On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:37:51 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> So if I use my space in /usr/tmp, would I use the cmd given by
> cpghost:
>
> % mkisoft -R -J -o cdr.iso /usr/tmp/cdr/ ?
^ ^
> If this wouldn't
> % create the RockRidge extension, what then?
A
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:45:16 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:26:22PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote:
> > You can always try to tar it up directly
> >
> > tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/
> >
> > Good luck.
>
>
> I do tar ~kline --bzip'd-- and scp it around. 3 times/week.
Hi
The bakbone company sells a software called NETVAULT
if I remember well it works under FreeBSD
bsd wrote:
Yes,
This is probably the one I'll go for…
There is a good hack described in the O'Reilly "BSD hacks" to setup Bacula…
I'll consider this article as a starting point…
Thank you ve
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
I want to make sure I have better routines this time around, when I'm
starting a-fresh. I'd like to keep my system and packages fairly up to
date, and still keep the compiling to a minimum.
Is it possible to pkg_add -r packages from -STABLE on the latest
-RELEASE
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
Is it possible to pkg_add -r packages from -STABLE on the latest
-RELEASE? That is, will the following work, or slowly render my
system to an incoherent state:
RW wrote:
It'll work most of the time, but occasionally it will fail, when a
STABLE package relies on
thank's
> - Original Message -
> From: "Johann Kois"
> To: "'Mbung Linux'" , d...@freebsd.org
> Cc: questi...@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: need Tutorial IN Pdf or Doc.
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:18:06 +0100
>
>
> Hi,
>
> try using one of the http mirrors instead if you are not allowed to
prad wrote:
any recommendations?
i've tried dia and inkscape. the former seems to be good for flowcharts
and general diagrams while the latter is great for all sorts of things,
but i'd like to be able to do accurate geometric diagrams and was
wondering if something more appropriate is available.
hello,
Right now ,i'm success to installing freeBSD in my computer,can you help me...
please send me how to building FreeBSD with LTSP,i want to make a small
networking,before i'm using fedora core 4.0 with LTSP 4.1.
Thank's Before.
God Bless U.
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Automatic Refractometers by Rudolph
Bench top Au
is there any utility or pkg in freebsd that will allow me to browse my
nokia N95 files? i have quite a substantial amount of files i wish to
backup, if nothing else the pictures.
Any help is appreciated.
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:00:26 -0500
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
>I'm trying to upgrade any port with portmanager because portupgrade
>keeps failing all the time. No matter what port I try to upgrade I
>get this error:
>
>sudo portmanager x11/xterm -l -u
>Password:
>MGrStrlen error: NULL marker not foun
Since I started using FreeBSD with 6.2 on my home server, I studied
this problem very well. In the default installation, there are a daily
system check script and a daily security check script included in
periodic. You can easily configure your system so e-mails are sent to
you every days with the
When I try to configure a printer, CUPS requires a user id, my own or root.
But it will not accept either.
Interestingly, at boot up time I saw CUPS started three times but cannot
find where all the requests for start is.
I added a line in rd.conf to start CUPS but that is the only place.
Bob Fala
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Warren Liddell wrote:
> is there any utility or pkg in freebsd that will allow me to browse my nokia
> N95 files? i have quite a substantial amount of files i wish to backup, if
> nothing else the pictures.
What about obexftp?
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Today is a good day to bribe a
I run FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha, and I've XAUTHORITY set up:
% echo $XAUTHORITY
/home/mexas/.Xauthority
I've gconf2-2.24.0 and ORBit2-2.14.16
Whenever I try to start a browser, e.g. firefox2 or kazehakase I get this
message:
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible cau
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0100 Frank Staals wrote:
> It's a shame the FreeBSD port's version is so old (6.0-pre23 while the
> current version is allready 6.0-pre31 (or even 6.0-pre32 I'm not
> sure) though.
Do you know that saying "it's a shame..." you are actually speaking
about yourself ei
*ping*
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org on behalf of Michael VanLoon
Sent: Thu 1/22/2009 3:43 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Dumb ipnat question
I have built a simple 7.1 system in a VM. I built a custom kernel that is
basically GENERI
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Michael VanLoon <
micha...@noncomposmentis.net> wrote:
> I have built a simple 7.1 system in a VM. I built a custom kernel that is
> basically GENERIC minus some hardware stuff I don't need, plus a few things
> that look cool.
>
> When I attempt to run the ipnat c
Novembre writes:
> By 'orphan' do you mean the unreferenced libraries that libchk has found on
> my machine?
I mean it more loosely than that; I mean libraries that are really not
needed anymore. Your use of libchk isn't really a guarantee that you
can remove the library safely, although it wil
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:59:49PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:40:01AM +0100, cpghost wrote:
> > Perhaps there is something like that, but I do it manually like this:
> >
> > * mkdir cdr/
> > * copy approx 3.0 to 3.1 GB worth of files into cdr/
>
> You mean, I'm gu
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:19:25PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I run FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha, and I've XAUTHORITY set up:
>
> % echo $XAUTHORITY
> /home/mexas/.Xauthority
>
> I've gconf2-2.24.0 and ORBit2-2.14.16
>
> Whenever I try to start a browser, e.g. firefox2 or kazehakase I get th
During an upgrade from fbsd-6.3 --> fbsd-7.0, something strange happened.
Some of the programs will not run after rehash or even when given the
precise path to the program. System doesn't "see" several but not all
programs. I've upgraded several servers (using source files -- cvsup)
withoug any suc
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jack L. Stone wrote:
> During an upgrade from fbsd-6.3 --> fbsd-7.0, something strange happened.
> Some of the programs will not run after rehash or even when given the
> precise path to the program. System doesn't "see" several but not all
> programs. I've upgrade
In response to "Jack L. Stone" :
> During an upgrade from fbsd-6.3 --> fbsd-7.0, something strange happened.
> Some of the programs will not run after rehash or even when given the
> precise path to the program. System doesn't "see" several but not all
> programs. I've upgraded several servers (us
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM, bsd wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I am using a FreeBSD server 7.0 as a Samba server and wanted to backup this
> server using Quantum DLT tape.
>
less /scripts/backup2tape.sh
#!/bin/sh
TARGET=/dev/nsa0
# FILESYSTEMS=/:/var:/usr
FILESYSTEMS=/
DUMPLEVEL=0
DUMPOPTIO
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:37:51PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:48:11AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > Create an ISO-9660 file system with a standard RockRidge extension.
> > This would allow you to master a file system for the CD or DVD which
> > is usually represented by a
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:56:45PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jack L. Stone wrote:
>
> > During an upgrade from fbsd-6.3 --> fbsd-7.0, something strange happened.
> > Some of the programs will not run after rehash or even when given the
> > precise path to
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:06:43AM +0100, bsd wrote:
> Yes,
>
> This is probably the one I'll go for?
> There is a good hack described in the O'Reilly "BSD hacks" to setup
> Bacula?
I don't understand. Why hack when dump already works just right?
jerry
>
> I'll consider this article
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:50:41PM +0100, Len Conrad wrote:
> >> freebsd 7.1
> >>
> >> Dell 2900, perc 6/i controller with 4 SATA disks in RAID1.
> >>
> >> We get all the through the disc1 install, reboot,
> >>
> >> arrive up to
> >>
> >> "Press for remote access setup within 5 secs "
>
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:56:45 +0300
Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jack L. Stone wrote:
>
> > During an upgrade from fbsd-6.3 --> fbsd-7.0, something strange happened.
> > Any ideas?
> You'll most likey have to reinstall all ports!
> portupgrade -a
More like:
htt
it's not windows. there are fortunately no registry in unix.
your problem explanation is too short to help you.
describe something more.
and what you mean "rehash"?
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Jack L. Stone wrote:
During an upgrade from fbsd-6.3 --> fbsd-7.0, something strange happened.
Some of the
withoug any such problem. It's just this one machine.
Some programs will not run because of a library version bump. Those
programs will need to be recompiled, i.e. rebuild all ports.
it's as simple as installing compat6x from ports/misc
!
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freebs
Guys, I've got several directories off ~kline/ that I want to
store permanently. Like all my development code in ~/devel, and
all my music mp3's and ogg's in ~/Music, and all my online and
mp3 books from libribox.org in ~/readings. There are PDF files
and
Perhaps there is something like that, but I do it manually like this:
* mkdir cdr/
* copy approx 3.0 to 3.1 GB worth of files into cdr/
* mkisofs -R -J -o cdr.iso cdr/
Then use dvdisaster (/usr/ports/sysutils/dvdisaster) to
thank you for pointing out such a nice tool!
_
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:17:09 +1000
> From: shin...@maydias.com
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: mounting Nokia N95
>
> is there any utility or pkg in freebsd that will allow me to browse my
> nokia N95 files? i have quite a substantial amount of files i wish to
> backup, if
Boris Samorodov wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0100 Frank Staals wrote:
It's a shame the FreeBSD port's version is so old (6.0-pre23 while the
current version is allready 6.0-pre31 (or even 6.0-pre32 I'm not
sure) though.
Do you know that saying "it's a shame..." you are actual
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:16:35 +0100, cpghost wrote:
> Yes, but keep in mind that /dev/dvd points to /dev/acd0 and
> not to /dev/cd0:
This can be changed by "link cd0 dvd" in /etc/devfs.
% ll /dev/dvd
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Jan 23 17:16 /dev/dvd@ -> cd0
> IIRC, growisofs n
While it looks like it install/runs fine (i.e, linux-flash9 works, skype
works) the following error is show
(process:47722): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown
user id (0)
Following this advice, all I could find,
http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=freebsd-emulation&a=2005-11&t=1506
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:02:27PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> it's not windows. there are fortunately no registry in unix.
>
> your problem explanation is too short to help you.
>
> describe something more.
> and what you mean "rehash"?
`rehash' is a builtin in some shells - csh and zsh com
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade any port with portmanager because portupgrade keeps
failing all the time. No matter what port I try to upgrade I get this error:
sudo portmanager x11/xterm -l -u
According to the man page you don't need the -u when doing a single
port, see EXAMPLE
I didn't find "IPFILTER" in either the GENERIC or NOTES kernel files, so no, I
didn't compile it in. I was wondering about it, though, based on older kernel
help messages I found on the net (> 10 years old).
I'll give both of those options a try. Thanks!
- Michael
_
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:03:06PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>> withoug any such problem. It's just this one machine.
> >
> > Some programs will not run because of a library version bump. Those
> > programs will need to be recompiled, i.e. rebuild all ports.
>
> it's as simple as installing
> You can always try to tar it up directly
>
> tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/
Does it actually work to write to a burner without intervention by
the likes of cdrecord or burncd? If so, should it also be possible
to burn an existing .iso by something like
dd if=cd1.iso of=/dev/acd0 bs=64b
_
Now it appears that this machine fails under heavy I/O load. I was
trying again to copy data across from one drive to the other, and I got
a bunch of write errors. Unfortunately the kernel was in single-user
mode, so I don't have a good record of the errors. Before I investigate
more deeply, ha
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Hash: SHA1
Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0100 Frank Staals wrote:
>
>> It's a shame the FreeBSD port's version is so old (6.0-pre23 while the
>> current version is allready 6.0-pre31 (or even 6.0-pre32 I'm not
>> sure) though.
>
> Do y
> #!/bin/sh -T
>
> kill_all()
> {
>echo 'killing everything'
>kill $SPID $CPID 2> /dev/null
>exit 0
> }
>
> trap kill_all SIGCHLD
>
> ./child &
> CPID=$!
>
> sleep 5 &
> SPID=$!
>
> echo "child is $CPID"
> echo "sleeper is $SPID"
> wait
This is very nice. However I'm getti
Can newsyslog be made to handle large numbers of log
files such as all the *.collect.log files produced in our mrtg
directory?
Each device produces a log of the polling session and
those logs get huge very quickly. There are 498 such files and
putting a separate line in /etc/newsys
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Peter Boosten wrote:
> Peter Boosten wrote:
>> Brian McQueen wrote:
>>> I can't seem to find the files listed in the jdk16 port. What are
>>> folks doing to get java going? The urls listed in the port are not
>>> right, so the manual download step do
Martin McCormick wrote:
Can newsyslog be made to handle large numbers of log
files such as all the *.collect.log files produced in our mrtg
directory?
newsyslog.conf(5):
G indicates that the specified logfile_name is a shell pat-
tern, and that new
Matthew Seaman writes:
> G indicates that the specified logfile_name is a shell
> pat-
> tern, and that newsyslog(8) should archive all
> filenames
> matching that pattern using the other options on this
> line. See gl
Chuck Robey wrote:
>I never had a chance to look qcad over. Maybe someone else who has that
>experience with it could give a better critique of it, without sounding
>like a salesman or a booster.
I have used xfig and qcad. Qcad is definitely more complicated to use,
it is handled similarly to au
Mbung Linux wrote:
hello,
Right now ,i'm success to installing freeBSD in my computer,can you help me...
please send me how to building FreeBSD with LTSP,i want to make a small
networking,before i'm using fedora core 4.0 with LTSP 4.1.
Is this what you are looking for?
http://www.freebsd.org
Svein Halvor Halvorsen skrev:
Hi, list!
I have just acquired a new computer to replace an old server. This older
server has been running FreeBSD 5.3 since 2004 and most of its packages
are way out of date. I've been scared of changing something in fear of
rendering the machine unbootable,
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:32:39 Ian wrote:
> Hi,
> I've started upgrading a machine from 7.0 to 7.1 using freebsd-update. It's
> the first time I've upgraded to a new os version with it (always used
> cvsup/ make world & mergemaster before).
>
> All was going well until it came to merging the new & ol
I decided that I want the exec line at the end of the script because I
want the exit code of the script to be the exit code of the Java
process. I'm willing to live with the fact that the sleep thread will
wait its full 3 seconds. So my final script is this:
#!/bin/sh
cd `dirname "$0"`
CLASSPATH
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:28:19 -0500
Jerry wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:00:26 -0500
> Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
>
> >I'm trying to upgrade any port with portmanager because portupgrade
> >keeps failing all the time. No matter what port I try to upgrade I
> >get this error:
> >
> >sudo portmanager
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:04:03 +
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
> > I'm trying to upgrade any port with portmanager because portupgrade keeps
> > failing all the time. No matter what port I try to upgrade I get this
> > error:
> >
> > sudo portmanager x11/xterm -l -u
>
> A
I just finished installing kde4, and it can barely run on my old p4 machine!
Where has kde gone? Is the developing team trying to beat VISTA? Pitiful at
best!
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On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 17:02 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> it's not windows. there are fortunately no registry in unix.
>
> your problem explanation is too short to help you.
>
> describe something more.
> and what you mean "rehash"?
>
Rehashing forces the shell to "reinitialise" (for want of
I just finished installing kde4, and it can barely run on my old p4 machine!
Where has kde gone?
Is the developing team trying to beat VISTA? Pitiful at best!
Now Microsoft can say "AndYou all told that linux is so much better,
but now we see the truth"
anyway what a sense of using it u
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:04:03 +
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade any port with portmanager because portupgrade keeps
failing all the time. No matter what port I try to upgrade I get this error:
sudo portmanager x11/xterm -l -u
Acc
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:04:03 +
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade any port with portmanager because portupgrade
keeps failing all the time. No matter what port I try to upgrade I
get this error:
sudo portm
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:25:12 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> Now Microsoft can say "AndYou all told that linux is so much
> better, but now we see the truth"
>
:D :D :D
actually my wife is using kde4 on suse.
it's not too bad there for her needs at least, but i try to stay clear
of her c
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 07:15:47PM -0500, Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
> I just finished installing kde4, and it can barely run on my old p4
> machine! Where has kde gone? Is the developing team trying to beat VISTA?
> Pitiful at best!
Try:
cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/evilwm && make install clean
Can't b
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:15:47 -0500
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
> I just finished installing kde4, and it can barely run on my old p4
> machine! Where has kde gone?
I think kde3 is going to be around for some time to come. Hopefully
kde4 will have improved by the time it's phased-out.
__
Hi:
Qt 4.4.3 is installed on my FreeBSD 7.1 i386 system.
Now, when i attempt to install Opera 9.63 from the ports, it tries to
download Qt 3.3.8
Is there a way to modify the installation script so that Opera can use
the installed qt 4.4.3 version ?
--
thanks
Saifi.
_
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:14:07AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:45:16 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:26:22PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote:
> > > You can always try to tar it up directly
> > >
> > > tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/
> > >
> > > Good luck.
>
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:04:03 +
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade any port with portmanager because portupgrade
keeps failing all the time. No matter what port I try to upgrade I
get
AMD64 FreeBSD 7.0 2 GiB main memory
My console says:
login: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096
swap_pager: indefinite wait
Hello,
I've compiled and installed the port editors/openoffice.org-3-devel
(version openoffice.org-3.1.20081224) without, but OpenOffice does not
start:
$ openoffice.org-DEV300_m38
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libuno_sal.so.3" not found, required by
"soffice"
the missing shared lib is
El día Saturday, January 24, 2009 a las 07:16:35AM +0100, Matthias Apitz
escribió:
> Hello,
>
> I've compiled and installed the port editors/openoffice.org-3-devel
> (version openoffice.org-3.1.20081224) without, but OpenOffice does not
> start:
>
> $ openoffice.org-DEV300_m38
> /libexec/ld-elf
Hi:
i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1
SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work.
Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ?
--
thanks
Saifi.
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Saifi Khan wrote:
Hi:
i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1
SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work.
Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ?
scroll lock, and pgup
:D there is a use after all for scroll lock.
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