linux-f10-hal-libs

2013-07-16 Thread R Skinner
I've discovered a fix for certain videos using flashplayer on websites. Apparently they require hal to access the DRM (?!), so I've just whipped up a port to fix this. It has been done in a real hurry; unfortunately I don't have any further time to spend on this as I'm way over my head at the

Re: courier imap - unable to access shared folders: operation not supported

2013-07-09 Thread R Skinner
On 07/09/13 21:56, Mark Felder wrote: The courier documentation says this about using enhanced idle over NFS FAM (but not Gamin) also works with NFS filesystems. On NFS clientsfam transparently forwards file monitoring requests to a peer famprocess on the NFS server. Do you have a peer fam

Re: courier imap - unable to access shared folders: operation not supported

2013-07-09 Thread R Skinner
On 07/09/13 23:05, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:00:22 -0500, R Skinner ro...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: No, I don't. But then it was something I thought might help the situation and another feature to start playing with. Bit of a stretch really... but I was getting

courier imap - unable to access shared folders: operation not supported

2013-07-08 Thread R Skinner
I'm really tearing my hair out here, this was working until I had to do a repair on the server hdd and rebuild it, and now I cannot work out why this has been working at all- no amount of googling even hints at what could be wrong. I'm trying to access shared folders on a courier-imap server

Family Heritage Notice

2013-05-08 Thread Pamela R. Hughes
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HI

2012-11-08 Thread R shidhpra
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Haskell platform install problem in ghc.

2012-09-23 Thread R. Clayton
I'm on this $ uname -a FreeBSD BurkinaFaso 9.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Jun 12 01:47:53 UTC 2012 r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $ and go here $ cd /usr/ports/devel/hs-haskell-platform/ $ grep -i version Makefile

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
Then perhaps you should downgrade to lang/php53 and lang/php53-extensions and compare the results! Good thought, I just did that. Results: php5.3: works fine as far as I can tell php5.4: fails in random ways This suggests there is a bug in 5.4 which only is apparent on FreeBSD 8.x. I note

Re: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-20 Thread John R. Levine
Good thought, I just did that. Results: php5.3: works fine as far as I can tell php5.4: fails in random ways This suggests there is a bug in 5.4 which only is apparent on FreeBSD 8.x. I note that the packages for 8.x have gone away on the distribution server, so I expect they're not

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

ps, clang and make variables

2012-03-31 Thread R Skinner
Stupid question, but I need to clarify and make sure I'm right here: what should I see as the running process if clang is compiling? ATM I see cc1plus. I'm trying to set CC and friends make variables to clang for a build, but it doesn't appear to be 'sticking'. It seems to change the shell

port2

2012-03-21 Thread r p
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Fwd: wrong MD5 and SHA256 ?!? OK!!!!!!!

2012-01-21 Thread Ruben R. Shkhikyan
It's OK, You've already changed the FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.im on site, the checksums are the same as I calculate. Thanks. Best regards, Ruben Original Message Subject:wrong MD5 and SHA256 ?!? Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:29:08 +0400 From: Ruben R

wrong MD5 and SHA256 ?!?

2012-01-21 Thread Ruben R. Shkhikyan
Hi, why the MD5 and SHA256 of FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img are wrong? (MD5: FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img = 79ddd8f3422e209ae9bd11fee4e399eb) - Your Calculation (MD5: FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img = F9DDF26894FCF7EA5813D7D9099FF6A4) - My Calculation (with WinHex)

OpenBSD disk on FreeBSD.

2012-01-08 Thread R. Clayton
I have a usb external hard drive from a dead OpenBSD x86 system, and I want to mount the drive on $ uname -a FreeBSD AngkorWat 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 $ fdisk on the FreeBSD system

Re: OpenBSD disk on FreeBSD.

2012-01-08 Thread R. Clayton
Thanks for your reply to my message. you can address the partitions on that slice (da0s4) like you would access them on FreeBSD. mount /dev/da0s4a didn't work. However, looking in dmesg I saw WARNING: R/W mount of /mnt/backups denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck After

Re: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable?

2012-01-04 Thread R Skinner
On 01/05/12 13:23, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I downloaded FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso and burned the image to CD. However the CD does not boot. Just wanted to confirm that it is supposed to

D-VFS: coming soon?

2011-12-30 Thread R Skinner
I just stumbled on this on my way to another issue. Is there any support on this in FreeBSD yet? I know its only new, but just checking... Its run by the freedesktop developers and is using an MIT license, I believe its supposed to run parallel to Xorg and negate opposing APIs by providing a

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

Re: Installation difficulties

2011-12-11 Thread R Skinner
On 12/11/11 16:01, Jeffry Killen wrote: Hello; I am not new to FreeBSD, but it has been a while since I worked with it. The last version I obtained from FreeBSD Mall is 7.2. The jewel case is marked with a date of May 2009, so it is a little behind. But I expected it to boot the i386 version

9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-10 Thread R Skinner
I bit the bullet and installed the rc3, after spending half the day fighting to get atheros 9285 working on a new laptop. I have to do another as well, so... After recovering myself from the shock of the new bsdinstall (not bad. A little confusing after using sysinstall for so long), I

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?

2011-11-11 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: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-24 Thread John R. Levine
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? maybe/maybe not. It depends on what emacs needs - whether it only works with either its own termcap module or a conventional

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-24 Thread John R. Levine
There's enough in the emacs sources to make it pretty clear that a failure to have emacs find the termcap functions would be a problem in the emacs port - emacs prefers -lncurses to -ltermcap unless it's being overridden. Well, OK. Now we know that on FreeBSD that doesn't work, since there's

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-24 Thread John R. Levine
Yes, that's just what I did, and I got an emacs that was linked against the port version of ncurses. It worked fine. I then deleted the ncurses port to make sure emacs *really* was using ncurses from the port, and, indeed, emacs stopped working. That is bizarre. I got the linker errors you

Re: Updating emacs fails

2011-10-24 Thread John R. Levine
Yes, that's just what I did, and I got an emacs that was linked against the port version of ncurses. It worked fine. I deinstalled and rebuilt and reinstalled the ncurses port, and now emacs builds fine. Gaaah. I think the former version was the package that gets installed with 8.2, but

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

p11-kit port patch fail on 8.2p3.

2011-10-03 Thread R. Clayton
I am running # uname -a FreeBSD AddisAbaba 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 27 18:07:27 UTC 2011 r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 # After updating the ports tree with portsnap fetch update, I ran pkgdb to get # pkgdb -F

Re: p11-kit port patch fail on 8.2p3. [solved]

2011-10-03 Thread R. Clayton
I would try moving the patch file elsewhere (or deleting it) and trying again. That worked; thanks. Odd, I find no such file as patch-p11-kit-modules.c here (9.0-BETA3-amd64), either in /usr/ports/distfiles/ or in /usr/ports/security/p11-kit/files/. It was in

Pointers to debugging slow iSCSI initiator performance

2011-06-21 Thread Viren R. Shah
2147483648 bytes transferred in 145.111894 secs (14798812 bytes/sec) arachnophile# uname -a FreeBSD arachnophile.virtc.com 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #0: Wed Oct 13 13:52:31 EDT 2010 r...@arachnophile.virtc.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARACHNOPHILE amd64 arachnophile# more /etc

Re: java support in FBSD Firefox 4

2011-03-31 Thread John R. Levine
This link explains it pretty well: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21010 Someplace between Firefox 3.5 and 4.0 I changed from diablo to openjdk. It was 3.6. Check the archives for considerable gnashing of teeth as we tried to figure out how to get Java working again. ln -s

Re: MySQL 3 needed but how?

2011-03-26 Thread John R. Levine
Starting mysql. gw# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server status mysql is not running. gw# There is nothing in /var/log/messages. Sounds like you'll have to do some debugging. Try adding --verbose to mysql_args in /etc/rc.conf, and see the other advice in

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread John R. Levine
... The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it. I that case, shouldn't lsof(8) have reported something? Yes. It always did for me. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The

Re: shutdown computer after the halt command

2011-02-07 Thread John R. Levine
It's quite easy to see you're wrong, just follow the steps I outlined above. If you are correct, reboot(8) should print things like: Stopping sshd. to the console. Sigh. I shut down my FreeBSD 8.1 laptop all the time with halt -p, and I can assure you it prints all those messages. You can

Re: shutdown computer after the halt command

2011-02-07 Thread John R. Levine
Hmmn, I looked at the code and by golly you're right, halt/reboot doesn't poke init. Nonetheless, I really do see a lot of foo stopping messages when I use halt, presumably because the SIGTERM that halt/reboot sends has the same effect (if not the same ordering) as the ones that the various

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread John R. Levine
Is this a known problem?  As far as I know, it's supposed to work. Well, if it does not work it can be driver bug. Well, yes, that's what I'm asking. Is it a known driver bug? In iwn case try to set MAC address of iwn before creating wlan or you will need to set same MAC on wlanX and iwn.

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-23 Thread John R. Levine
Is this a known problem?  As far as I know, it's supposed to work. How you change MAC address? With ether command? # ifconfig em0 ether 01:17:a4:8f:04:5d Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider the environment before reading this

Re: Cannot build openjdk6 on Fbsd 8.1

2011-01-09 Thread John R. Levine
IcedTeaPluginUtils.cc IcedTeaScriptablePluginObject.cc In file included from IcedTeaJavaRequestProcessor.h:46, from IcedTeaJavaRequestProcessor.cc:41: IcedTeaNPPlugin.h:43:27: error: nsThreadUtils.h: No such file or directory You have to install Firefox first. It contains that

Re: Cannot build openjdk6 on Fbsd 8.1

2011-01-09 Thread John R. Levine
The nsThreadUtils.h file on my system was installed by the www/libxul port, and java/openjdk6 depends on that when WITH_WEB is set, so it should already be installed on your system as well. If for some reason libxul isn't installed, try manually installing it, then re-run the openjdk6 build.

Cannot build openjdk6 on Fbsd 8.1

2011-01-08 Thread John R. Levine
java/openjdk6 WITH_WEB will give you the plugin to use with www/firefox. I'm trying to build openjdk6, and I get this error message. Any suggestions? R's, John IcedTeaPluginUtils.cc IcedTeaScriptablePluginObject.cc In file included from IcedTeaJavaRequestProcessor.h:46,

Re: Not affecting exactly FreeBSD but OpenBSD

2010-12-16 Thread Michael R. Rusch
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mxwrote: Hello all. I found this interesting and wanted to share it here. I guess it has to do with a recently thread here Jorge Biquez -- By Doug Barney Editor in Chief, Redmond magazine

Re: CURRENT: Issue with ZFS and 2TB WD HDD (WDC WD20EURS-63Z9B1 80.00A80)

2010-12-01 Thread James R. Van Artsdalen
On 12/1/2010 5:36 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: There is no valuable dmesg/message output, due to the simple fact, that after yesterday's make world and another import try the BACKUP00 pool was imported. The only thing to report is, that while importing the BACKUP00 pool, which is on devise ada3, I

Re: CURRENT: Issue with ZFS and 2TB WD HDD (WDC WD20EURS-63Z9B1 80.00A80)

2010-11-29 Thread James R. Van Artsdalen
O. Hartmann wrote: Attached to the system are three WD harddrives with ZFS as filesystem on GPT partitioning scheme. Please send the output of camcontrol devlist and zpool status on FreeBSD-8.1. Then export the pool in FreeBSD-8.1, boot FreeBSD-9 with verbose booting and send the output of

Re: problems installing php (php5-spl) with portmaster

2010-11-02 Thread John R. Levine
is there a test i can run to see if my pcre is going to fail in any baffling ways? Just do a portupgrade on it to the current version, and it'll be find. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider the environment before reading this

Twitter on FreeBSD

2010-09-19 Thread Michael R. Rusch
In an effort to try any to use twitter on PC-BSD I tried to install the Echofon firefox add on located here: http://www.echofon.com/twitter/firefox I tripped over an error and it wants OAuth installed. I am aware that @twitter just switched to OAuth recently and I am unaware of what port in

Re: Grepping a list of words

2010-08-12 Thread John R. Levine
Gee, 50 words, that's about a 300 character pattern, that's not a problem for any shell or version of grep I know. But reading the words from a file is equivalent and as you note most likely easier to do. The question is what is more efficient. This might be important if that kind of grep

copyright for man pages

2010-08-05 Thread r
Hello, Sorry of this is the wrong list but what is the copyright situation for things like man pages? If I want to host a copy of one on the web or something, is there some additional disclaimer I need to add? -- Rodrigo ___

Re: copyright for man pages

2010-08-05 Thread r
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:16:20AM -0400, r...@mlg3.com wrote: Hello, Sorry of this is the wrong list but what is the copyright situation for things like man pages? If I want to host a copy of one on the web or something, is there some additional

Re: [kde-freebsd] How to kill process if X is frozen during fancy KDE4 windows effects?

2010-07-12 Thread Mina R Waheeb
). In most of the cases happended to me the vega card totally hang the mouse still move but it not responding to repaint anything so you can't event switch to terminal. so if you have some luck hit the power button and wait the machine to shutdown or just disable the visual effects :) Regards, Mina R

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-10 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote: Hello Is there a simple software to share files between a FreeBSD server and a windows client other than Samba which is a bit overkill for

Re: microsoft windows help needed (DHCP server problems)

2010-05-10 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.comwrote: I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my work PC. My organization runs largely Windows desktops with a sizable chunk of Mac OS X machines. Whenever a Windows/Mac connects to the Windows-based DHCP server, it not

Re: Using different IP config than what DHCP provides

2010-05-07 Thread John R. Levine
than the default one DHCP offers. It is a pain to have to kill dhclient and do the ifconfig and route commands manually. There are enough hooks in dhclient-script(8) to do this, assuming you have some way for the system to recognize where it is programatically. Ah, right. It looks like can

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: Thx for the quick reply, one question Which one , I have Samba3 Samba33 Samba34 Samba4wins -- look at samba.org for the lastest stable version and thats it. -- mmm, interesante.

Re: DJB and root ns server dnssec signing

2010-04-19 Thread John R. Levine
I think watch i really need to do is find a root ns that is already serving signed records then limit djb to that, and then i can do some testing. My gut feeling is that it will be ok, but its no where near 90% let alone 100% which is why im nervous. PR nightmare if it does go wrong The roots

Re: DJB and root ns server dnssec signing

2010-04-19 Thread John R. Levine
ok this is the bit that worries me That looks perfectly normal, since .museum is a TLD and doesn't have an A record. Try about.museum, which has these records in the TLD's zone file: about.museum.86400 IN NS nic.frd.se. about.museum.86400 IN NS

Re: Questions about port revision numbers, portsnap, csup

2010-04-19 Thread John R. Levine
fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~glarkin/diffs/pecl-APC-3.1.3p1.diff patch pecl-APC-3.1.3p1.diff Didn't work, because pecl-APC is www/pecl-APC, not devel/pecl-APC. I edited the patch to be www/ rather than devel/ at which point the patch applied but make failed due to one of the other patches:

Re: FreeBSD PXE installation howto

2010-04-11 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
Hello There: I will read it, just found a mountpoint named puntodemontaje, that maybe you forgot to translate. Will check it out latter. Diego Arias On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre ego...@ramattack.net wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project for setting up a

Re: Where are my drives?

2010-03-26 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: Hi All, I have not really used FreeBSD in a very long time. FreeBSD 8. 500gb boot 8 x 1.5tb drives installed connected to a 3ware 9500S-8 card I am trying to see what the 8 x 1.5tb drives are called and

OT: Keystrokes stick every ~1500 strokes

2010-03-26 Thread Joe R. Jah
Hi, Since last Monday my ssh connections started working erraticly. Today I tested it by holding down a key until it stops printing, and made several itterations; it turns out that ~1500 key strokes print on the screen; then it stops responding for several seconds; then it spits out ~25 missed

Re: OT: Keystrokes stick every ~1500 strokes

2010-03-26 Thread Joe R. Jah
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:31:38 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com To: Joe R. Jah j...@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Keystrokes stick every ~1500 strokes On Mar 26, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Joe R. Jah wrote

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-17 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:25:56PM -0400, alexus typed: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com wrote: On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (st...@ibctech.ca) wrote: The

Re: Amanda, FreeBSD8, amtype, hairpulling, etc.

2010-03-13 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) svein-listm...@stillbilde.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12.03.2010 15:20, Svein Skogen wrote: I'm having trouble getting Amanda (2.6.1p2 from ports) to play nicely with my hardware.

Re: tao suddenly died

2010-03-10 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:04:26PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Aloha Al and thanks for responding. {god this has been a long day...

wrong md5 sum of 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz ??

2010-02-04 Thread Shripad R.
hi, i just wanted to upgrade my current 7.2 to 8.0 and wanted to do it from scratch so downloaded 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz. But the md5 mentioned here http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html is : MD5 (8.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso) = 44c016ae8812a266f710d1845722366d And the md5 i am

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-02-03 Thread James R. Van Artsdalen
/ 28,4mb/s For the record, better results can be seen. In my test I put 3 Seagate Barracuda XT drives in a port multiplier and connected that to one port of a PCIe 3124 card. The MIRROR case is at about the I/O bandwidth limit of those drives. [r...@kraken ~]# zpool create tmpx ada{2,3,4} [r

Re: Strange network issue in freebsd 8

2010-01-23 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Sherin George l...@sheringeorge.co.ccwrote: Hello, Thanks for the reply. Please see the rc.conf file given below. === myserver# cat /etc/rc.conf defaultrouter=XXX.XXX.XXX.241 hostname=myserver.net ifconfig_em0=inet XXX.XXX.XXX.242 netmask

Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Paul Shi shih...@hkusua.hku.hk wrote: Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it

Re: Hardware virtualization

2009-12-30 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com wrote: I am about to buy a new desktop, and I want to make sure that hardware virtualization is included. In one or two local computer stores, I get a blank look when I ask about this. Intel seems provide it on only certain

Re: the system does not boot

2009-12-28 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:51 PM, gianrico.lam...@lamia.infm.it wrote: Dear Sir, I have installed BSD 7.2 release. All the installation worked fine till the first re-boot of the system. The reboot gos fine until the end where it breaks: Warning: /usr was not properly dismounted. Mounting

Re: 6.3 uname -a weirdness

2009-12-03 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Hello. Due to the recent advisories, on an i386 6.3 box, i just did: cd /usr/src make update make buildworld make kernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL make installworld shutdown -r now Now uname -a reports 6.3p13, although

Re: list-member needs help: re my new 2009 Dell.

2009-12-03 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: People, Before I wear out my shoulder and write 37 pages of woe, I thought I'd first get some idea of who knows what on this list. My net-wizard friend who lives around the Dallas-Ft Worth

rTorrent and XML-RPC

2009-11-24 Thread Micah R Ledbetter
Hello. I am ultimately trying to install rtgui 0.2.7, which is a frontend for the rtorrent bit torrent client. I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2, and I've installed apache22, mod_scgi, xmlrpc-c-devel, and rtorrent-devel from ports. rtorrent works great on the CLI as-is; I've been using it

xinetd: bind argument

2009-11-22 Thread Madhusudan R
Hi, I've a question with regards to the bind argument in the xinetd configuration. Can we assign multiple IPs to it like this? service abc { ... .. bind = a.b.c.d p.q.r.s ... . . } Or like this: service abc {

8.0-RC3?

2009-11-10 Thread Alex R
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ shows that there is an RC3 ISO image available for download? How many RC's until the final release? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD Source Code

2009-11-04 Thread Alex R
Petros Ring wrote: I would like you to send a copy of all the source code of FreeBSD so I may use it for a project that will allow the running of applacations from a different os to run on FreeBSD. Please send a attachment of the full source code in the reply email. Thank you, Petros

how long till 8.0-RELEASE

2009-10-18 Thread Alex R
Hi Guys, It's obvious the release is behind schedule, RC2 isn't even out yet according to the freebsd site. is there any rough ideas when we can expect 8.0-release? :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Broadcom bce interface problems

2009-10-14 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
do you double-check the internal por assignement? How many switchs has that blade1 or 2? You can try running a linux live-cd or maybe Windows to discard a FreeBSD trouble with the nic. does Freebsd detects 1 or 2 nics, and how many does the blade have? On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Brian

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:08 PM, jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: No you want: IA64 not AMD64 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/ On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:48, lconrad@ wrote: the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Alex R
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Unfortunately, it's under an unacceptable license. Wow. thats a great way to keep the operating system software up to date, use ancient versions of software to get around a stupid license agreement. What's being done to rectify that issue?

binutils

2009-10-09 Thread Alex R
Hi Guys, Is there any news on when the version of binutils that ships as part of the base system will be updated? The version that ships with 7.x etc is about 5 years old now. It creates problems on amd64 when compiling mplayer (assembly language directive errors), and can be resolved by

Security vulnerability in 7.x

2009-09-18 Thread Alex R
Hi All, I was sent this by a friend, could someone confirm if this exploit is really existant? http://www.vimeo.com/6580991 (requires flash) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Alex R
Mak Kolybabi wrote: On 2009-09-14 12:12, Dan Goodin wrote: We'll be writing a brief article about this. I didn't notice anyone link the finished article yet, so here it is: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/14/freebsd_security_bug/ -- Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak)

libnsl.so.1

2009-09-14 Thread Joe R. Jah
Hello all, I want to install a dispather module from Day Communique software on apache22. The binaray mod_dispatcher.so is provided by Day as a 64 bit *NIX compatible module to place in apache22 module directory. The mocule requires a shared library missing from system: --8-- # apachectl -t

Re: libnsl.so.1

2009-09-14 Thread Joe R. Jah
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:18:55 +0200 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de To: Joe R. Jah j...@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libnsl.so.1 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:02:50 -0700 (PDT), Joe R. Jah j...@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us

Re: libnsl.so.1

2009-09-14 Thread Joe R. Jah
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:17:02 +0200 From: Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Joe R. Jah j...@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us Subject: Re: libnsl.so.1 On Tuesday 15 September 2009 00:02:50 Joe R. Jah

Re: 7.2-RELEASE/amd64 - weird stuff in dmesg

2009-09-10 Thread Alex R
Any ideas??? Anyone?? Alex R wrote: Hi everyone, I was wondering whether anyone could shed some light on the following messages I am seeing in dmesg: 33aarrpp:: uunnkknnoowwnn hhaarrddwwaarree aaress format (0x) ress format (0x) arp: unakrnpo:w nu

7.2-RELEASE/amd64 - weird stuff in dmesg

2009-09-09 Thread Alex R
Hi everyone, I was wondering whether anyone could shed some light on the following messages I am seeing in dmesg: 33aarrpp:: uunnkknnoowwnn hhaarrddwwaarree aaress format (0x) ress format (0x) arp: unakrnpo:w nu nhkanrodwwna rhea raddwdarrees sa

questions about FreeBSD

2009-08-31 Thread Julian R A Manning
Dear Sir/Madam I have some questions about FreeBSD. The questions I had in mind are: . What type of OS is it? Is it single/multi user, multitasking, what family does it belong to? . General features (at least three)? Firewall, GUI, Networking and so on. . Minimum

Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me when I attempt to start it automatically at boot via

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
14, 2009 at 06:20:00PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me when I attempt

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
There are also some interesting responses in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc about this (I opened a thread there too). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
Actually I did change the root shell to bash. U think that might cause it? Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:49:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Ruben, Output is as follows: /usr/bin/su: libutil.so.7 = /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000) libpam.so.4 = /usr/lib

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
Thank you Ruben :-) :-) I wouldn't have thought in a million years that could be the issue, but what you have said makes perfect sense. Looks like its back to /bin/sh for root. Cheers, Alex. Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:08:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Actually I did

Re: installworld fails on 7.2-RELEASE/amd64

2009-08-10 Thread Alex R
Alex R wrote: I am in the process of deleting /usr/src and completely csup'ing the source tree from scratch, and will try another rebuild, however I am skeptical this will fix anything. This seems to have fixed it... but why... ___ freebsd

installworld fails on 7.2-RELEASE/amd64

2009-08-10 Thread Alex R
Hi Guys, Have done tonnes of buildworld's before and never ran into the problem I a having on this new machine. Basically I have csup'd my source tree on a freshly installed 7.2-RELEASE/amd64 box (tracking the 7.2-RELEASE branch). make buildworld -- works ok. make buildkernel KERNCONF=custom

Re: installworld fails on 7.2-RELEASE/amd64

2009-08-10 Thread Alex R
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:30:22 +1000 Alex R wrote: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/../btx/btx/btx -l boot2.ldr -o boot2.ld -P 1 boot2.bin btxld:No such file or directory *** Error code 1 This error (not only with btxld but with some random file) often

Re: installworld fails on 7.2-RELEASE/amd64

2009-08-10 Thread Alex R
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:17:09 +1000 Alex R wrote: Boris Samorodov wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:30:22 +1000 Alex R wrote: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/../btx/btx/btx -l boot2.ldr -o boot2.ld -P 1 boot2.bin btxld:No such file or directory

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