What's the best way to upgrade 8.0 ?

2010-09-02 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 Now i want to upgrade it to 8.1 realease. thanks! - e^(π⋅i) + 1 = 0 -- View this message in context: http:/

Multiple mount_smbfs commands fail in bash script

2010-09-02 Thread Bernard Scharp
Hi all, I'm having some problems with a bash script. It's a backup script that periodically checks if a list of systems is online, and if so, uses samba to mount a specified list of shares, rsyncs them to a local directory and unmounts again. This used to run fine till a few months ago (I don't

Thank you all for FreeBSD

2010-09-02 Thread Anonymous
Thanks to all people who program, develop and h/-\ck for FreeBSD - it is a great free system and best choice ... Thanks! - anonymous ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Re: RELENG_8_1 Release build fails

2010-09-02 Thread egoitz
>> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to make a release from RELENG_8_1 branch because of mbuf bug >> and so... and wanted to make my own freebsd cds (updated)... I have >> downloaded the > > Hi!, > > Perhaps this is not the proper mailing list for asking this kind of > questions? perhaps should I write to f

Re: What's the best way to upgrade 8.0 ?

2010-09-02 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:13:18AM -0700, zaxis wrote: > > >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 > > Now i want to upgrade it to 8.1 realease. Sin

Re: Multiple mount_smbfs commands fail in bash script

2010-09-02 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:24:05 +0200 Bernard Scharp articulated: > Hi all, > > I'm having some problems with a bash script. > > It's a backup script that periodically checks if a list of systems is > online, and if so, uses samba to mount a specified list of shares, > rsyncs them to a local direc

Re: Multiple mount_smbfs commands fail in bash script

2010-09-02 Thread Bernard Scharp
> > Could you post the script? Anything else would be pure guess work. You Well, I can recreate it with something as simple as: #!/usr/local/bin/bash mount_smbfs //u...@remotehost/share1/ /tmp/mnt/ mount_smbfs //u...@remotehost/share2/ /tmp/mnt2/ > also might consider posting this on the "BAS

Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

2010-09-02 Thread Matthias Apitz
I wrote a small howTo for such a migration for others in the same situation. Comments/Impromvements are welcome; Thanks matthias $Id: moveFreeBSDintoVM.txt,v 1.2 2010/09/02 10:55:29 guru Exp $ How to move a complete FreeBSD installation into a VM Matthias Apitz

Re: Multiple mount_smbfs commands fail in bash script

2010-09-02 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:02:35 +0200, Bernard Scharp wrote: > > > > > Could you post the script? Anything else would be pure guess work. You > > Well, I can recreate it with something as simple as: > > #!/usr/local/bin/bash > mount_smbfs //u...@remotehost/share1/ /tmp/mnt/ > mount_smbfs //u...@

Re: error - ad2: FAILURE

2010-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mike Jeays writes: > On September 1, 2010 10:29:42 pm Xihong Yin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I received the following error when I try to access files in some of the >> directories in /usr and when the computer boots. ad2s1f is mounted on >> /usr. >> >> ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=40 >> LBA

Re: Multiple mount_smbfs commands fail in bash script

2010-09-02 Thread Bernard Scharp
On 02/09/2010 15:29, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:02:35 +0200, Bernard Scharp > wrote: >> >>> >>> Could you post the script? Anything else would be pure guess work. You >> >> Well, I can recreate it with something as simple as: >> >> #!/usr/local/bin/bash >> mount_smbfs //u...@remot

Re: Should a "squid" user have a shell?

2010-09-02 Thread Ed Flecko
Excellent! Thanks for the tips! Ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: killall -9 program-name does not work

2010-09-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:32:56PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > On 8/30/10, RW wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:14:58 + > > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > >> Dear fellow FreeBSD users, > >> > >> I have a cron script that plays music in the morning when I arrive at > >> work. > >> > >> i

Re: Multiple mount_smbfs commands fail in bash script

2010-09-02 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:52:25 +0200, Bernard Scharp wrote: > Neither am I. Hadn't even thought of grepping in /usr/src for the error > message :-) It's often a good starting point to see where problems might be caused from. > Can I just `rm /dev/nsmbX` them? (messing in /dev/ is a level of Fre

What's up with cvsup.freebsd.org?

2010-09-02 Thread Dennis Glatting
This has been happening for several days. Is cvsup dead vs SVN? Cvsup is still listed in the handbook. CVSup update begins at 2010-09-02 04:40:00 Updating from cvsup.freebsd.org Connected to cvsup.freebsd.org Premature EOF from server CVSup update ends at 2010-09-02 04:40:00 ___

Which specific version will be installed via pkg_add or via the port?

2010-09-02 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, When you're installing software via the pkg_add command or building from source, how do you what specific version you'll be installing BEFORE you actually install it? Ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: What's up with cvsup.freebsd.org?

2010-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dennis Glatting writes: > This has been happening for several days. Is cvsup dead vs SVN? Cvsup > is still listed in the handbook. cvsup is still fine. Please (as recommended in the handbook) use a mirror closer to you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Which specific version will be installed via pkg_add or via the port?

2010-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ed Flecko writes: > When you're installing software via the pkg_add command or building > from source, how do you what specific version you'll be installing > BEFORE you actually install it? By reading the port's Makefile, in my case. Other common options are "make packagename" in the port's d

Re: Which specific version will be installed via pkg_add or via the port?

2010-09-02 Thread Glen Barber
On 9/2/10 10:43 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Ed Flecko writes: > >> When you're installing software via the pkg_add command or building >> from source, how do you what specific version you'll be installing >> BEFORE you actually install it? > > By reading the port's Makefile, in my case. > Other

Re: network deamons starting before network!

2010-09-02 Thread Peggy Wilkins
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Mark Stapper wrote: > Since updating to 8.X I noticed that network services were started > before the network was up! > I use lagg failover configuration on both my FreeBSD boxes. > First, boot fails on mounting my nfs-shares. > After entering and exiting the "res

SOLVED: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

2010-09-02 Thread William Bulley
See below for details of solution. - Forwarded message from William Bulley - To: FreeBSD Questions From: William Bulley Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:38:34 -0400 Subject: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue. I

Linux emu: ELF file OS ABI invalid

2010-09-02 Thread Mikle Krutov
Hello, list! Got a strange problem with some linux binaries (utilset for Dwarf Fortress game, DFHack): file reports them all as 'ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, not stripped' All are brandelf'd as in handbo

Re: What's up with cvsup.freebsd.org?

2010-09-02 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Dennis Glatting writes: This has been happening for several days. Is cvsup dead vs SVN? Cvsup is still listed in the handbook. cvsup is still fine. Please (as recommended in the handbook) use a mirror closer to you. cvsup1, which has the sam

Re: What's up with cvsup.freebsd.org?

2010-09-02 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis Glatting wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Dennis Glatting writes: >> >>> This has been happening for several days. Is cvsup dead vs SVN? Cvsup >>> is still listed in the handbook. >> >> cvsup is still fine. Please

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-09-02 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:48:28PM +0100, krad wrote: > On 30 August 2010 20:02, Chris Rees wrote: > > > On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad wrote: > > > On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon wrote: > > > > > >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten > > >> wrote: > > >> > Rename them, copy,

Re: What's up with cvsup.freebsd.org?

2010-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dennis Glatting writes: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Dennis Glatting writes: >> >>> This has been happening for several days. Is cvsup dead vs SVN? Cvsup >>> is still listed in the handbook. >> >> cvsup is still fine. Please (as recommended in the handbook) use a >> mirror c

Re: Interactive Port

2010-09-02 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 09:57:15 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Rem P Roberti wrote: > > Brother! Muttprint is now working fine. The problem: the printer > > was offline! Now, before you go accusing me of being a complete > > dufus, let me say that I had no way of knowing that that condi

Weird Linux - FreeBSD/ZFS NFSv4 interoperability problem

2010-09-02 Thread David Brodbeck
While doing some interoperability testing between Linux and FreeBSD, I came up with this unusual issue. I could use some help figuring out if this is a bug, and if so, where to file it. Here's the scenario: - FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE server, sharing a ZFS filesystem via NFSv4. - Linux client (I've te

Re: 8.1: Cron ignoring crontab updates

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Rees
You have to SIGHUP cron, not restart it. # killall -HUP cron Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 2 Sep 2010 21:11, "patrick" wrote: I recently upgraded a FreeBSD 7.0 system to 8.1-RELEASE (via freebsd-update) and am experiencin

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline writes: > Just to make =sure= about this: can using tar/gtar as root [or > sudo] make sure that all the permissions are correct? It =may= > save me keystrokes, :_) Permissions, yes. If you want flags, you'll need the base system tar. ___

Re: Linux emu: ELF file OS ABI invalid

2010-09-02 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:49:19 + Mikle Krutov wrote: > Got a strange problem with some linux binaries > (utilset for Dwarf Fortress game, DFHack): > file reports them all as > 'ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, > version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses > shared libs), for GNU/Linux

Re: What's up with cvsup.freebsd.org?

2010-09-02 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis Glatting wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Dennis Glatting writes: This has been happening for several days. Is cvsup dead vs SVN? Cvsup is still listed in the handbook. cvsup