Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/2010 04:42:21, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Fix your ports supfile: for ports you /always/ want HEAD ... > > s/always/almost &/ > > If one wanted to download a copy of the ports tree as it existed > when, say,

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Fix your ports supfile: for ports you /always/ want HEAD ... s/always/almost &/ If one wanted to download a copy of the ports tree as it existed when, say, 6.1 was released, specifying the corresponding tag would be the way to get it. Granted one seldom wants a frozen c

Re: size suffix w x

2010-06-27 Thread Eitan Adler
> I have a script I am hacking. The code has a check for a size suffix. > I know what m|mb|g|gb|k|kb| and the upper case version of the same letters > mean. But the code also has an w|x size options. > Is this a valid size type and what does it mean? Are you looking at the expand_number(3) functio

Decoding the ifconfig verbose output and determining the strength of a wireless connection

2010-06-27 Thread Eitan Adler
I have two questions AAAXXX 00:00:10:10:00:032 54M -81:-96 100 EPS SSID RATES DSPARMS<2> ERP<0x0> ???<2f0100> RSN XRATES VEN WME ABCDE 00:00:10:10:00:002 54M -81:-96 100 ES SSID RATES DSPARMS<2> ERP<0x0> ???<2f0100> XRATES VEN WME 1) How do I determine which of

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread krad
On 27 June 2010 22:14, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 27/06/2010 19:38:43, Grant Peel wrote: > > > When I ran CVSUp last time I seemed to have lost all ports accept the > > newest ones. i.e. almost all the port dirs are empty. > > > > What is the bes

RE: sshd / tcp packet corruption ? ZFS & Samba?

2010-06-27 Thread Martin Minkus
Hey all, It was suggested I do a memtest, but that checked out fine. (I wish it was as simple as just the ram!) I’ve realised the issue manifests itself almost immediately when accessing an underlying ZFS filesystem using Samba. But if it is UFS, it is fine. Does this mean anything to a

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/06/2010 19:38:43, Grant Peel wrote: > When I ran CVSUp last time I seemed to have lost all ports accept the > newest ones. i.e. almost all the port dirs are empty. > > What is the best way to get them back? Fix your ports supfile: for ports yo

Re: Icelandic FTP server doesn't work? I don't think it's been up for a while?

2010-06-27 Thread arved
On Jun 25, 2010, at 13:51 , andrew clarke wrote: > On Thu 2010-06-24 23:28:27 UTC+, Svavar Ingi Hermannsson > (sva...@security.is) wrote: > >> I just wanted to notify you that the Icelandic ftp mirror site doesn't seam >> to be working. >> >> ftp.is.freebsd.org > > 21:48 ozzmo...@blizzard

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Balázs Mátéffy
Hi, Maybe "portsnap fetch extract" ? Maybe the tag in your supfile was wrong for the ports. MB. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questio

FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, When I ran CVSUp last time I seemed to have lost all ports accept the newest ones. i.e. almost all the port dirs are empty. What is the best way to get them back? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: Virtualization with USB on Freebsd 8

2010-06-27 Thread fluffd
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Jorge Medina wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:58 AM, wrote: > > Good morning/afternoon/evening, > > > > Do you know of any virtualisation solution that would allow USB devices > > when using Freebsd-8 as host ? > > > > We do indeed have virtualbox-OSE, but wi

Re: Updating

2010-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
Thanks Robert. This is what I have done in the past, and all went well. Just thought there might be some progress in Major version to major version upgrades that I have not read about. I need to reask this question though: I have a build of 8.0 ready to deploy. Does anyone know of any big is

Updating

2010-06-27 Thread Robert Huff
Grant Peel writes: > What would be the prefered method of upgrading servers from > freebsd 6.x to 8.x ? > > Fresh install and reload users data, rebuild ports etc? This. Safer, expecially if you install to a clean disk. Possibly less time. Definitely less has

Re: Dell workstation / server Freebsd's compatibility

2010-06-27 Thread doug
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:16:26 -0400 Steve Polyack articulated: On 6/26/2010 6:07 PM, Tim Judd wrote: On 6/26/10, Olivier GARNIER wrote: Hi, I've got an old workstation wich i use to have FreeBSD server on it (http/samba/ 4 disk on RAID) It's summer time

Updating

2010-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, What would be the prefered method of upgrading servers from freebsd 6.x to 8.x ? Fresh install and reload users data, rebuild ports etc? Upgrade direct from 6.x to 8.x? Upgrade sequentially from 6.x to 7.x to 8.x? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Dell workstation / server Freebsd's compatibility

2010-06-27 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:16:26 -0400 Steve Polyack articulated: > On 6/26/2010 6:07 PM, Tim Judd wrote: > > On 6/26/10, Olivier GARNIER wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've got an old workstation wich i use to have FreeBSD server on it > >> (http/samba/ 4 disk on RAID) > >> It's summer time and

Re: .sh check for numeric content

2010-06-27 Thread Anonymous
Giorgos Keramidas writes: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:19:53 +0200, Thomas Keusch > wrote: >> t...@eternity:~$ b=5 >> t...@eternity:~$ case "$b" in >>> [0-9] ) >>> echo numeric >>> ;; >>> * ) >>> echo alpha >>> ;; >>> esac >> numeric >> t...@eternity:~$ >> >> Works f