A question about 6.2 release

Dear sir, My first language is not English, if I made some bad words or expression, please forgive me. I have learned from your web site http://www.freebsd.org that 6.2-stable is relased on 15 Jan, 2007. But why there is also 6.2-stable snapshots released in May 2007 and June 20

portsnap from cron

Hi I run a daily portsnap from cron, using the following line: /usr/sbin/portsnap cron update > /dev/null 2>&1 ; /usr/local/sbin/portversion -vL= Until recently, I only received a mail when there were ports to upgrade. However, now I get this every day, even when there are no new ports: [Updat

Re: portsnap from cron

Tobias Roth wrote: Hi I run a daily portsnap from cron, using the following line: /usr/sbin/portsnap cron update > /dev/null 2>&1 ; /usr/local/sbin/portversion -vL= Until recently, I only received a mail when there were ports to upgrade. However, now I get this every day, even when there are

Re: portsnap from cron

Garrett Cooper wrote: > That's not going to change until portversion changes. The problem is > most likely that portsnap touches the file and portversion finds it > necessary to update the portsdb. Processing the text from portversion > will yield the info you want. > Cheers, > -Garrett Ohh, now

a simple question about snapshot, thanks for reply

Dear sir, My first English is not English, please forgive me if I made some bad words or expression. I have learned from your web site http://www.freebsd.org, that version 6.2 is released in 15 Jan, 2007. Is that a stable release? If it is, why there is 6.2-stable snapsho

Re: a simple question about snapshot, thanks for reply

PowerMan wrote: Dear sir, My first English is not English, please forgive me if I made some bad words or expression. I have learned from your web site http://www.freebsd.org, that version 6.2 is released in 15 Jan, 2007. Is that a stable release? If it is, why there is

a simple question about snapshot, thanks for reply

Dear sir, My first language is not English, please forgive me if I made some bad words or expression. I have learned from your web site http://www.freebsd.org, that version 6.2 is released in 15 Jan, 2007. Is that a stable release? If it is, why there is 6.2-stable snapsh

Several version of gcc

Hi all, Next to the standard gcc there seem to be two others on my system, installed as dependencies for other packages. These are gcc_4.1.3 and gcc_4.2.1, both with a date behind there name. Since these packages seem to be updated daily (at least once a week) and updating these packages take fo

Re: Several versions of gcc

Peter Boosten wrote: > Hi all, > > Next to the standard gcc there seem to be two others on my system, > installed as dependencies for other packages. > > These are gcc_4.1.3 and gcc_4.2.1, both with a date behind there name. > > Since these packages seem to be updated daily (at least once a week

Re: a simple question about snapshot, thanks for reply

PowerMan wrote: I guess you mean that: The snapshots of 6.2 stable released in June 2007 have been patched , I can also download patches from http://security.freebsd.org/patches/ and apply them to the offical release manually. Is that right? thanks. 2

Re: ISC bind9 with dynamic DNS update (chroot problem)

Thanks for reply. Your suggestion solved my problem, thanks. Yes, /etc/init.d/named is a typo. Regards Patrick --- Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Dung wrote: > > Hi > > > > I use FreeBSD 6.2 and the base bind9. > > For dynamic DNS update, bind9 automatically generate the jou

unable to "SITE CHMOD" via ftp (all users)

Good day to all. I use proftpd 1.3.1rc3 from the ports and I'm unable to chmod any files in the home directory when logged in as any user. The following is my proftpd.conf file, though I believe it's the proftpd's fault. Same error is found in pure-ftpd, even when chmod is allowed in both ftpd's c

Re: Upgraded Samba and Can't Connect with Win XP

On Sun, July 29, 2007 01:51, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I upgraded samba to 3.0.25a from 3.0.24. Now I can't connect with > Windows XP clients however smbclient both locally and remotely works > just fine. Basically when connecting from Windows XP, I see the > connection in log.smbd and then it's im

Re: Problems with ftp client

> On 7/28/07, Alvaro Rosales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello guys, >> I have a Freebsd 5.4 box, it is working perfectly as a file server, but >> I >> have noticed that I can not ftp to any computer other than localhost >> from >> this server. I have found this out when tried to install remot

Re: OT: pc power on

On Sat, July 28, 2007 21:56, fbsd2 wrote: > After a power outage my FBSD server does not restart automatically. > Someone has to push the PC power on button on the front of the case. > I tried to jumper the motherboard pins the wires from the power on button > go to but that did not work. It starts

Re: A question about 6.2 release

Hopefully this page will clear up things for you -- http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/release.html Regards, Rakhesh On Sun, July 29, 2007 12:38, PowerMan wrote: > Dear sir, > > My first language is not English, if I made some bad words or > expression, please forgive me. > > I h

very simple question about patches on freebsd

dear sir, I copy some content from http://security.freebsd.org/, * FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc * FreeBSD-SA-07:04.file.asc * FreeBSD-SA-07:03.ipv6.asc * FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind.asc FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE released. * FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail.asc * FreeBSD-SA-06:26.gtar.asc

Re: portsnap from cron

On Sun, July 29, 2007 13:11, Tobias Roth wrote: > Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> That's not going to change until portversion changes. The problem is >> most likely that portsnap touches the file and portversion finds it >> necessary to update the portsdb. Processing the text from portversion >> will y

Re: Custom builds from ports

On Sun, July 29, 2007 01:37, N.J. Mann wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: >> Is there a way to specify which ports certain options are to be applied >> to, without having to craft custom command lines and build ports >> individually? > > Is ports-mgmt/portconf what y

Re: USB Mouse not Working

The mouse seems to get detected perfectly and this is the GENERIC kernel build that has the modules. The mouse gets detected and listed at boot time. However, I don't think I am getting data out of the mouse port. I beleive in the past I have checked with #cat /dev/ums0 and if things ar

Nothing happens with Qemu

Hi, I'm trying to get Qemu working on my FreeBSD 6.2 PC. But nothing seems to be happening. I posted my problem at the Qemu forums but haven't got any replies there (I wonder if any one even uses those forums coz mine is like the last post there!) Just trying my luck here too in case I get some ti

Re: SSA_ENEWS: Cancellation

"Hakan K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why? Are you serious? How about, "Because this mailing list should never have been subscribe to another mailing list in the first place." > > > SIGNOFF SSA_ENEWS > You have been removed from the SSA_ENEWS list. > > Summary of resource utilization >

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

Rakhesh Sasidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to get Qemu working on my FreeBSD 6.2 PC. But nothing seems to > be happening. I posted my problem at the Qemu forums but haven't got any > replies there (I wonder if any one even uses those forums coz mine is like > the last pos

Re: oops, what have i done!

Pollywog wrote: On Saturday 28 July 2007 20:23:16 Erik Trulsson wrote: Short answer: It is perfectly normal. Don't worry. Longer answer: The reason you have all of them installed is that some ports need one of them, and others need another one etc. It is perfectly safe to have all of them i

still image grabber

Hi, is there a port on freebsd that generate still images from movie files? like "image grabber" on windows?? thanks!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: USB Mouse not Working

The mouse seems to get detected perfectly and this is the GENERIC kernel build that has the modules. The mouse gets detected and listed at boot time. However, I don't think I am getting data out of the mouse port. I beleive in the past I have checked with #cat /dev/ums0 and if thing

XEN questions

Does XEN work with freebsd 6.x? Does one run XEN inside of freebsd and then VMs inside that, or does one run XEN on the bare hardware and then run freebsd inside that? If I've already got freebsd running on my box, do I have to reload it from scratch or is there a way I can virtualize what I alre

Re: USB Mouse not Working

I beleive in the past I have checked with #cat /dev/ums0 and if things are working corectly, cat display binary garbage on the screen when you wiggle the mouse. Try this after killing moused (moused makes ums0 unavailable). Perhaps the mouse is dead or dying? Mine keeps its USB cable on a

S-ATA card HighPoint RocketRAID 1740 4P SATA II/300

Hello Does HighPoint RocketRAID 1740 4P SATA II/300 work with FreeBSD 6.2? i didn't find it in http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/6-STABLE/hardware/i386/article.html#DISK //Johan Andersson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode.Need help.

Hello. Trap 12 occured when I rebooted PC. Sending you backtrace. My system: amd64 3200+ Venice, MB ECS nForce4 A939,Samsung 250GB and WD 250 GB, 2 memory banks 512MB each, videocard: Geforce 6600gt 128MB, NIC on realtek chip, sound card cirrus logic cs4281. It's very unstable, crashes happen ev

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

Have you tried using the vnc option and connecting to qemu through a vnc client? As I already said, I recommend starting out on a machine with X until you're more familiar with qemu, as the default settings pretty much do that anyway, but I expect a vnc connection will be the second easiest.

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

It seems logical that qemu would need to run on top of X, in much the same way that Firefox [just to pick an example at random] won't work without X. I'm still a FreeBSD newbie though, so I have no idea how X works. I'm still struggling to upgrade my Xorg to 7.2. [Stupid missing OpenGL drivers

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get Qemu working on my FreeBSD 6.2 PC. But nothing seems to be happening. I posted my problem at the Qemu forums but haven't got any replies there (I wonder if any one even uses those forums coz mine is like the last post there!) Just trying my luck he

Re: still image grabber

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:14:06AM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > Hi, >is there a port on freebsd that generate still images from movie files? > like "image grabber" on windows?? thanks!! The multimedia/mplayer port can do that. If you use the '-vf screenshot' option, you can use the 's' key to

Re: Upgraded Samba and Can't Connect with Win XP -- SOLVED!!!

On 7/29/2007 4:46 AM Rakhesh Sasidharan said the following: On Sun, July 29, 2007 01:51, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I upgraded samba to 3.0.25a from 3.0.24. Now I can't connect with Windows XP clients however smbclient both locally and remotely works just fine. Basically when connecting from Win

Re: Why won't RELENG_6_2 Build?

On Saturday 28 July 2007, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:55:56PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > >> I am trying to build RELENG_6_2 from a freshly cvsupped ports > >> tree. > >> > >> It stops in the build of libmagic with a message from t

Re: S-ATA card HighPoint RocketRAID 1740 4P SATA II/300

On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 16:20 +0200, Johan Andersson wrote: > Hello > Does HighPoint RocketRAID 1740 4P SATA II/300 work with FreeBSD 6.2? > i didn't find it in > http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/6-STABLE/hardware/i386/article.html#DISK It works fine here with the FreeBSD driver provided by HighPoint

Re: unable to "SITE CHMOD" via ftp (all users)

Sorry guys. It was as simple as chowning the files properly. Not sure how I overlooked that! Extremely sorry for the trouble. Solved the problem. Have a great day, guys. Regards, Dinesh On 7/29/07, Dinesh Pandian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good day to all. > I use proftpd 1.3.1rc3 from the p

Re: Upgraded Samba and Can't Connect with Win XP -- SOLVED!!!

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Thanks for your reply. Oddly enough, rebooting the Windows clients has solved the problem. Windows must have been caching something that prevented it from staying connected to the new version. Rebooting Windows solves most problems! Heh! I hadn't

Re: A question about 6.2 release

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:38:29PM +0800, PowerMan wrote: > Dear sir, > > My first language is not English, if I made some bad words or > expression, please forgive me. > > I have learned from your web site http://www.freebsd.org > that 6.2-stable is relased on 15 Jan, 2007. > >

Re: Several version of gcc

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:41:50PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: > Hi all, > > Next to the standard gcc there seem to be two others on my system, > installed as dependencies for other packages. > > These are gcc_4.1.3 and gcc_4.2.1, both with a date behind there name. > > Since these packages seem

Re: Several version of gcc

Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:41:50PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Next to the standard gcc there seem to be two others on my system, >> installed as dependencies for other packages. >> >> These are gcc_4.1.3 and gcc_4.2.1, both with a date behind there name. >>

Re: still image grabber

At 09:14 AM 7/29/2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, is there a port on freebsd that generate still images from movie files? like "image grabber" on windows?? thanks!! TFC You might want to try the vlc media player: /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc I know the windows version does generate still images

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

On 29/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It seems logical that qemu would need to run on top of X, in much the same > > way that Firefox [just to pick an example at random] won't work without X. > > I'm still a FreeBSD newbie though, so I have no idea how X works. I'm still

Re: still image grabber

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:14:06 -0400 "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >is there a port on freebsd that generate still images from movie > files? like "image grabber" on windows?? thanks!! > > TFC > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

IDE cable?

Hi, This might be out of the scope in this list. But, would someone be able to tell me if an IDE cable for HDD and for CD-ROM is identical or not? Thanks, -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

gtk-recordmydesktop fails to build - no port either

Hello Everyone, I can't find gtk-recordmydesktop (or qt-recordmydesktop) in the ports tree even though recordmydesktop is there and installs. I tried to download the tarball for gtk-recordmydesktop and install it. Here are the results: t/mv{152}~/dl/gtk-recordmydesktop-0.3.5: ls AUTHORS

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

The -vnc option looks like a win, maybe. That sounds good. Doesn't VNC require X, though? Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[E

Re: autoconf261

Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I've strange problem with autoconf 261 ports. He install autoconf under /usr/local/bin/autoconf261 instead /usr/local/bin/autoconf-261 It's ports bug ? or it's me do something wrong ? Regards. Albert SHIH Hi Albert, I've just had a very weird

Loosing keyboard during install - version freeBSD 5.2.1

Loosing keyboard during install - version freeBSD 5.2.1 I've tried an USB and PS/2 keyboard during installation. The keyboard becomes unresponsive as soon as the install begins. I'm installing on an IBM Xseries 235. The BIOS setting appear correct. Thanks for any help. _

Re: IDE cable?

Soo-Hyun Choi a écrit : Hi, This might be out of the scope in this list. But, would someone be able to tell me if an IDE cable for HDD and for CD-ROM is identical or not? Thanks, The same yes Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Loosing keyboard during install - version freeBSD 5.2.1

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:34:47PM -0400, Disk Media, LLC wrote: > Loosing keyboard during install - version freeBSD 5.2.1 > > I've tried an USB and PS/2 keyboard during installation. The > keyboard becomes unresponsive as soon as the install begins. > I'm installing on an IBM Xseries 235. > > Th

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: Is there a way of instructing dhclient to listen only on the cable-modem facing network interface? Hi Jazz, I don't find it necessary to run dhclient as a daemon. My server has two interfaces, one wired and one wifi. In my /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" ifconf

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

On 29/07/07, Adam J Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The -vnc option looks like a win, maybe. > > That sounds good. Doesn't VNC require X, though? > Having not fiddled with it, I would hesitate to assume much. I would guess that it would work with mswin or X, and maybe with a terminal.

Re: IDE cable?

On 29/07/07, Gaye Abdoulaye Walsimou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Soo-Hyun Choi a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > This might be out of the scope in this list. But, would someone be able to > > tell me if an IDE cable for HDD and for CD-ROM is identical or not? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > The same yes >

Re: "umount -f" Complete system crash...

On 28/07/07, Modulok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BACKGROUND > Someone brought me a camera they were having trouble with: winXP > refused to mount the file system. I tried it on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, > "mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt", no problems. I recovered all of their > photos. I attempted to "u

Re: IDE cable?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/07/07, Gaye Abdoulaye Walsimou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Soo-Hyun Choi a écrit : Hi, This might be out of the scope in this list. But, would someone be able to tell me if an IDE cable for HDD and for CD-ROM is identical or not? Thanks, The sa

Re: still image grabber

On 7/29/07, Robert Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:14:06 -0400 > "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > >is there a port on freebsd that generate still images from movie > > files? like "image grabber" on windows?? thanks!! > > > > TFC > > ___

Re: still image grabber

On 7/29/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 7/29/07, Robert Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:14:06 -0400 > > "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > >is there a port on freebsd that generate still images from movie > >

Xvnc success! But Xfce4 settings different

Adam J Richardson wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use VNC to log into my FreeBSD laptop from another laptop [why? to learn how]... gdm... Xvnc... xinetd... blah... blah... I finally managed to log in using Xvnc and gdm. This is awesome. I'll be happy for days now. :D Here's how: I found I was

Re: XEN questions

Michael Grant wrote: Does XEN work with freebsd 6.x? Does one run XEN inside of freebsd and then VMs inside that, or does one run XEN on the bare hardware and then run freebsd inside that? If I've already got freebsd running on my box, do I have to reload it from scratch or is there a way I can

fetch and ftp problems trough pf

Hi I'm have a bit of a fetch and ftp problem when it comes to the hosts behind my freebsd 6.2 stable pf firewall. I can use fetch and ftp perfectly fine from the firewall but once I want to use them on one of the hosts behind it I get the following errors. Trying 204.152.184.73... Connected to ft

Re: XEN questions

Adam J Richardson wrote: Michael Grant wrote: Does XEN work with freebsd 6.x? Does one run XEN inside of freebsd and then VMs inside that, or does one run XEN on the bare hardware and then run freebsd inside that? If I've already got freebsd running on my box, do I have to reload it from scrat

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

Adam, Thanks for responding, but I think theres been a misunderstanding here. The network setup on my machine is working correctly. My switch-facing network card has a fixed IP address, while the cable-modem facing network card is assigned one by the DHCP server built into the cable modem. This

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

The DHCP reference for ed1 means dhclient is started (thereafter running continuously as a daemon), which sets ed1's IP address to that assigned by the cable modem. Note that dhclient generally runs as a daemon because it has to handle lease renewals and/or expiration. I have no issues with it r

RE: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

Hi Jasvinder, I believe if you add the following to /etc/dhclient.conf your problem will be resolved. Interface "ed1"; Then reboot or alternatively restart your network and you should finding it only binding to that interface. Regards, Terry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installation problem

I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk which already contains Windows XP. I have created a partition for FreeBSD. My problem comes once I "commit" to the installation of FreeBSD. I get the following message, after which installation aborts: "Unable to find de

Downgrading from current

I recently upgraded my system from stable to current to try and take advantage of some of wireless features offered. Unfortunetly, things didn't work out as well as I'd like to and I want to downgrade. Reading online, it seems that downgrading isn't supported and it's probably best to just reinst

Downgrading from current

Ross Penner writes: > Reading online, it seems that downgrading isn't supported and > it's probably best to just reinstall the system. This seems > reasonable enough to me but I have a couple problems I need to > address first. > > I have a lot of data on my /usr partition that I would rath

Re: Downgrading from current

How about creating a new partition and using new partition for installation.? I do not think you will be able to keep the files, if u install on same partition... Thanks Troy http://dominor.net On 7/29/07, Ross Penner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently upgraded my system from stable to

upgrade help

Hi, I am unable to find this information anywhere in the manual or Google. Can someone please point me in the direction of upgrading from freeBSD 6.2--release to freeBSD 7 current? EA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

any clues on this

Hi List, I recently reinstalled my entire OS and world, etc. now I am running stable FreeBSD 6.2 when I run scripts now the following line "added: not found" is thrown in the output or shell scripts. I cant figure out to the life of me why this would appear. I tried different shells on the f

p5 in ports

Hi, I have just run portsnap extract on a new system and I noticed a large number of ports begin with p5- what exactly does the p5 stand for or represent? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: p5 in ports

In the last episode (Jul 29), Aton A said: > Hi, > I have just run portsnap extract on a new system and I noticed a large > number of ports begin with p5- what exactly does the p5 stand for or > represent? perl 5 -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

A simple question about patches for FreeBSD from http://security.freebsd.org/patches

Dear sir, My first language is not English, please forgive me if I made some bad words. And I do not know if that is the right e-mail address to ask questions. I copy a few lines from http://security.freebsd.org/ - FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc

Re: upgrade help

On Sunday 29 July 2007, Aton A said: > Hi, > I am unable to find this information anywhere in the manual or > Google. Can someone please point me in the direction of upgrading > from freeBSD 6.2--release to freeBSD 7 current? The general information for this is in the handbook. http://www.freebs

Port update advice

Hi All, Following a Portsnap Fetch / Extract on top of a base install what is the best strategy for keeping ports updated? I think maybe it would be a waste of time / bandwidth to fetch the entire ports again or on a weekly basis so am guessing here that I should be checking to see which ports I

Re: awk question

Just add a filter NF > 2 to the script. You can even take care of 1 token lines and empty lines in whatever way you wish with other filters. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: any clues on this

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:04:58PM -0700, Noah wrote: > Hi List, > > I recently reinstalled my entire OS and world, etc. > now I am running stable FreeBSD 6.2 > > when I run scripts now the following line "added: not found" is thrown > in the output or shell scripts. > > I cant figure out to th

Re: any clues on this [solved]

that did it - thanks Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:04:58PM -0700, Noah wrote: Hi List, I recently reinstalled my entire OS and world, etc. now I am running stable FreeBSD 6.2 when I run scripts now the following line "added: not found" is thrown in the output or shell scri

Re: Port update advice

Graham Bentley wrote: Hi All, Following a Portsnap Fetch / Extract on top of a base install what is the best strategy for keeping ports updated? I think maybe it would be a waste of time / bandwidth to fetch the entire ports again or on a weekly basis so am guessing here that I should be checki

Re: XEN questions

> Does one run XEN inside of freebsd and then VMs inside that, or does > one run XEN on the bare hardware and then run freebsd inside that? If > I've already got freebsd running on my box, do I have to reload it > from scratch or is there a way I can virtualize what I already have > runing? Hi,

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

> -nographic >Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output. With this >option, you can totally disable graphical output so that QEMU > is a >simple command line application. The emulated serial port is > redi- >rected on the console. Therefore,

Re: XEN questions

Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Does one run XEN inside of freebsd and then VMs inside that, or does one run XEN on the bare hardware and then run freebsd inside that? If I've already got freebsd running on my box, do I have to reload it from scratch or is there a way I can virtualize what I already h

Re: A simple question about patches for FreeBSD from http://security.freebsd.org/patches

Is that mean if I use 5.5-release, I should apply all the patches above and if I use 6.2-release I need only apply the FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc to FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind.asc

Re: upgrade help

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Aton A wrote: Hi, I am unable to find this information anywhere in the manual or Google. Can someone please point me in the direction of upgrading from freeBSD 6.2--release to freeBSD 7 current? This might help -- http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-6

Re: Downgrading from current

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Ross Penner wrote: I have a lot of data on my /usr partition that I would rather not have to backup and then readd to the system. is there a way I can reinstall and leave parts of the file system intact? I assume that I can use the same partitions but I'm worried that reinst

Re: USB Mouse not Working

Ian Smith wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:58:39 +0100 Adam J Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I beleive in the past I have checked with > >>> #cat /dev/ums0 > >>> and if things are working corectly, cat display binary garbage on the > screen when you wiggle the mouse. Try this aft

Re: USB Mouse not Working

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:58:39 +0100 Adam J Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I beleive in the past I have checked with > >>> #cat /dev/ums0 > >>> and if things are working corectly, cat display binary garbage on the > screen when you wiggle the mouse. Try this after killing moused (

Re: Installation problem

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk which already contains Windows XP. I have created a partition for FreeBSD. My problem comes once I "commit" to the installation of FreeBSD. I get the following message, after w