New to FreeBSD, need some questions answered

2005-12-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD but not to UNIX. The guy who burned me the 6.0 release iso's told me that during the install, FreeBSD would detect my Windows XP drive but it didn't. I have two hard drives, one for FreeBSD one for Windows. The FreeBSD drive is SATA and the Windows is PATA (IDE, but

Re: New to FreeBSD, need some questions answered

2005-12-20 Thread Andrew Falanga
You mean you got through the install and when you were asked on which slice you wanted to install FreeBSD you were only offered the choice of the SATA drive? If you have a working FreeBSD system, what does dmesg say? What does fdisk (from inside FreeBSD) say? They both only see the SATA

Additional dual boot issues

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Falanga
Ok, I was following my post in usenet (didn't know that messages posted here were propogated there, cool). Someone responded to another chap who was having a similar problem as mine that the issue was probably that they hadn't loaded the FreeBSD bootloader on to the second drive. So, I did

Authentication with SSH using public keys

2008-10-31 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, My father recently setup a new 7.0-Release system for some web development. I use ssh to login remotely. I've normally not had any trouble configuring authentication through public key encryption using ssh-keygen and such. I have for myself a id_rsa.pub and an id_rsa key pair that I use

Re: Authentication with SSH using public keys

2008-11-03 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:46 PM, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, My father recently setup a new 7.0-Release system for some web development. I use ssh to login remotely. I've normally not had any trouble configuring

Re: Authentication with SSH using public keys

2008-11-03 Thread Andrew Falanga
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/andy/.ssh/identity debug1: Offering public key: /home/andy/.ssh/id_rsa debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply debug1:

Re: how much memory can be support in FreeBSD system?

2008-11-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Alex Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi buddy. I'm a new comer and want to configure a Virtual server base on UNIX. The safe, steady and easy for maintenance is needed. Approximately 8GB memory will be mounted. Can anyone tell me how much memory can be

Re: How to upgrade to KDE4

2008-11-07 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:26 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:52:06 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the only thing that updated was the meta-port (I did a portupgrade -r too). Aside from the fact that there are separate kde meta-ports, portupgrade -r kde... updates the

How long does it take to compile KDE4

2008-11-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi I'm trying to install in KDE 4 and it's been stuck on Generating k3iconviewsearchline.moc for about 4 hours now. My box is a an amd64 (running amd64 kernel) 1.8ghz w/1gb RAM. I know that this request is quite relative based on hard hardware and such, but from those who have installed

Installing HP LaserJet 4+ in CUPS

2008-11-16 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I finally bit the bullet as it were and switched from amd64 to i386 (too many programs I couldn't run, such as flashplayer and the nvidia drivers). Anyway, I'm getting things going again and I remember that I had to install a printer driver from ports for my HP LJ 4+ but I can't remember

Installing gimp from ports, need a GTK+, what port is it

2008-11-23 Thread Andrew Falanga
HI, I'm installing gimp from ports. I've recently done a csup on my ports tree and was happily working through the issues that were coming up while installing. Normally, the issues were only due to a particular package that was installed, such as poppler, being older than the one gimp

gmirror and the UFS file systems

2008-11-28 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm getting ready to move forward on enabling gmirror on my churches website server (FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE p4). I used defaults during the install (most importantly for this, the file system defaults). I've read in the manual pages that the data for the mirror is contained in the last

Re: postgresql network access problem

2008-12-31 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:42 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: I am having a bit of a problem enabling remote access to postgress on my 7.1 system. I have added to postgresql.conf listen_addresses = '*' and to pg_hba.conf hostall all XXX.159.77.0/24 trust XX

Odd behavior after upgrading to 7.0-p7

2009-01-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I installed 7.0 i386 and all was working great. I upgraded to p7 and now when I end my X session, I have kdm loading, it doesn't bring me to a login prompt. It dumps me on console 0 and I have to kill the kdm-bin process to return to a kdm login. This didn't happen before upgrading to

Re: cups issue, unsupported format

2009-01-25 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.netwrote: af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm working on getting cups working and I've installed the hplip port and the cups program used that to install the printer. At least, there was an HPLIP in a list in one of the

Re: having trouble with OpenOffice

2009-02-06 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed. However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but seems to be related to the X

Re: having trouble with OpenOffice

2009-02-06 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed. However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but seems to be related to the X

What flash players should be used from ports?

2009-04-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'd like to finally get a flashplayer installed for use with Firefox. Which one should I use from the ports system? I found this one that looks promising: /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla Is the recommended one, or should I choose another? Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in

Re: What flash players should be used from ports?

2009-04-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:41 PM, John Gage grepk...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Andrew Falanga af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'd like to finally get a flashplayer installed for use with Firefox. Which one should I use from the ports system? I found this one

Re: What flash players should be used from ports?

2009-04-15 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM, John Gage grepk...@gmail.com wrote: You have three viable choices, I'd recommend the third: 1. ports/graphics/gnash or gnash-devel (high CPU utilization on FreeBSD) 2. ports/www/swfdec-plugin [ ports/graphics/swfdec itself is a standalone flash player, the

X errors when I open gvim

2009-07-25 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, When I open gVim from the command line, I get the following errors: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic

Interesting problem with packages, how to fix if corrupt

2006-08-03 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello everyone, If I do pkg_info with nothing else, all looks well. However, if I do pkg_info | grep package_name (which I do frequently so I don't have to read through the entire list) I get these two errors: pkg_info: the package info for package 'portupgrade-2.0.1_1,1' is corrupt pkg_info:

Upgrade the ports after performing a binary upgrade

2006-08-20 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello everybody, I did a binary upgrade on my FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE system up to 6.1 RELEASE. However, I'm still running KDE 3.4 and firefox still doesn't work. I didn't understand this, but apparently the ports that are installed to a system don't upgrade with a binary upgrade. Ok, so, the

Having trouble getting ppp configured on my 6.1 box

2006-09-02 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello everyone, I had to blow away my 6.0 installation and simply install 6.1 release. I found out that I would have to update my ports manually and since I don't have high speed access to the Internet, this just wasn't feasible. So, after installing (which went smoothly) I'm getting

Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-06 Thread Andrew Falanga
I am by no means the worlds best serial programmer, but recently I have done some work on this subject and I noticed one thing in the code sample above that should be avoided. However, I'll give you what I saw in-line: #include stdio.h #include termios.h #include unistd.h #include fcntl.h

Windows emulator in amd64

2006-09-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
What package will work to run Windoze programs in FreeBSD/amd64? I don't usually worry about, but my Father switched to FreeBSD/amd64 (which is what I run) and he can't seem to find one. I first steered him toward vmware3, which I found in the ports. But it refused to install because of being

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-20 Thread Andrew Falanga
2010/11/11 José Silveira jmlsilve...@gmail.com Why do you use a devil as a mascot? For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! Jose, So many have replied already and I truthfully haven't read each post. I did want to say something about this though since I

ps oddity

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, A couple of months ago I wrote a daemon process that opens up connections on TCP and listens for incoming data (that ultimately ends up in a database). Now, when I was writing it, I was debugging and what not under my own user id. However, the program now runs as root because it's started

Re: ps oddity

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 2/1/07, Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of months ago I wrote a daemon process that opens up connections on TCP and listens for incoming data (that ultimately ends up in a database). Now, when I was writing it, I was debugging

About file systems and formats

2007-03-29 Thread Andrew Falanga
Yesterday while working on a problem at work, a colleague and I were talking about the various file systems and something that I have always wondered on is what are the various file systems doing when a format is being done. For example, at home, my PC has 2 80gb drives. One for Windows and the

Re: About file systems and formats

2007-03-29 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 3/29/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: Yesterday while working on a problem at work, a colleague and I were talking about the various file systems and something that I have always wondered on is what are the various file systems doing when a format is being

Where do I find the PERL compatible functions for php

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, Installed PHP 5 using the ports collection in preparation for installing phpWebSite (a CMS system). When trying to run the setup program (an index.php) file on the server I get, *Fatal error*: Call to undefined function preg_match() in *

Re: Where do I find the PERL compatible functions for php

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 10/2/07, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it's been split out for some time now; you can get PCRE support for your pre-existing PHP installation by installing ports/devel/php5-pcre. But, since most users want PHP to support many technologies/modules, the general thing to

Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the directions (I have the script file as UPDATING suggests to prove it :-), but the upgrade didn't work as the X server failed to start after I rebooted. I'm hoping some kind person here will know the answer before I e-mail the list

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Nov 8, 2007 12:37 PM, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the directions (I have the script file as UPDATING suggests to prove it :-), but the upgrade didn't work as the X server

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Nov 8, 2007 8:03 PM, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From UPDATING: If you plan on keeping your current /etc/X11/xorg.conf, make sure you change ModulePath to /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules prior to running X. Otherwise, just move /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart X you can then add in

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Nov 9, 2007 7:00 AM, Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi Andy, I botched my 6.9-7.2 upgrade too. It's easy to do even if you follow the instructions. Can't remember what the problem was now, certainly it was something no one else had, typical. :^) Ah well

Socket programming question

2007-11-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, My question has to do with how someone would find out if a call to socket(2) actually produced a socket. I know that the API works, I've programmed with it many times, but is there a way to find out if 's' returned by socket(2) is actually valid in whatever kernel structure it is stored? I

Re: Socket programming question

2007-11-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Nov 14, 2007 4:55 PM, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to say that, but it doesn't make sense as it's worded. The descriptor returned by socket(2) is valid if it's = 0 (that's the API contract for the socket(2) C function), and remains valid until the program ends

Having problems burning a DVD

2007-11-24 Thread Andrew Falanga
Ok, I've made copies of the DVDs I want to burn. I used the technique described in this thread, duplicating a dvd video started by a Dave back in July. Basically, the technique is nothing more than a copy of the disk, cp /dev/acd0 /path/to/*.iso. I'm going off of the instructions in the

Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm working on setting up a server for both WWW and e-mail. We're using apache 2.2 w/PHP support (for phpWebSite) and for e-mail I'd like to stay with sendmail for the MTA, but I've not used any servers that will allow for POP and IMAP. What in the ports would be good suggestions from those

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Dec 13, 2007 9:27 AM, Monah Baki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll 3rd it too, been using it for 2 years, amazing. Daniel Bye wrote: with sendmail for the MTA, but I've not used any servers that will allow for POP and IMAP. What in the ports would be good suggestions from those here

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Dec 13, 2007 10:06 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The developer is very adamant about writing dovecot strictly to the letter of the IMAP specification. He's also discovered many of the popular clients have bugs, and are unable to work (or at least have issues) with an

SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm having a difficult time working with my father to get the port forwarding working on his Linksys router to forward SSH requests to his FreeBSD machine at home. As near as we can figure, it's setup correctly. In case anyone here uses this router it is WRT54G and details (including a users

Re: SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-18 Thread Andrew Falanga
Security through obscurity is a poor substitute for security. Port scanners will eventually find that port also. Have you checked to see if a firewall is set up that could be blocking the port? Not a thorough check, but my father did turn off the firewall system on that linksys router.

dovecot questions

2007-12-26 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm trying to install and configure Dovecot. Thanks to the efforts of the port maintainer for Dovecot, installation was mindless. However, configuration isn't quite so simple. There were several in this list that suggested the use of Dovecot when I inquired for suggestions as to a good

mod_perl port

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I installed Apache 2.2 and the appropriate mod_perl port for this version of apache. However, it is not referenced in /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf. How do I get it there? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Does anyone on this list use WebGUI on FreeBSD

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm wondering, does anyone here use WebGUI on their FreeBSD installs and if so, or even if not would know, what is this LoadModule apreq_module modules/mod_apreq2.so mentioned in the installation text file? I can't seem to find it in ports, this could simply mean that it's just not in

How does one start mysql after installing from ports

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
This is pretty pathetic but I'm batting a 1000 on this one. I installed mysql a few weeks ago on this web server I'm making for my church and didn't do anything with it at that point (that was the first mistake). I've not used mysql (I usually use PostgreSQL) but WebGUI wants mysql. So, being

Re: Does anyone on this list use WebGUI on FreeBSD

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 7/4/07, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports make quicksearch name=apreq2 Port: libapreq2-2.08 Path: /usr/ports/www/libapreq2 Info: Generic Apache2 Request Library Port: p5-libapreq2-2.08 Path: /usr/ports/www/p5-libapreq2 Info: Generic Apache2

Re: make and gmake on FreeBSD

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 7/26/07, Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have a FreeBSD 6.2, installed it from the distribution disks, no changes by me. There is a make and a gmake installed on it. They report that they are the same programm, but in fact they behave completely different. In fact only gmake

The output of ls

2007-07-27 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm wondering what the output means when one does an ls -lR. Here's some sample output from my home dir: ./programs: total 900 -rwxr-xr-x 1 afalanga afalanga5467 Sep 25 2006 4or6 -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga afalanga 606 Dec 20 2006 abc.cxx -rwxr-xr-x 1 afalanga afalanga8436

Re: The output of ls

2007-07-27 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 7/27/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 01:57:54PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: RTFM ;-) Ouch! I deserved that one. Thanks. This is really going to hurt (me that is), but the reason I didn't find it in the manual is because the manual page I read

The Elephant file system

2007-08-16 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I was doing some research for file systems at work and came across some semi-technical papers on a file system called elephant. Since this paper mentions that the designers first tried their implementation on FreeBSD 2.2.7, I thought I'd ask here if anyone has ever heard of this file system.

perl configuration question

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm trying to install WebGUI on a FreeBSD system for my church. WebGUI uses PERL for its operation. The program has a test environment perl script that it tries to run to make sure the environment can run WebGUI. On a couple of the perl modules it tries to install, it bails saying that make

Re: perl configuration question

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 8/23/07, Foo JH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried simply installed Perl from the packages in the FreeBSD install CD? Yes, I installed perl from ports. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: perl configuration question

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 8/24/07, Nikola Lecic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:40:32 -0600 (3) Maybe you should consider using another CMS software, there is a lot of choice, including Perl-based if you prefer that. The most important thing is that they are truly ported, so you have just to

CMS ideas and suggestions

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello everyone, At the suggestion of someone who responded to my requests for help with WebGUI, I decided to ask this question here. What CMS programs would the community here suggest for use because, to be frank, I'm less than impressed with WebGUI. It is for use with my church. The following

how does one get portupgrade back

2007-04-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
HI, I was going through cvsup and portupgrade since I just got broadband into my home. I had forgotten that some time ago I had already installed portupgrade and went to install it again. I went to /usr/ports/sysutils/ and found to my astonishment that the directory portupgrade no longer

Re: how does one get portupgrade back

2007-04-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
, or something similar, and it took only 3 - 4 minutes to down load the 35mb *.bz2 file. I wouldn't have even thought about it before hand.) On 4/13/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, I was going through cvsup and portupgrade since I just got

Recompiling the vim port for gui capability

2007-04-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I recently updated some of my ports (due to the fact that I now have a high speed connection to the Internet at home). One of the ports I updated was vim. I used portupgrade -r vim_port_name and let it do its thing. All went well, but now gvim no longer exists. When I was try to execute

Question about the Window Maker window manager

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
If anyone using FreeBSD regularly uses the Window Maker window manager, I have a question about some behavior I saw today that I don't quite get. I wasn't doing anything processor intensive, but I could not open anything. I'd double click on the terminal icon that is on the desktop and it would

Code beautification and/or printing utilities that are not part of an editor

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
Another question for everyone. Are there any programs, hopefully available in the ports, that one can use to print source code files to a printer (or create as a postscript file)? I'd like something that I can feed a C++ program, have it parse through the code, print line numbers to the left of

Can't get the syntax correct for my tcpdump command

2007-05-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm about to launch this computer through the roof! This tcpdump is more finicky than feline when it comes to eating. What really bugs me is that just a couple of days ago I was doing this very same thing with no problems. For some reason, however, I just can't resurrect the memory of how

Re: Can't get the syntax correct for my tcpdump command

2007-05-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/10/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 10, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Andrew Falanga wrote: I want to capture only the IPv6 UDP traffic from my FreeBSD box to a host I'm trying to mount through NFS. A couple of days ago, I got it, but I had to kill that terminal session abnormally

How to recompile the VIM port for GUI

2007-05-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, As I'd mentioned before, I upgraded my vim installation using portupgrade. However, when the upgrade completed, I could no longer start vim in the GUI. I get an error saying that GUI stuff wasn't compiled. I asked here at that time and was told to check up with the port maintainer. I've

Re: How to recompile the VIM port for GUI

2007-05-11 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/11/07, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, Hello, So, how do I modify the build environment properly to allow for the building of the GUI? There are several variables referenced in the Makefile in /usr/ports/editors/vim, but I'm not sure what to make

What happened to ethereal in the ports

2007-05-11 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I was needing to do some packet analysis this week (that's what prompted my question earlier about tcpdump), and in doing so I went to /usr/ports and did make search name=ethereal and was returned 4 hits. Basically, these hits were for ethereal or ethereal-lite. The directory was

Re: How to recompile the VIM port for GUI

2007-05-11 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/11/07, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2007 07:48:16 -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/11/07, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, Hello, So, how do I modify the build environment properly to allow for the building

Further questions on making wireshark work

2007-05-11 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, Many thanks to Eric for pointing me in the correct direction with Wireshark and Ethereal. Interestingly, I couldn't find the directory (or the port) for wireshark on my system but did find the references to it on www.freshports.org. So, I downloaded the pre-compiled package for wireshark

Re: Further questions on making wireshark work

2007-05-11 Thread Andrew Falanga
I can't offer feedback on any of the questions. However, I see wireshark in the ports tree here: /usr/ports/net/wireshark Yes, that's where it's supposed to be. It's a real curiosity that I don't have it even after doing a cvsup. Andy ___

Re: How to recompile the VIM port for GUI

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/11/07, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't do that. I'm wondering if this is due to the prefix change. Look at the output of: pkg_info -px ^gtk- If you don't see CWD to /usr/local for your GTK ports, you'll need the rebuild some stuff: pkgdb -Ff portupgrade -rf

A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, This question probably hasn't much to do with CVS directly but using cvsup. I want/need to update a 6.0-RELEASE system. However, this system has some critical data on it and I'd rather not move to code that is perhaps experimental or bleeding-edge technology. I see in

Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/17/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: You can find a description of release tags in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html and also a description of -STABLE and -CURRENT http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1

Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/17/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 02:31:59 pm Andrew Falanga wrote: On 5/17/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: You can find a description of release tags in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1

Kernel build question (options and so forth)

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, In addition to my quest to upgrade this 6.0-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE-p4, I have a question about the kernel and SMP. This system has two processors and I want to make sure I'm going to build an SMP capable kernel, especially, considering I'm going from 6.0 to 6.2. I managed to find a past

Problems upgrading a 6.0 install to 6.2-RELEASE-p4

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi again, Ok, here's the steps I was given to upgrade my 6.0 system to 6.2-RELEASE-p4. 1) cvsup /usr/src using the tags necessary (I was using RELENG_6_2). 2) cd /usr/src 3) make buildworld 4) make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC *here I actually used a different kernel because I had to add

Re: Problems upgrading a 6.0 install to 6.2-RELEASE-p4

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/18/07, Mikhail Goriachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: You really must read the following (or at least skim through): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html and /usr/src/Makefile All correct instructions are in there and you

Re: Problems upgrading a 6.0 install to 6.2-RELEASE-p4

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/18/07, Andreas Rudisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007 17:54:41 +0200, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In /usr/src/UPDATING you can find. 20060204: The 'audit' group was added to support the new auditing functionality in the base system. Be sure

How to retrieve the list of files to merge by hand

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I just upgraded my box here at home last night and I made a little mistake (fortunately, not one large enough to keep things from working). I updated my source tree to 6.2-RELEASE-p4 and did the make buildworld and make buildkernel. Then I dropped to single user mode to do the installs for

How does FreeBSD handle tcp checksum offloading

2007-05-24 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm curious as to how FreeBSD handles checksum offloading for TCP packets. Is this on by default? It seems that it's only relevant for specific drivers rather than something that's just assumed. How can I determine if this is supported for the hardware I'm running? Is it common for tcp

Re: How does FreeBSD handle tcp checksum offloading

2007-05-24 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/24/07, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Checksum offloading is usually enabled by default for hardware that supports it (assuming that the driver for that hardware also supports it of course.) To see if a particular interface uses checksum offloading you can look at the output of

Flatbed scanners for FreeBSD

2007-06-02 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi everybody, What scanners are best used with FreeBSD? I'm hoping for one that I can use in both Windoze and FreeBSD. Preferably, one that is USB. I've never configured a scanner for FreeBSD before and would like recommendations on hardware before purchasing. Thanks, Andy

Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I just installed a fresh 6.2-RELEASE i386 system last night and was trying to get cvsup-without-gui installed from ports and was having some interesting problems. The install of FreeBSD went flawlessly, and the system boots without a hitch. After installing the ports tree, I went and did

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/12/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:02:38AM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I just installed a fresh 6.2-RELEASE i386 system last night and was trying to get cvsup-without-gui installed from ports and was having some interesting problems

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew Falanga
If the compiler (cc) dies with a 'fatal signal 11', you could have a memory problem. See e.g. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/GCC-SIG11-FAQ Roland Ok, while researching these things I found this. Does FreeBSD have a work around? http://membres.lycos.fr/poulot/k6bug.html This

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/06/07, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, my apologies to the group. I think I've been hitting reply only and not reply-to-all. If the compiler (cc) dies with a 'fatal signal 11', you could have a memory

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/13/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:02:38 -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a hard hang. Nothing worked. I could not even Alt+num to a different pseudo terminal. The system just hard hanged. I rebooted and tried the install again

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The CPU on basically every x86 machine after the original pentium runs faster than the bus (or memory) speed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Side_Bus The board will probably have jumpers (though sometimes boards this old will have

nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I was just wondering, a while ago I remember seeing a port for the nvidia driver. I was just wondering, does this work on amd64? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup (the verdict is in)

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
The verdict is in! The problem was heat. Before swapping out memory, I turned on the system to see what the fan was doing. Nothing was the answer. It wasn't spinning at all. I went digging through my old hardware and found a fan of the right type and dimensions that fit nicely, and more

samba config problems

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
I'm trying to get samba working in a test environment. I do not need great functionality, so I'm going off of the simple setup stuff in the Handbook. This should be enough. I've configured my /usr/local/etc/smb.conf file for a single share (the /tmp share) and changed the workgroup name and

Re: samba config problems

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/14/07, Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget to cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Once again I apologize to the forum. I keep forgetting to do this. The rc script at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba follows the FreeBSD rcng scheme, if the rcvar 'samba_enable' is not set to

samba and IPv6

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, Does samba actually support this? I'm not turning up much information from the official HOW-TO at samba.org. In fact, not a single link in the HOW-TO even mentions IPv6. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: samba and IPv6

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/14/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does samba actually support this? I'm not turning up much information from the official HOW-TO at samba.org. In fact, not a single link in the HOW-TO even mentions IPv6. There's a link

Upgrading x.org to 7.2 (to make other ports happy)

2007-06-15 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, Ok, last night I sit down to continue installing software on that web server I mentioned a couple of days ago. By the way, the culprit was definitely heat. Last night, I successfully recompiled the GENERIC kernel for 6.2p5 without a hitch, and the day before I successfully completed the

Re: Upgrading x.org to 7.2 (to make other ports happy)

2007-06-15 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/15/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: I come back a little later to find that I've got to update X.org according /usr/ports/UPDATING. I open this file and read up on what it says. In there it says I need to run a script called xorg-upgrade however

Re: Upgrading x.org to 7.2 (to make other ports happy)

2007-06-18 Thread Andrew Falanga
Please read the instructions more carefully. You are supposed to run a program called script with the parameter xorg-upgrade. script is a program which will create a file called xorg-upgrade. All the commands you subsequently type and all the output you get will be logged in the file

Re: Upgrading x.org to 7.2 (to make other ports happy)

2007-06-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 6/19/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The big clue is in the text description where it refers to script(1) i.e. a command with a manual page in section 1 of the manual! It's always worth a quick man or apropos if you come across something you don't recognise. Yes. Your point is

Configuring dhcp6

2007-06-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello, Has anyone on this list used dhcp6 from ports? What's the magic behind getting it to work? I'm trying to configure for a very simple environment and my hosts are getting anything. My config file is basically just the sample file from the port install with the exceptions that the

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