Re: FreeBSD 6.0 - install critiques - install issues

2006-01-27 Thread F. Even - fbsd-questions
First I’d like to say that your website is very informative and I appreciate the links. I would point out though that I’m not a newb and you missed the point of most of my message. Message: 30 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:16:58 -0800 From: Dan O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-27 Thread Frank Staals
Hmm I got a question regarding to Fx 1.5. Has anyone else noticed a tremendous slowdown when using 1.5 ? I especially mean when the popup-window opens to ask what you want to do with a download ( save it or open it ) then Fx hangs for about 15 seconds ( while the 'ok' button is not clickable )

Encrypted syslog over network

2006-01-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I was thinking, is there any way of secure syslogging to a different server? AFAIK syslog uses udp/514 and I would like to monitor a number of remote hosts. Now, for privacy and security reasons, I would like that the syslog messages are sent encrypted. This may require pre-shared

Single User Mode

2006-01-27 Thread Anirban Adhikary
Hi guys This is anirban here.Our offices linux server is connected in a network .I have deleted the pango rpm pango 1.8.1-2 while working on it but i dont delete the depencies of pango. I used the command rpm -e pango --nodeps. But after that i cant login in the machine and whenever i am tryong to

RE: Bridging Firewall Machine Questions

2006-01-27 Thread Ian Kaney
Hi, thanks for the replies. As per Chuck's request, I've lamped together the output of the suggested commands and got the current kernel configuration and put them online for you to take a look at and see what you think. http://www.sisko.net/bridge/dmesg.txt

Re: Single User Mode

2006-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Anirban Adhikary wrote: This is anirban here.Our offices linux server is connected in a network .I have deleted the pango rpm pango 1.8.1-2 while working on it but i dont delete the depencies of pango. I used the command rpm -e pango --nodeps. But after that i cant login in the machine and

Re: spamassassin problem and question

2006-01-27 Thread Ken Stevenson
On Friday 27 January 2006 02:00 am, David Banning wrote: While spamassassin is executing I am getting this error; Can't locate Razor2/Client/Agent.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 ../lib /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/mach

Problems with locale entropy (what's that?)

2006-01-27 Thread vittorio
On a (mainly) postgresql pentium 4 server at office I upgraded freebsd 5.4 to 6 by means of a CD with the standard ISO downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org (I can't use any alternative means becuase of the tight rules of security of our network). I tailored and compiled the kernel and upgraded the

Multiple natd + ipfw

2006-01-27 Thread Unix-Solutions - Steven
Hi you guy's, I have a little problem with my natd or ipfw configuration. Current situation: ISP1 = Telenet (Belgium) Speed: 20 mbit/s down 1 mbit/s upload We get ip via dhcp ISP2 = Versatel (Belgium) Speed: 1 mbit/s down 1 mbit/s upload We have a range with static ip's Versatel is our

FreeBSD 5.4 and Genius SlimStar Pro USB keyboard

2006-01-27 Thread Yaroslav Karulin
Hello! I have FreeBSD 5.4 and I have tried to use Genius SlimStar Pro USB keyboard. The kernel configuration file contains following lines: device uhci device ohci device usb device ukbd options

Re: Encrypted syslog over network

2006-01-27 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/27/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I was thinking, is there any way of secure syslogging to a different server? AFAIK syslog uses udp/514 and I would like to monitor a number of remote hosts. Now, for privacy and security reasons, I would like that the syslog messages

Re: truss and procfs strange problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Proniewski Patrick
On 26 janv. 06, at 23:33, Dan Nelson wrote: in that case, the command issued as a truss argument (ls, ...) is stuck in state D. `man ps` says it Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninterruptible) wait. these process wont be killed, I'll have to reboot. (procctl won't clear the

portupgrade xorg-* - mouse-wheel stops working under X

2006-01-27 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Some days ago I portupgraded my system including some of the xorg- ports like xorg-clients, xorg-server etc. Since that upgrade the mouse wheel doesn't work any more under X-win The problem definitely came with the upgrade. I've used the mouse wheel for months without problems and didn't

Re: Encrypted syslog over network

2006-01-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 1/27/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I was thinking, is there any way of secure syslogging to a different server? AFAIK syslog uses udp/514 and I would like to monitor a number of remote hosts. Now, for privacy and security reasons, I would like

Re: VPN / Bridge

2006-01-27 Thread Bob Kersten
Hi, On 25-jan-2006, at 11:57, Fabian Keil wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig gif0 tunnel 1.2.3.4 5.6.7.8 up [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig bridge0 create [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig bridge0 addm ndis0 addm gif0 up [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig bridge0 bridge0:

Re: Encrypted syslog over network

2006-01-27 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/27/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 1/27/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I was thinking, is there any way of secure syslogging to a different server? AFAIK syslog uses udp/514 and I would like to monitor a number of remote

Building SAMBA errors

2006-01-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
I seem to be having a problem with reinstalling Samba. I have updated the ports tree; however, the version of Samba, at least according to the 'Makefile' is 2.2.12 . Samba is up to at least 3.20 or something like that. It was available in the ports just a few days ago I believe. when I attempt to

Re: ntpd problem in release 6.0

2006-01-27 Thread Dimitar Vasilev
2006/1/26, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Vincent Chen wrote: [ ... ] Why I have to restart ntpd to get connected? I don't have this problem with release 4.7. I've seen this once and gotten the impression that ntpd had fired up before DNS was working, because the ntpd was able to

Re: VPN / Bridge

2006-01-27 Thread Fabian Keil
Bob Kersten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25-jan-2006, at 11:57, Fabian Keil wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig gif0 tunnel 1.2.3.4 5.6.7.8 up [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig bridge0 create [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig bridge0 addm ndis0 addm gif0 up [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig

Re: Building SAMBA errors

2006-01-27 Thread RW
On Friday 27 January 2006 13:30, Gerard Seibert wrote: I seem to be having a problem with reinstalling Samba. I have updated the ports tree; however, the version of Samba, at least according to the 'Makefile' is 2.2.12 . Samba is up to at least 3.20 or something like that. It was available in

Re: Single User Mode

2006-01-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, The following sounds like you are having a LINUX problem. Threfore, you should post on the relevent LINUX Email list. This is a FreeBSD questions list. FreeBSD is not related to LINUX. It is a completely separate operating system. Now, if you wish to upgrade your environment to

Re: Odd Partition/Newfs Question

2006-01-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
I don't think I've done any harm, but I wanted another opinion or two. Added an additional hard drive to an existing setup. Then gave the following commands: bsdlabel -w /dev/ad2 newfs -U -O 2 /dev/ad2 mount /dev/ad2 /mnt/ad2 then went about the business of moving and rearranging

Dell SCSI problem (reasonly long with some debugging)

2006-01-27 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have FreeBSD installed on well over a dozen Dells (plus 50 other makes) and they run without any problem. Today I have a Dell arrive and I am getting very serious SCSI problems with it duing and after installing FreeBSD 6 release. Basically the machine freezes and them comes back to life

Re: VPN / Bridge

2006-01-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 27 January 2006 16:07, Fabian Keil wrote: Bob Kersten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25-jan-2006, at 11:57, Fabian Keil wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig gif0 tunnel 1.2.3.4 5.6.7.8 up [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig bridge0 create [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig bridge0 addm

Re: portupgrade xorg-* - mouse-wheel stops working under X

2006-01-27 Thread George Fazio
I had the same issue. My mouse wheel stopped working, and imwheel started using it for my broswer back/forward (instead of the buttons it's suppose to use). I was able to get the mouse wheel working again by editing my xorg.conf file, but I'm still having issues with imwheel which seem to stem

Re: Odd Partition/Newfs Question

2006-01-27 Thread John Hoover
Added an additional hard drive to an existing setup. Then gave the following commands: bsdlabel -w /dev/ad2 newfs -U -O 2 /dev/ad2 mount /dev/ad2 /mnt/ad2 then went about the business of moving and rearranging for having the new disk. After the machine was back in production,

Re: did something change in SMP scheduling from 5.4 to 6.0?

2006-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Randy Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am curious if something changed in the way extra cpus are utilized in 6.0 vs. 5.4 in a SMP kernel. Quite a lot, actually. My system is a dual-proc Xeon box. When I was using 5.4 top would show both procs being used roughly the same, e.g. the C

Re: freebsd hosting

2006-01-27 Thread RJ
Layeredtech.com eg: Base System Configuration: * AMD Sempron 2600 * 80GB IDE Hard Drive * 512MB DDR RAM * Bandwidth: 1000GB * IP Addresses: 8 (5 usable) * Private VLAN * Basic Resource Monitoring * FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Windows* * 100% Self Managed and

Re: RAM check - Followup question

2006-01-27 Thread Philip Juels
Curious...the system is a Dell Optiplex GX270...RAM system is PC3200 2x512MB DIMMs in a the dual-channel arrangment. If I run memtest against this setup, I get numerous errors. However, if run memtest with only one DIMM installed (either one), I get no reported errors. Would this still be

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 - install critiques - install issues

2006-01-27 Thread Dan O'Connor
P.S. I know how to get it workingbut for the sake of simplicity and non-confusionsysinstall should have consistency in it's interface, and the options that are presented should in fact work/do what they say. Ok, I'll buy that. Sounds like you should submit a PR. ~Dan

Re: RAM check - Followup question

2006-01-27 Thread Billy Tallis
It might be as simple as the bios settings. Which memtest tests gave errors? Assuming that you have not upgraded the ram or anything like that, it is probably the chipset. What type of chipset do you have? On 1/27/06, Philip Juels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious...the system is a Dell Optiplex

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2006-01-27 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2006-01-27 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

VPN Jail(s) ...

2006-01-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Can it be done, or does it have to be to the base server itself? If it can be done, can someone point me to a document that explains how to set one up? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!:

Re: Elegant delete of word ~tmp files in all sub / dirs

2006-01-27 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Matthew Seaman [freebsd] [26-01-06 20:15 +]: | Graham Bentley wrote: | Hi All, | | I once found a very elegant method of recursively | removing all the word ~tmp files on our Samba | server (many hundereds of subs) | | It involved find rm xargs and some {} | | It worked very

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-27 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 27 January 2006 04:18, Frank Staals wrote: Hmm I got a question regarding to Fx 1.5. Has anyone else noticed a tremendous slowdown when using 1.5 ? I especially mean when the popup-window opens to ask what you want to do with a download ( save it or open it ) then Fx hangs for about

Re: RAM check - Followup question

2006-01-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
Billy Tallis wrote: It might be as simple as the bios settings. Which memtest tests gave errors? Assuming that you have not upgraded the ram or anything like that, it is probably the chipset. What type of chipset do you have? On 1/27/06, Philip Juels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious...the

Re: RAM check - Followup question

2006-01-27 Thread Philip Juels
As of now, memtests 2,3, and 4 fail (waiting for the rest). The following bits are listed as Err-Bits (1000,8000,2000). The chipset is Intel i848/i865. I may install the DIMMs into another machine and memtest them there. Billy Tallis wrote: It might be as simple as the bios

Re: RAM check - Followup question

2006-01-27 Thread Philip Juels
I switched the DIMMs from dual-channel to single-channel and so far (up to test 4) I get no errors. Go figure. Philip Juels wrote: As of now, memtests 2,3, and 4 fail (waiting for the rest). The following bits are listed as Err-Bits (1000,8000,2000). The chipset is Intel

Informix on freeBSD

2006-01-27 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, Is there is a version of Informix that runs on freeBSD? Thanks Efren Bravo. __ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

OS webex?

2006-01-27 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all I was wondering if there were any open source apps that work similar to the webex web-based desktop sharing. Tia Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax:

Re[2]: Elegant delete of word ~tmp files in all sub / dirs

2006-01-27 Thread Mathieu CHATEAU
Hello Olivier, useless to do -r while you search only files (-type f) the delete function of find seems more apropriate to me Mathieu CHATEAU Friday, January 27, 2006, 3:00:50 AM, you wrote: removing all the word ~tmp files on our Samba server find /your/file-system -type f

adding unused disk space

2006-01-27 Thread Tamouh H.
Hi, When trying to add a new partition to an already existing disk slice on FreeBSD 5.4, are these the proper procedures to follow: lets say we have: /dev/ad4s1a507630 56104 41091612%/ devfs 1 10 100%/dev /dev/ad4s1d507630 12

Re: problem with pango port

2006-01-27 Thread Peter Marshall
Ya, I knew that (about the \) .. I was wondering what you meant when you said that I was using the wrong pkg_delete. Anyway, thanks for the tips. I was able to get pango installed using a force command. I tried to re-install gaim as this whole rigamerol broke it I get the message below

Re: problem with pango port

2006-01-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:39:50PM -0400, Peter Marshall wrote: Ya, I knew that (about the \) .. I was wondering what you meant when you said that I was using the wrong pkg_delete. Your command didn't remove any packages because your command-line didn't match any packages. Anyway, thanks

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-27 Thread Mark Kane
Anish Mistry wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 04:18, Frank Staals wrote: Hmm I got a question regarding to Fx 1.5. Has anyone else noticed a tremendous slowdown when using 1.5 ? I especially mean when the popup-window opens to ask what you want to do with a download ( save it or open it )

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-27 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 27 January 2006 14:49, Mark Kane wrote: Anish Mistry wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 04:18, Frank Staals wrote: Hmm I got a question regarding to Fx 1.5. Has anyone else noticed a tremendous slowdown when using 1.5 ? I especially mean when the popup-window opens to ask what you

Re: adding unused disk space

2006-01-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-01-27 14:39, Tamouh H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When trying to add a new partition to an already existing disk slice on FreeBSD 5.4, are these the proper procedures to follow: lets say we have: /dev/ad4s1a507630 56104 41091612%/ devfs 1 1

mysql - linuxthreads

2006-01-27 Thread Romeo Theriault
A week or so ago I wrote to the this list asking about Freebsd and Mysql, wondering if you still needed to compile Mysql with linuxthreads to get better performance under Freebsd 6. I didn't get much of a response so I looked around for the answer. I thought I'd write back to the mailing

Re: mysql - linuxthreads

2006-01-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:15:05PM -0500, Romeo Theriault wrote: A week or so ago I wrote to the this list asking about Freebsd and Mysql, wondering if you still needed to compile Mysql with linuxthreads to get better performance under Freebsd 6. I didn't get much of a response so I

Re: RAM check - Followup question

2006-01-27 Thread Derek Ragona
This system is listed with the RAM manufacturer's and according to Kingston's notes: Systems shipped with 800MHz FSB processors require DDR400 (KTD8300/xxx) parts. Systems shipped with 533MHz FSB processors require DDR333 (KTD4550/xxx)

Unable to install 'dirmngr'

2006-01-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
When attempting to install 'dirmngr', I am greeted with this error message: gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/security/dirmngr/work/dirmngr-0.9.3/test s' gmake[1]: Leaving directory

Re: Problems with locale entropy (what's that?)

2006-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a (mainly) postgresql pentium 4 server at office I upgraded freebsd 5.4 to 6 by means of a CD with the standard ISO downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org (I can't use any alternative means becuase of the tight rules of security of our network). I tailored

RE: adding unused disk space

2006-01-27 Thread Tamouh H.
Yes. Between steps (8) and (9) you should have created a filesystem on that device: # newfs /dev/ad4s1g Then you can mount it as usual: # mount /backup Thanks Giorgos, however, I think the HandBook failed to mention these two steps which led me to think they're not

FreeBSD drops to single user mode

2006-01-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
Recently I experienced something that surprised me. I have a workstation with two SATA drives. The second drive is data only and is mounted r/w when the OS boots. We had a user whose (Windows) computer crashed and they wanted to know if we could recover the data. I said I'd see, and I

Re: RAM check - Followup question

2006-01-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Philip Juels wrote: Curious...the system is a Dell Optiplex GX270...RAM system is PC3200 2x512MB DIMMs in a the dual-channel arrangment. If I run memtest against this setup, I get numerous errors. However, if run memtest with only one DIMM installed (either one), I get

Re: ntpd problem in release 6.0

2006-01-27 Thread RW
On Friday 27 January 2006 14:03, Dimitar Vasilev wrote: 2006/1/26, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Vincent Chen wrote: [ ... ] Why I have to restart ntpd to get connected? I don't have this problem with release 4.7. I've seen this once and gotten the impression that ntpd had

Re: FreeBSD drops to single user mode

2006-01-27 Thread RW
On Friday 27 January 2006 21:36, Paul Schmehl wrote: Recently I experienced something that surprised me. I have a workstation with two SATA drives. The second drive is data only and is mounted r/w when the OS boots. We had a user whose (Windows) computer crashed and they wanted to know if

ppp and pf interacting badly?

2006-01-27 Thread cpghost
Hello, has anyone else seen this strange interaction between (user-)ppp and pf (on RELENG_6)? When configuring tun0 as external interface in pf.conf, pf won't start when booting, because ppp has not yet had time to initialize tun0. Result is, that pf is then disabled (!). After booting, calling

Double NFS mount causes panic?

2006-01-27 Thread cpghost
After upgrading my diskless setup from 5.4 to RELENG_6, the diskless clients now panic when calling mount_nfs on directories that have already been mounted via NFS in a previous step. Of course it revealed a bug in my setup, but is it expected to panic when double NFS-mounting over an NFS-mounted

Re: FreeBSD drops to single user mode

2006-01-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, January 27, 2006 22:49:25 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 21:36, Paul Schmehl wrote: Recently I experienced something that surprised me. I have a workstation with two SATA drives. The second drive is data only and is mounted r/w when the OS boots.

rm - Argument list too long

2006-01-27 Thread FlashWebHost.com
Hi, I am getting error Argument list too long. when deleting files from /tmp directory. server20# uname -a FreeBSD server20.hosthat.com 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #1: Tue Oct 18 06:28:41 GMT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SERVER20 i386

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-27 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 27 January 2006 14:49, Mark Kane wrote: Anish Mistry wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 04:18, Frank Staals wrote: Hmm I got a question regarding to Fx 1.5. Has anyone else noticed a tremendous slowdown when using 1.5 ? I especially mean when the popup-window opens to ask what you

Re: rm - Argument list too long

2006-01-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Saturday, January 28, 2006 05:04:00 +0530 FlashWebHost.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting error Argument list too long. when deleting files from /tmp directory. server20# uname -a FreeBSD server20.hosthat.com 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD

Re: Double NFS mount causes panic?

2006-01-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 12:13:01AM +0100, cpghost wrote: After upgrading my diskless setup from 5.4 to RELENG_6, the diskless clients now panic when calling mount_nfs on directories that have already been mounted via NFS in a previous step. Of course it revealed a bug in my setup, but is it

Re: ppp and pf interacting badly?

2006-01-27 Thread Peter
--- cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, has anyone else seen this strange interaction between (user-)ppp and pf (on RELENG_6)? When configuring tun0 as external interface in pf.conf, pf won't start when booting, because ppp has not yet had time to initialize tun0. Result is, that

Re: rm - Argument list too long

2006-01-27 Thread RW
On Friday 27 January 2006 23:34, FlashWebHost.com wrote: Hi, I am getting error Argument list too long. when deleting files from /tmp directory. server20# uname -a FreeBSD server20.hosthat.com 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #1: Tue Oct 18 06:28:41 GMT

Re: rm - Argument list too long

2006-01-27 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I am getting error Argument list too long. when deleting files from /tmp directory. server20# pwd /tmp server20# ls -l sess* /bin/ls: Argument list too long. server20# rm -f sess* /bin/rm: Argument list too long. server20#

Re: FreeBSD drops to single user mode

2006-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, January 27, 2006 22:49:25 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] Here's my fstab, if that illuminates anything: ... /dev/ad5s1d /files ufs rw 2 2 If you neglected to comment-out this line, FreeBSD would be

Re: ppp and pf interacting badly?

2006-01-27 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:12:14PM -0500, Peter wrote: --- cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to tell pf startup script to wait for ppp until all needed interfaces have really come up? From the OpenBSD 3.8 manpage (should be good for you): Host name resolution and

Sony Vaio sound

2006-01-27 Thread Chris
Greetings - I have gotten a nice Sony Vaio PC for Christmas and I'm just about done seeting it up. Last stop - sound. Anyone gotten this set? This is a Vaio RB53 model. Any help would be great. When loading all sound drivers via kldload, here's the tail'd output: Jan 27

Re: mysql - linuxthreads

2006-01-27 Thread Romeo Theriault
I didn't personally measure it, though someday I hope to be able to, but I did read in several places that using the ULE scheduler was the better choice to use with FreeBSD. Here are the links that are noteworthy: http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/MySQL

Re: mysql - linuxthreads

2006-01-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 08:28:44PM -0500, Romeo Theriault wrote: I didn't personally measure it, though someday I hope to be able to, but I did read in several places that using the ULE scheduler was the better choice to use with FreeBSD. Here are the links that are noteworthy:

Sony Vaio sound

2006-01-27 Thread Chris
Chris wrote: Greetings - I have gotten a nice Sony Vaio PC for Christmas and I'm just about done seeting it up. Last stop - sound. Anyone gotten this set? This is a Vaio RB53 model. Any help would be great. When loading all sound drivers via kldload, here's the tail'd output:

Re: Sony Vaio sound

2006-01-27 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:43:50 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Additional info via pciconf -vl [EMAIL PROTECTED]:27:0:class=0x040300 card=0x81a0104d chip=0x26688086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High DefiNition

A strategic question

2006-01-27 Thread Jozef Baum
This posting doesn't contain a technical question about FreeBSD, rather a strategic one. Some time ago, I wanted to migrate to a Unix environment, because I wanted to have a secure, stable, convenient and efficient environment for developing and running programs, no longer having to buy a new PC

Re: A strategic question

2006-01-27 Thread Romeo Theriault
I still consider myself a Unix newbie after using Unix based systems for about 5 years now. I've never just solely used Unix based systems , but they hold the most interest for me. The fact that I don't know how to do everything right away and I have to work at these types of problems

Re: X.org 6.9 doesn't work with NVidia 7800 GTX (fwd)

2006-01-27 Thread Mike O'Brien
I did get X.org running on 6-STABLE. As you have mentioned, starting X via X -probeonly with an Asus SLI motherboard and an NVidia 7800 GTX video card fails multiply; the internal configuration tries and fails to load module fbdev, meanwhile, the probe of the card dials the contrast of

FreeBSD and aquiring proper drivers

2006-01-27 Thread Jennifer Gold
Is there any way to obtain driver code from FreeBSD regarding Dell systems, or would I have to ask certain vendors if they would/could write the code? Is there someone who could recommend me to even a consulting firm about this? Thanks, Jennifer Gold

Re: New Canon LiDE60; and it seems to need a reference(?) in source

2006-01-27 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Joe Altman wrote: I have this device: # usbdevs -v port 3 addr 2: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, CanoScan(0x221c), Canon(0x04a9), rev 3.06 #sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x221c [CanoScan], chip=GL841) at

Re: A strategic question

2006-01-27 Thread Peter
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Re: A strategic question

2006-01-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On January 28, 2006 3:16:04 AM +0100 Jozef Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This posting doesn't contain a technical question about FreeBSD, rather a strategic one. You need to try Gentoo. Seriously, though, did you follow the install document? I came from where you are - Windows - Unix.

question on the firefox port...

2006-01-27 Thread mojo fms
I am having an odd problem on the firefox port. This is a fresh install of Freebsd 6 and basicly what its doing ... === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if www/firefox already installed === firefox-1.5_5,1 is already installed You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and

Re: A strategic question

2006-01-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1/27/06, Jozef Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you want If you want it, make it, pray for it, or pay someone to do it. I'll admit to having stumbled through the install dozens of times, still learning. Every day I learn something. But the point of calling it a hobbyist operating system is

Re: question on the firefox port...

2006-01-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
fbsdlilly wrote: I have tried, make deinstall ; make reinstall same error. I am not sure of what i should set FORCE_PKG_REGISTER to but i tried, YES, www/firefox and NO for the settings on it. Running it like this : FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=NO make reinstall ... i did this on make reinstall and

Re: A strategic question

2006-01-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 27, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Jozef Baum wrote: This posting doesn't contain a technical question about FreeBSD, rather a strategic one. Some time ago, I wanted to migrate to a Unix environment, because I wanted to have a secure, stable, convenient and efficient environment for developing

Re: A strategic question

2006-01-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 27, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Jozef Baum wrote: This posting doesn't contain a technical question about FreeBSD, rather a strategic one. Some time ago, I wanted to migrate to a Unix environment, because I wanted to have a secure, stable, convenient and efficient environment for developing

Re: A strategic question

2006-01-27 Thread Joseph Vella
On Friday 27 January 2006 06:16 pm, Jozef Baum wrote: This posting doesn't contain a technical question about FreeBSD, rather a strategic one. I did my first time ever install of FreeBSD 1 week ago. My background is M$ from DOS 2.something till XP. About 2 months ago I tried my first Linux