Re: Unable to build the print/lyx port

2011-08-18 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:55:42 -1000 Open Slate Project wrote: > I was unsuccessful in posting directly so I am forwarding from another > account. Apologies for format. > > Gary Dunn wrote: > > >FreeBSD Questions > > > > > >Unable to build the print/lyx port. Generic kernal, fresh portsnap > >

Can *you* UFS snapshot a filesystem with 9.0-BETA1?

2011-08-18 Thread Hugo Silva
I'm wondering. On a virtual machine (amd64 HVM+PV), it's crashing every time. Not sure if this is SNAFU, as I had never used ufs snapshots on freebsd before. After running mksnap_ffs, ssh stops working (a telnet session doesn't show the sshd banner). The ssh session where the command was run from

Re: single user login

2011-08-18 Thread Gerald Stoller
I tried 2 of the suggested solutions, first the one that said when I get the "#" prompt I should type in "boot -s" and the second that when I get to the "ok" prompt I should type in "boot -s". With the first I got the response "boot: permission denied", and with the second I go to the the regul

Did a patch get overwritten?

2011-08-18 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
Hello all, I have a patch that I applied to the FreeBSD source in /usr/src/. I then executed a make buildworld that succeeded. I ran make release to generate media. However, it looks as though the driver I patched was updated by CVS during the make release process as seen in the make release

Re: Did a patch get overwritten?

2011-08-18 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:20:41 + "Miller, Vincent (Rick)" wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a patch that I applied to the FreeBSD source in /usr/src/. I > then executed a make buildworld that succeeded. I ran make release > to generate media. However, it looks as though the driver I patched >

Re: Did a patch get overwritten?

2011-08-18 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
Awesome! Thanks Herbert! I thought I was intimately familiar with that manpage as much as I'd read it this week. Apparently, not intimately enough. I appreciate you pointing that out for me. == Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Engineer vmil...@verisign.com t: 703-948-4395 21345 Ridgetop Cir Dull

Re: looking for a spammer/virii/malware .... on my system

2011-08-18 Thread alexus
ok su-3.2# tcpdump -nnAvvvw webmail.west.cox.net 'dst host 68.6.19.1 and (dst port 80 or 443)' tcpdump: listening on bce0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes Got 0 let's see what I capture... On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On August 15, 2011 2:04:27 PM

Re: looking for a spammer/virii/malware .... on my system

2011-08-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:36 AM, alexus wrote: > su-3.2# tcpdump -nnAvvvw webmail.west.cox.net 'dst host 68.6.19.1 and > (dst port 80 or 443)' > tcpdump: listening on bce0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes > Got 0 > > let's see what I capture... You're going to capture traffic of pe

Re: looking for a spammer/virii/malware .... on my system

2011-08-18 Thread alexus
right, but what seems to be (according to headers) someone makes a connection from my box to theirs over the web (80/443) so i'm going see if I can see anything, if not then i'll keep it blocked until I figure out something else to find who does that... On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Chuck Swig

Re: ports make search not working in jails

2011-08-18 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Jason Helfman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:05:14AM -0400, Alejandro Imass thus spake: >> >> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: >>> >>> Hi, [...] > > But does make search now work? > Today I noticed something interesting... If you

Re: kernel panics involving NFS+RPCSEC_GSS

2011-08-18 Thread Clinton Adams
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Clinton Adams wrote: > Hello, > > Kernel panics if clients hit the nfs server sufficiently hard - > happens repeatedly with 13 clients logging in at the same approximate > time, using nfsv4 mounted homes. > > server is running freebsd 8.2-RELEASE-p2. clients are li

Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-18 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
Is there any way to enable gjournal on an already existing filesystem without destroying it? I'm assuming there are definite advantages to using gjournal over softupdates? -- Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > Is there any way to enable gjournal on an already existing filesystem > without destroying it? > You can't really(it can be done but requires exception circumstance). If you didn't take these steps during initial install you're best o

kernel panics involving NFS+RPCSEC_GSS

2011-08-18 Thread Clinton Adams
Hello, Kernel panics if clients hit the nfs server sufficiently hard - happens repeatedly with 13 clients logging in at the same approximate time, using nfsv4 mounted homes. server is running freebsd 8.2-RELEASE-p2. clients are linux 2.6.38-10 Running a memtest on the server now to rule out bad

new to os

2011-08-18 Thread scott mcclellan
I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis).   Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me 30 years - on a TRS-80). I know remember extremely little of OS ver

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Bernt Hansson
On 2011-08-19 00:18, scott mcclellan wrote: I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me 30 years - on a TRS-8

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT), scott mcclellan wrote: > I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or > maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Pick FreeBSD as an OS, it will be a benefit for your UNIX skills and your productivity, as well as for your opinion about learn

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Rod Person
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT) scott mcclellan wrote: > I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm > going through a midlife crisis). > Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate > back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:18:09PM -0700, scott mcclellan wrote: > > I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm > going through a midlife crisis). > > Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate > back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past fo

Automounter nfs woes

2011-08-18 Thread Da Rock
I'm a late starter on this (been no need until now), but I'm now trying to get my laptop to run automounter/amd to work on a nfs config. I installed automounter from ports and got it working beautifully for removable devices, but nfs is eluding me. I believe my problem lies more with amd- I've

Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-18 Thread perryh
"Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: > Is there any way to enable gjournal on an already existing > filesystem without destroying it? Yes, provided the existing filesystem is not using the last block of its provider (partition), but you'll have to put the journal on a separate provider from the data. Se

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, scott mcclellan wrote: I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me 30 years - on a TRS-80).

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Al Plant
Lars Eighner wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, scott mcclellan wrote: I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me 30

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Polytropon wrote: [...] > Furthermore, I always thought the TRS-80 ran CP/M, not DOS, > but I could be wrong as I (1st) didn't do any research on > it (first sin!) and (2nd) don't own one so I could check. > They ran many things. I had several, even an older TRS

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Al Plant wrote: Aloha Lars, You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can read them for transfer to a contemporary program? I don't know of anything. If I recall correctly, abi

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Lars Eighner on Thursday, 18 August 2011: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Al Plant wrote: > > >Aloha Lars, > > > >You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were > >created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can read > >them for transfer to a contemporary

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT) scott mcclellan wrote: > I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm > going through a midlife crisis). Hey, learning new things is never bad. Not to do so is to stagnate. I was in my late 30s myself when I took up Unix in earne

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread perryh
Lars Eighner wrote: > You might, for example, still have your copy of WP 5 -- I do. > But printers that work with the printer drivers are now museum > pieces ... With the notable exception of PostScript printers. WP5 probably had a driver for the Apple LaserWriter, and -- while actual LaserWrit

ZFS and NFS or CIFS

2011-08-18 Thread Chris Brennan
Greetings! I have several ZFS volumes set up on my FreeBSD 8.2 (32-bit) server at home and I am trying to figure out how to set up a NFS and/or CIFS share of the various volumes I have created and for the life of me, I can't figure it out. I don't really care which one or both right now (I shou