Re: Help creating bpf0 device (bpf won't do it for me)

2009-05-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm in the final stages of setting up a new wireless connection but have been having problems getting bpf running. For some reason, even though bpf has been compiled into a new kernel, the system won't automatically create a are you sure? your symptops suggest it was not compiled it

Re: FreeBSD on VMware ESXi

2009-05-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:44 AM 5/6/2009, Daniels Vanags wrote: We moved Hard Disk Drives from HP ProLiant DL 385 G2 with 4GB RAM, AMD Opteron processor to HP ProLiant DL 380 G5, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon processor. Disks contain FreeBSD Virtual Machines running in VMware ESXi Server. When trying to boot, getting error:

Perl upgrade

2009-05-09 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Not that I am that paranoid, but can someone tell me why Perl 5.8 is not automatically updated to 5.10 thru the ports, but (accordingly by UPDATING) has to be updated by some manual interaction? -- Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Perl upgrade

2009-05-09 Thread RW
On Sat, 09 May 2009 13:05:32 +0200 Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net wrote: Not that I am that paranoid, but can someone tell me why Perl 5.8 is not automatically updated to 5.10 thru the ports, but (accordingly by UPDATING) has to be updated by some manual interaction? That's the way the port

Re: Perl upgrade

2009-05-09 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Not that I am that paranoid, but can someone tell me why Perl 5.8 is not automatically updated to 5.10 thru the ports, but (accordingly by UPDATING) has to be updated by some manual interaction? You must be new around here. The process described in

Re: isc-dhcpd server, HOSTNAME

2009-05-09 Thread Pieter Donche
On Fri, 8 May 2009, Derek Ragona wrote: At 09:42 AM 5/7/2009, Pieter Donche wrote: FreeBSD7 with isc-dhcp30-server. It hands out an IP address, OK, but the BASH environment variable HOSTNAME is not set. Why? (A DNS server is active on the network and can succesfully be

Re: Perl upgrade

2009-05-09 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Lars Eighner wrote: On Sat, 9 May 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: You must be new around here. Yes, I am L-) The process described in UPDATING for upgrading to Perl 5.10 is relatively painless compared to previous perl upgrades. So much stuff depends upon perl that: [snip] Do you recommend

Re: Perl upgrade

2009-05-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jos Chrispijn wrote: Lars Eighner wrote: On Sat, 9 May 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: The process described in UPDATING for upgrading to Perl 5.10 is relatively painless compared to previous perl upgrades. So much stuff depends upon perl that: Do you recommend having Perl updated or should

Re: Perl upgrade

2009-05-09 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Lars Eighner wrote: On Sat, 9 May 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: You must be new around here. Yes, I am L-) The process described in UPDATING for upgrading to Perl 5.10 is relatively painless compared to previous perl upgrades. So much stuff depends

Re: Licensing

2009-05-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Chad Perrin wrote: [..huge snip..] I hope you get some value from my rambling. I have gained very much value from what everyone has had to say, and I want to thank everyone. Although I have very much reading to do, I've come to a few conclusions thus far. One thing that did not cross my mind

Re: Perl upgrade

2009-05-09 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Matthew Seaman wrote: However, I expect the consensus on the minimum supported version to change over time and more use to be made of 5.10 specific features, so I'd certainly recommend installing brand new machines with perl-5.10 in order to minimize the potential for future

Re: ndis0 interrrupt storm

2009-05-09 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 5/8/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 5/7/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: In the meantime I've tried the three possible drivers (XP, NT and an unlabelled one). I've also installed a recent 8-current snapshot, updated to latest source and

Re: Help creating bpf0 device (bpf won't do it for me)

2009-05-09 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/8 D C invoca...@gmail.com: Hello, I'm in the final stages of setting up a new wireless connection but have been having problems getting bpf running.  For some reason, even though bpf has been compiled into a new kernel, the system won't automatically create a bpf0 device.  On boot,

Re: how to fix interrupt storm

2009-05-09 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 5/8/09, per...@pluto.rain.com per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: What, exactly, is an interrupt storm, and how do I fix it? I have added a 64GB Patriot flash drive to a 7.0 system, but it does not seem to be working properly. Pertinent parts of dmesg.boot: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24

freebsd-update

2009-05-09 Thread Daniel Leal
Hi. I just read about freebsd-update in the handbook. It seams very useful to upgrade my 7.1 system to 7.2. But what about ports and docs? Is it able to deal with that upgrade also ? thanks, daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [warn] kevent: Bad file descriptor

2009-05-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 08 May 2009 23:23:32 Gary Gatten wrote: I just compiled and installed nTop 3.3.10 and now I'm getting this error. Had an older version running before this with no problem. I'm on 6.0 RELEASE. I'm still googling, any quick fixes would be GREATLY appreciated! Shot in the dark:

Re: Perl upgrade

2009-05-09 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Lars Eighner wrote: On Sat, 9 May 2009, Matthew Seaman wrote: I concur. If you do the pkg_info thing and the list of stuff depending on perl is very short, by all means upgrade before it gets long. After having some investigation on this subject, it comes clear to me that Perl is a very

connect() records in BSM auditing

2009-05-09 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, i'm using BSM auditing on 7.2-RELEASE to log network connections. i enabled 'nt' in audit_control: flags:lo,ad,+ex,na,+nt when examining the audit log with praudit, i see records for connect() calls: header,68,10,connect(2),0,Sat May 9

7.2-RELEASE Xorg Problem

2009-05-09 Thread Fabian Krook
When i try to do ex X -configure it tell me that there are no Driver and then create xorg.conf.new which have the driver. But when i tries to use X -config xorg.conf.new it will just go into a blank screen and can only be terminated through kill command. (Have installed the ATI radeon Driver) Any

Re: Autofs howto

2009-05-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On May 7, 2009 10:16:01 PM -0500 Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote: While cryptic, It has worked well for me with multiple FreeBSD and Linux hosts on my network. And I'm sure it will for me as well, if I can ever figure it out. Here's how our linux hosts are automounting drives:

Re: Autofs howto

2009-05-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On May 7, 2009 10:16:01 PM -0500 Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote: While cryptic, It has worked well for me with multiple FreeBSD and Linux hosts on my network. And I'm sure it will for me as well, if I can ever figure it out. Here's how our Linux hosts are automounting drives.

Problems with amd

2009-05-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
It looks like my install of amd is screwed up. Is there a way to rebuild amd from source without rebuilding world? # uname -a FreeBSD utd65257.utdallas.edu 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #12: Wed May 6 12:12:16 CDT 2009 r...@utd65257.utdallas.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 amd -r

Re: 7.2-RELEASE Xorg Problem

2009-05-09 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Fabian Krook nevadadir...@gmail.com [2009-05-09 20:35:43 +0200]: When i try to do ex X -configure it tell me that there are no Driver and then create xorg.conf.new which have the driver. But when i tries to use X -config xorg.conf.new it will just go into a blank screen and can only be

Re: Help creating bpf0 device (bpf won't do it for me)

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
D C wrote: Hello, I'm in the final stages of setting up a new wireless connection but have been having problems getting bpf running. For some reason, even though bpf has been compiled into a new kernel, the system won't automatically create a bpf0 device. On boot, the system complains

Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
I have a problem with amd. It's not working right, and I don't think I can fix it without rebuilding it. Here's the problems: # uname -a FreeBSD utd65257.utdallas.edu 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #12: Wed May 6 12:12:16 CDT 2009 r...@utd65257.utdallas.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
Paul Schmehl wrote: I have a problem with amd. It's not working right, and I don't think I can fix it without rebuilding it. [snip] I'd like to rebuild amd without having to rebuild world as well, although I'll do that if I have to. [...] I think you can just cd to

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: I have a problem with amd. It's not working right, and I don't think I can fix it without rebuilding it. [snip] I'd like to rebuild amd without having to rebuild world as well, although I'll do that if I have to. [...] For the userland

Re: isc-dhcpd server, HOSTNAME

2009-05-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 09 May 2009 15:09:45 Pieter Donche wrote: case DHCP server DHCP client HOSTNAME env. var. 1 isc-dhcp30-server FreeBSD7-i386 not set on FreeBSD-amd64 2 isc-dhcp30-server SuSE Linux 10.3 set on FreeBSD-amd64 3 some

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On May 9, 2009 3:40:23 PM -0500 Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: I have a problem with amd. It's not working right, and I don't think I can fix it without rebuilding it. [snip] I'd like to rebuild amd without having to rebuild world as well, although

Re: 7.2-RELEASE Xorg Problem

2009-05-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 08:35:43PM +0200, Fabian Krook wrote: When i try to do ex X -configure it tell me that there are no Driver and then create xorg.conf.new which have the driver. But when i tries to use X -config xorg.conf.new it will just go into a blank screen and can only be

Tips Trix: Eclipse on 7.1 STABLE and swt-gtk issue

2009-05-09 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, I don't know if anyone has noticed or if it's my machine having stale ports but it seems that to make eclipse 3.4.1 working on FreeBSD 7.1 STABLE with diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_4 you need to do the following: Do _not_ make clean until you have made: cp

Re: how to fix interrupt storm

2009-05-09 Thread perryh
Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/8/09, per...@pluto.rain.com per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: What, exactly, is an interrupt storm, and how do I fix it? ... interrupt storm detected on irq9:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq9:; throttling interrupt

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On May 9, 2009 3:45:43 PM -0500 Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote: [...] For the userland side it would be cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/amd/amd and OOPs - make that: cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/amd typo on me make obj

Re: 7.2-RELEASE Xorg Problem

2009-05-09 Thread Fabian Krook
I see, well i have done that in xorg.conf.new file (snice it didn't create any xorg.conf) the ctrl + alt + backspace doesn't seems to work even with X -config xorg.conf.new. 2009/5/9 Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 08:35:43PM +0200, Fabian Krook wrote: When i try

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Michel Talon
Paul Schmehl wrote: The amd.ko.symbols file was created when I upgraded to 7.2 last Wednesday. What creates that file? And how do I update it? Could it be the cause of the problem? The amd.ko kernel module has nothing to do with the automounter. It is a device driver for some hardware (man

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-05-09

2009-05-09 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Openvpn question

2009-05-09 Thread Darryl Hoar
Installed Openvpn on my freebsd server. Had to revoke a certificate already. The Openvpn howto guide says to add crl-verify crl.pem to the server config script. Is that the openvpn server config script or the openssl config script (I self generate certificates) ? Been googling and searching

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On May 9, 2009 5:54:28 PM -0500 Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: The amd.ko.symbols file was created when I upgraded to 7.2 last Wednesday. What creates that file? And how do I update it? Could it be the cause of the problem? The amd.ko kernel module has

7.2-release and xorg

2009-05-09 Thread firak jotawski
hi sirs, apologized me for disturbing the list but i really have problem, X -config /root/xorg.conf.new produce a black screen and die. i attached my machine uname -a, my xorg packages installed, X -configure output and its' configuration file. any helps anf hints would highly appreciated.

Upgrading to New Kernel - Hung on Boot

2009-05-09 Thread APseudoUtopia
Hey, I have a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system. I'm trying to upgrade to 7.2, specifically the RELENG_7_2 tag. I synced my sources via csup, built world, built kernel, and installed kernel. All went well. I rebooted into single user mode, and the kernel hung. The loader menu came up, but when the