Re: How to make man pages

2010-03-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote: Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man pages for a port? If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way to get started is to just copy a man page from the base system

Re: How to make man pages

2010-03-31 Thread Fbsd1
On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote: Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man pages for a port? If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way to get started is to just copy a man page from the base system and edit it to taste. See groff(1) for

Re: How to make man pages

2010-03-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/03/2010 08:54:25, Fbsd1 wrote: OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee? % cp

Re: Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?

2010-03-31 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 20 March 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: I'm currently running 8.0-RELEASE and am considering experimenting with 8.0-STABLE. I'd like to preserve my existing system in case things go pear-shaped so I'll copy the entire system onto a spare slice and then use csup to upgrade the copy to

Re: How to make man pages

2010-03-31 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:54:25 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com articulated: On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote: Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man pages for a port? If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way to get started is to

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-31 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Thanks, Peter and all others. Indeed, in contrary to the expected, I went into my office this morning, swapped the HD against the SSD, and was able to boot both FreeBSD, Windows without a hitch or any other tweaking. The dd over USB 2.0 to the SSD from the WD hard disk took 21261 s (nearly 6

Default labeling and space for rebuilding the kernel.

2010-03-31 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, if one uses the default labeling with current installer it is not possible to rebuild the kernel (GENERIC). It fails on installing the wlan.ko. Isn't that wrong somehow ? === wi (install) install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_wi.ko /boot/kernel install -o root -g wheel -m 555

Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

2010-03-31 Thread krad
On 31 March 2010 02:13, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for your input. I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive

mkuzip and/or geom_uzip changes?

2010-03-31 Thread Tim Judd
Hi All, Just starting to see if I can find other reports. You all probably have had the more than one pair of eyes looking at a thing is better than my eyes alone. This is why I'm writing now, as I'm starting the discovery. Let me background this a little bit. I only started looking into this

Re: Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?

2010-03-31 Thread krad
On 31 March 2010 10:22, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: I'm currently running 8.0-RELEASE and am considering experimenting with 8.0-STABLE. I'd like to preserve my existing system in case things go pear-shaped so I'll copy the

Re: /boot.config

2010-03-31 Thread krad
On 31 March 2010 04:53, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 30), Fbsd1 said: During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from

Re: Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-31 Thread Walter
Bob Hall wrote: I use onet=`ifconfig rl0 | grep inet | awk '{print $6}'` where rl0 is the outward facing NIC on this gateway. Thanks. But I think I like a method which allows me to get the device names also, to allow a 'hands-off' configuring of the fw. I'll keep your code for

Re: /boot.config

2010-03-31 Thread Fbsd1
krad wrote: On 31 March 2010 04:53, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 30), Fbsd1 said: During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to

Re: u3g network problem

2010-03-31 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: (8-STABLE/i386) Hi, I've got some troubles with a 3G connection. I don't know which things I should check to debug this: I use ppp to connect and it works fine. But after a while (not a long time), I don't

RELENG_8 and clang

2010-03-31 Thread Svein Skogen
What is the current status of getting FreeBSD and clang to play nice with eachother? Does world and kernel build? How far along is the project to replace GCC in the base system? //Svein -- +---+--- /\ |Svein Skogen |

Re: Default labeling and space for rebuilding the kernel.

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Powell
Leon Meßner wrote: Hi, if one uses the default labeling with current installer it is not possible to rebuild the kernel (GENERIC). It fails on installing the wlan.ko. Isn't that wrong somehow ? === wi (install) install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_wi.ko /boot/kernel install -o root

Re: RELENG_8 and clang

2010-03-31 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:34:11PM +0200, Svein Skogen wrote: What is the current status of getting FreeBSD and clang to play nice with eachother? Does world and kernel build? How far along is the project to replace GCC in the base system? Take a look at

Re: How to make man pages

2010-03-31 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Matthew groff+mdoc might be a markup language, but it's nothing at all Matthew like HTML. No, it's not. It's actually turing-complete. I did towers of hanoi in troff at one point. Can't do that with HTML. :) -- Randal L.

Re: FreeBSD Instalation question

2010-03-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:48:54PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:41:53 -0300 (CLST), pvida...@uc.cl wrote: Hello. I am interested in installing FreeBSD OS on my Notebook, which has at this time Windows 7 with a hard disk partitioned into 2 primary partition (C: and

FreeBSD8.0 Firewall Script behaves much differently than 6.x

2010-03-31 Thread Martin McCormick
Is there a proper way to reset firewall rules in FreeBSD8.0 ? I just discovered that if one is remotely logged in and makes a change in the firewall rules, it is a disastor to do something like sh /etc/[firewall_rules_script] One could do that in FreeBSD6.x. When the rules

Re: FreeBSD8.0 Firewall Script behaves much differently than 6.x

2010-03-31 Thread Martin McCormick
I have just answered part of my own question. If you background the process as in sh /etc/rules.fw it works. You still get knocked off the remote connection but the backgrounded process continues to run without a controlling terminal and completes. The only remaining part of

Re: FreeBSD8.0 Firewall Script behaves much differently than 6.x

2010-03-31 Thread Martin McCormick
Mark writes: You could use nohup That's is a very good idea. Thanks. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: FreeBSD8.0 Firewall Script behaves much differently than 6.x

2010-03-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu writes: Is there a proper way to reset firewall rules in FreeBSD8.0 ? I just discovered that if one is remotely logged in and makes a change in the firewall rules, it is a disastor to do something like sh /etc/[firewall_rules_script]

Re: FreeBSD8.0 Firewall Script behaves much differently than 6.x

2010-03-31 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:43:53AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I have just answered part of my own question. If you background the process as in sh /etc/rules.fw it works. You still get knocked off the remote connection but the backgrounded process continues to run without a

Re: u3g network problem

2010-03-31 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:18:26 -0400, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org a écrit : On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: I've got some troubles with a 3G connection. I don't know which things I should check to debug this: I use ppp to connect and it

libiconv-1.11_1

2010-03-31 Thread Jay Hall
Ladies and Gentlemen, Today, when I installed samba from ports, libiconv-1.11_1 was added to my system. Now, I have both libiconv-1.9.2_2 and libiconv-1.11_1 on my system. This prevents me from using ssh remotely to connect to the server. I am connecting from a Mac, OS X 10.5, but other

Re: How to make man pages

2010-03-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:54:25 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee? And how do I turn the

Re: u3g network problem

2010-03-31 Thread Alexandre L.
Hi, If your DNS are changed, I think that your network card is configured in DHCP mode. To dissallow DNS changes (in /etc/resolv.conf) by DHCP updates, you can add this line to /etc/dhclient.conf : prepend domain-name-servers DNS_IP_adress_1,DNS_IP_adresse_2,DNS_IP_adresse_3; After you must

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-31 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 3/31/10, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/30/10, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-31 Thread Christoph Kukulies
This are the bonnie results: # bonnie -s 4000 File './Bonnie.1283', size: 4194304000 Writing with putc()...done Rewriting...done Writing intelligently...done Reading with getc()...done Reading intelligently...done Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done...

Re: Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?

2010-03-31 Thread Mike Clarke
On Wednesday 31 March 2010, krad wrote: On 31 March 2010 10:22, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: [snip] I have two 500GB disks, /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad8, each partitioned into 4 slices of 88, 88, 42 and 259GB. My system is

Re: libiconv-1.11_1

2010-03-31 Thread Jay Hall
On Mar 31, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Mikle wrote: Hello, In my ports tree there is only one version of libiconv, and compiling samba doesn't ask about any other versions (/usr/ports/converters/libiconv, version 1.13). Maybe you should update your ports? Also, i do not see why should libiconv

Re: libiconv-1.11_1

2010-03-31 Thread Mikle
Hello, In my ports tree there is only one version of libiconv, and compiling samba doesn't ask about any other versions (/usr/ports/converters/libiconv, version 1.13). Maybe you should update your ports? Also, i do not see why should libiconv affect ssh[d]. What does your macos's ssh tell you

flash gotcha?

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Whitehouse
hi I am installing flash on a fairly fresh installation of 8.0 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar 24 GENERIC i386. linux_base-f10-10_2 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_5 muji2# nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Will I be able to use it in FreeBSD? Can I use Windows driver? Maybe you want to have a look at pwcbsd[1]. This is to use linux drivers

I'd like you to join me on Swom...

2010-03-31 Thread N'guessan Koffi Ezai
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skype webcam no device found

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi, I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But skype tells me 'no device found' for video. I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview running, also as root, _and_ restarting webcamd each time, but no joy. Any suggestions very gratefully

Re: u3g network problem

2010-03-31 Thread Alberto Mijares
If your DNS are changed, I think that your network card is configured in DHCP mode. To dissallow DNS changes (in /etc/resolv.conf) by DHCP updates, you can add this line to /etc/dhclient.conf : prepend domain-name-servers DNS_IP_adress_1,DNS_IP_adresse_2,DNS_IP_adresse_3; After you must