Update ports on 6.3 or update OS to 7.1(RC2) and update ports?

I have a machine where several of my installed applications are getting way behind. It is not a mission critical server, but I need it to be stable (I have all fairly old well supported hardware, nothing special). Since updating and rebuilding all the ports is pretty much mandatory for the

What ever happened to FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE?

And then I suddenly see a new thread about FreeBSD 6.2 status appear ... after I sent the email. Sorry for the noise. I have been following the release candidates for some time. Suddenly, progress seems to have halted, but checking this list from time to time have revealed no discussion

What ever happened to FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE?

I have been following the release candidates for some time. Suddenly, progress seems to have halted, but checking this list from time to time have revealed no discussion that I have noticed. According to this site, it was expected more than one month ago?

conftest dies with signal 12

I have seen messages like this on every FreeBSD machine that I have ever built. Can anybody indicate to me what this means? pid 60038 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal 12 (core dumped) This issue is ALWAYS with conftest. Tom Veldhouse ___

Re: conftest dies with signal 12

Chuck Swiger wrote: While building software which uses GNU autoconf, ./configure tries to build and run a bunch of tiny test programs to see whether various system calls are available and how they work, figure out sizes of variable types, look for compilers for languages not being used by

resolv.conf and dhclient

What is the best approach to keep dhclient from overwriting /etc/resolv.conf every time it gets a new lease on an IP address? This has been a frustrating search as Google has turned up next to nothing on the issue other than a hack into a script file which should be overwritten when world is

Re: resolv.conf and dhclient

Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: On 05/06/2006 14:24, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: What is the best approach to keep dhclient from overwriting /etc/resolv.conf every time it gets a new lease on an IP address? This has been a frustrating search as Google has turned up next to nothing on the issue

Re: make.conf for 6.0

Chris wrote: Ok thanks I already use it for ports, but just plain -O2 -pipe for the world and kernel. Hmm ... I find this thread surprising, as this is the first I have heard of FreeBSD working correctly with -O2. So, is this the options suggested for make.conf on x86? CFLAGS= -O2

General consensus about upgrading from 5.x to 6.x?

I run a very small home office network and domain off of my DSL. Currently, I have a FreeBSD 5.4p8 firewall (pf) running. I am really not having any issues, but sometimes the machines gets a bit stodgy for no solid reason [load shouldn't be that high]. I have considered the jump to 6.0, but

[Fwd: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/libexec/save-entropy]

Can anybody indicate to me what is causing the attached email and how to fix it? I upgraded to the 5.4-STABLE as of yesterday and I am now getting the attached email several time a day. Is this simply a script error? Thanks, Tom Veldhouse ---BeginMessage--- X: not found ---End Message---

Re: [Fwd: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/libexec/save-entropy]

Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: I'm not using 5.4 but I would look in the save-entropy script for a line that starts with 'X '. Also, looking at the source, have a look at /etc/rc.conf and/or /etc/defaults/rc.conf as they are read at the beginning of that script. Actually, I can reproduce such message by

Build install error in latest RELENG_5

=== include creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh touch: not found *** Error code 127 Stop in /usr/src/include. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. ekg# -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7

Re: Build install error in latest RELENG_5

Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:09:43AM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Right away ... first thing! -- Installing everything -- cd /usr/src

Save the Demon!

Can this be true? Are they really looking to kill the FreeBSD demon? This borders on sacrilege. http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/09/1955251from=rss Tom Veldhouse ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

ULE Scheduler available in 5.3-RELEASE?

available? -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4176 F50B A083 4542 0118 1315 761F D300 Spammers please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: ULE Scheduler available in 5.3-RELEASE?

Brooks Davis wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:29:08AM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: I just read in the release notes that 5.3-RELEASE has the new ULE scheduler available, but that 4BSD is the default scheduler. I thought I read messages in freebsd-current indicating that the option

When do ports unfreeze now that 5.3 is tagged for RELEASE?

When do the ports get unfrozen now that FreeBSD 5.3 has been tagged as RELEASE [via /usr/src/UPDATING]? There are several ports that I would like to see upgraded [like dspam] to the more recent levels and I have been told that they are waiting out the freeze. -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key

Re: dvd+rw+r for FreeBSD

I believe you need this in your kernel at a bare minimum. I don't know if atapicam is supported in FreeBSD 4.x. It certainly is in 5.x. # ATA and ATAPI devices deviceatapicam # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required) device da #

Re: 5.0-STABLE ???

The only problem I see with this is that anybody following this particular RELEASE has to follow CURRENT, which is almost a contradiction of terms. Tom Veldhouse Therefore, the release engineering team will only create the 5-STABLE branch in the CVS repository after they have found a

Re: 5.0-STABLE ???

A branch or a tag? I don't believe it was branched. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 12:33 PM Subject: Re: 5.0-STABLE ??? Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only problem I

Re: 5.0-STABLE ???

for at least 3 to 6 months. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 5:36 PM Subject: Re: 5.0-STABLE ??? Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A branch or a tag? I don't believe it was branched

Is something wrong with the lists?

There seems to be no traffic at all on stable, current, security or java. Highly unlikely event. Majordomo does not answer requests either. What is going on? Tom Veldhouse To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: cdrecord under 4.5-stable

FYI -- Most CDRW drives use Phillips internals. Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:23 PM

Re: samba make error (fwd)

I have also seen that problem when I built world with too much optimization. I now stick with -O -pipe -march=i686 -mcpu=i686. Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: mikea [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mario Pranjic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Proposed Solution To Recent firewall_enable Thread. [Please Read]

What would the expected functionality be for this? ipfw_enable=no ipfw_firewall_enable=yes And what would the expected funcationality be for this? ipfw_enable=yes ipfw_firewall_enable=no I would expect the former to not load the ipfw module, so what does the firewall enable option do? I

Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:51:33AM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: It works as expected using the GENERIC kernel. Because when there is no firewall in the kernel and firewall_enable is not set to YES, there is no firewall loaded. This behavior would not change. In fact this can

Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well

: Valeriy E. Ushakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:39 AM Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:15:50 -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: It is being pulled from OpenBSD for what seems like a pretty good

Re: natd blues

Did you set the receive window high on the client machine? If so, you might try doing it on the NAT machine as will. Create /etc/sysctl.conf with the following in it: # begin /etc/sysctl.conf net.inet.tcp.recvspace=64240 net.inet.tcp.recvspace=32120 # end /etc/sysctl.conf This is probably a

4.3 RELEASE?

It appears that the last RC just became available yesterday. Is the 4.3 RELEASE still planned for today? If so, when? I would really like to get a build done and there seems to be a need for the "RELEASE" title on the upgrade. Plans to follow the RELEASE branch for bugfixes I guess. Thanks

Re: microcputime?

Seems to be a problem with FreeBSD and APM on VIA chipsets. Are you using this combination? Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "David Reid" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 4:10 PM Subject: microcputime? Booted this evening

Re: 4.2-R, bridging and ipfilter

- Mike H. From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:46:43 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender

LIST RESENDING EMAIL? (Re: 4.2-R, bridging and ipfilter)

I just realized that I have received all these emails and I was beginning to post again bah! What is going on that is causing these all to be resent to the list? Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" [EMAIL

Re: microuptime() went backwards (50596.915024 - 50596.895202)

There is nothing in LINT about this. What is it that you are referring too? Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Alexandr A. Listopad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, Febru

Re: Creating a 4.2-STABLE iso

I use ncftp3: % mkdir freebsd cd freebsd % ncftp3 releng4.freebsd.org ncftp cd /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.2-20010213-STABLE ncftp bin ncftp get *.TXT *.inf ncftp get -R bin catpages compat1x compat20 compat21 compat22 compat3x crypto dict ncftp get -R doc floppies games info manpages ports

STABLE Kernel build breakage

This is as of about 1 hour ago cvsup (about 9AM CST 02-05-2001): cc -O -pipe -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -D_KERNEL -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wne sted-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winl ine -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc -I-

Bridge and IPFW woes ...

I have stumbled onto a problem with the bridging code (options BRIDGE) with IPFIREWALL. Please review my beautiful ASCII art below. Internet | -- | Host A | -- | | 24.2.0.1 / \

Re: Bridge and IPFW woes ...

No, sorry. Host A 24.2.0.1 Host B 24.2.0.2 Host C 24.2.0.3 Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "David Wolfskill" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:05 AM Subject: Re: Bridge and IPFW woes ... From: "Thom

Re: ipnat vs natd and ipf vs ipfw (fwd)

Curiosity is one answer. Another allows somebody to offer multiple solutions to a problem - each with their own benefits (presumably). Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Gerhard Sittig" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 1:23

Re: ports

I hate that when that happens. It has happened with a lot of ports lately (i.e. unixODBC). I usually figure the port was upgraded but the patches weren't removed - so I remove them. It usually works :( Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Nader Turki" [EMAIL

Re: Different gcc optimisations cause IP packet CRC problems

I generally don't compile the kernel with any optimizations except "-O -pipe". I never have a problem - and I don't have any performance differences that have been noticable. Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Mark Powell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Major SSH problem

I just upgraded via sources from a 4.2-BETA to todays 4.2-STABLE. Now I can not get port forwarding to work through my SSH clients anymore. I can not find an option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config that turns this option on or off. What am I missing? Why has this option so quietly changed? Tom

blankcd broken?

I have a Hewlett Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100 internal ATAPI burner. I also have the VIA 82C686 chipset (ATA66). I get the following error when I try to blank a CD(RW), 8x/4x media. # burncd -f /dev/acd1c -s 4 blank blanking CD, please wait.. burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCBLANK): Input/output error The

Re: 4.1 date?

to IRQ 5 and 10. They do not conflict with any other hardware that I am aware of. Like I said - it is working great now. Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Daniel C. Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; J McKitrick

Re: Sound Blaster Live! 4.0 (Re: 4.1 date?)

Just beware that it may spontaneously reboot your machine. Why would it do that? Did it do that for you? Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: dufus.[...] daily run output -- summer time

If you run a FreeBSD box with local time in the system clock (which of course you have to to make doze have the correct time), it does the same thing. Boot both after a timechange, you get 2 hours difference, 1 from each. On my dualboot boxes I turn off automatic time changes in doze. I