Some updates:
Following this I did a fresh install using the FreeBSD6.1 CD1. Xorg
installed is 6.9.0.
I did not run xorgconfig or anything. There was no /etc/X11/xorg.conf
either. From the command-line I ran xdm and the GUI started ... I
could login ... and then that's about it.
1. The
Hi there,
can FreeBSD be used as an iSCSI target (i.e., serving the iscsi disks) ?
idem AoE ...?
thanks!
B
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On 9/12/06, Michał Garcarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
I have SATA SIL 3112 controller. Unfortunately it is not working
correctly under FreeBSD. It does not work for me, and i found on
google that it doesn't work correctly for many other people.
I tried Freebsd 4.x, 5.x and 6.1.
Here are the
On 9/13/06, Jacques Vidrine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2006-09-12, at 13:52:40, Remko Lodder wrote:
David Robillard wrote:
Hi everyone,
Are there any workaround or a patch for this security problem?
FreeBSD Foundation's Java JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 7 binaries for
FreeBSD 6.1/i386:
Chris wrote:
On Sep 12, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Chris wrote:
Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been
changed on the various components of the OS.
Go to the source :-)
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/
Wow! That's an excellent resource and
On 9/12/06, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am upgrading a few servers. I have noticed that on pentium III, it
takes a VERY long time to upgrade Ruby 1.8.
It blocks at some stage saying:
zlib.c:
On 9/12/06, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone ported the ata drivers with SATA
support back to 4.x? It is doable or are there
some new kernel structures that won't port?
It is not worth the trouble. Disk subsystem has undergone some
massive performance improvement since 4.x, so
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 06:25, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
* On 12/09/06 22:13 +0100, RW wrote:
| On Tuesday 12 September 2006 20:49, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
| Hello Security guy ;)
|
| I have tried very hard to understand ipfw just for the purpose of
| bandwidth throttling for
Hello!
Last October, after I upgraded the OS on my IBM x225 from RELENG_5_3 to
RELENG_5_4, I experienced a kernel panic:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S167211CD
As noted in the article referenced above, I disabled debug.mpsafenet
and debug.mpsafevm. This was really just a guess. Seems like the
Hello Frank,
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 10:41:17 PM, you wrote:
snip
FS Go grab the compressed, reasonably up to date ports tree:
FS $ fetch -dpv ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
FS (warning! 35MB compressed)
Will do when I have Internet connection via FreeBSD box.
I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a
lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII
box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting
it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs of
[EMAIL
I'm using my laptop and tip(1) as a serial terminal. This is working well when
a machine is booted with the laptop connected to its serial port. However, I
need to be able to connect the laptop to a machine which was booted without a
serial console.
I've set the ttyd0 line in /etc/ttys and
Hello in there,
I'm kind of complicated person, so finding o good OS was really a pity
for me. I googled around a lot, installed a lot and often get
disappointed... until I discovered FreeBSD. Folks, this OS ist simply
great because it is CLEAR. Clear Structure, clear Doc, clear Policy. But
Hello,
portaudit reports several problems for my 6.1 system, e,g, gnupg 1.4.3
and ruby 1.8.4_8,1. It's recommended that I update or deinstall these
packages immediately.
The problem is, portupdate -PP I find any newer packages though 1.4.5 of gnupg
is already in ports for months.
And I'm
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Alternatively you could just try downloading the two files and copying
them over your existing ones (after backing them up!) and just try and
see if a make buildkernel will compile them. If the changes don't
rely on anything outside of these two files, you'd likely be
I also have one of these that doesn't work with FreeBSD. I just replaced
the controller. What is worse is there are different versions of this chip
some that will work with FreeBSD, but many don't.
-Derek
At 05:51 AM 9/13/2006, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
On 9/12/06, Micha³ Garcarz
Be sure to get a real full modem. Not a winmodem. A full modem will cost
considerably more, like double the price because it has all the modem
hardware on the card. Winmodems rely on Windows to do much of the hardware
functions.
-Derek
At 09:05 PM 9/12/2006, musashi miyamoto
Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can I enable both sc and vt in device.hints?
My impression from a very brief look at the code is that they cannot
be active at the same time.
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On Sep 13, 2006, at 4:03 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Chris wrote:
Is there any single source where one can go to see what has
been changed on the various components of the OS.
Go to the source :-)
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/
Wow! That's an excellent resource and the bge driver
so ive been playing with my buildserver, and working out the methodology
to quickly recover a computer to operational mode.
yesterday, i took my buildserver, and began with a 'pkg_delete -a', and
then updated my ports tree. i then proceeded to visit each port directory
of things my production
On 2006-09-10 18:04, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:57:05AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote:
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 08:56:31AM -0400, stan wrote:
Can someone explain to me why top's handling of multi processor
status display is different on FreeBSD, than it is on Linux?
David Kelly writes:
On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote:
what is the proper way to disable fortune? i deleted the .login file
from my
homedir... and it still runs at login!
Look and see where it is being invoked. That is commonly in .login
but could be in any file. If
Chris wrote:
Excellent and detailed information. I read the handbook and Complete
FreeBSD but couldn't grasp the relationship between CURRENT, STABLE,
and RELEASE and the cvsup tags definitively. This is important when
buying new hardware running ahead of RELEASE changes (e.g. the
On 2006 Sep 13, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can I enable both sc and vt in device.hints?
My impression from a very brief look at the code is that they cannot
be active at the same time.
Sorry, what code?
But there is definitely no problem in
I have been using Samba 3.x for my Windows file share and printing. I
chose not to use FAM as the implementation on FreeBSD seems non-existant
(where is the daemon?). So, when I configured Samba, I unchecked the
option for FAM. Yet, when it runs, I still see that it is required.
Sep 13
I'm trying to get my Atheros 5212 built-in wireless device working on my
Toshiba laptop. I used the FreeBSD wireless networking documentation as
a guide. My goal was to atleast get it connected to my SSID with no
encryption.
I was able to load the driver using, kldload if_ath and it detected
Hello all,
I am attempting to block an SMTP server with /etc/hosts.allow:
--
Received: from 241net251.net.zeork.com.pl (241net251.net.zeork.com.pl
[194.117.241.251] (may be forged))
not to mention that winmodems are utter crap, even on windows.
On 9/13/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Be sure to get a real full modem. Not a winmodem. A full modem will cost
considerably more, like double the price because it has all the modem
hardware on the card. Winmodems rely
I just attempted to install Arla from ports - I need a working AFS client.
It is on FreeBSD 5.5 because I was informed that it would not work on 6.1
due to problems using locks (kernel locks??) that have not been resolved.
Supposedly though, it is supposed to work on FreeBSD 5.5. But,
the
I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append
newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit
PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?. ee
and vi both do so, I tried nano which also does the same. I haven't
installed emacs to try
On 2006-09-13 11:14, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I am attempting to block an SMTP server with /etc/hosts.allow:
--
Received: from 241net251.net.zeork.com.pl (241net251.net.zeork.com.pl
[194.117.241.251] (may be
On 2006-09-13 12:25, Andy Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append
newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit
PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?. ee
and vi both do so, I tried
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:30:43PM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote:
... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree
does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from
CD.
That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't
complete, as in:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:56:59 -0400
Jerold McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I don't much care for is the large /etc/motd which ships stock with
FreeBSD. So that and /etc/hosts are the only files I hack and override
manually when using mergemaster.
The motd is supposed to be
Andy Greenwood wrote:
I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append
newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit
PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?. ee
and vi both do so, I tried nano which also does the same. I haven't
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 11:25, Andy Greenwood wrote:
I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append
newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit
PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?. ee
and vi both do so, I tried nano
Giorgos Keramidas writes:
I don't think you can have the hostnames in a separate map file
and then reference this file from /etc/hosts.allow.
The port security/denyhosts does exactly that. (And it seems
to work.)
Robert Huff
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2006-09-13 11:14, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I am attempting to block an SMTP server with /etc/hosts.allow:
--
Received: from 241net251.net.zeork.com.pl (241net251.net.zeork.com.pl
I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append
newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit
PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?. ee
and vi both do so, I tried nano which also does the same. I haven't
installed emacs to try
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:49:20 +0100
Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm surprised at PHP barfing on extra newlines, but then I've never
used it.
PHP does not barf at the extra lines. what could be happening is that the file
in question being edited (include_me.php) is included by some
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:51:08 -0400
Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Something inside our network is infected with a spam-mailing trojan.
We now have our PIX firewall set to block all outgoing traffic to
port 25 unless it is from our mail server.
you should also accept only
Thanks for the advice everyone. I will certainly check out my php and
see if I can figure out why it's giving me errors as-is.
On 9/13/06, Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append
newlines to the end of files as I save them.
In response to Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
so ive been playing with my buildserver, and working out the methodology
to quickly recover a computer to operational mode.
yesterday, i took my buildserver, and began with a 'pkg_delete -a', and
then updated my ports tree. i then proceeded
- Original Message -
From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:46:20 -0400
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:23:46PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote:
cvsuping to -p6 wil not fix the
Robert Huff wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas writes:
I don't think you can have the hostnames in a separate map file
and then reference this file from /etc/hosts.allow.
The port security/denyhosts does exactly that. (And it seems
to work.)
Robert Huff
I
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:19:22AM -0400, ograbme wrote:
Hello Frank,
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 10:41:17 PM, you wrote:
snip
FS Go grab the compressed, reasonably up to date ports tree:
FS $ fetch -dpv ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
FS (warning! 35MB
In response to Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
so ive been playing with my buildserver, and working out the methodology
to quickly recover a computer to operational mode.
yesterday, i took my buildserver, and began with a 'pkg_delete -a', and
then updated my ports tree. i then proceeded
On 9/13/06, felix.schalck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello in there,
I'm kind of complicated person, so finding o good OS was really a pity
for me. I googled around a lot, installed a lot and often get
disappointed... until I discovered FreeBSD. Folks, this OS ist simply
great because it is
On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
Unfortunately, Mac OS games just don't run on anything but Mac OS
itself. Many Linux games and some windows ones run flawlessly on
FreeBSD, though, with no or subtle performance penalties.
For commercial game software, Andrew is certainly
Evolution of Mac OS X
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD): Part of the history of Mac OS X
goes back to Berkeley Software Distributions (BSD) UNIX of the early
seventies. Specifically, Mac OS X is based in part on BSD 4.4 Lite.
On a system level, many of the design decisions are made
On Sep 13, 2006, at 2:16 PM, felix.schalck wrote:
Do you think the interest that mac developpers pay on freebsd-
stable is a good thing for FreeBSD ? I mean: for further
developpement and general supporting of the OS ?
Sure. But the effect is better observed by noticing which parts of
one
Hello Freebsder, When I play some video clips downloaded from the
Internet, realplayer automatically opens a web browser and goes to
some web pages. I know how to disable this in M$ Windwos using
realfilter.exe or Helix Producer Plus, but how to disable this in
Freebsd or Linux. Thanks.
Wei
On 13 September 2006, at 15:25, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
On the other hand, you might have heard that Mac OS X is based on
FreeBSD.
Although it is based on BSD, I don't think it's FreeBSD it was based
on. I think it goes all the way back to 4.2BSD. Or something.
They removed all the
Hello I have a problem with Python + sqlite3. My main machine is a
FreeBSD 6.1 I have also try on an old machine running FreeBSD 5.5 and
it doesn't work either. I join to this email some information. I can
also provide a core file if someone is interested in solving that
problem.
Im getting the cpu statistics from sysctlbyname(kern.cp_time... But i
dont know the exact meaning of the field CP_INTR (defined in
sys/resource.h). I know its the time that the cpu spends in interrupt
mode but:
what kind of interrupts? IRQs? software interrupts? both?
Thank you.
--
On Sep 13, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Fred C! wrote:
Hello I have a problem with Python + sqlite3. My main machine is a
FreeBSD 6.1 I have also try on an old machine running FreeBSD 5.5
and it doesn't work either. I join to this email some information.
I can also provide a core file if someone is
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 06:16, Jeff Rollin wrote:
I let a lot of BSD comments about Linux go unpunished, but this one has
always got me. BSD had to be *almost totally rewritten* to avoid ATT
licensing issues... added to the fact that I wouldn't be surprised if it's
hard to find a single
Are there any options I can use when installing apache 2.x from the
ports tree so it won't overwrite apache 1.x?
Chris
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If I may comment as someone who knows only that BSD looks better to a newbie,
it looks better because I only have to go to one place to read the FreeBSD
manual. For Linux, there's documentation for all the little parts, and a
community/wiki for any particular distribution, except that's a lot
On Sep 13, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Sep 13, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Fred C! wrote:
Hello I have a problem with Python + sqlite3. My main machine is a
FreeBSD 6.1 I have also try on an old machine running FreeBSD 5.5
and it doesn't work either. I join to this email some
Old FreeBSD on old hardware is a recipe for such problems.
Hummm, I was looking at bsdstats... majority of registered hardware is
pentium III.
I like FreeBSD because of it's hability of running well on old
hardware: why would I need a Xeon dual core to run a DNS server for 5
clients?
Olivier
On 14/09/2006 03:21, Olivier Nicole wrote:
Hummm, I was looking at bsdstats... majority of registered hardware is
pentium III.
I like FreeBSD because of it's hability of running well on old
hardware: why would I need a Xeon dual core to run a DNS server for 5
clients?
I don't know why. I'm
I don't know why. I'm running DNS server on old Celeron 400Mhz with
96MB RAM just fine. Why do you think you need Xeon dual core for that?
Of course I don't, and won't.
I was just replying to the guy that told me that I am using archaic
hardware and that it makes building ruby slow.
I do use
This is probably going to tax the memory. I'm sorry in advance.
We observed 2 hangs and 3 crashes in the last 5 hours and finally
after looking at the nature of the traffic, it appears to be little
infested windows spybots from all over targeting our forums to
attempt to reply to all
On 9/13/06, Joel Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I may comment as someone who knows only that BSD looks better to a newbie,
it looks better because I only have to go to one place to read the FreeBSD
manual. For Linux, there's documentation for all the little parts, and a
community/wiki
On 2006-09-13 19:37, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2006-09-13 11:14, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I am attempting to block an SMTP server with /etc/hosts.allow:
--
Received: from
--On September 13, 2006 5:05:17 PM -0700 snacktime [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Are there any options I can use when installing apache 2.x from the
ports tree so it won't overwrite apache 1.x?
Sure. Just like any other port. Just choose the location you want to
install the port to.
apache13
On 2006-09-13 17:56, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hosts.allow triggers special behaviour with sendmail. Unlike other
services which just close the connection immediately, with sendmail
what happens is that it will accept the connection, let the sender
attempt to send e-mail, but
In recent 6.X versions, you can use 'S' to show system threads too.
For an even more fine-grained view, you can use 'H' to show
each thread separately.
Then there is also the 'CPU' mode (as opposed to the default 'WCPU'
mode of top).
I've the same issue with FBSD 5.4 and TOP. In
On 2006-09-13 17:49, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andy Greenwood wrote:
I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append
newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit
PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?. ee
and vi
Hello everyone. After a bit of a wrestle, I installed my first FreeBSD
6.1 server on a PIII 733MHz with 512 Megs of RAM on a 6.5 Gig slice
(a:/, b:swap, d:/var, e:/tmp, f:/usr). I got X Windows working after a
little bit more struggle - I now have Afterstep, WindowMaker and fvwm
working for me.
In the last episode (Sep 14), Tamouh H. said:
This is one TOP that freaked me out, notice Idle CPU is 70% while the
process is showing it is using 99% of CPU. systat draws more accurate
picture, however, load average is still useless as far as performance
monitoring :
last pid: 10174; load
On Sep 13, 2006, at 10:11 PM, felix.schalck wrote:
Hello in there,
I'm kind of complicated person, so finding o good OS was really a
pity for me. I googled around a lot, installed a lot and often get
disappointed... until I discovered FreeBSD. Folks, this OS ist
simply great because it
On Sep 14, 2006, at 6:33 AM, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
On 13 September 2006, at 15:25, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
On the other hand, you might have heard that Mac OS X is based on
FreeBSD.
Although it is based on BSD, I don't think it's FreeBSD it was
based on. I think it goes
On 2006-09-14 00:48, Tamouh H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think TOP and load averages are no longer accurate on FBSD 5.x and
6.x with SMP kernel. As far as I've seen. Load averages hit sometimes
8.0 without a noticable degradation in performance.
This is one TOP that freaked me out, notice
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