gcc -pg and ld error, "cannot find -lgcc_p"

2009-10-26 Thread freebsd
On 7.2-RELEASE-p4, I have a very complicated C program: int main(int argc, char** argv) { return 5; } I can compile this program (cc example.c -o example) and it compiles and runs fine. However, if I try to enable profiling of this program by compiling it

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

2009-10-26 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:29 am, Chris Rees wrote: > I have always considered hard disk, floppy diskette, and > compact disc (and digital versatile disc) to be the > terminology; but then again the official British spelling is > disc, whereas AFAICR the US spelling is disk. What organisation defines

lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-26 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thursday about two and a half weeks ago, updates came through for lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 that resulted in broken installation procedures, although both ports appeared to build correctly. Here are the relevant messages from lang/gcc43. (lang/gcc44 appeared to fail installation in exactl

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:27 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:39 pm, Polytropon wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > > > just a little terminology note (from me, Mister > > Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of > > hard disk, use "disk" with k. Think like "diskette". If you > > are

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:39 pm, Polytropon wrote: > Hi Rob, > > just a little terminology note (from me, Mister > Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of hard > disk, use "disk" with k. Think like "diskette". If you are > refering to optical media, use "disc" with c. Think like "CD =

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-10-26 Thread Siju George
LinkedIn Siju George requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Jerry, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Siju Accept invitation from Siju George http://www.linkedin.com/e/1o3bCy0npDqyzD3wjrAbLV0nLmqMr8R-

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread jhell
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:29, alexbestms@ wrote: Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Ray Still
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Ray Still wrote: >> Ok, >> tell me just how nuts this idea is. > > imho, your thought-process is not nuts. I can see what you are trying to > do, so kudos given for trying to work it out with what you have. > >> To recap, two pipes, one dest

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Alexander Best wrote: >> Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: >>> Hi, >> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: >> permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 >> so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that

Lagg driver not working on HP Proliant

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Steele
We just purchased an HP Proliant DL320 G6, a 1U server with two Broadcom NICs. When configured as standalone interfaces, the two NICs work fine. However, when configured as a failover lagg pair, we cannot assign an IP to the lagg0 interface. We are using the following entry in our rc.conf file:

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-10-26 Thread Andrew Falanga
LinkedIn Andrew Falanga requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Jerry, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Andrew Accept invitation from Andrew Falanga http://www.linkedin.com/e/1o3bCy0npDqyzD3wjrAbLV0n

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Alexander Best wrote: > Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: >> Hi, > >>> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > >>> permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > >>> so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that >>> address. >>> unfortunately ho

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Alex, > i'm not using a webserver or anything. i'm just a regular user. the point is: > i often forget to specify https://... for that specific address in apps like > lynx or firefox. that's why the non-ssl version of that site is being loaded. > i'd like freebsd to take care of this so even if th

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Best
Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: > Hi, > > i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > > permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > > so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that > > address. > > unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support thi

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > > permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > > so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. > unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. De3finitely not. man hosts to see the

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > > permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > > so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. > unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. It do

howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. any advice on how to do this? cheers. alex

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
> How many people actually use it? Very few. Out of the 12 or 15 servers I run, only one do not use stock sendmail: the mail server. So one out of twelve is rather quite a lot... Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ray Still wrote: > Ok, > tell me just how nuts this idea is. In addition to my other post: I like your mentality of trying to do whatever you can to create redundancy. I've often tried to think of ways to use DNS to make things redundant and resilient. Keep up trying new ways to stretch things

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ray Still wrote: > Ok, > tell me just how nuts this idea is. imho, your thought-process is not nuts. I can see what you are trying to do, so kudos given for trying to work it out with what you have. > To recap, two pipes, one destination. > I set up second DNS server. > ns1.example.com at 70.65.

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-26 Thread PJ
Freminlins wrote: > 2009/10/25 Matthew Seaman > > > >>% pkg_info -r linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32 >>Information for linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32: >> >>Depends on: >>Dependency: linux_base-f10-10_2 >>Dependency: linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g >>Dependency: linux-f10-openldap-2

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-26 Thread PJ
Matthew Seaman wrote: > PJ wrote: >> Is there any definitive install guide for flashplugin. >> I was able to install it on a 7.2 64bit machine and then on an i386 but >> somehow it has morphed into god-knows-what and no longer works. > > This is what I did for a 7.2 box. Note that there are compat

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-26 Thread PJ
Thank you very much Herbert, I appreciate your input. As I wrote in my original query, I had auccessfully installed the lilnux-flashplugin9 on FreeBSD 7.2 both on a 64 bit portable _ Acer Travelmate 4400 - and on a couple of disks on the same machine (i386). I followed the instructions from http:

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Gary Gatten
How will the client side resolvers know what dns server to use to resolve example.com? - Original Message - From: Gary Gatten To: 'rstil...@gmail.com' ; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Sent: Mon Oct 26 18:24:38 2009 Subject: Re: bind configuration issues Yes, your missing something. I

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Gary Gatten
Yes, your missing something. I don't think your solution will work very well. - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon Oct 26 18:13:47 2009 Subject: Re: bind configuration issues Ok, tell me just how nuts this idea is. T

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Ray Still
Ok, tell me just how nuts this idea is. To recap, two pipes, one destination. I set up second DNS server. ns1.example.com at 70.65. (provider 1) ns2.example.com at 206.75(provider 2) A records for example.org on ns1 will give 70.65. on ns2 206.75 if provider one goes down, ns1 is g

Re: [freebsd-questions] in subject line

2009-10-26 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:43:17 + Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Hi > > Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in > square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for > setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into different > 'fold

Re: [freebsd-questions] in subject line

2009-10-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Chris-- On Oct 26, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into different 'folders'

[freebsd-questions] in subject line

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into different 'folders' I couldn't see anything in my freebsd questions list account sett

Re: can't make www/linux-f10-flashplugin10

2009-10-26 Thread Jamie Griffin
> Just in case someone looks here and not in UPDATING referred above, they > go in /etc/make.conf but you probably meant that :) > > Chris Hi chris oops, yes that is what meant. sorry. J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: can't make www/linux-f10-flashplugin10

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jamie Griffin wrote: On Mon 26.Oct'09 at 13:17:56 +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: The port www/linux-f10-flashplugin needs linux -f10- ports. The latter are defaults for FreeBSD-8.x and later. You can use them at 7.2 (7.2-STABLE is preferred). For more unformation take a look at /usr/ports/UPDATIN

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

2009-10-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chris Rees wrote: I have always considered hard disk, floppy diskette, and compact disc (and digital versatile disc) to be the terminology; but then again the official British spelling is disc, whereas AFAICR the US spelling is disk. The official British spelling is whichever one of disc or di

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Henry Olyer wrote: I need more information to make this work. help, please. And thank you! On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jules Gilbert wrote: now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse. when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with

RE: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Gary Gatten
I googled "dns round robin failover" and there are many hits. One interesting one is: http://forums.devshed.com/dns-36/ha-using-round-robinworking-368800.html It suggests well written apps / resolvers will try to use all ip's returned by the query starting with the preferred one, not JUST t

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-26 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/25 Matthew Seaman >% pkg_info -r linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32 >Information for linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32: > >Depends on: >Dependency: linux_base-f10-10_2 >Dependency: linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g >Dependency: linux-f10-openldap-2.4.12_1 >Dependency: linux-f10

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:29:27 -0700, Yuri wrote: > It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > How many people actually use it? Very few. > Why isn't it moved to ports? This questions comes up very often. You can find lots of reasons in one of the older threads about Sendmail, e.g. at: http://groups.googl

Re: FW: DNS Question

2009-10-26 Thread DAve
krad wrote: a few massive assumptions here I feel. 1. all the domains are controlled by said person 2. Are on the same server 3. Fits with the relevent provisioning system, 4. Is probably are using bind You betcha, though all good information. 1. Nope, the CNAME is not controlled by me. 2. N

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Yuri : > It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > How many people actually use it? Very few. Quite a lot. In fact, anyone who properly installs FreeBSD as a server. > Why isn't it moved to ports? Because an MTA has traditionally been part of a POSIX system. Besides, if it's not there,

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Yuri wrote: > It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > How many people actually use it? Very few. Are you sure about that? AFAIK, all system reports are sent with the sendmail binary. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Yuri
It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. How many people actually use it? Very few. Why isn't it moved to ports? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebs

RE: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Gary Gatten
I'm not intimate with bind, or anything/one actually - but that's another story... Anyway, the gist is you need to "ping" some public hosts from your dns server (or another system I guess, but easier if on the dns server). One destination host would be reachable through one connection, and the

Re: FW: DNS Question

2009-10-26 Thread krad
2009/10/23 Len Conrad > -- Original Message -- > From: krad > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:56:40 +0100 > > >2009/10/23 Sean Cavanaugh > > > >> > >> > >> > >> > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:30:08 -0400 > >> > From: dave.l...@pixelhammer.com > >> > To: freebsd-q

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Rees
2009/10/26 Bob Johnson : > On 10/26/09, Polytropon wrote: >> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:07:45 +, Arthur Chance >> wrote: >>> The distinction you make is one >>> I've not come across before, and I've worked with computers for nearly >>> 40 years. >> > > Same here. I've always been told they were c

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Ray Still
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Gary Gatten wrote: > > You certainly don't "need" BGP for this, the DNS thing will work, but will be > a bit kludgy and certainly not as ... "responsive" to failures - a la query > caching, TTL's and what not. > > - Original Message - > From: owner-freeb

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Gary Gatten
You certainly don't "need" BGP for this, the DNS thing will work, but will be a bit kludgy and certainly not as ... "responsive" to failures - a la query caching, TTL's and what not. - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: Ray Still Cc: freebsd-questions@free

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Ray Still wrote: Hello, I am adding a redundant Internet connection to my current hosting setup and I need to figure out how to set up the DNS to make this work. The two issues normally aren't related. If both connections are from the same provider, talk to the

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

2009-10-26 Thread Bob Johnson
On 10/26/09, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:07:45 +, Arthur Chance > wrote: >> The distinction you make is one >> I've not come across before, and I've worked with computers for nearly >> 40 years. > Same here. I've always been told they were completely interchangeable. I do rec

bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Ray Still
Hello, I am adding a redundant Internet connection to my current hosting setup and I need to figure out how to set up the DNS to make this work. Current setup: freebsd 7.0 machine, one local IP address, runs web, mail, and name server. static ip address in router. I have two DNS servers registered,

Re: auto format and partion

2009-10-26 Thread Robert
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:23:35 +1000 da...@hushmail.com wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > got the latest version of your os for 64 bit systems from osdisc.com > do you think you could throw in an auto install feauture that like > every other os on the market i dropped out

Re: can't make www/linux-f10-flashplugin10

2009-10-26 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Mon 26.Oct'09 at 13:17:56 +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: > The port www/linux-f10-flashplugin needs linux -f10- ports. The latter > are defaults for FreeBSD-8.x and later. You can use them at 7.2 > (7.2-STABLE is preferred). For more unformation take a look at > /usr/ports/UPDATING "20090401: AFF

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:07:45 +, Arthur Chance wrote: > The distinction you make is one > I've not come across before, and I've worked with computers for nearly > 40 years. This specific differentiation is common at least in Germany. We handle foreign words quite differently, for example we

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:37:50 +1100, Rob Hurle wrote: > Thanks for your comment. "disk" began life as the American spelling > (probably older English, copied from Greek) and "disc" was the English > (UK, Australia, probably South Africa and other places). Here, in > Australia, I am used to "disc"

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Rob Hurle wrote: > > > Thanks for your comments too, about use of the FAT32 file system. I > had thought about that, but the NTFS seemed to be a bit more universal > - I'm not sure that FAT file systems are recognised by default on Macs > (for example). > > FAT (and almost to the same extent,

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Arthur Chance
Polytropon wrote: Hi Rob, just a little terminology note (from me, Mister Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of hard disk, use "disk" with k. Think like "diskette". If you are refering to optical media, use "disc" with c. Think like "CD = compact disc". Disk: disk pack, hard

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Rob Hurle
Hi Polytropon, > just a little terminology note (from me, Mister Use-the-correct-words): > If you are refering to a kind of hard disk, use "disk" with k. > Think like "diskette". If you are refering to optical media, > use "disc" with c. Think like "CD = compact disc". Thanks for your comment. "

some ftp mirrors is wrong or inconsistently

2009-10-26 Thread Oleg Ole
Hello maillist Some ftp servers from official ftp mirrors ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html) is incorrect or out of sync. For example, test scripts ( require ftp/lftp ) says that only 90 from 167 ;) have 8.0-RC1.iso -- #!/bin/sh cd /tmp fetch http:

Re: ipf firewall, dropping connections

2009-10-26 Thread phantomcircuit
I'm guessing you have kernel tuning issues that have nothing to do with the firewall. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html ckn...@savage.za.org wrote: Hi, I'm runing 7.2 with IPFilter - main purpose is for a news server. Many established connections a

LinkedIn Messages, 10/26/2009

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Re: can't make www/linux-f10-flashplugin10

2009-10-26 Thread Boris Samorodov
Jamie Griffin writes: > Hi, i'm trying to build the www/linux-f10-flashplugin port and i'm > getting the following error on make: > > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk", line 79: Malformed conditional > ($LINUX_DIST_SUFFIX}=="") > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk", line 145: Malformed conditional

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:33:16 +1100, Rob Hurle wrote: > I need to transfer between > FreeBSD and Windows, both ways :-( Could you imagine to use "FAT" instead of "NTFS", or do you intendedly require features that are specific to "NTFS"? I found that "FAT" - in FreeBSD: msdosfs - is sufficient for

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Polytropon
Hi Rob, just a little terminology note (from me, Mister Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of hard disk, use "disk" with k. Think like "diskette". If you are refering to optical media, use "disc" with c. Think like "CD = compact disc". Disk: disk pack, hard disk, disk drive Dis

ipf firewall, dropping connections

2009-10-26 Thread cknipe
Hi, I'm runing 7.2 with IPFilter - main purpose is for a news server. Many established connections are just dropped and closed, it seems to be random, all allow rules are being affected. Any insight would be appreciated. The machine is under heavy usage, averaging arround 150 to 200 con

Re: am I the only one, wrt gcc44 -- it is failing and I can't build octave or much else

2009-10-26 Thread b. f.
Henry Olyer wrote: >'everything; is dying in /usr/ports/lang/gcc44 >I know, (in all likelihood,) I'll have to scratch this area and do a >complete re-install. Fine. The thing is, I didn't change anything to mess >this area up in the first place. >I've just been going to various directories in /

Re: am I the only one, wrt gcc44 -- it is failing and I can't build octave or much else

2009-10-26 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:53:36 -0400 Henry Olyer wrote: > 'everything; is dying in /usr/ports/lang/gcc44 Update and clean out your ports tree (portsnap/ portsclean). And then rebuild octave. Take a look at the error message. Does it tell you to put something like kern.maxdsiz="734003200" into /bo

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
At Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:32:02 +1100, Rob Hurle wrote: > > Thank you to everyone who answered: > > > kldload fusefs > > What does ls -la /dev/da* show you. > > > >> So the device is there, but ntfs-3g fails to see it. > > > > Probably kldload fusefs isn't loaded (until Saturday) > > > > Yes, fuse.