Re: USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:06:08 +0200 Benjamin Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've bought an USB->Serial adapter in order to use an old serial 33.6k > modem. I've loaded the uplcom and ucom modules, but am unsure how to > proceed from here. > > The system runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8. When

ed1 interface sometimes not recognized

2007-10-23 Thread freebsd
Can anyone offer suggestions as to why an ed1 interface is not always recognized when booting? This is on 6.1 on an old P200 system. ed1 is the second nic, ep0 is the first; ep0 is always recognized. Rebooting usually solves the problem. I'm also puzzled as to why it's ed1 and not ed0. As near

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-23 Thread Martin Hepworth
what have you tried and what errors do you get? -- martin On 10/24/07, Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am looking around for a really simple way to install CPAN on FreeBSD. > I keep running into errors in one variation or another. > > Anybody have a good page to send me to

Re: user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-23 Thread freebsd
To answer my own question: I had the mux type set wrong -- VC-based instead of LLC-based. While the line comes up, the session is never opened because of the mux mismatch. moving right along now... Gary The freebsd box is connected directly via ed1 to the dsl modem; a crossover cable is used;

Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-23 Thread Ross Penner
Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are supported. Does the C7 chip have support that I don't know of? If not, will it? Otherwise, will specifying the chipset as

Re: Using OpenSSL from ports

2007-10-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 White Hat wrote: > Is there any real advantage to installing 'openssl' > from ports rather than using the version installed in > the base system? Other than the fact that the port > version is slightly newer, is there any other major > difference? F

easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-23 Thread Noah
Hi there, I am looking around for a really simple way to install CPAN on FreeBSD. I keep running into errors in one variation or another. Anybody have a good page to send me to? Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Hello.. about motherboard MSI P4M900M2-L with chip VT8237A

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:39:16AM +0200, Johan Andersson wrote: > Hello.. > Anyone know if motherboard MSI P4M900M2-L with the chip VT8237A works > with FreeBSD 6.2 amd64? > Do all the stuff works like p-ata/s-ata controller and network card work? > > im going to build a small server with that m

Nessus on 6.2

2007-10-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am using nessus from the ports on FreeBSD 6.2. The daemon seems to be runing fine, but the cient core dumps. sysl103: pkg_info |grep nessus nessus-gtk-2.2.9_1 A security scanner: looks for vulnerabilities in a given ne nessus-libnasl-2.2.9_1 Nessus Attack Scripting Language nessus-librari

Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-23 Thread icantthinkofone
My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source driver for flash for freebsd? Is it a legal issue? Or does it take more time than anyone has to give? Or is it just too difficult to do without help from Adobe? ___ freebsd-questio

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Norberto Meijome writes: I do not have Windows on any of my machines but I have heard that Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I believe it is about $45. $45 is far cheaper than EMC's VMWare workstation edition. Does it support Vista now? interesting..you can also try QEMu, on which Win4B

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Frank Jahnke writes: VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. VMware employee? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-23 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Francisco Reyes wrote: > Norberto Meijome writes: > >>> I do not have Windows on any of my machines but I have heard that >>> Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I believe it is about >>> $45. >> >> $45 is far cheaper than EMC's VMWare workstation edition. Does it >> support Vista >> now? inter

7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-23 Thread David J Brooks
Bill Moran wrote: > Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from 6.2 release? Is there a compelling reason to upgrade to one over the other? David -- There is hard

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread cpghost
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:24:09 +0200 Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #include > > void main() > { > short nnote; > > // Numerischen Notenwert einlesen > printf("Bitte numerischen Schulnotenwert eingeben: "); > scanf("%d",&nnote); > > switch (nnote) > { > case 1:

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
Bruce Cran wrote: cpghost wrote: There's a mismatch here: scanf("%d", ...) expects a pointer to int, while &nnote is a pointer to a short. Normally, an int occupies more bytes in memory than a short (typically sizeof(int) == 4 on 32bit platforms, and sizeof(int) == 8 on 64bit platforms; while t

Hello.. about motherboard MSI P4M900M2-L with chip VT8237A

2007-10-23 Thread Johan Andersson
Hello.. Anyone know if motherboard MSI P4M900M2-L with the chip VT8237A works with FreeBSD 6.2 amd64? Do all the stuff works like p-ata/s-ata controller and network card work? im going to build a small server with that motherboard. Need to know if it works with FreeBSD before i buy it :) Thanks

Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-23 Thread Bahman M.
On 2007-10-23 RW wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:42:46 +0330 > "Bahman M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 2007-10-22 Juri Mianovich wrote: > > > I am used to using this command in Linux, using GNU > > > dd: > > > > > > dd if=/blah of=/bleh oflag=append conv=notrunc > > > > > > The problem i

Re: Buying new sound card

2007-10-23 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:29:34PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sunday 21 October 2007, Roberth Sjonøy wrote: > > >> Anyone who can confirm that a Creative SB Audigy SE PCI works with > > >>

Re: resizing partitions

2007-10-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Chad Perrin wrote: > I have need to alter some partition sizes on a (laptop) system I use > daily, with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE installed. Are there tools you'd > recommend for this, that should be stable and not prone to hosing up my > filesystems? In particular, I probab

Re: the right next step?

2007-10-23 Thread Bill Moran
John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Aliya Harbouri wrote: > > Hi everybody! > > > > If we've > > > > i) raised a question about a port on this list > > ii) sent an email to the port maintainer > > iii) filed a pr > > iv) waited ~ a month, then followed-up

Re: the right next step?

2007-10-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Aliya Harbouri wrote: > Hi everybody! > > If we've > > i) raised a question about a port on this list > ii) sent an email to the port maintainer > iii) filed a pr > iv) waited ~ a month, then followed-up the pr > > and there's still no communication / action, wha

the right next step?

2007-10-23 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi everybody! If we've i) raised a question about a port on this list ii) sent an email to the port maintainer iii) filed a pr iv) waited ~ a month, then followed-up the pr and there's still no communication / action, what's the right next step? Is there a different list to communicate

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 23:24:09 schrieb Harald Schmalzbauer: > #include > > void main() > { > short nnote; > > // Numerischen Notenwert einlesen > printf("Bitte numerischen Schulnotenwert eingeben: "); > scanf("%d",&nnote); man 3 scanf (most important thing to look at with any such

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread cpghost
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:36:40 +0100 Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > > There's a mismatch here: scanf("%d", ...) expects a pointer to int, > > while &nnote is a pointer to a short. Normally, an int occupies more > > bytes in memory than a short (typically sizeof(int) == 4

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Bruce Cran
cpghost wrote: There's a mismatch here: scanf("%d", ...) expects a pointer to int, while &nnote is a pointer to a short. Normally, an int occupies more bytes in memory than a short (typically sizeof(int) == 4 on 32bit platforms, and sizeof(int) == 8 on 64bit platforms; while typically sizeof(sho

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Bruce Cran
Derek Ragona wrote: At 04:24 PM 10/23/2007, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 22:24:54 schrieb Bill Moran: > In response to cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:44:52 +0200 > > > > Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The first one was fo

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread cpghost
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:24:09 +0200 Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #include > > void main() > { > short nnote; ^ > // Numerischen Notenwert einlesen > printf("Bitte numerischen Schulnotenwert eingeben: "); > scanf("%d",&nnote); ^ > I found that de

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:24 PM 10/23/2007, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 22:24:54 schrieb Bill Moran: > In response to cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:44:52 +0200 > > > > Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The first one was for example the attache

Re: USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:17:01PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 19:54:44 Roland Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:06:08PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > > > I'd expect some device to show up in /dev, cuad1, ucom0, something > > > like that, but I get nothing. (c

Re: su: not running setuid

2007-10-23 Thread Christopher Cowart
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:09:04PM +0100, Adam J Richardson wrote: > Christopher Cowart wrote: >> Unless you can find some local privilege escalation exploit, I'm >> thinking you're stuck. You can probably fix it in single-user mode: >> * Reboot >> * Pick single user mode from the boot menu >> * Ac

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 23:24:09 schrieb Harald Schmalzbauer: [*snip*] > > Although, you'll have to include your code inline to get past the > > sanitizers. > > Thanks all, > > here was my example, just for completeness, I found mentors for my needs. > > Thanks a lot to all! > > > #include >

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 22:24:54 schrieb Bill Moran: > In response to cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:44:52 +0200 > > > > Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The first one was for example the attached code: Why does it segfault? > > > > Mailman ate the

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Bill Moran
In response to cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:44:52 +0200 > Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The first one was for example the attached code: Why does it segfault? > > Mailman ate the attachment... Can't see it here. I may be out of line, but I think i

Re: su: not running setuid

2007-10-23 Thread Adam J Richardson
Christopher Cowart wrote: Unless you can find some local privilege escalation exploit, I'm thinking you're stuck. You can probably fix it in single-user mode: * Reboot * Pick single user mode from the boot menu * Accept the default shell $ fsck -p $ mount -u / $ mount -a -t ufs $ chown root /usr/

Re: multiple postgresql servers in multiple jails?

2007-10-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Oliver Peter wrote: > Does anybody have a running system with more than one jail hosting > more than one postgres server? Yes, you must configure them to use different port numbers, because the SysV IPC IDs are derived from the port number. If you try to run both servers with the default port, y

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread cpghost
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:44:52 +0200 Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first one was for example the attached code: Why does it segfault? Mailman ate the attachment... Can't see it here. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: Anyone get Flash 9 working?

2007-10-23 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 13:38 -0400, Mark Moellering wrote: > The basic question, > has anyone gotten Flash-9 running on FreeBSD ? linux-version? wine version? ^^^ Thanks for idea! :-) I've just installed Firefox 2.0.0.6 and Fla

Re: help in deletion part of a line

2007-10-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:13:49AM +0530, Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: > On 23-Oct-07, at 4:11 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > Is there an easier way by sed or ed to remove strings > > (caight by grep) of the sort: > > > > part5.chapter2.text- > > > > where "5" and "2" can be any integ

Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dan Nelson wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Of course, the easiest way is to do this: > > > > $ dd if=/blah >> /bleh I still think the OP should prefer that solution. > > If you cannot do that, please explain why. If you know > > your reason, there might be an alternative way to do it.

Re: help in deletion part of a line

2007-10-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:37:13AM +0100, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:41:40PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Is there an easier way by sed or ed to remove strings > > (caight by grep) of the sort: > > > > part5.chapter2.text- > > > > where "5" and "2"

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make the shift from Linux? Is there anything in particul

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-23 Thread NetOpsCenter
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:39:19PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: James writes: Add yourself to wheel (which is the root group on FreeBSD, a name I believe it inherited from earlier BSDs, but I've no idea what the justification for choosing 'wheel' is; any BSD hi

Re: Anyone get Flash 9 working?

2007-10-23 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Mark Moellering wrote: The basic question, has anyone gotten Flash-9 running on FreeBSD ? linux-version? wine version? FreeBSD 7? anything? Now, you can't exactly call it "running": On FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 amd64 with linux_base-fc7-7_1 in linux-opera-9.24.20071015 with linux

Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hello, I'm abaout to learn C (really learn it, not just to be able to tinker arround with). So I bought a book which has some practices in each chapter. Now I wrote the little programs and they were almost correct, but the things going wrog aren't explained in that book. Probably it has to do wi

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread NetOpsCenter
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: Hi, I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make the shift from Linux? Is there anything in par

Using OpenSSL from ports

2007-10-23 Thread White Hat
Is there any real advantage to installing 'openssl' from ports rather than using the version installed in the base system? Other than the fact that the port version is slightly newer, is there any other major difference? Also, if I did install the port version, how would I insure that applications

Re: Buying new sound card

2007-10-23 Thread Peo Nilsson
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 20:07 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What drivers? The ones that don't exist for the card? > > > > In my opinion the SB Audigy is a very common card that should have > > been supported long ago. On the other hand, the OSS driver

multiple postgresql servers in multiple jails?

2007-10-23 Thread Oliver Peter
Does anybody have a running system with more than one jail hosting more than one postgres server? I can only have one pgsql database on one host at all. I already tried to increase the shared memory off my machine with additional kernel [1] and sysctl parameters [2] and I also tried to change the

Re: USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-23 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 19:54:44 Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:06:08PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > > I'd expect some device to show up in /dev, cuad1, ucom0, something > > like that, but I get nothing. (cuad0 is taken by the onboard serial > > port, which, alas, isn't wired

Re: Anyone get Flash 9 working?

2007-10-23 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Mark Moellering wrote: > The basic question, > has anyone gotten Flash-9 running on FreeBSD ? linux-version? wine version? > FreeBSD 7? anything? > the only solution I have found is install xp as a guest OS under qemu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

resizing partitions

2007-10-23 Thread Chad Perrin
I have need to alter some partition sizes on a (laptop) system I use daily, with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE installed. Are there tools you'd recommend for this, that should be stable and not prone to hosing up my filesystems? In particular, I probably don't need to shrink any partitions -- only grow the

Re: Buying new sound card

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:29:34PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sunday 21 October 2007, Roberth Sjonøy wrote: > >> Anyone who can confirm that a Creative SB Audigy SE PCI works with FreeBSD? > > It doesn't work, unless you install the oss dri

Re: user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-23 Thread freebsd
Hi Nikos, Thank you and rw for your replies. The freebsd box is connected directly via ed1 to the dsl modem; a crossover cable is used; the packets are clearly reaching the modem, as it records them as received. I've simplified ppp.conf to the following, essentially the ppp.conf.sample: default

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Jeff Mohler
The difficulty for my moving the last of my Linux boxes, is...iscsi support. God how I wish I could map luns, boot from luns, and share lun love with my other freebsd boxes. Im starting on another venture, that I -want- on FreeBSD, but likely will not be able to, because I cant use iscsi on it.

Re: USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:06:08PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > I'd expect some device to show up in /dev, cuad1, ucom0, something like > that, but I get nothing. (cuad0 is taken by the onboard serial port, > which, alas, isn't wired to the outside of the case). Looking at ucom(4): FILES

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:01:41PM +0200, Gueven Bay wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 19:33 +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of > > > > reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there

Anyone get Flash 9 working?

2007-10-23 Thread Mark Moellering
The basic question, has anyone gotten Flash-9 running on FreeBSD ? linux-version? wine version? FreeBSD 7? anything? I realize this is one of those issues that reappears every few months, however, without Flash 9, it is difficult to do some website development in a pure FreeBSD environment.

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Donovan R. Palmer
One of the biggest attractions, among many, is that you install the BSD base and then add what you want to it. I have increasingly become tired of having to spend a tonne of time taking a tonne of stuff out of a Linux distro that I don't need. Of course, part of this is that I am a generally fo

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: Hi, could you tell me how hard it is to make the shift from Linux? http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ :-D More sincerely, welcome to FreeBSD! Set your mail filters, subscribe to the lists, grab your handbook, phasers on stun... Happy computing! Kevin K

Re: reverse DNS resolution...

2007-10-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Eric F Crist wrote: > As I already stated, if I do a host 172.30.x.x, I get a the correct > reverse resolution. dig works as well. What isn't working is the > reverse resolution in certain command outputs, etc. Note that the DNS tools (host, nslookup, dig) use their own resolver code, not

Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-23 Thread Bahman M.
On 2007-10-23 Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 23), Oliver Fromme said: > > Bahman M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 2007-10-22 Juri Mianovich wrote: > > > > I am used to using this command in Linux, using GNU > > > > dd: > > > > > > > > dd if=/blah of=/bleh oflag=append conv

Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 23), Oliver Fromme said: > Bahman M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007-10-22 Juri Mianovich wrote: > > > I am used to using this command in Linux, using GNU > > > dd: > > > > > > dd if=/blah of=/bleh oflag=append conv=notrunc > > > > > > The problem is, FreeBS

USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-23 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Hello, I've bought an USB->Serial adapter in order to use an old serial 33.6k modem. I've loaded the uplcom and ucom modules, but am unsure how to proceed from here. The system runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8. When connecting the adapter, dmesg says: ucom0: Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial C

Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:42:46 +0330 "Bahman M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-10-22 Juri Mianovich wrote: > > I am used to using this command in Linux, using GNU > > dd: > > > > dd if=/blah of=/bleh oflag=append conv=notrunc > > > > The problem is, FreeBSD 'dd' does not understand the > >

Re: reverse DNS resolution...

2007-10-23 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
> As I already stated, if I do a host 172.30.x.x, I get a the correct > reverse resolution. dig works as well. What isn't working is the > reverse resolution in certain command outputs, etc. Maybe there is > something missing here: Install wireshark on one of the clients -- filter on protocol dn

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-23 Thread DAve
Mark Moellering wrote: > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 5:01 am, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: >> Hi all, >> I'm looking for a way to stream live video on FreeBSD (streamingserver and >> encoder or either). >> >> I have previously used Windows Media Server and Encoder quite a lot, but I >> try to run

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-23 Thread Robert Huff
Kevin Kinsey writes: > >> Not sure, but I believe "wheel" predates UNIX. I have > >> certainly seen the idea on OSes that do. > > Some anecdotal evidence on the web suggests that the idea > was present in BBN's TENEX in 1969. *DING!* Robe

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:01:02AM +0200, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: > Hi all, > I'm looking for a way to stream live video on FreeBSD (streamingserver and > encoder or either). > > I have previously used Windows Media Server and Encoder quite a lot, but I > try to run as much as possible on

Re: Buying new sound card

2007-10-23 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 21 October 2007, Roberth Sjonøy wrote: >> Anyone who can confirm that a Creative SB Audigy SE PCI works with FreeBSD? > It doesn't work, unless you install the oss driver from > http://www.4front-tech.com That is not too hard ;-) > Note tha

Re: Q: general LaTeX mailing list

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:43:28PM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > Hi there, > > Who knows a good general LaTeX mailing list? Ah yes, here is also good > mailing list for the question. However, I want to give specific and > professional advice about LaTeX. Unfortunately, Google disappointed my > d

Re: Install on new INTEL motherboard, can't find ATA devices

2007-10-23 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:13 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > I just got a new INTEL motherboard - chock full of these new-fangled > SATA connectors... and one "legacy" ATA connector. I moved a disk > drive from an older box to this new one.. > > The machine can boot from the disk drive, but th

4 clause BSD license in a.out.h

2007-10-23 Thread bruce
While looking through some header files I found a.out.h in /usr/include. If this header is still valid (can FreeBSD still be configured to handle a.out binaries?), is the 3rd clause still valid, or should it be removed? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-quest

Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Bahman M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-10-22 Juri Mianovich wrote: > > I am used to using this command in Linux, using GNU > > dd: > > > > dd if=/blah of=/bleh oflag=append conv=notrunc > > > > The problem is, FreeBSD 'dd' does not understand the > > "oflag" argument. > > > > I

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread James
I switched after using linux for several years because things are more consistent in FreeBSD. These days, I still use linux for some things, but it often feels like things are slightly weird and kludgy. Which, in all honesty, they are. Linux is one of the greatest projects ever, creating differen

Re: reverse DNS resolution...

2007-10-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:23 AM 10/23/2007, Eric F Crist wrote: On Oct 22, 2007, at 4:51 PMOct 22, 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: Hey folks, We're trying to get reverse DNS resolution for a block of IPs (private). We've had the 10.x network working great at the office for quite some time no

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:03:44AM +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > Friends... thank you for all of your responses. Last night I read a big > chunk of the handbook and read articles such as > http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php Very > helpful. I was impressed w

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread cpghost
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:33:57 +0100 "Donovan R. Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of > reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there > any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it > is

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux

2007-10-23 Thread Bill Vermillion
At Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:00 , our malformed and occasionally flatulent friend [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth this fount of brain juice: > Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:30:30 -0700 (PDT) > From: Tim Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux? > I subscribe to the dige

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-23 Thread Mark Moellering
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 5:01 am, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: > Hi all, > I'm looking for a way to stream live video on FreeBSD (streamingserver and > encoder or either). > > I have previously used Windows Media Server and Encoder quite a lot, but I > try to run as much as possible on FreeBSD

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-23 Thread Rob
Mike Jeays wrote: Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. What does it do? It is easier to understand when you replace the ":" by a more conventional subroutine name. myproc () { myproc & myproc } myproc It recursively generates useless processes that c

Re: Q: general LaTeX mailing list

2007-10-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-23 12:43, Byung-Hee HWANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > Who knows a good general LaTeX mailing list? Ah yes, here is also good > mailing list for the question. However, I want to give specific and > professional advice about LaTeX. Unfortunately, Google disappointed my > des

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: > I'm looking for a way to stream live video on FreeBSD (streamingserver and > encoder or either). > > I have previously used Windows Media Server and Encoder quite a lot, but I > try to run as much as possible on FreeBSD. My question would be, is there > a st

Re: trafshow and IPFW

2007-10-23 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Saturday 20 October 2007 15:11:48 Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > If I write a rule to block irc ports (6669), and I see them being > blocked in ipfw, will I still see the connection attemps in trafshow? You seem to ask, yet I believe you already know the answer :) Is trafshow using BPF? I too

server shutted down frequently, related to [swi1: net] process ?

2007-10-23 Thread dwianto rizky
hi list, my server is frequently shutted down by itself. I've checked all of relevant logs, but it showed nothing suspicious. Then, I realized from the output of ps -aux that [swi1: net], and some irq have consumed the cpu load. # ps aux |more USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED

Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-23 Thread Bahman M.
On 2007-10-22 Juri Mianovich wrote: > I am used to using this command in Linux, using GNU > dd: > > dd if=/blah of=/bleh oflag=append conv=notrunc > > The problem is, FreeBSD 'dd' does not understand the > "oflag" argument. > > Is there some equivalent in the FreeBSD 'dd' syntax > that I can use

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Gueven Bay
> > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 19:33 +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of > > > reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any > > > ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how har

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
John Murphy wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:39:19 -0400 Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: James writes: Add yourself to wheel (which is the root group on FreeBSD, a name I believe it inherited from earlier BSDs, but I've no idea what the justification for choosing 'wheel' is; any BSD hi

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Robby Balona
Switch .. switch now and you will love it. i just spent 3 days trying to get unixODBC working on linux... . I got it to work in about 10 min on Freebsd. Freebsd rules... its a slight bit different but it rules. You will never go back once you port something. On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 14:07 +

Re: reverse DNS resolution...

2007-10-23 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 22, 2007, at 4:51 PMOct 22, 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: Hey folks, We're trying to get reverse DNS resolution for a block of IPs (private). We've had the 10.x network working great at the office for quite some time now, but I'm having a problem getting the 172.3

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Bahman M.
On 2007-10-22 Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of > reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there > any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it > is to make the shift from Linux? Is

Re: user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-23 Thread RW
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:50:15 -0600 Gary Aitken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting to change a DSL link from using PPPoE in the DSL modem > to doing PPPoE on 6.1, with the modem in bridging mode. > > I've put the DSL modem in bridging mode, and it brings up the link > properly -- or at le

Re: Per-port options in make.conf?

2007-10-23 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:18:59PM -0400, Josh Carroll wrote: > > Is there any way to specify options in make.conf on a per-port basis? > > Yes, something like this should work: > > .if ${.CURDIR:M*/portnamehere*} > WITHOUT_X11=yes > .endif > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:30:29AM +0200, Roland Smi

Re: FreeNX

2007-10-23 Thread Gerard
On October 22, 2007 at 06:32PM Novembre wrote: > Is there going to be an updated version of the FreeNX port? The > version in the FreeBSD port tree is 0.4.4_3 which hasn't been updated > in two years. The current version is 0.7.1 though. Have you tried contacting the maintainer: [EMAIL PROT

Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-23 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to stream live video on FreeBSD (streamingserver and encoder or either). I have previously used Windows Media Server and Encoder quite a lot, but I try to run as much as possible on FreeBSD. My question would be, is there a streaming server and possibly an encoder ava

Re: user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-23 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 05:31:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm attempting to change a DSL link from using PPPoE in the DSL modem > to doing PPPoE on 6.1, with the modem in bridging mode. > > I've put the DSL modem in bridging mode, and it brings up the link > properly -- or at least it reports

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Mayank Jain
Hi Using freeBSD is more fun. Installing packages and all that is very easy. The things you can do in LINUX you can surely do with FreeBSD. Collection of large number of ports and the flexibility to modify anything the way you want make it cool. Really after installing FreeBSD I had never swithc

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Donovan R. Palmer
Benjamin, I found http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/11/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html to be an excellent article! Thanks for the link. - DP - Original Message - From: "Benjamin M. A'Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:47 AM Subject: Re: Is it difficult to move

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of > reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there > any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it > is to make the shift from Linux? Is there anything in parti

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Donovan R. Palmer
Friends... thank you for all of your responses. Last night I read a big chunk of the handbook and read articles such as http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php Very helpful. I was impressed with the quality of the documentation and I like the disciplined approach to

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