Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-30 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > >Hello my friends, > >I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is FreeBSD > 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd really like > to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd 8.x). For awhile i

Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Mitchell
Hello my friends, I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is FreeBSD 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd really like to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd 8.x). For awhile it was held back by very specific applications I had to support, but

Re: Generating normally distributed random numbers.

2010-01-30 Thread J65nko
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > I am working on a project where I have the need to generate normally > distributed random positive integers, preferably unsigned 64 bit (or even > longer if possible) integers. More specifically, I will need the ability to > supply the expect

Nehelem & 64 bit, kern conf and /etc/make.conf

2010-01-30 Thread Nerius Landys
I just installed FreeBSD 8.0 (amd64) onto my new Nehalem-based system. CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5506 @ 2.13GHz (2128.00-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x106a5 Stepping = 5 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x9ce3bd AMD Features=0x28100800 AMD Features2=0x1

Generating normally distributed random numbers.

2010-01-30 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Hi all, I am working on a project where I have the need to generate normally distributed random positive integers, preferably unsigned 64 bit (or even longer if possible) integers. More specifically, I will need the ability to supply the expected value and the standard deviation for the desir

Re: Problems with "make clean"

2010-01-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Frank Wißmann wrote: Hi, Beasties! I just installed the new VirtualBox through ports. It worked fine, but now I have trouble cleaning the directory. Neither "make clean" nor a "rm -rf work/" do what they are supposed to. Here is the output: rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out/freebsd.amd64/

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48, Joe Springer wrote: > Hi. > > I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After > installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For > example, samba. > > I found that > >   pkg_add -r samba > > fails. I need to know s

Re: Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-30 Thread David Kelly
On Jan 30, 2010, at 3:51 AM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have a recommendation on a good GPS receiver/board for use with NTP/FreeBSD to create a stratum 1 public time server? Preferably something above the Garmin "puck" level but not ridiculously expensive either...

Re: apache22 and new hostname???

2010-01-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
Gary, But I do need the basics of having/serving/hosting two domains on one computer. What you are looking for are called "virtual hosts". See the examples in /usr/local/etc/apache22/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. The Apache documentation (mentioned in the above file) is also helpful. Regards, -- M

apache22 and new hostname???

2010-01-30 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, As some of you might know, i am trying to host a friend's website on my DNS and web server. Can anybody suggest what i have to add to my /usr/local/etc/apache22/* files and directories to get http://www.anacondabuilders.us to display since I do not

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
On Saturday 30 of January 2010 21:05:43 Jeff Laine wrote: > Hello, > > My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. > How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? > I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. > I.e. I'd like to put the following line: > > /dev/msdos

Jails and Hardware security

2010-01-30 Thread Jay Hall
Is it possible to limit what hardware a jail has access to? I am wanting to limit access to the tape drive/autoloader in one jail, but allow another to have access to it. Is this as simple as deleting the appropriate entries in /dev? Thanks, Jay

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat,30-01-2010 [19:33:37], krad wrote: > On 30 January 2010 19:05, Jeff Laine wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. > > How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? > > I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. > > I.e. I'd li

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48:23AM -0800, Joe Springer wrote: > Hi. > > I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After > installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some > packages. For example, samba. > > I found that > >pkg_add -r samba > > fails. I

Problems with "make clean"

2010-01-30 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, Beasties! I just installed the new VirtualBox through ports. It worked fine, but now I have trouble cleaning the directory. Neither "make clean" nor a "rm -rf work/" do what they are supposed to. Here is the output: rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out/freebsd.amd64/debug/obj/VBoxRT/VBox:

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:05:43 +0300 Jeff Laine articulated: > Hello, > > My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. > How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? > I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. > I.e. I'd like to put the following line: > > /dev/

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:48:23 -0800 (PST) Joe Springer articulated: > Hi. > > I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. > After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some > packages. For example, samba. > > I found that > >pkg_add -r samba > > fa

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Tim Judd
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Joe Springer wrote: > Hi. > > I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After > installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For > example, samba. > > I found that > > pkg_add -r samba > > fails. I need to know

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread krad
On 30 January 2010 19:05, Jeff Laine wrote: > Hello, > > My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. > How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? > I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. > I.e. I'd like to put the following line: > > /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /m

Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Joe Springer
Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that pkg_add -r samba fails. I need to know specifically the samba version to install it. To install, I needed

fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following line: /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 Any ideas? -- Best rega

Re: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:06:53 +1100 David Rawling articulated: > Greetings all and sundry > > About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, > and I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want > this server to provide time services, I've installed the net/ntp

Re: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Saturday 30 January 2010, David Rawling wrote: > Greetings all and sundry Hello David, > > About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and > I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this > server to provide time services, I've installed the ne

Re: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread Ben Schumacher
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:06 AM, David Rawling wrote: > About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and I > upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this server to > provide time services, I've installed the net/ntp port, among others. > > Recently, for

Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread David Rawling
Greetings all and sundry About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this server to provide time services, I've installed the net/ntp port, among others. Recently, for reasons that have become lost in

ral vap

2010-01-30 Thread Gaurang Pandya
Hi , Just configured my new linksys wmp54G in Freebsd-8 worked like charm, but when tried to create yet another wireless interface (wlan1), am getting error ral0: only 1 vap supported, checked man for ral and found "Only one hostap" Just before selling the wifi card in ebay (as I wanted, it

Re : Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-30 Thread Alexandre L.
You can see here : http://www.meinberg.de/english/ I don't use their products (I don't know about the quality products), I just use their NTP package software for Windows. --- En date de : Sam 30.1.10, Per olof Ljungmark a écrit : > De: Per olof Ljungmark > Objet: Recommendation on GPS time so

Re: gjournal on compact flash

2010-01-30 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/30/2010 1:35 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: There is an rc flags to automatically do a full fsck instead of backgroud, but I am unsure exactly what you mean by user intervention. Practice has shown that while softupdates handle most situations cleanly, they don't handle ALL situations. In shor

Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi all, Does anyone have a recommendation on a good GPS receiver/board for use with NTP/FreeBSD to create a stratum 1 public time server? Preferably something above the Garmin "puck" level but not ridiculously expensive either... Thanks for any input, -- per ___

Re: Shared object "libcrypt.so.4" not found ...(or library munging after make-delete-old)

2010-01-30 Thread krad
On 29 January 2010 20:53, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jan 29, 2010, at 12:45 PM, mikel king wrote: > [ ... ] > > I would have thought that perl was rebuilt when I make the world and > upgraded from 7.x to 8.0. > > > > Anyone have a quick and easy fix out of this mess? > > perl isn't part of

Re: Software RAID options

2010-01-30 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Danny Edge wrote: > Thanks, Glen, I should have mentioned that I did see gmirror > mentioned in the HB. Pending further suggestions, I will try gmirror > for software RAID 1 (yes, as large as the smallest disk). It's also possible to mirror individual slices rather th