stable/8/UPDATING - no mention of 8.0 release

2009-11-30 Thread Peter
=markup It just confused me for awhile after I did a 'svn up' and did not see the release notes... [for the 7.X series, both stable/ and release/ mention the release in UPDATING] ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: Sorting a device list

2009-11-29 Thread Peter Steele
I ended up using ls /dev/ad*|sort -g -k1.8 Not quite as generic as I wanted but it works... From: Oliver Mahmoudi [mailto:olivermahmo...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 10:36 AM To: Peter Steele Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorting a device list you can try

Sorting a device list

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Steele
Can anyone recommend a quick and dirty way to sort a device list? For example, if I do this: ls /dev/ad* | sort I get something like this: /dev/ad10 /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6 /dev/ad8 I can add -g, but it doesn't help: ls /dev/ad* | sort -g /dev/ad10 /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6 /dev/ad8 I need to skip the

Re: evoultion missing its top graphics [on menu-bar]

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Samstag, den 28.11.2009, 15:01 -0800 schrieb Gary Kline: Folks, I t think I asked here a couple years ago when the same thing happened; I didn't think it would happen again. Evo works fairly well--is there a way I can make it my default GUI mailer?-- I hope so.

RE: Sorting a device list

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Steele
I had tried that. It doesn't work: # ls -d1 /dev/ad* | sort -n /dev/ad10 /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6 /dev/ad8 I want the ad10 to appear last... -Original Message- From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keram...@ceid.upatras.gr] Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 4:31 PM To: Peter Steele Cc: freebsd

gmirror creation problem in 8.0

2009-11-23 Thread Peter Steele
I have a script that configures a mirrored file system and have been using this successfully in 7.0 without any issues. The commands I use to set up the mirror are: gmirror label -v -n -b round-robin gm0 ad4s1 gmirror configure -a gm0 This never gave me any trouble in 7.0, but in 8.0 the

Postgresql download site

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Steele
What's the best place to pick up the latest 7.0 and 8.0 packages for postgresql client and server? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

What does Audit record was not committed during login imply?

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Steele
I've installed a BSD 7.0 system and I am getting the error login: Audit record was not committed when I try to login. What would cause this? I am using a custom process to do the BSD install onto USB boot disks, but we've been using it for months and I've never seen this error when we've booted

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Kieser
and had a number of torrents open the machines would lock up or restart. It was reproducible at the time, but I could never get anyone to admit there was a bug and I'm unable to find the initial posting. Regards, -Peter Michael Schaefer wrote: Hello everybody, I encountered same problems

RE: ELF library not found error

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Steele
been built on an 8.0 system with a custom kernel that was built on a 7.0 system? -Original Message- From: Norbert Papke [mailto:npa...@acm.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:47 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Steele Subject: Re: ELF library not found error On November

RE: ELF library not found error

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Steele
Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Peter Steele Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:14 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ELF library not found error This was not an upgrade but rather a fresh install. I

RE: ELF library not found error

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Steele
Presumably (and I am speculating), the 8.0 packages are not yet finalized and therefore inconsistent. Perhaps you will have better luck after the official 8.0 Release? I was thinking the same thing--too much version mismatching going on. I'm going to take your suggestion though and compile

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
in FreeBSD.org's spam blocker? I have raised this with postmaster@ and he is investigating how to block this spam. -- Peter Jeremy pgpPzDB5BrVIV.pgp Description: PGP signature

ELF library not found error

2009-11-17 Thread Peter Steele
I did a search for this error and got numerous hits, none which really seemed to explain my situation. I've installed an 8.0 RC3 system and included Python 2.5, 2.6, and 3.1. The 2.6 version appears to run fine. However, for both 2.5 and 3.1 I get the error: ELF interpreter

RE: ELF library not found error

2009-11-17 Thread Peter Steele
I should have mentioned that this shared library mentioned in the error is in fact present. For some reason though these apps seem to think it's missing... -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Peter Steele

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-14 Thread Peter
is on the same slice. ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
When a system has a USB drive present, the system typically names it /dev/da0. However, if the system has SATA drives hooked to an LSI controller, or if the system has SCSI drives, the same drive prefix is used as is for the USB drive. For our purposes, we'd like to separate the USB drive from

RE: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
If you could elaborate more on the goal you are seeking, other useful information could come from this list. At the moment, it's just my wild guessing. :-) I have a bootable FreeBSD image on a USB stick that clones itself on the target system's hard drive, creating partitions and other

RE: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
In this case, labelling the USB stick would be a good chioce. The /etc/fstab entries then refer to those labels instead of device names (that could change). You can use generic labels as well as UFS labels here; even a reference to the UFSID would be possible, as well as independant from da

RE: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
Labels are an excellent solution in this case. I've done some quick research on this and it will indeed solve the issue regarding a generic fstab. I have a related question though. I want to take this a step further and convert the bootable USB stick into a bootable CD-ROM image. This is a

Converting a bootable USB stick in to bootable CD-ROM

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Steele
I have a FreeBSD image that I install on USB sticks to build new systems. When the stick boots it automatically clones itself on the system's hard drive, creating partitions and other configuration parameters that are programmed into the stick's cloning logic. I want to create a similar

Re: Remote ssh tunnel in background or script?

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Boosten
On 9 nov 2009, at 20:36, patrick wrote: Check out /usr/ports/security/autossh autossh is a program to start a copy of ssh and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic. The original idea and the mechanism were from rstunnel (Reliable SSH Tunnel). With this

freebsd partitions on a dos/fat slice?

2009-11-08 Thread Peter
of data from it just fine - Curios why s1 is being detect as a 'fat' partition and not a fbsd slice. Have not tried to put this disk into a windows/another box... ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

OpenWBEM for FreeBSD?

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Steele
Anyone know if there is a port for OpenWBEM for FreeBSD? I did some searching but couldn't find anything, although I did find references saying that there is a FreeBSD port. I couldn't find anything in the usual places though... ___

Re: Problem installing dvdauthor...

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Harrison
Sunday, 1 November 2009 at 23:43:26 +0100, usleepl...@gmail.com said: Dear Peter, On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Peter Harrison peter.piggy...@virgin.netwrote: Hi all, Can anyone advise what I'm doing wrong trying to install multimedia/dvdauthor. Here's the end of the error

xen or virtualbox or vmware ?

2009-11-02 Thread Peter
recommend a freebsd and virtualbox ? What dom0 have you found to work best with xen? Just looking for thoughts/ideas/experience. ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: xen or virtualbox or vmware ?

2009-11-02 Thread Peter
Hi On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote: iH,   Trying to setup a new 'virtual' environment. Goal is to run freebsd in a virtual environment for ease of management and just because I've finally got _new_ hardware that isn't ~7++ years old. So far thinking of going

Re: dvdauthor can't find fribidi headers?

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Harrison
/dvdauthor]$ Just a me too I'm afraid. I'm having the same problem on 7.2-STABLE, but: pkg_info | grep fribidi fribidi-0.19.2_1A Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorith Peter Harrison ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Example of using mount() function?

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Steele
I want to call the mount() function to perform the same action as running the following mount command from the command line: mount -t ufs -o noatime /dev/adXXX /mnt The man page lists the signature of mount() as int mount(const char *type, const char *dir, int

RE: Example of using mount() function?

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Steele
See /usr/src/sbin/mount/mount_ufs.c from RELENG_6. Essentially, this argument should be a ufs_args struct as defined in /usr/include/ufs/ufs/ufsmount.h. Okay, got it. Thanks very much! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

system() call causes core dump

2009-10-31 Thread Peter Steele
I have an application running a number of threads. I've had recent instances where the code below is causing a core dump to occur: char fstatCmd[200]; char *fstatOut = /tmp/fstat.out; sprintf(fstatCmd, fstat | grep -v USER | wc -l %s, fstatOut); rc = system(fstatCmd); The call is simply

RE: system() call causes core dump

2009-10-31 Thread Peter Steele
In UNIX it is not safe to perform arbitrary actions after forking a multi-threaded process. You're basically expected to call exec soon after the fork, although you can do certain other work if you are very careful. The reason for this is that after the fork, only one thread will be running in

Problem installing dvdauthor...

2009-10-31 Thread Peter Harrison
2009 r...@laptop.piggybox:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP i386 With a ports tree updated last night. What am I missing? Thanks for the help. Peter Harrison. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Peter Thoenen
Virtual Box runs it great, both as a host and a guest (its also in the port collection) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Lagg driver not working on HP Proliant

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Steele
We just purchased an HP Proliant DL320 G6, a 1U server with two Broadcom NICs. When configured as standalone interfaces, the two NICs work fine. However, when configured as a failover lagg pair, we cannot assign an IP to the lagg0 interface. We are using the following entry in our rc.conf file:

RE: changing cron's From: address in emails

2009-10-24 Thread Peter
iH, Would this do it? server:$pwd /usr/src/usr.sbin/cron server:$grep -Ri Cron Daemon * cron/do_command.c: fprintf(mail, From: %s (Cron Daemon)\n, usernm); Recompile cron? ]Peter[ Greetings, here's

cpdup always copying files even if they are the same [but diff user]

2009-10-23 Thread Peter
.1 newserv:$ls -li cpdup.* 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 76 Oct 23 18:29 cpdup.root 13 -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 76 Oct 23 18:29 cpdup.user 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 76 Oct 23 18:29 cpdup.user.1 The copying takes a lot longer when going from server to server and different users. ]Peter

Re: Accessing LDAP via web

2009-10-18 Thread Peter Boosten
the LDAP server as an address book. For you to do so over the internet, you would need access to 389 TCP/UDP, are these ports opened up? Furthermore, you would require anonymous (read-)access. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: pf, ssh related question

2009-10-17 Thread Peter Boosten
flush all your current states. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: CMS

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Boosten
to Wordpress. The latter can be upgraded from the browser. Neither of these are installed by ports, all by source. MySQL is from ports, btw, as is all supporting software, like apache, gd, whatever. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Peter
; however, not with each other. Where can I find a go How-To on how to accomplish this? Hi, Maybe you are looking for this ? http://www.freebsddiary.org/nfs.php Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Postfix and SASL.

2009-09-21 Thread Peter Ankerstål
14:41:48 system authdaemond: Authenticated: sysusername=null, sysuserid=125, sysgroupid=125, homedir=/usr/maildirs, address=pe...@pean.org , fullname=Peter Ankerstål, maildir=pe...@pean.org/, quota=51200, options=null Sep 21 14:41:48 system postfix/smtpd[47155]: warning: SASL authentication

Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Steele
I posted this on the -net list but didn't get any responses. I'm hoping a wider audience might help. We're using the lag driver to provide automatic failover in case of a network outage. The default configuration looks like this: lagg0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST

RE: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Steele
Not really, unless you manually change master. However I believe this also causes a slight or even bigger network outage. Any reason you're not using loadbalance algorithm, since it seems to suit you better? Our resident network guru is quite opposed to using the loadbalancing option since it

RE: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Steele
a dedicated swap partition is probably a safer option. Peter -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Bye Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:57 AM To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: Using

RE: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Steele
Nowadays having swap twice as RAM is not necessary. If your system wasn't swapping much in the past you can safely stay with 4G in my opinion... extending it to 16G would be waste of space :) I won't bore you with the details but in fact our application *does* require this much swap space, but

RE: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Steele
8GB of swap space through an image file and let QA run their stress tests to see how things behave. That's the only way to know for sure if this will work for us. Thanks for the feedback. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-08 Thread Peter Steele
Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I could do something like this: mdconfig -a -t swap -f /var/swap0 -s 4g swapon -a /dev/md0 to add 4G to the system swap space backed by the file

One MAC, two IP with DHCP (dhclient) how?

2009-09-04 Thread Peter B
In an enviroment where the ethernet network interface is connected to a public ethernet network (internet). And a IPv4 address assignment scheme is static. One can simple add primary IP by: ifconfig interface inet 1.2.3.4 And an additional aliases with: ifconfig interface inet 1.2.3.5 alias

Re: measuring mysql usage

2009-08-31 Thread Peter Boosten
queries for a while. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Harrison
I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? Is it as simple as pkg_delete'ing 3.0 and then installing 3.5? Thanks for any thoughts. Peter Harrison. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Harrison
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 23:54:12 +0930, Wayne Sierke said: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:32 +0100, Peter Harrison wrote: I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? Is it as simple as pkg_delete'ing 3.0 and then installing

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Harrison
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 11:55:38 -0400, ill...@gmail.com said: 2009/8/26 Wayne Sierke w...@au.dyndns.ws: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:32 +0100, Peter Harrison wrote: I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone offer some advice on moving up to 3.5

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Harrison
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 10:37:48 -0400, Jerry said: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:32:09 +0100 Peter Harrison peter.piggy...@virgin.net wrote: I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? Is it as simple as pkg_delete'ing 3.0

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-25 Thread Peter Harrison
available patch only partially resolves. Peter Harrison. as for linux... no way.. had too many hack experiences during the early years. that's why i made the switch to bsd. i would like to make my own port (super-port?), build a distro, and dump it onto a machine. haven't tested on virtual

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-23 Thread Peter Harrison
an update). Haven't tried suspend-resume, but I am running the broadcom wireless successfully with ndis. Peter Harrison. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Lock order reversals on RELENG_8

2009-08-20 Thread Peter Cornelius
Hi, Are these lock order reversals reported any reason for preoccupation and/or should I report elsewhere? The kernel I just built does not boot at all, so I don´t know whether these are a closed issue already. I´m off for a couple of days and will retry then. Thanks regards, Peter

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Peter Cornelius
? For those who need it, it'd be great. Not sure what you are looking for but I have a feeling that it may be something like http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/desktopbsd-tools/pkg-descr http://desktopbsd.net/ Rgds, Peter. -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT

loader halting

2009-08-12 Thread Peter Andreev
Good day. While server is booting, I see this: /boot.config: -Dh BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Consoles: internal video/keyboard serial port BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS drive D: is disk1 BIOS 637kB/3668864kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (em...@email, Fri

How is time zone change signalled?

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Steele
We have a suite of applications with a Java GUI controlling everything. One of the actions the user can perform is to set the time zone. We do this through our Java application and update the /etc/localtime as required. We also make an API call to tell the JVM that the time zone as changed, and

RE: How is time zone change signalled?

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Steele
Did you try unsetting TZ and then calling tzset()? The man page implies that doing so will force a reread of /etc/localtime (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tzsetsourceid=opensearch): The tzset() function initializes time conversion information used by the library routine localtime(3).

RE: How is time zone change signalled?

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Steele
I wonder if you'd get more insight by asking the question in -hackers. Perhaps there are some libc experts listening there. Well, I still haven't found the magic so I'll try my luck there... Thanks for the feedback. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: eclipse install

2009-08-05 Thread Peter Boosten
manually via a web browser in this old fashioned way. :-) Unfortunately this is not true for the jdk. But it's only a minor disadvantage ;-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-04 Thread Peter Boosten
will crack these in a jiffy. Hardly secure I would say... I use apg, like this: /usr/local/bin/apg -x 8 -m 8 -l -MSNCL -s 8 characters, minimal one capital, number and special sign, and I could use a previous used password (or random) as input. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org

snd_uaudio.ko (USB audio driver) doesn't work on FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64

2009-08-03 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi, since I upgraded to FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64 my sound device doesn't work anymore. In my /boot/loader.conf I have got snd_uaudio_load=YES # kldstat shows Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 35 0x8010 ce46e0 kernel 21

Diablo JDK threads implementation

2009-07-29 Thread Peter Steele
We've developed a server platform around FreeBSD 7.0 consisting of several applications written in C and one primary application written in Java (JDK 1.6). We're seeing cases in some of ouor stress tests where some threads in our JAVA application appear to get no CPU time for extended periods of

What order are options in rc.conf processed?

2009-07-27 Thread Peter Steele
We have an rc.conf file that looks something like this: ifconfig_nfe0=UP ifconfig_nfe1=UP cloned_interfaces=lagg0 ifconfig_lagg0=laggproto failover laggport nfe0 laggport nfe1 ip netmask mask defaultrouter=router-ip ... ourapp_enable=YES In a recent reboot test, when ourapp started,

RE: What order are options in rc.conf processed?

2009-07-27 Thread Peter Steele
rc.conf is just a script that sets a bunch of environment variables for the /etc/rc.d/* scripts to use. The order the variables are set in that file does not matter. If you want your script to run after network interfaces are set up, you'll want to add a REQUIRE: NETWORKING line. See the rc and

RE: What order are options in rc.conf processed?

2009-07-27 Thread Peter Steele
path, even though we have an IP defined in rc.conf. We're trying to understand how this could happen and are wondering how the options in rc.conf are processed. -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:jhelf...@e-e.com] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 2:44 PM To: Peter Steele Cc: freebsd-questions

running out of inodes

2009-07-25 Thread Peter
/dev/aacd0s1d4.8G 62M4.4G 1% 1425 6580290% /var What is the best way to handle it ? Thanks in advance. Peter Zyumbilev ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Boosten
Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
and prejudices. I'm a happy bind user for years now (and I use sendmail as well). Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
Steve Bertrand wrote: I like whatever works in regards to the situation I'm facing ;) And that's the best possible reason one could have! ;-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: OFFTOPIC: HP DL1xx vs IBM x3250 vs DELL R200

2009-07-14 Thread Peter
Tim Judd wrote: On 7/13/09, Peter peterp...@aboutsupport.com wrote: Building your own box is more likely to support naturally and best option than HP/IBM/Dell if you want complete customization -- but you or your company may prefer a commercial support option if things go awry. Good luck

OFFTOPIC: HP DL1xx vs IBM x3250 vs DELL R200

2009-07-13 Thread Peter
® Gigabit Ethernet NIC Sliding Rack Kit for Dell Racks (Rapid Rails) Prices are almost the same :-) Please recommend. Thanks in advance. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: VLC server

2009-07-08 Thread Peter
Graeme Dargie wrote: I did that before I started the install. Regards Graeme As a workaround, try to compile ffmpeg first. Make make config for ffmpeg and make sure libamr is NOT enabled. It is a workaround but should do the job. Peter

Re: VLC server

2009-07-07 Thread Peter
Graeme Dargie wrote: Hello List. Hi, try upgrading the ports tree. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Dependency confusion

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Clark
installed or can you have both side by side? My real concern is about which db backend my cyrus-imap-23 is linked against. Thank you, Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Dependency confusion

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Clark
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 02), Peter Clark said: I have a number of ports installed on my 7.2Release box. When I issue pkg_info I see that I have both db41-4.1.25_4 and db46-4.6.21.4 installed. Is there an easy way to see which program is linked to which db? Is this some

JDK6 for FreeBSD-64?

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Steele
Is there an alternative to Diablo JDK for FreeBSD-64? We've been using this port for a while and it works fine, but some of the tools available in Java distributions for other platforms are not fully implemented in the Diablo port. We're particularly interested in the memory profiling tool jmap.

RE: JDK6 for FreeBSD-64?

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Steele
There's java/jdk16 and the java/openjdk6 ports. However, I don't know whether they support jmap or not. The jmap tool in java/jdk16 doesn't appear to be complete either. Has anyone successfully built openjdk6 for FreeBSD? ___

Re: configuring and ssh tunneling xorg from a headless FreeBSD machine

2009-06-29 Thread Peter Boosten
it: start Xming, ssh into your FreeBSD, your DISPLAY environment will be set to localhost:10.0 (that's the default offset). and fire some X client (say xterm) and it will show on your Vista. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: torrents.freebsd.org

2009-06-26 Thread Peter
Chris Cowart wrote: Hello, I'm currently trying to setup a bittorrent tracker to distribute files, Hi, Try http://www.freenas.org/ -- it comes with web panel and has Bittorent module along other modules. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: freeBSD logo

2009-06-25 Thread Peter Giessel
I want to make a t-shirt with the caption The Power to Serve but I can't find it in a good resolution. Can you send it to me? Vector formats (which would allow you to produce any resolution you want) are available here: http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html

Re: Problem starting slapd

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Boosten
ldapi= /usr/local/etc/rc.d # There is a 'socket' created, but that is it. I a pulling my hair out, what is left of it, trying to figure out what the problem is. Any suggestions? Thanks! Check permissions on /var/run/openldap Peter ___ freebsd

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Boosten
. Which is preferable, and why? __ 700, you private key(s) go in there. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-20 Thread Peter
on the market ! Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II) - Openoffice packages

2009-06-20 Thread Peter Harrison
and clear instructions. I've never managed to successfully run openoffice on FreeBSD, but now I'm up and running. Great job, thanks. Peter Harrison. As a matter of fact, I noticed only the main openoffice package is needed - every other run dependency is already present in the XFCE iso

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-19 Thread Peter
humidity and temperature). Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Processes dying with signal 11

2009-06-19 Thread Peter Giessel
On Friday, June 19, 2009, at 12:21PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: Unfortunately memtest86+ runs on x86 hardware and this is a PowerPC iBook. Being Apple hardware there's not much swapping of hardware I can do - I'll run a few more tests but I guess it's probably time to chuck it away.

fsck

2009-06-16 Thread Peter
of slow reboot in case of clean shutdown and restart ? Thanks, Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: fsck

2009-06-16 Thread Peter
Bill Moran wrote: fsck_y_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf See the man page for details. Thanks :-) Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Crusty upgrade (was Make Question)

2009-06-16 Thread Peter Clark
so I want to cover my bases before I jump into this. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Make Question

2009-06-11 Thread Peter Clark
lines as errors in other ports... I am not sure if this is just caused by the cyrus port, make in general or something inherently broken in that 5.1 install. Any help to resolving this is appreciated. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: AFP Client in FreeBSD

2009-06-10 Thread Peter Giessel
On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at 09:45AM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a gargantuan hard drive, and I would like to back up my FreeBSD server to it, and back up my mac to my FreeBSD server. I have seen where FreeBSD can be an AFP

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-09 Thread Peter Andreev
yes, you're right, thank you/ the right version will be: * * 31 1,3,5,7,8,10,12 * * * 30 4,6,9,11 * * * 28,29 2 * 2009/6/9 Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za On Monday 08 June 2009 17:37:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: may

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Peter Andreev
may be this solution will help you: * * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec * * * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov * * * 28 feb * or: * * 31 1/2 * * * 30 4/2 * * * 28 2 * 2009/6/8 Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Peter Boosten
read/write permissions on /dev/mdctl. So either change those permissions so that your user-id has those permissions, or run mdconfig as root. Hmmm, one might think that 'sudo' does exactly that ;-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Peter Boosten
Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: Having trouble mounting the ISO: [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ./texlve2008.iso

/etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-04 Thread Peter
iH, This all started with NFS not mounting at bootso, testing in VMs: This is a fresh/generic install of 7.2-REL no firewall em1=10.21.20.0/24 network - DHCP for ssh access client# uname -a FreeBSD client.test 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009

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