Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs (still doesn't work)

2007-08-18 Thread C Thala
> > Definitely something is wrong with your VLC (probably an older version) > > since I can play US DVDs with VLC . > > That's pretty much what I thought. I'm upgrading VLC now on the machine. Well, that didn't work. I have the latest VLC in ports, and here is the error I get: libdvdnav: Using dv

"failed to create swap_zone" 6.2-STABLE SMP Kernel

2007-08-18 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I note that this problem has appeared in the past and am wondering if there is a resolution: Running 6.2-STABLE on a machine that ran 4.11 flawlessly. I am seeing the message "failed to create swap_zone" right after the 2nd CPU gets enabled on a Dell PowerEdge 1300. The system blows out and reb

Re: Upgrading Xorg from 6 to 7

2007-08-18 Thread Bahman M.
> I have just read the UPDATING file and realized that this is something > that have so many possibilities of going horribly wrong that it most > certanly will. Thus I want another option. > > Would it be possible to deinstall every port that relates to Xorg 6 and > install Xorg 7 as if X never exi

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2007-08-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. > > > > When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clea

The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-07-29 - 2007-08-18

2007-08-18 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

Re: problems with networking...

2007-08-18 Thread Bill Moran
[Please keep the mailing list in the CC] "Michael Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Certainly. Here it is: > #ifconfig -a > vr0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 10.11.12.253 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.11.12.254 That's really strange. Your broadcast address should be 10.11.12.255. It's q

Re: Migrating from reiserfs to ext3

2007-08-18 Thread Nikola Lecic
Hello Konrad, On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:51:19 -0300 "Konrad Scorciapino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I have a single 200GB HD that is divided in three partitions, one with > FreeBSD, another with Linux and the other with my media. The first > two are 10GB, and the latter, 180GB. > > The

FreeBSD 6.2 on a Dell Inspiron 531s

2007-08-18 Thread Bill Moran
I'm looking at purchasing a Dell Inspiron 531s to use as a low- end workstation. The price is _really_ reasonable. Anyone have FreeBSD running successfully on these units? Any problems getting FreeBSD to recognize/work with the hardware? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Regular expressions

2007-08-18 Thread Christer Hermansson
Derek Ragona wrote: At 12:04 PM 8/18/2007, Christer Hermansson wrote: I also found some basic example at http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sh.html#uh-88 : 8<8<8<8<8< #!/bin/sh echo "Type in a number" read ans number=`expr "$ans" : "([0-9]*)"` if [ "

Silly Sendmail Tricks

2007-08-18 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Under FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE, among other things, I had this in my access file: # Throttling Defaults # GreetPause: 2000# Set in the .mc file ClientRate: 10 ClientConn: 10 # Don't throttle 127.0.0.1 or LAN traffic GreetPause:127.0.0.10

Re: problem with supfile

2007-08-18 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 18 August 2007 20:26:53 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > I suggest you read the example files in /usr/share/examples/cvsup. You > will get it instantly. Thanks. I do get it now, after reading your post and looking at the sample files. ___ freebs

Re: problem with supfile

2007-08-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Pollywog wrote: > On Saturday 18 August 2007 19:47:21 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> Pollywog wrote: >> >>> Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the >>> problem is the tag but I am unsure why: >>> >>> *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org >>> *default base=/var/db >>> *d

Re: problem with supfile

2007-08-18 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 18 August 2007 19:47:21 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the > > problem is the tag but I am unsure why: > > > > *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org > > *default base=/var/db > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default re

The problem of connection between Windows and FreeBSD when using IPSec transport.

2007-08-18 Thread Alexey Vlasov
Hi, On one side there's FreeBSD 6.2, ipsec-tools-0.6.7; on the other Windows 2003 Server. If I start pinging under Windows everything works ok, C:\Documents and Settings>ping 111.111.111.2 Pinging 111.111.111.2 with 32 bytes of data: Negotiating IP Security. Reply from 111.111.111.2: bytes=32

Re: problem with supfile

2007-08-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 10:47:21PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> Pollywog wrote: >> >>> Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the problem >>> is >>> the tag but I am unsure why: >>> >>> *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org >>> *default base

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-18 Thread Christopher Key
Bill Moran wrote: Christopher Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) detects errors. Even if this f

Re: problem with supfile

2007-08-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 10:47:21PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the problem > > is > > the tag but I am unsure why: > > > > *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org > > *default base=/var/db > > *default prefix=/usr > >

Re: problem with supfile

2007-08-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Pollywog wrote: > Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the problem is > the tag but I am unsure why: > > *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/var/db > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > # If you see

Re: problem with supfile

2007-08-18 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Pollywog wrote: Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the problem is the tag but I am unsure why: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2 *default delete use-rel-suffix This how one of my (workin

problem with supfile

2007-08-18 Thread Pollywog
Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the problem is the tag but I am unsure why: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2 *default delete use-rel-suffix # If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-18 Thread Bill Moran
Christopher Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. > > When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, > but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) > detects errors. Even if this first che

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. > > When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but > subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) detects > errors. Ev

fsck strangeness

2007-08-18 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) detects errors. Even if this first check is run whilst the file system is mounted, and is hence

Re: Regular expressions

2007-08-18 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:04 PM 8/18/2007, Christer Hermansson wrote: Hi. I'm trying to use regular expressions inside a shell script (/bin/sh) on my freebsd box and can't get it to work so I searched the web and found http://regexlib.com/RETester.aspx On this webpage I could test my pattern "^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$"

Regular expressions

2007-08-18 Thread Christer Hermansson
Hi. I'm trying to use regular expressions inside a shell script (/bin/sh) on my freebsd box and can't get it to work so I searched the web and found http://regexlib.com/RETester.aspx On this webpage I could test my pattern "^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$" and everything was fine, did exactly what I wante

Re: performance hints (6.2)

2007-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 18, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Rob wrote: What mailfile format are you using - mbox / mdir? And while it might be a major change, consider dumping UW and using Dovecot http://dovecot.org/ UW's performance, scalability, and security have been less than great for many years. UW's performa

Re: question about reporting bugs

2007-08-18 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 18 August 2007 16:15:53 Nikola Lecic wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:53:27 + > > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a problem with the jabberd port in FreeBSD 6.2. > > The script apparently is not being executed on boot, though it works > > if executed manually. Who get

Re: question about reporting bugs

2007-08-18 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:53:27 + Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem with the jabberd port in FreeBSD 6.2. > The script apparently is not being executed on boot, though it works > if executed manually. Who gets the bug report, the porter? Is the > porter the person named for

BIND $GENERATE & IPv6

2007-08-18 Thread Eric Crist
Hello list, I'm having a problem trying to develop a proper generate record for my IPv6 reverse zones. Can anyone point me to the correct FM in this case? Preferably something with some examples? Thanks! - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks

Re: error in portupgrading audio/libmtp : bad c++ code ?

2007-08-18 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Beni wrote: > When trying to portupgrade audio/libmtp (and amarok), I'm getting this > error : "Bad C++ code". I asked the maintainer... it is known, it is being worked on, and the problem and fixes / workarounds are documented here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115218 If you si

Re: Stunnel starting up twice?!?

2007-08-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 17/08/07, Alan Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I've got a weird problem that's just appeared. I'd updated my ports to > the latest CURRENT using portmanager, and now it seems > like /usr/local/etc/rc.d/stunnel.sh is getting run twice! > > I have nuked my /etc/rc.d and run merg

Re: performance hints (6.2)

2007-08-18 Thread Rob
At 04:00 PM 8/17/2007, Mark Messier wrote: I've got a freebsd 6.2 system, dual 2Ghz 5130 cpu, 4g ram, with raid5 Adaptec 2120s, running not much more than /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw and I'm having performance problems with only 20 IMAP users. As previously suggested, Raid 5's performance sucks for

RE: Share folder over internet

2007-08-18 Thread Yance Kowara
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laszlo Nagy Sent: Friday, 17 August 2007 9:43 PM To: Norberto Meijome; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Share folder over internet > It is hardly the freebsd community's fault that Skype / Ebay d

Re: Pine - Duplicate Messages

2007-08-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:36:48 + (UTC) Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 at 18:24 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > confabulated: > > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:38:59 + (UTC) > > Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> Periodically I get duplicated messages in e

OpenLDAP: weirdness with slapd.conf vs. slapd.d/

2007-08-18 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, while fiddling around with OpenLDAP 2.3.37 as taken from the ports collection I revealed something strange. Looking at the manpage of slapd I was taught that if neither -F nor -f option is applied when the SLAPD starts, default config directory /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.d/ is search

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-18 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:25:17PM +0200, I wrote: > I've been able to view out-of-region region-encoded DVDs both > on RPC-2 and RPC-1 drives (both old and recent) with mplayer > without any problems; and, yes, I've switched regions much more > often that just 5 times per RPC-2 drive: no problems

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-18 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:57:01PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: > > I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when > > playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. > > In all but the oldest DVD drives, region encoding is supposed to be > enforced by the drive its

Re: Flash

2007-08-18 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:45:29 -0400 Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jona Joachim writes: > > > > > The only native solution I know of is "gnash" but last time I > > > tried it it was very unstable and very slow. > > > > gnash 0.8 is not in the ports yet. > > Is there an estim

Re: dump -L

2007-08-18 Thread Victor Sudakov
Vince wrote: > > > >Right now I am watching a dump: > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] dump -b64 -5Lau /home > > DUMP: Connection to big.sibptus.tomsk.ru established. > > DUMP: Date of this level 5 dump: Sat Aug 18 14:02:16 2007 > > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Sun Aug 12 11:10:56 2007 > > DUMP: D

Re: dump -L

2007-08-18 Thread Vince
Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, Right now I am watching a dump: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] dump -b64 -5Lau /home DUMP: Connection to big.sibptus.tomsk.ru established. DUMP: Date of this level 5 dump: Sat Aug 18 14:02:16 2007 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Sun Aug 12 11:10:56 2007 DUMP: Du

Migrating from reiserfs to ext3

2007-08-18 Thread Konrad Scorciapino
Hello! I have a single 200GB HD that is divided in three partitions, one with FreeBSD, another with Linux and the other with my media. The first two are 10GB, and the latter, 180GB. The problem is that it is a ReiserFS partition, not writable from FreeBSD, so I'll have to change it to, say, ext3,

Re: dump -L

2007-08-18 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, Right now I am watching a dump: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] dump -b64 -5Lau /home DUMP: Connection to big.sibptus.tomsk.ru established. DUMP: Date of this level 5 dump: Sat Aug 18 14:02:16 2007 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Sun Aug 12 11:10:56 2007 DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/a