Re: Firefox crashes on yahoo.com

2009-06-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:31:09PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > > > Hi, > > This seems to be a strange problem with Firefox which I never > encountered on my old system. Both Firefox2 and Firefox3 work well the > other sites I have tried accessing, but crash on navigating to www.yahoo.com > > >

(no subject)

2009-06-28 Thread Anton
Hello freebsd-questions, Please, help: Howto forward packet from Internet to some intranet address with IPFW? -- -- Best regards, Anton= ;[1]mailto:an...@sng.by Administrator Feel free to contact me via ICQ 363780596 via Sk

Re: scripting suggestion: how to make this command shorter

2009-06-28 Thread gs_stol...@juno.com
On 6/27/09, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. I wrote this one-line command to fetch a page from a long uri, > parse it twice: first time get subject & second time get content, and > send it as email to me. > > $ w3m -dump > 'http://search1.taobao.com/browse/33/n-g,w6y4zzjaxxymvjomxy40--

Re: (no subject)

2009-06-28 Thread Glen Barber
2009/6/28 Anton : > >   Hello freebsd-questions, > >     Please, help: > >   Howto forward packet from Internet to some intranet address with IPFW? > You'll get a better response if you have a subject in the email. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html Forwarding is ex

Re: Firefox crashes on yahoo.com

2009-06-28 Thread Manish Jain
Frank Shute wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:31:09PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Hi, This seems to be a strange problem with Firefox which I never encountered on my old system. Both Firefox2 and Firefox3 work well the other sites I have tried accessing, but crash on navigating to www.yahoo.co

Re: gmirror gm0 destroyed on shutdown; GPT corrupt

2009-06-28 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 06:20:49PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Using the last sector is not only flawed because it creates a race > condition, it's flawed in the assumption that you can always make > a geom part of a mirror by storing meta-data on the geom without > causing corruption. This wh

Re[2]: ipfw fwd

2009-06-28 Thread Anton
Hello Glen, Sunday, June 28, 2009, 11:47:41 AM, you wrote: > 2009/6/28 Anton :<= /p> >> Hello freebsd-questions, >> Please, help: >> Howto forward packet from Internet t= o some intranet address with IPFW? > You'll get a better response if you have a subj= ect

BIND

2009-06-28 Thread Jack Raats
This morning I tried to install BIND, the DNS server. I downloaded the handbook (English version) and tried to follow the instructions giving in the handbook. But the handbook is outdated OR FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 is not correct. I'm missing make-localhost in /etc/namedb. Can any help me??? Th

Re: Firefox crashes on yahoo.com

2009-06-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 02:24:03PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > > Have you tried Firefox3.5? It's in ports as www/firefox3-devel. > > > > I just tried Yahoo! and had no problems. I tried yahoo with firefox3 on 7.2-RELEASE-p2 amd64 without problems. > The problem is not restricted to firefox or ya

IPFW: Need some help

2009-06-28 Thread Anton
Hello all, I'm new to *nix and now, while configuring IPFW Firewall on FreeBSD 7.2 = has stuck in a problem: After packet from my network is passed to natd demon - it is returning t= o firewall (it is normal, as I think ;-) ), but I see another abnormal thin= g: when it is retu

Re: BIND

2009-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jack Raats wrote: This morning I tried to install BIND, the DNS server. I downloaded the handbook (English version) and tried to follow the instructions giving in the handbook. But the handbook is outdated OR FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 is not correct. I'm missing make-localhost in /etc/namedb. Can

named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-28 Thread Ian
Hi, I've been meaning to sort this out since the release of 7.1p5, but only just got around to it - I have an installation of 7.1 that runs bind and has been working fine up until I tried to update the system to 7.1p5 (using freebsd-update). As soon as I apply the update & reboot, named loads bu

Re: IPFW: Need some help

2009-06-28 Thread Neal Hogan
2009/6/28 Anton : > >   Hello all, > >   I'm new to *nix and now, while configuring IPFW Firewall on FreeBSD >   7.2  has stuck in a problem: > >   After packet from my network is passed to natd demon - it is returning >   t o firewall (it is normal, as I think ;-) ), but I see another >   abnormal

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ian wrote: Hi, I've been meaning to sort this out since the release of 7.1p5, but only just got around to it - I have an installation of 7.1 that runs bind and has been working fine up until I tried to update the system to 7.1p5 (using freebsd-update). As soon as I apply the update & reboot, na

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-28 Thread Ian
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:43:49 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Ian wrote: > > Hi, I've been meaning to sort this out since the release of 7.1p5, but > > only just got around to it - I have an installation of 7.1 that runs bind > > and has been working fine up until I tried to update the system to 7.1p5 > > (

Re: xfburn fails with 'Undefined symbol "__malloc_lock"'

2009-06-28 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Mel Flynn writes: > -PP will fail if for some reason the package is not available on the > servers. > It is better to use -P when crossing major releases, so that any restricted > packages that are unavailable on the buildservers are built from source. > I suspect this is the root of the pr

Re: xfburn fails with 'Undefined symbol "__malloc_lock"'

2009-06-28 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Manolis Kiagias writes: > Upgrading between major versions requires all installed ports to be > rebuilt, so they get linked to the new versions of the libraries. > I suppose you missed this step, older apps may still work but there is a > problem installing new ones. > [...] > (AFAIR, if yo

Re: gmirror gm0 destroyed on shutdown; GPT corrupt

2009-06-28 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/6/28 Marcel Moolenaar : > Using the last sector is not only flawed because it creates a race > condition, it's flawed in the assumption that you can always make > a geom part of a mirror by storing meta-data on the geom without > causing corruption. This whole idea of using the last sector wa

mysql error

2009-06-28 Thread thanos trompoukis
Hi all, I am new with FreeBSD and I have a problem with mysql. I have 6.2Release i386 I am running mysql 5.0.27 and It worked perfectly until the time that I formated /tmp (for some other reason) and now when I am trying to connect on mysql *I get this:* *[r...@leonidas:/]$ mysql ERROR 2002 (HY0

Re: gmirror gm0 destroyed on shutdown; GPT corrupt

2009-06-28 Thread Aisaka Taiga
Ivan Voras wrote: Yes, it would be cleaner to implement but it would also make the mirrored devices unbootable. But maybe the class of users needing the functionality is smaller now. Most dedicated server providers can't afford to use hardware RAID systems because that would drastically incre

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ian wrote: Well the fact that if I run /etc/rc.d/named manually after the system has booted, the script also hangs suggests it's not the next process I have just check however & ntpdate is the next one in the list to be started and that does start correctly - you can see it report the clock be

Re: Firefox crashes on yahoo.com

2009-06-28 Thread Manish Jain
Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 02:24:03PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Have you tried Firefox3.5? It's in ports as www/firefox3-devel. I just tried Yahoo! and had no problems. I tried yahoo with firefox3 on 7.2-RELEASE-p2 amd64 without problems. The problem is not restricted to fir

Re: Firefox crashes on yahoo.com

2009-06-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 07:31:55PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > I traced the problem. It's related to flash. When I disable the > flash plugin, Firefox works smoothly. > > I suspect a lot of sites are using a new version of flash, which > doesn't go down well with the existing browsers. Are you u

Re: mysql error

2009-06-28 Thread Morgan Wesström
thanos trompoukis wrote: > Hi all, I am new with FreeBSD and I have a problem with mysql. > > I have 6.2Release i386 > I am running mysql 5.0.27 and It worked perfectly until the time that I > formated /tmp (for some other reason) > and now when I am trying to connect on mysql *I get this:* >

Re: mysql error

2009-06-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
thanos trompoukis wrote: > Hi all, I am new with FreeBSD and I have a problem with mysql. > > I have 6.2Release i386 > I am running mysql 5.0.27 and It worked perfectly until the time that I > formated /tmp (for some other reason) > and now when I am trying to connect on mysql *I get this:* > > *[

Re: mysql error

2009-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
thanos trompoukis wrote: Hi all, I am new with FreeBSD and I have a problem with mysql. I have 6.2Release i386 I am running mysql 5.0.27 and It worked perfectly until the time that I formated /tmp (for some other reason) and now when I am trying to connect on mysql *I get this:* *[r...@leonida

Re: IPFW: Need some help

2009-06-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 02:14:00PM +0300, Anton typed: > >Hello all, > >I'm new to *nix and now, while configuring IPFW Firewall on FreeBSD >7.2 = has stuck in a problem: > >After packet from my network is passed to natd demon - it is returning >t= o firewall (it is normal, a

Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi,

2009-06-28 Thread Mark E Doner
Erich Dollansky wrote: On 26 June 2009 am 10:02:30 Polytropon wrote: Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany big brother is watching me. An xterm just came up with this message: "The default editor in FreeBSD is vi, which is efficient to use when you have learned it, but somewhat user-un

libtool shared

2009-06-28 Thread alexus
I'm trying to compile something and I'm getting these lines while I'm doing ./configure checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no checking whether to build shared libraries... no I went and even recompiled libtool # ./configure | grep -i share checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/

Re: mysql error

2009-06-28 Thread thanos trompoukis
2009/6/28 Matthew Seaman > thanos trompoukis wrote: > >> Hi all, I am new with FreeBSD and I have a problem with mysql. >> >> I have 6.2Release i386 >> I am running mysql 5.0.27 and It worked perfectly until the time that I >> formated /tmp (for some other reason) >> and now when I am trying to

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/28 Polytropon : > On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:17:11 -0400, Daniel Underwood > wrote: >> Exactly.  For example, the "server" in question is a desktop machine >> at work.  I regularly see transfer rates of 13MB/s.  It's at a major >> university, which is by itself another high-risk factor, precis

Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi,

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/28 Mark E Doner : > Erich Dollansky wrote: >> >> On 26 June 2009 am 10:02:30 Polytropon wrote: >> >>> >>> Polytropon >>> From Magdeburg, Germany >>> >> >> big brother is watching me. >> >> An xterm just came up with this message: >> >> "The default editor in FreeBSD is vi, which is efficient

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 28 June 2009 03:24:26 Ian wrote: > I tried adding various echo statements to /etc/rc.d/named and found that > the script seems to run right through. rc_debug="YES" in /etc/rc.conf is REALLY handy for this. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: libtool shared

2009-06-28 Thread Michael Powell
alexus wrote: > I'm trying to compile something and I'm getting these lines while I'm > doing ./configure > > checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no > checking whether to build shared libraries... no > > I went and even recompiled libtool > > # ./configure | grep -i share > checkin

FreeBSD 7.2 - iwi error

2009-06-28 Thread Siyan Sabinov Hadzhiev
Hello List , I am new in this list , so if these is an old topic forgive me.I have successfully installed FreeBSD 7.2 to IBM T43 Laptop.I am using wireless network with WPA key.My Laptop has Intel Pro Wireless 2200.I installed iwi driver and firmware successfully. I am successfully connecting t

www/firefox-devel

2009-06-28 Thread Alexander Best
is anybody out there still using this port? shouldn't it be retired? it's even older than the regular www/firefox port. people who want to run the latest unstable firefox version should use www/firefox3-devel. cheers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Using ctorrent or other program to seed a torrent

2009-06-28 Thread Kelly Jones
I know how to use ctorrent to create a torrent file, but how do I actually seed the resulting file so that others can get it, and how do I 'register' myself w/ a tracker so that others will know what IP address to connect to, etc? Can ctorrent seed torrents, or do I need another program for that?

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 - iwi error

2009-06-28 Thread Jose Garcia Juanino
El domingo 28 de junio a las 20:25:51 CEST, Siyan Sabinov Hadzhiev escribió: > > Hello List , > > I am new in this list , so if these is an old topic forgive me.I have > successfully installed FreeBSD 7.2 to IBM T43 Laptop.I am using wireless > network with WPA key.My Laptop has Intel Pro Wirele

Re: libtool shared

2009-06-28 Thread alexus
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Michael Powell wrote: > alexus wrote: > >> I'm trying to compile something and I'm getting these lines while I'm >> doing ./configure >> >> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no >> checking whether to build shared libraries... no >> >> I went and even

Re: libtool shared

2009-06-28 Thread alexus
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Sunday 28 June 2009 12:40:24 alexus wrote: > >> company policy not too use ports, any other suggestions? > > Understand GNU autotools in detail, the patches for it in the respective > ports, how to read config.log and whether all this is worth

Re: libtool shared

2009-06-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 28 June 2009 12:40:24 alexus wrote: > company policy not too use ports, any other suggestions? Understand GNU autotools in detail, the patches for it in the respective ports, how to read config.log and whether all this is worth compliance to company policy. Note: the above requires at l

Chomium on FreeBSD?

2009-06-28 Thread Daniel Underwood
Is there an effort to build a port of chromium for FreeBSD? I recently began using chromium on my Linux machine, and the HTML rendering speed is quite impressive. When it has the ability to synchronize bookmarks, I'll use it exclusively. ___ freebsd-ques

Re: libtool shared

2009-06-28 Thread Michael Powell
alexus wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Michael Powell > wrote: >> alexus wrote: [snip] > > company policy not too use ports, any other suggestions? Change this company policy as it is unproductive. Sounds like something implemented by those lacking experience with FreeBSD. The time

Re: Using ctorrent or other program to seed a torrent

2009-06-28 Thread RW
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:31:41 -0700 Kelly Jones wrote: > I know how to use ctorrent to create a torrent file, but how do I > actually seed the resulting file so that others can get it, and how do > I 'register' myself w/ a tracker so that others will know what IP > address to connect to, etc? The

Re: libtool shared

2009-06-28 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 28 Jun 2009 at 16:10:51 PDT Michael Powell wrote: alexus wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Michael Powell wrote: alexus wrote: [snip] company policy not too use ports, any other suggestions? Change this company policy as it is unproductive. Sounds like something implemented b

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:15:12 -0500, "Gary Gatten" wrote: > I like M$ "Notepad" - is there a version of that for FBSD? You are on the wrong list. Correct your inner state of mind and try again. :-) No, seriously: Maybe gnotepad+ appeals to you? > Actually the old "edit" from dos is sweet too..

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:23:17 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > what about j, k [down, up]. and h,l [left, right]? > why reach over for the arrow keys! oh, and o, and O > [open line below/Above], and > > \search > > and that's 97 and 44/100ths of what you'll ever need.

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 26 June 2009 pm 14:01:02 Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:23:17 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > have a "vi keyboard reference" in my "extremely important > documentation folder" - and yes, it is a real folder, not a > directory. :-) So if everything fails, there's still vi and > the

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:01:02AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:23:17 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > what about j, k [down, up]. and h,l [left, right]? > > why reach over for the arrow keys! oh, and o, and O > > [open line below/Above], and > > > > \search >

Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi,

2009-06-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 06:11:57AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:03:21 +0800, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > What kind of editor do you need for rescue? Just edit one or two > > lines in some config file to allow the full system to start > > again. > > > > Rescue does not nee

Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi,

2009-06-28 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Gary Kline wrote: [snip] > >        what about j, k [down, up].  and h,l  [left, right]? >        why reach over for the arrow keys!  oh, and o, and O >        [open line below/Above], and > >        \search > >        and that's 97 and 44/100ths of what you'll

what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am writting a parser (tokenizes all characters among other things) and need to know what control char is equivelent to a newline (I do not need windows cross compatibility) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I am writting a parser (tokenizes all characters among other things) and need to know what control char is equivelent to a newline (I do not need windows cross compatibility) Forgot to mention before someone recommends lex/yacc and/or some other parser generator (I am

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I am writting a parser (tokenizes all characters among other things) and > need to know what control char is equivelent to a newline (I do not need > windows cross compatibility) What do you mean exactly? What language(s)? If I underst

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I am writting a parser (tokenizes all characters among other things) and need to know what control char is equivelent to a newline (I do not need windows cross compatibility) What do you mean exactly? What l

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> >> What do you mean exactly?  What language(s)?  If I understand your >> question correctly, the C / C++ / Java / PHP (and I think Perl) >> 'newline' character is '\n' >> >> > > I meant what ascii character does \n actual correspond to (

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Vince Sabio
** At 22:30 -0400 on 06/28/2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> What do you mean exactly? What language(s)? If I understand your question correctly, the C / C++ / Java / PHP (and I think Perl) >> 'newline' character is '\n' > I meant wh

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: What do you mean exactly? What language(s)? If I understand your question correctly, the C / C++ / Java / PHP (and I think Perl) 'newline' character is '\n' I meant what ascii character does \n actual co

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> Oh.  IIRC, CR is the DOS way, and LR is the POSIX way. >> >> > > Don't you mean LF not LR? > I did. I realized it after Vince replied. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Vince Sabio wrote: > ** At 22:30 -0400 on 06/28/2009, Glen Barber wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >>  >>  What do you mean exactly?  What language(s)?  If I understand your  question correctly, the C / C++ / Ja

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Just incase you guys are curious the reason for doing the parser from scratch is it is designed to lex/parse families of languages not just a single lang for example (there is very large overlap between c/c++/java/c#/etc. as there is in the tag langs like XML/HTML)... also generators produce

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-28 Thread RW
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:15:12 -0500 "Gary Gatten" wrote: > I like M$ "Notepad" - is there a version of that for FBSD? Actually, there is. Wine implements it's own version of notepad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

serial modem

2009-06-28 Thread kalin m
hi all... my first time using serial ports and modems. the modem is hooked up using RS-232 cable... modem specs: • Baud Rate: 115.2kbps • Bits: 8 • Stop Bits: 1 • Parity: none • Hardware Handshaking: Yes my /etc/ttys: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" dialup on ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/get

Re: libtool shared

2009-06-28 Thread alexus
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Sun 28 Jun 2009 at 16:10:51 PDT Michael Powell wrote: >> >> alexus wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Michael Powell >>> wrote: alexus wrote: >> >> [snip] >>> >>> company policy not too use ports, any other suggestion

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I am writting a parser (tokenizes all characters among other things) and need to know what control char is equivelent to a newline (I do not need windows cross compatibility) What do

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-28 Thread Glyn Millington
Polytropon writes: > When Bill G. arrives at the pearly gate, ol' Pete won't ask > him what he did do, instead send him to MICROS~1 C:\HELL.EXE > with the advice to click on the devil to start the everlasting > pain. :-) Brilliant!! atb Glyn