Re: Wireless NIC in FreeBSD 6.0 ?

2006-01-01 Thread Yuan Jue
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 21:54, Erik Norgaard wrote: Yuan Jue wrote: It appears you can set some default values: default { [option declaration] [, ... option declaration] } If for some set of options the client should use the value sup- plied by the server, but

The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-12-11 - 2005-12-31

2006-01-01 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2006-01-01 Thread Michael Vince
Yance Kowara wrote: Hi all, I am trying to figure out if *BSD can achieve this: I have two DSL connections to play with, and I would like to configure a *BSD router that can combine the two DSLs together. There is a howto at http://stevenfettig.com/mythoughts/archives/000173.php But it

Re: amsn-095_1

2006-01-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 01 Jan Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: actually it is make install clean -jahan It may be because you top-posted, but in my case I could not use make install clean That way I wouldn't have been able to manualy move the webcam directory, wouldn't I. Not been installed and deleted in the

Re: 6.0-REL ports/emulators/qemu = PANIC

2006-01-01 Thread guru
El día Saturday, December 31, 2005 a las 12:26:43PM -0800, Kent Stewart escribió: yes, it can be reproduced; I've fresh installed 6.0-RELEASE and did only: # cd /usr/ports/emulators/qemu # make WITH_KQEMU=yes # make install # kldload kqemu # kldstat # su - user PANIC :-((

webcam

2006-01-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
OK, maybe it's OT, but I try it anyway. After all, I looked through the support dox for 6.o release and found not much about my question. I want to buy a new webcam device. I want it to be clear and sharp. So it may cost a little more then the all-to-cheap ones (but not too much ;-) Plus it needs

Re: ipnat -CF -f /etc/ipnat.rules

2006-01-01 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote perikillo thusly... root#chmod +x /etc/rc.d/ipnat.rules Why did you need to add execute bit for the rules? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

6.0-STABLE slower than 6.0-RELEASE?

2006-01-01 Thread Dan Langille
For what reasons might 6.0-STABLE slower than 6.0-RELEASE? I don't think it's debug code. Under 6.0-STABLE, I'm using the GENERIC kernel, and have changed only the ident value. I'm testing the speed of this command: time psql freshports.org freshports.sql The average time under

what is with the instalation?! :(

2006-01-01 Thread artek j
i have problem with instalation to point 2.8 , when should start the instalation explode error : Undable to find /dev/ad2s3b in/dev abort instalation undable to create file system instalation aborted i have 3 partitions c:fat32 for windows primary d:fat32 for warning files

Re: what is with the instalation?! :(

2006-01-01 Thread Chris
artek j wrote: i have problem with instalation to point 2.8 , when should start the instalation explode error : Undable to find /dev/ad2s3b in/dev abort instalation Are we to understand, FreeBSD 2.8? If so, that is seriously outdated. undable to create file system instalation aborted

KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread nospam
I've been trying to install the newer release of KDE on my 5.4 system with no luck. Here are some attempts: 1. Download kdebase-3.5.0 tarball, run ./configure (for starters): [laptop]/home/laptop/KDE/kdebase/kdebase-3.5.0(40): ./configure checking build system type... i386-unknown-freebsd5.4

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to install the newer release of KDE on my 5.4 system with no luck. Here are some attempts: 1. Download kdebase-3.5.0 tarball, run ./configure (for starters): [laptop]/home/laptop/KDE/kdebase/kdebase-3.5.0(40):

Re: Load Balancing: How Busy are the servers?

2006-01-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
For all the technology, I was kinda hoping for some 'scientific formula' :) Now, I really hate to ask, but how do you use vmstat to get a feel for how busy the disk subsystem is? What are you looking for? On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Francisco Reyes wrote: Marc G. Fournier writes: 1. What

Re: RE: How to convert BIND to TinyDNS?

2006-01-01 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005, James Long wrote: Message: 9 Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:42:50 +0100 From: Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: How to convert BIND to TinyDNS? To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type:

What's using my system?

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm staring at top running on my 6.0-STABLE system. It's my desktop machine, and also serves a light web/mail load (including a few jails). Basically, the system should be idle about 99% of the time when I'm not actively doing something on it. And yet it's not. The CPU never gets above about

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Download the sources, untar them. They are supposed to play like FBSD ports; cd into some directory and type make install. There is a meta directory; here's what happens there: Seems like there's a pretty high probability that KDE

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:51 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: There is a perfectly good version of KDE in the ports tree, why do this? In his defense, that's only true if you consider the perfectly good version to be the one released last March, rather than the one released just over a month

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 01 January 2006 11:40 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Download the sources, untar them. They are supposed to play like FBSD ports; cd into some directory and type make install. There is a meta directory; here's what happens

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 01 January 2006 11:43, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:51 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: There is a perfectly good version of KDE in the ports tree, why do this? In his defense, that's only true if you consider the perfectly good version to be the one released last

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Sunday 01 January 2006 01:57 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: I understand impatience when a new version comes out and it isn't in the port's tree right away, but in the maintainer's defense: I remember just over a year ago when KDE used to crash rather regularly, now it is very stable, he is

Re: Load Balancing: How Busy are the servers?

2006-01-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: For all the technology, I was kinda hoping for some 'scientific formula' :) There are.. Now, I really hate to ask, but how do you use vmstat to get a feel for how busy the disk subsystem is? For me, reading Absolute BSD by Michael Lucas was very helpfull. In

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread RW
On Sunday 01 January 2006 20:09, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 01:57 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: I understand impatience when a new version comes out and it isn't in the port's tree right away, but in the maintainer's defense: I remember just over a year ago when KDE used

Re: Hardware graphics

2006-01-01 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Friday 30 December 2005 05:44, Jon wrote: I need some help getting hardware graphics going. I built radeon.ko and drm.ko from drm cvs and loaded them, a quick dmesg drm says the modules are loaded. (drm 1.21.0 20051229) I was told on here I would need the r300 DRI module for my ATI Radeon

Re: What's using my system?

2006-01-01 Thread Chris
Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm staring at top running on my 6.0-STABLE system. It's my desktop machine, and also serves a light web/mail load (including a few jails). Basically, the system should be idle about 99% of the time when I'm not actively doing something on it. And yet it's not. The

STressing a new server...

2006-01-01 Thread Gary Kline
Folks, When I bought this bare-bones box and plugged in stuff it took several days of figuring out what benchmark and other utilities to run to stress it. After a few weeks of pushing the load to 70+, the burning-in was a fair indicator that the

Re[2]: Newbie problems with svscan and arp

2006-01-01 Thread Playnet
Hello Odhiambo, Friday, December 16, 2005, 7:28:53 PM, you wrote: OW RTFM for qmail, I guess. I only know about Exim - http://www.exim.org ;) qmail -- http://cr.yp.to Have you use exim? -- Best regards, Playnetmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

6.0 server

2006-01-01 Thread RJ
I thaught it would be a good idea to setup a 6.0 server and test it out. Now I have a major headache and need some help. Setup: FreeBsd 6.0 fresh install, cvsup, make buildworld .. etc: portsnap fetch, extract: mysql41-server: apache13: php4: (all from ports) Apache starts and I get the

disabling my mouse nipple

2006-01-01 Thread Jason Dusek
i'm using a dell d600 with 6.0-STABLE and Xorg on it. my mouse nipple is crazy|damaged: sometimes when i type keys next to it - 't', 'y', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'j', 'v', 'b', 'n' - the mouse pointer goes zooming across the screen, usually to the left. i don't know anything about the underlying hardware

Re: STressing a new server...

2006-01-01 Thread Tofik Suleymanov
Gary Kline wrote: Folks, When I bought this bare-bones box and plugged in stuff it took several days of figuring out what benchmark and other utilities to run to stress it. After a few weeks of pushing the load to 70+, the burning-in was a fair indicator that the HW

Free BSD install tutorial I wrote

2006-01-01 Thread Allen
I wrote this quite a while ago and I've posted it to the docs list before and it got a good repsonce, but I've seen a couple install questions on here so I'm going to link to it again for this list. I don't think there is an easier to follow installer help anywhere. Not arrogance, but I did do

Re: What's using my system?

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Sunday 01 January 2006 03:19 pm, Chris wrote: Try this: top -S -n 50 Here it is. Note that the WCPU fields don't come anywhere near adding up to the missing 42% (100 - ~58%). Also, the change in last pid is only about 13000 over the course of 11000 seconds, and that included a Google

Re: ipnat -CF -f /etc/ipnat.rules

2006-01-01 Thread perikillo
On 1/1/06, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote perikillo thusly... root#chmod +x /etc/rc.d/ipnat.rules Why did you need to add execute bit for the rules? - Parv -- Hi Parv. No, the file name is ipnat.bug, i make one mistake here. The rules

Re: disabling my mouse nipple

2006-01-01 Thread Mac Mason
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 02:02:11PM -0800, Jason Dusek wrote: i also have a touchpad, but i can't figure out which device is the touchpad and which is the mouse nipple - my dmesg only lists one device as a mouse. IIRC, the two devices are (from the software's point of view) only one mouse, so

Re: Free BSD install tutorial I wrote

2006-01-01 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Allen wrote: I wrote this quite a while ago and I've posted it to the docs list before and it got a good repsonce, but I've seen a couple install questions on here so I'm going to link to it again for this list. I don't think there is an easier to follow installer help anywhere. Not

Re: What's using my system?

2006-01-01 Thread Chris
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 03:19 pm, Chris wrote: Try this: top -S -n 50 Here it is. Note that the WCPU fields don't come anywhere near adding up to the missing 42% (100 - ~58%). Also, the change in last pid is only about 13000 over the course of 11000 seconds,

Re: What's using my system?

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Sunday 01 January 2006 06:29 pm, Chris wrote: Where is the line that reflects CPU states? This is very misleading without the WHOLE paste. My version of top doesn't display the CPU state line when in batch mode. $ top -S -n 5 last pid: 98339; load averages: 1.29, 1.62, 1.62 up

Re: Free BSD install tutorial I wrote

2006-01-01 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Allen, Sunday, January 1, 2006, 11:34:52 PM, you wrote: I wrote this quite a while ago and I've posted it to the docs list before and it got a good repsonce, but I've seen a couple install questions on here so I'm going to link to it again for this list. I don't think there is an easier

Re: Free BSD install tutorial I wrote

2006-01-01 Thread Allen
On Sunday 01 January 2006 19:09, Frank J. Laszlo wrote: User B on the other hand is running Free BSD, and has no idea how to update it. SSH was installed and running by default, and the user doesn't know how to use upgrade_pkg. See below, this wasn't a part of the tutorial. What is

IPFW FTP

2006-01-01 Thread zhane H
hello i had a minor question/concern i was wondering why does the firewall rulesets have permissions for everything, and help for running almosty anything and how to open and wich port to open but yet it has no exmpale ruleset or any help for using a FTP while using a firewall such as IPFW. it has

Re: IPFW FTP

2006-01-01 Thread Scott Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html Scott zhane H wrote: hello i had a minor question/concern i was wondering why does the firewall rulesets have permissions for everything, and help for running almosty

Re: What's using my system?

2006-01-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 01), Kirk Strauser said: I'm staring at top running on my 6.0-STABLE system. It's my desktop machine, and also serves a light web/mail load (including a few jails). Basically, the system should be idle about 99% of the time when I'm not actively doing something on it.

Fwd: 6.0 server

2006-01-01 Thread Daniel A.
Did you install the php4-mysql port? If no, I suggest you take a look at ports/lang/php4-extensions, and make config. On 1/1/06, RJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thaught it would be a good idea to setup a 6.0 server and test it out. Now I have a major headache and need some help. Setup:

Re: STressing a new server...

2006-01-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:11:31AM +, Tofik Suleymanov wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Folks, When I bought this bare-bones box and plugged in stuff it took several days of figuring out what benchmark and other utilities to run to stress it. After a few weeks of

Re: STressing a new server...

2006-01-01 Thread Michael Vince
Gary Kline wrote: Folks, When I bought this bare-bones box and plugged in stuff it took several days of figuring out what benchmark and other utilities to run to stress it. After a few weeks of pushing the load to 70+, the burning-in was a fair indicator that the HW

natd -redirect_port question

2006-01-01 Thread Laurence Sanford
I have natd set up on a 4.10 box to get the rest of my network on the internet. I have an application that requires connections to be able to be established on a specific port. The problem is, sometimes I run this app on system A and sometimes on system B. The port stays the same. So in my

Re: natd -redirect_port question

2006-01-01 Thread Matt Emmerton
I have natd set up on a 4.10 box to get the rest of my network on the internet. I have an application that requires connections to be able to be established on a specific port. The problem is, sometimes I run this app on system A and sometimes on system B. The port stays the same. So in my

Where should I address fixes for /usr/src/lib/libc/rpc code to?

2006-01-01 Thread Aluminium Oxide
Hi, Ive been fixing code in /usr/src/lib/libc/rpc and would like to know where I should address my attention (and code fixes) to. Thanks, Damien Miller = Sub UNIX lumen [EMAIL PROTECTED] = -- Aluminium Oxide [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Where should I address fixes for /usr/src/lib/libc/rpc code to?

2006-01-01 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 02:14:40PM +1030, Aluminium Oxide wrote: Hi, Ive been fixing code in /usr/src/lib/libc/rpc and would like to know where I should address my attention (and code fixes) to. There's the freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org list, and you can always send-pr(1) your patches at any

Re: Where should I address fixes for /usr/src/lib/libc/rpc code to?

2006-01-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 02), Aluminium Oxide said: Ive been fixing code in /usr/src/lib/libc/rpc and would like to know where I should address my attention (and code fixes) to. According to src/MAINTAINERS, alfred@ is the go-to guy for rpc code. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL

Re: STressing a new server...

2006-01-01 Thread Martin Cracauer
For hardware testing, the best is ports/math/mprime In combination with memtest86, because mprime doesn't sweep all RAM. If you have several processors, be sure to run several instances of mprime (requires copying the whole mprime directory). Martin --

Help! Hard disk problems

2006-01-01 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, In doing some routine items on my FreeBSD box, it started behaving oddly. I rebooted and to my surprise, I started receiving many messages displaying information regarding that /usr has issues. It puts me directly into single user mode and tells me to run fsck manually. When I

Re: STressing a new server...

2006-01-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:20:40PM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: For hardware testing, the best is ports/math/mprime In combination with memtest86, because mprime doesn't sweep all RAM. If you have several processors, be sure to run several instances of mprime (requires copying the whole

Re: STressing a new server...

2006-01-01 Thread Martin Cracauer
Gary Kline wrote on Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 08:31:43PM -0800: On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:20:40PM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: For hardware testing, the best is ports/math/mprime In combination with memtest86, because mprime doesn't sweep all RAM. If you have several processors, be

Re: Load Balancing: How Busy are the servers?

2006-01-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I just installed cacti, which seems fairly useful for 'long term views' of how a server is doing ... now I have to figure out what SNMP MIBs related to all of the important things :( On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: Marc G. Fournier writes: For all the technology, I was kinda

Re: Load Balancing: How Busy are the servers?

2006-01-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: I just installed cacti, which seems fairly useful for 'long term views' of how a server is doing Have not played with it, but have read good/favorable comments about it. I would be nice if you did a mini report of your early impressions later.. In particular I think

RE: STressing a new server...

2006-01-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
What I did to stress test the last time I did this was build mysql then run the stress benchmarking suite that comes with mysql. I think this is a better way to do it than running a script, as it puts real-world load on the server. And that benchmark can take days to run depending on the

Cacti (Was: Re: Load Balancing: How Busy are the servers?)

2006-01-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: Marc G. Fournier writes: I just installed cacti, which seems fairly useful for 'long term views' of how a server is doing Have not played with it, but have read good/favorable comments about it. I would be nice if you did a mini report of your

Fetch dependencies from LAN

2006-01-01 Thread Nguyen Danh Hieu
I am using FreeBSD 6.0 now and there is a ftp server in my local network at which we can find every needed dependencies. What should I do to make my computer fetch dependencies from the server instead of ftp://bsd.org or other global server ___

Re: Fetch dependencies from LAN

2006-01-01 Thread Matt Emmerton
I am using FreeBSD 6.0 now and there is a ftp server in my local network at which we can find every needed dependencies. What should I do to make my computer fetch dependencies from the server instead of ftp://bsd.org or other global server Set MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=hostname in