The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical
examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people
know what's available on the website. Before you post a question
here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list
Hi, everyone!
Could you help me, please?
I have compiled and installed some FreeBSD ports. And I want to
recompile my 'World' (FreeBSD 5.3). Do I need to delete with pkg_delete
those ports and recompile them?
Thanks.
___
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Hi Alexander,
Sunday, December 5, 2004, 12:01:30 PM, you typed:
Hi, everyone!
Could you help me, please?
I have compiled and installed some FreeBSD ports. And I want to
recompile my 'World' (FreeBSD 5.3). Do I need to delete with pkg_delete
those ports and recompile them?
you don't
On Sun, 5 December, 2004 11:01, Alexander Bubnov said:
Hi, everyone!
Could you help me, please?
I have compiled and installed some FreeBSD ports. And I want to
recompile my 'World' (FreeBSD 5.3). Do I need to delete with
pkg_delete
those ports and recompile them?
Generally, no. But, if
I'm trying to switch a Linux system to FreeBSD. I have two existing
FreeBSD boxes running on the same kind of hardware and my approach was
to rsynch the disk contents from one of those existing configs and just
change the IP configuration in /etc/rc.conf.
After fdisk, disklabel, and newfs
Hello David,
Sunday, December 5, 2004, 12:24:14 PM, you typed:
On Sun, 5 December, 2004 11:01, Alexander Bubnov said:
Hi, everyone!
Could you help me, please?
I have compiled and installed some FreeBSD ports. And I want to
recompile my 'World' (FreeBSD 5.3). Do I need to delete with
FreeBSD-4.9
Can somebody please tell me what the command(s) is/are to make a drive bootable?
cheers,
Noah
___
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 01:05:35 -0500, jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone else heard of these great idea? If you are intrested sign
the petition so the company backing it, Tech Source, will fund it.
Please check this link with plenty of info about.
# dave:
Fatal server error:
xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O
It seems you don't have the modules io and/or mem loaded.
Check with
# kldstat
and load whatever's missing with
# kldload [io|mem]
Does this solve your problem?
You might want to just add 'device io' and
I cannot get my wife's iBook to find my wireless hub. The next best idea is
to install 2 cards in my laptop, with one wireless connecting to the
gateway, and the other one connected to the iBook.
How would I go about setting up the laptop to forward packets from the iBook
to the gateway? Is it
Hi,
zope-2.7.3 on
FreeBSD pukruppa.net 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Fri Nov 26 17:44:37 CET
2004 i386
doesn't start anymore. Doing
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/zope.sh start
I receive
Starting Zope
Instance /usr/local/zope - /usr/local/lib/python2.4/whrandom.py:38:
DeprecationWarning:
I've got an 80GB drive partitioned as follows:
salamander# df -h
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a496M 35M421M 8%/
devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev
/dev/ad0s1g 64G262M 58G 0%/home
/dev/ad0s1d496M
I'm building a tets machine to explore 5.3 before tackling the job of
changing over a production machine from 4-STABLE.
I've installed (minimal system) and cvsupd the 5-RELENG sources. I plan on
just doing my first 5.x build with the GENERIC kernel. I've looked at the
MAKEFIL, and the README in
Kjell Midtseter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
List members!
My daily security run output contains lots of kernel log messages like the
following:
Connection attempt to UDP 10.0.0.10:1099 from 217.13.4.21:53
Connection attempt to UDP 10.0.0.10:3204 from 193.75.75.193:53
--
What are the
Hello stan,
Sunday, December 5, 2004, 5:28:47 PM, you wrote the following:
I'm building a tets machine to explore 5.3 before tackling the job of
changing over a production machine from 4-STABLE.
I've installed (minimal system) and cvsupd the 5-RELENG sources. I plan on
just doing my first
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:28:47AM -0500, stan wrote:
I'm building a tets machine to explore 5.3 before tackling the job of
changing over a production machine from 4-STABLE.
I've installed (minimal system) and cvsupd the 5-RELENG sources. I plan on
just doing my first 5.x build with the
I purchased a USB memory device last week. It looks like it won't
work with FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #1: Sun Jul 25 00:53:29 EDT 2004
Nov 30 22:03:05 laptop /kernel: umass0: LEXAR MEDIA JUMPDRIVE ELITE, rev
2.00/20.00, addr
Nov 30 22:09:20 laptop /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4
Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Let me rephrase this previously posted question with a more desriptive
subject, I'm trying to get the CVS version of sylpheed-claws installed
on this 5.3 box (so if you've done it successfully, I'd *love* your
feedback). However, I'm getting a lot of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,all,
I really want to know if there is a way to install freebsd from hard
disk. This old laptop doesn't contain a floppy drive, And I didn't get a
CD burner either. Certainly, The rubbishy computer couldn't be boot use
pxe kind of thing. I've searched google
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:37:18PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:28:47AM -0500, stan wrote:
I'm building a tets machine to explore 5.3 before tackling the job of
changing over a production machine from 4-STABLE.
What;s the equivelant set of steps in 5.x?
You
Marta Resende [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ey,i upgrade using that options:
#cd /usr/src
#make buildworld
#make buildkernel KERNCONF=MINE
#make installkernel KERNCONF=MINE
#reboot
(press 4 for single-user mode)
#fsck -p
#mount -u /
#mount -a
#cd /usr/src
#mergemaster -p
#make
I'e got about 25 production machines with varous versions of 4-STABEL. Once
I've gotten to a comfort level with 5-STABLE, is it a sensible idea to
consider upgrading, rather that reinstalling these machines?
If so, can anyone point me to some docs as to the asfest way to do this?
--
They that
Walt Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I need help installing FreeBSD 5.3 as the second OS on my
workstation. I have a 501 Mhz Pentium processor with Windows XP
Professional and a 28Ghz hard drive that's divided into four
equal sized primary partitions. I also have boot
I try it already!
when i press ctrl-c nothing happens, and i booted in single-user mode and
see what was writted in rc.conf related to NFS, nothing was there ...
and by default nfs is disable ...
sorry, 5.3-stable ..
From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Marta
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:08:34PM -0500, stan wrote:
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:37:18PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:28:47AM -0500, stan wrote:
I'm building a tets machine to explore 5.3 before tackling the job of
changing over a production machine from
Could someone please give me an idea of what could be causing my issue?
I have checked /usr/ports/UPDATING, README's for cabextract and
amavisd-new, RELEASE-NOTES, google'd, checked the cabextract web site
and still nothing to suggest what could be the problem with this error
when doing a
Hi!
I was trying to install a server which has an AIC-7902
as a scsi disk controler on a FreeBSD system. I got
troubles cause the 5.2.1 version seems to provide no
drivers for HostRAID support. Taking a look at mailing list
archives seems that still no support is provided.
So I'd like to have
Hi,
I am having difficulty why should I need to label a disk? I have read enough
to understand the concpets of vinum. But in example at glabel man page a
label created for just one disk (ad2). Why do I need to label just one disk?
EXAMPLES
The following example shows how to set up a label
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:20:41PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:08:34PM -0500, stan wrote:
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:37:18PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:28:47AM -0500, stan wrote:
I'm building a tets machine to explore 5.3 before
Hello all,
I'm trying to get some CDs of mine onto the hard drive, using
cdparanoia. All of the relevant ATAPICAM options are in the kernel.
However, when I fire it up, it just sits there and does nothing.
Nothing meaning no recording, no timing out, nothing. It won't even
respond to kill -9.
hi i am having a problem mounting my cdrom some of the time on freebsd 5.3
my cdrom is also a 28 times burner
if i put in a data disk and type mount -t cd9660 -r /dev/acd0 /cdrom it
mounts just fine.
however if i put in a regular cd to just listen to not an mp3 disk is
tells me its an incorrect
I'm not 100% sure about this, but I believe that audio cds use a different
file system than data cds. cd9660 is the iso cd format.
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Trysch wrote:
hi i am having a problem mounting my cdrom some of the time on freebsd 5.3
my cdrom is also a 28 times burner
if i put in a data
Trysch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hi i am having a problem mounting my cdrom some of the time on freebsd 5.3
my cdrom is also a 28 times burner
if i put in a data disk and type mount -t cd9660 -r /dev/acd0 /cdrom
it mounts just fine.
however if i put in a regular cd to just listen to not
I've tried every mount command i can find t otry and it wont mount at
all with music in the cdrom at all
Lucas Holt wrote:
I'm not 100% sure about this, but I believe that audio cds use a
different file system than data cds. cd9660 is the iso cd format.
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Trysch wrote:
hi i
After a power outage last night I rebooted my computer and fsck
complained of the following :
ad1s2e: hard error reading fsbn 5103776 (ad1s2 bn 5103776; cn 317 tn
177 sn 20) status=59 error=40
Then goes on for a while giving the same error on blocks 5103776 -
5103807, except for block
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:38:21AM -0700, Trysch wrote:
however if i put in a regular cd to just listen to not an mp3 disk is
tells me its an incorrect super block
Audio CDs do not have a filesystem and cannot be mounted. They can,
however, be read and played with an appropriate program.
--
Hi, please help. I just upgraded my CPU/mobo to amd64
/Asus A8V delux yesterday. Still running the 32-bit
freebsd5.3 , everything worked except the NIC, I
thought to myself that probably is because my source
is not the latest, from what I understand, this issue
has been solved. So with the help
Greets,
I get a bunch of the following messages in my logs and on my console
screen:
kernel: arplookup 192.168.1.1 failed: host is not on local network
I use this machine as a gateway between my ISP and my internal lan, with
192.168.0.* IPs. How do I find out what is trying to find
I've been a FreeBSD user for a while now and I love it. I'm running 4.10
and plan on upgrading soon. I'm also an OpenBSD user but I tend to use
it for firewalls and routers. I setup Apache and Subversion on OpenBSD
3.6 last week. This is the first time I have ever done anything other
then a
What license is the FreeBSD Handbook under? I want to adapt chunks of it
for Wikipedia, which is under the GFDL with no invariant texts.
Also, are the man pages under the two-clause BSD license?
- d.
___
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Damien Hull wrote:
I've been a FreeBSD user for a while now and I love it. I'm running 4.10
and plan on upgrading soon. I'm also an OpenBSD user but I tend to use
it for firewalls and routers. I setup Apache and Subversion on OpenBSD
3.6 last week. This is the first time I have ever done anything
On Sunday 05 December 2004 03:47 pm, Damien Hull wrote:
3. Firewall and routing support is built in
I've never messed with non-basic routing under either OS, but you're surely
aware that FreeBSD has several built-in firewall systems (including OpenBSD's
own pf)?
Should I make the switch
* Damien Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1247 21:47]:
I've been a FreeBSD user for a while now and I love it. I'm running 4.10
and plan on upgrading soon. I'm also an OpenBSD user but I tend to use
it for firewalls and routers. I setup Apache and Subversion on OpenBSD
3.6 last week. This is the first
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 11:44 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Let me rephrase this previously posted question with a more desriptive
subject, I'm trying to get the CVS version of sylpheed-claws installed
on this 5.3 box (so if you've done it
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:47:08PM -0900, Damien Hull wrote:
1. OpenBSD has good security
2. Stable
3. Firewall and routing support is built in
Why I use FreeBSD
1. Stable
2. Ports tree has a lot of software
3. I can upgrade to new versions
Should I make the switch from FreeBSD to
Hi all,
I'm trying to set up vinum on a freshly installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7
box. The system is installed on da0. I want to use three 18G SCSI
drives to create a vinum volume.
For some reason vinum believes the disks hold a mere 255MB. This is
what vinum sets the subdisk length if I specify 0m as
FreeBSD-4.9
Can somebody please tell me what the command(s) is/are to make a drive bootable?
cheers,
Noah
___
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL
Hello,
I am offering the current releases of FreeBSD in my Onlineshops
(www.linux-proshop.de and www.callacd.com).
What do I have to do to be added to your BSD offering shop list?
Thanks in advance
Michael Wagner
--
Call A CD - Ihr persönlicher Downloadservice und CD-Shop
Im Web:
Oops. Meant to move the statisically thing up to the disclaimer, but
didn't end up deleting it in the second location. Ah well, you
probably understood despite the poor editing. ;)
--
Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
___
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
you must also add
hint.apm.0.disabled=0
in /boot/loader.conf
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:45:45 +0900, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LEI CHEN wrote:
Hi all,
Since I updated my box to 5-STABLE, I have ACPI problem, and I sort of
unlike it. So I am wondering how to disable acpi at startup?
I
On Monday, 6 December 2004 at 0:28:01 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to set up vinum on a freshly installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7
box. The system is installed on da0. I want to use three 18G SCSI
drives to create a vinum volume.
For some reason vinum believes the disks hold
I have:
NEC 1300A-DVD+/-RW Writer
KT133A Chipset
FreeBSD 4.10
cdda2wav with scsi emulation and dd without scsi emulation make
FreeBSD freeze. I read and try all utils which are mentioned in
Handbook, but always system hang up.
Cd and DVD writing works perfectly but extracting or playing cd
While trying to update to 5.3 stable, buildworld errors out on me. I'm
running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p11. Following is part of the output, if
you need more output please let me know. No luck looking up the errors
in google, so your help is appreciated.
Things I've tried: deleing /usr/obj,
Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes:
You don't say whether you're using vinum or gvinum. I've never seen
this problem before, but if you're getting incorrect subdisk sizes,
try specifying them explicitly:
sd length 35840952s drive ibma
I wonder whether the problem is related to
I tried checking the automatic builds at pointyhat for an error,
Googling for the error message, and checking the bug reports, but I
didn't turn up much on this. I'm trying to upgrade Firefox on FreeBSD
5.3 to the latest version from the ports. The build of the port fails
with this error:
People,
After a cvsup, installworld and portupgrade ... I have installed a new
optimized kernel.
After that I have installed KDE3 in my FreeBSd 5.3 machine.
The problem is now /usr is 4 GB used against 1 G free.
How is possible to clean /usr to dont have any problems in future upgrades ?
Thanks
Hi all,
now that I can use the full capacity of my disks, I'm stuck again. I'm
trying to set up a raid5 from three SCSI disks (I know that a serious
raid5 should use five disks or more, but I have to make do with three at
the moment). The configuration is as follows:
drive ibma device
orville weyrich wrote:
Before doing anything to your hard drive, check out
your computer's power supply -- if they go off
tolerance on voltages, you may start getting disk
errors -- often the first sign of power supply
problems.
Hmmm, Ok, I can see that. The errors are confined to one slice on
On Sunday 05 December 2004 09:02 pm, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
People,
After a cvsup, installworld and portupgrade ... I have installed a new
optimized kernel.
After that I have installed KDE3 in my FreeBSd 5.3 machine.
The problem is now /usr is 4 GB used against 1 G free.
How is
On Monday, 6 December 2004 at 3:05:31 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
Hi all,
now that I can use the full capacity of my disks, I'm stuck again. I'm
trying to set up a raid5 from three SCSI disks (I know that a serious
raid5 should use five disks or more, but I have to make do with three at
At 12:02 AM -0200 12/6/04, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
People,
After a cvsup, installworld and portupgrade ... I have installed
a new optimized kernel.
After that I have installed KDE3 in my FreeBSd 5.3 machine.
The problem is now /usr is 4 GB used against 1 G free.
How is possible to clean
I have a 10 disk VINUM configuration and two of the
disks are trashed. In theory there is still enough
redundant information to get things working again
without data loss.
Vinum has detected a configuration error (duh -- two
disks are toast, plus in recovery I accidently created
two more plexes)
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 03:37:03 +0200, William Fletcher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi :)
I was just wondering what precise piece of software I should use to convert
sgml to PDF?
I'm not sure if this helps, and it is exactly not what you asked for
(experienced advice?), however, this will get the
Date: 05 Dec 2004 12:02:26 -0500
From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Isn't there a way to install freebsd from hard disk with
only a bootable grub? (all file systems are ext3)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,all,
I really want to know if there is a way to install
On Dec 5, 2004, at 8:48 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
See if it looks any better after entering the commands:
cd /usr/src
make cleanworld
Could simply rm -rf /usr/obj/usr
Also portsclean -CD will remove any stray /usr/ports/*/*/work
directories. Will also remove the /usr/ports/distfiles/*
dear all,
i have an error when try to read pf log via tcpdump on .5.3-stable
ns2# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n -e -ttt -i pflog0
tcpdump: BIOCSETIF: pflog0: Network is down
ns2# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n -e -ttt -r /var/log/pflog
tcpdump: fread: Unknown error: 0
Whati should i do to fix this ?
regards
reza
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:24:49AM +1100, David Gerard wrote:
What license is the FreeBSD Handbook under? I want to adapt chunks of it
for Wikipedia, which is under the GFDL with no invariant texts.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/LEGALNOTICE.html
Also, are the man
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:30:20AM +0100, Michael Wagner wrote:
Hello,
I am offering the current releases of FreeBSD in my Onlineshops
(www.linux-proshop.de and www.callacd.com).
What do I have to do to be added to your BSD offering shop list?
See
William Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was just wondering what precise piece of software I should use to convert
sgml to PDF?
Just sort of asking for a general opinion of what is the _best_
software for this job, etc.
Do your sgml files come with DTDs and stylesheets? If so, it
69 matches
Mail list logo
