Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
OK, first of all this thread is not worthwhile to people in this forum. I'm sorry for having initially added to the noise, but I do want to try to salvage something useful from this. If your request is sincere, then please hear me out. On Friday 08 October 2004 07:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/8/04 2:25:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You guys are the ones making the claims that 5.3 is going to be so great. I just wonder how you come to that conclusion if you don't have any definitive tests. I dont have a release to test, so when its done I'll test it. Why don't you download and install the latest 5.3 beta and test it? This is the only way to test 5.3, as there is no release yet. If you refuse to test it due to its beta status, then you should probably reconsider your challenges until 5.3 is stable and you can test it for yourself. If this is the case, then all you're doing now is making noise ... and, yes, trolling. - I haven't made any challanges. My point was that there are a lot of people making claims they have no ability to substantiate. And obviously I am correct. There is a major point here that you seem to miss. One of the beauties of open source is the fact that it's available for you to test, read the code, hack, patch, fold, spindle and mutilate. If you expect people to take your counterclaims seriously, then you need to do some testing of your own. If you have a point to make, then back it up with data. If you cannot do this, then don't expect people to take you seriously, especially in a forum which is meant to be for technical help. The way you have approached this subject is not constructive. We have not learned anything from this exchange. However, we may have if you had meant for your comments to be constructive. I don't think you did. But if you want, I'd be more than happy to see your comparisons if you're willing to deal with this in a way which would benefit all parties concerned, by testing both systems, as thoroughly as you want. I'm quite interested in how the two systems size up. The more people that test it, the better. A guess a troll is anyone who questiong the powers that be. Must be a bunch of communists running the show here. That's ridiculous and it's not necessary. - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SSH and one time passwords
Hi - I've implemented S/Key on my 5.2.1 system. It works well with telnet, but ssh just bypasses the whole thing and accepts the Unix password. How can I get ssh to recognize and use S/Key auth? I don't see any entry in sshd_config nor in the handbook. Any help appreciated as always... Thanks _ Get ready for school! Find articles, homework help and more in the Back to School Guide! http://special.msn.com/network/04backtoschool.armx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Disk failure
Dean Hollister wrote: Yep, the kernel reports it cannot read a couple sectors at bootup. Is it just a case of fdisk'ing/label'ing the new drive with a standard MBR, setting up the filesystems and copying to them. Then the new drive should just boot normally? Pretty much, i've done it a few times and never had a problem, tis also a good time to make any changes to your partiton structure :) Remember to make any changes to the fstab that might need doing like moved partitions or differing device names! Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect
Dear All, I searched the web, archives and asked in some mailing lists with no satisfactory solution. The situation is an Thinkpad T42 with a 60GB harddisk, XP as well preinstalled as a service partition. Repartitioning was unproblematic. If I try to install any of the 5.x branch on t a free primary partition I get a warning in sysinstall that a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. This is covered largely on the net with no clear cut solution. It seems to be related with FBSD and (relatively) large harddisks independent from multi- or single boot systems. If I try to install a 4.x branch release (4.9/4.10) no warning will be displayed. Someone remarked that this has not necessarily to be good luck, but may also destroy my partition. Could anyone shed further light on this situation and provide a guiding line how to get FBSD installed without destroying other OSs? Quite a long questions for a list like this. Thanks in advance for any support Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome Package
I've been getting my feet wet with FreeBSD. I have a package/ports question that I'm hoping someone can shed some light on. I think the question belongs here rather than on a Gnome list, because it's related to the various types of installations available to FreeBSD, but if I should go over to a Gnome list, please let me know. I've done the installation several times in different ways, beginning with installing everything from a CD I burned from an ISO image (4.9, because I can't get past the boot on later versions, which is a different issue). When I installed Gnome directly from /stand/sysinstall, either from the disk or via FTP, it went relatively quickly. More recently, I decided to look at getting a completely (?) current installation. This is a sandbox system, so I did a minimal installation from formatting the drive on up using FTP as a source, then installed and ran cvsup (without gui) with ports-all configuration. Then I installed portupgrade, did a pkgdb -F, and then ran portupgrade -Pra. I installed XFree86 using pkg_add -r XFree86 and it took a little longer than when I had installed if from sysinstall, but it didn't seem like a lot. Then I executed pkg_add -r gnome2. 24 hours later, it's still running. I'm not super-concerned, but I'm trying to understand what the differences are between the original, from the CD, installation and this one. It's a slow machine (300MHz Pentium 2) so I don't expect stellar performance, but it seems rather long. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect
Thomas Beer wrote: I searched the web, archives and asked in some mailing lists with no satisfactory solution. The situation is an Thinkpad T42 with a 60GB harddisk, XP as well preinstalled as a service partition. Repartitioning was unproblematic. If I try to install any of the 5.x branch on t a free primary partition I get a warning in sysinstall that a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. If the installer sees your existing XP and manufacturer service partitions, and they seem OK in terms of size, most likely everything is fine and you can ignore the warning about the geometry being incorrect. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perl and OpenWebMail question...
hi, to resolv type: # use.perl port The OS will use perl 5.8 regards Bilouro ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of NetAdmin Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 10:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? dang, how long is this thread gonna go on? As long as you keep posting to it. Is it that important? Obviously to you it is or you wouldn't have posted. Silence speaks volumes. And learn to trim your attribution list, please. Ted ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome Package
Hello On Saturday 09 October 2004 03:50, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I installed XFree86 using pkg_add -r XFree86 and it took a little longer than when I had installed if from sysinstall, but it didn't seem like a lot. Then I executed pkg_add -r gnome2 I have not had much luck installing large collections of packages with the pkg_add -r. Unless I am using a ports tree that was included in an official release the resulting installation is out of sync. with my ports tree. I have much better results using portsupgrade. Portupgrade derives the package version from the port collection while pkg_add -r seem to download the package from the lastest release. Since you have just cvsup the most recent ports tree the packages you are installing may not be the same version as what you have in you ports tree. Run portsversion -v | less to verify the package you are installing are in sync. with your ports. I am not sure why it is taking so long to install your ports. Do you have a fast internet connection? When installing binary packages your internet connection is going to be what dictates the speed of the install not your processor. The task is not processor intensive. 24 hours later, it's still running. I'm not super-concerned, but I'm trying to understand what the differences are between the original, from the CD, installation and this one. It's a slow machine (300MHz Pentium 2) so I don't expect stellar performance, but it seems rather long. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SOLVED] Re: NFS locking issues = rpc.lockd: 100024 RPC: Port mapper failure
* Joan Picanyol [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040930 19:22]: For some unknow cause my 5.3-BETA6 workstation (calvin) cannot lock files over my NFS mounts to my 4.10 server (grummit). I've been all afternoon trying to sort it out with no luck. My loopback interface was not being started. tks -- pica ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible?
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 09:20:37PM -, Hugo Silva wrote: I really need to get Age of Empires II - The Conquerors Expansion working on my (only workstation) FreeBSD box. I don't have windows anymore and I'll not switch back to be able to play, but I'd like to know if it is possible at all to run the game on BSD. Perhaps winex ? I heard it is compiling OK now with several patches.. Also read people could run Diablo II and WarCraft III, so perhaps it's possible to play AoE with winex. Where can I get a working winex version for FreeBSD? (5.2.1-RELEASE) If any of you could make this game run on FreeBSD, I'd love to know how it was achieved. Hi Hugo, I'm guessing your new to FreeBSD. FreeBSD works with a port system. This can be compaired with the Debian apt-get. You can find more information about this in the handbook that you can find at www.freebsd.org/handbook. As to you're question. I didn't find these games in the ports. If these games exist for linux then you can rum them on FreeBSD by enable the linux support. You could also install wine (although you may need a windows partion for this) or vmware (you _don't_ need a windows partion for this). These are in the ports. You can install these by: cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine; make install make clean cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3; make install make clean -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect
If the installer sees your existing XP and manufacturer service partitions, and they seem OK in terms of size, most likely everything is fine and you can ignore the warning about the geometry being incorrect. What seems strange between 4.x and 5.x in the fdisk partition table is, after deleting the slice yet to install FBSD and create a FBSD slice 4.x simple deletes and creates the slice, 5.x adds an additional unused slice. Cheers Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Disk failure
Mike Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dean Hollister wrote: Yep, the kernel reports it cannot read a couple sectors at bootup. Is it just a case of fdisk'ing/label'ing the new drive with a standard MBR, setting up the filesystems and copying to them. Then the new drive should just boot normally? Pretty much, i've done it a few times and never had a problem, tis also a good time to make any changes to your partiton structure :) Remember to make any changes to the fstab that might need doing like moved partitions or differing device names! It's also worth pointing out that you really want to do the copy with dump(8) and restore(8) to get file flags and special files copied properly... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't compile wine port
Alexandr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cvsuped ports tree and do this: cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine make install and get in end this message: ../.././..//gcc-3.4-20040827/libiberty/fibheap.c:395: warning: implicit +declaration of function `memset' gmake[2]: *** [fibheap.o] 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory +`/usr/ports/lang/gcc34/work/build/i386-portbld-freebsd5.2.1/libiberty' gmake[1]: *** [all-target-libiberty] 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc34/work/build' gmake: *** [bootstrap-lean] 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gcc34. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/wine. This I get when type some 'make'. What can I do??? It looks like you're running 5.2.1. Are you using the ports that came with that release, or something more current? If you are in fact running FreeBSD 5.2.1, you should be able to edit the file /usr/ports/emulators/wine/Makefile and remove the USE_GCC line. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect
Hmm. If this unused slice is very tiny (less than 1% of the total capacity), it may be the remainder of the disk which unused due to the way the partition table values get rounded. I suppose I've gotten used to only being able to fit 80 or so real megabytes onto a 100MB drive due to this and that (1.0e6 MB versus 1.05e6 MiB, newfs' reserved space, etc)... Its 63 bytes. But why is there another boot slice created under 5.x and not under 4.x? Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Parental Controls
I'm looking for some type of parental control that would allow easy screening of e-mail coming in and out for my kids. I'm thinking of something where all inbound and outbound communications would need to be approved before being sent. Maybe it could be as easy as having postfix deliver me a copy of what they're sending. From what I've seen, this is a question that tends to drift off topic quickly. Please only technical replies, no philosophical, first amendment, parenting type replies. Thanks, Joe. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
In a message dated 10/9/04 1:15:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dang, how long is this thread gonna go on? Is it that important? I see a lot of good questions and equally good answers on this list, but I think this particular thread is starting to stoop beneath us all... Do you really read every thread? There are 100s of threads on here, many of them of no use, so why do you read them if you're not curious about it? It seems the most important question one could ask about FreeBSD is whether you should run 4.x or 5.x, and they always tell you to run 5.x because it suits the needs of Windbag River for guinea pigs. As long as you know you're a guinea pig, then you have your answer. I thought it was worth noting for the masses who unwittingly believe that a higher number release means better performance by default. Note that it also took quite a bit a beating to get them to admit that 1) They dont know the answer to the Subject or 2) Yahoo runs something quite different than what is available generally since they've substantially modified it. I yield the floor to the fat man in the toupee. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Parental Controls
There is a sendmail milter that copies all in and out mail to a file which you can of course later review. I would recommend against moderating/approving. You want your monitoring to be as unobtrusive as possible so the kids aren't encouraged to get hotmail or yahoo e-mail accounts and access them from a webinterface at the library, etc. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joe Kraft Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Parental Controls I'm looking for some type of parental control that would allow easy screening of e-mail coming in and out for my kids. I'm thinking of something where all inbound and outbound communications would need to be approved before being sent. Maybe it could be as easy as having postfix deliver me a copy of what they're sending. From what I've seen, this is a question that tends to drift off topic quickly. Please only technical replies, no philosophical, first amendment, parenting type replies. Thanks, Joe. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome Package
Well, it's a cable connection that doesn't seem to be having any difficulty. It does seem to be compiling a lot, which surprised me. From what you said, is the next step to do a portupgrade -Pra, again (with the portinstall option when, as I'm sure will happen, I do another start from scratch)? Thanks, Bill Aaron Siegel wrote: Hello On Saturday 09 October 2004 03:50, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I installed XFree86 using pkg_add -r XFree86 and it took a little longer than when I had installed if from sysinstall, but it didn't seem like a lot. Then I executed pkg_add -r gnome2 I have not had much luck installing large collections of packages with the pkg_add -r. Unless I am using a ports tree that was included in an official release the resulting installation is out of sync. with my ports tree. I have much better results using portsupgrade. Portupgrade derives the package version from the port collection while pkg_add -r seem to download the package from the lastest release. Since you have just cvsup the most recent ports tree the packages you are installing may not be the same version as what you have in you ports tree. Run portsversion -v | less to verify the package you are installing are in sync. with your ports. I am not sure why it is taking so long to install your ports. Do you have a fast internet connection? When installing binary packages your internet connection is going to be what dictates the speed of the install not your processor. The task is not processor intensive. 24 hours later, it's still running. I'm not super-concerned, but I'm trying to understand what the differences are between the original, from the CD, installation and this one. It's a slow machine (300MHz Pentium 2) so I don't expect stellar performance, but it seems rather long. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list [2]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [3][EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list [5]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [6][EMAIL PROTECTED] References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 3. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 6. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
In a message dated 10/9/04 12:56:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just hope that pounding packets through a socket and timing mySQL selects aren't the entirety of OUR team's arsenal. And it's not just this sentence although this is one of the most blatent. You are using verbage and terminology that clearly sets you in opposition to the rest of us, users and developers, of FreeBSD. If this isn't a challenge you don't know the meaning of the word. Maybe you think its a challenge because the words have teeth? Who is the rest of us in your estimation? Those under the thumb of wind river, or those of us trying to run small business who would prefer not to be bamboozled into using something new because you need free testers for your code? I monitored this list for months,and I never once heard any one of you tell anyone that 4.x was a better choice if running your business with the most efficient current solution was your goal. You don't care about the freeBSD community, you care about your own agenda, whoever you are. If you're not going to be honest with the community, then there's going to be a separation of you with the agenda and us with the need for honest answers to our questions so that we can run our businesses effectively. I love freeBSD. I have the skills to get my own answers as to the suitability of one OS or one version to another. Most people on this list don't. So don't steer them to 5.x when you know its not yet ready for prime time, because people rely on you to give good, honest answers in order to earn a living. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wiki on FreeBSD
In a previous post under a phpwiki subject thread, I claimed to have successfully installed phpwiki. I lied. Although I did install it and can edit pages from my laptop, I cannot edit pages from any other machine, including the server I installed it on; I am asked to login with a username and password. This may have something to do with the note the Richard Lynch wrote, but as I am not literate in php, I don't know where to begin to solve this problem. I started down this route as I was successful in installing phpwiki on my Mac OS X laptop. So I gave up on phpwiki and tried kwiki instead. It was advertized as 'easy to install'. Indeed it was. I installed it but cannot get it to work. I can access the .cgi pages but they give me the text and do not run the program. The instructions must assume some step that I have not taken. I am looking for an easy to install wiki that an apache/perl/php/whatever novice like me can install without getting a migrane. Any suggestions? Alan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Planning a Upgrade (5.2.1 -- 5.3)
Hi! Do you know of any utilities that I can use to read through my existing /etc/master.passwd file and dump usernames and plain text passwords to a file? You don't need to get the plain text passwords. It's sufficient to get the password hashes as they are in master.passwd, because when you move them to the new system they still represent the same passwords. The way I would proceed in your situation is this: Open the files /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group in text editor and look for non-system users/groups (the ones you've added yourself). Copy over the relevant lines to backup files in secure location. Of course, make sure to not change the original files. Once you have 5.3 installed, open /etc/group in text editor and add the lines you saved from your original /etc/group. Do not modify the lines representing system groups. Then issue the command 'vipw'. This opens your master.passwd file in vi, so you better know how to use vi ;-). Go to end of file and paste the lines that you saved from your original master.passwd. Exit, saving the changes. Make sure that the home directories specified in your newly-added lines exist. This should be it. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * No, `Eureka' is Greek for `This bath is too hot.' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multi-Booting With Windows XP Pro
Deoes anyone have any experience getting FreeBSD to multi-boot with Windows XP Pro? Am using XP Pro SP2 and FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. I installed the boot manager but everytime I reboot it boots straight to XP. Any help would be appreciated. Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Disk failure
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 04:07:27PM -0600, Dean Hollister wrote: Dear All, A quick question, and I've searched the FAQ/Handbook to no avail... One of the machines I maintain has developed bad sectors on it's /usr filesystem. I can mount the filesystem R/O, so is it possible to install a new drive, partition it in an identical fashion to the faulty drive and copy the filesystems across to the new drive and then boot from the new drive? Is there a walkthrough on the best way to do this? This sounds like what you're looking for: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK I've never done this but it seems to be the traditional recommendation for this sort of thing. Regards, d. -- Danny ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multi-Booting With Windows XP Pro
there's a section in the handbook about booting. try using a boot.flp or fixit.flp to boot and then run `fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0` i think...check the handbook to be sure. that should rewrite the MBR and give you fbsd's boot manager On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 14:04:53 -0400, Bryan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deoes anyone have any experience getting FreeBSD to multi-boot with Windows XP Pro? Am using XP Pro SP2 and FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. I installed the boot manager but everytime I reboot it boots straight to XP. Any help would be appreciated. Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? In a message dated 10/9/04 12:56:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just hope that pounding packets through a socket and timing mySQL selects aren't the entirety of OUR team's arsenal. And it's not just this sentence although this is one of the most blatent. You are using verbage and terminology that clearly sets you in opposition to the rest of us, users and developers, of FreeBSD. If this isn't a challenge you don't know the meaning of the word. Maybe you think its a challenge because the words have teeth? Who is the rest of us in your estimation? Anyone who uses FreeBSD. Anyone who contributes to FreeBSD obviously has to use it. And, even people standing on the street and throwing rocks - if they are doing it with knowledge, such as pointing out SPECIFIC issues - they are contributing to FreeBSD. Someone standing out on the sidewalk who has never run a FreeBSD release and knows little about it, who wants to throw rocks, he's not contributing. Those under the thumb of wind river, or those of us trying to run small business who would prefer not to be bamboozled into using something new because you need free testers for your code? Nobody is forcing anyone to use any new FreeBSD. You can use FreeBSD 3.X or FreeBSD 2.X or even FreeBSD 1.X if you can find it, that is. Many people have CD's of the old FreeBSD versions who will make them available on the Internet. You want to run FreeBSD 1.1.5.1? I have it on a QIC tape somewhere if you really want to. I monitored this list for months,and I never once heard any one of you tell anyone that 4.x was a better choice if running your business with the most efficient current solution was your goal. Why should we? The instructions that tell you to use FreeBSD 4.X are right in the release itself! Haven't you seen this web page: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/early-adopter.html I quote: the Release Engineering Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] specifically discourages users from updating from older FreeBSD releases to 5.2.1-RELEASE These instructions are in every FreeBSD 5.X CD. Why are you blaming us if you cannot be bothered to read instructions? You don't care about the freeBSD community, you care about your own agenda, whoever you are. If you're not going to be honest with the community, then there's going to be a separation of you with the agenda and us with the need for honest answers to our questions so that we can run our businesses effectively. OK so now your trying to say there's an us out there on the sidewalk throwing rocks with you. I got news for you, there ain't no us out there. There's just you I won't deny that some perhaps less-experienced FreeBSD users that are on the list are coming at it from the Microsoft mentality that everything older than 3 months is crap, and we all gotta run out there and buy the latest version of Windows/Office/Crapola software that is on sale. But nobody with any real experience who has been working with FreeBSD for any length of time will tell you to ashcan all your FreeBSD 4.X servers and go to 5.X immediately. They might tell you to not run FreeBSD 3.X - if you haven't installed all the security patches, of which there are an enormous number now. But there is no reason to abandon an older FreeBSD 4.X server if it is working fine for you, as long as you keep whatever portions of it are exposed to the Internet, patched with current patches. I love freeBSD. I have the skills to get my own answers as to the suitability of one OS or one version to another. Most people on this list don't. So don't steer them to 5.x when you know its not yet ready for prime time, because people rely on you to give good, honest answers in order to earn a living. I don't blindly steer people to FreeBSD 5.X In fact, officially I say the following on my website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com/faq/verstouse.html If someone on-list or via private e-mail asks me about going to 5.X I will ask them what their needs are and base my reply on that. If they tell me they are a small business that needs ONE server and has an extra PC I will tell them to use 4.X - my book is aimed at that group. If they are a medium sized business that has 10 or so servers I will tell them to use 4.X for their most critical stuff but that they need to start using 5.X on some of their stuff to get up to speed on it. And if they are a Yahoo-sized business with programmers on staff specifically tasked to optimize whatever OS they are running I will tell them they need to be running all 5.X and they need to be working closely with the development team members, not me. And there are mailing lists specifically for that group. FreeBSD 5.X ain't
NFS(d)
I was attempting to setup NFS between my usermachine (nfs-client) and emailserver (nfs-server) using the instructions from the FreeBSD Handbook (section 19.5). Both machines are on my LAN. I wanted to have my users be able to get their email straight from the /var/mail directory via NFS, as opposed to having it fetched remotely via PINE. Everything runs great, EXCEPT... When I goto look at the /var/mail directory on the usermachine I get this listing. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])-# ls -l /var/mail total 584 -rw-rw 1 apticlemail 0 Oct 9 01:33 .apticle.pop -rw-rw 1 1003 mail 0 Oct 9 12:25 .cyberjedi.pop -rw-rw 1 stunnelmail 0 Oct 8 17:21 .jisaac.pop -rw-rw 1 cyberjedi mail 0 Oct 9 14:24 .michaela.pop -rw-rw 1 michaela mail 0 Oct 8 07:42 .sysadmin.pop -rw-rw 1 apticlemail 0 Oct 9 01:33 apticle -rw-rw 1 astronut mail 0 Sep 4 14:34 astronut -rw-rw 1 mtanakimail 3256 Sep 16 11:02 babyboy -rw--- 1 106106 0 Sep 5 01:07 clamav -rw-rw 1 babyboymail 0 Sep 4 14:35 cpu -rw-rw 1 1003 mail 0 Oct 9 12:37 cyberjedi -rw-rw 1 sysadmin mail 0 Sep 4 22:26 donations -rw-rw 1 stunnelmail 0 Oct 8 17:21 jisaac -rw-rw 1 cyberjedi mail 0 Oct 9 14:24 michaela -rw-rw 1 clamav mail 380174 Oct 5 11:19 michaeljr -rw-rw 1 goose mail 0 Sep 4 14:36 mtanaki -rw--- 1 70 700 Sep 12 14:03 pgsql -rw--- 1 root wheel162836 Oct 9 04:19 root -rw--- 1 cpustunnel 0 Sep 8 16:21 stunnel -rw-rw 1 michaela wheel 18523 Oct 9 06:00 sysadmin -rw-rw 1 trivashmail 0 Sep 4 14:38 trivash ([EMAIL PROTECTED])-# Notice how the OWNERS and GROUPS of certain users (entries) don't belong to the proper owners. This causes, PERMISSION DENIED errors while trying to read email in PINE because the mailbox isn't 'owned' by the specific user. The /var/mail directory on my usermachine (nfs-client) is the same as on the emailserver (nfs-server). However, when running NFS the filepermissions change the /var/mail directory on the userserver (nfs-client). I have the option -maproot=root in my /etc/exports file on the emailserver (nfs-server). Any idea to what might be causing this, and how I would resolve it??? I was thinking that even though I have the SAME users on each box, the UIDs are DIFFERENT on the two machines. Could that be it? Thanks in advance Michael ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multi-Booting With Windows XP Pro
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 14:04:53 -0400 From: Bryan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Multi-Booting With Windows XP Pro Deoes anyone have any experience getting FreeBSD to multi-boot with Windows XP Pro? Am using XP Pro SP2 and FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. I installed the boot manager but everytime I reboot it boots straight to XP. Any help would be appreciated. Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] GRUB works for me with 5.2.1 and XP Home. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAID 1 in HP NetServer LC 2000
Am Freitag, 8. Oktober 2004 15:47 schrieb Muhammad Reza: Dear All, Howto setup RAID 1 in HP NetServer LC 2000 ? I have 2 Seagate HDD that want to be mirror 1:1, Can i do that from Symbios software or tool from my FreeBSD 4.10 ? With 4.10 you have the choice of vinum and ccd, in 5.3 you also have gmirror for RAID1. See the man pages for details, ccd is quiet easy, vinum is a bit more complex but more flexible too. -Harry regards reza ---snip--- sym0: 896 port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xfd00-0xfd001fff,0xfd002000-0xfd0023ff irq 11 at device 6.0 on pci3 sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware. sym0: handling phase mismatch from SCRIPTS. sym1: 896 port 0x2400-0x24ff mem 0xfd004000-0xfd005fff,0xfd002400-0xfd0027ff irq 5 at device 6.1 on pci3 sym1: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking sym1: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM sym1: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware. sym1: handling phase mismatch from SCRIPTS. ---snap--- .. .. --snip-- da0 at sym1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: SEAGATE ST318405LW 5063 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 17501MB (35843670 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2231C) da1 at sym1 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: SEAGATE ST318405LW 5063 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 17501MB (35843670 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2231C) ---snap--- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpHdMlgIzhgY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NFS(d)
Am Samstag, 9. Oktober 2004 20:41 schrieb michaela: I was attempting to setup NFS between my usermachine (nfs-client) and emailserver (nfs-server) using the instructions from the FreeBSD Handbook (section 19.5). Both machines are on my LAN. I wanted to have my users be able to get their email straight from the /var/mail directory via NFS, as opposed to having it fetched remotely via PINE. Everything runs great, EXCEPT... When I goto look at the /var/mail directory on the usermachine I get this listing. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])-# ls -l /var/mail total 584 -rw-rw 1 apticlemail 0 Oct 9 01:33 .apticle.pop -rw-rw 1 1003 mail 0 Oct 9 12:25 .cyberjedi.pop -rw-rw 1 stunnelmail 0 Oct 8 17:21 .jisaac.pop -rw-rw 1 cyberjedi mail 0 Oct 9 14:24 .michaela.pop -rw-rw 1 michaela mail 0 Oct 8 07:42 .sysadmin.pop -rw-rw 1 apticlemail 0 Oct 9 01:33 apticle -rw-rw 1 astronut mail 0 Sep 4 14:34 astronut -rw-rw 1 mtanakimail 3256 Sep 16 11:02 babyboy -rw--- 1 106106 0 Sep 5 01:07 clamav -rw-rw 1 babyboymail 0 Sep 4 14:35 cpu -rw-rw 1 1003 mail 0 Oct 9 12:37 cyberjedi -rw-rw 1 sysadmin mail 0 Sep 4 22:26 donations -rw-rw 1 stunnelmail 0 Oct 8 17:21 jisaac -rw-rw 1 cyberjedi mail 0 Oct 9 14:24 michaela -rw-rw 1 clamav mail 380174 Oct 5 11:19 michaeljr -rw-rw 1 goose mail 0 Sep 4 14:36 mtanaki -rw--- 1 70 700 Sep 12 14:03 pgsql -rw--- 1 root wheel162836 Oct 9 04:19 root -rw--- 1 cpustunnel 0 Sep 8 16:21 stunnel -rw-rw 1 michaela wheel 18523 Oct 9 06:00 sysadmin -rw-rw 1 trivashmail 0 Sep 4 14:38 trivash ([EMAIL PROTECTED])-# Notice how the OWNERS and GROUPS of certain users (entries) don't belong to the proper owners. This causes, PERMISSION DENIED errors while trying to read email in PINE because the mailbox isn't 'owned' by the specific user. The /var/mail directory on my usermachine (nfs-client) is the same as on the emailserver (nfs-server). However, when running NFS the filepermissions change the /var/mail directory on the userserver (nfs-client). I have the option -maproot=root in my /etc/exports file on the emailserver (nfs-server). Any idea to what might be causing this, and how I would resolve it??? I was thinking that even though I have the SAME users on each box, the UIDs are DIFFERENT on the two machines. Could that be it? Right, only UID counts. You want to think about yp/nis or a LDAP user database! But you have to synchronize UIDs and GIDs to make NFS useful. -Harry Thanks in advance Michael ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpI3VbRW0iP3.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that it also took quite a bit a beating to get them to admit that 1) They dont know the answer to the Subject or 2) Yahoo runs something quite different than what is available generally since they've substantially modified it. No, it is just I would be surprised if they didn't. Yahoo like any large company almost certainly has patentable ideas and a crew of lawyers reviewing everything. I would also expect they have a patent portfolio. Otherwise nothing would prevent some competitor ripping off their ideas and setting up a duplicate yahoo website. I would guess - since it is usual for this in most large companies - that some of these ideas are implemented in the FreeBSD they run. I don't work at Yahoo so I can freely speculate. And my speculations are founded on what is normal and usual for most larger companies. Nobody that works at Yahoo and actually knows the truth would be able to even speak hypothetically about what runs at Yahoo, as they would almost certaily be under an NDA. (something that is also normal and usual for most large companies) Ted ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Multi-Booting With Windows XP Pro
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 14:04:53 -0400, Bryan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deoes anyone have any experience getting FreeBSD to multi-boot with Windows XP Pro? Am using XP Pro SP2 and FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. I installed the boot manager but everytime I reboot it boots straight to XP. Any help would be appreciated. Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yep, Don't use the boot manager from FreeBSD. IMHO, I've had less problems by copying BOOTSECT.BSD to C:\ and modifying your boot.ini file in Windows. Search google. I've just tried, and I pulled these results. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=enq=windows+xp+freebsd+dual+boot+bootsect.bsdspell=1 Hope this helps, David ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 01:07:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/9/04 12:56:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just hope that pounding packets through a socket and timing mySQL selects aren't the entirety of OUR team's arsenal. And it's not just this sentence although this is one of the most blatent. You are using verbage and terminology that clearly sets you in opposition to the rest of us, users and developers, of FreeBSD. If this isn't a challenge you don't know the meaning of the word. Maybe you think its a challenge because the words have teeth? Who is the rest of us in your estimation? Those under the thumb of wind river, or those of us trying to run small business who would prefer ^^ *laughs* Come and join us in 2004 sometime, you might like it here. Kris pgpckVZwCXEDd.pgp Description: PGP signature
cannot install freebsd
while i am trying to install freebsd 5.2.1 i get and error: something about video card timing 10.000msec panic:ohci_add_done: addr 0x4000 not found cpuid = 0; i have searched most of the freebsd handbook, any forum i could find, and talking to a firend i can find NOTHING about this. apparently i'm the only newbie to ever have this problem. i thought it was my keyboard and mouse being usb, so i tried ps/2 ones. the only difference is one it hits that error it actually reboots in 15sec like it says. i believe that the problem is with the default smp kernel, or my motherboard. - i have a gigabyte 7dpxdw-p motherboard 2 gig of ecc mem gigabyte nvidia 5700 no modem no extra nic card no extra monitor - coud you plz help thanks draejin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS(d)
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 08:41, michaela wrote: Notice how the OWNERS and GROUPS of certain users (entries) don't belong to the proper owners. This causes, PERMISSION DENIED errors while trying to read email in PINE because the mailbox isn't 'owned' by the specific user. The /var/mail directory on my usermachine (nfs-client) is the same as on the emailserver (nfs-server). However, when running NFS the filepermissions change the /var/mail directory on the userserver (nfs-client). I have the option -maproot=root in my /etc/exports file on the emailserver (nfs-server). This only affects root. For security reasons, by default, root is not allowed to map to root across NFS. Only allow it when you know your LAN is well secured. Any idea to what might be causing this, and how I would resolve it??? I was thinking that even though I have the SAME users on each box, the UIDs are DIFFERENT on the two machines. Could that be it? Yes, that is the problem. On my three box network I solve it by creating all accounts on a single box, then using rsync to distribute. There are three password files and the /etc/group file to keep in sync. I can't recall the names of all three password files, I think it's /etc/passwd, /etc/passwd.master, and /etc/passwd.db. You'll find them. -- Gary Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Honolulu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
stdout/stderr/???
I have a situation where NIC code printf's out stuff. I'd *LIKE* to collect that output. Under Linux, I'd use 21 I read somewhere that under FreeBSD, I could do: (xxx log.out) log.err This works fine for xxx == make buildkernel If fails miserably for xxx == ifconfig, however. I can sorta get what I want by starting X-Windows, and using a terminal/shell to do the command. Then the messages I desire to log are A) suppressed from by shell (which is BAD) but B) logged into /var/log/messages (which is close enough to what I want) Alas, the real problem comes when my driver code sends the machine into an infinite loop, spewing out messages so fast I can't even read them, and the only way out is to forcibly power-off the laptop by removing battery and power cord. Upon re-boot, the additions I would expect in /var/log/messages (or the bziped older logs) do not contain the messages I need to see. I have also tried: ktrace xxx Again, for the case where the machine is not in an infinite loop, it works real nifty; But when I'm forced to chop power, I get nothing. Is there something that will: A) copy (or re-direct) all output somewhere, *AND* B) force it to be synchronous and unbuffered and whatever else has to occur to get the file to be saved? Any other suggestions for how to get this process to not lock up the machine? control-C ineffective CTRL-ALT-F2 followed by CTRL-ALT-DELETE can sometimes get me to another tty, but that tty does not accept input H. Perhaps I should try to cron a killall ifconfig for shortly after the command I'm about to type... Or something like: ifconfig ...; sleep 3; killall ifconfig Any other ideas? Please cc me, I'm so far behind on reading -questions that I've unsubscribed until I catch up... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD Release Question
Hi, We are starting development on a new project that would go production in the fall of 2005. I have been evaluating Release 4.x and 5.x branches for the suitability. Our target platform is AMD64 and AMD32 uni-processor systems. We like most of 5.x features except for its performance and conerns about the availability of a STABLE version in our time window, and I would like your opinion to choose the right FreeBSD version tree to start the development right now. BTW, we dont have any plans to run on SMP architecture, our target platform will always be uni-processor based. Questions are, 1. By Sep 2005, do you think 5.x performance will be optimized and be comparable to today's 4.x stable versions ? 2. By Sep 2005, do you think 5.x will be as stable as today's 4.x released versions ? 3. What is the most architecturally optimized FreeBSD version if he primary application is network services, IP forwarding and various TCP/UDP services ? 4. What is the most architecturally optimized FreeBSD version if he primary application is network services, IP forwarding and various TCP/UDP services ? Thanks in advance. Bala ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mondo rescue
Has anyone gotten mondo rescue to work with freebsd? I am lost please any info would be welcome. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Release Question
Balakumar Velmurugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We are starting development on a new project that would go production in the fall of 2005. I have been evaluating Release 4.x and 5.x branches for the suitability. Our target platform is AMD64 and AMD32 uni-processor systems. We like most of 5.x features except for its performance and conerns about the availability of a STABLE version in our time window, and I would like your opinion to choose the right FreeBSD version tree to start the development right now. BTW, we dont have any plans to run on SMP architecture, our target platform will always be uni-processor based. Questions are, 1. By Sep 2005, do you think 5.x performance will be optimized and be comparable to today's 4.x stable versions ? 5.3 is supposed to be stable, and it's expected to be on part with 4.x performance, and it's supposed to release before the end of the month. From what I've seen and heard, it looks like all that is going to happen. 2. By Sep 2005, do you think 5.x will be as stable as today's 4.x released versions ? Yes. 3. What is the most architecturally optimized FreeBSD version if he primary application is network services, IP forwarding and various TCP/UDP services ? 5 and 4 will probably be about the same come next year. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you know how to install ports? (like vmware3)
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:09:21PM +0530, Subhro wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:03:15 -0400, bsdfsse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, I have been trying to install the vmware3 port - and I find all kinds of tidbits all over the web about little things that need to be done to get it to work. The information sometimes covers version 2.0, sometimes 3.2, and sometimes 4.5. If someone just goes in to /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3 and does a make install, how would they know what else to do? The best part of the FreeBSD port collection is, you dont need to know what else to do. The port tree is designed in such a way that if you try to install a particular port, then the system would fetch all the dependancies automatically unless you specifically ask it not to do so. Just go through the vmware manual to get an idea about how to configure vmware. You need not worry about the installation. To get apps to work you sometimes most do some configuration. Apache, php, samba, ect. are all examples of this. Usaly its all about editing one or more configuration files in /usr/local/etc/ and some times /etc/ and getting startup scripts to work at /usr/local/ect/rc.d/. Vmware is a exception to this in my book. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pccard is started every other time
Hello anyone have any experience configuring pccards? Ive installed my favourite os (version 4.10) on my laptop but my pccard is only ever initialized and started on every other boot meaning that every second time to get it going I eject the card and reinsert it and it comes up. Is there a trick to getting it up every time on boot? Kind Regards, Andrew Firestone --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.771 / Virus Database: 518 - Release Date: 28/09/2004 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE 3.3 upgrade and Sound
Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:14:49AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:06:37PM -0500, Ned Harrison wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and upgraded from KDE 3.1 to 3.3. After completing the upgrade, I found that I did not have any system sounds. Following the instuctions in the UPDATING file in /usr/ports, I removed the knotifyrc file. After logging out and back into KDE, I now have system sounds but applications like XMMS and KsCD will not produce sounds, yet they access the the CD drive and will list files correctly. I have also upgraded from XFree86 to xorg. What additional information that I could provide could help on this matter? Or am I just overlooking something in the Kcontrols? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Start KMix and change the volume levels. For some unknow reason the volume has bin set to 0% by default in the 3.3.0. Boy, you know how to make me feel dumb! ;-) Works perfectly. I had spent a couple of hours trying to figure out whether arts or some other program was blocking it. Thank you very much! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Release Question
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:07:00 -0700 Balakumar Velmurugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We are starting development on a new project that would go production in the fall of 2005. I have been evaluating Release 4.x and 5.x branches for the suitability. Our target platform is AMD64 and AMD32 uni-processor systems. We like most of 5.x features except for its performance and conerns about the availability of a STABLE version in our time window, and I would like your opinion to choose the right FreeBSD version tree to start the development right now. BTW, we dont have any plans to run on SMP architecture, our target platform will always be uni-processor based. Questions are, 1. By Sep 2005, do you think 5.x performance will be optimized and be comparable to today's 4.x stable versions ? Which did you test? Did you turn debugging and ect off? Tried 5.3beta7 yet? 2. By Sep 2005, do you think 5.x will be as stable as today's 4.x released versions ? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html 3. What is the most architecturally optimized FreeBSD version if he primary application is network services, IP forwarding and various TCP/UDP services ? 4. What is the most architecturally optimized FreeBSD version if he primary application is network services, IP forwarding and various TCP/UDP services ? Not tried forwarding yet on 5x, but for TCP/UDP services, not speed problems with them on my box. Wait a bit till 5.3 is released and then bench market it after optimizing it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pccard is started every other time
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 09:00:34 +1000, gradeAstudent.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello anyone have any experience configuring pccards? I've installed my favourite os (version 4.10) on my laptop but my pccard is only ever initialized and started on every other boot meaning that every second time to get it going I eject the card and reinsert it and it comes up. Is there a trick to getting it up every time on boot? Kind Regards, Andrew Firestone Did you turn on pnp in the bios? I could never get my pccard to work right till I did that. -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pccard is started every other time
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:09:38 -0500, terry tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 09:00:34 +1000, gradeAstudent.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello anyone have any experience configuring pccards? I've installed my favourite os (version 4.10) on my laptop but my pccard is only ever initialized and started on every other boot meaning that every second time to get it going I eject the card and reinsert it and it comes up. Is there a trick to getting it up every time on boot? Kind Regards, Andrew Firestone Did you turn on pnp in the bios? I could never get my pccard to work right till I did that. -- Terry Scratch that, meant to say off. ;P -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible?
Hi, The game isn't on ports and is available for windows only (it's a Microsoft game, figure) Vmware shouldn't run the game, plus I don't have a cdkey for it. I've tried wine and it kinda sucks on FreeBSD, I couldn't even get mIRC to run, let alone a game. My only chance seems to be winex but I don't know where to get it for free (or if it can be downloaded freely for bsd at all), and I'm not sure if it compiles OK on 5.2.1; I've heard people had some success with some patches. On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 09:20:37PM -, Hugo Silva wrote: I really need to get Age of Empires II - The Conquerors Expansion working on my (only workstation) FreeBSD box. I don't have windows anymore and I'll not switch back to be able to play, but I'd like to know if it is possible at all to run the game on BSD. Perhaps winex ? I heard it is compiling OK now with several patches.. Also read people could run Diablo II and WarCraft III, so perhaps it's possible to play AoE with winex. Where can I get a working winex version for FreeBSD? (5.2.1-RELEASE) If any of you could make this game run on FreeBSD, I'd love to know how it was achieved. Hi Hugo, I'm guessing your new to FreeBSD. FreeBSD works with a port system. This can be compaired with the Debian apt-get. You can find more information about this in the handbook that you can find at www.freebsd.org/handbook. As to you're question. I didn't find these games in the ports. If these games exist for linux then you can rum them on FreeBSD by enable the linux support. You could also install wine (although you may need a windows partion for this) or vmware (you _don't_ need a windows partion for this). These are in the ports. You can install these by: cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine; make install make clean cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3; make install make clean -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.6s-gaming.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice-1.1 Build errors
I'm attempting to build the OpenOffice-1.1 port on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. I've seen the ELF error before, notably when I try to view some PDFs it complains that type 3 is not known. The output of brandelf -l is: known ELF types are: FreeBSD(9) Linux(3) Solaris(6) SVR4(0) Anyhow, here is the output of make install clean, shortly after it begins to build project berkelydb: ** ../java/src/com/sleepycat/db/Dbt.java ELF binary type 0 not known. Abort trap *** Error code 134 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/oo_1.1.2_src/berkeleydb/unxfbsd.pro/misc/build/db-3.2.9/out. dmake: Error code 1, while making './unxfbsd.pro/misc/build/so_built_so_berkeleydb' ---* TG_SLO.MK *--- ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/oo_1.1.2_src/berkeleydb dmake: Error code 1, while making 'build_all' ---* TG_SLO.MK *--- *** Error code 255 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1. *** Please advise. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading from 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 to 5.3-BETA7
I have cvsupped my /usr/src recently and doing make buildworld fails with the below message. Please could someone help me. This is my sup file: *default host=cvsup.rucus.ru.ac.za *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all And this is the error: === games/fortune/strfile /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/src/games/fortune/strfile created for /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile rm -f .depend mkdep -f .depend -a-I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/include /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile/strfile.c echo strfile: /usr/lib/libc.a /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/lib/libegacy.a .depend cc -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/include -c /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile/strfile.c cc -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/include -static -L/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/lib -o strfile strfile.o -legacy /usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start': /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x74): undefined reference to `_init_tls' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. reknaw:/usr/src# ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Parental Controls
On Oct 9, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Joe Kraft wrote: I'm looking for some type of parental control that would allow easy screening of e-mail coming in and out for my kids. I'm thinking of something where all inbound and outbound communications would need to be approved before being sent. Maybe it could be as easy as having postfix deliver me a copy of what they're sending. From what I've seen, this is a question that tends to drift off topic quickly. Please only technical replies, no philosophical, first amendment, parenting type replies. Thanks, Joe. I know with sendmail, this is something as simple as aliasing their account. give them some arbitrary username, and alias that to their email address. alias that email address to you your account. HTH - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Wiki on FreeBSD
On Oct 9, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Alan Curtis wrote: In a previous post under a phpwiki subject thread, I claimed to have successfully installed phpwiki. I lied. Although I did install it and can edit pages from my laptop, I cannot edit pages from any other machine, including the server I installed it on; I am asked to login with a username and password. This may have something to do with the note the Richard Lynch wrote, but as I am not literate in php, I don't know where to begin to solve this problem. I started down this route as I was successful in installing phpwiki on my Mac OS X laptop. So I gave up on phpwiki and tried kwiki instead. It was advertized as 'easy to install'. Indeed it was. I installed it but cannot get it to work. I can access the .cgi pages but they give me the text and do not run the program. The instructions must assume some step that I have not taken. I am looking for an easy to install wiki that an apache/perl/php/whatever novice like me can install without getting a migrane. Any suggestions? Alan My best guess is that you failed to set the ExecCGI option for the directory in apache. If you don't do that, the server presents the file as text. HTH - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
an ASM puzzle
what do u mean by 0xf001 ,is it -1 or -4095 what is the representing way? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multi-Booting With Windows XP Pro
Deoes anyone have any experience getting FreeBSD to multi-boot with Windows XP Pro? Am using XP Pro SP2 and FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. I installed the boot manager but everytime I reboot it boots straight to XP. Any help would be appreciated. I have Xp pro and FreBSD 4.9 RELEASE running on my office desk machine. No Problem. Works fine. You need the MBR on the disk and a boot record on both slices. I am sure that the XP slice has its boot record OK because you say it is booting.\ But I would suspect that your FreeBSD slice does not. Presuming you used the sysinstall to create the disk slice and partitions probably you selected to install the MBR on that page, but forgot to mark the slice as bootable in the page where you created the slice and told it to be a FreeBSD slice.It is a little obscure if you are not looking for it. I seem to remember you have to hit an 's' to tell it to make it bootable, though I might have the character wrong. It tells you in the help menu at the bottom of that page. When the system boots, the MBR looks for bootable slices and if you did not select to make the FreeBSD slice bootable, it will ignore it and not put up a menu item for it. If there is only one bootable slice (eg your XP slice in this case) and none other, then it won't even bother putting up a boot selection menu. It will just boot in to the only slice it knows is bootable. jerry Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
han/en keys
I have a nice keyboard that I bought in korea. It has 2 extra keys for switching between korean and english(han/en and hanja). But they don't show up has events in X running xev. This there something else I need to do. I looked at the kbdmap util and didn't see anything for Korean. But I am not sure if that is even the right place to begin looking. I would eventually like to be able to type korean, but for now just getting those keys to work would be great. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stdout/stderr/???
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:53 am, Richard Lynch wrote: I have a situation where NIC code printf's out stuff. I'd *LIKE* to collect that output. Under Linux, I'd use 21 I think (hope) you mean 21 I read somewhere that under FreeBSD, I could do: (xxx log.out) log.err And here: ( xxx log.out ) log.err The difference is not Linux vs FreeBSD but a question of the shell you are using -- I assume 'bash' under Linux and 'csh' (or tcsh) under FreeBSD. You could install 'bash on FreeBSD and set this as your default shell -- or you could nominate 'sh' as your default shell which, in this respect, behaves the same as 'bash'. This works fine for xxx == make buildkernel If fails miserably for xxx == ifconfig, however. Can't see why it should work differently for 'ifconfig' unless maybe this time you have the '' in the wrong place. In any case I would not expect massive amounts of output from ifconfig. I can sorta get what I want by starting X-Windows, and using a terminal/shell to do the command. Then the messages I desire to log are A) suppressed from by shell (which is BAD) but B) logged into /var/log/messages (which is close enough to what I want) I don't understand what you are saying here. X-windows (of itself) should not process the commands differently. I suspect you have some fancy desktop program with options set that interfere. Alas, the real problem comes when my driver code sends the machine into an infinite loop, spewing out messages so fast I can't even read them, and the only way out is to forcibly power-off the laptop by removing battery and power cord. What driver code? Are you trying to write your own? for what device? An infinite loop while running or compiling the driver code? If when the driver code is installed and run then you are fiddling will kernel mode, and if you mess up all bets are off. You have tried Cntrl-Z and Cntrl-Alt-F2 ? Upon re-boot, the additions I would expect in /var/log/messages (or the bziped older logs) do not contain the messages I need to see. I have also tried: ktrace xxx Again, for the case where the machine is not in an infinite loop, it works real nifty; But when I'm forced to chop power, I get nothing. Is there something that will: A) copy (or re-direct) all output somewhere, *AND* B) force it to be synchronous and unbuffered and whatever else has to occur to get the file to be saved? Any other suggestions for how to get this process to not lock up the machine? control-C ineffective CTRL-ALT-F2 followed by CTRL-ALT-DELETE can sometimes get me to another tty, but that tty does not accept input Are you sure? The CTRL-ALT-F2 hopefully gets you a character mode tty with a login prompt. But you'll need to login to proceed. CTRL-ALT-DELETE at this stage should cause a reboot. H. Perhaps I should try to cron a killall ifconfig for shortly after the command I'm about to type... Or something like: ifconfig ...; sleep 3; killall ifconfig Any other ideas? Please cc me, I'm so far behind on reading -questions that I've unsubscribed until I catch up... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Parental Controls
Aliasing only captures incoming, not outgoing, mail. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Crist Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 6:39 PM To: Joe Kraft Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Parental Controls On Oct 9, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Joe Kraft wrote: I'm looking for some type of parental control that would allow easy screening of e-mail coming in and out for my kids. I'm thinking of something where all inbound and outbound communications would need to be approved before being sent. Maybe it could be as easy as having postfix deliver me a copy of what they're sending. From what I've seen, this is a question that tends to drift off topic quickly. Please only technical replies, no philosophical, first amendment, parenting type replies. Thanks, Joe. I know with sendmail, this is something as simple as aliasing their account. give them some arbitrary username, and alias that to their email address. alias that email address to you your account. HTH - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/sbin/init not being loaded
I'm in the process of setting up a diskless client, and when the kernel (GENERIC from 4.10-RELEASE) boots it fails to load /sbin/init, reverting instead to /stand/sysinstall which loads and runs just fine. The init program exists in the proper directory on the server, but it just won't load. The kernel gives no error message. I've verified I'm using the right filesystem by renaming /stand/sysinstall to something else, which causes the client to panic (as it should). I tried boot -v, which just confirms that /sbin/init is being tried (as is /sbin/oinit and /sbin/init.bak). However, nothing seems to work except for sysinstall. Any suggestions? -- Milo Hyson Chief Mad Scientist CyberLife Labs ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Release Question
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:07:00 -0700 Balakumar Velmurugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We are starting development on a new project that would go production in the fall of 2005. I have been evaluating Release 4.x and 5.x branches for the suitability. Our target platform is AMD64 and AMD32 uni-processor systems. We like most of 5.x features except for its performance and conerns about the availability of a STABLE version in our time window, and I would like your opinion to choose the right FreeBSD version tree to start the development right now. BTW, we dont have any plans to run on SMP architecture, our target platform will always be uni-processor based. Questions are, 1. By Sep 2005, do you think 5.x performance will be optimized and be comparable to today's 4.x stable versions ? Which did you test? Did you turn debugging and ect off? Tried 5.3beta7 yet? I tried 5.2.1 and havent tried the beta7, yet. Can you tell me, what is the release tag for beta7 ?. RELENG_5_3_BETA7 didnt work for me !! Thanks for your pointers. 2. By Sep 2005, do you think 5.x will be as stable as today's 4.x released versions ? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html 3. What is the most architecturally optimized FreeBSD version if he primary application is network services, IP forwarding and various TCP/UDP services ? 4. What is the most architecturally optimized FreeBSD version if he primary application is network services, IP forwarding and various TCP/UDP services ? Not tried forwarding yet on 5x, but for TCP/UDP services, not speed problems with them on my box. Wait a bit till 5.3 is released and then bench market it after optimizing it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
