Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

2010-08-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
getting e.g. native Flash or Matlab on FBSD? We've been trying to raise awareness for years.. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: ipf filter: froblem with keep state or flags S parameter

2010-08-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
in this case ipmon shows: Code: ... fxp0 *...@0:2 b* xx.xx.xx.xx - xx.xx.xx.xx,80 PR tcp len ... and that is NOT OK I don't understand why, but now my connection does not match my rule... why? can someone explain in to me? what is the output of `ipfstat -in`? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6

Re: TEKEN_UTF8 TEKEN_XTERM

2010-08-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
somewhere. The advice was to continue using cons25X, where X is your locale. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: Intel PCI-E 4965AGN wireless iwn(4) isn't detected on Compaq 6715s laptop - USB bus?

2010-08-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 03:54:42PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:23:49AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Hi I've HP Compaq 6715s laptop. I'm trying to get wireless working. The laptop has Intel 4965 4965AGN wireless WiFi PCI-E card 802.11N AGN which

Re: Intel PCI-E 4965AGN wireless iwn(4) isn't detected on Compaq 6715s laptop - USB bus?

2010-08-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 03:49:12PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:36:06PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: well.. I get nothing: % pciconf -lv|grep iwn % And if you grep for Intel? % pciconf -lv | grep -i intel % The old Broadcom card had 2 connectors

Re: Intel PCI-E 4965AGN wireless iwn(4) isn't detected on Compaq 6715s laptop - USB bus?

2010-08-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 05:03:18PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 03:07:40PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: The old Broadcom card had 2 connectors, this Intel card has 3, so I connected only terminals 1 and 2 to the laptop - there are no other wires. Wires

Intel PCI-E 4965AGN wireless iwn(4) isn't detected on Compaq 6715s laptop - USB bus?

2010-07-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: 8.1-RELEASE ia64

2010-07-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
, it says me 'invalid format' and still does not want to boot... What happened to loader? Did I download the wrong iso? probably.. Perhaps you meant amd64? What's your computer make/model? Also, why other archs have their -memstick.img, and ia64 have not? ia64 wouldn't boot via USB. -- Anton

Re: Xorg dumps core

2010-07-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 01:44:11PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've seen this problem before, but on a complex configuration: Xorg running on FreeBSD spar64 and connecting via -query to clients running on FreeBSD ia64. Now I get this core dump on a simple amd64 installation, so I'm

Re: Xorg dumps core

2010-07-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:50:13AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 01:44:11PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've seen this problem before, but on a complex configuration: Xorg running on FreeBSD spar64 and connecting via -query to clients running on FreeBSD

Re: Xorg dumps core

2010-07-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 03:55:33PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:28:31 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: How can I not load the GLX extension? The X logs indicate that this module is loaded by default. man xorg.conf in particular MODULE

Re: Xorg dumps core

2010-07-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 02:28:31PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:50:13AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 01:44:11PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've seen this problem before, but on a complex configuration: Xorg running

Re: FreeBSD Support for Fibre Channel Devices

2010-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
(142255575 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8855C) As you can see my disk array is Compaq MSA1000. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

trouble mounting USB digital camera

2010-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
USB flash drives? Please advise many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: trouble mounting USB digital camera

2010-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:25:17PM +0300, Vladimir Kushnir wrote: Hi Anton. On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm trying to mount USB digital camera to FBSD -current (either i386 or amd64). I get to ugen1.2: Eastman Kodak Company at usbus1 in dmesg

Re: trouble mounting USB digital camera

2010-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:15:40PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:59:21 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm trying to mount USB digital camera to FBSD -current (either i386 or amd64). I get to ugen1.2: Eastman Kodak Company at usbus1

ath(4) card /* Hardware revision not supported */

2010-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
, /* Hardware revision not supported */ I've 2 questions: 1. Is this card AR5212 or AR2312? Or both? Or neither? AR5212 is listed in ath(4) as supported, but AR2312 is not. 2. Does Hardware revision not supported mean this card is too new? Too old? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6

Re: trouble mounting USB digital camera

2010-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:52:11PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:59:30 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: This is some ancient Kodak DC280. I couldn't find how to do (b), but (a) worked fine. It's quite possible that this camera is PTP only, so using

please recommend wireless card for amd64 laptop (mini pci (pci-e) or pcmcia)

2010-07-08 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'd like to set up wireless on amd64 laptop. Can somebody recommend a mini pci (pci-e) or pcimcia device, that is proven to work? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944

Re: please recommend wireless card for amd64 laptop (mini pci (pci-e) or pcmcia)

2010-07-08 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
will be fine with the certain card. Cheers herbs On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:18:14AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'd like to set up wireless on amd64 laptop. Can somebody recommend a mini pci (pci-e) or pcimcia device, that is proven to work? many thanks anton -- Anton

Re: NetBoot Install Sparc64 Problems

2010-07-06 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
answer you directly. I don't usually write to the list, How should I answer to belong the same post? (my English is not very well). just subscribe to the freebsd-questions mailing list. anton Thanks again. -Mensaje original- De: Anton Shterenlikht [mailto:me...@bristol.ac.uk

Re: wireless on HP compaq 6715s - Broadcom BCM5906m - not supported?

2010-07-06 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 06:15:06PM +, Paul B Mahol wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I've HP Compaq 6715s laptop. Looking at pciconf -lv output, the wireless (and ethernet) device is: b...@pci0:16:0:0:       class=0x02 card

wireless on HP compaq 6715s - Broadcom BCM5906m - not supported?

2010-07-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
)' class = network subclass = ethernet I tried to search on the net, including FBSD hardware release notes, and it seems this device is not supported. Can anybody comment on/confirm this please? Any experience using this chip with NDIS? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room

which /etc/src.conf options prevent moused rebuilding?

2010-06-23 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
/src.conf options that prevented moused from rebuilding? Or is this caused by something else? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: which /etc/src.conf options prevent moused rebuilding?

2010-06-23 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:47:25AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 23), Anton Shterenlikht said: I've an old slow i386 running -current r209398 Because it's slow I don't build everything. Here's my /etc/src.conf: [...] WITHOUT_LEGACY_CONSOLE= [...] followed

ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable

2010-06-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
After a recent upgrade to r209156 I get this error: $ ntpq -p ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable Please advise many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax

Re: ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable

2010-06-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:08:35PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/2010 17:59:10, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: After a recent upgrade to r209156 I get this error: $ ntpq -p ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable

kernel module krpc required for zfs on amd64, but not needed on ia64?

2010-06-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On amd64 it seems one also needs krpc kernel module: KLD zfs.ko: depends on krpc - not available or version mismatch Is this expected? Perhaps on ia64 krpc is included via some other kernel config option? many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept

ipfilter rules question

2010-05-18 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
PR udp len 20 92 OUT multicast I don't understand why these packets are not sent via rule 14. Is rule 14 not matched? Or I'm missing someting else? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0

what does kernel option UWX_TRACE_ENABLE do?

2010-05-06 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
What does kernel option UWX_TRACE_ENABLE do? I did a quick search on the net, but no help. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

what is signal 12?

2010-04-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Hi I have an app which exits on signal 12. What is this signal? I can't find any reference to in the man pages or on the net. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax

Re: what is signal 12?

2010-04-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
to have been written for i386/amd64? Just to clarify, I'm running stress2: http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/ on ia64 -current box. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0

Re: libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libpng.so.5 not found, required by gnome-session

2010-04-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
on the number of such ports it might be easier to delete all ports and rebuild from scratch. If you use portmaster(1) see the bottom of the man page for some recommendations. anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel

Re: libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libpng.so.5 not found, required by gnome-session

2010-04-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
to delete all ports and install them from scratch. I don't use gnome or kde myself, so can't advise here. anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

can't ping localhost

2010-03-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
localhost localhost.men.bris.ac.uk 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.men.bris.ac.uk So far, can't find anything relevant on the net. Please advise many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK

Re: can't ping localhost

2010-03-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:34:08PM -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I misconfigured my system somehow, so now I can't ping localhost: # ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto

Re: can't ping localhost

2010-03-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
in the latest; I don't have access to the latest right now. # netstat -rn|grep 127 127.0.0.1 link#2 UH 00lo0 thank you anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117

Re: can't ping localhost

2010-03-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:58:12PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.ukwrote: # uname -a FreeBSD mech-anton240.men.bris.ac.uk 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #2: Tue Mar 9 14:35:40 GMT 2010 me...@mech-anton240

unzip fails to extract password protected archive

2010-03-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
unzip try.zip Archive: try.zip extracting: try | unzip: ZIP decompression failed (-3) ls -al try -rwxr-xr-x 1 mexas wheel 0 9 Mar 10:27 try the extracted file is zero length. Maybe this is not supposed to work? Please advise many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's

how to read .ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) without KOffice?

2010-02-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I was sent some ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) files. I'm not really keen to install KOffice. Is there another program in the ports which could be used to view ods files or to convert them into pdf or PostScript? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept

Re: how to read .ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) without KOffice?

2010-02-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:36:54PM -0500, Howard Goldstein wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I was sent some ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) files. I'm not really keen to install KOffice. Is there another program in the ports which could be used to view ods files or to convert them

Re: firefox3.6 dumps core - bus error

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:15:13PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On 9.0-current ia64, firefox-3.6,1: TZAV firefox3 [6] 91741 TZAV Bus error (core dumped) [6]Exit 138 firefox3 TZAV gdb /usr/local/bin/firefox3 ./firefox-bin.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD

creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
ports. I couldn't find anything suitable. Any advice? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd

Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:05:36AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: I'd like to upload a directory structure to a web server. I'd like to create in each subdirectory an index.html with a simple list of files in this directory for a simple

Re: firefox3.6 dumps core - bus error

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:27:26PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:15:13PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On 9.0-current ia64, firefox-3.6,1: TZAV firefox3 [6] 91741 TZAV Bus error (core dumped) [6]Exit 138 firefox3 TZAV

Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:35:12PM -0300, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:05:36AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: I'd like to upload

Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
(@files) { print lia href=\$F\$F/a/li\n; } print /lui\n; # EOF You could, of course, get much fancier as it goes - but that's the quick and dirty of doing it with a simple cgi script anyways. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol

firefox3.6 dumps core - bus error

2010-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
stack?) (gdb) Please advise anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: firefox3.6 dumps core - bus error

2010-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:55:09PM -0300, Jorge Medina wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On 9.0-current ia64, firefox-3.6,1: TZAV firefox3 [6] 91741 TZAV Bus error (core dumped) [6]    Exit 138                      firefox3

sftp from home wireless box to work - get is much faster that put

2010-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
long to wait). So putting (sending) a file is about 5-17 times faster than getting (receiving) it. What is the reason behind this? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944

Re: sftp from home wireless box to work - get is much faster that put

2010-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:24:48PM +, Vincent Hoffman wrote: On 09/02/2010 23:16, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I was trying to measure the file transfer rates between my home and my office boxes. Both are 9.0-current. At home I've wireless, TL-WN851N, using ath(4) driver. I used

make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc

2010-01-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
of this behaviour I have to manually delete local .mc files and all .cf files before running make. Any comments? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc

2010-01-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:03:26PM +, Chris Rees wrote: On 28 January 2010 16:59, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I've seen this behaviour for years, but never bothered to ask why. Imagine I already have in /etc/mail local .mc and .cf files. Imagine I then update

libutil.so.8 - libutil.so.9, WAS: openssh-portable fails to build on ia64, sparc

2010-01-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I didn't get any reply from ports@, so maybe somebody here can help - Forwarded message from Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk - maybe this has been discussed already, my apologies in that case. on current r203046 I'm trying to rebuild openssh-portable-5.2.p1_2,1 due to an upgrade

Re: libutil.so.8 - libutil.so.9, WAS: openssh-portable fails to build on ia64, sparc

2010-01-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
like a compiler error to me.. many thanks anton On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:28:34AM +, Anton Shterenlikht thus spake: I didn't get any reply from ports@, so maybe somebody here can help - Forwarded message from Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk - maybe this has been

can't load smbfs kernel module

2010-01-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
advise many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: can't load smbfs kernel module

2010-01-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:38:47AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r202964M ia64 I've built a kernel with smbfs module: # ls -al /boot/kernel/smb* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 265579 25 Jan 13:36 /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko -r-xr-xr-x

Re: can't load smbfs kernel module

2010-01-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:56:54PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:38:47AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r202964M ia64 I've built a kernel with smbfs module: # ls -al /boot/kernel/smb* -r-xr

Re: xdm and xdmcp

2010-01-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
and connecting from sparc64, both 9.0-current, works fine. I could probably share my xdm config files, if this is useful. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

SOLVED: WAS: wireless ath - unable to get scan results

2010-01-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
, and not ath0? many thanks for your help and support as always anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd

syslog - ipmon(8) logs to a wrong log file?

2010-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
messages in /var/log/messages. According to my /etc/syslog.conf this file shouldn't have ipmon messages: *.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages What am I doing wrong? Please advise many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng

SOLVED: Re: syslog - ipmon(8) logs to a wrong log file?

2010-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 04:23:37PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT ia64. I've ipfilter built into the kernel, with logging enabled: options IPFILTER options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK options IPFILTER_LOG It works fine, but logs

getting firewall logs via /etc/periodic/daily ?

2010-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'd like to receive the firewall logs together with the usual /etc/periodic/daily email. What's the easiest/safest way to achieve this? Shall I add my own script under /etc/periodic/daily? Shall I modify an existing script, e.g. 310.accounting? Please advise many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht

wireless ath - unable to get scan results

2010-01-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
support and also this firewall line options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK but I've no /etc/ipf.rules yet Perhaps it's my firewall that's blocking everything? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:36:11PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: - why not let your firewall do the blocking? If your blocking is IP based that's the place to block. I'm already under the University firewall. Only port 22 is let through. But even that filles

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:42:06AM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. This is a returning topic, search the archives. Anyway, the returning answer: - why not let your firewall do

top/ps: is Active Memory = sum(resident set size)?

2010-01-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
the same as the sum of RES fields of top(1). I seem to have much bigger Active set than the sum of all resident (or real) memories used by all processes. Please advise many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol

denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
in older ssh there was DenyHosts option, but no longer in the current version. Is there a replacement for DenyHOsts? Or is there a good reason for such option not to be used? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
via /etc/hosts.allow is a bad idea. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:25:04PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need

Re: miro - gcc

2010-01-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. HAMOR -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes

2009-12-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:11:13PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:33:41PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I was checking for passwordless accounts with 'logins -p'. None was found. However, I understand toor doesn't have passwd by default, and I never touched it, so

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:16:51PM +0600, Victor Sudakov wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Are you saying I can make mutt read mail directly from the imap server? Without fetchmail? Certainly. mutt is a very good IMAP client, you can do some tricky things with it like mutt -f imaps://y

does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes

2009-12-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
somebody clarify if toor does indeed have passwd. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:15:53PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I use fetchmail http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-fetchmail.html to download all my mail from the Uni mail server to my fbsd box

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
and download mail to local boxes are probably not very welcome. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:22:09PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:03:53AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Anton Shterenlikht writes: I'd be more worried that your password is sent as plaintext over the network using e.g. POP3. You should use the --ssl option

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:53:24PM +, RW wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 + Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I might be wrong, but that's my understanding. So programs like fetchmail that actually connect to their imap server and download mail to local boxes

fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
the security of having my password in plain text on the system. Is there a more secure arrangement that would still allow running fetchmail in daemon mode? Or maybe there is another software solution alltogether? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept

TP-LINK wireless pci - ath(4) driver - Atheros chipsets = WAS: [mary...@tp-link.com: RE:]

2009-12-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
-Original Message- From: Anton Shterenlikht [mailto:me...@bristol.ac.uk] Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 3:45 AM To: support...@tp-link.com Subject: Dear Sir/Madam I'm looking to buy a TP-LINK PCI wireless adapter. However, it must not be based on Atheros AR5005VL chipset. I need to use

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:49:14PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:58:26 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. If you want to use NCURSES / CURSES, it's a bit complicated

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 02:02:19PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 18:58 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. Could somebody send me an example. I'd be soo grateful. #include

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
don't get some basic idea.. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 08:08:52PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:16:23 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:50:06AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: instead of the printf/fflush, it would clear the screen and beep

freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
? Something that would make kids or that age curious, some programming environment that they can easily understand and enjoy. A programming game of sorts? many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:18:44AM -0500, b. f. wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 04:56:21PM +0100, Uwe Laverenz wrote: Anton Shterenlikht schrieb: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked

example c program that does beep

2009-12-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. Could somebody send me an example. I'd be soo grateful. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0

Re: Where is gfortran in FreeBSD 7.2 Release (i386)?

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
for you, because most fortran-dependent ports will want gfortran44. An alternative is lang/g95. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
well, one of my colleagues pointed out a feature of fortran 2003, which I, being an idiot, have missed. YOu have access='stream' in f2003, which is all I need. No record separators, just data. many thanks for all your help and advice. anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building

RE: Signal over range, WAS: X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-22 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

anybody uses Netgear WG311T PCI wireless card? any issues?

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
to double check, is anybody using this card? Any issues? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd

Re: Signal over range, WAS: X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:12:35AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: ok, I moved a step further. 'X -configure' is now successful. All I had to do is to move the graphics card to another pci slot. Perhaps where xvr600 was, is not a standard pci slot

Re: Signal over range, WAS: X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:26:03PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Warren, thank you, but this doesn't help. I've added: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection Section Device

SOLVED: Re: Signal over range, WAS: X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:26:03PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Warren, thank you, but this doesn't help. I've added: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection Section Device

Re: Signal over range, WAS: X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:29:54PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:12:14PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:26:03PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Warren, thank you, but this doesn't help. I've

debugging slow network

2009-12-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
to be a multitute of different network related commands just in base OS. Which should I start with to get some idea of the actual network speed? netstat? And should I be looking for? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk

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 /root/xorg.conf.new

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: editing a binary file

2009-12-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:38:04PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm creating binary files in fortran. Fortran adds 4 byte record delimiters at the beginning and the end of each record, which, in the case of a binary file, is just

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