Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2013-01-02 Thread ASV
Well, I understand your concern. I've been using the freebsd-update method since several years now and mostly remotely. I've never encounter a problem. I haven't recompiled everything many times as I didn't really found a tangible advantage in this method but I've never thought about this. I

Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2013-01-02 Thread ASV
For some reason my email hasn't apparently been delivered so I'm re-sending it. From: ASV a...@inhio.eu To: Jose Garcia Juanino jjuan...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore? Date

Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2013-01-02 Thread ASV
Hi Jose, with the freebsd-update method you don't need to pass through the make installworld as it's a binary patch/upgrade system. Using freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE for example allows you to get your system patched directly without recompiling the kernel and the userland but getting

Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2012-12-31 Thread Jose Garcia Juanino
Hi, I am planning to upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE. With upgrade source method, it is always needed to do the make installworld step in single user mode. But it seems to be that single user is not required with freebsd-update method, in the second freebsd-update install.

Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2012-12-31 Thread Jose Garcia Juanino
El lunes 31 de diciembre a las 16:27:44 CET, ASV escribió: Hi Jose, with the freebsd-update method you don't need to pass through the make installworld as it's a binary patch/upgrade system. Using freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE for example allows you to get your system patched

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The cron logs show that it is starting his

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Chris
On 6/13/2012 6:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Ramiro Caso
On 11/06/2012 23:10, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). FreeBSD9 on x86_64. Cron is running: $ ps -ax|grep cron

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will not be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Felder f...@feld.me writes: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will not be column aligned,

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:36:37 -0500, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: I don't have ready access to source at the moment, but I would expect (like the normal C I/O functions) it will be interpreted as octal. Suppose we could always ask Paul Vixie :-)

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Dan Lists
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are

Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). FreeBSD9 on x86_64. Cron is running: $ ps -ax|grep cron 1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s 2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep cron $ I have a syntactically valid crontab

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). FreeBSD9 on x86_64. Cron is running: $ ps -ax|grep cron  1513  ??  Is     0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base. What's in your shell scripts? Thanks for the quick response. $ pkg_info|grep bash bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell $ which bash /bin/bash $ $ less

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: cat /etc/shells ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:21:12 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: You really have bash in /bin ? Are your scripts executable? What does /var/log/cron say? $ file /bin/bash /bin/bash: symbolic link to `/usr/local/bin/bash' $ sudo tail -50 /var/log/cron (result snipped at 02:22:00 for brevity) Jun

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:36:28 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: cat /etc/shells $ cat /etc/shells # $FreeBSD: release/9.0.0/etc/shells 59717 2000-04-27 21:58:46Z ache $ # # List of acceptable shells for chpass(1). # Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using # one of these shells.

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Chris
On 6/11/2012 9:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base. What's in your shell scripts? Thanks for the quick response. $ pkg_info|grep bash bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Robert Bonomi
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). FreeBSD9 on x86_64. Cron is running: $ ps -ax|grep cron 1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s 2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep

zfs newbie question

2011-05-26 Thread icema
hi, i have a new fbsd-8.2 install (dual boot with win7, just desktop general use) on entirely ufs disk, and am not sure how to mount a zfs formatted disk from a previous install, without loosing what is on there. (freebsd-zfs). in short, the zfs disk was from a previous freebsd install, same

RE: zfs newbie question

2011-05-26 Thread a . smith
Hi, zpool create is a destructive command to data on the disks, ie any preexisting pool, but it would normally warn you if it found an existing pool on the disks you are trying to use. Run: # zpool import and it will scan any attached disks for pools that are importable, if it detects

Re: zfs newbie question

2011-05-26 Thread icema
On 05/26/11 17:29, a.sm...@ukgrid.net wrote: Hi, zpool create is a destructive command to data on the disks, ie any preexisting pool, but it would normally warn you if it found an existing pool on the disks you are trying to use. Run: # zpool import and it will scan any attached disks

Newbie question about ASYNC communication with FTDI-based device (via uftdi)

2009-09-19 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I'm trying to hack the code of tbancontrol, a linux tool used to control t-balancer fan controllers that use FTDI FT232BL chips. It seems to be working fine on linux, but when I try to use it on FreeBSD, I noticed that read calls fail with Interruted system call. It seems there is

boot-time daemon startup (was Re: Newbie question)

2008-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Hartl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been out of the bsd loop for a bit, i'm trying to setup nagios which is fine There are a couple of settings that I either don't remember or never remembered and forgot that I never knew it. Ok so nagios is asking me for an rc.d path, which

Newbie question

2008-11-18 Thread Gary Hartl
Hi all; Quick newbie question. I've been out of the bsd loop for a bit, i'm trying to setup nagios which is fine There are a couple of settings that I either don't remember or never remembered and forgot that I never knew it. Ok so nagios is asking me for an rc.d path, which if i

Re: Newbie question

2008-11-18 Thread matt donovan
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Gary Hartl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all; Quick newbie question. I've been out of the bsd loop for a bit, i'm trying to setup nagios which is fine There are a couple of settings that I either don't remember or never remembered and forgot that I

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-29 Thread Canhua
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ports-mgmt/portupgrade is a useful tool for easily getting packages and ports, it includes the tool portinstall which does what it says it does. By running portinstall -P pkgname, it will install a port and dependencies

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-29 Thread Thiago R. Santos
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:14 +0800, Canhua wrote: Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.tbz: File unavailable

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-29 Thread Canhua
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Thiago R. Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:14 +0800, Canhua wrote: Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-29 Thread Thiago R. Santos
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:41 +0800, Canhua wrote: Wonderful place~ thank you However I could not pkg_add py25-networkx still, being told that pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py25-networkx.tbz' by URL Oh, sorry. I

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add (Canhua)

2008-10-29 Thread Kayven Riese
-- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:12:52 +0800 From: Canhua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie question about pkg_add To: Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text

Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-28 Thread Canhua
Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) although I know that

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:14:34AM +0800, Canhua wrote: Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.tbz: File

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-28 Thread Steven Susbauer
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:14:34AM +0800, Canhua wrote: Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/

i2c driver newbie question

2008-02-05 Thread Artem Kim
Can anybody help my to write i2c drivers for saa7146 ? I do not good understand how to connect this device to existing iicbus infrastructure. I do: static device_method_t saa7146_i2c_methods[] = { /* device interface */ DEVMETHOD(device_probe, saa7146_i2c_probe),

Su newbie question

2007-05-28 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, A real dumb question today : I’ve always been the only administrator of servers I installed so I never searched too much on the topic… A new employee has joined the team and he will need to administer the servers (compile ports, etc) Usually, I do a su when I need to do these

Re: Su newbie question

2007-05-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Ian Lord wrote: Hi, A real dumb question today : I’ve always been the only administrator of servers I installed so I never searched too much on the topic… A new employee has joined the team and he will need to administer the servers (compile ports, etc) Usually, I do a su when I

Re: Su newbie question

2007-05-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:58:51PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote: Hi, A real dumb question today : I’ve always been the only administrator of servers I installed so I never searched too much on the topic… A new employee has joined the team and he will need to administer the servers (compile

Re: Su newbie question

2007-05-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
But that may not be the best way. You really don't want to spread root accounts around a lot. One alternative might be setting up sudo to allow the specific things that this other person needs to do. sudo woul dbe the right way to do: you have fine choice on the various priviledges you

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Oliver Peter
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:15PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Oliver Peter wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote: ... Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Look in the

RE: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18 To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs... On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:15PM -0400, Jerry McAllister

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Schiz0
On 5/16/07, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18 To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs... On Tue, May 15

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-05-16 03:21, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18 To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs

RE: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Lord
Thanks a lot, it works perfectly. I'm starting to think it was not that much of a newbie question since you are the first one to give a working answer :) Thanks again -Original Message- From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 mai 2007 12:22 To: Ian Lord Cc: 'Oliver

Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-15 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, Everyday, cron is sending me status reports of jobs it ran. In my /etc/mail/aliases I configured root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it works fine. The problem, is that the mail is coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have a spamfirewall and it rejects the mail saying

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-15 Thread Oliver Peter
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote: ... Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Did you set up your hostname correctly in /etc/rc.conf ? Furthermore you need to tell your MTA how your hostname is called. -- Oliver PETER, email: [EMAIL

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Oliver Peter wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote: ... Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Look in the file /etc/mail/aliases You can alias root to go to your favorite address.

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:26:36 -0400 Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] The problem, is that the mail is coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have a spamfirewall and it rejects the mail saying localhost.mydomain.com is invalid. Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to

Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Oscar Chavarria
I lost environmental power temporarily a few days ago, and when it was back (almost immediately), the machine restarted without any input from me. I had mounted to /home a 30 GB usb 2.0 hdd. I tried mounting again since I did not find it in df. The prompt is always WARNING: /home was not

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:12:00AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote: I lost environmental power temporarily a few days ago, and when it was back (almost immediately), the machine restarted without any input from me. I had mounted to /home a 30 GB usb 2.0 hdd. I tried mounting again since I

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Oscar Chavarria wrote: I lost environmental power temporarily a few days ago, and when it was back (almost immediately), the machine restarted without any input from me. I had mounted to /home a 30 GB usb 2.0 hdd. I tried mounting again since I did not find it in df. The prompt is

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Oscar Chavarria wrote: fsck /dev/da0s1 /home fsck: could not determine filesystem type. Go figure. Might the hdd be damaged? I guess not since boot recognized it, right? Please don't top-post and keep the conversation on the list. It seems like you've tried to fsck only the slice

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Oscar Chavarria
ls /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1 On 5/14/07, Mikhail Goriachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oscar Chavarria wrote: fsck /dev/da0s1 /home fsck: could not determine filesystem type. Go figure. Might the hdd be damaged? I guess not since boot recognized it, right? Please don't top-post and keep the

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:58:54AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote: ls /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1 Again, please do not top post. It makes it very hard to have any idea what you are referring to. The entire context of the conversation gets lost. In this case, what do you mean? You just did an

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Oscar Chavarria wrote: ls /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1 Oscar, once again, don't top-post[1] please and show us the output of: # ls /dev/da0* Regards, Mikhail. [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-post -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, May 14, 2007 12:05:47 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:58:54AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote: ls /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1 Again, please do not top post. It makes it very hard to have any idea what you are referring to. The entire

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Oscar Chavarria
If you will excuse me for now. I'm trying to solve the top-post problem. I lost environmental power temporarily a few days ago, and when it was back (almost immediately), the machine restarted without any input from me. I had mounted to /home a 30 GB usb 2.0 hdd. I tried mounting again since I

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Oscar Chavarria wrote: If you will excuse me for now. I'm trying to solve the top-post problem. I lost environmental power temporarily a few days ago, and when it was back (almost immediately), the machine restarted without any input from me. I had mounted to /home a 30 GB usb 2.0 hdd.

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:33:16AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, May 14, 2007 12:05:47 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:58:54AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote: ls /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1 Again, please do not top post. It makes it very

newbie question: gdk2/gtkpixbuff install fails

2006-11-01 Thread Oliver Iberien
I'm trying to repair the damage after some portupgrading. The linux emulation is all messed up. linux-realplayer won't run because it wants to reinstall gtk-pixbuff, which is already in there but now conflicts with gdk2, which in turn seems to have a broken port:

Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

2006-10-07 Thread John Hoover
there's always the shells, bash for example -- - John F Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

2006-10-07 Thread Tyop?
On 10/6/06, John Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's always the shells, bash for example asciiquarium is a good start. *A Must* -- Tyop? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

2006-10-07 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 10/6/06, ograbme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like a few recommendations for small ports to try to install on my stand-alone machine. The stand-alone machine does not have connection to the internet; however, I do have a set of four (4)CD from the FreeBSD Mall and two (2) of the CD's

Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

2006-10-06 Thread ograbme
I would like a few recommendations for small ports to try to install on my stand-alone machine. The stand-alone machine does not have connection to the internet; however, I do have a set of four (4)CD from the FreeBSD Mall and two (2) of the CD's have 'ports' on them. I would like to select

Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

2006-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:14:29PM -0400, ograbme wrote: I would like a few recommendations for small ports to try to install on my stand-alone machine. The stand-alone machine does not have connection to the internet; however, I do have a set of four (4)CD from the FreeBSD Mall and two

Newbie Question - what does the ...-p6 mean?

2006-09-14 Thread ograbme
Hello All. Thursday, September 14, 2006, 4:24:43 AM, RJ45 wrote in regards to his message titled Memory problem: snip R I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 build with buildworld. snip What does the -p6 nomenclature represent in the above statement? I've noticed some messages have contained

Re: Newbie Question - what does the ...-p6 mean?

2006-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to ograbme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello All. Thursday, September 14, 2006, 4:24:43 AM, RJ45 wrote in regards to his message titled Memory problem: snip R I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 build with buildworld. snip What does the -p6 nomenclature represent in the

Newbie question - vidcontrol (?) and video mode at startup

2006-09-04 Thread Oliver Iberien
Hi, With my new widescreen monitor, the console starts up with text bleeding off the edge of the display. What is the best console video mode for a console on a 1680x1050 display, and how do I get it to start up with it? Thanks, Oliver ___

Newbie question: Is this something I should send to buglist?

2006-07-30 Thread Oliver Iberien
After running portsnap this morning: bsd# pkg_version -v /home/oliver/version.txt Makefile, line 54: Could not find /usr/ports/print/cups-lpr/../../print/cups/Makefile.common make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue pkg_version: Failed to get PKGNAME from

Re: Newbie question: Is this something I should send to buglist?

2006-07-30 Thread Nicolas Blais
On Sunday 30 July 2006 13:09, Oliver Iberien wrote: After running portsnap this morning: bsd# pkg_version -v /home/oliver/version.txt Makefile, line 54: Could not find /usr/ports/print/cups-lpr/../../print/cups/Makefile.common make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue pkg_version:

Re: Newbie question - cannot add new disk

2006-04-22 Thread Oliver Iberien
Thanks for your interest in this. A large part of the problem was in fact a bad cable. I went back and forth between the command line and sysinstall. They seem not to do the same things. It did seem to me that the disklabel in sysinstall and the disklabel command-line tool did not necessarily

Re: Newbie question - cannot add new disk

2006-04-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:40:09PM -0700, Oliver Iberien wrote: Hi, I have been trying to add a second IDE hard drive. I can't seem to get it mounted, or to get what I put into sysinstall and what comes out when I use the command line to agree. Are you using the command line interface or

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona
The short answer is to backup the files you want to save. As a general rule, I suggest backing up: /etc /usr/local/etc /usr/local/www The last one assumes you have some website(s). If you are also worried about email, if you are using the standard sendmail, also backup: /var/mail I would

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-18 Thread Eric Schuele
Oliver Iberien wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner, probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE. My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff? I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system

Re: Newbie question - using sysinstall Upgrade an existing system - easy?

2006-04-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What actually happens when you use Upgrade an existing system in sysinstall? Do you end up with the X-server, etc., all functioning as before, or is there a lot of cleanup to do afterwards? X doesn't get automatically updated by that path; just the

Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner, probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE. My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff? I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system backups for you. The

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Andy Reitz
Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar you installed from ports. The last directory will det all of your user's data.

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar you installed from ports.

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:08 AM 4/16/2006, Oliver Iberien wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That

Newbie question - using sysinstall Upgrade an existing system - easy?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
What actually happens when you use Upgrade an existing system in sysinstall? Do you end up with the X-server, etc., all functioning as before, or is there a lot of cleanup to do afterwards? (In my case, this would be from 6.0 to 6.1, whenever the release version of 6.1 comes out. I am getting

Newbie question - cannot add new disk

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
Hi, I have been trying to add a second IDE hard drive. I can't seem to get it mounted, or to get what I put into sysinstall and what comes out when I use the command line to agree. I can use sysinstall and then run newfs: bsd# newfs /dev/ad1s1c /dev/ad1s1c: 39205.5MB (80292804 sectors) block

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jim Stapleton wrote: [ ... ] When it comes to changing the default compiler a good rule of thumb is that if you need to ask how to do it, then you should not do it. That seems to be a general *nix world rule of thumb for just about everything... The UNIX world is willing to give you a loaded

newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I did a make install clean in the lang/gcc40/ directory to get a newer version of GCC, and it seems happy, so the next thing I did was I replaced my /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/bin/g++, etc. binaries with hard links to the /usr/local/bin/gcc-freebsd-4.0, /usr/local/bin/g++-freebsd-4.0, etc. binaries. Now

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:43:51AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I did a make install clean in the lang/gcc40/ directory to get a newer version of GCC, and it seems happy, so the next thing I did was I replaced my /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/bin/g++, etc. binaries with hard links to the

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
how do I setup make.conf to automatically use the new compiler? Is there any way to set this new compiler as the default (such as building the OS), without causing issues? Or would that be just a royal pain in the posterior that is not worth the effort? On 4/10/06, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:01:21AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: how do I setup make.conf to automatically use the new compiler? Don't. But if you insist on doing that you could try putting CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc40 CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++40 into /etc/make.conf. Just be aware that it will

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
When it comes to changing the default compiler a good rule of thumb is that if you need to ask how to do it, then you should not do it. That seems to be a general *nix world rule of thumb for just about everything... ___

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread RW
On Monday 10 April 2006 16:01, Jim Stapleton wrote: how do I setup make.conf to automatically use the new compiler? Is there any way to set this new compiler as the default (such as building the OS), without causing issues? Or would that be just a royal pain in the posterior that is not worth

BTX Halted - not such a newbie question

2005-12-06 Thread Joy
I'm having problems installing FreeBSD V6.0 on an HP (ne Compaq) desktop PC. The install appears to go fine from CD, or via FTP, but on rebooting the installed boot loader halts with a register dump and BTX halted error message. So no rotating curser, no kernel messages just the dump and error

Re: Firefox problem...another newbie question

2005-11-12 Thread Kan Cai
It seems that there is some problem with your glib. You might need to upgrade it. Note that portupgrade isn't working for glib/gtk 2.8.x upgrade. You need to use gnome_upgrade212.sh instead, check /usr/ports/UPDATING for details. cheers, --ken On 10/11/05, makisupa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Firefox problem...another newbie question

2005-10-11 Thread makisupa
Been messing with FreeBSD for a week and a half or so now. Getting my laptop all setup to play DVDs and something wierd happened to Firefox (probably unrelated I know). As an aside, xine works well but i'm not a fan of the gui, gxine core dumps a few seconds after going fullscreen or

Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Joe Graham
Hello, I've been playing off and on with FreeBSD for a bit of time now, but I would still consider myself a relative newbie. I've read enough and played enough to know how to install applications from ports (e.g., I was able to successfully install Moria just by reading the pages I could find).

Re: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:16 PM 9/24/2005, Joe Graham wrote: Hello, I've been playing off and on with FreeBSD for a bit of time now, but I would still consider myself a relative newbie. I've read enough and played enough to know how to install applications from ports (e.g., I was able to successfully install Moria

Re[2]: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:30:43 -0700, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help! Stupid Newbie Question Wrote these words of wisdom: If the port you installed was relatively recent, you just need mysql_enable=YES in your rc.conf. If it's an older port, look for a sample startup

Re: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Joe Graham
On 9/24/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:16 PM 9/24/2005, Joe Graham wrote: Hello, I've been playing off and on with FreeBSD for a bit of time now, but I would still consider myself a relative newbie. I've read enough and played enough to know how to install applications

Re[2]: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:05 PM 9/24/2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:30:43 -0700, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help! Stupid Newbie Question Wrote these words of wisdom: If the port you installed was relatively recent, you just need mysql_enable=YES in your rc.conf. If it's

Re[2]: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Robert Huff
Glenn Dawson writes: I don't believe I've ever seen a port install itself so that it starts at boot time. As I understand it, up until recently (advent of rcNG ??) that was the default, i.e. ports routinely installed foo.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d instaed of foo.sh.sample.

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