Re: OT: web-based applications and security...

2009-07-24 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:05:00 -0600, Modulok wrote: > Is it just me being paranoid, or is all this 'online' and 'live' aka > web-based applications and data storage like... the biggest security > threat in the Universe? No. The biggest security threat is the human nature, participating in operati

Re: OT: web-based applications and security...

2009-07-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
> servers run MICROS~1 software (which is very > well known for its high quality, haha) Isn't that "high data availability" (to the others) ? Have a nice week-end, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

need help: crashing appears to be caused by/within console screen saver

2009-07-24 Thread Edward Sanford Sutton, III
I do not know where I should ask for help but I have core files from July 24, 23, 21 (x2), 19, 16 (x2) and May 17. All of the July crashes appear similar. The May crash was unrelated but shows that things were relatively stable until the first of these glitches. I am currently using the nvidia

Re: FreeBSD + HP Pavilion DV7-1299EF, Pre-install questions.

2009-07-24 Thread Wael Nasreddine (a.k.a eMxyzptlk)
>From what I gathered on the net, the problem seems to be coming from Firewire, or more specifically, the sdp module, They suggested disabling Firewire from BIOS setup, install then build a custom kernel with sdp commented, the problem is, There's no option to disable Firewire in my BIOS setup so I

jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a "pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7" - only to discover that everything that depends on jpeg-* is gone - this involves little wonders like the complete gnome2 environment plus e.g. firefox, gimp, openoffice. What's really bad however is

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a > "pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7" - only to discover that everything that > depends on jpeg-* is gone - this involves little wonders like the > complete gnome2 envi

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a > "pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7" - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r jpeg* OR portu

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Daniel Bye
Ooops! My apologies - it seems that an earlier version of UPDATING did indeed say to pkg_delete. Ewald, I'm sorry for sounding so patronising - I feel like a total fool now. ~blush Dan On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:55:42PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:58:28PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > Ooops! My apologies - it seems that an earlier version of UPDATING did indeed > say to pkg_delete. > > Ewald, I'm sorry for sounding so patronising - I feel like a total fool now. > Hi Dan, Now I understand - in my UPDATING that come

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Boosten
Daniel Bye wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a >> "pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7" - only to discover that everything that > > Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of > >

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:16:54PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: > Daniel Bye wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a > >> "pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7" - only to discover that everythi

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread chris scott
2009/7/24 Daniel Bye > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:16:54PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: > > Daniel Bye wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a > > >> "pkg_delete -r jpeg-6

Re: (Maybe)OT: Apache22 mod_rewrite question

2009-07-24 Thread Gregory T Helton
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:33:03 -0500 Jason Garrett wrote: > I am starting up a wiki with moinmoin. Currently when I type in > http://mydomain.com it brings me to the main page and the browser > shows http://mydomain.com/moin.cgi. > > When I click on a link from the front page, the browser displays

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: > This message has a foot that has nearly touched down over the OT > borderline. > > We received an HP Proliant DL360G5 collocation box yesterday that has > two processors, and 8GB of memory. > > All the client wants to use this box for is a s

X won't start after port upgrade

2009-07-24 Thread Leslie Jensen
I've followed every advice in /usr/ports/UPDATING The portmaster -r jpeg* returns "No match". portmaster -r jpeg-7 rebuilds only jpeg-7 no other ports! After this upgrade my X won't start :-( Any hints? Thanks Leslie -- snip --- (II) LoadModule: "synaptics" (WW) War

Re: K3b-DVD

2009-07-24 Thread Norbert Papke
On July 20, 2009, ajtiM wrote: > My system: FreeBSD 7.2, KDE 3.5.10 Same here. > I did try to burn data DVD with my NEC DVD ND-1300A but I got an error: > :-( Media is not formatted or unsupported When I run cdrecord with an invalid option, I get the following output. I draw attention to the l

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
John Nielsen wrote: > On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: >> My problem is performance. I'm only willing to make this box virtual if >> I can keep the abstraction performance loss to <25% (my ultimate goal >> would be 15%). >> usable memory = 8575160320 (8177 MB) >> avail memo

RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Dean Weimer
> This message has a foot that has nearly touched down over the OT > borderline. > > We received an HP Proliant DL360G5 collocation box yesterday that has > two processors, and 8GB of memory. > > All the client wants to use this box for is a single instance of > Windows > web hosting. Knowing th

linux emulator

2009-07-24 Thread PJ
Let's try 3 questions, all related. 1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something that should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency by ports? 2. I am trying to install ogle on FreeBSD 7.2 running on amd64. I have installed linux-base-fc4. Installation stops

Re: Restarting hal

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 08:57:43AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:43:50 -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > > Is there a way to get hal to reload its > > configuration withou rebooting? I've tried sending a HUP signal and I've > > tried "rc.d/hal restart", but so far rebooting is the only

intel atom mobo support; ASUS AT3GC ?

2009-07-24 Thread Henrik Hudson
Hey List, I'm looking into running on of these: ASUS AT3GC http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=3129&l1=3&l2=192&l3=0&l4=0 Now it seems to differ from the stock intel Atom setup in that it's using a Realtek 8112 NIC and I can't seem to find any documentation showing support for tha

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Polyack
John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: I'd appreciate any feedback on tweaks that I can make (either to VMWare, or FreeBSD itself) to make the virtualized environment much more efficient. See above about storage. Similar questions come up periodical

Re: linux emulator

2009-07-24 Thread RW
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:58:05 -0400 PJ wrote: > Let's try 3 questions, all related. > 1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something > that should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency > by ports? > > 2. I am trying to install ogle on FreeBSD 7.2 running on

disk encryption with geli

2009-07-24 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
hi all i am going to encrypt my /home directory which is mounted in /etc/fstab like /dev/ad0s2f /home ufs rw,noatime 2 2 I did like is wrote in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html everything looks good. ad0s2f.eli ap

Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-07-24 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to get a Moxa Technologies C168H/PCI 8-port mux card working in 7.2-RELEASE(i386). I've recompiled a GENERIC kernel with options COM_MULTIPORT and loaded the puc(4) module. I don't have any new ttyd? or cuad? devices in /dev. After reading the handbook(26.2) and man puc(4)

Re: disk encryption with geli

2009-07-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Stefan Miklosovic : > hi all > > i am going to encrypt my /home directory > which is mounted in /etc/fstab like > > /dev/ad0s2f /home ufs rw,noatime > 2 2 > > I did like is wrote in > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/di

Re: disk encryption with geli

2009-07-24 Thread RW
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:17:49 +0200 Stefan Miklosovic wrote: > hi all > > i am going to encrypt my /home directory > which is mounted in /etc/fstab like > > /dev/ad0s2f /home ufs rw,noatime I think that should be /dev/ad0s2f.eli in fstab. __

Re: linux emulator

2009-07-24 Thread PJ
RW wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:58:05 -0400 > PJ wrote: > > >> Let's try 3 questions, all related. >> 1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something >> that should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency >> by ports? >> >> 2. I am trying to install ogle o

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
> From: John Nielsen > Subject: Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: "Steve Bertrand" > Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:22 AM > On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 > Steve Bertrand wrote: > > This message has a foot that has nearly touched down > over th

Re: linux emulator

2009-07-24 Thread PJ
RW wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:58:05 -0400 > PJ wrote: > >> Let's try 3 questions, all related. >> 1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something >> that should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency >> by ports? >> >> 2. I am trying to install ogle on Fre

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Richard Mahlerwein wrote: > If I recall correctly from ESX (well, VI) training*, there may be a minor > scheduling issue affecting things here. If you set up the VM with 4 > processors, ESX schedules time on the CPU only when there's 4 things to > execute (well, there's another time period it

RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
> From: Dean Weimer > Subject: RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: st...@ibctech.ca > Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:49 AM [snip] > servers while running between datacenters.  Also keep > in mind that as of vSphere 4 (We will be upgrading to this >

Re: linux emulator-almost solved

2009-07-24 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: > Let's try 3 questions, all related. > 1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something that > should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency by ports? > > 2. I am trying to install ogle on FreeBSD 7.2 running on amd64. I have > installed linux-base-fc4

Re: linux emulator

2009-07-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 24 July 2009 06:58:05 PJ wrote: > Let's try 3 questions, all related. > 1. Which linux emulator is one supposed to use or is this something that > should not be installed and left to be handled as a dependency by ports? fc4 is the default. But Skype for example, really wants fc6 or highe

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 24 July 2009 05:52:37 chris scott wrote: > maybe it would be a good idea for ports to have an event log like yum does > on centos. Just a simple log of stuff added, removed, and upgraded. It > would be invaluable in this situation as you could see what was removed and > it would be fairl

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread RW
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:28:14 -0800 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Friday 24 July 2009 05:52:37 chris scott wrote: > > > maybe it would be a good idea for ports to have an event log like > > yum does on centos. Just a simple log of stuff added, removed, and > > upgraded. It would be invaluable in this sit

Evolution 2.24.5 && Exchange && can't Subscribe to Other user's Calendar

2009-07-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I've already asked the below question in the Evolution mailing-list with no response; maybe someone of the FreeBSD net folks can bring a bit light into this. Using the mentioned environment (on FreeBSD 8-CURRENT) I can't Subscribe to Other user's Calendar in the Exchange server (don't bla

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread chris scott
2009/7/24 Mel Flynn > > On Friday 24 July 2009 05:52:37 chris scott wrote: > > > maybe it would be a good idea for ports to have an event log like yum > does > > on centos. Just a simple log of stuff added, removed, and upgraded. It > > would be invaluable in this situation as you could see what

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread chris scott
2009/7/24 RW > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:28:14 -0800 > Mel Flynn > > > wrote: > > > On Friday 24 July 2009 05:52:37 chris scott wrote: > > > > > maybe it would be a good idea for ports to have an event log like > > > yum does on centos. Just a simple log of stuff added, removed, and > > > upgraded.

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:55:42 +0100 "Daniel Bye" wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a > > "pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7" - only to discover that everything that > > Au contraire, Blac

Re: X won't start after port upgrade

2009-07-24 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:34:35 +0200 "Leslie Jensen" wrote: > > I've followed every advice in /usr/ports/UPDATING > > The portmaster -r jpeg* returns "No match". > > portmaster -r jpeg-7 rebuilds only jpeg-7 no other ports! > > After this upgrade my X won't start :-( > > Any hints? Including

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Goksin Akdeniz
On Friday 24 July 2009 20:51:18 Jerry wrote: > > Which, unfortunately, does not build /x11/kdelibs3 with the updated > jpeg library. I had to make a link from the old library to the new one > to get the update to work correctly. I know that some have suggested > that, that is not the proper way to

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 24 July 2009 09:51:18 Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:55:42 +0100 > > "Daniel Bye" wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a > > > "pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7" - on

vim port have a lot of broken links ??

2009-07-24 Thread Kalle Møller
When I try to install vim from ports it tries 4-5 sites which all have to time out... and with a 200 files.. thats a lot of timeouts.. Who should I poke to, so the mirrors would be updated ?? -- Med Venlig Hilsen Kalle R. Møller ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 24 July 2009 10:51:18 am Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:55:42 +0100 > > "Daniel Bye" wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a > > > "pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7" -

Re: INN configuration

2009-07-24 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:11:47 -0400, Tim Kellers a écrit : > My server has a static IP (optonline.net) that has no ports > blocked. From my laptop client I can connect to news.optonline.net > and grab a full feed of all the newsgroups. What I'm trying to do is > setup my own news server using ne

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:57:42 -0800 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Friday 24 July 2009 09:51:18 Jerry wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:55:42 +0100 > > > > "Daniel Bye" wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Updating one of my sytems I follo

How to Benchmark zpool?

2009-07-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm familiar with testing read speed of regular hard drive like this: dd if=/dev/daX of=/dev/null bs=65536 How would I go about testing the read speed of a version 13 zfs raid1z zpool? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com

Re: vim port have a lot of broken links ??

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:13:43PM +0200, Kalle Mller wrote: > When I try to install vim from ports it tries 4-5 sites which all have to > time out... and with a 200 files.. thats a lot of timeouts.. Who should I > poke to, so the mirrors would be updated ?? > > -- > > Med Venlig Hilsen Hi Kall

Restarting daemons after portupgrade/portmanager

2009-07-24 Thread Axel
Hello! I have a question concerning port upgrades. mysql51-server stops automatically during upgrade (using portupgrade or portmanager), and is properly started again based on a AFTERINSTALL setting in pktools.conf. So far, so good. But what about the other daemons that still seem to run aft

Re: How to Benchmark zpool?

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm familiar with testing read speed of regular hard drive like this: > > dd if=/dev/daX of=/dev/null bs=65536 > > How would I go about testing the read speed of a version 13 zfs raid1z > zpool? To get a q&d result, I usually install "mkfile": # pkg_add -r mkfile ...and

Re: vim port have a lot of broken links ??

2009-07-24 Thread Kalle Møller
Well any other port works flawless. It's only the vim ports (other = screen sudo wget bash apache22 mysql-server subversion etc) And the ISP is not the problem - I works for them in the network department (its on a 10 G link :D ) I just made a make distclean and make again => vim-7.2.tar.bz2 doe

Re: vim port have a lot of broken links ??

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kalle Møller wrote: > Well any other port works flawless. It's only the vim ports (other = screen > sudo wget bash apache22 mysql-server subversion etc) > > And the ISP is not the problem - I works for them in the network department > (its on a 10 G link :D ) > > I just made a make distclean and

Re: vim port have a lot of broken links ??

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Kalle Møller wrote: >> Well any other port works flawless. It's only the vim ports (other = screen >> sudo wget bash apache22 mysql-server subversion etc) >> >> And the ISP is not the problem - I works for them in the network department >> (its on a 10 G link :D ) >> >> I ju

A question for developers

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Forgive the verbosity. Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if a flame war does ensue, I ask that you refrain from responding. I'm looking fo

Re: vim port have a lot of broken links ??

2009-07-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 24 July 2009 17:37:37 Kalle Møller wrote: > Well any other port works flawless. It's only the vim ports (other = screen > sudo wget bash apache22 mysql-server subversion etc) > > And the ISP is not the problem - I works for them in the network department > (its on a 10 G link :D ) > > I j

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 24 July 2009 18:49:10 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. Forgiven, yet snipped ;) > My desires/don't mind: > > - easily set tab width See securemodelines.vim below sig. Put in $LOCALBASE/share/vim/vim72/plugin. And the modeline below in C-style comments, within the first or

Re: intel atom mobo support; ASUS AT3GC ?

2009-07-24 Thread perryh
Henrik Hudson wrote: [snip Q about support of Realtek 8112 NIC] > One will be a dual-homed box, so I need > both the onboard and the single PCI slot. Or, perhaps, a one-slot dual-port NIC using already-supported devices -- provided someone still makes such. _

Re: Are all USB Flash Memory sticks bootable?

2009-07-24 Thread Fbsd1
Randi Harper wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi < lenzi.ser...@gmail.com> wrote: Em Qui, 2009-07-23 às 12:52 +0800, Fbsd1 escreveu: Hello I found here that some bios does have problem with booting from partitions they do not know So first I initialize the

Re: linux emulator

2009-07-24 Thread Boris Samorodov
PJ writes: > /compat/llinux/sbin/ldconfig : > "ELF binary type '3' not known" syntax error: "(" unexpected - error code 2 Have you load linuxulator? You may check it: - % kldstat | grep linux 63 0x8100d000 413f0linux.ko - You may do it by hand with 'kldload linux' or ad

Re: Restarting hal

2009-07-24 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:02:39 -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > Aside from the ctrl-alt-bksp bug, this has been the easiest X setup I've > ever done. I've tried it with and without hal and both are easy to set > up. Given my level of ignorance, that's saying something. I've seen a > lot of complaints about

Re: Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-07-24 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:32:52 -0500, "Doug Poland" wrote: > After reading the handbook(26.2) and man puc(4), sio(4). man sio(4) > talks about adding /boot/device.hints but not for my particular > hardware. I'm at a loss on how to continue. > > Suggestions, pointers, URLs welcome. The file is /b