RE: Strange problem with DSL modem.

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Osgerby
Hi Ted, I enjoyed reading your email. Made me laugh, aside from realizing that I have a shitty DSL modem! Ah well. You wrote: "You haven't said exactly how your DSL connection is setup. Is this PPPoA or what? Nor how your DSL modem is configured. We need to know that before helping." It wa

Re: Strange problem with DSL modem.

2005-01-20 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 20 January 2005 10:50 pm, you wrote: > It simply reports that: "fetch: > http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fluxbox/fluxbox-0.9.10.t >ar.gz timed out" and then tries to download from another mirror, which > times out, etc, etc. You need to provide more information about your

mgetty force-init-chat

2005-01-20 Thread Timothy Luoma
(I am still trying to solve my "connected but can't get anywhere" dialin to FreeBSD problem) Last time I connected but couldn't get anywhere, I believe this was the mgetty log: 01/21 01:52:55 yd0 mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.31-Jul24 01/21 01:52:55 yd0 check for lockfiles 01/21 01:52

RE: Strange problem with DSL modem.

2005-01-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi Jason, I work for an ISP which is a Qwest Megahost and have dealt plenty with these and several other brands of modems on the Qwest network. I have dealt with the ActionTec people as well, and documented a number of bugs in earlier version of firmware for these modems, some of which have bee

Re: Release 5.3

2005-01-20 Thread Hexren
ДВ> Здравствуйте, . ДВ> Подскажите пожалуйста, я слышал информацию что FreeBSD 5.3 не ДВ> потдерживает разделы FAT32 размером больше 128Gb? так ли это? - Most propably every effort you do to speak english will help you soo much on this list :) I do no

Fwd: Re: "Too many open files" (Critical, have only one session left)

2005-01-20 Thread Michael C. Shultz
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: "Too many open files" (Critical, have only one session left) Date: Thursday 20 January 2005 06:52 pm From: Enigma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael C. Shultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You can use sysctl ajust kernel values "kern.maxfiles" type t

FreeBSD 5.3 BuildKernel Error

2005-01-20 Thread Lynn Comiskey
cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf; PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/games:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin config -d /usr/obj/usr/sr

Release 5.3

2005-01-20 Thread Дмитрий Владимирович
Здравствуйте, . Подскажите пожалуйста, я слышал информацию что FreeBSD 5.3 не потдерживает разделы FAT32 размером больше 128Gb? так ли это? -- С уважением, Дмитрий mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: Strange problem with DSL modem.

2005-01-20 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:31 pm, Jason Osgerby wrote: > Hello all, > > I am hoping someone on this list can help me out with a very > frustrating issue I am having. I dual boot one of my machines (a Dell > Dimension 2400) with Windows XP Pro, and connect to the Internet via > an Actiontec GT70

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
David Gerard wrote: So something around 500MHz will happily run Pango and the other cutting-edge internationalisation stuff if you fill it with memory. My experience is that with a 500Mhz Pentium 3 (512K cache, 512mb RAM, Matrox G450 AGP graphics), Gnome (2.6 tested) is unbearably slow. A large

Re: sensitive data on disks (was: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU)

2005-01-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
John wrote: What do you folks have on your hard drives that is worth thousands of dollars and weeks of time for someone to recover? Err.. I'd guess that most people who use their machine for business have sensitive data on it that can easily be at least a couple thousand dollars worth... for comp

Re: PDF file editor

2005-01-20 Thread Michael Collette
It's no Acrobat, but KWord can open up a pdf to allow you to edit it. It has to be a pretty simple pdf or the formatting will get messed up though. For original documents, both KWord and OpenOffice.org Writer both produce excellent output. For fancier work, Scribus is the app. Lastly, since you

Re: PDF file editor

2005-01-20 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote E. J. Cerejo thusly... > > Is there a port that allows you to edit a pdf file or fill it in? I don't know one with which a PDF file can be edited, but acroread port, print/acroread, does allow to type in the appropriate space in some files. If you are feeling

Plugin for onlinestreaming music

2005-01-20 Thread Nguyen Le Hinh
Hi alls, Can anyone hear the online streaming music from this website: http://www.nhatrangngaynay.net/music/index.php?act=view&code=song&ssid=12&id=625 I installed both mplayer plugin and plugger but still not be able to hear it.Any ideas for it? Thanks, Ps :The above address will be ok with

Re: Thread Scheduling

2005-01-20 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >My question is, will I notice any performance improvement by using the >new scheduler opposed to the 4.4BSD scheduler on an SMP system and can >the new scheduler be utilized on a single processor system? The >intended use of the SMP system is for MySQL databases only. Hello, I

Re: PDF file editor

2005-01-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
E. J. Cerejo wrote: Is there a port that allows you to edit a pdf file or fill it in? acroread (/usr/ports/print). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Bridge with PF

2005-01-20 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >Hello, > >after doing kldload -v bridge, I can see that I have it: >Where is the mention of bridge with pf ? Or am I misunderstanding who >bridge is supposed to work with pf ? > >I do have PF compiled into the kernel, it currently is doing NAT >with packet filtering. Running 5.3.

Strange problem with DSL modem.

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Osgerby
Hello all, I am hoping someone on this list can help me out with a very frustrating issue I am having. I dual boot one of my machines (a Dell Dimension 2400) with Windows XP Pro, and connect to the Internet via an Actiontec GT701-WG DSL modem with an inbuilt wireless gateway. Now, under Window

Re: PDF file editor

2005-01-20 Thread David Gerard
E. J. Cerejo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050121 14:58]: > Is there a port that allows you to edit a pdf file or fill it in? It appears not - lots of writers and readers, but no *editors* per se. Write one ;-D - d. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: ALTQ support?

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 18:30:23, Brian John wrote: Hello, I am trying to get pf to work on my 5.3 machine. I thought that I had it setup but it says that I don't have ALTQ support? What is that? Can someone help me set it up? Thanks /Brian ___ freebsd-questi

Re: QLogic 2312

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 18:33:04, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: Hello FreeBSD gurus! I have a question for you. We have a small mounster: HP Proliant BL20 two Xeon processors, 2Gb RAM, QLogic SCSI 2312, and some other scary characteristics. Now, I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE almost accidentally. I mean, it

Re: My computer keeps crashing

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 19:06:22, cali wrote: If this is the wrong mailing list, I apologise, suggestions to a more appropriate mailing list will be appreciated. Reasonably recently I upgraded my hardware to the following: Soltek SL-NV400-64 "Purple Ray" (Socket A) Motherboard AMD Athlon "Barton" XP3200+ 400FS

ntp is acting strangely

2005-01-20 Thread Bsd B
Hi, I am baffled about an ntp problem i am experiencing. Please excuse me if this is a simple question, as I am still a relatively inexperienced user compared to the community. My setup is 3 computers (2 act as game clients and the other acts as a game server) all running FreeBSD4.9 RELEASE. They a

Re: hard drive errors

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 19:21:13, David Bear wrote: I am receiving the following errors on my hard drive. This appears to affect some file in /var/log. My question is twofold. 1) shouldn't ufs notice this sector as being unuseable and mark it offlimites? 2) if not, is there a way to mark it so manually? ad0

Re: openvpn?

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 21:11:10, Shawn wrote: I have been attempting to get open vpn working on my freebsd 4.11 Alpha machine. SO Far I have done the following.. I did the make install for /usr/ports/security/openvpn/ Where is uses SSL Im trying to understand the config file for /etc/ ssl/openssl.cnf Aft

Plugin for playing streaming online music

2005-01-20 Thread Nguyen Le Hinh
Hi alls, I have a problem with playing online streaming music .Here is the website that drives me mad http://www.nhatrangngaynay.net/music/index.php?act=view&code=song&ssid=12&id=627 Can anyone play it?I use both mplayer plugin and plugger but still not able to play it.The extension is text/h

Re: Xmms FreeBSD and buzzing or skipping sound

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 20:57:12, Derek wrote: Collin McClendon wrote: I've noticed for quite some time (at least on 5.x even before - CURRENT) that if I'm unzipping or tarring a file that it is enough to make xmms play mp3s with intermittent buzzing. I have a fairly fast machine, dual athlon 1.53 Ghz wit

Re: 5.3 interrupt storm

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 19:47:12, J.D. Bronson wrote: I have read a few tips on this - but looking for something that works. I have DISABLED USB support in the bios on my IBM 305 servers. It seems FreeBSD still 'sees' USB. I copied the GENERIC kernel to TEST kernel I removed -all- USB support from the new k

PDF file editor

2005-01-20 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Is there a port that allows you to edit a pdf file or fill it in? - Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador do Yahoo! agora. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-20 Thread J65nko BSD
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:09:08 +1030, Paul A. Hoadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:54:42PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > > > I have actually solved the problem. I intend to post a summary for > > the archive when I return to the site later in the week, at which > > time

Re: named[604]: *** POKED TIMER ***

2005-01-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 06:39:21PM +0100, Martin Zibert wrote: > Greetings.. > > I am running FreeBSD 5.3 on dual Xeon 3GHz box and today i got a line > in my messages, which goes: > > named[604]: *** POKED TIMER *** > > I've searched the web but i could not find what this means. Could > anyone

Re: openvpn?

2005-01-20 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:11:10PM -0500, Shawn wrote: > I have been attempting to get open vpn working on my freebsd 4.11 Alpha > machine. SO Far I have done the following.. > > I did the make install for /usr/ports/security/openvpn/ > > Where is uses SSL Im trying to understand the config fil

Re: hard drive errors

2005-01-20 Thread John
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:21:13PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > I am receiving the following errors on my hard drive. This appears to > affect some file in /var/log. My question is twofold. 1) shouldn't ufs > notice this sector as being unuseable and mark it offlimites? 2) if > not, is there a way to

openvpn?

2005-01-20 Thread Shawn
I have been attempting to get open vpn working on my freebsd 4.11 Alpha machine. SO Far I have done the following.. I did the make install for /usr/ports/security/openvpn/ Where is uses SSL Im trying to understand the config file for /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf After an attempted figure change I try

Re: hard drive errors

2005-01-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
David Bear wrote: I am receiving the following errors on my hard drive. This appears to affect some file in /var/log. My question is twofold. 1) shouldn't ufs notice this sector as being unuseable and mark it offlimites? 2) if not, is there a way to mark it so manually? Sure, by default, modern dri

Re: Xmms FreeBSD and buzzing or skipping sound

2005-01-20 Thread Derek
Collin McClendon wrote: I've noticed for quite some time (at least on 5.x even before -CURRENT) that if I'm unzipping or tarring a file that it is enough to make xmms play mp3s with intermittent buzzing. I have a fairly fast machine, dual athlon 1.53 Ghz with 1 GB of ram and a fully scsi setup,

Bridge with PF

2005-01-20 Thread Kosta Kilim
Hello, after doing kldload -v bridge, I can see that I have it: kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 16 0xc040 2cf3dc kernel 2 14 0xc06d 54974acpi.ko 31 0xc125b000 3000 daemon_saver.ko 41 0xc152a000 7000 bridge.ko then if I do: sysctl -a | grep net.lin

5.3 interrupt storm

2005-01-20 Thread J.D. Bronson
I have read a few tips on this - but looking for something that works. I have DISABLED USB support in the bios on my IBM 305 servers. It seems FreeBSD still 'sees' USB. I copied the GENERIC kernel to TEST kernel I removed -all- USB support from the new kernel. I then rebooted and I still see this:

Re: My computer keeps crashing

2005-01-20 Thread Matt Staroscik
This sure smells like a hardware problem. I think the problem might be due to my bios settings running the CPU to fast although I do not think I am overclocking it. This might explain the strange timing of the problem, maybe the motherboard is unstable. If you are not explicitly overclocking, t

hard drive errors

2005-01-20 Thread David Bear
I am receiving the following errors on my hard drive. This appears to affect some file in /var/log. My question is twofold. 1) shouldn't ufs notice this sector as being unuseable and mark it offlimites? 2) if not, is there a way to mark it so manually? ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 19674311 of

Re: My computer keeps crashing

2005-01-20 Thread Chris
cali wrote: If this is the wrong mailing list, I apologise, suggestions to a more appropriate mailing list will be appreciated. Reasonably recently I upgraded my hardware to the following: Soltek SL-NV400-64 "Purple Ray" (Socket A) Motherboard AMD Athlon "Barton" XP3200+ 400FSB (Socket A) CPU - OEM

My computer keeps crashing

2005-01-20 Thread cali
If this is the wrong mailing list, I apologise, suggestions to a more appropriate mailing list will be appreciated. Reasonably recently I upgraded my hardware to the following: Soltek SL-NV400-64 "Purple Ray" (Socket A) Motherboard AMD Athlon "Barton" XP3200+ 400FSB (Socket A) CPU - OEM Asus DRW-04

Re: "Too many open files" (Critical, have only one session left)

2005-01-20 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 20 January 2005 03:38 pm, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > >> I have got it before and took appropriate steps using the ideas > >> and tips from you guys. Now I have it again: > >> > >> Current situation on my head-less system is that I do have a > >> single SSH session up. Unfortunately it's n

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 20 at 15:10, Matthew Seaman confidently asserted: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:59:13PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: > >> I always thought that formatting/fdisk'ing twice completely erased >> *permanently* whatever had been on the disc. You make an interesting >> case that previously I never

Re: ALTQ support?

2005-01-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 20 January 2005 05:30 pm, Brian John wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to get pf to work on my 5.3 machine. I thought that I > had it setup but it says that I don't have ALTQ support? What is > that? Can someone help me set it up? > > Thanks > > /Brian ALTQ is a kernel option. Add the

Re: "Too many open files" (Critical, have only one session left)

2005-01-20 Thread Joachim Dagerot
>> I have got it before and took appropriate steps using the ideas and >> tips from you guys. Now I have it again: >> >> Current situation on my head-less system is that I do have a single >> SSH session up. Unfortunately it's not authenticated as ROOT but as >> an ordinary user. >> >> When I try

Re: ALTQ support?

2005-01-20 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
try to add these lines to your kernel config, and recompile after having made that particular addition ... # ALTQ options ALTQ options ALTQ_CBQ# Class Bases Queueing options ALTQ_RED# Random Early Drop options ALTQ_RIO# RED In/Out options

QLogic 2312

2005-01-20 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
Hello FreeBSD gurus! I have a question for you. We have a small mounster: HP Proliant BL20 two Xeon processors, 2Gb RAM, QLogic SCSI 2312, and some other scary characteristics. Now, I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE almost accidentally. I mean, it seemed to me that our computer got frozen when i

Re: "Too many open files" (Critical, have only one session left)

2005-01-20 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 20 January 2005 03:09 pm, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > I have got it before and took appropriate steps using the ideas and > tips from you guys. Now I have it again: > > Current situation on my head-less system is that I do have a single > SSH session up. Unfortunately it's not authenticate

ALTQ support?

2005-01-20 Thread Brian John
Hello, I am trying to get pf to work on my 5.3 machine. I thought that I had it setup but it says that I don't have ALTQ support? What is that? Can someone help me set it up? Thanks /Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

"Too many open files" (Critical, have only one session left)

2005-01-20 Thread Joachim Dagerot
I have got it before and took appropriate steps using the ideas and tips from you guys. Now I have it again: Current situation on my head-less system is that I do have a single SSH session up. Unfortunately it's not authenticated as ROOT but as an ordinary user. When I try a "ls" I get : $ ls

Re: usbd: Executing umount: Device not configured

2005-01-20 Thread Alexander Anderson
Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:25:37 AM, Robert Marella wrote: >> usbd: Executing '/sbin/umount /dev/da0s1' >> umount: unmount of /mnt/camera failed: Device not configured >> usbd: '/sbin/umount /dev/da0s1' returned 1 > > Ummm, your mount point is /mnt/camera. > > The command should be > > umount /mnt

RE: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-20 Thread Niy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Kraft Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:54:42PM +1030, Paul

php log to own syslog file

2005-01-20 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im trying to figure out how to setup FreeBSD 5.3 to log php events to its own log file via syslog. In /etc/syslog.conf, I added -> # php logs !httpd *.* /var/log/php.log I created a empty file for the log -> gladiator# touch /var/log/php.log gladiator# ls

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-20 Thread Joe Kraft
Paul A. Hoadley wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:54:42PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: I am told it's running Windows 2000 DNS Server. Presumably that's Microsoft's own DNS implementation built into Windows 2000. (By 'sometimes' I don't mean it's non-deterministic. Every time sendmail asks for

Re: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 15:37:07, Bob Perry wrote: Just joined an ISP that has agreed to provide residential DSL service. Their service is normally limited to commercial operations but they made the offer based on the fact that my OS was FreeBSD. At this stage we have determined that only one of three phone

Re: One Last Plea For Vinum Assistance

2005-01-20 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Thanks, for your reply. I at least *feel* better knowing that my questions doesn't fall into the "too dumb to deserve an answer" category. :) On 1/19/2005 10:57 PM Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi Drew, Please read the following: http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html I have. And follow

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 21:45 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Robert Marella wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:17 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > > >>Assuming one doesn't have the resources to do this, what might one do to > >>secure disk drives before disposal. > > > > > > I live in Kona on

Re: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Bob Perry wrote: Just joined an ISP that has agreed to provide residential DSL service. Their service is normally limited to commercial operations but they made the offer based on the fact that my OS was FreeBSD. Cool At this stage we have determined that only one of three phone jacks in my apar

Re: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-20 Thread Brian McCann
FWIW, stay away from Linksys if you can help it. I used to love them for basic stuff, but once I wanted to do more advanced stuff like bridging and having "Client APs", i hit all kinds of problems...even getting 2 identical APs to talk to each other. I've gotten D-Link every since and been h

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:17:50PM +, Jason Henson wrote: > Here is an interview with ati. The sad part is they give a solid no to > bsd support. Oh, that's not a problem, their drivers suck anyway. At least I wouldn't like to have them on one of my machines. cu, Uwe _

[INFO]Nvidia Driver information

2005-01-20 Thread Rod Person
For the people with nvidia graphic cards some information on somethings that I have noticed. I have a Elsa Gloria II which is based on the RIVA/TNT II chip set by Nvidia. The Nvidia driver works fine for me except in the following conditions. 1) I had a PCI usb card that I placed in the machine

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Robert Marella wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:17 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Assuming one doesn't have the resources to do this, what might one do to secure disk drives before disposal. I live in Kona on the "Big Island of Hawai`i". One mile from shore the water is over 4000 feet. Send your

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:17 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Assuming one doesn't have the resources to do this, what might one do to > secure disk drives before disposal. I live in Kona on the "Big Island of Hawai`i". One mile from shore the water is over 4000 feet. Send your hard drives and

Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-20 Thread Bob Perry
Just joined an ISP that has agreed to provide residential DSL service. Their service is normally limited to commercial operations but they made the offer based on the fact that my OS was FreeBSD. At this stage we have determined that only one of three phone jacks in my apartment is able to sync

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

2005-01-20 Thread Jochen Keil
stheg olloydson wrote: Glad to be of help. Raidframe had been ported to FBSD 5.x, but it was removed because kernel changes broke it, and no one volunteered to fix it. I think gvinum replaced vinum in 5.3 for the same reason. I don't use software raid, so I don't really know. It's a pity that raidf

Re: usbd: Executing umount: Device not configured

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Marella
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:41 -0500, Alexander Anderson wrote: > Greetings all, > > I have a Sony DSC-P32 digital camera with a USB interface. I can't get > usbd to unmount the camera when it's disconnected, powered off, or > detached. > > I have to remember to execute umount(8) manually before the

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Erik Norgaard writes: EN> Many larger companies have a fixed upgrading schedule, a pc lives 3 EN> years. One must wonder why. After all, they don't rebuild their offices every three years (although some seem to replace company cars fairly quickly--but mostly due to wear and tear, I presume, whic

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
John wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:52:29PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Colin J. Raven writes: CJR> I always thought that formatting/fdisk'ing twice completely erased CJR> *permanently* whatever had been on the disc. Information can be recovered from disks even after a dozen or more overwrit

Re: Torrent Program

2005-01-20 Thread John Koepke
Torrentflux.com. I use this wonderful product. Got some great features. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:25:50 +1000, Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im chasing a GUI Torrent program that will allow multiple downloads of > torrents without having to re-open the d/l program for each new torrent. If >

snapshots, soft update inconsistency

2005-01-20 Thread Jay
I've got some filesystem problems on my /usr partition. Cause: power failures caused by TWO exploding transformers I restarted in single-user mode and fsck'd all of my partitions. Everything looked fine. I've got a handful of zero-length files that I can't fix. "Bad file descriptor". I've tr

Thread Scheduling

2005-01-20 Thread Gardner Bell
While reading The Design and Implementation of FreeBSD I came across the section on thread scheduling. At the present time I am only testing FreeBSD on a single processor system, but will be moving to an SMP once I complete building it. Now it says that since FreeBSD 5.0 the /sys/kern/sched_ule.c

Re: dns question

2005-01-20 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I think it depends upon the registrar. Of the 200 domains, they are probably registered across 2 or 3 registrars. Some ask for just the host name, while others ask for both hostname and IP. Jeff. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:14:01 +, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Jeff MacDonald <[EMA

Re: Torrent Program

2005-01-20 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Mike Hunter wrote: On Jan 20, "Warren" wrote: Im chasing a GUI Torrent program that will allow multiple downloads of torrents without having to re-open the d/l program for each new torrent. If anyone knows of such a program please let me know(not QTorrent) I haven't tried this Java client on F

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Mark Rowlands
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Anthony Atkielski > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:51 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: *** SPAMMY *** Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU > > Colin J. Raven writes: > > CJR> Eh? Surely y

RE: need help

2005-01-20 Thread Henry Su
You can google it, there're many articles. Breifly answer your question: 1. Compile kernel to support ipfw (firewall). 2. Edit /etc/sysctl.conf add "net.inet.ip.forwarding=1" for routing. Good luck. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of angelito m

RE: Torrent Program

2005-01-20 Thread Mark Rowlands
Bittornado is in the ports Works fine and doesn't require linux and java and god knows what else to run. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hunter > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 5:35 PM > To: Warren > Cc: freebsd-questions@

named[604]: *** POKED TIMER ***

2005-01-20 Thread Martin Zibert
Greetings.. I am running FreeBSD 5.3 on dual Xeon 3GHz box and today i got a line in my messages, which goes: named[604]: *** POKED TIMER *** I've searched the web but i could not find what this means. Could anyone help me? Is this a bug? Thanks in advance. Martin _

Re: OpenOffice doesn't seem to want to accept spanish key mapings

2005-01-20 Thread José de Paula
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:38:11 -0600, eculp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OpenOffice doesn't seem to want to accept spanish key mappings. I can't get > openoffice to accept dead key mappings that are used to create accents. > > Could someone who is using spanish, french, italian, portuguese give me

Re: Creator of 4.4 BSD

2005-01-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Just in case somebody cares, "The Art Of Unix Programming" by Eric S. Raymond contains a very detailed description of the history of Unix, BSD and Linux. In my opinion, that chapter alone makes the book worth reading. Kind regards, Benjamin ___ freebsd-

Re: Mrs. Butterworth vs Vermont Maid

2005-01-20 Thread Boris Spirialitious
What is this subject? - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsub

Re[8]: Connection via proxy

2005-01-20 Thread X3K6A2
> Unfortunately, I was still not able to ping the proxy > server. I tried pinging by using the name of the > server as well as the IP address but neither were > successful. Are there any preliminary configurations > that should be done prior to connecting to a proxy > server or is it simply a matte

Re[8]: Connection via proxy

2005-01-20 Thread Hexren
MM> Unfortunately, I was still not able to ping the proxy MM> server. I tried pinging by using the name of the MM> server as well as the IP address but neither were MM> successful. Are there any preliminary configurations MM> that should be done prior to connecting to a proxy MM> server or is it si

Re: Mouse in X w/ 5.3

2005-01-20 Thread scottclansman
Okay... got the serial mouse working... just took me a while to figure out the config app was "sysinstall" not "sysconfig" :-P Cheerio, SigmaX ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: Torrent Program

2005-01-20 Thread Mike Hunter
On Jan 20, "Warren" wrote: > Im chasing a GUI Torrent program that will allow multiple downloads of > torrents without having to re-open the d/l program for each new torrent. If > anyone knows of such a program please let me know(not QTorrent) I haven't tried this Java client on FBSD, but it c

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d vs /etc/rc.conf question

2005-01-20 Thread Gregor Mosheh
> >> On my 4.10 box, there is a mysql-server script in > /usr/local/etc/rc.d > >> and nothing > >> in /etc/rc.conf, yet mysql-server starts up a > boot time. > >> Why? (the following is true for 4.x) Check the /etc/defaults/rc.conf file You'll see in there that the default setting for local

RE: pdflib for php

2005-01-20 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Matthew Seaman > Sent: donderdag 20 januari 2005 15:15 > To: Chris Hodgins > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: pdflib for php > > Yes -- it's just waiting for the maintainer to provid

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:51:01PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Colin J. Raven writes: > > CJR> Eh? Surely you don't meant trashed - physically annihilated? > > Absolutely. That's the only safe way to protect data. Any disk drive > with platters that are even remotely intact can still be r

Re: Mouse in X w/ 5.3

2005-01-20 Thread scottclansman
> Maybe tweaking the configuration of mouse in X would solve the > problem. Does this problem appear if no X is running as well? Well I googled my mouse, and found a bug report and several questions, but no solutions to the problem. I'm sure it's doable, but I don't want to spend the time wit

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread John
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:52:29PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Colin J. Raven writes: > > CJR> I always thought that formatting/fdisk'ing twice completely erased > CJR> *permanently* whatever had been on the disc. > > Information can be recovered from disks even after a dozen or more > over

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
The recent discussion in this thread causes me to wonder whether FreeBSD's performance on older, slower equipment could be a contributing factor to why hardware vendors like Dell and ATI are willing to provide only limited support for LINUX and none at all for FreeBSD. After all, if FreeB

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread scottclansman
> And anything that > gets near internationalization on Unix or Linux, namely KDE and Gnome, > requires even more powerful hardware than "Windoze" and probably still > doesn't have the kind of local language integration that a localized > version of Windows has. Um... never had it work quite that

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread David Gerard
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050121 02:12]: > Matthias Buelow writes: > MB> Wake up from your pipe dreams. Shipping decommissioned computers to the > MB> 3rd world is not going to solve any development problem. > It helps solve an environmental problem, though. And they need not be >

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Assuming one doesn't have the resources to do this, what might one do to secure disk drives before disposal. I've thought of opening them up and scratching the platters or chopping them into pieces (not sure how hard this might be to do), or something. Home incineration i

Re: SIR

2005-01-20 Thread Jon Drews
Ali: The ltmdm port may work: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/comms/ltmdm/pkg-descr I have a feeling Matthew Seamen is right though. You may have to use an external modem. See this e-mail: Help: Tip on Buying External modem http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-May/

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread scottclansman
> >Anthony Atkielski wrote: > >> Indeed, someone in the Third World without the means to buy a new PC and > >> an expensive Windows license could find a junk PC and install FreeBSD on > > > >And where do you think would they "find" this "junk PC"? > >Don't you think that's a bit condescending? > >

Re: SIR

2005-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:23:27AM +, Ali Farhan wrote: > BUT SIR...KINDLY TELL ME HOW CA I INSTALL MODEM IN FREEBSD 5.1 ...MY > MODEM IS LUCENT (LT WIN MODEM).PLZ SIR Ah... Win modems are not generally supported under FreeBSD. You should try installing the comms/ltmdm port which has

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Matthew Seaman writes: MS> If your drive contains or once contained military secrets, then in the MS> USA and probably anywhere in the West, standard disposal procedure is MS> that the drive be completely overwritten with specific patterns of MS> random data several times, and then taken to a secu

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Xian
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 23:11, Tim wrote: > faisal gillani wrote: > >hmmm exactly right .. u know i have a 750MHz Athalon > >with 256MB ram .. & still my processor is 80% idle > >most of the time .. > >i also have some windows server on my network but > >thats a compulsory rather then choice .

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Xian
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 23:11, Tim wrote: > faisal gillani wrote: > >hmmm exactly right .. u know i have a 750MHz Athalon > >with 256MB ram .. & still my processor is 80% idle > >most of the time .. > >i also have some windows server on my network but > >thats a compulsory rather then choice .

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