The FreeBSD Diary: 2002-11-10 - 2002-11-30

2002-12-01 Thread Dan Langille
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Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Mathieu Arnold
--En cette belle journée de dimanche 1 décembre 2002 02:57 -0400, -- Marc G. Fournier écrivait avec ses petits doigts : > > Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list that anyone > is maintain about who is using it? I've been having discussions with a > partner for awhile no

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Chad Albert
For Web servers, netcraft can help you out too. In particular, their "longest uptime on the internet" page may be of particular interest if you are pro FreeBSD. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html No really, you see Linux on the list every once in a while ;-) - Original Message

Lsof && Netstat

2002-12-01 Thread Jonathan James
I am attempting to use netstat to gain the current amount of bandwidth used by a user. I have devised a way to use lsof to find the IP addresses assigned per each user process and add the bandwidth up in netstat, but if more than 1 user is using that IP address they will all be noted for th

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Paul A. Scott
> From: Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > IBM bought Whistle Communications for it's product based on > FreeBSD; can you name a company that IBM bought that had a > product based on Linux? Unfortunately, IBM seems to have closed the door on Whistle. And, IBM is pushing Linux on their Z-series

Make depend error

2002-12-01 Thread Eric Cresson
Hi, I tried to compile a new kernel. The "make depend" compile with error messages. Can you help me ? I attach the kernel config file and sysout file. Thank you # # GENERIC -- Generic kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386 # # For more information on this file, please read the handbook

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Terry Lambert
"Paul A. Scott" wrote: > > From: Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > IBM bought Whistle Communications for it's product based on > > FreeBSD; can you name a company that IBM bought that had a > > product based on Linux? > > Unfortunately, IBM seems to have closed the door on Whistle. Whistle

Re: Phoenix .04 port build problem.

2002-12-01 Thread Jens Rehsack
Laurence Sanford wrote: When I try to build the phoenix 0.4 port it fails like this: ===> Building for Xft-2.0_1 cc -O -pipe -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -fPIC -DPIC -c xftrender.c -o xftrender.o xftrender.c: In

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:53:40AM -0600, Chad Albert wrote: > For Web servers, netcraft can help you out too. In particular, their > "longest uptime on the internet" page may be of particular interest if you > are pro FreeBSD. > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html > No really, you se

media help

2002-12-01 Thread reko saad
Hello I am hesham I had a problem after i installed Freebsd 4.6 the system is not working properly 1-as when i typed :. cd /usr/ports/irc/bnc make install the system displayed :. Bnc is not in a direvtory /usr/ports/irc Trying to get from ftp http://(site) so I want it not to turn to ftp but to t

Re: login.conf problem

2002-12-01 Thread dslb
On 2002.12.01 00:57 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Sadly there is no easy way to drop ressource limits or is there? I > know > > you can use setrlimit(), but you would have to fill in all fields > and thereby > > not using the admins login.conf setup. > > See login_class(3) and login_cap(3). Ok, thanks

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Stacey Roberts
Not to mention a few others like:- Hotmail ClaraNET Playboy Sony UUNET To name a few. I came in late on this, but thought it worth mentioning the above, just in case they got neglected. Regards, Stacey On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 11:29, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:53:40AM -0600,

OS X root passwd

2002-12-01 Thread Bernardo M. Brummer
I was asked to help out (remotly) with Mac OS X. As I asked for the root passwd, the user (former Win, complete newbie with Mac, very basic computer user) told that he didn´t know and that he had never asigned any password (user or root) at all. Tried to su without password (just pressing Enter),

Re: Memory test?

2002-12-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just did a makeshift memory stress test on a new machine; that is, I did a > "make buildworld". Regrettably, it failed, saying it had a sytax error > somewhere. :( > > So, I ran it again; and this time it went fine; then I reinstalled FreeBSD > 4.7 altogether,

Re: modifying advertised window size.

2002-12-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
James Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to modify my advertised window size so that I get better interactive > performance on my modem whilst downloading for example. > > I've tried using the route options "-lockrest -sendpipe 4096 -recvpipe 4096 > -mtu 576" for example. Then I do a do

Re: Make depend error

2002-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-12-01 11:33, Eric Cresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to compile a new kernel. The "make depend" compile with > error messages. Can you help me ? > > I attach the kernel config file and sysout file. Nice :) The kernel configuration seems ok. Although I'd probably rename it to

Re: Getting SCSI Scanner to work (with Symbios 53c810a and FreeBSD4.4)

2002-12-01 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Peter Much wrote: > Keywords: FreeBSD SANE Scanner Mustek SCSI MFS-6000CX synchronous disable Symbios >53c810a > > Just for the records, or: to whom it may concern. > > This is what I had to do to get a scsi scanner to work. I post it > here so others having a similar proble

Re: OS X root passwd

2002-12-01 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sunday, Dec 1, 2002, at 04:40 US/Pacific, Bernardo M. Brummer wrote: Tried to su without password (just pressing Enter), but systems wants password. Is there a default (preconfigured) root passwd for new Mac OS X machines , or any simple (that can be executed remotely or that this user could

Re: media help

2002-12-01 Thread Dan Pelleg
"reko saad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > I am hesham > I had a problem after i installed Freebsd 4.6 the system is not working properly >1-as when i typed :. > cd /usr/ports/irc/bnc > make install > the system displayed :. > Bnc is not in a direvtory /usr/ports/irc > Trying to get from

courier-imap troubleshoting

2002-12-01 Thread blabla
Hello, i have problem with my courier-imap. I recompile it and instaled on FreeBSD 4.7 from ports. I unable to loggin: my authdaemonrc file: --- begin paste --- --- cut --- authmodulelist="authmysql" authmodulelistorig="authmysql" --- end paste --- authmysqlrc file i configure correctly. My databas

Re: OS X root passwd

2002-12-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Bernardo M. Brummer wrote: > Is there a default (preconfigured) root passwd for new Mac OS X machines , > or any simple (that can be executed remotely or that this user could manage > to follow on phone instructions) way to assign a new one ?. As the admin user (the first us

compilation noyau

2002-12-01 Thread Marcelo Moreira
bonjour , afin de configurer ma carte son ,j'ai du tenter (je debute) de recompiler mon noyau arrivé au "make depend" j'obtiens ce message : "/usr/src/sys/modules/accf_data/../../conf/kmod.mk line 63 : could not find bsd.init.mk "/usr/src/sys/modules/accf_data/../../conf/kmod.mk line 190 :

M-Sys DiskOnKey

2002-12-01 Thread Khairil Yusof
Anybody got this working? Tried mounting under different da devices but no go. I found some references under freebsd-stable, but advice there didn't work (they were hunches on what might work). It's supposed to be supported for linux 2.4.x kernels. Any tips on how to get it working on FreeBSD?

Re: Memory test?

2002-12-01 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 1:47 PM Subject: Re: Memory test? > Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just did a makeshift memory stress test on a new machine; tha

Re: courier-imap troubleshoting

2002-12-01 Thread Kyriakos Oikonomakos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i have problem with my courier-imap. I recompile it and instaled on FreeBSD 4.7 from ports. I unable to loggin: my authdaemonrc file: --- begin paste --- --- cut --- authmodulelist="authmysql" authmodulelistorig="authmysql" --- end paste --- authmysqlrc file i confi

Re: ports-multimedia ?

2002-12-01 Thread Ilia Chipitsine
> Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > > > I've found that avifile moved from graphics to multimedia, > > but I cannot cvsup it. Is it right ? Where I can cvsup ports-multimedia > > collection ? Even when I do "ports-all", multimedia is not included! > > > > Regards, (îÁÉÌÕÞÛÉÅ ÐÏÖÅÌÁÎÉÑ) > >

Re: Getting SCSI Scanner to work (with Symbios 53c810a and FreeBSD4.4)

2002-12-01 Thread Gérard Roudier
Hi Peter, You may ignore my previous minute patch and give a try with the below one. It makes more sense to ignore the period (synchronous period factor) when the offset (REQ/ACK offset) is zero, facing synchronous data transfer negotiation in SCSI. Even if the period should be ignored by SCSI d

Re: About linux_base6 and linux_base7

2002-12-01 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Lin Jianfong wrote: > I could switch to FreeBSD native Mozilla 1.1, but then flash, realplayer, > acroread plug-ins will no longer work, since they are plugins for linux > native mozilla. flashpluginwrapper allows the Linux Flash plugin to work with a native Mozilla. Acror

Re: Mail?

2002-12-01 Thread Brian Jackson
On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 01:45 PM, Unix Tools wrote: 2) Add an entry at the end if the inetd.conf file pop3stream tcp nowait root/var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/pop3 - Original Message - From: "aSe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OS X root passwd

2002-12-01 Thread Paul A. Scott
> On Sunday, Dec 1, 2002, at 04:40 US/Pacific, Bernardo M. Brummer wrote: > The root account isn't enabled by default. > Run Netinfo Manager, located in Applications/Utilities I SERIOUSLY would NOT recommend doing that. Leave the root account disabled. Instead, use 'sudo' or 'sudo -s' for root ac

requesting help restoring disklabel on unbootable system

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
Hello, After an unfortunate sequence of events, my newly successfully upgraded FreeBSD 4.7 machine would not boot anymore and gave me a "boot:" prompt. Returning to the install CD disklabel program, I saw that the only partition it seemed be to finding was the swap partition. I recreated and wrot

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Nathan Kinkade
Hotmail no longer runs on FreeBSD. Microsoft transitioned to MS platforms a while back. There has been a lot press lately about a leaked internal report from Microsoft regarding the transition process. Basically, the internal report speaks very hightly of *nix on the whole and in some ways degrad

dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-01 Thread Conrad Sabatier
First of all, I just gotta say: ATAPICAM rocks!!! I can now use my ATAPI CD burner with dump/restore! Awesome!!! Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more filesystems than I'm currently using.

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-01 08:36:14 -0800: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:51:08AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 11:29, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > One thing I haven't seen enough mention made of in this context are a > > > few interesting sites running FreeBSD. Let's s

XF86-4.2.0, libfreetype.so.8, and TrueType fonts

2002-12-01 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
Hi all. Attached is a mail I sent to the author of "XFree86 Font De-uglification" (http://ldp.kernelnotes.de/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html), but have yet to receive a reply. A pertinent-to-this-group comment: I built Mozilla 1.1 from the ports, but the XFree86 package is from XFree86's own binary dis

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Stacey Roberts
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 16:36, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > Hotmail no longer runs on FreeBSD. Microsoft transitioned to MS > platforms a while back. There has been a lot press lately about a > leaked internal report from Microsoft regarding the transition process. > Basically, the internal report speak

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Christian Kratzer
Hi, On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list that anyone > is maintain about who is using it? I've been having discussions with a > partner for awhile now about whether we should launch a product with a > base OS of linux vs

FreeBSD CD-ROM Driver Capabilities

2002-12-01 Thread Robert Wade
List, How many sectors can be read per request from the cd-rom driver? If you'd please respond to me directly, as I'm not a member of this list. Thank You, Robert Wade To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-01 Thread K . Oikonomakos
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:40:58AM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > First of all, I just gotta say: ATAPICAM rocks!!! I can now use my ATAPI > CD burner with dump/restore! Awesome!!! > > Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my > filesystems, zap all the partitions and

can't load kernel on 386 system

2002-12-01 Thread Walter
I've installed a minimal+docs generic system on 500-somethingMB HD, and I'm trying to run it on a 386, 8Mb RAM computer. It fails at elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed can't load module '/kernel': input/output error Because of the small HD, and the fact that the /var and the /tmp partitions

Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my > filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more > filesystems than I'm currently using. For example, create a new /home > partition instead of using a s

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Chad Albert
Don't forget that MS themselves choose FreeBSD when the time came to port .net and C#, plus Apple decided they liked it for their OSX. - Original Message - From: "Nathan Kinkade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 10:36 AM Subje

Re: Run as owner

2002-12-01 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Nov 30 Kirk Bailey wrote: > This script is not perl, it is in python. So far the python community has > failed in the search for clue, possibly this one can assist? > Python or not python is irrevelant here. As last resort, if you don't want to use su, sudo or ksu, you can use a setuid/setgid

Sendmail / Fetchmail / Procmail / Mozilla

2002-12-01 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Please cc me on the response. Thanks. This is for a FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 If I want to use fetchmail to snag email from say 4 different pop acounts and then filter it with procmail and use mozilla to read it (which I've read is trivial to do), what parts of sendmail (or any mta) must I have running mi

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread paul beard
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list that anyone is maintain about who is using it? I've been having discussions with a partner for awhile now about whether we should launch a product with a base OS of linux vs freebsd ... and its tiring to try

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please take this to advocacy. This banter doesn't belong on the questions list. # Adam >> (12.01.2002 @ 1025 PST): paul beard said, in 1.3K: << > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > >Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list > >that a

Re: Sendmail / Fetchmail / Procmail / Mozilla

2002-12-01 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-01 13:20:52 +: > Please cc me on the response. Thanks. ok. > This is for a FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 irrelevant. > If I want to use fetchmail to snag email from say 4 different pop acounts > and then filter it with procmail and use mozilla to read it (which I've

ServeRAID 4Lx SCSI RAID Controller

2002-12-01 Thread Nick Twaddell
I have an IBM rack mount server with an IBM ServeRAID 4Lx SCSI RAID Controller. I downloaded the FreeBSD 4.7 ISO, but I don't think it supports the card because it shows up as an unknown device on boot up. On http://www.tux.org/pub/bsd/freebsd/FreeBSD-current/src/share/misc/pci_ve ndors It lists

Re: requesting help restoring disklabel on unbootable system

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mark Stosberg wrote: > > After an unfortunate sequence of events, my newly successfully upgraded FreeBSD 4.7 > machine would not boot anymore and gave me a "boot:" prompt. Returning > to the install CD disklabel program, I saw that the only partition it > seemed be to finding wa

/dev/ums0 not initialized

2002-12-01 Thread Adam Bender
When I left for break, I had a perfectly working system (FreeBSD 4.7-CURRENT). When I came back and booted it after being down for 5 days, when I try to start KDE I get an error saying no mouse found, device at /dev/ums0 is not initialized. I'm using a Logitech USB mouse (I've also tried using i

Re: Sendmail / Fetchmail / Procmail / Mozilla

2002-12-01 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:45:37PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > If I want to use fetchmail to snag email from say 4 different pop acounts > > and then filter it with procmail and use mozilla to read it (which I've > > read is trivial to do), what parts of sendmail (or any mta) must I > > hav

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:00:04PM -0800, paul beard wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > >Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list > >that anyone > >is maintain about who is using it? I've been having discussions > >with a > >partner for awhile now about whether we should

Re: ServeRAID 4Lx SCSI RAID Controller

2002-12-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
- Original Message - From: "Nick Twaddell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 11:47 AM Subject: ServeRAID 4Lx SCSI RAID Controller > It lists the card as > 020E ServeRAID 4Lx SCSI RAID Controller > > Is this only in FreeBSD -current possibly? > I t

Re: interpretation of arp output

2002-12-01 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:25:55AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:47:15AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > An arp -a gives the following line (amongst many happy bunnies) > > > > angelus.raggedclown.intra (192.168.1.50) at 00:a0:cc:d1:fb:88 on rl0 > > [ethernet] > > ? (

Mail Reader Clients

2002-12-01 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Please CC me on the reply again. Thanks. I'm looking for a good graphical mail reader client (to handle appx 3000 mails per day) I've got mail my mail working with fetchmail/procmail, so I don't need one with filtering. Just one that understands mbox format. I don't think I want to use mozilla

gtk12 doesn't compile

2002-12-01 Thread Ilia Chipitsine
the problem is: ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [maintainer] and attach the "/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk12/work/gtk+-1.2.10/config.log" including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a

Re: gtk12 doesn't compile

2002-12-01 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 12:25, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: Ilia, in the future, you do not need to blast email out to three different lists when you have a problem. Sending email to gtk12's maintainer, gnome@, is sufficient. > glib-1.2.10_7 > glib-1.2.10_8 > glib-1.2.8 Looks like a problem with your g

Another hardware question.

2002-12-01 Thread Artem Koutchine
Hello again. Well, people said that dual P III 550 with SDRAM is definetely slower than single P 4 3Ghz with DDR RAM. Now, a bit trickier question. Is DUAL P III 1,4Ghz with SDRAM faster than SINGLE P4 3Ghz with hyperthreading and DDR RAM (PC 3200)? How much it is slower or faster? Regards, Art

Re: Another hardware question.

2002-12-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:29:15PM +0300, Artem Koutchine wrote: > Hello again. > > Well, people said that dual P III 550 with SDRAM is > definetely slower than single P 4 3Ghz with DDR RAM. > > Now, a bit trickier question. > > Is DUAL P III 1,4Ghz with SDRAM faster than > SINGLE P4 3Ghz with h

Re: Another hardware question.

2002-12-01 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sunday, Dec 1, 2002, at 11:29 US/Pacific, Artem Koutchine wrote: Hello again. Well, people said that dual P III 550 with SDRAM is definetely slower than single P 4 3Ghz with DDR RAM. Now, a bit trickier question. Is DUAL P III 1,4Ghz with SDRAM faster than SINGLE P4 3Ghz with hyperthreadin

Re: /dev/ums0 not initialized

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Adam Bender wrote: > > When I left for break, I had a perfectly working system (FreeBSD > 4.7-CURRENT). When I came back and booted it after being down for 5 days, > when I try to start KDE I get an error saying no mouse found, device > at /dev/ums0 is not initialized. I'm us

Re: Memory test?

2002-12-01 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:18:26PM +0100, Mark wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 1:47 PM > Subject: Re: Memory test? > > > > Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write

Re: Mail Reader Clients

2002-12-01 Thread Georg Klein
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > Please CC me on the reply again. Thanks. > I'm looking for a good graphical mail reader client (to handle appx 3000 > mails per day) > I've got mail my mail working with fetchmail/procmail, so I don't need > one with filtering. Just one that > unders

Re: ServeRAID 4Lx SCSI RAID Controller

2002-12-01 Thread David Siebörger
That's correct - FreeBSD doesn't have a ServeRAID driver. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=726088+0+archive/2002/freebsd-stable/20021201.freebsd-stable -- David Siebörger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Mail Reader Clients

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > > I'm looking for a good graphical mail reader client (to handle appx 3000 > mails per day) > I've got mail my mail working with fetchmail/procmail, so I don't need > one with filtering. Just one that > understands mbox format. Kmail and Knode (for n

rndc-conf is freezing..

2002-12-01 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I've read a few threads that say rndc-confgen may freeze because /dev/random isnt' random enough. I've set the rand_irqs in rc.conf, as well hammered on the keyboard some while rndc-confgen is runnning and it still sits there. anyone know what can be done? I have bind9 running fine, but if i upda

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Adam Weinberger wrote: > Please take this to advocacy. This banter doesn't belong on the > questions list. FWIW: If you examine the history of this thread, you will see that it was posted to -questions, and "Bcc:"'ed to -advocacy. If you need to assign blame, assign it to the original poster, whi

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Re: ports-multimedia ?

2002-12-01 Thread Jens Rehsack
Ilia Chipitsine wrote: Ilia Chipitsine wrote: Dear Sirs, I've found that avifile moved from graphics to multimedia, but I cannot cvsup it. Is it right ? Where I can cvsup ports-multimedia collection ? Even when I do "ports-all", multimedia is not included! Regards, (îÁÉÌÕÞÛÉÅ ÐÏÖÅÌÁÎÉÑ) Ilia C

Re: Mail Reader Clients

2002-12-01 Thread JacobRhoden
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 02:33, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > I'm looking for a good graphical mail reader client (to handle appx 3000 > mails per day) kmail is definatly the best 'gui' email client i have seen so far, its vuagely similar to eudora... but it does mean you must have kde installed. if you

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2002-12-01 Thread Jan Pieter
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2002-12-01 Thread Meka [ni]
How can I make aterm recognize , and as it should? key acts as , and other two give me '~' sign. Those keys are working perfectly in xterm, so it's not X configurations. And how to make it not clear the screen after exiting man page? Meka[ni] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [E

Re: debugging wheel mouse

2002-12-01 Thread Gregory Bond
I've solved the problem. If you configure XFree86 to use "Protocol sysmouse" then wheel scrolling will not work, because this puts the mouse into 5-byte mode which only supports 3 buttons. You have to use "protocol auto" in the XFree86 config to enable sysmouse 8-byte protocol with support for

Re: requesting help restoring disklabel on unbootable system

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mark Stosberg wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mark Stosberg wrote: > > > > After an unfortunate sequence of events, my newly successfully upgraded FreeBSD 4.7 > > machine would not boot anymore and gave me a "boot:" prompt. Returning > > to the install CD disklabel program, I saw

RE: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE

2002-12-01 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
On Friday, November 22, 2002 5:05 AM, Laszlo Vagner wrote > > lewiz wrote: > > >On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:39AM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > > > > > >>Will the nvidia drivers work with 4.7-RELEASE? 4.7-STABLE won't have > >>ISOs, right? > >> > >> > > > >You need 4.7-STABLE to get the NVidia

Re: ports-multimedia ?

2002-12-01 Thread Ilia Chipitsine
> >>> > >> > >>Sure that your cvsupfile get's the most up-to-date version of the ports > >>tree? Maybe you just cvsup'ing against a release version. > > > > > > sure. > > Can you send me your cvsupfile, please. > *default host=cvsup4.ru.freebsd.org *default base=/home *default prefix=/usr *default

Re: debugging wheel mouse

2002-12-01 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> (12.01.2002 @ 1712 PST): Gregory Bond said, in 0.8K: << > You have to use "protocol auto" in the XFree86 config to enable > sysmouse 8-byte protocol with support for buttons 4 & 5. > > This is not mentioned anywhere that I can find. I'll get the

Re: ports-multimedia ?

2002-12-01 Thread Jens Rehsack
Ilia Chipitsine wrote: Sure that your cvsupfile get's the most up-to-date version of the ports tree? Maybe you just cvsup'ing against a release version. sure. Can you send me your cvsupfile, please. *default host=cvsup4.ru.freebsd.org *default base=/home *default prefix=/usr *default rele

Book:Freebsd-The complete reference (osbourne)

2002-12-01 Thread Defryn, Guy
I was wondering if anyone got to proofread this book? What is it like? Cheers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: debugging wheel mouse

2002-12-01 Thread Gregory Bond
> I disagree. The necessity of "protocol auto" is documented all the heck > over the place, from the Handbook to the FAQ to the README.mouse file > that comes with X itself. Well, I spent a week or so reading the FAQ, searching the mail lists, reading man pages and never saw the fact that "proto

Re: /dev/ums0 not initialized

2002-12-01 Thread Adam Bender
That didn't work, I get the same error. What I have gotten to work is using it in the PS/2 port and setting the X mouse device to /dev/psm0. Any idea why it doesn't work with USB anymore? Thanks, Adam On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mark Stosberg wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Adam Bender wrote: > > > > >

Re: ports-multimedia ?

2002-12-01 Thread Ilia Chipitsine
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Jens Rehsack wrote: > Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > Sure that your cvsupfile get's the most up-to-date version of the ports > tree? Maybe you just cvsup'ing against a release version. > >>> > >>> > >>>sure. > >> > >>Can you send me your cvsupfile, please. > >> > > > > > > *d

Re: /dev/ums0 not initialized

2002-12-01 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:36:47PM -0500, Adam Bender wrote: > > That didn't work, I get the same error. What I have gotten to work is > using it in the PS/2 port and setting the X mouse device to /dev/psm0. > Any idea why it doesn't work with USB anymore? > > Thanks, > > Adam > > On Sun, 1 De

directory listing doesn't show all files

2002-12-01 Thread chip wiegand
I have a mixed network of FreeBSD boxes and Win98 boxes. On one FBSD box I use shlight to mount the c: drive of one win98 box. Works fine. When I browser, in any file manager or command line, a directory on the win98 box which contains almost 400 mp3's, on the FBSD box the directory listing shows

Always mystified by this. /stand file sizes

2002-12-01 Thread Cliff Sarginson
I have been meaning to ask this since I started using FreeBSD but have never dared to, since I thought I ought to know :) Excerpt from /stand -r-xr-xr-x 31 root wheel 1865544 Sep 18 2001 -sh -r-xr-xr-x 31 root wheel 1865544 Sep 18 2001 [ -r-xr-xr-x 31 root wheel 1865544 Sep 18 2001 ar

Re: Always mystified by this. /stand file sizes

2002-12-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:38:15AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson typed: > I have been meaning to ask this since I started using FreeBSD but have > never dared to, since I thought I ought to know :) > Excerpt from /stand > > -r-xr-xr-x 31 root wheel 1865544 Sep 18 2001 -sh > -r-xr-xr-x 31 root whee

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2002-12-01 Thread Roman N Rudencko
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2002-12-01 Thread Anton Brusenko
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Re: Always mystified by this. /stand file sizes

2002-12-01 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:50:30AM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:38:15AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson typed: > > I have been meaning to ask this since I started using FreeBSD but have > > never dared to, since I thought I ought to know :) > > Excerpt from /stand > > > > -r-x

physically mounting a FreeBSD drive on a WinXP box

2002-12-01 Thread Bsd Neophyte
i don't know if posting this question is relavant to this group... but i was wondering if it was possible to physically mount a former FreeBSD disk on a winxp box. i know someone would suggest that i mount the drive on the FreeBSD box and get the files i need that way... however, this is not an e

Strange WWW problem

2002-12-01 Thread Rick Hamell
For the last two weeks or so, my web server has stopped processing requests after about 5:30pm or so until about 9:30 or later. I've checked the logs and thought that the Nimbda virus was bogging my server down, this was after I increased my MaxServers in http.conf from 10 to 20. Even then I had 1

NAT & IPFW

2002-12-01 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi People I've recently run out of ip's on our class C network and have now setup NAT on my FreeBSD 4.7 Stable machine. I am having difficulty configuring ipfw ( after reading several howto's ) to enable my NAT clients to connect through my firewall. I am able to ping the outside world ( from N

Re: physically mounting a FreeBSD drive on a WinXP box

2002-12-01 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Bsd Neophyte wrote: i don't know if posting this question is relavant to this group... but i was wondering if it was possible to physically mount a former FreeBSD disk on a winxp box. i know someone would suggest that i mount the drive on the FreeBSD box and get the files i need that way... howev