Re: Updating OpenSSH

2011-03-17 Thread krad
On 16 March 2011 19:47, Carmel wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:32:48 -0700 > Chuck Swiger articulated: > > > On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Carmel wrote: > > > OK, then does that mean that the latest version will be used in the > > > still not released 9 version of FreeBSD? > > > > Currently, no-

Re: android phone -pc-ineternet

2011-03-17 Thread ajtiM
On Wednesday March 16 2011 19:58:13 Da Rock wrote: > On 03/17/11 07:04, ajtiM wrote: > > On Wednesday March 16 2011 09:39:11 Mark Felder wrote: > >> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:48:45 -0500, Da Rock > >> > >> wrote: > >>> IF I understand you correctly here, you need to configure the wifi > >>> connect

Re: android phone -pc-ineternet

2011-03-17 Thread Da Rock
On 03/17/11 20:51, ajtiM wrote: On Wednesday March 16 2011 19:58:13 Da Rock wrote: On 03/17/11 07:04, ajtiM wrote: On Wednesday March 16 2011 09:39:11 Mark Felder wrote: On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:48:45 -0500, Da Rock wrote: IF I understand you correctly here, you

Re: Updating OpenSSH

2011-03-17 Thread Carmel
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:46:44 + krad articulated: [snip] > a combination of time and limited resources I guess. If it bugs you > that much why dont you volunteer yourself to maintain it, i'm sure > that if you dont feel competent enough at present, people will help > and mentor you It is par

Re: Updating OpenSSH

2011-03-17 Thread Robert Huff
Carmel writes: > It is part of the base system. I don't know if it has a true > maintainer. In any case, I would need commit privileges which I > don't and never expect to have and have no desire to acquire.. I do not believe that is correct; a fair number of people contribute product

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Krutov Mikle
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:32:59PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: > >Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in > >ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global > >default? > > > >Is there a (convenient) w

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Krutov Mikle wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:32:59PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global defaul

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:42:00 +0300, Krutov Mikle wrote: > As for me, it is like a habit: > I've installed Xorg + HAL for the first time; > I've seen that my config is ignored; > I disabled HAL by-default in make.conf > :) Similar situation here. The thing that annoys me most regarding HAL is tha

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Ivan Voras
On 17 March 2011 16:10, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Krutov Mikle wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:32:59PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> >>> On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in p

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Da Rock wrote: >> The problem is it'd have to be someone who's unemployed. ;)  Any >> software company is going to want to patent something that valuable; >> they'd be failing their shareholders if they didn't. >> > > Except a private company. Yeah, but most priv

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth David Brodbeck on Thursday, 17 March 2011: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Da Rock > wrote: > >> The problem is it'd have to be someone who's unemployed. ;)  Any > >> software company is going to want to patent something that valuable; > >> they'd be failing their shareholders if they did

sguil-client startup problem

2011-03-17 Thread D.Schaft
I have a question regarding the installation and startup of sguil-client on a 8.2 Generic OS. It seems that my installation requires an iwidget extension when run with tclsh8.4 and receives an error when running wish8.4: Error in startup script: can't read "0": no such variable while executing E

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:35:04PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > > Well yes, that's one thing: if you use HAL, everything must use HAL > and you can't pick and match incompatible applications and force half > of the things in xorg.conf. There should be a way to override it on a piecemeal basis. Ser

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:46:50AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth David Brodbeck on Thursday, 17 March 2011: > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Da Rock > > wrote: > > > > > > Except a private company. > > > > Yeah, but most private software companies are trying to get bought > > out by one

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Chad Perrin wrote: In my experience, about one third of the time HAL makes X work great, and the other two thirds of the time it fails in some way that requires me to create a complete xorg.conf file just for one or two options. hal just provides input device hotplug abili

adding SRV records to a FreeBSD server

2011-03-17 Thread Ola Peters
Hi there, Thanks so much for placing this contact information in your header! I am trying to add SRV records to my name server, which is a FreeBSD box. (Output from uname -a): ns1# uname -a FreeBSD ns1.partnershiphp.org 4.11-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 21 17:21:22 GMT 2005 r.

How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread Tait
I have a remote server, and I'd like to know if it will support 64-bit instructions. Is there some way I can tell? It's running 32-bit FreeBSD right now. >From dmesg.boot: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2387.76-MHz 686-class C

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:48:52 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: > I blame Microsoft, GNU, and Canonical for this trend, mostly. Chad, I believe I stand on firm ground when I state that you would blame Microsoft if the sun didn't come up tomorrow. You obviously must have a life time membership to "Sl

Re: adding SRV records to a FreeBSD server

2011-03-17 Thread Diego Arias
Hi: FreeBSD 4.11 is juts too old you should Upgrade that machine. Anyway check the named(bind) version to see if it supports srv records. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Ola Peters wrote: > Hi there, > > Thanks so much for placing this contact information in your header! I am > trying to add

Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
Afaik there should be "LM" in "AMD features" output. Even for Intel. Grep your dmesg.boot for LM. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Tait wrote: > I have a remote server, and I'd like to know if it will support > 64-bit instructions. Is there some way I can tell? It's running 32-bit > FreeBSD

Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread Devin Teske
On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 14:33 -0700, Tait wrote: > I have a remote server, and I'd like to know if it will support > 64-bit instructions. I wrote this for the job (please, suggestions/comments very welcome): BEGIN FILE /* -*- tab-width

Re: adding SRV records to a FreeBSD server

2011-03-17 Thread Diego Arias
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Diego Arias wrote: > Its actually a little bit harder than that, not impossible but you have to > upgrade the base OS and then the ports (Packages). As we have now 8.2 i > suggest to do a clean-installation > > From version 6 and newer you could do a Binary upgra

Re: adding SRV records to a FreeBSD server

2011-03-17 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
Ola, You have BIND 8.3 as you wrote to me. Check manual if it supports SRV records. If so -- you do not have to upgrade your OS now. FreeBSD 4 is REALLY OLD but I do not think upgrading freebsd is what you want to do now: your issue is to update SRV record, right? On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:48 A

Re: adding SRV records to a FreeBSD server

2011-03-17 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
Hello, What name server do you use? I am almost sure you have BIND. You must open your zonefile, add SRV record and reload zone. I think your zonefile is somewhere in /etc/namedb/ read bind manual, man named and man ndc (or rndc) to solve your problem. Your question is not about freebsd but abou

Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread John Levine
>I have a remote server, and I'd like to know if it will support >64-bit instructions. Is there some way I can tell? It's running 32-bit >FreeBSD right now. > >>From dmesg.boot: > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2387.76-MHz 686-cl

Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread Michael Powell
Tait wrote: > I have a remote server, and I'd like to know if it will support > 64-bit instructions. Is there some way I can tell? It's running 32-bit > FreeBSD right now. > >>From dmesg.boot: > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2387.76-MHz 6

Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread Devin Teske
On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 14:33 -0700, Tait wrote: > I have a remote server, and I'd like to know if it will support > 64-bit instructions. Is there some way I can tell? It's running 32-bit > FreeBSD right now. > > >From dmesg.boot: > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > C

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:35:57PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:48:52 -0600 > Chad Perrin articulated: > > > I blame Microsoft, GNU, and Canonical for this trend, mostly. > > Chad, I believe I stand on firm ground when I state that you would > blame Microsoft if the sun didn't co

Re: adding SRV records to a FreeBSD server

2011-03-17 Thread Mark Blackman
Using the standard version query syntax below.. dig +short @ns1.partnershiphp.org version.bind txt chaos "DNS Server v2090" She seems to have a DNS server that I'm both unfamiliar with and unable to find with a search engine. So, as you say, this is a DNS server question not an OS question. O

Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Ilya Kazakevich wrote: > Afaik there should be "LM" in "AMD features" output. Even for Intel. Grep > your dmesg.boot for LM. > Please don't top-post. yes that is correct, LM stands for Long Mode which indicates amd64 support. If your CPU doesn't list it, it's eit

musicpd conf

2011-03-17 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi, Does any of you met the following problem using phpmp with musicpd: When I try to change the volume on the web interface I always get the following error: "ACK [5@0] {} unknown command "volume"", everything else is working great. Thank you! Laszlo

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:36:37 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:35:57PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:48:52 -0600 > > Chad Perrin articulated: > > > > > I blame Microsoft, GNU, and Canonical for this trend, mostly. > > > > Chad, I believe I stand on fi

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Da Rock
On 03/18/11 03:35, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Da Rock wrote: The problem is it'd have to be someone who's unemployed. ;) Any software company is going to want to patent something that valuable; they'd be failing their shareholders if they didn't. Exce

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of March 17, 2011 7:48:58 PM -0400, Jerry is alleged to have said: > > I have two Linksys Wireless-N PCI cards in front of me that work > fine on a Windows platform. FreeBSD doesn't even have a driver for > them, thereby rendering them useless. I suppose that is Microsoft's > fault too. No

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:48:58PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:36:37 -0600 > Chad Perrin articulated: > > > > No, not really. It's more the fault of the hardware manufacturer. > > Chad, up until this point I had taken your response seriously. In fact, > I thought it was well pr

Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 06:27:13PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > > yes that is correct, LM stands for Long Mode which indicates amd64 support. > If your CPU doesn't list it, it's either a 32 bit only CPU, or it's a bug. . . . or maybe it is a 64 bit CPU that is not x86_64/amd64 compatible. Do I

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 08:27:32PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > > The additional knowledge that Linux supports them means the manufacturer > isn't totally closed to supporting Open-source software, but tells us > nothing beyond that. Linux's support may be by way of a binary blob from > Linksy

Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > . . . or maybe it is a 64 bit CPU that is not x86_64/amd64 compatible. > Do IA-64 (Itanium), IBM POWER, and SPARC 64 bit processors use the same > Long Mode functionality? > No, it is a function of it's ancestry, real mode, protected mode(16

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-17 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of March 16, 2011 10:17:12 PM +, Matthew Seaman is alleged to have said: I suggest you try out your update in a VM then, because I doubt anyone will produce an answer definitive enough for you. --As for the rest, it is mine. In case anyone still cares, and if a VM running in Paralle

Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:54:13PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > . . . or maybe it is a 64 bit CPU that is not x86_64/amd64 compatible. > > Do IA-64 (Itanium), IBM POWER, and SPARC 64 bit processors use the same > > Long Mode functionali

Emacs Throwing Errors On X

2011-03-17 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Some time ago, emacs started doing this on startup under X: (emacs:65141): GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a child process was requested but SIGCHLD action was set to SIG_IGN and ECHILD was received by waitpid(), so exit status can't be returned. This is a bug in the p

webcamd startup problems

2011-03-17 Thread Jimmie James
Hope someone can see what I missed here, as the topic says, webcamd doesn't start at boot. Logitec USB cameram product 0x08b2 vendor 0x046d, is plugged in, works wonderfully in skype-2.0.0.72,1, emesene-1.6.3, pwcview, etc.. grep webc /etc/rc.conf webcamd_enable="YES" -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wh

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-17 Thread Foo JH
Hello all, including the guys who responded. Thanks for the comments and tips/ links. I'd see what I can do to move fwd on the issue. Appreciate your feedback! On 3/10/2011 11:33 AM, Juan C. Valido wrote: I'm an old "foggie" also and a lifetime Windows guy and I did a lot of research and a l

Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread John Levine
>> yes that is correct, LM stands for Long Mode which indicates amd64 support. >> If your CPU doesn't list it, it's either a 32 bit only CPU, or it's a bug. > >. . . or maybe it is a 64 bit CPU that is not x86_64/amd64 compatible. >Do IA-64 (Itanium), IBM POWER, and SPARC 64 bit processors use the

Re: Booting from firmware RAID

2011-03-17 Thread ameiji
On Wed,16-03-2011 [16:25:54], Ilya Kazakevich wrote: > Thank you. > > I configured boot0 to my ar0 and tried to boot from it. It freezes. > I use RAID10 and Intel-ICH7. > > Looks like I've faced with some other troubles.. > > Ilya. > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:05 PM, mcoyles > wrote: > > > >T