RE: Firefox won't start

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:25 -0400, Joe Tseng wrote: > You got it!!! I type in "firefox3" in the terminal and the prompt comes > right back. > Does it run sufficiently to return a version? %firefox3 -version Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2008 mozilla.org Tr

Wifi and wpa_supplicant

Is it just me or is wpa_supplicant not the best option for auth on wifi? I have now used several systems with wifi and wpa_supplicant and none have been capable of maintaining the network connection. I haven't asked before specifically because I thought it was my aging hardware - but now I've used

Broadcom driver code,

Hi, I am looking for Broadcom BCM57710 driver. Could you please let me know if this driver is available in FreeBSD sources ? If not can I have a look at the source ? Regards Ravi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: disk writer utility

Oliver Fromme wrote: Dánielisz László wrote: > What is your favorite disk writer utility? (under X) cdrecord for CDs, growisofs for DVDs. (in an xterm) I quite like K3B. Vinny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: Who is anyone using for consulting or support?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Ragona wrote: > I am working with a firm here in the Chicago area and they are > interested in using FreeBSD, but would like to know of other outside > support resources. > > I have checked the links on the FreeBSD.org website but have not gotte

Re: configure NAT with demand dial interface?

imax36581 wrote: --snip-- thanks my friends... useful information also i must do it with pppoe connection and not ppp,it seems that both are the same,if not please inform me. pppoe is supported by ppp, just has a slightly different config within /etc/ppp/ppp.conf than ppp see http

Re: Mystical Server Shutdown

Hi all, I had instigated all.log, and here is what happened at 04:08 EDT this morning...any clues you see here? ... Sep 18 04:04:08 defiant named[601]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving 'examplewhole.com/NS/IN': 192.168.0.3#53 Sep 18 04:08:14 defiant syslogd: restart Sep 18 04:08:14 defiant

Re: Mystical Server Shutdown.

Hi H, and Matt, and all, I had instigated all.log, and here is what happened at 04:08 EDT this morning...any clues you see here? ... Sep 18 04:04:08 defiant named[601]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving 'examplewhole.com/NS/IN': 192.168.0.3#53 Sep 18 04:08:14 defiant syslogd: restart Sep

Re: configure NAT with demand dial interface?

matt donovan-4 wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> On Thursday 18 September 2008 18:23:30 imax36581 wrote: >> >> > thanks Lowell Gilbert,it will be useful for me soon >> > but another question >> > on that page i cant find anything that can

Re: Who is anyone using for consulting or support?

Derek Ragona wrote: I am working with a firm here in the Chicago area and they are interested in using FreeBSD, but would like to know of other outside support resources. I have checked the links on the FreeBSD.org website but have not gotten much response from firms on that list, which seems

Re: OO 2.4.1 package problem

Ghirai wrote: Alright, installed from ports, and it's working as it should. And it only took about 4 hours. I'm glad to hear that the port worked for you. Four hours is pretty good, I remember my old system took 11 hours, once. Vinny ___ freebsd-q

Re: Problems on the console

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, manish jain wrote: Hi,   I am using FreeBSD 6.2 without X/Xorg. My shell is bash and my keyboard layout is US-ISO.   I am facing 2 problems on the console :   1) My backspace key works fine, but the Del and Delete keys also do a backspace instead of a forward delete. How

Who is anyone using for consulting or support?

I am working with a firm here in the Chicago area and they are interested in using FreeBSD, but would like to know of other outside support resources. I have checked the links on the FreeBSD.org website but have not gotten much response from firms on that list, which seems to be out of date.

Serial Console Problems

I've got DELL PowerEdge 1750 with 7.0-RELEASE-p4. I'm running the serial port to a serial console server. I thought I had the right adapter, DB-9 to RJ45, but it's being weird. When I specify, ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure In the /etc/ttys file, the console doesn't

mount msdosfs with hal

Dear all, I want to use hal to auttomount the windows fat32 partition with gnome. after setting gnome_enable="YES", hal automount it, but there is a problem. hal seems to execute "mount_msdosfs /dev/xxx /mountpoint", so the encoding is not handled correctly. If I mount it manually, it should be "m

Re: irq19 interrupt storm?

On Wednesday 17 September 2008 05:17:27 pm John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2008 11:00:24 am Scott Gasch wrote: > > You're right: atapci1, atapci2, fwohci0 and uhci4 are all sharing the same > > irq (19) while irqs 20, 21, 22 at least seem completely unused. Here's a > > dumb questi

Re: Realtek 8111/8168B and Atheros 5100ABGN

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:53 -0400, Demian Lessa wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I have a Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC and an Atheros > 5100ABGN wireless adapter on my notebook. > > FreeBSD-7 STABLE cannot configure either card. devinfo sh

Realtek 8111/8168B and Atheros 5100ABGN

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC and an Atheros 5100ABGN wireless adapter on my notebook. FreeBSD-7 STABLE cannot configure either card. devinfo shows full info from the Realtek device and partial info from the Atheros de

Problems on the console

Hi,   I am using FreeBSD 6.2 without X/Xorg. My shell is bash and my keyboard layout is US-ISO.   I am facing 2 problems on the console :   1) My backspace key works fine, but the Del and Delete keys also do a backspace instead of a forward delete. How do I change this ? My keyboard is a basic 1

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008/9/18 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> # Don't build modules with this kernel config, since they are not built >> with >> # the correct options headers. >> makeoptions NO_MODULES=yes >> """ >> >> wrong? > > Not as such, but if you use buildkernel then modules *are* built with the > co

Problems on the console

Hi,   I am using FreeBSD 6.2 without X/Xorg. My shell is bash and my keyboard layout is US-ISO.   I am facing 2 problems on the console :   1) My backspace key works fine, but the Del and Delete keys also do a backspace instead of a forward delete. How do I change this ? My keyboard is a basic 1

RE: Firefox won't start

You got it!!! I type in "firefox3" in the terminal and the prompt comes right back. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Firefox won't start Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:22:59 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd

RE: Firefox won't start

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:21:11 -0400 > Subject: Firefox won't start > > I recently did a ports update and after a bit of effort I got firefox3 to > compile with no errors. But now when I either select Firefox from the menu > or st

Re: port: security/cfs

On Sep 17, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Edwin Groothuis wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:38:56PM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: The port security/cfs, Matt Blaze's userland Cryptographic filesystem, is marked as broken because it does not compile under FreeBSD-7.0 or later. ports/127457 Th

Re: Firefox won't start

Joe Tseng wrote: I recently did a ports update and after a bit of effort I got firefox3 to compile with no errors. But now when I either select Firefox from the menu or start it from a terminal window nothing happens. Firefox does not start and there's no indication of any problems. When I

Re: Firefox won't start

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:21:11 -0400 Joe Tseng wrote: > I recently did a ports update and after a bit of effort I got firefox3 > to compile with no errors. But now when I either select Firefox from > the menu or start it from a terminal window nothing happens. Firefox > does not start and there's

Re: Firefox won't start

--- On Thu, 9/18/08, Joe Tseng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Joe Tseng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Firefox won't start > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 12:21 PM > I recently did a ports update and after a bit of effort I > got firefox3 to compile

Re: pc with 4G memory

Ivan Voras wrote: 2008/9/18 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Ivan Voras wrote: * Use a PAE kernel, which works fairly well, but doesn't support kernel modules (if you are not familiar with kernel modules then you probably don't need them so ignore this). There's a pre-packaged kernel configur

Re: Upgrading to 64 bit from a 32 bit installation on FBSD 7

Andrew Berry wrote: On 18-Sep-08, at 2:37 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Andrew Berry wrote: Can I simply rebuild the world (or use freebsd-update), and portupgrade everything to rebuild for amd64? Or, will things break as libraries are upgraded which still have 32-bit dependancies on the system?

Firefox won't start

I recently did a ports update and after a bit of effort I got firefox3 to compile with no errors. But now when I either select Firefox from the menu or start it from a terminal window nothing happens. Firefox does not start and there's no indication of any problems. When I use ps to see if it

Re: Jailing net/skype

Am Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:26:45PM +0400 schrieb Boris Samorodov: > Tobias Rehbein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > #kdump -f ktrace.out | head > > 84180 skypeCALL access(0x292b2b61,R_OK) > > 84180 skypeNAMI "/compat/linux/etc/ld.so.preload" > > 84180 skypeNAMI "/et

Re: can't open /dev/da1s1e: Input/output error

On Thursday 18 September 2008 11:42:39 Silvia Asongwe wrote: > I have done fsck but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. > i can't ssh m server from another machine, and it's my ns server, i really > need it to be up and running > > What else can i do? Most likely your disk is dying. To be sure, if

Re: configure NAT with demand dial interface?

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2008 18:23:30 imax36581 wrote: > > > thanks Lowell Gilbert,it will be useful for me soon > > but another question > > on that page i cant find anything that can help me to scheduling > > connections..

Re: NTP on 7.1 BETA amd64 odd behaviour

On Thursday 18 September 2008 16:44:40 Nash Nipples wrote: > thanks for the new /etc/rc.d/ntpd > ... > > > rc_flags="-c ${ntpd_config} ${ntpd_flags}" > > ... > what we can learn from it is that on 7.1 BETA your rc.conf.local file > should look like this > > ntpd_config="/etc/ntpd.conf" > ntpd_flags

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

Mel wrote: that's aside from the fact that the root partition '/' always has to be the first partition, for the simple reason that everything else is mounted on top of it. For the same reason: /dev/ad1se /usr/local /dev/ad1sf /usr will not work. For this particular case (root

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

On Thursday 18 September 2008 16:26:43 Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:49:37PM +0300, Robert Lebovich wrote: > > I'm trying to install freeBSD on my pc, but after the installation it > > doesn't boot. It can't find the kernel. > > I think it is the problem with my partitioning. i'

Re: configure NAT with demand dial interface?

On Thursday 18 September 2008 18:23:30 imax36581 wrote: > thanks Lowell Gilbert,it will be useful for me soon > but another question > on that page i cant find anything that can help me to scheduling > connections > for example i have two account (pppoe),i want to use second account du

Re: configure NAT with demand dial interface?

Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > imax36581 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> im new to freebsd. >> i want to that can i have a NAT service that using demand dial >> connection(such as dial up or pppoe connections)? >> can i configure it to disconnect when the service is idle(for saving >> bandwidth)?

Re: passing variable to at command

Mark Busby wrote: Is there a way to pass variables to a shell script from the command line with the at command? What I've been trying is something like : at -f '/path/script 20 test' 8:10 091808 : Where 20 and test set variables in the script. You will have to write your commands in a file,

Re: configure NAT with demand dial interface?

imax36581 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > im new to freebsd. > i want to that can i have a NAT service that using demand dial > connection(such as dial up or pppoe connections)? > can i configure it to disconnect when the service is idle(for saving > bandwidth)? ppp(8) supports this directly: htt

Re: passing variable to at command

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Busby wrote: > Is there a way to pass variables to a shell script from the command line with > the at command? > What I've been trying is something like : at -f '/path/script 20 test' 8:10 > 091808 : Where 20 and test set variables in the script

Re: NTP on 7.1 BETA amd64 odd behaviour

thanks for the new /etc/rc.d/ntpd ... > rc_flags="-c ${ntpd_config} ${ntpd_flags}" ... what we can learn from it is that on 7.1 BETA your rc.conf.local file should look like this ntpd_config="/etc/ntpd.conf" ntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid" hope that explains Nash _

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:49:37PM +0300, Robert Lebovich wrote: > I'm trying to install freeBSD on my pc, but after the installation it > doesn't boot. It can't find the kernel. > I think it is the problem with my partitioning. i'm trying this order: > /boot > swap > / > /var > /usr > Can you he

configure NAT with demand dial interface?

hi my friends im new to freebsd. i want to that can i have a NAT service that using demand dial connection(such as dial up or pppoe connections)? can i configure it to disconnect when the service is idle(for saving bandwidth)? thanks in advance -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.

passing variable to at command

Is there a way to pass variables to a shell script from the command line with the at command? What I've been trying is something like : at -f '/path/script 20 test' 8:10 091808 : Where 20 and test set variables in the script. I've tried googling the at command for help but there's a lot of "at"

Re: disk writer utility

Dánielisz László wrote: > What is your favorite disk writer utility? (under X) cdrecord for CDs, growisofs for DVDs. (in an xterm) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäf

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:32:09PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > Robert Lebovich skrev: > >I'm trying to install freeBSD on my pc, but after the installation it > >doesn't boot. It can't find the kernel. > >I think it is the problem with my partitioning. i'm trying this order: > >/boot > >swap

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

Robert Lebovich skrev: I'm trying to install freeBSD on my pc, but after the installation it doesn't boot. It can't find the kernel. I think it is the problem with my partitioning. i'm trying this order: /boot swap / /var /usr Can you help me how to install in this order? __

FreeBSD installation doesn't work

I'm trying to install freeBSD on my pc, but after the installation it doesn't boot. It can't find the kernel. I think it is the problem with my partitioning. i'm trying this order: /boot swap / /var /usr Can you help me how to install in this order? __

Re: Auto blacklist ssh connections ...

Quoting andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed 2008-09-17 19:36:02 UTC-0400, Tom Marchand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know of a utility that I can use with sshd to auto-block by IP if there are more then N failed attempts in a row? Why don't you have sshd listen on a differ

Vinum for hard disk drive balanced load sharing configuration example RAID-5

Dear Listmates, Is it possible to configure vinum for balancing the mileage between two and three non-volatile storage devices of a different size I have read the manual thoroughly and noticed that the are certain restrictions applied to the hard drive sizes in the proposed RAID5 data handling

Re: NTP on 7.1 BETA amd64 odd behaviour

> - > > If I comment out the > > ntpd_flags="-c /etc/ntp.conf -p > /var/run/ntpd.pid" > > line. > > ntp starts without any error. > > Should I accept this or is something wrong? > > Thanks > /Leslie Looks like it wants only one parameter as

Re: OO 2.4.1 package problem

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:17:24 +0300 Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:07:29 -0400 > Vinny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Ghirai, > > > > > > > > I installed OOo_2.4.1_FreeBSD70Intel_install_en-US.tbz, along > > > with the required deps, as well as > > > diablo-jre-f

NTP on 7.1 BETA amd64 odd behaviour

I have one 7.0-RELEASE machine running NTP with the following settings. rc.conf - ntpd_enable="YES" ntpd_flags="-c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid" ntp.conf --- server ntp2.sp.se server ntp.lth.se server ntp1.sp.se driftfile /etc/

Re: Upgrading to 64 bit from a 32 bit installation on FBSD 7

On 18-Sep-08, at 2:37 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Andrew Berry wrote: Can I simply rebuild the world (or use freebsd-update), and portupgrade everything to rebuild for amd64? Or, will things break as libraries are upgraded which still have 32-bit dependancies on the system? This is a pretty

Re: epiphany stalls on dbus-launch?

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 04:12:22PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I've built ports/www/epiphany on FBSD-6.3-stable on Alpha. > On launch epiphany never opens the graphical window. > ps shows: > > 67097 p5 I 0:01.21 epiphany > 67098 p5 I 0:00.05 dbus-launch --autolaunch > 76514f0

port www/kazehakase + webkit -> errors

Anybody using www/kazehakase with webkit engine? Any issues? I built these ports on FBSD 6.3 Alpha, and get many many errors, e.g.: pid 64050 (kazehakase): unaligned access: va=0x163dd800a pc=0x161c2fbb8 ra=0x161c2f0ac op=ldl pid 64050 (kazehakase): unaligned access: va=0x163dd800e pc=0x161c2fbb

Re: freeBSD 7.0 supports ACE Proactor?

Mungyung Ryu wrote: > Hi freeBSD users, > > I've developed couple of server applications on Windows platform with ACE > Proactor > and it worked quite well. But, because of the expensive Windows Server, > I wanna move to Linux or freeBSD. > > Recently, I'm considering to build a server applicati

Re: Auto blacklist ssh connections ...

On Wed 2008-09-17 19:36:02 UTC-0400, Tom Marchand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Does anyone know of a utility that I can use with sshd to auto-block >> by IP if there are more then N failed attempts in a row? > Why don't you have sshd listen on a different port? I imagine that on some hosts wh

can't open /dev/da1s1e: Input/output error

I have done fsck but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. i can't ssh m server from another machine, and it's my ns server, i really need it to be up and running What else can i do? thanks "The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets she took him" __

Re: Mystical Server Shutdown.

If you applied all the Matthew's suggestions and it is still a mystery, and if server's shutdown is clean, look for a a (buggy) user land process that sends SIGUSR2 signal to init(1). Matthew Seaman wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I started getting watchmouse errors about on pf my servers n

Re: OO 2.4.1 package problem

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:07:29 -0400 Vinny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ghirai, > > > > > I installed OOo_2.4.1_FreeBSD70Intel_install_en-US.tbz, along with the > > required deps, > > as well as diablo-jre-freebsd7.i386.1.6.0.07.02.tbz. > > > > Now i'm getting this error: > > > > [EMAIL PROT

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008/9/18 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> >> * Use a PAE kernel, which works fairly well, but doesn't support kernel >> modules (if you are not familiar with kernel modules then you probably >> don't need them so ignore this). There's a pre-packaged kernel >> configuration

Re: NTP authentication using kerberos

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 08:28 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Da Rock wrote: > > This may be a stupid question, and/or a chicken and egg conundrum: > > > > Is it possible to use kerberos in authentication with an ntp server? > > > > Here is my reasoning for this (and please correct any wrong assump

Re: Auto blacklist ssh connections ...

"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know of a utility that I can use with sshd to auto-block by IP if > there are more then N failed attempts in a row? With PF, you could use state tracking options and overload rules to set limits on the rate of new connections from any o

Re: NTP authentication using kerberos

Da Rock wrote: This may be a stupid question, and/or a chicken and egg conundrum: Is it possible to use kerberos in authentication with an ntp server? Here is my reasoning for this (and please correct any wrong assumptions I have here): In the handbook regarding kerberos (and nearly every other

Re: bash shell colors

Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > I am looking to configure FreeBSD's Bash > can anyone post a config file that would make FreeBSD's Bash shell > color code like the default gentoo bash shell > > or if you have a config that you like and feel like posting it I will > take a look at it. This is also heavil

RE: How to split a C string by a string?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas > Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2008 1:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: How to split a C string by a string? > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:32:

Re: Mystical Server Shutdown.

Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I started getting watchmouse errors about on pf my servers not responding. There is a DRAC on the machine, and the sensor data was all good. When I got the machine back up and running, I seen this in lastlog: client1 ftp hostname1here Wed Sep 17 17:02

Re: Auto blacklist ssh connections ...

Howdy, We use Blockhosts found here :) http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts HTH cya Andrew DA Forsyth wrote: On 17 Sep 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 233, Issue 7": Does anyone know of a utility that I can use with sshd to auto-block by IP if th

Re: bash shell colors

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 08:56:09AM +0200, Anselm Strauss wrote: > > Hi, > > I use something like this (heavily inspired by Gentoo): > > if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then > PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[00m\] ' > else > PS1='\[\033[01;[EMAIL PROTECTED];34m\] \w \$\[\033[00m\] '