Re: Soekris for a Trac server

2013-10-01 Thread John Levine
for for the ESATA adapter I have to use a riser card and leave the cover off, which looks stupid but looks fine. It's just like any other FreeBSD box do I don't see why it wouldn't run jails perfecty well. R's, John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (FreeBSD

Re: Problems with stable/9 and LSI controlers?

2013-09-10 Thread John
to sucessfully boot LSI disks against the updated kernel? Hi, does it use the mfi driver? Because that has been updated. There was an errata notice about it on the 22nd August concerning mfi in JBOD mode and disks 2TB -- John ___ freebsd-questions

Re: UUID in fstab.

2013-08-26 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, August 26, 2013 12:06:21 am varanasi sainath wrote: Thanks John, I have tried as you suggested using a Live CD and yes the partitions uuid's are present in gptid .. I found the UUID's in /dev/gptid - how do I determine which uid corresponds to which partition (ufs or swap or boot

Re: UUID in fstab.

2013-08-23 Thread John Baldwin
fstab to use /dev/gptid/uid directly instead of /dev/XXXpYY and reboot. If it works I believe the /dev/XXXpYY names will now be gone from /dev and the /dev/gptid names present instead. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Kernel Panic - Unix socket communication in kernel module

2013-08-23 Thread John Baldwin
userland utility poke your module via a sysctl/ioctl/etc. after the filesystems are mounted (you could use a custom rc.d script for this). -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

freebsd 9.2 via svn

2013-08-18 Thread John
Hello list, Is it safe to start using 9.2 in the svn repos? I have a line like this in a daily crontab: svn co svn://svn.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1 /usr/src Can I change that 9.1 to 9.2 now, or should I wait? I aim to follow 9.2-R with security updates. thanks, -- John

Re: freebsd 9.2 via svn

2013-08-18 Thread John
or religon, but freebsd-update makes me nervous. I'm allergic to automatic anything unless I've written it. The only times I've run generic is when installing a new system, to see what I need and what I don't. Maybe I'm just old. thanks for the input, -- John

Re: virtualbox-ose fails to build on FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 #0 r253698

2013-08-04 Thread John
On 02/08/2013 16:54, John wrote: Hello list, I'm trying to install virtualbox on a new machine running FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 #0 r253698. The ports version is 324162. Is it a problem with the port or my machine? This was fixed by: commenting everything out of /etc/make.conf svn to 9-stable

TRIM on ZFS mirror

2013-08-02 Thread John Andreasson
Hi. I read that FreeBSD 9.2 will bring TRIM to ZFS. Does anyone know if this works even if the zpool is a mirror? John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

virtualbox-ose fails to build on FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 #0 r253698

2013-08-02 Thread John
/GuestHost/HGSMI/HGSMICommon.cpp *** [do-build] Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose. *** [build] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose. thanks, -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: System hangs for several minutes (disk IO related)

2013-07-31 Thread John Johnstone
notable failure rate. I just did a simple web search for P400 problems and didn't come up with much. I'd be surprised if there's a significant difference between the P400i and the P400. - John J. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re:

2013-07-21 Thread john trimarchi
http://trust-seats.com/cnn.com.today.html?m0d0x8d5m4k6b2k0y5v2o2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

trashed installation ?

2013-07-18 Thread john francis lee
no interest in my problems. Fair enough. What do I expect for free, right? Thanks for the software anyway. -- john francis lee 246/3 Moo 22 Thanon Kaew Wai Mueang Chiangrai 57000 Thailand ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset

2013-07-15 Thread john francis lee
-52P mother board with an NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset. Is that OK? Thanks. -- john francis lee 246/3 Moo 22 Thanon Kaew Wai Mueang Chiangrai 57000 Thailand ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

WAS : NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset NOW : installation in Vbox repeats endlessly

2013-07-15 Thread john francis lee
and it was rebooting. It ran the installation again and I watched ... to see it drop out at the 3rd screen with a % of files installed. I'll try and download the 10.0 iso image, since it worked from the memstick. -- john francis lee 246/3 Moo 22 Thanon Kaew Wai Mueang Chiangrai 57000 Thailand

Fwd: WAS : NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset NOW : installation in Vbox repeats endlessly

2013-07-15 Thread john francis lee
. Original Message Subject: WAS : NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset NOW : installation in Vbox repeats endlessly Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:10:33 +0700 From: john francis lee j...@robinlea.com To: questi...@freebsd.org 2.2.1.2. FreeBSD/amd64 There are two classes

Baker Invites freebsd-questions@freebsd.org to spend holiday in Goa

2013-06-29 Thread John Baker
- This mail is a HTML mail. Not all elements could be shown in plain text mode. - Hi, Still plan where to spend your vacation, where you can relax, enjoy and store the golden memories of your vacation. Visit http://travaholic.in Your ultimate guide. Regards ... John Baker Note : If you

Re: FreeBSD:: How to set VLAN priority?

2013-06-26 Thread John-Mark Gurney
VLAN tagging are implemented. You could probably implement it w/ ng_patch, but that would also mean you'd lose the feature of the card adding the VLAN tag for you... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have

Re: Failed to allocate receive buffer problem

2013-06-25 Thread John Baldwin
? Specifically this line: 0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters) If so, it may be that the IPoIB layer has an mbuf leak. The rest of netstat - m might be useful here as you can see if any of the zones are full. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd

Re: How to compile ipoib module manually?

2013-06-05 Thread John Baldwin
. Where can I find it? 2. How can I compile ipoib support? You will have to create one. You should be able to use the existing module Makefiles as a guide. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: How to switch Datgram/Connected mtu modes?

2013-05-29 Thread John Baldwin
? It looks like the OFED bits in FreeBSD map Linux sysfs entries to sysctl nodes, but I don't have a box with IB handy to see what it looks like at runtime. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Thunderbird 17.0.6 build failure FreeBSD 9.1-p3 amd64

2013-05-23 Thread John
/thunderbird (thunderbird-17.0.5) (coredump) # many thanks, -- John ___ 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: Tell me how to increase the virtual disk with ZFS?

2013-05-11 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Alexander Yerenkow wrote this message on Sat, May 11, 2013 at 18:13 +0300: zpools or increase/decrease UFS partitions. growfs(8) NAME growfs -- grow size of an existing ufs file system HISTORY The growfs utility first appeared in FreeBSD 4.4. -- John-Mark Gurney

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-09 Thread John Levine
config steps) and when you're done, the packages have all been updated and fixed. Doing a general port verifier is a pain because the scripts called from make install can run arbitrary programs. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

chromium won't build on FreeBSD 9.1 ports rev 315799

2013-04-17 Thread John
Hello list, In my daily vulnerability report, I'm seeing this: Affected package: chromium-25.0.1364.160 Type of problem: chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities. Reference: http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/bdd48858-9656-11e2-a9a8-00262d5ed8ee.html Latest ports

Re: chromium won't build on FreeBSD 9.1 ports rev 315799

2013-04-17 Thread John
is up to 26.mumble -- John ___ 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

Portsnap gets ports that claim to be out of date

2013-03-29 Thread John Levine
When I do portsnap update and try building stuff, I get errors like this: Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 5: warning: You are using a ports file that originated from CVS!! Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 6: warning: The FreeBSD project has switched from CVS to SubVersion. Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 7: warning: This CVS

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread John Levine
daylight saving time built in. It does. Any chance your computer's clock got reset an hour slow? My 8.3 and 9.1 systems handled the daylight switch just like they were supposed to. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider

Strange delays in ZFS scrub or resilver

2013-02-23 Thread John Levine
, pause, work, pause. R's, John ___ 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: building custom kernel on -current: unknown option COMPAT_LINUX

2013-02-14 Thread John Baldwin
on amd64 eventually and will be used for 64-bit Linux binaries (COMPAT_LINUX32 is to run Linux/i386 binaries on FreeBSD/amd64). -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: sh script ?

2013-01-24 Thread John Levine
I get this message [: 10.0.10.21: bad number on this code [ ${saved_ip} -eq ${used_ip} ] echo good match Both variables have valid ip addresses in them. Why does it think the variable content is a number and not text? What am I doing wrong? My guess would be that you didn't read the man

Re: which version of FBSD should i install?

2013-01-08 Thread John Levine
I want the Gnome Desktop, espeak, and gvim. If there is a CD or DVD with 9.x, can somebody give me a URL? The usual place: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html I'm typing this on a Thinkpad X200, which works well under 9.0.

strange network problem with multiple interfaces

2013-01-05 Thread John
hi, I just installed stock FreeBSD 9.0 on a PowerEdge server with two network cards: bce0 is directly connected to isp's gateway bce1~3 are connected to the inside port of a router configured as 192.168.1.0/24 network with 192.168.1.1 as gateway If the ENTIRE content of /etc/rc.conf is:

Re: Somewhat OT: Is Full Command Logging Possible?

2012-12-18 Thread John Hein
Tim Daneliuk wrote at 17:48 -0600 on Dec 5, 2012: On 12/05/2012 05:44 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I am working with an institution that today provides limited privilege escalation on their servers via very specific

Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$

2012-12-12 Thread John Levine
that for nearly everything else, chromium works better than firefox, but for PACER, only Firefox supports RECAP. You do use RECAP, I hope. R's, John PS: On my FBSD 9.0, acroread8 works OK, much slower than evince but in some cases it renders the PDF better, and often translates to postscript

Re: SMS application

2012-12-06 Thread John Levine
In article blu0-smtp19ad48d80755ecda768cb193...@phx.gbl you write: Can anyone recommend a good SMS application that works on FreeBSD? I have used several different ones on MS Windows; however, I cannot find one that works on FreeBSD. There doesn't appear to be a fully functional one in the ports

Re: svn incantation for 9.1-RELEASE

2012-12-04 Thread John
On 03/12/2012 07:42, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:16 AM, John free...@growveg.net wrote: Hello list, At the moment, I get sources via a line like this: svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ /usr/src That one should give you 9.1-RELEASE. thanks

svn incantation for 9.1-RELEASE

2012-12-02 Thread John
Hello list, At the moment, I get sources via a line like this: svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ /usr/src Is this sufficient and correct to follow 9.1-RELEASE when it eventually comes out? Right now, building world from that checkout gives 9.1-RC3. thanks -- freebsd at

Re: Fetched Ports index falling out of date

2012-10-16 Thread John Marshall
-Ranges: bytes ETag: 219974981 Last-Modified: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:40:03 GMT Content-Length: 1658256 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:12:08 GMT Server: httpd/1.4.x LaHonda -- John Marshall signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Building Ports: Is there a make equivalent for --batch ?

2012-10-07 Thread John Levine
through all the ports first and does the config dialogs before starting the rebuild. There are stil a few places it can get stuck, but many fewer than portupgrade. Portmaster is worth a look just out of amazement. It is a 4,000 line shell script. R's, John

Re: iso image question

2012-08-26 Thread John Levine
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Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread John Hein
Andy Wodfer wrote at 12:59 +0200 on Aug 22, 2012: Hi, I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the periodic LOCATE script runs every week. What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp

Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John Levine
beyond what I've already done? R's, John ___ 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: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John R. Levine
I've done all the usual voodoo repair: I have rebuilt apache, php, and all the php modules from source, and rebooted, and it didn't help. Did you also rebuilt lang/php5-extensions for the modules you need? Uh, yes, I said that I did. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator

Re: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John R. Levine
that the packages for 8.x have gone away on the distribution server, so I expect they're not regression testing 8.x any more Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly

Re: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John R. Levine
not validating updated ports against 8.3 any more. R's, John ___ 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: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John R. Levine
Are you running pecl-APC? If so, what version? There's a major issue with the latest. Hmmn, that might have been it. I backed down to 5.3, but when I have a chance I'll try 5.4 again without APC. R's, John

Re: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John Levine
5.4.5 that builds OK on 9.0 but not on 8.x. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Firefox 13.0.1.1 won't build under 8.3 on amd64

2012-08-12 Thread John Levine
I'm reasonably sure I have the png and sqlite3 libraries built as needed, but the build still barfs when compiling the SSL function nsNSSErrors.cpp. The end of the build log is copied below. I don't have the logs handy, but Thunderbird fails the same way. Any suggestions? R's, John c++ -o

Re: Firefox 14.0.1 won't build under 8.3 on amd64

2012-08-12 Thread John Levine
of the build log is copied below. I don't have the logs handy, but Thunderbird fails the same way. Any suggestions? R's, John c++ -o nsNSSErrors.o -c -I../../../../dist/stl_wrappers -I../../../../dist/system_wrappers -include ../../../.././../config/gcc_hidden.h -DNSS_ENABLE_ECC -DDLL_PREFIX

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-04 Thread John Levine
for a patent. The patent office has never been very good at examining software patents, and I have made a lot of money helping companies document the prior art not cited in patents that are being asserted against them. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

No network connectivity to system

2012-08-01 Thread John Salomon
. I'm missing something utterly fundamentally idiotically harebrained and I have no clue what it could be - I'd be endlessly grateful for any tips or ideas on what to try (beyond an exorcist). Thanks! -John -- John Morgan Salomon john - at - zog.net www.zog.net

Re: Firefox 14 build broken due to wrong libpng

2012-07-30 Thread John Levine
make install clean) The png errors went away but it still failed. The last few lines of the log are below. This is 8.3 on amd64, ports are as far as I know fully up to date. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider the environment

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread John Levine
What sort of errors did you encounter while building the package using the ports? The first problem is that it now demands clang-devel, which conflicts with chromium which still wants regular clang. Any idea how likely it is that chromium will build if I tell it to use clang-devel? R's, John

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-15 Thread John Levine
Is there any such a tool (as fsck for FAT32) available for freeBSD? If so, where would I find it? There's fsck_msdosfs, part of the base system. Regular fsck should call it automatically if you run it on a FAT filesystem. R's, John ___ freebsd

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread John Levine
with old versions of pcre, but the PHP port maintainer refuses to put in version dependency info, because he thinks that every port should be up to date all the time. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-23 Thread John Levine
snafu on my part freebsd 8.3 also uses zfs pool version 28:-) No, 8.3 uses version 15. It's been quite stable for me. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-23 Thread John Levine
snafu on my part freebsd 8.3 also uses zfs pool version 28:-) No, 8.3 uses version 15. It's been quite stable for me. Sorry, I misread my notes, 8.2 uses v 15, 8.3 uses v 28. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Building libreoffice on 8.3 x86-64, not

2012-06-22 Thread John Levine
to use GCC. Any suggestions? I have 500 megabytes of build logs if anyone wants to look at them. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Free space in ZFS

2012-06-15 Thread John Levine
206 161811%/backup2/20120615 Now the total is 1.82Tb. Huh? The backup filesystems are compressed, but surely they're showing me the actual size, not the uncompressed size. Or are they? R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:56:02 pm Mark Felder wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:07 -0500, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: Humm, can you test it with 2 CPUs? We primarily only run with 1 CPU. We have seen it crash on multiple CPU VMs. Also, Dane Foster appeared to have been

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
1189748491218 cpu0: timer 2174263198400 Total 3364012124619 I'm doing my best to get you guys the info you need, but this is one heck of a Heisenbug... Thanks. -- John Baldwin

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread John Baldwin
CPUs were running (e.g. do you have ps7.png, etc.)? -- John Baldwin ___ 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: Kernel Panic any help?

2012-05-25 Thread John Levine
panic: ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch Something's fairly badly screwed up on your disk. My advice would be to boot from a CD or USB key and run fsck to try to repair it. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Evolution 2.32.3 printing

2012-05-23 Thread John Hein
Polytropon wrote at 11:45 +0200 on May 23, 2012: On Wed, 23 May 2012 10:20:18 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hi, I run Evolution 2.32.3 in FreeBSD 9-CURRENT in my office because I have to use a MS Exchange server with OWA only; When I want to print something (Ctrl-P) a dialog

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread John Webster
--On May 8, 2012 9:33:59 PM +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: I'm happy to use the -P option to let portmaster use packages for most of my ports but there's a few that must be compiled from the port instead because I need to configure non default options, e.g. to enable

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread John Webster
--On May 8, 2012 10:51:16 PM +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Tuesday 08 May 2012, John Webster wrote: Would this work for you?  From the manpage:      For those who wish to be sure that specific ports are always compiled instead of being installed from packages

RE: FTP oddness, over SSH session.

2012-04-13 Thread John McDonnell
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dave B FYI, you have to create an entry in FileZilla's Site Manager, for it to invoke SFTP, the Quickconnect feature just uses plain vanilla FTP. Best Regards. Dave Baxter. You can

Re: Fast question abount EDITOR

2012-04-05 Thread John Levine
by composing existing tools rather than by adding ever more options to every program. R's, John PS: I realize that over the decades we have strayed somewhat from this ideal. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: IPv6 default-route - gone

2012-04-03 Thread John
On 03/04/2012 18:40, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, After installing a new machine under FreeBSD9 I discovered that the IPv6-configuration I had in place with FreeBSD8 does no longer work. Here's what I've got in /etc/rc.conf: ipv6_enable=YES ipv6_ifconfig_em0=2001:76c:2218:2009::11/64

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread John
On 07/03/2012 18:56, David Jackson wrote: You have just now declared complete indifference to and alienated about 99% of the potential user base and their needs, those who could care less about compiling source and messing with compiler options. You're forgetting that one size does *not* fit

Re: make install fails for /usr/ports/security/sudo after downgrade from 9.0-R to 8-STABLE

2012-03-03 Thread John
On 04/03/2012 04:36, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, I would think that merely removing the offending file and copying the correct one from /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include/ would suffice. I dunno, I don't think so. Why would it not be installed in the downgrade process? Also, the filenames

odd SDcard behaviour in freebsd-9.0-R

2012-02-27 Thread John
Hi list, I recently upgraded from 8.2-R to 9.0-R via freebsd-update and noticed different behaviour when I plug in my Nikon D50 via the usb port. I'm using the generic kernel while I try to sort this. It is the same in all but identity. 8.2 behaviour used to create a device /dev/da(x)s1

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread John Levine
Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use? Pine is dead, replaced by alpine. The FreeBSD port has a config option to support maildirs. I've used it, it works. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Printing directly to IP address

2012-02-14 Thread John Levine
numbers of printers, particularly when you also install hplip. R's, John -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly ___ freebsd-questions

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-03 Thread John Levine
: # for external SATA siis_load=YES I also have three USB disks configured as a ZFS RAID which I use for backups. It works OK, but I wouldn't want to depend on it from day to day. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-25 Thread John Levine
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failure - write_dma issue

2012-01-06 Thread John Almberg
=3918703 My FreeBSD servers have been quite reliable since I started using them 4 or 5 years ago, so I don't have much experience debugging them. Can anyone give me a hint about what might be wrong (I assume with the HD), and how/if it might be fixable? TIA: John “Wealth is the ability to fully

Re: df with ZFS vs. zpool list

2011-12-15 Thread John Levine
WRITE CKSUM storage ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 ada1ONLINE 0 0 0 ada2ONLINE 0 0 0 ada3ONLINE 0 0 0 R's, John

What's wrong with this code?

2011-12-12 Thread John Levine
like the system time() function to me: U time@@FBSD_1.0 Setting a breakpoint in gdb gets a complaint about trying to set a breakpoint in /lib/libc.so.7. Any ideas what the problem was? R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: What's wrong with this code?

2011-12-12 Thread John R. Levine
how about a tiny .so that includes -only- that routine, and a 3-line or so main() that links against -that- .so? not a bad idea. Mentioning O/S release level, and CPU architecture would be a good idea :) Oh sorry, FreeBSD 8.2 release, AMD64 R's, John

re0: PHY read failed

2011-11-17 Thread John Kotrla
this message is appearing hundreds of times. I don't use the device, so its more of a neatness thing but it also makes it difficult to use logs when this error pops up every single second. It doesn't begin at boot, usually after a few hours. But if I do plug it into my router instead of using

Re: How do you rebuild wpa_supplicant?

2011-11-12 Thread John R. Levine
Doesn't this work for you? cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/wpa make install Well, yes, now that you mention it. Sigh. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly

Re: How do you rebuild wpa_supplicant?

2011-11-12 Thread John Levine
Look in /usr/src/usr.sbin/wpa. Oh, duh. I used to know that. Tnx. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

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How do you rebuild wpa_supplicant?

2011-11-11 Thread John Levine
, which didn't work. Any suggestions how one rebuilds this? If it matters, I'm using 8.2 RELEASE. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: How do you rebuild wpa_supplicant?

2011-11-11 Thread John R. Levine
This is part of FreeBSD's user land; i.e. you should checkout the full sources /usr/src from SVN and build world; Surely there is some way to rebuild just part of the tree. I know there used to be. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread John Levine
are wired into the CUPS code and were more hassle to change than I wanted to do. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread John Levine
I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long enough that I don't want to wait. I don't quite understand the issue you are raising john. $ lpr foo $ lpr bar $ lpr baz It will print the three files

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-24 Thread John R. Levine
termcap library in the system. Probably its installation documentation tells what's needed. If you look at the build log I posted, it's failing because it's trying to link in the system termcap library and failing because ncurses doesn't provide it. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com

Re: Install FreeBSD using Windows desktop and PXE

2011-10-24 Thread John Kotrla
On 10/24/11 04:29, Eir Nym wrote: -- Eir Nym On 24 October 2011 13:23, Eir Nymeir...@gmail.com wrote: ✪ On 24 Oct 2011, at 11:10, Matthew Seamanm.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 24/10/2011 02:18, Eir Nym wrote: I want to install FreeBSD to my second box and I have only

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-24 Thread John R. Levine
an optional ncurses library that doesn't define the termcap functions. Do we fix it, or wave our hands and claim it's someone else's fault? Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-24 Thread John R. Levine
saw in that log until I deleted the files from the ncurses port. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-24 Thread John R. Levine
, but reconstructing the former state would be a challenge. So, uh, I guess we chalk it up to bit rot. Never mind. I have a couple of other ports that fail in similar ways, but I think I'll wiggle a few more moving parts before reporting the problem. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-23 Thread John Levine
did. I put them at http://www.taugh.com/emacsbuild.txt R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-23 Thread John R. Levine
On 23/10/2011 09:03, John R. Levine wrote: checking for tparm in -lncurses... no but that's not correct. libncurses should certainly contain that symbol. I get a 'yes' there on my stable/8 machine. As -lncurses is part of your LDFLAGS ... hmmm... do you have libncurses on your system

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-23 Thread John R. Levine
On 23/10/2011 09:03, John R. Levine wrote: checking for tparm in -lncurses... no but that's not correct. libncurses should certainly contain that symbol. I get a 'yes' there on my stable/8 machine. As -lncurses is part of your LDFLAGS ... hmmm... do you have libncurses on your system

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-23 Thread John Levine
are provided isn't configurable. However, emacs could be confused since they're implemented on top of terminfo. It sounds to me like the right thing to do is to fix emacs' configuration so it always uses the base system ncurses whether or not the package version is there. Right? R's, John

Updating emacs fails

2011-10-22 Thread John Levine
. This is on 8.2, building it with no nonstandard options I'm aware of. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Do you find chrome on FreeBSD buggy?

2011-10-15 Thread John Levine
I've had the same problem with recent versions on amd64 8.2. The versions at http://chromium.hybridsource.org/ work much better. They cost a little money but it's worth it. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

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