Urgent!!!

2004-07-10 Thread sameer jadhav
Hello I have server Processor Info Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz which has installed FreeBSD 5.1 on it. And it has lots of domain installed on it. From last few day i am facing one problem, the mysql database, some table get courrept i repair them by command repair table but as

OK i feel stupid about this noob question but....

2004-07-10 Thread Jammet
I dont know whats wrong with me but for some reason i cant add users to my system. I go through the whole bit of adduser -s but it asks user names must match reguilar expressions [regext] ... I dont even remember that happening when i use to add users or i might just be going insane, anyways i

Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Kristian Holdich
Hi, I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 onto my home pc to use as a desktop OS and am working through getting it going just right. I have some experience with administrating earlier versions as headless servers with 4.x and Solaris, but very little experience with multimedia. I have a ton of

Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-10 Thread arden
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 10:03, Kristian Holdich wrote: Hi, I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 onto my home pc to use as a desktop OS and am working through getting it going just right. I have some experience with administrating earlier versions as headless servers with 4.x and Solaris, but

Re: OK i feel stupid about this noob question but....

2004-07-10 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Saturday 10 July 2004 18:52, Jammet wrote: I dont know whats wrong with me but for some reason i cant add users to my system. I go through the whole bit of adduser -s but it asks user names must match reguilar expressions [regext] ... I dont even remember that happening when i use to add

Lucent LT modem under FreeBSD

2004-07-10 Thread Brenlae MacMillan
I've read that the proper drivers are in the ports collection, but there's one big problem. The only way I'd be able to access the ports collection is with an internet connection, and to have an internet connection I need the Lucent winmodem drivers for FreeBSD. I really want to install FreeBSD

arp messages XXX is on but got reply.../multihoming problem

2004-07-10 Thread ftomlinson
WWW 08702401718 CO,UK F TOMLISON ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail upgrade advice

2004-07-10 Thread Mark
epilogue wrote: I have read through all the readme and install files and just can't seem to get any further. Any help really appreciated. I am upgrading from 8.11.6. Rob. hello rob, would sendmail 8.12.11 be enough to satisfy your upgrading needs? if so, no need to hassle with a

ipfw and matching bridged packets with both 'xmit' and 'recv'

2004-07-10 Thread Buuyo
Hello. I have a functioning bridge set up between rl0 and rl2 on a machine running FreeBSD 4.9, and I'd like to count tcp connections initiated from the clients on the rl2 side to hosts on the rl0 side, but not from the machine functioning as a bridge. I set the sysctl values net.link.ether.ipfw

FreeBSD wireless difficulty

2004-07-10 Thread Douglas Korinke
Hello, I had been having difficulty recently with getting my fbsd 4.9 machine to connect to my linksys home wireless router and because of the problem, had to upgrade to fbsd 5.2.1 and noticed more activity out of my wireless card. The computer is a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with a Avaya

Re: truss command on 5.2.1-p9

2004-07-10 Thread Rajarajan Rajamani
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 10:03:56AM +0300, Murat Ustuntas wrote: I need to truss command on FreeBSD 5.2.1-p9. But, if I want to run the command truss says me: # truss /usr/sbin/sshd truss: cannot open /proc/8668/mem: No such file or directory truss: cannot open /proc/curproc/mem: No

Re: Flashplasyer plug-in for Opera

2004-07-10 Thread Arjan Van Leeuwen
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:29:17 -0400, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:49:14 -0300 Paulo Fonseca Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to enable flash plug-in on freebsd 5.1 like this: 1) cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplayer make install clean it's ok

Building stable on current or with custom kernel

2004-07-10 Thread Andrew H. Derbyshire
I have a Dell GX100 SMP PIII 733 with a 3COM Ethernet, USR PCI modem, and 2 18G SCSI disk. After problems with running 4.9 RELEASE on it, I am currently running 5.2.1 on the machine. (FYI I also have a uniprocessor PII Dell GX1 running 4.10-RELEASE-p2, which I can do a native build on.) None of

Re: FreeBSD wireless difficulty

2004-07-10 Thread Luke Kearney
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:34:55 -0500 Douglas Korinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did sit in front o' the 'puter and offer us these pearls of wisdom: Hello, I had been having difficulty recently with getting my fbsd 4.9 machine to connect to my linksys home wireless router and because of the problem,

Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 10 Jul 2004 at 10:03, Kristian Holdich wrote: Speaking of root, i'm so used to Bash i'd like to switch to it for the root user - is there any gotchas with moving bash to /bin and updating /etc/shells to allow it? From my notes: Use FreeBSD's password file manipulation utility,

Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Kristian Holdich
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 14:40, Kjell Midtseter wrote: On 10 Jul 2004 at 10:03, Kristian Holdich wrote: Speaking of root, i'm so used to Bash i'd like to switch to it for the root user - is there any gotchas with moving bash to /bin and updating /etc/shells to allow it? From my notes:

Re: Mouse in X

2004-07-10 Thread Lee Harr
I have set FBSD up on an old pentium II MMX 233 MHZ machine and everything works fine except for the mouse (serial). When using X the mouse behaves crazy i cant get it to move in any useful way. Ive checked and checked and found: edit /etc/XF86Config and set Protocol to Sysmouse and Device to

Re: clearing a drive

2004-07-10 Thread Lee Harr
I've got a corrupted drive which i am unable now to clear. Whenever i try to fdisk it then relabel it i get an error that partition c does not cover the entire disk and that this might interfere with system utilities. I've tried: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1 and various

RE: Sendmail upgrade advice

2004-07-10 Thread Rob
Actually, I don't have access to the ports tree. This is a server owner by the ISP and they told me I need to do my own upgrades. It is one of those virtual servers where I have root access to my own little virtual area, however I can't make any updates to the ports tree. So, it looks like a

Re: Sendmail upgrade advice

2004-07-10 Thread cpghost
Rob wrote: Actually, I don't have access to the ports tree. This is a server owner by the ISP and they told me I need to do my own upgrades. It is one of those virtual servers where I have root access to my own little virtual area, however I can't make any updates to the ports tree. So, it looks

Re: FreeBSD wireless difficulty

2004-07-10 Thread Frank Staals
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 34 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:34:55 -0500 From: Douglas Korinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD wireless difficulty To: FreeBSD Help [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello, I had been having

Re: FreeBSD wireless difficulty

2004-07-10 Thread Chris
On Saturday 10 July 2004 10:46 am, Frank Staals wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 34 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:34:55 -0500 From: Douglas Korinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD wireless difficulty To: FreeBSD Help [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type:

Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client

2004-07-10 Thread Chris
On Friday 09 July 2004 05:06 pm, Steve wrote: arden wrote: this may be of interest http://outport.sourceforge.net/ On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 20:50, MikeM wrote: On 7/9/2004 at 9:20 AM Joshua Lewis wrote: |Does anyone know of an e-mail client that supports importing an outlook |.PST file. |

Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client

2004-07-10 Thread Chris
On Saturday 10 July 2004 11:16 am, Chris wrote: If you use KMail - http://kmail.kde.org/tools.html There are suggested tools to do this. Also - make search key=pst files | more Port: libpst-0.4.1 Path: /usr/ports/mail/libpst Info: A tool for converting Outlook .pst files to Unix

Re: OK i feel stupid about this noob question but....

2004-07-10 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Jammet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 3:52 AM Subject: OK i feel stupid about this noob question but I dont know whats wrong with me but for some reason i cant add users to my system. I go through the whole bit

arplookup errors in /var/log/messages

2004-07-10 Thread John Lee
hi, is there anyway i can stop receiving these errors Jul 10 10:00:40 web /kernel: arplookup 63.171.211.198 failed: host is not on local network Jul 10 10:02:37 web last message repeated 82 times -- thx john ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

BSD Airtools?

2004-07-10 Thread Eric Crist
Hey all, I've looked everywhere, and I can't find the bsd-airtools port. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks. -- Eric F Crist Keep your pecker hard and your powder dry, and the world WILL turn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Can't Mount Optical Drive

2004-07-10 Thread Jason Dusek
Hi, I'm on a Dell Latitude D600 with a CD-RW/DVD-R. When I try to mount the drive I get an error: 5 # mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount: /dev/acd0: Input/output error But dmesg says: acd0: CDRW QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW242U at ata1-master PIO4 So although my drive is recognized correctly, it doesn't

Re: Can't Mount Optical Drive

2004-07-10 Thread Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
Jason Dusek disturbed my sleep to write: 5 # mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount: /dev/acd0: Input/output error You may want to try: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom or its equivalent: mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom Also, if you're trying to mount a DVD instead of a CD, you may

ports

2004-07-10 Thread Patrick Mackinlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I submit fixes to a particular port? regards, Patrick - -- Patrick Mackinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patrick.spacesurfer.com/tel: +44.7050699851 Yahoo messenger: patrick00_uk

Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client

2004-07-10 Thread Kristian Holdich
When I switched from Outlook to Evolution I imported via Netscape/Mozilla Mail. It needs to be done on Windows however as it uses some Win32 API calls to parse the mailbox file. Most stuff is good about importing netscape mail format. ___ [EMAIL

System Profile

2004-07-10 Thread James W. Thompson, II
Is there a way to find out what hardware was detected by FreeBSD or to get a list of what it recognizes on my system? -- James W. Thompson, II (New Orleans, LA) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: ports

2004-07-10 Thread Arjan Van Leeuwen
Hi Patrick, On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:02:02 +, Patrick Mackinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I submit fixes to a particular port? If the port has a maintainer, send a mail to the maintainer with the proposed fix. If the port has no

Re: System Profile

2004-07-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, James W. Thompson, II wrote: Is there a way to find out what hardware was detected by FreeBSD or to get a list of what it recognizes on my system? dmesg | less -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvsup behind windows xp (The next level)

2004-07-10 Thread Grant Speelman
On Friday 09 July 2004 18:00, you wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 03:09:23PM +0200, Grant Speelman wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 11:52, you wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:33:18AM +0200, Grant Speelman wrote: I got the small problem, I would like to keep my ports collection update

Re: cvsync

2004-07-10 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does it have some bonuses over cvsup? It's written in portable C. It requires threads, but you don't have to worry about porting a Modula-3 compiler and runtime environment to each new platform. Featurewise it's about on a par with CVSup, with the notable

Re: System Profile

2004-07-10 Thread Bill Moran
James W. Thompson, II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to find out what hardware was detected by FreeBSD or to get a list of what it recognizes on my system? dmesg -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL

Re: cvsup RELENG_5_2 deletes make files and most of source

2004-07-10 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2004.07.10 14:04:59 -0400, David Kaplowitz wrote: I've been googling around for an answer to this apparent problem, but am not getting anywhere with it. When I run cvsup with the tag RELENG_5_2, I see all manner of (seemingly legit) files being deleted, but nothing actually gets

PF and ADSL

2004-07-10 Thread DrVince
Hi everyone I'm running an Alcatel Speedtouch 510v4 which deals with PPPoE on it's own and gives DHCP for the internal network... what a charm. My link is 3008kb download and 800kb upload. I installed Packet Filter in my box mainly to give a performance boost by putting a big priority on

Ftp server near me

2004-07-10 Thread Joshua Lewis
All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post that said run a command that will determine the closest server or fastest server near you. I however lost the page I

Re: Ftp server near me

2004-07-10 Thread uidzero
Joshua Lewis wrote: All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post that said run a command that will determine the closest server or fastest server near you. I however

Re: Ftp server near me

2004-07-10 Thread DerDrache
fastest_cvsup is a simple program to use that can be found in the ports tree. I'd recommend it. /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup DerDrache Joshua Lewis wrote: All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you

Re: Ftp server near me

2004-07-10 Thread DerDrache
My apologies. I did not read your original email as closely as I should have. fastest_cvsup will only test cvsup servers. DerDrache wrote: fastest_cvsup is a simple program to use that can be found in the ports tree. I'd recommend it. /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup DerDrache Joshua Lewis

Re: Ftp server near me

2004-07-10 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:18:36 -0700 Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post that said run a command that will

Re: Sendmail upgrade advice

2004-07-10 Thread Brent Bailey
hope this helps im going to use 8.12.10 as an examplei think the instructions are referring to this: when you unpack sendmail-8.x.x it makes a dir called sendmail.8.x.x (whatever the version name) cd into that dir. theres a INSTALL file that pretty much says everthign i said herebut oh

Re: Ftp server near me

2004-07-10 Thread uidzero
DerDrache wrote: My apologies. I did not read your original email as closely as I should have. fastest_cvsup will only test cvsup servers. DerDrache wrote: fastest_cvsup is a simple program to use that can be found in the ports tree. I'd recommend it. /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup

resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree

2004-07-10 Thread Graham North
Hello all: I would like to expand my FreeBSD partion on the hard drive of which it only has 60%. The rest of the HD holds an old installation of Win98. When I first installed FBSD 4.8 I used Partition Magic to carve off 1.2G of a 2.0G HD and give me dual boot capability so as to retain the

Re: Ftp server near me

2004-07-10 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 10 July 2004 01:33 pm, uidzero wrote: DerDrache wrote: My apologies. I did not read your original email as closely as I should have. fastest_cvsup will only test cvsup servers. DerDrache wrote: fastest_cvsup is a simple program to use that can be found in the ports tree.

Re: cvsup RELENG_5_2 deletes make files and most of source

2004-07-10 Thread David Kaplowitz
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:46:04 +0200, Simon L. Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried another mirror? It could be a (very) out-of-date mirror that doesn't have 5.2 ? Also you could try to delete the files in /usr/sup. I hadn't tried it, but after you suggested it I did. I think

Re: Can't Mount Optical Drive

2004-07-10 Thread Jason Dusek
Hi Again, In that there must be something else wrong, because after trying a few permutations I was unable to get the drive on my D600 to work: 1 root # mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error 2 root # mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0c:

Re: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree

2004-07-10 Thread Bill Moran
[Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so ... see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html ] Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all: I would like to expand my FreeBSD partion on the hard drive of which it only has 60%. The rest of the HD holds an old installation of Win98. When

Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client

2004-07-10 Thread Curtis Almond
Tom's Hardware wrote a good how-to on this for Linux. I am assuming the tool to convert outlook to evolution is in ports. If not you can install linux, savi the .pst file to a network share, then install BSD with evoltion and away you go.

Person new to FreeBSD needs help...

2004-07-10 Thread Jeff Erickson
Dear Group, I am new to FreeBSD and am having a problem. I downloaded the ISOs of Disk 1 and 2 of version 4.10 and go through the installation and everything seems to be fine until I reboot. Then it says that it cannot load the kernel or kernel.old. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Jeff

Re: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree

2004-07-10 Thread Graham North
Hello Bill: Thanks again for your help. Does the line wrap look better now? I reduced from 76 to 66. Regarding inodes - /usr is 778MB and began with 99,838 inodes. That would jive approximately with your million for 10G drive. It now has 96M of free space but only 590 inodes remaining.This

Re: Lucent LT modem under FreeBSD

2004-07-10 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
I've read that the proper drivers are in the ports collection, but there's one big problem. The only way I'd be able to access the ports collection is with an internet connection, and to have an internet connection I need the Lucent winmodem drivers for FreeBSD. Someone can probably suggest

Where is sysinstall

2004-07-10 Thread Brian Hayashi
I DL the iso image files but found no install program. Can you help? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?

2004-07-10 Thread Bob Perry
Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? I don't know what OS my ISP uses but I do know that they only support Windows and Mac platforms.

Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Henrik W Lund
Kristian Holdich wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 14:40, Kjell Midtseter wrote: There's one glaring problem with that, if for some reason you need to go into single user mode under FreeBSD's default slicing scheme root wont have a shell as /usr isn't mounted. It's always good practice to keep the

Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?

2004-07-10 Thread Roop Nanuwa
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:09:13 -0400, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? I don't know Greg's

Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?

2004-07-10 Thread Bill Moran
Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? If you have problems and call their tech support. A

Re: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree

2004-07-10 Thread Bill Moran
Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Bill: Thanks again for your help. Does the line wrap look better now? I reduced from 76 to 66. You tell me. Regarding inodes - /usr is 778MB and began with 99,838 inodes. That would jive approximately with your million for 10G drive. It now

Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?

2004-07-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Bob, There is a freebsd isp list, for those of us who operate isps and use freebsd for some functional element, up to and including user shell accounts. Why would it (choice of boxen) matter to you? You may not even be aware if your isp is virtual or facilities-based, let alone the os directly

Re: Where is sysinstall

2004-07-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 10 July 2004 06:06 pm, Brian Hayashi wrote: I DL the iso image files but found no install program. Can you help? The iso image is to be burned to a CD, which will be bootable. Boot up your computer using the CD and follow the instructions at:

Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?

2004-07-10 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 10 July 2004 04:20 pm, Bill Moran wrote: Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent?

Re: Ftp server near me

2004-07-10 Thread aerial_gus
I had this question a couple years back. I did command line ftp logins until I found something I recognized, usually a school or university. I'm on the East Coast (US) so I got lucky with MIT, Perdue and UNC. Commercial-sited servers, your guess is as good as mine. I guess you could try to

Re: Installation/Boot-up help please...

2004-07-10 Thread aerial_gus
- Original Message - From: Jeff Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:59 PM Subject: Installation/Boot-up help please... Dear Group, I am new to FreeBSD and am having a problem. I downloaded Disk 1 and 2 of version 4.10 and go through the

Re: Person new to FreeBSD needs help...

2004-07-10 Thread Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
Jeff Erickson disturbed my sleep to write: I am new to FreeBSD and am having a problem. I downloaded the ISOs of Disk 1 and 2 of version 4.10 and go through the installation and everything seems to be fine until I reboot. Then it says that it cannot load the kernel or kernel.old. What am I

5.2.1 Install Error (Unable To Find Device Node)

2004-07-10 Thread Rishi Chopra
I'm getting an Unable to find device node for /dev/da0s1b in /dev error that is causing installation to abort. The disk is a 4x200GB IDE RAID array. Any idea what the problem might be? = Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra

Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?

2004-07-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:09:13 -0400, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? I don't

Can't Mount USB Flash Drive

2004-07-10 Thread Jason Dusek
Hi, I have a Dell D600, and I count mount flash devices on it. They show up in dmesg. Here I put the drive in the top one, pull it out and stick it in the bottom one, and then put it back in the top one: ugen0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/0.10, addr 2 ugen0: at uhub0 port 1

Re: Flashplasyer plug-in for Opera

2004-07-10 Thread Paulo Fonseca Jr.
Arjan, I running now: /usr/ports/www/linux-opera /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper I received the message Flash6 with Opera is not avilable. on make of linuxpluginwrapper, but in browser, the shockwave flash plugin is active. I set up my browser to identify as

Re: Flashplasyer plug-in for Opera

2004-07-10 Thread Paulo Fonseca Jr.
Ok! Linux-Opera is just fine with flashplayer now on freebsd 5.1. make install on /usr/ports/www/linux-opera make install on /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin recompile and install /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf and make /usr/ports/linuxpluginwrapper it'll runs ok! On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:01:56 -0300,

Re: excluding from tar

2004-07-10 Thread Chris
On Saturday 10 July 2004 09:55 pm, D Golden wrote: I've created a tar archive of my entire system, but I want to exclude everything in /proc , /usr/ports, and the FILE /usr/backup.tar when updating the archive. I've tried: 1. cd / tar -vu --file /usr/backup.tar * --exclude=/proc

Re: excluding from tar

2004-07-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 22:55, D Golden wrote: I've created a tar archive of my entire system, but I want to exclude everything in /proc , /usr/ports, and the FILE /usr/backup.tar when updating the archive. I've tried: 1. cd / tar -vu --file /usr/backup.tar * --exclude=/proc

Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?

2004-07-10 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Jul 10, 2004, at 17:33, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:09:13 -0400, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where

reinstall world

2004-07-10 Thread Jason Dusek
Hi, I gave my entire laptop's hard drive to FreeBSD, but I am beginning to have second thoughts - a lot of my devices don't work. I think I might try dual booting FreeBSD and, say, Gentoo. So this will probably work, because I'm only using a small portion of the disk at present: 17 root # df

Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 08:02:22AM -0600, Kristian Holdich wrote: ... There's one glaring problem with that, if for some reason you need to go into single user mode under FreeBSD's default slicing scheme root wont have a shell as /usr isn't mounted. It's always good practice to keep the

upgrade failure..

2004-07-10 Thread kinux
Hi, i have install freebsd 4.9 on a old AMD box, i have been cvsup download the source code, then upgrade it to 4.10 stable but failure at make buildkernel KERNCONF=test i give following error cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -W missing-prototypes

HDD Sizes reported wrong?

2004-07-10 Thread Steven Adams
Hey, I have a LSI MegaRaid Raid card with 5x 36gig raid 5 scsi drives.. This gives me 144gig of useable space. 133 GIG if u do the 1024 bytes calucation. So really its 133gig of useable space all up. Now my /home is getting reported at 108gig(which is right) But for some reason its

Re: HDD Sizes reported wrong?

2004-07-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 11), Steven Adams said: I have a LSI MegaRaid Raid card with 5x 36gig raid 5 scsi drives.. Now my /home is getting reported at 108gig(which is right) But for some reason its saying 97gig free and 2.4 gig used.. Im confussed where the other 8.5gig or so is gone??