Re: howto kill x if x is running?

2013-09-15 Thread Gary Kline
Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:56:17AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 15/09/2013 07:20, Gary Kline wrote: > > > I've evidently had too many pain meds; this shelll

Re: howto kill x if x is running?

2013-09-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 15/09/2013 07:20, Gary Kline wrote: > I've evidently had too many pain meds; this shelll script should > be easy. say that I have a utility xxx running sometimes. xxx is > soaking up a chunk of my load. I have to use top to find if > xxx is running, then kill -9 to k

Re: howto kill x if x is running?

2013-09-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 23:20:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > say that I have a utility xxx running sometimes. xxx is > soaking up a chunk of my load. I have to use top to find if > xxx is running, then kill -9 to kill xxx and have a steady load of, > say, between 0.10 and 0.15.

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Grimm
On 20.07.2013, at 18:34, Michael Grimm wrote: > On 20.07.2013, at 14:53, Matthew Seaman > wrote: >> On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: > >>> I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious >>> how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am >>> lookin

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Grimm
On 20.07.2013, at 14:53, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: >> I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious >> how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am >> looking for a functionality/port that works like 490.status- >> pk

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: > I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious > how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am > looking for a functionality/port that works like 490.status- > pkg-changes for my host. > > Question: is there any func

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread vermaden
> Emacs indents it nicely, and colorizes the > keywords so that it stands out. Indentification is not a problem, it work both in geany and vim. Probably I haven't made clear what I meant ;) Take a look at this picture: http://ompldr.org/vZG50bQ The brackets in that specific section (asd) are hi

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "vermaden" == vermaden writes: >> Good to see you've finally been burned. >> You'll never make that mistake again. :) vermaden> I liked that syntax: vermaden> ASD && { vermaden> asd vermaden> } || { vermaden> bsd vermaden> } vermaden> mostly because of syntax highlighting, to be pre

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread vermaden
> Good to see you've finally been burned. > You'll never make that mistake again. :) I liked that syntax: ASD && { asd } || { bsd } mostly because of syntax highlighting, to be precise highlighting of the second bracket of a pair at editors, nor VIM neither GEANY highlight if/then/elif/else/

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "vermaden" == vermaden writes: vermaden> To the point, check these two code snippets, they should vermaden> do EXACLY the same, logic is the same, the differece is vermaden> only the syntax. vermaden> snippet 1: vermaden> [ ${MOUNT} -eq 0 ] && { vermaden> zfs set mount

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread vermaden
> And no difference on 8.3 :( > > Should there have been a "promote" in there somewhere? It looks like > the boot env is still dependent on the very old zroot. Hi, I have just recreated from scratch Your zroot root setup under VirtualBox and tested it deeply. There was an interesting BUG in th

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 5/4/2012 5:10 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: > > Randal> Oh wait, it looks like zroot is still holding 1.04G of data... will > Randal> that ever go away? Shouldn't all the data be in the /ROOT/xxx > Randal> items? > > And worse, the things from t

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: Randal> This is FreeBSD 8.2. And no difference on 8.3 :( Should there have been a "promote" in there somewhere? It looks like the boot env is still dependent on the very old zroot. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 5

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: Randal> Oh wait, it looks like zroot is still holding 1.04G of data... will Randal> that ever go away? Shouldn't all the data be in the /ROOT/xxx Randal> items? And worse, the things from the readme don't work: locohost# ./beadm create upgrade cannot

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: > "vermaden" == vermaden writes: vermaden> # fetch https://github.com/vermaden/beadm/blob/master/beadm Randal> and after reboot, "zfs set mountpoint=none zroot" would also seem to Randal> clean that up. Oh wait, it looks like zroot is still hold

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "vermaden" == vermaden writes: vermaden> # fetch https://github.com/vermaden/beadm/blob/master/beadm Heh. That's HTML. I think you want fetch https://raw.github.com/vermaden/beadm/master/beadm vermaden> # chmod +x beadm vermaden> # ./beadm list vermaden> # ./beadm activate default ver

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread vermaden
> I have zfs-on-root using the classical documentation (everything under > zpool, possibly with some sub-mounts, but I've left those out lately). > > Is there a way to transition my system to a form that beadm expects? > I tried just running it, and it's upset that zpool/ROOT doesn't exist. Hi,

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "vermaden" == vermaden writes: vermaden> I have just created new HOWTO [1] on how to use Boot Environments on vermaden> FreeBSD with new created utility *beadm* that I put on vermaden> SourceForge [2]. I have zfs-on-root using the classical documentation (everything under zpool, possibly

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-03 Thread vermaden
"Kalle Møller" : > And I forgot > > If I do a create and destroy, I would assume my system > was back to same state, but you keep the snapshot > when I destroy the clone, dont know if its working as > intended (better safe to keep it than sorry) or you just > didn't think of it :) I added automat

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-03 Thread vermaden
Hi, > I just tested your tool the last few days and I must say I love > it already. Though I can get one of the commands to work > - might be me or the syntax > > beadm create [-e nonActiveBe | beName@snapshot] beName > > I read it as you can do the following > > beadm create beName@snapshot be

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-02 Thread Kalle Møller
And I forgot If I do a create and destroy, I would assume my system was back to same state, but you keep the snapshot when I destroy the clone, dont know if its working as intended (better safe to keep it than sorry) or you just didn't think of it :) http://pastebin.com/XdYZ2eGR main# zfs list -

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-02 Thread Kalle Møller
Hi vermaden I just tested your tool the last few days and I must say I love it already. Though I can get one of the commands to work - might be me or the syntax beadm create [-e nonActiveBe | beName@snapshot] beName I read it as you can do the following beadm create beName@snapshot beName Is t

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-04-27 Thread vermaden
> Hi, > > do you know manageBE? Google for it, it is the first > hit. This works for me like a charm since about a year. > > Bye, > Alexander. Hi, yes I know and used manageBE for a while, I even mentioned it in the HOWTO (quote below) but thought that making *beadm* that is compatible with Ill

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-05 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Julian. Вы писали 5 февраля 2012 г., 9:15:35: JE> On 2/4/12 10:53 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: >> On 2/2/12 1:33 AM, Коньков Евгений wrote: >>> this is the mine script which helps me keep my firewall very clean >>> and safe. >>> >>> It is easy to understand even if you have a thousan

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
2012/2/4 Julian Elischer : > On 2/2/12 1:33 AM, Коньков Евгений wrote: >> >> this is the mine script which helps me keep my firewall very clean and >> safe. >> >> It is easy to understand even if you have a thousands rules, I think =) >> >> please comment. >> >> PS. If anybody may, please put into

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/2/12 1:33 AM, Коньков Евгений wrote: this is the mine script which helps me keep my firewall very clean and safe. It is easy to understand even if you have a thousands rules, I think =) please comment. PS. If anybody may, please put into ports tree. thank you. it would probably be get m

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/4/12 10:53 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/2/12 1:33 AM, Коньков Евгений wrote: this is the mine script which helps me keep my firewall very clean and safe. It is easy to understand even if you have a thousands ruBTWles, I think =) please comment. PS. If anybody may, please put into p

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-02 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:10:14 -0500 Jason Hellenthal articulated: > For that you should review the documents etc... at > http://freebsd.org/docs Which will get you a big: 404 - Not Found You could start here though: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-concepts.html

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-02 Thread Jason Hellenthal
You are welcome to create a port and submit it for reccomendation... For that you should review the documents etc... at http://freebsd.org/docs Good Luck On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:33:14AM +0200, Коньков Евгений wrote: > this is the mine script which helps me keep my firewall very clean and saf

Re: howto un-chmod 755 /usr/local?

2010-08-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Steve" == Steve Franks writes: Steve> Is there a list of the proper permission modes for things in Steve> /usr/local to get a working system back, aside of starting over? I think you can use mtree(8) to repair your system, with the masters in /etc/mtree/*. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stoneh

Re: Howto create FAT32 bootable USB device with gpart?

2010-08-27 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 08/26/2010 10:34 AM, Hartmann, O. wrote: > Trying to create a bootable USB device (memory stick) with gpart - and > failed. I need those USB mem sticks for BIOS flashing purposes on an > older main PCB, utilizing FreeDOS. The old BIOS is capable of booting > off from USB mem sticks, since I boo

Re: Howto run privileged commands on login/logout

2010-02-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:55:02 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi: > > I'm playing around with diskless operation. I'd like to be able to run > privileged commands when a user logins or logs out: You can handle this in two ways: a) On a per-user basis, you can use the user's ~/.login and ~/.log

Re: Howto run privileged commands on login/logout

2010-02-06 Thread perryh
Erik Norgaard wrote: > I'm playing around with diskless operation. I'd like to be able > to run privileged commands when a user logins or logs out: > > - on login, nfs mount the user's home directory (ok, not critical, > I can mount /home) Or, better yet, use an automounter. > - on logout a syst

Re: Howto run privileged commands on login/logout

2010-02-06 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Sunday 07 February 2010 01:55:02 Erik Norgaard wrote: > I'm playing around with diskless operation. I'd like to be able to run > privileged commands when a user logins or logs out: > > - on login, nfs mount the user's home directory (ok, not critical, I can > mount /home) This can be done using

Re: Howto run privileged commands on login/logout

2010-02-06 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi: > > I'm playing around with diskless operation. I'd like to be able to run > privileged commands when a user logins or logs out: > > - on login, nfs mount the user's home directory (ok, not critical, I can > mount /home) > - on logout a sy

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-28 Thread Alexander Best
Scott Bennett schrieb am 2009-10-27: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:48 -0400 Michael Powell > > wrote: > >Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> Alexander Best wrote: > >>> Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: > Hi, > > i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > > permail.uni-mu

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:32:21 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: > > Alexander Best wrote: >> Hi, > >>> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > >>> permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > >>> so what i want is f

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-27 Thread RW
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:29:13 +0100 (CET) Alexander Best wrote: > i'm not using a webserver or anything. i'm just a regular user. the > point is: i often forget to specify https://... for that specific > address in apps like lynx or firefox. that's why the non-ssl version > of that site is being

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Powell
Scott Bennett wrote: >>> Alexander Best wrote: > Hi, >> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: >> permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 >> so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that >> address. [snip]

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-27 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:48 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: >Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> Alexander Best wrote: >>> Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, >>> > i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: >>> > permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 >>>

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread jhell
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:29, alexbestms@ wrote: Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Alexander Best wrote: >> Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: >>> Hi, >> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: >> permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 >> so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Alexander Best wrote: > Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: >> Hi, > >>> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > >>> permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > >>> so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that >>> address. >>> unfortunately ho

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Alex, > i'm not using a webserver or anything. i'm just a regular user. the point is: > i often forget to specify https://... for that specific address in apps like > lynx or firefox. that's why the non-ssl version of that site is being loaded. > i'd like freebsd to take care of this so even if th

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Best
Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: > Hi, > > i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > > permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > > so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that > > address. > > unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support thi

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > > permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > > so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. > unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. De3finitely not. man hosts to see the

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > > permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > > so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. > unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. It do

Re: howto install virtualbox

2009-10-14 Thread henter2009
anyone can give some references of this? any kind how to explanation will be more than welcome :D Manolis Kiagias-2 wrote: > > Mark Stapper wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD >> 8.0(Beta but it'll be "Stable" soon. Using RELENG_8 btw). >

Re: Howto: ethernet card on dell M6300

2009-10-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
Chris Stankevitz wrote: > I was saddened to find that my ethernet card did not work on > my FreeBSD 7.2 machine. The bge driver in the kernel did not > support the broadcom 5756ME. Here is how I got it to work: > > 1. Set my machine up to compile the kernel (see section 8.5 > of manual)

Re: howto alias a stty erase?

2009-08-30 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:59:27AM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > is there a way of setty'ing "stty erase" to [backspace key"? > > pretty sure that is the delete key. i'm tired of having to hand > > set it every time when i use the Konsole

Re: howto alias a stty erase?

2009-08-30 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Gary Kline wrote: > > is there a way of setty'ing "stty erase" to [backspace key"? > pretty sure that is the delete key. i'm tired of having to hand > set it every time when i use the Konsole term. > > thanks, > gary > to set this you need to

Re: howto alias a stty erase?

2009-08-25 Thread Scott Schappell
If you use sh or bash, you can add to .profile or .bash_profile: stty erase ^h That should do it. Type the caret (^) and (h). On Aug 25, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Gary Kline wrote: is there a way of setty'ing "stty erase" to [backspace key"? pretty sure that is the delete key. i'm

Re: howto install virtualbox

2009-08-18 Thread lucian
Mark Stapper writes: Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:34:42 +0200 Mark Stapper wrote: I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD 8.0(Beta but it'll be "Stable" soon. Using RELENG_8 btw). I'm kind of a OS collector/nut/geek/nerd. As such virtualization

Re: howto install virtualbox

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Stapper
Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:34:42 +0200 > Mark Stapper wrote: > > >> I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD >> 8.0(Beta but it'll be "Stable" soon. Using RELENG_8 btw). >> I'm kind of a OS collector/nut/geek/nerd. As such virtualization is >> qui

Re: howto install virtualbox

2009-08-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mark Stapper wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD > 8.0(Beta but it'll be "Stable" soon. Using RELENG_8 btw). > I'm kind of a OS collector/nut/geek/nerd. As such virtualization is > quite important to me. > I've been using VMware Server 2.x on Gen

Re: howto install virtualbox

2009-08-17 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:34:42 +0200 Mark Stapper wrote: > I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD > 8.0(Beta but it'll be "Stable" soon. Using RELENG_8 btw). > I'm kind of a OS collector/nut/geek/nerd. As such virtualization is > quite important to me. > I've been usin

Re: Howto: To know whether the 3D accelerator works on my desktop with ATI Radeon 3450.

2009-08-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 05:53:47PM +0700, Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote: > Dear my friends, > > please tell me how I know whether my FreeBSD can run the 3D Accelerator > with my current ATI Radeon 3450 graphic card. The Radeon 3450 uses a RV620 chip [http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video

Re: Howto: To know whether the 3D accelerator works on my desktop with ATI Radeon 3450.

2009-08-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:53:47 +0700, Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote: > Dear my friends, > > please tell me how I know whether my FreeBSD can run the 3D Accelerator > with my current ATI Radeon 3450 graphic card. As far as I know, the "glxgears" program is a good indicator. It can be installed via the

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-13 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > > > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > > > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? > > > > > > > > Since you are using the snapshot DVD you should have the live/fixit > > environment which is very handy for this

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are > > > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the > > > legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. > > > > FreeBSD doesn't work th

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread RW
On Mon, 11 May 2009 16:11:08 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: > -Stable is where newer software from -Current (HEAD) is merged > backwards. An example would be a driver bug that was fixed in > 8.0-Current would be made available in 7.2-Stable. The main purpose > for using -Stable is for when some spe

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Powell
Saifi Khan wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> > >> > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are >> > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the >> > legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. >> >> FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
andrew clarke wrote: On Mon 2009-05-11 23:17:09 UTC+0930, Daniel O'Connor (docon...@gsoft.com.au) wrote: A holographic shell won't have it, but the others will. That reminds me... Can someone explain to me why it's called a "holographic shell"? It's an 'emergency holographic shell' actua

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2009-05-11 23:17:09 UTC+0930, Daniel O'Connor (docon...@gsoft.com.au) wrote: > > Recreating a disk - slice/parttion/newfs - is one of the main things > > to do under a fixit. You should have fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs > > there as well as restore for sucking dumps back in. > > Depends wh

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are > > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the > > legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. > > FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit FreeBSD into yo

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > "Unknown giant" > i still wonder why a snapshot should have a dysfunctional installer ? > > stable slice and partition support is key to trying or helping > or contributing towards testing/coding for an evolving "unknown > giant". Oh well :) I think you're

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:45:03PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > > > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? > > > > > > i'm using F

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:45:03PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? > > > > i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking > > for

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 11/5/09 11:48, Saifi Khan wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? > > > > i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking > > for an appro

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 11/5/09 11:48, Saifi Khan wrote: > Hi all: > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? > > i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking > for an approach to drive the entire installation from the > Fixit# comman

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? > > i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking > for an approach to drive the entire installation from the > Fixit# command line co

Re: HOWTO Apache + SSL

2009-04-14 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Pieter Donche wrote: > Where can I find a really good FreeBSD7 step by step HOW-TO on setting up > digital certifcates (SSL) for the Apache22. My apache22 is running on my > freebsd7 system but I never set up any > apache httpd server for https access yet ... cd

Re: HOWTO Apache + SSL

2009-04-13 Thread Sergio Tam
2009/4/13 Pieter Donche : > Where can I find a really good FreeBSD7 step by step HOW-TO on setting up > digital certifcates (SSL) for the Apache22. My apache22 is running on my > freebsd7 system but I never set up any > apache httpd server for https access yet ... Hi I hope this help you http:/

Re: HOWTO Apache + SSL

2009-04-13 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Pieter Donche wrote: > Where can I find a really good FreeBSD7 step by step HOW-TO on setting up > digital certifcates (SSL) for the Apache22. My apache22 is running on my > freebsd7 system but I never set up any > apache httpd server for https access yet ... > ___

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:07:35PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: > > Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > > > ... > > > I wanted to stress only one point: simple 'kldunload ' and > > > 'kldload ' makes devices to flip for Yony's case. > > This means > > > that unless some PCI hotplug stuff is here (which I don't

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Yony Yossef
> Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > > ... > > I wanted to stress only one point: simple 'kldunload ' and > > 'kldload ' makes devices to flip for Yony's case. > This means > > that unless some PCI hotplug stuff is here (which I don't > believe to > > be present, because no physical cards are touched and th

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Yony Yossef
> Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:15:53PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: > > > You're using your own driver, aren't you? If yes, could you show > > > your device_method_t structure and the corresponding identify, > > > probe, attach and detach routines? You're setting the > unit numbers > > > via 'if_initname

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Bruce, good day. Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:01:37PM +, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > > In your case I'm not sure why your two cards would flip order. Could > > it be how your BIOS and hardware set up the PCI IDSEL lines at boot? > > If this is the case on your system, then

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: ... I wanted to stress only one point: simple 'kldunload ' and 'kldload ' makes devices to flip for Yony's case. This means that unless some PCI hotplug stuff is here (which I don't believe to be present, because no physical cards are touched and there is actually a small

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Yony, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: And how come the unit number is given an arbitrary value? Is there a good reason for that? ... In your case I'm not sure why your two cards would flip order. Could it be how your BIOS and hardware set up the PCI IDSEL lines at boot? If this is the case on

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Yony Yossef wrote: Thanks for the explanation. So there's no way to determine this in advance.. I must build a script that contains my own mapping between MAC addresses and the wanted interface names and run it after each driver load, rename the interfaces if necessary. It seems quite wrong,

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:15:53PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: > > You're using your own driver, aren't you? If yes, could you > > show your device_method_t structure and the corresponding > > identify, probe, attach and detach routines? You're setting > > the unit numbers via 'if_initname(ifp, dev

RE: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Yony Yossef
reebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints? > > Yony, good day. > > Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:26:34AM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: > > All I'm doing is unloading and reloading the driver. > > Unit numbers change an

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Yony, good day. Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:26:34AM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: > All I'm doing is unloading and reloading the driver. > Unit numbers change and it makes my automatic subnet configuration > (/etc/rc.conf) assign bad IPs. You're using your own driver, aren't you? If yes, could you show

RE: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Yony Yossef
me of the interfaces. Yony > > > > > Yony > > > > > > > > _ > > > > From: H.fazaeli [mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com] > > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:26 AM > > To: Yony Yossef > > Cc: freebsd-...@freebsd.o

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Julian Elischer
hat's left. Yony _ From: H.fazaeli [mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:26 AM To: Yony Yossef Cc: freebsd-...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints? for example, say you have 2 interf

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Mykola Dzham
H.fazaeli wrote: > >for example, say you have 2 interface em0 and em1 which >you like to swap their minor numbers: >ifconfig em0 name tmp >ifconfig em1 name em0 >ifconfig em0 name em1 >or to assign cisco-like names to you interfaces: >ifconfig xl0 name fastEthernet0 >

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Sorry to jump in but... > Problem is, this unit number is not constant and changing arbitrarily every > time I reload the driver (card A unit number=0 & card B un=1 or the other > way around). Since I have been using FreeBSD, the NIC had always been given the same unit number (that is, unles

RE: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Yony Yossef
> Yony Yossef wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation. > > > > So there's no way to determine this in advance.. > > > What do you mean by 'in advance'? Assuming a fixed hardware > configuration, when the kernel is loaded, you know all the > interface names and can rename them, i.e., in rc.lo

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread H.fazaeli
y Yossef Cc: freebsd-...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints? for example, say you have 2 interface em0 and em1 which you like to swap their minor numbers: ifconfig em0 name tmp ifconfig em1 name em0 ifconfig em0 name em1 or to ass

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread H.fazaeli
Liss Subject: Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints? you may not change unit numbers as they are strictly controlled by kernel. However, on freebsd 5.3+, you may use 'ifconfig name ' to achieve the same affect Sorry, I don't understand the usage of ifconfi

RE: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-14 Thread Yony Yossef
> > you may not change unit numbers as they are strictly > controlled by kernel. > However, on freebsd 5.3+, you may use 'ifconfig name ' > to achieve the same affect > Sorry, I don't understand the usage of ifconfig you suggested and the effect it will cause. Can you please explain it? Yony >

RE: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-14 Thread Yony Yossef
> -Original Message- > From: H.fazaeli [mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:24 PM > To: Yony Yossef > Cc: freebsd-...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; > Eitan Shefi; Oleg Kats; Liran Liss > Subject: Re: howto determin

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-14 Thread H.fazaeli
you may not change unit numbers as they are strictly controlled by kernel. However, on freebsd 5.3+, you may use 'ifconfig name ' to achieve the same affect Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, e.g. make the device on pci0:16 be assigned every

Re: HowTo configure WPA[2] ath0 [wlan0] on up to date 8.0-CURRENT

2009-01-03 Thread maddae...@gmail.com
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:09 AM, wrote: > Quoting "maddae...@gmail.com" : > >> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM, wrote: >>> >>> I'm currently using wep at home and in the office configured from >>> rc.conf. >>> example: >>> ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid virus wepmode on wepkey 1:0x2373FE9515 weptxke

Re: HowTo configure WPA[2] ath0 [wlan0] on up to date 8.0-CURRENT

2009-01-03 Thread eculp
Quoting "maddae...@gmail.com" : On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM, wrote: I'm currently using wep at home and in the office configured from rc.conf. example: ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid virus wepmode on wepkey 1:0x2373FE9515 weptxkey 1" I'm traveling and haven't been able to connect to hotspots

Re: HowTo configure WPA[2] ath0 [wlan0] on up to date 8.0-CURRENT

2009-01-02 Thread maddae...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM, wrote: > I'm currently using wep at home and in the office configured from rc.conf. > example: > ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid virus wepmode on wepkey 1:0x2373FE9515 weptxkey 1" > > I'm traveling and haven't been able to connect to hotspots that are using > wpa[2]. T

Re: Howto get k3b to detect my Burner

2008-06-28 Thread Warren Liddell
> Before you try to run k3b as root, from an xterm (or konsole) in KDE. > as your normal user, type: > xhost localhost > > (you should get a message like: "localhost being added to access control > list") > > then su to root and try running k3b. > > One note: I have had trouble allowing other ho

Re: Howto get k3b to detect my Burner

2008-06-28 Thread Tim Kellers
Warren Liddell wrote: I don't think that is the problem. Have you tried it as root just as a test even though it gives you warnings. I don't know what else to suggest right now. ed k3b wont run as root & i guess k3b just dosent like my burner # k3b Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by

Re: Howto get k3b to detect my Burner

2008-06-28 Thread Warren Liddell
> I don't think that is the problem. Have you tried it as root just as > a test even though it gives you warnings. > > I don't know what else to suggest right now. > > ed k3b wont run as root & i guess k3b just dosent like my burner # k3b Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No pro

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