dual boot FreeBSD and openBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: My apologies if this is a newbie question, however, i'm trying to look beyond GRUB fixation. i'd like to do a dual boot installation of FreeBSD and openBSD, without using GRUB or LILO. Any suggestions on the bootloader to use ? What would your suggestion be, if i'm trying to dual boot

OpenLDAP 2.4.13/14/15: Need long time to autheticate since update from 2.4.11

2009-03-12 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, since we updated ports on our FreeBSD boxes and so OpenLDAP from 2.4.11 -> 2.4.15 and its sibblings authetication on the first attempt from a client to the server takes a long time. The phenomenon is on several flavours of FreeBSD the same (7.1-STABLE/i386 + amd64 UP and SMP and FreeBSD

USB KVM Raritan DKX2-232

2009-03-12 Thread Andrey Urtaykin
Hi all This KVM uses only one USB connector for both mouse and keyboard. I have several servers with different hardware and FreeBSD from 6.2 to 7.1, and no one works properly the problem is: input doesn`t work at all OR/AND mouse moves interpretend as keyboard pressings OR/AND input with like

USB hub and USB to Serial cable on FreeBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello community, Do you know if i can get FreeBSD 7.0 to see USB to serial (RS232) cables if they are connected to a USB hub? thank you, v -- network warrior since 2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The ACM Queue (1 May 2004) article by Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems is very insightful. "There is no such thing as Free (Software) lunch" Please take a look at http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1005066 In 2009, you would like your product (esp infrastructure product or platform) to reach ou

Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Gilles
Hello I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, without their knowing it's from us. The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix version, much less a command-line version (the download script will run on a non-X FreeBSD 6.3 server). Do you know of an

[News] Dabber Newsletter - March 2009

2009-03-12 Thread Daniel Daboczy - DABBER
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Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:12:48 +0100 Gilles wrote: > I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, > without their knowing it's from us. ? > The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix > version /usr/ports/security/tor/ Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565

Re: dual boot FreeBSD and openBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi, Did you tried BSD Boot Manager? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html Laci From: Saifi Khan To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:14:11 PM Subject: dual boot FreeBSD and openBSD Hi all: My apologies if this is a

Re: Ports Collection

2009-03-12 Thread Dánielisz László
Dear Mario Palmer, Did you tried to install the latest FreeBSD version instead of 6.4? Did you updated your ports tree before running the make command (eg. with cvsup)? You can also try installing gnome2 via pkg_add -r [-v] Laci From: Mario PNH To: freebsd-q

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:42:53 +0100, Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> wrote: >/usr/ports/security/tor/ Thanks Andeas. Up to now, I only used the Tor client for Windows that comes with Privoxy, so never used Tor as-is, and never on the command line. If someone's used to using Tor, I have a couple o

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, without their knowing it's from us. so tell me address and i will download and send it ;) The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix there is tor for unix in ports. tor works fine i used it a lot and s

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thanks Andeas. Up to now, I only used the Tor client for Windows that comes with Privoxy, so never used Tor as-is, and never on the command line. If someone's used to using Tor, I have a couple of questions. On FreeBSD, I intend to use it to run a Python script to connect to a remote web server a

Re: USB hub and USB to Serial cable on FreeBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Do you know if i can get FreeBSD 7.0 to see USB to serial (RS232) cables if they are connected to a USB hub? load a proper USB-serial driver ;) man ucom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: USB KVM Raritan DKX2-232

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This KVM uses only one USB connector for both mouse and keyboard. I have several servers with different hardware and FreeBSD from 6.2 to 7.1, and no one works properly the problem is: input doesn`t work at all OR/AND mouse moves interpretend as keyboard pressings OR/AND input with like CTRL pr

Re: Ldapadd Crashed with Segmentation Fault

2009-03-12 Thread Familie van der Schaft
I had the same problem (also slapcat ended with seg fault 11). And the siolution was to minimize the config options (i did not need all of them). I only build OpenLDAP with the SASL,BDB and PERL options and worked for me Reg,Danny - Original Message - From: "Hong" To: "FreeBSD Quest

Re: USB hub and USB to Serial cable on FreeBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Valentin Bud
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > Do you know if i can get FreeBSD 7.0 to see USB to serial (RS232) cables if >> they are >> connected to a USB hub? >> >> load a proper USB-serial driver ;) > > man ucom > Thanks for the tip Wojciech. I j

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Gilles wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:42:53 +0100, Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> > wrote: > >/usr/ports/security/tor/ > > Thanks Andeas. Up to now, I only used the Tor client for Windows that > comes with Privoxy, so never used Tor as-is, and never on the com

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Rees
2009/3/12 Gilles : > Hello > > I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, > without their knowing it's from us. > > The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix > version, much less a command-line version (the download script will > run  on a non-X FreeBSD

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/3/12 Gilles : Hello I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, without their knowing it's from us. The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix version, much less a command-line version (the download script will run on a non-X

Re: Ports Collection

2009-03-12 Thread FreeBSD List
Quick question Why are you using 6.4 instead of the latest (7.1)? Keep in mind that gnome2 has a lot of dependencies. That's just the nature of gnome2. When you say it didn't finish, did it stop and give you an error? When compiling gnome2 on FreeBSD, depending on your hardware, it can tak

HELP! After updateng DB46 to DB47 OpenLDAP 2.4.15 won't start anymore nor willing to perform backup

2009-03-12 Thread O. Hartmann
Today I updated several FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE servers and so I did on one of our OpenLDAP servers. The server was runnig OpenLDAP 2.4.15 with Cyrus SASL2 support and DB backend was DB 4.6 as from the ports. First, I made a backup from the OpenLDAP database via slapcat -l file.ldif. I updated from

USB KVM Raritan DKX2-232

2009-03-12 Thread Andrey Urtaykin
Hi all This KVM (Raritan DKX2-232) uses only one USB connector for both mouse and keyboard. I have several servers with different hardware and FreeBSD from 6.2 to 7.1, and no one works properly the problem is: input doesn`t work at all OR/AND mouse moves interpretend as keyboard pressings OR/AND

Re: USB KVM Raritan DKX2-232

2009-03-12 Thread Tim Judd
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 10:47 +0300, Andrey Urtaykin wrote: > Hi all > > This KVM uses only one USB connector for both mouse and keyboard. > I have several servers with different hardware and FreeBSD from 6.2 to > 7.1, and no one works properly the problem is: input doesn`t work at all > OR/AND mo

USB KVM Raritan DKX2-232

2009-03-12 Thread Andrey Urtaykin
Hi all This KVM (Raritan DKX2-232) uses only one USB connector for both mouse and keyboard. I have several servers with different hardware and FreeBSD from 6.2 to 7.1, and no one works properly the problem is: input doesn`t work at all OR/AND mouse moves interpretend as keyboard pressings OR/A

Re: torrent client traffic shaping question

2009-03-12 Thread RW
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:24:37 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:42:23 + RW > > A traffic shaper could efficiently regulate downloads by proxying > > TCP. And even though PF does some limited TCP proxying, > > unfortunately dummynet and altq work at the IP level. >

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread John Hendy
For Atheros, the exact chipset is still important... my Macbook's Atheros AR5008 (aka AR5418) does not work with the FBSD ath driver. i386 works if I ndisgen a kernel module from a WinXP driver, but I have not been able to ndisgen a module successfully for amd64, which is what I'd like to run. The

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Saifi Khan writes: [...] > Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work > with FreeBSD ? Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets. -- Ashish SHUKLA pgpheKqJjP5PG.pgp Description: PGP signa

Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) syntax

2009-03-12 Thread Jerry
I just updated from Bash-3.x to Bash-4.0. There appears to be a problem with the way Bash-4 interprits the following. This works fine on Bash-3.x: #!/usr/bin/env bash GET_PATH=1 if $( which gpg2 ); then printf "gpg2 located" fi However, under Bash-4, it fail with this error message:

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Saifi Khan writes: > > [...] > > > Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work > > with FreeBSD ? > > Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the > driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets.

Re: Free Pascal

2009-03-12 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello, On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Ian Fitzgerald wrote: > Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Ian Fitzgerald >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: >>> cd /usr/ports/lang/fpc >>> pkg_add -r fpc >>> >> >> You should do >> >> # cd /usr/

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:40:54 +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: >Not to put a damper on everyone's fun but wouldn't just be easier to go to >an internet cafe, run you're web scraper from a USB drive and leave? Not if the script will run for three days ;) ___ f

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-12 Thread David Banning
> A first one is simple but it may not give any guarantee that > the situation will not appear in the future: install those > ports by hand. > > I'll advice the second one. Write down all linux applications you use > (i.e. print/acroread8, net/skype, etc.) -- not infrastructure linux > ports (they

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:16:15 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: >It probably is, but you're assuming his competitors know that >he works for their competition, and, for that matter, that >"Giles" is his real name, etc., etc. Exactly ;) ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:38:13 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >set up tor and use it as socks proxy with your browser and python script. You > don't need privoxy for that. Thanks for the tip. I'll look into how to modify the Python script to use SOCKS instead.

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread RW
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:38:13 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > set up tor and use it as socks proxy with your browser and python > script. > > You don't need privoxy for that. but isn't the point of of using privoxy to strip identifying information from http requests that would otherwise u

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:37:26 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >there is tor for unix in ports. tor works fine i used it a lot and >stopped. Why - because it got to widely known and there are actually less >secure >than not using it at all.There are lots of "hackers" that run modified tor >t

nessus 3

2009-03-12 Thread GrimJow Espada
does nessus 3 included now inports for ver 7.1? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: pam_start error

2009-03-12 Thread Thierry Lacoste
> in openpam_load_module(): no /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so found > pam_start:system error FWIW I've just fought a couple hours with the same problem just to realize that I was using openldap-client-2.4.13 together with pam_ldap-1.8.4_1 built against openldap-client-2.4.15_1. Everything is in ord

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Doug Poland
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced members would like to recommend wherein . the WiFi 802.1

smartd errors again

2009-03-12 Thread Robin Becker
I'm seeing these sorts of messages in syslog output Mar 12 15:06:10 app3 smartd[519]: Device: /dev/ad4, 6 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Mar 12 15:06:10 app3 smartd[519]: Device: /dev/ad4, 6 Offline uncorrectable sectors Mar 12 15:29:39 app3 kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 e

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Sam Leffler
5418 has worked for several years in HEAD. At this point the only ath chips not working in HEAD are those I haven't had access to (9280 and 9285) and 9280 support should go in shortly. About the only thing missing for ath is support for 11n (the 802.11 layer has supported 11n on other device

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread John Hendy
I've never heard of HEAD... I'm pretty new to freebsd, so that could very well be why! Google is just giving me search results with people doing such and such with 'freebsd-head', not what it is. -John On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Sam Leffler wrote: > 5418 has worked for several years in HE

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: > Saifi Khan wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. > > > > Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced > > members wo

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Suszko
Saifi Khan wrote: > Hi all: > > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. > > Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced > members would like to recommend wherein > . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PC

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:04:05PM +, RW wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:38:13 +0100 (CET) > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > set up tor and use it as socks proxy with your browser and python > > script. > > > > You don't need privoxy for that. > > but isn't the point of of using privoxy to

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-12 Thread Peter Steele
>I do something like this. Here's the rules I have >in /usr/local/etc/devd.conf >... > attach 10 { > match "device-name" "umass0"; > action "sleep 2; /root/bin/usbstick_attach > /dev/console"; >}; I've tried something similar and I'm having good success. I should be able accomplish what I

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread T.
Gilles wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:42:53 +0100, Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> wrote: /usr/ports/security/tor/ Thanks Andeas. Up to now, I only used the Tor client for Windows that comes with Privoxy, so never used Tor as-is, and never on the command line. If someone's used to usi

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: > >> Saifi Khan wrote: >> > Hi all: >> > >> > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use >> > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. >> > >> > Is there a laptop model (available in

Bug in tcp wrappers?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris St Denis
I think I've found a bug in libwrap/tcpwrappers. Before filing an actual bug report I want to get some feedback here first. A hosts.allow file with ~1000 ips on a single line(Haven't experimented with other quantities yet), causes network daemons that use libwrap stop accepting incoming networ

sed error "unescaped newline inside substitute pattern"

2009-03-12 Thread David Banning
Here is the php line that gives the error; cat start_text | sed "s/--maintext--/$test/" > endtext give error; sed: 1: "s/--maintext--/ Comment ...": unescaped newline inside substitute pattern where $test contains customer input from a website form There is something about the content of the

Re: sed error "unescaped newline inside substitute pattern"

2009-03-12 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:34:36 am David Banning wrote: > Here is the php line that gives the error; > > cat start_text | sed "s/--maintext--/$test/" > endtext > > give error; > > sed: 1: "s/--maintext--/ Comment ...": unescaped newline inside substitute > pattern > > where $test contains custom

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread T.
T. wrote: I just enable the control port locally and telnet to it. To get new circuits, on the control port (assuming you haven't set any authentication): AUTHENTICATESIGNAL NEWNYM Typo, that should be with a line break, obviously: AUTHENTICATE (you'll get a response, then). SIGNA

Re: sed error "unescaped newline inside substitute pattern"

2009-03-12 Thread David Banning
> Well, it might be because "test" is a command line function. It actually doesn't matter whether I use the word "test" or any other word as a variable ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: > > > >> Saifi Khan wrote: > >> > Hi all: > >> > > >> > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > >> > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA ca

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You don't need privoxy for that. but isn't the point of of using privoxy to strip identifying information from http requests that would otherwise undermine tor. if python script won't put any extras - what info you want to strip out? ___ freebsd-qu

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
stopped. Why - because it got to widely known and there are actually less secure than not using it at all.There are lots of "hackers" that run modified tor that do analyzes/changes what going through. I stopped when i once used it on my bank webpage and got message about change of SSL key!!! T

Error starting Snort via rc.d

2009-03-12 Thread FreeBSD
Hello list! I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 with a fresh ports tree. I just installed Snort 2.8.2.2_2 from the ports. The problem is that I always got an error when I want to start/stop/restart Snort via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/snort. I isolated the part of the script that is outputting the e

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 3/12/09, Maciej Suszko wrote: > "Paul B. Mahol" wrote: >> On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan wrote: >> > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: >> > >> >> Saifi Khan wrote: >> >> > Hi all: >> >> > >> >> > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use >> >> > ndiswrapper, or broadco

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Suszko
Saifi Khan wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: > > > Saifi Khan wrote: > > > Hi all: > > > > > > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > > > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. > > > > > > Is there a laptop model (available in ma

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Suszko
"Paul B. Mahol" wrote: > On 3/12/09, Maciej Suszko wrote: > > "Paul B. Mahol" wrote: > >> On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan wrote: > >> > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: > >> > > >> >> Saifi Khan wrote: > >> >> > Hi all: > >> >> > > >> >> > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't w

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Suszko
"Paul B. Mahol" wrote: > On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: > > > >> Saifi Khan wrote: > >> > Hi all: > >> > > >> > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > >> > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. > >> > >

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
8.0 CURRENT i386. On 7.0, 7.1 and 7-STABLE there is still a little bit annoying message in dmesg on my nx7300, but i it's harmless as I suppose: acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C) completely harmless, it's buggy ACPI. ___ freebsd-questi

Re: Error starting Snort via rc.d

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, March 12, 2009 14:12:03 -0500 FreeBSD wrote: Hello list! I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 with a fresh ports tree. I just installed Snort 2.8.2.2_2 from the ports. The problem is that I always got an error when I want to start/stop/restart Snort via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/snort

Re: Error starting Snort via rc.d [SOLVED]

2009-03-12 Thread FreeBSD
Paul Schmehl a écrit : --On Thursday, March 12, 2009 14:12:03 -0500 FreeBSD wrote: Hello list! I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 with a fresh ports tree. I just installed Snort 2.8.2.2_2 from the ports. The problem is that I always got an error when I want to start/stop/restart Snort via /

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Saifi Khan wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote: HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and ethernet, except for the following: From HP site, Network Integrated Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet PCI Controller (10/100/1000 NIC) Wireless Br

usb sound card

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi Does anyone have experience with a usb sound card? Are any of them supported in FreeBSD? Also [OT] what is the sound quality like? I find it hard to believe that a device that is available for around £1.50 can be as good as a PCI card costing quite a lot more. The onboard sound chip on

Re: Disabling write cache on eSATA enclosures

2009-03-12 Thread Dan
Besides the above cache problem, I am also experiencing timeouts with the enclosure which start happening after some time the enclosure is active. I am using it in raid 1 mode. This is Rosewill R2-RAID. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

What does df command use to get "Used" column?

2009-03-12 Thread Peter Steele
A typical df command looks like this: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0a 4.8G 2.0G 2.4G 46% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc /dev/mirror/gm0d 3.9G 88K 3.6G 0% /tmp /dev/mirror/gm0e 15G 79M 13G 1% /var /dev/ad4s3e 116G 2.3

Problem building ports : 1) abiword; 2) curl

2009-03-12 Thread Manish Jain
Hi all, I installed FreeBSD 7.1 on my x86 system a few days back and am having problems with building the following ports : 1) abiword 2) curl I am attaching the error messages below inline. 1) abiword : In file included from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkactiongroup.h:34,

Problem with running acroread8/linux-nvu

2009-03-12 Thread Manish Jain
Hi all, I am running FreeBSD7.1 on an x86 system. When I try to run acroread8 or linux-nvu, both fail with the following error message : error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Interestingly, 'locate libgobject-2.

Re: USB hub and USB to Serial cable on FreeBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Valentin Bud wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: Do you know if i can get FreeBSD 7.0 to see USB to serial (RS232) cables if they are connected to a USB hub? load a proper USB-serial driver ;) man ucom Th

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This machine uses wpi and bge. Both devices seem to work ok chucking files around a domestic network. at least for wired network i never had a problem with broadcom chips w...@pci0:8:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x135c103c chip=0x42228086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corpor

Re: usb sound card

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does anyone have experience with a usb sound card? Are any of them supported in FreeBSD? looks like it is - man snd_uaudio from manual it looks like it's standard of USB audio interfaces so all should work - unless some manufacturers don't comply to standards. simple get some laptop with fre

Re: What does df command use to get "Used" column?

2009-03-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Peter Steele wrote: > A typical df command looks like this: > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/mirror/gm0a 4.8G 2.0G 2.4G 46% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > /dev/mirror/gm0d 3.

Re: sed error "unescaped newline inside substitute pattern"

2009-03-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:34:36PM -0400, David Banning wrote: > > Here is the php line that gives the error; > > cat start_text | sed "s/--maintext--/$test/" > endtext > > give error; > > sed: 1: "s/--maintext--/ Comment ...": unescaped newline inside substitute > pattern > > where $test cont

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, John Hendy wrote: I've never heard of HEAD... I'm pretty new to freebsd, so that could very well be why! Google is just giving me search results with people doing such and such with 'freebsd-head', not what it is. Since nobody else has chimed in... HEAD refers to the blee

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > The ACM Queue (1 May 2004) article by Jay Michaelson of Wasabi > > Systems is very insightful. > > > > "There is no such thing as Free (Software) lunch" > > > > Please take a look at > > http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1005066 > > > > In 2009, you

Re: Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) syntax

2009-03-12 Thread Mark McConnell
On 12 Mar 2009 at 10:25, Jerry wrote: {Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) ...}: > > Is this a known problem with Bash-4? I have not been > able to find anything about it on the Bash site. > > Jerry > ges...@yahoo.com > I found the same problem, and have reverted to bash3.2 until it's sorted

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Do you have any credible proof ? yes. i used NetBSD quite a long. i started turning into crap just when wasabisystems appeared and employed good deal of NetBSD developers. Then i switched to FreeBSD because i wanted WORKING system, while older version no longer worked on new computers. ___

Re: bsdtar

2009-03-12 Thread alexus
or maybe someone knows which flag i need to use to use rsync? On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:00 PM, alexus wrote: > can bsd tar save file flags (chflags) ? if not what can? > > -- > http://alexus.org/ > -- http://alexus.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

bsdtar

2009-03-12 Thread alexus
can bsd tar save file flags (chflags) ? if not what can? -- 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...@fre

Inetd and multiple IP addresses

2009-03-12 Thread skx
I have inetd configured to open a listening port for leafnode nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/leafnode but this opens the port on all IP addresses associated with this machine. I would like to choose only one. I tried 192.168.13.2:nntp stream tcp nowait news /u

Re: port: multimedia/recordmydesktop

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Lo
Matthias Apitz wrote: > Hello, > > Any experience or comments about the port multimedia/recordmydesktop? > I can't access the web site http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/ that's why > I'm asking; The Web site should be http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ > to the Cc'ed maintainer of the port:

Re: What does df command use to get "Used" column?

2009-03-12 Thread Peter Steele
>Line 417 of /usr/src/bin/df/df.c: > >used = sfsp->f_blocks - sfsp->f_bfree; I keep forgetting that I can go directly to the source to answer questions like this. Thanks muchly; this is exactly what I need. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

kindle2

2009-03-12 Thread Pat Lackie
Do you allow reformatting the hand book into kindle2 lack...@cs.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.

Re: bsdtar

2009-03-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:05:19PM -0400, alexus wrote: > or maybe someone knows which flag i need to use to use rsync? You can use the --fileflags option, if rsync has been compiled with it. See /usr/ports/net/rsync/Makefile Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4al

Re: kindle2

2009-03-12 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello, On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Pat Lackie wrote: > Do you allow reformatting the hand book into kindle2 Please check the copyright notice of the FreeBSD Handbook at [1]. Regards Rambius [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/LEGALNOTICE.html -- Tangra Mega Roc

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-12 Thread Nathan Lay
Polytropon wrote: I'd like to make an addition: The freedom of the BSDL intentionally allows to close sources. This can be considered theft, if one would like to use this interpretation. When taking some BSDL code, there's no need to contribute anything back. One argument could be that the mone

Re: Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) syntax

2009-03-12 Thread Eray Aslan
On 13.03.2009 02:04, Mark McConnell wrote: > On 12 Mar 2009 at 10:25, Jerry wrote: > {Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) ...}: [...] > I found the same problem, and have reverted to > bash3.2 until it's sorted out. See if the following helps. http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/COMPAT Especia

Re: Inetd and multiple IP addresses

2009-03-12 Thread Tim Judd
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 03:38 +0100, skx wrote: > I have inetd configured to open a listening port for leafnode > nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/leafnode > but this opens the port on all IP addresses associated with this machine. > I would like to choose only one. >

Re: Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) syntax

2009-03-12 Thread bf
> > {Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) ...}: > [...] > > I found the same problem, and have reverted to > > bash3.2 until it's sorted out. > > See if the following helps. > > http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/COMPAT > > Especially: > > 38. Since bash-4.0 now follows Posix rules for finding

the pause that removes

2009-03-12 Thread prad
one of the neat things i've found about freebsd vs linux is the 'instantaneous' rm. when you remove a large file or a substantial directory, freebsd does it right away ard you get your prompt back, while with every linux i've tried, you wait and wait and wait. i presume freebsd just takes the poi

Re: bsdtar

2009-03-12 Thread alexus
yeah, i just found patch for it, thanks! On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:05:19PM -0400, alexus wrote: >> or maybe someone knows which flag i need to use to use rsync? > > You can use the --fileflags option, if rsync has been compiled with > it. S

Re: Problem building ports : 1) abiword; 2) curl

2009-03-12 Thread bf
Firstly, it looks like you are using an old ports tree. You should update it by downloading a newer tarball or using csup. Read the pertinent section of the handbook if you don't know how to do this. This may solve your goffice build problem. (It's actually goffice, and not abiword, that is the

Problem with running acroread8/linux-nvu

2009-03-12 Thread bf
The whole point of ports is to provide an already integrated suite of applications; if you are copying files here-and-there, you are probably doing something wrong. (Yes, of course a port maintainer occasionally makes a mistake, and some tweaking is needed, or a port requires some configuration

Re: Problem with running acroread8/linux-nvu

2009-03-12 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:56:28 +0530 Manish Jain wrote: > I am running FreeBSD7.1 on an x86 system. When I try to run acroread8 > or linux-nvu, both fail with the following error message : > error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or