Re: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-13 Thread Alexandre L.
The full process is described here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html Alexandre --- En date de : Lun 12.7.10, Michael a écrit : > De: Michael > Objet: Re: Staying up to date with security patches > À: "Mike Clarke" > Cc: freebsd-questions@fre

How can i know if the freebsd kernel need to be updated ?

2010-07-13 Thread zaxis
Now i use the following commands to maintain my freebsd box. >portsnap fetch update >pkg_version -vIL= >portupgrade -R xxx It works great for software installed through ports. However, how can i know if the kernel needs to be updated ? Sincerely! - e^(π⋅i) + 1 = 0 -- View this message in

trouble mounting USB digital camera

2010-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm trying to mount USB digital camera to FBSD -current (either i386 or amd64). I get to ugen1.2: at usbus1 in dmesg, but no block device appears, so I'm not sure how to mount this device. Does the procedure for mounding USB camera devices differ from that form USB flash drives? Plea

Re: trouble mounting USB digital camera

2010-07-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:59:21 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I'm trying to mount USB digital camera > to FBSD -current (either i386 or amd64). > > I get to > > ugen1.2: at usbus1 > > in dmesg, but no block device appears, > so I'm not sure how to mount this device. There may be two

Re: databases/php5-odbc vs. libiodbc

2010-07-13 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 2010-Jun-15, 19:21, Kyryll A Mirnenko aka Mirya wrote: > Currently the databases/php5-odbc PHP extension is hardcoded to be compiled > with unixODBC backend, so the users that have libiodbc installed (as a > dependency of kde4 ports, for ex.) can't installed the first 'cause those two > ODB

Re: trouble mounting USB digital camera

2010-07-13 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
Hi Anton. On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm trying to mount USB digital camera to FBSD -current (either i386 or amd64). I get to ugen1.2: at usbus1 in dmesg, but no block device appears, so I'm not sure how to mount this device. Does the procedure for mounding USB

Help needed : FreeBSD 8.1 / xorg / xf86-video-intel / dell400

2010-07-13 Thread Henri-Pierre Charles
Hello, I've a dell d400 laptop quite old but still usefull. I've upgraded to 8.1-RC2 which seem ok. It was perfectly functionnal with FreeBSD 8.0 and the freebsd-8.0-release packages. My usual way to upgrade packages is to "pkg_delete -a" && pkg_add -r a list of my usual softwares which come from

Re: Help needed : FreeBSD 8.1 / xorg / xf86-video-intel / dell400

2010-07-13 Thread ait
On 07/13/2010 15:37, Henri-Pierre Charles wrote: Hello, I've a dell d400 laptop quite old but still usefull. I've upgraded to 8.1-RC2 which seem ok. It was perfectly functionnal with FreeBSD 8.0 and the freebsd-8.0-release packages. My usual way to upgrade packages is to "pkg_delete -a"&& pkg_a

rrdtool and perl 5.10 not playing nice

2010-07-13 Thread Rob Byrnes
I have seen this issue on two machines now, but this particular instance is on a newly built one. I run munin to collect and graph stats on my network from this box. net-mgmt/munin-master depends on perl and rrdtool. I installed perl 5.10 from ports and then installed munin-master. rrdtool was bui

Re: trouble mounting USB digital camera

2010-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:25:17PM +0300, Vladimir Kushnir wrote: > Hi Anton. > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > I'm trying to mount USB digital camera > > to FBSD -current (either i386 or amd64). > > > > I get to > > > > ugen1.2: at usbus1 > > > > in dmesg, but no bloc

Re: trouble mounting USB digital camera

2010-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:15:40PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:59:21 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht > wrote: > > I'm trying to mount USB digital camera > > to FBSD -current (either i386 or amd64). > > > > I get to > > > > ugen1.2: at usbus1 > > > > in dmesg, but no block

ath(4) card /* Hardware revision not supported */

2010-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I've Icom SL-5200 CardBus wireless card, which is detected as: ath0: mem 0xb7fb-0xb7fb irq 20 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13 device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 and a...@pci0:3:0:0:class=0x02 card=0x000817dd chip=0

Re: trouble mounting USB digital camera

2010-07-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:59:30 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > This is some ancient Kodak DC280. > I couldn't find how to do (b), > but (a) worked fine. It's quite possible that this camera is PTP only, so using programs like gphoto2, gtkam or digikam are a very easy way to use them - and gphot

Re: trouble mounting USB digital camera

2010-07-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:52:11PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:59:30 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht > wrote: > > This is some ancient Kodak DC280. > > I couldn't find how to do (b), > > but (a) worked fine. > > It's quite possible that this camera is PTP only, so using programs

Clarification: "Jail" -vs- "Chroot"

2010-07-13 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, I'm reading about "jails" and "chroot", and I'm not clear about the differences so I'm hoping someone can clarify this for me. Here's what I "think" is correct: 1.) FreeBSD has both "chroot" capability as well as "jail" capability. 2.) Only FreeBSD has true, "jail" functionality? Yes?.

Re: Clarification: "Jail" -vs- "Chroot"

2010-07-13 Thread Julian Fagir
Hi, > 1.) FreeBSD has both "chroot" capability as well as "jail" capability. Yes, it has both of them. You still want to use chroot, also it is kind of 'part' of a jail (technically perhaps it's implemented separately). > 2.) Only FreeBSD has true, "jail" functionality? Yes?...No? In Solaris, you

login.conf: passwordtime not enforced?

2010-07-13 Thread Fernan Aguero
Hi, after reading some docs about hardening freebsd installations, I decided to enforce password expiration after 90days. I've added the corresponding line to /etc/login.conf and ... after quite some time (way more than 3 months already!) nothing happens ... Just googled around, and noticed this

Re: D-Link DWA-556 and hostap

2010-07-13 Thread Emiel van de Laar
On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Nathan Lay wrote: > Hi list, > I read that the D-Link DWA-556 uses the AR5008 chipset. Anyone using it? > Does it work well for hostap (at least for 11g)? I'm a bit unsure because > I've read that AR5008 has hardware bugs. However, I am a fan of ath(4) ... > it

Dell SAS5/IR

2010-07-13 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I was attempiting to restage a server last night to no avail. It is a Dell 860 with a LSI SAS (Dell SAS5/SI) controller. This was happening when I was dumping the filesystems from a USB memory stick (da1s1) to the hard drive (Seagate 76 GIG SAS - da0s1). Can anyone tell me if they hav

os that rather uses the gpu?

2010-07-13 Thread Jozsi Avadkan
Does someone know a distribution/operating system, that rather uses the GPU for "working", not the CPU? [by default] Or this solution is still in the "beginning part"? Thanks for any tips, link, suggestions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: os that rather uses the gpu?

2010-07-13 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:46:15 +0200 Jozsi Avadkan wrote: > Does someone know a distribution/operating system, that rather uses > the GPU for "working", not the CPU? [by default] GPUs are so specialized that you probably won't ever find an operating system being run in one: the performance would b

Re: What chipset is the Asus PCE-N13?

2010-07-13 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Jul 11 18:36:44 2010 > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:20:46 -0400 > From: Nathan Lay > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: What chipset is the Asus PCE-N13? > > Hi list, > I can't seem to find anything about this wireless adapter. then you didn

Re: os that rather uses the gpu?

2010-07-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Jozsi Avadkan wrote: > Does someone know a distribution/operating system, that rather uses the > GPU for "working", not the CPU? [by default] Nope. The notion doesn't make much sense, either-- the GPU isn't connected in the fashion needed to receive interrupts the wa

Re: Dell SAS5/IR

2010-07-13 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I was attempiting to restage a server last night to no avail. It is a Dell > 860 with a LSI SAS (Dell SAS5/SI) controller. > > This was happening when I was dumping the filesystems from a USB memory > stick (da1s1) to the hard drive

Gnome theme and window preferences not completely honored

2010-07-13 Thread Willoughby, Steve
I'm running FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 with Gnome 2.30.0 and am having a strange issue where I can set almost everything about the desktop appearance using the theme settings and the "preferences" tool, except the window decorations never change (internal icons, colors, etc, do) and things like focus-follo

Re: os that rather uses the gpu?

2010-07-13 Thread b. f.
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:46:15 +0200 > Jozsi Avadkan wrote: > > > Does someone know a distribution/operating system, that rather uses > > the GPU for "working", not the CPU? [by default] Not exclusively, no. But there are developments, still mostly in the research stage, for software allowing he

Re: Can anyone Reproduce this Gstreamer-plugins compile error?

2010-07-13 Thread Koop Mast
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 14:52 -0700, Chris Maness wrote: > `/usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins/work/gst-plugins-base-0.10.29/sys/ximage' > CC libgstximagesink_la-ximagesink.lo > In file included from ximagesink.c:111: > ximagesink.h:35:33: error: X11/extensions/XShm.h: No such file or > di

Re: Can anyone Reproduce this Gstreamer-plugins compile error?

2010-07-13 Thread Chris Maness
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Koop Mast wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 14:52 -0700, Chris Maness wrote: >> `/usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins/work/gst-plugins-base-0.10.29/sys/ximage' >>   CC     libgstximagesink_la-ximagesink.lo >> In file included from ximagesink.c:111: >> ximagesink.h:

Re: Clarification: "Jail" -vs- "Chroot"

2010-07-13 Thread Aiza
Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, I'm reading about "jails" and "chroot", and I'm not clear about the differences so I'm hoping someone can clarify this for me. Here's what I "think" is correct: 1.) FreeBSD has both "chroot" capability as well as "jail" capability. 2.) Only FreeBSD has true, "jail" f

Re: .sh check for sufix g or m on size field

2010-07-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:58:05AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Aiza on Monday, 12 July 2010: > > Sorry miss send, was not done yet. > > > > Have a .sh script that accepts an -s sparse file size. > > Only 2 suffix's are valid m and g. > > > > Been trying to get this line of code to strip out

Re: Wacom tablet driver port doesn't seem to work

2010-07-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:04:10AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > Looks like this may be it: > > /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so Alas, I do not have that file either. There are, in fact, no files with "wacom" anywhere in the path on this system other than the files in the input-wa

Re: rrdtool and perl 5.10 not playing nice

2010-07-13 Thread Rob Byrnes
On 13 July 2010 22:59, Rob Byrnes wrote: > I have seen this issue on two machines now, but this particular > instance is on a newly built one. > > I run munin to collect and graph stats on my network from this box. > net-mgmt/munin-master depends on perl and rrdtool. I installed perl > 5.10 from p

Re: .sh check for sufix g or m on size field

2010-07-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:59:54AM +0800, Aiza wrote: > > This is real close but it allows a numeric value through as valid which > is not a valid condition. The $size value has to be suffixed with g or m > to be valid. A numeric value only or a numeric value suffixed with > anything else than

Shaping torrent traffic?

2010-07-13 Thread Modulok
How do I catch torrent traffic with a pf.conf rule? It doesn't operate on any standard port numbers. Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mai

Re: Wacom tablet driver port doesn't seem to work

2010-07-13 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 13 July 2010: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:04:10AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > Looks like this may be it: > > > > /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so > > Alas, I do not have that file either. There are, in fact, no files with > "wacom" anywhere in

Re: Shaping torrent traffic?

2010-07-13 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 13, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Modulok wrote: How do I catch torrent traffic with a pf.conf rule? It doesn't operate on any standard port numbers. If you have control of the client, most bittorrent clients offer throttling capability. I've also had pretty good luck approaching it as a negat

Re: login.conf: passwordtime not enforced?

2010-07-13 Thread b. f.
>after reading some docs about hardening freebsd installations, I > decided to enforce password expiration after 90days. I've added the > corresponding line to /etc/login.conf and ... after quite some time > (way more than 3 months already!) nothing happens ... If you want help, you'll have to be

jail date and time

2010-07-13 Thread Derek Funk
how do i change the date and time within a jail? Host date and time are correct why isn't the jails? date yymmddhhmm returns date: settimeofday (timeval): Operation not permitted Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: jail date and time

2010-07-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 13), Derek Funk said: > how do i change the date and time within a jail? Host date and time are > correct why isn't the jails? > > date yymmddhhmm returns > > date: settimeofday (timeval): Operation not permitted Jails share the same clock as the host. Are you sure you

Re: Wacom tablet driver port doesn't seem to work

2010-07-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:06:22PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 13 July 2010: > > > > Alas, I do not have that file either. There are, in fact, no files with > > "wacom" anywhere in the path on this system other than the files in the > > input-wacom port. > > Interes

Re: Local cvs repository

2010-07-13 Thread Tim Judd
On 7/12/10, Peter Boosten wrote: > Hi all, > > I run a local cvs repository for year now, but since a couple of days I > get these on the clients: > > Server message: Unknown collection "src-all" > Server message: Unknown collection "ports-all" But you still have your source and ports tree on the