Re: What's up with cvsup.freebsd.org?

2010-09-03 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis Glatting wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Dennis Glatting free...@penx.com writes: This has been happening for several days. Is cvsup dead vs SVN? Cvsup is still listed in the

vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I'm trying to install the port /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6 (even the freshest from FreeBSD server) in 8-CURRENT: current# pwd /usr/ports/emulators current# mv vmware-guestd6 vmware-guestd6.old current# tar xzf ~guru/vmware-guestd6.tar.gz current# cd vmware-guestd6 current# make

Applying a patch to a port

2010-09-03 Thread bsd
Hello, I have a patch for clamav that was submited by a developer of clamav. I don't know how to apply It to the source code of the port. What I would like to do: 1. Get the source code 2. cd to the source directory 3. Apply the patch 4. Recompile 5. Test If this is ok, then as an

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 00:59, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install the port /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6 (even the freshest from FreeBSD server) in 8-CURRENT: Do you have a particular reason for using this port? Assuming you mean 8.X, the Tools that

Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates

2010-09-03 Thread perryh
Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: You have to SIGHUP cron, not restart it. # killall -HUP cron Isn't crontab(1) supposed to do that, without separate intervention? On 2 Sep 2010 21:11, patrick gibblert...@gmail.com wrote: I recently upgraded a FreeBSD 7.0 system to 8.1-RELEASE (via

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, September 03, 2010 a las 01:14:00AM -0700, Rob Farmer escribió: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 00:59, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install the port /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6 (even the freshest from FreeBSD server) in 8-CURRENT: Do

two ata-related problems

2010-09-03 Thread perryh
Two questions about installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a Dell Precision 420 (yes, I know it's old): 1. Should FreeBSD 8.1 be able to recognize a 100MB ATAPI Zip drive? I'm not finding it in the dmesg, although BIOS Setup recognizes it. (It and a CDROM are on the secondary IDE channel; I've tried

Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates

2010-09-03 Thread Arthur Chance
On 09/03/10 09:19, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chris Reesutis...@gmail.com wrote: You have to SIGHUP cron, not restart it. # killall -HUP cron Isn't crontab(1) supposed to do that, without separate intervention? From man cron Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its

Re: two ata-related problems

2010-09-03 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi, For point no. 1 you can check if the drive is supported @ http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html. Sorry, no idea about point no. 2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Weird Linux - FreeBSD/ZFS NFSv4 interoperability problem

2010-09-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 09/02/10 21:25, David Brodbeck wrote: While doing some interoperability testing between Linux and FreeBSD, I came up with this unusual issue. I could use some help figuring out if this is a bug, and if so, where to file it. Here's the scenario: - FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE server, sharing a ZFS

emulators/open-vm-tools do not compile (was: Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install)

2010-09-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, September 03, 2010 a las 10:31:43AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: The VM is a VMware player 3.0.0 which says about itself Workstation 6.5-7.0 in the overview about the VM setup for FreeBSD; is this fine enough for the emulators/open-vm-tools? emulators/open-vm-tools does

Re: Applying a patch to a port

2010-09-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 03/09/2010 08:53, bsd wrote: Hello, I have a patch for clamav that was submited by a developer of clamav. I don't know how to apply It to the source code of the port. What I would like to do: 1. Get the source code 2. cd to the source directory 3. Apply the patch 4. Recompile

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, On 9/3/10 4:31 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm trying to install the port /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6 (even the freshest from FreeBSD server) in 8-CURRENT: Do you have a particular reason for using this port? Assuming you mean 8.X, My FreeBSD is a CVS 8-CURRENT from May 2009 to

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, September 03, 2010 a las 08:51:08AM -0400, Glen Barber escribió: Hi, On 9/3/10 4:31 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm trying to install the port /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6 (even the freshest from FreeBSD server) in 8-CURRENT: Do you have a particular reason for

Re: two ata-related problems

2010-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
per...@pluto.rain.com writes: Two questions about installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a Dell Precision 420 (yes, I know it's old): I have a similar machine running as a lab tool. 1. Should FreeBSD 8.1 be able to recognize a 100MB ATAPI Zip drive? I'm not finding it in the dmesg, although BIOS

Re: Applying a patch to a port

2010-09-03 Thread Leonidas Tsampros
bsd b...@todoo.biz writes: Hello, I have a patch for clamav that was submited by a developer of clamav. I don't know how to apply It to the source code of the port. What I would like to do: 1. Get the source code 2. cd to the source directory 3. Apply the patch 4. Recompile 5.

Re: two ata-related problems

2010-09-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:11:02AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com writes: Two questions about installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a Dell Precision 420 (yes, I know it's old): I have a similar machine running as a lab tool. 1. Should FreeBSD 8.1 be able to recognize a 100MB

Re: error - ad2: FAILURE

2010-09-03 Thread Xihong Yin
Thanks for the info. Now I am getting more such error messages and the disk fails at boot when trying to mount on /usr. Xihong On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com writes: On September 1, 2010 10:29:42 pm Xihong Yin wrote: Hi, I received the

Re: error - ad2: FAILURE

2010-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Xihong Yin x...@gmx.com writes: Thanks for the info. Now I am getting more such error messages and the disk fails at boot when trying to mount on /usr. On the chance the disk can be saved, you may want to try the manufacturer's diagnostics. ___

Boot Drive Nomenclature and How to Figure it out

2010-09-03 Thread Martin McCormick
I have been writing a script to build a system from a mfsboot startup and it is going well but I want to revisit part of the script that I don't think I did a very good job with. Is there an automatic way to tell which of the devices shown in /dev is a likely system drive? This is

FWD: High Performance Custom Fields for Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures

2010-09-03 Thread Louie Bernstein
Thought you might find this interesting and, hopefully helpful Subscriber. Another article written by our CEO, Sanjay Bhatia. High Performance Custom Fields for Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures This article shows a simple way to give applications with [1]multi-tenant architectures the ability to

Re: Boot Drive Nomenclature and How to Figure it out

2010-09-03 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.eduwrote: I have been writing a script to build a system from a mfsboot startup and it is going well but I want to revisit part of the script that I don't think I did a very good job with. Is there an

CARP and freebsd

2010-09-03 Thread gahn
Hi, all: Is carp a part of freebsd 8.1? or I have to download from somewhere and install it? Thanks in advance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: CARP and freebsd

2010-09-03 Thread ashley
Hi, all: Is carp a part of freebsd 8.1? or I have to download from somewhere and install it? Thanks in advance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Boot Drive Nomenclature and How to Figure it out

2010-09-03 Thread Martin McCormick
Adam Vande More writes: Would doing something like: gpart list help? Thank you. I have never heard of gpart before so I gave it a try and that helps very much if the drive is already formatted. Most of these drives I plan to encounter will be formatted so this basically solves the

Re: CARP and freebsd

2010-09-03 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 3 September 2010 10:37, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Is carp a part of freebsd 8.1? or I have to download from somewhere and install it? Everything you could want to know about CARP and FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/carp.html On my 8.1 box - fbsdsroute0# sysctl

Re: Boot Drive Nomenclature and How to Figure it out

2010-09-03 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Martin McCormick mar...@x.it.okstate.eduwrote: Thank you. I have never heard of gpart before so I gave it a try and that helps very much if the drive is already formatted. Most of these drives I plan to encounter will be formatted so this basically

Re: Weird Linux - FreeBSD/ZFS NFSv4 interoperability problem

2010-09-03 Thread David Brodbeck
Thanks, Ivan. I'll pursue it there. If it's not ready for prime time yet, I understand, but I'd also like to help nudge it in that direction. :) On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 09/02/10 21:25, David Brodbeck wrote: While doing some interoperability

Which of these NICs will work?

2010-09-03 Thread Ryan Coleman
Any thoughts? I need/want to get a multi-port NIC for my new system but I haven't purchased the guts for the server yet.

i386 to amd64 migration

2010-09-03 Thread Elifan
Hello, I have experience in freebsd but never did such system architecture migration. Is it possible to do safely with only SSH access (or IP-KVM)? I'm planning to upgrade system from 7.2 to 7.3 but it's i386.. Regards, Elifan ___

Re: i386 to amd64 migration

2010-09-03 Thread claudiu vasadi
AFAIK,basically no x86 - x86 and x64 - x64 Non-basically ... yes but it's a real pain in the @$$ and you will definitely run in all kinds of trouble. ip you have KVM access, just put a x64 DVD inside and do a clean install (it will keep your sanity intact)

Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates

2010-09-03 Thread patrick
Yes, it's definitely updating: [r...@juno /var/cron/tabs]# ls -ald /var/cron/tabs drwx-- 2 root wheel 512 Sep 2 12:49 /var/cron/tabs And after editing my crontab: [r...@juno /var/cron/tabs]# ls -ald /var/cron/tabs drwx-- 2 root wheel 512 Sep 3 10:25 /var/cron/tabs I've been

Which of these NICs will work?

2010-09-03 Thread Robert Huff
Ryan Coleman writes: Any thoughts? I need/want to get a multi-port NIC for my new system but I haven't purchased the guts for the server yet.

Re: watch(8) does not work in jails

2010-09-03 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/8/17 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:09:23AM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Does /dev/pts/0 actually exist in the jail's devfs instance, and are its permissions correct? (In jail) : # ls -l /dev/pts/* crw--w  1 markand  tty    0,  94 17 Aug 00:06

Re: watch(8) does not work in jails

2010-09-03 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/9/3 David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com: 2010/8/17 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:09:23AM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Does /dev/pts/0 actually exist in the jail's devfs instance, and are its permissions correct? (In jail) : # ls -l /dev/pts/*

Regex Help For Procmail

2010-09-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I use procmail for mail delivery and I'm trying to concoct the right regex to match From: headers and deliver to a folder. However mail is sent from various addresses so I want to match all that end with famous-smoke.com. Here's an example of a header: From: Famous Smoke

Re: Regex Help For Procmail

2010-09-03 Thread Glen Barber
Hi Drew, On 9/3/10 2:45 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I use procmail for mail delivery and I'm trying to concoct the right regex to match From: headers and deliver to a folder. However mail is sent from various addresses so I want to match all that end with famous-smoke.com. Here's an example

Need to run a Command Once on Boot. FreeBSD8.1

2010-09-03 Thread Martin McCormick
I seem to recall that there is some sort of stub that will let one execute a script which runs at the last stage of the boot process but I can't seem to remember enough to look it up. I need to run a small script to do pwd_mkdb just once to sync the passwd data base after booting

Re: Need to run a Command Once on Boot. FreeBSD8.1

2010-09-03 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
creating a /etc/rc.local that rm itself? or, if you already have a rc.local, calling there a script that would self desctruct after beeing launched. Samuel Martín Moro {EPITECH.} tek4 CamTrace S.A.S (+033) 1 41 38 37 60 1 Allée de la Venelle 92150 Suresnes FRANCE Nobody wants to say how

Re: Need to run a Command Once on Boot. FreeBSD8.1

2010-09-03 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Sep 3 14:13:18 2010 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:13:33 -0500 From: Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu Subject: Need to run a Command Once on Boot. FreeBSD8.1 I seem to recall that there is some sort

Re: Need to run a Command Once on Boot. FreeBSD8.1

2010-09-03 Thread Martin McCormick
Robert Bonomi writes: /etc/rc.local maybe? contrary to the 'rc.d' way of doing things, but 'simple'. :) Thanks so much to both people who answered. I thought there was more to it than that but I may be thinking of the rcx.d directories in Linux. If you don't watch out, you can be

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 06:01, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I tried to install the vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz directly as VMWare.com it provides (I have compat6x already installed for some other reason). But in vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz there are only kernel modules for FreeBSD 6

Custom Kernel -- Module exclusion by association

2010-09-03 Thread freebsd_user
My meaning in the 'subject' is: Currently we want to: 'options QUOTA' in the kernel. We do not want to compile any modules that we don't have to (effort to save time). If adding support for 'QUOTA' doesn't require any module rebuilding, how do we specify/exclude 'all' module building using

Re: network deamons starting before network!

2010-09-03 Thread Peggy Wilkins
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Peggy Wilkins enli...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl wrote: Since updating to 8.X I noticed that network services were started before the network was up! I use lagg failover configuration on both my FreeBSD boxes.

Re: Need to run a Command Once on Boot. FreeBSD8.1

2010-09-03 Thread Jason
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 02:50:48PM -0500, Martin McCormick thus spake: Robert Bonomi writes: /etc/rc.local maybe? contrary to the 'rc.d' way of doing things, but 'simple'. :) Thanks so much to both people who answered. I thought there was more to it than that but I may be thinking

Re: watch(8) does not work in jails

2010-09-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:40:01PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Sorry I made a mistake while I was writing. In fact there is the permissions in the jail : mark...@orange ~ $ sudo jexec 1 tcsh # su - People# ls -l /dev/pts/* crw--w 1 zazak tty0, 118 3 Sep 20:39 /dev/pts/0

Re: Which of these NICs will work?

2010-09-03 Thread Nathan Vidican
I have several Intel multi-port, (2 port, 4 port and even some 2 port fibre-optic), cards in use. All have been rock-solid, stable performers, and have hardware VLAN tagging and trunking capability. I have some 4 port cards in use with LACP+VLAN Trunking, and then use vlan interfaces in FreeBSD

Re: watch(8) does not work in jails

2010-09-03 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/9/3 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:40:01PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Sorry I made a mistake while I was writing. In fact there is the permissions in the jail : mark...@orange ~ $ sudo jexec 1 tcsh # su - People# ls -l /dev/pts/* crw--w  1 zazak  tty  

Re: Regex Help For Procmail

2010-09-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Hi Glen, Thank you for your reply. On 9/3/2010 12:02 PM, Glen Barber wrote: Hi Drew, On 9/3/10 2:45 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I use procmail for mail delivery and I'm trying to concoct the right regex to match From: headers and deliver to a folder. However mail is sent from various

Re: What made my FreeBSD server freeze?

2010-09-03 Thread peter
Thanks. I cloned the hard drive and replaced the old drive with the new drive this afternoon. --- At 09:25 AM 8/30/2010, Ivan Voras wrote: On 08/30/10 13:24, pe...@vfemail.net wrote: When I awoke this morning my FreeBSD box was frozen -- completely unresponsive at the console -- and

Why skype can't see webcam?

2010-09-03 Thread Yuri
I have webcamd running and can see my webcam using mplayer like this: mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:fps=30:device=/dev/video0 But skype can't see the video. It only sees /dev/video0 device but when I try testing it image is black. v4l support was recently added into 8.1:

Re: Why skype can't see webcam?

2010-09-03 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I have webcamd running and can see my webcam using mplayer like this: mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:fps=30:device=/dev/video0 I think this has come up a few times recently on the list, check the archives to see if

Re: Why skype can't see webcam?

2010-09-03 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I have webcamd running and can see my webcam using mplayer like this: mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:fps=30:device=/dev/video0 I think this has