easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Noah
Hi there, I am looking around for a really simple way to install CPAN on FreeBSD. I keep running into errors in one variation or another. Anybody have a good page to send me to? Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Using OpenSSL from ports

2007-10-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 White Hat wrote: Is there any real advantage to installing 'openssl' from ports rather than using the version installed in the base system? Other than the fact that the port version is slightly newer, is there any other major difference? For

Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are supported. Does the C7 chip have support that I don't know of? If not, will it? Otherwise, will specifying the chipset as

Re: user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-24 Thread freebsd
To answer my own question: I had the mux type set wrong -- VC-based instead of LLC-based. While the line comes up, the session is never opened because of the mux mismatch. moving right along now... Gary The freebsd box is connected directly via ed1 to the dsl modem; a crossover cable is

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Martin Hepworth
what have you tried and what errors do you get? -- martin On 10/24/07, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I am looking around for a really simple way to install CPAN on FreeBSD. I keep running into errors in one variation or another. Anybody have a good page to send me to?

ed1 interface sometimes not recognized

2007-10-24 Thread freebsd
Can anyone offer suggestions as to why an ed1 interface is not always recognized when booting? This is on 6.1 on an old P200 system. ed1 is the second nic, ep0 is the first; ep0 is always recognized. Rebooting usually solves the problem. I'm also puzzled as to why it's ed1 and not ed0. As

Re: USB-Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:06:08 +0200 Benjamin Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've bought an USB-Serial adapter in order to use an old serial 33.6k modem. I've loaded the uplcom and ucom modules, but am unsure how to proceed from here. The system runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8. When

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from 6.2 release? Is there a compelling reason to upgrade to one over the other?

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Ross Penner wrote: Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are supported. Does the C7 chip have support that I don't know of? If not, will it? Otherwise, will

Re: XScreenSaver

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Alcock
Hi I've determined it's a combination of mplayer and xscreensaver that causes the problem. One of the flags I use for mplayer is the -stop-xscreensaver option. Now this works fine, with the video not being interrupted by xscreensaver, and after the video the xscreensaver timer starts again and

Re: user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 21:04:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a zyxel 642r modem; I can't try my other modem, a cisco 678, because it doesn't support a vci 63. Oh cisco :) Be thankful to cisco for not creating other proprietary protocols to replace the existing ATM/DSL combination :)

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
icantthinkofone wrote: My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source driver for flash for freebsd? Is it a legal issue? Or does it take more time than anyone has to give? Or is it just too difficult to do without help from Adobe? http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

Re: USB-Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-24 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:17:01PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: On Tuesday 23 October 2007 19:54:44 Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:06:08PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: I'd expect some device to show up in /dev, cuad1, ucom0, something like that, but I get

Re: USB-Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-24 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:06:08 +0200 Benjamin Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've bought an USB-Serial adapter in order to use an old serial 33.6k modem. I've loaded the uplcom and ucom modules, but am unsure how to proceed from here. The system runs FreeBSD

Re: Install FreeBSD on hp notebook

2007-10-24 Thread Zhang hw
I have tried different versions of freebsd, the 6.2-stable and 6.3-prerelease. Sometimes when I start the system with acpi disable the system will recognize some device such as the broadcom nic,the fingerprint and so on.But the fun will run always at that time. If i start the system default, the

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:17:12 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-24 Thread Vince
Kris Kennaway wrote: David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from 6.2 release? Is there a compelling reason to upgrade

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Gerard
On October 24, 2007 at 01:44AM Noah wrote: I am looking around for a really simple way to install CPAN on FreeBSD. I keep running into errors in one variation or another. I thought CPAN was depreciated in favor of CPANPLUS. I have installed CPANPLUS from ports without any problems. --

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-23 23:24, Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all, here was my example, just for completeness, I found mentors for my needs. #include stdio.h void main() { short nnote; // Numerischen Notenwert einlesen printf(Bitte numerischen Schulnotenwert eingeben:

how can i install gnome2 through console

2007-10-24 Thread Ananias Uushona
I was installing gnome2 through x interface but I realize that its very hard especially to beginners but I got it right is that I did n't have the hardware names and specifications right now I want to do it automatically so it can detect the automatically so where do I begin to install it through

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-24 Thread Frank Jahnke
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 00:47 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: Frank Jahnke writes: VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. VMware employee? No. He is the fellow who did the VMware 3 port.

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Vince
Gerard wrote: On October 24, 2007 at 01:44AM Noah wrote: I am looking around for a really simple way to install CPAN on FreeBSD. I keep running into errors in one variation or another. I dont follow, CPAN.pm is installed as part of the perl port/package. Do you mean the setup after you

rename file based on file's timestamp

2007-10-24 Thread andrew clarke
Hi, Hopefully, a simple request... I have a series of files in a directory: -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 28 2006 209.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 31 2006 212.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Aug 1 2006 213.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis

Low-cost online disk backup solution on FreeBSD. Hardware/Software recomendations?

2007-10-24 Thread Victor Meirans
Good day, I need an advice. What hardware/software would you recommend for online disk backup server solution on FreeBSD? 99% of clients will be Windows XP/Vista users and the main requirement is low cost solution meaning that the client license should be free (GPL?) or low-priced compared to

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread icantthinkofone
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: icantthinkofone wrote: My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source driver for flash for freebsd? Is it a legal issue? Or does it take more time than anyone has to give? Or is it just too difficult to do without help from Adobe?

Re: rename file based on file's timestamp

2007-10-24 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 14:45:08 schrieb andrew clarke: Now I want to rename these so the new filenames are based on the file's timestamp, like so: -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 28 2006 2006-07-28.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 31 2006

Re: Low-cost online disk backup solution on FreeBSD. Hardware/Software recomendations?

2007-10-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Victor Meirans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Good day, I need an advice. What hardware/software would you recommend for online disk backup server solution on FreeBSD? 99% of clients will be Windows XP/Vista users and the main requirement is low cost solution meaning that the client

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 14:47:56 schrieb icantthinkofone: Does that in any way answer the question? Yes, because gnash is an open-source (re)implementation of Flash Player, compatible with a large part of the Flash7 specification, so that you don't need Adobe's player to play Flash

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-24 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frank Jahnke writes: VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. VMware employee? No, Orlando Bassotto, who is the programmer who did much of the work for the original

OpenSSL Upgrades from ports.

2007-10-24 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I need to upgrade (FreeBSD 6.2) OpenSSL due to some security concerns. I would like to do so from ports. If anyone cares to give me a simple how to I would be greatful. make deinstall make install clean ??? Are the any 'gotchas' upgrading OpenSSL I should watch for? -Grant

Re: multiple postgresql servers in multiple jails?

2007-10-24 Thread Oliver Peter
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 10:06:08PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Oliver Peter wrote: Does anybody have a running system with more than one jail hosting more than one postgres server? Yes, you must configure them to use different port numbers, because the SysV IPC IDs are derived from the

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:47:56AM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: icantthinkofone wrote: My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source driver for flash for freebsd? Is it a legal issue? Or does it take more time than anyone has to

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
/usr/ports/multimedia/mencoder can encode/recode videos to many different formats, including wmv9 and H.264. /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc contains a streaming server, IIRC. Do any of these support multicast? Cisco is pushing this big time with AVVID. -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: general LaTeX mailing list

2007-10-24 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 17:45 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:43:28PM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Hi there, Who knows a good general LaTeX mailing list? Ah yes, here is also good mailing list for the question. However, I want to give specific and professional

Re: Q: general LaTeX mailing list

2007-10-24 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 17:03 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-10-23 12:43, Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Who knows a good general LaTeX mailing list? Ah yes, here is also good mailing list for the question. However, I want to give specific and professional

Re: how can i install gnome2 through console

2007-10-24 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 23:06 +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 12:30 +0200, Ananias Uushona wrote: I was installing gnome2 through x interface but I realize that its very hard especially to beginners but I got it right is that I did n't have the hardware names and

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 17:03:57 Brian A. Seklecki wrote: /usr/ports/multimedia/mencoder can encode/recode videos to many different formats, including wmv9 and H.264. /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc contains a streaming server, IIRC. Do any of these support multicast? Cisco is pushing

Re: the right next step?

2007-10-24 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi John! Does your PR include a fix? Well, I've sent my suggestion to the maintainer -- I don't know if it's the *right* fix for the general port. But, it works for me as a workaround. For what it's worth, in this particular case, I've simply asked that the www/apache22 port be made

Re: the right next step?

2007-10-24 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi Bill! Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. During the freeze, you'll have difficulty getting any ports changes through. That's what I figured -- and why I've been trying to communicate about this for ~ a month already. It's not really that *I* have an

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:35:34 +0300 Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 October 2007 17:03:57 Brian A. Seklecki wrote: /usr/ports/multimedia/mencoder can encode/recode videos to many differen Well, no, its just that the 99% of the managed switches routers out there

Re: how can i install gnome2 through console

2007-10-24 Thread James A. Harrison
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 23:06 +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 12:30 +0200, Ananias Uushona wrote: I was installing gnome2 through x interface but I realize that its very hard especially to beginners but I got it right is that I did n't have the hardware names and

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread James A. Harrison
Gerard wrote: On October 24, 2007 at 01:44AM Noah wrote: I am looking around for a really simple way to install CPAN on FreeBSD. I keep running into errors in one variation or another. I'm not a very heavy perl user, but I've never *needed* to install CPAN on FreeBSD. A little creative

Re: rename file based on file's timestamp

2007-10-24 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 14:45:08 schrieb andrew clarke: Now I want to rename these so the new filenames are based on the file's timestamp, like so: -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 28 2006 2006-07-28.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi everybody! I'm not a very heavy perl user, but I've never *needed* to install CPAN on FreeBSD. A little creative searching has revealed that most perl packages are part of the FreeBSD Ports collection. If you use more obscure CPAN packages, I can see there might be a need to install

Re: USB-Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:26:20AM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: Does the onboard serial port work via USB? How odd! On my standard PC, the serial ports are driven by the sio driver, and have /dev/cuad* and /dev/ttyd* devices, noc cuaU. No, that one's a standard serial port, driven by sio

webconference softwares ?

2007-10-24 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Anyone knows if such softwares ( webconference / webminars ) are availables in open source software world ? thank you. -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-24 Thread Charlie Farinella
On 2007-10-22 Donovan R. Palmer wrote: Hi, I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make the shift from Linux?

Re: resizing partitions

2007-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I have need to alter some partition sizes on a (laptop) system I use daily, with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE installed. Are there tools you'd recommend for this, that should be stable and not prone to hosing up my filesystems? In

Re: cups-base woes

2007-10-24 Thread Brian A Seklecki (Mobile)
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 19:21 -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I've been trying to portupgrade cups-base for a week now, every time I cvsup my ports I get a different error message, now this is the latest one. Any ideas on how to fix this or can someone direct me to the this package so I don't

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 17:44:13 Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Well, no, its just that the 99% of the managed switches routers out there are going to (need to) support multicast video delivery they way they want. I guess there are many possible solutions. YMMV. Many solutions to many

Re: the right next step?

2007-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:43:37AM -0700, Aliya Harbouri wrote: Hi Bill! Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. During the freeze, you'll have difficulty getting any ports changes through. That's what I figured -- and why I've been trying to

if_bridge, if_tap and wireless NICs

2007-10-24 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've finally gotten emulators/qemu to work with bridge/tap networking on FreeBSD-7.0-BETA1 i386 using bfe0: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Fast Ethernet For reference, I used the tutorial listed at: http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1563 My issue is, however, that QEMU/bridge/tap

Re: USB-Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-24 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On 2007-10-24 17:15, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:26:20AM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: Does the onboard serial port work via USB? How odd! On my standard PC, the serial ports are driven by the sio driver, and have /dev/cuad* and /dev/ttyd* devices, noc cuaU. No,

Re: rename file based on file's timestamp

2007-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:45:08PM +1000, andrew clarke wrote: Hi, Hopefully, a simple request... I have a series of files in a directory: -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 28 2006 209.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 31 2006 212.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: USB-Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:23:48PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: On 2007-10-24 17:15, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:26:20AM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: Does the onboard serial port work via USB? How odd! On my standard PC, the serial ports are driven by the sio driver,

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Erik Cederstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross Penner wrote: Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are supported. Does the C7 chip have support that

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread icantthinkofone
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 14:47:56 schrieb icantthinkofone: Does that in any way answer the question? Yes, because gnash is an open-source (re)implementation of Flash Player, compatible with a large part of the Flash7 specification, so that you don't

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Noah
Martin Hepworth wrote: what have you tried and what errors do you get? Martin thanks for responding. here are the errors I am receiving when I am attempting to update things. sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell-install(CPAN::Shell-r)' [~] Password:

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-24 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 10/23/07, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt separate slices. There is no need to encrypt stuff

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-24 Thread Adam J Richardson
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: I have saved many of your emails for future reference. Hi Donovan, Welcome to the list. There's no need for you to store the emails, since they're all archived at http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/ anyway. :) Regards, Adam J Richardson

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread icantthinkofone
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:47:56AM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: icantthinkofone wrote: My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source driver for flash for freebsd? Is it a legal issue? Or does it

Re: Install on new INTEL motherboard, can't find ATA devices

2007-10-24 Thread Thomas David Rivers
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:13 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: I just got a new INTEL motherboard - chock full of these new-fangled SATA connectors... and one legacy ATA connector. I moved a disk drive from an older box to this new one.. The machine can boot from the disk drive, but

Re: webconference softwares ?

2007-10-24 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
On 24-Oct-07, at 8:46 PM, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Anyone knows if such softwares ( webconference / webminars ) are availables in open source software world ? you may have a look at http://www.dimdim.com/ regards, shantanoo ___

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-24 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 12:46:53AM +0800, Daniel Marsh wrote: Even if all data on a drive is encrypted, the partition table is not. Software based disk encryption works on partitions. That's not true. One can configure full disk encryption using GELI. To do it you need to have a small USB

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 14:47:56 schrieb icantthinkofone: Does that in any way answer the question? Yes, because gnash is an open-source (re)implementation of Flash Player, compatible with a large part of the Flash7 specification, gnash is no

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Sean Murphy
Noah wrote: Martin Hepworth wrote: what have you tried and what errors do you get? Martin thanks for responding. here are the errors I am receiving when I am attempting to update things. sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell-install(CPAN::Shell-r)'

Now can't get past the copyright info. What next?

2007-10-24 Thread W. D.
I've got a FreeBSD 4.9 Samba file server that boots but hangs after the Regents of the University of California text. Is there some way to fix this? Boot from a CD? Put the hard drive in another computer? Help! Start Here to Find It Fast!™ - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/

Re: reverse DNS resolution...

2007-10-24 Thread Eric F Crist
Thanks to all for their help. I was ignoring the forward DNS, and many things don't resolve reverse DNS unless there's a matching forward DNS. duh. thanks! Eric Crist On Oct 23, 2007, at 12:00 PMOct 23, 2007, Oliver Fromme wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: As I already stated, if I do a host

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ross Penner wrote: On 10/24/07, Erik Cederstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross Penner wrote: Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are supported. Does the C7 chip have

Windows SSH client?

2007-10-24 Thread Eric F Crist
Hey folks, I'm looking for a good, free, SSH client that has line/column numbers at the bottom, similar to SecureCRT. Any advice is appreciated! - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Ross Penner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/07, Erik Cederstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross Penner wrote: Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates that only the C3 and the C3-2

First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

2007-10-24 Thread Doug Poland
I'd like to report the details but I'm unfamiliar with the process. Should I post here on -questions or on -current mailing list? Looks like the issue is: kernel: current process = 46 (ath0 taskq) -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Windows SSH client?

2007-10-24 Thread Doug Clements
On 10/24/07, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, I'm looking for a good, free, SSH client that has line/column numbers at the bottom, similar to SecureCRT. Any advice is appreciated! Free for non-commercial use: http://ssh.com/ --Doug

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Vince wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from 6.2 release? Is there a compelling reason

Re: First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

2007-10-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Doug Poland wrote: I'd like to report the details but I'm unfamiliar with the process. Should I post here on -questions or on -current mailing list? -stable. Looks like the issue is: kernel: current process = 46 (ath0 taskq) Well, unfortunately that doesn't really say anything. Read the

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:25:51PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: sounds reasonable. unfortunetly, 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq' doesn't seem to work on my system. heh, it'd probably work if I upgrade to 7.0 Apparently I'm an idiot. the sysctl command does work. when the system is mostly idle, It

Re: First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

2007-10-24 Thread Doug Poland
Kris Kennaway wrote: Doug Poland wrote: I'd like to report the details but I'm unfamiliar with the process. Should I post here on -questions or on -current mailing list? -stable. Looks like the issue is: kernel: current process = 46 (ath0 taskq) Well, unfortunately that doesn't really

Re: Windows SSH client?

2007-10-24 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
On 10/24/07, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, I'm looking for a good, free, SSH client that has line/column numbers at the bottom, similar to SecureCRT. Any advice is appreciated! http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ is great!

Re: Windows SSH client?

2007-10-24 Thread Rob
Eric F Crist wrote: I'm looking for a good, free, SSH client that has line/column numbers at the bottom, similar to SecureCRT. Any advice is appreciated! I've used Tera Term for years and recently discovered there's a new actively developed version at http://ttssh2.sourceforge.jp/ If you

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:25:51PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: sounds reasonable. unfortunetly, 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq' doesn't seem to work on my system. heh, it'd probably work if I upgrade to 7.0 Apparently I'm an idiot. the sysctl

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 02:17:12 am Kris Kennaway wrote: David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from 6.2

Re: Windows SSH client?

2007-10-24 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/24/07, Doug Clements wrote: Free for non-commercial use: http://ssh.com/ I second that. I still use this one because putty's interface is awful. Here's the direct link: ftp://ftp.ssh.com/pub/ssh/SSHSecureShellClient-3.2.9.exe - --

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:25:11PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: What does 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' report? It should list the available CPU frequencies. I get: dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 397/-1 198/-1 Is this something I should be reporting to stable? It's not explicitly mentioned in

forcing compilation/run time linking of lib32 on amd64

2007-10-24 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am writing some demo code (for teaching C) and need to have the same program run on a 32 bit machine and a 64 bit machine (showing that int's are always word length)... I have 8-current amd64 how do I force it to compile with 32 bit words? ___

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:25:11PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: What does 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' report? It should list the available CPU frequencies. I get: dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 397/-1 198/-1 Is this something I should be

Re: user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-24 Thread freebsd
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: You said you had wrong encapsulation type. Did you make any progress? Yes. Changing the encapsulation type brought the line up, and things hobbled along... However, the line is dropped after a few minutes, apparently a result of not being able to determine line

Re: forcing compilation/run time linking of lib32 on amd64

2007-10-24 Thread Josh Carroll
I am writing some demo code (for teaching C) and need to have the same program run on a 32 bit machine and a 64 bit machine (showing that int's are always word length)... I have 8-current amd64 how do I force it to compile with 32 bit words? Add the following to your gcc command line: -m32

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Gerard
On October 24, 2007 at 02:11PM Sean Murphy wrote: I don't install CPAN on FreeBSD. I use the ports and packages from http://www.freebsd.org/ports Do a search for the module that you require P5- means it is a perl module also you can use the ports collection for PHP modules as well. This

Re: Install on new INTEL motherboard, can't find ATA devices

2007-10-24 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Just to follow up on the Intel DG33UB issues. I tried the 7.0 BETA bootonly ISO image today; and low-and-behold, that found the missing CDROM drive. I'm going to try the 6.3 BETA when it rolls out... - Thanks - - Dave Rivers - -- Work:

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:02:21PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: On 10/24/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:25:11PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: What does 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' report? It should list the available CPU frequencies. I get:

Company Representative Is Needed.

2007-10-24 Thread WoodsJoAnnWoods
I'm responding to your advertisement on your website needing a company representative to receive payment on your behalf. NAME: Heavenly JK Investments, Inc. Jo Ann Woods, Vice President ADDRESS: 450 Hillside Dr., Bldg. B, #200 CITY: Mesquite STATE: Nevada ZIP CODE:

Re: [freebsd-questions] easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Howard Jones
Gerard wrote: On October 24, 2007 at 02:11PM Sean Murphy wrote: 2) Use CPANPLUS to install the module. Unless the user has the time, knowledge and motivation to do the first, the second approach is usually superior. What does CPANPLUS do that CPAN doesn't that makes this a better

Re: the right next step?

2007-10-24 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi Jerry! I am not sure I understand all of what is being said or implied here. Hm. Now *I'm* confused by your confusion ;-) Let me summarize -- The www/apache22 port ignores (or more correctly, is not yet aware of ...) a port-installed bdb46. unlike most other ports that are up-to-date, it

Re: First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Cran
Kris Kennaway wrote: Doug Poland wrote: I'd like to report the details but I'm unfamiliar with the process. Should I post here on -questions or on -current mailing list? -stable. I know 7-BETA1 is currently in a region somewhere between -current and -stable but I thought the -current list

Re: [freebsd-questions] easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi Howie, What does CPANPLUS do that CPAN doesn't that makes this a better solution? Does it somehow integrate with the ports better? (rather than getting conflicts between p5-* and bsdpan-*) I use quite a lot of CPAN modules, so a way to be able to get 'obscure' modules, and still use

Re: the right next step?

2007-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:15:17PM -0700, Aliya Harbouri wrote: Hi Jerry! I am not sure I understand all of what is being said or implied here. Hm. Now *I'm* confused by your confusion ;-) Let me summarize -- The www/apache22 port ignores (or more correctly, is not yet aware of ...)

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:13:21PM +0100, Adam J Richardson wrote: Donovan R. Palmer wrote: I have saved many of your emails for future reference. Hi Donovan, Welcome to the list. There's no need for you to store the emails, since they're all archived at http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/

Re: the right next step?

2007-10-24 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi, Yes, I'm aware of pending freezes and such ... and the need for a PR. As for ignoring make and build settings, that should probably be put in a PR (bug report). If it is a serious bug, then it might get addressed before the release. Otherwise it won't get touched until after. I

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-24 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:38:46 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francisco Reyes wrote: Norberto Meijome writes: I do not have Windows on any of my machines but I have heard that Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I believe it is about $45. $45 is far cheaper than

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-24 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I didnt know all this. thanks! QEMu will have to keep working for now ;) btw, does QEMU work ok under 64bit? Yes. Though you might get some strange situations depending on the guest OS and emulated machine. For example when emulating a x86_64 running XP pro as the Guest OS I can

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