Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3 - found the problem!

2005-01-17 Thread Ian Moore
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:13, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 07:19, Ian Moore wrote: > > Now I'm not sure what the best way to get around this would be. I run a > > caching name server on the machine, so I guess I can tweak it to force > > localhost.foo.com resolve to 127.0.0.1 >

console resolution on a T41

2005-01-17 Thread Galanaki, Dimitrios
I am trying to increase the console resolution on my Thinkpad T41 which has an ATI mobility radeon card. >From what I read the standard step is to add the lines following lines in the kernel configuration file: options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE However when I run vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x

[IDLE] Issues

2005-01-17 Thread Dev Tugnait
For some reason today my load average seemed to spike repeatedly at intervals going over 5.38 making my mouse laggy and machine terribly slow. Its a desktop machine. ps -aux output UsER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 11 90.5 0.0 0 12 ?? RL

atapicam error message

2005-01-17 Thread Galanaki, Dimitrios
Hello All, I am referring to the standard non-critical kernel error message: cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present This occurs when one compiles the device atapicam to access the atapi CD through the SCSI interface. In addition to this message there is a very a

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3 - found the problem!

2005-01-17 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 January 2005 07:19, Ian Moore wrote: > > Now I'm not sure what the best way to get around this would be. I run a > caching name server on the machine, so I guess I can tweak it to force > localhost.foo.com resolve to 127.0.0.1 I'm runnin

Re: Kernel time-keeping adjustments - how to tune?

2005-01-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
John wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:05:22PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: John wrote: OK - on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE system, as I have documented (cf: message thread Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3), ntpd won't run, even with an identical configuation to the 5.2.1 system next to it.

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-17 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 January 2005 01:09, John wrote: > This is what goes into the log: > Jan 17 18:04:29 pearl ntpd[838]: ntpd 4.2.0-a Sun Jan 9 10:58:59 CST 2005 > (1) Jan 17 18:04:29 pearl ntpd[838]: bind() fd 7, family 2, port 123, addr > 0.0.0.0,in_clas

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3 - found the problem!

2005-01-17 Thread Ian Moore
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:50, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 01:09, John wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:49:00PM -0600, John wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:22:48PM -0600, John wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:23:28PM +0900, Rob wrote: > > > > > Ian Moore wr

Re: Slow directory access with lots of files

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:32:10AM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:49:11PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:34:25PM +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:13:43 -0800 > > > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi,

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-17 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 January 2005 05:23, Rob wrote: > Christian Hiris wrote: > > On the server ntp.matrix.net I run ntpd with the following config files > > (This machine still runs 5.3-BETA-4): > > > > # cat /etc/rc.conf | grep ntp > > ntpdate_flags="-b cloc

Re: Kernel time-keeping adjustments - how to tune?

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:17:12PM -0700, Danny MacMillan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:12:46PM -0600, John wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:05:22PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > > John wrote: > > > > > > >OK - on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE system, as I have documented (cf: > > > >message t

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-17 Thread Rob
Christian Hiris wrote: On the server ntp.matrix.net I run ntpd with the following config files (This machine still runs 5.3-BETA-4): # cat /etc/rc.conf | grep ntp ntpdate_flags="-b clock.netcetera.dk tick.keso.fi" ntpdate_enable="YES" ntpd_enable="YES" - - No need for "ntpdate -b"

Re: KPDF and KGhostView errors

2005-01-17 Thread RW
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 03:46, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I'm getting an error when trying to view PDFs with these applications: > > ghostscript: unknown device x11 > > I have ghostscript version 7.07 installed and was able to view PDFs as > recently as a few days ago. Acrobat Reader won't even sta

Re: gmirror: replacing failed disks

2005-01-17 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:14:48PM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Sunday 16 January 2005 21:14, Doug Poland wrote: > > > > (My system has a provider gm0s1 with ad4 and ad6 as consumers, so > > I'll use those device names) > > > > Simulate ad4 failing: > > > > pull the drive > > put the drive ba

KPDF and KGhostView errors

2005-01-17 Thread Trey Sizemore
I'm getting an error when trying to view PDFs with these applications: ghostscript: unknown device x11 I have ghostscript version 7.07 installed and was able to view PDFs as recently as a few days ago. Acrobat Reader won't even start now, so I don't know if these are related. I've been upgradin

Re: /usr full from wrong cvsup install

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Maglione
Marty Landman wrote: Cryptic enough subject? Here's what I think is my biggest problem at the moment; my fbsd (4.8 fm. mini-iso) is a small box having only 3 gb on two hard drives. Unfortunately I didn't do anything selective - like leave out x11 when I did -

Re: X11 configuration at 5.3 ?

2005-01-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 19:21, John wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:12:16PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 10:24, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2005-01-17 14:44, Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > how is called the X11 configuration tool at 5.3 ? > > > > > >

Re: window managers don't work over ssh

2005-01-17 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 January 2005 02:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello Xian, > > sometimes using -Y instead of -X solves a lot of X11 forwarding > problems. Not sure if it would solve your problem, but did you try this? If you use this in a multiuser e

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-17 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 January 2005 01:09, John wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:49:00PM -0600, John wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:22:48PM -0600, John wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:23:28PM +0900, Rob wrote: > > > > Ian Moore wrote: > > > >

Re: programming languages and visual programming under FreeBSD

2005-01-17 Thread Tabor Kelly
koen de wijs wrote: Hallo, I'm just new wtih unix and FreeBSD and I have a question about programming languages, I want to learn some of them but don't know where to start. C, it was the first programming language that I learned, so I may be a little biased. However, it is not that hard to learn

Re: window managers don't work over ssh

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Maglione
Kris Maglione wrote: what's in your ~/.xinitrc ? you may be running twm or the like. Oh, you're trying to run twm. I guess that's not what's running, then. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: can't build a gettext package

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:00:35PM -0500, daniel quinn wrote: > On January 17, 2005 07:43 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:57:23PM -0500, daniel quinn wrote: > > > On January 17, 2005 06:16 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > Those files are expected to be installed when the pac

Re: window managers don't work over ssh

2005-01-17 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:43:27PM +, Xian wrote: >> I cant seem to make any window manager work over ssh, but they all work >> locally. I am using Xorg now, and i didn't have this problem with XFree86. >> >> I start X with just xterm for testin

Re: purpose of /var/backups

2005-01-17 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:04:52PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > On my 5.3-STABLE systems I have a directory in /var called backups. A > view of man hier says: > >backups/ miscellaneous backup files > > with files like: > > aliases.bak > aliases.bak2 > group.bak > group

Re: window managers don't work over ssh

2005-01-17 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:43:27PM +, Xian wrote: > I cant seem to make any window manager work over ssh, but they all work > locally. I am using Xorg now, and i didn't have this problem with XFree86. > > I start X with just xterm for testing: > > startx /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm > > and then t

Re: can't build a gettext package

2005-01-17 Thread daniel quinn
On January 17, 2005 07:43 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:57:23PM -0500, daniel quinn wrote: > > On January 17, 2005 06:16 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Those files are expected to be installed when the package is built on > > > FreeBSD. Since your system didn't build them,

Re: can't build a gettext package

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:57:23PM -0500, daniel quinn wrote: > On January 17, 2005 06:16 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Those files are expected to be installed when the package is built on > > FreeBSD. Since your system didn't build them, there must be something > > different about it. You could

racoon and WinXP

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Maglione
I'm trying to use windows xp on my laptop to test the performance of my wifi adapter vs the freebsd ath driver (which is performing horribly), but I can't get the windows isakmp implementation to negotiate a psk with racoon. tcpdump gives me things like: 19:28:04.011379 0:50:fc:e8:dd:ae 0:f:b5:

Re: Slow directory access with lots of files

2005-01-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:49:11PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:34:25PM +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:13:43 -0800 > > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > Do you have UFS_DIRHASH in your kernel? If you don't, or if yo

Re: window managers don't work over ssh

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Maglione
what's in your ~/.xinitrc ? you may be running twm or the like. Xian wrote: I cant seem to make any window manager work over ssh, but they all work locally. I am using Xorg now, and i didn't have this problem with XFree86. I start X with just xterm for testing: startx /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm and the

Re: X11 configuration at 5.3 ?

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:12:16PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 10:24, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2005-01-17 14:44, Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > how is called the X11 configuration tool at 5.3 ? > > > > It is called `xorgcfg'. Try running as root: > > >

Re: Kernel time-keeping adjustments - how to tune?

2005-01-17 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:12:46PM -0600, John wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:05:22PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > John wrote: > > > > >OK - on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE system, as I have documented (cf: > > >message thread Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3), ntpd > > >won't run, even wi

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:49:00PM -0600, John wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:22:48PM -0600, John wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:23:28PM +0900, Rob wrote: > > > Ian Moore wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Ever since I upgraded from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE, I've been > > > > getting the

Re: X11 configuration at 5.3 ?

2005-01-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 10:24, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-01-17 14:44, Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how is called the X11 configuration tool at 5.3 ? > > It is called `xorgcfg'. Try running as root: > > # xorgcfg -textmode > > _

Re: can't build a gettext package

2005-01-17 Thread daniel quinn
On January 17, 2005 06:16 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Those files are expected to be installed when the package is built on > FreeBSD. Since your system didn't build them, there must be something > different about it. You could check the output of the configure and > build scripts to find out why,

Re: Kernel time-keeping adjustments - how to tune?

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:12:46PM -0600, John wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:05:22PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > John wrote: > > > > >OK - on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE system, as I have documented (cf: > > >message thread Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3), ntpd > > >won't run, even wi

Re: programming languages and visual programming under FreeBSD

2005-01-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
koen de wijs wrote: > I heard that C is the most powerfull language under unix Two points here: first, this is just one opinion, and one that may start a flame war (which I'll avoid); second, C is not just for UNIX, it's a platform neutral standard language. That means you can write a program wi

window managers don't work over ssh

2005-01-17 Thread Xian
I cant seem to make any window manager work over ssh, but they all work locally. I am using Xorg now, and i didn't have this problem with XFree86. I start X with just xterm for testing: startx /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm and then type ssh -CXf my.home.machine twm in the xterm and it tells me it ca

/usr full from wrong cvsup install

2005-01-17 Thread Marty Landman
Cryptic enough subject? Here's what I think is my biggest problem at the moment; my fbsd (4.8 fm. mini-iso) is a small box having only 3 gb on two hard drives. Unfortunately I didn't do anything selective - like leave out x11 when I did --- Stop in /usr/por

Re: KDE issues after upgrade

2005-01-17 Thread Adam Smith
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:06:48PM +0100, gustaaf wijnands said: > > > did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING , entry 20041229 ? Yeah you guys who suggested reading UPDATING were right. I should have known better! Thanks -- Adam Smith Internode : http://www.internode.on.net Phone :

Re: Slow directory access with lots of files

2005-01-17 Thread Totem
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:09:52AM -0800, Totem wrote: Hello, I'm new to this list so please excuse me if this has been asked before or if I don't provide enough info. I'm having an issue and I hope someone can help me understand what is happening. I have a FreeBSD serve

Re: bsd.port.mk problems => make failing for all ports

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:27:06AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday, I was upgrading some KDE dependencies using portupgrade. Since then > make fails for *every* port. > > uname -a > > FreeBSD gandalf 5.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p1 #9: Wed Dec 29 19:29:37 > UTC 2004

Re: can't build a gettext package

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:57:25AM -0500, daniel quinn wrote: > i've managed to build packages for everything else on the system, and gettext > seems to compile and install just fine, but for some reason, building the > package fails: > > ===> Building package for gettext-0.14.1 > Creating

Re: IPF firewalling

2005-01-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Anyway, thanks for your ideas, which were very useful for me. I'm using now the catch-all rules as You suggested. You also mentioned, there can be some problems with the ftp server. Could You tell me please, what You meant? Ftp hasn't been running yet, so I can't test it, but

Re: tracking cvsup p5 vs STABLE ?

2005-01-17 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 04:54 PM 1/17/2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:46:24PM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > can someone explain to me the difference here: > > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 > > vs > > FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE > > > ..I wanted to track 5.3-STABLE, but when I did that I didnt get some of the > ne

Re: tracking cvsup p5 vs STABLE ?

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:46:24PM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > can someone explain to me the difference here: > > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 > > vs > > FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE > > > ..I wanted to track 5.3-STABLE, but when I did that I didnt get some of the > newer files (still unknown why). I was es

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:25:55PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > >The number of changes between RELENG_5_3_0_RELEASE and RELENG_5_3 is > >very small. If you're seeing lots of changes, it means that you > >didn't actually have a 5.3-RELEASE source tree installed before now, > >which explains the pro

Re: FreeBSD/i386 may panic under heavy load on SMP machines

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:32:10PM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > At 01:08 PM 01/17/2005, you wrote: > >> The cvsup I am using is: > >> > >> *default host=cvsup8.us.FreeBSD.org > >> *default base=/var/db > >> *default prefix=/usr > >> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 > >> *default delete use-rel-suf

Re: Slow directory access with lots of files

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:34:25PM +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:13:43 -0800 > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Do you have UFS_DIRHASH in your kernel? If you don't, or if you added > > it after the disk was already populated, you'll see the benefits

tracking cvsup p5 vs STABLE ?

2005-01-17 Thread J.D. Bronson
can someone explain to me the difference here: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 vs FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE ..I wanted to track 5.3-STABLE, but when I did that I didnt get some of the newer files (still unknown why). I was especially interested in the SMP fixes. I was having random reboots and wanted to start wi

Re: [INFO] buildworld problems

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:52:56PM +0100, Daniel S. Haischt wrote: > Hello, > > yesterday I did install compat3x & compat4x. Each of > this port istalls a script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d > wich executes ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/compat. > > Could this be the reason for my ldconfig problem? I doub

Re: I can't get anything from mailing list

2005-01-17 Thread CryBaby
I can't again !!! my mail server: jazzcafe.no-ip.org I can receive mailing-list @ freebsd.org recently, but I can't receive mail now Some debug message below: % less /var/log/maillog ... Jan 18 06:17:15 jazzcafe sm-mta[10027]: j0HMFSaV010027: mx2.freebsd.org [216.136.204.119] did not issue M

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-17 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:00:25 -0800 Sandy Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:20:58 -0600, > > Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >> Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( > >just> like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just moun

purpose of /var/backups

2005-01-17 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, On my 5.3-STABLE systems I have a directory in /var called backups. A view of man hier says: backups/ miscellaneous backup files with files like: aliases.bak aliases.bak2 group.bak group.bak2 master.passwd.bak master.passwd.bak2 I'm curious, what process are writing t

Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

2005-01-17 Thread Gene
Ever thought about starting one of your own? Gene Jim Durham wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 01:12 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: Jim Durham wrote: I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about 8 s

Re: [INFO] buildworld problems

2005-01-17 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Hello, yesterday I did install compat3x & compat4x. Each of this port istalls a script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d wich executes ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/compat. Could this be the reason for my ldconfig problem? I'll try to add /usr/local/lib/compat to ldconfig_paths in /etc/rc.conf. Additionally I'll

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2005-01-17 Thread Robert Maerzke
Hello, Has anyone had any luck getting a Crystal Sound CS4327B sound card working with 5.3? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: IPF firewalling

2005-01-17 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Hello, >Now reading this - maybe you left out the default action at the top of >the ruleset? - I only see pass rules and unless you compiled your kernel >with default block, then default is pass, leaving your host with no >effective firewall at all. > >Should suffice just to flush the rules, u

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Doug Hardie wrote: [ ... ] It it at all possible to not have to buildworld when building a new kernel? For example, I was trying to add option atapicam. It would seem that buildworld would not be necessary in that situation. Yes, if the kernel sources and the world sources are in sync with each

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Re: Kernel time-keeping adjustments - how to tune?

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:05:22PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > John wrote: > > >OK - on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE system, as I have documented (cf: > >message thread Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3), ntpd > >won't run, even with an identical configuation to the 5.2.1 system > >next to it. F

Re: Kernel time-keeping adjustments - how to tune?

2005-01-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
John wrote: OK - on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE system, as I have documented (cf: message thread Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3), ntpd won't run, even with an identical configuation to the 5.2.1 system next to it. Furthermore, when I run adjkerntz -a, it totally whacks the system's ability to

Kernel time-keeping adjustments - how to tune?

2005-01-17 Thread John
OK - on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE system, as I have documented (cf: message thread Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3), ntpd won't run, even with an identical configuation to the 5.2.1 system next to it. Furthermore, when I run adjkerntz -a, it totally whacks the system's ability to keep time -

Re: IPF firewalling

2005-01-17 Thread Alvaro J. Gurdián
correction, I meant pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to any port = 53 keep state frags pass out quick on rl0 proto udp from any to any port = 53 keep state frags I did it in kind of a hurry. On Jan 17, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: If you compiled you kernel, and added optio

Re: how to install a different sub-release from the port

2005-01-17 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:43 PM 1/15/2005, Frank Staals wrote: You can install a newer release of apache by upgrading your portstree and than compiling it again ( use cvsup for the upgrading part: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html ) I'm going to learn to use cvsup. if you want to c

Re: Slow directory access with lots of files

2005-01-17 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:13:43 -0800 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > Do you have UFS_DIRHASH in your kernel? If you don't, or if you added > it after the disk was already populated, you'll see the benefits if > you dump, wipe and restore the disk. Could you elaborate on that? My im

Re: IPF firewalling

2005-01-17 Thread Alvaro J. Gurdián
If you compiled you kernel, and added options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK, then you need to explicitly allow each service to leave the interface, as well as come in thru the interface. For example add: pass in quick proto tcp from any to any port = 53 keep state keep keep state frags pass in quick p

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-17 Thread Doug Poland
> > On Jan 17, 2005, at 11:07, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >>>cd /usr/src > >>>make cleandir > >>>make cleandir > >>>make buildworld > >>> > >>>Kris > >> Interesting, what does "make cleandir" do? Is it different than running # cd /usr/obj # chflags -R noschg * # rm -rf * as documented in the h

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-17 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 17, 2005, at 11:07, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:32:31PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: The only way I can think for this to happen is if your source tree was inconsistent (i.e. not completely updated), or you updated your sources after you did the installworld, and the kernel

Re: bimap instead of public ip and servers

2005-01-17 Thread freebsd
>I don't know anything about qmail particularly, but if you're running >your own DNS, you should be able to report anything you want to the >DNS queries of your own mail daemon... > You are probably right. I can use split horizon DNS and return to requests from localhost different IP than to reques

Booting Process: Something real funny happening

2005-01-17 Thread villain
Hello. I've been trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE (miniinst.iso) on this HP Compaq DC7100 for a few months now. But the thing is, FreeBSD just won't boot! I've been searching help for this high and low, in HP forums as well as other BSD forums, with little luck. I'm installing this on a 150

Re: Creating a custom package

2005-01-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
Chad Morland wrote: I have recently setup a FreeBSD jumpstart server to install using PXE. I would like to add some additional third-party applications as part of the install. The last page of the FreeBSD jumpstart guide describes how to make a custom package but it looks like it has to be built fr

Re: FreeBSD/i386 may panic under heavy load on SMP machines

2005-01-17 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 01:08 PM 01/17/2005, you wrote: > The cvsup I am using is: > > *default host=cvsup8.us.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/var/db > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > > > ..doesnt this track STABLE and if so, why didnt I get t

Re: System Freeze with freebsd-5.3-Release-p5

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:38:09PM +0800, Lin, Tsung Ching wrote: > I had recompiled the kernel without those kern options. > if I enable both nis client and the second network interface, the > console shows "bge1: gigabit link up" and then the system freezes > without any log. OK, I asked a coll

Re: System Freeze with freebsd-5.3-Release-p5

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:38:09PM +0800, Lin, Tsung Ching wrote: > I had recompiled the kernel without those kern options. > if I enable both nis client and the second network interface, the > console shows "bge1: gigabit link up" and then the system freezes > without any log. I don't think you

RE: bandwidthd

2005-01-17 Thread Michael Clark
> -Original Message- > From: Freek Nossin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 6:09 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: bandwidthd > > > Hello, > > I use a program called bandwidthd to monitor my internet traffic. I've > configured the program in suc

Re: Slow directory access with lots of files

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:09:52AM -0800, Totem wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to this list so please excuse me if this has been asked before > or if I don't provide enough info. > > I'm having an issue and I hope someone can help me understand what is > happening. I have a FreeBSD server that is

Slow directory access with lots of files

2005-01-17 Thread Totem
Hello, I'm new to this list so please excuse me if this has been asked before or if I don't provide enough info. I'm having an issue and I hope someone can help me understand what is happening. I have a FreeBSD server that is running Samba. When users access directories that store lots of fil

Re: where did net-snmp go?

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:31:46PM +0200, DA Forsyth wrote: > Hiya > > Way back when I installed FreeBSD 5.0-R I installed net-snmp from the > ports tree without issues. > > Now I have a live server running 5.2.1-R and I need SNMP to monitor > it with and it is not in the ports tree in the sens

Re: FreeBSD/i386 may panic under heavy load on SMP machines

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:18:46AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > Topic: FreeBSD/i386 may panic under heavy load on SMP machines > > Category: core > Module: smp > Announced: 2005-01-16 > Credits:Stephan Uphoff, Xin LI > Affects:FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE > Corre

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:32:31PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > >>>The only way I can think for this to happen is if your source tree > >>>was > >>>inconsistent (i.e. not completely updated), or you updated your > >>>sources after you did the installworld, and the kernel depends on the > >>>newer

Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

2005-01-17 Thread Jim Durham
On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim Durham wrote: > > I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running > > Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about > > 8 servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more. >

Re: Configuring X [Fixed]

2005-01-17 Thread Mick Walker
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 13:07 +, Walker, Michael wrote: > Hi All, > > I am having a real problem setting up X under FreeBSD 5.3 on a Acer > Travelmate 280 laptop. > The laptop uses the Intel onboard i810 video controller, I know Xorg has > issues with this controller from past experience, so I a

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:22:48PM -0600, John wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:23:28PM +0900, Rob wrote: > > Ian Moore wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Ever since I upgraded from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE, I've been > > > getting the > > > following error on boot: > > > ntpd[380]: bind() fd 7, famil

Creating a custom package

2005-01-17 Thread Chad Morland
I have recently setup a FreeBSD jumpstart server to install using PXE. I would like to add some additional third-party applications as part of the install. The last page of the FreeBSD jumpstart guide describes how to make a custom package but it looks like it has to be built from the ports tree. T

Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

2005-01-17 Thread Jim Durham
On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:05 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Have you seen my book and website? > > http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > It is out of print now but still available on Amazon. > I have the book and I contributed some stuff to you a few years ago 8-) . -- -Jim __

Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

2005-01-17 Thread Jim Durham
On Saturday 15 January 2005 01:12 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Jim Durham wrote: > > I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running > > Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about > > 8 servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more. > > OK.

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:23:28PM +0900, Rob wrote: > Ian Moore wrote: > > Hi, > > Ever since I upgraded from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE, I've been getting > > the > > following error on boot: > > ntpd[380]: bind() fd 7, family 28, port 123, addr fe80:1 > > ::204:61ff:fe46:be89, in6_is_addr_mu

Re: "make package" question

2005-01-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Brian McCann wrote: Hi all...easy question for someone. I'm starting to use one machine to make my ports and system on and NFS mount and install from that one central machine. I'm trying to use "make package" and "make package-recursive" for ports...but is there a way to have it NOT try to instal

Re: this IMAP stuff is kicking my @$$...

2005-01-17 Thread Gary Schrock
At 08:14 PM 1/15/2005, Eric F Crist wrote: On Jan 15, 2005, at 7:06 PM, albi wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: do you get my point ? i'm trying to say that perhaps squirrelmail still demands a maildir-based imap-server (i don't know whether that's true, google could not give me an answer to that within

"make package" question

2005-01-17 Thread Brian McCann
Hi all...easy question for someone. I'm starting to use one machine to make my ports and system on and NFS mount and install from that one central machine. I'm trying to use "make package" and "make package-recursive" for ports...but is there a way to have it NOT try to install the port, just mak

Re: KDE issues after upgrade

2005-01-17 Thread gustaaf wijnands
Adam Smith wrote: Recent activities: o CVSup of Ports o portupgrade -Oar Hmm perhaps I shouldn't have specified the O, because my KDE is broken. Quite broken! I've reinstalled it by adding in ALL of the options, just to make sure nothing got missed, and besides perhaps deinstalling all of th

Re: different behaviour between 4.x and 5.x (ping response/disk io) [was Re: ...

2005-01-17 Thread Freebsd0101
In a message dated 1/16/05 7:43:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >stheg > >P.S. (to the list in general) Why do all of the questions about FBSD >performance, especially 4.x vs 5.x, come from people posting from >Windows boxes? Theories? Because performance is a server issue a

Re: Configuring X

2005-01-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Walker, Michael wrote: Hi All, I am having a real problem setting up X under FreeBSD 5.3 on a Acer Travelmate 280 laptop. The laptop uses the Intel onboard i810 video controller, I know Xorg has issues with this controller from past experience, so I added the necessary line to my /etc/make.conf and

Re: KDE issues after upgrade

2005-01-17 Thread RW
On Monday 17 January 2005 16:47, Chris wrote: > Adam Smith wrote: > >What happens is, upon loading of KDE from KDM, just after "Initializing > >Peripherals", it backs out with no error and Xorg reloads. > >Anyone got any suggestions as to what I might try to resolve this problem? > > When ever yo

can't build a gettext package

2005-01-17 Thread daniel quinn
i've managed to build packages for everything else on the system, and gettext seems to compile and install just fine, but for some reason, building the package fails: ===> Building package for gettext-0.14.1 Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/gettext-0.14.1.tbz Registering depends:

Re: different behaviour between 4.x and 5.x (ping response/disk io) [was Re: ...

2005-01-17 Thread Freebsd0101
In a message dated 1/16/05 7:43:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>Now i am really puzzled because i cannot understand why 4.x behaves >>relatively good compared to 5.x on this specific issue. Is there a >>good explanation or does one have to investigate this further? >Al

Re: system time mysteriously changes

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:28:04AM -0700, Danny MacMillan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:05:53PM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote: > > I'm having a problem with my system clock. The time will be fine for > > a few days, then all of a sudden, I will notice that it has jumped > > ahead by a number of h

Re: KDE issues after upgrade

2005-01-17 Thread Chris
Adam Smith wrote: Recent activities: o CVSup of Ports o portupgrade -Oar Hmm perhaps I shouldn't have specified the O, because my KDE is broken. Quite broken! I've reinstalled it by adding in ALL of the options, just to make sure nothing got missed, and besides perhaps deinstalling all of the

Re: Microkernel version of FreeBSD

2005-01-17 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:17:47PM -0500, Nicholas Ink wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > Is there a microkernel version of the FreeBSD software that has > source code available for download? Is it directly related to the > project? You may want to have a look at Darwin. > I am currently wo

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