FreeBSD 6.2 on esx3.5 network issue

2010-04-07 Thread josemel esleta
Hi,   I currently have installed FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE in esx, I do have problem with download file from the box using ftp/scp service. It seems to be slow having a Gigabit lan. it just seems to have going about 100Kbps-500Kpbs on download speed. But I do have high upload speed ranging from

Re: bizarre mount_nullfs issue with jails / ezjail

2010-04-07 Thread Dan Naumov
An additional question: how come sade and sysinstall which are run inside the jail can see (and I can only assume they can also operate on and damage) the real underlying disks of the host? Disks (as well as others you have in your host's /dev) aren't visible inside jails. Well, somehow

Re: bizarre mount_nullfs issue with jails / ezjail

2010-04-07 Thread Mars G Miro
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: An additional question: how come sade and sysinstall which are run inside the jail can see (and I can only assume they can also operate on and damage) the real underlying disks of the host? Disks (as well as others you

Re: bizarre mount_nullfs issue with jails / ezjail

2010-04-07 Thread Aiza
Dan Naumov wrote: An additional question: how come sade and sysinstall which are run inside the jail can see (and I can only assume they can also operate on and damage) the real underlying disks of the host? Disks (as well as others you have in your host's /dev) aren't visible inside jails.

Re: Can freebsd be installed on a new mac pro 8 core machine ?

2010-04-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/04/2010 05:24:41, Wayne Burkart wrote: I have a new Mac Pro 8 core desktop machine. I want to install an os that will let me install Cpanel and whm so I can use it as a server. Will FreeBsd install on the new intell based pro macs ? Pleasea

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/04/2010 06:28:40, Peter Steele wrote: I found something else that's missing--/var/db/pkg is empty. It looks like what the auto-var process does is a construct basic directory structure but no data. Is there a solution to this? Can I get /var

usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Fbsd1
Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. No. The /usr/local subtree (LOCAL) is for local additions (ports and packages), while things

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 on esx3.5 network issue

2010-04-07 Thread Ross Cameron
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:47 AM, josemel esleta cyberjosh...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I currently have installed FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE in esx, I do have problem with download file from the box using ftp/scp service. It seems to be slow having a Gigabit lan. it just seems to have going about

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-07 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 00:28:40 -0500 Peter Steele wrote: I found something else that's missing--/var/db/pkg is empty. It looks like what the auto-var process does is a construct basic directory structure but no data. Is there a solution to this? Can I get /var to be populated with the full

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Because /usr/local is used to store binaries installed from ports or packages :) You should check the man pages or the handbook for this. Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Deputy Head of IT Department ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com Sent by:

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Fbsd1
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. No. The /usr/local subtree (LOCAL) is for local additions (ports and packages),

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 11:13:13 Fbsd1 wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. No. The /usr/local

make installworld broke - try again?

2010-04-07 Thread Christian Baer
Hi there peeps! I just tried to update from 8.0-RELEASE to RELENG_8_0. I gut this far: - buildworld - buildkernel - installkernel - reboot - mergemaster -p Then I started a make buildworld and it broke here: install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 sort /usr/bin install -o root -g wheel -m 444

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:13:13 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: But that is not true. It is, and the example you're giving is one of the exceptions that secures the truth of the statement given in man hier. :-) The postfix port populates /usr/bin. And I am sure postfix is not the

Re: bizarre mount_nullfs issue with jails / ezjail

2010-04-07 Thread Dan Naumov
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: An additional question: how come sade and sysinstall which are run inside the jail can see (and I can only assume they can also operate on and damage) the real underlying disks of the host? Disks (as well as

RE: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-07 Thread Peter Steele
Can you write a few shell scripts? You'ld need to create a tarball of the /var contents you need on the box, and explode it onto /var at boot time -- if you're using auto-var on MFS all the time, you'll need to set that up to happen on every reboot. Obviously I can do that. What I was really

Postfix in base system

2010-04-07 Thread Jerry
I noticed that someone in another thread mentioned: quote (2010-03-22) added option to install Postfix into the base /quote I have not been able to locate that item. Could someone list the URL for that notice or tell me where to look for it? :-? Thanks %-\ -- Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/04/2010 12:09:56, Peter Steele wrote: Can you write a few shell scripts? You'ld need to create a tarball of the /var contents you need on the box, and explode it onto /var at boot time -- if you're using auto-var on MFS all the time,

Re: Postfix in base system

2010-04-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 13:34:07 Jerry wrote: I noticed that someone in another thread mentioned: quote (2010-03-22) added option to install Postfix into the base /quote I have not been able to locate that item. Could someone list the URL for that notice or tell me where to look for it?

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-07 Thread RW
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:07:17 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:20:49PM +0100, RW wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:55:44 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:36:32PM +0100, RW wrote: There are more things in heav'n

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-07 Thread Antonio Olivares
Garret, I have tried the command out, but it apparently does not do the job: === Continuing 'make config' dependency check for graphics/graphviz === Launching child to update libgnomeui-2.24.1_1 jpeg-8_1 arts-1.5.10_2,1 jackit-0.116.2_2 devel/doxygen graphics/graphviz

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-07 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:20:47 -0500 Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: [ .. ] === Port directory: /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-kmod === This port is marked IGNORE === requires the userland sources to be installed. Set SRC_BASE if it is not in /usr/src

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-07 Thread David Allen
On 4/6/10, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 07/04/2010 06:28:40, Peter Steele wrote: I found something else that's missing--/var/db/pkg is empty. It looks like what the auto-var process does is a construct basic directory structure but no data. Is there a solution to

Some multimedia keys send many keycodes

2010-04-07 Thread David DEMELIER
Hi freebsd users, I'm running 8.0-STABLE on my laptop, and I have many troubles with the functions keys (brightness does not work) and some other keys like fn-key + f3 (usually XF86WWW) sends the XF86WWW keycode AND sends also the F3 code and that's a real problem since some applications use

denyhost: ERROR Fault 1: exceptions.KeyError:'timestamp'

2010-04-07 Thread Jerry
Using denyhosts-2.6_3 from the ports system, I am finding the following error message in the /var/log/denyhosts log file: snippet 2010-04-07 07:45:25,818 - sync: ERRORFault 1: exceptions.KeyError:'timestamp' Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: csup vs cvs

2010-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
d...@safeport.com writes: A change was MFC'd to the xorg intel driver to include support for the new chipsets. I took the fact that I could see the change on the web: Date: Sun Apr 4 15:37:47 2010 New Revision: 206164 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/206164 That's a

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. By default, it does not. You have to enable the Install into /usr and /etc/postfix configuration option for it to do so. I don't recommend that anyone do it without a *really* good reason. Turn

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 07 Apr 2010 at 00:24:51 PDT Fbsd1 wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. In many configurations, /bin and /usr/bin are not in the same slice. In some cases, they're not even on the same drive.

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 07 Apr 2010 at 10:13:10 PDT Charlie Kester wrote: Think about scenarios where /usr fails to mount for some reason. Then look at what's in /bin compared to what's in /usr/bin, and perhaps you'll understand the logic of it. I should add that comparing the contents of /usr/sbin and /sbin

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 on esx3.5 network issue

2010-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:54 AM, Ross Cameron wrote: Well for a start FreeBSD 6.x is no longer supported by the community. 6.2 is no longer supported. 6.x in the form of 6.4 is supported through November 30, 2010. Regards, -- -Chuck ___

Re: OT: dead box

2010-04-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:11:37AM +, Frank Shute wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting the power on button had no effect as did using another known working outlet. I checked all the cables and they seem attached.

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:01:10PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 06:17:41PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2010.04.06 17:10, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Now, on the other hand, emacs rules, vi sucks. :-) :-) ok, ok. I was on the side of Perl, and was content

RE: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-07 Thread Peter Steele
I'm probably missing something here, but I'm not sure that's correct. If the OP wants his own /var, then diskless(8) describes how /var can be automagically populated (see also /etc/rc.initdiskless). The nanobsd.sh script (designed with flash drives in mind) uses this method. I looked into

port py-libxml2 error

2010-04-07 Thread gahn
Hi all: I got problem for compiling py-libxml2: - path -Wl,/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so -lz /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -lpth -lutil -lm -lpython2.6-Wl,-soname -Wl,libxml2mod.so -o .libs/libxml2mod.so

Re: port py-libxml2 error

2010-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:29 PM, gahn wrote: [ ... ] the error seems to point the issue to python. i installed python2.6 since some other packages require newer version of python2. how could i fix this problem? Installing /usr/ports/devel/pth is likely to be the answer. There may be a

Outdoor wireless - has anyone used Ubiquiti power stations?

2010-04-07 Thread Modulok
List, This might be a little off topic, but it still involves FreeBSD. I figured this list has many a smart folk, so I'd ask here. If I buy two of these Ubiquiti power station 2's, I can set them up to provide a long distance ethernet link to my BSD box right? Has anyone used these? Basically,

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-07 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Chuck == Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com writes: [...] Now, on the other hand, emacs rules, vi sucks.  :-) :-) you got that right bud! oh, and the Perl stuff too ;-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-07 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/6/10, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: What incidentally does /var get populated with? Our image has a custom directory under /var but this did not show up in the MFS versions of this directory. I can get around this but I wonder what else might not be included? I found

RE: Outdoor wireless - has anyone used Ubiquiti power stations?

2010-04-07 Thread Gary Gatten
Is it not possible to get xDSL/Cable/BRI/WiMAX/3G/4G/whatever at the office. Depending on your wireless gear, antenna, topology, fresnel zone, spectrum pollution, blah blah blah - this COULD work, but not likely very well. Too many variables to know for sure. Many WISP's offer reasonable

RE: Outdoor wireless - has anyone used Ubiquiti power stations?

2010-04-07 Thread Gary Gatten
PS: One of their product / antenna combo's *MAY* work. I didn't review all details of all their products. Since this is off topic you'll likely get some flames if this goes on much longer :) Good luck! G -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org

Re: Outdoor wireless - has anyone used Ubiquiti power stations?

2010-04-07 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 07/04/10 22:02, Modulok wrote: List, This might be a little off topic, but it still involves FreeBSD. I figured this list has many a smart folk, so I'd ask here. If I buy two of these Ubiquiti power station 2's, I can set them up to provide a long distance ethernet link to my BSD box right?

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Fbsd1
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. By default, it does not. You have to enable the Install into /usr and /etc/postfix configuration option for it to do so. I don't recommend that anyone do it without a

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Fbsd1
Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Wednesday 07 April 2010 11:13:13 Fbsd1 wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. No.

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: Your wrong. I installed the package of postfix and it installed it self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. Unless you or whoever built the package changed $PREFIX: % pkg_info -Lx postfix Information for postfix-2.7.0,1: Files:

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Fbsd1
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: Your wrong. I installed the package of postfix and it installed it self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. Unless you or whoever built the package changed $PREFIX: % pkg_info -Lx postfix Information for postfix-2.7.0,1:

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: I installed the package of postfix and it installed is self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. Hmm, a terrible surprise, I agree. Please ask for a refund of your purchase price from whomever sold you such a package. :-) Regards, -- -Chuck

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. By default, it does not. You have to enable the Install into /usr and /etc/postfix configuration option for it to do so. I don't

make recursion error

2010-04-07 Thread gahn
Hi guru: trying to compile /usr/ports/graphics/graphviz and running into problems. the make processes kept recycling until running out of buffer: - make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily

Re: make recursion error

2010-04-07 Thread gahn
Hi all: Looks like those packages are mutually dependent: === arts-1.5.10_4,1 depends on shared library: jack - not found ===Verifying install for jack in /usr/ports/audio/jack === jackit-0.116.2_4 depends on

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:09:54PM +0100, RW wrote: On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:07:17 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:20:49PM +0100, RW wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:55:44 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at

RE: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-07 Thread Peter Steele
Not that I know of, unless you use the advantages of mfs then. Full circle, bud. Now you're asking for necessities of the mfs or mfsroot systems. I don't want to go there, and don't need to. I came up with a simple way to populate /var from the original contents so I'm happy. The CD boots,

Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-07 Thread Gary Dunn
I am setting up a router to share one Wi-Fi link between a few computers that only support CAT-5. Like a wireless access point except wired and wireless sides are reversed. My question is about the ipfw packet filter. From the handbook section on NAT, 31.9.3, I can achieve what I need with boot

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-07 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Gary Dunn o...@aloha.com wrote: I am setting up a router to share one Wi-Fi link between a few computers that only support CAT-5. Like a wireless access point except wired and wireless sides are reversed. My question is about the ipfw packet filter. From the

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-07 Thread Robert Huff
Adam Vande More writes: I am setting up a router to share one Wi-Fi link between a few computers that only support CAT-5. Like a wireless access point except wired and wireless sides are reversed. My question is about the ipfw packet filter. From the handbook section on NAT, 31.9.3,

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-07 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: If compiled into the kernel, there's a set of optional settings (VERBOSE, LOG_LINIT, DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT, etc) that can be set there. If using the module, how does one set these? Logging is compiled into the