Re: pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Stankevitz
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, Yuri Pankov wrote: > /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/main.c > static char * getpackagesite(void) > > which constructs URL using ftp.freebsd.org unless > PACKAGESITE and > PACKAGEROOT are defined. Perfect, thank you! Chris

Re: pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-06-30 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:07:24PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > From: Kevin Kinsey > > > Q2: Where on my hard drive are the bytes that tell > > > pkg_add to use > > > ftp.freebsd.org when downloading packages? > > > > You mean like inode number, which cylinder > > No, I am looking for a f

Reinstalling a package

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Stankevitz
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-June/024394.html In the above post, a FreeBSD GNOME team member recommends "rebuilding and reinstalling sysutils/polkit, sysutils/policykit, and sysutils/consolekit". Q: How do I "rebuild and reinstall" these applications when they were inst

Re: pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Stankevitz
> From: Kevin Kinsey > > Q2: Where on my hard drive are the bytes that tell > > pkg_add to use > > ftp.freebsd.org when downloading packages? > > You mean like inode number, which cylinder No, I am looking for a file name. Thank you, Chris

Re: pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-06-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris Stankevitz wrote: pkg_add -r gnome2 This command fails repeatedly with "broken pipe" because the FTP > connection breaks. When it dies, I just re-run the command. I'm now on the fifth attempt. The gnome2 package is a "meta" package that installs many other packages. Q1: Is it bad f

Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed?

2010-06-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris Stankevitz wrote: From: Rob Farmer Q: Where on my hard drive can I find the instructions executed to "enable" GNOME? This enables dbus, avahi, hal, and gdm (assuming that they are installed, of course). See the files for those things in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for the details of what is run

Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed?

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Stankevitz
> From: Rob Farmer > > > > Q: Where on my hard drive can I find the instructions > executed to "enable" GNOME? > > This enables dbus, avahi, hal, and gdm (assuming that they > are > installed, of course). See the files for those things in > /usr/local/etc/rc.d for the details of what is run. > >

Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed?

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Stankevitz
> From: Dan Nelson > > Q: Where on my hard drive can I find the instructions > >executed to "enable" GNOME? > > Try: > > grep "name=.*gnome" /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* Thank you. This command returns nothing, but it got me looking in the right place. There are multiple references to gnome_ena

Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed?

2010-06-30 Thread Rob Farmer
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > My rc.conf file has this entry: gnome_enable="YES" > > Q: Where on my hard drive can I find the instructions executed to "enable" > GNOME? This enables dbus, avahi, hal, and gdm (assuming that they are installed, of course). See the file

Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed?

2010-06-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 30), Chris Stankevitz said: > My rc.conf file has this entry: gnome_enable="YES" > > Q: Where on my hard drive can I find the instructions executed to "enable" > GNOME? > > A: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gnome [bad answer: file does not exist] > > Thank you, Try: grep "name=.

rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed?

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Stankevitz
My rc.conf file has this entry: gnome_enable="YES" Q: Where on my hard drive can I find the instructions executed to "enable" GNOME? A: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gnome [bad answer: file does not exist] Thank you, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Stankevitz
pkg_add -r gnome2 This command fails repeatedly with "broken pipe" because the FTP connection breaks. When it dies, I just re-run the command. I'm now on the fifth attempt. The gnome2 package is a "meta" package that installs many other packages. Q1: Is it bad for my FreeBSD system that I ke

Re: pkg_add

2010-06-30 Thread Fbsd8
Mr. Darren wrote: Though this will not be the focus of my question. >Lots of ports are being created for FreeBSD and none submitted. I don't know why. My problem arises when trying to install one of these which is put together quite well. >pkg_add -r http://site/something.tbz, or pkg_add s

Re: bsdstats problem?

2010-06-30 Thread Anh Ky Huynh
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:49:53 -0300 (ADT) "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > Please try now, tested from here and works fine: Confirmed :) > # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bsdstats.sh start > Starting bsdstats. > Posting monthly OS statistics to rpt.bsdstats.org > # > > [snip] -- Anh Ky Huynh ___

Re: Updating

2010-06-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Sunday, June 27, 2010 11:51 AM -0400 Grant Peel wrote: 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? This is the best and easiest method. Upgrade direct from 6.x to 8.x? This can b

Re: fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-cryptofs

2010-06-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Tim Gustafson wrote: > > On FreeBSD, this is spelled GELI (or GBDE, but I think geli is > > slightly better). Native filesystem level encryption -- rather > > more efficient than something like fuse, needs no extra software > > installed, very secure. > > Sorry,

Re: pkg_add

2010-06-30 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:00:34 -0700 (PDT) "Mr. Darren" wrote: > Though this will not be the focus of my question. Lots of ports are > being created for FreeBSD and none submitted. I don't know why. > > My problem arises when trying to install one of these which is put > together quite well. pk

Re: Just want to ask

2010-06-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 29 June 2010 12:38, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Tue Jun 29 06:13:19 2010 >> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:36:09 -0700 (PDT) >> From: esra perangin angin >> To: questi...@freebsd.org >> Cc: >> Subject: Just want to ask >> >> Hello FreeBSD, i'm new comer=A0to Fr

pkg_add

2010-06-30 Thread Mr. Darren
Though this will not be the focus of my question. Lots of ports are being created for FreeBSD and none submitted. I don't know why. My problem arises when trying to install one of these which is put together quite well. pkg_add -r http://site/something.tbz, or pkg_add something.tbz doesn't w

Re: Recommended supported SATA Cards?

2010-06-30 Thread Diego Arias
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Rob wrote: > I've seen the SYBA SY-PEX40008, but would prefer to have a PCI-e 4x > connector for the bandwidth and avoid a port multiplier if possible. Since > this will be in a ZFS pool, I'd prefer not to have 1 bad port take out more > than 1 disk. :) I have se

Re: Recommended supported SATA Cards?

2010-06-30 Thread Rob
I've seen the SYBA SY-PEX40008, but would prefer to have a PCI-e 4x connector for the bandwidth and avoid a port multiplier if possible. Since this will be in a ZFS pool, I'd prefer not to have 1 bad port take out more than 1 disk. :) I have seen the Sil3124 chipset mentioned before in my sear

Re: bsdstats problem?

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Whitehouse
yep working now thanks Chris Marc G. Fournier wrote: Please try now, tested from here and works fine: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bsdstats.sh start Starting bsdstats. Posting monthly OS statistics to rpt.bsdstats.org # On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Fbsd8 wrote: Anh Ky Huynh wrot

Re: bsdstats problem?

2010-06-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Please try now, tested from here and works fine: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bsdstats.sh start Starting bsdstats. Posting monthly OS statistics to rpt.bsdstats.org # On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Fbsd8 wrote: Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:28:52 +0100 Chris Whitehouse

Re: bsdstats problem?

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Fbsd8 wrote: Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:28:52 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: Anyone else having problems with bsdstats? I have the same problems here. muji2# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bsdstats.sh start Starting bsdstats. fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/enable_token.php?key

Re: fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-cryptofs

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/06/2010 18:02:25, Tim Gustafson wrote: >> On FreeBSD, this is spelled GELI (or GBDE, but I think geli is >> slightly better). Native filesystem level encryption -- rather >> more efficient than something like fuse, needs no extra software >> ins

Re: fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-cryptofs

2010-06-30 Thread Tim Gustafson
> On FreeBSD, this is spelled GELI (or GBDE, but I think geli is > slightly better). Native filesystem level encryption -- rather > more efficient than something like fuse, needs no extra software > installed, very secure. Sorry, I should have been more specific: This is in the context of a jail

Re: fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-cryptofs

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/06/2010 17:11:22, Tim Gustafson wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could offer any personal experience with > using either fusefs-cryptofs or fusefs-cryptofs. > > I'm going to be bringing a FreeBSD OpenLDAP server online soon and I > need to ha

Re: sparse image

2010-06-30 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:49 pm, Aiza wrote: > Vincent Hoffman wrote: > > On 23/06/2010 11:26, Aiza wrote: > >> Is there an equivalent of the MAC sparseimage on FreeBSD? > > > > If you mean you would like to make a sparse file and attach > > it using mdconfg then > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/outfil

err, make that "fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-encfs"

2010-06-30 Thread Tim Gustafson
Doh! I totall flubbed that last e-mail. I meant: fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-encfs Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-cryptofs

2010-06-30 Thread Tim Gustafson
Hi, all. I was wondering if anyone could offer any personal experience with using either fusefs-cryptofs or fusefs-cryptofs. I'm going to be bringing a FreeBSD OpenLDAP server online soon and I need to have the contents of the OpenLDAP database encrypted in the event of a physical security bre

virtualbox error via ports installiation

2010-06-30 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
hello, i am trying to install virtualbox via the port system but an error comes up :( ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found > ===> License accepted by the user > ===> Found saved configuration for virtualbox-ose-3.2.6 > ===> Extracting for virtualbox-ose-3.2.6 > => MD5 Checksu

Re: BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Maness
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:49 AM, krad wrote: > > > On 29 June 2010 07:20, Chris Maness wrote: >> >> My named server used to resolve for external hosts.  Recently I have >> noticed that it no longer resolves names for resolvers not on the >> local host.  It works just fine for dig on the dns serve

Re: Recommended supported SATA Cards?

2010-06-30 Thread Steve Polyack
On 06/29/10 16:58, Rob wrote: I've been trying to find a PCI-e SATA II (300MB/s) controller card for a FreeBSD 8.0 system, but am having problems determining if FreeBSD 8.0 will support them. Ideally I'd like to find one that is not a HW Raid controller, as I don't need that functionality sinc

Bconsole not properly installed

2010-06-30 Thread Albin Vega
Hello First let me say that I havent been using FreeBSD and Bacula before, so its all a bit new to me, and I might do some beginners mistakes. have installed Bacula server 5.0.0.1 on a FreeBsd 8 platform. Have followed the instructions on http://www.freebsddiary.org/bacula.php and have run all t

Re: move back to preceding ports ?

2010-06-30 Thread Frank Bonnet
I finally reinstall from scratch another server at 8.0 and then openldap-server 2.4.22 compile and runs perfectly ... Any idea ? On 06/29/2010 01:27 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: On 29-6-2010 13:19, Frank Bonnet wrote: ok thanks a lot I noticed in an earlier post that you manually upgrade openld

Re: ZFS snapshot question - can I separate out some area later?

2010-06-30 Thread krad
On 29 June 2010 19:33, Martin Cracauer wrote: > I created a raidz ZFS that is mounted on /mnt/backup > > It has subdirectories (not ZFS filesystems or volumes) like: > /mnt/backup/wavehh > /mnt/backup/joker > [etc] > > I started taking snapshots long ago, and the snapshots are of > backup@, that

Re: BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

2010-06-30 Thread krad
On 29 June 2010 07:20, Chris Maness wrote: > My named server used to resolve for external hosts. Recently I have > noticed that it no longer resolves names for resolvers not on the > local host. It works just fine for dig on the dns server itself. It > also works for domains that it has author

Re: sparse image

2010-06-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 30/06/2010 06:19, Aiza wrote: > Thanks Vince this was very helpful. > I was able to create a sparse image jail, but when I used cpio to > duplicate the sparse file to other jails I lost the sparseness of the > file. Is there a way to copy a sparse file and keep it intact? > I havent tested but t

Re: How are USB drivers assigned?

2010-06-30 Thread Nicholas Mills
When the ums driver is loaded (at boot time or through kldload) it registers itself with the usb "bus" driver. When your mouse is plugged in the bus driver calls the "probe" routine of every driver that has registered with it. If the ums probe routine detects that the new device is in fact a mouse

Herramientas para la Construccion y Mas - questions

2010-06-30 Thread Marcelo Tamer
HERRAMIENTAS PARA LA CONSTRUCCION Y MAS * ANDAMIOS TUBULARES * ACCESORIOS DE SEGURIDAD * CABALLETES EXTENSIBLES * ELEVADOR PARA PLACAS DE DURLOCK O KNAUF * ESCALERAS TIPO BURROS * TORRES DE ELEVACION DE MATERIALES * TRIBUNAS Y GRADAS * CARROS RECOLECTORES * VALLAS CERRAMIENTOS * GUI