python2.5->2.6 and mailman(python2.5)

2009-06-12 Thread Pieter Donche
I followed the /usr/ports/UPGRADING recommendations for upgrading from python 2.5 to python 2.6 # portupgrade -o lang/python26 lang/python25 and then # cd /usr/ports/lang/python && make upgrade-site-packages /usr/local/bin/python2.5 is now completely replaced by /usr/local/bin/python2.6 but my

`gpart show` and secondary GPT header

2009-06-12 Thread Alexander Best
i have a question about gpart. when id do `gpart show ad0` i get the following output: => 34 488394988 ad0 GPT (233G) 34 209714861 freebsd-swap (10G) 20971520 4674235022 freebsd-ufs (223G) which is just what i want. however i'm a bit curious about the GPT head

Re: Problem with burncd

2009-06-12 Thread Alexander Best
the "burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE); Input/output error." is being caused by a bug in ata-queue.c. the fix is in HEAD. here's the PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95979 with a patch. cheers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:45:59 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Mel Flynn said the following on 2009-06-12 01:23: > >> FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 11 21:56:24 CEST 2009 > >> r...@fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > ^^^ > > Did you edit GENERIC > > Yes.

Re: FreeBSD as a router

2009-06-12 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
I prefer pfSense. it started as a fork of M0n0wall and has since incorporated a LOT more features. it uses pf as its filter base and is fully expandable using plugins -- From: "Derrick Ryalls" Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:33 AM To: "Wojciech

Re: python2.5->2.6 and mailman(python2.5)

2009-06-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pieter Donche writes: > I followed the /usr/ports/UPGRADING recommendations > for upgrading from python 2.5 to python 2.6 > > # portupgrade -o lang/python26 lang/python25 > and then > # cd /usr/ports/lang/python && make upgrade-site-packages > > /usr/local/bin/python2.5 is now completely replaced

Re: python2.5->2.6 and mailman(python2.5)

2009-06-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert writes: > I just shut mailman down and did a full rebuild of it > ("portupgrade -f mailman"). and submitted a PR to add it to the upgrade-site-packages target. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/

Re: ramdisk creation

2009-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
So (1) I need to create an entry in /etc/fstab md /var/amavisd/tmp mfs rw,-s512m 2 0 If you have FreeBSD 7.* use tmpfs filesystem tmpfs /var/amavisd/tmp tmpfs rw,size=536870912 0 0 It's filesystem designed for this. Works well. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 12 June 2009 12:54:19 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:45:59 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > Mel Flynn said the following on 2009-06-12 01:23: > > >> FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 11 21:56:24 CEST 2009 > > >> r...@fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > > > > >

XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Carmel
I just installed XFCE4 on a fresh FreeBSD-7.2 installation. It works fine except that I cannot get the screen resolution to stay set after I exit the program. The default is: 1792x1144 @ 60 I set it to: 1024x768 @ 85 Everything works fine until I shutdown the program. When I restart it, it reve

Re: XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:54 -0400, Carmel wrote: > I tried a trick I found while Googling to place 'xrandr - 1024x768 -r > 85' in the '.xinitrc' file; however, that did not work either. Maybe your .xinitrc isn't executed? In mine, I have xrandr --fb 1400x1050 xrandr --size 1400x

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL (or use any other descriptive name instead of MYKERNEL). edit MYKERNEL and add device sound device snd_hda # cd /usr/src # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL #

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:43:46 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > why not: > > > edit MYKERNEL > config MYKERNEL > cd ../compile/MYKERNEL > make depend > make > make install > > ? Yes, why not? It still works. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: ramdisk creation

2009-06-12 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Wojciech Puchar pisze: So (1) I need to create an entry in /etc/fstab md /var/amavisd/tmp mfs rw,-s512m 2 0 If you have FreeBSD 7.* use tmpfs filesystem tmpfs /var/amavisd/tmp tmpfs rw,size=536870912 0 0 It's filesystem designed for this. Works well. Thanks Wojtek - I appreciate it. I do h

FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Nick
In www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html It says: "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop chosen, it can be started by typing startx at the command line." but nowhere in the manual or the installation program is there any information or optio

Re: XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Carmel
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:40:49 +0200 Polytropon wrote: >On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:54 -0400, Carmel >wrote: >> I tried a trick I found while Googling to place 'xrandr - 1024x768 -r >> 85' in the '.xinitrc' file; however, that did not work either. > >Maybe your .xinitrc isn't executed? In mine, I ha

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Nick On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, wrote: > In www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html > It says: "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop chosen, > it can be started by typing startx at the command line." but nowhere in the > manual or the in

Re: Authenticating users via openldap on 7.2

2009-06-12 Thread Sylvio César Teixeira Amorim
Hi, http://www.opennet.ru/base/net/samba_pdc_freebsd.txt.html 2009/6/11 Dave > Hello, >I had user authentication going about a year and some months back on > a 6.2 box. Unfortunately that box is no longer under my control. I'm trying > to duplicate what was done under 6.2. If anyone

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:09:04 +0200, n...@pettefar.com wrote: > In www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html > It says: "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop > chosen, it can be started by typing startx at the command line." but > nowhere in the ma

Re: Automagic revision numbers with Perl Modules and SVN

2009-06-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been migrating all of my projects from CVS to SVN (starting over > from the beginning). > > All of the projects in question are Perl modules. [..snip..] > Any guidance to fix the version numbering (especially to fix the FreeBSD > package db) to make it

zfs error ?

2009-06-12 Thread n ramrani
Hi, I have FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p4. I do this: >portsnap fetch >portsnap update >/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch >/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install After a reboot of my server I have: "kmem-suballoc : bad status return of 3 panic: kmeme_suballoc cpuid=0 "* On the prompt,i try > show vm.kmem_size 10

New openoffice 3.2 devel package available

2009-06-12 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Hello,, I post a package (pkg_add ) of the openoffice 3.2 devel m50, for the FreeBSD AMD64. it is distributed in torrent at: http://dist.k1.com.br/pt_BR-openoffice-3.2-m50-FreeBSD.torrent This one have the patch for the dictionaries and extensions that now, works. this is for the language:

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to n...@pettefar.com: > In www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html > It says: "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop > chosen, it can be started by typing startx at the command line." but > nowhere in the manual or the installation p

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:09 AM, wrote: > In www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html > It says: "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop chosen, > it can be started by typing startx at the command line." but nowhere in the > manual or the installation

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, wrote: In www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html It says: "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop chosen, it can be started by typing startx at the command line." but nowher

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to n...@pettefar.com: > >> In www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html >> It says: "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop >> chosen, it can be started by typing startx at the command lin

Re: USB flash disc

2009-06-12 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
Bernt Hansson wrote: I've got an usb flash disc kingston datatraveler DT150 64GB. That I put pcbsd on to try, and now I can't seem to get it of the stick. [ deletia ] Errors when trying fdisk: fdisk -BI /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
n...@pettefar.com wrote: > In www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html > It says: "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop > chosen, it can be started by typing startx at the command line." but > nowhere in the manual or the installation program is ther

Re: XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 05:42:52 Carmel wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:40:49 +0200 > > Polytropon wrote: > >On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:54 -0400, Carmel > > > >wrote: > >> I tried a trick I found while Googling to place 'xrandr - 1024x768 -r > >> 85' in the '.xinitrc' file; however, that did not wo

Re: XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:42:52 -0400, Carmel wrote: > Evidently, it is not being executed by startxfce4. If I run the command > once XFCE4 is started, it works. Of course. ..-) What is startxfce4? Do you call it from text mode? Or is it a command in .xinitrc or .xsession? Because my primary dialo

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:02:38 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > Unless you're starting X with one of the methods that ignores .xinitrc > and looks at .xsession instead, like xdm. Exactly this is why I "invented" the .xinitrc + .xsession double strike. :-) It works perfectly with xdm, and even

Re: py25-tkinter-2.5.4_3 / 2.6.2_3

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 21:33:14 Pieter Donche wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 June 2009 23:21:58 Pieter Donche wrote: > >> portupgrade advertizes since 3 days: > >> ... > >> py25-tkinter-2.5.4_3< needs updating (index has > >> 2.6.2_3) > >> > >

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Bernt Hansson
Polytropon said the following on 2009-06-12 12:54: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:45:59 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: Mel Flynn said the following on 2009-06-12 01:23: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 11 21:56:24 CEST 2009 r...@fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 04:43:46 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > > # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL > > (or use any other descriptive name instead of MYKERNEL). > > edit MYKERNEL and add > > device sound > > device snd_hda > > # cd /usr/src >

Re: USB flash disc

2009-06-12 Thread Bernt Hansson
Andrew Hamilton-Wright said the following on 2009-06-12 15:43: Bernt Hansson wrote: I've got an usb flash disc kingston datatraveler DT150 64GB. That I put pcbsd on to try, and now I can't seem to get it of the stick. [ deletia ] Errors when trying fdisk: fdisk -BI /dev/da0 *** Working

`sched_clock' changed from 144 in sched_4bsd.o to 258 in sched_ule.o

2009-06-12 Thread Neil Short
I'm taking a crack at the port win4bsd. The port informs me that I need to add options SCHED_4BSD to my kernel. When I do and attempt buildkernel I get errors in the build. Any quick answers? I'm going to re-run it and try to get more details on the errors. Just thought there might be some pat a

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Bernt Hansson wrote: Polytropon said the following on 2009-06-12 12:54: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:45:59 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: Mel Flynn said the following on 2009-06-12 01:23: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 11 21:56:24 CEST 2009 r...@fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

Re: `sched_clock' changed from 144 in sched_4bsd.o to 258 in sched_ule.o

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 06:44:50 Neil Short wrote: > I'm taking a crack at the port win4bsd. The port informs me that I need to > add options SCHED_4BSD > to my kernel. It's an either/or thing. Remove SCHED_ULE. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

ld: Warning: size of symbol `sched_clock' changed from 144 in sched_4bsd.o to 258 in sched_ule.o

2009-06-12 Thread Neil Short
Here's more detail with context on my attempt to include options SCHED_4BSD in my kernel. Any ideas? MAKE=make sh /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh CARMEN cc -c -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -std=c99 -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpoint

another cross-gcc question ("can't compute suffix of object files")

2009-06-12 Thread Steve Franks
Sorry to be such a pest, I'm trying to go from being a good hardware programmer to a good OS programmer, but there's alot to pick up to be FreeBSD proficient... Can't seem to do a vanilla cross-gcc on my home system, which works fine on my work machine, both of them are recent 7.2 installs... I

Re: ld: Warning: size of symbol `sched_clock' changed from 144 in sched_4bsd.o to 258 in sched_ule.o

2009-06-12 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 6/12/09, Neil Short wrote: > > Here's more detail with context on my attempt to include > > options SCHED_4BSD > > in my kernel. Any ideas? You can't have two schedulers at same time in same kernel. -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Nick
Nowhere up to that point in the Installation chapter and process (I didn't need to have said) did it mention X. What is the point of having a step-by-step installation manual which then concludes with "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop chosen, it can be started by t

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
n...@pettefar.com wrote: > Nowhere up to that point in the Installation chapter and process (I > didn't need to have said) did it mention X. > > What is the point of having a step-by-step installation manual which > then concludes with "If the X server has been configured and a Default > Desktop c

Re: `sched_clock' changed from 144 in sched_4bsd.o to 258 in sched_ule.o

2009-06-12 Thread Neil Short
--- On Fri, 6/12/09, Mel Flynn wrote: > From: Mel Flynn > Subject: Re: `sched_clock' changed from 144 in sched_4bsd.o to 258 in > sched_ule.o > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: "Neil Short" > Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 9:21 AM > On Friday 12 June 2009 06:44:50 Neil > Short wrote: >

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, June 12, 2009 09:04:50 -0500 Glen Barber wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Bill Moran wrote: In response to n...@pettefar.com: In www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html It says: "If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop chos

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, June 12, 2009 12:12:36 -0500 n...@pettefar.com wrote: Nowhere up to that point in the Installation chapter and process (I didn't need to have said) did it mention X. What is the point of having a step-by-step installation manual which then concludes with "If the X server has been

Scripts to monitor host availability

2009-06-12 Thread Karl Vogel
If you want to keep an eye on some hosts without doing a full Nagios install: http://www.hcst.net/~vogelke/src/ishostup/ -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.--unknown __

Re: Scripts to monitor host availability

2009-06-12 Thread Glen Barber
Karl, On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: > If you want to keep an eye on some hosts without doing a full Nagios install: > http://www.hcst.net/~vogelke/src/ishostup/ > Very cool. I'll take a look at it later, as I am going to be setting up a Nagios solution for a colleague. Tha

Program update(s)

2009-06-12 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Can someone tell me why I have to recompile all related programs when I upgrade to a newer version of Perl? How easy it would be that all these 'to be recompiled' programs only were linked to just Perl instead of Perl.x.x.x. Or is that a complete wrong way of approach? Jos Chrispijn __

Is Zyd driver broken?

2009-06-12 Thread Sdävtaker
Im having problems with a usb wifi card. Once every 1 hour i need to unplug it and replug :-( The card is: port 5 addr 2: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, USB2.0 WLAN(0x1211), ZyDAS(0x0ace), rev 48.10 Connected to: addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x), nVidia(0x

cups 1.3.10 problem?

2009-06-12 Thread B. Cook
installed cups 1.3.9 on a machine a while back and successfully sharing a dozen or so jetdirects via samba. as part of regular updates I updated to 1.3.10 (no visible problems) until I tried to access the web interface. https://servername:631 I [12/Jun/2009:15:35:03 -0400] Listening to 0.0.0

RE: Program update(s)

2009-06-12 Thread Gary Gatten
LOL - If you get a good answer to this that would be great! Talk about a giant PITA, I feel your pain!!! -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jos Chrispijn Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 2:48 PM To: FreeBSD Que

top shows that multithreaded program uses 19623.14% CPU

2009-06-12 Thread Yuri
I ran then program with 1500 threads and in top it looked the this: PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIMECPU COMMAND 20382 yuri 1500 990 641M 462M umtxn 0 0:00 19623.14% quicksort Where can I read how CPU column is calculated? Some time ago I saw

Re: Program update(s)

2009-06-12 Thread RW
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:47:39 +0200 Jos Chrispijn wrote: > Can someone tell me why I have to recompile all related programs when > I upgrade to a newer version of Perl? For the most part you don't, you can just run perl-after-upgrade. If you are referring to the switch from lang/perl5.8 to lan

Re: reference for beginner on configure/make/compile/linking/etc.

2009-06-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:09:43 -0500, "Gary Gatten" wrote: > As you may recall from a recent post I've been trying to get nTop > compiled and working on Solaris 10 x86. After 40 - 60 hours (I loose > track) I *THINK* it's actually working for the most part. > > Before certain people get pi$$ed off

Re: reference for beginner on configure/make/compile/linking/etc.

2009-06-12 Thread Gary Gatten
EXCELLENT answer When I have a couple hundred hours of free time I'm gonna REALLY dig into this stuff! - Original Message - From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gary Gatten Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Fri Jun 12 20:48:29 2009 Subject: Re: reference for beginner on configure/make/

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2009-06-12 Thread Fred Terp
This is a dumb Question which I should know the answer to. I can get gdm to recogize my logins but xdm and wdm wont accept my username/password entrys what am I forgetting? Frederick D. Terp 14985 Rivers Edge Court #135 Fort Myers, Florida 33908-7920 Phone: (239) 822-5439 Email: fdt...@juno.

XC86Config mouse settings for VirtualBox?

2009-06-12 Thread Michael David Crawford
I'm running FreeBSD 5.2 in VirtualBox. The reason for the old version is that that's the version described in The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System - I want to browse and tinker with the kernel sources as I read the book. (Which is excellent - I recommend it highly.)

The freebsd-questions Archives

2009-06-12 Thread Leslie Jensen
Hello list! I try not to disturb the list unless I need to using the list archive to find answers. I've never been successful in searching the archives it always returns No matches were found for ... Now I see that the search index is not rebuild for a long time -- Not