Temporarily halt boot process to enter encryption keys?

2009-12-08 Thread Corey J. Bukolt
Hello list, I have a FreeNAS box with a CF card for root, and 3 drives (soon to be 4) set up with encryption and raidz on top of them. A less than excellent detailed report of what I did is here: http://bit.ly/5BeZq8 This setup is a bit hackish as after the system boots I need to attach each drive

Ibm Db2 for Freebsd

2009-12-08 Thread Leonardo Santagostini
People i want to know if some has listen about porting or developing or doing something about DB2 for FreeBSD I saw in an old post that Matt Emmerson wrote: DB2 on Linux makes extensive use of Linux-isms which FreeBSD does not reproduce, mostly due to kernel differences but also due to issues in

Re: build a port that depends on Java

2009-12-08 Thread Anh Ky Huynh
Hi, On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 05:00:34 + Frank Shute wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:57:37AM +0700, Anh K. Hu???nh wrote: > > > > I am going to build a port (named `vue`, http://vue.tufts.edu/) > > that depends on Java libraries but I don't know how to set the > > dependencies (the RUN_DEPENDS

Re: Transparent proxy using IPFW

2009-12-08 Thread kalpin
Hello, > 2009/11/30 > >> Dear All, >> >> Is it possible to do like my requirement below? >> >> 1. Setup portfwd in my server listen on port 555 and forward all >> connection through this port to another server with same port or >> different >> port >> 2. All client which connected through this po

Override overrides of X resources by various programs

2009-12-08 Thread Polytropon
Dear list, more and more annoying things are happening. Programs modify X defaults in an unacceptable manner. For example, the Acrobat Reader (e. g. acroread8 port) displays an ugly white mouse pointer where the normal black pointer should be. The same does Opera (e. g. opera-9.63 port) when doing

Re: build a port that depends on Java

2009-12-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:57:37AM +0700, Anh K. Hu???nh wrote: > > Hi, > > I am going to build a port (named `vue`, http://vue.tufts.edu/) that > depends on Java libraries but I don't know how to set the > dependencies (the RUN_DEPENDS variable in `Makefile`). I know some > kinds of Java and don'

RE: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Walt Pawley
>>b) go with gpt / gpart, which is okay if FreeBSD will >> be the only OS that accesses the disk(s) in question, >> as I may assume by your statements. >That's correct; these will be strictly BSD accessible drives. FWIW: I've used GUID drives with Mac OS X, Windows XP, Ubuntu and PC-BSD all resi

RE: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
>Ah, you _probably_ want to do 'make release' -- I have no experience with this >however to be much more help if that _is_ what you need. Didn't know about that one. I'll have to check it out--thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ZFSROOT / Custom Kernels [or upgrades]

2009-12-08 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Robert Noland wrote: It sounds like when you install the new kernel, the block numbers are overflowing. (which should be addressed by the fix in 8.0) No idea what the issue is/was. I've now seen the following which is what I expected -- base/head: tb.p6m7g8.net, works base/stable/8

Re: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Peter Steele wrote: >> By the way, I beleive a good part of /etc is installed/reinstalled by >> a make installworld and/or mergemaster. > > I should have clarified my scenario better. I am building a BSD image from > scratch, as part of an automated process. I am

RE: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
> By the way, I beleive a good part of /etc is installed/reinstalled by > a make installworld and/or mergemaster. I should have clarified my scenario better. I am building a BSD image from scratch, as part of an automated process. I am not updating an existing system. I had been doing this by i

Re: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Glen Barber
Ugh, I hate simple typos... On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Glen Barber wrote: >   # mv etc /somewhere/safe Should be: # mv `hostname`.etcbak.tar /somewhere/safe -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > >> and so on. So it's safe to say just merging the trees like this >> isn't the way to go. What is the proper process to finish a bsd >> image after installworld and installkernel is done? > > Not sure what you are trying to do, b

Re: build a port that depends on Java

2009-12-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > Another problem is that the original file for port is in `.zip` > format. As far as I know `.zip` isn't natively supported in > FreeBSD. Should I convert that file to `.tar.gz` format and > redistribute in my site (instead of using file from VUE master > site?). Though using > "EXTRACT_DEPEN

Re: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > and so on. So it's safe to say just merging the trees like this > isn't the way to go. What is the proper process to finish a bsd > image after installworld and installkernel is done? Not sure what you are trying to do, but usually you better follow the instructions from /usr/src/UPDATING.

build a port that depends on Java

2009-12-08 Thread Anh K. Huỳnh
Hi, I am going to build a port (named `vue`, http://vue.tufts.edu/) that depends on Java libraries but I don't know how to set the dependencies (the RUN_DEPENDS variable in `Makefile`). I know some kinds of Java and don't know which one should be used. At least, Vue works well with OpenJDK6. A

What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
We had been building systems from the binary release plus our custom kernel. In doing that we just used the base collection from the 8.0 binary release DVD and copied our kernel files to /boot/kernel. We are now doing both installworld and installkernel. The issue I'm having is figuring out what

Re: Chomium on FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Glen Barber
Hi On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 06:47:53PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: >>> Is there an effort to build a port of chromium for FreeBSD? I recently >>> began using chromium on my Linux mac

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
By the way, something forgot to mention: the script only copies a file from your computer to the printer; it does not do much magic appart from that. As far as I remember, HP 2200 do not understand image files, so you must use an external software (xv from ports?) to print your image. But you would

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/8/09 5:21 PM, "Polytropon" wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:09:16 -0800 (PST), Ivo Karabojkov > wrote: >> So I'd like to know how >> to distinguish mode of my current filesystems - is it standard or >> dangerously dedicated? > > If you've first created a slice on the disk, and then > partit

Re: Chomium on FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 06:47:53PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: >> Is there an effort to build a port of chromium for FreeBSD? I recently >> began using chromium on my Linux machine, and the HTML rendering speed >> is quite impressive. >> >>

Re: fixit and gmirror

2009-12-08 Thread Tim Judd
On 12/8/09, Joey Mingrone wrote: > Hello: > > I was upgrading a system from 7.2 to 8.0 and all was going well until > the make installkernel step. The / partition filled up when the new > kernel was installing. Since /boot was taking up most of the space I > moved /boot to /usr/ and create a sym

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
David, Here it is: - in /etc/printcap: big:hp4300:\ :sd=/var/spool/big:\ :mx=0:rs:sh:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :if=/usr/spool/big_new:\ - in /etc/rc.conf: lpd_enable="YES" - the script /usr/spool/big_new. The location of the script is not the best one, it should ide

RE: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Charles Howse
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of krad > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:24 AM > To: Charles Howse > Cc: FreeBSD-Questions > Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o > > 2009/12/8 Charles Howse >

Re: OTish: Alternative to MS Live?

2009-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 15:03, Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > On Tuesday 08 December 2009 5:50:46 pm Kurt Buff > wrote: >> All, >> >> Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the >> firewall and install the MS client on a number >> of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing >> for this. >> >> That makes

Re: semi-problem starting sendmail

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Huff
I just generated new keys using the method specified the the article recommended by Giorgos, and I get the same result. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: OTish: Alternative to MS Live?

2009-12-08 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 5:50:46 pm Kurt Buff wrote: > All, > > Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the > firewall and install the MS client on a number > of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing > for this. > > That makes me vaguely nauseous, for several > security reasons (the client

OTish: Alternative to MS Live?

2009-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
All, Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the firewall and install the MS client on a number of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing for this. That makes me vaguely nauseous, for several security reasons (the client is historically vulnerable, poking holes in firewalls is risky, and inter

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, ocean wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:09:16 -0800 (PST), Ivo Karabojkov wrote: > So I'd like to know how > to distinguish mode of my current filesystems - is it standard or > dangerously dedicated? If you've first created a slice on the disk, and then partitions inside the slice, it's standard mode, e. g.

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-08 Thread Ivo Karabojkov
I have no problems with the hardware. In fact neither Release notes nor UPDATING says anything about my possible (and actually occured) problems. The only thing is: “dangerously dedicated” mode for the UFS file system is no longer supported. I never supposed that I'm using this mode. I format dis

Re: fixit and gmirror

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/8/09 5:00 PM, "Joey Mingrone" wrote: > Hello: > > I was upgrading a system from 7.2 to 8.0 and all was going well until > the make installkernel step. The / partition filled up when the new > kernel was installing. Since /boot was taking up most of the space I > moved /boot to /usr/ and

fixit and gmirror

2009-12-08 Thread Joey Mingrone
Hello: I was upgrading a system from 7.2 to 8.0 and all was going well until the make installkernel step. The / partition filled up when the new kernel was installing. Since /boot was taking up most of the space I moved /boot to /usr/ and create a symlink in / then I did make installkernel again

bridge "filters" ipv6

2009-12-08 Thread Beat Siegenthaler
Hi all, I have 7.2-RELEASE and a bridge between ath0 and sis0 everything works fine except ipv6 including router advertisements. There is no filtering, just a L2 bridge without any address. rtadv comes from lan/sis. What could be missing? bridge0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 et

Re: semi-problem starting sendmail

2009-12-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Robert Huff wrote: >> Make sure none of the directories in that path have 022 perms >> (go+write). > > Checked, and not the problem. Well, the error is coming from /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src/tls.c, and depends on openssl to deal with your cert. Does:

Re: semi-problem starting sendmail

2009-12-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:42:27 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > When I start sendmail, this: > > STARTTLS=server, error: > SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(/etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem) failed > > appears in the log. The file exists and has permissions 0600. What > am I probably looking at, and how do I f

Re: Tunning 8.0 for multiple VMs (VBox)

2009-12-08 Thread Mario Lobo
On Sunday 29 November 2009 10:36:53 you wrote: > And your question was? > > > I would like to expose the hardware/settings I have now to the list, to > > see if what I've done is appropriate, over or under rated (or simply > > stupid), to squeeze every drop of performance FreeBSD can give with wha

Re: semi-problem starting sendmail

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Huff
Chuck Swiger writes: > > STARTTLS=server, error: > SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(/etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem) failed > > > >appears in the log. The file exists and has permissions 0600. > >What am I probably looking at, and how do I find more specific > information on the cause?

Re: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:52:52 +, krad wrote: > stay away from dangerously dedicated it seems as though they are being > phased out I've followed the related discussion, but I'm not sure what to conclude from it... as far as I understood, creating an installation "dangerously dedicated" mode isn

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean wrote: also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) we

Re: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread krad
2009/12/8 Polytropon > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:43:41 -0600, Peter Steele > wrote: > > Yes, I know what a BSD slice is compared to a BSD partition. > > Considering that fdisk uses "partition" interchangeably in > > cases with "slice", I often do as well. I guess it can be > > confusing if one isn't

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Al Plant
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean wrote: also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) we

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread usleepless
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, ocean wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread usleepless
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:16 PM, David Southwell wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:26 PM, David Southwell >wrote: > > > > David Southwell writes: > > > > > I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print > > > > > from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 > >

Re: named needs restart after a reboot

2009-12-08 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Derrick Ryalls wrote: uname: FreeBSD example.com 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Dec 6 11:23:52 PST 2009 ryal...@example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRODO amd64 I have most things working, but I have noticed that every time I reboot the machine, I need to manu

Re: webdav

2009-12-08 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> Is there any way to mount webdav into the file system (like on OS-x >> or fuse-dav)? > > Have a look at the sysutils/fusefs-wdfs port. :-) That looks great! The command # make quicksearch key=webdav did no

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, ocean wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. if you install the right ports on a fbs

Re: webdav

2009-12-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Is there any way to mount webdav into the file system (like on OS-x > or fuse-dav)? Have a look at the sysutils/fusefs-wdfs port. :-) Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain tex

Re: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:43:41 -0600, Peter Steele wrote: > Yes, I know what a BSD slice is compared to a BSD partition. > Considering that fdisk uses "partition" interchangeably in > cases with "slice", I often do as well. I guess it can be > confusing if one isn't careful with context. You're righ

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean wrote: > also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since > you say they only need a few programs, you could go with > just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a > light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) were > you will

RE: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
>b) go with gpt / gpart, which is okay if FreeBSD will > be the only OS that accesses the disk(s) in question, > as I may assume by your statements. That's correct; these will be strictly BSD accessible drives. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Peter Steele wrote: >>You cannot use fdisk for this, because fdisk creates MBR partition tables and >>these partitions are limited to 2 TB. You have three >>options: >> >>1. Use GPT instead of MBR. This is handled by gpt (FreeBSD 7) and gpart >>(FreeBSD 8) command

RE: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
>Excuse me, you're mixing up terminology here. Let me explain: > >A SLICE is what "Windows" calls a "DOS primary partition", often just named a >"partition". Yes, I know what a BSD slice is compared to a BSD partition. Considering that fdisk uses "partition" interchangeably in cases with "slice"

Re: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > b) go with gpt / gpart, which is okay if FreeBSD will > be the only OS that accesses the disk(s) in question, > as I may assume by your statements. > > GUID partitions are recognized by many more OS's than just FreeBSD although I admit I

Re: Geode Xorg Driver

2009-12-08 Thread Mario Lobo
On Monday 07 December 2009 14:48:37 rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: > Hi All, > I use the Alix 1d computer from pcengines to build > a X terminal and a small mail server. > > The Xserver is working with the VESA driver. This is functional > but a little bit slow. A Xorg driver for this graphic card

Re: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:14:05 -0600, Peter Steele wrote: > > In the subject line, you wrote "large partition", so I > > assume you won't want to boot from from the device, but > > use it as a big storage area instead. Correct me if I'm wrong. > > For simplicity I didn't include all the details. In

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread ocean
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. if you install the right ports on a fbsd 8.0 maybe it could just works (

RE: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
>You cannot use fdisk for this, because fdisk creates MBR partition tables and >these partitions are limited to 2 TB. You have three >options: > >1. Use GPT instead of MBR. This is handled by gpt (FreeBSD 7) and gpart >(FreeBSD 8) commands. We're running 8.0. I'll have to check out gpart. >2. U

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Huff
David Southwell writes: > Installed and configured cups but cannot get the online login > system to work. It refuses to accept username/password > combination. Not the CUPS expert. (Sorry.) Robert Huff ___

named needs restart after a reboot

2009-12-08 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Greetings, uname: FreeBSD example.com 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Dec 6 11:23:52 PST 2009 ryal...@example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRODO amd64 I have most things working, but I have noticed that every time I reboot the machine, I need to manually restart named to get it li

RE: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
> In the subject line, you wrote "large partition", so I assume you won't want > to boot from from the device, but use it as a big storage area instead. > Correct me if I'm wrong. For simplicity I didn't include all the details. In fact we need three slices, one for the OS, one for swap, and th

Re: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Peter Steele wrote: > We have 3U systems with 3Ware raid controllers configured to give us large > 11TB logical drives. The diskinfo command shows this: > > # diskinfo -v da1 > da1 >        512             # sectorsize >        1133104128  # mediasize in bytes

Re: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:36:54 -0600, Peter Steele wrote: > We have 3U systems with 3Ware raid controllers configured to give > us large 11TB logical drives. The diskinfo command shows this: > [...] > We want to create a BSD slice to cover the entire drive. My plan > was to use the fdisk -I option: >

Re: what ports to open in firewall for bitlord

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Rees
2009/12/8 Fbsd1 : > Want to allow the bitlord progran to pass through my firewall. Does anyone > know the port numbers it uses for out bound and inbound packets. > > Thanks Why don't you look on the BitLord website? Or better, use a more neighbourly program, that isn't adware such as Transmission

How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
We have 3U systems with 3Ware raid controllers configured to give us large 11TB logical drives. The diskinfo command shows this: # diskinfo -v da1 da1 512 # sectorsize 1133104128 # mediasize in bytes (11T) 23437369344 # mediasize in sectors 145

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:11:17 +, David Southwell wrote: > I really do not mind which facility to use provided I get the results!!! > . I do need to use as many of the printer features as possible. > I have enable the following: > IPP Printing : Enabled > FTP Printing : Enab

DNP3 Protocol to CellularGSM/GPRS

2009-12-08 Thread Exemys
This is a message in multipart MIME format. Your mail client should not be displaying this. Consider upgrading your mail client to view this message correctly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread David Southwell
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:26 PM, David Southwell wrote: > > > David Southwell writes: > > > > I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print > > > > from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 > > > > jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$

Re: semi-problem starting sendmail

2009-12-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 8, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Robert Huff wrote: > STARTTLS=server, error: > SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(/etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem) failed > > appears in the log. The file exists and has permissions 0600. > What am I probably looking at, and how do I find more specific > informat

semi-problem starting sendmail

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Huff
When I start sendmail, this: STARTTLS=server, error: SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(/etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem) failed appears in the log. The file exists and has permissions 0600. What am I probably looking at, and how do I find more specific information on the cause?

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread krad
2009/12/8 Charles Howse > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Adam Vande More [mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:56 AM > > To: Charles Howse > > Cc: FreeBSD-Questions > > Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o > > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles

Re: Why do I need a bunch of mappings for ld-elf.so in FreeBSD 8?

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:05 AM +0100 12/8/09, Ruben de Groot wrote: >On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:35:47PM -0800, Paul Hoffman typed: > > Greetings. I upgraded a 7.2 system to 8.0 using 'freebsd-update install'. > > At some time during the process, I could no longer log ... >...snip... >>... t remove the lines from /et

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, David Southwell wrote: I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$ systems on the same subnet as the server so I know the printer is wo

Postfix and vacation on FreeBSD 7.2 ?

2009-12-08 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Since I migrated my mailhub to FreeBSD 7.2-R, the messages send through the vacation program are From MAILER-DAEMON and not from the original account that it has been sent ... Anyone has this problem ? Postfix problem or FreeBSD misconfiguration ? Thanks a lot for any info

webdav

2009-12-08 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Is there any way to mount webdav into the file system (like on OS-x or fuse-dav)? Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

Re: flash alternative

2009-12-08 Thread usleepless
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM, PJ wrote: > PJ wrote: > > I have heard that there is an alternative to flash that is apparently > > more efficient and less cumbersome in terms of data transfers; and that > > it is "lighter" whatever that may mean. > > Anyone know anything about this? > I think y

RE: flash alternative

2009-12-08 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
From: millenia2...@hotmail.com To: af.gour...@videotron.ca Subject: RE: flash alternative Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:22:25 -0500 > Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:00:01 -0500 > From: af.gour...@videotron.ca > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: flash alternative > > I have heard that there is

Re: flash alternative

2009-12-08 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: > I have heard that there is an alternative to flash that is apparently > more efficient and less cumbersome in terms of data transfers; and that > it is "lighter" whatever that may mean. > Anyone know anything about this? > TIA > PJ > ___ > fre

RE: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Charles Howse
> -Original Message- > From: Adam Vande More [mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:56 AM > To: Charles Howse > Cc: FreeBSD-Questions > Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse > wrote: > > > Hi ocean, th

flash alternative

2009-12-08 Thread PJ
I have heard that there is an alternative to flash that is apparently more efficient and less cumbersome in terms of data transfers; and that it is "lighter" whatever that may mean. Anyone know anything about this? TIA PJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. > Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the > games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. > Please don't top post, thanks. No there is no OOBE w/ flash. To get a reasonable experien

RE: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Charles Howse
Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. > -Original Message- > From: ocean [mailto:ocean_i...@yahoo.it] > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:30 AM > To: Charles Howse > Cc: 'FreeBSD-Que

Re: keeping system base update and problems with CPUTYPE

2009-12-08 Thread RW
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:23:51 +0100 ocean wrote: > > i think i've also found an "unexpected behaviour" in make buildworld, > i've put src.conf and makefile.conf in /etc/ > > CPUTYPE?=pentium-m > CFLAGS= -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe You don't normally set CFLAGS in FreeBSD, it's set automatic

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread usleepless
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:26 PM, David Southwell wrote: > > David Southwell writes: > > > I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print > > > from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 > > > jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$ > > > sy

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread ocean
i think it could go fine on this computer, use gnome lite and also add the needed ports to have a fairly nice system (gnome-backgrounds etc...). compile from ports with some optimizations (-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing and consider if -pipe could be used or not based on your ram memory). for firefox

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread David Southwell
> David Southwell writes: > > I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print > > from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 > > jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$ > > systems on the same subnet as the server so I know the printer is >

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread David Southwell
> David, > > > So I should be able to use a similar approach to you. Is the script > > readily available and what do I need to do to install and configure it? > > I can share, but right now I have to go back home, I'll send it to you > tomorrow. > > If you simply: > > telnet your.printer 9100 >

Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I have a 6.4-STABLE machine running in command line only for my Apache webserver. I'm thinking of installing a Gnome desktop on it for my 5 y/o grandson and grown daughter to use so they won't be pestering me to use my pc. The 5 y/o won't need anything except Firefox, some disk-based games and

set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Huff
David Southwell writes: > I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print > from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 > jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$ > systems on the same subnet as the server so I know the printer is > working

keeping system base update and problems with CPUTYPE

2009-12-08 Thread ocean
i've read the manual section, and there's really not much informations on this. i've looked into /usr/src/Makefile and Makefile.incl i've seen there are options to update /usr/src using svn (wich would be my preferred option) or cvs, but i haven't been able to configure it in any way. i thin

Re: update/upgrade question

2009-12-08 Thread Ondřej Majerech
2009/12/8 Alex Huth : > * Matthew Seaman schrieb: >> Alex Huth wrote: >> >> Yes.  If you want to track one of the development branches (HEAD, RELENG_N) >> then you have to update sources by csup(1) or various other mechanisms and >> then compile your kernel+world yourself. >> >> Alternatively you c

Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive

2009-12-08 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:09:03PM +0300, cronfy wrote: panics like 'freeing free block' or 'ffs_valloc: dup alloc' Is there a way to say "Dear kernel, don't panic, I'am holding your hand, keep working please-please-please?" If so, can it lead to c

Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive

2009-12-08 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, cronfy wrote: Please forgive me for probably a very stupid question. But why is FreeBSD so sensitive to filesystem errors that it ends up with panics like 'freeing free block' or 'ffs_valloc: dup alloc'? I just can't get it. Failed to allocate vnode? Go allocate another

Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive

2009-12-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:09:03PM +0300, cronfy wrote: > > panics like 'freeing free block' or 'ffs_valloc: dup alloc' > >> > >> Is there a way to say "Dear kernel, don't panic, I'am holding your > >> hand, keep working please-please-please?" If so, can it lead to > >> complete filesystem

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
David, > So I should be able to use a similar approach to you. Is the script readily > available and what do I need to do to install and configure it? I can share, but right now I have to go back home, I'll send it to you tomorrow. If you simply: telnet your.printer 9100 and type some text y

Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive

2009-12-08 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
cronfy wrote: > >>> ... >>> Is there a way to say "Dear kernel, don't panic, I'am holding your hand, >>> keep working please-please-please?" If so, can it lead to complete >>> filesystem corruption indeed or it is not so serious? >>> >> >> Drop to DDB, fix it, and 'continue'? >> > > If I

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:17:24 + David Southwell wrote: > >> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:40:02 + David Southwell wrote: > > Please, show your configuration files and diagnostic messages. > > > Unfortunately as I said I have scrapped the configuration attempts and files > and cleaned the logs read

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread David Southwell
>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:40:02 + David Southwell wrote: >> Hi >> >> Thanks in advance for any replies. >> >> I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print from >> an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 jetdirect 610N. The >> printer is also used by a number

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread Boris Samorodov
Sorry List, this is for David Southwell. Please, be informed that your mail server does not accept messages you may be interested in: - The user nvidi...@envieweb.net does not accept mail from your address. The headers of the message sent from your address are show below: ... - -- WBR, B

Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network

2009-12-08 Thread David Southwell
> Hi David, > > > Despite reading the documentation I seem to be having difficulty setting > > up the printer from the server. So far I have not been able to get the > > beast to print-- I have scrapped all attempts at configuring the server > > and would appreciate some guidance before I trying a

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