Re: 7.4 - X -configure gives No devices to configure

2009-02-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:31:43PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:42 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 made X unsuable on FBSD 7.1-stable i386. I followed the UPDATE procedures, had no errors on build, but on X -configure I get No devices

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-13 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:00:16 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: 1) It was my understanding one has to force-mount a dirty filesuystem. IF this sounds like a practice best left to senior Jedi Masters ... it porbably is. Mounting possibly defective file systems is not a good

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
seeing fsck checking partitions after unclean shutdown, but when everything's okay, there's no problem running into MUM *afterwards*. exactly like me i have background_fsck=NO in rc.conf unix doesn't crash every few hours so it's really not a problem to wait a bit more

xdm -debug 1 = Nothing left to do, exiting

2009-02-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On 6.4-stable alpha I cannot get xdm to become a daemon, it exits immediately with empty /var/log/xdm.log. I tried to use -debug option, and this is the output: # xdm -debug 1 DisplayManager.errorLogFile/DisplayManager.ErrorLogFile value /var/log/xdm.log

nss_ldap problems with pthread_atfork on RELENG_7

2009-02-13 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 02/11/2009 04:20 PM, Benjamin Lee wrote: On 02/10/2009 10:08 PM, Arjun Singh wrote: Thanks for the advice. I tried to see if I could get nscd to solve anything, but it seems to just hide the problem, and not completely. With nscd enabled, the first login fails. After that, it's fine.. I

Re: reread newsyslog.conf without reboot

2009-02-13 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Fbsd1 wrote: How do I get the system to reread /etc/newsyslog.conf file with out rebooting the system? /etc/rc.d/newsyslog restart -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Iptables in FreeBSD

2009-02-13 Thread Moti Levy
On 02/12/09 3:31 AM, kashif imran wrote: Hi all I am a new to FreeBsd, can someone translate these iptables rules for freebsd? /usr/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE /usr/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

Re: Iptables in FreeBSD

2009-02-13 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Moti Levy levym...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/12/09 3:31 AM, kashif imran wrote: Hi all I am a new to FreeBsd, can someone translate these iptables rules for freebsd? /usr/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE /usr/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-13 Thread Robert Huff
Wojciech Puchar writes: background_fsck=NO in rc.conf unix doesn't crash every few hours so it's really not a problem to wait a bit more Cases and personal tolerance may vary. One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two full passes takes about 7

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-13 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:11:56 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two full passes takes about 7 minutes. I have no idea how long it might take to check a multi-terabyte RAID-mumble set-up. It's not *that* hard to

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-13 Thread John Almberg
On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:21 AM, Da Rock wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:52 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Da Rock wrote: With reasonable organization, and appropriate use of sudo or setgid binaries for things like people who use SVN or CVS, there generally isn't reason

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:16:13 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:11:56 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two full passes takes about 7 minutes. I have no idea how long it might take to check a

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Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two full passes takes about 7 minutes. I have no idea how long it might take to check a multi-terabyte RAID-mumble set-up. depends of how filesystem was created. multiterabyte arrays are usually used for large files, and

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-13 Thread Robert Huff
IMHO, if you are running a system where 'power outages' cannot be tolerated, why not install a UPS, they are really quite cheap, and be done with it? I cannot imagine any high end, mission critical system not employing one. Power outages are not the only thing which can

Re: Help with high LA

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:04:41 -0200 (BRST) sc...@centroin.com.br wrote: I need help for some strange problem with one of my servers, that can cost my job. It's a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5/amd64 running on a Dell PowerEdge III as a Virtual machine of VMware ESXi. There are only two VM in

Lorenzo Altieri - EIDOS ET PATHOS (new book)

2009-02-13 Thread Zeta Books Newsletter
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Re: About FreeBSD hardware compatibility?

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:15:37AM +0800, aaron lewis wrote: Hi, I'm a freebsd lovers , i wonna install fbsd7.1 to my laptop (IBM Thinkpad R400 a18). There's no available informations on laptop compatibility lists. So do you have any solutions to make a quick check if everything will

Re: 7.4 - X -configure gives No devices to configure

2009-02-13 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 09:26 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:31:43PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:42 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 made X unsuable on FBSD 7.1-stable i386. I followed the UPDATE procedures, had

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 12, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Da Rock wrote: So you're talking in terms of the FS only? Nope. A filesystem might have ACL capability available in it's specification, but without kernel and userland support, that capability isn't accessible or meaningful. I thought you said the kernel

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:22:55 -0500 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: IMHO, if you are running a system where 'power outages' cannot be tolerated, why not install a UPS, they are really quite cheap, and be done with it? I cannot imagine any high end, mission critical system not employing

Xorg - Resolution issues

2009-02-13 Thread Francis Dubé
Hi everyone, I got this TV : http://www.samsung.com/ca/consumer/detail/spec.do?group=tvtype=tvsubtype=lcdmodel_cd=LN40A330J1DXZCfullspec=F I'm trying to use it as my screen under FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE with a resolution of 1366x768 which is suposed to be suported by the TV, acording with the

Problems with xf86-video-ati driver (6.10.0)

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
Florent, I'm ccing you on this so you know about it. On an Intel dual core box running 7.1 RELEASE and Xorg 7.4, the radeon driver drives CPU to 100% and locks up the box. Keyboard and mouse input are ignored, and it's not possible to switch to another tty to escape from the problem. Kill

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-13 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:22:55 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Power outages are not the only thing which can cause (directly or indirectly) file system corruption. Oh yes, that's so true - I experienced it in July 2008, and I still think it was a software problem... --

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-13 Thread Nikolaj Thygesen
Steve Bertrand wrote: From what I understand (and correct me if I'm wrong): - you are working on a FreeBSD host system - you have a DHCP server on the network, but it is not on this host - you want to use all of the DHCP assigned parameters on the host, but you want to have a static IP on the

Re: Xorg - Resolution issues

2009-02-13 Thread Polytropon
Maybe you can try Option PreferredMode 1366x768 in section Monitor? If it doesn't work, there's always an option to use xrandr via ~/.xinitrc: xrandr --size 1366x768 xrandr --fb 1366x768 I have a similar issue with the ati driver, using an ATI Radeon 9200 (RV250)

FreeBSD 7.1 - rshd problems

2009-02-13 Thread Overdorf, Sam
I'm having problems getting rsh/rshd to work on my 7.1 installation. I have it configured the same as my 7.0 computer (which works fine) but when I try to run a command I get the following response: rsh u0610 ls rshd: Login incorrect. Thanks, Sam ___

Re: Xorg - Resolution issues

2009-02-13 Thread Francis Dubé
Polytropon a écrit : Maybe you can try Option PreferredMode 1366x768 in section Monitor? If it doesn't work, there's always an option to use xrandr via ~/.xinitrc: xrandr --size 1366x768 xrandr --fb 1366x768 I have a similar issue with the ati driver, using an ATI

Re: Logcheck dependency hell

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Cowart
n j wrote: could anyone help me what command should I use to find out which logcheck-required port _exactly_ is trying to install half of the X libraries? The Makefile says: | BUILD_DEPENDS= docbook-to-man:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/docbook-to-man | RUN_DEPENDS=

confontation

2009-02-13 Thread prad
i need greek letters for math work. latex has the fonts of course, but i don't have the \mu \ro etc on regular programs such as inkscape. i've installed texcm-ttf, but only go a couple of greek letters. mathfonts don't install and i'm really not sure that mathmatica fonts are what i require

Re: accents in file names

2009-02-13 Thread Daniel Leal
Ok, Thanks a lot... I will read carefully these articles... bye. daniel Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 12, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Daniel Leal wrote: is there a way to have a freebsd system with file names with accented words. Like filé.txt instead of file.txt. Now if I copy a file with an accented

Re: confontation

2009-02-13 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:07:00 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: i need greek letters for math work. [...] any suggestions? I'm not sure if this helps you, but I've seen a font on an ancient Windows 3.11 installation that included all greek letters (uppercase and lowercase), but

Re: confontation

2009-02-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:07:00 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: i need greek letters for math work. [...] any suggestions? I'm not sure if this helps you, but I've seen a font on an ancient Windows 3.11 installation that included all greek letters (uppercase and

Re: confontation

2009-02-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:07:00PM -0800, prad wrote: i need greek letters for math work. latex has the fonts of course, but i don't have the \mu \ro etc on regular programs such as inkscape. i've installed texcm-ttf, but only go a couple of greek letters. mathfonts don't install and i'm

Re: confontation

2009-02-13 Thread prad
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:06:56 +0100 Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: i need greek letters for math work. Why? i want to be able to put \theta or \mu into a drawing that i create with inkscape. i realize these things are available in xfig, but it would be handy if i could have a

Re: Problems with xf86-video-ati driver (6.10.0)

2009-02-13 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:34 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: Florent, I'm ccing you on this so you know about it. On an Intel dual core box running 7.1 RELEASE and Xorg 7.4, the radeon driver drives CPU to 100% and locks up the box. Keyboard and mouse input are ignored, and it's not possible

Re: confontation

2009-02-13 Thread prad
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:49:36 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Was the font named Symbol? I can't remember, it's long time ago. ya i think that might have been it. there is a symbol in xfig. But maybe you can check and find a TTF file that can be imported to X and / or the

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-13 Thread Timur I. Bakeyev
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:48 -0500, John Almberg wrote: I've been following this thread with interest: are you saying FreeBSD logins cannot handle more than 16 groups? If so, why? Is this mitigated by using other

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-13 Thread David Newman
On 2/13/09 7:22 AM, Robert Huff wrote: IMHO, if you are running a system where 'power outages' cannot be tolerated, why not install a UPS, they are really quite cheap, and be done with it? I cannot imagine any high end, mission critical system not employing one. Power

Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

2009-02-13 Thread Bobby Walker
I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to configure a catchall email account, and Exchange and I do not get along very well. So, today

Re: Problems with xf86-video-ati driver (6.10.0)

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 13, 2009 7:38:04 PM -0600 Robert Noland rnol...@freebsd.org wrote: There are no errors in the Xorg.0.log file, and the process of X startup appears to be perfectly normal. Switching to the vesa driver fixes the problem entirely. The radeon driver can be used, less than

Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Laverenz
Bobby Walker schrieb: So, today while brainstorming, I thought why not run FreeBSD as a guest OS on the box. Any suggestions for the best way of doing this? If it has to run on top of W2K3 server I would suggest VMware server 2.0 which can be used for free (as in free beer). Don't expect it

Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

2009-02-13 Thread Tim Judd
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 22:32 -0600, Bobby Walker wrote: I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to configure a catchall email account,

Upgrading gcc on FreeBSD 4.11

2009-02-13 Thread Shaun
Hi all, One of my machines is running FreeBSD 4.11. It's a bit confused about its current incarnation of gcc: [sh...@agaliarept lang]$ pkg_info | grep gcc gcc-3.4.6_3,1 GNU Compiler Collection 3.4 [sh...@agaliarept lang]$ gcc -v Using builtin specs. gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]

How to interrupt hung boot process?

2009-02-13 Thread Dieter
Working on updating a amd64 box from 7.0 to 7.1. A shell script called from rc.local hung. (Still don't know why, works fine in 7.0, works fine in 7.1 executed manually once system is up.) Tried ^C, ^\, ^P and nearly every other key on the keyboard. They echo, but nothing will interrupt the hung

Re: Upgrading gcc on FreeBSD 4.11

2009-02-13 Thread Tim Judd
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:00 -0600, Shaun wrote: Hi all, One of my machines is running FreeBSD 4.11. It's a bit confused about its current incarnation of gcc: [sh...@agaliarept lang]$ pkg_info | grep gcc gcc-3.4.6_3,1 GNU Compiler Collection 3.4 [sh...@agaliarept lang]$ gcc -v

Re: How to interrupt hung boot process?

2009-02-13 Thread Tim Judd
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 22:32 +, Dieter wrote: Working on updating a amd64 box from 7.0 to 7.1. A shell script called from rc.local hung. (Still don't know why, works fine in 7.0, works fine in 7.1 executed manually once system is up.) Tried ^C, ^\, ^P and nearly every other key on the

Re: Upgrading gcc on FreeBSD 4.11

2009-02-13 Thread Shaun
Thanks Tim! I'm aware that 4.x has been EOL'd for a long time. This particular machine is tracking RELENG_4_11. Of course I'd love to upgrade, but I have no physical access. I've researched the potential paths from 4.11 to 5.x to 6.x, and while there are some success stories, there are horror