perl upgrade to 5.8.6 and DB_File won't build

2005-03-20 Thread j .
It all started with a simple perl upgrade from 5.8.0 to 5.8.6. Unfortunately, DB_File fails to build properly. I am running FreeBSD 4.10 Stable #1 Here's the resu.llts of the make test make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/suidperl -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e

reclaiming /var capacity?

2009-03-11 Thread j.
Where did my capacity go and how can I get it back? deathray# du -sh /var 70M/var deathray# df -h /var FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0d 248M214M 15M94%/var Thanks, --j. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: HP 2133 MiniNote FreeBSD

2009-03-23 Thread A J
I try to install freebsd 7.1 on HP2133 but can't startx who can get a step for all need install ports ? kuantem wrote: If anyone else out there is trying to run FreeBSD 7 on their HP 2133 MiniNote lets share some progress. I'm currently having issues with the Broadcom wireless card

files need

2012-06-25 Thread j
I am a newbie to linux and unix. I want to install freebsd 8.3 and want to know what files I need to download. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: 6.1-RELEASE-i386 man broken?

2006-07-13 Thread J
On 2006-07-13 (Thu) 13:25:04 [+], David Christensen wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Please read what I wrote more carefully. To summarize: don't set $MANPATH in your environment, and the man(1) command will work correctly. Now I understand: The environment variable MANPATH should

Re: 6.1-RELEASE-i386 man broken?

2006-07-17 Thread J
On 2006-07-14 (Fri) 06:55:28 [+], Matthew Seaman wrote: J wrote: ... FreeBSD, recently, as my transported Linux bash configs contained MANPATH=$MANPATH:/custom/manpath. What I never figured out was the rationale for this. Anyone mind me asking what's wrong with MANPATH or why

Sendmail - One Trick Pony

2010-07-01 Thread J
I'd like to set up Sendmail to facilitate e-mail (with attached jpeg) delivery to an internet account from my wireless IP camera. That's all I want it to do, nothing more. I've been a very satisfied FreeBSD user for a few years and am reasonably comfortable with OS and software configuration,

Re: How to shut down

2003-09-17 Thread Greg J.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:15:59 -0500 lrnobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a new user learning about Unix. I found the shutdown command and have been using shutdown now to shut down before powering off. When the pc boots up it complains that it was incorrectly shut down. Am I following an

Asus A7V8X-X USB problems

2003-10-15 Thread Greg J.
Anyone else having these errors? Is there a way to fix it? uname -a: FreeBSD localhost.bsd-unix.org 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 14 07:18:13 MST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CASPER i386 dmesg: uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xd000-0xd01f irq 6 at

Re: color to files

2003-11-01 Thread Greg J.
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:16:01 -0500 SWIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to make the directories to show in color when doing a ls ? thanks mark ls -G man ls :) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Audigy FreeBSD 5.1

2003-11-06 Thread Greg J.
Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: Hello pals! I had configured my Creative Labs Audigy sound card, but I made an upgrade to FreeBSD 5.1 patch 10 and I lost my configuration and now I don't even have the /dev sound devices created at boot time. I remember that I found some patches to the kernel

Re: FreeBSD, SSH and Enter Authentication Response

2004-03-11 Thread J. Fowler
Hi, I saw your post regarding the nitpicking with the Enter Authentication Response while authing with an SSH client. We have a very similar setup to yours and I am seeing the same thing. I was wondering if you found solution and if you would be willing to share. Sincerely, Jay

Sound problems..

2004-04-12 Thread J Mc.
i have no sound, and i think its du to my sound card, which is on board my mobo. im not sure what type card it is, and not sure how to fix this problem. this is the mobo tho http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7som.html any help would be great, but if you can STEP-BY-STEP would be GREAT. im a

Re: X11 Fonts

2003-07-18 Thread Greg J.
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:04:27 -0400 (EDT) Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: today after the upgrade to fontconfig, something graciously changed my fonts without asking. What is the program and example to change X11 fonts? Steve ___ [EMAIL

Re: mozilla fonts totally messed up

2003-07-18 Thread Greg J.
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 23:56:39 +0200 Volker Kindermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Jul 2003 17:42:58 -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can workaround the problem by removing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts from/usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/fonts.conf, then running fc-cache -f -v.

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 -RELEASE: unknown option MAXUSERS

2003-07-19 Thread Greg J.
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 08:39:30 -0600 Joe Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 -RELEASE and I'm getting the error in the subject after attempting to add a new option to my custom kernel. I'm trying to add options USER_LDT so I can install the new Nvidia drivers but

Server rebooted at 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. for the past few days

2003-08-14 Thread Magnus J
Hello everyone I'm not sure if I should have posted this to freebsd-security, but I start here. I'm out traveling, and finally got a chance to login to my server back home through SSH, which is running 4.8 and is protected by an IPFILTER firewall. Looking at /var/log/messages , the server has

Re: Server rebooted at 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. for the past few days

2003-08-14 Thread Magnus J
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-1] Magnus J wrote: Hello everyone I'm not sure if I should have posted this to freebsd-security, but I start here. I'm out traveling, and finally got a chance to login to my server back home through SSH, which is running 4.8 and is protected

Re: Server rebooted at 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. for the past few days

2003-08-14 Thread Magnus J
cracked then that is a good place to look. the regular reboots are a concern. My boxes usually only get rebooted once a year so you should be able to expect well in excess of 2 to 3 mths without issue HTH - Original Message - From: Magnus J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Hovey

RE: Server rebooted at 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. for the past few days

2003-08-14 Thread Magnus J
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Magnus J Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 5:22 PM To: Steve Hovey Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Server rebooted at 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. for the past few days Hello Thanks for replying. /etc/crontab looks OK. This is how 'last' looks

Re: Server rebooted at 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. for the past few days

2003-08-14 Thread Magnus J
: - Original Message - From: Magnus J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brent Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:44 AM Subject: RE: Server rebooted at 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. for the past few days Hello dmesg shows no panic, and nothing that consumes much CPU

RE: Server rebooted at 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. for the past few days

2003-08-15 Thread Magnus J
of load on the box, it dies. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Magnus J Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:16 PM To: Luke Kearney Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Server rebooted at 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. for the past few days

Re: Apache 1.3.28 + Perl 5.8

2003-08-20 Thread Greg J.
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:12:09 -0400 Mo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I don't mean to double-post/send. But I'm not sure if it went through the first time. I was just wondering if it was possible to make the port apache13 (/usr/ports/www/apache13) to use perl 5.8 (/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8)

Re: How can I get sound working on a Compaq EVO n410C

2003-08-22 Thread Greg J.
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:25:17 -0400 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would swear that Iasked this question, and got an answer a couple of weeks ago. I got sidetrakced from the project of making this machine work, and I can't find in my mail archive for the FreeBSD list what the answer was ;-(

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-08-28 Thread Greg J.
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:43:49 +0200 Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is RELENG_4 to be considered stable? I.e. can i use it for production? Also i am still a bit unsure, what CURRENT, RELEASE and STABLE mean. From other OS's, i know that Release means for production use. But

Problem with Swedish Keyboard after XFree86 and Gnome upgrade

2003-03-30 Thread Magnus J
Hello everyone I just upgraded my FreeBSD 4.7 box from XFree86 4.2.1, Gnome 1.4 to XFree86 4.3 and Gnome 2.2. After that, my Swedish keyboard no longer works as it used to do, e.g. the characters åäö doesn't work anymore. When I press those keys nothing happens. Anyone seen this problem? This

Re: Problem with Swedish Keyboard after XFree86 and Gnome upgrade

2003-03-30 Thread Magnus J
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: * De: Magnus J [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2003-03-30 ] [ Subjecte: Problem with Swedish Keyboard after XFree86 and Gnome upgrade ] I just upgraded my FreeBSD 4.7 box from XFree86 4.2.1, Gnome 1.4 to XFree86 4.3 and Gnome 2.2. After that, my Swedish keyboard

Re: Fw: Help:FW Harddisk has no space!

2003-05-31 Thread J Leung
in the /home partition and i think i should use fsck./home -y. Do you thank it is ok? Please mail back me asap, i plan to run it tomorrow , thank you! Stanley - Original Message - From: J Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stanley Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 3:49

Re: bsd daemon chick wallpaper??

2003-06-18 Thread Greg J.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:12:27 +1000 Andrew Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i know this isn't exactly mission critical stuff, but the one i'm actually thinking off is all black. The cartoon daemon in chick is a glowing blue for memory with a tail wrapping over her lap?? sounds dodge, but

Re: buildworld errors

2003-07-03 Thread Greg J.
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:23:19 -0400 quadrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a cvsupit from FreeBSD 4.8 to current ( =. ) I did a make buildworld 3 times so far with different errors each time. Between each buildworld, I did the rm -rf /usr/obj and started over again. It goes for about 4 hours

Re: pcm on 5.1

2003-07-04 Thread Greg J.
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 21:15:01 -0500 David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2003 07:01 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 07:58 PM, Laszlo Vagner wrote: I just updated to 5.1-r and was wondering how to add soundcard support to the kernel.? in

X problems, please advise helpless newbie

2002-10-17 Thread J. Foobar
I have been unable to get X to start successfully. Hopefully I am overlooking something stupid. FreeBSD 4.6.2 on an Intel machine My graphics card is an Intel 82845G/GL. I searched for info on the Intel site and it mentioned that this card is in the i810 class. From my XF86Config file:

Kernel will not compile, please help

2002-10-28 Thread J. Foobar
I am attempting to compile a custom kernel in order to add support for ipfw. I ran into several undefined reference errors for 'xpt_done', etc. The last error: scsi_low.o(.text+0xc6f): undefined reference to 'xpt_done' The failure occurs both using the traditional method during make and the new

Re: Kernel will not compile, please help

2002-10-28 Thread J. Foobar
Ceri- That nailed it. I must have overlooked those 3 lines. Thank you so much. Regards, Justin --- Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:50:51AM -0800, J. Foobar wrote: I am attempting to compile a custom kernel in order to add support for ipfw. I ran

Urgent Unix Support Requirement for Frankfurt

2002-11-27 Thread J Schroeder
languages, Standard Microsoft software, Native German speaker (also good knowledge of English) Best regards, J. Schroeder To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Urgent Unix Support Requirement for Frankfurt

2002-11-27 Thread J Schroeder
languages, Standard Microsoft software, Native German speaker (also good knowledge of English) Best regards, J. Schroeder To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

3D with MGA on XFree86 4.3.0 / 5.0-RELEASE?

2003-03-12 Thread J. Kanowitz
Keeping this brief, I'm a lazy sod, and it's fairly obvious the 4.3.0 integration is in flux. I've got a G200: drm0: Matrox G200 (AGP) mem 0xf780-0xf7ff,0xf77fc000-0xf77f,0xf600-0xf6ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 On: FreeBSD mustelid.gateway.2wire.net 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD

Re: 3D with MGA on XFree86 4.3.0 / 5.0-RELEASE?

2003-03-14 Thread J. Kanowitz
--- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response! Try the following in your XF86Config file in the Device section: Option NoHal true That will prevent the server from trying to load the HAL module. That does prevent the failure message, but hasn't changed

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2003-03-20 Thread j . fortin
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Questions with configuring multiple NIC's

2005-02-16 Thread J Ramos
Hello, I'm currently running 5.3 on a HP Pavillion ze4420us laptop. Pretty much everything that I would like to get working works, with the exception of my NIC's. The onboard National Semiconductor DP83815/16 works fine by itself with the sis driver. I have 2 pcmcia wireless ethernet cards,

Re: Questions with configuring multiple NIC's

2005-02-18 Thread J Ramos
- From: J Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:38 PM Subject: Questions with configuring multiple NIC's Hello, I'm currently running 5.3 on a HP Pavillion ze4420us laptop. Pretty much everything that I would like to get working works

Re: Questions with configuring multiple NIC's

2005-02-18 Thread J Ramos
by IP, just not off the local network. I thought that I had established a default route, I'm almost certain, but I guess I was wrong. All seems to be working now, though. Thanks again, Josh - Original Message - From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: J Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd

Location of disklabel

2005-03-10 Thread Carl J
Hi all! To all your FS guru's outthere, I desperately need to know where the disklabel is stored (since my disk is in trouble!) Situation: My /dev/ad0s1 has 2 partitions: a (FS) followed by b (swap). By using disklabel -r, I see my a and b indeed take up the entire slice. My desperate

[no subject]

2004-07-08 Thread Mike J
I have a question. One of the new guys went into one of our BSD servers and changed the root environment from the default to /bin/bash and bash isn't installed on this box, therefore we are having trouble su'ing in and even logging in at the console. Anyone have any ideas on how to get in. Mike

Freebsd 5.x on Toshiba Portege 3500

2004-08-06 Thread J. Kenney
not survive the boot up? I was hoping that maybe someone has been able to get the Portege to boot, and could help with advise. Many thanks! J. Kenney ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

BTX Halted from 5.2.1 CD, MS-9211 1U Rackmount Server

2004-08-17 Thread j snod
Version: W9211MS v1.0 121002 19:07:50 RAID BIOS: MB FastTrack Lite 2.00.1030.27 256MB PC266 RAM IDE1 Master: NONE IDE1 Slave : NONE IDE2 Master: CD-ROM (Mitsumi SR244W1) IDE2 Slave : NONE ATA Raid: (2) Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 40GB configured as RAID1 Mirror. Please Help! Any ideas? Thanks, -j

[Fwd: Dial-up (auto) version 5.2.1]

2004-08-20 Thread j agui
---BeginMessage--- Hello, How can I make my dial-up modem to work in interactive mode (as I have it on version 4.9) as opposed to auto in version 5.2.1. Just putting ppp_mode=interactive in /etc/rc.conf doesn't work Your help is appreciated. j ---End Message

what is with the instalation?! :(

2006-01-01 Thread artek j
i have problem with instalation to point 2.8 , when should start the instalation explode error : Undable to find /dev/ad2s3b in/dev abort instalation undable to create file system instalation aborted i have 3 partitions c:fat32 for windows primary d:fat32 for warning files

boot process failure (/boot.config, boot2, loader)

2006-01-17 Thread J oberweith
Booting problem... I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 on my little Pentium III box. My problem started when I was trying to have it boot ACPI enabled by default (now, of course, I know about the loader.conf control file). Anyway, I read another post stating that all I needed to do was put the boot

I'm on Vacation

2003-12-28 Thread j . fortin
Hello , I'm currently in the pacific with chix stuck on my dick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I'm on Vacation

2003-12-28 Thread j . fortin
Hello , I'm currently in the pacific with chix stuck on my dick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ipf / pf

2003-12-30 Thread j . l
Hi, Here's a question that might seem trivial: What's the relationship between the freebsd ipf and the openbsd pf? Are they the same thing, or are they separately developed branches of a common codebase? Or maybe they are totally different. I ask this because I was looking around for

Kernel Core Dumping

2005-06-14 Thread J T
Hi, For some reason my machine keeps crashing almost every night at around 3:00am with the following test in the messages log file: Jun 14 03:02:28 taco kernel: pid 7174 (sh), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) I tracked it down to cvsup. I run it every night at 3:00am, the following is

Re: Kernel Core Dumping

2005-06-18 Thread J T
Just an update on this, everything has been fine since I deleted the file. No more crashes. Strange. -JT On 6/14/05, J T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For some reason my machine keeps crashing almost every night at around 3:00am with the following test in the messages log file: Jun 14 03

Re: utility that will dump a web page to std out?

2005-06-24 Thread J. Johnston
David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:05:48AM -0500, Brian John wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of a utility that will get a webpage and dump the output to standard out? I was going to use wget, but it dumps the output to a file. Any ideas? fetch -o - http://url curl

5.2.1 GEOM fails to create RAID disk after install

2005-07-23 Thread J- compucate
Would you be interested your Maxtor 60 you discussed on a newsgroup? Thanks, JJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD and NetZero

2004-11-23 Thread J W
I have NetZero as my Dial-Up ISP. I would love to use freebsd as my gateway, ratehr than use windows with ICS enabled. Is there a way to work around the proprietary software used by NetZero, or has any one seen a way to make freebsd work with netzero? Thank You, IDESpinner

RE: Kevin Kinsey's RE:FreeBSD and NetZero

2004-11-27 Thread J W
I have NetZero as my Dial-Up ISP. I would love to use freebsd as my gateway, ratehr than use windows with ICS enabled. Is there a way to work around the proprietary software used by NetZero, or has any one seen a way to make freebsd work with netzero? Thank You, IDESpinner I've not used

ftp login/password

2004-11-29 Thread j p
i'm trying to download freebsd via ftp. what is the login and password. how do i copy the files ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ftp

2004-11-29 Thread j p
i have coffeecup. i can not connect to any of the sits to get freebsd ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

AMD- XP

2004-11-29 Thread j p
i have a AMD XP 2200 chip. what version of freebsd i need to download. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FTP

2004-11-30 Thread j p
how do i FTP freebsd? do i need some other software? i need step by step. is there some other site i can just download it? thank you JP ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Free BSD documentation

2004-12-08 Thread J W
The most helpful site for me when i wa new to freebsd was http://www.defcon1.org/ While this site is not the most current out there, it has tutorials and what not for real world scenerios, ones the author actually used himself. However, aside from the FreeBSD Handbook, websites are not all that

Problems with FreeBSD

2008-11-03 Thread J MPZ
? Someone know how I can fix it? Some sysctl? Regards, J. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with FreeBSD

2008-11-04 Thread J MPZ
Jeremy, 2008/11/4, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:11:15AM -0200, J MPZ wrote: Hi Jeremy, I tried without none rules on ipfw FreeBSD (just allow ip from any to any) and error continues occurring. Then I have no idea. How I can disable the TCP

Re: Problems with FreeBSD

2008-11-04 Thread J MPZ
189.21.230.195.20787: ., cksum 0xbf5c (correct), 1664:1664(0) ack 481 win 65535 nop,nop,timestamp 745948873 1556449351 I'm using: tcpdump -nvvv -i ste0 host REMOTE_IP 2008/11/3, Paul A. Procacci [EMAIL PROTECTED]: J MPZ wrote: Hi guys, I have some problem with my FreeBSD server. I have

Re: Problems with FreeBSD

2008-11-04 Thread J MPZ
]: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:43:52PM -0200, J MPZ wrote: Hi guys, I have some problem with my FreeBSD server. I have this: #### # # Linux1 # - ASA - Internet - # FreeBSD # - # Linux2

Re: Problems with FreeBSD

2008-11-04 Thread J MPZ
Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:10:25 -0200, J MPZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul, When my connections freeze, I open the tcpdump in other terminal. If I type something, type Enter, on the terminal frozen, the tcpdump show packets, like that: 11:18:45.526256 IP (tos 0x0, ttl

Re: Ipfw forward

2008-11-25 Thread n j
I'd like to have a clarification about the forward command in ipfw. From what I read in the man, I understand that on hitting a fwd rule, the lookup in the routing table will be done according to the IP address in the fwd rule, and not according to the IP destination address of the packet.

Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...

2008-12-07 Thread n j
versions. The packages for a particular branch tend to lag the updates by up to a couple of weeks although they are built continually. If you want to stay really up to date you need to keep your tree updated with portsnap or csup (part of the base system) and compile them yourself. Another

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-26 Thread n j
Linus Torvalds on KDE4... [quote] Q: Another open source project that underwent a big change was KDE with version 4.0. They released a lot of fundamental architectural changes with 4.0 and it received some negative reviews. As a KDE user how has this impacted you? A: I used to be a KDE user. I

Re: apt of freebsd

2009-02-03 Thread n j
Or you can try Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/) to get the best(?) of both worlds - FreeBSD kernel and GNU userland (aka use apt to install deb packages). -- Nino ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Logcheck dependency hell

2009-02-12 Thread n j
Hello, could anyone help me what command should I use to find out which logcheck-required port _exactly_ is trying to install half of the X libraries? The logcheck port lists the following build depends (output of pretty-print-build-depends-list): This port requires package(s)

Re: Logcheck dependency hell

2009-02-17 Thread n j
The Makefile says: ... So I'll bet some money that it's docbook. Correct. Does it improve if you add these to /etc/make.conf: ... No, the result is exactly the same. # finddep.php security/logcheck x11/xorg-libraries /usr/ports/textproc/docbook-to-man: /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries

Re: Logcheck dependency hell

2009-02-17 Thread n j
(sorry for the previous mail) The Makefile says: ... So I'll bet some money that it's docbook. Correct. Does it improve if you add these to /etc/make.conf: ... No, the result is exactly the same. # finddep.php security/logcheck x11/xorg-libraries /usr/ports/textproc/docbook-to-man:

Re: Logcheck dependency hell

2009-02-24 Thread n j
Hi Greg, On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: I'm the maintainer of security/logcheck, and I apologize for not catching up with my inbox sooner.  I just saw your message, and the same issue was reported by someone else a couple of weeks ago. sorry if the

Re: Logcheck dependency hell

2009-02-25 Thread n j
Hey Greg, perhaps you might want to know about this. Sorry for using the list for unicast mail, but (as seen below) I obviously can't contact you directly. Regards, -- Nino -- Forwarded message -- ...                   The mail system i...@sourcehosting.net: host

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-09 Thread n j
I'd like to use this opportunity to generally support this and any other ideas taking direction of making binary installs and upgrades easier and more manageable. I recognize the need for people to configure custom options and compile from ports (that is why any new system *must* be compatible

Re: Blacklisting a SourceForge mirror from ports?

2009-12-23 Thread J Sisson
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: Would route add heanet.dl.sourceforge.net 127.0.0.1 help? Or map heanet to a non-routable addy in /etc/hosts... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Superfluous ACK and RST packets after terminating connection

2010-02-11 Thread n j
Hi all, I was debugging some problems with an application and noticed some strange behavior that I can only attribute to possible problems in TCP/IP stack which OTOH I consider unlikely. I'd appreciate any pointers towards why are there extra packets? - in case of successful connection:

Re: API to find the memory usage of a process.

2010-03-18 Thread J. Johnston
On 03/18/10 10:28, Jayadev Kumar wrote: Hi, I need to find the memory usage of a process, from inside the process. Is there any system call do this ? I was trying to find it from 'top' utility source code. I couldn't find the port which it is coming from yet. Thanks, Jayadev. the

acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-21 Thread B J
I have a Compaq Presario SR2180NX, which uses a P5LP-LE motherboard. When I bought the machine second hand three years ago, I originally installed and ran FreeBSD 5.5 without the error message. I recall that it began appearing after I installed and ran 6.3, though I don't think it did under

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-22 Thread B J
snip I've looked at some of the ACPI code file and didn't notice anything obvious which might be responsible for the error message. A quick solution I've used is running a file with: hw.acpi.thermal.user_override: 0 - 1 hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10 - 1800

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-22 Thread B J
snip I was able to set the temperature of hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT by changing hex values in my ASL, but _CRT is hard coded whereas _TMP is set dynamically (in my ASL). There is also a problem that the value of _CRT is output by sysctl so I could watch the results of my changes, whereas

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-22 Thread B J
snip One thing I did notice, however, is when I compiled that file and got two errors arising from: Store (Local0, Local0) where Local0 hadn't been defined in that part of the code. I have no idea how that came about, but it successfully compiled after I commented out

Re: IPFilter and IPMon logging to syslog

2011-03-02 Thread n j
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Dean E. Weimer dwei...@dweimer.net wrote: I have been doing some work with cleaning up my log files to make them easier to read, and for the life of me can't figure out how to get my IPFilter logs to stop going into the /var/log/messages log.  I have a syslog

Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread n j
Java works very well for me under FreeBSD; I have not had a single problem with Java on FreeBSD. To install java, you can either install a pre-compiled JDK (called diablo-jdk) or compile all the JDK sources from scratch using the ports system.  If you compile yourself from ports, you can

Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread n j
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:13 AM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Why not now? (Or anytime this past year or more?): Hmm, good point :-). I was misled by the ports page (e.g. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=openjdkstype=all) which used to have a different entry if a port had a

Re: Two Networks on one System

2011-06-21 Thread n j
I can't really say I understand the exact problem the OP has, but if it's anything similar to asymmetrical/source-based routing problems I was having some time ago, pf and reply-to is probably the best way to do it. However, I'd also like to point out setfib(1), as it seems no-one has brought it

fixit console with sshd

2009-04-28 Thread n j
I was just wondering if someone could give me a quick advice on how (or at least confirm it's possible) to start sshd in fixit console i.e. how to boot FreeBSD off the CD1 (6.4-RELEASE) and enable SSH access to it. What I have tried (unsuccessfully) so far is: 1) copying sshd startup script (and

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-06 Thread n j
... What is the best way to restore the full system? Can I use the FreeBSD installation disk in rescue mode? I experienced such a situation just 2 weeks ago. My primary problem was that I had to do restore over the network (no attached tape drives, no external HDDs). I wanted to use ssh to grab

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread J Sisson
That's a great idea...let's take a wonderful open source project and flood it with Windows programmers who couldn't find the shell even if they booted without a GUI. And while we're at it, let's re-write the shell in .NET...you know...for performance reasons. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:32 AM,

Competition law (was Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint)

2009-05-29 Thread J . McKeown
Quoting Jerry ges...@yahoo.com: Look up the definition of 'socialism'. I know what socialism means. You seem not to. I haven't anywhere advocated state ownership of businesses - in fact I very clearly stated that I believe in a free market with only that level of regulation required to

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-10 Thread n j
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: Of course, this is explicit to rather serious production environments. Desktop and casual usage ... ports may serve you better if you like to stay

Man page viewing problems

2005-05-27 Thread J. Johnston
After searching the mailing list I couldn't find much regarding this issues (or manpages on groff) %man make.conf Formatting page, please wait.../usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file /usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii' Failed. /usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file

Re: Man page viewing problems

2005-05-28 Thread J. Johnston
Lowell Gilbert wrote: J. Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After searching the mailing list I couldn't find much regarding this issues (or manpages on groff) Well, if you can't show man pages, then you would have a problem with reading the ones about the formatter for the man pages

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-07 Thread J B
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:23:38 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:36:21AM +, Luke Marsden wrote: ... I'm trying to confirm that, on a system with no pages swapped out, that the following is a true statement: a page is accounted for in active + inactive if

How can i decrease memory occupied by xorg ?

2012-07-04 Thread J B
It is in ports: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xrestop jb ___ 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: anyone here use poudriere ?

2012-07-14 Thread n j
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:32:48 +0100 Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: I've been playing with poudriere and pkg as per ... Btw, is there any chance poudriere (or sth like it) will one day work on UFS, not just

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