Re: Disabling ssh timeouts?

2009-05-12 Thread Josh Carroll
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > Is there anyway to disable sshd from timing out a connection? > I've tried setting  ClientAliveCountMax and ClientAliveInterval > and TCPKeepAlive in sshd.conf, but no combination that I've > tried has worked. My suggestion would be to instal

Re: mount_cd9660 - /dev/md0: Invalid Arguement

2009-04-20 Thread Josh Carroll
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Евгений Л wrote: > Hello everyone, I am trying to mount an ISO image (which was converted with > with help from ccd2iso tool), I used > > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ./"isoimage.iso" -u 3 > mount -t cd9660 /dev/md3 /cdrom > > and > > mdconfig -a -f /path/disk.iso md1

Re: Flash 10

2009-04-19 Thread Josh Carroll
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Christopher Chambers wrote: > Hi, > > Nspluginwrapper's website says that version 1.2.2 is capable of > installing flash 10. When I tried it, I got the message: no appropriate > viewer found. Any ideas? I just installed it with success on 7.2-RC1/amd64. I had nsp

Re: memtest question on 8 GB RAM AMD64 system

2009-04-09 Thread Josh Carroll
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Dino Vliet wrote: > Dear freebsd people, > > I have just installed 4 x 2gb kingston memory banks (Kingston HyperX 4GB > 800mhz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 (5-5-5-15) DIMM) onto my AMD 64 system with a X2 5200 > CPU. The motherboard I have in this system is MSI K9AG Neo2-Digi

Re: find command question

2009-04-09 Thread Josh Carroll
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Jay Hall wrote: > When using the find command with the -exec option, does the find command > wait for the command being executed to finish before returning the next > result? > > For example, if I am using find -exec {} to copy files to tape, will find > wait for th

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-03-30 Thread Josh Carroll
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > people, i've been under the weather for days and will probably be for a few > more. > new  and TEMPORARY meds dont like me, ugh. > > can anybody clue me in why the followin joinline program fails to catch if > argc == 1? > > > /* >  * simple

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-09 Thread Josh Carroll
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:59 PM, gahn wrote: > > Hi all: > > How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used "dmesg" and > "var/run/dmesg.boot", it didn't seem to help that much as I expected. > > which file lists all of hardware in the machine? > > Thanks. Give the sysutils/dmide

Re: gpac-libgpac port not building on amd64

2009-02-14 Thread Josh Carroll
> http://pflog.net/~floyd/gpac-libgpac.patch Oops, if anyone grabbed that patch, grab it again, I ran the diff against the wrong original Makefile that had my --disable-opengl hard-coded in there during testing. Sorry for the trouble. Josh ___ freebsd-

Re: gpac-libgpac port not building on amd64

2009-02-14 Thread Josh Carroll
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Troy wrote: > I just did a successful portupgrade of multimedia/gpac-libgpac but when > trying to upgrade the exact same port on amd64, it fails with the > following error. > > Thanks > > cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread > -fno-strict-aliasing

Re: make -jN build with portmaster

2009-01-25 Thread Josh Carroll
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:44 PM, cpghost wrote: > To build ports in parallel on a 4 core machine, I usually > do this manually: > > # cd /usr/ports/some/port > # make configure && make -j5 build && make install clean > > because all steps except "make build" are not compatible > with -jN (some p

Re: coretemp for AMD?

2009-01-25 Thread Josh Carroll
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Hello, > > Can I read cpu die temperature for my AMD Athlon 64 X2 cpu with coretemp? > According to > > http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/supportlist.html > > it includes AMD processors but when I load coretemp.ko sysctl still can't > see dev

Re: Portupgrade thru SSH session

2009-01-20 Thread Josh Carroll
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > Can someone tell me what I should attend for when I am disconnected in the > middle of a portupgrade and the terminal session is aborted? > The portupgrade was halted by a [yes/no] prompt, on which I had to react. > Unfortunately being not pr

Re: 7.1 release / apache22 / php5

2009-01-05 Thread Josh Carroll
> the httpd config file isn't the issue. it hasn't changed in a few years. > yes, > I do have the correct entries. > > what I do NOT have is the actual libphp5.so library file! it doesn't exist > on my system, > so apache complains that it can't open it. Did you build the lang/php5 port with the "

Re: 7.1 release / apache22 / php5

2009-01-05 Thread Josh Carroll
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: > for some odd reason, with this latest install (7.1), apache22 complains that > it cannot find libphp5.so > I usually compile php5 from ports > and apache22 from ports > after I think about it, I have never actually placed libphp5.so anywhere. I

Re: Setting per processor (/core) affinity from within FreeBSD

2008-12-15 Thread Josh Carroll
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hi guys, >I was wondering if anyone has written a utility for FreeBSD to tie > a particular process group to a processor / core, similar to what > Linux has done with taskset, so that affinity can be properly set with > FreeBSD and the U

Re: Mounting ext3fs partition

2008-12-03 Thread Josh Carroll
> Hi josh, > > Exactly, it is 256. So according to you, I can't use the mounted > filesystem, right? > > Could you please explain in more detail, what the problem is? > > Thanks in advance. I believe around e2fsprogs version 1.40.5 or so, they changed the default inode size from 128 to 256. The cu

Re: Mounting ext3fs partition

2008-12-03 Thread Josh Carroll
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Fernando Apesteguía <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2. I have several partitions/filesystems > in my computer and I would like to have full access to all of them. > > I've mounted the NTFS partition without problems (though it is

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Carroll
> I always thought AMD was Intel compatible. In this case, it's the reverse. Intel's EM64T extensions are compatible with AMD's X86-64. Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: distributed shell (dancers shell)

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Carroll
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Evuraan::ഏവൂരാന്‍ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How/where can I get dsh for Freebsd? attempts to compile it afresh > have been failing, hence this question. thx. > > checking for endnetgrent... yes > checking for open_dshconfig in -ldshconfig... no > configure: error

Re: Xeon Quad Core (Was: Server Freezing Solid)

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Carroll
> Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I am currently running FreeBSD 7.0 the regular > i386 release. I would prefer to keep it that way if migration to the 64bit > release would mean rebuilding from scratch (there is probably an easier way > to convert an i386 release to a amd64 release). Another poster

Re: irq256 ????

2008-10-09 Thread Josh Carroll
> I've just found in my machine's vmstat -i output: > > irq256: em042054 2 *snip* > $ dmesg|fgrep em0 > em0: port 0x30c0-0x30df > mem 0x9030-0x9031,0x90324000-0x90324fff irq 20 at device 25.0 on pci0 > em0: Using MSI interrupt em0: [FILTER] > em0: Etherne

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-02 Thread Josh Carroll
> inactive, cache, and buffer are all different types of "buffer". That is my understanding as well. > I'm fairly sure that inactive is memory used by program code. When the > program terminates, the memory is marked as inactive, which means the > next time the program starts the code can simply

Re: help with AWk

2008-09-27 Thread Josh Carroll
> dig +short -x 1.2.3.4 | awk '{if ( $0 == "" ) {print "PTR_NUL" } else {print > $0 } }' If you run the dig command without the pipe, it should give you an idea of why what you're trying is not working. > dig +short -x 1.2.3.4 | wc 0 0 0 Josh _

Re: Conflicting packages installing to same dir

2008-08-31 Thread Josh Carroll
> there both needed as a dependency by X.Org so although your suggestionis good > in theory, unf not going to work in prac, although i had tried it :) They are both dependencies because you've told it so. cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers make config Deselect either the i810 or intel drive

Re: Is it possible to run i386 only, on a amd64 freebsd 7?

2008-08-19 Thread Josh Carroll
> O.K I understand that. So I can see that unless I have an i386 FreeBSD > build, I really cannot > install those i386 only software titles. > > In that situation I assume I can only use amd64 ports and software. > > I have an idea though, would it be possible to build a i386 FreeBSD on an > ano

Re: security updates

2008-08-15 Thread Josh Carroll
> of course, for such use I will take the or stable version :-) > > I was sure it was easy :-) > > thanks > jdd Just to clarify, X-STABLE does not indicate end-user stability. It indicates the ABI is (generally) stable (ABI-compatibility is maintained within a branch). There are exceptions, but th

Re: ATi & Intel graphics

2008-08-13 Thread Josh Carroll
> Jail. I suspect I could build the base system plus X and copy > everything over to a jailed dir. Once there, I could set -m32 in the > CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS of the system make.conf. Build WINE in the jail, > add a /usr/local... bin32, lib32 and libexec32 to the main (non-jail) > part of the OS, and

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 on Xen

2008-08-08 Thread Josh Carroll
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:04 PM, OutBackDingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a working config for non-HVM systems, its stable enough to play with > but > not for production, if you have however a HVM machine, FreeBSD runs great > under linux KVM What host OS are you using for dom0? I'm consi

Re: x11/kde4 tries to install kde3?

2008-08-08 Thread Josh Carroll
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When attempting to install KDE4, I get: > > $ cd /usr/ports/x11/kde4 > $ sudo make install > ===> Installing for kde-3.5.8_2 > [...] > ===> Checking if x11/kde4 already installed > ===> kde-3.5.8_2 is already installed

Re: F7: base system reinstall, no (open)ssh anymore...

2008-08-08 Thread Josh Carroll
> Am I missing some essential settings in /etc/make.conf? > What is needed there in order to get (Open)SSH from the base system? > Thanks! > Rob. It should be there by default. Check that /etc/make.conf (or /etc/src.conf) does not set/define: WITHOUT_OPENSSH There are other knobs that implicitly

Re: Questions about healthd and mprime

2008-08-07 Thread Josh Carroll
>>Try sysutils/k8temp. When run with -n, it only prints the CPU's temperature. > > U... On the system I'm most interested in at the moment, which has > only _one_ athlon64 _single core_ processor in the whole system, > k8temp -n prints this: > > 19 > 10 Well it may not work properly on your pa

Re: Questions about healthd and mprime

2008-08-07 Thread Josh Carroll
> OK, so _now_ I've looked around and found out that a lot of folks > these days heat up their CPUs by running the "mprime" thingy. Swell. > But I don't know diddly poo about this program. So can somebody please > tell me the set of "best" command line options for the thing if your > only goal is

Re: undocumented tar --unlink switch

2008-08-02 Thread Josh Carroll
> Around line 37 of /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/extract.c > there's an invocation of /usr/bin/tar with a --unlink switch, > which I don't see mentioned in the tar(1) manpage. Anyone > happen to know what this does, or do I need to dig into the > code? My guess was that it was the long optio

Re: Extracting tracks as WAV from a worn-out CD

2008-07-19 Thread Josh Carroll
Sorry this is truncated, the google mail application on blackberry doesn't include the full mail. Anyway, I would highly suggest using cdparanoia from ports. I have had great success recovering very scratched discs with it in the past. Good luck! Josh On 7/19/08, Razmig K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Core(TM)2 Quad and TOP output

2008-07-14 Thread Josh Carroll
> He is already running with SMP, look at this part of his dmesg: > > ad10: 343399MB at ata5-master SATA300 > ad12: 343399MB at ata6-master SATA300 > acd0: DVDR at ata7-master SATA150 > SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! > SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched! > SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! > > His problem lies elsewhere

Re: Core(TM)2 Quad and TOP output

2008-07-14 Thread Josh Carroll
>> > I have new server(webserver) quad core but performans is not well >> > (according >> > our old webserver pent IV ). Maybe its performans depends on our web >> > page >> > sourcecode. FreeBSD 6.3 stable is running on it. dmesg is in below. I'm sorry, I completely missed that you were running 6

Re: Core(TM)2 Quad and TOP output

2008-07-14 Thread Josh Carroll
> I have new server(webserver) quad core but performans is not well (according > our old webserver pent IV ). Maybe its performans depends on our web page > sourcecode. FreeBSD 6.3 stable is running on it. dmesg is in below. Can you provide some more detail here? How is it slower? Serving less cli

Re: Too Much Context Switching? - FIXED

2008-06-30 Thread Josh Carroll
> I will, probably as part of upgrading to 7.0 (which I may accelerate, given > this point). I'm just ecstatic at the difference I'm already seeing, and > specifically wanted to make note of it in the archives. Point very much > taken, though. :-) It's trivial to change to libthr, as pointed out e

Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?

2008-06-23 Thread Josh Carroll
> Not sure if the core duos work the same as older 2 CPU and 4 CPU > motherboards, but there are some BIOS functions that always use the first > CPU. So you never get true SMP because the hardware uses the first CPU more > to service interrupts. True, but interrupt handling and minimal background

Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?

2008-06-23 Thread Josh Carroll
> I've noticed that cpu.0 is consistently hotter than cpu.1, even on an > unloaded machine. Is that because that core's doing housekeeping work > whilst the other is truly idle? > > dev.cpu.0.temperature: 44 > dev.cpu.1.temperature: 29 I notice some differences on my quad-core (Q6600) CPU, too:

Re: mrtg peak on reboot / snmp-issue?

2008-06-15 Thread Josh Carroll
Sorry the blackberry is truncating your original mail, but yes I have noticed the same thing on my setup. In my case I am using a custom rrdtool perl script. While not a fix for the actual problem, my workaround has been to use a CDEF in my rrdgraph command to set the value to 0 if it exceeds a san

Re: new hardware - compatible?

2008-06-12 Thread Josh Carroll
> Intel Quad Core Extreme 3Ghz, LGA775 > Asus P5K-E Motherboard (P35 chipset, Onboard LAN) I have the same motherboard, and it runs great on 7.0-RELEASE (amd64). I do not, however, use the onboard ethernet controller. I use a pair of em cards, so I can't speak to the Marvell Gigabit chipset and wh

Re: Make buildworld

2008-06-08 Thread Josh Carroll
> I did some testing, at least for me, I get the most improvements when the > number > of cores or processors equals the -j number. You can make it higher, even > double it, withoout hurting things, but 95% of the improvements come from > matching the number of processes to the number of availabl

Re: telnet to mail server from outside does not get 220, telnet from inside works

2008-05-12 Thread Josh Carroll
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:04 AM, brad davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there something I need to configure in telnetd or sendmail to allow > 'outside' IP addresses to telnet to the mail server and get a 220 response? > > When I 'telnet localhost 25' i get: > > email# telnet localhost

Re: growisofs: "inapropriate ioctl for device"

2008-05-09 Thread Josh Carroll
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get the following from growisofs -Z/dev/acd0=image.iso: > >:-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device > Use /dev/cd0, not /dev/acd0. Josh ___

Re: coretemp 70C = CPU too hot?

2008-05-08 Thread Josh Carroll
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Nerius Landys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy. I purchased a 1U 10 inch deep server machine a few months ago: > http://www.abmx.com/1u-10inch-deep-supermicro-mini-server-p-366.html?osCsid=80f3951929d5a7ae27a51733627ee18a > > The CPU is a Xeon 3xxx dual core 2.4

Re: Cross compiling i386 packages on amd64

2008-05-06 Thread Josh Carroll
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Andrew Cid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an i386 jail running on an amd64 host that I use to build > packages. Most packages build fine, however I have a few that fail. > This includes xorg (dri won't build) and mplayer. In all cases I get an

Re: make buildworld

2008-05-04 Thread Josh Carroll
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Aguiar Magalhaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > How can i fix the error below ? > > Thanks, > > Aguiar > > > # make buildworld > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/src/lib/libc/include > -I/usr/s

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread Josh Carroll
> What made you believe it is the scheduler? > > -- > Mel There were some reports of problems with responsiveness with the 4BSD scheduler in 7.0 leading up to its release, so it's certainly a possibility. Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread Josh Carroll
n Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Daniel Tourde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to switch scheduler on my FreeBSD 7.0 box but I don't know how > to > do that. The scheduler by default has terrible performances under KDE/Gnome > and I would like to test the new one. See the foll

Re: which ports tag should i follow?

2008-03-31 Thread Josh Carroll
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:26 AM, CY Teng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > i'm a newbie to freebsd. after reading handbook, i chose 7.0-stable and > cvsup src-all, and now i don't know which ports tag to cvsup? > does ports cvs tree have RELENG_7 tag too, or i should follow tag "."? Generally,

Re: Any software that can do X windows screen capture (with mouse cursor)

2008-03-18 Thread Josh Carroll
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Patrick Dung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > As title, I have tried xwd, it can't capture mouse curosr. The "import" program that's part of the ImageMagick port can do so: import image.png Then draw a box around whatever you want to screen shot. Alternat

Re: pkg_list mypackage?

2008-03-13 Thread Josh Carroll
> The online FreeBSD manual in the "4.4 Using the Packages System" part > doesn't mention a command to list the files that were installed > through a package. > > What is the equivalent of eg. "pkg_list mypackage"? Have a look at the pkg_info man page. The option you're looking for is -L. Reg

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by "evolution"

2008-02-09 Thread Josh Carroll
On Feb 9, 2008 12:17 PM, E. J. Cerejo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the > ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object > "libicui18n.so.36" not found, required by "evolution" error, I can see > that the new

Re: passive ftp transfer with pkg_add

2008-01-27 Thread Josh Carroll
> Thank you very much! When I want to revert it, will it suffice to type: > export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=false unset FTP_PASSIVE_MODE will unset the variable. Regards, Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without "sh

2008-01-07 Thread Josh Carroll
> How are you running the commands? The problem is probably to do with your > path. Your home directory isn't typically and shouldn't be in your PATH (try > echo $PATH). You need to specify the full path to your scripts or place a ./ > in front of the script name if in the same directory. > > e.g.

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without "sh

2008-01-07 Thread Josh Carroll
> I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on > the first line and chmod to executable. That works with all my system > scripts (rc, etc.) or my system would be DOA, no doubt. When I do it > in my home folder, however, running

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-27 Thread Josh Carroll
> Is Hyperthreading enabled (by default it is not under > FreeBSD) mysql is heavily dependent on threading, if it is not > built and linked into the freebsd threads package you will get > poor performance. Some folks have installed the linux compat libs > and linked mysql into the linux threads

Re: FreeBSD Production Release ISO images

2007-11-19 Thread Josh Carroll
> I'm wondering if the FreeBSD 6.2 Production Release ISO images get > updated periodically when there are important patches, or is it better > to download the latest snapshot to save the trouble of updating > everything after installing? No, the ISOs remain the same as when the release happens. Y

Re: semi-OT: awk - field separator

2007-11-15 Thread Josh Carroll
> What is the canonical way to get (FreeBSD default) awk to use a > single double-quote as the field separator? I have tried variations > on -F\\\" and -F"\"" and the best I can get is: > > + awk -F" {print $2} > ./script.sh: 1: Syntax error: word unexpected awk -F'"' That's a single quo

Re: Installing ports to /usr

2007-11-14 Thread Josh Carroll
> Would there be any negative ramifications to installing ports in /usr > instead of /usr/local? Like could they potentially clobber system > binaries and other files or is this pretty safe to do? More importantly, why do you want/need to do this? I personally like the separation of world and port

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-11 Thread Josh Carroll
> That's the _model_ number, not the _serial_ number, yes? Oops. Indeed. I misread the question. :/ Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-11 Thread Josh Carroll
> is there a way to get the serial number from a drive from within the OS? im > trying to audit the drives in my file server, but without pulling the thing > from the rack and cracking it open. they are just standard sata drives, not > on any sort of raid controller (ie, i know 3ware cards are ca

Re: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-11-06 Thread Josh Carroll
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables > > I googled for awhile and found the suggestion to reinstall libtool, but > that also fails with the same error. Can you paste the config.log from the port's work source directory (where configure is located)? Can you try the following an

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-10-30 Thread Josh Carroll
> It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports > collection, because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) > fails or is updated significantly, it could break, and prevent login. > The suggested solution was to use a base shell (such as sh) and append > 'bash -l' to .s

Re: Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-10-29 Thread Josh Carroll
> vnc-4.1.2_2 from ports. I wonder if this is related to it compiling > against ancient XFree86 source? The tightvnc port has the same problem, actually. Same message in the vnc log, but also another: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opco

Re: Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-10-29 Thread Josh Carroll
> What version of VNC are you running.. ? vnc-4.1.2_2 from ports. I wonder if this is related to it compiling against ancient XFree86 source? Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-10-28 Thread Josh Carroll
> So VNC server will run, and I can connect to it from a VNC-client, but > the window manager fails to start correctly. I am having the same problem. My vnc log looks similar: *snip* X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed reque

Re: forcing compilation/run time linking of lib32 on amd64

2007-10-24 Thread Josh Carroll
> I am writing some demo code (for teaching C) and need to have the same > program run on a 32 bit machine and a 64 bit machine (showing that int's > are always word length)... I have 8-current amd64 how do I force it to > compile with 32 bit words? Add the following to your gcc command line: -m3

Re: Per-port options in make.conf?

2007-10-23 Thread Josh Carroll
> Is there any way to specify options in make.conf on a per-port basis? Yes, something like this should work: .if ${.CURDIR:M*/portnamehere*} WITHOUT_X11=yes .endif Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;

2007-10-22 Thread Josh Carroll
> Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? man login.conf Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Josh Carroll
> At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX ssh access for root is disabled by default, for good reason. ssh as a normal user, then su to root instead. Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Strange perl script

2007-10-17 Thread Josh Carroll
> The stangest thing is that I cann't find sploger on my system. After a > reboot sploger doesn't appear anymore, which makes it more stranger. So you have done a: find / -name sploger -type f And nothing comes up? If that's the case, it sounds like it was a perl script that was run, then subse

Re: sshd+pam problem on a fresh 6.2-RELEASE (amd64) install

2007-09-29 Thread Josh Carroll
> Any ideas? I tried doing an ldd on /usr/lib/pam* inside the > /etc/rc.d/sshd script, but the output is identical when it starts up > on boot as when I restart it. No missing libraries/etc. Problem solved! In going from 32-bit to 64-bit, my login.conf really needed to change. I had a default memo

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Josh Carroll
On 9/29/07, Aryeh Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up > is there anyway to do a in place upgrade (I have a lot of user > data)... also someone should think about changing the naming on the > iso/cpu types since 20 years of indus

sshd+pam problem on a fresh 6.2-RELEASE (amd64) install

2007-09-29 Thread Josh Carroll
On a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.2 (amd64), I've run into a problem with sshd and PAM. When the box first boots up, I cannot ssh in. I am immediately disconnected. If I look in /var/log/auth.log, I see: Sep 29 03:20:47 pflog sshd[68798]: in openpam_load_module(): no pam_opieaccess.so found Sep 29 0

Re: GAIM??

2007-09-19 Thread Josh Carroll
> On my ubuntu srver I've used gaim for quite awhile. When I > looked for it with locate on my new server the file said it was > going away by fall. Is there ea new, improved port? > > gary It was renamed to "pidgin", which is in ports here: /usr/ports/net-im/pi

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Josh Carroll
> Thanks for the feedback. It's always good to hear "it works fine" > anti-bug-reports :) > > Kris This is getting a bit off topic, so pardon me. :) I picked a bad time to try to move to 7-CURRENT, just after the gcc 4.2.1 integration. Many ports would not compile properly, etc. I hope that stabi

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Josh Carroll
> That's good to know. You should be using libthr for threaded > performance though :) That benchmark is probably almost all userland > though, so performance may not suffer much from libpthread. Oh I wasn't sure if libthr was the preferred thread library for 6.2 also (I'd heard that was the cas

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Josh Carroll
> Yes, 4BSD is still the default, although you definitely want to use ULE > for performance reasons (NB: only on 7, dont use ULE on 6). I don't > know whether the release engineers plan to change that default, but I > will check. Great, thanks for the info. Good to know, I'll be sure to use ULE w

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Josh Carroll
> In general, if you are running a multi-process or multi-threaded > workload, FreeBSD 7 will be able to make good use of 8 CPU cores. > > Over the past 2 years we have done extensive benchmarking and > optimizations that have resulted in *huge* performance improvements on > many common workloads o

Re: FreeBSD 4.7 make question

2007-09-07 Thread Josh Carroll
On 9/7/07, Jason Lieurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I didn't keep our 4.7 up to date and now 'make' errors out whenever you > try to update ports or install any software. How do I fix this issue? Update your ports tree with the RELEASE_4_EOL tag, then try again. Note that FreeBSD 4.x

Re: Monitoring CPU usage on multi-core system

2007-08-26 Thread Josh Carroll
On 8/27/07, Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again. On a dual-core system, how do I tell how much of each of > the CPU cores are in use? Is the CPU usage in 'top' for the two CPUs > at once? Is there something in ports (that works without X...) that > will give good info? The CPU state

Re: Building UNSTRIPPED binaries in ports?

2007-08-21 Thread Josh Carroll
> Is there some make.conf or compile time flag that I can set that would > prevent the stripping from happening? > > Or would I just have to manually edit the makefile someplace -- and if so, > can anyone give a pointer as to where? Setting the strip command to > /bin/true or something, perhaps --

Re: freebsd 7 release date :)

2007-08-20 Thread Josh Carroll
> I'm not suggesting we lay out a strict timeline, as I'd much prefer > the releases when they're ready, but simply a page saying, 'Hey, > FreeBSD x.y release is coming soon, we're currently working on 'blah.'' Something more than what's here then? http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ Josh __

Re: Bizzare routing table entry.

2007-08-07 Thread Josh Carroll
> root# route delete 0&0xc0a80132 > > [1] 37343 > route: writing to routing socket: No such process > delete net 0: not in table > 0xc0a80132: Command not found. > [1] + Exit 1route delete 0 > root# route delete 0&0xc0a80132 > > [1] 37343 > route: writing to

Re: Forcing a port to install?

2007-08-02 Thread Josh Carroll
On 8/2/07, Chris Maness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If a port has been black listed by portaudit, how do you install it anyway? >From the ports(7) man page: DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES If defined, disable check for security vulnerabilities using portaudit(1

Re: Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-08-01 Thread Josh Carroll
You need wait no longer...the security advisory just went out with a patch: http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:07.bind.asc Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Why doesn't FreeBSD clear /tmp on bootup?

2007-05-03 Thread Josh Carroll
I've seen OpenBSD and some other variants of Unix clearing /tmp on bootup. But FreeBSD doesn't seem to do so. Is there any specific reason for this variation or is it just a matter of taste between these different Operating Systems? You can put the following in rc.conf to do this: clear_tmp_ena

find processes with pages in swap

2007-04-19 Thread Josh Carroll
Hello, I was wondering if there is a utility that allows you to query swap and determine which processes currently have virtual pages in swap. I couldn't find any way from the pstat/swapinfo man pages, but hopefully I'm overlooking something. Regards, Josh ___

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Josh Carroll
what is the way to either remove the stored configuration file, or to manually pass the parameters to make. A look at the Makefile and the other files in /usr/ports/mail/postfix didn't turn up any hints. You can either: make rmconfig or just: make config Then re-build/install it. Josh

Re: Migrating from i386 to AMD64

2007-04-17 Thread Josh Carroll
Now.. Can I just use the same SMP kernel I have currently (assuming the correct drivers are loaded) for the X2 processor if I just want to run it in 32 bit mode? Yes, it should work fine. You may need to update /etc/fstab of course, and any other settings that need to change along with the mothe

Re: "No CD/DVD devices found" after booting from FreeBSD 6.2 CD 1

2007-04-11 Thread Josh Carroll
Because before it starts it relies on BIOS to provide services (in 16-bit x86 mode), but after the kernel starts, it must use its own drivers (32-bit or 64-bit, depending on your choice) and it seems it doesn't have the right drivers. Most CD/DVD drives are standard and register as ATA or SCSI dri

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-08 Thread Josh Carroll
Interesting. Is that old perl syntax (v4, etc)? Just curious because most of the documentation and examples switched to: No, he's using a function prototype. In this particular case, he's saying the supfile_set_default_host function will take two scalars as arguments. For more info: perldoc pe

Re: Problem with portupgrade

2007-04-06 Thread Josh Carroll
deimos# portupgrade -PR libmpeg2 [Updating the portsdb >format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 16851 port entries found {lines cut} . done] [missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb! database file error {following some ruby errors regarding the fact that the db can't be read?!} Try r

Re: automatically starting PostgreSQL

2007-04-02 Thread Josh Carroll
Execute rights, yes, but you shouldn't rename it to foo.sh under 6.2 -- that's not how things are supposed to work in recent releases. Without the PROVIDE: in the rc script, it won't get executed unless it has an .sh extension. man rc has details, but .sh should still work and I think is require

Re: Help Finding Disk Drive Usage

2007-03-30 Thread Josh Carroll
So why does du report only 2.0 GB of usage while df reports over 6 GB? Where has my storage gone? Or do I not understand proper usage of du? If you removed files that still had open file handles (e.g. from /var/log), they are likely still allocated and showing up in df, but not du since they're

Re: SATA DVD-RW drive not recognised by FreeBSD

2007-03-29 Thread Josh Carroll
I have some trouble with my SATA-DVDRW. It's not recognised in the boot process, although I think all kernel settings are correct. A SATA harddisk works fine. Is there a general issue with SATA-dvd burners? At least in 6.x and I assume 6-STABLE (unless support has been MFC'd), SATA ATAPI devices

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2007-03-28 Thread Josh Carroll
New to FreeBSD. How can I update my LD_LIBRARY_PATH? In Linux I modify my /etc/ld.so.conf file and run ldconfig. Is there an equivalent here? A pointer to docs would be fine. There are a couple of ways. First, you can look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the default value of ldconfig_paths. On

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-27 Thread Josh Carroll
Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 -> p5-GSSAPI-0.24 (security/p5-GSSAPI): p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] Well this one is pretty obvious. Look at what the stale dependency is, and what it's suggesting? :) Sometimes it can be less clear, though. You just hav

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