Re: fusefs-ghoto2fs

2008-06-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
in those instructions to get the fusefs listed in the fstab. Anyone have any experience with this? What *is* the filesystem type? Is there an /sbin/mount_fstype on your system? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: CPUs again.

2008-06-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
hardware, and you can run i386 software on i386 or amd64 hardware. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Phttpget problems (freebsd-update)

2008-06-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. Anybody else seen this and/or have a suggested work around? Maybe perform the 6.2 update and the 6.3 update in separate operations? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Changing default files locations / ports / mailgraph

2008-06-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
/data' [Completely untested, of course.] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: core Dumb during CVSUP

2008-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
attribute support Exchanging collection information Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection Running Bus error (core dumped) What did you change since it worked? Are you seeing core dumps on anything else? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: portupgrade dependency loop

2008-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
DA Forsyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I fix this? === Registering installation for horde-base-3.2_3 pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package pear-Auth-1.6.1 pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package pear-Auth_SASL-1.0.2 pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package

Re: Fixit / LiveFS problems (AMD64)

2008-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kent Hauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently rebuild a 7-STABLE which refused to boot then ran into some problems trying to recover. 1) After escaping to the loader prompt, I could only enter a couple of characters (eg 2) before the machine hung. Not enough for the unload / load dance.

Re: libcdio upgrade problems

2008-06-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum writes: Im trying to upgrade some ports, and have a problem with libcdio. At least i think i do. When i try to upgrade, say, Nautilus (or a buncha other things), it dies

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2008-06-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Telpiz Sorin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:  tried several times to install 7.0-RELEASE x amd64 on my friend's machine that is eqiupped with hard drive manufactured by Samsung. The hard drive (master) appears to have SATA interface, nonetheless SYSINSTALL regognizes it as ad04! That is fine.

Re: Doubt about hanged ESTABLISHED connections on netstat...

2008-06-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today i was on my Freebsd6.1 logged from my notebook through SSH...somehow i lost my Internet connection on my laptop; i realized that, cause i couldnt type anything on ssh so i checked and i had lost internet connectionI reset my router..connect through

Re: Intermittent -- yet regular -- v6.3 kernel panic

2008-06-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[Don't top-post, please.] It's quite likely to be due to bad hardware though. Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sure. I could get different RAM this weekend, but that just makes me angry. I bought all the items from recommended lists on NewEgg two weeks ago. This is probably the

Re: libcdio upgrade problems

2008-06-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Im trying to upgrade some ports, and have a problem with libcdio. At least i think i do. When i try to upgrade, say, Nautilus (or a buncha other things), it dies in the end with a libcdio-0.78.2_2 is already installed. You may wish to make

Re: How to do regression on libc?

2008-06-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to do regression on libc to verify the correctness? There are conformance test suites out there. The decent ones all seem to cost money, but you might want to look at the Open POSIX project. ___

Re: change the file date and time

2008-06-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you're lucky, the jpg's will contain exif info which if the phone's time date is set will tell you when the picture was taken amongst other things. This is more reliable than depending on file date. Here's a quick dirty perl script (called

Re: intrusion? find is thrashing my disk every time I boot.

2008-06-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
probably turn out to be root). Once you've tried that, you could use sockstat(1) to track down what file the find operation is dumping into. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Errors with pkg_add

2008-06-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
seem to recall it recently changed defaults to wiping out more of the caller's environment than had previously been the case. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd

Re: need to lcase/tolower/strlwr a directory hierarchy, is there an intrinsic util?

2008-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
]* ; do mv $fil `echo $fil |tr [A-Z] [a-z] ` ; done [untested], perhaps? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Unable to talk to tap(4)

2008-05-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Fwd: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to get accessed, use umask 066 and maybe chmod 700 /root. Perhaps more to the point of the question, there is nothing in /root on a default system which has any need of being kept secret. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org

Re: Kernel Compile Error

2008-05-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Perl 5.8.8 Compile

2008-05-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
for non-standard location installs, I recommend using the ports instead of building yourself, but if you really want to do it by hand, expect to need to know a bit more about what you're doing. In this case, I suspect you need to use gmake instead of (the native) make. -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: Distfile size mismatch for ImageMagick portupgrade

2008-04-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mike Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Upgrading ImageMagick from 6.3.6.9 to 6.4.0.11 fails after downloading the distfile with size mismatch: expected 5837175, actual 5836089. I don't see anything relevant in UPDATING or on the Freshports site. I've run pkgdb -u and downloaded a fresh copy

Re: RAM Swap Speed

2008-04-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
herbert langhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Honestly, I would never think that adding RAM to a comp with still unused space left could speed it up. That's because it doesn't have unused RAM. There are plenty of things that can be stored in RAM which don't need to be moved to swap if the RAM is

Re: Username groups

2008-04-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
prad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:00:24 -0400 Jon Radel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other things being equal, it's better to have all users use their own login group and then add them to additional groups as appropriate. jon, i have always been curious about this. why

Re: freebsd-update for patches, make world for upgrades?

2008-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andreas Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does freebsd-update take care of all things mergemaster does? Or can I use freebsd-update to apply security patches and still use csup, make world and mergemaster to upgrade to a new release? You certainly *can* use both.

Re: canned dist option

2008-04-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Reference to instant-workstation port/package, freebsd-tips.

2008-04-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave wrote: A reference to /usr/ports/misc/instant-workstation is in the /usr/share/games/fortune/freebsd-tips file at line number 405. I do not see instant-workstation listed in /usr/ports/misc at this time. What mailing list should I send this query

Re: Tracking base system and kernel updates/vulnerabilities

2008-04-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anselm Strauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there a tool, like portaudit for the ports tree, to track updates and/or vulnerabilities for the base system and the kernel? What I'm looking for is a tool that will check my current installation against a specific checkout of the CVS source and

Re: Is there a way to fix this or not?

2008-04-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eduardo Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running FBSD 7-stable and I'm trying to portupgrade nautilus and I'm getting this error: ./usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:842:in `get_all_depends': recursive dependency (RecursiveDependencyError) from

Re: How do i install c-scope in freeBSD server?

2008-04-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do i install c-scope in freeBSD server? It is in ports: devel/cscope http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: restore various level dump files

2008-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
C Thala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If i have 3 dump(1)-files from a filesystem and restore them via restore -i -f dump-file, how do I layer them together? That is, how do I tell restore that I want to restore a level 0, 1, and 2? Do I run restore -i -f dump-0 and then restore -i -f dump-1

Re: wireshark

2008-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
FreeBSD.Arno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed wireshark on my computer and got this error trying to run it: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libhx509.so.2: Undefined symbol oid_id_pkcs1_rsaEncryption That library doesn't even exist on my machine that has wireshark installed from

Re: openoffice.org-2.4.0_2 hanging

2008-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: openoffice.org-2.4.0_3 fixed it for me without any special settings. i will keep existing. waiting another 1.5 day to compile isn't fun. And my laptop drive may not be able to survive another swapping during this - on 256MB RAM _3 includes a fix

Re: Brother 540CN with freeBSD

2008-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Erwan David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a brother 540CN printer (network connected). Is it possible to use it from freeBSD, directly or by sharing it on a mac ? The current version of MacOS seems to come with drivers for it, so that route will surely work fine (for printing, at

Re: wireshark

2008-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
FreeBSD.Arno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Lowell, thanks for your response, On 7 apr 2008, at 16:23, Lowell Gilbert wrote: FreeBSD.Arno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed wireshark on my computer and got this error trying to run it: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libhx509.so.2

Re: Error fatal_tls

2008-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ruel Luchavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can anyone help me whats the meaning of this error? I always have this every minute mail pop: fatal_error: tls_start_servertls() failed How to get rid of this error? PLEase Thanks in advanced This is coming from your POP server. Without knowing

Re: Local package mirror

2008-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to get a Network install working on my local network. I have been able to successfully create a NFS export of the installation disk and perform a install from there. The target machines boot over PXE and fetch stuff from the NFS. However I am

Re: need confirmation of documentation problem for times(3)

2008-04-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Viktor Štujber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been forwarded to this list from a docs bugreport * http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=122359 and I am looking for confirmation of this issue. Transscript: The freebsd manpages for 'clock_t times(struct tms *tp)' say the following:

Re: laptop won't boot w/o ac adapter plugged in

2008-04-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
std [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a newish laptop hp tx1320us with FreeBSD rel. 70 build. If I don't have the power cord plugged in, the system hangs at Entropy harvesting: ethernet point_to_point If tap the power/reset slider on the case, it prints the following: load: 2.40 cmd: dd

Re: kldload: unexpected relocation type 10

2008-04-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mr Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really don't know how to get rid of this message.. I get millions of these during kldload of a driver: kldload: unexpected relocation type 10 can't see anything wrong with my Makefile, like the google threads say, so PLEASE HELP. The kernel

Re: Which one should I use diablo-jdk1.5.0 or jdk-1.6

2008-04-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to choose between java 1.5 and 1.6. For maximum portability, I would recommend installing both, and making sure your code runs on both. On 02/04/2008, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kemian Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not sure which version of jdk should I use, do they have

Re: kldload: unexpected relocation type 10

2008-04-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mr Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really don't know how to get rid of this message.. I get millions of these during kldload of a driver: kldload: unexpected relocation type 10 can't see anything wrong with my Makefile, like the google threads say, so PLEASE HELP. The kernel module was

Re: Which one should I use diablo-jdk1.5.0 or jdk-1.6

2008-04-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kemian Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not sure which version of jdk should I use, do they have the same functionality? I know jdk-1.6 is compiled by diablo-jdk and has no run dependency on diablo, but if diablo is the same as the original sun jdk, why should there be another one, or to

Re: pkgdb -F question

2008-04-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eduardo Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Checking the package registry database Cyclic dependencies: gnome-desktop-2.22.0 - nautilus-2.22.1 - eel-2.22.1 - py25-gnome-2.22.0 - tracker-0.6.2_2 - (gnome-desktop-2.22.0) Unlink which dependency? (? to help): Can someone help me with this,

Re: default font select

2008-03-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running xorg-6.9.0 and FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE. I seem to have broken the ability to select the font size in xterm via ctrl-right-click. The menu I now get: VT Fonts (no-apps defaults) font1 font2 font3 font4 font5 font6

Re: www/flock port fails to install

2008-03-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:48:49AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:41:46AM -0500, Gerard wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:57:07 +0100 Pieter Baele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When there are (security) vulnerabilities, ports won't

Re: FreeBSD 7: Xorg Failed to load module neomagic (Module does not exist, 0) No drivers available

2008-03-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pedro Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found this error after making a fresh install of freeBSD7 into my IBM THINKPAD600 that has a neomagic graphic card. I never had such problems with FreeBSD 6.3. Where I find the drivers for the card and how to implement that?

Re: cvsup will not speak to me :Connection refused

2008-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a bank of 8 servers, all which do cvsup regularly for ports. I am recently going thru an upgrade to FreeBSD 7.0, and in a cvsup with server #5, I get :Connection refused I cannot figure out why this machine would be refused, when the other 4

Re: instalation problem - unable to find device node

2008-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. javo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: of course, I have writen it down and mailed to the conference :) I asked because there is no such thing as /dev/x as far as I can tell. I thought it might have stood for something else. 2008/3/22, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: make readmes errors

2008-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
fire jotawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my machine is FreeBSD siting.oaep.go.th 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #3: Fri Mar 7 03:20:47 ICT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SITING i386 i try making README.html for all ports but get errors at the last state as Creating

Re: Xorg crashing randomly

2008-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ghirai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello list, Lately Xorg (log file says X.Org X Server 1.4.0') seems to crap out randomly, sometimes after a few hours, sometimes after a few days. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE, custom kernel (ULE scheduler and unneeded drivers removed, everything else is

Re: ports fetch timeout

2008-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been trying to install a bunch of packages on a freshly built 7.0-REL machine. The ports make install command has been consistently failing to download files from ftp servers on Internet. I can however ftp to the servers and get the files manually

Re: make readmes errors

2008-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
fire jotawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fire jotawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my machine is FreeBSD siting.oaep.go.th 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE#3: Fri Mar 7 03:20:47 ICT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj

Re: Build: mtree: line 48: unknown group games

2008-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kyrre Nygård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mtree: line 48: unknown group games *** Error code 1 Is the games account really that important? It isn't very important in itself, but having the group and user present for a gid and uid that are in use is a bad idea. Having them there when not in use

Re: instalation problem - unable to find device node

2008-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
javo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm newbie to FreeBSD, I tried to install it month ago and everything was OK, freeBSD was the only system running, later, I've installed windows and gentoo, and I've left space for FreBSD, now during the instalation I got this error after configuring my disk

Re: ports / easiest way to install older version when new is marked as ignored?

2008-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The subject says it all - I have a port which is marked as ignored and I am wondering how I can proceed with installing an older version of it? There is portdowngrade, but usually it is appropriate to consider *why* the port is marked IGNORE.

Re: mtree

2008-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know mtree can be used to describe a directory layout, and then to re-create that structure. Is there a place where this is described? I figured out everything I wanted to know from the manual page. It's a pretty good manual -- the reason it

Re: Missing /dev/null after few min

2008-03-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthias Gamsjäger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running freebsd for couple of years now and never had really big problems but this one I can't solve on my own. Running releng 7 for 6 months now but recently after running X for like 10min the systems is missing /dev/null. So you can imaging

Re: Urgent: filesystem full, though space is available

2008-03-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
on The du and df commands show different amounts of disk space available. What is going on? and How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100% full? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: portupgrade -fa after system upgrade from 5.5 to 6.3

2008-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have updated from 5.5 to 6.3 and wanted to know if It advisable to make a : # potupgrade -fa Knowing that I have kept my port tree up to date and have no outdated ports. Simply put, the question is: should I force recompile all my installed ports since

Re: portupgrade -fa after system upgrade from 5.5 to 6.3

2008-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:59:30 +0100 bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simply put, the question is: should I force recompile all my installed ports since I have updated my system? In the long term it's a good idea to do it, but there's no hurry unless you see a

Re: no ad1s3a,b,d... on ad1s3 after bsdlabel

2008-03-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Snow Mountains [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I try to understand bsdlabel. I have former fat slice (ad1s3) on my disk and I want to make several BSD partitions on it. I did this: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1s3 bs=1k count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1048576 bytes transferred in

Re: How do i regularly update my free bsd

2008-03-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dedan Kiruri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I would be interested in getting help through your mailing list spam concerning my free bsd mail server I would like to learn administration using linux/updating virus definitions and scanners. FreeBSD isn't Linux. Virus-scanning will be pretty

Re: IPv6 6to4

2008-03-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ofloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When using 6to4 extensively the system crashes I've never had this with gif tunnels though every since I've started using 6to4 and stf interface this happens especially when the v6 gateway is unreachable for short time, .. I haven't seen the error yet but I do

Re: subversion -make error

2008-03-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
APR from SVN. *** Error code 1 This is when I know I have python installed Is python installed from the ports system? What does which python tell you? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: slow internet - 7.0 release

2008-03-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mitja [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I started with GreeBSD 7.0 beta3, than RC1 and now I am running Release. Everything works great except Internet (I didn't have problem with beta and RC). It is slow. I have standalone comp[uter and as desktop I use KDE. As a browser I prefer Konqueror which

Re: OT: disk drive question

2008-03-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sorry for posting here but possibly someone here will know the answer. i have 120GB seagate in my thinkpad. yesterday i (possibly) overheated the disk somehow, by putting laptop on flat sticky surface. bad blocks developed on one partition like this

Re: sa: user accounting initialization failed - FreeBSD 7-stable

2008-03-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
George Fazio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm seeing errors from sa in my daily run output. I read the man page for sa(8) and some of the commands that were referenced under the see also section. I'm completely lost. Could anyone point me in the right direction? Here is a snippet of the

Re: freebsd-update and mergemaster

2008-03-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if it was possible to use mergemaster with the binary update tool. It seemed like a much better way than freebsd-update dumping me into vi. I don't understand what it wants me to do with vi. Mergemaster is very clear. Can someone

Re: 7.0 and fsck question

2008-03-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two possibilities: i) The root partition wasn't marked dirty at the time your system [...] The root partition was mounted rw. I neglected to mention the box is headless, so I can

Re: Upgrading to 7 from 6.3

2008-02-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B. Cook wrote: Hello All, I was going to try and update a box from 6.3 to 7 via buildworld all 32 bit, nothing 64. Assuming it should be done like this: make buildworld make buildkernel mergemaster -p make installkernel (reboot) (startup on

Re: libc5 on freebsd 6.3

2008-02-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to recompile everything (portupgrade -fa or -faPP or similar). Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: tar backup script

2008-02-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steel City Phantom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this isn't really bsd specific but i still need help with it. im writing a backup script a clip from that script is this: find /usr/local/www/data-dist/ -name config.php /usr/local/backupScript/include find /usr/local/www/data-dist/ -name

Re: Kernel Panic with heavy disk i/o while running on battery

2008-02-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nathan Alan Souer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In advance, I appreciate any help that anyone has to offer. When my laptop is running on battery and there is heavy i/o on the disk The machine kernel panics and reboots. I have updated my base system to current (7_releng) just a couple days ago in

Re: rc.d scripts not being run at shutdown.

2008-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:55:28 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:19:21 -0500 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I could imagine screwing-up the operation of rc.shutdown with a syntax error, but I

Re: Uninstalling a port

2008-02-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Darryl Hoar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have Freebsd 6.3-release installed on my server. I used ports to install mysql 4.0 on this machine. Turns out, I really need mysql 4.1. What is the proper technique to remove the mysql 4 and then install mysql 4.1 ? I tried make deinstall, but it

Re: problem while stoping a service using script

2008-02-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
lokesh babu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i want to know how to stop a service from a script this is the sample script to stop and start a service in linux,when i kept faststart then starting a service is working in freebsd similarly i want to know what to do inorder to stop a service in freebsd.

Re: RAM disk size limit

2008-02-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Xinyu Dong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello: RAM disk to root file system. I would like to use in embedded FreeBSD, and the creation of a 64 MB memory disk, and all normal, but 128 MB RAM disk at the time of always automatically restart. Loader in the configuration file, use or use md_image

Re: rc.d scripts not being run at shutdown.

2008-02-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:02:15 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Afer putting in some extra logging to check something, I've just noticed that my rc.d scripts are not being run at shutdown. By way of confirmation, my entropy file, which is written out by an

Re: why does linux-base-f7 exist if the binary compatibility is to a kernel too old to run it? (and how to change that?)

2008-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But there are sites (such as this one: http://www.linux.com/feature/53055) that talk about actually using linux_base-fc8 (which I can't even find on 7.0rc1). How is that possible if the kernel is too old for it? That was linux_base-8, not

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have looked at my /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and realized that the symlink I put there has the root as owner. It all works but I would rather use a non-root user for to run that script. $ ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel40 May

Re: Oops

2008-01-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Darryl Hoar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, am setting up gmirror and screwed up my fstab. When rebooting, it complains until I tell it the root device: ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a it boots up and dumps me into single user. When I try to change /etc/fstab, it tells me that the parition

Re: RELENG_6_3 build fail -- signal 13 consistently

2008-01-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is 6.3/amd64 release as a guest inside a vmware server (free) host: === gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ar (install) install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 ar /opt/relchroot/usr/bin *** Signal 13 Make.conf has some sparing NO_ knobs set and:

Re: mkisofs and timestamps in ISO-9660 filesystems

2008-01-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
GMT timestamp is Jan 24 02:28. I specify a TZ variable directly when I care about mkisofs getting the right times. Even so, I can get confused, so when the dates *really* matter, I write a tar file on the 9660 filesystem, and then everything works the way my hindbrain expects. -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: Limit UDP packets

2008-01-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Thiago Pollachini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anybody tried to limit udp connections, like ipfw limit ? I was searching about and only on linux it's possible. Is it true? Can anyone give me a clue? ipfw limit doesn't work with UDP? I don't have a setup at the moment to experiment, but it

Re: Sendmail local only.....

2008-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/1/22, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just trying to make sendmail work locally only.And by that i mean, i dont want sendmail to be able to relay or send mail to any other machine except for localhost How

Re: Sendmail local only.....

2008-01-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just trying to make sendmail work locally only.And by that i mean, i dont want sendmail to be able to relay or send mail to any other machine except for localhost How can i do this? I mean is there a way on rc.conf or i need to touch the cf?? This is

Re: Installation freezes

2008-01-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nilesh Bedekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my system with the following configuration : Intel Core2Duo 2.00 GHz Intel 945 Mother Board 1GB DDR2 Ram (Transcend) 160 GB SATA Western Digital Hard Drive Sony DVD-RW (IDE) Realtek RTL 8168 10/100 On-Board

Re: No spam???

2008-01-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:48:32AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: I've been doing some more digging since my last post, and have figured out that the spam is not being blocked by pf, as I suspected (since it wasn't showing up in my spam folder), but by

Re: ImageMagick problem

2008-01-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So sorry, didn't noticed I don't have a subject in original mail. Hey all Hope this is more or less right place to ask. What I noticed on my FreeBSD 6.2 installation, that pkg_add -r ImageMagick results in a file not found error. DTG864# pkg_add -r

Re: Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently upgraded from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7.0-PRERELEASE. I had some problem with the ports, but I got that taken care of. Now I'm having another very odd problem. I originally noticed something odd when I tried to shutdown from multiuser mode into single

Re: mail from: field question

2008-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jim Bow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a small shell script that does a backup to a usb drive and emails the results to a set of people. The script is triggered from devd (upon drive attachment) and runs as root. The problem is that the mail report is sent from an active system user and

Re: sendmail is broken, how do I fix

2008-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While you think there is nothing on that port something is running not letting that socket connection. Try rebooting the system and see if the problem is still there. -Derek I did try that too. Didn't work. Ask sockstat(1).

Re: Imap authentication

2008-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris Kottaridis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been using pop to download email messages. I'd like to switch to imap. My mail server is running FreeBSD 5.3 The imap executable is in /usr/local/libexec and inetd.conf is setup right. I can telnet to port 143 I am talking to the imapd

Re: Port Updates for 6.1

2007-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the safest and cleanest way to update the ports in /usr/ports for a 6.1-STABLE install? I don't want to risk breaking anything, I just need some updated ports so I can install the latest SpamAssassin port. http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#caniadopt

Re: Imaging to new system

2007-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 11:10 -0700, Darren Spruell wrote: On Dec 30, 2007 10:54 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a server running 5.4-RELEASE using RAID-5 on an Intel RAID controller that I need to move to faster RAID. Is it

Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:32:50AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: RA Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am sorry, here is an addendum to my previous post: Somehow Ubuntu was given root user permissions Actually, upon rereading my notes, Ubuntu

Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
RA Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am sorry, here is an addendum to my previous post: Somehow Ubuntu was given root user permissions Actually, upon rereading my notes, Ubuntu was only given permissions of the user doing the login - not root - but we could login with any valid user

Re: Does 6.2 Support VIA EPIA M10000G Nehemiah Mini-ITX?

2007-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric Osterweil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed 6.2 on a VIA EPIA M1G Nehemiah Mini-ITX. It all seems to have installed fine, but when I try to buildworld I get internal compiler errors almost immediately. The problems are not consistently in the same place but they seem

Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am planning to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my dell laptop with 80Gb HDD and 2GB RAM. FreeBSD will be the only OS on the laptop. Laptop will be used to web development (RubyOnRails), entertaiment (photo, music, video), web browsing and emailing,

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