Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a yes. i do cat file >/dev/lpt0 :) never used cups and never will. but i use lpd and postscript to pcl filter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 23:48:47 Tim Judd wrote: > > I include the following "ldd" output in case it's helpful. What could > > possibly > > be the issue here? > > > >Mark > > > > ### > > > > # ldd /usr/sbin/named > > /usr/sbin/named: > >libcrypto.so.4 => /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x281ff000

Re: Compiling FreeBSD with GCC 4.3+

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
Hi David, On Monday 20 April 2009 21:48:39 David Naylor wrote: > There has been an article recently published by phoronix > (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=pcbsd_vs_kubuntu&num=1) > that compares PC-BSD to Kubuntu. Kubuntu uses GCC 4.3.3 compared to > FreeBSD's GCC 4.2.2. Th

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 01:38:26 Tom Worster wrote: > portmaster -a -x mysql-server > portmaster mysql-server > reboot No no no. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start. Reboot is for kernel upgrades. And never use reboot unless in single user mode, cause reboot is really fast reboot: it doesn'

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 20/4/09 23:36, Keith Seyffarth wrote: >> Googling that shows it to be a file shared with Windows boxes when you're >> running samba. I don't know if you set up samba or not, but I would ignore >> this error for now. It's likely unrelated to the printing problem that >> you're >> having. >>

Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
Hi, Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the skew operation, but really change the time. Backwards is my primary concern but if it can be turned off completely it's fine with me. Rea

Re: Driver Problem: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet

2009-04-21 Thread Alexander Tarasov
Hello again. Can anybody help? Or no one? 2009/4/9 Alexander Tarasov > With GENERIC I have same problem. > My network card is Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet.. (14e4:1684 > subsystem 1025:014b). > I think, it's BCM5764. > > 2009/4/9, Chris Rees : > > 2009/4/9 Alexander Tarasov : > >> Hi, All

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mister Olli
hi, I have the same problem on some fileservers I do the administration for. But in my case the users send the files via SSH to the server. A solution for this, based on some OS mechanism would be really great :-) Anyone ever had to solve that problem? Regards, --- Mr. Olli On Mo, 2009-04-20

Re: About fetchmail

2009-04-21 Thread 张臻
Thanks, Mel. I found the reason is that sendmail failed to start because I replaced /usr/lib/libssl.so.5 with /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.5. After I rebuild the world, it got OK. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:20:17PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: >On Monday 20 April 2009 12:20:15 张臻 wrote: >> Today when I u

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mel Flynn wrote: > Hi, > > Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe > it's > possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the > skew > operation, but really change the time. Backwards is my primary concern but if > it can be turned off

Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

2009-04-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:16 PM 4/19/2009, lyd mc wrote: Hi derek, Correction on step 4, it should be: \alydio.mc, "|/usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc" thanks, alyd --- On Mon, 4/20/09, lyd mc wrote: From: lyd mc Subject: Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply To: "Derek Ragona" Cc: freebsd-qu

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:39:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe > > it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't > > mean the skew operation, but really change the time. Bac

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mark Stosberg
> > We had problem with "named" starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server, > > managed > > by /etc/rc.conf. > > > > The startup script failed with errors about shared library "libm.so.2" > > failing > > to load because of something related to libxml2.so.5. > > > > Later, when I then tried starting i

Re: Driver Problem: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet

2009-04-21 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:41:24 +0700 Alexander Tarasov wrote: > Hello again. > Can anybody help? Or no one? Please, don't top-post, do what you were recommended and show the results. > 2009/4/9 Alexander Tarasov > > With GENERIC I have same problem. > > My network card is Broadcom NetXtreme Giga

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mark Stosberg wrote: >>> We had problem with "named" starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server, >>> managed >>> by /etc/rc.conf. >>> >>> The startup script failed with errors about shared library "libm.so.2" >>> failing >>> to load because of something related to libxml2.so.5. >>> >>> Later, when I

Re: Encrypted slice with geli

2009-04-21 Thread Bernt Hansson
Giorgos Keramidas said the following on 2009-04-20 23:59: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! I was thinking of makeing a slice encrypted with geli. My question is: does geli init -s 4096 /dev/ad* erase the data on the slice. The handbook didn't say yes or no,

Re: Atom 330 testing

2009-04-21 Thread P.Moulin
Testing a mini-ITX Intel D945GCLF2 motherboard with Atom 330 processor. Hi, [sorry to re-open this one month old thread] I have also this D945GCLF2. All is running nearly fine, but on heavy load and after the system is powered up for a couple of days, it panics. The system is running 7.1-RC1 (

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 14:21:12 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Mark Stosberg wrote: > >>> We had problem with "named" starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server, > >>> managed > >>> by /etc/rc.conf. > >>> > >>> The startup script failed with errors about shared library "libm.so.2" > >>> failing > >>> to

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:17:40 Mister Olli wrote: > hi, > > I have the same problem on some fileservers I do the administration for. > But in my case the users send the files via SSH to the server. > > A solution for this, based on some OS mechanism would be really > great :-) umask(1). -- Mel

Re: Encrypted slice with geli

2009-04-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bernt Hansson : > Giorgos Keramidas said the following on 2009-04-20 23:59: > > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson > > wrote: > >> Hello list! > >> > >> I was thinking of makeing a slice encrypted with geli. > >> > >> My question is: does geli init -s 4096 /dev/ad*

Advertising Opportunity With freebsd.org

2009-04-21 Thread Elliot.Dean
Hi there, My Name is Elliot, I came across your site http://www.freebsd.org/ & I'm interested in placing a Text link on your home page. We are a Price comparison Site called CheckCost UK. We have a huge range of Products under Computers, Electronics, Software, Appliances and many more from

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mister Olli
hi, no does not work, since using SSH / SFTP does not involve starting a shell. so umask settings don't work. Regards, --- Mr. Olli On Di, 2009-04-21 at 14:36 +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:17:40 Mister Olli wrote: > > hi, > > > > I have the same problem on some fileserv

legal aspects in order to use the open source sw fsck_msdosfs

2009-04-21 Thread Stefan Beskow
Hello, My name is Stefan Beskow and I work as a configuration manager within Ericsson AB. I am investigating the legal aspects of the use of open source sw within a project. Could you please help me with information about license issues and copywriting issues ea for the fsck_msdosfs ? What is re

xview problem

2009-04-21 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear alll pardon the re-post, I thought I would check again if somebody has found a solution for this, since my last e-mail. I am running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 on an i386 machine and I am unable to use applications that depend on xview. For example, when I try to run "clock", I get: Assertion f

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mark Stosberg
> Agreed. Bind 9.5 and higher from ports has "XML statistics" support. That > explains the xml and iconv. ldd -a /usr/sbin/named should show you which one > wants libm.so.2 which is from the 4.x days. > If you don't need these statistics, I would suggest turning them off through > make config.

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Tim Judd
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe > it's > > possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the > skew > > ope

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread RW
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:09:09 +0200 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:39:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > * Don't run 'ntpd -g' as the documentation tells you is the > > modern and accepted method. Instead, run 'ntpdate' as a separate > > process and run 'ntpd' without the '-g' flag.

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote: > The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the problem > entirely, since the real problem is not the step, but the fact that it > happens in the background, and after a delay. Care to expand on that? Dovecot won't stop if root issues a

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:11:52 Tim Judd wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Matthew Seaman < > > m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > > Mel Flynn wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to > > > believe > > > > it's > > > > > possibl

Re: legal aspects in order to use the open source sw fsck_msdosfs

2009-04-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 08:33:00 am Stefan Beskow wrote: > Hello, > My name is Stefan Beskow and I work as a configuration manager within > Ericsson AB. > I am investigating the legal aspects of the use of open source sw > within a project. > > Could you please help me with information about licen

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 15:13:47 Mister Olli wrote: > no does not work, since using SSH / SFTP does not involve starting a > shell. so umask settings don't work. Then you're using the wrong system for the task. The OS can't make assumptions about "what the ownership/modes of a file should reall

IPFW/Dummynet/Bridging with VLAN trunks?

2009-04-21 Thread Howard Jones
I'm trying to use Dummynet+IPFW and bridging to make a packet shaper that runs across multiple VLANs. So my intended set up is: [users]->[Aggregate Switch]=>[FreeBSD]=>[Upstream Switch (with IP interfaces for each vlan)]->The World where -> is a single VLAN, and => is a tagged dot1q trunk. The ai

Correct use of fsck_msdosfs

2009-04-21 Thread Even Rognlien
Good afternoon, We are using fsck_msdosfs in one of our products, and are trying to comply with the conditions in the correct way. We get a bit confused with the copyright notices, and hopy you are able to clarify this for us. Inside the source files found at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi

Re: Compiling FreeBSD with GCC 4.3+

2009-04-21 Thread David Naylor
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:32:04 Mel Flynn wrote: > Hi David, > > On Monday 20 April 2009 21:48:39 David Naylor wrote: > > There has been an article recently published by phoronix > > (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=pcbsd_vs_kubuntu&num= > >1) that compares PC-BSD to Kubuntu.

Re: Compiling FreeBSD with GCC 4.3+

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 17:37:50 David Naylor wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:32:04 Mel Flynn wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > On Monday 20 April 2009 21:48:39 David Naylor wrote: > > > There has been an article recently published by phoronix > > > (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&i

Re: Problems watching video with the Radeon HD 3850

2009-04-21 Thread A. D. Plas
Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:35:45PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: Roland Smith wrote: For the best performance, you'll have to update to a recent 7-STABLE, or wait for the upcoming 7.2 release. The kernel support code for graphics chips has been updated since the release of

Re: Compiling FreeBSD with GCC 4.3+

2009-04-21 Thread David Naylor
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 17:58:15 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 17:37:50 David Naylor wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:32:04 Mel Flynn wrote: > > > Hi David, > > > > > > On Monday 20 April 2009 21:48:39 David Naylor wrote: > > > > There has been an article recently published by

No sound with in Gnome gtk programs, qt programs do have sound

2009-04-21 Thread Aniruddha
I can't get any sound with programs such as mplayer and exaile. However vlc (qt) and Gnash have working sound (on the same desktop!). Gnome's soundmixer doesn't recognize my soundcard (intel_hda). This appears to be the problem. I searched the FreeBSD Gnome project page but didn't find a answer

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread RW
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote: > > > The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the > > problem entirely, since the real problem is not the step, but the > > fact that it happens in the background, and after a dela

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by errors

2009-04-21 Thread Agus
2009/4/14 Ruben de Groot : > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:40:51PM -0300, Agus typed: >> Hi guys, >> >> Yesterday i suddenly start receiving this errors... first i noticed it >> cause i couldnt login and bash threw it.. then su... >> >> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, req

Re: Atom 330 testing

2009-04-21 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, P.Moulin wrote: Testing a mini-ITX Intel D945GCLF2 motherboard with Atom 330 processor. Hi, [sorry to re-open this one month old thread] I have also this D945GCLF2. All is running nearly fine, but on heavy load and after the system is powered up for a couple of days, it p

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Mel-- On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:06 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to believe it's possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't mean the skew operation, but really change the time. Perhaps I've missed it elsewhere in t

Re: Correct use of fsck_msdosfs

2009-04-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Even Rognlien wrote: Good afternoon, We are using fsck_msdosfs in one of our products, and are trying to comply with the conditions in the correct way. We get a bit confused with the copyright notices, and hopy you are able to clarify this for us. Inside the source files found at http://www.free

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:31:33 RW wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200 > > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote: > > > The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the > > > problem entirely, since the real problem is not the step, but the > > > fa

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Now I'm also wondering how ntpd handles securelevel 2. "man init" suggests that stepping the clock by more than a second is disallowed: 2 Highly secure mode - same as secure mode, plus disks may not be opened for writing (exce

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by errors

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:33:37 Agus wrote: > 2009/4/14 Ruben de Groot : > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:40:51PM -0300, Agus typed: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> Yesterday i suddenly start receiving this errors... first i noticed it > >> cause i couldnt login and bash threw it.. then su... > >> > >> /li

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 20:29:18 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: > > Now I'm also wondering how ntpd handles securelevel 2. > > "man init" suggests that stepping the clock by more than a second is > disallowed: yes, so does it bail or retry till skew wins over

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 20:29:18 Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Now I'm also wondering how ntpd handles securelevel 2. "man init" suggests that stepping the clock by more than a second is disallowed: yes, so

Re: IPFW/Dummynet/Bridging with VLAN trunks?

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Cowart
Howard Jones wrote: > I'm trying to use Dummynet+IPFW and bridging to make a packet shaper > that runs across multiple VLANs. So my intended set up is: > > [users]->[Aggregate Switch]=>[FreeBSD]=>[Upstream Switch (with IP > interfaces for each vlan)]->The World > > where -> is a single VLAN, and

Re: Problems with Xorg after portupgrade

2009-04-21 Thread mv
On Sun, 19 April 2009 03:14:35 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This week upgraded my Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop from FreeBSD 7.0 > > to FreeBSD 7.1 and also csup'ed my ports and portupgraded them and > > I am not able to start X correctly. When I invoke sta

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by errors

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Powell
Agus wrote: [snip] >> What is the output of "ldconfig -r" ? >> >> > > Sorry for the delay.. was too busyy... > > No output... just this > > ldconfig -r > /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints: > search directories: > Sounds like the hints file is missing or damaged. These live here: /var/run/ld.so.hints

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:43:30 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Mel-- > > On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:06 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: > > Some coarse reading of ntpd(8) and ntp.conf(5) doesn't lead me to > > believe it's > > possible to make ntpd *not* adjust the time. With adjust I don't > > mean the skew > > opera

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: [ ... -x option... ] Hmm, that might work. Thanks! Sure. It should be surprising that your clock would jump by 6 seconds. Do you have adequate upstream timesources (ie, at least 4) configured, is your local HW clock busted somehow, or are you

"No route to host" when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Redd Vinylene
Hi, I'm trying to connect to my friend's FTP server but I'm getting a "No route to host" when trying from my NAT workstation. It works just fine when I connect from my NAT server though. Internet -> NAT server (192.168.187.1) -> NAT workstation (192.168.187.2) I've been suggested ftp-proxy. It d

CD Burning

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Chambers
I have found that burning software is unable to detect my cdrom. I would assume that this is because acd0 is listed in fstab as read-only. I am just a little worried that changing it to rw might wreck a cd (already burnt) one day. Since cp or mv to /cdrom won't work, I guess my fear is unjustified

Re: CD Burning

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Vandemore
Christopher Chambers wrote: I have found that burning software is unable to detect my cdrom. I would assume that this is because acd0 is listed in fstab as read-only. That is not correct. I am just a little worried that changing it to rw might wreck a cd (already burnt) one day. This will not

FreeBSD's interaction with MS-DOS partitions

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Chambers
Hi, I have noticed that some programs have trouble interacting with my ms-dos partition. For example, I attempted to download a torrent with ctorrent. Works perfectly if I am saving to the bsd partition but my whole system freezes if I use the ms-dos partition. I mount it in /etc/fstab as "/dev/a

Re: "No route to host" when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Redd Vinylene wrote: I'm trying to connect to my friend's FTP server but I'm getting a "No route to host" when trying from my NAT workstation. It works just fine when I connect from my NAT server though. Internet -> NAT server (192.168.187.1) -> NAT workstation

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 21:07:34 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Try contacting your ISP for nearby NTP > sources, Anchorage, AK, is special that way. I'll check with ACS if they have one, but if they don't, even traffic to the local competitor (GCI) goes through Seattle. -- Mel

Re: "No route to host" when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Redd Vinylene wrote: > >> I'm trying to connect to my friend's FTP server but I'm getting a "No >> route >> to host" when trying from my NAT workstation. It works just fine when I >> connect from my NAT server th

Re: "No route to host" when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Redd Vinylene wrote: Yeah, the default route is set. Routing works just fine. In fact, it's been working for years. It's just this one FTP server that it won't connect to. Then it could be a legitimate error being returned by a remote router, also. traceroute/

Re: CD Burning

2009-04-21 Thread Rafał
Hi Chris, Setting cd as rw doesn't really make sense as you don't use filesystem tree to burn things on cds but use software that communicates with cd burner directly (through driver). Problem with using cd burner is most probably because of access rights. Try running that burning software a

Re: "No route to host" when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Redd Vinylene wrote: > >> Yeah, the default route is set. Routing works just fine. In fact, it's >> been working for years. It's just this one FTP server that it won't connect >> to. >> > > Then it could be a leg

Re: "No route to host" when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Vandemore
Redd Vinylene wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Redd Vinylene wrote: I'm trying to connect to my friend's FTP server but I'm getting a "No route to host" when trying from my NAT workstation. It works just fine when I connect fro

perl script failed at different stages

2009-04-21 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I guess this is not a REAL freebsd problem, but I am running a perl script on freebsd7.0/perl 5.10 system. This script failed with "segmentation fault" at different stages with different input files, and sometimes the script actually finishes and gives the reasonable output. So does this mea

Re: CD Burning

2009-04-21 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:50:47PM -0700, Christopher Chambers wrote: > I have found that burning software is unable to detect my cdrom. *What* burning software? /usr/sbin/burncd should recognize the drive. If you are trying to run cdrecord then you need "device atapicam" added to your kernel co

Re: perl script failed at different stages

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Vandemore
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, I guess this is not a REAL freebsd problem, but I am running a perl script on freebsd7.0/perl 5.10 system. This script failed with "segmentation fault" at different stages with different input files, and sometimes the script actually finishes and gives the reasonable o

Re: "No route to host" when trying to connect to FTP server on the Internet

2009-04-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Redd Vinylene wrote: I think I just got some help on IRC: is it on the local network of your firewall and not this computer? yes! thats why you can't connect to it Suggestions on how to fix this problem using pf would be greatly appreciated though. Many th

Re: Problems with Xorg after portupgrade

2009-04-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
mv wrote: > On Sun, 19 April 2009 03:14:35 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> >> The default screen when not running a WM/DE is no longer the familiar >> screen pattern / X mouse pointer, but a black screen. Go figure... >> You maybe having a working X and not know it. >> >> > > I had the same iss

Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)

2009-04-21 Thread RW
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:23:14 +0200 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:31:33 RW wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200 > > > > Mel Flynn wrote: > > > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote: > > > > The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the > > > > proble

Customized Remote Install

2009-04-21 Thread Scott Seekamp
I've done a lot of searching and maybe this capability doesn't exist, but I am looking to do this: I am at my company's HQ, we have a new field office that I am setting up a FreeBSD server. The technical knowledge at the site windows only, so I basically have someone I can have put a CD in

Re: Customized Remote Install

2009-04-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:42:32 -0600, Scott Seekamp wrote: > My hope was that I could make an automated install CD/DVD that > configured all the options I want AND change some base config files so > I can actually get to the box (or install an SSH key). > [...] > I'm open to other options if som

Re: FreeBSD's interaction with MS-DOS partitions

2009-04-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ms-dos partition. For example, I attempted to download a torrent with ctorrent. Works perfectly if I am saving to the bsd partition but my whole system freezes if I use the ms-dos partition. I mount it in /etc/fstab as "/dev/ad0s2 /d msdosfs rw 0 0" Is this behaviour the result of the 0 0? no.

Re: Customized Remote Install

2009-04-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:51:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:42:32 -0600, Scott Seekamp wrote: > > My hope was that I could make an automated install CD/DVD that > > configured all the options I want AND change some base config files so > > I can actually get to the bo

Re: Sorting out owner and group permissions...

2009-04-21 Thread Mister Olli
Hi, I understand your point. But since a application can modify it to a arbritary value there must be some way to keep the app from doing nasty stuff. FreeBSD has MAC implementations ;-))) Regards, --- Mr. Olli On Di, 2009-04-21 at 17:02 +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 15:1

Re: Encrypted slice with geli

2009-04-21 Thread Bernt Hansson
Bill Moran said the following on 2009-04-21 14:41: In response to Bernt Hansson : Giorgos Keramidas said the following on 2009-04-20 23:59: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! I was thinking of makeing a slice encrypted with geli. My question is: does gel

Re: CD Burning

2009-04-21 Thread ovi freebsd
Christopher Chambers wrote: I have found that burning software is unable to detect my cdrom. I would assume that this is because acd0 is listed in fstab as read-only. I am just a little worried that changing it to rw might wreck a cd (already burnt) one day. Since cp or mv to /cdrom won't work, I

Disk usage analysis

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Chambers
Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and folders are taking up the most space? -- Christopher Chambers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Disk usage analysis

2009-04-21 Thread Robert Huff
Christopher Chambers writes: > Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which > files and folders are taking up the most space? If this isn't a FAQ, then search the mailing list archives. This question, or something leading to it like "out of disk space", comes up regula

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Vande More
Christopher Chambers wrote: Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and folders are taking up the most space? du -hd 1 | sort -n http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=du&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html ___

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-21 Thread Tim Judd
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > Christopher Chambers wrote: > >> Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and >> folders are taking up the most space? >> >> >> >> > du -hd 1 | sort -n du -kd 1 | sort -rn Shows in ENV{BLOCKSIZE} the biggest d

Re: Encrypted slice with geli

2009-04-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:42:11AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Bill Moran said the following on 2009-04-21 14:41: > > In response to Bernt Hansson : > > > >> Giorgos Keramidas said the following on 2009-04-20 23:59: > >>> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson > >>> wrote: > He

Re: Customized Remote Install

2009-04-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:47:11 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:51:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:42:32 -0600, Scott Seekamp > > wrote: > > > My hope was that I could make an automated install CD/DVD that > > > configured all the options I

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:08:18 -0700, Christopher Chambers wrote: > Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and > folders are taking up the most space? See "man du". Just for terminology: In UNIX (so in FreeBSD), there are no folders. Folders are made of paper and resid

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:52:38AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:08:18 -0700, Christopher Chambers > wrote: > > Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and > > folders are taking up the most space? > > See "man du". Just for terminology: In UNIX (s