Re: Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet on freebsd 5.3

2005-05-24 Thread eodyna
heh i should have known. has anyone been able to get this to work on their machine? if so may you give me a heads up? id rather not move to 5.4. ta ams --- Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eodyna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > im trying to get gigabit to work with my dell > opti

Re: question about dhcp client

2005-05-24 Thread perikillo
Mmmm ok i go it, but i dont think that my friend wants to buy more equipment, well i will trust on freebsd like always. Thanks Charles for your information. Great day all. On 5/24/05, Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 24, 2005, at 11:08 AM, perikillo wrote: > > Hi all, iam

questions RE: opera web browser and plugins...

2005-05-24 Thread Joe Schmoe
Hello, I am using linux-opera in FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, with ion as my window manager. As far as plugins, shockwave-flash is behaving perfectly. When I click on a .swf file, the flash animation opens up _inside_ the web viewing area, stays inside the browser, etc. No new windows are created. How

Re: roxen rnNG start script needed

2005-05-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-05-24 23:14, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On May 24, 2005, at 11:12 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2005-05-24 20:19, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I have my own source compiled roxen web server running and I am >>> trying to com

Re: gcc error

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:45:57PM -0500, Mark Cole wrote: > I am running 4.10-RELEASE. I installed gcc33 and later gcc34 (not at the > same time) and > had the same problem with both. The problem is that when logged on as a > user, I get the error > "gcc34: installation problem, cannot exec

Re: roxen rnNG start script needed

2005-05-24 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 24, 2005, at 11:12 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-05-24 20:19, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have my own source compiled roxen web server running and I am trying to come up with an rcNG style start script for it and I would like to look at the one f

Re: roxen rnNG start script needed

2005-05-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-05-24 20:19, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have my own source compiled roxen web server running and I am > trying to come up with an rcNG style start script for it and I would > like to look at the one from the port. Can someone who has the port > of roxen in

gcc error

2005-05-24 Thread Mark Cole
I am running 4.10-RELEASE. I installed gcc33 and later gcc34 (not at the same time) and had the same problem with both. The problem is that when logged on as a user, I get the error "gcc34: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory" when I try to compile. However, i

RE: a question or 2

2005-05-24 Thread fbsd_user
Your box would not be considered a legacy box. If you have HD not found on 5.4 but found on 5.3 then good chance you have bad sectors on HD. 5.4 fdisk uses different method to read HD than 5.3 and older versions. Before you could set up unused partition around bad sectors and windows and FreeBSD <

RE: Installing on multiple machines

2005-05-24 Thread fbsd_user
Use "Norton Ghost" win box to create ghost's pc-dos bootable floppy. After 5.4 is installed and wanted ports are installed take HD from other pc and add it to 5.4 box. Them boot ghost floppy and do disk to disk copy. remove 2HD and place into other pc and boot and your done. Do same thing for all o

RE: Playing Music CD's

2005-05-24 Thread fbsd_user
your do not mount music cd's. the program that plays the music will access the device. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Warren Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:02 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Playing Music CD's I have a lot of

RE: a question or 2

2005-05-24 Thread M B
Hello, I have similar situation. How much memory and processor speed is necessary? Will a PII 233MHz with 128MB be capable of performing this installation? Best regards and thanks in advance. Mats, Malmö, Sweden [EMAIL PROTECTED] werote: this is know problem. 5.4 from floppy or cdrom now needs m

Re: Playing Music CD's

2005-05-24 Thread Warren
On Wed, 25 May 2005 1:16 pm, Eugene Hercun wrote: > man MOUNT_CD9660(8) So in addition to my having a mount in the fstab for the cdrom device i need a 2nd seperate 1 just for playing a music cd ? seems a bit stupid personally, but however. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___

Re: srandomdev() vs srandom() vs arc4random()

2005-05-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 24, 2005, at 9:13 PM, Nicolas Blais wrote: I would like to know how "random" (that is, how inprobable a pattern will appear) if I use srandom(time(NULL)) instead of srandomdev(). Also, would arc4random() be any better in getting the least pattern creation. Finally, is there is a way to

Playing Music CD's

2005-05-24 Thread Warren
I have a lot of music cd's that i have baught over the years and went to play them today, but couldnt mount my /cdrom drive. How do i go about playing music cd's ? I have FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and Xmms installed. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu _

Re: QoS and guaranteed bandwidth

2005-05-24 Thread Carlos Alloatti
On 5/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > What is the best sollution (and also simple) to guarantee a bandwidth? > > For example if I have an 1024 kbps conection and i want to share > this to 30 users and also guarantee 32 kbps to every user so if > one of them is doing

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-24 Thread Luyt
Interesting. I did an 'atacontrol cap 0 0' and this came up (see below). It tells that my disk has 'SMART' support, but it isnt enabled. Any idea how I can enable it? ATA channel 0, Master, device ad0: Protocol Serial ATA v1.0 device model Maxtor 6Y200M0 serial number

Re: Installing on multiple machines

2005-05-24 Thread Carlos Alloatti
On 5/24/05, Ewald Jenisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to install 5.4 on several machines. The hardware is similar, > but not exactly equal (different size HDs, different amount of > memory). > > Is there any way to install 5.4 on different machines with the same > options, i.e.

roxen rnNG start script needed

2005-05-24 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
I have my own source compiled roxen web server running and I am trying to come up with an rcNG style start script for it and I would like to look at the one from the port. Can someone who has the port of roxen installed on 5.x send me the rcNG style start script for it? Thanks Chad

Re: FreeBSD 3.3

2005-05-24 Thread Bjoern Koenig
Hello, you will find old releases and some ISO images at ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/ Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: srandomdev() vs srandom() vs arc4random()

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:35:37PM -0400, Nicolas Blais wrote: > > arc4random() should produce higher quality randomness, although > > srandom() may be good enough for your needs. > > > > > Finally, is there is a way to check if the call srandomdev() exists on > > > other OSes? > > > > Sure, compil

Re: srandomdev() vs srandom() vs arc4random()

2005-05-24 Thread Nicolas Blais
> arc4random() should produce higher quality randomness, although > srandom() may be good enough for your needs. > > > Finally, is there is a way to check if the call srandomdev() exists on > > other OSes? > > Sure, compile a test app in your configure script :-) > > Kris Thanks, I'm assuming arc4

Re: moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread James Skinner
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 24, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 24, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permission

Re: moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 24, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 24, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probabl

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Tue, 24 May 2005 09:54:02 -0400 (EDT), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Hello, > >I have an interesting question, I have a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz (No HT Enabled), >2x80GB SATA Hard Drives in RAID 1. The box boots, works, etc. However, >whenever you try and do an fsck -y, it says: > >[EMA

Re: moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread James Skinner
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 7:24 PM -0400 5/24/05, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to preserve modification times as well)

Re: srandomdev() vs srandom() vs arc4random()

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:13:45PM -0400, Nicolas Blais wrote: > I'm developping a software that uses random generated numbers. Since these > numbers must be as "chaotic" as possible, I'm using srandomdev(). My problem > is that I'm only able to compile my software on *BSD and certain distros of

Simetric Upload Download Bandwidth pf+altq

2005-05-24 Thread RdBSD
Dear all, I want to ask something that strange for me. I Have freebsd 5.4 Stable with pf+altq compiled in kernel. i try to use the altq for bandwidth shaping. the script is : altq on $internet_if bandwidth 64Kb cbq queue { gateway, internet } queue gateway priority 1 bandwidth 64Kb cbq(

srandomdev() vs srandom() vs arc4random()

2005-05-24 Thread Nicolas Blais
I'm developping a software that uses random generated numbers. Since these numbers must be as "chaotic" as possible, I'm using srandomdev(). My problem is that I'm only able to compile my software on *BSD and certain distros of Linux seem to be stripped of the call. This forces me to rely on sr

Re: moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 24, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to preserve modification times as well). I can move a fi

Re: cannot mount dvd

2005-05-24 Thread Craig Kleski
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 11:06 pm, Brian John wrote: > Hello, > For some reason I can't mount a dvd in my dvd drive. It is a normal > data dvd that I burned using k3b. This is what happens: > -bash-2.05b$ sudo mount /dvd > cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument > > I also try this: > -bash-2.05b$ sudo

Re: Uninstalling software compiled from source

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:17:00PM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Hi, >Is there a way to remove all the components of a > software that was installed from its source? Make > uninstall doesn't work unlike when using the ports > tree. Not really..that's one of the reasons why the ports coll

ezmlm warning

2005-05-24 Thread warningfraud-help
Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages to you from the warningfraud mailing list seem to have been bouncing. I've attached a copy of the first bounce message I received. If this m

Re: moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:24 PM -0400 5/24/05, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to preserve modification times as well). I can move a file using sc

Uninstalling software compiled from source

2005-05-24 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, Is there a way to remove all the components of a software that was installed from its source? Make uninstall doesn't work unlike when using the ports tree. Thanks. __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: h

Re: hostname and domains

2005-05-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of bazzoola Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:55 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: hostname and domains Greetings, I have Three workstations all of them are pretty much setup the same way. All of them

cannot mount dvd

2005-05-24 Thread Brian John
Hello, For some reason I can't mount a dvd in my dvd drive. It is a normal data dvd that I burned using k3b. This is what happens: -bash-2.05b$ sudo mount /dvd cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument I also try this: -bash-2.05b$ sudo mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /dvd cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argu

moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to preserve modification times as well). I can move a file using scp, but it doesn't preserve uid/gid I fou

Problems with mulberry port

2005-05-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
I installed mulberry (/usr/ports/mail/mulberry/) and the installation completed with no errors. However, when I try to start mulberry, I get this error: /usr/local/bin/mulberry /usr/local/bin/mulberry: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such

Booting from a flash card

2005-05-24 Thread Jamie Ostrowski
I've got a Ricoh (Ricoh RL5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge) with a 1Gb PCMCIA Compact Flash card. I'd like to install FreeBSD on the flash card and to be able to boot with the flash. The problem I am running into is that my BIOS doesn't recognize the flash card as a boot device. Is there any way t

Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

2005-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 05:09 pm, Timothy Smith wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:51 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > >>Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >>>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy

Re: hostname and domains

2005-05-24 Thread bazzoola
fbsd_user wrote: What does the hostname command on the FreeBSD box return when you enter it on the command line? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of bazzoola Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:55 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: hostnam

Re: Installing on multiple machines

2005-05-24 Thread scuba
Hi Franco, Is LiveCD compatible with FreeBSD 5.x? - Marcelo Souza On Tue, 24 May 2005, Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote: |You could use freebsd livecd (http://livecd.sourceforge.net/) for multiple |installations. I don't know what kickstart is, but livecd lets you build an |installation cd f

Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

2005-05-24 Thread Timothy Smith
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:51 am, Timothy Smith wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: is there something extra

hostname and domains

2005-05-24 Thread bazzoola
Greetings, I have Three workstations all of them are pretty much setup the same way. All of them use DHCP and all of them connect to the same server (I do not know what is it running as of now) The first workstation is Windows XP. It receives its IP and hostname correct basically I get 10.0.

Re: DMESG: MPTable:

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:34:16PM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: > > Hey! > > Here's the top of my dmesg: > > Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All right

DMESG: MPTable:

2005-05-24 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hey! Here's the top of my dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #5: Wed May 18 12:52:43 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: starting xorg

2005-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 04:06 pm, Paul Blake wrote: > i have read thru the help pages and can not find the command (or way) > to start xorg please respond. thanks > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to start xorg from the command line, execute 'startx'. You can select your default window manager/de

Re: starting xorg

2005-05-24 Thread Glenn Mawby
Hello, You need to generate an xorg.conf as described in the handbook, then move it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf You can then type startx from the command line If you want to use a desktop, again the handbook contains instructions. See sections5.4.2 and the command Xorg -configure. Glenn. Sydney. --

RE: thumb drive not detected

2005-05-24 Thread gmawby
Hello, the usbdevs -v output is: Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1 OHCI root hub(0x), Sis(0x) rev 1.0 port 1 powered port 2 powered Glenn, Australia ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

starting xorg

2005-05-24 Thread Paul Blake
i have read thru the help pages and can not find the command (or way) to start xorg please respond. thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

CD paranoia caused crash

2005-05-24 Thread Anthony Philipp
Hello, I was ripping a CD with abcde which uses CD paranoia to rip. The CD had a scratch in it and it would not be read. Then after a few minutes my machine simply rebooted. I was wondering how exactly this was allowed since I was ripping this CD as a non-privileged user. I have included the relev

Re: FreeBSD 3.3

2005-05-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:46:40PM -0400, Max Dellinger wrote: > I am trying to find a copy of FreeBSD 3.3. (Yes, I know its old and > outdated). I > would prefer distro on CD-ROM if available and reasonably priced. > Otherwise I would > consider downloading if I can find a site and a weekend to

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Yes, it is. -- Jonathan Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:24:59PM -0400, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: Hmmm I just tried that on my system thats supposedly an HT P4 but it didn't work after recompiling the kernel as well as setting that sysctl call. Make sure your kernel is c

Re: installing / updating ports on an older (4.8 system)

2005-05-24 Thread Tony Shadwick
Odds are you're doing a make deinstall/reinstall in the wrong place. You do that to the dependency that fails, not the port you're upgrading. The best way to handle this is to make sure that your ports tree is current using cvsup, and if it's not already installed, install sysutils/port-maint

pam not starting for saslauthd

2005-05-24 Thread Joe Christy
I'm trying to get SMTP AUTH going for exim(*), using saslauthd on a RELENG_5 box, with both the sytem and ports up to date and an otherwise fairly vanilla setup. The problem comes when saslauthd is invoked by exim, as follows: (from exim debugging output) 63097 Running saslauthd authentica

Re: Some HTTP clients only receive first 4k

2005-05-24 Thread Scott Stevenson
On May 23, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Mykel wrote: 1. Affected clients consistently receive only the first 4096 bytes of .html and .css files. After that, they encounter a single garbage character (looks like a memory stomp), and then nothing. 2. At least two of the sites hosted on the machine

Re: trying to use vga11x19.pcf.gz with rxvt under Xorg

2005-05-24 Thread Subhro
On 5/25/2005 1:11, Joe Schmoe wrote: Hello, I am advised by the bitchx faq that the best xterm environment to run bitchx under is rxvt, with the vga11x19 font. So I installed rxvt from the ports tree, and ran: rxvt -bg black -fg white -fn vga11x19 it did indeed start, but I received the erro

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: > I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and > I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed. Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a hardware system, then. I've had great luck with software mirroring and stri

Re: trying to use vga11x19.pcf.gz with rxvt under Xorg

2005-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:41:17PM -0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: > rxvt: can't load font "vga11x19" > > Sure enough, I do not have that font. So I searched > for it and downloaded the file vga11x19.pcf.gz and > placed it into my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc > directory. I then ran `rehash`. > > How

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-24 Thread Aaron C. Meadows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed. Kirk Strauser wrote: >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: > >>My question is, since that chipset is uns

FreeBSD 3.3

2005-05-24 Thread Max Dellinger
I am trying to find a copy of FreeBSD 3.3. (Yes, I know its old and outdated). I would prefer distro on CD-ROM if available and reasonably priced. Otherwise I would consider downloading if I can find a site and a weekend to do it. I am currently using a 56 K dial up modem. At this point I would

trying to use vga11x19.pcf.gz with rxvt under Xorg

2005-05-24 Thread Joe Schmoe
Hello, I am advised by the bitchx faq that the best xterm environment to run bitchx under is rxvt, with the vga11x19 font. So I installed rxvt from the ports tree, and ran: rxvt -bg black -fg white -fn vga11x19 it did indeed start, but I received the error: rxvt: can't load font "vga11x19" Su

Re: Hylafax on FreeBSD 5.4x (upgrading from 4.11)

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:28:54AM -0500, Stephen Hilton wrote: > I am getting ready to wipe a FreeBSD 4.11x box clean and > reinstall with 5.4x. > > One of the tasks this machine does is Hylafax. In looking > at the Hylafax port Makefile I see that the uucp user is > needed for install, but do no

Re: Fetch

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:47:36PM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently installed 5.2.1 Release on a nice new box. everything works > except I cant Fetch any port. > > "Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this > >>port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again." My g

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:24:59PM -0400, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: > Hmmm I just tried that on my system thats supposedly an HT P4 but it > didn't work after recompiling the kernel as well as setting that sysctl > call. Make sure your kernel is compiled with SMP support and your BIOS enable

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: > My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID, > would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID > card? What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring shouldn't use much CPU, for example, but pa

Re: how can I make xterm just like the console ? (colors, etc.)

2005-05-24 Thread luke
an easy way is to run xterm -ls -fg white -bg black man xterm to see what those options actually do ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Installing on multiple machines

2005-05-24 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
You could use freebsd livecd (http://livecd.sourceforge.net/) for multiple installations. I don't know what kickstart is, but livecd lets you build an installation cd from an existing installation, and replicate it on other machines. 24 May 2005 14:25:16 -0400, Lowell Gilbert < [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: installing / updating ports on an older (4.8 system)

2005-05-24 Thread luke
> A second and possibly related problem is that building an index fails. I > read the following on http://freebsd.org/ports first, cvsup your ports tree, then cd /usr/src && make fetchindex. then try to build again. i'm not sure if this will work, but it's where i would start. luke _

Re: Installing on multiple machines

2005-05-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ewald Jenisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to install 5.4 on several machines. The hardware is similar, > but not exactly equal (different size HDs, different amount of > memory). > > Is there any way to install 5.4 on different machines with the same > options, i.e. same set of package

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Hmmm I just tried that on my system thats supposedly an HT P4 but it didn't work after recompiling the kernel as well as setting that sysctl call. Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 12:13, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: Where did you actually set that, in /etc/sysctl.conf? Yep.

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 12:13, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: > Where did you actually set that, in /etc/sysctl.conf? Yep. -- Kirk Strauser pgpmtHJuevgL0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Freebsd pxeboot problem

2005-05-24 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:52:18PM +, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: > Hi, > Was trying to install freebsd 5.3 via pxeboot. The Dhcp server leases the > Ip address, the tftp server is located fine and the pxeboot file gets > downloaded at the client end. But this pxeboot is not getting the proper >

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:20:46PM -0300, Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote: > I'm curious... doesn't enabling ht make your system run slower? That's what > I had found searching on google a while ago, and that's why I have never > enabled ht on my kernels. That's a common experience, but it depends o

Re: procfs in 5.4

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:50:47PM +0200, martinko wrote: > hi, > > i've been wondering long time what's the actual state of procfs in freebsd. > > yes, i added procfs line to fstab but i do not mount it automatically at > system startup. > yet i'm still able to use ps(1) unlike the originator of

re: procfs in 5.4

2005-05-24 Thread martinko
hi, i've been wondering long time what's the actual state of procfs in freebsd. yes, i added procfs line to fstab but i do not mount it automatically at system startup. yet i'm still able to use ps(1) unlike the originator of this thread. how come? i believe i've read somewhere that (use of) pr

gdm_enable and graphical greeter: enter password twice

2005-05-24 Thread maarfree
Hi, I just found out when I change the greeter in the gnome login screen setup from default to the one where you can double click the username you have to enter your password twice. I have gdm_enable in rc.conf. Does anyone know a workaround? Maarten ___

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Tim Kellers
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 01:00 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Tim Kellers wrote: > > The acpi_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf might do the trick. > > Actually, it turns out that I have to set machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 > for HTT to work now. > > Speaking of which, is t

installing / updating ports on an older (4.8 system)

2005-05-24 Thread Joey Mingrone
Hi, I have a box running 4.8. I only have ssh access so I can't update the OS at the moment, but I would like to update certain ports. I'm running into a few problems. The worst is when I update a port it tries to update / install dependencies that are already up to date. For example, when

Re: RE:VM pager read error

2005-05-24 Thread Christopher Black
Good food for thought. I'm not using NFS, so there should be no issues related to dropped packets. Also, I've never seen the swap being touched, which makes me doubt the boxes are just running out of memory. Is it possible that cheap hardware or buggy RAM could be causing this, or is it more l

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
I'm curious... doesn't enabling ht make your system run slower? That's what I had found searching on google a while ago, and that's why I have never enabled ht on my kernels. 2005/5/24, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Tim Kellers wrote: > > > The acpi_load

RE:VM pager read error

2005-05-24 Thread Bigbrother
> I have a distributed network of systems running FreeBSD 4.10-Release, > and periodically, I see the following errors on the console: > > vm_fault: pager read error, pid 1 (init) I have also a network with many diskless boxes of 4.11 FreeBSD and every now and then I see messages like this. The

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Where did you actually set that, in /etc/sysctl.conf? Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Tim Kellers wrote: The acpi_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf might do the trick. Actually, it turns out that I have to set machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 for HTT to work now. Speaki

mlock: not setgid mail

2005-05-24 Thread Richard McIntyre
All, I have searched several places and everything I have seen reports that the only thing I need to do is chown /usr/local/libexec/mlock to root:mail but it currently is... take a look: May 24 12:54:59 tco1 /usr/local/libexec/mlock[29327]: (64) not setgid mail May 24 12:57:08 tco1 /usr/local

Files corrupt after copy!!!

2005-05-24 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hey! I just copied my entire "home" directory from my Windows XP harddrive (ad6) running NTFS over to my FreeBSD harddrive (ad4) running UFS2: ad4: 152627MB [310101/16/63] at ata2-master SATA150 ad6: 152627MB [310101/16/63] at ata3-master SATA150 But when I go through my MP3 files, they're fu

Re: Some HTTP clients only receive first 4k

2005-05-24 Thread Scott Stevenson
On May 23, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Mykel wrote: 1. Affected clients consistently receive only the first 4096 bytes of .html and .css files. After that, they encounter a single garbage character (looks like a memory stomp), and then nothing. 2. At least two of the sites hosted on the machine

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Tim Kellers wrote: > The acpi_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf might do the trick. Actually, it turns out that I have to set machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 for HTT to work now. Speaking of which, is that tunable documented anywhere besides the HTT security PR? I

Re: /usr backup/remove issue

2005-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > hi all, > > i have freebsd 5.1 running with 4 x 200GB ATA HD. let's say i have > /usr installed in hd1. i want to move /usr to a larger partition in > hd4. how can i do that? > > here is my scenario. i backed up all /usr data to /usr1 in hd4. then i > checked the location of ln and mkdir to

Using a logitech mx700 with scrollwheel and thumb buttons in xorg

2005-05-24 Thread Joe Schmoe
Hello, I have a logitech mx700 - it has a scrollwheel and two thumb buttons (designed for forward and back in your browser) as well as some other launch button on the top that I guess is for launching an app. I am using FBSD 5.4-RELEASE with xorg installed from the ports tree. I have tried many,

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
Yes, but the default value is "NO". If you still have problems, ask again. 2005/5/24, Jonathan M. Slivko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > OK, I added that. (it was actually already in /etc/defaults/rc.conf) > -- Jonathan > > Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote: > > If it fails it's because there are certain in

Re: Linux library conversion

2005-05-24 Thread Tony Shadwick
I know it isn't a permanent fix, but could you temporarily use compat_linux to run the Linux library on FreeBSD? On Tue, 24 May 2005, Valerio Daelli wrote: Hello we have a linux perl program to run in FreeBSD. We need to convert this library from Linux to FreeBSD: msparser.so:

Re: Linux library conversion

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:33:52PM +, Valerio Daelli wrote: > Hello > we have a linux perl program to run in FreeBSD. > We need to convert this library from Linux to FreeBSD: > > msparser.so:ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, > version 1 (GNU/Linux), not stripped > >

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
OK, I added that. (it was actually already in /etc/defaults/rc.conf) -- Jonathan Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote: If it fails it's because there are certain inconsistencies that need user confirmation before they are corrected. You can add fsck_y_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf so if default fsc

Linux library conversion

2005-05-24 Thread Valerio Daelli
Hello we have a linux perl program to run in FreeBSD. We need to convert this library from Linux to FreeBSD: msparser.so:ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), not stripped Is there any tool similar to brandelf to convert this library and make it wor

Backup software comparison

2005-05-24 Thread scuba
Hi all, I´ve used AMANDA for my backup solution for a long time, and now I decided to look for an alternative with multi-volume, disk-to-disk, network copy, among other features. Does anyone had compared other open source backup software? I´ve seem something about: Bacula,

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Read the security advisories issued for FreeBSD. I thought that I had. I missed the "we're now disabling HTT by default unless you set a new sysctl" part. :-) -- Kirk Strauser pgp5vJSWjc6sa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
If it fails it's because there are certain inconsistencies that need user confirmation before they are corrected. You can add fsck_y_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf so if default fsck fails, fsck -y is run. Check the fsck man page before doing so. Anyway, I don't understand why fsck is run

/usr backup/remove issue

2005-05-24 Thread Mike Fern
hi all, i have freebsd 5.1 running with 4 x 200GB ATA HD. let's say i have /usr installed in hd1. i want to move /usr to a larger partition in hd4. how can i do that? here is my scenario. i backed up all /usr data to /usr1 in hd4. then i checked the location of ln and mkdir to make sure that they

Re: Articles, Tutorials & hardware setting in loader.conf

2005-05-24 Thread Greg Barniskis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a newbye I just need a pointer, a hint to the following two subjects: 1) Where can I find a clear explanationt on how to use the many, multilingual articles, books, tutorials and documentation coming with a standard 5.4 version (in sgml format). In a nutshell, how can

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