can i just upgrade the 8.1 kernel ?

2010-07-23 Thread zaxis
>uname -a FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jul 14 15:35:26 CST 2010 r...@mybsd.zsoft.com:/media/G/usr/obj/media/G/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 Can i just use the following commands to upgrade to 8.1 kernel ? And does the virtualbox-ose still work under 8.1 ?

Re: can i just upgrade the 8.1 kernel ?

2010-07-23 Thread b. f.
>FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jul 14 >15:35:26 CST 2010 >root at mybsd.zsoft.com:/media/G/usr/obj/media/G/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 > >Can i just use the following commands to upgrade to 8.1 kernel ? And does >the virtualbox-ose still work under 8.1 ? Chec

Re : can i just upgrade the 8.1 kernel ?

2010-07-23 Thread Alexandre L.
I think you have not understood the handbook. You MUST rebuild both base system and kernel to correctly upgrade your FreeBSD box to 8.1-RELEASE. If you let your system in 8.0-RELEASE and compile a kernel with 8.1 sources, you will have problem. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/makewo

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:52:53AM -0400, Jerry typed: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100 > krad articulated: > > > > yep I know exim is sendmail cli compatible, but the output from sendmail is > > not the same on exim (interactive prompt). You can probably get similar > > output from sendmail

Re: Re : can i just upgrade the 8.1 kernel ?

2010-07-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 07:37:59AM +, Alexandre L. typed: > I think you have not understood the handbook. > You MUST rebuild both base system and kernel to correctly upgrade your > FreeBSD box to 8.1-RELEASE. > If you let your system in 8.0-RELEASE and compile a kernel with 8.1 sources, > yo

Re: where is pfm2afm

2010-07-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, July 22, 2010 a las 04:00:32PM +0100, Daniel Bye escribió: > > > > Is 'pfm2afm' part of some port in /usr/ports? Thanks in advance > > print/ghostscript* installs something called pf2afm, which seems to be > the same thing. Yes, indeeed: $ pf2afm This is PF2AFM -- AFM generator

Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
> No I'm not going to start ripping my computer apart because FreeBSD can't deal > with my hard drive. I think the problem is a shortcoming in FreeBSD where it > can't deal with drives that have old stale RAID metadata on them. I'm just > going > to have to wait until they can. Until then no FreeB

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-23 Thread Fbsd8
b. f. wrote: Benjamin Lee wrote: On 07/22/2010 06:20 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: I have a pristine install of 8.0. There is no /usr/ports directory yet. I am trying to use the "portcheckout" port and the "porteasy" port to just populate the ports tree with only the ports I use. Problem is in both cases

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-23 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:28:00 +0300 > Odhiambo Washington articulated: > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jerry > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100 > > > krad articulated: > > > > > > > > > > yep I know exim is sendmail cli c

Re: Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-23 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi, This is working for me correctly. In gnome select Sistema/Preferencias/Teclado (System/preferences/Keyboard) and select the appropriate layout. Also on my .bash_profile I've included a: export LANG="es_ES.ISO8859-15" Cheers, Antonio On 18/07/2010 18:49, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi,I'm

Re: Gnome theme and window preferences not completely honored

2010-07-23 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi, I'm running 8.1-RC2 (metacity 2.30.1) and focus-follows-mouse simply doesn't work. I think this is a metactity bug or something, maybe this is related: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155450 Any workaround to have focus-follows-mouse again would be greatly appreciated, as I h

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-23 Thread krad
On 23 July 2010 10:12, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Jerry wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:28:00 +0300 > > Odhiambo Washington articulated: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jerry > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100 > > > > k

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-23 Thread b. f.
On 7/23/10, Fbsd8 wrote: > b. f. wrote: >>> Benjamin Lee wrote: On 07/22/2010 06:20 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: ... >> > Well first thanks for the info you provided though it was all negative. I think that you were misinterpreting what I wrote if you think that it was all negative. > I will explain wh

/usr/lib/libpthread.so: undefined reference to `__pselect'

2010-07-23 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, Lately, most compile from ports end up with the following: /usr/lib/libpthread.so: undefined reference to `__pselect' followed by the port exit error. Ex for jdk: gcc -g -c -o launcher.o launcher.c -m32 -march=i586 -I/usr/ports/java/jdk16/work/hotspot/src/os/bsd/launcher -I

Re: Is "software update" in a working state yet?

2010-07-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. Jeff Molofee writes: > packagekit... moreso gnome-packagekit I see. I don't know much about it, but I see that there's a "pkmon" tool for debugging it. > On 7/22/2010 1:23 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Jeff Molofee writes: >> >>> I've noticed software update pop up

Re: why do I require "WPA" in rc.conf even for open networks.

2010-07-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 July 2010 03:03, Eitan Adler wrote: > For some reason I can not connect to *any* wireless network regardless > of the connection type unless I have "WPA" in /etc/rc.conf right > before "DHCP". Why would I require this to connect to open networks? > > -- > Eitan Adler WPA means that wpa_supp

Re: locale problems with STL (C++)

2010-07-23 Thread soulcatcher☠
It seems that FreeBSD doesn't support C++ locales (at least by default). You could be interested in this thread: http://markmail.org/message/m7wrw35vak7hb2fp ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

freebsd-install upgrade, how many install phases required

2010-07-23 Thread Martin Koch Andersen
Hi, Will freebsd-install upgrade tell you, if any libraries version numbers got bumped, and thus if installed packages needs rebuilding? I followed the handbook and did the 8.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE upgrade like: freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade freebsd-update install shutdown -r now free

Re: ipnat.conf - map and rdr won't work!

2010-07-23 Thread alexus
small update: i just re-build jail and again where I was... so it seems like its not jail related issue although ... I also tried new rdr rule but to resides on same interface and that worked no problem... i just did jail on public ip where i dont need to use ipnat, so obviously that works fine n

pipe vs queues: many queues slows down network speed

2010-07-23 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hi c pipe 46 config bw 15Mbit/s queue 50 mask dst-ip 0x gred 0.002/10/30/0.1 c queue 46 config pipe 46 queue 50 mask dst-ip 0x gred 0.002/10/30/0.1 ipfw add 5620 pipe 46 ip from any to any out xmit ng* -- works fine if I add instead ipfw add 5620 queue 46 all fr

Text mode screen size max. compatibility

2010-07-23 Thread Polytropon
I'm going to write a program that will be a text mode application. In FreeBSD, the default text mode screen size is 80x25. Also, many terminal emulators for X default to that size, as well as SSH clients used in the "Windows" land. Allthough 80x25 sounds alot, it may be useful to use a bigger scre

Re: ipnat.conf - map and rdr won't work!

2010-07-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 23/07/10 18.58, alexus wrote: i just did jail on public ip where i dont need to use ipnat, so obviously that works fine no problem not really what i wanted though but as a temporary fix its fine... With all respect, I think you should start liking this solution, because for all I understan

Re: Text mode screen size max. compatibility

2010-07-23 Thread A. Wright
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Polytropon wrote: Is there a way to easily determine the terminal output size at program startup so the program can be preconfigured for certain screen sizes, and even refuse to run if it's less than 80x25? The "curses" library will do this. The variables LINES and COLS

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-23 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 07/23/2010 03:56 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: > Now the Freebsd method of the 22,000 individual ports each with 3 to 5 > files is a method which has out lived its usefulness. TAKE NOTE: NO > FLAME WAR INTENDED. I just think a option should exist for us who don't > follow the bleeding edge. Sure to some peop

Re: Text mode screen size max. compatibility

2010-07-23 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:44:27 -0300 (ADT), "A. Wright" wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Polytropon wrote: > > > Is there a way to easily determine the terminal output size at > > program startup so the program can be preconfigured for certain > > screen sizes, and even refuse to run if it's less t

Re: Text mode screen size max. compatibility

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 23), Polytropon said: > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:44:27 -0300 (ADT), "A. Wright" wrote: > > > > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Polytropon wrote: > > > Is there a way to easily determine the terminal output size at program > > > startup so the program can be preconfigured for certain s

Re: Text mode screen size max. compatibility

2010-07-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Yes-- On Jul 23, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Polytropon wrote: > Cool - I planned to use (n)curses anyway. But one question remains: > Is there an "interrupt line" (or something functionally similar, > a flag or whatever) that will give the chance for a notification > if LINES or COLS has recently changed,

Re: ipnat.conf - map and rdr won't work!

2010-07-23 Thread alexus
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: > On 23/07/10 18.58, alexus wrote: > >> i just did jail on public ip where i dont need to use ipnat, so >> obviously that works fine no problem >> not really what i wanted though but as a temporary fix its fine... > > With all respect, I think

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-23 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 07/23/2010 01:56 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: > Now about my project. Since about 4.0 I stopped using the ports tree > method. I now all most totally use the package system. I do not upgrade > a RELEASE but instead use the "install from scratch" method about a few > weeks after a new RELEASE is published. S

periodic sending mail rejects.

2010-07-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have added this to /etc/periodic.conf: daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_logs=0 daily_status_mail_rejects_shorten="NO" and changed /etc/defaults/periodic.conf to: daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_logs=3 daily_sta

Re: freebsd-install upgrade, how many install phases required

2010-07-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/07/2010 17:19:54, Martin Koch Andersen wrote: > Hi, > > Will freebsd-install upgrade tell you, if any libraries version numbers got > bumped, and thus if installed packages needs rebuilding? > > I followed the handbook and did the 8.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE upgrade like: > > freebsd-updat

monitor util in a scripted daemon?

2010-07-23 Thread Neil Smith
- Is there a command (native, shell, or ports collection) to sit and watch for new file creation in a directory? - I'd like to build a system startup script for such a command and its scripted actions. Sound possible? - Is there already something in the default OS that does something similar? T

64-bit Windows XP NDIS drivers giving missing symbols

2010-07-23 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
Hi I have an Alienware m11x with a Dell 1520 wireless minicard (Broadcom BCM4353 chipset). It comes with only Windows 7 drivers, but I was able to download Windows XP drivers seperately. However, after I generate the kernel module (I am using the 64-bit WinXP driver and freebsd amd64), I get error

Re: monitor util in a scripted daemon?

2010-07-23 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Smith wrote: > - Is there a command (native, shell, or ports collection) to sit and watch > for new file creation in a directory? > - I'd like to build a system startup script for such a command and its > scripted actions. Sound possible? > - Is

Re: monitor util in a scripted daemon?

2010-07-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/07/2010 20:58:06, Neil Smith wrote: > - Is there a command (native, shell, or ports collection) to sit and watch > for new file creation in a directory? gamin -- http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/ > - I'd like to build a system startup script for such a command and its > scripted ac

Re: Text mode screen size max. compatibility

2010-07-23 Thread Polytropon
Chuck, Dan, Andrew, this is exactly what I was looking for. The manpages of resozeterm and the mentioning of KEY_RESIZE in getch()'s input queue gives a good solution to call a specific function when in any input loop. The needed information about the new screen dimensions can then easily be obtai

Setup for NIS master: make isn't seeing my sources

2010-07-23 Thread David Wolfskill
[I'm not subscribed to -questions, so please include me in responses. I've provided a valid Reply-To as a hint to your MUA.] For the last 14 years or so, my NIS server on the home network has been a SPARCstation 5/170 running Solaris 2.6; I'm finally getting around to decommissioning it. Accordin

Re: monitor util in a scripted daemon?

2010-07-23 Thread Steve Szabo
Tripwire? On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Neil Smith wrote: > - Is there a command (native, shell, or ports collection) to sit and watch > for new file creation in a directory? > - I'd like to build a system startup script for such a command and its > scripted actions. Sound possible? > - Is t

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-23 Thread RW
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:56:56 +0800 Fbsd8 wrote: > tree is no big deal, but I bet they don't do backups. If that's an issue, don't back it up. > That ports tree > directory is a large resource hog if you lift the blinders and look > at the big picture. > Just my 2 cents. Funnily enough that'

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popt-1.50 or better??

2010-07-23 Thread Gary Kline
hey y'all, there is a program called libots [or ots] that acts to summarize text that i'd like to port to freebsd. i grabbed the src from scourceforge days ago and found that i need a later version of popt than we have. we've got v 1.14 of popt and the configure script from libots says that 1.5

BSD logo

2010-07-23 Thread Victor Skovorodnikov
Hi! This may sound strange but I have a question about logo. Why such a logo for BSD? What is the meaning of that logo? I have always been thinking of trying FreeBSD but as a Christian I get deterred by its un-Christian logo. Have you considered changing it to something else? Doesn't have

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-23 Thread Glenn Sieb
On 7/23/10 10:01 PM, Victor Skovorodnikov wrote: > This may sound strange but I have a question about logo. Why such a logo for > BSD? What is the > meaning of that logo? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon --Glenn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-23 Thread Tim Judd
On 7/23/10, Victor Skovorodnikov wrote: > Hi! > > This may sound strange but I have a question about logo. Why such a logo > for BSD? What is the > meaning of that logo? > > I have always been thinking of trying FreeBSD but as a Christian I get > deterred by its un-Christian > logo. > > Have you

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-23 Thread Chad Perrin
Disclaimer: I do not represent the FreeBSD project in any way, shape, or form. I am certain any such people would be much nicer and more polite about this than me. I'm sure I would be much nicer and more polite about it if I became a representative of the FreeBSD project at some point in the fut