Re: Nano issue

2007-08-02 Thread r17fbsd
At 07:25 AM 8/2/2007, Roberth Sjonøy wrote: Hello, Ive just installed my prefered text editor, nano, but when im going to run nano, this just appears: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libncursesw.so.6" not found , required by "nano" I have nano 2.0.6 installed from packages (not ports) and

Re: speed of bzip2 versus gzip

2007-07-20 Thread r17fbsd
At 06:03 PM 7/20/2007, James Long wrote: Is it normal for bzip2 to be significantly slower than gzip? If not, where can I look for things that might be causing "bzip2 --fast" to take 50-60 times longer to compress a (sendmail log) file than gzip? In my experience, Yes -- It's dreadfully slow

Re: running portupgrade -a

2007-06-29 Thread r17fbsd
At 07:14 PM 6/29/2007, you wrote: So, is running portupgrade -a a good idea, as you likely haven't checked for issues for your system? I just started using portupgrade recently, and no, I would NOT let it rip with the --all option. I find it's most useful for the libraries and required pack

Re: freebsd / gateway / parental control

2007-06-29 Thread r17fbsd
At 11:43 AM 6/29/2007, zbigniew szalbot wrote: As far as I remember, when installing FBSD I chose not to install Linux binary compatibility (not sure if that matters though). But my question is more general. Can Linux software be safely (and securely) used on a unix platform? I am happy to use

Re: Filesystem Full

2007-06-12 Thread r17fbsd
At 07:03 PM 6/12/2007, Dixit, Viraj wrote: My FreeBSD 5.3 system message logs are showing me this info, Jun 12 14:53:48 gatekeeper kernel: pid 58059 (ftpd), uid 1049 inumber 141313 on /usr: filesystem full /dev/da0s1f 7529054 7381944 -455214 107%/usr Well, df shows /usr at 107% of capac

Re: SMTP stupid question

2007-06-07 Thread r17fbsd
At 05:58 AM 6/7/2007, Albert Shih wrote: I want to configure a FreeBSD box without sendmail-daemon but I want all all mail sent to my smtp-server. I usually disable sendmail completely, as you have done. Then install ssmtp from the ports. It's simple, secure, and only needs about 4 lines of

Re: Virtualization of FreeBSD

2007-06-06 Thread r17fbsd
At 07:45 PM 6/6/2007, Sean Murphy wrote: Is anyone running virtualization of FreeBSD servers on VMware or other virtualization software? What experiences have you had, good or bad? Been wanting to ask the same... I've heard of virt' software for some time but didn't realize what it could rea

Re: Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

2007-06-03 Thread r17fbsd
At 02:08 PM 6/3/2007, Tim Daneliuk wrote: 3) Both the MOBO and drive are SATA-300 rated, but 6.2 insists that the drive is running at SATA-150. I have verified that the drive has no jumper forcing it into this mode. Don't know about the other issues, but I have a Dell with similar Intel

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread r17fbsd
At 07:01 AM 6/3/2007, you wrote: I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP ) You should be more concerned that it is only at 10Mb. I'm not sure

Re: 10/100/1000 Ethernet hardware recommendation

2007-06-02 Thread r17fbsd
At 11:59 AM 6/2/2007, Christopher Hilton wrote: . All of these machines are older Pentium III 1GHz single or dual CPU class machines. .. I'd like to go to Gig E to improve performance for a hand full of clients on the local LAN and to move critical data out of the DMZ. Eventually I plan

Re: 10/100/1000 Ethernet hardware recommendation

2007-06-02 Thread r17fbsd
At 01:16 AM 6/2/2007, Christopher Hilton wrote: .My experience with Gigabit Ethernet leads me to like the Intel Pro/1000 cards which I believe use the em(4) driver in FreeBSD. Go for it! I just upgraded several servers and desktops with Intel 1000 series NICs, and they're working great.

Re: 6.2/i386 X/DRI issues

2007-05-30 Thread r17fbsd
At 05:53 PM 5/30/2007, Alex R wrote: > 6.2-what? You are probably running Release; you don't have Stable unless > you've updated source and re-compiled everything. Stable is really a few You're right.. And my fault for assuming Release/Stable meant the same thing.. My bad.. S'ok... it's q

Re: Raid Controller

2007-05-25 Thread r17fbsd
At 09:45 AM 5/25/2007, Lucien Werner wrote: I am building a file server off freeBSD, and am wondering if my sata raid controller is supported by the OS. I have the Addonics *4 Port RAID 5 / JBOD SATA II PCI Controller (ADSA4R5) controller host. The chipset is Silicon Image Sil 3124. If this

Re: bge0 blues

2007-05-25 Thread r17fbsd
At 08:43 AM 5/25/2007, Dan Sikorsky wrote: Having major issues with my ethernet card It seems like one out of every 20 boots will get it working, whats the deal with these broadcoms I have two Dell SC430s with integrated Broadcom gigabit (bge) and they have worked fine with 6.0 thru 6.2 for ov

Re: what's up with portsnap?

2007-05-23 Thread r17fbsd
At 11:52 PM 5/22/2007, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # portsnap fetch > Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have! That's really strange. And it doesn't happen for me. Is it possible that you have a misbehaving proxy which is caching a month-old snapshot? Colin Perci

what's up with portsnap?

2007-05-22 Thread r17fbsd
Hope this hasn't been asked 2^32 times; didn't see anything in the recent archives. What is up with the portsnap servers? I saw the announcement that "ports was frozen for the new XOrg blah... blah...". Is that still the case? Try to fetch and it says: # portsnap fetch Looking up por