FreeBSD

Help sought with reading a tape
I've got a FreeBSD 7.0 Release machine that I'm trying to read a tape with. The tape is a DAT72 (so is the drive, attached to an Adaptec SCSI card). The problem I have is that I don't know what kind of system the tape came from - whether it's Windows, something unixy or something else entirely[0]. I've tried: ... 28 Jul 2008 07:56

submitting a problem report
I attempted yesterday to send (for the first time) a PR using send-pr. As far as I can see, it was mailed off successfully from my end, but I haven't received a confirmation message. Shouldn't I have by now? Is there any way I can tell whether it reached FreeBSD-gnats-submit(a)freebsd.org successfully or if I scre... 1 Aug 2008 05:49

who command not displaying connected users
Hello I've installed a clean version of FreeBSD 7.0. Having issued the w command a few times it ceases to display connected users. [root(a)computer-1 ~]# w 7:02PM up 1:01, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT [root(a)computer-1 ~]# The p... 27 Jul 2008 15:34

dtrace
Hello, Does anyone know the status of FreeBSD dtrace? The most recent thing I could find was this blog: http://dtrace.what-creek.com/ and it seems like the guy was having some license issues. It has been several months since the last post :(. []'s Rafael ... 27 Jul 2008 05:21

bind flaw properly fixed?!
Hi, I ran the following test on both OpenBSD and FreeBSD: https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/porttest [root(a)ns1 ~]# dig @localhost +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net. "192.168.0.1 is GOOD: 79 queries in 65.2 seconds from 79 ports with std de... 26 Jul 2008 21:12

NYC LOCAL: Thursday 24 July 2008 UNIGROUP: Brian Gupta on High Performance Ruby on Rails
<blockquote what="official UNIGROUP announcement" edits="some material removed to shorten long announcement"> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:46:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Unigroup_of_NY <unilist(a)unigroup.org> Subject: Reminder: UNIGROUP Meeting 24-JUL-2008 (Thu): Server Performance: Deploying and Scaling (Ruby on) R... 23 Jul 2008 13:18

Dell OptiPlex SX270 - thermal monitoring?
I got this old machine, a SX270[1] that I thought I would put to use as my workstation (yes, my current workstation have lower specs than this machine. Don't laugh!). I have installed FreeBSD[2] 7.0-stable on it (i386). Normal[3] and verbose[4] dmesgs are available. Everything seems to work, but there is one t... 27 Jul 2008 08:24

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 22 July 2008 NYLUG Python Workshop
<blockquote what="official NYLUG announcement" note="The NYLUG Python Workshop meets every second Tuesday."> From: NYLUG Announcements <info(a)nylug.org> To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce(a)nylug.org> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:20:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Python Workshop, (TOMORRO... 21 Jul 2008 16:09

You misspelt comp.unix.programmer
Begin <g62d8e$li6$1(a)charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:24:45 -0400, S James S Stapleton <stapleton.41(a)osu.edu> wrote: [snip!] There, all fixed now. Provided you can find my answer. -- j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l . This message was originally posted on Usenet in... 9 Aug 2008 21:44

Hopefully this is the right place, since there is no comp.programming.unix
or similar list that I can find. I am trying something on FreeBSD 7.0, with the built in GCC. I have a library I compiled (ctypeless -> libctypeless.a libctypeless.o), and have copied the .so and .a files over to /usr/lib I use dlopen to open the library: void *dlhandle = dlopen(libfile, RTLD_NOW | RTLD_... 22 Jul 2008 09:35