Re: # portmaster -r pixman fails with !#/bin/sh list too long

2013-10-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com writes: Dear folks, In updating ports I encounter above issue and cannot proceed. 20130929: AFFECTS: users of x11/pixman AUTHOR: zeis...@freebsd.org The library version of x11/pixman has changed, and portrevision has been bumped in all

Re: # portmaster -r pixman fails with !#/bin/sh list too long

2013-10-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com writes: I tried your advice with the -R option, it worked, but for only pixman the other ports that depend on it don't get rebuilt :( I try to use -x 'texlive-*' but it does not work :( I get Could not execute shell /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line

Re: Vulnerability

2013-09-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: Has this been rectified: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-5710 If you read the page at that link, you will find the answer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: persistence in freeBSD

2013-09-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
atar atar.yo...@gmail.com writes: Will the 'mount -o rw /' command work although the filesystem has already been mounted as readonly? You'll need the -u option as well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: persistence in freeBSD

2013-09-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
atar atar.yo...@gmail.com writes: What does the '-u' option do? I've not find in the 'mount' man page any explanation on this option. The man page includes: -u The -u flag indicates that the status of an already mounted file system should be changed. Any of the options

Re: Network startup with age Ethernet device

2013-09-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th writes: I want to set-up a small server from an Asus P5L-MX motherboard. It has an onboard gigabit Ethrnet that works with the driver age. Problem is that at boot, I experience the interface to go up and down a couple of times, and it is usually

Re: The logo at boot (Nakatomi Socrates BSD 9.2)

2013-09-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Patrick Dung patrick_...@yahoo.com.hk writes: Do you know what is this logo means, or the story behind it? I thought the BSD daemon (logo) has been around for many years in the past. It's a movie reference (Die Hard). The Beastie logo is still there, in the /boot directory, if you want it.

Re: Support

2013-09-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
sopo...@promonitor.com.mx writes: Hello, i have a Server whith the screen information like attach Server.jpg, assumed that are to save the record of IP cameras like network folder (see network.jpg), but another IP cameras need a FTP folder and other that folder don't have blank spaces. If

Re: Potential Vulnerabilities list on US Cert

2013-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
These are the sctp vulnerabilitiese from a week or two back. Anyone following the Security Advisories can safely ignore these; they were issued after the relevant advisories and patches, and consist of nothing but pointers to the previous information.

Re: Potential Vulnerabilities list on US Cert

2013-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: I usually check the US Cert listing every week to see if anything interesting is listed. https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/bulletins/SB13-245 I discovered that there are two listings for FreeBSD: 1) http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-3077

Re: Saving scanned document

2013-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:50:00 -0400 Lowell Gilbert articulated: Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: Does anyone know of a way of getting the scanner to see the FreeBSD machine and saving a file to it? I'm not sure I correctly understand your intention

Re: Saving scanned document

2013-07-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: Does anyone know of a way of getting the scanner to see the FreeBSD machine and saving a file to it? I'm not sure I correctly understand your intention, but maybe Samba is what you're looking for? ___

Re: chrome does not refresh screen content

2013-07-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
CeDeROM cede...@tlen.pl writes: Do you have kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed set? http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/www/chromium/pkg-message?revision=318200 Thank you George! That was not set on my system, will try and let you know the results! That's in the pkg message.

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:25:44 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: ( I'd guess OpenBSD might go for a tighter /root though, as they're supposedly keen on security. ) Currently I've got no OpenBSD installation at hand to verify, but I _assume_ they still have

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ASV a...@inhio.eu writes: This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a while now so I gotta ask. There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases 8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1) By default,

Re: FreeBSD maximum password length

2013-06-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
takCoder tak.offic...@gmail.com writes: As i googled it, there is no maximum limitations for users' password length by default.. But we may use *pam_passwdqc* module with *max* option to check it when required. And i've heard that no-maximum-limits for passwords length is only possible

Re: buildworld selectively?

2013-06-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com writes: Ah, src.conf. That's what I missed!. Thank you so much Gary, and sorry if it was a silly question. Bear in mind that you're only going to be able to shave a small fraction off the build time. by excluding parts of the build. The 'games' section in

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joseph Mays m...@win.net writes: If you do a ls /dev/da* What does it show. root@warehouse:/root # ls -la /dev/da* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 123 Jun 4 17:08 /dev/da0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 124 Jun 4 17:08 /dev/da0s1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 131 Jun 4 17:08

Re: looking for command to display default route ip address

2013-05-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: Hello list How do I find the ip address of the default route? The next-hop address, or the local address? The former can be easily parsed out of the netstat(1) output, the latter isn't necessarily unique. ___

Re: Any arp table size limitations?

2013-05-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Andreev andreev.pe...@gmail.com writes: We are connecting to an IXP, they have tested our FreeBSD 9.1 server and said we can store only about 600 MACs simultaneously. So I'd like to ask if there is any arp table size limitations and if so, how we can increase the limit? I looked at the

Re: Compiling a lean kernel of 9.1 p3

2013-05-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tommy Pham tommy...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Tommy Pham tommy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I installed 9.1 from DVD with src only and did 'freebsd-update fetch install'. Then I proceed to compile the lean kernel. I'm unable to compile a lean (no SCSI, RAID,

Re: Disable FIFO on UART

2013-05-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves m...@mbg.pt writes: Back in FreeBSD 7 there was a flag to disable the FIFO on the sio [...] Now with FreeBSD 8 which uses the UART device driver there's no option for that. I am looking to reduce the jitter I am getting on the serial port when connecting a GPS to

Re: 9.1 Postfix problem

2013-04-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org writes: That was exactly the problem. I knew it was in the installation configuration *somewhere*, but I just could not find it. Thanks. Should I report this as a bug in the postfix port ? No need. Looks like sahil@ has already fixed it. Be well.

Re: Procmail Decoding Mime Messages

2013-04-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:07:35 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there a filter that one can run in procmail in which base64 encoded data go in and text comes out so one can allow procmailrc to do its work? [...] Is there anything which will take

Re: restore /usr dump on two hard disk parallel y

2013-04-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
s m sam.gh1...@gmail.com writes: i'm trying to restore DUMP file for partition /usr on tow hard disk parallel y. these two hard are connected to my system (i have freebsd8.2). i use restore command and it uses /tmp directory to restore dump. in restoring dump process, two hard disks try to

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se writes: 2013-04-24 12:30, Arthur Chance skrev: On 04/24/13 09:18, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! I have set up a diskless machine with 8.3-stable and i as a user can log in, but when I try to log in as root it won't work. How to resolv that issue. I

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org writes: On 04/24/13 14:07, Lowell Gilbert wrote: No, that's from /etc/passwd which never shows any real password information. The true password field is in /etc/master.passwd and I'm not going to ask anyone to show that here. However, the OP should check

Re: 9.1 Postfix problem

2013-04-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org writes: When building postfix under 91. I am running into an odd problem. I use the INST_BASE option, which seems to cause the problem (it worked fine with 9.0). The 'make' goes fine, but the 'make install' fails when trying to install the startup script

Re: none

2013-04-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net writes: Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiasts. Is there anyone who has attempted to install a TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 p.c.i.-express wireless network interface card? I am using FreeBSD 9.1 on a Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation. The card works perfectly

Re: none

2013-04-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:07:30 -0400 Lowell Gilbert articulated: No, I didn't. It was part of an attachment in my message. You'll need to run -CURRENT instead of 9.1, and all the caveats that apply. You'll also need the special HAL that hasn't yet been

Re: Problem making software distros

2013-04-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don O'Neil li...@lizardhill.com writes: I've got an older FreeBSD 6.1 install that will no longer allow me to build any software distributions. Any time I try to do a 'configure', the configure seems to run fine, then I get a config.status: error: cannot find input file:. This has happened on

Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Harald Weis ha...@free.fr writes: On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:09:32AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: If it's just about YouTube video, why not use youtube-dl and mplayer? I haven't tested it for those particular two videos, but it tends to work for everything. :-) Can you please help me

Re: Proper way to update ports with svn

2013-03-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andre Goree an...@drenet.info writes: I seem to have to run 'make index' in /usr/ports after I've run 'svn up /usr/ports' in order to see which ports need to be updated using 'portversion'. This doesn't seem correct...and if so portsnap would seem like a much better tool. Perhaps I should

Re: freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org

2013-03-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
budsz bud...@gmail.com writes: I want ask about error in `dmesg` output remove Bump sched buckets to 64 (was 0) in FreeBSD 8.3 STABLE version. Where's the code lines should be remove (safety)? That message isn't in RELENG_9, so I can't give you details. It's probably resizing a dummynet

Re: any 9.1-RELEASE-p1 to 10.0-CURRENT howtos?

2013-03-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com writes: On one of my machines I cannot get it to update ports, most fail with gettext. I tried some options like disabling Native Language Support in binutils, but it still fails. I deleted all the ports and am looking at starting from scratch again,

Re: stupid portmaster question

2013-03-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com writes: How do I tell portmaster -ad to ignore certain ports because they are broken such as editors/libreoffice is currently marked as (I am sure this will change soon) Your direct question was already answered, but note that libreoffice is not broken

Re: Crash when trying to rsync to external NTFS-formatted HD

2013-03-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu writes: I'm trying the following on my 9.1-RELEASE #0 system: Mounting the external HD ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt/backup/ And doing rsync -av /home/les /mnt/backup/BSD_backup/ I get Building incremental file list for about one minute then my system freezes and

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org writes: That is an interesting idea, but unfortunately our users tend to travel a lot and need to be able to access mail from anywhere. Also, static IPs can get quite expensive from some ISPs. Our users are pretty much on fixed incomes and any expense is a

Re: No sound with Thinkpad X60

2013-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:28:57 +0100 Bernt Hansson articulated: 2013-03-22 00:42, Peter Harrison skrev: Put this in your /boot/loader.conf and report back. hw.snd.default_unit=0 Test with other nubers if 0 do not work. Using an nVidia card, I had to

Re: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1

2013-03-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu writes: 2. I found that users are reported if they are logged in on terminal session or through ssh. User who is logged in through KDM3 into KDE3 session is not shown. Does this change the above diagnosis? Can it be something else, maybe? Well, if they don't

Re: Problem with news/pan

2013-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com writes: This port (pan-0.139_1) will again not compile on 9.1-RELEASE (amd64). When did you last try it? It was last updated Saturday, and it builds fine for me. If it's still failing, post the error messages. ___

Re: configure recursively and build question

2013-03-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu writes: 2013. március 12. 21:17 napon Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org írta: Second, config-recursive only does the configuration of the port options. Then I misunderstood the handbook, chich says: To avoid this when there are many

Re: Can't fetch boost-jam

2013-03-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Open Slate openslatep...@gmail.com writes: For several days I have not been able to update my ports due to fetch errors. Right now the first port portupgrade wants to update is devel/boost-jam. Here is the tail of the output of make issued in /usr/ports/devel/boost-jam: You seem to have

Re: Can an ISO file be mounted from /etc/fstab at boot?

2013-03-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Oscar Hodgson oscar.hodg...@gmail.com writes: I'm pretty sure the answer is no, just write a local rc script to do that, but thought I'd check. Can't see any hint of that capability in the handbook or fstab(5). Really just looking for a single point of management for file systems I

Re: Pan-0.139 won't compile

2013-03-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com writes: Trying to upgrade /usr/ports/news/pan I get this: ___ mime-utils.cc: In function 'char* pan::__g_mime_iconv_strndup(void*, const char*, size_t, const char*)': mime-utils.cc:80: error:

iconv issue (Re: Pan-0.139 won't compile)

2013-03-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:40:40 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com writes: Trying to upgrade /usr/ports/news/pan I get this: ___ mime-utils.cc: In function

Re: iconv issue (Re: Pan-0.139 won't compile)

2013-03-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: I'll put in a PR, because I won't have a chance to look more at this today. ports/176887 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: iconv issue (Re: Pan-0.139 won't compile)

2013-03-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
And it's already been fixed. ___ 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: configure recursively and build question

2013-03-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu writes: As there are no compiled FreeBSD 9.1 packages for pkg_tools I decided to build them. Last I started to build kde3. First I issued make configure-recursive in /usr/ports/x11/kde3, then make install clean, and left the computer for overnight to work.

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org writes: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: date command shows Sun Mar 10 16:50:33 EDT 2013 Very odd that your clock would be off by *two* hours. Yep. The next test is to check the clock in GMT. I expect it to be off, which means that the timezone rules are

Re: kde3 maintainer contact

2013-03-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu writes: I have a few specific questions regarding kde3 in freebsd. As there is no freebsd kde3 list I would like to ask my questions directly from port maintainer(s). Do you know how can I contact them? There isn't one. There is a k...@freebsd.org mailing

Re: VIA PV530

2013-03-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew Pack andrewpac...@yahoo.com writes: Does anyone have any experience running FreeBSD on this platform? Unless I'm mistaken, I could't find it listed under the new release compatibility list.  I haven't used that one specifically, but Via processors have worked fine for me, including the

Re: Performance Related Question

2013-02-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Frederico Costa fredpo...@mufley.com writes: And thanks for the suggestions. I have now tested with -j option and i can confirm that my expectations are correct the Dual CPU dual core AMD completes the buildworld with -j4 in one hour only, while the intal core 2 does it in 1h30m The ideal

Re: choosing ACLs

2013-02-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com writes: man tunefs mentions two types of ACLs: POSIX.1e and NFSv4. Am I correct in assuming an unqualified ACL in general usage defaults to the former, not the latter? Nearly all ACL functionality is implemented in a single module, with NFS ACLs

Re: Ports Packages [Stable] in sync

2013-02-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com writes: Thank you, Damien, for the reply. AFAIK, STABLE gets updated every 2 weeks but not every day, and it seems to be that because of the intrusion, it has not been updated for long. The versions of the ports that come with the 9.1-RELEASE are even slightly

Re: building libtorrent error: 'u_int16_t' does not name a type

2013-02-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Collins davidcollins...@gmail.com writes: I'm trying to build libtorrent/rtorrent using gcc 4.8. The reason I'm using gcc 4.8 rather than the version in base is because there is apparently a bug in gcc 4.2 - http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/926 You do realize that the bug was

Re: Problem with GPA after updating

2013-02-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard ger...@mcom.com writes: FreeBSD-8.3 STABLE gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.19 libgcrypt 1.5.0 gpa 0.9.3 When attempting to run 'gpa', I am greeted with an error message. The message can be viewed here: http://www.seibercom.net/logs/gpa_error.png It seems to indicate that there is a problem with

Re: vmstat -w not honored

2013-02-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fleuriot Damien m...@my.gd writes: I'm running 8.3-STABLE and apparently, vmstat won't honor both -i (interrupts) and -w (repeat display every wait delay seconds) flags at the same time. The problem also arises with -z. The manual doesn't mention these flags being incompatible with -w.

Re: Fun Scripting Problem

2013-02-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: On 02/13/2013 12:38 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: (apologies for top-post) As tempted as I am, I think newsyslog(8) may be what you want. Missing information in your post is how you intend to timestamp the files -- by filename? by content? If

Re: Why ue0 do ARP on non local address when using static route?

2013-02-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jin Guojun jguo...@sbcglobal.net writes: This is 8.3-Release on a HP EliteBook 8460p (4-core i5) with an on board Intel (em0) interface. When attached a Trendent TU2-ET100 USB Ether dongle for a second interface, it has no problem to talk to the local network (10.234.37.0/24), but it

Re: Why ue0 do ARP on non local address when using static route?

2013-02-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jin Guojun jguo...@sbcglobal.net writes: man page says that ethernet-address (MAC) + fully-qualified-host-name (FQHN). The issue is that host cannot resolve the address by using FQHN, thus no ARP any more, but no traffic either. After adding FQDH in the /etc/hosts file then, ARP request

Re: Re-sending selected e-mail messages

2013-02-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I need a way to automatically re-sent stored e-mail messages according to some criteria and like to ask for advice or suggestions for an already existing solution before I start

Re: sh export

2013-01-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: I'm reading a script and i see a lot of exports. Is there some command to display the exported environment? The env command does not show them. Only see things made by setenv command. You're not clear on which shell the script is using. The subject line

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
W. D. w...@us-webmasters.com writes: According to: http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html Cvsup is deprecated. If I have a Cron entry like: #- #Min HrDOM Mnth DOW Command # At 3:46 in the morning,

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:21:03 -0800, Michael Sierchio wrote: Top posting for brevity - the fact is, the code in your original example is wrong. There are reasons to complain about argument size mismatches, esp. in print functions that call (versions of)

Re: pkgng package repository tracking security updates

2013-01-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
n j nin...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.orgwrote: On 14/01/2013 22:44, n j wrote: One thing to think about would be the option of port maintainers uploading the pre-compiled package of the updated port (or if the size of the upload

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: Let me be sure I understand you correctly. Your saying you tested the NetBSD version of mtree that was committed into 10.0 head and it also has the bug we found? No. The port is not complete. All I did was a code inspection.

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: This fixes the problem that was bothering you, but the interactions of different features are complicated, and many of them are documented in fairly loose language. Is that the diplomatic way of saying the manpage for mtree sucks

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: I think it's a real bug, and the test cases don't cover extra elements at all. Now I just have to figure out the right fix. I'm pretty sure that the fix is just to set

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: I think it's a real bug, and the test cases don't cover extra elements at all. Now I

Re: change an image or convert it to metapost

2013-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com writes: Dear folks, Is it possible to change an image: http://www.valleycentral.com/uploadedImages/kgbt/Sports/Videos/GatorLogoJPEG.jpg?w=440h=330aspect=nostretch To metapost? so that it could be processed by metapost? I have referenced this page

Re: keyboard and mouse problem

2013-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jack Mc Lauren jack.mclau...@yahoo.com writes: I have a freeBSD 8.2 amd64 on my system and I'm using gnome environment. But after a few seconds my USB keyboard and  PS/2 mouse hang up !!! What should I do ? Are you still able to switch to other virtual terminals? Are you still able to ssh

Re: change an image or convert it to metapost

2013-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com writes: Dear folks, Is it possible to change an image: http://www.valleycentral.com/uploadedImages/kgbt

Re: installing a new device driver

2013-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zyumbilev, Peter pe...@aboutsupport.com writes: On 09/01/2013 13:16, Jack Mc Lauren wrote: This is the output of pciconf -lv : vendor = 'FarSite Communications Limited' device = 'G.SHDSL Intelligent Sync Comms Card (FarSync DSL-S1)' class = simple comms So what

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: So the question remains, why is mtree giving a return of zero when it finds directories on the target that are not in the spec file? Okay, I had a hard time figuring out your examples, but I think I've got an independent repeatable test case for the problem.

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: and I think the problem you're having is that the second echo $? should be 2, although the others are correct at 0. Is that correct? It's not; ignore my example. The extra directory was under the ignored directory, so it's testing

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: It's not; ignore my example. The extra directory was under the ignored directory, so it's testing the right properties. I think if I create the new subdirectory under the other main directory, it would be right. Confirmed

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: I think it's a real bug, and the test cases don't cover extra elements at all. Now I just have to figure out the right fix. I'm pretty sure that the fix is just to set rval on jumping to the extra tag in vwalk() in src/usr.sbin

Re: Backup with mtree and rsync?

2013-01-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
schu...@ime.usp.br writes: I have been wondering whether it is possible to create a backup system using mtree and rsync. Essentially, the user would create a mtree specification of the source directory and copy it over to the destination directory with rsync. Any changes in the destination

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:30:49 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: I can not get the return code from mtree to control the displaying of a error message. The mtree at the end of the script does function correctly because I can tell from the printed

Re: ssh server hashcode change on nanoBSD

2013-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. takCoder tak.offic...@gmail.com writes: but now, a questions occurred to me about this ssh key. as i don't know enough about its process, would you please tell me whether this key is a shared key for all ssh clients who send a request? or it differs as the client

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: For anyone being a professional company who wants permanent presents on the internet will pay extra fees for static ip address because static ip address never change and this is required for domain name registration. Dynamic ip address are normally assigned

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: For anyone being a professional company who wants permanent presents on the internet will pay extra fees for static ip address because static ip address never change and this is required

Re: svn revision in uname

2012-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com writes: 2012/12/15 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org Anders N. wic...@baot.se writes: Hi. I've noticed in my uname -a on 9.1-RELEASE there is r243826. This is on a system that upgraded from 9.1-RC3 using freebsd-update

Re: svn revision in uname

2012-12-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anders N. wic...@baot.se writes: Hi. I've noticed in my uname -a on 9.1-RELEASE there is r243826. This is on a system that upgraded from 9.1-RC3 using freebsd-update (binary). On another system, upgraded from 9.0-RELEASE via freebsd-update (source), there is nothing at all and uname -a looks

Re: Login class and limit

2012-12-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vagner vag...@bsdway.ru writes: On 06:53 Thu 06 Dec , Charles Swiger wrote: su -, su -l, and sudo -i provide a login shell, which gets the limits setup by login.conf. Normally daemons are started at boot via rc mechanism (or perhaps get spawned from inetd) and do not have a login shell

Re: Music streaming to iPhone

2012-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com writes: I have all of my music on my BSD server at home, and I would like to listen that music on my iPhone, when I'm home. Any ideas? I've got Samba, gnump3d, and vlc all serving off my music machine, and have played with dlnc a bit as well. My

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: On 11/24/2012 11:19 AM, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: I wouldn't blindly trust and drop an operating system on production servers, no matter how good the feedback from outside my organization sounds. In general, I'd agree with you. Certainly, that's been

Re: Odd X11 over SSH issue

2012-11-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org writes: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Yup, I just have not had a chance to chase that one down, and given that it happens once per SSH session, has not been a high priority. I mentioned

Re: Odd X11 over SSH issue

2012-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org writes: I am seeing very poor response time running the VitrualBox GUI via X11 tunneled over SSH via the Internet. The issue _appears_ to be limited to the VBox GUI as Firefox is reasonable. I am well aware of the latency issues tunneling X11 over SSH across the

Re: HELP: some process eat my /var

2012-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eugen Konkov kes-...@yandex.ru writes: Здравствуйте, Vincent. Вы писали 5 ноября 2012 г., 12:38:47: VH Its possible that a process is holding open an unlinked file (some VH processes do this for tmp files as they are automatically deleted if the VH program exit, I believe mysql does it for

Re: Swapped memory limited to about 500MB for a process ?

2012-09-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr writes: On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 13:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr writes: I was impacted by a memory leak that has been fixed by this patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/namei-leak.patch What I noticed when

Re: Swapped memory limited to about 500MB for a process ?

2012-09-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr writes: On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 13:05 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr writes: I was impacted by a memory leak that has been fixed by this patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/namei-leak.patch What I noticed when

Re: Swapped memory limited to about 500MB for a process ?

2012-09-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr writes: I was impacted by a memory leak that has been fixed by this patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/namei-leak.patch What I noticed when the server was paging is that it seems that only about 500MB of my 4GB swap partition was used before crashing.

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org writes: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:18 PM, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: It's a real shame Unix doesn't have a really good tool for comparing two directory trees. You can use 'diff -r' (even on binaries), but that fails if you have devices, named pipes, or named

Re: asking for help about acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C)

2012-09-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Lowell Gilbert wrote: chiehhan chieh...@gmail.com writes: To whom may concern, I am a greenhorn in the field of freebsd.And when I install Freebsd9.0 on my laptop HP NX6330,a control spam acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored

Re: Firefox install problem

2012-09-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br writes: 2012/9/4 Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Sep 4, 2012 7:03 PM, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: All I've done was csup -L 2 ports-supfile with ports-www in it. Then cd /usr/ports/www/firefox; make with

Re: Firefox install problem

2012-09-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br writes: env: FBSD 8.3-STABLE AMD64 Firefox 15 port The problem seems to be with the porting itself. The first problem showed up during configure. Libvpx could not be found and configure stops. After examining Config.Log, I found a compiler switch like this:

Re: [solved]: to move csup 90 to subversion 91rc

2012-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Darrel levi...@iglou.com writes: Thanks, Matthew- and especially for mentioning to use -F on the first subsequent run of mergemaster. svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1 src For ports would it be better to match -fbsd91, like this: svn co

Re: [solved]: to move csup 90 to subversion 91rc

2012-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org writes: On 03/09/2012 17:29, Lowell Gilbert wrote: I'm not sure whether there's any equivalent to tracking RELENG_9 (as opposed to tracking RELENG_9_1) under the branching scheme being used with subversion. stable/9 is the SVN equivalent of RELENG_9 Ah

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