wi0 (4.11) = rum0 (7.0)

2008-02-21 Thread Lystopad Oleksandr
Hi! I have two FreeBSD boxes. One with 4.11 and wi0 device, and another with 7.0-PRE with rum0 device. I need to connect wi0 and rum0 via adhoc mode. 7.0 cant find wi0 device with ifconfig rum0 scan. Please, help me to connect this two networks together. ifconfig rum0: rum0:

Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)

2008-02-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Andrew Bradford wrote: I'm trying to set up a mounted filesystem that is read-write for root, but read-only for anyone else. It will be mounted as a backup directory, so files listed in that directory will be owned by current users on the system but can't be writeable, regardless of the file

Re: DJ500 dead after = 16 years.

2008-02-21 Thread perryh
Guys, I need some input about what kind of _new_ printer to buy for my desktops. I'd like to hang the printer off my FBSD box; my Ubuntu platform is probably too far away. At least 3 meters. A few months ago I got a Samsung ML-2571N for well under $100 at Fry's. It is small,

mount_msdosfs options with mp3 player

2008-02-21 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got a Zen Stone mp3 player that i plugged in to my freebsd 6.2 machine. It was detected fine as da0 and i mounted it with: mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt I'm wanting to make modifications, add/remove files and directories under fbsd, as opposed to windows. My question is

Re: GELI encryption and HDD critical temperature

2008-02-21 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:41:18AM +0300, s.g. wrote: According to smartctl -a, the temperature of the encrypted drives is ~59C. The temperature of the unencrypted drive is, however, ~41C, according to the same smartctl -a. The CPU has to work extra hard to encrypt/decrypt, and it is

Re: mount_msdosfs options with mp3 player

2008-02-21 Thread Mel
On Thursday 21 February 2008 11:38:23 Dave wrote: I'd also like this player to always show up as da0 no matter which port i plug it in to. No can do, but there is glabel(8). Label the disk with whatever tool you want as for example ZEN_STONE and it will always be available as:

Re: IP Aliasing

2008-02-21 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 29/01/2008, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) is there an upper limit to configuring a number of alias addresses? I have a machine with 200+ IP without any problem. 2) if an interface is configured with an alias address, then what address is shown on the traffic leaving this

Re: IP Aliasing

2008-02-21 Thread Mel
On Thursday 21 February 2008 13:07:08 Siraj Shaikh wrote: ifconfig_ed0_alias0=inet 127.0.0.251 netmask 0x ifconfig_ed0_alias1=inet 127.0.0.252 netmask 0x ifconfig_ed0_alias2=inet 127.0.0.253 netmask 0x Just want to know, as I want to configure about 253 addresses as

Re: IP Aliasing

2008-02-21 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 21/02/2008, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 13:07:08 Siraj Shaikh wrote: ifconfig_ed0_alias0=inet 127.0.0.251 netmask 0x ifconfig_ed0_alias1=inet 127.0.0.252 netmask 0x ifconfig_ed0_alias2=inet 127.0.0.253 netmask 0x Just want

HP LaserJet not uploading firmware permission denied ulpt0

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Belair
I'm using 6.3 FreeBSD Is there a fix that works. I have a hp laserjet 1000 printer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mount_msdosfs options with mp3 player

2008-02-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello, I've got a Zen Stone mp3 player that i plugged in to my freebsd 6.2 machine. It was detected fine as da0 and i mounted it with: mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt yes it is enough. or mtools are ok too. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

FreeBSD 6.3 on PowerMac G5

2008-02-21 Thread Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto
Hi guys, does the release for the powerpc arch. runs fine in a PowerMac G5 box? Anyone have already tried this? Cheers, Alaor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Unicode Console?

2008-02-21 Thread Robert Huff
Dominic Fandrey writes: It won't work for the console, but in a terminal emulator (I prefer rxvt-unicode, but uxterm should also work.) it works fine. My FreeBSD system uses UTF-8 and I never encountered problems because of this. Have I missed the announcement, or is it still

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008 15:58:51 schrieb James Harrison: 8. Most extensive collection of third party software (over 18000 ) only second to Debian. Looking back at it, I'm surprised I didn't mention that. Gentoo has over 24 thousand ebuilds, where an ebuild is their equivalent

Re: Unicode Console?

2008-02-21 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Robert Huff wrote: Dominic Fandrey writes: It won't work for the console, but in a terminal emulator (I prefer rxvt-unicode, but uxterm should also work.) it works fine. My FreeBSD system uses UTF-8 and I never encountered problems because of this. Have I missed the

6.3-STABLE Apache 2.0 uses high CPU when restarted....

2008-02-21 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I recently recomplied the apache20 port (updated) with no compile-time changes. Since that time, I noticed it was hogging 98% of the CPU and hanging. I adjusted the various Max/Min server levels and that seemed to fix it - except at midnight when the logs are rotated and the server is sent a

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread James Harrison
8. Most extensive collection of third party software (over 18000 ) only second to Debian. Looking back at it, I'm surprised I didn't mention that. Gentoo has over 24 thousand ebuilds, where an ebuild is their equivalent of a port: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebuild

7.0 RC2 usb problems

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Schmehl
I just installed 7.0 RC2 on a brand new Dell - dual processor dual core Intel (so four processors), and I'm losing the keyboard and mouse after taking certain actions. For example, I started setting up X (Xorg --configure) and then launched it (X -config /root/xorg.conf-new), and when I get to

Re: 6.3-STABLE Apache 2.0 uses high CPU when restarted....

2008-02-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:34 AM 2/21/2008, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I recently recomplied the apache20 port (updated) with no compile-time changes. Since that time, I noticed it was hogging 98% of the CPU and hanging. I adjusted the various Max/Min server levels and that seemed to fix it - except at midnight when

Re: IP Aliasing

2008-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:07:08PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) is there an upper limit to configuring a number of alias addresses? I have a machine with 200+ IP without any problem. 2) if an interface is configured with an

Re: wi0 (4.11) = rum0 (7.0)

2008-02-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 21 February 2008 02:46:09 am Lystopad Oleksandr wrote: Hi! I have two FreeBSD boxes. One with 4.11 and wi0 device, and another with 7.0-PRE with rum0 device. I need to connect wi0 and rum0 via adhoc mode. 7.0 cant find wi0 device with ifconfig rum0 scan. Please, help me to

ipfw pipe show

2008-02-21 Thread Jim Flowers
I'm struggling to understand pipes. Most of it I get or know how to find the answer but there is one thing that is still a puzzle. I have a pipe configured as: ipfw pipe 2 config bw 768Kbit/s queue 20Kbytes When I use `ipfw -s 4 pipe 2 show, one bucket is shown: 2: 768.000 Kbit/s0 ms

Re: ipfw pipe show

2008-02-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
answer but there is one thing that is still a puzzle. I have a pipe configured as: ipfw pipe 2 config bw 768Kbit/s queue 20Kbytes When I use `ipfw -s 4 pipe 2 show, one bucket is shown: 2: 768.000 Kbit/s0 ms 20 KB 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail mask: 0x00 0x/0x -

ionCube PHP Encoder / Loader on FreeBSD 6 / 7

2008-02-21 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm having problems getting ionCube's PHP loader working on either 6.3-RELEASE or 7.0-RC2 (both i386). I've followed the install instructions, edited php.ini, installed compat5x and compat6x libraries, but just cannot get the loader to work. Both boxes are running PHP 5.2.5. Have

Re: Shutdown anomaly

2008-02-21 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 03:37:29 pm Brent Jones wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tore Lund Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2008 9:32 a.m. To: Steven Friedrich; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shutdown

amd64 kernel installed on i386 machine?

2008-02-21 Thread David T
I am worried that I installed the 64 bit version of FreeBSD with an amd kernel on an Intel i386 box. Is there something wrong when I see the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local]# uname -aFreeBSD web1.machine.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 6 22:37:33 CST 2008

Did Microsoft give up?

2008-02-21 Thread NetOpsCenter
Aloha, I just saw on TV news that Micro$oft has announced that it is opening its code for development of its operating system. Does this mean the Open Source Community has proved itself the best way to go? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com +

Re: where is the new kernel(GENERIC) file?

2008-02-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, if nothing has changed, the file stayed the same. You can make a simple test. Delete or rename it and start csup again. If it reappears, it has to be the old file. Erich Efren Bravo wrote: Hi there. I downloaded the sources of freebsd 6.3 via cvsup. Where the new kernel file is

Re: Did Microsoft give up?

2008-02-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, NetOpsCenter wrote: Aloha, I just saw on TV news that Micro$oft has announced that it is opening its code for development of its operating system. Does this mean the Open Source Community has proved itself the best way to go? they use this just as another form of outsourcing. As long

Re: port net/acx100 for usr5410 pcmcia wireless FBSD 6.3

2008-02-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On 19/02/2008, Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anybody using usr5410? With what driver? And what version of FBSD? On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:21:22PM +, Kemian Dang wrote: Try ndis, it works for my broadcom wireless adapter. On 20/02/2008, Anton Shterenlikht

Re: ipfw pipe show

2008-02-21 Thread Jim Flowers
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:53:55 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote answer but there is one thing that is still a puzzle. I have a pipe configured as: ipfw pipe 2 config bw 768Kbit/s queue 20Kbytes When I use `ipfw -s 4 pipe 2 show, one bucket is shown: 2: 768.000 Kbit/s0 ms

command df just hangs

2008-02-21 Thread David Banning
I first noticed that I was not able to access a windows box mounted using mount_smbfs. While checking the drive status with the 'df' command I noticed that the command just hangs. I could probably resolve this by simply rebooting, but I don't like to use that solution if I don't have to. Any

RE: [SDBUG] Did Microsoft give up?

2008-02-21 Thread Jeremiah Gowdy
Super massive cross-post activate! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NetOpsCenter Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; LUAU; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; San Diego's BSD Users Group Subject: [SDBUG] Did

Re: 6.3-STABLE Apache 2.0 uses high CPU when restarted....

2008-02-21 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Derek Ragona wrote: At 08:34 AM 2/21/2008, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I recently recomplied the apache20 port (updated) with no compile-time changes. Since that time, I noticed it was hogging 98% of the CPU and hanging. I adjusted the various Max/Min server levels and that seemed to fix it -

Re: Did Microsoft give up?

2008-02-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I just saw on TV news that Micro$oft has announced that it is opening its code for development of its operating system. Does this mean the Open Source Community has proved itself the best way to go? yes. look at linux as an example. this will make windows even slower, even more buggy - thats

Re: amd64 kernel installed on i386 machine?

2008-02-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:08:31 -0500 David T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am worried that I installed the 64 bit version of FreeBSD with an amd kernel on an Intel i386 box. Is there something wrong when I see the following: Intel produce CPUs that are compatible with amd64. If yours wasn't one

Re: amd64 kernel installed on i386 machine?

2008-02-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local]# uname -aFreeBSD web1.machine.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 6 22:37:33 CST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/web1 amd64 you did all right. you installed 64-bit kernel on 64-bit capable machine. amd64 is just a standard for

Re: port net/acx100 for usr5410 pcmcia wireless FBSD 6.3

2008-02-21 Thread Kemian Dang
Is your wireless network a non-authentication one, if it is wpa, wep, you may want to try follow the handbook[1]. I am not using rc.conf to start my wireless, but I think give the ssid in rc.conf may help, because there may be more wireless network in your area if it is a non-authentication one.

Re: Question urgent!!!

2008-02-21 Thread David Alanis
Veronica: Tu pregunta viene siendo un poquitito muy general. Por la mayoria Dell y HP son conocidos por ser estables. Claro que hay problemas que se conocen pero por la mayoria Dell tienes mejor servicio ahorita corremos freeBSD 7.0 amd64 en un Dell y FreeBSD 7.0 i686 en un Dell. Lo que

Question urgent!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Odeth Solano
Hi Can you suggest us, what kind of servers are supported to run if Free Free BSD 6.2? HP? Dell? ]IBM? Could you suggest a model of this servers and processors please? Thanks Odeth Verónica Solano P. Clientes Estratégicos Diveo Internet de México Tel.: 5093-8058 Cel.: 04455-5506-3474 E-mail:

Re: 6.3-STABLE Apache 2.0 uses high CPU when restarted....

2008-02-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:57 AM 2/21/2008, Forrest Aldrich wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 08:34 AM 2/21/2008, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I recently recomplied the apache20 port (updated) with no compile-time changes. Since that time, I noticed it was hogging 98% of the CPU and hanging. I adjusted the various

Re: Hardware compatability.

2008-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Odeth Solano [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Can you suggest us, what kind of servers are supported to run if Free Free BSD 6.2? HP? Dell? ]IBM? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/hardware-i386.html Could you suggest a model of this servers and processors please? We've had

qemu coredumps on any network activity

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Franks
The only relevant info in dmesg is that pid qemuexitied on signal 11 (core dump). It runs fine until I access the network (either with ftp or iexplore), then cores. Just built from source 2 days ago (qemu 0.9.0_3). System is a vanilla amd64 7.0-RC2. Ssytem network access is fine. Thanks,

Re: Hardware compatability.

2008-02-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/hardware-i386.html Could you suggest a model of this servers and processors please? We've had mostly good experiences with Dell's servers. while i have one IBM and 2 self-assembled servers recently, both works fine. just check the hardware (by chipset,

Re: DJ500 dead after = 16 years.

2008-02-21 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I need some input about what kind of _new_ printer to buy for my desktops. I'd like to hang the printer off my FBSD box; my Ubuntu platform is probably too far away. At least 3 meters. We have a HP3005n, HP2605dn, Xerox Phasermfp8650 all network

Re: where is the new kernel(GENERIC) file?

2008-02-21 Thread Efren Bravo
I did it and worked as you told me. Thanks... Hi, if nothing has changed, the file stayed the same. You can make a simple test. Delete or rename it and start csup again. If it reappears, it has to be the old file. Erich Efren Bravo wrote: Hi there. I downloaded the

Re: DJ500 dead after = 16 years.

2008-02-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 21:07:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, I need some input about what kind of _new_ printer to buy for my desktops. I'd like to hang the printer off my FBSD box; my Ubuntu platform is probably too far away. At least 3 meters. A few months ago I got a

Re: qemu coredumps on any network activity

2008-02-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The only relevant info in dmesg is that pid qemuexitied on signal 11 (core dump). It runs fine until I access the network (either with ftp or iexplore), then cores. Just built from source 2 days ago (qemu 0.9.0_3). System is a vanilla amd64 7.0-RC2. Ssytem network access is fine. what

6.2+update and 6.3 difference

2008-02-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is there a difference between my 6.2 system updated to 6.2p11 by freebsd-update and 6.3? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: Did Microsoft give up?

2008-02-21 Thread Fidel Garcia
Why do you think hardware producers will like that? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:09 PM To: NetOpsCenter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; San Diego's BSD Users Group;

Re: OT - was Re: Question urgent!!!

2008-02-21 Thread David Alanis
Got it. Sorry I am not trying to offend anyone. I will no longer reply all. Thank you, David Alanis Quoting Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: is that list multilanguage? i think it's main function is to support other users, that could read all posts and archives from that list, so it would

Re: [LUAU] Did Microsoft give up?

2008-02-21 Thread Jim Thompson
On Feb 21, 2008, at 7:20 AM, NetOpsCenter wrote: Aloha, I just saw on TV news that Micro$oft has announced that it is opening its code for development of its operating system. Does this mean the Open Source Community has proved itself the best way to go? No. Its more get the EU off

Re: 7.0 RC2 usb keyboard and mouse problems

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, February 21, 2008 20:41:59 +0100 Nikolaj Thygesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: I just installed 7.0 RC2 on a brand new Dell - dual processor dual core Intel (so four processors), and I'm losing the keyboard and mouse after taking certain actions. For example, I

Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)

2008-02-21 Thread Andrew Bradford
Erik Norgaard escribió: Andrew Bradford wrote: I'm trying to set up a mounted filesystem that is read-write for root, but read-only for anyone else. It will be mounted as a backup directory, so files listed in that directory will be owned by current users on the system but can't be

Which version of berkeley DB?

2008-02-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: So far I have managed to keep all on version 43 of Berkeley DB, I see there is now 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6. - Is there any way to find out which is the latest version all ports will build against? - Is there any reason to upgrade? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818

Re: OT - was Re: Question urgent!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
David Alanis wrote: Got it. Sorry I am not trying to offend anyone. I will no longer reply all. Thanks. By the way, I'm not sure what language that was, but becuase it seemd like Spanish or Portuguese, I'd like to point out that there's probably a FreeBSD mailing list in that language, see

Re: 6.3-STABLE Apache 2.0 uses high CPU when restarted....

2008-02-21 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Mel wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:57:38 Forrest Aldrich wrote: Here's a recent output of top : PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 94711 www 1 1170 41036K 13852K RUN0 1:43 98.69% httpd Is this memory rising? If

binat problem with jail loopback addresses

2008-02-21 Thread cali clarke
Hi. I'm trying to set up a jail running on a loopback IP connected to the outside world with pf and binat. My interfaces are configured like this: ifconfig lo1 inet 127.1.0.1 netmask 0xff00 up ifconfig lo1 alias 127.1.0.2 netmask 0xff00 ifconfig lo1 alias 127.1.0.3 netmask 0xff00

RE: GELI encryption and HDD critical temperature

2008-02-21 Thread Brent Jones
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cpghost Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2008 11:42 p.m. To: s.g. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GELI encryption and HDD critical temperature On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:41:18AM +0300,

Re: command df just hangs - answered

2008-02-21 Thread David Banning
As it turns out, my windows box was already mounted. Since my windows firewall was turned on - df was hanging probably because it was trying to read info on the windows drive mounted, but couldn't. Disabling the win firewall fixed the problem - now I have to open up a port in that firewall before

Re: 7.0 RC2 usb keyboard and mouse problems

2008-02-21 Thread Nikolaj Thygesen
Paul Schmehl wrote: I just installed 7.0 RC2 on a brand new Dell - dual processor dual core Intel (so four processors), and I'm losing the keyboard and mouse after taking certain actions. For example, I started setting up X (Xorg --configure) and then launched it (X -config

binat problem with loopback jail addresses

2008-02-21 Thread xorquewasp
Hi. I'm trying to set up a jail running on a loopback IP connected to the outside world with pf and binat. My interfaces are configured like this: ifconfig lo1 inet 127.1.0.1 netmask 0xff00 up ifconfig lo1 alias 127.1.0.2 netmask 0xff00 ifconfig lo1 alias 127.1.0.3 netmask

Re: Which version of berkeley DB?

2008-02-21 Thread Mel
On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:38:31 Erik Norgaard wrote: So far I have managed to keep all on version 43 of Berkeley DB, I see there is now 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6. - Is there any way to find out which is the latest version all ports will build against? No, cause there's reasons there's so many

Re: 6.3-STABLE Apache 2.0 uses high CPU when restarted....

2008-02-21 Thread Mel
On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:57:38 Forrest Aldrich wrote: Here's a recent output of top : PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 94711 www 1 1170 41036K 13852K RUN0 1:43 98.69% httpd Is this memory rising? If the below suggestion

Re: FW: Did Microsoft give up?

2008-02-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Why do you think hardware producers will like that? slowest system, and frequent new versions even slower, requiring constant buying new hardware ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Buildworld failure with 6.3

2008-02-21 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 15 February 2008, Mike Clarke wrote: I recently posted about my problem with buildworld failing in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/ with the message: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../libi386/libi386.a(biosdisk.o) (.text+0x9ff): In function `bd_opendisk': undefined reference to

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008 15:58:51 schrieb James Harrison: 8. Most extensive collection of third party software (over 18000 ) only second to Debian. Looking back at it, I'm surprised I didn't mention that. Gentoo has over 24 thousand

Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)

2008-02-21 Thread Mel
On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:32:37 Andrew Bradford wrote: Erik Norgaard escribió: I assume the reasoning for this is you want to preserve permissions and attributes on your backup, so you can't solve this simply by setting permissions appropriately. Yes, exactly. Users need to be able

Re: 6.3-STABLE Apache 2.0 uses high CPU when restarted....

2008-02-21 Thread Mel
On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:57:32 Forrest Aldrich wrote: Mel wrote: I doubt it would help. I've seen this lots of times when the php module exit code is hanging. At the same time, the php CLI binary should be crashing on exit. Re-order your modules, there's a thread about it in the

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread D G Teed
As a Sysadmin I have 2 cents to add to this discussion. I think the whole chest beating, king of the hill, stand taking, mantra repeating is juvenile. There is no superior OS. As I do my job I don't start out figuring how I can slide my favorite distro into the equation. The OS is not at the

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread Predrag Punosevac
D G Teed wrote: As a Sysadmin I have 2 cents to add to this discussion. I think the whole chest beating, king of the hill, stand taking, mantra repeating is juvenile. There is no superior OS. As I do my job I don't start out figuring how I can slide my favorite distro into the equation. The

Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)

2008-02-21 Thread Andrew Bradford
Mel escribió: On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:32:37 Andrew Bradford wrote: Erik Norgaard escribió: I assume the reasoning for this is you want to preserve permissions and attributes on your backup, so you can't solve this simply by setting permissions appropriately. Yes,

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
And of course you are right. Even Windows is an excellent OS if you need to run CAD and keep your computer away from the Internet:-) probably because CAD software you use are windows only ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)

2008-02-21 Thread Mel
On Thursday 21 February 2008 22:22:34 Andrew Bradford wrote: Mel escribió: On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:32:37 Andrew Bradford wrote: Erik Norgaard escribió: I assume the reasoning for this is you want to preserve permissions and attributes on your backup, so you can't solve this simply

Retractable Banner Stands for $299.00

2008-02-21 Thread April Lax
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POP3 recommendations...

2008-02-21 Thread Peter Harrison
I've not run a POP3 server before, but now I'm getting tired of confusing myself pulling my email down from my ISP across my laptop, desktop, and home server. Could someone recommend a solution for me? The situation is that I have a home server (running NFS, Samba, FTP, Apache, Mysql), plus a

RE: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP!!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Ryan Jenkins
Jerry, or Erich, I am wondering how I could Download the FreeBSD OS to a disk, so I could try and install it on the computers I am trying to get to work? Could you give me some pointers on the process? Ryan Jenkins

Re: FW: Did Microsoft give up?

2008-02-21 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Why do you think hardware producers will like that? slowest system, and frequent new versions even slower, requiring constant buying new hardware Much the same reason IBM like[ds] JCL on main frames. Every time somebody messed it up, it required

RE: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP!!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
not to sound condescending, but just download the ISO ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ the installer is very easy to walk through but if you need more help, the documentation is very nice. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html -Sean From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DJ500 dead after = 16 years.

2008-02-21 Thread David Kelly
On Feb 21, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Great; another printer heard about.SO far the Brother at = $200 with 7000 pages at a $30 cartridge sounds better.I've done mostly the academic, plain bw over the years. Hm, well, then I have had some papers returned with feedback

Re: Did Microsoft give up?

2008-02-21 Thread B H
NetOpsCenter 48799160 %m: Aloha, I just saw on TV news that Micro$oft has announced that it is opening its code for development of its operating system. God. Does this mean the Open Source Community has proved itself the best way to go? Yes.

My printer isn't working with freebsd I have a hp laserjet1000

2008-02-21 Thread paulfromottawa
My printer isn't working with freebsd I have a hp laserjet1000 /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed So I have tried building the kernel without ulpt, and uploader the firmware but then cups would have local printers selection greyed out. using boot loader.conf to load ulpt

Re: POP3 recommendations...

2008-02-21 Thread Erwan David
Le Thu 21/02/2008, Peter Harrison disait I've not run a POP3 server before, but now I'm getting tired of confusing myself pulling my email down from my ISP across my laptop, desktop, and home server. Could someone recommend a solution for me? The situation is that I have a home server

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread nepbabu
Thus spoke Predrag Punosevac on Wednesday, 20 February 2008 at 19:24:01 -0700: Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:27:49PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: Try to find on the internet couple of advocacy articles by Greg Lehey. They are very well-written. Greg's a legend! :P --

Re: My printer isn't working with freebsd I have a hp laserjet1000

2008-02-21 Thread Michael Ross
Am 21.02.2008, 23:55 Uhr, schrieb paulfromottawa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My printer isn't working with freebsd I have a hp laserjet1000 /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed So I have tried building the kernel without ulpt, and uploader the firmware but then cups would have local

PF vs. ping6

2008-02-21 Thread Colin Brace
Hi all, I am trying to set up a IPv6 tunnel following the instructions in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ipv6.html. aiccu starts ok: # sixxs-aiccu start Tunnel Information for T14342: POP Id : nlams05 IPv6 Local : x2/64 IPv6

Re: PF vs. ping6

2008-02-21 Thread Christopher Cowart
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:14:55AM +0100, Colin Brace wrote: Hi all, I am trying to set up a IPv6 tunnel following the instructions in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ipv6.html. aiccu starts ok: # sixxs-aiccu start Tunnel Information for

Re: Question urgent!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:06:34PM -0600, Odeth Solano wrote: Hi Can you suggest us, what kind of servers are supported to run if Free Free BSD 6.2? HP? Dell? ]IBM? Could you suggest a model of this servers and processors please? This was just discussed a couple of days ago on the

Re: PF vs. ping6

2008-02-21 Thread Colin Brace
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Christopher Cowart I don't use pf, but I'm guessing from the man page that you may need to try: pass quick on fxp0 proto 41 Ah, finally, this works: pass quick on $ext_if proto 41 pass quick on gif0 inet6 which PF interprets as: pass quick on fxp0 proto

Re: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP!!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0700, Ryan Jenkins wrote: Jerry, or Erich, I am wondering how I could Download the FreeBSD OS to a disk, so I could try and install it on the computers I am trying to get to work? Could you give me some pointers on the process? This is well documented

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Wojciech Puchar wrote: use as a desktop system. Contrary to that impression, I'm sending this what is desktop system and server system? AFAIK it just depends of software installed, and it can be both.. ___ FreeBSD as a desktop compared to other

Re: HP LaserJet not uploading firmware permission denied ulpt0

2008-02-21 Thread Modulok
On 2/21/08, Paul Belair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using 6.3 FreeBSD Is there a fix that works. I have a hp laserjet 1000 printer. You've got to be logged in as the 'root' user, (or a user who has write-access to /dev/ulpt0, which by default is only 'root'). 1. Ensure you are the root

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread punosevac
Wojciech Puchar wrote: use as a desktop system. Contrary to that impression, I'm sending this what is desktop system and server system? AFAIK it just depends of software installed, and it can be both.. ___ FreeBSD as a desktop compared to

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 01:48 +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: use as a desktop system. Contrary to that impression, I'm sending this what is desktop system and server system? AFAIK it just depends of software installed, and it can be both..

Clearchains wpi and apm/acpi

2008-02-21 Thread Martin Boulianne
Hi, I successfully installed wpi driver and it works great. I'm using acpi. But my screen doesn't go off when I close the lid, and I read that apm could do the trick. So I disabled acpi and enabled apm. Woohoo! The screen shutdowns as predicted. BUT, the wpi driver won't work anymore! I guess

Re: Multiple versions of PHP

2008-02-21 Thread patrick
I've got a new problem... While I was able to install PHP 5 into a separate location than PHP 4 (both from ports), I'm now trying to add a PHP 5 extension (/usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd). The built-in version checking is saying: === php5-gd-5.2.5 cannot install: doesn't work with PHP version : 4

Re: security of a new installation / steps to take

2008-02-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, To all the things that follow (sorry about top reply) I'd add a clever configuration of tcpwrapper (/etc/hosts.allow) whenever it is possible: allows to open a service to a list of given clients only. It is just another layer of security. Olivier So far I have had FreeBSD systems only in

Re: POP3 recommendations...

2008-02-21 Thread Eric Schuele
On 02/21/2008 15:55, Peter Harrison wrote: I've not run a POP3 server before, but now I'm getting tired of confusing myself pulling my email down from my ISP across my laptop, desktop, and home server. Could someone recommend a solution for me? The situation is that I have a home server

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 19:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: use as a desktop system. Contrary to that impression, I'm sending this what is desktop system and server system? AFAIK it just depends of software installed, and it can be both..

Re: 6.3-STABLE Apache 2.0 uses high CPU when restarted....

2008-02-21 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Mel wrote: Your extensions.ini has duplicate and non-existing modules. Start here: mv /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini.bkp sort -u /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini.bkp |while read MOD; do if test -f /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/${MOD##extension=}; then

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