Re: ports/144357: emulators/wine build failure

2010-03-08 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Eitan Adler wrote: > Interesting - I just used whatever flex was in my path. Is wine making > the same mistake? > % /usr/local/bin/flex --version > flex 2.5.35 The following in wine/Makefile CONFIGURE_ENV= ... FLEX="${LOCALBASE}/bin/flex" takes care of using the ports ver

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 13:58:07 -0800, Walt Pawley wrote: > At 1:28 PM -0500 3/6/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > >While I think floppy drives are still useful for BIOS updates and the > >like, it's not just Apple that isn't selling machines with floppy > >drives any more. Go to HP or Dell and try to buy

Re: video cam with room view for FreeBSD && Skype

2010-03-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, March 05, 2010 a las 04:33:43PM +0100, Bas v.d. Wiel escribió: > >I would like to have a bigger model to do the same with a group of > >colleagues on my side, i.e. put the cam 3-4 meter away from the table. > >Does someone knows a good model for doing that, wall or table mounted > >

powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?

2010-03-08 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello Is powerd finally considered stable and safe to use on 8.0? At least on 7.2, it consistently caused panics when used on Atom systems with Hyper-Threading enabled, but I recall that Attilio Rao was looking into it. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ free

md5 of /dev/acd0

2010-03-08 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I was trying to determine a md5sum from a DVD I had inserted into a FreeBSD 8.0 on my Dell Inspiron 9400 notebook. I thought dd if=/dev/acd0 | md5 would work but I got "Invalid argument". Trying dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=1048k | md5 worked in so far that it didn't yield an error but after the DVD st

RE: powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?

2010-03-08 Thread Dan Naumov
Okay, now I am baffled. Up until this point, I wasn't using powerd on this new Atom D510 system. I ran sysctl and noticed that dev.cpu.0.freq: is actually 1249 and doesn't change no matter what kind of load the system is under. If I boot to BIOS, under BIOS CPU is shown as 1,66 Ghz. Okayy... I gue

mysql,postgresql,client,server

2010-03-08 Thread n dhert
MySQL and Postgresql appear in the freebsd with many different versions. Normally ports have only one version (the latest) and you upgrade with portupgrade. Sometimes a mysql-client or postgresql-client is installed as a dependency of another port, (e.g. a Davical install today installed postgresq

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2010-03-08 Thread ingok001
i have a acer aspire one with no oprating system it has no cd drive would i be possible to download a redy top use version of software so i could boot form a memory stick? (i have no other computer to unlock to iso file) ==

Re: (No subject header)

2010-03-08 Thread Lars Hartmann
Hi, > i have a acer aspire one with no oprating system it has > no cd drive would i be possible to download a redy top use > version of software so i could boot form a memory stick? > (i have no other computer to unlock to iso file) Google is your friend: http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2009/06/fre

Re: mysql,postgresql,client,server

2010-03-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/03/2010 12:23:04, n dhert wrote: > MySQL and Postgresql appear in the freebsd with many different versions. > Normally ports have only one version (the latest) and you upgrade with > portupgrade. > > Sometimes a mysql-client or postgresql-client

NFS version

2010-03-08 Thread Hashimoto Yuya
Hello, I'm just wondering if only specified version of NFS can be started. (For instance, can I start only NFS version 3 while remaining NFS version 2 stopped?) Is it possible to do it by just adding some parameters in the config file such as rc.conf? Regards, Yuya

Re: ports/144357: emulators/wine build failure

2010-03-08 Thread Eitan Adler
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Interesting - I just used whatever flex was in my path. Is wine making >> the same mistake? >> % /usr/local/bin/flex --version >> flex 2.5.35 > > The following in wine/Makefile > >  CONFIGURE_ENV=  .

ACLs, umask and shared directories

2010-03-08 Thread Rob
Hi Folks, I need to give a group of users write access to a shared directory. The problem is, when one user creates a file, www1$ touch file1 www1$ ll total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 root domain_users 512 Mar 8 03:11 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Mar 8 03:10 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 www1

Re: HTML5 under FreeBSD Desktop

2010-03-08 Thread ltsampros
Alexander Best writes: > recent chromium builds on http://chromium.jaggeri.com/ and > http://code.google.com/p/chromium-freebsd8/ support html5. don't know if the > firefox and opera ports support html5 yet. If you use the latest version of firefox , check this link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-U

Re: mysql,postgresql,client,server

2010-03-08 Thread Антон Клесс
# pkg_db -F - that will auto-fix versions collisions between dependencies - it may help you. 2010/3/8 n dhert > MySQL and Postgresql appear in the freebsd with many different versions. > Normally ports have only one version (the latest) and you upgrade with > portupgrade. > > Sometimes a mysql-

connecting a FreeBSD-4.10 to Internet using DSL with static ip address

2010-03-08 Thread anand ganti
i found the link on connecting bsd gnome to dsl internet darn helpful.i connected to dsl using the code written by mr doug i believe to work correctly inside a freebsd guest os inside vmware player using which i connected gnome to dsl internet .in between i had the tryst with vi typing code into rc

Re: powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?

2010-03-08 Thread Tim Judd
I've been running powerd for a while. Been running it on an ASUS B202. It brought my freq down to 100mhz when I checked on it. Stopping powerd brought the freq up to 1600, and restarting powerd brought it back to 100mhz eventually. You might need to load an ACPI module for your system. Mine w

Re: mysql,postgresql,client,server

2010-03-08 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:52:29 +0300, Антон Клесс wrote: > # pkg_db -F > - that will auto-fix versions collisions between dependencies - it may help > you. I'm sure you need the command "pkgdb -F" (without underscore) here; for automated run, use "pkgdb -aF". Note that pkgdb program is part of the p

syslogd looks up dns only once

2010-03-08 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, migrating a syslogd server to another box this morning and updated the dns zonefile, all syslog clients continue to use the old box. Is this 'I only resolve at boot' syslogd behaviour intentional ? Now I manually need to HUP them all... quite silly. Regards, Robert

FreeBSD Support Cycle

2010-03-08 Thread mailinglist
I'm possibly considering building a FreeBSD based NAS to provide NFS storage for vSphere in a production environment. I would use FreeBSD-8, amd64 variety. What is the expected EOS & EOL dates (end of support/end of life) for FreeBSD 8? I'm not sure if the EOL question matters for an open sou

Re: FreeBSD Support Cycle

2010-03-08 Thread Michael Powell
mailinglist wrote: > I'm possibly considering building a FreeBSD based NAS to provide NFS > storage for vSphere in a production environment. I would use FreeBSD-8, > amd64 variety. What is the expected EOS & EOL dates (end of support/end > of life) for FreeBSD 8? I'm not sure if the EOL questio

Re: FreeBSD Support Cycle

2010-03-08 Thread Ricardo Jesus
On 08/03/2010 15:39, mailinglist wrote: I'm possibly considering building a FreeBSD based NAS to provide NFS storage for vSphere in a production environment. I would use FreeBSD-8, amd64 variety. What is the expected EOS& EOL dates (end of support/end of life) for FreeBSD 8? I'm not sure i

Ports/packages: PKGNAMESUFFIX variable

2010-03-08 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
Is is considered okay for end users of the ports system to use the PKGNAMESUFFIX variable? I need to label the python 2.6 port that I've build as not having threads. Python with threads interferes with the mod_python and apache in the default configuration. I did the following: # cd /usr/p

Re: (No subject header)

2010-03-08 Thread doug schmidt
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Lars Hartmann wrote: > Hi, >>      i have a acer aspire one with no oprating system it has >> no cd drive would i  be possible to download a redy top use >> version of software so i could boot form  a memory stick? >>  (i have no other computer to unlock to iso file

Re: powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?

2010-03-08 Thread Dan Naumov
OK, now I feel a bit stupid. The second half of my PR at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=144551 (anything related to powerd behaviour) can be ignored. For testing purposes, I started powerd in the foreground and observed it's behaviour. It works exactly as advertised and apparently the v

Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread David Jackson
I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system lockup often for minutes.

Re: mysql,postgresql,client,server

2010-03-08 Thread Антон Клесс
surely, pkgdb. not pkg_db. I have misspelled. 2010/3/8 Polytropon > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:52:29 +0300, Антон Клесс > wrote: > > # pkg_db -F > > - that will auto-fix versions collisions between dependencies - it may > help > > you. > > I'm sure you need the command "pkgdb -F" (without underscore

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-08 Thread Jason Garrett
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 16:48, Erik Norgaard wrote: > On 07/03/10 21:41, dacoder wrote: > > has anybody suggested having sshd listen on a high port? >> > > Any number will do, think about it: > > a. The attacker doesn't really care which host is compromised any will do, > and better yet someones

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Mar 8, 2010, at 8:52 AM, David Jackson wrote: > I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with > FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks > up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when > acces

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Monday 08 March 2010 16:52:08 David Jackson wrote: > Are there any diagnostic tools uch as getting a log of tranmissions on > USB and probe it, ,or finmd out what code it is lockilng up on ?Has > anyone else seen these problems with USB disks? You'll probably get a better response by asking on

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Angelin Lalev writes: ;2~> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Angelin Lalev wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I'm doing some research into ssh and its underlying cryptographic >> methods and I have questions. I don't know whom else to ask and humbly >> ask for forgiveness if I'm way OT. >> >> So, SSH us

Re: Ports overlay

2010-03-08 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 03/07/2010 03:47 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 07/03/2010 08:45:41, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > >> By necessity and convenience, I have developed a series of additions and >> changes to the ports tree. These changes are probably not worthy of >> inclusion into the official tree, so I'm looking t

ZFS hot spares

2010-03-08 Thread Steve Polyack
ZFS in FreeBSD lacks at least one major feature from the Solaris version: hot spares. There is a PR open at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=134491, but there hasn't been any motion/thoughts posted on it since its creation almost one year ago. I'm aware that on Solaris, hot spare r

Re: (No subject header)

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
doug schmidt wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Lars Hartmann wrote: Hi, i have a acer aspire one with no oprating system it has no cd drive would i be possible to download a redy top use version of software so i could boot form a memory stick? (i have no other computer to unlock t

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-08 Thread Noel Jones
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Angelin Lalev wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm doing some research into ssh and its underlying cryptographic > methods and I have questions. I don't know whom else to ask and humbly > ask for forgiveness if I'm way OT. > > So, SSH uses algorithms like ssh-dss or ssh-rsa

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system lock

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 08/03/10 18:56, Jason Garrett wrote: Much better, restrict the client access to certain ranges of IPs. The different registries publish ip ranges assigned per country and you can create a list blocking countries you are certain not to visit, you can use my script: http://www.locolomo.org/

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-08 Thread Jason Garrett
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 16:11, Erik Norgaard wrote: > On 08/03/10 18:56, Jason Garrett wrote: > > Much better, restrict the client access to certain ranges of IPs. The >>> different registries publish ip ranges assigned per country and you can >>> create a list blocking countries you are certain

sendmail mail of .txt or .odt directly from OOo?

2010-03-08 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, cAn anybody tell me if it is possible, using OOo-320 to simply sent a file directly from the swriter module? I've found some mailmerge plugin that forces me to fill out tables of into on each person, then click endless buttons. It works, but

Re: md5 of /dev/acd0

2010-03-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Monday 08 March 2010 11:25:20 Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I was trying to determine a md5sum from a DVD I had inserted into a > FreeBSD 8.0 > on my Dell Inspiron 9400 notebook. > > I thought dd if=/dev/acd0 | md5 would work but I got "Invalid argument". > > Trying dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=1048k | md

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread Al Plant
Bruce Cran wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010 16:52:08 David Jackson wrote: Are there any diagnostic tools uch as getting a log of tranmissions on USB and probe it, ,or finmd out what code it is lockilng up on ?Has anyone else seen these problems with USB disks? You'll probably get a better respo

Re: Ports overlay

2010-03-08 Thread Jason
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 02:01:22PM -0600, CyberLeo Kitsana thus spake: On 03/07/2010 03:47 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 07/03/2010 08:45:41, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: By necessity and convenience, I have developed a series of additions and changes to the ports tree. These changes are probably no

Twitter On FreeBSD

2010-03-08 Thread Programmer In Training
Yes, I'm still having issues. qwit is a joke. I can post just fine but it will not retrieve my feeds for local display. Kind of makes it useless. Twitux won't connect. The others seem to be command line clients (the Pidgin Twitter plugin doesn't work, either) which I am not looking for. Does an

Re: Twitter On FreeBSD

2010-03-08 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Programmer In Training wrote: [snip] > > ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin > Error loading the runtime (libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: > No such file or directory) Have you tried the textproc/linux-libxml2 port? Regards, -- Glen Barber __

nit on installation

2010-03-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
SysInstall refers to "VTY1" and "VTY4". There's nothing I saw in the README that explained what that meant. I had to ask on the IRC just now. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Techn

Re: Twitter On FreeBSD

2010-03-08 Thread Programmer In Training
On 03/08/10 21:31, Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > Programmer In Training wrote: > [snip] > >> >> ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin >> Error loading the runtime (libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: >> No such file or directory) > > Have you tried the textproc/linux-libxml2 port? > > Regards, >

Re: Twitter On FreeBSD

2010-03-08 Thread Programmer In Training
Now it's not detecting gnome-keyring (it's a requirement, and it is installed). Seriously, does anyone have a good Twitter client they use? I have very simple requirements (GUI, must be able to pull my feeds for local display, easy to compile (e.g. doesn't require anything from KDE)). If not, doe

How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?

2010-03-08 Thread oscar Seo
I'm using FreeBSD 6.4 + windowmaker in IBM notebook. I edited /etc/rc.conf to use LAN other ip address is different from my home address in my school. I got error message from this [ /etc/rc.conf: 131: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: ] so

Re: How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?

2010-03-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:45 PM, oscar Seo wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 6.4 + windowmaker in IBM notebook. > I edited /etc/rc.conf to use LAN other ip address is different from my home > address in my school. > I got error message from this > [ > /etc/rc.conf: 131: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted

Re: How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?

2010-03-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
oscar Seo writes: > I'm using FreeBSD 6.4 + windowmaker in IBM notebook. > I edited /etc/rc.conf to use LAN other ip address is different from my home > address in my school. > I got error message from this > [ > /etc/rc.conf: 131: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string > Enter full pathname of

Re: Twitter On FreeBSD

2010-03-08 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: > Now it's not detecting gnome-keyring (it's a requirement, and it is > installed). > > Seriously, does anyone have a good Twitter client they use? I have very > simple requirements (GUI, must be able to pull my feeds for local > displ