Re: Error linking MYKERNEL

2009-09-20 Thread Rob Farmer
2009/9/20 Arkady Tokaev : > > After hours of > # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL > > I see this: > ... > linking kernel.debug > if_ural.o(.text+0x743): In function `ural_free_tx_list': > /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/if_ural.c:627: undefined reference to > `ieee80211_free_node' rum and ural are wirel

Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Rob Farmer
it has been answered somewhere, but I can't find it - which FreeBSD archs are little/big endian? Thanks. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Rob Farmer
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:51 PM, David Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: >> David Kelly wrote: >> >On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: > > [...] > >> >>I'm sure it has been ans

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Rob Farmer
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Kaya Saman writes: > >> David Kelly wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: >>> >>>> I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on >>

Re: Querying a cvsup server

2012-02-07 Thread Rob Farmer
reebsd-mirrors/cvsup-stats-global.php -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Re[2]: newfs create to little inodes

2012-04-16 Thread Rob Farmer
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Something about -your- installation is causing you to run out of inodes. > This is a release engineering issue in 9.0, not just his installation. The defaults are screwed up. See bin/162659. -- R

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-24 Thread Rob Farmer
ursive - kdelibs4 depends on hal, then other stuff depends on it. If it could be configured to work without hal, most likely the rest of the list would be just fine. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Rob Farmer
ed - basically it seemed to say "some keyboards are screwed up, so rather than fix them would everyone stop using this character please." I have a good feeling what the success rate of that will be. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Rob Farmer
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Rob Farmer predatorlabs.net> writes: > >> Have you used the default FreeBSD shell (tcsh) recently? > > tcsh is not a shell. Well, it’s an interactive command line > interpreter, not a bad one compared to what e

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Rob Farmer
tips.com >> > > btw, would you stop putting ads on your signature? it's annoying > LOL - how hypocritical. This thread was four days dead then suddenly two people show up and start pushing this mksh shell, which seems to be part of some obscure OpenBSD fork. If

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Rob Farmer
s svn in the user's ssh session and manipulate the repo's files directly (this allows users to accidentally or intentionally trash up the repo, so svnserve is safer if you don't fully trust all your committers. Plus you have to watch for permission and umask issues with svn+ssh). -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-08 Thread Rob Farmer
b plugin from IcedTea is available in 6). -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: post-installation of CDDL files

2011-03-12 Thread Rob Farmer
___ > 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" > Install it manually. Go to src/cddl/l

Re: make release custom kernel conf not found

2012-01-29 Thread Rob Farmer
release built.  I appreciate any advice and feedback.  Thanks. > The kernel is built inside the chroot, so all paths are really /app/release/. Your symlink points to /app/release/root/kernels/MYKERNEL. It will be easiest to get rid of the symlink and copy the actual file into you

Re: make release custom kernel conf not found

2012-01-31 Thread Rob Farmer
it. Copying it in is the quick and dirty fix. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Rob Farmer
f you are in the US, these laws regarding what may be exported to where always apply, regardless of what the license says. Making the license more visible may be a good idea, but doesn't materially change the situation any. -- Rob Farmer

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Rob Farmer
nd such allow people in the embargoed countries to download code - I've seen a brief reference saying Sourceforge was forced to IP ban these. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Rob Farmer
eBSD never touched the license header. However, I am going to do it next time to avoid confusions. ( http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-October/222451.html ) I don't think this makes a bit of difference (it fact it would be somewhat misleading) since the export restrictions are

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-07 Thread Rob Farmer
yer about doing such an export, it is reasonable to expect that they would bring this up, rather than just summarize license terms on a one-off basis. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-07 Thread Rob Farmer
r messages says things like "El 07/10/2010" and "Rob Farmer escribió" and you seem unwilling to actually talk about US law, I'm curious to know where you attended law school and what states you are licensed to practice in, since you seem to be offe

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Rob Farmer
t that since key parts of FreeBSD are contributions by people in the US and are then exported, it just might actually be affected by what US lawmakers say about exports. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Rob Farmer
wouldn't be subject to the EAR or why changing the license for this code would make one bit of difference (beyond public relations). -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-09 Thread Rob Farmer
; > Disagree?  Well, re-read what you wrote.  See what I mean? I *still* see no explaination of why the EAR doesn't apply or why I am wrong - just tangents about my world view, etc. The only other person who actually addressed the issue of US export laws, Robert Bonomi, largel

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-09 Thread Rob Farmer
ess some of it. (For example, the one about making a video and DMCAing it was only re-posted to the list after it was sent to me and I publicly replied). -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-09 Thread Rob Farmer
On Oct 9, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 09:47:04 -0700 > Rob Farmer articulated: > >> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 05:30, Henry Olyer >> wrote: > >> "Surrilous" isn't an English word, nor an obvious typo of one, so I >> h

Re: libxul compilation problem

2010-10-15 Thread Rob Farmer
need more swap - Mozilla stuff is not know for being light on resources. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: libxul compilation problem

2010-10-16 Thread Rob Farmer
multiple CPUs/cores. You can try running with "make -DDISABLE_MAKE_JOBS" to just run one at a time - maybe you have enough memory for that but not multiple jobs at once? -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: libxul compilation problem

2010-10-17 Thread Rob Farmer
onfiguration, but that assumes a decent amount of swap - I'll bet sysinstall's recommended partitioning would give you 2 GB. Try mailing the maintainers (ge...@freebsd.org) and see what they say. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: how to disable SCTP kernel in FreeBSD

2010-10-25 Thread Rob Farmer
t show up this way unless you run kldstat -v (and it can't be unloaded since there's no module). I'm not familiar with SCTP, but I bet you can shut it off/control it with sysctl (assuming it does anything by default). To completely delete support for it will require building a c

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Rob Farmer
nd to wait for something to go wrong before checking (you can tell by the regular threads where people report a problem it already addresses.) -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Can't install - Octave, SuiteSparse

2010-10-27 Thread Rob Farmer
h 4.5.2.20101014 on amd64 current recently. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Continuing problem with "portsnap"

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Farmer
FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. This is a separate issue due to bad DNS - the list of mirrors is obtained from: host -t srv _http._tcp.portsnap.freebsd.org and falls back to just portsnap.freebsd.org if it doesn't work. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: SSHgaurd and PF

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Farmer
probably a shared web hosting account that was compromised by a bad php script - even if you successfully complain (assuming it is a legit hoster that cares) and they do something about it, there are thousands more. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questi

Re: SSHgaurd and PF

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Farmer
t you mentioned sets up the table and has pf drop the connection attempts, but you need to configure syslog to fill the table with IPs of attackers. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: SSHgaurd and PF

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Farmer
- if that isn't working, then check to see if your ftp server is logging to syslog under auth or authpriv. If not you'll need to change the setup to get the logs from the right place. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: SSHgaurd and PF

2010-11-02 Thread Rob Farmer
.conf (don't forget to restart syslog) and it should be working - I'm not sure what the threshold for sshguard to block someone is, but you could test it - just make sure you have a way to get back in if it works and your IP is blocked (or wait for the next script kiddie). -- Rob

Re: portupgrade fails to run or do anything

2010-11-07 Thread Rob Farmer
e port names, but no longer, which is why I > suspect that I have a screwed up database. Perhaps it is fallout from recent infrastructure changes? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2010-October/205680.html Portupgrade doesn't seem to have an active maintainer, so perhaps try

Re: portupgrade fails to run or do anything

2010-11-07 Thread Rob Farmer
of unreviewed patches. So I would say portupgrade is unmaintained and thus encourage people to move to portmaster. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-09 Thread Rob Farmer
still points out one of the biggest problems with the CLI - there is a barrier to entry in knowing what commands to run with what arguments to make everything work the way you want. File > Print was easy for your office staff to figure out. The CLI equivalent apparently wasn't. I think many here are underestimating the value of GUIs, because they have been running many of these traditional UNIX commands for years (or decades) and are also technically oriented enough that learning them in the first place wasn't a big deal. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: pseuadofs security announcement...

2010-11-11 Thread Rob Farmer
210188, it was fixed in r196859. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-11 Thread Rob Farmer
limiting me to the programs I know or am willing to read documentation for. I never read documentation for GUI programs - I jump right in and look through the menus to find what I need or realize the program isn't adequate and move on. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Rob Farmer
uter users will never give up the GUI, because it involves investing in computer skills and they don't see that as terribly worthwhile - they just want to get started on their work. I think some UNIX fans are reluctant to accept this, and in doing so li

Re: mergemaster comparing everything.

2010-11-12 Thread Rob Farmer
NG_8_1 1.5.36.1 for RELENG_8 1.5 for MAIN (current) There are many more 1.5.x revisions for other branches. These shouldn't exist - the file hasn't changed since 2000 and 1.5 should just be tagged with for all releases since then. -- Rob Farmer _

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:06, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:21:51 -0800, Rob Farmer > wrote: >> I'm not saying the CLI is universally bad - if you gain competence >> with a set of programs that you use frequently, it can be very >> efficient. It doe

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:48, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Thu Nov 11 23:20:20 2010 >> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:21:51 -0800 >> From: Rob Farmer >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: Tips for installing

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Rob Farmer
working copy at once, nor can they commit at exactly the same time. The difference is that locking is done at the application layer, rather than by the OS itself. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: JMicron JMB363 PCIe controler doesn't work

2010-11-13 Thread Rob Farmer
ch Puchar, interestingly enough): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-May/199607.html Writing more mail to complain about too much mail is self-defeating. That's why I don't reply to stuff like the devil thread - it just

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Farmer
d covers a lot of common problems: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Farmer
tent, > instead ${SH} exists. Interesting - I assumed it would be listed in bsd.commands.mk, but it seems to not be. Most of the base system tools are. In any case, glad to hear you got it working. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-18 Thread Rob Farmer
s, it may not be worth adding, from a bloat point of view. I would say it is probably safe for your port to assume csh is /bin/csh, though. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE

2010-12-03 Thread Rob Farmer
is (right now) called 9.0 for cases where a version number is necessary, because that is what will be branched from it next, but it will become 10.0, 11.0, etc. without a new branch in CVS once more stable branches exist. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articl

Re: FreeBSD .dlink 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #1: Tue Nov 9 21:13:03 MSK 2010 r...@.dlink:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

2010-12-04 Thread Rob Farmer
loader.conf to get it automatically every boot. If you are going to manually build things in /usr/src, you should run make obj in the directory first, to create a directory in /usr/obj for output. Otherwise, your .o files and such are mixed in with your sou

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Rob Farmer
sh -x to see more detail. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Portupgrade status [Was Re: Portmaster general questions and problems]

2010-12-26 Thread Rob Farmer
D5 distinfo broke it and it stayed broken for over a week with no indication given that a fix was in the works. On the other hand, Doug Barton has been very responsive to issues with portmaster and fixed this problem less than 48 hours after it appeared. Hence my recommendation to switch. -- Rob

Re: java

2010-12-26 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 16:59, xinyou yan wrote: > $javac helloworld.java     //No problem > $java   helloworld.class It should be "java helloworld" (no extension). -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: SD/CF card reader

2010-12-27 Thread Rob Farmer
have been removed from current recently (large discussion of the details): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2010-December/023131.html Even Windows doesn't bother with the alignment in recent versions. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-quest

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-29 Thread Rob Farmer
Supposedly, English has a lot more homonyms than other languages. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Rob Farmer
ets up a couple environment variables and runs the real binary. You need to gdb the real binary (which is in /usr/local/lib/firefox or somesuch - its not in any remotely normal $PATH). Since the environment stuff the script does is required for it to start,

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Farmer
To load sem on every boot put the following into your /boot/loader.conf: sem_load="YES" == -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Should I use the standard-supfile or stable-supfile?

2011-01-20 Thread Rob Farmer
ed: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Can't install - Octave, SuiteSparse

2011-01-27 Thread Rob Farmer
od but it was corrected next time the port was updated. I would suggest the reporter try again with a recent version - I suspect it will work fine. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rob Farmer
because the regular user can't write there. I would save any bookmarks or other useful items and then delete the folder. I haven't run into this in FreeBSD but you can get similar problems in Windows if a global profile is created in C:\Program Files\Op

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rob Farmer
else. >  So I have no idea where the program is storing the profile info. > > Rem > I think /usr/local/bin/opera is a shell script that sets a couple environment variables and starts the real binary, so maybe you could open it and see if there are any clues. Otherwise, I have no other

Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Rob Farmer
single file, though Vmware has an option to split it up for these situations. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: shutdown computer after the halt command

2011-02-07 Thread Rob Farmer
at happened. > Just did - it kills all process and moves to the syncing disks stage. Nothing rc related is touched. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: Run your own portsnap mirror?

2011-02-10 Thread Rob Farmer
ining why this might not be a good idea, though. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: which java on 8-release

2010-02-04 Thread Rob Farmer
my own. Diablo should work on 8 with the misc/compat7x port - I'm running diablo-jdk16 on -current without any problems. -- Rob Farmer > > Thanks, > Steve > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Howto run privileged commands on login/logout

2010-02-06 Thread Rob Farmer
ist discussions about setuid shell scripts but don't remember what the verdict was). -- Rob Farmer > > Is this possible, without messing arround with sudo or adding users to wheel > or operator groups? > > Thanks, Erik > > -- > Erik Nørgaard >

Re: EVOLUTION a, slow start, SOLVED

2010-03-07 Thread Rob Farmer
t unuseable for multi user > systems... > Thanks for looking into this - I've observed the slow startup with Evolution too. Have you submitted a PR with the patch? That's the best way to get it reviewed and included in the tree. -- Rob Farmer

Re: Compiling Linux into Kernel

2010-03-09 Thread Rob Farmer
d64 options COMPAT_LINUX32 You can compile in the linprocfs module with options LINPROCFS See /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES and /usr/src/sys/$ARCH/conf/NOTES to find lists of all available kernel options. -- Rob Farmer > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: can't ping localhost

2010-03-10 Thread Rob Farmer
a bytes >> ping: sendto: No route to host >> ping: sendto: No route to host >> ^C > > what is the output of uname -a ? > > I believe -current has a issue where you can not ping localhost atm That's correct. Try the following patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~q

device "urtw" is unknown

2009-07-15 Thread Rob Farmer
Hi, I am trying to build a custom kernel with the urtw device on 8.0 beta 1 amd64. According to the man page, I should add device urtw to my config (just Generic plus this) and it should work. But, I get: config: Error: device "urtw" is unknown What am I missing?

Re: what would take to allow binary upgrade to amd64?

2010-05-30 Thread Rob Farmer
cover for bad system administration. It will serve you much better in the long run. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-

Re: what would take to allow binary upgrade to amd64?

2010-05-31 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Rob Farmer wrote: >> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> I know that attempting to change from i386 to amd64 is is not possible >> >> The proper proce

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Rob Farmer
sters (not via the list) so FreeBSD can't really do much about it. If mpcustomer.com refuses to deal with it you can always try complaining to their upstream provider, taking the line that since the messages are unsolicited and there is no way to unsubscribe the practice is probably illegal.

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Rob Farmer
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:06:46 Rob Farmer wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Matthias Fechner > wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Am 10.06.10 11:47, schrieb Jonathan McKeown: >> >> S

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Rob Farmer
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:51:42 Rob Farmer wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Jonathan McKeown > wrote: > [rant about midphase hosting and mpcustomer.com] >> >> They posted in a previous thread about

Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed?

2010-06-30 Thread Rob Farmer
e installed, of course). See the files for those things in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for the details of what is run. See: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome -- Rob Farmer > > A: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gnome [bad answer: file do

Re: Anybody using the portcheckout port

2010-07-22 Thread Rob Farmer
g/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html -- Rob Farmer > The manpage has no information about any options at all, so have no idea how > the -d option is to be coded. I do have a /usr/ports/INDEX file so don't > understand what its complaining about. > ___

Re: cpu_reset: stopping other CPUs - machine stalls at halt or reboot

2010-07-25 Thread Rob Farmer
one it a number of times and never had any issues. However, even on a real computer, there is a bit of a delay here - my Thinkpad T61 will sit there for around 20 seconds before actually rebooting. I have no idea how to even start debugging this kind of thing and it isn't a r

Re: trouble building FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 kernel with pfsync support

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Farmer
ly; I've got CARP configured. > > If I uncomment the "devic pfsync" the build aborts at link time ending thus: Do you also have a "device pf" line? I think that is a prereq for pfsync. You may also need "device pflog" - I'm not sure because I'

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

2010-09-01 Thread Rob Farmer
psuedo user" -d "/var/squid" -s "/usr/sbin/nologin" -h - This assumes data is in /var/squid. You can create this directory and use chmod/chown to give the user and group necessary permissions. The UID and GID (100 and 100 in th

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

2010-09-01 Thread Rob Farmer
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Rob Farmer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Ed Flecko wrote: >> Hi folks, >> I'm looking in some documentation for Squid, which I'm installing on a >> FBSD 8.1 server, and it says I need to create a squid user and a squi

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Farmer
naries for releases and open-vm-tools is marked broken on current. -- Rob Farmer > > current# pwd > /usr/ports/emulators > current# mv vmware-guestd6 vmware-guestd6.old > current# tar xzf ~guru/vmware-guestd6.tar.gz > current# cd vmware-guestd6 > current# make > ==

Re: vmware-guestd6: error during make install

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Farmer
7.1.1 build-282343. It has kernel modules for 8.0 i386 & amd64. http://www.predatorlabs.net/dl/vmware-tools-freebsd-711.iso -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: why is the PHP stuff line "off" by default in ports/lang/php5?

2010-09-19 Thread Rob Farmer
e. > > Not a problem when you have the horsepower and time to build it, but a > significant loss of ability to install apache+php from packages, as you > once could from the CDs .. guess I just got spoiled back there in the > olden days :) Adding a slave port would proba

Re: why is the PHP stuff line "off" by default in ports/lang/php5?

2010-09-20 Thread Rob Farmer
ml [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-June/151384.html -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: why is the PHP stuff line "off" by default in ports/lang/php5?

2010-09-20 Thread Rob Farmer
er work to do that, then, as I said, don't reply and let someone else explain it. -- Rob Farmer ___ 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: rebuilding world - is "chflags -R noschg *" necessary?

2010-09-23 Thread Rob Farmer
s with immutable flag set? > Is this step really necessary? It will happen on amd64 if you build the lib32 bits (i386 compatibility libraries). -- Rob Farmer > > many thanks > anton > > -- > Anton Shterenlikht > Room 2.6, Queen's Building > Mech Eng Dept > Bris