, then the ports database? I would thing it

top memory usage question

2010-05-27 Thread Coert
Hello all, Just a question, on Linux the output of top's memory usage looks like this: Mem: 2075424k total, 1760848k used, 314576k free, 151872k buffers Swap: 4192924k total,0k used, 4192924k free, 1214052k cached on FreeBSD: Mem: 48M Active, 945M Inact, 190M Wired, 112M

Re: portsnap and portupgrade question

2010-05-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:26:49 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: I checked the man page, and the -PP option is indeed what I am looking for. The -PP option forces packages. Keep in mind that it *may* happen that there isn't a package for a specific port, or a package uses the default

Re: top memory usage question

2010-05-27 Thread RW
On Thu, 27 May 2010 11:52:15 +0200 Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, Just a question, on Linux the output of top's memory usage looks like this: Mem: 2075424k total, 1760848k used, 314576k free, 151872k buffers Swap: 4192924k total,0k used, 4192924k free,

Re: kernel build fails - .depend, line 27905: Need an operator --- SOLVED

2010-05-27 Thread Peter Cornelius
Re. lest I forget. (...) I now will build world kernel and hope that it'll come out fine. And so it did. kldxref /boot/kernel The kernel runs now. So back to my ezjails. Thanks to all, Rgds., Peter. -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter

RE: Media streaming

2010-05-27 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Carl Chave [mailto:c...@chave.us] Sent: 27 May 2010 00:48 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Media streaming Graeme, No answer from me unfortunately, but, possibly mediatomb? I had a question for you about ushare though - I use

Getting a USB mobile modem working

2010-05-27 Thread Jesse Smith
Hello List, I've recently installed FreeBSD on my laptop and everything seems to be working except my Novatel mobile modem. It's a modem that plugs into a USB port and gives me network access off nearby mobile towers. My issue is, I hope, mostly one of ignorance. When I was running Linux on my

Re: How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: (i) install onto a new computer , test it , and if it is working very well transfer data onto new system , and keep old system for a new release/update cycle . This step is most suitable for production systems exposed to outer world .

getty repeating too quickly port /dev/ttyv8

2010-05-27 Thread n dhert
I upgraded a FreebSD 7.2 to 8.0. That system had KDE and KDM as window manager. Now, after rebooting I get two messages on the console init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs. I can login at the console in text mode (Ctrl-Alt-F1, F2, ... F8), Ctrl-Alt-F9 does not do

How to get more descriptive errors from auto-mount daemon?

2010-05-27 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I'm using the auto-mount daemon to access another server via NFS, and I keep getting error messages in `/var/log/messages`: May 27 01:03:26 hedwig amd[9851]: mountd rpc failed: RPC: Can't decode result May 27 01:03:26 hedwig last message repeated 4 times My searches so far

Re: getty repeating too quickly port /dev/ttyv8

2010-05-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com writes: I upgraded a FreebSD 7.2 to 8.0. That system had KDE and KDM as window manager. Now, after rebooting I get two messages on the console init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs. I can login at the console in text mode

Re: How to get more descriptive errors from auto-mount daemon?

2010-05-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Richard Morse remo...@partners.org writes: Hi! I'm using the auto-mount daemon to access another server via NFS, and I keep getting error messages in `/var/log/messages`: May 27 01:03:26 hedwig amd[9851]: mountd rpc failed: RPC: Can't decode result May 27 01:03:26 hedwig last

FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-27 Thread Kevin Wilcox
Hello everyone. We're in the very early stages of considering [Free|Open]BSD on commodity hardware to handle NAT *and* firewall duties for (what I consider to be) a sizable deployment. Overall bandwidth is low, only a gigabit connection, but we handle approximately fifteen thousand devices. DHCP

Re: Getting a USB mobile modem working

2010-05-27 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Jesse Smith jessefrgsm...@yahoo.ca wrote: Hello List, I've recently installed FreeBSD on my laptop and everything seems to be working except my Novatel mobile modem. It's a modem that plugs into a USB port and gives me network access off nearby mobile towers.

Re: portsnap and portupgrade question

2010-05-27 Thread Coert
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:26:49 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: I checked the man page, and the -PP option is indeed what I am looking for. The -PP option forces packages. Keep in mind that it *may* happen that there isn't a package for a specific port, or a

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/05/2010 16:00:12, Kevin Wilcox wrote: Hello everyone. We're in the very early stages of considering [Free|Open]BSD on commodity hardware to handle NAT *and* firewall duties for (what I consider to be) a sizable deployment. Overall

linux cp -u question

2010-05-27 Thread Coert
Hello all, Is there a FreeBSD equivalent for the linux cp -u ? http://linux.die.net/man/1/cp (-u, --update) Rgds, Coert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: linux cp -u question

2010-05-27 Thread Lord Of Hyphens
rsync is almost certainly a better solution. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, Is there a FreeBSD equivalent for the linux cp -u ? http://linux.die.net/man/1/cp (-u, --update) Rgds, Coert ___

RE: Media streaming

2010-05-27 Thread Dale Scott
... So I am search of a media server that can transcode from native format to MPEG2 on the fly that does not require a GUI. I'm experimenting with FreeNAS (FreeBSD? NanoBSD?), which uses Fuppes (Free uPnP Entertainment Services) for on-the-fly transcoding (I'm streaming to a plasma tv from the

'Serious' crypto? (was: FreeBSD router - large scale)

2010-05-27 Thread Peter Cornelius
Hi, NAT. Doing serious crypto slows things up somewhat. I've been pondering this since a while but thought that crypto engines on modern hardware would make 'extra' hardware accelerators obsolete? Or is it still worthwhile to consider hardware accelerators such as the ones guys like soekris

Re: debian compatibility

2010-05-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jim Pazarena wrote: can I please be directed to any on-line reference as the procedures involved in executing a Debian binary on FreeBSD 8? Thanks! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/linuxemu.html HTH, KDK ___

Re: 'Serious' crypto? (was: FreeBSD router - large scale)

2010-05-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 27, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Peter Cornelius wrote: Hi, NAT. Doing serious crypto slows things up somewhat. I've been pondering this since a while but thought that crypto engines on modern hardware would make 'extra' hardware accelerators obsolete? It depends upon usage. Or is it

Re: Media streaming

2010-05-27 Thread Carl Chave
Sorry, yes I'm using Fuppes on FreeNAS now. FreeNAS was using Mediatomb on previous releases which I also used. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Dale Scott dalesc...@shaw.ca wrote: ... So I am search of a media server that can transcode from native format to MPEG2 on the fly that does not

using portsnap and portmaster on my ns1.thought.org server.

2010-05-27 Thread Gary Kline
i just tried using portmaster -a -B -d on my server that has many fewer ports than anywhere else. both here [on tao] and on the server, portmaster Aborts suddenly after complaining about my have defined or set WITH_KDE_PHONON anybody know what i'm foing wrong? tia, gary -- Gary Kline

RE: Media streaming

2010-05-27 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Dale Scott [mailto:dalesc...@shaw.ca] Sent: 27 May 2010 20:23 To: Graeme Dargie; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Media streaming ... So I am search of a media server that can transcode from native format to MPEG2 on the fly that does not require a

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:03:02AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2010 18:38:47 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: guys, is there anything that can take these hex triplets such as We Don\xe2\x80\x99t and render them back to the ascii or keyboard

Mounting NFS From Within a Jail

2010-05-27 Thread Tim Gustafson
Hi, Is it possible to mount an NFS file system from within a jail? On my jail host, I have: security.jail.mount_allowed: 1 From the jail host, I can mount just fine: r...@jailhost: mount /dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel) nfsserver:/usr/ports on /usr/ports

Re: Media streaming

2010-05-27 Thread Carl Chave
As for ushare and multiple streams Carl, I played something on the xbox360 upstairs then tried the Philips streamium downstairs, it could not see the media server at all, was that what you were getting ? I will test it again tomorrow as this streamium bit of kit is quite old and fairly flakey

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-27 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: ps: antiword same as catdoc. back to my per substitutions. that works, along with vi's Builtin subs. Have you considered using whatever replaces the most special characters, and fixing the few characters that remain with

Re: Media streaming

2010-05-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.ukwrote: Okies well so far I have tried mediatomb, the TV sees the server but gives the same message as with ushare this server does not support be useful if it said what it didn't support but there we go. I've used

SQLite2 PDO module?

2010-05-27 Thread Greg
Hi all, I see the sqlite2 port, which is installed, and accessable in PHP as sqlite2. However, I need the PDO module for sqlite2. PDO is loaded with sqlite, which phpinfo reports as version 3. How can I get sqlite2 setup? (I have Freebsd 8, latest ports loaded) I only need this as a lookup

Drive Space

2010-05-27 Thread Steve Laurie
Hi, Just wondering if someone could explain what's going on with my drive space. I've got 2 x 500GB and 1 x 1.5TB SATA drives. /dev/ad5p1 on /data/backup (ufs, NFS exported, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad6s1a on /data/windows (ufs, NFS exported, local) /dev/ad7s1a on /data/Public (ufs, NFS

Re: Drive Space

2010-05-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Steve Laurie st...@foo-unix.org wrote: Hi, Just wondering if someone could explain what's going on with my drive space. I've got 2 x 500GB and 1 x 1.5TB SATA drives. /dev/ad5p1 on /data/backup (ufs, NFS exported, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad6s1a on

Re: Drive Space

2010-05-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Each filesystem has a reversed amount, it defaults to 8%. reserved man newfs and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL -- Adam Vande More

BSD support for latest hardware

2010-05-27 Thread Chip_Bailey
Hello all, I'm interested in finding out if the latest version of freebsd supports the latest processors from AMD (Magny-Cours) Intel Nehalem EP(Westmere) EX? How many cpu cores are supported in a single server? Max memory? The release notes seem to reference old hardware (not a bad thing)

Re: using portsnap and portmaster on my ns1.thought.org server.

2010-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:59:56PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i just tried using portmaster -a -B -d on my server that has many fewer ports than anywhere else. both here [on tao] and on the server, portmaster Aborts suddenly after complaining about my have defined or set WITH_KDE_PHONON

Re: using portsnap and portmaster on my ns1.thought.org server.

2010-05-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 07:41:33AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:59:56PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i just tried using portmaster -a -B -d on my server that has many fewer ports than anywhere else. both here [on tao] and on the server, portmaster Aborts suddenly

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Thursday 27 May 2010 05:18:07 pm Bob Hall wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: ps: antiword same as catdoc. back to my per substitutions. that works, along with vi's Builtin subs. Have you considered using whatever replaces the most special