Re: Setenv PACKAGESITE thepathtoftp, in boot time how to do it?

2011-12-05 Thread perryh
Hugh bo...@gmail.com wrote: A question i've got is where i can find the default PACKAGESITE value? It seems to be hardcoded in usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/main.c (line 318 in the 8.1 version). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Setenv PACKAGESITE thepathtoftp, in boot time how to do it?

2011-12-04 Thread Hugh
A question i've got is where i can find the default PACKAGESITE value? ___ 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: Setenv PACKAGESITE thepathtoftp, in boot time how to do it?

2011-12-04 Thread Edgar Rodolfo
2011/12/4, Hugh bo...@gmail.com: A question i've got is where i can find the default PACKAGESITE value? FreeBSD comes with the default mirror (ftp), see when you use pkg_add, in my case it failed, is the reason because i changed to the mirror (ftp), you can use diferent ftp

Setenv PACKAGESITE thepathtoftp, in boot time how to do it?

2011-11-30 Thread Edgar Rodolfo
Hi guys, currently i have a machine with freebsd 9 rc2, for default when i try to use pkg_add -r wget, for example, i can not install because the path is freebsd# pkg_add -r xscreensaver Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-current/Latest/xscreensaver.tbz:

Re: Setenv PACKAGESITE thepathtoftp, in boot time how to do it?

2011-11-30 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
you may want to define the PACKAGESITE variable in the .cshrc file in your $HOME; On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Edgar Rodolfo cybernaut...@gmail.comwrote: Hi guys, currently i have a machine with freebsd 9 rc2, for default when i try to use pkg_add -r wget, for example, i can not install

Re: Setenv PACKAGESITE thepathtoftp, in boot time how to do it?

2011-11-30 Thread Edgar Rodolfo
2011/11/30, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com: you may want to define the PACKAGESITE variable in the .cshrc file in your $HOME; Thank. this is correct: echo 'setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/Latest/;' /root/.cshrc On Wed, Nov 30, 2011

Re: How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: (i) install onto a new computer , test it , and if it is working very well transfer data onto new system , and keep old system for a new release/update cycle . This step is most suitable for production systems exposed to outer world .

Re: How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-22 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/5/21 Hans Ivers hansiv...@gmail.com: On May 16, 11:42 am, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello folks Just a thought/question that has recently come to my mind: How long do you usually wait until upgrading to a newer release of FreeBSD? I am sure there are lots of people who

Re: How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-21 Thread Hans Ivers
On May 16, 11:42 am, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello folks Just a thought/question that has recently come to my mind: How long do you usually wait until upgrading to a newer release of FreeBSD? I am sure there are lots of people who upgrade straight away, but what about

Re: How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-20 Thread Roger Vetterberg
is stupid. How do you know that a brand new version of a software does not contain a big gaping security hole unless it has been tested in the wild yet? -- R ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-20 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
tested. To religiously update everytime there is a new version and blame it on security is stupid. How do you know that a brand new version of a software does not contain a big gaping security hole unless it has been tested in the wild yet? -- R More than two years I am studying FreeBSD

Re: [#24509808] How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-20 Thread dedicated
Hello, What exactly is this about. Let us know your requirement. -- Best Regards Dennis Server Engineer Hosting Services, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: [#24509808] How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 20, 2010, at 10:12 AM, dedica...@midphase.com wrote: What exactly is this about. Let us know your requirement. The requirement, per RFC-821/2821/5321, is that postmas...@midphase.com ought to work: % telnet mx.midphase.com 25 Trying 69.4.235.206... Connected to mx.midphase.com. Escape

How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-16 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello folks Just a thought/question that has recently come to my mind: How long do you usually wait until upgrading to a newer release of FreeBSD? I am sure there are lots of people who upgrade straight away, but what about the opposite? What's your oldest currently running installation, do you

Re: How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-16 Thread Outback Dingo
: Hello folks Just a thought/question that has recently come to my mind: How long do you usually wait until upgrading to a newer release of FreeBSD? I am sure there are lots of people who upgrade straight away, but what about the opposite? What's your oldest currently running installation

Re: How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 16 May 2010 18:42:44 +0300, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Just a thought/question that has recently come to my mind: How long do you usually wait until upgrading to a newer release of FreeBSD? A quite generic answer: Only as long as needed. :-) Upgrading often is determined

Re: How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-16 Thread krad
On 16 May 2010 17:05, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2010 18:42:44 +0300, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Just a thought/question that has recently come to my mind: How long do you usually wait until upgrading to a newer release of FreeBSD? A quite generic answer

Re: How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

2010-05-16 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 16 May 2010 at 08:42:44 PDT Dan Naumov wrote: Just a thought/question that has recently come to my mind: How long do you usually wait until upgrading to a newer release of FreeBSD? My machines are all for personal use only, and it wouldn't be a disaster if any of them went down

how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Gary Kline
due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question about doing a custom install that would let me slice the drive into more that four pieces. i am building, by default,

RE: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread David Rawling
-Original Message- From: Gary Kline Sent: Sun 15/11/2009 8:03 PM due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question about doing a custom install that would let me slice the drive

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question about doing a custom install that would let me slice the drive into more that four pieces. i am building, by default, /, /var

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 08:59:32PM +1100, David Rawling wrote: -Original Message- From: Gary Kline Sent: Sun 15/11/2009 8:03 PM due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:03:03 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: anybody remember what keys to hit in the installation procedure? Let me access my brain... open(brain); Start installation which brings up sysinstall. Choose CUSTOM. First set up slice in FDISK, press 'd' to nuke 'em

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 08:59:32PM +1100, David Rawling wrote: -Original Message- From: Gary Kline Sent: Sun 15/11/2009 8:03 PM due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question

Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync

2009-07-06 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 06:18:03PM +0200, insrc typed: Hi, I'm used to migrate GNU/Linux system from one box to another by booting the second box with a liveCD (like systemrescueCD for example) and by copying the / filesystem (using the ssh transport) with rsync. I would like to do the same

Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync

2009-07-06 Thread Jeff Laine
Hi, I'm used to migrate GNU/Linux system from one box to another by booting the second box with a liveCD (like systemrescueCD for example) and by copying the / filesystem (using the ssh transport) with rsync. I would like to do the same for BSD system but i have two issues: - as the UFS

Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync

2009-07-06 Thread insrc
Hi, Thanks guys, everything worked perfectly ! - For the liveCD, i booted the second box with FreeNAS ( http://www.freenas.org/index.php?lang=fr ) , which include rsync and ssh :-) - Created the partition layout following the official doc

how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync

2009-07-05 Thread insrc
Hi, I'm used to migrate GNU/Linux system from one box to another by booting the second box with a liveCD (like systemrescueCD for example) and by copying the / filesystem (using the ssh transport) with rsync. I would like to do the same for BSD system but i have two issues: - as the UFS write

Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync

2009-07-05 Thread perryh
insrc informatique@gmail.com wrote: it seems that i've to use a BSD liveCD but i can't find one :-/ www.freesbie.org The site is not responding for me ATM, but the text is cached here: http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:WjK0Anp5tb4J:www.freesbie.org/+freesbie+freebsdhl=engl=usstrip=1

Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync

2009-07-05 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Sonntag, 05. Jul 2009, 18:18:03 +0200 schrieb insrc: - as the UFS write support is still experimental in the Linux kernel, it seems that i've to use a BSD liveCD but i can't find one :-/ I heard about frenzy ( http://frenzy.org.ua/en/ ) but the homepage says that the project is no

Re: How to do ping really quiet?

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Cowart
KES wrote: Thx. This help, but seems ugly. Because of I can miss other maybe usefull errors (( ping -q ya.ru 2/dev/null Any other suggestions? ping -q ya.ru 21 1/dev/null | grep -v 'ping: sendto: No route to host' 2 Send ping stderr to stdout, throw away ping stdout, use grep to suppress

How to do ping really quiet?

2009-01-05 Thread KES
Hello, Questions. When I use ping -q ya.ru I get ping: sendto: No route to host How to make ping really quiet? KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to do ping really quiet?

2009-01-05 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:22:34 +0200, KES kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: Hello, Questions. When I use ping -q ya.ru I get ping: sendto: No route to host How to make ping really quiet? It depends on your shell. For default scripting shell (Bourne Shell) you can ping -q ya.ru /dev/null

Re: How to do ping really quiet?

2009-01-05 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
KES wrote: Hello, Questions. When I use ping -q ya.ru I get ping: sendto: No route to host How to make ping really quiet? Try: sh -c 'ping -q ya.ru /dev/null 21' -- FR ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re[2]: How to do ping really quiet?

2009-01-05 Thread KES
Hello, Frederique. FR KES wrote: Hello, Questions. When I use ping -q ya.ru I get ping: sendto: No route to host How to make ping really quiet? FR Try: FR sh -c 'ping -q ya.ru /dev/null 21' man ping -q Quiet output. Nothing is displayed except the summary lines at

Re: How to do regression on libc?

2008-06-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to do regression on libc to verify the correctness? There are conformance test suites out there. The decent ones all seem to cost money, but you might want to look at the Open POSIX project. ___ freebsd-questions

How to do regression on libc?

2008-06-08 Thread Unga
Hi all How to do regression on libc to verify the correctness? Kind regards Unga ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

2007-05-23 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
dhaneshk k [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a freebsd-6.0 server with postfix and mailman running on this machine , but I havn't configured spamassasin ,amavisd etc in this box. so I am suffering from spams daily .. Spamassassin is available as a port, as are a number of other useful bits

Re: How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

2007-05-23 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
dhaneshk k wrote: Hi Everbody I have a freebsd-6.0 server with postfix and mailman running on this machine , but I havn't configured spamassasin ,amavisd etc in this box. so I am suffering from spams daily .. You can give it to postfix - just setup some dnsbl zones for it. Good place

Re: How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

2007-05-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
dhaneshk k wrote: Hi Everbody I have a freebsd-6.0 server with postfix and mailman running on this machine , but I havn't configured spamassasin ,amavisd etc in this box. so I am suffering from spams daily .. Since I am a new be to FreeBSD , let me requset you to share your expertise

Re: How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

2007-05-23 Thread PeterPluta
/SP05/emoticons/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-do

How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

2007-05-22 Thread dhaneshk k
Hi Everbody I have a freebsd-6.0 server with postfix and mailman running on this machine , but I havn't configured spamassasin ,amavisd etc in this box. so I am suffering from spams daily .. Since I am a new be to FreeBSD , let me requset you to share your expertise (the steps how to

Re: How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

2007-05-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Dhanesh, ( Genaral question : Is there any port for spamassasin,amavisd in FreeBSD) Starting from the end but that is the easy part, yes there are. I have a freebsd-6.0 server with postfix and mailman running on this machine , (Side remark: You may consider upgrading to 6.2) but

Re: How to do health check

2006-10-26 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:36:50PM +0300, Simon Phoenix wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Faiyaz Ali said the following on 19.10.2006 09:55: Hi, I'm new in unix world, 1) how to do helthcheck on unix machine ? 2) how the check on system information eg

How to do health check

2006-10-19 Thread Faiyaz Ali
Hi, I'm new in unix world, 1) how to do helthcheck on unix machine ? 2) how the check on system information eg. RAM, CPU, HD capacity Thanks Faiyaz Ali ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: How to do health check

2006-10-19 Thread Simon Phoenix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Faiyaz Ali said the following on 19.10.2006 09:55: Hi, I'm new in unix world, 1) how to do helthcheck on unix machine ? 2) how the check on system information eg. RAM, CPU, HD capacity 1) I'm using healthd for check temperature sensors

How to do physical-to-virtual translation in FreeBSD? Does FreeBSD support kmap() or kmap_atomic()?

2006-04-21 Thread hongz
Hi guys: We are doing HBA driver (Soft Raid5) porting from Linux to FreeBSD. As we need to do XOR in kernel space, we need to map a physical address into a virtual address. In Linux, we use kmap_atomic() to implement it, and could you tell me how to do it in FreeBSD? Thank for your help

Re: How to do physical-to-virtual translation in FreeBSD? Does FreeBSD support kmap() or kmap_atomic()?

2006-04-21 Thread Andy Reitz
how to do it in FreeBSD? Thank for your help! Hi Hong, I'm not entirely sure, but you might want to try posting your question to the freebsd-hackers mailing list. Good luck, -Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

How to do this?

2006-04-18 Thread Gary Kline
Is it possible to set up a GUI app on my web site where only a few people could http to and irc chat with me? This page would not be published. Something like ymessenger, only private. If this seems like a dumb question, it'd because I know virtually

Re: How to do this?

2006-04-18 Thread Noah Silverman
Look at the apache server. There is .htaccess and other methods of limiting who can see the page. -N On Apr 18, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Is it possible to set up a GUI app on my web site where only a few people could http to and irc chat with me? This

Re: How to do a kernel dump?

2006-03-03 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today Olivier Nicole spake forth boldly: This isn't guaranteed 100% correct, but at least if it's not, maybe it'll get someone else involved. Below my dumpdev in rc.conf I have savecore_flags=-z to compress the core dump kernel with gzip. Also,

Re: How to do a kernel dump?

2006-03-02 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today Olivier Nicole spake forth boldly: Hi, I'd like to get a kernel dump when the machine panics. I set-up dumpdev=/dev/rda0s1b in /etc/rc.conf. My swap is: amandaon41: swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type

Re: How to do a kernel dump?

2006-03-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
This isn't guaranteed 100% correct, but at least if it's not, maybe it'll get someone else involved. Below my dumpdev in rc.conf I have savecore_flags=-z to compress the core dump kernel with gzip. Also, read man savecore again, esp the part about minfree in /var/crash free kilobytes for

How to do a kernel dump?

2006-03-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I'd like to get a kernel dump when the machine panics. I set-up dumpdev=/dev/rda0s1b in /etc/rc.conf. My swap is: amandaon41: swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type /dev/rda0s1b 10484480 1048448 0%Interleaved My memory is only 256 MB, so

Re: How well do USB - parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-19 Thread Sandy Rutherford
to gather some information before I go forward with this plan. Anyone use one of these? How well do they work in general? How well do they work under FreeBSD? Depends on the printer. They do not work with HP OfficeJets. I have been able to get an Entegra USB - parallel adapter to work

Re: How well do USB - parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Jeays
and how the translation isn't always 100%, so I'm trying to gather some information before I go forward with this plan. Anyone use one of these? How well do they work in general? How well do they work under FreeBSD? Depends on the printer. They do not work with HP OfficeJets. I

Re: How well do USB - parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-19 Thread Eric Schuele
, but I've got no experience with these. I've been warned about USB - serial adapaters and how the translation isn't always 100%, so I'm trying to gather some information before I go forward with this plan. Anyone use one of these? How well do they work in general? How well do they work under

Re: How well do USB - parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-19 Thread Greg Barniskis
a USB - parallel adapter, but I've got no experience with these. I've been warned about USB - serial adapaters and how the translation isn't always 100%, so I'm trying to gather some information before I go forward with this plan. Anyone use one of these? How well do they work in general? How well

How well do USB - parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
no experience with these. I've been warned about USB - serial adapaters and how the translation isn't always 100%, so I'm trying to gather some information before I go forward with this plan. Anyone use one of these? How well do they work in general? How well do they work under FreeBSD? -- Bill

Re: How well do USB - parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
recommended a USB - parallel adapter, but I've got no experience with these. I've been warned about USB - serial adapaters and how the translation isn't always 100%, so I'm trying to gather some information before I go forward with this plan. Anyone use one of these? How well do they work

RE: How well do USB - parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-18 Thread Murray Taylor
] On Behalf Of Bart Silverstrim Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:32 PM To: Bill Moran Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How well do USB - parallel adapters work for printers? On Oct 18, 2005, at 9:19 AM, Bill Moran wrote: This will be FreeBSD 5.4 machine. I need to hook a printer

when running portupgrade triggering reboot / how to do detailedsystem log to see precise reboot trigger?

2003-09-26 Thread rtjohan
Have not been able to keep machine up-to-date with cvsup since each time after the cvsup has completed, the portupgrade reboots the machine. Probably the first thing to do is to enable some log utility to capture what triggered the reboot. How should I go about this - logging in as much detail

local patch to a /usr/ports file? how to do it?

2003-06-20 Thread Aaron Wohl
I have a patch to /usr/ports/misc/amanda-clients. Its a one line change to sendbackup-dump.c to add the L switch to snapshot for 5.x when making a dump. Where do I put the patch so when I do make in /usr/ports/misc/amanda-clients it gets applied? I checked the handbook and porters guide... I

Re: local patch to a /usr/ports file? how to do it?

2003-06-20 Thread Jerry Hicks
If you don't need to do it much just build like this: make patch add your change directly to sendbackup-dump.c make install clean If it's something you're doing very frequently you can poke around the ports tree and you should be able to find a few examples of ports which conditionally include a

Re: local patch to a /usr/ports file? how to do it?

2003-06-20 Thread Rob
the files under /usr/ports/misc/amanda-server instead. - Original Message - From: Aaron Wohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:23 PM Subject: local patch to a /usr/ports file? how to do it? I have a patch to /usr/ports/misc/amanda-clients. Its a one

how to do port forwarding

2003-03-19 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I have a firewall running 4.7-stable. It has ipftable, and nat. It is my firewall for my home lan. I am wanting to play a game with friends on the internet. I also want to host a multiplayer game on my machine. How do I setup the firewall to forward port 5310 to my windows 2000 pc

Re: how to do port forwarding

2003-03-19 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:53:05AM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I have a firewall running 4.7-stable. It has ipftable, and nat. It is my firewall for my home lan. I am wanting to play a game with friends on the internet. I also want to host a multiplayer game on my machine. How

RE: how to do port forwarding

2003-03-19 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
with friends on the internet. I also want to host a multiplayer game on my machine. How do I setup the firewall to forward port 5310 to my windows 2000 pc (the game machine) ? a pointer to a tutorial would be just fine, if appropriate. thanks, Darryl To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: how to do port forwarding

2003-03-19 Thread Bill Moran
Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I have a firewall running 4.7-stable. It has ipftable, and nat. It is my firewall for my home lan. I am wanting to play a game with friends on the internet. I also want to host a multiplayer game on my machine. How do I setup the firewall to forward port 5310