Re: migrating from thunderbird to mutt?
Joshua Lokken wrote: Message filtering, for example I have all the different freebsd mailing lists automatically put into different folders, and junk mail sorting? No. You have to setup procmail (or a similar program) to do that for you. Wrong. Mutt'll do it just fine. Just wondering; have you ever used or seen Mutt? Of course. I've used it since elm came out of fashion, about 8 years ago or so, until about 1-2 years ago, when I switched to Mozilla because I'm dealing with a multitude of mail folders on multiple imap servers today. How would this filtering work inside mutt? Apparently, it's something non-obvious. I've never seen anything like that while using mutt, and always used procmail back then. mkb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with switch view and FreeBSD
Hi Folks, I'll try explain my problem! I've various FreeBSD box running, they are working without keyboard and when I try connect the keyboard, the system don't respond but the system be working. In other case, I've a switch data view and if I boot a machine with FreeBSD and the switch don't be pointed in the machine, when a change the switch to a machine this doens't work. Can anybody help me? Sorry my bad english. Thanks in advance, Ricardo Pichler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
On Dec 25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav launched this into the bitstream: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One does not need to know how to rebuild an engine to know how to drive the car. One should not criticize the design of an engine while vehemently claiming to have no interest in how enginges are built. One should not buy a car without at least knowing the general specs of the engine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problems with switch view and FreeBSD
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ricardo Pichler Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 19:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with switch view and FreeBSD snip I've various FreeBSD box running, they are working without keyboard and when I try connect the keyboard, the system don't respond but the system be working. snip The reason why it is not working for you is, the BIOS of your mother board does not enable the Keyboard PS2 port till it sees the keyboard. Turn off the autodetection of keyboard from the BIOs and it will work fine. Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
MAJOR DISFUNCTION? Compute reboots instead of booting!
Dear all of you, My computer (HP Compaq DC7100) refuses to boot to FreeBSD. It enters the= MBR, I then select FreeBSD in the bootloader and the computer reboots! What kind of behavior is thi= s, and why won't it give FreeBSD a chance? I'm aware that some UNIX systems need a patch to work on this type of co= mputer: [1]http://www5. itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=patch.jsp.archiveJumpadmi t= =552267591+1103976356811+28353475 But in my case, what do I need to do? Disabling ACPI in the BIOS doesn't= work. I'm informed (when I reinsert my S-ATA HD) that if I'm running UNIX, I s= hould enable it in the BIOS. But guess what? There are no such options. Believe me I've looked. Does anybody know what's going on? Thanks. Dr. Galvin Hobbes @ FTEG -- ___ Sign-up f= or Ads Free at Mail.com [2]http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup References 1. 3Dhttp://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=patch 2. 3Dhttp://mail01.mail.com/scripts/payment/adtracking.cgi?bannercode___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MAJOR DISFUNCTION! Computer reboots instead of booting FreeBSD!
Dear all of you, My computer (HP Compaq DC7100) refuses to boot to FreeBSD. It enters the= MBR, I then select FreeBSD in the bootloader and the computer reboots! What kind of behavior is thi= s, and why won't it give FreeBSD a chance? I'm aware that some UNIX systems need a patch to work on this type of co= mputer: [1]http://www5. itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=patch.jsp.archiveJumpadmi t= =552267591+1103976356811+28353475 But in my case, what do I need to do? Disabling ACPI in the BIOS doesn't= work. I'm informed (when I reinsert my S-ATA HD) that if I'm running UNIX, I s= hould enable it in the BIOS. But guess what? There are no such options. Believe me I've looked. Does anybody know what's going on? Thanks. Dr. Galvin Hobbes @ FTEG -- ___ Sign-up f= or Ads Free at Mail.com [2]http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup References 1. 3Dhttp://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=patch 2. 3Dhttp://mail01.mail.com/scripts/payment/adtracking.cgi?bannercode___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager
Right now portmanager is upgrading kdelibs and I'm still using it. The only problem that might occur is between the deinstall/reinstall steps I'll be missing the libraries for about a minute, when this happens I just wait untill its finished reinstalling then continue. Here is a recap of what happens: ... I've been testing this for a year now and haven't had a problem yet using a program while it is being updated. That does indeed sound perfectly painless. I failed to remember that there is another factor playing into my annoyance with pkg_chk - namely that it seems to remove dependent packages in chunks prior to re-installing them. So the end-result is that the system is completely missing several packages for extended periods of time while a bunch of other packages are being compiled. I don't know why this is done or exactly under what circumstances. But indeed, the way portmanager behaves as you described above sounds a lot better. Portupgrade has one serious flaw in my opinion and that is running something like pkgdb -F damages the port installation database as far as I'm concerned. It causes the data base to say ports were built with dependency ports that they were never really built with. Portmanager only addresses that one issue and for the forseeable future that is where all the focus will be, only on correctly updating ports. Ok. That sounds good. To be honest I have never understood why the dependencies seem to randombly break, requiring a lot of fiddling with pkgdb. I tried portmanager in the past but missed the fact of 'proper' upgrading of entire dependency chains. I will have another go now though. Thanks for the clarifications! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with switch view and FreeBSD
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 03:23:15PM +0530, Subhro typed: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ricardo Pichler Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 19:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with switch view and FreeBSD snip I've various FreeBSD box running, they are working without keyboard and when I try connect the keyboard, the system don't respond but the system be working. snip The reason why it is not working for you is, the BIOS of your mother board does not enable the Keyboard PS2 port till it sees the keyboard. Turn off the autodetection of keyboard from the BIOs and it will work fine. Wrong. He has to edit /boot/device.hints and replace hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x1 by hint.atkbd.0.flags=0 Ruben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?
-- quoting Jonathan Reeder -- Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software RAID instead of relying on the controller? I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can offer is greatly appreciated. If you're using FreeBSD 5.3 than you should take a look at man gmirror. This could be what you want. I am using it w/o any problems so far... HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- And remember not to act afraid. Animals can smell fear. And they don't like it. -- Homer Simpson The Call of the Simpsons ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vinum bootable RAID-1 setup help
-- quoting Faisal Ali -- I really tried my best to follow the FreeBSD handbook documentation to setup bootable RAID-1 volume, I just can't seem to understand Section 17.9.2, Iam working with 5.3 i386 Release. Since I had problems with vinum under 5.3 as well I successfully tried gmirror (man gmirror) and had no problems with it so far. You can create a bootable RAID1 array with it ... HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- That's weird. It's like something out of that twilighty show about that zone. -- Homer Simpson Treehouse of Horror VI ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freebsd non-profit stat OT
I was looking at the bsd site and noticed the Quarterly Report was out, and in this report it states we are in danger of losing the non-profit status. Please read this report. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20041221-newsletter.shtml ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
Colin J. Raven wrote: On Dec 25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav launched this into the bitstream: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One does not need to know how to rebuild an engine to know how to drive the car. One should not criticize the design of an engine while vehemently claiming to have no interest in how enginges are built. One should not buy a car without at least knowing the general specs of the engine. One should not buy a car without at least looking under the hood, kicking the tires, and taking it for a test drive. Merry Christmas, Nikolas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[no subject]
Hello. There is one question, when you planning add hardware support Allied Telesyn AT2700 series network adapters ? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd non-profit stat OT
Mark wrote: I was looking at the bsd site and noticed the Quarterly Report was out, and in this report it states we are in danger of losing the non-profit status. Please read this report. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20041221-newsletter.shtml Yes, I saw that yesterday, they need to rise $30,400, the max for any single person or entity is $8000 to meet the required 1/3rd rule. My only question is why they waited till now to raise 30 grand, someone dropped the ball on this one. Sent them your money and do it fast (umm like today) as the deadline is 6 day's away: The FreeBSD Foundation accepts donations via check: The FreeBSD Foundation 7321 Brockway Dr. Boulder, CO 80303 or PayPal: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donating.shtml Checks must be postmarked by December 31st. to count toward the advanced ruling period. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glxgears
I have a FreeBSD box on a Elitegroup K7S5A mobo with a Asus TI4200 AGP 8x graphics card and AMD 512 MB sdram XP2000+ CPU.I get 3600 FPS with glxgears after i recompiled the kernel without agp and tweaked the Nvidia driver source a little.On a Linux box with AMD XP2500+ CPU with 1024 MB ddr and FX5700 card i only get 3200 FPS with glxgears.Quite remarkable to say the least. Does anyone have a clue why this could have happened? Merry Christmas and a good NewYear to everybody! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am new User
Hi I want Learn FreeBSD but I am New in Unix Platform. I have MCSE and CCNA Certification and I am Administrator in an ISP and some companies. I was Download FreeBSD 5.3 Which books or sites you suggest me to learn? Thank you Pedram Akbari ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 00:25:11 +, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Seaman posted a link to a crappy here is what CSS can do mockup that I posted to doc@ just before the commit mentioned above - it's at http://shrike.submonkey.net/~ceri/data2/index.html (be sure to let all the images load - this is on a slow link - and be aware that it doesn't work properly in IE for reasons that DES mentioned elsewhere). Hey, that's rather cute (in Linux-Opera). Looking forward to further developments. Re fonts, the Bitstream Vera set is very nice. It's available as a port - suppose there's no pressing reason to include it in the base (it's reasonably small)? Jud ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports
albi wrote: Jay O'Brien wrote: hi, Running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, i386 P3-667MHz, 512MB RAM. - cut for brevity -I didn't install xorg. Why are the 16 xorg ports present? a fresh FreeBSD 5.3 has xorg by default instead of XFree86 So X is installed by default whether or not I wish to use X? Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fstab -b
I have been reading in man fstab that the bg switch is depriciated, but I am not sure i understand the correct usage of the -b switch .. anyone? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: glxgears
On Dec 25, Peter Harmsen launched this into the bitstream: I have a FreeBSD box on a Elitegroup K7S5A mobo with a Asus TI4200 AGP 8x graphics card and AMD 512 MB sdram XP2000+ CPU.I get 3600 FPS with glxgears after i recompiled the kernel without agp and tweaked the Nvidia driver source a little.On a Linux box with AMD XP2500+ CPU with 1024 MB ddr and FX5700 card i only get 3200 FPS with glxgears.Quite remarkable to say the least. Does anyone have a clue why this could have happened? In a word - no but - to be scrupulously fair - that could be due to the ingestion of enormous qty's of food, wine, beer raki That isn't what you wanted to hear - I know [burp] [THUD} ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I am new User
Pedram, The best first reference about FreeBSD (in my opinion) is their own hadnbook. Take a look that: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is a complete reference to install and use it. After read it ... if you have any more questions ... post it to the list. Have you did the download of the FreeBSD 5.3 first CD from Freebsd.org ? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/5.3/5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso The CD1 is enought for you to install it. Be welcome !!! Att, Giuliano ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports
Jay O'Brien wrote: albi wrote: Jay O'Brien wrote: hi, Running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, i386 P3-667MHz, 512MB RAM. - cut for brevity -I didn't install xorg. Why are the 16 xorg ports present? a fresh FreeBSD 5.3 has xorg by default instead of XFree86 So X is installed by default whether or not I wish to use X? Jay No, FreeBSD prior to 5.3 had XFree86 as X-server, but since XFree86 changed their licenses FreeBSD switched to X.org. If you installed X.org depends on what install you choose. If you choose 'minimal install' you don't have X.org installed ( if you didn't do it yourself later ) but if you choose 'X-user' or anything like that you do have X.org. You can check it by running 'pkg_info | grep xorg. If you get something like this you have installed X.org: bash-3.00$ pkg_info | grep xorg xorg-clients-6.7.0_4 X client programs and related files from X.Org xorg-documents-6.7.0 Documentation of X11 protocol and libraries from X.Org xorg-fonts-100dpi-6.7.0 X.Org 100dpi bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-75dpi-6.7.0 X.Org 75dpi bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-cyrillic-6.7.0 X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-encodings-6.7.0 X.Org font encoding files xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-6.7.0 X.Org miscellaneous bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-truetype-6.7.0 X.Org TrueType fonts xorg-fonts-type1-6.7.0 X.Org Type1 fonts xorg-fontserver-6.7.0 X font server from X.Org xorg-libraries-6.7.0_2 X11 libraries and headers from X.Org xorg-manpages-6.7.0 X.Org library manual pages xorg-server-6.7.0_9 X.Org X server and related programs xorg-vfbserver-6.7.0 X virtual framebuffer server from X.Org Merry X-mas btw :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:54:04PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: I ran portupgrade -a -N -vu -rR, and it tried several times to fetch X11R6.8.1-src1.tar.gz, each time taking over an hour, and when the file failed, it failed showing a checksum mismatch. I tried it again today, and it was able to fetch the three remaining files. SLOW. I have a DSL connection, and usually see 1.5MB speeds or more. Two of the files came in at 6kBps, one at 26 kBps. This Portupgrade session, including downloading the files detailed below, took 3 hours and 38 minutes; 1.5 hours was spent just downloading the three files. From the script file of the session: = X11R6.8.1-src(#).tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg. = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.8.1/tars/ files fetched and time for download: filesizeend speedtime X11R6.8.1-src1.tar.gz29MB 6510 Bps 80 min X11R6.8.1-src6.tar.gz 3106kB 6298 Bps 8 min X11R6.8.1-src2.tar.gz 5672kB 26 kBps 4 min I have two questions: -Is this typical to see such slow download speeds Sometimes; it's not unusual for a popular ftp site to be heavily loaded. There are various variables you can set to control fetching from different sites; see the ports(7) manpage and the comments in bsd.port.mk. Wow. And after I decode that somehow I have to know an alternate site. It appeared to me that as it was fetching from x.org (see above) that the ftp site was not something I could change. 6500 Bps is much slower than an ancient dialup connection; a big waste of time, it appeared, as I am not using X at all. and for the portupgrade process to take so much time? X is a large set of applications, so it's going to take a little while to compile it all :-) -I didn't install xorg. Why are the 16 xorg ports present? I don't understand what you're asking here. In my install of FreeBSD I did not select any flavor of X at all, and I would like to learn why it was installed by default. Kris Thanks for your answer, it has pointed me at more things I didn't know were there that I have to learn about. Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager
On Saturday 25 December 2004 04:53 am, Peter Schuller wrote: Right now portmanager is upgrading kdelibs and I'm still using it. The only problem that might occur is between the deinstall/reinstall steps I'll be missing the libraries for about a minute, when this happens I just wait untill its finished reinstalling then continue. Here is a recap of what happens: ... I've been testing this for a year now and haven't had a problem yet using a program while it is being updated. That does indeed sound perfectly painless. I failed to remember that there is another factor playing into my annoyance with pkg_chk - namely that it seems to remove dependent packages in chunks prior to re-installing them. So the end-result is that the system is completely missing several packages for extended periods of time while a bunch of other packages are being compiled. I don't know why this is done or exactly under what circumstances. But indeed, the way portmanager behaves as you described above sounds a lot better. Portupgrade has one serious flaw in my opinion and that is running something like pkgdb -F damages the port installation database as far as I'm concerned. It causes the data base to say ports were built with dependency ports that they were never really built with. Portmanager only addresses that one issue and for the forseeable future that is where all the focus will be, only on correctly updating ports. Ok. That sounds good. To be honest I have never understood why the dependencies seem to randombly break, requiring a lot of fiddling with pkgdb. I tried portmanager in the past but missed the fact of 'proper' upgrading of entire dependency chains. I will have another go now though. Thanks for the clarifications! Thanks for giving portmanager a try! Right now it is having a problem with conflicting ports (like some of the linux base ports) where portupgrade can alter the dependencies portmanager gets a little confused so you have to resolve the conflicts manually. That should be resolved in portmanager ver 0.2.2. -Mike manually if they occur. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I am new User
On Friday 24 December 2004 10:45 am, pedram wrote: Hi I want Learn FreeBSD but I am New in Unix Platform. I have MCSE and CCNA Certification and I am Administrator in an ISP and some companies. I was Download FreeBSD 5.3 Which books or sites you suggest me to learn? Thank you Pedram Akbari http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Say what country you are from and maybe there is a copy of the handbook in your language. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I am new User
On Friday 24 December 2004 12:45 pm, pedram wrote: Hi I want Learn FreeBSD but I am New in Unix Platform. I have MCSE and CCNA Certification and I am Administrator in an ISP and some companies. I was Download FreeBSD 5.3 Which books or sites you suggest me to learn? Thank you Pedram Akbari The FAQ and handbook are good places to start: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html A search at Amazon.com should give you a good list of available books, regardless of where or how you choose to purchase them. Once the system is installed, you'll want to do stuff. There are good how-to's located online at: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15 http://www.freebsddiary.org/topics.php Online forums are also good resources: http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/ And don't forget that you can search the FreeBSD email list archives: http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists Best regards, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports
Frank Staals wrote: Jay O'Brien wrote: albi wrote: Jay O'Brien wrote: hi, Running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, i386 P3-667MHz, 512MB RAM. - cut for brevity -I didn't install xorg. Why are the 16 xorg ports present? a fresh FreeBSD 5.3 has xorg by default instead of XFree86 So X is installed by default whether or not I wish to use X? Jay No, FreeBSD prior to 5.3 had XFree86 as X-server, but since XFree86 changed their licenses FreeBSD switched to X.org. If you installed X.org depends on what install you choose. If you choose 'minimal install' you don't have X.org installed ( if you didn't do it yourself later ) but if you choose 'X-user' or anything like that you do have X.org. You can check it by running 'pkg_info | grep xorg. If you get something like this you have installed X.org: bash-3.00$ pkg_info | grep xorg xorg-clients-6.7.0_4 X client programs and related files from X.Org xorg-documents-6.7.0 Documentation of X11 protocol and libraries from X.Org xorg-fonts-100dpi-6.7.0 X.Org 100dpi bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-75dpi-6.7.0 X.Org 75dpi bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-cyrillic-6.7.0 X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-encodings-6.7.0 X.Org font encoding files xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-6.7.0 X.Org miscellaneous bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-truetype-6.7.0 X.Org TrueType fonts xorg-fonts-type1-6.7.0 X.Org Type1 fonts xorg-fontserver-6.7.0 X font server from X.Org xorg-libraries-6.7.0_2 X11 libraries and headers from X.Org xorg-manpages-6.7.0 X.Org library manual pages xorg-server-6.7.0_9 X.Org X server and related programs xorg-vfbserver-6.7.0 X virtual framebuffer server from X.Org Merry X-mas btw :) Frank, That's what I have. I *Thought* I had not selected X, but your words caused me to review my installation notes. My face is *red*. I did select All system sources, binaries and X window system. My intent with this computer is for it to be a web and mail server; when I did the install I probably accepted the X because someday I want to run Mozilla for local html viewing. I sure didn't know the consequences of that selection! But it is there, so it will stay. Thanks for answering my question. X is there because I asked for it! And Merry Christmas to you too! Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I am new User
At 12:45 12/24/2004, pedram wrote: Hi I want Learn FreeBSD but I am New in Unix Platform. I have MCSE and CCNA Certification and I am Administrator in an ISP and some companies. I was Download FreeBSD 5.3 Which books or sites you suggest me to learn? http://www.US-Webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Install/ Start Here to Find It Fast! - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports
On Friday 24 December 2004 21:54, Jay O'Brien wrote: Running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, i386 P3-667MHz, 512MB RAM. This is my first experience using portupgrade. I ran cvsup successfully for ports-all. I ran pkg_version -v. It showed a total of 28 ports, 20 needed updating. Of those, 16 were xorg- ports; the others were xterm, freetype2, imake and png. I ran portupgrade -a -N -vu -rR, and it tried several times You dont need the -N switch, it's only used for new port installations, not upgrades. Using it carelessly is a bit dangerous, you may find youself installing ports you don't want. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netgear MA111 wifi card with Project Evil
Hi, I'm trying to use my Netgear MA111 wireless USB card in FreeBSD. As I understand, FreeBSD's wi module does not support it (OpenBSD's does). Therefore, I decided to check out NDISulator (Project Evil). I followed the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook, installed ndis, ndiscvt, copied my Windows drivers and complied if_ndis. However, when I tried to load if_ndis, I got the following error message: link_elf: symbol ndis_set_info undefined and the module is not loaded. Someone apparently already ran into this problem: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-June/028753.html and received the following response: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-June/028783.html I speculate that perhaps if_ndis expects inf and sys files from a PCI/Cardbus card and not a USB one. I'd appreciate your assistance in getting the card to work. __ Do you Yahoo!? Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports
RW wrote: On Friday 24 December 2004 21:54, Jay O'Brien wrote: Running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, i386 P3-667MHz, 512MB RAM. This is my first experience using portupgrade. I ran cvsup successfully for ports-all. I ran pkg_version -v. It showed a total of 28 ports, 20 needed updating. Of those, 16 were xorg- ports; the others were xterm, freetype2, imake and png. I ran portupgrade -a -N -vu -rR, and it tried several times You dont need the -N switch, it's only used for new port installations, not upgrades. Using it carelessly is a bit dangerous, you may find youself installing ports you don't want. Thanks, I wasn't sure about that. I saw an example that used -N and followed it. I'm not clear on what -N really does, but for now I just won't use it! Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web server permissions question
I think this is a permissions issue. I just installed Apache13, and it works fine on my LAN using a fixed local IP. I opened port 80 in my Linksys router, and from the internet I can now get to my home page over the internet, using my fixed IP. From my local LAN I can use links on my home page to display html files in directories under the directory where my home page lives. However, from over the internet I can only get to my home page. Except, I can go to IP/manual/ and apache shows me the apache manual pages by virtue of an alias in httpd.conf. So, I know it is possible to access other web pages via the internet connection; I just don't know how to allow access to my subdirectories. Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, California USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome-cd: cant connect to cddb server--resolved
I had posted earlier that I couldnt pull down cd info from the cddb server when playing music cd's. I did a lot more googling and found that: 1) gnome-cd uses a program called cddbslave2 to fetch info from the cddb servers; 2) cddbslave2 uses ftp through port 888 to request this info. so I poked a hole in my firewall for tcp on port 888 and it works. --Karl _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Partitioning issues
Hi, I tried to install FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE on an amd64 system, which have got a RAID5 array, consisting of 3 disks. Thus the entire hd capacity is about 300GB, but the installer was unable to create a partition, that was bigger than some mbytes. The cd is not an official disk, I created this, but I could install it on my machine (without raid). The kernel was a simple GENERIC kernel. Please help me, I'm very afraid of this issue, because I must administer this server and it must be okay in two weeks. Thanx, Merry XMas, Gabor Kovesdan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:58:03 -0800, Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I ran portupgrade -a -N -vu -rR, and it tried several times You dont need the -N switch, it's only used for new port installations, not upgrades. Using it carelessly is a bit dangerous, you may find youself installing ports you don't want. Thanks, I wasn't sure about that. I saw an example that used -N and followed it. I'm not clear on what -N really does, but for now I just won't use it! While the manual (man) pages aren't always crystal clear, the one for portupgrade is actually pretty good at explaining what all those letter options are for. Just type at the prompt: $ man portupgrade You'll have a much better idea of what the options do and which ones you want to use for a given situation. Jud ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 05:29:05PM -0700, James wrote: On Friday 24 December 2004 09:16 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed: Hello, Use: sendmail_enable=none This will disable all sendmail processes. This will also disable those annoying daily, weekly and montly messages recieved from cronjobs. Who wants to read about your disks filling up, attempts to break into your server and other futilities anyway ;-) Thanks for the heads up on that Is there a way to make cron use something other then sendmail? If you specify in /etc/periodic.conf: daily_output=/var/log/daily.log weekly_output=/var/log/weekly.log monthly_output=/var/log/monthly.log The logs from periodic will go to those files instead. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. -- Thomas B. Reed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
create device
Hi, I have 5.3 BSD. I'm trying to create device with command MAKEDEV But this command is not recognizable. Which command can I use to create device? Thanks, Leon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd non-profit stat OT
Nikolas Britton wrote: Mark wrote: I was looking at the bsd site and noticed the Quarterly Report was out, and in this report it states we are in danger of losing the non-profit status. Please read this report. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20041221-newsletter.shtml Yes, I saw that yesterday, they need to rise $30,400, the max for any single person or entity is $8000 to meet the required 1/3rd rule. My only question is why they waited till now to raise 30 grand, someone dropped the ball on this one. Sent them your money and do it fast (umm like today) as the deadline is 6 day's away: The FreeBSD Foundation accepts donations via check: The FreeBSD Foundation 7321 Brockway Dr. Boulder, CO 80303 or PayPal: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donating.shtml Checks must be postmarked by December 31st. to count toward the advanced ruling period. Could they finally work out some new ways of payment? I'm from Russia - I can't use Paypal and I can hardly get any checks. I supported Mozilla foundation with my Visa card, and I'd like it very much to send a few bucks to FreeBSD every now and again. Popularity is a big deal. I could never understand why this organization (not community) was not aiming at getting more users and supporters. I mean, this is the best OS I've ever seen. And while I don't even remember how or when I first heard about it, I'm sure there are thousands out there, who'd be glad to become FreeBSD fans, but they just don't know anything about it. Just put a few nice pictures and screenshots on the website, and people will get attracted. Same thing with money. I don't want to order your CD's, cuz they can get lost on their way, and if they don't, I won't be expecting them until 50 days pass (that's how long I'd waited for The Complete FreeBSD until it came). I just want to pay, say, $10 a month with a Visa card. Not much, but I'm not alone. Look at Firefox - a much smaller project can raise $100k in a week. Can't we? Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: The FreeBSD Foundation
-Original Message- From: Jay Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 12:03 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Foundation On Friday 24 December 2004 01:07 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Now, as for the Foundation's status as a charity: I'll start with asking you a simple question: Setting aside the legal definitions, what in your mind IS a charity, exactly? Hey look - I don't need a lecture about charity, and I'm not disputing that the foundation is legally classified as a charity. I never said that you were disputing the legal definition. But clearly you are disputing the idea that it is a charity. Yes, I am disputing that. It is not a charity except in the tax avoidance sense of the word. Hmm 'tax avoidance' another loaded phrase. Most conservatives would say that the government doesen't have the moral right to tax contributions to non-profits, so it's impossible to 'avoid' a tax that shouldn't exist in the first place. tax avoidance carries obvious criminal implications. You are attempting to twist the words and their meaning to support your agenda. Don't accuse me of what you are doing. I said that you could make a case against The FreeBSD Foundation if you wished to do so on a logical basis and I would respect that. You have chosen not to do that. Instead you are attempting to make an emotional case against The FreeBSD Foundation based on the alleged misuse of the word 'charity', a misuse that doesen't exist as I showed you. Go ahead and make a reasoned argument against The FreeBSD Foundation, the audience here is waiting for it. By playing the semantics game you aren't making any kind of case against anything. Under your selective interpretation of the definition, one could claim virtually anything as a gift for public benevolent purposes. It's bullshit, Ted, and you may deny it here in this forum, but you know it is. Naturally someone could misuse my selective interpretation of the word charity to claim anything. That isn't relevant to whether or not The FreeBSD Foundation is a charity. You seem to think it isn't and the only argument you have put forth is that a charity is only supposed to help the needy - but the term needy applies to what the Foundation happens to be doing with FreeBSD. Well, that is why I made the Robin Hood remark. I will point out that the FreeBSD Foundation in fact uses the actual term public charity on their website. And certainly the Foundation doesen't attempt to pass itself off as using the money to help the poor. I am aware that many people don't view a charity as anything more than a needy-person-helping apparatus. However I urge you to examine your view of the idea of 'need' There are many people out there also who feel that much of the 'need' served by charities isn't really need it is choice. Many people are incensed that some charities feed alcoholic bums that spend their nights sleeping in the streets. Many would weigh the 'need' of FreeBSD to have a good Java implementation against the 'need' of an alcoholic to continue to be fed day after day without quitting drinking, and feel that the FreeBSD need was greater. alcoholic bums?! Is this another example of your interpretation of charity? Are you really asking anyone to accept you as an authority on what charity means when you refer to alcoholics as bums? There are alcoholics and there are alcoholic bums, they are different types of alcoholics. That is why I used the term 'alcoholic bums' instead of just using the term 'alcoholics' Many charities help alcoholics who want to stop being alcoholics and only a Scrooge would take issue with this, IMHO. But some help alcoholics who don't want to get better. These alcoholics are bums. Sorry you don't like the term - do you have a better one for alcoholics that refuse treatment? I don't. And in any case why are you focusing on this in the first place and ignoring the definition of needy, which clearly is what that paragraph is about. In case you forgot to read the _entire_ definition of charity, Ted, try # 4: 4 : lenient judgment of others. Frankly, I find your arrogance annoying. Sorry to hear that. I have compassion for street people who want to stop being street people. I have none for any person who feels the world owes them a living and take handout after handout without ever even trying to better themselves. I submit that people who think this is arrogant are merely enabling those second type of street people, and actually, are doing more to harm those people in the long run. I'll say it again: I support FreeBSD through CD purchases, and would consider an outright cash donation. I think the project is a good thing, and I also think it serves the public good. But it's not a charity, No argument there the Project never has said it is a charity nor
make.conf file CPUTYPE?
When I ran 'buildkernel' as well as 'buildworld', I used the 'CPUTYPE?=i686' directive in the 'make.conf' file. I was wondering if it is correct to leave it in the 'make.conf' file now that I am finished building a new kernel and updating the system. Would I be better off if I just removed it, or changed it to 'CPUTYPE=i686'. I assumed that the '?' was just for the 'buildworld' procedure. Thanks in advance. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil. -- J. Paul Getty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd non-profit stat OT
On Saturday 25 December 2004 17:31, Andrew P. wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Mark wrote: I was looking at the bsd site and noticed the Quarterly Report was out, and in this report it states we are in danger of losing the non-profit status. Please read this report. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20041221-newsletter.shtml Yes, I saw that yesterday, they need to rise $30,400, the max for any single person or entity is $8000 to meet the required 1/3rd rule. My only question is why they waited till now to raise 30 grand, someone dropped the ball on this one. Sent them your money and do it fast (umm like today) as the deadline is 6 day's away: The FreeBSD Foundation accepts donations via check: The FreeBSD Foundation 7321 Brockway Dr. Boulder, CO 80303 or PayPal: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donating.shtml Checks must be postmarked by December 31st. to count toward the advanced ruling period. Could they finally work out some new ways of payment? I'm from Russia - I can't use Paypal and I can hardly get any checks. I supported Mozilla foundation with my Visa card, and I'd like it very much to send a few bucks to FreeBSD every now and again. Popularity is a big deal. I could never understand why this organization (not community) was not aiming at getting more users and supporters. I mean, this is the best OS I've ever seen. And while I don't even remember how or when I first heard about it, I'm sure there are thousands out there, who'd be glad to become FreeBSD fans, but they just don't know anything about it. Just put a few nice pictures and screenshots on the website, and people will get attracted. Same thing with money. I don't want to order your CD's, cuz they can get lost on their way, and if they don't, I won't be expecting them until 50 days pass (that's how long I'd waited for The Complete FreeBSD until it came). I just want to pay, say, $10 a month with a Visa card. Not much, but I'm not alone. Look at Firefox - a much smaller project can raise $100k in a week. Can't we? Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey! I never knew there was a FreeBSDFoundation! I bought the CDROM's back when FreeBSD was at 3.4. I guess they already spent that money, huh? Not to break my arm patting myself on the back, but I just donated. They're at 87% toward keeping their 501c(3) status. I hope like heck that others will donate. FreeBSD is good for software development everywhere! lane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
triple monitor hardware setup on FBSD - suggestions needed...
I am currently running a triple-monitor setup under winXP, with an extended desktop that stretches across all three monitors. I like it. I would, however, like to use FreeBSD. So, first off, what hardware (video card) comes to mind for doing triple screens with FreeBSD ? A matrox P750 comes to mind, but when you run it with three screens, they downgrade to 1280x1024, which is bad. I am happy to consider multiple video cards to accomplish this ... at the very least I need 1600x1200 out of each card, preferably 1920x1200 ... Second, what is the support for something like this in XFree86, or x.org ? What I am really looking for is the ability to create virtually sized screens - so instead of having three total (physical) screens that I can maximize windows inside of, I want to split each physical screen in half for a total of 6 virtual screens - so there are six total areas within which I can maximize a window in ... this is something I am really trying to accomplish. thanksy! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make.conf file CPUTYPE?
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 08:17:00PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: When I ran 'buildkernel' as well as 'buildworld', I used the 'CPUTYPE?=i686' directive in the 'make.conf' file. I was wondering if it is correct to leave it in the 'make.conf' file now that I am finished building a new kernel and updating the system. Would I be better off if I just removed it, or changed it to 'CPUTYPE=i686'. I assumed that the '?' was just for the 'buildworld' procedure. Setting it with ?= was a bug that was recently fixed. You can cvsup and continue to set it with =. Kris pgpGSxV3FFGdQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: triple monitor hardware setup on FBSD - suggestions needed...
On Saturday, 25 December 2004 at 17:45:49 -0800, Joe Schmoe wrote: I am currently running a triple-monitor setup under winXP, with an extended desktop that stretches across all three monitors. I like it. I would, however, like to use FreeBSD. So, first off, what hardware (video card) comes to mind for doing triple screens with FreeBSD ? A matrox P750 comes to mind, but when you run it with three screens, they downgrade to 1280x1024, which is bad. I am happy to consider multiple video cards to accomplish this ... at the very least I need 1600x1200 out of each card, preferably 1920x1200 ... You're not limited to a single video card under FreeBSD. Second, what is the support for something like this in XFree86, or x.org ? Good. What I am really looking for is the ability to create virtually sized screens - so instead of having three total (physical) screens that I can maximize windows inside of, I want to split each physical screen in half for a total of 6 virtual screens - so there are six total areas within which I can maximize a window in ... this is something I am really trying to accomplish. I don't know how you'd do that (nor why you would want to). X offers a feature called Xinerama which does the opposite: it treats all screens as part of one big screen. The disadvantage here is that all the screens should have the same resolution. From experience, you can't do everything with 2048x1536 screens: too much software (especially from the Microsoft space, or free software which tries to emulate it) can't handle this kind of resolution. For example, web browsing on such screens is a pain: either the fonts are miniscule, or half the (broken) web sites that you browse completely break their formatting. I'm currently running a setup with 8 displays spread over 5 machines. One of them has three displays. Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html, which is a little out of date (I'm now running x.org, and I now have more screens), but it gives an idea of the kind of things you can do. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpvJ0z3QA88F.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: MAJOR DISFUNCTION! Computer reboots instead of booting FreeBSD!
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 10:39 pm, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: Dear all of you, My computer (HP Compaq DC7100) refuses to boot to FreeBSD. It enters the in the bootloader and the computer reboots! What kind of behavior is thi I'm aware that some UNIX systems need a patch to work on this type of co [1]http://www5. itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=patch.jsp.archiveJumpadmi t But in my case, what do I need to do? Disabling ACPI in the BIOS doesn't I'm informed (when I reinsert my S-ATA HD) that if I'm running UNIX, I s But guess what? There are no such options. Believe me I've looked. Your computer seem to have more problems than the inability to boot FBSD. It seems the moths have nibbled away important parts of your query, so for the most part I find it unintelligable. Malcolm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd non-profit stat OT
Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could they finally work out some new ways of payment? I'm from Russia - I can't use Paypal and I can hardly get any checks. I supported Mozilla foundation with my Visa card, and I'd like it very much to send a few bucks to FreeBSD every now and again. They *can* accept VISA cards. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donating.shtml ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: create device
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leon Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 4:18 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: create device Hi, I have 5.3 BSD. I'm trying to create device with command MAKEDEV But this command is not recognizable. Which command can I use to create device? Thanks, Leon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The MAKEDV script is only present on a 4.* system and is not there on a 5.3system. A 5.3 system automatically creates all required device nodes. Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Starting Apache 2.0.52 in rc.conf under FreeBSD 5.3
I installed Apache 2.0.52 on my fresh reinstallation of FreeBSD 5.3, but I can't figure out how the new rc.conf system works. How do I set things up so I can start Apache in rc.conf? I installed Apache directly from the downloaded source rather than from the ports, so this wasn't done automatically. Also, is there a comprehensive explanation of how the new rc.conf stuff works somewhere on the Web? I don't understand the rc.d interaction. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: make.conf file CPUTYPE?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerard Seibert Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 6:47 To: freebsd-questions Subject: make.conf file CPUTYPE? When I ran 'buildkernel' as well as 'buildworld', I used the 'CPUTYPE?=i686' directive in the 'make.conf' file. I was wondering if it is correct to leave it in the 'make.conf' file now that I am finished building a new kernel and updating the system. Would I be better off if I just removed it, or changed it to 'CPUTYPE=i686'. I assumed that the '?' was just for the 'buildworld' procedure. snip The ? is required onlyif you build a kernel for one architecture on a different architecture. For example, you try to build a kernel for a P1 on a P4 box. You would be better of with CPUTYPE=i686 or more precisely something like CPUTYPE=p3 (in case you are building the world/kernel) for a Pentium III system. And I wuld recommend to leave the same in make.conf even after completion of the building because, all subsequent builds would be optimized for the processor mentioned in CPUTYPE Regards, S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: glxgears
On 12/25/04 12:23:09, Peter Harmsen wrote: I have a FreeBSD box on a Elitegroup K7S5A mobo with a Asus TI4200 AGP 8x graphics card and AMD 512 MB sdram XP2000+ CPU.I get 3600 FPS with glxgears after i recompiled the kernel without agp and tweaked the Nvidia driver source a little.On a Linux box with AMD XP2500+ CPU with 1024 MB ddr and FX5700 card i only get 3200 FPS with glxgears.Quite remarkable to say the least. Does anyone have a clue why this could have happened? Merry Christmas and a good NewYear to everybody! ___ I don't know about linux/verses FreeBSD, but I can tell you about hardware support. I am not sure about nvidia stuff(core models), but I can tell you new cards tend not to have support, then bad support at first. This may not be the case with the nvidia drivers. If that card is new enough glxgears was running partially or all on the cpu not graphics hardware. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LoadBalancer With FreeBSD
On 12/24/04 06:22:34, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi Everybody , Do you know any load balancer program for FreeBSD like linux LVS . I checked ports and find out morebalance-0.3 and loadd-0.8 ?! Anybody use those programs?! I want make a load balance on my frontend servers ?! Could you give me advise about using hardware-load-balancer or software-load-balancer ?! And I wonder How many connection can handle FreeBSD box ?! Because hardware load-balancer can up to 2.000.000 connection per box. I think that with PIII and 512 machine I can handle ?! Thanks Vahric MUHTARYAN I don't know about max connections, but FreeBSD set a record for over 1 million packets per second, with linux on the same hardware only reaching around 100,000. It was a dual 800mhz xeon I think. You find the details when you search for freebsdcon and some sites like kerneltrap, slashdot, and osnews. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting Apache 2.0.52 in rc.conf under FreeBSD 5.3
Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Apache 2.0.52 on my fresh reinstallation of FreeBSD 5.3, but I can't figure out how the new rc.conf system works. How do I set things up so I can start Apache in rc.conf? I installed Apache directly from the downloaded source rather than from the ports, so this wasn't done automatically. Also, is there a comprehensive explanation of how the new rc.conf stuff works somewhere on the Web? I don't understand the rc.d interaction. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcng.html Unfortunatly, this document doesn't fully explain how /usr/local/etc/rc.d has changed, but it's a good start nonetheless. More can be gleaned by following the links to other man pages, and reading the various /etc/rc scripts themselves. HTH. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web server permissions question
Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is a permissions issue. I just installed Apache13, and it works fine on my LAN using a fixed local IP. I opened port 80 in my Linksys router, and from the internet I can now get to my home page over the internet, using my fixed IP. From my local LAN I can use links on my home page to display html files in directories under the directory where my home page lives. However, from over the internet I can only get to my home page. Except, I can go to IP/manual/ and apache shows me the apache manual pages by virtue of an alias in httpd.conf. So, I know it is possible to access other web pages via the internet connection; I just don't know how to allow access to my subdirectories. Sounds like your links are pointing to the private IP address, which isn't accessable from the Internet at large. If this is the case, fix your links. Otherwise, please provide some more information about the symptoms. I doubt there is any sort of permission problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd non-profit stat OT
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could they finally work out some new ways of payment? I'm from Russia - I can't use Paypal and I can hardly get any checks. I supported Mozilla foundation with my Visa card, and I'd like it very much to send a few bucks to FreeBSD every now and again. They *can* accept VISA cards. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donating.shtml Perhaps they can for some people. But they can't for me :( Unfortunatley, PayPal (who I don't have an account with) insists that I have an account and refuses to process my transaction unless I log in (to the account that doesn't exist). Am I the only one they're doing this to? Doesn't seem like it's the Foundation's fault, but it's preventing me from making a donation. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web server permissions question
Jay O'Brien wrote: I think this is a permissions issue. I just installed Apache13, and it works fine on my LAN using a fixed local IP. I opened port 80 in my Linksys router, and from the internet I can now get to my home page over the internet, using my fixed IP. From my local LAN I can use links on my home page to display html files in directories under the directory where my home page lives. However, from over the internet I can only get to my home page. Except, I can go to IP/manual/ and apache shows me the apache manual pages by virtue of an alias in httpd.conf. So, I know it is possible to access other web pages via the internet connection; I just don't know how to allow access to my subdirectories. Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, California USA More data on this issue I found how to get around this problem, and it isn't permissions at all. On the other web server I use, I use relative and shortened addressing on links, for example /xyz which, when selected by the user, would then send the user the /xyz/home.html file, in the xyz subdirectory under the directory where the home page lives. Now, with this version, I find that I must add a trailing /, using /xyz/ instead of /xyz, and with that change everything works as expected. I can now access home.html files in subtending directories with such shortened relative links from my LAN and from the internet. This doesn't explain why the link without the trailing / works fine on my local LAN but not when accessed over the internet. I would prefer to have it work without the trailing / because I want to copy many existing pages with such relative addresses from my other server. I'm not sure where to look in them, but... now to the Apache manuals! Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web server permissions question
Bill Moran wrote: Sounds like your links are pointing to the private IP address, which isn't accessable from the Internet at large. If this is the case, fix your links. Otherwise, please provide some more information about the symptoms. I doubt there is any sort of permission problem. Bill, The problem links are shortened relative links. See my additional post with more symptoms that I posted before I realized you had responded. As you suggest, changing the links to add a trailing / fixed the problem, and if I didn't want to use existing web pages with shortened relative links without the trailing / character, it wouldn't be a problem. I would like to understand what is causing this to work the way it is. Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAJOR DISFUNCTION! Computer reboots instead of booting FreeBSD!
On Saturday 25 December 2004 06:11 pm, Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 10:39 pm, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: Dear all of you, My computer (HP Compaq DC7100) refuses to boot to FreeBSD. It enters the in the bootloader and the computer reboots! What kind of behavior is thi I'm aware that some UNIX systems need a patch to work on this type of co [1]http://www5. itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=patch.jsp.archiveJumpadm i t But in my case, what do I need to do? Disabling ACPI in the BIOS doesn't I'm informed (when I reinsert my S-ATA HD) that if I'm running UNIX, I s But guess what? There are no such options. Believe me I've looked. Your computer seem to have more problems than the inability to boot FBSD. It seems the moths have nibbled away important parts of your query, so for the most part I find it unintelligable. I am not sure what happened, but it looks like there was a problem with MIME and/or the stripping of it, so some (seemingly) random equal signs were inserted in the message, making it look like blank space after that in those lines of text in some MUAs. Anyway, here's what his post looks like without the garble: -- Dear all of you, My computer (HP Compaq DC7100) refuses to boot to FreeBSD. It enters the MBR, I then select FreeBSD in the bootloader and the computer reboots! What kind of behavior is this, and why won't it give FreeBSD a chance? I'm aware that some UNIX systems need a patch to work on this type of computer: [1]http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=patch.jsp.archiveJumpadmit=552267591+1103976356811+28353475 But in my case, what do I need to do? Disabling ACPI in the BIOS doesn't work. I'm informed (when I reinsert my S-ATA HD) that if I'm running UNIX, I should enable it in the BIOS. But guess what? There are no such options. Believe me I've looked. Does anybody know what's going on? Thanks. Dr. Galvin Hobbes @ FTEG ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd non-profit stat OT
Bill Moran wrote: Unfortunatley, PayPal (who I don't have an account with) insists that I have an account and refuses to process my transaction unless I log in (to the account that doesn't exist). Am I the only one they're doing this to? Doesn't seem like it's the Foundation's fault, but it's preventing me from making a donation. Bill, To test the system, I made a small contribution tonight in my wife's name using a credit card. She doesn't have a PayPal account, and didn't sign up for one. From http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donating.shtml click on DONATE, Then click on the If you do not currently have a PayPal account button, give it the amount, click on the Don't Have a PayPal Account secure checkout button, and give it the typical credit card info. The only catch appears to be that the credit card billing address must be in the USA, but I believe you are in PA. The PayPal process I used was simpler, but a PayPal account isn't required. Jay O'Brien ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAJOR DISFUNCTION! Computer reboots instead of booting FreeBSD!
My computer (HP Compaq DC7100) refuses to boot to FreeBSD. It enters the MBR, I then select FreeBSD in the bootloader and the computer reboots! What kind of behavior is this, and why won't it give FreeBSD a chance? I had the same symptom on different hardware. If I watched closely, I could see a kernel error message appear very briefly before the reboot. I tried various things and posted here about it, but could not get past it, and no one offered any help. Disabling ACPI made zero difference. I didn't understand why it would boot fine on the miniinst CD to do the install, but wouldn't boot from the HD (an ordinary ATA one, at that). The problem went away when I gave up on FreeBSD 5.3 and installed FreeBSD 4.10 instead. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netgear MA111 wifi card with Project Evil
Shahar Yuval wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use my Netgear MA111 wireless USB card in FreeBSD. As I understand, FreeBSD's wi module does not support it (OpenBSD's does). Therefore, I decided to check out NDISulator (Project Evil). I followed the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook, installed ndis, ndiscvt, copied my Windows drivers and complied if_ndis. However, when I tried to load if_ndis, I got the following error message: link_elf: symbol ndis_set_info undefined and the module is not loaded. Someone apparently already ran into this problem: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-June/028753.html and received the following response: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-June/028783.html I speculate that perhaps if_ndis expects inf and sys files from a PCI/Cardbus card and not a USB one. I'd appreciate your assistance in getting the card to work. Project Evil, Yes, That's what I'd call the netgear MA111. This is the most flakiest POS I have ever see. Eventually I got so pissed at it that I calmly unplugged it from the USB port and forcefully wiped it across the room at a high velocity rate into the wall but it still worked after this and denied me the satisfaction I was looking for, thus I have blacklisted netgear. Here is a tip for any company in the networking bizz, NEVER PISS A SYSADMIN OFF I wish you all the luck in the world, and some anger management classes because after this your going to need it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Failure in build of sdl12
Any word on when this might be fixed? It at least makes me feel better knowing it wasn't something *I* broke in the process of upgrading, but it does kinda leave me out on a limb. ^_^;; At 09:28 PM 12/24/04 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 12:25:34AM -0500, Steve Lake wrote: When I'm trying to upgrade KDE to the latest build one of the things it asks me to install is SDL12. During the build it gives the error dl_yuv_mmx.c:236: Syntax Error before '[' I also get one of these with 417 as well and a bunch of failures after it. The path this file is in is /usr/ports/devel/sdl12/work/video. Anyone got any ideas on how I might fix this? I'm stuck and can't go any further till it's fixed. PS. Please reply directly to me as I don't subscribe to this list. Thanks. Known problem, already reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED], on http://pointyhat.freebsd.org, and reported to the maintainer. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd non-profit stat OT
Andrew P. wrote: Popularity is a big deal. I could never understand why this organization (not community) was not aiming at getting more users and supporters. I mean, this is the best OS I've ever seen. And while I don't even remember how or when I first heard about it, I'm sure there are thousands out there, who'd be glad to become FreeBSD fans, but they just don't know anything about it. Just put a few nice pictures and screenshots on the website, and people will get attracted. Same thing with money. I don't want to order your CD's, cuz they can get lost on their way, and if they don't, I won't be expecting them until 50 days pass (that's how long I'd waited for The Complete FreeBSD until it came). I just want to pay, say, $10 a month with a Visa card. Not much, but I'm not alone. Look at Firefox - a much smaller project can raise $100k in a week. Can't we? Best wishes, Andrew P. Thanks for valadating all the points I (and others) made in the FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated? thread, now if only we could get core and the communty at large to recognise that it's a problem and needs to be addressed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAJOR DISFUNCTION! Computer reboots instead of booting FreeBSD!
It looks like Fafa is a troll. Same message was posted to the misc OpenBSD list. -- Juha ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
