Re: Help with Cron pleazzzzzzzzzzzz

2007-10-31 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On October 31, 2007 07:58:21 am VeeJay wrote: I am running a status script written in Perl (*status.pl*) and want to have it *Always Running*. How can I check through CRON that status.pl is running and if NO, then start the script execution again? Please

Re: port xyz: the grey screen with all the checkboxes is wrong and won't come back

2007-10-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Steve Franks wrote: so where, phyisically, on the disk, does the data from make config go then? I looked in port/. after make clean, and it's as clean as fresh snow... It goes in /var/db/ports JN On 10/28/07, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Andrew Wasilczuk wrote: I'm interested to see what servers people use for FreeBSD. I used to buy the IBM xSeries x306 for firewalls and web servers and the x206 for low budget file servers, but both aren't being sold anymore. I recently got a few IBM x3200 and

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-24 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frank Jahnke writes: VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. VMware employee? No, Orlando Bassotto, who is the programmer who did much of the work for the original

Re: the right next step?

2007-10-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Aliya Harbouri wrote: Hi everybody! If we've i) raised a question about a port on this list ii) sent an email to the port maintainer iii) filed a pr iv) waited ~ a month, then followed-up the pr and there's still no communication / action, what's the

Re: resizing partitions

2007-10-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Chad Perrin wrote: I have need to alter some partition sizes on a (laptop) system I use daily, with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE installed. Are there tools you'd recommend for this, that should be stable and not prone to hosing up my filesystems? In particular, I probably

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 19 October 2007, Frank Jahnke wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:47 +0200, Frank Staals wrote: What is the status of that project if I may ask ? I did some research on it some time ago but the best I could find was that there was someone porting vmware-workstation 4.5.X to FreeBSD

Re: 1 TB data copy

2007-10-12 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In response to Monah Baki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, We have a windows 2003 server and 1 freebsd 6.2 server. The 2003 server supports USB 1 while the freebsd supports usb 2. We went and purchased an external 1 TB usb 2 harddrive. Our objective is to copy

Re: OT: Procmail not recognising /etc/procmailrc?

2007-10-12 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, This is kind of off topic for this list, but I know a lot of FreeBSD Admins use Procmail, so hopefully someone here can help. I'm running procmail 3.22 on FreeBSD. I verified that procmail does work on my system by following the testing your

RE: setting up a cvsup mirror

2007-10-09 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Johan Hendriks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to setup a local cvsup mirror on my local machine (someone told me if you do it right you don't need to hand apply uncommitted patches) what do I need to do this? Google, 3rd hit:

Re: Problem compiling kdegraphics (exr problem?)

2007-10-09 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Will Wainwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm having some trouble getting kdegraphics to update. I use portmanager to keep my ports updated. Usually this works well, but the past couple of days portmanager did have problems with the latest OpenEXR update. As to my problem with kdegraphics,

Re: Problem compiling kdegraphics (exr problem?)

2007-10-09 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Will Wainwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm having some trouble getting kdegraphics to update. I use portmanager to keep my ports updated. Usually this works well, but the past couple of days portmanager did have problems with the latest OpenEXR

Re: FreeBSD Tomcat

2007-09-28 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 9/28/07, Yance Kowara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you mind explaining the difference between sun-jdk and diablo jdk? From the point of view of the end user or even the Java programmer there is no differences - both jdk's offer the same

Re: Gstripe during install

2007-09-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 September 2007, n j wrote: Hello, I have a machine which has 2 (identical) hard disks. I would like to create RAID-0 GEOM stripe (gstripe(8)) to merge these 2 disks into 1 disk with larger capacity and install FreeBSD on it. There is this article

Re: Gstripe during install

2007-09-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 September 2007, John Nielsen wrote: I assume you're aware of all the caveats that go along with using RAID-0 (no redundancy, twice as likely to fail, etc.). You can't use the method Dru outlines to create a gstripe volume since you can't add drives to a gstripe after it's created

Re: Dump + GZIP

2007-08-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 16 August 2007, Grant Peel wrote: Can I safely pump a filesystem dump through gzip during the dumping process?, or di I need to create the dump first then gzip it after? I do it all the time: dump -f - ... | gzip date_filesystem.dump.gz or with bzip2: dump -f - ... | bzip2

Re: lagg(4) - configuration for /etc/rc.conf?

2007-08-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:58:58 am Ewald Jenisch wrote: Thanks to the hints posted here about failover redundancy I've successfully set up lagg(4) in order to have a machine with redundant failover connection to two switches. The only thing that's missing is the correct configuration in

Re: Iomega Ditto Max Pro

2007-08-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 04 August 2007, jbarnet wrote: Hello, I have this drive: Iomega Ditto Max (Professional) Model: IO 1000 - PX It has a parallel port interface. Included are a bunch of 5/10 Gig [uncompressed/compressed] tapes and also a few 3.5/7 Gig [uncom/com] tapes. I was

Re: CRT value Absurd

2007-08-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 02 August 2007 02:13:46 pm Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, Recently I got a HP nc6400 notebook for myself and decided to install FreeBSD on this. My system boots up fine but I am repeatedly getting Errors from ACPI. I am repeatedly getting acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored

Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers

2007-07-31 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 02:37:36 pm Noah wrote: Hi, I am wondering if there is an easy way to stop installing all of the xf86 input an video drivers listed below. Sure, just uninstall the xorg metaport, the xorg-drivers metaport, and any of the driver ports you listed that you're not

Re: Custom builds from ports

2007-07-31 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 12:16:32 pm CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: On Sun, July 29, 2007 01:37, N.J. Mann wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Is there a way to specify which ports certain options are to be applied to, without having to craft

Re: Downgrading from current

2007-07-30 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 29 July 2007 09:42:01 pm Ross Penner wrote: I recently upgraded my system from stable to current to try and take advantage of some of wireless features offered. Unfortunetly, things didn't work out as well as I'd like to and I want to downgrade. Reading online, it seems that

RALUS for Linux - authentication failing

2007-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
I'm trying to get the latest Linux remote agent for Backup Exec to run on a FreeBSD-amd64 machine. The exact version is RALUS-11d.7170.2, although I suspect any 10.0 - 11d version would be the same. After trying a few things (including installing on a real Linux host) I was able to identify

Re: RALUS for Linux - authentication failing

2007-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 26 July 2007 12:18:52 pm John Nielsen wrote: I'm trying to get the latest Linux remote agent for Backup Exec to run on a FreeBSD-amd64 machine. The exact version is RALUS-11d.7170.2, although I suspect any 10.0 - 11d version would be the same. After trying a few things (including

Re: RALUS for Linux - authentication failing

2007-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 26 July 2007 03:08:55 pm Jonathan Horne wrote: are you sure that all the executables are all running correctly? for my veritas netbackup agent, 'ldd' revealed that i was missing some older .so files, which once i took care of those, the whole thing ran like clockwork for me. The

Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as one big file system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe doesn't seem like it'd be smart to

Re: mount_smbfs 6.2-release and w2k3 standard r2

2007-07-10 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Hi, I've done lots of googling and I get lots of solutions, but they don't work. I can smbclient to this share just fine: magneto# smbclient -U pgollucci glactus\\unix Password: Domain=[RIDERWAY] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service

Re: mount_smbfs 6.2-release and w2k3 standard r2

2007-07-10 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 10 July 2007, John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Hi, I've done lots of googling and I get lots of solutions, but they don't work. I can smbclient to this share just fine: magneto# smbclient -U pgollucci glactus\\unix Password

Re: password failure- after mergmaster

2007-07-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 09 July 2007 04:06:01 pm Jean-Paul Natola wrote: OOOPSS- I got mergemaster to run- but now that the system restarted the root password and my password are invalid- I can ONLY start in single user mode- I still do have level 0 dump of 5.4 on my network is this my only option ?

Re: Verizon VZAccess and FreeBSD

2007-07-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 05 July 2007 11:20:52 am Matt Juszczak wrote: Hi all, I have a blackberry with Tethering support. The only thing keeping me from switching fully over to FreeBSD from Windows is that I use VZAccess Manager with my Blackberry to connect to the net from wherever I am. I'm just

Re: can't build /graphics/poppler-qt after recent cvsup [FIXED]

2007-07-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 04:09:37 pm John Nielsen wrote: [cc-ing gnome@ as port maintainer] On Tuesday 03 July 2007 03:52:22 pm Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 03), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm having an odd proble getting poppler-qt to build after my latest cvsup. I use

Re: if_lagg(4) and rc.conf

2007-07-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 02:35:16 pm Michael W. Lucas wrote: I'm trying to configure a lagg(4) interface out of rc.conf. FreeBSD doesn't want to initialize the interface at boot. I'm obviously missing some little thing. I'm successfully loading if_lagg into the kernel, so that's not the

Re: can't build /graphics/poppler-qt after recent cvsup

2007-07-03 Thread John Nielsen
[cc-ing gnome@ as port maintainer] On Tuesday 03 July 2007 03:52:22 pm Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 03), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm having an odd proble getting poppler-qt to build after my latest cvsup. I use portmanager to update my ports and when I ran it today I got

Re: Calendar for 7.0-RELEASE

2007-06-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 29 June 2007 09:43:12 am Oliver Herold wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:30:45PM +0200, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: Please, anyone knows when is planned (aprox.) FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE will be available?. http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ Also

Re: Upgrade from 5.5 to 5.5

2007-06-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 21 June 2007 03:18:32 pm Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I just finished ( what I thought was an upgrade) to 6.0 Only to find after I rebooted that I was still at 5.5 I did it via sysinstall- it said upgrade successful reboot - And when I did I was back at 5.5 Obviously , I missed

Re: Upgrade from 5.5 to 5.5

2007-06-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 21 June 2007 03:44:48 pm Jean-Paul Natola wrote: On Thursday 21 June 2007 03:18:32 pm Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I just finished ( what I thought was an upgrade) to 6.0 Only to find after I rebooted that I was still at 5.5 I did it via sysinstall- it said upgrade successful

Re: Multi Monitors (More Than Two)

2007-06-20 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 01:27:01 am Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 6/20/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam St. George wrote: Will FreeBSD be able to have a setup for 16 monitors? Id love to finaly, and fully switch to FreeBSD from Microsoft, but two things hold me back.

Re: Installing FreeBSD-6.2 Xorg-7.2

2007-06-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 10:47:24 am John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 12 June 2007 08:55:54 am Gerard wrote: I have had nothing but grief since updating to the new Xorg-7.2 version on my PC. Unexplained crashes, lockups, etc. No doubt, some of the problems are my fault; however I cannot seem

Re: Installing FreeBSD-6.2 Xorg-7.2

2007-06-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 08:55:54 am Gerard wrote: I have had nothing but grief since updating to the new Xorg-7.2 version on my PC. Unexplained crashes, lockups, etc. No doubt, some of the problems are my fault; however I cannot seem to get them corrected. Now, I was wondering how this would

Re: Installing FreeBSD-6.2 Xorg-7.2

2007-06-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 12:47:59 pm Gerard wrote: On June 12, 2007 at 10:47AM John Nielsen wrote: That should work fine, as long as you remember to run mergebase.sh on the new system. It's counterintuitive and won't have much work to do, but it will do useful things like create the /usr

Re: Updating system GCC

2007-06-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 08 June 2007 10:07:20 am Gerard wrote: I noticed this on the FreeBSD site regarding the latest version of JAVA: January 24, 2007: Greg Lewis has released the fourth patchset (patchlevel 4, Sumatran) for the JDK 1.5.0 software. This release builds with GCC 4 and includes a number of

Re: How to correctly use 2 on board nics

2007-06-05 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Ivan Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a server board with 2 onboard nic's I have set them up in rc.conf as follows defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 network_interfaces=em0 em1 lo0 ifconfig_em0=inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_em1=inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 The

Re: Ports system gone

2007-06-05 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How can I restore my ports system? Use a valid tag in your ports-supfile (probably .) and try again. I have no idea what happened. I have a server I setup over the weekend to start testing Maia Mailguard, installed many packages over the last

Re: X11 console setup

2007-06-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 02 June 2007 04:00:57 pm Kevin Kinsey wrote: Jim Capozzoli wrote: Hello list, I have 3 monitors and 3 video cards. However, one videocard and monitor isn't very X11 friendly. (X11 barely starts on it). I was wondering if it would be possible to have X11 running on two of

Re: Flatbed scanners for FreeBSD

2007-06-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 02 June 2007 06:48:46 pm Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:15:22PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi everybody, What scanners are best used with FreeBSD? I'm hoping for one that I can use in both Windoze and FreeBSD. Preferably, one that is USB. I've never

Re: New (blade) server - stick with FreeBSD 6.x or wait for FreeBSD 7?

2007-06-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 04 June 2007 05:30:37 am Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:46:00AM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I'm about to set up a new server that should run basically network-monitoring (MRTG, Cacti etc.). Hardware will be HP C-class blade

Re: Fwd: X11 console setup

2007-06-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 04 June 2007 11:30:03 am Jim Capozzoli wrote: On 6/4/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 02 June 2007 04:00:57 pm Kevin Kinsey wrote: Jim Capozzoli wrote: Hello list, I have 3 monitors and 3 video cards. However, one videocard and monitor isn't

Re: Nvidia doesn't start on cryptic errors

2007-05-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 28 May 2007 11:18:07 Vittorio De Martino wrote: On my newly bought HP pavillion 6366 notebook with freebsd 6.2 - p4 and one of the latest portsnap I have an nvidia go 7400 card, *** fully *** supported by the nvidia driver according to the docs. I followed the minimal configuration

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 24 May 2007 06:30:06 am kalin mintchev wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of

Re: gvinum and RAID

2007-05-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 24 May 2007 12:43:36 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use gvinum to create a striped array that contains the root partition? I want to be able to combine all 4 of the hard disks into one logical striped array and install the boot partition on it. I have found

Re: gvinum and RAID

2007-05-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 24 May 2007 02:08:41 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2007 12:43:36 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use gvinum to create a striped array that contains the root partition? I want to be able to combine all 4 of the hard disks into one logical

Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup

2007-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 17 May 2007 11:04:06 am Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, This question probably hasn't much to do with CVS directly but using cvsup. I want/need to update a 6.0-RELEASE system. However, this system has some critical data on it and I'd rather not move to code that is perhaps

Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?

2007-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 17 May 2007 01:27:52 pm Mike Barborak wrote: Hello, I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p28 server that was initially configured with the hostname mydomain.com. I am trying to permanently change that to be www.mydomain.com. I have added this line to my /etc/rc.conf file:

Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup

2007-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 17 May 2007 02:31:59 pm Andrew Falanga wrote: On 5/17/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: You can find a description of release tags in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html and also a description of

Re: Anyone could make Epson Stylus cx4700 work?

2007-05-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 01:44:17 pm Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:51:53PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote: Hi I tried to install my epson stylus cx4700 printer, I installed cups, then gutenprint. When configuring the printer in kde control center it detected the driver for

Re: VPS, Colocation, Dedicated

2007-04-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 26 April 2007 01:51:56 pm Duane Winner wrote: I am looking for any sort of insight, experience from anybody who uses VPS technology to substitute for managing their own infrastructure and servers for business apps. We are looking at different options to unload some of the burden

Re: Samba and RAID 1 using gmirror on 2 new disks

2007-04-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:24:36 pm L Goodwin wrote: Hello. I have a server with 3 SCSI drives. FreeBSD is installed on da0 (4.3GB), and da1 and da2 (both identical 9GB drives) are to be used in a RAID 1 array for file storage on a LAN with Windows XP and Vista clients, using Samba to share

Re: Ports maintainer or adopting a port

2007-03-31 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 31 March 2007, Kimi Ostro wrote: Not sure if this is appropriate for this list, basically I am looking to hear from past, current and future ports maintainers: is it fun? I maintain a couple ports. Both were new in that they weren't in the ports collection before I submitted

Re: GTK filedialog crashes Firefox/Thunderbird

2007-03-29 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:44:09PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Friday 23 March 2007 11:02:46 am Frank Staals wrote: It seems that I'm having problems (again) with the GTK filedialog in Firefox/Thunderbird. It happens when saving or opening a file

Re: GTK filedialog crashes Firefox/Thunderbird

2007-03-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 23 March 2007 11:02:46 am Frank Staals wrote: It seems that I'm having problems (again) with the GTK filedialog in Firefox/Thunderbird. It happens when saving or opening a file in Firefox or thunderbird resulting in a crash. What to do: - Open Firefox - Save a file, the save-file

Re: Best software raid 5 software?

2007-03-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 03:03:53 am Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I am about to switch to software raid 5 for my personal server. I know hardware raid 5 is better, but being a student I'd rather not invest in a raid adapter now, plus my cpu is being used at about 0.0% 24/24 7/7, so it needs some

Re: negative free blocks after mirror! [was: Re: mirror without destroying existing contents]

2007-03-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 19 March 2007 10:46, Steve Franks wrote: Yes, the origonal disk was pretty full, but, I suspect this is not a good thing: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a507630 9525437176620%/ devfs

Re: manual root filesystems specification under VMware

2007-03-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 19 March 2007 12:21, Jeff Dickens wrote: I'm trying to move a FreeBSD 6.1 virtual machine from VMware server to VMware ESX Server. The original VM used a virtual IDE controller for the disks, and apparently VMware ESX server doesn't support this. The VMware converter applications

Re: mirror without destroying existing contents

2007-03-16 Thread John Nielsen
support is irrelevant (that's what you're using gmirror for). JN On 3/13/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 15:12, Steve Franks wrote: Anyone made a mirror w/o destroying what's in the disk already? The atacontrol man page is less than adequate

Re: mirror without destroying existing contents

2007-03-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 16 March 2007 15:48, Steve Franks wrote: On 3/16/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 16 March 2007 11:18, Steve Franks wrote: I get the following: #gmirror label -v -b split -s 1024 data ad0 can't store metadata on ad0: operation not permitted

Re: 'nodump' on directories: new contents still dumped

2007-03-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 15 March 2007 13:57, Bram Schoenmakers wrote: I'm using dump(8) for backing up a FreeBSD 4.10 server. In order to decrease the resulting file size, I flagged some directories like /usr/ports and /usr/src with 'nodump'. I adjusted the dump level 0 script to have -h 0, so that worked

Re: 'nodump' on directories: new contents still dumped

2007-03-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 15 March 2007 14:37, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 13:57, Bram Schoenmakers wrote: I'm using dump(8) for backing up a FreeBSD 4.10 server. In order to decrease the resulting file size, I flagged some directories like /usr/ports and /usr/src with 'nodump'. I

Re: Installing a second hard disk

2007-03-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:05, Aitor San Juan wrote: Hi List, I am trying to install a secondary hard disk in a Intel-based PC with FreeBSD 5.4 This secondary disk's capacity is 250 Gb. When I enter sysintall to try to format it and create a slice, FreeBSD says that the geometry of disk

Re: mirror without destroying existing contents

2007-03-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 15:12, Steve Franks wrote: Anyone made a mirror w/o destroying what's in the disk already? The atacontrol man page is less than adequate in this respect...is is even possible? If you want to use gmirror (which I recommend), the most conservative approach is as

Re: DST issue (still one hour behind)

2007-03-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 12 March 2007 21:43, Peter wrote: I rebuilt my 6.2 system entirely and ran tzsetup. My time is still one hour behind. What else do I need to do? If you run date with no arguments what timezone does it say? If it's e.g. EDT (the D being for Daylight) then all you need to do is set

Re: DST issue (still one hour behind)

2007-03-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 12 March 2007 22:24, Peter wrote: Le Lundi 12 Mars 2007 21:52, John Nielsen a écrit : On Monday 12 March 2007 21:43, Peter wrote: I rebuilt my 6.2 system entirely and ran tzsetup. My time is still one hour behind. What else do I need to do? If you run date

Re: Changing command-line resolution

2007-03-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:48, frzburn wrote: Hi! I was wondering if there is a way to change the command-line resolution... Back then with Linux, I could adjust the resolution in grub or lilo by passing some parameters to the kernel. Is there any way to do the same thing in FreeBSD? I

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:37, Never you mind wrote: On my Mac from the Finder I can select Connect to server, give it the details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the ftp space as a drive on the desktop. Can I obtain the same sort of functionality using freeBSD and xfce

Re: Future of FreeBSD 7.0 and up

2007-02-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 14:26, Dwight Smith wrote: My name is Dwight Smith, and I only had a question or two in terms of the future useability of FreeBSD. I have used it on and off and found it to be a great UNIX operating system for servers, but my only major concern was the amount of

Re: dual monitors

2007-02-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 24 February 2007 23:34, Eric Stringer wrote: I've got FreeBSD 6.2 running with KDE 3.5 with an ATI 9700Pro card. I have my 37 LCD TV attached to the digital out, and my 17 lcd monitor attached to the analog out. In the console (not running X) it outputs the same thing to both TV

Re: forcing re driver to a card

2007-02-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 22 February 2007 16:06, bram wrote: Hi all, I've been having some trouble getting my nic's to work under freebsd 6.1. it's a jetway mini-itx board with a daughterboard with 3 rtl8110S chips on. two out of the three appear when doing pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11:0:

Re: vmware Questions

2007-02-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 20:50, Martin McCormick wrote: If one has a FreeBSD system that has 1 gigabyte of RAM and a 1-GHZ processor, would it be possible to run a couple of vmware instances of FreeBSD? I want to set up a DHCP server on each virtual machine and configure one to be

Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram ?drive?

2007-02-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 19 February 2007 10:29, Oliver Fromme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The restore method will then require to boot from a bootable CD. The rescue CD system should load itself into RAM drive, so that I can dismount it and replace it with the CD/DVDs with the backup

Re: Release 6.2

2007-02-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 16 February 2007 07:49, York Rapp wrote: I am looking for a DVD Image of Release 6.2 to download, but unfortunately (stupid as I am ;-)) I cannot find it. Can you give me an information or a link of a mirror. The FreeBSD Project distributes releases as a two-CD set. All you need for

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 16 February 2007 19:32, Chris wrote: Kevin Downey wrote: I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the page in IE. A website I use for work uses ActiveX. I hate dual booting. What is the best(easiest) way to run ie on freebsd? Four ways - in order of

Re: jailed VPS behind NAT

2007-02-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 15 February 2007 14:44, pancho pantera wrote: hello, i don't know where to search for THIS, info about jailed VPS.and secondly handbook and other papers and docs, are some times criptic , because english is not may mother language, i usually speak spanish. usually irtual

Re: gmirror: degraded, Component ad4 (device gm0) broken, skipping.

2007-02-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 15:13, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: gmirror insert gm0 ad4 The big question is: In your example, ad4 has already been prepped for use in as a component in the gmirror by ? Or will it just overwrite anything on ad4 regardless? No prep is necessary when using

Re: How does gmirror know of a faulty drive

2007-02-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 15:10, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ivan Carey wrote: In FreeBSD 5.3 I have set up 2 drives in RAID-1 format. How will I know if one of the drives is faulty such as either not working or has some lost sectors? Is it possible to have

Re: Bad sector on drive ...

2007-02-10 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 10 February 2007 09:47, Marc G. Fournier wrote: --On Saturday, February 10, 2007 01:00:21 -0600 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Feb 10), Marc G. Fournier said: Short of a reformat, any way of marking the following as bad? :( Feb 10 02:27:20 ganymede

Re: is the list the right place to ask?

2007-02-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 09 February 2007 22:55, Ray wrote: Hello, Just wondering if this list is the right place to ask for suggestions for what package to use for various purposes? Yes it is. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Mail server recomendations (was: is the list the right place to ask?)

2007-02-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 10 February 2007 01:33, Ray wrote: I'm looking for a package (or set of packages) that would provide a mail server with the following capabilities minimally: pop and smtp access that could handle 20 to 100 domains and 200 to 2000 mail boxes.(allowing some room for future growth)

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 on a Pentium 4

2007-02-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 08 February 2007 11:16, Philip Radford wrote: Hi all, Just wondering if anyone could help me out with an issue on FreeBSD which has been puzzling me for a while and only now do I have the time to go and figure it out. We currently have version 5.4 installed but understand

Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?

2007-02-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:10, Peter Clark wrote: Is this up your alley? http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_vps.html I use this service and highly recommend it, but it definitely falls under the jail category. They've modified the stock FreeBSD jails pretty heavily and most of the time

Re: rc.conf ...need help

2007-02-06 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 15:58, Don Munyak wrote: I was tweaking the /etc/rc.conf file and apparently had a typo. Now the system boots into single user mode. I know what my error is syslogd_enable=YES {left off the first } How can I edit rc.conf while in single user mode. I've tried vi

Re: Problem with mod_fcgid inside a jail.

2007-02-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 04 February 2007 05:38, Vincent Bolinard wrote: I've just tried to run Apache with mod_fcgid 1.10 and 2.0, but it still does not work. Here is the error with 1.10 : [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/sbin/suexec) [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr 192.168.1.3

Re: Thunar with Fluxbox

2007-02-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 04 February 2007 08:26, Olivier Regnier wrote: I'm currently running Fluxbox on FreeBSD 6.2. I installed Thunar 0.8.0_1 and icons-tango 0.7.2_3. The problem is simple, when i start Thunar, i do not see the icons and in console, i get an error that says (thunar:1056): Gtk-WARNING **:

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 02 February 2007 17:35, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:36 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out

Re: ports error (or warning) after cvsup

2007-01-31 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 19:15, Petre Bandac wrote: portversion -v | grep [missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports ... - 16409 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000

Re: upgrading xfce4 fails

2007-01-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 27 January 2007 11:21, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Markus Hoenicka wrote: I'm having a hard time upgrading xfce4 on a FreeBSD 6.1 box. I've tried portupgrade first, but as it bumped into a boatload of errors I eventually had to resort to upgrade individual packages.

Re: upgrading xfce4 fails

2007-01-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:48, Markus Hoenicka wrote: Markus Hoenicka writes: There's one thing broken though: After the upgrade, panel plugins fail to display correct values. The battery monitor claims the battery of my laptop is at 0%. The network monitor plugin also sees the

Re: BIND tool for setting up secondary records?

2007-01-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 26 January 2007 10:50, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I am not a member of a BIND list, so I thought I'd ask here first if anyone knows of a script tool that will query a primary name server and setup secondary records on another BIND server? Or any other solution for doing mass entries

Re: Problem with ipfw flush

2007-01-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:59, Jeff Royle wrote: Jeff Royle wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: In trying to tweak my firewall setup I'm using a file called /etc/ipfw.rules However, it seems even though I copy my rules perfectly to that file, the system freezes up and locks

Re: SCSI not found during install - help!

2007-01-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 15:32, John D. Reeve wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a system consisting of an Ampro Littleboard 486 with 32 Mb ram, a built-in Adaptec 6360 SCSI controller, an 18.2 Gb Quantum Atlas III SCSI drive (50 pin narrow), a 256 Mb IDE flash drive containing MS-DOS,

Re: ghostscript device 'gdi'

2007-01-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 21 January 2007 20:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My experience with ghoscscript device 'gdi' is that even patched it generates a correct data only for 600 dpi resolution. With -r300' option printer makes pages with large horizontal black and grey stripes. Does somebody use Samsung

Re: Remove extra packages and streamline 6.2

2007-01-20 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 20 January 2007 21:15, Joshua Lewis wrote: Hello list, After many days of hard work, a lot of caffeine and not nearly enough sleep I have a working asterisk PBX for my home. I have it working on a PIII 800 with 512MB of RAM and two 5GB drives in a Raid1 config. While this system

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