Re: Microsoft "Dynamic DNS"

2009-09-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 19 September 2009 22:06:03 stan wrote: > I have a situation at work, where I need a FreeBSD machine to be in the > corporate DNS. We have been bought out, and the new owner says "no static > DNS entries". They use some Microsoft technogly where the client machiens > register thier name

Re: DHCP client questions

2009-09-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 20 September 2009 21:19:28 stan wrote: > I have several machines (such as a mailserver) which _MUST_ have fixed > names. I have played around with /etc/dhcllient.conf, but not managed to > get this working. I can get IP addresses, and various things such as > default routers, and DNS ser

Re: Not able to compile GENERIC kernel

2009-09-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 20 September 2009 23:26:58 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:10:00 +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote: > > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> # rm -fr /usr/obj/usr > >> # cd /usr/src > >> # make cleandir ; make cleandir > > > > I've seen serveral placeses that "make

Re: most bizarre libc.so.7 problem

2009-10-25 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 24 October 2009 14:33:53 B. Cook wrote: > B. Cook wrote, On 10/24/2009 7:43 AM: > 49 ===> lib/libc (install) > 50 install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 libc.a /usr/lib > 51 install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 libc_p.a /usr/lib > 52 install -s -o root -g wheel -m

Re: WPA: specify alternate config file in rc.conf

2009-11-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 00:57:41 jhell wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:27, onemda@ wrote: > > On 11/2/09, Chad Perrin wrote: > >> If I want to start wpa_supplicant directly, and specify a particular > >> configuration file, I can do something like this: > >> > >> wpa_supplicant -i iwi0 -c /

Re: system() call causes core dump

2009-11-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 31 October 2009 21:52:37 Peter Steele wrote: > >In UNIX it is not safe to perform arbitrary actions after forking a > > multi-threaded process. You're basically expected to call exec soon > > after the fork, although you can do certain other work if you are very > > careful. > > > >The

Re: weird save-entropy behaviour

2009-11-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 15 November 2009 17:30:02 Ed Jobs wrote: > Yesterday, i noticed a very weird behaviour on my computer (which is > running 8.0-RC3 btw. > The shells were not responding and the load was insane, and constantly > going up. At the time i managed to lock myself out, the load was 84 and > gro

Re: weird save-entropy behaviour

2009-11-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 15 November 2009 23:38:10 Ed Jobs wrote: > On Monday 16 November 2009 00:12, Mel Flynn wrote: > > Did the operator uid change or perhaps shared with another uid? > > Check both `id operator` and `id 2`. > > > > Secondly, why did this stop? Seems like a

Re: get accounting info for running process

2009-11-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:18:08 +0300, cronfy wrote: > Is it possible to find out how much a process have used CPU user > time/system time/IO operations for now by it's pid? Like in sa, but for > running process. > > Thanks in advance. man procfs(5), specifically, the status file. % cat /proc/21

Re: get accounting info for running process

2009-11-19 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:01:02 +0300, cronfy wrote: >>> Is it possible to find out how much a process have used CPU user >>> time/system time/IO operations for now by it's pid? Like in sa, but for >>> running process. >>> > > Dan, Mel, thanks for your answers. I examined 'ps' sources and dec

Re: diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13

2009-11-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:18:29 -0500, "Michael W. Lucas" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm attempting to run a diskless 8.0 i386 workstation on VMWare, using > an OpenSolaris box as a file store. I get PXE, the kernel loads, but > when we try to remount the filesystem I get: > > ... > NFS ROOT: XXX.XXX.XXX.X

Re: Problem compiling php5 fro ports

2009-11-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:13:39 +0100, Thomas Vogt wrote: > Hello > > Maybe someone can help me. I try to compile several php5 extensions from > the ports. php5 compiles fine but every extension fails with the same > error. > > Example: php5-mcrypt > > In file included from > /usr/local/include/ph

Re: kern.polling.lost_polls

2009-11-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:35:22 -0700 (MST), Brett Glass wrote: > Everyone: > > I've been experimenting with using device polling on a router with six > Ethernet > interfaces that handles lots of traffic. I turned polling on, and set > HZ=4000 > to minimize latency and ensure that enough time was al

Re: diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13

2009-11-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:49:16 -0500, "Michael W. Lucas" > It turns out that there's a whole discussion thread on nfsv2 and v3 > interoperability with diskless systems. See > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-January/022792.html > for a sample message. > > Short answer: it se

Re: kern.polling.lost_polls

2009-11-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:07:42 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:25 PM 11/20/2009, Mel Flynn wrote: > >>So that means that you give the kernel .25 microseconds to poll and act on >>any pending network IO. That's probably not enough. > > I think that you mean

Re: sending mail with attachments always fail (FreeBSD/pf)

2009-11-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:36:33 +0600, Victor Lyapunov wrote: >> This kind of thing is often due to a mtu blackhole - when a larger >> email causes a full size IP packet to be sent. I don't see why PF >> should make a difference though, IFAIK it's supposed to let ICMP through >> when it's learned sta

Re: System crashes under heavy disk i/o

2009-12-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 17 December 2009 12:26:12 Erik Norgaard wrote: > My two questions: > > - is there any utility that I can use monitor the system to see what's > going on, when or why? gstat(8) Also, perhaps syslog to a different machine or nfs mount /var/log if you feel you're missing a log message

Re: RFC: Fam/Python based script for bruteforce blocking

2009-12-19 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 17 December 2009 16:34:22 Brandon Low wrote: > I'd love to hear other people's feedback on this approach of using FAM + > auth.log to implement this and/or to hear of other superior approaches > to achieving this result. Well, my first problem with it is obviously that I now need pyth

Re: System crashes under heavy disk i/o

2009-12-19 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 17 December 2009 12:57:30 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > Turn down operating mode via atacontrol. If using dump(8) use the cache > > feature and/or do the backup from live disk, so no other services are > > running and disk isn't accessed other

Re: how to make vimage jail permanent by configuring rc.conf?

2009-12-19 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 18 December 2009 13:40:47 Kouichiro Iwao wrote: > I want to make it permanent. I want jails to start automatically when I > rebooted the host environment. I add the following lines into rc.conf. > > jail_jail01_flags="-c vnet" > jail_jail01_rootdir="/usr/jail/jail01" > jail_jail01_hostn

Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network

2009-12-20 Thread Mel Flynn
Hi, I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. I'm faced with two cable modems from the same ISP, with the same gateway. I can't lagg(4) the interfaces, since specific IP's are bound to specific modems. So I'm wonde

Re: Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network

2009-12-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 21 December 2009 09:56:11 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On 12/21/2009 6:03 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this > > assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. > > I'm fa

Re: Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network

2009-12-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 02:48:58 Craig Butler wrote: > On 22/12/2009 00:46, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Monday 21 December 2009 09:56:11 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > >> On 12/21/2009 6:03 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I've lo

Re: samba3.x - 3.0 won't compile, 3.2 and 3.3 can't be installed

2009-12-23 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 04:51:24 Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > For quite some time now I'm trying to get samba 3.x installed on my > FreeBSD 7.2 System. > > The symptoms in short: > > o) 3.0 - doesn't compile > > o) 3.2, 3.3 - can't be installed because of installation dependencies > to

Re: Packages vs Ports

2009-12-23 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 08:13:21 Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > > P.S. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 on an old Gateway Pentium III machine with a > > 40G harddrive. > > pkg's are created at the time of release eg 7.2. They are never updated > fo

Re: Help building/running SDL/OpenGL code

2009-12-23 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 06:36:19 Richard Mace wrote: > So, it appears that there is some conflict between the mesa libraries > (which I need to #include to build the code) and the NVIDIA-supplied > libraries, or am I on the wrong track? > > Can anyone shed some light on this? I've spent qui

Destroying a CD-R without a sledgehammer (Was: Re: (no subject))

2009-12-23 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 10:05:40 Modulok wrote: > List, > > Is there a software method (not a microwave oven) to destroy a CD-R? No. A CD-R is only readable once written. Rewritable CD's (CD-RW) you can reformat using your favorite burn tool, which should provide a short and long blank me

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 15:34:39 Glen Barber wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > >> On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: > >> > Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /ho

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 15:46:57 Glen Barber wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Mel Flynn > > wrote: > >> What does 'file /home' say? > > > > It is a symlink. What you really want to see is ls -l /home/. Note the > > trailing slash. >

Re: Upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 installworld failed

2009-12-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 24 December 2009 06:10:21 Colin wrote: > Hi folks, > I have started trying to upgrade my 7.0 to 7.2 and it all seemed to be > going well until I got to installworld. > > First off I did a cvsup for src-all from cvsup.ie.freebsd.org with the > tag RELENG_7_2 > > I have then done: > >

Re: Upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 installworld failed

2009-12-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 24 December 2009 09:47:26 Colin wrote: > On 24/12/2009 16:30, Mel Flynn wrote: > > I'm going to guess from the fact that installworld tries to build stuff, > > that /usr/obj is a filesystem that isn't mounted after your reboot or > > that the MAKEO

Re: top view different screens

2009-06-02 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 07:50:34 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Momchil Ivanov wrote: > > how can I view the second and third screens in top? Is it possible? > > Ah, now for that you'ld have to use middle(1) and bottom(1), Unfortunately > no one has written them yet... > > Seriously though: you can run t

Re: problem on a MX sendmail machine

2009-06-02 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 01 June 2009 11:33:59 RJ45 wrote: > hello I have a FreeBSD machine > > FreeBSD infngw.infn.it 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD > > being a MX record with high loads. > I often ahve this message on logs right before the machien locks up. > any hints ? > thank you > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buff

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-06-02 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 21:09:45 Chuck Robey wrote: > Probably, the only thing that really might need > another word or two is to make the services offered by FreeBSD-test list > better advertised (it does still exist, right?) People can post all the > test mail they want to that list. Nice stor

Re: migrating berkeley DBs (4.3 to 4.6)

2009-06-02 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 31 May 2009 15:23:34 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi: > > I have cyrus-imapd 2.3 with Berkeley DB 4.3 and openldap also compiled > with BDB 4.3. > > Now, openldap won't build with 4.3 and defaults to 4.6 so I need to > migrate my data, and I would like to migrate my cyrus-imapd also to a > newe

Re: [FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE] Audio going silent after wakeup.

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 31 May 2009 22:06:53 LoH wrote: > Unloading the module, letting it suspend on its own, then waking it up > and reloading the module does not cause the symptoms to appear. > > Wish I knew offhand what was being called to let it suspend, and which > state it was. See man acpiconf. Basicall

Re: Set task priority

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 01:05:13 Steve Bertrand wrote: > What is the best way to set priority on my task in order to ensure it > completes as quickly as possible, but does not cause a situation where > other programs and their children can't respond? You may want to consider the fact that prior

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 00:46:20 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > named[69750]: client *ip removed*: error sending response: not > > enough free resources > > quite misleading message, but the problem is that named want to send UDP > packet and get's error from kernel. > > > possible reasons > - y

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:48:48 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> possible reasons > >> - your firewall rules are the cause - check it. > >> - your network card produce problems (REALLY i have that case) > >> - the network/LAN named tries to sent UDP packet is somehow flooded. > > > > - the network c

Re: cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 12:41:31 Jeff Laine wrote: > Thanks for your reply, Eric. > Running master in debugging mode helped to find out that I had 640 > permissions on libdb* files. Doh. I'd file a bugreport upstream, this is not a "debug level message" but critical error condition, in fact wi

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:12:28 madunix wrote: > 3- General experience with Open Source technology? Kinda getting fed up with the amount of trolling lately and loving Sieve. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:34:28 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Of course, some condition that causes a proces to exit unexpectedly > ought to give a clearer log message, and it shouldn't keep retrying, for > that you might consider sending a bug report to the developers. That's exactly what I meant. E

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 14:07:53 Ghirai wrote: > Is there any (native) FreeBSD supoprt for Phidgets > (http://www.phidgets.com? I think you have the question backwards - it should be "does Phidgets support FreeBSD" and that you can answer. There seems to be "linux source", how far did you get

Re: Forgotten password

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 13:32:27 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Good day am a new user of of freebsd Os and i forgot my login password, i > > will need an assitance on how to get it changed. > > boot, press 4 at boot loader prompt to get single user. > > after seeing a guestion what to run as a shell

Re: /etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:48:21 Peter wrote: > iH, > This all started with NFS not mounting at bootso, testing in VMs: > Why is ping using one IP, and ssh/mount_nfs/showmount using another IP > from /etc/hosts? Q: Where is described that name resolution for A or PTR records should be r

Re: repeating error message from ssh

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:59:57 Dave wrote: > Hi, > Thanks everyone for the information on this. I'm not running > anything ipv6, i'd like to turn this off completely. The dns for my network > unfortunately due to lack of computers is being provided by a 2wire gateway > 2701, if anyone has

Re: cups and ghostscript recursive dependency problem

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 18:27:00 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > PORTNAME= ghostscript8 > PORTVERSION= 8.64 > PORTREVISION= 5 > ^^ \o/ Thanks for also respecting WITHOUT_CUPS since rev 3. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions

Re: [off-list] Re: Open_Source

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:26:00 Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, Mel > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mel Flynn > > wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:12:28 madunix wrote: > >> 3- General experience with Open Source technology? > > > > Kinda getting fed

Re: [off-list] Re: Open_Source

2009-06-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 22:05:55 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:26:00 Glen Barber wrote: > > Hi, Mel > > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mel Flynn > > > > wrote: > > > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:12:28 madunix wrote: > > >

Re: /etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 06 June 2009 20:44:38 Tim Judd wrote: > On 6/4/09, Peter wrote: > > I do not think /etc/hosts does round robin, I always assumed first match > > wins...DNS/bind I would understand... It's the same library call: gethostbyname(3) and friends. > > Why does ping always return the 172.20.

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 07 June 2009 23:49:48 Ian Smith wrote: > Thanks, but please humour my ignorance - would one install linux libusb > in /compat/linux for linux apps, as well as the freebsd port for native? If there's source, one would use native libusb. I'd go test with -current though. The libusb in th

Re: Lighttpd wedged and ignoring SIGKILL

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 18:25:30 L Campbell wrote: > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > 85542 www1 510 102M 85360K CPU6 6 16:34 100.00% lighttpd > > 1) Should this be possible? What is going on here? Change the write-backend. Look in go

Re: 7.2-RELEASE panics with snd_ds1 loaded.

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 21:14:14 Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently installed 7.2-RELEASE few weeks ago and noticed that it > panics after few minutes of loading snd_ds1 (driver for Yamaha PCI sound > card), and playing music on it. I've not added snd_ds1 to my loader.conf > so as so

Re: What is the equivalent of Linux command 'ps --forest'?

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 05 June 2009 09:12:08 Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 6/5/09, Yuri wrote: > > How can I see processes in a hierarchical way? > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2009-May/006912.html > > or pstree from ports. And if in a jail, you can use the patch below to add jail support via

Re: burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 07 June 2009 20:40:44 David M. Patronis wrote: > I suspect, unlike cdrecord and > growisofs, that burncd is no longer a modern utility, and is in serious > need of an overhaul. And sos@ retired :/ -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: issue with dhcp and dns

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 07 June 2009 13:42:36 Dave wrote: > I'm trying to get dhcp and dns going ddns on FreeBSD 7.2. In my > dhcpd.leases file i see the forward and reverse information given on the > lease. A host fqdn and a host IP address both return correct dns > information on this host. My issue is

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 04:18:10 Grünewald Michaël wrote: > Le 8 juin 09 à 23:20, Polytropon a écrit : > > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Roland Smith > > > > wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > >>> What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that d

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 08 June 2009 08:59:30 Tim Judd wrote: > What make.conf was to world+ports, is now > src.conf = world, make.conf = ports Nope. src.conf = world, make.conf = world+ports. Important distinction, which you'll notice when putting shared variables in make.conf (WITH_DEBUG, WITH_OPENLDAP f.e.

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 08 June 2009 18:36:39 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Jun 8, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Tim Judd wrote: > > If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should > > be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now > > src.conf = world, make.conf = ports > > What

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-10 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 00:49:16 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Martin McCormick wrote: > > Thanks to all. In this case, I made SIGTSTP have the > > same effect in the program that CTRL-C does (SIGINT) so now > > either signal makes the application remove the lock and quit > > gracefully. >

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-10 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 11:58:11 Leslie Jensen wrote: > It says > > :file -s /dev/acd0 > > /dev/acd0: data The other possibility is that the CD isn't closed (fixated). UDF is a superset of CD9660 anyway, so even UDF formatted should be mountable with cd9660. -- Mel _

Re: Need advise on how to mount certain CD's

2009-06-10 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 08:19:56 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > The other possibility is that the CD isn't closed (fixated). UDF is a > > superset > > no it is not. Well, the 1.02 version ("DVD-video") is, but I see the UDF format has let go of ISO9660 support in later versions. Pity. -- Mel _

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-10 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 08:28:14 Martin McCormick wrote: > Mel Flynn writes: > > Agreed. You're solving the wrong problem by mapping CTRL-Z to CTRL-C. The > > questions you should be asking are: > > 1) Why are stale locks bad for the app? > > Because if there is o

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

2009-06-10 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 13:33:19 Martin McCormick wrote: > We use both bind and the ISC DHCP server and are very > satisfied customers. When you use omshell to add a bootP entry, > it inserts it as a clause in the dhcpd.leases file but you still > must specify all the parameters yourself.

Re: Help With rc.d Script

2009-06-10 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 17:12:23 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I installed a software named "urchin" on my FBSD 7.2 box. > Unfortunately, it didn't come with an rc.d script to automate startup > and shutdown. And even more unfortunately, I can't seem to get my head > around the concepts in "Practical

Re: py25-tkinter-2.5.4_3 / 2.6.2_3

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 23:21:58 Pieter Donche wrote: > portupgrade advertizes since 3 days: > ... > py25-tkinter-2.5.4_3< needs updating (index has 2.6.2_3) > > using portupgrade -a > upgrades all other ports that need upgrading, but never py25-tkinter > > what's wrong here? I

Re: Help With rc.d Script -- SOLVED

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 05:45:59 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: > > --On June 10, 2009 7:09:17 PM -0700 Drew Tomlinson > > > > wrote: > All I want to do is create a script within the rc.d framework that > runs > "/usr/local/urchin/bin/urchinctl start" when the system b

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:36:16 Bernt Hansson wrote: > Roland Smith skrev: > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:48:32PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > >> Roland Smith skrev: > >> That doesn't help me. snd_hda driver won't load either way. I always > >> have to load it manualy. > > > > Wh

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:11:46 Polytropon wrote: > Of course, it won't show up in kldstat then It will if you add -v to kldstat. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: rc.conf when ssid has spaces in it: missing documentation or missing feature?

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:29:25 Yuri wrote: > I can't find any references in rc.conf(5) on how to set up ifconfig line > if SSID has spaces which is very typical situation. > ifconfig(8) doesn't mention this either but it works if I put quotes > around it. So escape use and escape the quotes wit

Re: rc.conf when ssid has spaces in it: missing documentation or missing feature?

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:55:15 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:29:25 Yuri wrote: > > I can't find any references in rc.conf(5) on how to set up ifconfig line > > if SSID has spaces which is very typical situation. > > ifconfig(8) doesn't mention th

Re: rc.conf when ssid has spaces in it: missing documentation or missing feature?

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 12:03:56 Yuri wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > So escape use and escape the quotes with a backslash. You may need more > > then one backslash, depending on the level of evaluation in /etc/rc.subr > > and /etc/rc.d/netif. > > I believe documentation

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 12:22:04 Bernt Hansson wrote: > Mel Flynn skrev: > > On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:36:16 Bernt Hansson wrote: > >> Roland Smith skrev: > >>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:48:32PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > >>>> Roland Smith sk

Re: reference for beginner on configure/make/compile/linking/etc.

2009-06-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 14:09:43 Gary Gatten wrote: > It seems > COMPLETELY overly complex to me - maybe cause the developer tries to > make it as portable as possible, but with every *nix like things putting > files wherever they want, different cc's / ld's, etc. - I can see where > it can get h

Re: XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 05:42:52 Carmel wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:40:49 +0200 > > Polytropon wrote: > >On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:54 -0400, Carmel > > > >wrote: > >> I tried a trick I found while Googling to place 'xrandr - 1024x768 -r > >> 85' in the '.xinitrc' file; however, that did not wo

Re: py25-tkinter-2.5.4_3 / 2.6.2_3

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 11 June 2009 21:33:14 Pieter Donche wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 June 2009 23:21:58 Pieter Donche wrote: > >> portupgrade advertizes since 3 days: > >> ... > >> py25-tkinter-2.5.4_3<

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 04:43:46 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > > # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL > > (or use any other descriptive name instead of MYKERNEL). > > edit MYKERNEL and add > > device sound > > device snd_hda > > # cd /usr/src >

Re: `sched_clock' changed from 144 in sched_4bsd.o to 258 in sched_ule.o

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 06:44:50 Neil Short wrote: > I'm taking a crack at the port win4bsd. The port informs me that I need to > add options SCHED_4BSD > to my kernel. It's an either/or thing. Remove SCHED_ULE. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: The freebsd-questions Archives

2009-06-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 22:21:08 Leslie Jensen wrote: > No matches were found for ... htdung is a failed project. > How should I search the list ? http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: path for user www

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 06:15:11 Pieter Donche wrote: > Now I see from reading the apache start-up script /usr/local/sbin/apachectl > that one can create a file with instructions to be executed at > startup of Apache: any file in /usr/local/etc/apache22/envvars.d is > sourced into the start up envi

Re: path for user www

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 06:29:13 Paul Schmehl wrote: > Why would you want to? You'd open yourself up to all sorts of potential > compromise paths. There's a reason why root's path is different from > normal users. Without forcing a PATH for apache, you open yourself up to exactly the things you

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 11:18:42 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:07:05PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote: > > hi there, > > > > when i try printing certain website the font looks very pixelated and i > > can't read anything. the same happens if i tell firefox to redirect the > > pri

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 12:00:52 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:41:14AM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Monday 15 June 2009 11:18:42 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:07:05PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote: > > > > hi the

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 12:56:29 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:34:19PM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Monday 15 June 2009 12:00:52 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:41:14AM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: > > > > On Monday 15 June

Re: vim question...

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 12:45:54 Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:12:01PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > In vim, with "set compatible" enabled", typing 'u' repeatedly toggles > > between the last two states of the buffer. In "compatible" mode I am > > not sure of how to undo mul

Re: `sched_clock' changed from 144 in sched_4bsd.o to 258 in sched_ule.o

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 10:26:26 Neil Short wrote: > --- On Fri, 6/12/09, Mel Flynn wrote: > > From: Mel Flynn > > Subject: Re: `sched_clock' changed from 144 in sched_4bsd.o to 258 in > > sched_ule.o To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Cc: "Neil Short&qu

Re: feedback, comments on this php-delimiter scrubbing program?

2009-06-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 17:21:16 Gary Kline wrote: > Encl: dephp.c, test case '?': ch = getchar(); while (1) { if (ch == '?' && (ch = getchar()) == '>') { break; } else

Re: Why obsoleted if_watchdog interface ?

2009-06-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 07:40:36 Michael Gass wrote: > I installed an old 3Com network card in my machine (Pavilion 4455) > and it works fine, but I get the following warning in dmesg > > ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0 > ep0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watch

Re: Problem with bash script

2009-06-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 06:03:33 Daniel Underwood wrote: > > $ find ./ -name "*.pem" -exec cp {} /usr/home/tmp/something \; > > I'm a novice with shell scripting myself, but what's the difference > between that code and some variant thereof using a pipe and "xargs"? > Are they simply two different

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 15 June 2009 23:19:15 Matthias Apitz wrote: > (II) LoadModule: "freetype" > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype > (II) UnloadModule: "freetype" > (EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0) > > and there are posts in Google that this is not needed anymore bec

Re: startx does not work, startxfce4 does!

2009-06-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 08:27:41 Leslie Jensen wrote: > On a newly installed 7.2-RELEASE system with all ports upgraded and > cvsup'ed I have a problem. > > Both root and user has > > .xsession linked to .xinitrc > > and contains > > #!/bin/sh Remove the she-bang and make sure .xinitrc is in $HO

Re: Problem authenticating with sasl in jail

2009-06-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 03:43:58 Erik Norgaard wrote: > I am migrating my imap server to a jail, I got the jail up and > cyrus-imapd starts. I have copied configuration files from the current > server, cyrus.conf, imapd.conf and passwd and group files. saslauthd is > running, yet when I try to l

Re: Updating linux-pango

2009-06-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 11:53:59 Jerry wrote: > That does not supply an answer. And that was a lot of quoting for a post that only shows you are running in pedantic mode. But let me clarify for the joyful moment that the next poor soul bitten by this issue searches the list archive: - there i

Re: Problem authenticating with sasl in jail

2009-06-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 13:58:22 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 03:43:58 Erik Norgaard wrote: > >> I am migrating my imap server to a jail, I got the jail up and > >> cyrus-imapd starts. I have copied configuration files f

Re: Problem authenticating with sasl in jail

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 21:51:03 Erik Norgaard wrote: > >> Jun 17 23:39:17 jail imap[8412]: badlogin: jail.example.com [172.16.0.2] > >> plaintext cy...@example.com SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed > >> > Jun 18 07:46:28 alpha imap[14244]: badlogin: > jail.example.com [172.16.0.2] p

The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
Does anyone have a how-to or pitfall summary on how to get a vista computer to: - accept DHCP offers from isc-dhcp30-server-3.0.7_4 - connect to WPA-PSK using *any* scheme supported by FreeBSD's hostapd - give debugging information that makes sense to someone not speaking "if !not_working throw g

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 09:56:29 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jun 18, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: > > Does anyone have a how-to or pitfall summary on how to get a vista > > computer > > to: > > - accept DHCP offers from isc-dhcp30-server-3.0.7_4 &g

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 10:27:44 Tim Judd wrote: > Long ago in 2007, I saw a M$ article that describes that Vista has an > extremely short delay period to get an IP. If it doesn't get it > within 1 second, it gives up (and maybe tries again). Common DHCP > servers ping an IP address, wait 1 seco

Re: Problem authenticating with sasl in jail

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 11:21:51 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 21:51:03 Erik Norgaard wrote: > >>>> Jun 17 23:39:17 jail imap[8412]: badlogin: jail.example.com > >>>> [172.16.0.2] plaintext cy...@example.com SASL

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 14:30:21 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jun 18, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > >> A broadcast of 255.255.255.255 is misconfigured (not saying it's not > >> gonna work, I'm saying for your network, it's not configured right). > >> you need broadcast-address 192.168.2.255 >

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