Re: feedback on a good DNS server

ds compliant. This argument is about as accurate as the "bind not secure" argument - they both may have a grain of truth in the past. The DNS discussion is a lot like the Linux vs BSD discussion - it's a religious issue (strongly held views not always supported by facts) Joh

Re: Regarding Network Performance

e test - I suspect your P box is totally swamped by the load of encryption. Also if you enable ipsec you lose the mpsafe network stack (at least on 5.3 release) so you take a performance hit there too. John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

Hello, I just switched my computer to a new case yesterday and now it won't boot. However, Windows boots fine (I dual boot). Here are some of the messages that FreeBSD has while it is starting up: ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name faile

Re: RE: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

- Original Message - > > -Original Message- > ... > > ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from > > ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name failed > > ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp > > Root mount failed: 6 > ... > > mountroot> > > I'm far from being the expert... But

Re: Re: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

- Original Message - > Brian John wrote: > > > ad1: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying) > > > >...and I can't boot into FreeBSD. It just puts me in single user mode. > > > >It almost appears as if my hard drives somehow were damaged wh

kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7)

even get a command in on my console without an error popping in.. The solution does not seem clear cut to me, and it seems the error message itself does not provide valid (or, at least, sufficient) information. Could someone please help, or point me in the right

Re: Re: Re: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

> - Original Message - > > > Brian John wrote: > > > > > ad1: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying) > > > > > >...and I can't boot into FreeBSD. It just puts me in single user mode. > > > > > >It almost appears

permissions on partition?

Hello, I have a FAT partition on ad0s3 that I am sharing with Windows. For one reason or another everything on this partition is owned by root:wheel. I can't change the permissions to any files on this partition. This is what I have in devfs.conf: own ad0s3 brian:operator permad0s3 0

permissions on partition?

Hello, I have a FAT partition on ad0s3 that I am sharing with Windows. For one reason or another everything on this partition is owned by root:wheel. I can't change the permissions to any files on this partition. This is what I have in devfs.conf: own ad0s3 brian:operator permad0s3 0

permissions on partition?

Hello, I have a FAT partition on ad0s3 that I am sharing with Windows. For one reason or another everything on this partition is owned by root:wheel. I can't change the permissions to any files on this partition. This is what I have in devfs.conf: own ad0s3 brian:operator permad0s3 0

permissions on partition?

Hello, I have a FAT partition on ad0s3 that I am sharing with Windows. For one reason or another everything on this partition is owned by root:wheel. I can't change the permissions to any files on this partition. This is what I have in devfs.conf: own ad0s3 brian:operator permad0s3 0

Re: Re: permissions on partition?

> "Brian John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, I have a FAT partition on ad0s3 that I am sharing with Windows. > > For one reason or another everything on this partition is owned by > > root:wheel. I can't change the permissions to any files o

bad CRC in rar file

Hello, I have a collection of rar files that all hold together one .iso file. One of the rar files has a bad CRC so rar fails to extract the ISO image. Does anyone know if there is a different application that can extract this image even though there are crc errors? I looked at the rar manpage a

Re: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7)

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:38:54 +, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 03:44:32PM -0500, John DeStefano wrote: > > I have seen a mention or two of this error on the lists before, > > including this link to the "current" list I

Re: Cutting down on ssh breakin attempts

Kyle Jensen wrote: >Hi, > >I run a webmail server for a small company, which >is (of course) running FreeBSD 5-stable. I get about >50-100 failed loging attempts via ssh on a daily basis. > >Occasionally, these show up in my daily security digest >with messages like: > >reverse mapping checking

Re: Re: Is this a good or a bad idea to delete all off this ?

> Gert Cuykens wrote: > > can i do controle C when i want to go to sleep while upgrading ? > > A cleaner solution, regardless of whatever you're running that you'd > like to ^c, is to just let it run inside a screen session and reattach > to the screen session later to see how it went. > >

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 91, Issue 29

> From: Jason Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:00:48 + > Subject: Re: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7) > On 03/13/05 15:44:32, John DeStefano wrote: > > I have seen a mention or two of thi

cannot build openoffice

Hello, When I try to build openoffice I get the following error: ./unxfbsd.pro/misc/FREEBSDGCCIruntime/libprldap50.so && \ echo >& /dev/null cp: ./unxfbsd.pro/misc/build/mozilla/dist/bin/libnss3.so: No such file or directory dmake: Error code 1, while making './unxfbsd.pro/misc/build/so_moz_runtim

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

Nick Pavlica wrote: >Andrea, > I have started testing with gstripe and have had good results to >this point. I'm still a little unclear about how to make my stripe >persistent after a reboot? My server consists of three drives. A >40GB drive that has the operating system and two 200Gb drives

Ethernet issue: works one way but not another

This one has got me stumped. Been working on it for 3 days now with no resolution. Please help. I have a 686 system that I just installed 5.3 on through ftp. So I know that my network setup works. I have 2 networks that I am trying to access through. One network is connected to a 100mb 3com h

Re: Ethernet issue: works one way but not another

fact that tcpdump takes so long to respond. If I let it run, it will display a packet about one every 2 min. They seem to be in time order with timestamps only ms apart. Let me know if any other information will help. John A. On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:16:51 +0200, abu khaled <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Ethernet issue: works one way but not another

x that I have and it does the same thing, works fine at 100mb, but appears to get lost at 10mb. Hope this answers some of your questions. John A. On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:18:46 +0200, abu khaled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First, you have to excuse my English it is my third langua

USB disk hang - 5.4PRE - gstripe

I just upgraded a box to 5.4PRE and started experiencing regular system hangs at exactly 1AM - I traced it to BackupPC which was starting it's run at that time backing up to a gstripe set made from two 300GB USB disks. The first thing I assumed was that something in Samba or perl didn't like the

Re: Ethernet issue: works one way but not another

to be rebooted every quarter. My FBSD streamer has been up fro 281 days (and that was due to power and ups failure at a co-lo facility). I'm hoping that this will turn out to not be the head scratcher I fear it might. Hope this information helps. John A. On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:15:50 -0600, Gr

Re: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7)

> From: Jason Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:00:48 + > Subject: Re: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7) > On 03/13/05 15:44:32, John DeStefano wrote: > > I have seen a mention or two of thi

Re: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7)

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:17:33 -0500, John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Jason Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:00:48 + > > Subject: Re: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuni

Re: aac support

to see if I can help out. I've followed OpenBSD for several years now and would like to contribute what I can. Its a great project in a number of ways. Just send me an email when you think my skills might be helpful. No promises, but maybe I can help with a slightly different approach yield

Re: wine can't read a cd

This one time, at band camp, Jason Henson wrote: > $ wine c:/Program\ Files/Starcraft/starcraft.exe > fixme:file:get_default_drive_device auto detection of DOS devices not > supported on this platform > fixme:cdrom:CDROM_GetInterfaceInfo not implemented for BSD > fixme:ntdll:NtQueryVolumeInformat

sshd configuration after mergemaster

not used PAM before. Is it now a requirement in order to use ssh? or am I going overboard to solve a simple problem? Thanks, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: sshd configuration after mergemaster

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:08:50 +0100, Christian Hiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 21 March 2005 18:55:18, John DeStefano wrote: > > I've just completed a successful transition from 5.3-BETA7 to > > 5.3-RELEASE via the usual "makeworld" procedures. T

Re: ifconfig

Gert Cuykens wrote: >On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:27:02 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On 2005-03-23 01:07, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>How do you tell a device for example nv0 to be dhcp without using rc.conf ? >>> >>> >>By manually calling

Simple bash script to grep files for bad keywords

Hello, I am trying to write a simple bash script that will grep all files in a directory (except ones that start with "00") for certain bad keywords. Here is what I have so far: #!/bin/bash # This is a simple script to check all sql scripts for bad keywords BAD_KEYWORDS='spool echo timing commit

Re: Simple bash script to grep files for bad keywords

> On 2005-03-23 12:29, Brian John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to write a simple bash script that will grep all files > > in a directory (except ones that start with "00") for certain bad > > keywords. Here is what I have so

mount_smbfs variable error

on how to verify that my system has got whatever mount_smbfs may need to operate properly, or how to remedy the error? Thank you, ~John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: mount_smbfs variable error

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:39:58 -0500, jason henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John DeStefano wrote: > > >I get the following error when I try to mount_smbfs a LAN file share > >as root with 5.3-RELEASE and a GENERIC kernel, both cvsup-ed and > >compiled this pa

Re: mount_smbfs variable error

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:47:44 -0500, John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:39:58 -0500, jason henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John DeStefano wrote: > > > > >I get the following error when I try to mount_smbfs a LAN file share

Re: How download installed packages' sourcesfiles

This one time, at band camp, Chuck Swiger wrote: > O. Hartmann wrote: > [ ... ] > > Unforunately "portupdate" does not have a simple functionality to gather > > all tarballs from each installed port and its friends it depends on. > > Maybe someone of you has a similar limitation and can help. > >

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 92, Issue 30

> From: Tomas Quintero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:41:08 -0500 > Subject: Re: A Riddle > I'm glad this has to deal with FreeBSD related question. Thank you for > expanding the minds of those subscribed to this mailing list with your

Re: ot: FWIW meaning? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE: panic in ffs_valloc]

Emanuel Strobl wrote: >Am Samstag, 26. März 2005 23:19 schrieb Gary Kline: > > >>On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:16:57PM +, Gary Kline wrote: >> >> >[...] > > >>>Yours, >>>-- >>> Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> >> This is a FWIW, but the same thing is happening with DMA

Re: hyper threading.

Paul A. Hoadley wrote: >On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:45:21PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > > >>Where can I see the measurements? >> >> > >Here are some measurements. A few weeks ago I ran Unixbench 4.1.0 >(/usr/ports/benchmarks/unixbench) on a P4 2.8GHz with and without >hyperthreadin

Re: hyper threading.

since you have a HT box how about running a less system code intensive and more diverse test? John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can argue the technical theory all you want, but the > measurements say otherwise. > > > You guys have done it once again. Baited me into firing u

Re: hyper threading.

Hmm on my boxes the combined sys and intr cpu rarely goes over 20% - most of the load is user space. I'd venture that most people running user space appllications will see similar numbers. I agree tat a box running as a router is not a good candidate for HT - that wasn't the quest

su command problem

To whom it may concern: I am running into an issue using rc.conf to run applications at startup. Specifically, nagios, and mysql. When the system boots, it goes to a command prompt at the stage of the boot process when those applications would be run and then stops. If I exit out of the prompt,

how to manage qmail queue warnings?

I know that the queuelifetime control file sets the time before qmail gives up sending a message (usually 1 week), but how do I modify the warning that is usually set to notify the user four hours after sending that the message is being held back? -- -JC http://www.jc-news.com/ __

Re: su command problem

I guess I'm trying to determine if this is a bug in the 'su' command or if there is a security setting somewhere in 5.3 which changes the behavior of 'su'. Thanks again for your attention. John --- Jeff Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11

Re: openntpd UTC problem

igure and timezone to set the correct timezone from the menu. On another note openntp is not particularly accurate (if you can live with +/- 100ms then fine otherwise use ntpd) John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: su command problem

on, I really appreciate it. Thank you to everybody who helped me on this. God Bless John --- Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Public wrote: > > >I'm apologize for being unclear. Let me try again. > I > >have not modified the mysql-server.sh script in

how to find files less than a day old?

Hello, I'm trying to write a script to concatenate a bunch of files. Basically I want to grab a bunch of files out of a directory that are less than an hour or so old and put them in one file. This is what I am using so far: find . -mtime -1 -type f | xargs cat > temp.txt However, this only gra

Re: how to find files less than a day old?

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:02:37 -0600 (CST), Brian John > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to write a script to concatenate a bunch of files. Basically I > > want to grab a bunch of files out of a directory that are less than an > >

Re: how to find files less than a day old?

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:11:45 -0600 (CST), Brian John > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:02:37 -0600 (CST), Brian John > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to write a script to c

Re: hyper threading.

knew it 20 years ago. When I designed the Specialix SI serial boards (for 286/386 Xenix boxes) they had interrupt throttling built in (circa 1986/7). John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

How do I kill the console? (or how to make nullconsole work)

e no messages!) If I set console="nullconsole" the system doesn't boot and again I can't see why. Does anybody have any wisdom on how to get nullconsole to work? John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: how to find files less than a day old?

> > > > FreeBSD box that I am connected to. I think it may be a Solaris 9 box. > > > > Is there any way to get this to work in Solaris? > > > > > > > > > > Maybe the solaris find command supports the -newer option. I think > > > -newer is more widely supported, and likely to be available on > > >

Re: syslog/postfix question

a different box - hopefully a secure one - so you have a record of attacks against the other boxes. Downside: log packets are unencrypted UDP so a black hat may be able to sniff them and learn about system configuration. In the end I think the upside wins. John _

just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

Hello, I just got an xDSL system. In Windows I can browse the internet and do whatever I want just fine. However, in FreeBSD the only things that work are my p2p programs. Azureus and amule work fine, they both connect and download. However, when I try to use dillo, Firefox or Thunderbird they

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2005-04-03, Brian John scribbled these > curious markings: > > Hello, I just got an xDSL system. In Windows I can browse the internet > > and do whatever I want just fine. However, in FreeBSD the only thin

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

> Brian John writes: > > > Hello, I just got an xDSL system. In Windows I can browse the internet > > and do whatever I want just fine. However, in FreeBSD the only things > > that work are my p2p programs. Azureus and amule work fine, they both > > connect and dow

RE: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

hookup. > > Post the config files you used to accomplish this. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian John > Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 4:52 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: just got DSL, can&

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:51:47 -0500 (CDT) "Brian John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I just got an xDSL system. In Windows I can browse the internet and do whatever I want just fine. However, in FreeBSD the only things that work are my p2p progra

help with pf

Hello, I read the manpage on pf and constructed a basic set of rules and macros. However, when I start pf it gives me errors about the syntax of my file. Basically all I want to accomplish is I don't want my p2p programs to be able to hog the traffic away from me if I'm trying to surf. When

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:06:16PM -0500, Brian John wrote: > > [...] > > Ok, I think you may have pointed me to the source of the problem. Here > > is what my resolv.conf looks like after every time I reboot my compuer: > > search domain.actdsltmp > > name

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

> On Apr 3, 2005 9:12 PM, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > One you've changed resolv.conf, it should stay that way permanently > > across boots, unless you change it again. > > > > > dhclient will overwrite /etc/resolv.conf on boot How can I keep dhclient from doing this? /Bri

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

> On Monday 04 April 2005 07:40 am, Brian John wrote: > > > On Apr 3, 2005 9:12 PM, Anthony Atkielski > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > One you've changed resolv.conf, it should stay that way > > > > permanently

Re: iSCSI (revisited?)

y other ideas for a disk to disk backup solution that people have used? > > Thanks, > > Justin > For disk-to-disk backup take a look at BackupPC (don't let the name fool you it supports *nix clients). The nice thing about BackupPC is it does f

Re: HZ=1000 ?

hardware available but the power company keeps pretty good time). John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

PRERELEASE?

with this version of 5.4 in order to protect against the sendfile kernel memory problem in the security notice at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:02.sendfile. asc Thanks! John Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager of Operations Black Lotus Communications [http

[no subject]

conf" system command="echo sendmail_enable="NONE" >> /etc/rc.conf" system command="passwd root" system shutdown Most of processes for sysinstall works fine except process for the lines begin with "command" does not work, I don't know why, Cou

RE:

ll like # /stand/sysinstall command="passwd root" system and it was works, but I don't know why it doesn't work with install.cfg John Meing ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: install.cfg (was RE: & No Subject)

Mike I also tried to use only following line in install.cfg (without the rc.conf lines) command="passwd root" system which should not has mismatching quote errors (and I tested with /stand/sysinstalld and it worked) but it didn't work when i put it in install.cfg :(( John Meing

Re: install.cfg (was RE: & No Subject)

Mike, Thanks alot for your suggestion, I'll try to put these lines to a shell script and try to make install.cfg run them. I'll post results soon. John Meing On Apr 8, 2005 5:55 PM, wizlayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 08 April 2005 02:31 am, John Meing wrote: &g

Re: fax4CUPS

ript file so they can be read with gv/ghostscript, (which probably came with your cups installation.) The efax/tiff file formats come out half size if a low resolution fax is received, which is corrected if postscript is used. Recommendation: YMMV, but hylafax is a bit difficult to configu

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

ic-rip" and see if there is anything in the file ending with -ijs. John BTW, this solved the same thing on my Epson Photo Stylus 780. Maybe your problem, too. -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ ___ freebsd-q

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

Lowell Gilbert wrote: "Brian John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Apr 3, 2005 9:12 PM, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One you've changed resolv.conf, it should stay that way permanently across boots, unless you change it again. d

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

Brian John wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: "Brian John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Apr 3, 2005 9:12 PM, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One you've changed resolv.conf, it should stay that way permanently across boots, unless you change it

Re: ssh dies

an attack and simply shutting down. This worm can generate a thousand or more connection attempts in a single session, so I can see how a tiny memory leak could grow into a big problem in a hurry. -- John Davis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: syslogd will be removed from freebsd???

perikillo wrote: > I found this info on www.syslog.org --> >http://www.syslog.org/Article28.phtml > >Saying that Linux and BSD variants are going to remove syslog in the next >months. > >This is true for Freebsd? > >I normally read my syslog file, but if it's true, you

lightweight bittorrent client that does queueing

Hello, I am looking for a lightweight bittorrent client that does download queueing. I know this is somewhat of a difficult thing to ask for, but I think it is possible. I've tried ctorrent, bittorrent and azureus. Obviously ctorrent and bittorrrent didn't work for me (because they don't do

Multicast and security

I need to do to make sure this can't be abused from the outside? John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCZD+TaVyA7PElsKkRAh/IAJ9H22H0QJUrt9xuO44NZrdP1jQpRwCgnV3y mxRoeFr9HTcut7AA9/OOgQs= =/EH4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___

IGMP proxy?

I'm being told by my ISP that I need an IGMP proxy to get my FreeBSD firwall to handle multicast info from their network (actually BBC radio content) - I can't find such a proxy for FreeBSD - is there one? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Mutt header arrangement

sending me the mail. I don't want to play with the mail using maildrop, I'd much rather get mutt to do it, because I often want to see the full headers of the mail. TIA, -John -- John Oxley E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +263 4 858404 ext 2017

problems with pf

Hello, I have read the manpage on pf but I am still stumped. I get some error messages when starting up that say something like 'rule expands to no possible valid combination' or something to that effect. If someone can tell me how I can find out what the error messages are when I boot I will

Re: USB2.0 External IDE connections

t; > They basically work (at least with 5.4) but there are some open bugs for failure under high load - I too switched to firewire in the end. The 1Mb/s think seems to be more a displya issue than a perfomance one becasue gstat shows about 12mb/sec for the drives I have. I

cannot start k3b

Hello, k3b stopped working on me when I upgraded my ports. This is what it says when I try to start it up: Could not start process Unknown protocol 'file'.. Could not find mime type application/octet-stream Any clue what might cause this? I'm not sure where to even start looking... Thanks! /Bri

URL on softupdates?

Is there a URL that describes how softupdates work? Thanks, John -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Freebsdi386 4.11 release failed to mountroot after make buildworld && make kerne

Error after upgrade from fresh install 4.11-release to 4.-stable It fail to mountroot : ufs:/dev/ad4s2a Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rightsreserved. Free

dumps freeze when invoked by amanda's 'sendbackup'

m are SCSI 2 50 pin format, under the control of an Adaptec 2940 controller card. So if it's not permissions, and not the drive (although I realize that I haven't really ruled either of these entirely out) t

/usr/ports/graphics/tiff build failure

Hello folks, I am attempting to build the tiff library, but am continually running into a problem. After executing `make install` from /usr/ports/graphics/tiff, the build fails. Included is the exact output of the process, as well as the 'config.log' as requested. This is a cleanly installed s

DNSBL - including descriptive text in sendmail error message

this to both -isp and -questions. Please let me know if I should not have done so. Thank you much, -John -- +---+ | John Fox | System Administrator | InfoStructure | +---

Re: picture?

usr/ports/x11/wdm/pkg-plist > > Kindly advise where the picture can be located. You will need to do a 'make extract' from /usr/ports/x11/wdm to get the distribution file and unpack it. -- John Birrell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Crystal CS423B under 5.2.1

's any consolation, the sound does not appear to work under Linux - at least, not Movix (http://movix.sourceforge.net) - either. Win2k (when I used to use it.. Eurgh) needed drivers not included in the OS. Any help really would be appreciated! The only thing I've found so far on the mail

vhosts

w ServerName www.thechocolateshack.com ServerAlias thechocolateshack.com *.thechocolateshack.com chocolateshack.com *.chocolateshack.com DocumentRoot /usr/www/thechocolateshack Thanks very much for your help, as always. ~John __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking

Re: vhosts

--- Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Peter, > John DeStefano wrote: > > >My dear, fellow BSD enthusiasts, > >I realize this is not an isolated BSD question, but I know many of > you > >use apache, and I wonder if this is a problem you might qu

no text in drscheme

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 and

Dependencies of statically linked apps (was Re: update of OpenSSL from tarball)

ity information available. If there is a central list or clearing-house of such information, where would it be? - John Mills 1884 Ridgewood Dr, NE Atlanta, GA 30307-1166 404.377.2577 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Best *nix OS for a laptop?

as a server environment, but the client asked for Linux and I have more development experience (and a good working setup) in Linux. Bottom line: I got what I needed, but my limited hardware and specific use had a lot to do with the path I took. Regards. - John Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]

installkernel signal 4 on Thinkpad 365XD

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 mak

Re: Struggling with integrated CMI8738 PCM audio device on 4.9-stable

er it'd be to find.. Try turning off ACPI from the beastie menu. I nearly tore my hair out struggling with sound before that was pointed out to me. John -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

file systems

What does the warning "file system full" mean? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

VMware3 Full Screen Panic

Greetings: I have been trying to get vmware3 to run in full-screen mode under FreeBSD 5.2.x for some time now. I have searched around for people who are having similar issues and have had no luck with the information that I have found. I have done enough testing to know that the issue is not rel

Re: ports hosed

portupgrade make install clean portinstall (any port you like) I'd recommend you try and fix whatever it is that's gone wrong with k3b though. It'll take far less time. John -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

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