Re: mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system

2009-03-26 Thread Fbsd1
Ricardo Jesus wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1 slices on that HD.

WINE installation problem

2009-03-26 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, My WINE was running fine, but while performing a portupgrade I got an error message. So I decided to remove WINE and reinstall. Now I can't install it either. I get the following message === wine-1.1.17,1 builds, but fails upon startup. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/wine.

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread Pieter Donche
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, so that this does the same thing on FreeBSD/KDE3.5 ? I have the following line in my ~/.xinitrc:

Marvell Sheeva

2009-03-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://www.semihalf.com/portfolio.html does it mean FreeBSD will work on sheevaplug? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Error Mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: input/output error (5)

2009-03-26 Thread ajeesh joseph
hi all,i was trying to install the freebsd7.0 to my USB HDD from my sony cd/dvd.during the installation process i get error Error Mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: input/output error (5)can you please help me in solving this,Dear freebsdquestions! Get Yourself a cool, short @in.com Email ID now!

Re: Atom 330 testing

2009-03-26 Thread Bert-Jan
I have this exact same board, also updated the bios after some bootup trouble, and found that the onboard nic isn't supported until 7.1. Indeed it can cause trouble on older kernels because I couldn't get 7.0-release up and running properly. Luckily 7.1-RC2 was released the day after I got the

Re: mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system

2009-03-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? In order to give you the right answer, we would need to know how that disk was organised: - slice (of fdisk type); use the

Re: mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system

2009-03-26 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Fbsd1 wrote: Ricardo Jesus wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1 slices on

Duplicate Installation of FreeBSD

2009-03-26 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hello list, I have installed and configured a FreeBSD system based on 7.1-RELEASE (not that it matters so much) and I want a way in which I can duplicate this on several other machines. What is the easiest and the simplest way? Please consider the K.I.S.S principle. -- Best regards, Odhiambo

Re: Duplicate Installation of FreeBSD

2009-03-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello list, I have installed and configured a FreeBSD system based on 7.1-RELEASE (not that it matters so much) and I want a way in which I can duplicate this on several other machines. What is the easiest and the simplest way? Please consider the K.I.S.S principle. boot liveCD, allow rsh on

Re: WINE installation problem

2009-03-26 Thread RW
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:20:38 +0100 Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.net wrote: Hi, My WINE was running fine, but while performing a portupgrade I got an error message. So I decided to remove WINE and reinstall. Now I can't install it either. If you ever do that again, make a package

Re: first firewall with pf

2009-03-26 Thread Eric Magutu
Hi everyone, Thanks for all your input so far. I have tried to implement all you suggestions but have gotten stuck. I set up a test machine in the office with the ip 10.0.0.110 and encountered the following problems: when I enables antispoofing the firewall didn't work when I tried allowing the

Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Barnaby Scott
I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere and go no response. I want to install wine, but without X on the system. Obviously trying to do this from ports drags in loads of X-related stuff. There doesn't seem to be a WITHOUT_X11 knob available for the wine port

Re: Duplicate Installation of FreeBSD

2009-03-26 Thread Ionut Vancea
Hi, On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I have installed and configured a FreeBSD system based on 7.1-RELEASE (not that it matters so much) and I want a way in which I can duplicate this on several other machines. What is the easiest

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Barnaby Scott b...@waywood.co.uk: I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere and go no response. I want to install wine, but without X on the system. Why would you expect this to be possible? The GUI is an integral part of MS Windows ... I can't

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:39:38AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, so that this does the same thing on

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Huff
Bill Moran writes: I want to install wine, but without X on the system. Why would you expect this to be possible? The GUI is an integral part of MS Windows ... I can't imagine how wine would work at all without X installed -- which is probably why you're not getting any answers.

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Rees
2009/3/26 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com: Bill Moran writes:   I want to install wine, but without X on the system.  Why would you expect this to be possible?  The GUI is an integral  part of MS Windows ... I can't imagine how wine would work at all  without X installed -- which is

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread Pieter Donche
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:39:38AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: What precise command do I have to write in what startup file,

problem with postfix

2009-03-26 Thread Upali Rajapakse
I installed postfix on frebsd 7 i can send mail through command line but i cant receive any mail to it. and also there is no Maildir on any users home directory. can you help me? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: first firewall with pf

2009-03-26 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello Eric: Hi everyone, Can you provide a little more information about your topology? Right now, you only have one interface defined in your rules, but you are attempting to pass traffic between two subnets. That would suggest you have two interfaces and, if so, both need to be accounted

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
no response. I want to install wine, but without X on the system. Obviously trying to do what you want to do with wine not having X? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Duplicate Installation of FreeBSD

2009-03-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
principle. maybe using Clonezilla: http://clonezilla.org/ (it does not support unix is good enough to not need extra tools to do this. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:25:24PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:39:38AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be

Re: first firewall with pf

2009-03-26 Thread Eric Magutu
Hi Micheal, I was trying to simulate the conditions of the server on a test machine. I'm pretty sure now I didn't take into account all the network aspects, silly mistake :-) Its probably my routing. I will check on my routes tomorrow and get back to you. I think there is only one active interface

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Barnaby Scott
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Barnaby Scott b...@waywood.co.uk: I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere and go no response. I want to install wine, but without X on the system. Why would you expect this to be possible? The GUI is an integral part of MS

Re: Duplicate Installation of FreeBSD

2009-03-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.comwrote: Hello list, I have installed and configured a FreeBSD system based on 7.1-RELEASE (not that it matters so much) and I want a way in which I can duplicate this on several other machines. What is the easiest and the

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, March 26, 2009 09:47:27 -0500 Barnaby Scott b...@waywood.co.uk wrote: I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere and go no response. I want to install wine, but without X on the system. Obviously trying to do this from ports drags in loads of

Re: problem with postfix

2009-03-26 Thread Terry
Upali Rajapakse wrote: I installed postfix on frebsd 7 i can send mail through command line but i cant receive any mail to it. and also there is no Maildir on any users home directory. can you help me? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: problem with postfix

2009-03-26 Thread Jason L McFarland
You need an imap/pop server. I recommend dovecot. -- Justice derailed is worse than justice denied. -- K. Muthukumar Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:39:38 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: From a terminal window command line xbiff -geometry 50x50-5+5 puts it in my upper right corner, [...] Do you use -5 to get rid of a window border added by KDE's window manager? but if I put that in my

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
part of MS Windows ... I can't imagine how wine would work at all without X installed -- which is probably why you're not getting any answers. I'm not that familiar with Wine - does it support use of the Windows command prompt? I can conceive of a program which requires Windows

most signals not being delivered to processes

2009-03-26 Thread Ian Rose
Hello, I'm new to this list so if this question is better directed elsewhere please point me in the right direction. My research group has a server running 7.2-PRERELEASE and an odd problem has cropped up: most signals are not being delivered to processes. For example, if I run 'sleep 10'

Re: problem with postfix

2009-03-26 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:09:34 + Terry te...@bluelight.org.uk wrote: Upali Rajapakse wrote: I installed postfix on frebsd 7 i can send mail through command line but i cant receive any mail to it. and also there is no Maildir on any users home directory. can you help me? Best thing to

[pkg_add] PACKAGESITE weirdness - URL not correct for dependencies?

2009-03-26 Thread L Campbell
I'm running a bunch of jails and running the same set of ports between them. To save myself some CPU time, I've got one jail building packages for everything I need, then serving those packages out over HTTP to the rest of the jails. The package serving jail is at 10.0.0.4, and is serving

Re: [pkg_add] PACKAGESITE weirdness - URL not correct for dependencies?

2009-03-26 Thread L Campbell
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:37 PM, L Campbell ll...@virginia.edu wrote: blah Oh, and please CC me on any replies since I don't follow this list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

RE: nmap as user works, root doesn't

2009-03-26 Thread Sergei Cherveni
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jimmie James Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 4:39 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: nmap as user works, root doesn't Can anyone make sense of this?

Re: Duplicate Installation of FreeBSD

2009-03-26 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.comwrote: Hello list, I have installed and configured a FreeBSD system based on 7.1-RELEASE (not that it matters so much) and I want a way in

Re: most signals not being delivered to processes

2009-03-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Ian-- On Mar 26, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Ian Rose wrote: I'm new to this list so if this question is better directed elsewhere please point me in the right direction. Welcome; this list is a good place. My research group has a server running 7.2-PRERELEASE and an odd problem has cropped

Re: [pkg_add] PACKAGESITE weirdness - URL not correct for dependencies?

2009-03-26 Thread L Campbell
Okay, so apparently there's some serious weirdness in the logic in src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/url.c, in fileGetURL. This function takes two parameters, base and spec, and has the following behavior -- * if spec is a valid URL, it's used unchanged as the path to the remote package. * if base is

Re: problem with postfix

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:54:41 -0500 Upali Rajapakse upal...@gmail.com wrote: I installed postfix on frebsd 7 i can send mail through command line but i cant receive any mail to it. Did you follow the instructions during the install and disable sendmail? Did you say yes to

Re: most signals not being delivered to processes

2009-03-26 Thread Ian Rose
Hi Chuck, Thanks for the response. My stty -a looks good: cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = undef; eol2 = undef; erase = ^?; erase2 = ^H; intr = ^C; kill = ^U; lnext = ^V; min = 1; quit = ^\; reprint = ^R; start = ^Q; status = ^T; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z;

Q: FreeBSD 7.1 stable boot failure

2009-03-26 Thread John H. Nyhuis
Greetings, I just re-installed an old file server from stable 6.1 to 7.1 stable, and I'm having a problem with my 3ware 7000-2 card. After sysinstall completes, and I try to boot from the SCSI HDD (not connected to the 3ware) for the first time, the system hangs immediatly after

[perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-26 Thread Tobias Rehbein
Hi all. I have a perl script which seems to work fine under Linux but fails on FreeBSD. The Problem is the line: sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) After this line the following evaluates to true: $! eq No such file or directory. /dev/cd0 is readable and writable for

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-26 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Tobias Rehbein tobias.rehb...@web.de wrote: Hi all. I have a perl script which seems to work fine under Linux but fails on FreeBSD. The Problem is the line:        sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) After this line the following evaluates to

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Huff
Glen Barber writes: I have a perl script which seems to work fine under Linux but fails on FreeBSD. The Problem is the line:        sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) After this line the following evaluates to true:        $! eq No such file or directory.

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:20:45 +0100 Tobias Rehbein tobias.rehb...@web.de wrote: Hi all. I have a perl script which seems to work fine under Linux but fails on FreeBSD. The Problem is the line: sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) After this line the following evaluates

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:17:46 -0400 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Glen Barber writes: I have a perl script which seems to work fine under Linux but fails on FreeBSD. The Problem is the line:        sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) After this line

Re: Q: FreeBSD 7.1 stable boot failure

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Powell
John H. Nyhuis wrote: Greetings, I just re-installed an old file server from stable 6.1 to 7.1 stable, and I'm having a problem with my 3ware 7000-2 card. After sysinstall completes, and I try to boot from the SCSI HDD (not connected to the 3ware) for the first time, the system hangs

Re: Desktop environments

2009-03-26 Thread mv
Hello Jesse, This message is an elaboration of Polytron's comment about starting different desktop environments/window managers using ~/.xinitrc. I like this particular approach as DE/WM can have its own customized setup which will not interfere with the other environments. Also it is very

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Barnaby Scott
Jeff Laine wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:12:17PM +, Barnaby Scott wrote: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Barnaby Scott b...@waywood.co.uk: I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere and go no response. I want to install wine, but without X on the

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Jeff Laine
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:12:17PM +, Barnaby Scott wrote: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Barnaby Scott b...@waywood.co.uk: I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere and go no response. I want to install wine, but without X on the system. Why would

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Wojciech Puchar wrote: PC-BSD===http://www.pcbsd.org/ DesktopBSD===http://www.desktopbsd.net/ And PC-BSD even provides an installer (PBI) that makes Windows users feel at home: Download something from the web manually, then click next, next, next, finish and have an

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. On reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have done an excellent job of course. windows vista runs well too on overmuscled hardware.

How to list all the installed packages...

2009-03-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Is there a way to show a list of all installed packages that are not required by any other package? Some thing like pkg_info -aR where the Required by: field is empty. Ultimately, that would give a list of software versus libraries. The question arise because, while installing a new

Re: How to list all the installed packages...

2009-03-26 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, Is there a way to show a list of all installed packages that are not required by any other package? Some thing like pkg_info -aR where the Required by: field is empty. Ultimately, that would give a list of

Re: Desktop environments

2009-03-26 Thread Eitan Adler
You also have selectwm. $cat /usr/ports/x11-wm/selectwm/pkg-descr This is a small application (using GTK+) which lets you select your window manager. It looks for a file named .selectwmrc in the user's directory which contains a list of window managers. When you start X it should show a list

Re: Desktop environments

2009-03-26 Thread leg . ios
XDM can also do this, although to be honest I've never used XDM, only KDM and GDM. There's info in the handbook here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html I prefer KDM or GDM to handle this task - it launches a GUI (based on QT or GTK depending on which tool you

Re: renaming many Chinese files

2009-03-26 Thread David Banning
that worked fine. Thanks. Just a very quick thought (the first that pops into my mind): you could see which are the western characters that appear in the names, and then use sed to substitute all non-matching characters with nothing, something like: for i in *.jpg; do b=`echo $i | sed

Re: how to configure xbiff

2009-03-26 Thread perryh
Polytropon edvax.de!free...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:39:38 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: From a terminal window command line xbiff -geometry 50x50-5+5 puts it in my upper right corner, [...] Do you use -5 to get rid of a window border added