Implications of missing this step?

being out of date for third party applications, make me feel as if I have done something wrong. I blew away the GENERIC kernel several iterations of kernel builds ago. I always start a build with #>make clean. What can go wrong by not following the above step? Is a GENERIC kernel always n

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

hing works fine and then it bites me say only once in a week. Michael ___ 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: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

Peter Boosten wrote: > > On 14 dec 2010, at 09:12, Peter Boosten wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> In an attempt to update glib on my 8.0-machine, portupgrade stops with >> this message: >> >> >> >> gnome-libtool: compile: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. >> -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GLib-GIO\" -I.. -I../gli

portupgrade over http only

Hello, Is it possible to force portupgrade to use only http protocol where possible and skip the ftp servers? It's because currently I'm using very restrictive public access point where they block everything other than port 80 and I don't have a chance to set up a tunnel or proxy anywhere ou

Re: Which php??

Gary Kline wrote: [snip] > autoconf: required version 2.68 not found > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/security/php5-hash. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions. > Setting these environment variabl

Re: HP 2010i

o maybe I'll just play around with fonts. I think I can live with this. Thank You again for your help. Michael Wishing HP, Dell, IBM and Oracle etc., would get a clue. :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

Ian Smith wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 10, Message: 23 > On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:37:10 -0500 Michael Powell > wrote: [snip] > > > > > > > > > Try zeroing out the mbr: > > > > > > > > > > Boot a L

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

On 01/01/2011 12:51, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:34:39 -0600, "Michael D. Norwick" wrote: And, where are those commented out option lines in my xorg.conf documented? In the obvious place: "man xorg.conf". :-) From 'man xorg.conf&

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

On 01/01/2011 10:25, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I bought Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "HWP" ModelName"HP 2010" HorizSync24.0 - 83.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 76.0 Option"DPMS&q

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

On 12/31/2010 21:07, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Happy New Year! I bought a new HP 2010i LCD monitor that is supposed to give me 1600x900 resolution at 60 Hz to replace a generic 19" C.R.T. monitor that did 1024x768. The machine has an ATI Radeon video card and I am using a V.G.A. cabl

HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

# [] #Option "DynamicPM" # [] #Option "NewPLL" # [] #Option "ZaphodHeads" # Identifier "Card0" Driver "radeon" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc&quo

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

Ian Smith wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10 > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan > wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Michael Powell > > wrote: > > > > > Try zeroing out the mbr: > > > &

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

Chris Brennan wrote: > I've got an HP Business Class laptop (dv2700) and the original 250G SATAII > drive is going bad. So I bought a new drive, got a great deal on an SATAII > 750G drive for it, bios sees the drive fine. The old drive had > FBSD8.2/amd64 installed and it ran fine. I wanted to rei

RE: do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

No, I've done that before I could get what's called a pointer record or reverse DNS for my mail server ... Register a domain and setup the DNS server. If the ip is dynamic you have to regularly update your DNS server. The forward zones will work. If you use openssl to generate your own ssl ce

Re: Can't Build Port - pecl-intl

Kevin McQuiggin wrote: > Hi All: > > I am trying to upgrade my "RoundCube" webmail port, but the build fails > when trying to build the dependency port "pecl-intl": > > == > highgate# pwd > /usr/ports/devel/pecl-intl > highgate# make > ===> pecl-intl-1.1.2_2 depends on file: /usr/local

Re: Not affecting exactly FreeBSD but OpenBSD

o like to point out as of yet, the existence of a backdoor has yet to be confirmed. Below are two link you may enjoying reading to update your knowledge of the matter at hand: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129237675106730&w=2 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.bugtraq/4562

RE: Kind of off topic.

sure ... why not logmein.com? lol It doesn't work with playstation 3 ftw -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Gatten Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 6:40 PM To: 'Jorge Biquez'; FreeBSD Subject: RE: Kin

RE: Kind of off topic.

-Original Message- From: Michael J. Kearney Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 5:24 PM To: Jorge Biquez Subject: RE: Kind of off topic. ssh to the x-server with xwin32 ... FreeBSD runs with the command: xterm -fn 6x13 -sb -ls -display 192.168.0.2:0 & /usr/local/bin/startx

Re: Postfix and Gmail

Redd Vinylene wrote: > Anybody hooked their Postfix servers up with Gmail to use it as a client? [snip] Hate to break it you, but Postfix is not client software. FWIW though, there are two problem areas wrt to running a mail server. There's running the mail server itself, and then there's tryi

Re: Runaway ProFTP?

Grant Peel wrote: snip] > > \FYI for anyone that is following my thread on updating one single port: I > must have a somwhat busted installation. Using port upgrade failed ... > sorry I did not remember to keep the output, but, I was able to download > the source from proftpd.org and install it fr

Re: Updating 1 single port.

Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Michael Powell wrote: > >> Grant Peel wrote: >> >>> I suspect I have an issue with Proftpd and need to update it quickly. At >>> Christmas break we will be apdating all ports and src, but for now, I >>> would

Re: Updating 1 single port.

Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I suspect I have an issue with Proftpd and need to update it quickly. At > Christmas break we will be apdating all ports and src, but for now, I > would like to get the latest version of Proftpd up. > > What is the best / quickest method of getting 1 single port u

Re: What is loading my server so much?

Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 09/12/2010 11:31, Laszlo Nagy wrote: >> Today something happened. Number of http processes went up to 200. As a >> result, number of connections to database also went up to 200, and the >> web server is now refusing clients with "Cannot connect to database" >> messages (

Re: What is loading my server so much?

Laszlo Nagy wrote: > System is FreeBSD shopzeus.com 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #0: Sun Oct > 31 02:55:28 EDT 2010 amd64 > It has two quad-core Xeon CPUs, 24GB memory, and a RAID 1+0 array with > 10 disks + Areca 1680 controller with 2GB write back cache. > > Server is running: mailscanner

Re: dhclient doesn't work over wireless

On 09/12/2010 10:16, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 12/9/10, Michael wrote: Ok it looks like PR number 145269. Unfortunately there is no fix yet. Thank you for your help, at least I know it's not just me. That PR is invalid/useless. If you want feedback give more. You have wpa_supplicant

Re: dhclient doesn't work over wireless

On 09/12/2010 02:51, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Michael wrote: Again, other systems doesn't seem to have any trouble with getting IP from this DHCP server and wired interface (em0) works fine too. Any ideas please? Your answer lies within:

dhclient doesn't work over wireless

Hello, My FreeBSD laptop is unable to get IP address over DHCP but the same network works fine on Windows, Ubuntu and Android so I believe the problem lies in my FreeBSD configuration and not on the router/access point. Problem occurs only for wireless interface. FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 with Ather

Re: monitoring hardware temperatures

ry to read the data via IPMI? kldload ipmi;ipmitool sdr Regards, Michael! ___ 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: massive hdd/geli problems after upgrade to 8.1-RELEASE

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12088&page=3 aligned with the 4k sector size of the drive... regards Michael On 04.12.2010 20:19, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 12/4/2010 12:08 PM, Michael Schaefer wrote: >> >> ad4: FAILURE - READ_MUL48 status=51 error=84 >> LBA=594632984 &g

massive hdd/geli problems after upgrade to 8.1-RELEASE

ut just to make sure I did a rollback using freebsd-udpate back to 8.0-RELEASE-p4. Behold now everything goes smooth again and no errors occur at all. performance stability - everything back to normal. Any ideas on this? Since 8.0 is approaching end-of-life I would really like to upgrade to 8.1.. th

Re: Build World fails on 7-stable with cvs sources

documentation will tell you the same thing. > I am running them on different host architectures as both a test of the > vm, and as a test to make sure that a clean install of 7.3-Release will > not fail upon building world on them. > > On 11/28/2010 10:14 PM, Michael Eubanks wrot

Re: Build World fails on 7-stable with cvs sources

On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 03:14 -0500, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: > Greetings. > > I have cvs'd to the most current 7-stable source tree and have compiled > a kernel using these sources. > However, when I attempt to complete the buildworld process, I keep > getting failures in the below-listed are

Re: PCI Parallel Port I/O card

Jonathan Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a system which has a PCI I/O card with a parallel port > on it. I'd like my 8-STABLE/amd64 machine to recognise this card. > > The relevant bits of "pciconf -lcv" is: > > no...@pci0:4:6:0: class=0x070103 card=0x2000a000 chip=0x98659710 > rev=0x0

Re: Samba Access Like Windows Explorer

Jason C. Wells wrote: > Is it possible to access samba shares much like windows explorer does? > > The ultimate solution would be UNC names with browsing. I would very > much like to have my freebsd client see the network namespace in as > similar fashion to windows as possible. > > I also woul

Re: libm alternative in ports

--- of which you can take advantage for your definition of log2f and log2. Note that this macro is not described in math(3). -- Regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: More On Samba And Softupdates

Tim Daneliuk wrote: > The other day I mentioned I had a problem with a Samba-shared drive that > was just installed blowing up. When I rebuilt it, I forgot to enable > softupdates but the drive seems to be working flawlessly. I understand > it is possible to do this after-the-fact with tunefs.

Re: Softupdates And Samba

Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I installed another SATA drive on a FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE box here last > night. After the disk prep, I mounted it and then shared the whole drive > via Samba. > > This morning when I came in, the machine had horked all over itself and > I saw this in the log after the reboot:

Re: About FreeBSD kernel newbies

Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anyone has considered the creation of a kernel > newbies mail list for FreeBSD. > I am aware of two places where someone can ask questions about that: > either freebsd-hackers@ or the "FreeBSD Development" forum > at http://forums.freeb

Re: glibc-2.4

Chris Brennan wrote: > I've got a freebsd7.3 box running on an old VAIO PIII. For the most part > Ziggy chugs along quite well as my backup internal webserver and dns > slave. > > uname -a -> FreeBSD ziggy.xaerolimit.net 7.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD > 7.3-RELEASE-p3 #8: Sun Oct 24 01:53:03 EDT 2010 > r

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

incomplete, crippled, software. -- Best regards, Michael ___ 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"

zfs mirrors and high availability

I am running a 100% zfs based FreeBSD 8.0 system with 4 disks: two zfs mirrored boot drives and two zfs mirrored data drives. This morning the server went down with the following errors in the log file: Nov 11 10:05:01 caprica kernel: (da2:mpt0:0:3:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE(10). CDB: 35 0 0 0

Re: GPT Question

Mark Caudill wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Firstly, hello list. This is my first post here and while I'm a long > time Linux user, I'm a recent FreeBSD convert so please bear with me. > Yesterday I installed an extra hard drive that used to be in a Windows 7 > box.

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

ar capability is present in any other app) *AND* is utterly worthless for 'automating' annything that involves more than the single app. For Windows OSes there is actually a rather nice tool out there, http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ which allows you to script the GUI cr

was FreeBSD 8.1 success, now PC-BSD success

Thank You, Again, great job by the PC-BSD development team! Michael ___ 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: Resetting the sound system

d it. If it's compiled in your kernel then I don't know. thank you very much for your answer. I have got the audio driver compiled in the kernel, so I can not use your tip unless I remove this module of the kernel. Michael ___ freebsd-questi

Re: download cvsup?

Tim Dunphy wrote: > hey listers!! sorry for all the trouble.. just as an FYI it turned out > to NOT be a DNS issue at all!!! > > it was a routing issue... > > this command apparently did the trick... > > [r...@lbsd2:/usr/home/bluethundr]#/etc/rc.d/routing restart > add net default: gateway 192

Fwd: Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

Oops; Originally sent this to the poster and not the list. Sorry. Original Message Subject:Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:27:56 -0500 From: Michael D. Norwick To: Warren Block On 10/25/10 21:52, Warren Block wrote

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

ted X-install process that makes it unnecessary to set the horizontal and vertical frequencies ourselves (which we used to have to do.) But not for X, for the sound card, for as much as possible. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day; It is with some pleasure that

FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

like turning the knobs myself. I'll keep reading the manuals. :) Michael ___ 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"

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

Hi, I have got these after running Freebsd 8.1 Release p1 Amd64 for a couple hours, i have done kernel debugging it seems has anything to do with sched_ule? : admin# kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software,

Re: download cvsup?

Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Are the forwarders in your named.conf file OK? That was the next thing I was about to suggest. His FIOS router should be running DNS itself by default, with it pointing to Verizon's name servers. So he could try using 192.168.1.1 in his named.conf forwarders directive.

Re: Downgrade from 8.1 to 8.0 possible ?

Leon Meßner wrote: > Hi, > > because of the broken heimdal (gssapi) in 8.1-RELEASE i'm thinking of > going back to 8.0-p2 because i suppose the patch mentioned in > kern/147454 works there (opposed to 8.1). Can i just csup > RELENG_8_0_0_RELEASE and make a new world/kernel plus eventually > freeb

Re: download cvsup?

Tim Dunphy wrote: > Thanks guys! But to give more background the host in question IS > networking, at this point I can ssh into and out of it.. I just can't > resolve externally. > > [r...@lbsd2:/usr/ports]#ifconfig > bge0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=9b > ether 00:14:22:38:9e:eb > in

Re: download cvsup?

Tim Dunphy wrote: > hello, > > I accidentally deleted my ports tree thinking that cvsup was already > installed. it wasn't. :( csup is cvsup rewritten with C and exists in the base system. You no longer need to install cvsup, just use csup. > I seem to be having a little trouble resolving e

Re: How to load fluxbox themes

Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:17:54PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good day; How does one load a downloaded fluxbox theme? I have unpacked a nice vermaden authored theme into .fluxbox/flux-themes but that is where I am stuck. fluxbox ver. 1.1.1 from ports What goes

Re: How to get clipboard working - X

Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:12:16PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good day; Having a time getting cut and paste to work in a new FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-p1 installation I am using a newly rebuilt world and kernel that I cvsup'd yesterday but, I was not able to g

How to load fluxbox themes

Good day; How does one load a downloaded fluxbox theme? I have unpacked a nice vermaden authored theme into .fluxbox/flux-themes but that is where I am stuck. fluxbox ver. 1.1.1 from ports What goes in the .fluxbox/styles directory? T.I.A. Michael

How to get clipboard working - X

information from the handbook. T.I.A. Michael ___ 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: Resin 3.1.9, Apache 2.2.16 and mod_caucho?

Christer Solskogen wrote: [snip] >>> > Both Apache (port 80) and Resin3.1 (port 8080) runs fine alone. >>> > >>> >>> You probably have that module already installed. It comes with >>> www/resin3 according to the Makefile. >>> >> >> Don't think so. locate (updated) and find only shows these: >> >>

Re: __FreeBSD__ not available and unsigned long type

ded. The type uint64_t is indeed defined by the header stdint.h (mnemonic: standard integer types). This seems to suit the requirements of C99. Try `man stdint' at the command line. Best regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Captcha image does not load

Jack L. Stone wrote: > Folks: > > Please bear with me on this one. Am using FBSD-7.0p9 and PHP52. > > Have been using a Captcha protection against robots for a download section > of the server. It worked just fine since installed for a couple of years, > even with prior versions of PHP5. However

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

Michael Powell wrote: [snip] export restrictions have to do with acpi? Is > acpi a copyrighted, patented, or trademark otherwise owned by some entity? > Quite possibly so as it is in contrib. I just have no idea who might "own" > it. Or how it would fall afoul of crypto

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

Rob Farmer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 14:46, Randal L. Schwartz > wrote: >> I understand that entirely. Which is why it would be reasonable (and >> downright ethical) to ensure that every FreeBSD integrator be made well >> aware of this restriction. >> >> It hadn't occurred to *me* for exam

Re: Which OS for notebook

and I will be happy to provide you with this document. Hope this helps Regards Michael On 10/06/10 19:14, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:50:42AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Mark Blackman wrote: There's also the whole train of though

Re: Confused about keeping system up to date

Ed Flecko wrote: > Hi folks, > I'm running Production Release 8.1 on a production server. > > For a variety of reasons, I've decided to keep my system up to date > via building it from source code. > > 1.) I want to follow the 8.1 errata branch, which (after rebuilding) > pretty much just applie

Re: [fbsd_questions] i386 vs amd64, on intel_64

spellberg_robert wrote: [snip] > consider a dvd_image [ to pick an approach ] of a release to be found on > ftp.freebsd.org. > >q:if the release_name includes the string "i386", >am i restricted to 8 32_bit registers and 32_bit pointers, >notwithstanding its insta

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

Jerry wrote: [snip]. > > OK, I just updated my sources; however, this notation from the UPDATING > file does NOT appear in the UPDATING file on my machine: > > 20100920: p1 FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2 > Fix an integer overflow in RLE length parsing when decompressing > corrupt bzip2 data. >

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

Andy Wodfer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Andy Wodfer wrote: > >> I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE. >> >> I can't get GD enabled. I have installed latestes php5 from ports aswell >> as php5-extensions and enabled GD on the option screen: [snip] > > I solved my problem by manually del

Re: pf

Samuel Martín Moro wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm trying to set up pf on my soon-to-be new gateway (8.1-RELEASE amd64). > I used the sample configuration file available on > calomel > After a few tests, it appears that the gate has fully access to the > internet, b

Re: Trouble enabling GD in php/apache

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

Re: apache22 and threads

Victor Sudakov wrote: [snip] >> >> My thoughts are this matters depending upon which mpm you choose to build >> into apache. The default is prefork, and it handles incoming requests by >> spawning child processes. > > Do you mean to say "WITH_MPM=prefork" works exactly like apache13? > Essenti

Re: Zip file making issues

k I do not want to take). Maybe you could: mount -t nullfs -o ro /where/my/data/is /mnt cd /mnt zip ... Regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Re: why is the PHP stuff line "off" by default in ports/lang/php5?

d...@safeport.com wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Rob Farmer wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 00:45, Alex Dupre wrote: >>> This "issue" has been discussed too many times. The answer is simply >>> "no", but you can search the archives for the actual reason. You have to >>> comile the module for

Re: apache22 and threads

Victor Sudakov wrote: > Colleagues, > > When building apache22 from ports, would you recommend to enable or to > disable threads support? > > Even more confusing is the fact that for ports/www/apache22 the default > is: "Enable threads support in APR is off" (WITHOUT_THREADS=true) > > while for

Twitter on FreeBSD

FreeBSD enables OAuth. Located here is my screen shot of the error message: http://www.puffybsd.com/weeddude/echofon.png I am running PC-BSD 8.1 amd64 and I am using FireFox 3.6.8 (Installed from pbi) Cheerio! Michael -- Thanks, Michael Rusch rus...@gmail.com twitter - @weeddude

Re: Problem adding 1TB SATA disk to system

Andy Wodfer wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 release (will upgrade to 8.1 STABLE tonight). > However, I'm having big problems adding a new harddrive to the system. I > want a separate 1TB SATA installed to recover backup files on, but when I > add it I only get error messages: > > dm

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

Kaya Saman wrote: [snip] > The thing I don't quite understand though is that if the ports tree >> gets refreshed, do the packages get upgraded or will I need to >> rebuild them?? > > You have to rebuild them. > > Does this apply to ports too?? Yes. A package is just a port that someone has

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

Kaya Saman wrote: > [...] >> csup -L 2 ports && portsdb -uF && pkgdb -u && portversion To elaborate a little. csup -L 2 ports is what refreshes the ports tree. Portupgrade is a third party app you can install to assist in automating the updating process. Once you've installed portupgrade there

Re: gs-8-8.71 under 8.1-Release missing x11 devices

Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: > gs 8-8.71 under FreeBSD 8.1-R seems missing x11 device. > When use ghostview, it complains "/unknown device x11" > > /By tracing around, I found it was caused by gs 8-8.71. As typing "gs > --help", it shows much less > devices supported than gs 8-8.62 under FreeSBD 6.4-R.

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 servers one production and another test. > > The test machine's packages however, seem to be older then the > production machines one's even though I built the production system a > few months ago. > > I used the: portupgrade command in order to try to upgra

portupgrade -a stops at building gnome-menus

led and used FreeBSD around the 5.0-RELEASE days so I don't think I'm totally clueless. I'm running it as a virtual machine because I would like to install it on a new machine once I get past the test drive and checkout. Tried to build a new kernel a week or two ago and that went awry

NATD Question

interface fxp0 log Everything else seems to work just fine. What am I doing wrong ? Michael Kearney Computer Assistant +1 (703) 953-9626 mkear...@nvita.org http://www.nvita.org<http://www.nvita.org/> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: UPS question

Oliver Fromme wrote: > Ryan Coleman wrote: > > He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on > > a 1400VA. > > That W and VA numbers of the UPS are pretty much irrelevant, > because they tell nothing about the capacity of the battery. > Those numbers only give an upper lim

RE: ZFS woes

Graeme Dargie wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Dick Hoogendijk [mailto:d...@nagual.nl] > Sent: 10 August 2010 21:10 > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: ZFS woes > > FreeBSD-8.1/amd64 -> I spend all evening trying to create a ZFS mirror > > on my two 1Tb sata2 drives formerly used und

Re: firefox install problem

Fred Boatwright wrote: > Hello Steve, > > I have not had any luck installing the package manually. The file is a > tar.gz which pkg_add apparently can't handle. I did download > firefox.tar.gz and unpacked it. Pkg_info says it is corrupt. Changes > were apparently made to this package about t

Re: helping

Kamil Nowacki wrote: > installed FreeBSD on VirtualPC but I have a problem with configuring > Internet dhpc normally gets the ip address and the address of the router > but when I introduce portsnap fetch HQ to download files I do not want to > download by failed and when I go back to the configur

ipfw and changing IP address (dhcp)

get internet access. I am using "me" in all of my firewall rules for example: $cmd 20010 allow icmp from me to any out via $if_ext keep-state Is there anything I have forgotten about? Or ipfw simply can't handle such situations? Michael __

Re: looking for a buildable version of OpenOffice.org

Scott Bennett wrote: > I have tried all of the versions of OpenOffice.org that are currently > in the ports tree on a 7.3-STABLE system, and all of them fail to build to > completion. Is there somewhere that I can find one that actually works? > Or at least some alternative package that will

Re: mounting UFS CD-ROMs

Noah Pratt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a whole bunch of UFS CD-ROMs, but I'm unable to mount them on > my FreeBSD 8 system. > I thought it would be possible. From the FAQ: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html > > UFS CD-ROMs can be mounted directly on FreeBSD. Mounting disk > par

Re: Samba PDC roaming profiles problem

Alex de Kruijff wrote: > Hi, > > I've setup a LDAP backend Samba PDC. I can gain access to shares and > > login with a user that is in LDAP, but have a prblem setting up the > roaming profile stuff. I've been trying to solve this problem for some > time now, and have tried everything I could thi

Re: sudo -K/-k ineffective

xpiry. [...] I don't think sudo even knows about pam(3), so I'm not sure what could be happening here... Maybe there is something funny with sudo's timestamp directory? If it is mounted with option `noatime' it may have consequences similar to wha

Re: sudo -K/-k ineffective

On 07/30/2010 06:00 PM, Chris Rees wrote: It's by design. There's a timeout that you can set, try man sudo. Chris Chris, That is not by design. sudo -K should remove the timestamp -- sudo -K The -K (sure kill) option is like -k except that it removes

apache22 build problem: cgi disabled

't making it down to the Apache build process. Am I doing something daft here, or should I file a PR? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucasmwlu...@blackhelicopters.org http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/ New book available: Network Flow Analysis http://ww

Re: Upgrade 6.4-stable to 7.3

On 28 Jul 2010, at 11:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: Just one note. You are managing this machine remotely? No X on it? Take the two step approach and you should have a running system afterwards. It's a mail server, no X but I do have physical access. Michael Doyle Network Administ

Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?

krad wrote: [snip] >> >> If you have hardware controller with RAID capabilities, using native RAID >> is better, otherwise look towards gvinum or maybe ccd; see also: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/raid.html >> [snip] > > I dont agree that hardware raid is necessarily better.

Upgrade 6.4-stable to 7.3

3855 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec hptrr: no controller detected. acd0: CDRW at ata0-master UDMA33 ad4: 152627MB at ata2-master SATA150 Michael Doyle Network Administrator, Co-operation Ireland mdo...@cooperationireland.org http://www.cooperationireland.org/ Co-operat

Re: 8.1-RELEASE ia64

Samuel Martín Moro wrote: > Hi > > I would like to install FreeBSD-8.1 ia64, so I downloaded > FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso. > > When I boot from a burnt CD, the screen keeps black, with the > blinkingunderscore, > nothing else happend. > When I make an USB bootable stick, I've got a messa

Re: ipfw nat and jails on loopback - is it possible?

n the same jail when I switch to pf. Michael ___ 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: samba pam_smbpass & passwd seg fault

at address 0x8000 /var/log/messages Jul 19 10:11:49 kernel: Jul 19 10:11:49 kernel: pid 58460 (passwd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Timur I. Bakeyev wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Michael McGrew > wrote: >> I'm t

samba pam_smbpass & passwd seg fault

I'm trying to sync the local unix account passwords to the samba smbpass db using pam. When i run passwd, after it's done it seg faults and produces a core dump. The odd thing is that it works, the users local unix password gets synced to the smbpass db, but it seg faults. Below are my relevant con

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