starting firefox3 with defined geometry

2012-01-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Is there some way to start firefox3 in a defined geometry, something like $ firefox3 -geometry 1024x768 The desktop in question is KDE3, if this does matter, but I don't think so; thanks the background of this is: I have to prepare some HTML based presentation (in S5, http://meyerweb.c

Re: Error in building documentation from source

2012-01-09 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:15:21PM +0100, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Le Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:58:18 -0500, > > Hello, > > > I've just tried without problem. Well, have you the port > textproc/docproj installed (of course)? The equivalent, AIUI: docproj-nojadetex. > Be sure that the source are up

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:00 PM, alexus wrote: > Thank you so much for this wonderful feedback! > > One of the things I'm seeing is that unfortunately packages are > somewhat limited vs ports... > > For example: > > I'm trying to get Apache httpd + PHP to work, after pkg_add -r php5, > php5 doesn't

Problems building world with 9.0 RC3

2012-01-09 Thread Patrick Mahan
All, I am having an issue with getting buildworld to work for me. It is failing while building zfs - cc -DADARA_OS -I/data/pmahan/devel/pm_ipr9.0/ipr9.0/src/cddl/sbin/zfs/../../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libzpool/common -I/data/pmahan/devel/pm_ipr9.0/ipr9.0/src/cddl/sbin/zfs/../../../cd

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-09 Thread Da Rock
On 01/08/12 09:05, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Greetings, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I am tearing my hair out trying to get FreeBSD 8.2 operating on my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation. I am a newcomer to FreeBSD. This workstation is used by several different people. Normally,

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread alexus
Thank you so much for this wonderful feedback! One of the things I'm seeing is that unfortunately packages are somewhat limited vs ports... For example: I'm trying to get Apache httpd + PHP to work, after pkg_add -r php5, php5 doesn't have libphp5.so that links Apache and PHP together... so unle

Re: 2 distinct DSL lines with same endpoint (8-STABLE)

2012-01-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/9/2012 10:20 PM, Christoph Egger wrote: Hi all! I'm having a FreeBSD 8 gateway that is supposed to do NAT/firewall stuff with internet coming through 2 distinct DSL modems from the same carrier. Unfortunately I can only run ppp on one of these lines as the endpoint address for both lines

RE: Broken amd64 packages: cvsup-without-gui and sup

2012-01-09 Thread Devin Teske
Update. > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Devin Teske > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 12:05 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Broken amd64 packages: cvsup-without-gui and sup > > Hi all, > >

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-09 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:37 PM, David Jackson wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Da Rock >> wrote: >> > On 01/03/12 12:06, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 12:33:20PM -0700, Chad Perrin wro

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-09 Thread David Jackson
> And that's just the way it is now. Try replicating the wealth of > information you get in various config files in FreeBSD in a GUI. Just > how hard it is to open a simple text file in an editor and just fracking > do what it tells you to in comments?! And it's not just the base > system, any d

Re: 2 distinct DSL lines with same endpoint (8-STABLE)

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Ross
Am 09.01.2012, 21:47 Uhr, schrieb Michael Ross : Am 09.01.2012, 21:20 Uhr, schrieb Christoph Egger : Hi all! I'm having a FreeBSD 8 gateway that is supposed to do NAT/firewall stuff with internet coming through 2 distinct DSL modems from the same carrier. Unfortunately I can only run ppp

Re: 2 distinct DSL lines with same endpoint (8-STABLE)

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Ross
Am 09.01.2012, 21:20 Uhr, schrieb Christoph Egger : Hi all! I'm having a FreeBSD 8 gateway that is supposed to do NAT/firewall stuff with internet coming through 2 distinct DSL modems from the same carrier. Unfortunately I can only run ppp on one of these lines as the endpoint address for b

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-09 Thread David Jackson
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Da Rock > wrote: > > On 01/03/12 12:06, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 12:33:20PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > >>> > >>> Ubuntu, actually, has thrown out the baby with the

Re: problem with terminal capabilities when using terminal from within emacs

2012-01-09 Thread Joseph Mingrone
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 13:50, Joseph Mingrone wrote: > From within emacs, if I invoke a new multi-term buffer with C-c c, the > TERM environment variable is set to eterm-color and a TERMCAP variable > is also set and > everything works fine.  However, if I ssh to a remote host from within > this b

2 distinct DSL lines with same endpoint (8-STABLE)

2012-01-09 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi all! I'm having a FreeBSD 8 gateway that is supposed to do NAT/firewall stuff with internet coming through 2 distinct DSL modems from the same carrier. Unfortunately I can only run ppp on one of these lines as the endpoint address for both lines are the same so bringing up the second line fai

Re: FreeBSD9 + PHP

2012-01-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:02 PM, alexus wrote: > there is no way to make it like that? so it has to be build via ports? The PHP maintainer decides the default options, which is what the precompiled package you got used. While many people want PHP in the form of an Apache module, other folks use it

Broken amd64 packages: cvsup-without-gui and sup

2012-01-09 Thread Devin Teske
Hi all, Running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p6 here, we've noticed that both the amd64 build of "supfilesrv" as installed by the "sup-2.0.20060802" package AND the amd64 build of "cvsupd" as installed by the "cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_4" package, both segmentation fault immediately upon connection. The eas

Re: FreeBSD9 + PHP

2012-01-09 Thread alexus
there is no way to make it like that? so it has to be build via ports? On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Peter wrote: >> I created a jail and within a jail I did >> >> pkg_add -r apache22 >> pkg_add -r php5 >> >> now I have apache and php, but whenever I'm trying to hit phpinfo.php, >> I see source

Re: FreeBSD9 + PHP

2012-01-09 Thread Peter
> I created a jail and within a jail I did > > pkg_add -r apache22 > pkg_add -r php5 > > now I have apache and php, but whenever I'm trying to hit phpinfo.php, > I see source code... I dont think php5 added inside of apache22 > > -- > http://alexus.org/ I don't think the package has the apache mod

FreeBSD9 + PHP

2012-01-09 Thread alexus
I created a jail and within a jail I did pkg_add -r apache22 pkg_add -r php5 now I have apache and php, but whenever I'm trying to hit phpinfo.php, I see source code... I dont think php5 added inside of apache22 -- http://alexus.org/ ___ freebsd-quest

RE: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: aim...@yabarana.com [mailto:aim...@yabarana.com] On Behalf Of > Alejandro Imass > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 11:37 AM > To: Devin Teske > Cc: alexus; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: ports vs packages > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Devin

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Devin Teske wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- [...] > Of course, this is explicit to rather serious production environments. > Desktop and casual usage ... ports may serve you better if you li

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 1/9/12 6:48 PM, claudiu vasadi wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:17 PM, alexus wrote: > >> Ports vs Packages? >> >> /usr/ports vs pkg_* >> >> pros/cons >> >> -- >> http://alexus.org/ >> ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://li

Re: Mounting (read/write) ext4

2012-01-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 8, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Chris wrote: > Can the upcoming FreeBSD 9 mount ext4 file systems out of the box? Probably no. There's ext2 backwards-compatibility, but from what I recall, as soon as someone uses extents under the ext4 filesystem it is no longer backwards-compatible with ext2/3.

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:17:37 -0500, alexus wrote: Ports vs Packages? /usr/ports vs pkg_* pros/cons In short: ports: pro: most current, if properly updated build from source (security!) apply optimi

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread claudiu vasadi
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:17 PM, alexus wrote: > Ports vs Packages? > > /usr/ports vs pkg_* > > pros/cons > > -- > http://alexus.org/ > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To un

RE: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of alexus > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 9:18 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: ports vs packages > > Ports vs Packages? > > /usr/ports vs pkg_* >

Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.3.36 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

2012-01-09 Thread David Naylor
Hi, Packages [1] for wine-fbsd64-1.3.36 have been uploaded to mediafire [2]. There are many reports that wine does not work with a clang compiled world (help in fixing this problem is appreciated as it affects quite a few users). The patch [3] for nVidia users is now included in the package

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Daniel Staal
On Mon, January 9, 2012 12:17 pm, alexus wrote: > Ports vs Packages? > > /usr/ports vs pkg_* > > pros/cons Ports: Compiled to *your* specs, for *your* machine. Faster/smaller downloads. More options available for customization. Can apply your own patches. Packages: Faster installs. Known configu

Re: Error in building documentation from source

2012-01-09 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:58:18 -0500, Joe Altman a écrit : > Greetings... Hello, > I've some sort of image error in building the docs from source. I've > copied it below, and wonder how it might be fixed? Sometimes, the > issue causes many runs of make in the directory > /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1 b

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:06:27 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > Use pre-built binary packages to install very large > stuff like Gnome, Open Office, etc. Not an option if your required language settings or the inclusion or exclusion of desktop bindings (KDE, Gnome, CUPS) don't match the default option

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:17:37 -0500, alexus wrote: > Ports vs Packages? > > /usr/ports vs pkg_* > > pros/cons In short: ports: pro: most current, if properly updated build from source (security!) apply optimization (speed!) a

Re: ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:17 PM, alexus wrote: > Ports vs Packages? > > /usr/ports vs pkg_* > > pros/cons The beauty of FBSD: they ultimately update the same DB, heck even Perl modules installed via the FBSD CPAN shell get updated to that same db. My rule of thumb: use ports for everything, compi

ports vs packages

2012-01-09 Thread alexus
Ports vs Packages? /usr/ports vs pkg_* pros/cons -- http://alexus.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.o

Re[8]: high load system do not take all CPU time

2012-01-09 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Robert. Вы писали 26 декабря 2011 г., 23:54:59: RB> [drivelectomy -- 200+ lines] RB> You've been told the following, *repeatedly*: RB> Your hardware is not capable of keeping up with the level of network traffic RB> it is being subjected to. RB> Reaaltek cards and the 're' devic

Windows XP ssh client to FreeBSD 5.3/pf issue

2012-01-09 Thread Matt Kosht
Perplexed by an issue connecting a Windows 7 client to an old FreeBSD 5.3 server. On Windows XP clients SecureCRT gets "The semaphore timeout period has expired". PuTTY gets "Network error: Software caused connection abort". I have no issues connecting to newer 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x BSD servers thoug

Re: OpenBSD disk on FreeBSD.

2012-01-09 Thread R. Clayton
Can you obtain partitioning information via bsdlabel (disklabel) for the s4 slice to check if FreeBSD can identify the other partitions properly. Sorta: $ sudo bsdlabel da0s4 # /dev/da0s4: 16 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 146801907

8.1-RELEASE-px freebsd-update buildkernel installkernel question

2012-01-09 Thread Bas Smeelen
Hi Since a while I notice on some 8.1-RELEASE machines that after a buildkernel and installkernel, besides the old kernel being moved to /boot/kernel.old, it also seems to get copied /boot/kernel.old1. I update most servers with freebsd-update which also update the sources from which the new kerne

Re: how to force 'device' sources to not compile?

2012-01-09 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 1/6/12 10:46 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: > Здравствуйте, Devin. > > Вы писали 6 января 2012 г., 23:42:54: > > > >>> -Original Message- >>> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >>> questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of ??? ??? >>> Sent: Friday, Janua

Re: ZFS Root Won't Mount - Unknown Filesystem -- SOLVED

2012-01-09 Thread krad
On 9 January 2012 01:31, Matt Mullins wrote: > Whoops, I missed this message before posting my reply a few minutes ago. > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Drew Tomlinson > wrote: > > Yes, although I've read that 'zfs set mountpoint=/ zroot' is acceptable > as > > well. I set mine to "/" after

Re: p5-Version-Requirements, p5-CPAN-Meta

2012-01-09 Thread Maciej Milewski
Dnia poniedziałek, 9 stycznia 2012 08:36:33 n dhert pisze: > /usr/ports/UPDATING > > 20120108 contains instructions > # portmaster -o devel/p5-CPAN-Meta devel/p5-Version-Requirements > # pkg_delete p5-Version-Requirements-\* > I don't use portmaster. > What are the equivalent instructions for

p5-Version-Requirements, p5-CPAN-Meta

2012-01-09 Thread n dhert
/usr/ports/UPDATING 20120108 contains instructions # portmaster -o devel/p5-CPAN-Meta devel/p5-Version-Requirements # pkg_delete p5-Version-Requirements-\* I don't use portmaster. What are the equivalent instructions for portupgrade ? ___ freebsd-que