Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-07 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:08:24PM +0100, Martin Brecher wrote: Scott Mitchell wrote: [...] Is there some standard tool for doing this on FreeBSD? You can't just do a direct copy cause this results in major disk space wastage so I'm imagining you need to use hard links or something to keep

Re: gdm doesn't allow username input

2004-01-07 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:08, Mark Zytkovicz wrote: This is a strange one. I've just finished a massive port upgrade on 5.0-release. I logged out of gnome (probably shouldn't have even been there, but whatever) and it noted that the versions of gdm were different, restart gdm or reboot. I

RE: gdm doesn't allow username input

2004-01-07 Thread Mark Zytkovicz
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:08, Mark Zytkovicz wrote: This is a strange one. I've just finished a massive port upgrade on 5.0-release. I logged out of gnome (probably shouldn't have even been there, but whatever) and it noted that the versions of gdm were different, restart gdm or

RE: gdm doesn't allow username input

2004-01-07 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:42, Mark Zytkovicz wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:08, Mark Zytkovicz wrote: This is a strange one. I've just finished a massive port upgrade on 5.0-release. I logged out of gnome (probably shouldn't have even been there, but whatever) and it noted that

sending mail question...

2004-01-07 Thread Xpression
Hi list, I've a little bit confused, I have a mail server running Exim as MTA, now what about if I want to send mail with another server to some mailboxes on the server running the MTA...I think I've to install a client or something like that ??? Thanks...

Radeon9000 and GATOS driver - TVOut not working ?!?

2004-01-07 Thread atherios
Hi, my laptop has an ATI Radeon 9000: PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] I installed FreeBSD 5.2-RC2, downloaded GATOS drivers ATI-4.3.0-14.i386.tar.gz and untared it to /usr. Then I modified XF86Config to be : Section Device Identifier

Re: KDE damaged ...

2004-01-07 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:34:02PM +0400, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: Hi, With the help of the great people here I was able to install and run KDE3 on my FreeBSD 4.9. After that, I was trying to change the theme to the skin-less default one which made KDE freeze for a very long time. I forced a

partition not freeing it's space after deleting files from it

2004-01-07 Thread Simon ekar
Hi, after quite some time of flawless working my FreeBSD 4.7 server's /var partition apeared full. I've examined used space which reveals that partition could not be full. `df -hi /var` Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted /dev/twed0s1e 252M78M 154M

FreeBSD 5.1 RAID

2004-01-07 Thread merkurie
Hello, I am running into a bit of a problem when trying to install FreeBSD 5.1 I have had FreeBSD installed on my machine before. I have a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP Ultra motherboard. It comes with a Adaptec AIC-7902 SCSI Ultra 320 controller built in. Up till today, I had FreeBSD installed on a Seagate

What is the difference between ; and

2004-01-07 Thread Eric F Crist
Just wondering what the difference is between ; and ? I use make depend; make; make install and others say they use: make depend make make install -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: What is the difference between ; and

2004-01-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:36:42PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Just wondering what the difference is between ; and ? I use make depend; make; make install and others say they use: make depend make make install In the second form, each command will only run if the previous one succeeded,

Re: What is the difference between ; and

2004-01-07 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:36, Eric F Crist wrote: Just wondering what the difference is between ; and ? I use make depend; make; make install and others say they use: This notation will run each command, one after the other, regardless of the exit status of the previous command. make

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 RAID

2004-01-07 Thread Mike Maltese
/: write failed, filesystem is full panic: Going nowhere without my init! I would think that this is indicative of a defective mfsroot floppy. Try making a new one or burn up an ISO if that's possible. Does FreeBSD just not support my SCSI RAID controller? According to

Re: What is the difference between ; and

2004-01-07 Thread Eric F Crist
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 05:39 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:36, Eric F Crist wrote: Just wondering what the difference is between ; and ? I use make depend; make; make install and others say they use: This notation will run each command, one after the other,

Mathematica 5 under FreeBSD Emulation?

2004-01-07 Thread Carl McTague
Hello, sorry if this has been discussed already, but I can't seem to find it: has anyone had any luck getting the Linux version of Mathematica *version 5* to work under FreeBSD emulation? Thanks, Carl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: staying 'up-to-date' questions

2004-01-07 Thread Andrew Boothman
Duane Winner wrote: I've installed 4.9-RELEASE from the .ISO image. I just want to be certain that I have all security patches now and in the future. If I have *default release=cvs tag=RELEASE_4_9 in my cvsup file, will I get all the updates I need to be secure? No - you'll keep updating your

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 RAID

2004-01-07 Thread merkurie
I made a new MFS root floppy, tried it, and it does the exact thing. I don't have a CDROM drive, so I can't make a FreeBSD CD. Marc /: write failed, filesystem is full panic: Going nowhere without my init! I would think that this is indicative of a defective mfsroot floppy. Try making a

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 RAID

2004-01-07 Thread Mike Maltese
I made a new MFS root floppy, tried it, and it does the exact thing. I don't have a CDROM drive, so I can't make a FreeBSD CD. Hmm, did you use a new floppy and verify the MD5 of the image? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

httpAccept: FD 10: accept failure: (53) Software caused connection abort

2004-01-07 Thread hugle
Hello all I saw these strange messages in cache.log 2004/01/06 18:44:59| httpAccept: FD 10: accept failure: (53) Software caused connection abort 2004/01/06 18:46:25| comm_accept: FD 10: (53) Software caused connection abort 2004/01/06 18:46:25| httpAccept: FD 10: accept failure: (53) Software

Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

2004-01-07 Thread Nick Tonkin
Hi list, I have a dim recollection (and a CD) of using commercially produced X drivers (by XI Graphics) in FreeBSD 2.x and maybe 3.x I called XIG and they do not offer drivers for 5.x. I am dissatisfied with the graphics performance I am getting with a brand new ViewSonic UltraBrite A90f+ and

Yet another SUPERBLOCK/LABEL problem

2004-01-07 Thread itetcu
[please cc, excuse formating - webmail] Short question: A few hours before the new year I've cvsup'ed from 5.1R-p11 to current (.) and make everything. The system failed to boot up becouse of WRITE_DMA failling. I've managed to boot with hw.ata.ata_dma: 0. After using the system a few hours,

Re: Disk defragmentation

2004-01-07 Thread Michael A. Smith
How can I defragment my HDD partitions in FreeBSD? As I understand it, instead of writing instantly to disk (breaking things up to do so, a la Windows), FreeBSD (and Linux, Solaris, etc...) caches disk writes until a proper place on the disk can be found. This is why it can be disastrous to

Re: Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

2004-01-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:07 pm, Nick Tonkin wrote: Hi list, I have a dim recollection (and a CD) of using commercially produced X drivers (by XI Graphics) in FreeBSD 2.x and maybe 3.x I called XIG and they do not offer drivers for 5.x. I am dissatisfied with the graphics performance

FreeBsd 4.7: scsi target device driver

2004-01-07 Thread Chhavi Kansal
Hi All, I am in the process of writing a scsi target driver on FreeBSD 4.7, as a module. I have faced some problems like, registering the module with CAM, probing the scsi devices connected to the host etc., I'm from the world of linux, wherein if I register the scsi device driver module ( not

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2004-01-07 Thread merkurie
I have a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP Ultra motherboard with an Adaptec AIC-7902 controller built in. When booting an installation CD without the RAID function on, the controller shows up in dmesg and detects the 2 hard drives like normal. If I enable the Adaptec RAID function, nothing is detected. I get

Domains

2004-01-07 Thread Aeden
HI, i want to have my personal domain not for buisness but for educational use. I am not that familiar with freebsd but i know somethings. I need my own doamin such as www.chetcuti.mt . can i set up my freebsd to do this so when they look up chetcuti.mt they see my ip without registering for a

ISDN - United Kingdom

2004-01-07 Thread Edward Hughes
Can anyone offer any help on getting ISDN up and running in the UK. I am using BT's ISDN card and BT's ISDN service. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Yet another SUPERBLOCK/LABEL problem

2004-01-07 Thread itetcu
Scrive Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 05:34:44 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Hi Ion, I've tried to change the sources of newfs (mkfs.c) to also get the bps/cpg value on newfs -N (as the newfs was made from a 5.1 sysinstall without

Adaptec AIC-7902 RAID

2004-01-07 Thread merkurie
I have a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP Ultra motherboard with an Adaptec AIC-7902 controller built in. When booting an installation CD without the RAID function on, the controller shows up in dmesg and detects the 2 hard drives like normal. If I enable the Adaptec RAID function, nothing is detected. I get

Re: Domains

2004-01-07 Thread Eric F Crist
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 06:06 pm, Aeden wrote: HI, i want to have my personal domain not for buisness but for educational use. I am not that familiar with freebsd but i know somethings. I need my own doamin such as www.chetcuti.mt . can i set up my freebsd to do this so when they look up

Re: Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

2004-01-07 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 22:25:29 -0600, Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:07 pm, Nick Tonkin wrote: Hi list, I have a dim recollection (and a CD) of using commercially produced X drivers (by XI Graphics) in FreeBSD 2.x and maybe 3.x I called XIG and they do not

Re: IPFW confusion

2004-01-07 Thread W. Ryan Merrick
Ben Quick wrote: Hello all, I've been hunting around for information on IPFW, and how to set up the rules I require. I found a tutorial that seemed to fit my needs: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ipfw.html However, I can't get the config to work. I've commented out all the deny rules.

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