On 30/12/2011 11:52, Da Rock wrote:
> I haven't looked, but it would be good to have some irc channels handled
> by the team though.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/IrcChannels
Cheers,
Matthew
--
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
On 29/12/2011 20:11, akshay sreeramoju wrote:
> What is the required configuration in a FreeBSD 8.2 release host for it to
> publish its name in a dynamic dns supported network?
Something like this in /etc/dhclient.conf:
interface "em0" {
send host-name "foo.example.com";
}
See dhclient.
On 29/12/2011 09:01, Irk Ed wrote:
> For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said
> customer's servers.
>
> Obviously, I must comply. At the same time, I cannot continue be
> accountable for those servers.
>
> Is this that simple and clear cut?
>
> Assuming that I'll be as
On 29/12/2011 07:48, ja...@colannino.org wrote:
> bridge0 is configured with the IP 192.168.1.6, but I can't ping out.
> However, once I run dhclient in bridge0, things magically work. Does
> anyone know why the above won't work? Thanks!
What's the error message you see when you fail to ping ou
On 28/12/2011 23:50, Gary Kline wrote:
> access(filenamewithpath, F_OK) returned true as Zero if i have
> access to it. what do i use in C to tell me that a file is not
> empty? fstat? or is there something more common?
stat(2) which uses the file path -- unless you have an open file
descri
On 28/12/2011 07:54, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> This question is not directly related to FreeBSD, but perhaps some
> network administrators reading this list know the answer.
>
> Can I setup several ISC BIND servers to be each other's mutual forwarders?
> Will it work or create an endless loop of DNS
On 22/12/2011 04:53, Rob Byrnes wrote:
>>> Yeah I would second what Mr Rock says. Set up a single repo where
>>> >> folders can be used for projects. Since svn lets you checkout sub
>>> >> folders of a repo, each developer can check out the folder that
>>> >> corresponds to their project. Also,
On 21/12/2011 14:59, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> Almost every time there is a perl upgrade, it manages to break
> Mailscanner even after running perl-after-upgrade. The solution
> ends up being a reinstall of Mailscanner, but this is a real pain,
> because you have to delete and reinstall every dependen
On 16/12/2011 10:04, Iqbal Aroussi wrote:
> After installing FreeBSD 8.2, I noticed it's using BIND 9.6 but in ports
> collection there is newer versions 9.7 and 9.8.
> I'd like to know if there is any advantages in upgrading BIND to 9.8
> instead of using the base install version.
> I'd really app
On 15/12/2011 15:36, Peter Vereshagin wrote:
> I find that kernel log messages about killed processes are doubling the
> characters just like that (on an SMP machine). Probably thay are getting
> killed
> simultaneously and the kernel writes msg about that one-by-one character.
>
> Should I file
On 13/12/2011 14:46, LinuxIsOne wrote:
> Is freebsd simply bsd name, means it is free so they appended the word
> 'free' is it like this?
Yes, it is really BSD: it is the direct lineal descendant of Unix code
released by the University of California, Berkeley. The beginnings of
the FreeBSD projec
On 11/12/2011 06:01, Jeffry Killen wrote:
> So, I installed x-developer and attempted to install Apache from the
> included
> ports. None of the listed version would install: error code -1.
7.2 is out of support now, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html
Inter-alia this means that there
On 07/12/2011 05:34, Ammar Shaarbaf wrote:
> Are there any FreeBSD drivers for Acer Aspire 3610?
>
This is the closest hardware match I could find:
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_laptop_detail&laptop=12882
Drivers in FreeBSD are generally described in terms of the speci
On 05/12/2011 12:39, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> I thought the odd bit was
>
> ssuuddoo --VV | --hh | --ll | --LL | --vv | --kk | --KK | --ss | [ --HH
> ] [--PP ] [--SS ] [ --bb ]
>| [ --pp prompt ] [ --cc class|- ] [ --aa auth_type ] [ --uu
> username|#uid ]
>
> from the first link.
>
> D
On 04/12/2011 20:07, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> On 2011/12/04, at 14:13, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>> > 4) Now for the updating bit. I'm going to use portmaster's '-o'
>> > functionality to swap out the postgresql versions. (portupgrade
>> &
On 04/12/2011 18:43, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> I'd like to have the internal network be on 192.168.1.0/24. I have 2x
>> > 2-port NICs in the freebsd box.
>> >
>> > em0 - Internet - 1.2.3.4
>> > em1 - System1 - 192.168.1.1
>> > em2 - System2 - 192.168.1.2
> if you connect the two other boxes direct
On 04/12/2011 17:16, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> On 2011/12/04, at 02:29, Sergio Tam wrote:
>
>>> >> ===> postgresql-client-9.1.1_1 conflicts with installed package(s):
>>> >> postgresql-client-8.4.8
>>> >>
>>> >> They will not build together.
>>> >> Please remove them first with pk
On 03/12/2011 17:54, Snoop wrote:
> I have 3 jails within the host xxx.xxx.26.224 configured in this way
> (below) and everything works well.
> What if I want to enable another jail but I don't want to assign to that
> my next available public ip address xxx.xxx.26.228/24 but I want this
> jail to
On 03/12/2011 18:31, Charles Pitkin wrote:
> I am a amateur developer looking to build a system with FreeBSD. I will be
> using it as a virtual machine on KVM. I will be making modifications on how
> the networking is set up within FreeBSD to allow for better networking
> between vm's. I will also
On 29/11/2011 01:28, Kaya Saman wrote:
> As you know rsyslog works over udp and telnet is a tcp protocol so I
> enabled tcp on port 514 within rsyslog and telnet'ed from my router to
> the syslog server.
Use netcat to test UDP connectivity -- it's in the base system as nc(1):
% nc -v -u 192.0.
On 26/11/2011 19:26, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote:
> Nope, it's not my DNS provider. I checked that.
# dig '*.wzff.de' IN ANY
; <<>> DiG 9.6.-ESV-R5-P1 <<>> *.wzff.de IN ANY
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54277
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANS
On 24/11/2011 19:19, APseudoUtopia wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Matthew Seaman
> wrote:
>> On 22/11/2011 02:09, APseudoUtopia wrote:
>>> Another quick question about swap: If I have 4 drives, with 512MB
>>> swap, the system uses all 4 swap partiti
On 24/11/2011 10:07, Kees Jan Koster wrote:
> This seems to be local to my machine. Here is another reason why I
> say that: I can reliably transmit data when I bind to the aliased IP
> address: If I use mtr to measure packet loss from saffron (the stricken
> machine) to cumin (another machine in a
On 23/11/2011 14:01, Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:18:45 +
> Matthew Seaman articulated:
>
>> I've been using the attached patch with the dns/bind98 port and
>> openssl-1.0.x from ports for months. This disables using the GOST
>> cipher plugins -- wh
On 23/11/2011 12:53, Howard Leadmon wrote:
> I just ran through on one of my older FreeBSD servers, and updated from
> BIND 9.8.1 to 9.8.1-P1 to get the security patches for BIND online, and
> after doing this bind crashes.
>
> I am seeing:
>
>
> Nov 23 06:35:19 named[24537]: starting BIND 9.8
On 22/11/2011 20:33, Kees Jan Koster wrote:
> I am stuck with a machine that shows serious packet loss (about 1% of
> all traffic is dropped). I tried the obvious (new network cable,
> different switch port, different ethernet interface on the machine),
> but the problems remain.
>
> Another machi
On 22/11/2011 15:17, Bas Smeelen wrote:
> When i copy a file with scp which is a few hundred megabytes on2. from 1.i
> get about 130 KB/s
>
> I can find nothing in the logs or netstat errors on this 9.0-PRERELEASE box.
> I have switched network kabels and ports on the switch.
>
> How could i furt
On 22/11/2011 02:09, APseudoUtopia wrote:
> Another quick question about swap: If I have 4 drives, with 512MB
> swap, the system uses all 4 swap partitions, correct? So it's not like
> it'd be going to waste? I'd have a total of 2 GB swap?
Well, yes. If you just declare those raw partitions to be
On 19/11/2011 23:26, Robert Simmons wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Matthew Seaman
> wrote:
>> If you compile your own kernel, then freebsd-update will patch the
>> kernel sources, but leave you to rebuild and reinstall your customized
>> kernel.
>>
>&g
On 19/11/2011 22:36, William Bulley wrote:
> Possible, but unlikely. Plus I doubt that 'tar -tvf base.txz' without a
> pipe having an "xzcat(1)" in front of the "tar(1)" command. Maybe there
> is an "xz" option for tar(1) during extraction mode, but my tar(1) man
> page doesn't list any, sigh...
On 19/11/2011 00:53, Edward Martinez wrote:
> As the progress bar moved to the right toward 100% completion, a
> window popped up telling me that it (bsdinstall) could not handle
> the base.txz (BTW, what does the suffix ".txz" mean?) - it could
> not uncompress it and said something about "unable
On 18/11/2011 22:24, ajtiM wrote:
> I had a problem with memory on y computer with 8.2 and there are some mess. I
> like to install "fresh" FreeBSD 9.0. Is it safe to install RC-2 or is better
> to wait to the final release, please?
9.0-RC2 is (probably) going to be very similar indeed to the ev
On 18/11/2011 21:27, William Bulley wrote:
> I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults
> to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall.
>
> This process gave me an error, but I'm not sure in which forum
> to discuss this problem/error. Thanks in advance.
freesd-questio
On 18/11/2011 20:12, Tom Carpenter wrote:
> Is it not possible/not intended for kernels to be updated via
> freebsd-update? If kernels can be updated via freebsd-update
> will there be a release of an fix/update that will allow systems
> to be patched/updated to -p4 or later?
freebsd-update will c
On 18/11/2011 17:18, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Daniel Staal wrote:
>
>> > /proc is a file on /. /proc/* are files on /proc. The former is still on
>> > the root filesystem (if only as a directory stub to be used as a
>> > mountpoint), so reading it isn't leaving
On 18/11/2011 10:00, Edward Martinez wrote:
> On 11/18/11 00:12, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> STARTTLS=client, relay=smtp.1blu.de., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL
>>
>> se below; what does the FAIL means exactly?
>>
>I have been reading on the subject and it appears you do not trust
> the certifi
On 13/11/2011 12:31, Peter Vereshagin wrote:
> I'd find it obvious to try to launch getty by mean of jexec by setting the
> command in /etc/ttys?
>
> Something like that:
>
> ttyv0 "/usr/sbin/jexec `cat /var/run/some_jail.id` /usr/libexec/getty
> Pc" cons25 on secure
>
That mi
On 13/11/2011 02:54, masayoshi wrote:
> I must adduser Ayumi as normal user.
> After adding her in jail, I add her in host.
> Then I type the following command:
>
> # ln -s /usr/jails/www/home/ayumi /home
>
> When she logins, she is in /usr/jails/www/home/ayumi.
> But if she uses "cd" command, s
On 11/11/2011 21:03, Robert Simmons wrote:
>> Note that if a security update is just to some userland programs,
>> > freebsd-update won't touch the OS kernel, so the reported version number
>> > doesn't change even though the update has been applied. In these sort
>> > of cases, it's not necessary
On 11/11/2011 14:10, Tom Carpenter wrote:
> I'm new to FreeBSD and after looking through the FreeBSD website I
> think I may have answered my question, but thought I would say that
> the message "No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p4"
> seems a little contradictory: if "8.2-RELEASE-p
On 09/11/2011 10:30, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
is there any easy way to make our sed do the same as gnu sed here?
for now I have encapsulated the whole thing in a subshell
[backup@banshee ~]$ echo -n $(echo -n "/boot:7:1:5; /:7:1:5;
/var:7:1:5" | sed -n 's/[[:space:]]*;[[:space:]]*/;/gp')
/boot:7:1
On 06/11/2011 19:25, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> When following the instructions at
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html
>
> to go from 8.1 to 8.2, I'm presented during the command:
>
> freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RELEASE
>
> with no less than *** 322 *** files that dif
On 05/11/2011 22:19, Robert Simmons wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
>> same here. simply add something like the following to your crontab:
>>
>> 0 10 * * */2 /etc/rc.d/ntpdate onestart
>
> I have something similar in my crontab which is no
On 05/11/2011 07:48, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> i'm not sure i clearly understand what has to be done to make the ntp
> server on my system to be inaccessible to anyone but me.
>
> a sample /etc/ntp.conf would be appreciated.
>
You need the 'restrict' keyword to control access to ntpd -- add a b
On 04/11/2011 17:41, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote:
> El 04/11/11 13:25, Graeme Dargie escribió:
>> Ok this might be a bit of a newbie question but here goes.
>>
>> I have a large number of directories around 300 which all have sub
>> dirs, some of those have sub dirs in each of these there are two
>> fu
On 03/11/2011 10:00, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> You can simply create a forward zone.
Actually, yes, that's a good idea too. Should have much the same effect
and it's been available in BIND approximately forever. There's
difference in the niggling details of how it all works, so worth
experimenti
On 02/11/2011 20:52, AN wrote:
> I have a question about how to configure DNS. My local network is 10.x,
> and I sometimes need to connect to a remote VPN. My question is how do
> I configure BIND to forward queries to a different server only for a
> specific domain.
This sounds like a job for a
On 27/10/2011 16:29, Polytropon wrote:
> In my opinion, CUPS is the "Windows" way of doing things,
> not the UNIX way. Hate me for having that opinion, but I
> feel to say it.
Actually you can't blame Bill for this one. CUPS is an Apple / MacOS X
thing. I must say, it works really smoothly on my
On 24/10/2011 02:18, Eir Nym wrote:
> I want to install FreeBSD to my second box and I have only Windows 7
> x64 desktop without CD drives.
> 1. I have access to remote FreeBSD server (via SSH) where I can make
> custom FreeBSD installation in any format.
> 2. I know how to create TFTP/DHCPD/PXE se
On 23/10/2011 10:48, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> NetBSD pkgsrc, which has been ported to other mostly (quasi-)Unix
> OSes as well, has a better way: putting options in /etc/mk.conf : not
> to say NetBSD pkgsrc is better than FreeBSD ports system, just that
> they have a good idea in this aspect.
That
On 23/10/2011 08:11, John Levine wrote:
>> anything useful that might help you to fix the problem. We'd need to see
>>
>> * Your choice of options for the port (ie. 'make showconfig' output)
>>
>> * A complete build log showing the problem occurring. (ie 'make
>> clean build' output)
>>
>
On 22/10/2011 17:24, John Levine wrote:
> For at least several weeks, attempts to rebuild emacs from ports fails
> with an odd linker error saying it can't find symbols in the termcap
> library. I poked around a little, the makefile does include the
> appropriate library and adding it again at the
On 22/10/2011 10:22, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> From: Damien Fleuriot :
>>> > >>From my /etc/make.conf:
>> > SUP_UPDATE= yes
>> > SUP=/usr/bin/csup
>> > SUPFLAGS= -zgL 2
>> > SUPHOST=cvsup1.fr.freebsd.org
>> > SUPFILE=/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile
>> > PORTSSUPFILE=
On 21/10/2011 10:27, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> After I run
>
> csup /usr/share/examples/releng9-supfile
>
> how do I know I have the correct version, like 9.0-BETA3 or 9.0-RC1?
So long as you're confident that you have actually downloaded the
sources from the RELENG_9 branch, then you can be conf
On 17/10/2011 21:10, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> Today I got this little message about "corrupted record" and I would
> like to solve it
>
>
> ImageMagick-6.7.3.0_1 < needs updating (index has 6.7.3.1)
> pkg_version: corrupted record (pkgdep line without argument), ignoring
> pkg_versi
On 16/10/2011 22:26, Gary Kline wrote:
> if n == 15 and x is the int. i can say
>
> if ((int)x == 15) Or to check if x == 'A' i can cast x to (char)x.
>
> what's the syntax to chec if x is , say, 32/
In C code you can write an integer constant in hexadecimal by prefixing
it with 0x -- so 0x32
On 12/10/2011 20:36, Dean E. Weimer wrote:
> Well after searching the comp.mail.sendmail list through Google groups,
> I have come up wiht the following changes.
>
> I changed the orignal /etc/make.conf:
> from this:
> SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL
> to:
> SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL -D_
On 11/10/2011 10:09, Jim jim wrote:
> I'm kind of new to FreeBSD and installed the latest version a few
> days ago, it gave me the option to install some packages and I chose
> some of them like 'FlightGear' for example.But now I don't know how
> to execute this game or any other program I got inst
On 10/10/2011 18:06, Kiril Georgiev wrote:
> Hi, is it possible to make me a subdomain ( A HOST ) by type
> kiril.FreeBSD.org
What benefit would that bring to the FreeBSD project?
Cheers,
Matthew
--
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
On 09/10/2011 10:36, pepe wrote:
> I'm just asking before trying if it possible to use two network uplinks in
> one server so other would be just backup way in?
> I have currently connection from two ISPs and server is up with one
> connection. Is it possible to add another nic and wire that to con
On 09/10/2011 10:31, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
> Le Sun, 9 Oct 2011 14:39:10 +0700,
> Victor Sudakov a écrit :
>
> > > I need no details, just a general hint how to setup such security
> > > levels, preferably independent of actual IP addressses behind the
> > > interfaces (a :netw
On 07/10/2011 14:31, Albert Shih wrote:
> Since some week
>
> portversion -v -l "<"
>
> always tell me they don't have anything to update but when I launch
>
> portupgrade --all
>
> I got many package to upgrade.
>
> I'm running
>
> 9.0-BETA3
>
> and all my ports is upda
On 06/10/2011 16:55, Grant Peel wrote:
> Short of upgrading the OS, what is the safest way to upgrade a
> FreeBSD server to PHP 5.3.x from 5.2.11 ? I am assuming downloading
> the ports tarball and rebuilding and reinstalling will do it? Any
> advice, samples would be appreciated
8.0 is out of sup
On 04/10/2011 14:50, Janos Dohanics wrote:
> So, I asked the wrong question. The question I should be asking is: Why
> are timestamps wrong in /var/log/filter.log even though date shows the
> correct time? However, this question I should ask the pfSense list...
Hmmm...
Somewhat of an outside chan
On 04/10/2011 05:29, Janos Dohanics wrote:
> I have pfSense-2.0 for gateway/firewall (10.10.10.2).
>
> 10.10.10.2 logs to 10.10.10.252, which runs FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE.
>
> 10.10.10.252 is the ntpd server for this LAN.
>
> On 10.10.10.2:
>
> date
On 28/09/2011 21:17, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> I have a 8.2-STABLE server which I am considering upgrading. I have a full
> backup on a disk so no worries about receovery.
>
> 1. I'd like to upgrade this server to 9.0-BETA3. What cvs tag should I use?
> Is *default release=cvs tag=. okay?
No -
On 27/09/2011 03:02, grarpamp wrote:
> Under the ERE implementation in RELENG_8, I'm having
> trouble figuring out how to group and backreference this.
>
> Given a line, where:
> If AAA is present, CCC will be too, and B may appear in between.
> If AAA is not present, neither CCC or B will be pr
On 26/09/2011 22:37, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> in /etc/gettytab
>
> A|Al|Autologin console:\
>:ht:np:sp#115200:al=olivares
>
> as my username is olivares. It is working on BETA 2 :) Now I hope to
> get it working again at home on an 8.2 amd machine.
>
> I will report back but return dif
On 25/09/2011 16:16, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> I have a 9.0 BETA 2 amd64 machine and I am using /bin/sh shell or
> default shell when one installs FreeBSD. I want to be able to setup
> autologin and automatic startx as well like I have on the other
> machines
>
> I tried to edit ~/.cshrc and copi
On 23/09/2011 19:19, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Matthew Seaman
> wrote:
>> > Not my experience. Running my own DNS is simple and trouble free, plus
>> > it gives me much more scope to play with things like DNSSEC.
> I've don
On 23/09/2011 01:08, Frank Shute wrote:
> I had to use them because my static IP all of a sudden became dynamic
> (crappy ISP). Now it seems to have gone back to static again.
There are much better ISPs in the UK -- usually the smaller ones give
you much better service. You can get a /28 fixed bl
On 22/09/2011 11:21, Andy Zammy wrote:
> File to patch: files/patch-defaultopacity
> No file found--skip this patch? [n] n
> File to patch: /usr/home/user/Downloads/dwm.defaultopacity.patch
> patch: malformed patch at line 9: @@ -52,6 +54,9 @@
> => Patch patch-defaultopacity failed to apply cl
On 22/09/2011 00:51, Andy Zammy wrote:
> According to the instructions listed here: http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/ I
> figured I'm to use the "tarball method" as that's how ports fetches dwm. I
> tried applying the method to /usr/ports/x11-wm/dwm/work/dwm-5.9 but it
> didn't work (malformed patch
On 21/09/2011 10:48, Ross wrote:
> Quoting the manpage:
>
> -s jsize Specifies size of the journal if only one provider is
>used for both data and journal. The default is one
>gigabyte. Size should be chosen based on provider's
>
On 21/09/2011 10:34, Rafael NAVAZA wrote:
>> Could this help in your situation?
>> > http://www.liquidx.net/blog/2006/04/03/nss_ldap-undocumented-nss_reconnect_tries/
> That is a client side solution for Linux and I have several other OSs that
> use LDAP.
No -- it's OS independent. You obvious
On 21/09/2011 09:17, krad wrote:
> If its been syncd to openbsd 4.5 version of pf, its still quite a way behind
> openbsd's version in the latest release as they are not on 4.9 with 5.0
> imminent. Looking at the docs there were quite a lot of changes when openbsd
> was bumped to 4.7
Yes. However
On 21/09/2011 07:17, Van Der Meulen, Mark wrote:
> mail# postmap /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport
>
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libmysqlclient.so.18" not found,
> required by "postmap"
What version of mysql client do you have installed?
libmysqlclient.so.18 comes from databases/mysql5
On 21/09/2011 08:34, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 21/09/2011 07:34, Modulok wrote:
>> Is there an easy way to find out what version of PF a given FreeBSD version
>> is
>> using? Currently I'm doing this:
>>
>> grep -iE '\bpf\b' /usr/src/UPDATING
On 21/09/2011 07:34, Modulok wrote:
> Is there an easy way to find out what version of PF a given FreeBSD version is
> using? Currently I'm doing this:
>
> grep -iE '\bpf\b' /usr/src/UPDATING
>
> Just wondering if I'm missing something. I didn't see any '--version'
> flag in pfctl.
Uh -- bpf
On 20/09/2011 11:39, deepak kumar wrote:
> I tried but several section were empty :(
Perhaps if you tell us exactly what you are trying to find?
Cheers,
Matthew
--
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
On 20/09/2011 09:50, deepak kumar wrote:
> I want to download the freebsd manpages for some sections which i don't have
Individual man pages can be viewd on-line at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi -- that's obviously the processed
page rather than the nroff source code.
Page sources are availa
On 20/09/2011 05:33, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> I noticed only recently that there are now packages on FTP in a folder
> called packages-8-stable. I am not sure how often these are built. I
> expect that the entire ports tree is built much like it is during a
> release, except at some later point in
On 19/09/2011 15:54, Rafael NAVAZA wrote:
> Is there a way to setup an OpenLDAP HA cluster (intersite multimaster) with
> CARP on FreeBSD ?
Hmmm... So long as both the LDAP servers are on the same network
segment, and so long as they have separate addresses for their
replication channel, then I
On 19/09/2011 11:44, Alexandr Matveev wrote:
> We have two Linux servers doing LVS/DR load balancing (rewriting MAC
> addresses).
> Is there a way to do this in FreeBSD, so there won't be need for a Linux
> servers here?
> ( http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/VS-DRouting.html )
>
> There is a p
On 18/09/2011 22:11, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> There used to be a command to get a list of subscriptions from
> majordomo. What is the equivalent for mailman? I just got the help
> command for -questions. There doesn't seem to be a 'which' command.
For mailman, you can access the list of subscrib
On 14/09/2011 19:31, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
>>> In regards to partitioning, I have a question regarding a "rumor"
>>> that has been told to me by various different linux experts, and
>>> I wanted to confirm if this also takes place with FreeBSD U
On 14/09/2011 18:27, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Matthew Seaman
> wrote:
>
>> > ... In these days of plentiful RAM, the new rule of thumb is "if you're
>> > swapping, then you're doing it wrong."
> I think your re
On 14/09/2011 13:34, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
> Each operating system seems to have different documentation regarding
> what a decent swap size is for systems with large amounts of RAM. My
> system only has 8GB of RAM. Some people have gone with the general idea
> that 2X the amount of RAM is suffic
On 10/09/2011 16:12, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> gnome-art is peculiar. There is nothing in that directory but the work
> directory, no makefile or anything. And nothing I can find in UPDATE
> about alacarte or gnome-art.
>
> Any further thoughts, if you have time?
That is an ex-port.
lucid-nonsen
On 10/09/2011 07:52, Mr. Darren wrote:
> I am trying to install Mumble on a headless FreeBSD server which has
> no need for X11. Why is this port trying to install X11? Seems like
> it shouldn't be needed.
Is that X libraries or the X server it's trying to install? The first
is perfectly reason
On 10/09/2011 08:17, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> I have a drive with two filesystems.
> /dev/da1s1d 412G 337G 42G 89%
> and
> /dev/da1s1e 130G 19M 119G 0%
>
> I need the space on da1s1e.
>
> Does FreeBSD have any mechanism to enlarge
> s1d after I delete s1e ?
These are normal FreeBSD UFS2 f
On 09/09/2011 16:27, Paul Keusemann wrote:
> I am still curious about what has changed in the last couple of weeks
> though.
What do these commands produce:
% pw user show -n root
% pw user show -n toor
--- the default results look like this:
root:*:0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
toor:
On 09/09/2011 15:13, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> I've been trying to update libnotify and libproxy following the
> instructions in UPDATING, which is to do
>
> portmaster -r libnotify-0
>
> This trys to install ghostscript9, and fails. Apparently ghostscript9
> conflicts with ghostscript8-8.71_6, w
On 07/09/2011 00:13, Fbsd8 wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I have a user id that is in the wheel group.
> I su and get prompted for the user id's password after which I get
> returned to the command line. Running the script with the mkdir command
> embedded still returns Permission Denied messa
On 06/09/2011 16:49, Fbsd8 wrote:
> I have a user that belongs to the wheel group but when the user tries to
> issue mkdir command it gets a permission denied error.
>
> How do I fix this?
Make the directory that contains where your user is trying to create a
new subdirectory writable by group wh
On 05/09/2011 20:25, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote:
> is there a way to show only ports where security advisories have been
> posted in the weekly output, similar to enabling
> weekly_status_pkg_enable in periodic.conf?
Not specifically weekly. There's a *daily* security check on installed
ports if you i
On 05/09/2011 14:13, Gene wrote:
> Either 1) I'm looking in all the wrong places, 2) the link was somehow
> deleted, 3) ZFS has changed TWTAD (the way things are done).
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
ZFS snapshots automount themselves when you cd to the snapshot directory.
On 04/09/2011 12:27, Carmel wrote:
> WITH_MOZILLA=firefox
This seems to be obsolete -- there's no choice to use firefox available.
Grepping the ports tree produces only 2 ports that mention WITH_MOZILLA
(mail/mail-notification and deskutils/google-gadgets) and in those
cases, WITH_MOZILLA is an O
On 04/09/2011 12:09, Richard Collyer wrote:
> Just incase anyone else reads this for a solution I think the cd
> /usr/ports/packages line near the bottom was a typo and should have been
> /var/db/pkg
Yes. Dammit. One of these days I'll perfect the art of writing down
exactly what I want to say.
On 04/09/2011 11:05, Richard Collyer wrote:
> I was trying to get CUPS working last night and installed
> gutenprint-cups but the make failed half way through - managed to get
> the printer working without it so no longer need it. As a result its
> installed a fair number of packaged (mostly X11 re
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