Re: dig

2013-08-21 Thread Colin House
On 22/08/2013 9:34 AM, Doug Hardie wrote: There appears to be a problem with dig and the +trace option in 9.2. I believe its also in 9.1. The command: dig freebsd.org +trace Only yields a dumb response. No useful information is provided. Running the same command on FreeBSD 7.2 yields a co

Re: jls usage

2013-07-11 Thread Colin House
On 12/07/2013 11:19 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: In a .sh script I'm trying to get the jid for a single jail using this code jid=`jls -j jailname | cut -f 1- | awk '{print $1}'` The first line output by jls is a title line which the cut command is suppose to cut out so the first field on line 2 gets select

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-11 Thread Colin Barnabas
BSD user since 4.0 > > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freeb

Re: encrypted ZFS root and encrypted swap OOTB?

2012-07-09 Thread Colin Barnabas
tinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Colin Barnabas ___ 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: wired memory - again!

2012-06-09 Thread Colin Barnabas
t; FreeBSD 9 - few days old. > > ___ > freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubs

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-05 Thread Colin Barnabas
ly run *nix. Take a look at the Sony PS3 debacle. After Sony yanked support for installing other OS's, the community ripped apart their hypervisor in a matter of months. If these boot keys do gain any momentum, sooner than later the community with poke holes in the system. -- Colin Barnabas

Re: FreeBSD X?

2012-05-17 Thread Colin Barnabas
sd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" What a steaming pile of poo. How can anyone take this seriously? -- Colin Barnabas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

avrdude and arduino

2012-05-13 Thread Colin Barnabas
duino -p ATMEGA328P -P /dev/cuaU0 -U flash:w:flash.hex Any suggestions would be much appreciated. -- Colin Barnabas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: need help in freebsd

2012-03-25 Thread Colin Barnabas
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 09:36:35AM +1000, Stanley Aisi wrote: > hi there, > > i need your help in freebsd > > regards, > > Stanley > papua new guinea > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-23 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/23/12 06:59, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Colin Percival wrote: >> On 01/22/12 03:45, Christer Solskogen wrote: >>> I just did, and the file list is the same. Or do you want me to do a >>> md5 of every file? >> >> Yes, I

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-23 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/22/12 03:45, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Colin Percival wrote: >> Try doing a release cross-build and compare it against a non-crossed release >> build; extract the built tarballs and send me a list of which ones aren't >> iden

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-21 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/21/12 04:15, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Colin Percival wrote: >> We don't have suitable build hardware for other architectures, and there are >> some problems with release cross-building which aren't fixed yet. > > I f

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-21 Thread Colin Percival
uitable build hardware for other architectures, and there are some problems with release cross-building which aren't fixed yet. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid __

upgrade to 9-CURRENT

2012-01-17 Thread Colin Barnabas
uld perhaps offer some advice? -- Colin Barnabas ___ 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: New FreeBSD User | HP Doesn't Boot

2011-10-08 Thread Colin Barnabas
> it doesn't do anything. Researching this a little more, it looks more like a > partitioning issue. However, I used the automatic settings to configure the > partitions on my hard drive. What could this mean? > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Colin Barnabas > mailto:a...@

Re: New FreeBSD User | HP Doesn't Boot

2011-10-08 Thread Colin Barnabas
The chances that you have inadvertently altered your BIOS are quite slim. What does the machine display when you try to boot? On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 04:11:31PM -0700, Michael Starr wrote: > Hello Everyone, > >I am a brand new FreeBSD user with minimal Unix knowledge. I have > "successfully"

Re: PGP or GPG

2011-10-01 Thread Colin Barnabas
Quite the opposite. I would prefer to use GPG. I was just curious if there were any reasons why PGP should be used instead. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

PGP or GPG

2011-10-01 Thread Colin Barnabas
Can anyone think of any compelling reasons why PGP should be used instead of GPG? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@fr

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-08 Thread Colin Albert
On 08/07/2011 02:17 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 07.08.2011 16:24, Matthias Apitz wrote: >> El día Sunday, August 07, 2011 a las 12:05:12AM +0300, Volodymyr >> Kostyrko escribió: >> >>> 05.08.2011 22:12, Christian Barthel wrote: As a Gnome 2.3x user too, I am also a bit nervouse. Gnome 3 is

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Colin Albert
On 07/21/2011 01:02 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:21:47PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: Doesn't the NDIS specification offer a reasonably stable ABI for wireless drivers? I have often thought that supporting NDIS would offer manufacturers a sort of "halfway house" to ease th

Issues with ar0(Host Raid) adaptec after upgrade to 8.2

2011-02-01 Thread Colin Legendre
Hey All, I'm having an odd issue, and the only thing I can imagine is that there has been a major change between 8.1 and 8.2. Using the 8.1 kernel everything is dandy. But when I try to use a newly compiled kernel from 8.2(GENERIC) I have no luck. Root will not mount. Here are relevant k

Re: X is broken after upgrade

2010-05-12 Thread Colin Albert
. In your first post i notice that your x.org.log lists the default configuration. Double check that your xorg.conf file wasn't deleted or renamed accidentally. Mine was xorg.config instead of xorg.conf. Colin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-29 Thread Colin Percival
John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2010 11:00:28 am Colin Percival wrote: >> I think the best approach towards having FreeBSD Update support for >> sparc64 is to get release cross-building working; that way we would >> be able to use amd64 hardware, which I think we can

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-26 Thread Colin Percival
o set the requirement of an hour ? >> freebsd-update might be a good thing to have.. > > IIRC it was Colin who once mentioned that this was decided > by the Security Officers in order to be able to react to > high impact security issues affecting multiple branches in > a timely

Re: can't bring ath0 up

2010-03-06 Thread Colin Brace
e commands work for me: ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 wlanmode hostap ifconfig wlan0 inet 192.168.0.1 mode 11g channel 2 ssid freebsdap - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/can%27t-bring-ath0-up-tp27734134p27802878.html Sent from

can't bring ath0 up

2010-02-28 Thread Colin Brace
0211: Invalid argument Any ideas on what is going on here? - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/can%27t-bring-ath0-up-tp27734134p27734134.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD (nearly solved)

2010-01-13 Thread Colin Albert
On 01/13/10 07:43, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, January 13, 2010 a las 09:51:45AM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: I did now (thanks for your help, Colin): - installed the 'User Agent Switcher' addin in Firefox 3.0.7 - changed the user agent to the above Lin

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Colin Albert
On 01/12/10 14:23, Colin Albert wrote: On 01/12/10 11:12, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a las 08:48:31AM -0700, Warren Block escribió: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based desktop? As far as

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Colin Albert
using the online demo. http://www.webex.com/go/live_demo if it works the download will be automatic. I am still trying to make it work as well. -Colin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Colin Albert
milar products in FreeBSD, namely MeetingPlace. IMO it runs better in FreeBSD than Windows. - Colin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p5 and kernel panic with mpt driver

2010-01-05 Thread Colin Waring
e uses the tag *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_2 The docs on stable say to use RELENG_7 for which I assumed was out of date with the docs not always being updated frequently. Is there a different tag for 7.2 Stable or am I not understanding the d

7.2-RELEASE-p5 and kernel panic with mpt driver

2010-01-05 Thread Colin
but it would appear that whatever this patch is - I don't have it! Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Colin. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 installworld failed - SOLVED

2009-12-26 Thread Colin
o there must be some other stuff in make.conf that is also required to prevent the problem.. Thanks for all the help folks! Now on to the ports... -- Regards, Colin Waring, +44 (0)1704 564047 Southport Computers Local IT Support http://www.southportcomputers.co.uk Southport Web Web Design and H

Re: Upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 installworld failed

2009-12-24 Thread Colin
Final update before Christmas. Still no joy. I removed my make.conf and dropped back to GENERIC (although I did add in IPFILTER, IPFILTER_LOG and QUOTA). This produced exactly the same result so I don't think its the kernel. I feel like a giant oak tree that has just been cut down after being

Re: Upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 installworld failed

2009-12-24 Thread Colin
Ok, After looking into NO_PROFILE I found that things had been moved to src.conf and I didn't have that file. I made src.conf with the following in it: WITHOUT_ATM=yes WITHOUT_BLUETOOTH=yes WITHOUT_GAMES=yes WITHOUT_I4B=yes WITHOUT_IPX=yes WITHOUT_NCP=yes WITHOUT_NIS=yes WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=yes WI

Re: Upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 installworld failed

2009-12-24 Thread Colin
0 WITH_PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND8=YES WITH_PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9=YES WITHOUT_ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX=YES WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=YES X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} Can I put NO_PROFILE=TRUE in there now and start again or is it too late and does it require other action to correct the problem? -- Regards, Colin

Upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 installworld failed

2009-12-24 Thread Colin
ons and disabled the same devices as with my 7.0 kernel. So can anyone see something I'm missing in the kernel or is there another solution I'm missing? Thanks, Colin. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Xorg - no mouse and no keyboard

2009-12-04 Thread Colin Albert
nd not those of my employer Have you tried adding AutoAddDevices false to your xorg.conf? Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" EndSection I had to do that until the latest hal update in order to get my wireless usb mouse and keyboard t

Re: Newbie questions (updating, ports, etc.)

2009-12-03 Thread Colin Albert
th checking for fresh ports everyday or week. Also you will probably be able to take full advantage of the new target hardware by compiling from source. Colin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: postfix + cyrus sasl: no go

2009-09-19 Thread Colin Brace
Jerry-107 wrote: > > 2) Post the contents of: /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf > Jerry, this file doesn't exist on my system. - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/postfix-%2B-cyrus-sasl%3A-no-go-tp25521649p2552

postfix + cyrus sasl: no go

2009-09-19 Thread Colin Brace
postconf -a" returns dovecot. Any ideas what is going wrong here? versions: postfix-2.6.5,1 cyrus-sasl-2.1.23 FreeBSD 7.0 - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/postfix-%2B-cyrus-sasl%3A-no-go-tp25521649p25521649.h

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-27 Thread Colin Brace
Colin Brace wrote: > > ah, another directory found in /tmp with files written by www called > .bash/ Contents here: > > http://silenceisdefeat.com/~cbrace/www_badstuff-3.gz > Apropos of the contents of the above, a correspondent writes: [...] running 'strings&#

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Colin Brace
Colin Brace wrote: > > > CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: >> >> Are these files available in a tarball someplace public, for those of us >> who enjoy performing autopsies on virii? > ah, another directory found in /tmp with files written by www call

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Colin Brace
Colin Brace wrote: > > > CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: >> >> Are these files available in a tarball someplace public, for those of us >> who enjoy performing autopsies on virii? > > Sure thing: http://silenceisdefeat.com/~cbrace/www_badstuff.gz > > this

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Colin Brace
hich I had installed: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0413 "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in RoundCube Webmail (roundcubemail) 0.2 stable allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the background attribute embedded in an HTML e-ma

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Colin Brace
ript as well as the contents of a directory called ".," which has a bunch of source code and so on. As indicated earlier, this stuff was installed by user 'www'. It should be unpacked in an empty directory. Have fun! - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this mes

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Colin Brace
cron/tabs]# ls -l total 12 -rw--- 1 root wheel 3440 Aug 25 12:06 colin -rw--- 1 root wheel 240 Jul 28 23:49 www [r...@venus /var/cron/tabs]# cat www # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (cron.job installed on Tue Jul 28 23:49:28 2009) # (Cron version -- $Fre

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Colin Brace
r is a Bad Idea. However, when I set it up, it just seemed more convenient and flexible. - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/what-www-perl-script-is-running--tp25112050p25135684.html Sent from the freebsd-quest

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Colin Brace
hat is to say: nothing is allowed in unless explicitly allowed Everything allowed out. (plus some ipv6 stuff I was testing with a tunnel) Merci - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/what-www-perl-script-is-running--tp25112050p2

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Colin Brace
rough one of the above ports? Any suggestions as to where to start looking for the breach would be most welcome; I am quite new to this game. Thanks. - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/what-www-perl-script-is-running--tp25112050p2

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Colin Brace
ntly killing the process with the following bash command while I decide what to do next: $ while x=1 ; do sudo killall -9 perl5.8.9 && echo "killed..." ; sleep 15; done I suppose this calls for a "bare-metal" reinstall. Is it worth first trying to determine how my syste

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Colin Brace
Mike Bristow wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:00:53AM -0700, Colin Brace wrote: >> Ok, here is what lsof tells me: >> >> $ sudo lsof | grep perl >> perl5.8.9 4272 www3uIPv4 0xc33cf0000t0 TCP >> gw:51295->94.102.51.57:afs3-f

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Colin Brace
ng, but what? After 24 hour since rebooting, this perl instance is still crunching away... - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/what-www-perl-script-is-running--tp25112050p25130058.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing lis

what www perl script is running?

2009-08-24 Thread Colin Brace
quot;.rb", "~", ".inc" ) cgi.assign = ( ".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl", ".cgi" => "/usr/local/bin/python", ".py" => "/usr/local/bin/python", ".sh" => "/usr/local/bin/

Re: freebsd-update & userland sources

2009-08-03 Thread Colin Percival
-update builds are normally done before patches are committed to SVN, you won't get the updated SVN revision numbers or the new entries in UPDATING via freebsd-update -- but you will get all of the security/errata fixes.) -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

2009-03-31 Thread Colin House
Mel Flynn wrote: .. > > Once a year, since you can use months and days. In fact, iirc DST changes are > known 5 years ahead (I'm sure I"ll be corrected if this is not the case) so > one can even run a yearly cronjob to change the crontab ;) > .. You might want to mention that to the Australi

kernel errors: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA

2009-01-14 Thread Colin Brace
handle it. FWIW, I've tried using 'soft' as an option in the NFS fstab entry on the clients to no avail Thanks for any suggestions. - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/kernel-errors%3A-TIMEOUT---READ_DMA-tp2145508

Re: Login accounts don't work after update to 7.1

2009-01-09 Thread Colin Percival
you. If freebsd-update installs a new master.passwd file, it will regenerate the databases from it. All I can guess in this case is that freebsd-update couldn't manage to merge updates into master.passwd automatically, and when it opened up the file in an editor for you to fix, you didn'

FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Percival
to pick a different mirror. 3. Assuming that the second mirror works, send me an email telling me which mirror failed and which one worked so that I can have the load balancing adjusted. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsna

FYI, portsnap problems

2009-01-05 Thread Colin Percival
right now.) -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: 7.0-RELEASE and megaraid (mpt0)

2009-01-05 Thread Colin
*Tim Kellers wrote:* Colin wrote: / Hi folks, />/> I'm running a new server with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE and am seeing />>/ timeouts and other messages with mpt0 />> //>>/ These include: />>/ mpt_cam_event: 0x16, 0x12 & 0x60 />>/ />/> More impor

7.0-RELEASE and megaraid (mpt0)

2009-01-01 Thread Colin
x emulation could be used to run the LSI Megaraid storage manager or whether attempting to do so is a very bad idea.. Thanks, Colin Southport Computers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: freebsd-update "can't find update.FreeBSD.org"

2008-10-29 Thread Colin Percival
ps. To be honest, I didn't realize that there were so many people with broken DNS resolution. I'll ask the FreeBSD DNS admins to add an A record for update.freebsd.org. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

updating a port with problems (libxml2)

2008-10-17 Thread Colin Brace
the first time this has happened. Comments, suggestions most welcome. Thanks. - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/updating-a-port-with-problems-%28libxml2%29-tp20028504p20028504.html Sent from the freebsd-questions m

Re: gateway NAT settings lost

2008-09-27 Thread Colin Brace
hy is this preferable to using plain old cp? - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/gateway-NAT-settings-lost-tp19685563p19701345.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: gateway NAT settings lost

2008-09-26 Thread Colin Brace
libexec 3.6Mrescue 5.0Msbin 986Kbin 0Bcompat 2.0Kdist 2.1Metc 5.4Mlib 2.0Kproc 52Kroot 114Mtotal It looks as though there is 375MB "hidden" somewhere... but where? -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://www.lim.nl

gateway NAT settings lost

2008-09-26 Thread Colin Brace
nable="YES" pf_enable="YES" pflog_enable="YES" dhcpd_enable="YES" /usr/local/sbin/dnrd -s 208.67.222.222 postgresql_enable="YES" obspamd_enable="YES" obspamdlog_enable="YES"

ext3 to ufs: filename character encoding woes

2008-08-16 Thread Colin Brace
e. Googling, I came up with instructions for editing /etc/login.conf, so I added :charset=en_US.UTF-8: under default:\ exited the shell and logged in again, but no change. What I am missing here? Thanks. - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context:

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Colin Brace
erlap in the codebase for this particular chipset. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Colin Brace
nvalid argument # mount -t ufs /dev/da0s1c /media/disk6 mount: /dev/da0s1c : Invalid argument Thanks. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-30 Thread Colin Brace
command line. I have tried various mount points, to no avail. Anyone have any ideas what is going wrong? Thanks. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: SATA support & custom v7.0 kernel

2008-05-29 Thread Colin Brace
On Thu, 29 May 2008 19:35:39 +0300, Alexander Motin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Usually SATA is more ATA then SCSI. Try to add to your config: > deviceata [...] My kernel config has the ATA stuff already; the system currently boots from an IDE drive. --

SATA support & custom v7.0 kernel

2008-05-29 Thread Colin Brace
AIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VENUS i386 -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: server (partly) fails: hardware?

2008-05-04 Thread Colin Brace
he 30 GB IDE drive. Is there any reason why it shouldn't be possible to boot directly from the SATA drive given that SATA is not on the motherboard? Thanks. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

server (partly) fails: hardware?

2008-05-04 Thread Colin Brace
local whitebox shop later this week, but I am open to other avenues to purse as well. Thanks in advance for any ideas. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: a monster stole my /

2008-04-28 Thread Colin Yuile
> partition? > > I did have a problem not too long ago where my /db array did not mount > and MySQL managed to recreate the default/sample database on /db/ > mysql, could this default database be somewhere else on / while the / > db array problem was fixed? > &

Re: is my eyesight THAT bad?!

2008-04-25 Thread Colin Brace
ocs are. I couldn't figure out what they were doing there. Thanks for solving that little mystery for me. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

nfs & firewall, hard vs soft mount

2008-04-24 Thread Colin Brace
of sftp is that it appears to add some overhead which I notice when watching AVI files -- the media player ocassionally stutters. In any case, suggestions for alternative approaches to mounting remote file systems via wireless would be most welcome. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-21 Thread Colin Brace
an on using wireless lan, you'll need to read the fine print very carefully to determine whether there is BSD support for the given chipset. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-20 Thread Colin Brace
or music files and makes them available via the Apple proprietary protocol DAAP. DAAP clients can browse the directory and retrieve individual files, either by streaming or by downloading them. WWW: http://mt-daapd.sourceforge.net/ -- Colin Brace Amsterdam

portupgrade can't fetch packages

2008-03-10 Thread Colin Brace
at could be preventing portupgrade from being able to download the packages itself? Thanks. $ uname -r 7.0-STABLE -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread Colin Adams
On 06/03/2008, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Everything I've every seen about this suggests that amd64 is faster on > a few applications, such as mp3 encoding, but generally there is very > little difference, on average, across desktop applications. Do you have > any measurements to support

Re: kern.ipc.maxpipekva

2008-03-03 Thread Colin Adams
No chance at all, I would have said. On 03/03/2008, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2008 13:36:26 Colin Adams wrote: > > I'm getting error messages about this when trying to run my program. > > As far as I know, I don't use IPC at all, althoug

Re: the daemon that won't die

2008-03-02 Thread Colin Brace
te that the above is happening every eleven minutes, just like the "save-entropy" cron entry. Thanks. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

the daemon that won't die

2008-03-02 Thread Colin Brace
t waits and sleeps. wait; syslog('debug', "Scan completed"); sleep($SCAN_INTERVAL); } I am not a perl programmer, and it is not immediately obvious what is going on here. So, how to I kill this bugger once and for all? Thanks. $ uname -r 7.0-PRERELEASE -- C

kern.ipc.maxpipekva

2008-03-02 Thread Colin Adams
I'm getting error messages about this when trying to run my program. As far as I know, I don't use IPC at all, although I dare say it is used in one of the libraries that are linked in. After googling for this error, I edited /boot/loader.conf to set it to 6500 (a nice big number?), and now if

Re: PF vs. ping6

2008-02-21 Thread Colin Brace
quot; as: pass quick on fxp0 proto ipv6 all keep state pass quick on gif0 inet6 all flags S/SA keep state Thanks Christopher, I really appreciate it. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

PF vs. ping6

2008-02-21 Thread Colin Brace
ts. I have these (provisional) rules at the top of the filter section in PF: pass quick on fxp0 inet6 # ext if pass quick on gif0 inet6 to no avail; PF is still blocking ping6. Am I missing something here? -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-08 Thread Colin Brace
Minor but tiresome: no option to use a non-proportional font to view your messages. Apparently, an extension called Better Gmail allowed this at one point but not now. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: OT: www search engines

2008-02-07 Thread Colin Brace
MAC addresses or phone lines. I'd be curious to know whether this is done, just for theoretical reasons. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

rkhunter: "find: /dev/fd/3/* No such file or directory" error

2008-02-02 Thread Colin Brace
r 7.0-PRERELEASE Thanks. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2008-01-25 Thread Colin Brace
render the output in a decent form, and/or tools to clean up the input, will far outweigh in importance the computational efficiency of your algorithms. Deciding between C++, Java, or Python etc. will be the very least of your problems... -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl

Re: spamd-setup can't find spamd.conf

2008-01-24 Thread Colin Brace
c/spamd, not /usr/local/etc/ as indicated in the documentation I was following. (I now see the man page for spamd.conf indicates this.) -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

spamd-setup can't find spamd.conf

2008-01-24 Thread Colin Brace
[full: <http://www.freebsddiary.org/pf.php> ] Thing is, the file really is there and contains the "all" statement: $ grep -A 2 all: /usr/local/etc/spamd.conf all:\ :uatraps:whitelist: Anyone have any idea what is going wrong here? TIA -- Colin Brace Amsterdam

Re: Help From Indonesian....What's the matter with my mouse ??

2008-01-20 Thread Colin Brace
An issue like this is best posted in the appropriate pcbsd forum: http://forums.pcbsd.org/ with detailed information about your system and dmesg output. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-20 Thread Colin Brace
I use udev rules to do this. See: < http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/make-removable-usb-hdd-mount-at-fixed-mount-point-511917/ > -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: kernel make error: /usr/src/sys/crypto/rijndael/* missing

2008-01-19 Thread Colin Brace
asn't so bad. Rebooted OK. Thanks again. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: kernel make error: /usr/src/sys/crypto/rijndael/* missing

2008-01-19 Thread Colin Brace
s.o(.text+0x1281): In function `umass_cam_rescan_callback': : undefined reference to `xpt_free_path' umass.o(.text+0x22de): In function `umass_cam_rescan': : undefined reference to `xpt_periph' umass.o(.text+0x22ed): In function `umass_cam_rescan': : undefined reference to `

kernel make error: /usr/src/sys/crypto/rijndael/* missing

2008-01-19 Thread Colin Brace
rnel source (CURRENT) with cvsup last night. Any idea what files I am still missing? Thanks -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Re: FBSD or PCBSD?

2008-01-18 Thread Colin Brace
t which is supported by FreeBSD and runs FreeBSD and PC-BSD fine. Sounds like Acer laptops don't all have the same wireless NIC... -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

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