Re: sort: write error with portsnap

2010-07-12 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2010-07-08 12:34:29 UTC+0200, Julien Cigar (jci...@ulb.ac.be) wrote: Am I the only one to have sort: write errors since a few days with portsnap ? : Same here. No idea why! 16:46 ozzmo...@blizzard [~]sudo portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors

Local cvs repository

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi all, I run a local cvs repository for year now, but since a couple of days I get these on the clients: Server message: Unknown collection src-all Server message: Unknown collection ports-all The result is that neither the source nor the ports will get updated. The update script on the

Re: What chipset is the Asus PCE-N13?

2010-07-12 Thread Herbert J . Skuhra
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:20:46 -0400 Nathan Lay wrote: Hi list, I can't seem to find anything about this wireless adapter. I am thinking about building a mini ITX multipurpose router/thingy and this card is cheap and it appears it would fit in the PCIE x4 slot on the ITX board I'm thinking

Re: What chipset is the Asus PCE-N13?

2010-07-12 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:20:46 -0400 Nathan Lay ns...@comcast.net articulated: Hi list, I can't seem to find anything about this wireless adapter. I am thinking about building a mini ITX multipurpose router/thingy and this card is cheap and it appears it would fit in the PCIE x4 slot on the

HW recommendation

2010-07-12 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
Hi! Please folks, I need some help. I'm in desperate need to upgrade my AMD64 (s939) box - need much more CPU/RAM power to do both CPU- and memory-intensive computations. So here is my obvious question: which are the last supported chipsets/CPU and so on (I'm thinking along the line of AM3

Re: [6.3] Get e-mail when CTRL-ALT-DEL is used?

2010-07-12 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:29:59 +0400, ait a...@rocc.ru wrote: Maybe you can use the /etc/rc.shutdown script, there's a line at the end of it: Thanks everyone for the help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

any effort to use bsd libc on Linux?

2010-07-12 Thread Joe Dai
Or expand bionic to full set bsd libc? Thanks for help. joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: how to setenv using Bourne .sh

2010-07-12 Thread krad
You could do an echo $SHELL On 7/11/10, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: 2010-07-11 01:08, Aiza skrev: Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:43:13 +, b. f.bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:53:17 +0800, Aizaaiza21 at comclark.com wrote:

Re: Headphone output doesn't work with NVidia MCP78 High Definition Audio Controller

2010-07-12 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Sunday 11 July 2010 15:14:30 001 wrote: I use a laptop with PC-BSD and couldn't get output over the headphone. The built-in speakers of the laptop work fine and keep working even when a headphone is plugged in (whereas on Windows they get muted). I tried every slider and switch in KMix, but

.sh check for sufix g or m on size field

2010-07-12 Thread Aiza
Have a .sh script that accepts an -s sparse file size Only 2 suffix's are valid m and g. Been trying to get this line of code to just strip out just the single letter. But it strips the letter and every thing to the right of it. Timagesize=`echo-n ${imagesize} | sed 's/g.*$//'` I plan to

.sh check for sufix g or m on size field

2010-07-12 Thread Aiza
Sorry miss send, was not done yet. Have a .sh script that accepts an -s sparse file size. Only 2 suffix's are valid m and g. Been trying to get this line of code to strip out just the single letter. But it strips the letter and every thing to the right of it. Timagesize=`echo-n ${imagesize}

Re: .sh check for sufix g or m on size field

2010-07-12 Thread Anonymous
Aiza aiz...@comclark.com writes: Have a .sh script that accepts an -s sparse file size. Only 2 suffix's are valid m and g. Been trying to get this line of code to strip out just the single letter. But it strips the letter and every thing to the right of it. Timagesize=`echo-n ${imagesize}

Re: .sh check for sufix g or m on size field

2010-07-12 Thread John Webster
--On July 12, 2010 10:29:08 PM +0800 Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Sorry miss send, was not done yet. Have a .sh script that accepts an -s sparse file size. Only 2 suffix's are valid m and g. Been trying to get this line of code to strip out just the single letter. But it strips the

Re: Har

2010-07-12 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 11 July 2010 09:07, 001 snthib...@gmail.com wrote: My hdd is using UDMA33 under PC-BSD (which uses a FreeBSD kernel). The Nvidia SATA chipset seems to be detected, but isn't used! I hope this is easily solvable because my laptop becomes really slow when the hdd is used now. It appears from

Re: .sh check for sufix g or m on size field

2010-07-12 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Aiza on Monday, 12 July 2010: Sorry miss send, was not done yet. Have a .sh script that accepts an -s sparse file size. Only 2 suffix's are valid m and g. Been trying to get this line of code to strip out just the single letter. But it strips the letter and every thing to the right

Re: Wacom tablet driver port doesn't seem to work

2010-07-12 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Sunday, 11 July 2010: I started working on getting FreeBSD running on a ThinkPad X60 this weekend. My goal was to get everything up to the standards of my T60, plus touchscreen and pen support for the Wacom display. The only problem I've encountered so far is the fact

building an ISO

2010-07-12 Thread Ryan Perry
I need to make my own FreeBSD installer CD that installs 2 ports, and then runs some custom scripts. What are the best methods to accomplish this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: building an ISO

2010-07-12 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Ryan Perry rpe...@madisonip.com wrote: I need to make my own FreeBSD installer CD that installs 2 ports, and then runs some custom scripts.  What are the best methods to accomplish this? I was also wondering if there is a way to make release without using a cvs

Re: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-12 Thread Michael
On 02/07/2010 22:58, Mike Clarke wrote: On Friday 02 July 2010, Ed Flecko wrote: Since I will be doing a custom kernel at some point, I won't use freebsd-update, I'm using cvsup instead. The alternative would be to just use the source code patches from the security-advisories mailing list.

Re: building an ISO

2010-07-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 12/07/2010 9:51 μ.μ., Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Ryan Perry rpe...@madisonip.com wrote: I need to make my own FreeBSD installer CD that installs 2 ports, and then runs some custom scripts. What are the best methods to accomplish this? I was also

Re: sort: write error with portsnap

2010-07-12 Thread Jakub Lach
andrew clarke-3 wrote: Same here. No idea why! I think this issue would have got more attention on freebsd-stable. regards, - Jakub Lach -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/sort%3A-write-error-with-portsnap-tp29105763p29143811.html Sent from the freebsd-questions

How to kill process if X is frozen during fancy KDE4 windows effects?

2010-07-12 Thread Yuri
I run KDE4 with nvidia card. KDE4 desktop effects are on, so when window comes back from the icon it goes through some motion slowly blowing out from the icon. Very rarely, but screen freezes during such motion. Mouse still moves, window that was blowing out of the icon stays in the shape of

FreeBSD Support for Fibre Channel Devices

2010-07-12 Thread Tim Gustafson
Hi, Can anyone recommend a FreeBSD-compatible fibre channel board to connect a FreeBSD 8.0 server to a Sun 3500 disk array? Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD Support for Fibre Channel Devices

2010-07-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/07/2010 22:49:51, Tim Gustafson wrote: Can anyone recommend a FreeBSD-compatible fibre channel board to connect a FreeBSD 8.0 server to a Sun 3500 disk array? isp(4) mpt(4) ... which is basically what shows up on doing 'man -k fibre' Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J

Re: What chipset is the Asus PCE-N13?

2010-07-12 Thread Nathan Lay
On 07/12/10 06:03, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:20:46 -0400 Nathan Layns...@comcast.net articulated: Hi list, I can't seem to find anything about this wireless adapter. I am thinking about building a mini ITX multipurpose router/thingy and this card is cheap and it appears it

Re: FreeBSD Support for Fibre Channel Devices

2010-07-12 Thread Tim Gustafson
isp(4) mpt(4) Hrmm, I guess I should phrase the question this way: I have installed a Fibre Channel card into a new FreeBSD 8.x box. I have both isp(4) and mpt(4) are loaded and the device still doesn't appear in /dev. pciconf shows: no...@pci0:8:1:0: class=0x0c0400 card=0x656c1242

Re: .sh check for sufix g or m on size field

2010-07-12 Thread Aiza
Anonymous wrote: Aiza aiz...@comclark.com writes: Have a .sh script that accepts an -s sparse file size. Only 2 suffix's are valid m and g. Been trying to get this line of code to strip out just the single letter. But it strips the letter and every thing to the right of it.

Re: [kde-freebsd] How to kill process if X is frozen during fancy KDE4 windows effects?

2010-07-12 Thread Mina R Waheeb
This sounds like new HD vega cards, I think you need to track the logs. or provide any information that maybe could help to identify the problem. I had almost the same problem with my ATI HD card, with the latest update of XORG and -CURRENT it just working fine (with visual effects enabled). In

Re: [kde-freebsd] How to kill process if X is frozen during fancy KDE4 windows effects?

2010-07-12 Thread Yuri
On 07/12/2010 18:25, Mina R Waheeb wrote: This sounds like new HD vega cards, I think you need to track the logs. or provide any information that maybe could help to identify the problem. I had almost the same problem with my ATI HD card, with the latest update of XORG and -CURRENT it just

D-Link DWA-556 and hostap

2010-07-12 Thread Nathan Lay
Hi list, I read that the D-Link DWA-556 uses the AR5008 chipset. Anyone using it? Does it work well for hostap (at least for 11g)? I'm a bit unsure because I've read that AR5008 has hardware bugs. However, I am a fan of ath(4) ... it has served me well in the past. However, I'm

cron_flags in jails rc.conf

2010-07-12 Thread Fbsd8
I found this statement in the rc.conf file of a jail. cron_flags=$cron_flags -J 15 I checked the cron manpage and found info on this. The -J 15 is the range cron is to sleep before launching the cron jobs for the superuser. The -j option does the same thing for non-superuser jobs. Looking

Re: cron_flags in jails rc.conf

2010-07-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I found this statement in the rc.conf file of a jail. cron_flags=$cron_flags -J 15 I checked the cron manpage and found info on this. The -J 15 is the range cron is to sleep before launching the cron jobs for the