Re: Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread W. D.
At 01:58 10/6/2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 01:29:19 -0500, W. D. wrote: Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: ls: not found. Try /rescue/ls explicitely instead. Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands

Re: Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread W. D.
At 08:47 10/6/2013, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: ls: not found. Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands? The emergency holographic shell was always very

Re: Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: At 08:47 10/6/2013, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: ls: not found. Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands? The emergency

Re: Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:45:58 -0500, W. D. wrote: Thanks, Polytropon. I couldn't get FrieSBIE to work. It's a rather old project, and as far as I know, it isn't being continued anymore. It should still support at least the CLI mode for most computers... (I have to admit that I'm still using it,

Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-06 Thread W. D.
Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: ls: not found. Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands? Trying to clone a hard disk that has an number of bad sectors. Trying to save most of my data. Want to use recoverdisk

Re: Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 01:29:19 -0500, W. D. wrote: Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: ls: not found. Try /rescue/ls explicitely instead. Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands? Only live systems offer more than

Re: Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: ls: not found. Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands? The emergency holographic shell was always very limited. I suspect a path thing

Re: Why does CD ripping fail?

2013-08-20 Thread Bernt Hansson
On 2013-08-19 16:12, Ben Laurie wrote: On 19 August 2013 09:15, Rares Aioanei bsdlis...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 05:35:48 -0400 Ben Laurie b...@links.org wrote: Using grip, trying to rip a CD, I get: (cd0:ahcich3:0:0:0): MODE_SENSE(6) failed, increasing minimum CDB size to 10

Why does CD ripping fail?

2013-08-19 Thread Ben Laurie
Using grip, trying to rip a CD, I get: (cd0:ahcich3:0:0:0): MODE_SENSE(6) failed, increasing minimum CDB size to 10 bytes (cd0:ahcich3:0:0:0): MODE SENSE(10). CDB: 5a 0 e 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 (cd0:ahcich3:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error (cd0:ahcich3:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition

Re: Why does CD ripping fail?

2013-08-19 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 05:35:48 -0400 Ben Laurie b...@links.org wrote: Using grip, trying to rip a CD, I get: (cd0:ahcich3:0:0:0): MODE_SENSE(6) failed, increasing minimum CDB size to 10 bytes (cd0:ahcich3:0:0:0): MODE SENSE(10). CDB: 5a 0 e 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 (cd0:ahcich3:0:0:0): CAM status:

Re: Why does CD ripping fail?

2013-08-19 Thread Ben Laurie
On 19 August 2013 09:15, Rares Aioanei bsdlis...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 05:35:48 -0400 Ben Laurie b...@links.org wrote: Using grip, trying to rip a CD, I get: (cd0:ahcich3:0:0:0): MODE_SENSE(6) failed, increasing minimum CDB size to 10 bytes (cd0:ahcich3:0:0:0): MODE

In This Issue: Asthma? Allergies? Here's Why, Recipes for Gut Bustin' Salads, Fit Club blog, Urban Fashion Blog

2013-07-24 Thread TheUrbanShopper
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Why doesn't this work?

2013-06-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
echo Testing, testing, testing |/usr/bin/tee -a /var/log/httpd-access.log |/usr/bin/logger -t base_http_access /var/log/testing.log This writes to the httpd-access.log but does not write to /var/log/testing.log. I'm probably reading the man page incorrectly, but I thought this should work.

Re: Why doesn't this work?

2013-06-27 Thread markham breitbach
logger logs to syslog, so unless you have user.notice logging to /var/log/testing.log this will probably not do what you are expecting. Have a look in /var/log/messages for something like this. Jun 27 16:38:03 xxx-hostname base_http_access: /var/log/testing.log Otherwise, you may want to setup

Re: freebsd-update percentage indicators - what are they, why are they so random?

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Brown
Fetching 1 metadata files... 70.5% done. 70.5% 70.5% 74.2% 74.2% 81.7% 81.7% 70.5% I think this is a result of having -v in my GZIP environment variable. I always forget about my GZIP and BZIP2 variables. I should've known. So, never mind about that.

freebsd-update percentage indicators - what are they, why are they so random?

2013-06-22 Thread Mike Brown
I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor release. At a couple points in the process, I get weird status indicators (percentages) showing me that something is happening: Fetching 1 metadata files... 70.5% done. 70.5% 70.5% 74.2% 74.2% 81.7% 81.7% 70.5%

Re: why is ports web page so far out of date

2013-06-07 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Shane Ambler free...@shaneware.biz wrote: On 05/06/2013 17:00, Waitman Gobble wrote: If you must have a web based version, another option is DIY roll your own ports index based on your

Re: why is ports web page so far out of date

2013-06-06 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Shane Ambler free...@shaneware.biz wrote: On 05/06/2013 17:00, Waitman Gobble wrote: If you must have a web based version, another option is DIY roll your own ports index based on your own local ports tree. At least you can set it up how you want. a simple

Re: why is ports web page so far out of date

2013-06-05 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:08:15 -0500, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I can not get current version of the ports system. The ports web page http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ is almost 2 years out of date. Says the port I am

Re: why is ports web page so far out of date

2013-06-05 Thread Shane Ambler
On 05/06/2013 17:00, Waitman Gobble wrote: If you must have a web based version, another option is DIY roll your own ports index based on your own local ports tree. At least you can set it up how you want. a simple quick-together script running on my computer:

why is ports web page so far out of date

2013-06-04 Thread Fbsd8
I can not get current version of the ports system. The ports web page http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ is almost 2 years out of date. Says the port I am interested in is at 1.7 version when just 2 weeks ago it was at 2.2. Portsnap is also messed up showing the 1.7 version.

Re: Why is pkg_glob no longer working for me?

2013-04-28 Thread Tom Russo
on it and UPDATING tells you to force upgrade everything that depends on it. So... You run a portupgrade -fr foobar and after hours and hours of successful recursive portupgrading, some package (and everything that depend on it) fails. You dig down to figure out why it failed (let's say, it was a broken

Re: Why is pkg_glob no longer working for me?

2013-04-27 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:54:59PM -0600, Tom Russo wrote: Anyone else have this issue? Or am I the only one left still using portupgrade and its associated tools? I use portupgrade and have noticed no failures. I have never used pkg_glob so I cannot address that. I have used portupgrade as

Re: Why is pkg_glob no longer working for me?

2013-04-27 Thread Robert Huff
Joe Altman writes: Anyone else have this issue? Or am I the only one left still using portupgrade and its associated tools? I use portupgrade and have noticed no failures. I use portupgrade for two features: portsclean (for which there is probably a pkgng replacement, I just

Re: Why is pkg_glob no longer working for me?

2013-04-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/04/2013 14:43, Robert Huff wrote: I use portupgrade for two features: portsclean (for which there is probably a pkgng replacement, I just haven't bothered to check) and pkg_sort (for which there is no alternative) which is necessary for certain scripts. Well, given that pkgng is a

Re: Why is pkg_glob no longer working for me?

2013-04-27 Thread Robert Huff
Matthew Seaman writes: I use portupgrade for two features: portsclean (for which there is probably a pkgng replacement, I just haven't bothered to check) and pkg_sort (for which there is no alternative) which is necessary for certain scripts. Well, given that pkgng is a

Why is pkg_glob no longer working for me?

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Russo
I used to be able to run pkg_glob to see what packages have been updated since a given date. For example, if I do a big 'portupgrade -fr somepackage' and wait overnight, then in the morning find a handful had failed, I often find it helpful to do something like: pkg_glob -r somepackage -x '=

Re: Why is pkg_glob no longer working for me?

2013-04-26 Thread ill...@gmail.com
OK But modulo CH3CH2OH You need to learn the neue pkg system how it differez On 26 April 2013 16:54, Tom Russo ru...@bogodyn.org wrote: I used to be able to run pkg_glob to see what packages have been updated since a given date. For example, if I do a big 'portupgrade -fr somepackage'

Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread vermaden
Why not simplify that: | Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. | Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 | The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. | FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:47:10 +0100, vermaden wrote: Why not simplify that: | Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. | Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 | The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. | FreeBSD

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread vermaden
Od: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Do: vermaden verma...@interia.pl; Wysłane: 17:11 Sobota 2013-02-23 Temat: Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg? On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:47:10 +0100, vermaden wrote: Why not simplify that: | Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:14:48 +0100, vermaden wrote: Od: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Do: vermaden verma...@interia.pl; Wysłane: 17:11 Sobota 2013-02-23 Temat: Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg? On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:47:10 +0100, vermaden wrote: Why not simplify

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:11:50 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:47:10 +0100, vermaden wrote: Why not simplify that: | Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. | Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, | 1994 The Regents

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
On 02/23/13 12:32, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:11:50 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:47:10 +0100, vermaden wrote: Why not simplify that: | Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. | Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/23/2013 1:10 PM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: On 02/23/13 12:32, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:11:50 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:47:10 +0100, vermaden wrote: Why not simplify that: | Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
On 02/23/13 15:33, Joshua Isom wrote: On 2/23/2013 1:10 PM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: snip It seems the regents copyright claims end in 1994. Perhaps some underlying piece of code is still in FreeBSD requiring this notice? Perhaps the creation of FreeBSD and the release of 4.4BSD? Nothing

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread vermaden
Thank You all for explanations, it seems logical now ;) Regards, vermaden ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
whatever is left over be removed? Just a thought, not a concern. I can't think why anyone would want to, and I expect there's a *lot* left over, certainly their copyright notice appears in many files in /usr/src. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Joshua Isom
. It would matter when it was released, not merged. If it was merged in 1996 but the code was released in 1994, the copyright's still 1994. Not that I find it an issue, but could whatever is left over be removed? Just a thought, not a concern. I can't think why anyone would want to, and I

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Bruce Cran
On 23/02/2013 23:17, Joshua Isom wrote: That also ties in with NIH syndrome. Gnu does that a lot just to make sure they can change to GPLv4 without problems, while Linux is still GPLv2. It's also not just Berkeley, but other people and organizations hold copyrights. From a quick glance,

Why scf (sfcd) monitoring sometimes doesn't work

2013-02-14 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hello, I found fsc (http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fsc/) to be extremely useful. Unfortunately, I can't get some services to be monitored, fscadm enable just failes with Could not monitor service. I don't know how kqueue interaction is working, so I can't guess why some services can

Why fsc (fscd) monitoring sometimes doesn't work [Was: Re: Why scf (sfcd) monitoring sometimes doesn't work]

2013-02-14 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
interaction is working, so I can't guess why some services can be monitored fine and others not. How can I start finding out what goes wrong? How does the rc-name play into that role? Sorry for the ugly typo in the topic! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2013-02-13 Thread Jin Guojun
(10.227.148.0/24) via eu0 interface. When a remote host ping this host or this host ping that remote host, ARP request is always showing up. A static route is set and remote host is no part of the local sub net, why ARP is going on? Is any sysctl parameter can fix this problem? -Jin Internet

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

2013-02-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
a remote host ping this host or this host ping that remote host, ARP request is always showing up. A static route is set and remote host is no part of the local sub net, why ARP is going on? You've told the interface that it can reach 10.227.148.52 via 10.234.37.80, which is the IP ue0

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

2013-02-13 Thread Jin Guojun
...@mac.com To: Jin Guojun jguo...@sbcglobal.net Cc: questions freebsd questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 12:55:07 PM Subject: Re: Why ue0 do ARP on non local address when using static route? On Feb 13, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Jin Guojun wrote: When attached a Trendent TU2-ET100 USB Ether

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

2013-02-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
), but it has problem to talk to a remote network or host (10.227.148.0/24) via eu0 interface. When a remote host ping this host or this host ping that remote host, ARP request is always showing up. A static route is set and remote host is no part of the local sub net, why ARP is going on? Is any

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

2013-02-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 13, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Jin Guojun wrote: /etc/ethers does not help because there is no way resolve the IP by QFHN in ethers. I'm not sure what QFHN is, but setting up an entry in /etc/ethers provides the IP to MAC address mapping that ARP attempts to provide dynamically. The correct

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

2013-02-13 Thread Jin Guojun
). The question is why ARP occurs? The subnet (10.227.148.0) is not matching with the local network/netmask (10.234.37.0/24) unless somewhere in the system is using default 255.0.0.0 netmask for 10.0 A class network by mistake. From: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com

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

2013-02-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
uses FQHN instead of IP (10.237.148.52). The question is why ARP occurs? The subnet (10.227.148.0) is not matching with the local network/netmask (10.234.37.0/24) unless somewhere in the system is using default 255.0.0.0 netmask for 10.0 A class network by mistake. Your first message

Re: why is bacula-client looking for libz.so.5 on 9-STABLE

2013-02-06 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
Den 06.02.2013 00:03, skrev Per olof Ljungmark: Hi, Upgraded a system from 8.3 to 9-STABLE and did make delete-old-libs afterwards. System has around thirty ports installed and all except bacula-client upgraded gracefully. Why does it want libz.so.5 when libz.so.6 is present? I'm pretty sure

why is bacula-client looking for libz.so.5 on 9-STABLE

2013-02-05 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi, Upgraded a system from 8.3 to 9-STABLE and did make delete-old-libs afterwards. System has around thirty ports installed and all except bacula-client upgraded gracefully. Why does it want libz.so.5 when libz.so.6 is present? I'm pretty sure I'm missing the obvious here... Linking bacula

Can't figure out why my / is busy

2012-11-27 Thread David Demelier
Hello, I have an old Alix appliance on a CompactFlash, usually I keep / mounted read-only to preserve the flash device as longer as possible. I have installed some packages today, and now I can't mount / read-only again, usually it was working. markand@Ananas ~ $ sudo mount -u -r / mount:

Re: why sync during shutdown when sync already done?

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:32:46 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: It's my understanding that the sequence of numbers one sees output when shutdown is issued reflect writes of cached items. Is that correct? If so, why does: sync shutdown -r now still show cached items being written? Issuing

Re: Why PostgreSQL doesn't start with shared_buffers=6GB ?

2012-11-06 Thread Shane Ambler
kern.ipc.shm_use_phys: 0 kern.ipc.shmall: 1310720 kern.ipc.shmseg: 128 kern.ipc.shmmni: 192 kern.ipc.shmmin: 1 kern.ipc.shmmax: 70 kern.features.sysv_shm: 1 kern.features.posix_shm: 1 There are 17GB free memory as reported by top(1). Why shmget fails despite kern.ipc.shmmax is being high enough

Re: Why PostgreSQL doesn't start with shared_buffers=6GB ?

2012-11-05 Thread Frank Broniewski
kern.ipc.shm_use_phys: 0 kern.ipc.shmall: 1310720 kern.ipc.shmseg: 128 kern.ipc.shmmni: 192 kern.ipc.shmmin: 1 kern.ipc.shmmax: 70 kern.features.sysv_shm: 1 kern.features.posix_shm: 1 There are 17GB free memory as reported by top(1). Why shmget fails despite kern.ipc.shmmax is being high enough

Why PostgreSQL doesn't start with shared_buffers=6GB ?

2012-11-04 Thread Yuri
: 1310720 kern.ipc.shmseg: 128 kern.ipc.shmmni: 192 kern.ipc.shmmin: 1 kern.ipc.shmmax: 70 kern.features.sysv_shm: 1 kern.features.posix_shm: 1 There are 17GB free memory as reported by top(1). Why shmget fails despite kern.ipc.shmmax is being high enough? Experimentally I found

Re: Why RELENG_9 branch is labeled as PRERELEASE and freebsd.org says FreeBSD is currently at 9.1-RC2 ?

2012-10-28 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:54:45 -0700, Yuri y...@rawbw.com a écrit : RELENG_9 is supposed to represent the latest branch of 9.1. De facto, code says it is PRERELEASE (sys/conf/newvers.sh). But freebsd.org on its front page says 9.1 is at RC-2. So how can I get RC-2 through cvsup except through

Re: Why RELENG_9 branch is labeled as PRERELEASE and freebsd.org says FreeBSD is currently at 9.1-RC2 ?

2012-10-28 Thread Yuri
On 10/28/2012 07:17, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: RELENG_9 should be called 9-STABLE, if you want 9.1 use RELENG_9_1 Hm, if they wanted to keep RELENG_9 as stable 9.X branch, why then 9.1-PRERELEASE is there? Is PRERELEASE considered more stable than RC? This looks strange to me. Yuri

Re: Why RELENG_9 branch is labeled as PRERELEASE and freebsd.org says FreeBSD is currently at 9.1-RC2 ?

2012-10-28 Thread jb
Yuri yuri at rawbw.com writes: On 10/28/2012 07:17, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: RELENG_9 should be called 9-STABLE, if you want 9.1 use RELENG_9_1 Hm, if they wanted to keep RELENG_9 as stable 9.X branch, why then 9.1-PRERELEASE is there? Is PRERELEASE considered more stable than RC

Re: Why RELENG_9 branch is labeled as PRERELEASE and freebsd.org says FreeBSD is currently at 9.1-RC2 ?

2012-10-28 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:48:19 -0700, Yuri y...@rawbw.com a écrit : RELENG_9 should be called 9-STABLE, if you want 9.1 use RELENG_9_1 Hm, if they wanted to keep RELENG_9 as stable 9.X branch, why then 9.1-PRERELEASE is there? Is PRERELEASE considered more stable than RC? This looks strange

Why RELENG_9 branch is labeled as PRERELEASE and freebsd.org says FreeBSD is currently at 9.1-RC2 ?

2012-10-27 Thread Yuri
RELENG_9 is supposed to represent the latest branch of 9.1. De facto, code says it is PRERELEASE (sys/conf/newvers.sh). But freebsd.org on its front page says 9.1 is at RC-2. So how can I get RC-2 through cvsup except through RELENG_9 which gives PRERELEASE ? Yuri

Re: why does /etc/namedb link to /var?

2012-08-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Gary Aitken wrote on Wed 22.Aug'12 at 23:39:16 -0600 ] Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb? It seems to me this is general configuration stuff which should be in /etc/namedb on the root partition, not on /var. I thought /var was used

why does /etc/namedb link to /var?

2012-08-22 Thread Gary Aitken
Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb? It seems to me this is general configuration stuff which should be in /etc/namedb on the root partition, not on /var. I thought /var was used for things like logs, process ids of running processes, etc. Gary

Re: why does /etc/namedb link to /var?

2012-08-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 22, 2012 a las 11:39:16PM -0600, Gary Aitken escribió: Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb? It seems to me this is general configuration stuff which should be in /etc/namedb on the root partition, not on /var. I thought

Re: why does /etc/namedb link to /var?

2012-08-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/08/2012 06:39, Gary Aitken wrote: Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb? Because named chroots into /var/named in the default configuration. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think it's likely that it is a 64-bit installation. Not sure about that. How could the amd64 OS be installed and run on a i386 machine? it cannot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-08 Thread pulley
I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: you've got into wrong directory /usr/src/sys/i386/conf is right /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf is wrong, unless you have 64-bit

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: you've got into wrong directory /usr/src/sys/i386/conf is right /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf is wrong, unless you have 64-bit

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC Jason: It looks like you may have installed the 64-bit distribution on your nonsense. 64-bit distribution doesn't run on 32-bit computer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-07 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Aug 7 02:44:36 2012 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:41:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org Cc: RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why can't I

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-07 Thread Polytropon
...@googlemail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ? That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC Jason: It looks like you may have installed the 64-bit distribution on your nonsense. 64-bit distribution doesn't run on 32-bit computer

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-07 Thread RW
To: Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org Cc: RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ? That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC Jason: It looks like you may have installed the 64-bit distribution on your

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-07 Thread Polytropon
: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org Cc: RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ? That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC Jason: It looks like you may

Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread Jason Usher
I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: cpu I586_CPU and: cpu I686_CPU (I also tried them both lowercase, like i686_cpu) But all of these fail: GENERIC:

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread Michael Sierchio
make LINT vi LINT On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Jason Usher jushe...@yahoo.com wrote: I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: cpu I586_CPU and: cpu

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread RW
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Jason Usher wrote: I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, RW wrote: On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Jason Usher wrote: I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC

Re: profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why?

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6582354 Jul 12 22:56 libslatec.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6555122 Jul 12 23:02 libslatec_p.a # profile library or -fpic library? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why?

2012-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why? While updating my port (math/slatec) to use the new OPTIONS framework, I did some experiments with the profiling library. I don't know much about this, so what surprised me is that the profiling library is smaller: # ls -al

Re: profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why?

2012-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:15:45AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6582354 Jul 12 22:56 libslatec.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6555122 Jul 12 23:02 libslatec_p.a # profile library or -fpic library? I think profile: === Building for slatec-4.1 Warning: Object

Re: Why is Gluster not available in FreeBSD?

2012-07-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.com writes: A question I would like to ask, if no one minds. Whys is Gluster not available in FreeBSD? It is that Gluster just cant run on FreeBSD, or no one can port it? http://wiki.freebsd.org/GlusterFS ___

profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why?

2012-07-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
While updating my port (math/slatec) to use the new OPTIONS framework, I did some experiments with the profiling library. I don't know much about this, so what surprised me is that the profiling library is smaller: # ls -al lib*a -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6582354 Jul 12 22:56 libslatec.a

Re: profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why?

2012-07-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
U i1mach_ U sin U zbesh_ T zbesy_ Why the difference? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why?

2012-07-12 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jul 12 17:34:12 2012 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:31:31 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why? While

Re: profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why?

2012-07-12 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:52:18 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk Subject: Re: profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why? Also, the library compiled on amd64 has lots more symbols than if compiled on ia64. This is _not_

NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Walter Hurry
:/usr/home /mnt [tcp] xx:/usr/home: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak # On the server, in /var/log/messages I see this: mountd[29140]: mount request from nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn from unprivileged port So I infer that the 'unprivileged port' bit is the problem

Re: NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
is on the client (the VM guest) I get this: # mount xx:/usr/home /mnt [tcp] xx:/usr/home: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak # Hi Walter Are you root when mounting on the client? From looking at your prompt # I think you are, but I ask just to make sure. You can

Re: NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Walter Hurry
Everyone But when I try to mount is on the client (the VM guest) I get this: # mount xx:/usr/home /mnt [tcp] xx:/usr/home: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak # On the server, in /var/log/messages I see this: mountd

Re: NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:55:27 +0200, Bas Smeelen wrote: Are you root when mounting on the client? From looking at your prompt # I think you are, but I ask just to make sure. You can also take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- nfs.html in the

Re: NFS mount error: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak

2012-07-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/06/2012 07:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:55:27 +0200, Bas Smeelen wrote: Are you root when mounting on the client? From looking at your prompt # I think you are, but I ask just to make sure. You can also take a look at

Re: IPNAT seems to affect network performance? of jails on lo0 (10.0.0.0/24) - why?

2012-07-04 Thread Kalle Møller
have copied a resolv.conf into the jails for future use, but did not enable NAT from the start. The issue disappeared when I commented out the nameserver entries and switched NAT off again, i.e., I could login using ssh in a matter of seconds, not minutes. Now to the followup: Why does ssh

Re: IPNAT seems to affect network performance? of jails on lo0 (10.0.0.0/24) - why?

2012-06-26 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
and switched NAT off again, i.e., I could login using ssh in a matter of seconds, not minutes. Now to the followup: Why does ssh and emacs! require DNS for entirely local connections or just to be started? Anyway, thanks for that hint, cheers, -- Christopher TZ: GMT + 2h signature.asc Description: PGP

IPNAT seems to affect network performance? of jails on lo0 (10.0.0.0/24) - why?

2012-06-25 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
, logging into the jails or starting emacs became snappy again. Why? Why does ipnatting jails which should be connected via the same lo0 on 10.0.0.0 have any impact? Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining and it solved an issue which gave me kind of headaches, but I would like to understand

IPNAT seems to affect network performance? of jails on lo0 (10.0.0.0/24) - why?

2012-06-25 Thread Robert Huff
Christopher J. Ruwe writes: On a KVM virtualized host, I run FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3 and some qjails, 8.3-RELEASE. The jails are connected all via lo0 on 10.0.0.0. While by the large working as expected, I have noticed one pecularity I have failed to pinpoint: When launching

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am not sure, as long as clients would be treated seriously! I look at large corporate software vendors and see them treating customers seriously maybe 2% of the time at best. In this case, most of I assumed FreeBSD team are OK and would fit in this 2% or even those 0.2% am i wrong?

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I would see a problem with that -- not because I don't think FreeBSD is worth it. I do, and I think it is worth more than that, in fact. The true. biggest problem with what you propose, though, is that it would destroy the social factors in development of the FreeBSD system that make it

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-22 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 22 June 2012 07:04:35 Bernt Hansson wrote: I want to whish all a very mery Midsummer's Eve and Midsummer's Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer#Sweden I appreciate the sentiment but it's midwinter here ;) Jonathan ___

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
was never again able to boot any OS/2, and I sure tried. Closed source was one severe drawback, why I certainly prefer either Linux or FreeBSD. Actually there is a continuation/successor to OS/2, namely eComStation (www.ecomstation.com) but no way would I go that way! Either Linux or FreeBSD

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:16:31 -0500, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. This has not been decided in court yet. In which court not? Of which

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 21 06:07:49 2012 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:06:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kpn...@pobox.com Subject: Re: Why

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