Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-23 Thread Puna
It's also about quality of the underlying work. On average, Linux base code runs 10% faster under FreeBSD. Linux works toward patches for what everyone wants because it competes for the Windows market share. FreeBSD works toward solutions because it competes with no one. Jonathan T. Sage wro

RE: dlt gone away on adaptec 2940

2004-01-23 Thread mark rowlands
> -Original Message- > From: Justin T. Gibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 7:53 PM > To: mark rowlands; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: dlt gone away on adaptec 2940 > > > a previously functioning dlt has "gone away" He had moved over to a > > windows box

Re: Folding@Home problem

2004-01-23 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jan 23, 2004, at 11:13 PM, Sara Trice wrote: I'm trying to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] running on freeBSD. I get the console running fine, but once it gets running it just keeps failing when it tries to run FahCore_65.exe. Partial Log: [23:14:50] Trying to unzip core FahCore_65.exe [23:14:52] Deco

Re: Folding@Home problem

2004-01-23 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:13:36AM -0600, Sara Trice wrote: > I'm trying to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] running on freeBSD. > > I get the console running fine, but once it gets running it just keeps > failing when it tries to run FahCore_65.exe. > > Partial Log: > [23:14:50] Trying to unzip core FahCo

FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED!

2004-01-23 Thread Keith Kelly
I've found a bug in FDisk which is responsible for all the problems I've had trying to get FreeBSD installed. I also found a work-around, and I'm happy to report I'm typing this message from Konquerer inside FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE right now. Basically, the problem is that FreeBSD's FDisk and the

FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED!

2004-01-23 Thread Keith Kelly
I've found a bug in FDisk which is responsible for all the problems I've had trying to get FreeBSD installed. I also found a work-around, and I'm happy to report I'm typing this message from Konquerer inside FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE right now. Basically, the problem is that FreeBSD's FDisk and the

RE: System Startup Messages

2004-01-23 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, /var/run/dmesg.boot is the file you need. Regards SSR From: Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: System Startup Messages Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:54:37 -0800 I'm running a FreeBSD machine with no head (e.g. no monitor installed to the machine). Is there a way to

Re: System Startup Messages

2004-01-23 Thread Rishi Chopra
Thank you Chris Pressey wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:54:37 -0800 Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running a FreeBSD machine with no head (e.g. no monitor installed to the machine). Is there a way to view the statup messages from the system once the machine is up and running via SS

Folding@Home problem

2004-01-23 Thread Sara Trice
I'm trying to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] running on freeBSD. I get the console running fine, but once it gets running it just keeps failing when it tries to run FahCore_65.exe. Partial Log: [23:14:50] Trying to unzip core FahCore_65.exe [23:14:52] Decompressed FahCore_65.exe (1732608 bytes) successfu

Re: System Startup Messages

2004-01-23 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:54:37 -0800 Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running a FreeBSD machine with no head (e.g. no monitor installed to > the machine). > > Is there a way to view the statup messages from the system once the > machine is up and running via SSH? What is the name of

System Startup Messages

2004-01-23 Thread Rishi Chopra
I'm running a FreeBSD machine with no head (e.g. no monitor installed to the machine). Is there a way to view the statup messages from the system once the machine is up and running via SSH? What is the name of the file that would have the messages (specifically any output sent to the terminal

pkg_fetch argument syntax question

2004-01-23 Thread Francis Litterio
The man page for pkg_fetch says this: The following command line arguments are supported: pkgname Specify a full pkgname, a pkgname without version followed by an @, or a full URI. But it doesn't say what appending a '@' to the package name means.

Adaptec 2400A Performance

2004-01-23 Thread Rishi Chopra
I've run some imperical tests on the Adaptec 2400A raid controller (results and setup can be seen here): http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra/RaidResults.html I was rather disappointed with the results. Can anyone suggest what might be causing such slow disk speeds, or whether these speeds are

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-23 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
Chris wrote: On Friday 23 January 2004 10:40 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian sid. I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rathe

RE: mysql

2004-01-23 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, Yes. You need to change the port on which both listen to. Regards SSR From: "Brian H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mysql Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:25:37 -0600 Is it possible for mysql 3.x and mysql 4.x to co-exist on the same machine. I currently have mysql 4.x installed

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-23 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 January 2004 10:40 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: > This is not a troll. > > I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, > updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's > equivilent to my Deb

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-23 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:40:39PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > This is not a troll. > > I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, > updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's > equivilent to my Debian sid. > > I have to ask: Why Free

Why BSD?

2004-01-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian sid. I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than Linux? Honest question. Thanks, Jeff __

Re: Sendmail 8.12.11

2004-01-23 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 01:34:53AM +, Mark wrote: > >And do a search at the bottom of the page for "sendmail". > > The output will show that the ports currently include > >sendmail 8.12.10 > > I went to the ports listing, of course. :) But I recall the existence of a > different URL,

Re: CPU usage goes way up on 5.1 when memory is added

2004-01-23 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:54:44 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote > How are you trying to measure this? Have you tried reverting to a > GENERIC kernel to isolate one of your non-default options that may be > causing the problem (or measurement artefact)? > > Kris Well, measuring it isn't really an issue as

Re: world

2004-01-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-01-23T22:53:00Z, Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NFS seems to be the common idea here ;) One other possibility: if you don't want to set up NFS for some reason, rsync is an exquisitely nice system for synchronizing directory trees. You can cvsup one machine, then use rsync to

FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE buildworld failure.

2004-01-23 Thread erek
I cvsuped today using tag RELENG_5_2 (i'm already using 5.2-RELEASE), i noticed there was only documentation changes, and no real source changes, i was preparing to recompile everything using some different optimizations: " erek# cat /etc/make.conf CFLAGS+= -pipe -march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -m

Re: Installing Apache and mod_ssl

2004-01-23 Thread Eric F Crist
On Friday 23 January 2004 05:22 pm, Jason Williams wrote: > Evening everyone... > Im just getting started with apache and mod_ssl. I was reading through the > docs on the mod_ssl web site and it recommended downloading the source code > for apache, mod_ssl and openssl. > > My question is that I alr

Re: pam_ldap instructions

2004-01-23 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 21:08, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I just installed the pam_ldap port and receive the following > instructions at the end of the install, I have 5.2-RELEASE and not sure > which instruction to follow regarding enabling login: > > Copy /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf.dist to /usr/loc

pam_ldap instructions

2004-01-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I just installed the pam_ldap port and receive the following instructions at the end of the install, I have 5.2-RELEASE and not sure which instruction to follow regarding enabling login: Copy /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf.dist to /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf, then edit /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf in order to

RE: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Clark
don't complain. Your not committing... -Original Message- From: Keith Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:49 PM To: Derrick Ryalls Cc: freebsd-bugs; 'freebsd-questions ORG' Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS > My though

Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS

2004-01-23 Thread Keith Kelly
> My thought here is to double check that the drive is in the master > position on the ribbon. Yeah, you would _think_ that would be the way to configure things. But when I configure the two devices that way (CD-ROM as slave, hard drive as master), sysinstall refuses to mount the CD, giving me

Re: Sendmail 8.12.11

2004-01-23 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Jamie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 2:28 AM Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.12.11 > > Just a quick question: has Sendmail 8.12.11 been ported > > yet? > > > You can try going to > > h

RE: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS

2004-01-23 Thread Derrick Ryalls
> > I don't know. I've never had to change away from "Auto" to > get any other OS > to install or boot from any of my hard drives, though, so I > really doubt > that is the problem. I'm quite confident the problem must > lie with FreeBSD > itself, in the form of a bug or a lack of hardwar

Re: Sendmail 8.12.11

2004-01-23 Thread Jamie
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Mark wrote: > Hello, > > Just a quick question: has Sendmail 8.12.11 been ported yet? > > Thanks. > > - Mark You can try going to http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html And do a search at the bottom of the page for "sendmail". The output will show that the port

Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

2004-01-23 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Charles Swiger wrote: > FreeBSD 4.8 should be recent enough that you can use a modern ports > tree without the CONFLICTS feature causing problems, so use CVSUP to > update your ports tree to the current version. From there, install > /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8, and then run "use.perl port". > > That

Sendmail 8.12.11

2004-01-23 Thread Mark
Hello, Just a quick question: has Sendmail 8.12.11 been ported yet? Thanks. - Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: world

2004-01-23 Thread Simon Barner
> CVSuping the source won't take too long. Even on dialup. Setup your source sup > for late at night if you can. > > I'm willing to bet that doing a make world will take longer then your CVSup of > source. I can second that. Upgrading from one release of FreeBSD to another didn't take more than

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2004-01-23 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-01-23 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at

Re: Help figuring out port install...(custom install)

2004-01-23 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:30:18 -0800 Jason Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was going to test installing Horde's IMP3 through the FreeBSD ports tree. > I wanted to test it out to see if it was a viable option for our company. > Before I go on, I should mention that I installed apache and mod

Help figuring out port install...(custom install)

2004-01-23 Thread Jason Williams
I was going to test installing Horde's IMP3 through the FreeBSD ports tree. I wanted to test it out to see if it was a viable option for our company. Before I go on, I should mention that I installed apache and mod_ssl by hand before hand (For a lot of reasons really :) ). Anyway, I navigated to

Re: Installing Apache and mod_ssl

2004-01-23 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jason Williams wrote: [...] > Now, reading the docs and the install (for mod_ssl), it actually wants you > to point to the directory where you unzipped the source code for openssl. > Since I already have openssl installed, is it possible to point it to t

Re: portupgrade

2004-01-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 23 January 2004 6:21 pm, Jan Grant wrote: >On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> Ouch! >> >> I'm located somewhere deep within a portupgrade cycle. I misunderstood the >> command (portupgrade -a), and "assumed" that it would only upgrade ports >> that I had installed, not pkgs instal

Re: beastie in 5.2 boot menu

2004-01-23 Thread John Mills
Hanspeter - On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > how can I turn off (delete) the beastie in the boot menu in 5.2? The ASCII image is part of a text file. I think it is found in /boot and named similar to "beastie2nd.[something]". Go with your favorite ASCII editor and make it what you

Slow USB performance

2004-01-23 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
Hello, I have a Jetflash 64MB USB memory stick and a Fuji Digital Camera. USB is atrociously slow. Copying images from the camera is about 3.1 MB in 23 secs (138 kbytes/s). The memory stick is even worse. 3-4 MB take more than a minute. Could this be because of same IRQ being assigned to USB host

CURL in PHP performance question

2004-01-23 Thread Brent Wiese
Running 4.9_REL with about 10 or so jails. One of my users wants my to compile CURL so they can use it with PHP, which is being run as an Apache module (not cgi). I've never used it, but based on the way it reads, it seems like the overhead of the calls on even a moderately busy site could have s

Re: CPU usage goes way up on 5.1 when memory is added

2004-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:07:20PM -0500, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > Hi, > > I've been running 5.1-RELEASE for quite some time on my dual PIII 333Mhz > Micron PC with 384MB of RAM and 670MB of swap. Its a little low on memory > for what I'm now doing with it though, so I added 256MB of RAM. The

Re: what's the priority on building 5.1 packages?

2004-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:02:30PM -0200, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >What do you mean by "policy for 5.1 package-feeding"? > > I mean: will 5.1 packages continue to be offered with new software? > For instance, there are no gnome 2.4 packages for 5.1.. so I had

Re: Trouble booting 4.9 on Compaq DL360

2004-01-23 Thread Matt Reinhart
Wahoo! It works! The OSType in the Setup tool (which *requires* a mouse, btw) is now set to NT4 and it boots without user-intervention. Thanks again. -Matt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: framebuffers?

2004-01-23 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > Hello, > > I'm used to having framebuffers in Linux, and I would like to have that in > FreeBSD too. > > I have already reconfigured and recompiled my kernel with "options VESA" > enabled. Then I added this 2 lines to /etc/rc.conf: > fon

FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE & 4, 6, or 8 port ATA PCI Controller

2004-01-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, Does anyone know of a 4, 6, or 8 port ATA PCI Controller that works well with FreeBSD? Preferably ATA-133 and large capacity drive capable. Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-55

Re: portupgrade

2004-01-23 Thread Jan Grant
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Ouch! > > I'm located somewhere deep within a portupgrade cycle. I misunderstood the > command (portupgrade -a), and "assumed" that it would only upgrade ports that > I had installed, not pkgs installed with pkg_add -r. > > How can I avoid portupgrade touc

Installing Apache and mod_ssl

2004-01-23 Thread Jason Williams
Evening everyone... Im just getting started with apache and mod_ssl. I was reading through the docs on the mod_ssl web site and it recommended downloading the source code for apache, mod_ssl and openssl. My question is that I already have openssl installed on my test server. It is currently bei

Re: what's the priority on building 5.1 packages?

2004-01-23 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
Kris Kennaway wrote: What do you mean by "policy for 5.1 package-feeding"? I mean: will 5.1 packages continue to be offered with new software? For instance, there are no gnome 2.4 packages for 5.1.. so I had to compile the whole thing. Should I consider upgrading to 5.2 for that matter? -- Herculan

beastie in 5.2 boot menu

2004-01-23 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, how can I turn off (delete) the beastie in the boot menu in 5.2? -Hanspeter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

arplookup failed: host is not on local network

2004-01-23 Thread Adam
Hello, Our router has two networks assigned to it from our provider, the NIC card on my server has IP addresses assigned from both blocks of IP's. Everything works great, however this message keeps showing up in my log files: Jan 23 13:51:46 rmd-cw0 /kernel: arplookup 12.xxx.xxx.xxx failed: hos

CPU usage goes way up on 5.1 when memory is added

2004-01-23 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Hi, I've been running 5.1-RELEASE for quite some time on my dual PIII 333Mhz Micron PC with 384MB of RAM and 670MB of swap. Its a little low on memory for what I'm now doing with it though, so I added 256MB of RAM. The new RAM gets recognized, and there are no obvious errors on the console or in

portupgrade

2004-01-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
Ouch! I'm located somewhere deep within a portupgrade cycle. I misunderstood the command (portupgrade -a), and "assumed" that it would only upgrade ports that I had installed, not pkgs installed with pkg_add -r. How can I avoid portupgrade touching big packages such as KDE, Mozilla and OpenO

Re: framebuffers?

2004-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Geert Hendrickx said: > > Try VESA_132x43. I'm not sure why all the modes aren't just WxH. > > Your card also needs to be able to support that vesa mode; you can > > run "vidcontrol -i mode | grep T" to list the text modes your card > > can do. > > I suppose my vide

FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE & Firewire ATA Hard Disk Enclosures

2004-01-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, Does anyone here have a mult-drive ATA->Firewire enclosure that they really like? Any ideas on things to look for? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wi

RE: world

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Clark
NFS seems to be the common idea here ;) -Original Message- From: Lowell Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:45 PM To: Brian H Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: world "Brian H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason I don't want to do that is because I h

FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE & firewire cards

2004-01-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, Has anyone had really good or really bad experiences with Firewire PCI cards that contain a "supported" firewire chipset? Trying to get a list of "sure buys" and "avoid like the plague"'s. Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 //

RE: world

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Clark
Create an NFS share and distribute the source using that. You cvsup one computer, and then you have it on all of them. -Original Message- From: Brian H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: world The reason I don't want to do

Re: world

2004-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Brian H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason I don't want to do that is because I have several machines > to do the update on and I don't want to do the download for each > machine. Can't they "talk" to each other without being connected to the Internet? My own approach is to have a sing

mysql

2004-01-23 Thread Brian H
Is it possible for mysql 3.x and mysql 4.x to co-exist on the same machine. I currently have mysql 4.x installed and some ports require mysql 3.x. thanks, brian _ Scope out the new MSN Plus Internet Software — optimizes dial-up to the

Re: Package from the packages-5.1-release directory won't install on a 5.1 system

2004-01-23 Thread Francis Litterio
Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:22:38PM -0500, Francis Litterio wrote: >> I have a stock 5.1 release system, but when I try to install the package >> amsn-0.71_1.tbz, which I downloaded from >> >> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.1-release/All/amsn-0.71_1

Re: Package from the packages-5.1-release directory won't install on a 5.1 system

2004-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:12:36PM -0500, Francis Litterio wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:22:38PM -0500, Francis Litterio wrote: > > >> I have a stock 5.1 release system, but when I try to install the package > >> amsn-0.71_1.tbz, which I downloaded from > >> > >>

Re: HEADS UP: gettext

2004-01-23 Thread Kirill Ponomarew
Hi, On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:18:02PM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote: > I've tried to update gettext in the ports collection, and a problem has > turned up. As described to me by Joe Marcus Clarke, portupgrade will fail > because ports/devel/gettext (the new version which no ports use yet) is in >

Re: world

2004-01-23 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
You could look into nfs exporting /usr/src to all of your machines. along with /usr/obj, you could also cut down to only having to build once. ~j Brian H wrote: > The reason I don't want to do that is because I have several machines to > do the update on and I don't want to do the download for e

amadmin not in man pages (amanda)

2004-01-23 Thread sysadmin
I am installing amanda on a new client and I have noticed that amadmin is not in the man pages (and it should according to the amanda man page). This is true both with the package and the port. For the package, it appears that the tarball just includes man pages for 'amanda' 'amrecover' and 'am

RE: world

2004-01-23 Thread Brian H
The reason I don't want to do that is because I have several machines to do the update on and I don't want to do the download for each machine. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 January 2004 03:21 pm, Brian H wrote: Greetings: Problem: I do not have a fast internet conne

HEADS UP: gettext

2004-01-23 Thread Trevor Johnson
I've tried to update gettext in the ports collection, and a problem has turned up. As described to me by Joe Marcus Clarke, portupgrade will fail because ports/devel/gettext (the new version which no ports use yet) is in conflict with ports/devel/gettext-old (the previous version which I set the p

via

2004-01-23 Thread Hugh
Are there any drivers available for the via chipset with sata drives. I cant seem to get bsd installed on this new computer. it cant find the hard drives thanks for any help___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: framebuffers?

2004-01-23 Thread Geert Hendrickx
> Try VESA_132x43. I'm not sure why all the modes aren't just WxH. Your > card also needs to be able to support that vesa mode; you can run > "vidcontrol -i mode | grep T" to list the text modes your card can do. I suppose my video card supports it, since it always worked under Linux (Gentoo).

Re: calcru negative-time messages

2004-01-23 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 12:47 PM 1.23.2004 -0800, RA Cohen wrote: >I have searched high and low for help with these negative-time >calcru messages...there is scant information out there, mostly a >paragraph in the troubleshooting section of the FreeBSD docs. >Most folks following the instructions there on later version

Re: umass0: SanDisk Cruzer, Trying To Mount But Errors In 'dmesg', help!

2004-01-23 Thread Brian Black
Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 January 2004 02:44 pm, Brian Black wrote: Try mount -t msdos /dev/daXs1 /mnt where X is the disk drive number. - -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX ---

Re: world

2004-01-23 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 January 2004 03:21 pm, Brian H wrote: > Greetings: > > Problem: I do not have a fast internet connection at home and I want to > upgrade my freebsd from release to stable. For the ports tree I download > the file ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeB

world

2004-01-23 Thread Brian H
Greetings: Problem: I do not have a fast internet connection at home and I want to upgrade my freebsd from release to stable. For the ports tree I download the file ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz from a fast connection. Is there something similar that I can download for

Re: How do I get into GUI?

2004-01-23 Thread Robert Warning
Check out the following link http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html You may want the nvidia drivers. http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-4365.html Check back if your still stumped. RW On 2004-01-23 10:21:13 -0500 Claude Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, my n

Re: umass0: SanDisk Cruzer, Trying To Mount But Errors In 'dmesg', help!

2004-01-23 Thread Jonathan Fosburgh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 January 2004 02:44 pm, Brian Black wrote: Try mount -t msdos /dev/daXs1 /mnt where X is the disk drive number. - -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

Hot Swap hardware on FreeBSD?

2004-01-23 Thread Stephen P. Cravey
I'm trying to locate a good resource for creating hot swap capable servers with FreeBSD and Vinum. Specifically, I'm trying to find out several things: Are there resources somewhere that document this type of thing? Please? Do I need controllers for SATA/SCSI that will handle the plugging/unplu

Re: Package from the packages-5.1-release directory won't install on a 5.1 system

2004-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:22:38PM -0500, Francis Litterio wrote: > I have a stock 5.1 release system, but when I try to install the package > amsn-0.71_1.tbz, which I downloaded from > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.1-release/All/amsn-0.71_1.tbz > > pkg_add says it nee

calcru negative-time messages

2004-01-23 Thread RA Cohen
I have searched high and low for help with these negative-time calcru messages...there is scant information out there, mostly a paragraph in the troubleshooting section of the FreeBSD docs. Most folks following the instructions there on later versions of FBSD seem to not be successful in getting ri

umass0: SanDisk Cruzer, Trying To Mount But Errors In 'dmesg', help!

2004-01-23 Thread Brian Black
hi i am trying to get my usb thumbdrive to be able to mount if anyone can help or tell me whats wrong please do. here is a current semi-listing of dmesg. umass0: SanDisk Cruzer, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 GEOM: create disk da0 dp=0xc26e0450 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direc

Re: 5.2 cvsup make buildworld error

2004-01-23 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 23 January 2004 12:26 pm, Michael Clark wrote: > Sry if this double post I used the wrong address the first time. > > This is the second computer I have had problems upgrade from 5.1 to > 5.2 on. The first computer I had to format as it died during > installworld and I was unable to boot

Re: sendmail logs and other questions

2004-01-23 Thread Ed Budd
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:39:15 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Meyer) wrote: > > > Dirk Thanks for the pointer to /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README. > > It seems like this is generic info not really targeted at the way > > sendmail is installed under FBSD. > > But it handle almot all configuration opti

Re: DSL with User PPP and Static IP

2004-01-23 Thread Lance E. Lott
try adding this line to your ppp.conf file. disable ipv6cp See if that makes a difference. Lance At 01:47 PM 1/23/2004, you wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. I have implemented all the changes including disabling the IPFW firewall NAT. I simplified the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file and made sure i

5.2 cvsup make buildworld error

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Clark
Sry if this double post I used the wrong address the first time. This is the second computer I have had problems upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 on. The first computer I had to format as it died during installworld and I was unable to boot it. This computer died on make installworld as well. After tha

5.2 cvsup make buildworld error

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Clark
This is the second computer I have had problems upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 on. The first computer I had to format as it died during installworld and I was unable to boot it. This computer died on make installworld as well. After that I was unable to use any basic commands, ls, ext. Rebooted and it

Re: DSL with User PPP and Static IP

2004-01-23 Thread Jacob D. Hunt
Thanks for the suggestions. I have implemented all the changes including disabling the IPFW firewall NAT. I simplified the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file and made sure it still worked using the dynamic config of "set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0". I then proceeded to change that li

Re: framebuffers?

2004-01-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> In the last episode (Jan 23), Geert Hendrickx said: > > Hello, > > > > I'm used to having framebuffers in Linux, and I would like to have that in > > FreeBSD too. > > > > I have already reconfigured and recompiled my kernel with "options VESA" > > enabled. Then I added this 2 lines to /et

burncd -l syntax [was: cdburn -l syntax ???]

2004-01-23 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Sorry, of course I mean burncd not cdburn! On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to burn a list of .wav's to CD-ROM . > # cdburn -f /dev/acd0 audio * > can process a directory with 6 or 7 files. When I try 14 or 15 > the machine will freeze (not enough RAM ???). >

Re: a good ip subnet calculator with gui..!

2004-01-23 Thread Doug Poland
Neal Hamilton wrote: > Is there any subnet calculators with a gui for unixfreebsd? After > hours of searching i could only find ipsc with a reference of gipsc but > the ports are broken and the package i installed does not > have gipsc. I usually use solar winds or boson ip tools on windows,

Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

2004-01-23 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 02:04 PM 1.23.2004 -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: >On Jan 23, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Michael Whitley wrote: >> I have read through the archives and seen that newer versions of >> Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl >> version. I noticed that there is a SpamAssassin 2.6 por

Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

2004-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Michael Whitley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have read through the archives and seen that newer versions of > Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl > version. I noticed that there is a SpamAssassin 2.6 port out for > freeBSD 4.9 but was wondering if anyone has had su

Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

2004-01-23 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 12:07 PM 1.23.2004 -0600, Michael Whitley wrote: >I have read through the archives and seen that newer versions of Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl version. I noticed that there is a SpamAssassin 2.6 port out for freeBSD 4.9 but was wondering if anyone has had succ

a good ip subnet calculator with gui..!

2004-01-23 Thread Neal Hamilton
Is there any subnet calculators with a gui for unixfreebsd? After hours of searching i could only find ipsc with a reference of gipsc but the ports are broken and the package i installed does not have gipsc. I usually use solar winds or boson ip tools on windows,, so if there is anything

Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

2004-01-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 23, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Michael Whitley wrote: I have read through the archives and seen that newer versions of Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl version. I noticed that there is a SpamAssassin 2.6 port out for freeBSD 4.9 but was wondering if anyone has had su

Re: Is this a Race Condition?

2004-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Martin McCormick said: > Thank you. > Daniela writes: > > >Yes, that's most likely the cause. If you use find's -delete action instead of -exec, you can shorten the window between finding and deleting. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: framebuffers?

2004-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Geert Hendrickx said: > Hello, > > I'm used to having framebuffers in Linux, and I would like to have that in > FreeBSD too. > > I have already reconfigured and recompiled my kernel with "options VESA" > enabled. Then I added this 2 lines to /etc/rc.conf: >

Re: portsdb -uU

2004-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lou Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am running 4.7. When I run 'portsdb -uU' I get LOTS of output of the form: > > someport: "somethingelse" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete > > Does this matter? Only if you want the ports that are reporting it. (which you probably don't, if you

Re: FreeBSD 5.2: could not load OpenGL subsystem

2004-01-23 Thread db
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:01:53 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Instead, install the x11/nvidia-driver port. This is a port of the > linux code for driving NVIDIA cards, and it overwrites the X11R6 > supplied libGL.so.1 shlib with it's own version. Read the docs > carefully and be

RE: sendmail logs and other questions

2004-01-23 Thread David Fleck
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, JJB wrote: > So guessing at what it's really trying to saw I have arrived at > this to tell sendmail my sites domain name. > > cd /etc/mail > ee freebsd.mc > Change DOMAIN(generic) to DOMAIN(fbsdjones.com) > Save file > m4 freebsd.mc > To compile the freebsd.mc source into the

sendmail + sasl

2004-01-23 Thread Robert Huff
Matthew Seaman writes: > You don't mention SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) -- > by default, the sendmail on FreeBSD doesn't contain any SASL > functionality, but you will need to add it in order to use > authentication. > > First install the security/cyrus-sasl2 port. Then

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