Re: scalable FreeBSD based LNS (with L2TPv2)

2009-10-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
Vincent Hoffman wrote: Rogelio wrote: Has anyone created/used/found/seen a FreeBSD based LNS that supports thousands L2TPv2 tunnels? Right now, the only solution I see that scales to this level is Redback, and if not a Redback box, then lots of Cisco 7200 boxes. I understand MPD (ports/net

Re: Mouse and keyboard don't work in Xorg 7.4

2009-10-20 Thread Ondřej Majerech
2009/10/20 Polytropon : > >> Mouse and keyboard works without it too. > > I just re-read the chapters on X in the handbook. Setting > a specific keyboard language (german in my case) now involves > messing with XML in the HAL configuration. > > I'm just keen to know where I now have to set my mouse

RE: PHP5 + fastcgi + apache2.2 ... how to for FreeBSD?

2009-10-20 Thread Johan Hendriks
Install from ports lang/php5 do NOT build the apache module (checkbox number 3) │[ ] APACHE Build Apache module Then install from ports www/mod_fcgid Create a file in /usr/local/etc/apache22/Includes (if you have apache22) else use the dir from your apache version. Name it something li

Re: Error when changin from -ro to rw on /etc/exports, FREEBSD STABLE 7.2

2009-10-20 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
I'm wondering if that /etc/exports format will work: /DATA1 192.168.11.6(rw) /DATA2 192.168.11.6(rw) or needs to be like this? > [root@ /DATA1]# cat /etc/exports > /DATA1 -rw 192.168.11.6 > /DATA2 -rw 192.168.11.6 2009/10/19 Jeronimo Calvo : > Hi folks, > > Today I decide to change the

Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-20 Thread Christopher Key
Carl Chave wrote: > relatively idle. You can request a more accurate view of current > bandwidth usage by specifying > an interval. Thanks Carl, I was aware of the option, the posted stats were from: # zpool iostat -v 10 with the 10s period wholly within the ~40s transfer time. King regards,

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-20 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:12:06 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> this is ad12; ad6 is the same - I guess I hae to get rid of those labels >> in ad6 but am not sure if I need to use glabel to remove them or if just >> editing fstab will do it? >> > > You could indicate if a given disk

where are Bulgarian FTP mirrors?

2009-10-20 Thread Cyrille Vladimirov
Guys! Today I decided to use Bulgarian FTP mirror for couple odf installations of FreeBSD and wondered that both of them ( ftp.bg.freebsd.org and ftp2.bg.freebsd.org) missed. I checked out I wondered once more that there isn't such of domain "bg.freebsd.org" I have had to use other mirror for my i

Re: Write attempt to file in ZFS snapshot dir causes panic

2009-10-20 Thread krad
2009/10/19 Carl Chave > I'm new to FreeBSD. Been experimenting with 8.0-RC1 and zfs in a VM. > Really haven't even installed it yet, just getting familiar with zfs > usage from the fixit environment. I experienced some strange behavior > and was wondering if this would warrant a bug report: > >

Re: scalable FreeBSD based LNS (with L2TPv2)

2009-10-20 Thread Rogelio
Vince and Matthew, thanks to both of you. Vince, I found MD5 and am still looking for whether or not it supports L2TPv2 (gotta have that older version, not any v3) Matthew, I put in an inquiry to Firebrick, as well. cheers! Rogelio -- Also on LinkedIn? Feel free to add me as a friend: scubac.

Re: Write attempt to file in ZFS snapshot dir causes panic

2009-10-20 Thread krad
2009/10/20 Carl Chave > Does file o exist? In my example I first try to create a new file > which fails as expected. I then try to append to an existing file > which triggers the panic. > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:17 AM, krad wrote: > > > > > > 2009/10/19 Carl Chave > >> > >> I'm new to Fre

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-20 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:57:53 -0400, PJ wrote: > Exactly what is happening on my system. That's basically what has been > troubling me. I cloned ad12 to ad6 and then wanted to boot from ad6... > well, everytime I boot from ad6 the boot is from ad12 because both have > identical labels. The only way

hplip problem on 8.0 (Re: "All in one" printer?)

2009-10-20 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:24:20 +0200, Patrick Lamaiziere a écrit : > > Thanks guys, so I bought today a HP PhotoSmart C4680 "all in one". > > > > It mostly works fine (printing and scanning) out of the box. > > Hmmm, in fact no. There are some problems on printing (missing part). That was becaus

Re: PHP5 + fastcgi + apache2.2 ... how to for FreeBSD?

2009-10-20 Thread Michael Powell
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Is there one somewhere? I'm finding *alot* of Debian ones dealing with > their whole apget stuff, but would like to find something that "speaks > normally" :) > [snip] Install your choice of flavor of Apache. Me, I'm using the event-mpm for testing to verify the wa

Re: Fwd: upgrading remote server

2009-10-20 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:29 PM, John Almberg wrote: > Okay! After a lot of googling/reading I successfully upgraded to 7.2, now > I'm trying to upgrade ports... > > I ran portmaster -L and got a long list of ports that need upgrading... > From my reading, it seems like the only way to d

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-10-20 Thread lokesh bevara
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Re: FreeBSD 7.2 savecore panic

2009-10-20 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:53:27 -0700, Bogdan Webb a écrit : Hello, > What's wrong with my bsd box (witch i'm in love so much now) and how > can i prevent it from panicking No one will be able to answer without a dump of the panic. Please see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook

cross-link serial console

2009-10-20 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
If I have 2 machines, could I connect the machines to each other via serial cable, in order to be able to reach each others' console in case of out of band issues? I know how to config it, I was just wondering if it would not bite each other. -- FR __

xscreensaver 'core' files

2009-10-20 Thread carmel_ny
I have been getting a couple of dozen core dumps with xscreensaver (xscreensaver-gl-hel.core) daily. The screen saver seems to be working correctly, however. It is being run under FreeBSD-7.2 and Xfce 4 Desktop Environment version 4.6.1 (Xfce 4.6). What, if anything, should I do in regards to this

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

2009-10-20 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 05:08:40AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:58:05 -0500, David Kelly wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:43:44AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > to make sure s is not NULL, or testing for it explicitely like > > > > > > if(!s) > > > ... error

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

2009-10-20 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 05:42:41AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > Just a little and quite formal side note: > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:09:19 -0700, Patrick Mahan wrote: > >while (*tp != '\0' && *tp++ != '<'); > > It's often a good choice, especially for increasing readability > of co

RE: cross-link serial console

2009-10-20 Thread Gary Gatten
Ahh A Null modem cable? Or, perhaps BSD will allow you to configure the serial interface in the software - make one end a DCE type and the other by default will remain a DTE. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On

/tmp on mfs

2009-10-20 Thread Christopher Hilton
Reading the list yesterday I came across a little controversy about swap backed /tmp filesystems. I've been using this in my /etc/rc.conf tmpmfs="YES"# Set to YES to always create an mfs /tmp, NO to never tmpsize="1g"# Size of mfs /tmp if created tmpmfs_flags="-S -o a

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-20 Thread michael
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:57:53 -0400, PJ wrote: Exactly what is happening on my system. That's basically what has been troubling me. I cloned ad12 to ad6 and then wanted to boot from ad6... well, everytime I boot from ad6 the boot is from ad12 because both have identical labe

phpscheduleit not allowing login

2009-10-20 Thread Noah
Hi there, I just installed 1.2.11 and running apache I get the Log in screen and I am able to register. As soon as I enter my account information at the main Login page i am sent right back to the page and the error message is "You are not logged in!" Nothing is appearing in the log eventhoug

Display TSV files with columns aligned

2009-10-20 Thread Tom Worster
is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed width font? that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and pads each field in the file with a suitable about of space? tom -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Display-TSV-files-with-columns-ali

Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned

2009-10-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 20), Tom Worster said: > is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed > width font? > > that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and pads each field > in the file with a suitable about of space? The "rs" command should do what you wa

Re: /tmp on mfs

2009-10-20 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Christopher Hilton wrote: > Reading the list yesterday I came across a little controversy about > swap backed /tmp filesystems. I've been using this in my /etc/rc.conf > > tmpmfs="YES"# Set to YES to always create an mfs /tmp, NO > to never > tmpsize="1g"# Size of mfs /tmp i

Re: phpscheduleit not allowing login

2009-10-20 Thread Brent Bloxam
Noah wrote: Hi there, I just installed 1.2.11 and running apache I get the Log in screen and I am able to register. As soon as I enter my account information at the main Login page i am sent right back to the page and the error message is "You are not logged in!" Nothing is appearing in the

Re: cross-link serial console

2009-10-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Gary Gatten wrote: Ahh A Null modem cable? Or, perhaps BSD will allow you to configure the serial interface in the software - make one end a DCE type and the other by default will remain a DTE. He has to use a null-modem cable. The wires sending and receiving data are fixed, so one cannot

building lynx with ssl

2009-10-20 Thread Noah
Hi there, I Built lynx-2.8.7 from the .tar.gz and unable to get ssl support to work the error is: Alert!: This client does not contain support for HTTPS URLs. and the build strategy used is: ./configure --with-ssl && make && sudo make install what am I doing wrong? __

how to build from ports without downloading ports

2009-10-20 Thread Noah
Hi there, I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build from ports without downloading ports or only downloading what is needed for the build and then it is removed? Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: building lynx with ssl

2009-10-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Noah wrote: and the build strategy used is: ./configure --with-ssl && make && sudo make install what am I doing wrong? You're building stuff yourself without looking at how the ports maintainer already solved this issue. Try doing ./configure --with- ssl=/usr o

Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports

2009-10-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Noah wrote: I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build from ports without downloading ports or only downloading what is needed for the build and then it is removed? You're describing the default behavior of ports-- it only downloads sourc

Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports

2009-10-20 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 22:35:54 Noah wrote: > I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build from > ports without downloading ports or only downloading what is needed for > the build and then it is removed? That is technically possible but it's usually a lot easier to mount

Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports

2009-10-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:35:54PM -0700, Noah wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build from > ports without downloading ports Not directly. But you can install pre-built packages instead. The only downside in that case is that you cannot choose

Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports

2009-10-20 Thread Robert Huff
Chuck Swiger writes: > > I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build > > from ports without downloading ports or only downloading what is > > needed for the build and then it is removed? > > You're describing the default behavior of ports-- it only > downloads sou

Re: device nodes in usb2 stack

2009-10-20 Thread Alexander Best
Hans Petter Selasky schrieb am 2009-10-19: > On Sunday 18 October 2009 23:08:14 Alexander Best wrote: > > posted this to freebsd-questions@ a while ago and got no answer. > > alex > Hi, > For every USB device there is /dev/usb/XXX . Currently the USB > Bluetooth > driver does not have any file n

Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports

2009-10-20 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-- From: "Noah" Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:35 PM To: "User Questions" Subject: how to build from ports without downloading ports Hi there, I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build from ports without downloading p

Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports

2009-10-20 Thread Robert Huff
Roland Smith writes: > But why go to all this trouble? Disk space is cheap these days, > why not add an extra disk? If you don't have space in the > chassis, consider using an external USB disk for /usr/ports. Sometimes ... because the machine hardware is not under your control.

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

2009-10-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 05:42:41AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > Just a little and quite formal side note: > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:09:19 -0700, Patrick Mahan wrote: > >while (*tp != '\0' && *tp++ != '<'); > > It's often a good choice, especially for increasing readability > of co

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

2009-10-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 08:24:49PM -0700, Patrick Mahan wrote: > > > Gary Kline wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:09:19AM -0700, Patrick Mahan wrote: > >>See comments interspaced below - > > > > > > You've got it exactly right, Patrick. There were no "C" classes in > > 1978--I taught

Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports

2009-10-20 Thread RW
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:35:54 -0700 Noah wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build > from ports without downloading ports or only downloading what is > needed for the build and then it is removed? > There's a howto here: http://codeidol.com/unix/b

Re: /tmp on mfs

2009-10-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:20:38 -0400, Christopher Hilton wrote: > Reading the list yesterday I came across a little controversy about swap > backed /tmp filesystems. I've been using this in my /etc/rc.conf > > tmpmfs="YES"# Set to YES to always create an mfs /tmp, NO to never > tmpsize=

maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download

2009-10-20 Thread Henry Olyer
I have a fix for gnuplot; How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD 6.1. Earlier than that I don't know. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: /tmp on mfs

2009-10-20 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/10/20 Christopher Hilton : > Reading the list yesterday I came across a little controversy about swap > backed /tmp filesystems. I've been using this in my /etc/rc.conf > > tmpmfs="YES"            # Set to YES to always create an mfs /tmp, NO to > never > tmpsize="1g"            # Size of mfs

Re: Write attempt to file in ZFS snapshot dir causes panic

2009-10-20 Thread Carl Chave
Thanks for testing it out krad. I went ahead and submitted the PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=139806 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Question about FreeBSD syscall usage

2009-10-20 Thread Yan, Yeqing
Hi: I'm from Intel China. Our project use FreeBSD 7.0 and I have some questions about the FreeBSD syscall. I don't know how to use these syscall below. Is there having some doc or example about how to use these syscall? kse_exit kse_wakeup kse_create kse_thr_interrupt kse_release kse_switchin ma

Re: Error when changin from -ro to rw on /etc/exports, FREEBSD STABLE 7.2

2009-10-20 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/10/20 Jeronimo Calvo : > I'm wondering if that /etc/exports format will work: > > /DATA1   192.168.11.6(rw) > /DATA2   192.168.11.6(rw) > > or needs to be like this? > >> [root@ /DATA1]# cat /etc/exports >> /DATA1  -rw 192.168.11.6 >> /DATA2  -rw 192.168.11.6 Try it without the "-rw" at all,

Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports

2009-10-20 Thread b. f.
> I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build > from ports without downloading ports or only downloading what is > needed for the build and then it is removed? > You could: 1) build packages on another machine or cluster, and then install the packages via a remote PKG_PATH/

Force installation of dependencies

2009-10-20 Thread Warren Liddell
is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: Force installation of dependencies

2009-10-20 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell wrote: > is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to > forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? > Judging from the topics of your recent posts, I assume you're not using a port managment tools to ha

Re: Force installation of dependencies

2009-10-20 Thread Warren Liddell
Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell > wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Judging from the topics of your recent pos

Re: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download

2009-10-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 20), Henry Olyer said: > I have a fix for gnuplot; > How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I > am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD > 6.1. Earlier than that I don't know. What errors are you getting

Re: Force installation of dependencies

2009-10-20 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Warren Liddell wrote: > Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell > shin...@maydias.com>> wrote: >> >>is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it >>to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that