Re: Use of CVS

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:35:43PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: On Jan 11, 2007, at 18:28, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:35:38 -0800 Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions on these approaches will be appreciated. Thanks, I suggest you read the CVS Red

Re: Sun Fire x2100

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:27:15PM -0800, Peter Thoenen wrote: --- DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should know about? I don't recommend them if you plan to use as a file server. They have an issue with randomly rebooting

Re: Install from CVS?

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:11:51PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote: Is it possible to install (instead of upgrading) FreeBSD from my local CVS repository? Looking to find a good way to automate installations, and figured I'd start there. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:33:47AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of vista's strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have to pay again? they can keep their OS). Problem is, I've got 320GB of accumulated

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:31:22PM -0700, hal wrote: This came down from above?! Beginning in 2007, Daylight Savings Time will be lengthened one month by starting three weeks earlier (2AM on the second Sunday in March) and ending one week later (2AM on the first Sunday in November).

Re: Subject: Re: Execute script every time a specified user logs in (FreeB SD 6.1)

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Jan 17, 2007, at 18:46 , George Vanev wrote: On 1/17/07, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 11:49, George Vanev wrote: Every time user X (for example) logs in the system I want to execute some script. The user must not have the permission to

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: [snip] Real hardware RAID chips/cards tend to be expensive, proprietary, don't require an OS driver and include a battery backup system for data in the RAID cache should the system lose power. I don't know what I was thinking

Re: sysv semaphores

2006-11-14 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:22:33PM +, Robin Becker wrote: I'm trying to test a python extension (POSH) that uses semaphores. When testing I get a run time error that indicates it requires too many semaphores. Is it possible to adjust the allowed number of semaphores without rebuilding

Re: sysv semaphores

2006-11-14 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 04:46:52PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:22:33PM +, Robin Becker wrote: I'm trying to test a python extension (POSH) that uses semaphores. When testing I get a run time error that indicates it requires too many semaphores. Is it possible

Re: sysv semaphores

2006-11-14 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:56:45PM +, Robin Becker wrote: [snip] thanks very much all very useful info. Someone else recommended looking at these options kern.ipc.semmap=180 kern.ipc.semmni=160 kern.ipc.semmns=210 kern.ipc.semmnu=180 kern.ipc.semmsl=210 kern.ipc.semopm=250

Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-13 Thread Damian Wiest
-311e00bd-Xqh92z X-Barracuda-URL: http://dfspam01.vail:80/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Connect: cprobd02.vailsys.com[63.210.102.130] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1163208958 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:35:54 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061109) To: Damian

Re: [MAYBE SPAM] Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)

2006-11-13 Thread Damian Wiest
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 12:57:00PM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: On 11/11/2006 01:28, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 10 Nov Damian Wiest wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:56:39PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Palit GeForce

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:19:27PM +0600, Bachilo Dmitry wrote: ? ? ?? ??? 13 ?? 2006 12:05 Leo L. Schwab ???(a): I recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my gateway. It replaced an installation of FreeBSD 4.6.8 (fresh install, not an upgrade) on which I had disabled

Re: hands-on experience on 6.1 amd64 vs. i386

2006-11-13 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:57:31PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:32:45PM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: this is nothing professional, just my personal experience. same machine, two sata, one is amd64, the other i386. while doing portupgrade due to gtk upgrade on amd64,

Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-10 Thread Damian Wiest
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came

Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)

2006-11-10 Thread Damian Wiest
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:56:39PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows. What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD driver for? 3d It's also useful for getting all of

Re: TV capture card

2006-11-10 Thread Damian Wiest
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:46:51PM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, can anyone suggest a TV capture card that works well under freebsd/6.1/amd64? I read something on the handbook, but would like to have some input from the real experience...thanks!! a bunch!! TFC Aren't ATI's All-in-Wonder

Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-10 Thread Damian Wiest
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:56:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave

Re: Bug with tcsh? : if evaluating true instead of false

2006-10-26 Thread Damian Wiest
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:36:06PM -0400, David Robillard wrote: I appreciate the help thanks! Sure, I'll send the script to you in an individual email instead of as an attachement to the list. Should anyone on the list want a copy, just drop me an email. I'd appreciate the script though,

Re: HA Cluster based on promise VTrack Mxxx

2006-10-25 Thread Damian Wiest
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:56:19AM +0200, bsd wrote: Hello, I am trying to figure out which hardware to build my HA cluster with. I have seen various promise systems which seems quite interesting (VTrack M210p) but FreeBSD is not mentionned as an official suported OS on their

Re: Small Redundant web/mail setup

2006-10-23 Thread Damian Wiest
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:57:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:34 AM Subject: Small Redundant web/mail setup Hi, I need to setup a

Re: Problems with USB Palm sync

2006-10-20 Thread Damian Wiest
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:25:19AM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: [snip] Thanks for all your help here! When I first read this, I said to myself that it wouldn't help, that I've tried all these various permutations. Imagine my surprise when it *did* work! I will post a complete followup

Re: Recommended Hardware

2006-10-20 Thread Damian Wiest
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:44:01PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:44:10PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Those have worked for me so far, and yes, it is labour intensive. If it was easy to do right then there wouldn't be any good reason for your boss not to hire the kid

Re: Problems with USB Palm sync

2006-10-18 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:03:07PM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: (hope this isn't a double post:-( Damian Wiest wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:29:49PM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: Has anyone had any luck using pilot-link to sync JPilot to a Palm device via the USB? I'm trying to sync my

Re: Problems with USB Palm sync

2006-10-18 Thread Damian Wiest
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:53:18AM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: Anish Mistry wrote: On Tuesday 17 October 2006 23:22, Jonathan Arnold wrote: Anish Mistry wrote: On Tuesday 17 October 2006 16:29, Jonathan Arnold wrote: Has anyone had any luck using pilot-link to sync JPilot to a Palm device

Re: Problems with USB Palm sync

2006-10-17 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:29:49PM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: Has anyone had any luck using pilot-link to sync JPilot to a Palm device via the USB? I'm trying to sync my Handspring Visor and it just doesn't seem to be noticing it. I have the following in my /dev/usbd.conf file: device

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:38:59PM -0700, William Tracy wrote: Well, thanks for all the replies. I didn't mean to rub anybody the wrong way, and if I did, I'm sorry. :-P Up until now, I've basically been running FreeBSD more or less like just another Linux distro, and was beginning to wonder

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:41:31PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux.

Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

2006-10-10 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:59:34PM +0200, martinko wrote: Mike Friedman wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE and I want to run a current Oracle client-only with encryption support. First, I installed the Oracle client port, which represents Oracle 7. But my database support person

Re: unattended installation

2006-10-06 Thread Damian Wiest
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:59:03PM -0500, Carlos Ramirez wrote: Hi, how I do an unattended installation? I want to create an installation CD of a FreeBSD and run some scripts automatically after.. Some ideas? REGARDS Any chance of doing a WAN boot/install? -Damian

Re: Strange cron behavior

2006-10-05 Thread Damian Wiest
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 06:23:39AM -0400, stan wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:22:29PM -0500, Philip Hallstrom wrote: I'm having a hard time getting cron to run a task. I've run crontab -e (as root), and added the following line: 12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mirror_ubuntu This script

Re: backup existing sata drive

2006-10-02 Thread Damian Wiest
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 03:20:33AM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: Eeh, are the differences between real backup and point in time recovery? Point in time recovery allows you to restore you system to a single point in time. Backups, depending on how they're performed, give you multiple points in

Re: Directory server

2006-10-02 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:26:20AM +0700, rithy4u- CEO wrote: Dear All, I am seeking the way how to implement FreeBSD+LDAP+Samba to build a file server for medium size business which will serv up to 60 concurrent users. But the issue is, how we get it all in one package? and join all

Re: printer recommendation

2006-09-29 Thread Damian Wiest
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:03:05PM -0500, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet printer that is known to work under FreeBSD. I don't mind if it's an older model. I'd like to go cheap with it. I will be printing black and white planning sheets, and

Re: backup existing sata drive

2006-09-29 Thread Damian Wiest
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:08:53PM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: Good evening peeps, I have this 80gb sata seagate harddisk in my freebsd amd64 system. This harddisk is partioned so I can dual boot with Ubuntu. So I have data on my freebsd partition as well as on my ubuntu partition. As I'm

Re: Raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions

2006-09-28 Thread Damian Wiest
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:35:10PM +, m3 BSD wrote: Hi, i would like to do a raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions and not with a entire disk. For example: I've a two SCSI drivers with 68Gb. I want to make a two partitions or slices in two disks, first with 10G and other with 58Gb,

Re: rewrite of multiple incoming IPs into a single IP

2006-09-27 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Chris wrote: I have spent the day trying to get multiple IP addresses rewritten to a single address using IPFW and NATD. Is there a simple way to do this. If I put natd on the public interface, it grabs it and the system hangs at boot. Is there

Re: pdf editor

2006-09-27 Thread Damian Wiest
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:14:03PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Maybe it's time to reconsider the nature of that itch? PDF was never meant to be edited (except peripherally), and most definitely not in the sense that you're thinking. Consider it a FINAL print format, like an image

Support for Execute Disable Bit

2006-09-27 Thread Damian Wiest
I just installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a couple of NetFRAME 1420's that include hardware support for the execute disable bit. Does FreeBSD 6.1 include support for this? -Damian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list