Re: Installation problems

2007-10-03 Thread James
Hi Siraj, the first place to start looking is undoubtedly the CD itself. First, checksum your .iso image. If this passes, burn to a new CD and try again. Cheaper CD-R cds tend to have a lot of quality issues. James On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 17:41 +0100, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > I am new to Free

ffmpeg not installing

2007-10-04 Thread James
code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg. secretariat# </snip> Do you folks have any ideas on this one? I was attempting a "make deinstall && make reinstall" to see if that would overcome it at the time. James ___

Re: ffmpeg not installing

2007-10-04 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 21:42 +0200, Mel wrote: > > /usr/local/include/log.h:112: error: syntax error before "A_" > > I'm curious which port installed log.h. I don't have it on my system and it > wouldn't surprise me if a local log.h conflicts with this log.h. > > Could you show output of: > grep

Re: ffmpeg not installing

2007-10-04 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 21:28 +0200, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: > Am Donnerstag 04 Oktober 2007 21:01:26 schrieb James: > > Do you folks have any ideas on this one? I was attempting a "make > > deinstall && make reinstall" to see if that would overcome it at th

Re: ffmpeg not installing

2007-10-09 Thread James
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 06:02 +1000, andrew clarke wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:51:03PM -0600, James wrote: > > > > > /usr/local/include/log.h:112: error: syntax error before "A_" > > > > > > I'm curious which port installed log.h. I don&#

Re: TPM could not be initialized - bge0 has disappeared ... WTF ?

2007-10-10 Thread James
It's possible it's a hardware issue. Have you got a means to verify the hardware, such as a knoppix, sitting around? James On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 13:47 -0700, Gore Jarold wrote: > I own a Dell Latitude X1. > > I installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on it. > > All is well.

Re: NFS export question && diskless dirs

2007-10-11 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 21:23 +0200, mr. phreak wrote: > hi. I have a question regarding NFS-exports. > > /etc/exports > /diskless/ro-ro -maproot=root leia > /diskless/kernels leia > /diskless/rw leia > /usr-ro -alldirs leia > /home -alldirs leia > /etc-ro -alldirs -maproot=root lei

I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-11 Thread James
have other FreeBSD boxes available to me, none with the same pkg list, though. I'll be reading man pkgdb in the meantime.. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-11 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:53 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > James wrote: > > Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it > > whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few different ones), but I > > just did an rm -r /var/lib/pkg. > >

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-11 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 23:13 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 03:07:37PM -0600, James wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:53 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > > > > James wrote: > > > > Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremem

Re: NFS export question && diskless dirs

2007-10-11 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 23:03 +0200, mr. phreak wrote: > James wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 22:36 +0200, mr. phreak wrote: > >> James wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 21:23 +0200, mr. phreak wrote: > >> >&

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-11 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 18:14 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > James writes: > > > What has happened, though, is I've never ran rm in > > /usr/ports/distfiles. I'm going to think for a little bit about > > a script that can move through /usr/ports/distfiles and rei

Re: Questions about HUP'ing nfsd

2007-10-12 Thread James
similar thing in FreeBSD. Something like: /etc/rc.d/mountd onereload /etc/rc.d/nfs restart I think that does it all. Otherwise, there's always shutdown NOW and then a ctrl-d. If you're not sshing in, of course. James ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: 1 TB data copy

2007-10-12 Thread James
s/ref=nb_ss_e/103-8650702-2329464?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=usb+2.0+pci&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go Should also be available from your local electronics retailer. Install that in the windows box and use the now native USB 2.0 connection to dump the

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-12 Thread James
re! else grep -r $PACKAGE /usr/ports But before I go that far, I wanted to see if anyone had an alternate idea for what might work. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: cvsup-mirror several questions

2007-10-16 Thread James
It's available here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-October/160307.html You might find that a nice place to start. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Install FreeBSD 6.2 and Windows XP prof in the same computer

2007-10-17 Thread James
in ports is ld. What other virtualisation solutions are there that can handle windows, besides VMware? James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Regarding Flow of sendto (UDP) using IPv6.

2007-10-17 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 12:16 +0530, Prasad Dandra wrote: > Dear All, > > First, I would like to thank you all for the wonderful work of developing > FreeBSD. > I have some doubts regarding the BSD stack flow. > I am very much interested to know the code flow from sendto (UDP case) upto > udp6_outp

Re: apache mod_ssl chroot problem

2007-10-17 Thread James
> Server beastie.mra.co.id:443 (RSA) > Enter pass phrase:Apache:mod_ssl:Error: Private key not found. > **Stopped Isn't the private key the one on the local machine? If so, is the private key visible with the chroot environment? ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: [OT] proper editor

2007-10-17 Thread James
> I made the decision to go with Emacs. Thank you for encouraging me ;; > PAH! Entirely wrong! Vi forever! (kidding, kidding) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Strange perl script

2007-10-17 Thread James
man/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ...at this point, I'd probably perform a security audit, just to be sure. Check your access logs etc. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Why FreeBSD procfs is so different from the Linux one?

2007-10-17 Thread James
either way. I have 1 linux box, something like 15 FreeBSD boxen, and I have to say that on procfs, linux generally does a job that I prefer to see. On FreeBSD, it feels more tacked on, while on linux it feels like there's a lot of rich information there. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Evolution-data-server compiling errors.

2007-10-18 Thread James
Hey Lisandro, I snipped out your log, if that confuses anyone reading, please be aware there was a large log file here. First things first: is you ports tree up to date? James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

RE: Evolution-data-server compiling errors.

2007-10-18 Thread James
is forces a recursive upgrade of that package. On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 14:34 -0400, Lisandro Grullon wrote: > Hi James, > > > Yes my port tree is very up to date, I upgrade it daily. I still > puzzle by the error

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-18 Thread James
) problem. Any ideas why this might be a bad idea? I essentially feed it a list from /usr/ports/distfiles and move on. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-19 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 20:11 +0100, RW wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:51:33 -0600 > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It depends what state the ports were in at the time of the > > > accident. If you haven't run a leaf-cutting program recently you >

Re: FreeBSD hang without panic

2007-10-19 Thread James
umably you've checked the /var/log stuff already? James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: Evolution-data-server compiling errors.

2007-10-19 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:47 -0400, Lisandro Grullon wrote: > Hi James, > I follow your advise and even try upgrading the port recursively using > portmaster -rf evolution-data-server , I think the port is broken for > AMD64, I have been trying so many things without any success. Ple

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread James
us know!) Tada! If you need root logins for something like a running process that wants to communicate via several computers as root, then I assume that: a) your program's broken ;) b) you wouldn't be using putty. So just add yourself to wheel and let the good times roll. James

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-22 Thread James
meaningless grasping at straws? It looked like this > in conjunction with pkgdb -L would work. > > James I've been running this for a while now, and it looks like it's working, it just needs liberal doses of pkgdb -F occasionally. James

Re: su: not running setuid

2007-10-22 Thread James
s that you may not even be familiar with what a buildworld is, is that right? Why did you do that, incidentally? Whatever result you were trying to achieve can probably be accomplished once your system is running correctly, so let's find out what it was. James

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread James
I switched after using linux for several years because things are more consistent in FreeBSD. These days, I still use linux for some things, but it often feels like things are slightly weird and kludgy. Which, in all honesty, they are. Linux is one of the greatest projects ever, creating differen

libXfont install problems from ports

2007-10-24 Thread James
hout a cast *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/libXfont/work/libXfont-1.3.1/src/fontfile. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/libXfont/work/libXfont-1.3.1/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/libXfont/work/libXfont-1.3.1. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/

Re: portmaster question

2007-10-25 Thread James
-x avoid building ports as dependencies that match this pattern Sounds like it's implemented as a regular expression. Try looking up the regex syntax for the shell it's implemented in (which I think is bourne) and using a grouping expression. James

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-26 Thread james
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 23:19 +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007 20:22:26 schrieb Aryeh M. Friedman: > > > Absolutely. (I just didn't mention it before because > > > obviously Harald already has a beginner's book on the > > > C programming language.) > > > > Herald

Re: libXfont install problems from ports

2007-10-26 Thread james
of function > `FontEncIdentify' > fontencc.c:76: warning: nested extern declaration of `FontEncIdentify' > fontencc.c :76: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a > cast > *** Error code 1 > > Stop > in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/libXfont/work/libXfont-1.3.1/src/fo

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread James
> > > Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of > > > those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's > > > because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is > > > not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with > > > another port

Re: Name resolution

2007-10-27 Thread James
o single user mode. Assuming your resolv.conf is correct, great. If not, we'll work on fixing that. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: best way to distribute an item to everyones homedir?

2007-10-28 Thread James
On 10/28/07, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 28 October 2007 09:21:55 you wrote: > > maildir=/path/to/your/custom/maildir > > > > for dir in `ls /usr/home` > > do > > cp -r $maildir /usr/home/$dir/ > > done > > thanks ja

Re: can't upgrade - catch-22

2007-10-28 Thread James
t; Silly question: are you running env as root or as your user ID? i.e. are you running env as the user who needs this variable? James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: port xyz: the grey screen with all the checkboxes is wrong and won't come back

2007-10-28 Thread James
On 10/28/07, Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Obviously, 'make clean' doesn't reset the configure screen. Don't know > why. > > I recall there was a faster way to fix this than 'portsnap extract' > but I'll be damned if I can remember, and the ports section of the > handbook doesn't eve

Re: cp --verify?

2007-10-28 Thread James
On 10/28/07, Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't see a --verify switch on cp, so I presume it does not. Is > there an automated way to ensure a copy has gone well byte-for-byte > without writing a script to filter diff? I want to be relatively sure > my family pics are in the dest

Re: resolver problems

2007-10-28 Thread James
On 10/28/07, jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello: > I am still having resolver problems with my 6.2 system. > It has shown up with trying to install ports from the ftp site. > I discovered that there is no resolv.conf file, so I created one. > The funny thing is if I ping one of my web si

Re: Greeter application missing (??) gdm login ?

2007-10-29 Thread James
u tried following the handbook's setup tips again? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html I don't *imagine* that'll get it, and you should make sure that your xinitrc doesn't contain two copies of the line, but it mightn't be bad to s

Re: resolver problems

2007-10-30 Thread James
On 10/29/07, jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 28, 2007, at 3:53 PM, James wrote: > > > > > > > On 10/28/07, jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am still having resolver problems with my 6.2 system. > >> It has sho

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-30 Thread james
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 15:54 -0700, Jeff D wrote: > I've decided to try to build up my 1st FreeBSD server. > > Reading the Handbook is mostly helpful, but I' getting hit with a couple of > problems I can't figure out. > > I was looking for a beginner's list. I think this is the closest to it. >

libXfont not installing

2007-10-30 Thread james
Hi folks, I'm having issues getting libXfont installed from ports. It's a requirement of a lot of different things, such as xorg, xpdf etc. The problem that ran up to this was a while back, upgrading x11 from 6.9 to 7.2, I apparently borked it but didn't notice. I remembered everything as going o

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-30 Thread james
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 07:15 -0700, Jeff D wrote: > James, > > On 10/30/07, james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What version of the operating system are you using? > > I'm using the Version 6.2 Release, updated with Patchset 7 > > When

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-10-30 Thread James
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 20:50 +, Stephen Allen wrote: > It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports > collection, because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) > fails or is updated significantly, it could break, and prevent login. > The suggested solution was t

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-30 Thread James
you want a smoother sailing way of going forwards, try installing the older version of apache that's available in ports. Its install is the one that's handbook documented. If you decide to go with ubuntu, I hope it goes well for you. They have a friendly community that can help most problems. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ssh

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/31/07, Michael Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/31/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 10/31/07, Michael Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > If I'm sued as root and I ssh somewhere,

Re: Issues Installing ImageMagick on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/30/07, Brett Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Get this error... > > gdkdrawable-x11.c:32:24: cairo-xlib.h: No such file or directory > gdkdrawable-x11.c: In function `_gdk_x11_drawable_update_size': > gdkdrawable-x11.c:238: warning: implicit declaration of function > `cairo_xlib_surfac

Re: ssh

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/31/07, Michael Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I'm sued as root and I ssh somewhere, ssh/scp reads it's files from > /root/.ssh/. The docs say it reads from ~/.ssh which is what I want, > but it's not doing that. When sued, the shell is properly expanding ~ > to my home dir. > > Any

Re: Primary group and parent dir

2007-10-31 Thread James
he parent directory? It looks like that. I'd imagine there's a way to change this somewhere, but it would involve a kernel patch or something. Inheritance of permissions are pretty low level. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Primary group and parent dir

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/31/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 10/30/07, Alexey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > Linux: > > $ id > > uid=42451(u42451) gid=155(clients) groups=155(clients), 42451(u42451) > > > &

Re: ssh

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/31/07, Michael Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/31/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On 10/31/07, Michael Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/31/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 with Xorg 7.3

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/31/07, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hope this is an appropriate list for this type of question; please let > me > know if another list is more suitable to newbie-type quesions. > > I've been using Linux for a long time, and every year or so I have a crack > at *BSD to see what I'm mi

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/31/07, Steve Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think that in this list are FreeBSD > > *gurus*/hacks too which could say a "try it" or a "are you crazy?" > > answer. If other developers thinks that they need my rfc i'll add my > > code to FreeBSD. > > Agreed, so could it be added as

Re: launcher problems...

2007-11-01 Thread James
mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > You said you hadn't followed the handbook instructions on installing Gnome last time; have you tried that yet? James ___ freebsd-que

Re: 'break' system call man page is missing?

2007-11-01 Thread James
On 11/1/07, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the condition when errno=22 is returned? > I figured this out myself by looking into the kernel source code. > > But there still should be a man page for this since this seems to be only > (or at > least one of the very few) system calls w/o

Re: Problem with Apache22

2007-11-01 Thread James
On 11/1/07, Peter Uthoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a problem where my Apache procs are dying almost exactly every > ten > minutes as you can from the messages and web logs below: > > Oct 25 10:34:44 kernel: pid 66337 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4 > Oct > 25 10:35:33 k

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 with Xorg 7.3

2007-11-01 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:56 +, Tino Engel wrote: > Unfortunately portsnap fetch has performed an upgrade to xorg-7.3_1 for > RELENG_6_2. > I do not trust this at all. I would bet doing a portupgrade would break xorg > more or less irreversibly. I have already gone through this trying to upgr

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-02 Thread James
and the > licensing terms are scarier than most MS EULAs. I think I will leave > it for now... > > Thanks for the link though > > Ashley > 1. Write to[EMAIL PROTECTED] asking permission to use a trademarked image 2. Include a trademark sign on your site 3. Include a line that say

Re: cannot get screen out of black/black mode...

2007-11-04 Thread James
> > Xorg blanking can be set via "xset". To see your settings run > > "xset q". If you run "xset" without arguments, you can get hints > > on settings: > > > > For screen-saver control: > > s [timeout [cycle]] s defaults on > > s blank s noblanks off >

Re: Is there a way to compare what is in the ports tree with what is installed?

2007-11-04 Thread James
On 11/4/07, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 05 November 2007 02:04:39 Robert Huff wrote: > > Brett Davidson writes: > > > ie. If I had a particular version of the ports tree on a server, > > > how could I check to see if any of the programs in that tree were > > > actually inst

Re: multiple autoconf versions

2007-11-05 Thread James
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 19:48 +, Pollywog wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 6.2 and I discovered that I have four versions of > autoconf installed. > > autoconf-2.13.000227_6 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x > platforms > autoconf-2.53_4 Automatically configure source code on

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread James
f rsync, which is the nectar of the gods, but a lot of folks seem to prefer dd for this kind of thing. There was a thread not long ago about how best to duplicate a drive. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread James
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, James wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:53 -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: > > > >> I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data > >> and the FreeBSD OS on

Re: portupgrade questions

2007-11-05 Thread James
g to use ports, but you can't go back once you've started using them. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: portupgrade questions

2007-11-06 Thread James
On Nov 6, 2007 8:16 AM, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:18:01AM +0000, James wrote: > > [...] > > So you don't need to uninstall pkgs before starting to use ports, but > you > > can't go back once you've started

Re: List of sites using FreeBSD?

2007-11-06 Thread James
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 10:15 +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody out there know where I can find a list of sites running > FreeBSD? > > I expected it on www.freebsd.org, but couldn't find it (maybe overlooked?) > > Thanks in advance for any pointer. > > -ewald > > __

Re: problems with old SSH client and

2007-11-07 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 07:53 -0800, Juri Mianovich wrote: > I have a machine with an older SSH client on it and I > am trying to connect to my 6.2-RELEASE system. > What operating system is the older machine running (I assume FreeBSD, and I assume 6.2 stable, but want to be sure). What version o

Re: installing programs

2007-11-07 Thread James
of ls /var/db/pkg, you can use pkg_info -Ix I'm betting it's a rehash issue, or if you're using a bourne type shell, just reload the shell. You're right that 2.0.0.9 is the latest version of firefox; I'm using 2.0.0.7 right now. My advice i

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 20:50 +0100, cpghost wrote: > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:54:03 -0500 > Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (It is hard to admit, but) I generally agreed with Ted in this whole > > thing - at least on how the new logo thing missed its mark rather > > widely. But, i

Re: make buildworld ....gcc bug

2007-11-07 Thread James
nfigured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler > Thread model: posix > gcc version 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 The current version of gcc for FreeBSD is 4.2. Sync your ports tree, follow the advice in UPDATING and update, and try again. If you're using pkg_add, sub in the appropriate

RE: installing programs

2007-11-08 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 15:46 -0800, Marc Fromm wrote: > Hi James, > > > > Thanks for the extra tip on checking for installed packages. Here's another tip: use reply all, not reply. That way, we keep the whole list informed, which is a good thing :) > > I browse

Re: Can you help about script

2007-11-14 Thread James
check whether the initial field conforms to a specific string, and assign each string to a variable. After six read ins, you have all the information you need and you ouput them however you want. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

evolution slow on 7.0

2007-11-14 Thread James
tsnap fetch extract 7. follow the instructions in UPDATING for updating gnome I tried cd /usr/ports/mail/evolution && make deinstall && make reinstall, to see if something had simply gone wrong during the build, but nothing change

how to modem

2003-11-08 Thread james
I can't find the modem . although I did finally get kde installed are there any simple instructions for finding your modem and hitching up to the internet ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

where do you find

2003-11-09 Thread james
the topics that are posted on the e mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: where do you find

2003-11-10 Thread james
Lowell Gilbert wrote: james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: the topics that are posted on the e mail I don't understand the question. well the mailing list sends a list of topics but thats all it is just the titles so how do you get to look at the problem and salution of t

i have linux mandrake

2003-11-24 Thread james
I am trying to migrate to free bsd is there a way for me to put freebsd on with it woth out loosing mandrake or the files in it ? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mai

Re: dhcpd related issues

2009-09-21 Thread james
> Yeah, it seems to be the case that enough traffic was being generated > to delay the dhcp leases that the client computers were giving up. I > used dhcping to watch and witnessed it in action. Moving dhcp to > another server solved the issue. Likely I'll be moving some other > services off that s

Re: Wake-on-LAN and the em driver (freebsd 7.x)

2008-03-31 Thread James
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 08:43 -1000, Kent Hauser wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > FWIW; > > > > I have two 7.0-RELEASE boxes with single (on board) and dual > > (pro/1000) em NICs. WOL works fine on both. > > > > The link light must be on after

Re: clang buildworld broken

2012-03-24 Thread James
.if ${MK_SSP} != "no" && ${MACHINE_CPUARCH} != "ia64" && \ It's likely this with get it shrunk down enough. -- James. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: clang buildworld broken

2012-03-24 Thread James
Success! boot2 btx linked with 3 bytes available, rather than being 29 bytes too large. kernel: ver=1.02 size=690 load=9000 entry=9010 map=16M pgctl=1:1 client: fmt=bin size=156d text=0 data=0 bss=0 entry=0 output: fmt=bin size=1dfd text=200 data=1bfd org=0 entry=0 3 bytes available -- James

Re: clang buildworld broken

2012-03-25 Thread James
Clang again. Submitted by: dim (bsd.sys.mk) Reviewed by:dim, jhb -- James. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread james
2.168.1.6, but I can't ping out. However, once I run dhclient in bridge0, things magically work. Does anyone know why the above won't work? Thanks! James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread james
Quoting "Brian Seklecki (Mobile)" : Also, what MAC address does the DHCPREQUEST packet appear to be sourced from (from the view of your DHCP server, or on the wire somewhere between the two (SPAN PORT)) ~BAS How do I do that?

Re: Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread james
at it will be setup correctly, though. Thank you for the help! James ___ 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: Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread james
Quoting Devin Teske : Add the following line (exactly as it appears) to /etc/rc.conf: defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" That line's been there the whole time. Hasn't helped :( James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

RE: Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread james
net 192.168.1.6 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_re0="up" ifconfig_tap0="up" ifconfig_tap1="up" defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Static IP on a Bridge

2012-01-02 Thread james
t exist route: writing to routing socket: Network is unreachable add net default: gateway 192.168.1.1: Network is unreachable add net :::0.0.0.0: gateway ::1 add net ::0.0.0.0: gateway ::1 add net fe80::: gateway ::1 add net ff02::: gateway ::1 James

Problem with mfi driver, 9.0-RELEASE

2012-01-15 Thread james
the necessary fixes for the mfi driver? (Indeed, would I get those on FreeBSD stable?) James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd

How much of the manual needs adjustment for 9.0?

2012-01-15 Thread james
but its not clear to me how many of the functions of sysinstall are still supposed to work with a 9.0 release. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

How to build 9.0 from source?

2012-02-05 Thread james
e: don't know how t make buildkerel. Stop. /usr/src was empty before I set up the 'sys' link (which in my case points to a zfs volume). It seems wrong to m - how can I get sources etc installed so I can build the kernel? (And userspace if necessary - but

Moving boot/root disk in 9.0

2012-02-05 Thread james
o. Once I've got everything moved I'll disable the ZIL and move over by fiddling the BIOS priorities. James ___ 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: Home WiFi Router with pfSense or m0n0wall?

2013-04-20 Thread James
Hi Alejandro. I can't speak about Hacom, but I've had excellent results with Soekris hardware. It'll run all sorts of FreeBSD-based systems. They have kit suitable for both wired and wireless networks. -- James. ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Max top end computer for Freebsd to run on

2013-06-02 Thread James
Several modest servers applied well will take you further than one big iron—and for less cost. -- James. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: cannot mount cdrom - not a newbie problem

2004-12-14 Thread James
Hi, Have you tried: # mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mntpnt Seeing as how you said its a cdrw, I remember reading somewhere to use /dev/cd0 and not /dev/acd0 On Tuesday 14 December 2004 07:16 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > i have a genuine problem here. > i noticed my backup cdrw's had stopped working

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