Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:45:11AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > I'm not sure when this happened, but I noticed today that my server reverted > back to the old daylight savings time (1 hour off) When I run ntpdate > and have it update it even then it shows the wrong time. This tends to indicate

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:45:11AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > I'm not sure when this happened, but I noticed today that my server reverted > back to the old daylight savings time (1 hour off) When I run ntpdate > and have it update it even then it shows the wrong time. > > I haven't done anyt

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:17:13 -0400 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/pkgdb.php > > while I run it myself. I'm finding wonderful questions like > > Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 -> p5-GSSAPI-0.24 > (security/p5-GSSAPI): p5-Ge

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-28 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hello, today I tried to migrate a FreeBSD 6.1 installation from an ordinary PC machine to an IBM Blade HS21 server. The server is a brand new machine with two Dual Core Xeon 5130 processors, two 72GB SAS drives. i installed FreeBSD 6.1-Beta2 on an IBM HS20 Blade. Take

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-03-26 23:09, Ivan Zenzerovi? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi to all. > My name is Ivan and I'm new to FreeBSD and Unix, I worked a little in > Linux, but it was a long time ago. I downloaded the 5.5 release and I > plan installing it. I downloaded also all availible docs. I wondered > if it

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-03-27 23:36, Ivan Zenzerovi? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > i managed to install it, and, in fact I'm working on it right now. > It's great, just tell me, I should compile my kernel at this point? > And a question: I don't like this xorg, and I have installed KDE but > how do I run

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Stan Cooper wrote: Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Try /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs instead. It's newer and is supposed to support writing. Hmm. Well, there's no such port in FBSD. Are you certain? [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/ports] uname -s FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/ports] ll IN*6

stty -echo

2007-03-28 Thread Apeksha Godiyal
Hi, I have been using the command stty -echo which is supposed to turn of displaying characters. But it is not turning off the echoing of typed chars. Example: $ stty -echo $ echo hi hi $ Here "echo hi" should not have been printed. Is this a bug or have I not interpreted the man pages? Thank

Re: stty -echo

2007-03-28 Thread Christian Walther
On 28/03/07, Apeksha Godiyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have been using the command stty -echo which is supposed to turn of displaying characters. But it is not turning off the echoing of typed chars. Example: $ stty -echo $ echo hi hi $ Here "echo hi" should not have been printed. Is t

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-28 Thread Stan Cooper
Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stan Cooper wrote: > > Roland Smith wrote:Try /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs > > instead. It's newer and is supposed to support writing. > > > > Hmm. Well, there's no such port in FBSD. > > Are you certain? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/ports] > uname -s

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread Ivan Zenzerović
hello again. I made a mistake during post install config. I put a name that I don't want for my computer, and when I logon as root it's written in the comand line. How di I change it? Ivan On 3/28/07, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-03-27 23:36, Ivan Zenzerovi? <[EMAIL PR

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 09:08:30 am Ivan Zenzerović wrote: > hello again. > > I made a mistake during post install config. I put a name that I don't want > for my computer, and when I logon as root it's written in the comand line. > How di I change it? > > Ivan Edit /etc/rc.conf .. find the lin

Re: hi

2007-03-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:39:10PM -0400, Drew White wrote: > Hi Jerry, installed the system. Now getting a terrible message video input > 'out of range' on both my monitors... one showsup partially distorted and > the other not at all > . It worked find on the friends monitor who installed it for

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:08:30PM +0200, Ivan Zenzerovi? wrote: > hello again. > > I made a mistake during post install config. I put a name that I don't want > for my computer, and when I logon as root it's written in the comand line. > How di I change it? Presuming by that that you mean your

Re: Problems with SMP on 6.1-STABLE-200608

2007-03-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Don O'Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been having problems with my server freezing up, having the #2 CPU > 'shut down', kernel panics, and all sorts of nastyness > > Originally I thought it was exim, or possibly bind, or bad hardware (mb, cpu > or memory)... I've swapped out the moth

Re: Sound on an amilo pro notebook

2007-03-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to get the sound working on a Fujitsu Siemens > Amilo Pro v3205 notebook. > The datasheet says i have a Conexant AMOM soundcard. > > I've tried all drivers, but /dev/sndstat doesn't > report anything being installed. > > I'm running 6.2 x86. How do

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread Lars Kristiansen
David J Brooks skrev: On Wednesday 28 March 2007 09:08:30 am Ivan Zenzerović wrote: hello again. I made a mistake during post install config. I put a name that I don't want for my computer, and when I logon as root it's written in the comand line. How di I change it? Ivan Edit /etc/rc.conf .

Re: Problems with SMP on 6.1-STABLE-200608

2007-03-28 Thread youshi10
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: "Don O'Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've been having problems with my server freezing up, having the #2 CPU 'shut down', kernel panics, and all sorts of nastyness Originally I thought it was exim, or possibly bind, or bad hardware (mb, cpu o

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Stan Cooper wrote: Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stan Cooper wrote: Roland Smith wrote:Try /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs instead. It's newer and is supposed to support writing. Hmm. Well, there's no such port in FBSD. Are you certain? [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/ports] uname -s FreeB

Re: hi

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:39:10PM -0400, Drew White wrote: Hi Jerry, installed the system. Now getting a terrible message video input 'out of range' on both my monitors... one showsup partially distorted and the other not at all . It worked find on the friends monitor w

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-28 Thread Eric
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Finally, here's a couple of classics from my Bookmark collection that deal with keeping ports up-to-date. AFAIK, they are still pretty applicable today, with the exception of the fact that "portupgrade" isn't the only way to do this anymore --- I think the first one (Dru L

RE: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Don O'Neil
I mean 6.1-stable Uname shows: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE-200608 #0 It was installed from a snapshot ISO last summer. -Original Message- From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:05 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time

RE: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Don O'Neil
Well, since I didn't install it from source, but a snapshot, I don't have the northamerica source to get an MD5 # on. Isn't there some other way to update the zone info files to fix this? -Original Message- From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Josh Carroll wrote: Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 -> p5-GSSAPI-0.24 (security/p5-GSSAPI): p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] Well this one is pretty obvious. Look at what the stale dependency is, and w

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Don O'Neil wrote: Well, since I didn't install it from source, but a snapshot, I don't have the northamerica source to get an MD5 # on. Isn't there some other way to update the zone info files to fix this? The failed download is because the source file changed at the external source. You mi

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Don O'Neil wrote: Well, since I didn't install it from source, but a snapshot, I don't have the northamerica source to get an MD5 # on. Sorry, you could also update your ports tree and install the port. KDK -- The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -- William Shakespeare

iwi-firmware port

2007-03-28 Thread Timothy Radigan
Hey all, I installed the iwi-firmware and iwi-firmware-kmod ports and I am now trying to load specific firmware on the iwi adapter but it keeps failing. The port installs fine and puts the firmware to /boot/firmware. The docs for iwicontrol state to load firmware for a specific function is

Re: hi

2007-03-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28/03/07, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:39:10PM -0400, Drew White wrote: > Hi Jerry, installed the system. Now getting a terrible message video input > 'out of range' on both my monitors... one showsup partially distorted and > the other not at all > .

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread Ivan Zenzerović
Thanks, i managed to fix this by running the post install configuration with sysinstall. But I have another problem. Every time i start the system my soundcard won't work. I must tipe kldload snd_driver and then logoff and again logon in kde to get my soundcard working. How can i fix this? Ivan

RE: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Don O'Neil
Ok, Thanks to Paul who sent me the previous tzdata file I was able to download the port and install it... However that didn't solve the problem! Here's my output from the make/make install: make install ===> Installing for zoneinfo-2007.c ===> Generating temporary packing list ===> Checking

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:11:27AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > I mean 6.1-stable > Uname shows: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE-200608 #0 > > It was installed from a snapshot ISO last summer. OK, so you're running an 8 month stale snapshot and you wonder why you don't have the recent timezone updates?

RE: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Don O'Neil
PDT, as it shows. _ From: Paul Khavkine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:51 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings Hi Don. What timezone are you supposed to be in ? Paul On 3/28/07,

RE: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Don O'Neil
Well... If you read about the original timezone issue it was fixed in 6.1-release, so any snapshot AFTER that shouldn't have the problem... And I'll re-itterate that it WAS working fine until I recently re-built the kernel. Even with the timezone port update installed it is still wrong. -Orig

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Jeff Palmer
> It was installed from a snapshot ISO last summer. OK, so you're running an 8 month stale snapshot and you wonder why you don't have the recent timezone updates? What is wrong with this picture? :-) Kris Not to be a smartass, but the energy conservation act was passed in 2005, so one w

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Paul Khavkine
Hi Don. What timezone are you supposed to be in ? Paul On 3/28/07, Don O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, Thanks to Paul who sent me the previous tzdata file I was able to download the port and install it... However that didn't solve the problem! Here's my output from the make/make in

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:12:42PM -0400, Jeff Palmer wrote: > > >> It was installed from a snapshot ISO last summer. > > > >OK, so you're running an 8 month stale snapshot and you wonder why you > >don't have the recent timezone updates? What is wrong with this > >picture? :-) > > > >Kris > > N

Help

2007-03-28 Thread Lumbu, Mfumuke
Hi! I want to play FreeBSD image with my VM player how can i do it? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Ivan Zenzerović wrote: Thanks, i managed to fix this by running the post install configuration with sysinstall. But I have another problem. Every time i start the system my soundcard won't work. I must tipe kldload snd_driver and then logoff and again logon in kde to get my soundcard working. Ho

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:02:33AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > Well... If you read about the original timezone issue it was fixed in > 6.1-release Um, no. Where did you read that? Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Paul Khavkine
To see if you zonefile is correct you can do the following: %zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-03-28 19:43, Ivan Zenzerovi? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, i managed to fix this by running the post install > configuration with sysinstall. But I have another problem. Every time > i start the system my soundcard won't work. I must tipe kldload > snd_driver and then logoff and agai

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Don O'Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, Thanks to Paul who sent me the previous tzdata file I was able to > download the port and install it... However that didn't solve the problem! > > Here's my output from the make/make install: > > make install > ===> Installing for zoneinfo-2007.c >

How to get watchdogd from biting me!?

2007-03-28 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, I'm starting it with : watchdogd -s 15 -t 120 -e "logger I'm gonna hurl" And sometimes within a few minutes it reboots, and other times its hours... But at no time was the system inactive (I've been on it 3 of 4 reboots) and its never logged that for me either.

fsck fails on 6T system

2007-03-28 Thread Dan D Niles
I am trying to fsck a 6T filesystem on a server that crashed. I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-p3. # fsck -t ufs -y /dev/da0 fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 1993797728 bytes for inoinfo I also tried: # fsck -t ufs -f -p /dev/da0 /dev/da0: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=11895232 /dev/da0: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck

RE: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Don O'Neil
http://www.freebsd.org/releng/dst_info.html "FreeBSD-6.1 has correct zoneinfo files for time zones in the United States of America" -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:06 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc:

Can iostat(8) report on gmirror devices?

2007-03-28 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've grown quite fond of iostat(8) for monitoring various i386 6.x servers and have several boxes using gmirror(8). It appears that iostat will not accept things like "gm0" as a drive argument. Is that a feature or am I missing something. -- Regards, Doug

RE: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Don O'Neil
I don't have the port tree installed, so you are correct that I did not update them first... I installed JUST the zoneinfo port, which according to: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/dst_info.html "the misc/zoneinfo port can be installed to update the /usr/share/zoneinfo files, followed by running tz

RE: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Don O'Neil
Yup... thats what I get: %zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 08:59:59 200

RE: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Don O'Neil
Pacific, which is what my date output shows: Wed Mar 28 10:55:26 PDT 2007 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Khavkine Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:51 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time changed ba

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Paul Khavkine
Well AFAIK, the recent changes only affect EST/EDT and not the PDT timezone. Paul On 3/28/07, Don O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PDT, as it shows. -- *From:* Paul Khavkine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:51 AM *To:* Don O'Neil

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:47:39AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/releng/dst_info.html > > "FreeBSD-6.1 has correct zoneinfo files for time zones in the United States > of America" OK, yes you are right. I was confused by your statement that 6.1 shipped with fixed timezone fi

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Ivan Zenzerović" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, i managed to fix this by running the post install configuration with > sysinstall. But I have another problem. Every time i start the system my > soundcard won't work. I must tipe kldload snd_driver and then logoff and > again logon in kde to

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Don O'Neil wrote: So it looks like my zone info files are correct... could the ntp pool be off for some reason, or does ntpdate need to be updated? 28 Mar 10:53:51 ntpdate[90706]: ntpdate 4.2.0-a Mon Aug 7 17:44:27 UTC 2006 (1) Nope, the NTP protocol uses GM

Re: Help with port that uses scons

2007-03-28 Thread youshi10
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Alejandro Pulver wrote: Hello. I am updating a port that now uses "scons" to build. It reads the environment variables correctly, but passes CCFLAGS as a single argument to the compiler, resulting in an error. The port (the install part isn't done yet) is available here:

Re: Help with port that uses scons

2007-03-28 Thread youshi10
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Alejandro Pulver wrote: Hello. I am updating a port that now uses "scons" to build. It reads the environment variables correctly, but passes CCFLAGS as a single argument to the compiler, resulting in an error. The port (the in

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:19:47 -0500 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Obviously, as I am not about to batter you > about the neck and head with the beam projecting > from my eye (hold still, you've got a . . .), > I can only suggest a decent cringe&pray > manouver (as I execute from

Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

2007-03-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just bought a new WD SATA drive: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB1 09.02E09 Tried to disklabel it, and it gives me all kinds of warnings when I look at it after running the disklabel: ganymede# bsdlabel -w ad4s1 auto ganymede# bsdlabel ad4s1c # /dev/ad4s1c: 8 p

Re: Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

2007-03-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:26:49PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Just bought a new WD SATA drive: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB1 09.02E09 > > Tried to disklabel it, and it gives me all kinds of warnings when I look at > it > after running the disklabel: > > > ganymede# bsdlabel -w ad4s1 auto > gany

Re: Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

2007-03-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Wednesday, March 28, 2007 16:41:28 -0400 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:26:49PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> Just bought a new WD SATA drive: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB1 09.02E09 >> >> Tried to disklabe

Re: Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

2007-03-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28/03/07, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just bought a new WD SATA drive: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB1 09.02E09 Tried to disklabel it, and it gives me all kinds of warnings when I look at it after running the disklabel: ganymede# bsdlabel

Re: Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

2007-03-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:26:49PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Just bought a new WD SATA drive: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB1 09.02E09 > > Tried to disklabel it, and it gives me all kinds of warnings when I look at > it > after running the disklabel: > > ganymede# bsdlabel -w ad4s1 auto > ganyme

Re: Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

2007-03-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:04:49PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 28/03/07, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > > > >Just bought a new WD SATA drive: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB1 09.02E09 > > > >Tried to disklabel it, and it gives me a

Re: Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

2007-03-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:23:22PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:04:49PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On 28/03/07, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > >Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > >Just bought a new WD SATA

Re: Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

2007-03-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:19:12 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then, the only thing wrong is that your offsets should start at 0. > They mean within the slice, not raw disk sector 0. I was just looking at the bsdlable manpage, and it says: "For partition `c', * will be interpre

LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2007-03-28 Thread Charles Farinella
New to FreeBSD. How can I update my LD_LIBRARY_PATH? In Linux I modify my /etc/ld.so.conf file and run ldconfig. Is there an equivalent here? A pointer to docs would be fine. thanks. -- Charles Farinella Appropriate S

Re: Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

2007-03-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:49:15PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:19:12 -0400 > Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Then, the only thing wrong is that your offsets should start at 0. > > They mean within the slice, not raw disk sector 0. > > I was just looking at the bsd

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2007-03-28 Thread Josh Carroll
New to FreeBSD. How can I update my LD_LIBRARY_PATH? In Linux I modify my /etc/ld.so.conf file and run ldconfig. Is there an equivalent here? A pointer to docs would be fine. There are a couple of ways. First, you can look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the default value of ldconfig_paths. On

HP OfficeJet OJ5610

2007-03-28 Thread Gerry Freymann
Hello list members! The last time I bought a new printer I had to right away as the old one kicked the bucket and I had work related printed material I just had to print out, so I picked up a cheap Lexmark from Canadian Tire which was on sale. To this day the Lexmark is working great! Except sinc

Re: iwi-firmware port

2007-03-28 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:12:28 -0400 "Timothy Radigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > > > I installed the iwi-firmware and iwi-firmware-kmod ports and I am now > > trying to load specific firmware on the iwi adapter but it keeps failing. > > The port installs fine and puts the firm

Re: regular portsdb maintanence

2007-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 27/03/07 David J Brooks said: > Have you looked at 'man pkgdb'? Yes. I'm looking for how it works, not how to use it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in

Re: Install with modified kernel?

2007-03-28 Thread jekillen
On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:53 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, jekillen wrote: Hello: Is it possible to install FreeBSD ( in this case v6.2 GENERIC RELEASE) with a modified kernel? I am having some network prob

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/03/07 Kevin Kinsey said: > Here is a time-honored and rather canonical diatribe on "The Art of > Pkgdb -F" (a great thread title, BTW). Note also that it is nearly > six years old, and that additional package-management tools have been > proposed, created, and released to the public, and s

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-28 Thread Derek Ragona
I still have one server running 5.X release. 5.X also should automatically generate the devs. Do you have support for usb in your kernel? If you do have usb compiled in your kernel, check your dmesg that the usb devices are properly being identified. -Derek At 07:27 PM 3/27/2007,

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/03/07 RW said: > The gettext upgrade is actually a good example of what portupgrade > offers. With portupgrade the -rf option is advisable, but not > essential, with portmaster, it's essential that the -r option is used, > If it's not, or the upgrade fails to complete, you can end-up with no

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/03/07 Gerard Seibert said: > You can run: > > portmanager -u -p -l > > That will rebuild all broken and or missing dependencies for all of > your ports. How does it know what ports are installed? Originally, I thought that the pkgdb was that source of information, so if it was gone,

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/03/07 Derek Ragona said: > I still have one server running 5.X release. 5.X also should automatically > generate the devs. Do you have support for usb in your kernel? If you do > have usb compiled in your kernel, check your dmesg that the usb devices are > properly being identified. I

Re: HP OfficeJet OJ5610

2007-03-28 Thread ajm
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:17:20PM -0400, Gerry Freymann wrote: > Hello list members! > > The last time I bought a new printer I had to right away as the old one > kicked the bucket and I had work related printed material I just had to > print out, so I picked up a cheap Lexmark from Canadian Tire

Re: HP OfficeJet OJ5610

2007-03-28 Thread Gerald Freymann
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:19:47 -0500 ajm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Today I see Staples has a HP OfficeJet OJ5610 Colour 4-in-1 printer on >> at a reasonable price. It's all I need. Since I am soon due to replace >> both of my print cartridges in the Lexmark, I figure I could just as >> easily bu

Re: fsck fails on 6T system

2007-03-28 Thread Josh Paetzel
Dan D Niles wrote: > I am trying to fsck a 6T filesystem on a server that crashed. I'm > running FreeBSD 6.2-p3. > > # fsck -t ufs -y /dev/da0 > fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 1993797728 bytes for inoinfo > > I also tried: > > # fsck -t ufs -f -p /dev/da0 > /dev/da0: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=11895232 > /dev

Updating php5-interbase

2007-03-28 Thread Roger Merritt
While updating my ports, I've run into a problem. portversion shows php5-interbase needs updating, but when I ran 'portupgrade php5-interbase' I got the message: '==> Please do not build firebird as 'root' because this may cause conflicts with SysV semaphores of running services' ... 'Stop in

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Joel Hatton
Hi, On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:34:00 -0400, "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > >Now, I've been upgrading ports via > >portupgrade -R > >as suggested in the handbook. As -R upgrades only those packages that require >those supplied, and not those that it requires, would that cause it? Be careful with your

skype replacement

2007-03-28 Thread Andriy Babiy
Hi all, Since skype requires some i386 binary, it doesn't build on amd64. Could you advise me on what is available as a replacement? What program do you use to implement p2p voice connection on amd64 machine? Thank you in advance. Andriy ___ freebsd-qu

Re: fsck fails on 6T system

2007-03-28 Thread Dan D Niles
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 20:21 -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: > Dan D Niles wrote: > > I am trying to fsck a 6T filesystem on a server that crashed. I'm > > running FreeBSD 6.2-p3. > > > > # fsck -t ufs -y /dev/da0 > > fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 1993797728 bytes for inoinfo > > > > I also tried: > > > > #

Can cvs-sup Safely Upgrade a 5.3 System to 6.2?

2007-03-28 Thread Martin McCormick
The system is on, but not in production so I would like to upgrade it before we use it. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Can cvs-sup Upgrade a 5.3 system to 6.2?

2007-03-28 Thread Martin McCormick
The system is up and running, but presently not in production. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: regular portsdb maintanence

2007-03-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 27/03/07, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I just upgraded portupgrade, and it recommended that I run pkgdb -L to look for lost dependencies. This raised the question to me of what I should regularly run in cron jobs to maintain the db. Is it wise to put say, pkgdb -L int

Re: Can cvs-sup Safely Upgrade a 5.3 System to 6.2?

2007-03-28 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Martin McCormick wrote: The system is on, but not in production so I would like to upgrade it before we use it. Keep strictly to the "canonical way to update your system" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html Else - as far as I remember

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28/03/07, Joel Hatton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:34:00 -0400, "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > >Now, I've been upgrading ports via > >portupgrade -R > >as suggested in the handbook. As -R upgrades only those packages that require >those supplied, and not those that it

Can't work out which disk we are booting from

2007-03-28 Thread Toupar
Hi, When i install freebsd ,a problem occurred: Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0x not found by probes defaulting to disk0: What should i do? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 28/03/07 Kevin Kinsey said: Here is a time-honored and rather canonical diatribe on "The Art of Pkgdb -F" (a great thread title, BTW). Note also that it is nearly six years old, and that additional package-management tools have been proposed, created, and released

Re: Can cvs-sup Safely Upgrade a 5.3 System to 6.2?

2007-03-28 Thread Eric
Martin McCormick wrote: The system is on, but not in production so I would like to upgrade it before we use it. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___

Re: Re: Install with modified kernel?

2007-03-28 Thread jekillen
Hello again: It is only fair to post this addenda to the message thread with this subject: From various suggestions from list responses, UUASC and I seem to remember one from this list also, that the problem could be consecutive addresses on the same subnet is what is causing the problem. I was as

Re: fsck fails on 6T system

2007-03-28 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On woensdag 28 maart 2007, Dan D Niles wrote: > I am trying to fsck a 6T filesystem on a server that crashed. I'm > running FreeBSD 6.2-p3. > > # fsck -t ufs -y /dev/da0 > fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 1993797728 bytes for inoinfo Could you run 'limits' here? I suspect 'datasize' is too low. Regards, Pi

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Robert Huff
Kevin Kinsey writes: > But I bet I'm not the only one who, once upon a time, happened to > try "portupgrade -arR" or equivalent after forgetting to read > UPDATING and ended up with more to do than I originally thought. Might as well paint "PLEASE KICK ME!" and an arrow pointing down

Re: skype replacement

2007-03-28 Thread James
On 3/28/07, Andriy Babiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since skype requires some i386 binary, it doesn't build on amd64. Could you advise me on what is available as a replacement? What program do you use to implement p2p voice connection on amd64 machine? Thank you in advance. hihi. You may w

Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 drivers (?), and NDIS...

2007-03-28 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi, This might be a slightly offtopic question - I have a bunch of Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 driver/firmware files, and I am unable to figure out which is the correct .inf file, or which are the remaining firmware files. I could only recognize the driver, which had a .sys extension. These files

Re: Can cvs-sup Upgrade a 5.3 system to 6.2?

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/28/07, Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The system is up and running, but presently not in production. cvsup (or csup, available from ports) can update /usr/src from any version to any version. If you try to update it to 6.2 on a 5.3 system - then, yes, you'll succeed in

RE: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Don O'Neil
Ok... Well, I rebooted the server, and still it's an hour behind: kermit# /usr/sbin/ntpdate -v -b 0.us.pool.ntp.org 28 Mar 23:17:15 ntpdate[1429]: ntpdate 4.2.0-a Mon Aug 7 17:44:27 UTC 2006 (1) 28 Mar 23:17:17 ntpdate[1429]: step time server 199.103.21.233 offset 3580.00057 Any ideas now? If th

Anyone using Sunbird?

2007-03-28 Thread Leslie Jensen
I've got a problem with Sunbird (Mozilla calender app) since the gettext upgrade. It core dumps at start --- sunbird & [1] 1168 Abort trap (core dumped) --- Because of some mistakes I made I've done pkg_deinstall -rR gettext Rebuild all the p