Re: Mount order for ZFS, jails, and nullfs

On 09/24/2010 11:03 AM, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: > ... > Unfortunately, FreeBSD's mount seems unable to perform mounts of ZFS > volumes. Sure, it can: 8< (f84104b2)[r...@akisha ~]# zfs create akisha/mnttmp (f84104b2)[r...@akisha ~]# touch /zfs/akisha/mnttmp/test (f84104b2)[r...@akisha ~]#

Re: Erlang and Java

Erlang doesnot depend on java. I have installed erlang sucessfully just by `make install clean` without java. Chad Perrin wrote: > > Does anyone know of a reason that installing lang/erlang would fail if a > java/diablo-jdk port failed to install? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the > Erlang VM

Re: Multiple Machines

>> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:04:45 -0800, >> David Allen said: D> I'm wondering what folks are doing when setting up multiple (more than D> 1, but less than 10) machines. Consider, for example, some ordinary D> files such as the following: D> /root/.cshrc /home/username/.bashrc The first thing

Erlang and Java

Does anyone know of a reason that installing lang/erlang would fail if a java/diablo-jdk port failed to install? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Erlang VM really should *not* depend on Java. Right? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp6tfLZs6IEJ.pgp De

Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 10:54 -0400, Rick Miller wrote: > I've created the package and copied it to the networked media. How do > I edit the INDEX file so that it knows how to get the file? HINT: If you created the package from the ports tree, you can say "make describe" in the package's top-level

Multiple Machines

Multiple Machines This is sort of a "best practices" kind of question so all comments are welcome. I'm wondering what folks are doing when setting up multiple (more than 1, but less than 10) machines. Consider, for example, some ordinary files such as the following: /root/.cshrc /root/.

Writing to MBR

Hello, I have done a clean install of freebsd 8.1 on /dev/ad4s1a with the following: # Intel Core 2 Duo Dual-Core E6300 2.8GHz 1066MHz 2MB Cache Processor # ASRock G31M-S R2.0 Core 2 Quad/ Intel G31/ FSB 1600(OC)/ DDR2/ A&V&L/ MATX Motherboard # 4GB (2X2GB) DDR2-1066 PC2 8500 Dual Channel

Re: automake

Hi, Try this: portmaster -od /usr/ports/devel/automake19/ automake-1.4.6_5 or your automake version, look it up with "pkg_info | grep automake" Hope this helps! If needed try to update everything that was depending on automake! BR, Balazs. On 24 September 2010 23:20, ajtiM wrote: > Today

automake

Today I tried on my FreeBSD 8.0 portmaster -ad ===>>> Gathering distinfo list for installed ports ===>>> Starting check of installed ports for available updates ===>>> The devel/automake15 port has been deleted: Outdated, ports migrated to automake19 ===>>> Aborting update Thanks in advance.

Re: Filesystems

On 24/09/2010 21:05:45, Derek Funk wrote: > There was a post some time ago someone was complaining that FreeBSD > still uses and archaic filesystem and not a new FS like ext4. Some > replied, seeming like a code contributor, with a very sounded reply. > What is that reply? ZFS or words to that

Attempting to use the kernel debugger over the serial port not working (well)

All, Cannot seem to find anything on the net to collaborate my experience with remote KGDB over a serial port. Here is my setup - +--+-+--- | | |

Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

Rick Miller writes: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Adam Vande More > wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, wrote: >>> >>>  Is it possible to take a port, make a package of it and put it in the >>> packages directory of my own media? >> >> Sure it's easy.  When build a port you can is

Re: Linux filesystems accessible from FreeBSD 8-stable?

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 08:48:00PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 01:59:40PM -0400, Leif Walsh wrote: > > > > I can't seem to get a definitive answer on this from the internet, > > there's a lot of conflicting information. > > > > I have some data drives formatted with ext4, w

Re: Linux filesystems accessible from FreeBSD 8-stable?

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:21, Leif Walsh wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, krad wrote: >> Im not 100% sure  (probably about 60% actually) but cant you mount ext4 as >> ext2? From what i vaguly remember there will be some limitations but its >> worth having a look > >  # mount -t ext2fs /

Filesystems

There was a post some time ago someone was complaining that FreeBSD still uses and archaic filesystem and not a new FS like ext4. Some replied, seeming like a code contributor, with a very sounded reply. What is that reply? Derek ___ freebsd-quest

Re: Linux filesystems accessible from FreeBSD 8-stable?

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 01:59:40PM -0400, Leif Walsh wrote: > > I can't seem to get a definitive answer on this from the internet, > there's a lot of conflicting information. > > I have some data drives formatted with ext4, which I'd like to access > from freebsd, preferably without totally reform

Re: which perl?

Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. Should I leave this as is or should I be using 5.12? IMHO 5.10

Re: Linux filesystems accessible from FreeBSD 8-stable?

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, krad wrote: > Im not 100% sure  (probably about 60% actually) but cant you mount ext4 as > ext2? From what i vaguly remember there will be some limitations but its > worth having a look # mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad4p1 /mnt mount: /dev/ad4p1 : Invalid argument Unles

Re: Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

Andy Wodfer wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE. > > I can't get GD enabled. I have installed latestes php5 from ports aswell > as php5-extensions and enabled GD on the option screen: > > cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 > make deinstall > make clean > make rmconfig > make install clean > > cd /usr

Re: Mount order for ZFS, jails, and nullfs

On 24 September 2010 18:52, krad wrote: > > > On 24 September 2010 17:03, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: > >> In jails, I'd like a local ZFS /, a read-only nullfs-mounted /usr, and a >> local /usr/local. (I'd also have read-only nullfs-mounted /bin, /lib, >> /libexec, but let's forget about that for

Re: Mount order for ZFS, jails, and nullfs

On 24 September 2010 17:03, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: > In jails, I'd like a local ZFS /, a read-only nullfs-mounted /usr, and a > local /usr/local. (I'd also have read-only nullfs-mounted /bin, /lib, > /libexec, but let's forget about that for now.) > > This way, I can upgrade the master /usr on

Re: Mount order for ZFS, jails, and nullfs

krad writes: use zfs mount/umount How? The "zfs mount" command does not work anyting like the mount(8) command but for ZFS volumes. The "zfs mount" mounts a volume using its mountpoint property. But if that's set to "legacy", then zfs mount will hardly work, since it cannot take a mount p

Re: Linux filesystems accessible from FreeBSD 8-stable?

On 23 September 2010 18:59, Leif Walsh wrote: > I can't seem to get a definitive answer on this from the internet, > there's a lot of conflicting information. > > I have some data drives formatted with ext4, which I'd like to access > from freebsd, preferably without totally reformatting because

Re: Little question about device driver name

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:04:06PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just wonder why if_bridge(4) is prefixed by if_ for device name. > Every other device name like lagg(4), gif(4) are not prefixed with > this same one. if_bridge was based on bridge. I assume that when the updated if

Re: Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

> > [snip] > how bizarre. Does phpinfo() show gd? Sorry for the simple question, but > it is inportant ; No it doesn't. Here's the long output of phpinfo() PHP Version 5.3.3 System FreeBSD webserver.domain.no 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 r...@almeida.cse.

Re: GUI Suggested?

I love Fluxbox too for its lightweightness and configurability. If you find it too minimalistic, I think that XFCE can be a good compromise also since it runs quite fast compared to KDE and Gnome while having most of their functionalities. XFCE is also compatible with Compiz... On Fri, Sep 24, 201

Little question about device driver name

Hi folks, I just wonder why if_bridge(4) is prefixed by if_ for device name. Every other device name like lagg(4), gif(4) are not prefixed with this same one. Is there any reason that bridge is prefixed with it ? (I don't know if there is other device like that, but what I saw in conf/NOTES seems

Re: GUI Suggested?

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience on what > path to follow? KDE? any other? Using fluxbox here for ages (used olvwm, ctwm, and fvwm[2] before. It's low overhead, very low cpu/disk/memory footprint, very fast

Re: GUI Suggested?

Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber > >> wrote: > >> > On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Sep 2

Re: GUI Suggested?

Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: > >On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Chip Camden > >wrote: > >> Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: > >> > >> I'm not too sure what you're asking "certain window should be moved by > >> default to specific workspaces." Since you read th

Re: Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

On Sep 24, 2010 10:54am, Rick Miller wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, vrwmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is it possible to take a port, make a package of it and put it in the >> packages director

Mount order for ZFS, jails, and nullfs

In jails, I'd like a local ZFS /, a read-only nullfs-mounted /usr, and a local /usr/local. (I'd also have read-only nullfs-mounted /bin, /lib, /libexec, but let's forget about that for now.) This way, I can upgrade the master /usr once, in one place, and have all jails inherit it. And my dear ja

Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, wrote: >> >>  Is it possible to take a port, make a package of it and put it in the >> packages directory of my own media? > > Sure it's easy.  When build a port you can issue a make package command, or >

Re: Will FBSD Squid "port" create squid user and group?

* Ed Flecko [gmane.os.freebsd.questions]: > Hi folks, > I guess this is a two-faceted question: > > 1.) If I install Squid from a "port", will in create the recommended > squid user and group for me, or will I need to pre-create a squid user > and group prior to Squid running? Yes. The code tha

Re: Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 03:02:40PM +0200, Andy Wodfer wrote: > > > > [snip] > > I had to install a new server and was surprised the extensions never > > loaded. However I knew from other installations that for example the gd > > extension should be in extensions.ini - I looked in there and it was >

lagg trouble

I have the following in /boot/loader.conf: if_iwn_load="YES" iwn5000fw_load="YES" wlan_wep_load="YES" wlan_ccmp_load="YES" wlan_tkip_load="YES" and the following in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_em0="up" ifconfig_iwn0="ether 00:1f:16:0c:46:82" wlans_iwn0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA" cloned_interfaces="

Re: Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

> > [snip] > I had to install a new server and was surprised the extensions never > loaded. However I knew from other installations that for example the gd > extension should be in extensions.ini - I looked in there and it was > absent. So what I had to do is to search for it. Before I did that, I

Re: Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

On 24/09/2010 12:52, Andy Wodfer wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE. > > I can't get GD enabled. I have installed latestes php5 from ports aswell as > php5-extensions and enabled GD on the option screen: > > cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 > make deinstall > make clean > make rmconfig > make instal

Re: Problem adding 1TB SATA disk to system

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Michael Powell wrote: > Andy Wodfer wrote: > > > I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 release (will upgrade to 8.1 STABLE tonight). > > However, I'm having big problems adding a new harddrive to the system. I > > want a separate 1TB SATA installed to recover backup files on, bu

Re: Problem adding 1TB SATA disk to system

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Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE. I can't get GD enabled. I have installed latestes php5 from ports aswell as php5-extensions and enabled GD on the option screen: cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 make deinstall make clean make rmconfig make install clean cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions make deinstall m

Re: GUI Suggested?

On 09/23/10 10:46, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 23, 2010 a las 09:36:03AM +0100, Frank Shute escribió: My belief is that people who are comfortable with Gnome/KDE are people who are familiar with working in a GUI such as Windows® and haven't come from the commandline. So,

Re: GUI Suggested?

On 09/23/10 18:22, Adam Vande More wrote: > If you tried on KDE 4.1, 4.2, then yes things have improved a lot. 4.3 was > pretty big update in terms of stability, and 4.4 has been far more solid > than not. I tried 4.5.1 on 8.1/i386 with every port updated, on a 4-core AMD CPU with a Radeon HD

Re: GUI Suggested?

On 09/23/10 11:04, Mike Clarke wrote: That's very similar to my experience too but I'm getting the feeling that I might have to move over to KDE4 before much longer due to reduced KDE3 support with some of the apps: Same here. I delayed trying KDE4 since my old box was too old; as soon as I go