is there an ies4linux port for FreeBSD?

2006-06-11 Thread Jim Stapleton
I cant find it in www, net or devel, and the downloadable install script fails horribly. error message [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:08:52 (0) ~/ies4linux-2.0beta6 > ./ies4linux source: not found source: not found source: not found cabextract version 1.1 cabextrac

heyu and fbsd6.0

2006-06-11 Thread Travis H.
Anyone gotten this combo to work? The heyu port doesn't compile (it thinks timezone is some external integer or something, in fact it's a function defined in ). When I run heyu2, I tell it to read from /dev/ttyd0 (that's the correct kind of tty for a serial line, right?) and it prints this then h

kernel panic(?) trying to copy data off failed drive with dd

2006-06-11 Thread Greg Lane
** Apologies for this cross-post to questions as well as stable ** G'day everyone, I have a 250 GB SATA disk with one regular FreeBSD parition that is obviously in some distress. I can mount the partition, but any attempt to fsck it gives (I think) a kernel panic. I say I think because someti

Re: Subversion ports problem

2006-06-11 Thread Ron
Hello, db-4.2 is required for the port. Go to the /usr/ports/databases/db42 directory and build this port. You should find some conflicts with the installed version, but you can make a portupgrade -vrR db4, and also this may impact other installed packages. OK, I think I'm starting to understa

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * IIRC NetBSD was a fork of FreeBSD that's an interesting theory when you consider that the first netbsd release came out 8 months before the first freebsd release. Yes as many others

Re: Subversion ports problem

2006-06-11 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Monday 12 June 2006 01:00, Ron wrote: > I'm running 5.3, and I'm trying to upgrade subverson and I get the > following: > > ===> Building for subversion-1.3.2 > cd subversion/libsvn_subr && /usr/local/bin/libtool --tag=CC --silent > --mode=link cc -O -pipe -g -O2 -L/usr/local/lib/db42 -L/u

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-11 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * IIRC NetBSD was a fork of FreeBSD that's an interesting theory when you consider that the first netbsd release came out 8 months before the first freebsd release. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

storcon for FreeBSD 6.x ... ?

2006-06-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Does anyone know if there is one somewhere for FreeBSD 6.x? Intel's site only has a 4.1 version that I can find ... If not, what is the best method of connecting to and looking at an IIR controller with FreeBSD 6.x? Thx ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http

Subversion ports problem

2006-06-11 Thread Ron
I'm running 5.3, and I'm trying to upgrade subverson and I get the following: ===> Building for subversion-1.3.2 cd subversion/libsvn_subr && /usr/local/bin/libtool --tag=CC --silent --mode=link cc -O -pipe -g -O2 -L/usr/local/lib/db42 -L/usr/local/lib -rpath /usr/local/lib -o libsvn_sub

Re: Participating in FreeBSD development

2006-06-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/11/06, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My name is Martin Caverly. I am interesting in participating into development of FreeBSD, but, don't know where and how to start. Would you kindly guide or give Martin information about participating into development of FreeBSD? Thanks in advance

Re: Participating in FreeBSD development

2006-06-11 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 11 June 2006 17:10, Martin wrote: > My name is Martin Caverly. I am interesting in participating into > development of FreeBSD, but, don't know where and how to start. > > Would you kindly guide or give Martin information about participating into > development of FreeBSD? > > Thanks in ad

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > In FreeBSd world, a slice is the primary division of the disk. It is > > generally referred to as a primary partition in Microsloth land. But > > that is the same. > > IIRC It's actually more of an IBM PC term than a Microsoft t

Participating in FreeBSD development

2006-06-11 Thread Martin
My name is Martin Caverly. I am interesting in participating into development of FreeBSD, but, don't know where and how to start. Would you kindly guide or give Martin information about participating into development of FreeBSD? Thanks in advance for your help. Martin Caverly PS. I have been

Re: natd not starting on boot-up

2006-06-11 Thread Roger Merritt
At 07:21 AM 6/9/2006 -0800, you wrote: On 6/6/2006 21:13, Roger Merritt seems to have typed: > Everything > starts on boot-up as it should -- except natd. I can start it manually from > the command line after booting up and logging in and it works fine, but I > can't tell what's going on that i

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-11 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Derek Jander wrote: Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about FreeBSD. I jus

Re: gmirror problem

2006-06-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> plenty of simply things. Anyway, is a mis-configuration a likely or > possible cause of this behavior. It's hard to even speculate without seeing an error message. Paste here or pastebin.com? Thanks, ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Freeze

2006-06-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jun 11, 2006, at 3:07 PM, NgD Vulto wrote: I just hate when it happens. I am here on tty1, then I go to tty2...3...and It's ok, but if I keep changing the tty, sometimes when I change the tty it freezes, my screen gets black, and my cpu leds start to blink. Specially when I am on X and I

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jun 11, 2006, at 2:24 PM, dgmm wrote: On Sunday 11 June 2006 16:34, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/11/06, dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:49, Nikolas Britton wrote: I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with Konqueror and it worked, well I got t

Re: Full screen graphics hangs my system

2006-06-11 Thread Derek Ragona
You might need to force the rebuild of every port portupgrade -a -f Depending on which X window manager you are using, sometimes the a rebuild doesn't catch all the real dependencies that will be caught in a complete forced rebuild. -Derek At 03:29 PM 6/11/2006, Andrea Venturoli wro

Freeze

2006-06-11 Thread NgD Vulto
I just hate when it happens. I am here on tty1, then I go to tty2...3...and It's ok, but if I keep changing the tty, sometimes when I change the tty it freezes, my screen gets black, and my cpu leds start to blink. Specially when I am on X and I want to go to some tty1. There are systems that h

ppp starts BEFORE syslogd

2006-06-11 Thread J.D. Bronson
Ummm...I would like to see what ppp is doing (in userland) and since it logs to /var/log/ppp.log under syslogd...since syslogd does not start BEFORE ppp...how can I make this possible? rcorder /etc/rc.d/* ... /etc/rc.d/ppp /etc/rc.d/ipfw /etc/rc.d/nsswitch /etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl /etc/rc.d/atm2 /

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-11 Thread dgmm
On Sunday 11 June 2006 16:34, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 6/11/06, dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:49, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with > > > Konqueror and it worked, well I got to the front page at least but

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread RW
On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > In FreeBSd world, a slice is the primary division of the disk. It is > generally referred to as a primary partition in Microsloth land. But > that is the same. IIRC It's actually more of an IBM PC term than a Microsoft term. I'm being v

[Fwd: Re: Hardware for FreeBSD6(motherboard for LGA775)]

2006-06-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrey Slusar wrote: Hi, peoples. I need buy the motherboard for LGA 775 CPU. My choice is ASUS P5RD1-VM(ATI X200 chipset). FreeBSD 6 is fully supported all devices on this motherboard without any problems or not? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html -- Lewis's Law of T

Re: Full screen graphics hangs my system

2006-06-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Derek Ragona wrote: You probably need to do: portupgrade -a Tried that before posting: didn't help. bye & Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: USB keyboard and loader

2006-06-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Odhiambo Washington wrote: * On 10/06/06 11:21 +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: | NgD Vulto wrote: | | >I have some doubts about your question, it happens at the screen of the | >freebsd-loader when you are installing or you installed it already and then | >you can't access the options of the loa

Hardware for FreeBSD6(motherboard for LGA775)

2006-06-11 Thread Andrey Slusar
Hi, peoples. I need buy the motherboard for LGA 775 CPU. My choice is ASUS P5RD1-VM(ATI X200 chipset). FreeBSD 6 is fully supported all devices on this motherboard without any problems or not? -- Regards, Andrey. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: FBSD 6.0 and ppp

2006-06-11 Thread jhall
> Hello jhall! > > Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 03:34:14AM - you wrote: > >> > Hello jhall! >> > >> > Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 06:07:26PM - you wrote: >> > >> >> incoming: >> >>set device /dev/cuad0 >> >>set ifaddr 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.0/24 >> > ^ >> > Experience

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread RW
On Saturday 10 June 2006 11:55, Hunter Fuller wrote: > On 10 Jun 2006, at 11:45 AM, julien Chaffraix wrote: > > Hello, > > chainloader +1 > > Well, this is a different way to do it, usually this is used with > Microsuck products... but I suppose it'd work here too. If you chainload you don't need

Re: Upgrading Ports on 5.3

2006-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to use the current ports system if I am still running 5.3? > > I really need to update subversion, mysql, plus make sure I'm running the > latest versions of other software, but since 5.4 came out (and now 5.5 and > 6.0), I am no longer been able

wikipedia article

2006-06-11 Thread Hámorszky Balázs
Hi! I'm looking for some help on an article on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_operating_systems THX! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

gmirror problem

2006-06-11 Thread Dayton Clark
Folks, I set up a mirror on two identical disks (250 MB Seagates). After several weeks of use I discovered that fsck fails because it cannot read a block. At first I thought I had a bum disk but not I believe the block is the last one on the disk. As I understand it the last block is where gmir

Upgrading Ports on 5.3

2006-06-11 Thread Ron
Is there a way to use the current ports system if I am still running 5.3? I really need to update subversion, mysql, plus make sure I'm running the latest versions of other software, but since 5.4 came out (and now 5.5 and 6.0), I am no longer been able to get new ports. If change my cvs-supfi

Re: accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6

2006-06-11 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Em Dom, 2006-06-11 às 12:55 -0400, Kris Kennaway escreveu: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:21:43AM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6 on my FreeBSD > > 6.1 RELEASE systsem. After this, even 'ls' command is not working. > > > > Is there

Re: accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6

2006-06-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:21:43AM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: > Hi, > > I accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6 on my FreeBSD > 6.1 RELEASE systsem. After this, even 'ls' command is not working. > > Is there any possibility that I can restore the system? You can use the tools in

PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950

2006-06-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: Does anyone have details about the new PERC 5/E SAS RAID controller Dell is (or will soon be) shipping in the 1950/2950? This replaces the long standing PERC4 (which was an OEM LSI / AMI MegaRAID U320) in the [1,2]850 series. Obviously this is an OEM chipset as well. I see it listed in mfi

Networking Training System for Laboratory

2006-06-11 Thread George Yap
Dear Sir/Madam, Good Day to you. One of Malaysia University from Networking Department, is seeking for Laboratory Networking Training Systems. These 2 networking systems are : LAN and ADSL Training System Could you advise me any good supplier that can provide the following: (1) Cons

Re: Deny large number of IPs via ipfw (fwd)

2006-06-11 Thread John L
Using such an list of ip address from a major rbl is flawed at the core of the idea. Over 85% of those 3 million ip address are spoofed in the first place. Most are what would be called false positives. Actually there are almost no false positives in the CBL. The three million addresses on th

Re: teTeX and portupgrade problem

2006-06-11 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today Robert Huff wrote: Denny White writes: Got errors when running portupgrade last night, when it tried to upgrade to teTeX-texmf-3.0_4. They're pasted in at bottom of this message, checksum problems. When I see either this:

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/11/06, dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:49, Nikolas Britton wrote: > I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with > Konqueror and it worked, well I got to the front page at least but I > don't have an msn account so I can't test it any further. In

RE: Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread fbsd
This is still wasted busy work. There are much simpler ways to stop ssh false login attempts and garbage to website guest books. In ipfw use rule limit option or change port number ssh uses and only give your ssh port number to your user group. And for all websites add a noise image to stop robots

Re: upgrading mysql-server

2006-06-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 10/06/06 Gerard Seibert said: > > I'm not aware of any port doing this. If you use portupgrade, use the > > AFTERINSTALL configuration options to call the rc.d scripts and restart. > > You can configure 'portmanager' to stop and restart a program also. I > was having the same problem with MySQ

Re: ports upgrade question

2006-06-11 Thread wc_fbsd
On 6/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm a newbie running 6.1 stable and I have what may be several simple questions: What exactly is happening when I run "make index && make readmes" after I upgrade my ports tree? Why aren't the indexes and readmes made when we run cvsup

/dev nodes population errors with GELI/bsdlabel

2006-06-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net
well. i'm quit sure, it's a little bit complicated to explain what i did and what i figured out while i was doing it ;-), but: short description: attach->mount->umount->detach->attach->mount of GELI-encrypted filesystems does not work correctly if the fs is on a bsdlabel- partition inside the gel

RE: Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, fbsd wrote: Using such an list of ip address from a major rbl is flawed at the core of the idea. Over 85% of those 3 million ip address are spoofed in the first place. Most are what would be called false positives. Reread the info at the source cbl.abuseat.org it says the d

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-06-10 22:44, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > much excised --- > > > Anyway, this all works just fine. The MBR and initial boot > > > record in the boot sector of each slice (or primary > > > partition if you must degrade to MS terminology) have just > > > enough standa

teTeX and portupgrade problem

2006-06-11 Thread Robert Huff
Denny White writes: > Got errors when running portupgrade last night, when it tried > to upgrade to teTeX-texmf-3.0_4. They're pasted in at bottom > of this message, checksum problems. When I see either this: local modification time does not match remote or this:

RE: Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread fbsd
Using such an list of ip address from a major rbl is flawed at the core of the idea. Over 85% of those 3 million ip address are spoofed in the first place. Most are what would be called false positives. Reread the info at the source cbl.abuseat.org it says the data is not intended to be used the w

Re: [freebsd-questions] Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread Howard Jones
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, I've got a file that I just synced from a major RBL, and I'd like to just use it to globally deny access to my system. Is there an easy way to do this within ipfw -- the file is about 3 *million* lines, and is from cbl.abuseat.org. I do similar thin

Re: Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
"Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I've got a file that I just synced from a major RBL, and I'd like to just > use it to globally deny access to my system. Is there an easy way to do > this within ipfw -- the file is about 3 *million* lines, and is from > cb

Re: FreeBSD Boot Problem on Multiple HDDs

2006-06-11 Thread Derek Ragona
You may need to do an upgrade reinstall. It sounds like the boot block is foobar. If you reinstall the same version using the upgrade option, that should take care of the problem. -Derek At 01:38 AM 6/11/2006, Sean M. wrote: I just did my first ever bit of hardware hacking--salvagi

Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I've got a file that I just synced from a major RBL, and I'd like to just use it to globally deny access to my system. Is there an easy way to do this within ipfw -- the file is about 3 *million* lines, and is from cbl.abuseat.org. -Dan -- "SOY BOMB!" -The Chest of the nameless

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-11 Thread dgmm
On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:49, Nikolas Britton wrote: > I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with > Konqueror and it worked, well I got to the front page at least but I > don't have an msn account so I can't test it any further. In Konqueror > simply goto Settings > Configure

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-11 Thread dgmm
On Saturday 10 June 2006 22:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: > It's not possible using Firefox, but you might be able to do it if   > you install Wine and Internet Explorer. I'd google for "Wine Internet   > Explorer"; this will yield helpful information on how to get   > everything setup with IE to work

Re: Playstation emulator

2006-06-11 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 June 2006 11:23 pm, Mark Kane wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006, at 03:15:31 +, NgD Vulto wrote: > Hi. I had the same problem until doing this from pkg-message: > > -- > Moreover, some users report that the em

Re: accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6

2006-06-11 Thread Ashley Moran
On Jun 11, 2006, at 11:21 am, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: Hi, I accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6 on my FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE systsem. After this, even 'ls' command is not working. Is there any possibility that I can restore the system? Thank you. Soo-Hyun Can you boot into the r

accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6

2006-06-11 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
Hi, I accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6 on my FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE systsem. After this, even 'ls' command is not working. Is there any possibility that I can restore the system? Thank you. Soo-Hyun ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-11 Thread Derek Jander
On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/10/06, Sergio Lenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and > > If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE > > 10.1 a go. > > > > > > Good optio

teTeX and portupgrade problem

2006-06-11 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Got errors when running portupgrade last night, when it tried to upgrade to teTeX-texmf-3.0_4. They're pasted in at bottom of this message, checksum problems. I did as the output said & ftp'd the file off the main FreeBSD ftp site, copied it to /usr/

Re: FreeBSD vs. Debian Sarge Linux on Pention II 400 Mhz.

2006-06-11 Thread Reko Turja
I recently stumbled upon FreeBSD and wondered if using the same hardware configuration will yield better (faster and lighter use) performance than Linux Debian sarge. For me one of the main reasons of using FreeBSD is the ease of installation and keeping the system including ports up to date

Re: (no subject)

2006-06-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a newbie running 6.1 stable and I have what may be several simple > questions: What exactly is happening when I run "make index && make > readmes" after I upgrade my ports tree? Why aren't the indexes and > readmes made when we run cvsup ports-supfile? Finally, why d

FreeBSD vs. Debian Sarge Linux on Pention II 400 Mhz.

2006-06-11 Thread Eyal Weissblueth
Hello all, I am using now for a few months Linux Debian Sarge 3.1 on a Pentium II 400 Mhz. with 128 Mb. RAM. I recently stumbled upon FreeBSD and wondered if using the same hardware configuration will yield better (faster and lighter use) performance than Linux Debian sarge. Thank you for

Probelms with 'make clean'

2006-06-11 Thread vittorio
Yesterday, after portsnap(-ping) with fetch & update, first I upgraded the portupgrade port of my freebsd 6.1 fresh box by means of make;make deinstall reinstall clean Then I started to upgrade my kde installation issuing portupgrade 'kde*' but it invariably failed complaining: [an example wi

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-05-21 - 2006-06-10

2006-06-11 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili