Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?

2006-09-08 Thread Parv
Sorry for using somebody else's reply to reply to OP as I had deleted the OP. in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Joel Dahl thusly... On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:38 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week ... Toshiba Tecra

isc-dhcpd.sh rc script and jails

2006-09-08 Thread Christopher Cowart
Hello, The port for isc-dhcp3-server has config options for enabling FreeBSD process jails. Basically, through a series of command line arguments that are generated by the isc-dhcpd.sh script, the chroot is auto-generated when you start the service and dhcpd makes the syscall to jail itself. This

Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950

2006-09-08 Thread Riemer Palstra
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:07:06AM +0800, ke han wrote: Have you done an install of FreeBSD 6.1 on a 1950/2950? Yes, 1950. Does the install kernel automatically recognize RAID arrays you have setup with the PERC 5 bios? Yes. mfi0: Dell PERC 5/i mem

what means: sockstat: sysctl(): No such process

2006-09-08 Thread tequnix
hallo list while running [ $(sockstat | grep -c saslauthd) -gt 90 ] /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd restart via cron (/etc/crontab, as root) (why i do this is of no importance for this question), i get from time to time - about 3-4 times a day, cronjob runs every 11 minutes - the message:

Re: bsnmpd: send: Connection refused

2006-09-08 Thread Feodor Trubetskoy
On 29.07.2006 01:31, James Long wrote: traphost := localhost trapport := 162 When I start bsnmpd, I get # /etc/rc.d/bsnmpd start Starting bsnmpd. snmpd[5474]: send: Connection refused ^C# What is causing the Connection refused message? Probably the reason of the message is that

Hell Installing OpenLDAP/Berkeley-DB/Java

2006-09-08 Thread Ted Johnson
Hi; I tried to install OpenLDAP, but it needs Berkeley-DB and complained that the version installed was incompatible. I tried compiling it without Berkeley (using GNU instead) but it wouldn't. I tried installing Berkeley DB without Java (for simplicity's sake), but that didn't work. I tried

How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-08 Thread Lasse Edlund
If I have two files foo and bar and try to run diff on them I write: $diff foo bar I can also write $cat foo | diff - bar But how do I give a program two (2) commands? not only to diff but to any program that wants double input... I wanna do $cat foo | cat bar | diff - - especially with echo

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-08 Thread Matt Emmerton
If I have two files foo and bar and try to run diff on them I write: $diff foo bar I can also write $cat foo | diff - bar But how do I give a program two (2) commands? not only to diff but to any program that wants double input... I wanna do $cat foo | cat bar | diff - - especially with

Re: OpenOffice build crashes the compiler

2006-09-08 Thread backyard
--- Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone seen this and know how to get past it? Configuring out the failing component would be fine, if possible, since I really only need the word processor. Making: ../../../../unxfbsdi.pro/slo/SlideSorterView.obj g++-ooo -fmessage-length=0

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-08 Thread backyard
--- Lasse Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I have two files foo and bar and try to run diff on them I write: $diff foo bar I can also write $cat foo | diff - bar But how do I give a program two (2) commands? not only to diff but to any program that wants double input... I wanna do

Re: what means: sockstat: sysctl(): No such process

2006-09-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 07), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: hallo list while running [ $(sockstat | grep -c saslauthd) -gt 90 ] /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd restart via cron (/etc/crontab, as root) (why i do this is of no importance for this question), i get from time to time - about 3-4

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-08 Thread David King
Here's an example using zsh (I assume it's the same using bash, but different using tcsh or sh): diff (find /usr/local -type f | sort) (for each in /var/db/pkg/*/ +CONTENTS; do grep -v '^@' $each; done | sort) This does a diff(1) of what /var/db/pkg says that /usr/local should look like,

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 08), David King said: Here's an example using zsh (I assume it's the same using bash, but different using tcsh or sh): diff (find /usr/local -type f | sort) (for each in /var/db/pkg/*/ +CONTENTS; do grep -v '^@' $each; done | sort) This does a diff(1) of what

mailgraph doesnt start

2006-09-08 Thread Miguel
Hi, i just installed mailgraph from ports, the install process finished without any error, i added mailgraph_enable=YES to rc.conf, but mailgraph doesnt start: mailfilter# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailgraph start Starting mailgraph. mailfilter# echo $? 0 mailfilter# ps aux | grep mail root

Re: mailgraph doesnt start

2006-09-08 Thread Michael Landin Hostbaek
Miguel (mmiranda) writes: Hi, i just installed mailgraph from ports, the install process finished without any error, i added mailgraph_enable=YES to rc.conf, but mailgraph doesnt start: mailfilter# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailgraph start Starting mailgraph. Just to check that you did not

Changing Default Editor in profile

2006-09-08 Thread Huy Ton That
under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my personal account that I use and my default for external launched editors is now pico such that I can edit crontab stuff easily.

Re: Changing Default Editor in profile

2006-09-08 Thread backyard
--- Huy Ton That [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my personal account that I use and my default for external launched editors is

Re: Changing Default Editor in profile

2006-09-08 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hi, On 9/8/06, Huy Ton That [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my personal account that I use and my default for external launched editors is

Re: Changing Default Editor in profile

2006-09-08 Thread Huy Ton That
Thank you sirs!!! That did the trick! On 9/8/06, Dominique Goncalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 9/8/06, Huy Ton That [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR

Re: Xfce 4.3.90.2 + Xorg 6.9.0 with Compositor == SUPER buggy ?

2006-09-08 Thread Frank Staals
Jud wrote: On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:58:49 +0200, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I recently decided to have some fun with the latest Xfce release ( or well; when I installed it it was, at the moment there is an RC1 ) and composite stuff. Allthough what I found out was that xfwm4 crashed

Re: Changing Default Editor in profile

2006-09-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
Huy Ton That wrote: under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my personal account that I use and my default for external launched editors is now pico such that I can

~/.profile and tcsh (was: Changing Default Editor in profile)

2006-09-08 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR You have to use su -, if you want load your root's environnement. su(1) for more explications. Thank you sirs!!! That did the trick! Hmmm, interesting. I was under the impression that

Re: Changing Default Editor in profile

2006-09-08 Thread Jerold McAllister
Dominique Goncalves writes: Hi, On 9/8/06, Huy Ton That [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my personal account that I use and my default

Re: FreeBSD Shells

2006-09-08 Thread Jerold McAllister
Joshua Lewis writes: My shell mysteriously changed. I don't know what port changed the shell but how do I put it back to normal. I liked how when I was logged in or su'ed to root I had a prompt with the computer name and a hash sign. Now I have a percent sign and when I try to change the shell

Re: 6.1 recommended instead of 5.x for new installations [was: Efficacy vs. friendliness]

2006-09-08 Thread Jerold McAllister
Pete Slagle writes: jdow wrote: I noticed that FreeBSD 5.x was somewhat quicker than that to get up, running, and up to date. I can't think of a good reason to use FreeBSD 5.x for a new installation; 6.1 contains so many reliability and performance improvements that it is the clear choice

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-08 Thread David King
Here's an example using zsh (I assume it's the same using bash, but different using tcsh or sh): [...] This uses the () operator. [...] There's another, similar operator that does force it to use temp files, but I can never remember what it is :) [...] Just for the archives, The =() operator

Network mail

2006-09-08 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
I'm old school. Back in my day, we didn't have the Internet we have today, and our UNIX boxes could mail over the network we had strung. I don't care what mail app I use. I just want to be able to have two boxes, boxbox and snowy, for example, and be able to 'mail boxbox' from snowy and

Re: Network mail

2006-09-08 Thread Jerold McAllister
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) writes: I'm old school. Back in my day, we didn't have the Internet we have today, and our UNIX boxes could mail over the network we had strung. I don't care what mail app I use. I just want to be able to have two boxes, boxbox and snowy, for example, and be

trouble building portupgrade.

2006-09-08 Thread Gary Kline
I'd like to install mostly Pacakges, not build from src. pkg_add -r fails with 6.1, so I'm trying to install portupgrade. Can anybody explain this:: === Running ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg ldconfig: warning: /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg: No

Re: OpenOffice build crashes the compiler

2006-09-08 Thread Jerold McAllister
Perry Hutchison writes: Anyone seen this and know how to get past it? Configuring out the failing component would be fine, if possible, since I really only need the word processor. Making: ../../../../unxfbsdi.pro/slo/SlideSorterView.obj g++-ooo -fmessage-length=0 -c -Os -fno-strict-aliasing

Re: what means: sockstat: sysctl(): No such process

2006-09-08 Thread Reinhard Weismann
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:18:32 -0500 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Sep 07), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: hallo list while running [ $(sockstat | grep -c saslauthd) -gt 90 ] /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd restart via cron (/etc/crontab, as root) (why i do

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2006-09-08 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2006-09-08 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Clevo D900K and 64 bit FreeBSD support???

2006-09-08 Thread backyard
I've been looking into replacing my current laptop/desktop with a Clevo D900K, AMD-64 machine. I'm just curious if anyone out there has any experience getting FreeBSD up and running on this machine and at what capacity (card reader, 8.1 sound card, WLAN+Bluetooth, Hardware RAID, etc.) I was going

Re: trouble with a pair of bind9 servers

2006-09-08 Thread David Robillard
the trouble im having is, that my slave (5.5-p3) will not transfer the zone from the master (6.1-p4). my /var/log/messages is filled with these: Sep 7 21:50:24 fbsd55-2 named[1847]: exiting Sep 7 21:50:26 fbsd55-2 named[1924]: starting BIND 9.3.2 -t /var/named -u bind Sep 7 21:50:26 fbsd55-2

Re: OpenOffice build crashes the compiler

2006-09-08 Thread Perry Hutchison
Making: ../../../../unxfbsdi.pro/slo/SlideSorterView.obj ... g++-ooo: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1plus) ... dmake: Error code 1, while making '../../../../unxfbsdi.pro/slo/SlideSorterView.obj' '---* tg_merge.mk *---' ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making

Acroread doesn't find a lib

2006-09-08 Thread vittorio
Under freebsd 6.1 I have just portupgraded the ports acroread-7.0.8 and libXfixes-2.0.1_2. BUT #acroread /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libXfixes.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory What

Re: Acroread doesn't find a lib

2006-09-08 Thread Josh Carroll
Does /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfixes.so.3 exist? It is in the xorg-libraries-6.9.0 package, so you might try re-installing it (via ports or pkg_add, depending which you originally used). If it does exist, try running ldconfig to see if the library shows up: ldconfig -r | grep libXfixes.so.3 If it

Fwd: Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?

2006-09-08 Thread Ivailo Bonev
From: Ivailo Bonev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: hp or Toshiba laptop? Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:52:44 +0300 On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:14:26 +0300, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for using somebody else's reply to reply to OP as I had deleted the OP. in

panic: filesystem goof: vop_panic[vop_revoke]

2006-09-08 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Hi, sadly, I encountered a kernel panic this afternoon. I was transferring a file from remote host, and it happened. Sep 8 13:06:13 presario kernel: info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs Sep 8 16:53:40 presario syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Sep 8 16:53:40 presario

FreeBSD 6.1 shutting down.

2006-09-08 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello everyone, I'm On FreeBSD 6.1R, the box is intel945 extra Dlink NIC P4.3 1G DDR2, 160GB sata. running Freeradius, chillispot, MySql 4.1, apache2. acting as NAT and hotspot login. there is two diffrent servers with the same specifications. Its was working fine starting from day 1 to

Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-08 Thread Duane Whitty
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Wednesday 06 September 2006 19:05, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Wednesday 06 September 2006 13:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/6/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? or further, is it

FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... Are there *really* no Korean FreeBSD hosts out there ... ? Marc G.

Jail won't start

2006-09-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm new to working with jail's in FreeBSD, so I've created a jail using the following instructions: http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/Creating_a_FreeBSD_Jail#Jail_Creation_Techniques I am running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p9. I'm having trouble starting my jail, and I've included my

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-08 Thread Dan Langille
On 8 Sep 2006 at 22:02, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... Are there *really* no

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dan Langille wrote: On 8 Sep 2006 at 22:02, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... Are

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-08 Thread Chris
Matthew Seaman wrote: Dan Langille wrote: On 8 Sep 2006 at 22:02, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then

Window Manager Recommendations

2006-09-08 Thread Joel Adamson
Hello List, I am switching over my desktop system to FreeBSD soon and want to choose a nice window manager. One of the more annoying things I want to get away from in Microsoft Windows is focus-shifting: I'll be typing along in one place, then a webpage will finish loading, the window focus

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: Dan Langille wrote: On 8 Sep 2006 at 22:02, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first,

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: Dan Langille wrote: On 8 Sep 2006 at 22:02, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first,

Re: Window Manager Recommendations

2006-09-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:49:46PM -0700, Joel Adamson wrote: I am switching over my desktop system to FreeBSD soon and want to choose a nice window manager. One of the more annoying things I want to get away from in Microsoft Windows is focus-shifting: I'll be typing along in one place,

Re: Window Manager Recommendations

2006-09-08 Thread Chris
Darrin Chandler wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:49:46PM -0700, Joel Adamson wrote: I am switching over my desktop system to FreeBSD soon and want to choose a nice window manager. One of the more annoying things I want to get away from in Microsoft Windows is focus-shifting: I'll be typing

Re: Window Manager Recommendations

2006-09-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:52:41PM -0500, Chris wrote: If that's really a major goal then look into ion3 or ratpoison. I've been using ion3 for quite a while now and I'm happy. (you probably won't like it, though, coming from Windows) I prefer XFCE4 Darrin - if possible, could

Re: Window Manager Recommendations

2006-09-08 Thread ajm
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:02:51PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:52:41PM -0500, Chris wrote: If that's really a major goal then look into ion3 or ratpoison. I've been using ion3 for quite a while now and I'm happy. (you probably won't like it, though,

Can you install diablo-jdk for 6.1 on 6.0?

2006-09-08 Thread Henry Lenzi
Hi -- Can you install diablo-jdk for 6.1 on 6.0? One can no longer find the original package for 6.0 on the FreeBSD foundation web site. TIA. Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Can you install diablo-jdk for 6.1 on 6.0?

2006-09-08 Thread Napoleon Dynamite
I think there was a vulnerability on it, so I installed the Sun version of JDK 15 from ports and blackdown-jdk-14 instead. I wanted the package to avoid the long compile time, but it wasn't too bad. HTH, Eric Buchanan On Friday 08 September 2006 22:31, Henry Lenzi wrote: Hi -- Can you

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-08 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 8, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... Are there *really*

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-08 Thread Chris
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Sep 8, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then