firebird, java, artsd, sound

2003-10-22 Thread John Nielsen
the bug is in. So I'm hoping someone can shed some light on the situation--ideally one that leads to a solution. Any takers? Please CC me on replies. Thanks, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

no text in drscheme

2004-03-19 Thread John Nielsen
I don't know if this is a DrScheme issue or if it's a FreeBSD/X issue, so I hope you'll indulge the cross-post. I recently did an upgrade of several ports on my system, DrScheme being one of them. Now when I run it, there is no visible text in any of the menus or dialog boxes. The buttons

installkernel signal 4 on Thinkpad 365XD

2004-03-25 Thread John Nielsen
I'm trying to get FreeBSD 5.2.1 going on an older thinkpad laptop. The install went smoothly from floppy and 5.2.1-RELEASE CD. Now I'm trying to do an installkernel and installworld from an NFS mount on my main machine. I did the buildworld and buildkernel on the faster machine, with these

5.1 on a 386

2003-06-12 Thread John Nielsen
Hi folks- I am setting up FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a 386DX. I'm mostly doing it as a learning exercise (or perhaps because I'm a masochist), but the machine may be used as a firewall at some point. I have the OS installed with a custom kernel, and things are actually going quite well. There

Re: 5.1 on a 386

2003-06-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 12 June 2003 13:58, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is the case, then the hardware notes need updated, I quote: All Intel processors beginning with the 80386 are supported, including the 80386, ... ... and ...

Re: FreeBSD and MySQL - mysqld eats CPU alive

2004-08-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 31 July 2004 21:08, adp wrote: I recently posted the following message to MySQL discussion list. The response there, and the one I keep finding on Google, is that this is a long-standing issue betweeen FreeBSD and MySQL. For me this has been happening since FreeBSD 4.4. I don't

Re: version 6!

2005-12-13 Thread John Nielsen
After realizing how long I made this little explanation, I decided it might be helpful to someone if I made it available on the freebsd-questions mailing list. List: take the following for what it's worth. On Tuesday 13 December 2005 07:00 pm, ntkonn wrote: Crap amighty, I just upgraded

Re: Wine installation/configuration question

2006-04-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 April 2006 12:12, John Hoover wrote: I've having trouble with Wine. I'm getting the same error regardless if I compile from the ports tree, install a package, or compile from source. on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE %wine program.exe fixme:msvcrt:_spawnve :not translating name

Re: restarting sendmail after patching - help needed.

2006-04-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 16:35, Ensel Sharon wrote: Hello, I am patching for the recent sendmail advisory: snip and now all I need to do is restart sendmail so that the new binaries are loaded and running. I _think_ the correct method is: cd /etc/mail make restart You are correct. but

Re: WAN setup help.

2006-04-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 03:08, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello Gurus, I have a Head Office, and have 2 Restaurants in diffrent areas, I have been told that i can link them all together, WAN. them. Can please someone explain to me how to do that? all to be as a one network. I

Re: Faking multiple physical adapters for DHCPDISCOVER

2006-04-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 13:08, Terrence Koeman wrote: -Original Message- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:17 PM Subject: Re: Faking multiple physical adapters for DHCPDISCOVER Terrence Koeman wrote: [ ... ] I need to 'clone'

Re: Problem Restoring Dump Via Fixit Environment in FreeBSD 6.0 Release Boot Cdrom

2006-04-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 00:17, Brian McKeon wrote: Hello I'm having a problem restoring my backup of my FreeBSD installation. I recently upgraded hardrives in my laptop and made backups of my Gentoo and FreeBSD partitions. Gentoo restored with no troubles BSD however... I have made a dump of

Re: AWT

2006-04-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 11:53, Per Dahlstrøm wrote: I am a happy user of FREEBSD, or rather I were happy but still a user. Actually it is my WebHotel running FREEBSD, which I became aware of in a not so pleasant way. While developing my site I realised that I could not use Java AWT and

Re: squid and SQUID_FOLLOW_XFF

2006-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 27 April 2006 16:01, Miguel wrote: Hi, i just installed squid using ports in 6.1-RC1, i noticed that i forgot to enable the SQUID_FOLLOW_XFF flag where configuring the options, i want to add it now, how can i do that? btw, im using portinstall, and i have tried portinstall -m

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:06, Jim Stapleton wrote: Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative pay/expensive (such as avast)? Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff to the Windows machine (which has McAfee

Re: Flash 7 and Firefox 1.5.0.2

2006-05-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 01 May 2006 01:18, Norberto Meijome wrote: Jeff, please let me know how you go with this - I've tried this several times (all steps,including patchign for _dlsym) with no luck... maybe I missed something every time :-|... I'm thinking of using linux-firefox which , apparently, from a

Re: MAN pages authoritativeness

2006-05-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 06:18, Pietro Cerutti wrote: I just read the InformIT article on OpenBSD 3.9, available here: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=468055f1=rssrl=1 They state that the MAN pages are authoritative in OpenBSD, ... In OpenBSD, the UNIX manual pages are considered

Re: newbie wanting to switch to FreeBSD - planning stage question

2006-05-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 04 May 2006 15:55, Barnaby Scott wrote: I am new to FreeBSD (or any other Unix operating system) but am very keen to make the switch. I have read as much as I can over the last couple of years, and am very nearly ready to ditch the various Windows versions on my network - however

Re: Flash 7 and Firefox 1.5.0.2

2006-05-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 05 May 2006 11:59, Scott I. Remick wrote: On Mon, 1 May 2006 10:44:42 -0400, John Nielsen wrote: 1) I apply the rtld_dlsym_hack.diff patch after every time I update my sources and before I build / install world. Will this still be necessary in 6.1? Or has the patch already been

Re: Requiring Manual FSCK -y

2006-05-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 08 May 2006 17:19, Wil Hatfield wrote: It seems that my FBSD 6.1 machines are requiring a shell and manual fsck -y after a kernel panic and dump. Is there any way to automate this so that I don't have to get the guys at the datacenter to do it for me? %grep fsck

Re: Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup)

2006-05-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 13:06, John Cruz wrote: So I want to upgrade to 6.1, but I've never used cvsup before and all the documentation is confusing as can be. Would it be easier to download the install mediums and do an upgrade install or is cvsup the better way? if so how do I go about it?

Re: Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup)

2006-05-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:48, Miguel wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 5/9/06, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Create a supfile appropriate for your situation (and location). Here is mine: *default host=cvsup12.freebsd.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr

Re: gconcat question

2008-10-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 18 October 2008, Roger Olofsson wrote: What are the steps to bring back gconcatenated disks if doing an upgrade from FreeBSD6 to FreeBSD7 like this? As-is situation: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE ad0 has FreeBSD ad1, ad2 and ad3 are gconcatenated using 'gconcat label -v data /dev/ad1

Re: Using mirroring to replace drive?

2008-10-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 18 October 2008, Chris Pratt wrote: Hi, For years I've been upgrading by building a temp server, transferring a production function to it and temporarily decommissioning the one server while I upgrade and rebuild it. I was thinking of trying a different approach since having tried

Re: gconcat question

2008-10-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 19 October 2008, Roger Olofsson wrote: -Ursprungligt Meddelande- From: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19/10/2008 3:39:00 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: gconcat question On Saturday 18 October 2008, Roger Olofsson wrote

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 01:30:18 pm matt donovan wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Dánielisz László [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also had some fight with Adobe's Flash player, but unfortunately without success. I remaing curios about any solution.

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 01:22:40 pm Mikhail Teterin wrote: Sent by John Nielsen: I just updated to RELENG_7 (aka 7.1-PRERELEASE these days) on Monday and am able to use Flash 9 in native Firefox 3 with sound, no sound lag and no crashes so far. I have: FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0

Re: raid tool

2008-11-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 03 November 2008 09:19:45 am Brent Clark wrote: New to BSD, Using FreeBSD 7. I need to build a test fileserver, but I want it to use Raid 5. Googling says I must use vinum. You have a few options, but strictly speaking the best-supported way to do RAID5 in FreeBSD is to use gvinum

Re: Backup Winserver

2008-11-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 06:43:23 am Roey D wrote: 2008/11/4 Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there anyone using Rsync on windows to backup to a Linux or FreeBSD server? Are the Windows Rsync implementations reliable? I used to do that, the windows rsync client (runs on the top

Re: Geom multipath

2008-11-06 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 06 November 2008 07:13:36 am Ganesh kamath wrote: I am trying to get multipath running in freebsd version 7. Are there any configuration files that i can tweak with geom multipath?. The paths are active/passive to the storage array and i dont seem to have control of what path the

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread John Nielsen
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: recommendation word processer for xfce To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:40 PM Looking for word processer that runs on xfce and can output

Re: Console size and scrollback buffer.

2008-11-10 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 10 November 2008 08:07:23 am James Williams wrote: Hello List, [On FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2, i386.] 1) How can I change the number of rowsxcols of the console? I'd like to use the maximum rows/cols available for the 1440x900 screen. In order to use graphical VESA modes you need a custom

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread John Nielsen
answers to questions of all levels combined with moderation and involvement from a large community of users will make the site a valuable, lasting resource for the projet. I hope to contribute what I can and encourage others to do the same. Regards, John Nielsen

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 09:55:35 am Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I would like to buy a PCMCIA card for my new laptop (because FreeBSD do not recognise my internal wifi AND RJ45 ethernet cardsh** windows say it's Broadcom netXtreme 57xx gigabit ). So I just want to known what 802.11G

Re: reread newsyslog.conf without reboot

2009-02-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 13 February 2009 05:44:55 am Proskurin Kirill wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: How do I get the system to reread /etc/newsyslog.conf file with out rebooting the system? /etc/rc.d/newsyslog restart Since newsyslog is run from cron (and doesn't stay active as a daemon) no action is strictly

Re: ping stucks/hangs on PCI 3com NIC sk0 interface but works on builtin NIC

2009-02-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 12:35:23 pm Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Hi I have two PCI NICs and one builtin NIC on freebsd 7.0 ifconfig shows information somthing like: bge0: flags=8843UP, broadcast, runing, simplex, multicastmetric 0 mtu 1500 options=9bRXCSUM,TXCSUM, VLAN_HWTAGGING.

Re: ping stucks/hangs on PCI 3com NIC sk0 interface but works on builtin NIC

2009-02-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 01:11:42 pm Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: From: li...@jnielsen.net On Wednesday 25 February 2009 12:35:23 pm Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Hi I have two PCI NICs and one builtin NIC on freebsd 7.0 ifconfig shows information somthing like: bge0:

Re: Anyone know SunFire hardware

2009-03-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 02 March 2009 01:57:21 pm Paul Schmehl wrote: We have FreeBSD installed on a SunFire box running two AMD Opteron processors. I was upgrading to 7.1 STABLE on Friday, and after installing the kernel I rebooted. Now the box is completely unusable. Does anyone know how to get a

Re: too many video drivers

2009-03-31 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 03:08:14 pm Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: I am rebuilding ports and realize that i have too many input/video drivers for x-win installed. i know i need nv driver since my graphic card is from nvidia, and i want to deinstall all others. but i am not sure if its safe to do so,

Re: Build/Install world via ssh

2009-04-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 05:38:47 pm Simon Griffiths wrote: Hello, I tried to get an answer to this via web searches etc. I have a freebsd 7 box that I plan on upgrading remotely via Make buildworld Make buildkernel KERNCONF=xyz Now im stuck, I cannot get it down to single user

Re: legal aspects in order to use the open source sw fsck_msdosfs

2009-04-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 08:33:00 am Stefan Beskow wrote: Hello, My name is Stefan Beskow and I work as a configuration manager within Ericsson AB. I am investigating the legal aspects of the use of open source sw within a project. Could you please help me with information about license

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 24 April 2009, Gary Kline wrote: This ought to help if I ever find a free speech synthesizer. I found one yesterday that must be a real human voice; unfortunately, commercial. audio/festival in the ports is decent and has a few voices to choose from. JN

CVS history access?

2009-04-24 Thread John Nielsen
I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue. I tried a few cvs history commands against the anoncvs servers but get this:

Re: CVS history access?

2009-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 25 April 2009 09:12:50 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:35:34 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way

Re: [compiling installing FreeBSD]

2009-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 27 April 2009 11:42:15 am alligator...@free.fr wrote: does make installworld do any backup of the files it touch? is any way to failback that installworld? No. Restore from (your own) backups, installation media, or rebuild the world you need from appropriately-dated sources. I

Re: CVS history access?

2009-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 27 April 2009 12:39:53 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:23:32 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: I'm basically looking for a list of all commits over the past N (2) years with committer, timestamp, affected file(s) and/or subsystems and possibly diff

Re: CVS history access?

2009-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 27 April 2009 03:29:03 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:03:30 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: I installed the subversion-freebsd port and pulled in src from head. This lets me do e.g. svn log -g --xml locally and get an XML list of commits along

Re: Broken Partition

2009-05-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 03 May 2009 09:26:42 pm Chris Chambers wrote: Using partition magic, I freed some space from my msdos partition. Then using sysinstall's fdisk and label, I attempted to add the space to my freebsd partition. I broke the installation. The boot loader can not find /boot/kernal. I tried

Re: Broken Partition

2009-05-04 Thread John Nielsen
) is is preferred on this and many other lists. I've reformatted your message and added comments inline below. On Monday 04 May 2009 04:18:37 am Chris Chambers wrote: On Sun May 03 John Nielsen wrote: On Sunday 03 May 2009 09:26:42 pm Chris Chambers wrote: Using partition magic, I freed some space

Re: Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses

2009-05-06 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 10:39:24 am Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:30 PM, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've found in the handbook how to start up a v6 router and some other helpful links on this topic at the FreeBSD diary. However, I'm wondering, how do I configure

FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

2009-05-30 Thread John Nielsen
I'm looking for advice and/or pointers. I have an Intel-based MacBook Pro and I would like to use a USB thumb drive to be able to boot FreeBSD on it. Some questions: 1) Is this even possible? I've read that you _can_ boot Mac OS X from a USB hard drive on a new MacBook but I'm not sure if the

fsck on 1.5TB drive

2009-06-06 Thread John Nielsen.
Hey guys... I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty. When booting after an improper shutdown, the system starts the backgrounds

Re: port for separation audio from video in mp4 file

2009-06-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 08 June 2009 03:05:20 pm Stefan Miklosovic wrote: title says it, i downloaded mp4 file by youtube-dl, but it downloaded video and audio as well. I would like to separate audio from that file. i try to find some port in /usr/ports/audio but nothing reasonable occudred. For things

Re: Utah Open Source Conference

2009-07-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 08 July 2009 23:02:00 Adam Barrett wrote: Dear Sir: That's your first misconception (of at least two, I'm afraid). freebsd-questions is a mailing list intended for users of FreeBSD to ask questions which can then be answered by other members of the community. My name is Adam

Re: OT: wget bug

2009-07-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 17 July 2009 06:12:33 pm Joe R. Jah wrote: I want to wget a site at regular intervals and only get the updated pages, so I use the this wget command line: wget -b -m -nH http://host.domain/Directory/file.html It works fine on the first try, but it fails on subsequent tries with

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: This message has a foot that has nearly touched down over the OT borderline. We received an HP Proliant DL360G5 collocation box yesterday that has two processors, and 8GB of memory. All the client wants to use this box for is a single

Re: FreeBSD-update fails finding upgrade

2009-07-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 29 July 2009 11:31:51 Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Predrag Aleksicape...@gmail.com wrote: freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.2-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done.

Re: Striping a live file system RAID 10 help

2009-07-30 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 29 July 2009 15:54:42 Richard Fairbanks wrote: OK, so this is what I want to do. I have 4 big fast drives that I want to run in RAID 10 (1+0). So, I'll need to mirror two sets of two disks, then stripe those two mirrors. So, how do I do this if I want this striped set of mirrors

7.2 CD won't boot

2009-08-05 Thread John Nielsen.
Hi guys, My 7.2 Release Disc 1 won't boot. I get the following and nothing more: CD Loader 1.2 Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found Relocating the loader and the BTX I'm running on a Intel SE7501BR2, single Xeon, 2GB. I have burned a second CD and swapped the

Re: amd64 native ports?

2009-08-06 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 06 August 2009 10:19:47 Robert Huff wrote: Somewhere in *.freebsd.org is a page that lists which ports run natively on amd64 and what the status is for the others. I've seen it, I have it bookmarked in a place that is currently unavailable, and I can't find it by hand.

Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another

2006-08-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:04, Bill Moran wrote: In response to David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging from one to the other via the windows box.

Re: cups problems

2006-08-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 04 August 2006 14:34, David Johnson wrote: Like millions of other users, my printing capabilities came to an abrupt end when I upgraded cups to version 1.2. After weeks of wasting time on the problem, I'm still not printing. I've seen lots of hints and tips on this list and

Re: nppdf.so: undefined symbol __ctype_b_loc

2006-08-05 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Hi all, after upgrading firefox and acroread, I got this when I tried to use the plugin, LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 05 August 2006 00:21, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: 'k folks ... the quick and dirty .. actually, not too dirty ... The attached script [...] Can you make this into a port which users can install? I'm not sure, can I?

Re: Ndis + Netgear WG311v3 ; Won't attach device correctly

2006-08-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 11:40, Frank Staals wrote: The only thing changed since the first time I loaded the module was I copied it to /boot/kernel and I added WG311v3XP_sys_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf but those changes shouldn't have effect on not correctly loading it I think. This is

Re: Accessing FreeBSD partition from Windows with dual boot

2006-08-10 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 10 August 2006 09:22, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Martin Miedema wrote: I'm looking for a way to access (read only is fine) a FreeBSD partition on my Windows installation on a dual boot notebook (so Samba won't do the trick) Maybe this will do: http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/

Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 14 August 2006 09:19, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Over the past few days, I've been working with Paul Schmehl and Matthew Seaman to come up with a more security sensitive version of BSDstats ... one that reduces the amount of sensitive information stored in the database down to ... zero.

Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 08:12, Igor Robul wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:19:05AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: None of the pre-v3.x clients can talk to the v3.x server, since the DB format has totally changed, so everyone needs to grab the latest version and run it so that we can

Re: How do I access external USB fat32 160 GB drive?

2006-08-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 18 August 2006 13:40, Bobby Knight wrote: When I try to mount the drive with mount_msdos it tells me the filsystem is to big. The drive consists av a single fat32 partition. Windows can access it so it must be possible in FreeBSD too. I read about recompiling the kernel with

Re: FreeBSD on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread John Nielsen
When running sysinstall from the FreeBSD CD the debug screen is at Alt-F2. JN On Tuesday 22 August 2006 12:02, Derek Ragona wrote: The debug screen should not be blank, in addition to this error message you will see all the output from the install up to that point. If this is a new install,

Re: Which version of Flash to use

2006-08-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 24 August 2006 14:29, Gerard Seibert wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE Using 'Firefox 1.5.0.6,1' is there any version of flash that I can install that will work with it. I cannot seem to get anyone of them to work with it when running from with KDE. It makes it rather difficult to watch

Re: got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

2006-08-27 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i just brought home new samsung 22 widescreen LCD. so far, i cannot get xorg to take anything other than standard CRT type resolutions, such as 1280x1024. snip the first part, seems to be the normal video modes that i would expect to see from an i810

Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure

2006-09-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 16 September 2006 12:38, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: At Sat, 16 Sep 2006 it looks like Viswas Nair composed: I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. Just go to any website using flash and opera will ask you to download the plugin and automatically

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 21 September 2006 06:15, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Robin Becker wrote: Dave wrote: Hi, I've got smartd going on a gmirror system, however when smartd starts up it says it can't find the various drives. I've tried both the autodetection line as well as specifying the individual

Re: geom - help ...

2006-09-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 21 September 2006 01:37, Matthew Seaman wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: So, again, if I'm reading through things correctly, I'll have to do something like: gstripe st1 da1 da2 gstripe st2 da3 da4 gmirror drive st1 st2 newfs drive That's the wrong way round, I think. If

Re: Resizing Partitions, Losing Windows XP...

2006-09-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 22 September 2006 14:23, Jeff Cross wrote: I have been dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP for quite sometime. However, I never boot into Windows XP any longer. I can pretty much do everything I need to do from within FreeBSD. Is there a way that I can wipe out the Windows XP

Re: moused insists on starting

2006-09-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:08, Bill Moran wrote: 6.1. Moused starts on boot, and issuing /etc/rc.d/moused stop has not effect. My /etc/rc.conf has the line: moused_enable=NO yet the damn thing starts. Assuming you have a USB mouse, this is controlled by /etc/devd.conf (or

Re: Raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions

2006-09-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 28 September 2006 19:43, Damian Wiest wrote: 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

Re: Question!

2006-09-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 29 September 2006 05:13, Дмитрий Ефремов wrote: Hello! I have one question. I had installed Free BSD 6.1 and i use GNOME.My monitor is Philips 107p5 and i want to have 100 Hz at 1024x768. I wrote the characteristics of my monitor to xorg.conf,but it doesn't switch to 100 Hz, only 85

Re: Swap Size Importance?

2006-09-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 29 September 2006 11:52, Chris wrote: As a standard practice, I've always configured swap file to be double the size of real ram split across system and data disk. For example, 8gb on da0 and 8gb on da1 if the system has 8g real ram. In practice, In 7 or 8 years, I've never seen swap

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote: I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware host system. After reading and partially digesting the white paper on timekeeping in VMware

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 10:48, Jeff Dickens wrote: John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote: I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware host system

Re: cheapskate webmail interface

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 12:54, Desmond Coughlan wrote: snip Now we just need forums and webmail. The latter will be http://www.phpbb.com/ but for webmail, we're having difficulty finding a free solution. ismail won't install from the ports, and other than that, everything I've found

Re: no specifc dhcpd port found

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 17:46, Noah wrote: Hi there, I am unable to find the dhcpd port in /usr/ports where should I be looking? net/isc-dhcpd and friends. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: no specifc dhcpd port found

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 17:53, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 04 October 2006 17:46, Noah wrote: Hi there, I am unable to find the dhcpd port in /usr/ports where should I be looking? net/isc-dhcpd and friends. Sorry, net/isc-dhcp3-server and similar. JN

Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system?

2006-10-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 05 October 2006 07:25, albi wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:14 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the wheel group during the add users portion of the installation. For some reason I have not put a finger on yet I

Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:37, Firas Kraiem wrote: Hi to all of you ! The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install seems to run without problems but when I try to run it, no joy. If I try to run it from a terminal, I just get thrown back to the prompt without

Re: Reread rc.conf....

2007-01-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 16:23, Guido Demmenie wrote: A little bit offtopic: Only /etc/rc.d/mountd won't stop mountd on my 6.0 system. But to restart my nfsd I use the next commands #killall mountd #/etc/rc.d/nfsd restart This usualy works to restart and reread my /etc/export file. A

Re: disable cntl+alt+del function

2007-01-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 18 January 2007 16:55, Sean Murphy wrote: cntl+alt+del at the console without being logged in reboots the server. The server runs through its shutdown procedure and reboots. How do I disable this function? Add this to your kernel config file: options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT JN

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 **:

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