RE: QUESTION.

2005-07-27 Thread Norbert Koch
> I am trying to get BSD 5 on my system. I copied the image file on the > CD, but cant get the system to boot form the CD. I have tried changing > the boot order, but still does not work. I was wondering if I need to > copy an additional file, like a boot.ini file to make the system boot > form the

Re: QUESTION.

2005-07-27 Thread Björn König
Kanwar Singh wrote: I am trying to get BSD 5 on my system. I copied the image file on the CD, but cant get the system to boot form the CD. I have tried changing the boot order, but still does not work. I was wondering if I need to copy an additional file, like a boot.ini file to make the system

RE: question PPP FreeBSD

2005-07-27 Thread Norbert Koch
> In an installation time of system I have not set parameters PPP. > Whether it is possible to set them now when the system is installed? /etc/ppp/ppp.conf /usr/share/examples/ppp "man 8 ppp" (for userland ppp) Norbert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: question FreeBSD

2005-07-25 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:17:50AM +0600, zick-1 wrote: > Hello. > > I cannot install the application from a collection of ports. > The mistake is given out Error code 1 1. Which application did you try to install? 2. Please give more lines (say, 20 to 30 or so) before the Error code 1 line,

Re: question FreeBSD

2005-07-25 Thread delta . ski
On Sunday 24 July 2005 11:17 pm, zick-1 wrote: > Hello. > > I cannot install the application from a collection of ports. > The mistake is given out Error code 1 This is a common error message reflecting a "user" trying to install a port or package. Try "root" prior to the install attempt, th

Re: question FreeBSD

2005-07-25 Thread Jonathan Glaschke
Hello, On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:17:50AM +0600, zick-1 wrote: > Hello. > > I cannot install the application from a collection of ports. > The mistake is given out Error code 1 > > > > -- > Best regards, > zick-1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___

Re: question FreeBSD

2005-07-23 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:56:04 +0200 "Norbert Koch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Norbert Koch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >FreeBSD Disklabel Editor > > > > > > > > Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0S2 Free: 0 blocks (0Mb) > > > > Part Mount SizeNewfs > >

RE: question FreeBSD

2005-07-23 Thread Norbert Koch
"Norbert Koch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >FreeBSD Disklabel Editor > > > > > > Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0S2 Free: 0 blocks (0Mb) > > > Part Mount SizeNewfs > > > - - > > > ad0s1 20002

RE: question FreeBSD

2005-07-23 Thread Norbert Koch
"Norbert Koch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >FreeBSD Disklabel Editor > > > > > > Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0S2 Free: 0 blocks (0Mb) > > > Part Mount SizeNewfs > > > - - > > > ad0s1 20002

RE: question FreeBSD

2005-07-23 Thread Norbert Koch
"Norbert Koch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >FreeBSD Disklabel Editor > > > > > > Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0S2 Free: 0 blocks (0Mb) > > > Part Mount SizeNewfs > > > - - > > > ad0s1 20002

Re: question FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:25:55 +0200 "Norbert Koch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >FreeBSD Disklabel Editor > > > > Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0S2 Free: 0 blocks (0Mb) > > Part Mount SizeNewfs > > - - > > ad0s1

RE: question FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Norbert Koch
>FreeBSD Disklabel Editor > > Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0S2 Free: 0 blocks (0Mb) > Part Mount SizeNewfs > - - > ad0s1 20002 DOS > > ad0s2a / 128 UFS Y > ad0s2b

RE: Question on Routing

2005-07-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Quagga, which is the successor to Zebra, is what you use for BGP. However to speak BGP you must have an AS number. And for your advertisements to be worth a damn on the Internet, they have to be a minimum of a /24 since just about every transit ISP in the Internet filters route advertisements t

Re: Question on Routing

2005-07-16 Thread Hornet
On 7/16/05, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for a reccomendation on the best software to publish RIP > routes > for IPSpace I own. > > I'm aware I'd have to get approval from my bordering routers to allow me > to > publish routes for public space, but I am just looking to publis

Re: Question

2005-07-02 Thread Robert Slade
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 15:04, Rich A. wrote: > Hi I wasn't sure where to post a question at on your site, so hopefully you > can point me in the right dirrection. > I am running a website on a designated server. My question involves making > a backup server that can run if my designated server go

Re: Question about the RELENG_5 branch ...

2005-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/1/05, Matthew Grooms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was under the impression that the only patches being back ported > in 5.4-RELEASE are from the security team to fix security related > issues. Do patches that resolve problems that are known to cause panics > get back ported as well? >

Re: Question about the RELENG_5 branch ...

2005-07-01 Thread Matthew Grooms
I was under the impression that the only patches being back ported in 5.4-RELEASE are from the security team to fix security related issues. Do patches that resolve problems that are known to cause panics get back ported as well? Thanks for the reply, Matthew Grooms Nikolas Britton wrot

Re: Question about the RELENG_5 branch ...

2005-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/1/05, Matthew Grooms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I understand the difference between STABLE and CURRENT but I am a > bit confused about the RELENG_5 branch. Is this just another name for > the 5.x STABLE branch or is it used for something completely different? > I have a produ

Re: Question about the RELENG_5 branch ...

2005-07-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-01 10:37, Matthew Grooms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I understand the difference between STABLE and CURRENT but I am a > bit confused about the RELENG_5 branch. Is this just another name > for the 5.x STABLE branch or is it used for something completely > different? Yes, RELEN

Re: Question about forcing a mount.

2005-06-09 Thread Björn König
Check the partition with fsck_msdosfs. If you still can't mount it with mount_msdosfs then I guess you can't mount it with -f too. Just try it. By the way, a FAT32 file system is the worst place to store important data. Björn ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: Question about booting with the NT booter.

2005-06-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-06-06 01:19, Artur Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am one afraid guy with this on his machine: > Disk 1 (master): 40GB - Windows XP (NTFS) on the first 10GB, FAT32 for > storage to the rest. > Disk 2 (slave): 80GB - FreeBSD 5.4 on the first 50 GB, FAT32 for storage > to the rest

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

Re: question about dhcp client

2005-05-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 24, 2005, at 11:08 AM, perikillo wrote: Hi all, iam going to setup one firewall for a friend, i need to use the dhcp client to get the IP, my question is: 1; I need to have the BPF device enable, is a rule? You need BPF if you want dhclient to work, yes. Because normally, by securi

Re: question about mksnap_ffs and NFS interaction

2005-05-02 Thread antenneX
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:07 AM Subject: Re: question about mksnap_ffs and NFS interaction >>> > >>> >>> Glad to see a question on this subject and my reply is just more >>> questions r

Re: question about mksnap_ffs and NFS interaction

2005-05-01 Thread ianchov
>>> > >>> >>> Glad to see a question on this subject and my reply is just more >>> questions rather than an answer. >>> >>> I've just moved to 5.4RC3 & read most of the docs and this snap issue is >>> new to me too. Howe are you scheduling? I noticed I never got a snapshot >>> until I ran the comma

Re: question about mksnap_ffs and NFS interaction

2005-05-01 Thread antenneX
- Original Message - From: "Alan Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 5:44 AM Subject: question about mksnap_ffs and NFS interaction > > Folks, > > I have some NFS exported filesystems (home directories) that I'm placing > under snapshots. > > Timing of making a snap

Re: question about mirroring

2005-04-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:11:28AM +0200, Eskandar S.Sadek wrote: > Dear Sir , > I would like to ask about what is the requirement to be freebsd mirror > site &FTP mirror > I hope you can supply me with detail information about this > Thank you for your time I think there's an article that explai

Re: question about mirroring

2005-04-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Eskandar S.Sadek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to ask about what is the requirement to be freebsd mirror > site &FTP mirror > I hope you can supply me with detail information about this http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/ _

Re: Question about Ports and Packages

2005-04-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tom Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using FreeBSD 5-STABLE installed from 5.4-RC1 and then cvsup'd to > 5-STABLE on Friday. > > Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I noticed that when I did > pkgdb -F or portsdb -Uu, it seemed to complain about build > dependancies missing for packa

Re: Question about processes

2005-04-10 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Danny Pansters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-10 23:26 +0200]: > sockstat will show you all network and unix sockets and the processes > and their PIDs. If you want to know more such as the full path or so > (if used when invoked), you can run ps wwwaux and grep on the PID. That's exactly what I w

Re: Question about processes

2005-04-10 Thread David Kelly
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:13:40PM +0200, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: > How does one determine which process initiated any given network > connection? Or which program (on disk) initiated the process that > initiated the network connection? > > Been searching, but not finding. Read the man page

Re: Question about processes

2005-04-10 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 10 April 2005 23:13, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: > How does one determine which process initiated any given network > connection? Or which program (on disk) initiated the process that > initiated the network connection? > > Been searching, but not finding. > > Regards, sockstat will sho

Re: question about mysql-server.sh

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 05), Ed Stover said: > rcsubr is the culprit, when you added the line in the rc.conf then > all was well. You can add a line in the rc.conf and then run the > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start command with out having to > reboot. Personally I really dislike rcsubr,

Re: question about mysql-server.sh

2005-04-05 Thread Ed Stover
rcsubr is the culprit, when you added the line in the rc.conf then all was well. You can add a line in the rc.conf and then run the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start command with out having to reboot. Personally I really dislike rcsubr, makes me think that FreeBSD is drifting toward linux's

Re: question

2005-04-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-03 14:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > YES there is something major wrong with the official handbook. The > majority of the content is written like the reader already has good > understanding of how FreeBSD works. It is not detailed enough for > someone who has no previous experience with

RE: question

2005-04-03 Thread bob
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 5:43 AM To: Randy Pratt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: question On 2005-04-03 00:11, Randy Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 2 Ap

Re: question

2005-04-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-03 00:11, Randy Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 22:30:13 -0500 >"fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Reinstall from scratch using cd install disk. Keep trying until you >> get it correct. That's how you learn FreeBSD. >> >> Follow instructions from this url >>

Re: question

2005-04-02 Thread Rob
Randy Pratt wrote: > > Is there something wrong with the installation > instructions at: > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html > > I keep seeing you recommend that site (yours?) as the > instructions to follow. If there's something lacking > in the official i

Re: question

2005-04-02 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 22:30:13 -0500 "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reinstall from scratch using cd install disk. > Keep trying until you get it correct. > That's how you learn FreeBSD. > > Follow instructions from this url > http://freebsd.easyasthat.co.uk/ Is there something wrong with

RE: question

2005-04-02 Thread fbsd_user
Reinstall from scratch using cd install disk. Keep trying until you get it correct. That's how you learn FreeBSD. Follow instructions from this url http://freebsd.easyasthat.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ryan O'Donnell Sent: Saturda

Re: Question: USB block dev, Olympus Camedia digital camera

2005-03-19 Thread Robert Marella
Peer Böhm wrote: Hello everyone, I am new to BSD-style operating systems, and currently reading about and seriously considering a migration from Linux to free BSD on my home machine. Before I do that, I would like to make sure (as far as possible) that my critical applications will continue to work

Re: Question about install. (two hard drives, install freebsd on second)

2005-03-16 Thread Thomas Foster
You can install FreeBSD indepedently on its own drive while another OS coexists on a previous drive in your system. You would most likely want to use an alternate bootloader installed on the mater boot record of the first drive.. such as GAG or Grub.. but the FreeBSD bootloader works just as w

RE: Question

2005-03-16 Thread Marco Greene (ML)
>From the handbook version-bootonly.iso - Everything you need to boot into a FreeBSD kernel and start the installation interface. The installable files have to be pulled over FTP or some other supported source. version-mini.iso - Everything you need to install FreeBSD. version-disc1.iso -

Re: Question

2005-03-16 Thread Chris
Bnonn wrote: >Actually, I wouldn't mind knowing the answer to this either. What is >CD2 for? I've never had occasion to use it. >Jonathan Farrugia wrote: > > Hi, My Name is Jonathan Farrugia and In Just Downloaded FreeBSD > v5.3 from the following server: > [1]"ftp://ftp

Re: Question

2005-03-16 Thread Bnonn
Actually, I wouldn't mind knowing the answer to this either. What is CD2 for? I've never had occasion to use it. Jonathan Farrugia wrote: Hi, My Name is Jonathan Farrugia and In Just Downloaded FreeBSD v5.3 from the following server: [1]"ftp://ftp2.ru.freebsd.org/pub/FreeB

Re: Question on SCSI controllers and camcontrol

2005-03-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 07), Anthony Atkielski said: > Dan Nelson writes: > > Run "camcontrol devlist -v". That will print out which controller > > each scbus is attached to. Maybe you have a dual-channel SCSI > > card, or have added "device atapicam" to your kernel config file? > > Here's what

Re: Question on SCSI controllers and camcontrol

2005-03-07 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dan Nelson writes: > Run "camcontrol devlist -v". That will print out which controller each > scbus is attached to. Maybe you have a dual-channel SCSI card, or have > added "device atapicam" to your kernel config file? Here's what I get: freebie# camcontrol devlist -v scbus0 on sbp0 bus 0: <

Re: Question on SCSI controllers and camcontrol

2005-03-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 07), Anthony Atkielski said: > Why does camcontrol say that I have two SCSI controllers, when in fact I > have only one (on a PCI card I added to the machine). My SCSI devices > show on controller 1, whereas there's nothing on controller 0. I don't > have an on-board SCSI

Re: Question about ipfw, natd and port forwarding.

2005-03-06 Thread Jeff Penn
Deling Ren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, I am trying to setup a NAT box for my home network on freebsd 5.3. > I am using ipfw and natd. I already got nat running but I am having > problem with port forwarding. I am trying to forward port 80 on the nat > box to an internal machine (192.168.0.7). I

Re: Question about cvsup

2005-03-03 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Thanks for a very helpful response. I have another query. As a matter of practice, is it a good idea to upgrade ports immediately after a kernel compile ? I do not expect that the ports depend directly on the kernel (for most changes in kernel), though I could well be wrong (for instance cdreco

Re: Question about cvsup

2005-03-03 Thread Rob
Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > I usually do it this way: > > 1) copy /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to >/root > > 2) Edit /root/ports-supfile so that it points to your >preferred CVSup-site; the only thing you need to >change is the "*default host" entry. > > 3) run cvsup: cvsup

Re: Question about cvsup

2005-03-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:15:05PM -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: > Hi > > I am new to FreeBSD and trying to use CVSup after someone suggested it to me > on comp.unix.misc.bsd.freebsd. > > My supfile : > > *default tag=. > *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org > *default prefix=/usr > *default bas

Re: Question about ipfw, natd and port forwarding.

2005-02-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Deling Ren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, I am trying to setup a NAT box for my home network on freebsd 5.3. > I am using ipfw and natd. I already got nat running but I am having > problem with port forwarding. I am trying to forward port 80 on the nat > box to an internal machine (192.168.

Re: Question, is there any way or program that will let youclone/image a FreeBSD system

2005-02-27 Thread Volker Kindermann
Hi Andrew, Is there any way to do? I have read about with g4u, dd, dump/restore but they do not seems to be able to do create the clone/image on a secondary attached hard disk drive. g4u has definitely the ability to copy to another disk: --- 4.4 Copying a disk locally If you just wa

Re: Question, is there any way or program that will let youclone/image a FreeBSD system

2005-02-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Batson wrote: Hello, I have spend a few hours trying to find way to create a clone/image of a currently working FreeBSD version 5.3 system. I would like to be able to clone/image the system to a secondary hard disk drive attached the PC. I have used Symantec's Ghost many times for Wi

Re: Question about FTP

2005-02-24 Thread SigmaX
Paul Schmehl wrote: - Original Message - From: "Shawn B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:02 AM Subject: Question about FTP I am new to FreeBSD, and I am wondering what good, easy-to-use and reliable FTP server FreeBSD can use. I tried P

Re: Question about FTP

2005-02-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
- Original Message - From: "Shawn B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:02 AM Subject: Question about FTP I am new to FreeBSD, and I am wondering what good, easy-to-use and reliable FTP server FreeBSD can use. I tried ProFTP, and had pro

Re: question about reported directory size

2005-02-23 Thread Robert Huff
Dan Nelson writes: > A directory is only truncated on the first file create after a > delete; this optimizes the common rm -rf case. Touch a dummy > file in there and check the size again. "Who was that masked man?" "I don't know, but he left this silver bullet." Tha

Re: question about reported directory size

2005-02-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 23), Robert Huff said: > huff@>> dir /usr/lost+found/ > total 192 > drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 194048 Feb 23 13:01 . > drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 512 Feb 23 03:38 .. > > Now I understand the 't' in the permissions ... sort of. > a) does this mean the repor

Re: Question

2005-02-13 Thread .:PBS:. Medik
Hello again, I'm just returning a final note as you have supplied me with the solution, many thanks. I ditched my 4.6.2R, and found another version in my old stack of CDs' the 4.7 version, and installed like a charm, as you suggested, I did a minimal install and fetched all relevant distribution

Re: Question

2005-02-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
.:PBS:. Medik wrote: I installed my copy of 4.6.2 cleanly on a machine, to avoid having to find myself looking for more ports and programs to install I did a complete installation without bothering with the configuration of Xwindows ( as I will be accessing this box from SSH on a windows machin

Re: Question

2005-02-09 Thread .:PBS:. Medik
Thank you for replying so quickly. And to further tell you my problem here goes: I installed my copy of 4.6.2 cleanly on a machine, to avoid having to find myself looking for more ports and programs to install I did a complete installation without bothering with the configuration of Xwindows ( as

Re: Question

2005-02-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
.:PBS:. Medik wrote: I still have it today and proceeded to reinstalling it. I realize I should have grabbed the latest release, but alas for some reason I can't through my router. Yes I'm running a private network on windows, (for the time being until I can adequately configure freebsd as a ser

Re: Question about filesystem and limits

2005-02-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:07:27PM +0100, Robert Goossens wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > > I am using FreeBSD (5) on my LAN as a gatweay/router and for website > developement. > I have some questions I cannot find answers for. > > Please can you tell me what are the limits of... > 1. the number of fil

Re: Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64

2005-01-07 Thread Brooks Davis
> > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of alexei kozlov > > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 10:58 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64 > > > > My fellow asked me if GCC on FreeBSD for A

Re: Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64

2005-01-07 Thread Steve Kargl
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:55:24PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > My fellow asked me if GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64 supports 64bit memory > > pointers. He means is it possible to allocate *very* big (4GB and more) > > chunks of storage? Yes. -- Steve _

RE: Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64

2005-01-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Ask on the freebsd-amd64 mailing list. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of alexei kozlov > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 10:58 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64 > > > Hello, Gu

Re: Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64

2005-01-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:58:07PM +0300, alexei kozlov wrote: > Hello, Gurus. > > My fellow asked me if GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64 supports 64bit memory > pointers. He means is it possible to allocate *very* big (4GB and more) > chunks of storage? This is a function of the FreeBSD kernel, not o

[Fwd: Re: question]

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
For google. --- Begin Message --- hey thanks what i did wrong was... i was still compiling the kernel the old way. once i did it the new way, it worked like a bomb. thanks alot! Ludwig On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:32:10 +, Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:11

Re: question

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:11 +0200, Ludwig Mey wrote: [top post moved down so the mail reads coherently. CC'd to list in case anyone else has this problem in the future and tries googling for it] > On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:27:23 +, Peter Risdon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 a

Re: question

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 16:13 +0200, Ludwig Mey wrote: > hi > > my problem is as follows. > > i am trying to connect a Prolific Technology USB to serial connecter. > but i am unable to get anything right after that. i have tried using > minicom and pointing it to where the system is telling the

Re: Question about FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
Robert Marella wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:56:11 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 5.3-STABLE is a moving target from the RELENG_4 development branch. It should run stably and it can be used usefully as a desktop system or whatever, but tracking -STABLE is not recommended for

Re: Question about FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-22 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:56:11 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 5.3-STABLE is a moving target from the RELENG_4 development branch. > It should run stably and it can be used usefully as a desktop system > or whatever, but tracking -STABLE is not recommended for *absolutely h

Re: Question about FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Marcio Cardenuto Mallavazzi wrote: I have a doubt about FreeBSD 5.3. What is it: a Stable or a Release version? I'm sorry if this is a Dumb Question, but I guess it's a Stable Version. Specially because it's a Production Release. Actually, there are both -RELEASE and -STABLE versions numbered 5.3 a

RE: Question about FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-20 Thread Michael Clark
5.3 is the Production/stable release. It is no longer a "New Technology" release. > -Original Message- > From: Marcio Cardenuto Mallavazzi > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 2:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Question about FreeBSD 5.3 > > > Hello all!

Re: question

2004-12-18 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hello, You are probably using the shell by defaut csh, you need to do: # rehash Cheers -- dom On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:25:42 -0700, Joel Moross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok im trying to install XFree86 > > I installed The Ports collection the followed the docs.. > > To build and install XFre

Re: Question about updating 5.3

2004-12-09 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:30:57PM -0800, sp0ng3b0b wrote: > However, I recently read about "make update". Should I be using this > instead? Any advice is appreciated. "make update" only fetches the source + ports tree via cvsup. it's just a more convenient way of calling cvsup. you have to mak

Re: question on portupgrade and FreeBSD branches

2004-12-07 Thread rain cip
I see. Thanks, Erik. It now makes a lot more sense to me why the ports collection is there in the first place. rain Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:09:04AM -0800, rain cip wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to the FreeBSD ports collection system and am having so

Re: Question about PORTUPDATE

2004-12-07 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:06:54 +0200, George Katsanos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have installed FREEBSD 5.3 some days ago , and while i was reading the > handbook , i followed some instructions of it , and did the following things: > > installed CVSup to update my port collection ,

Re: question on portupgrade and FreeBSD branches

2004-12-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:09:04AM -0800, rain cip wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to the FreeBSD ports collection system and am having some > difficulty understanding how the ports collection works with the > FreeBSD branches. After having perused the ports collection doc on > the FreeBSD website,

Re: question

2004-11-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 29 November 2004 11:48 am, Glenn wrote: > do you have any information as to where I could acquire a beastie > mascot costume? > > > -Glenn You can get horns and tail at: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm _

Re: question

2004-11-29 Thread Adam Maloney
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Glenn wrote: do you have any information as to where I could acquire a beastie mascot costume? Depends...did you want plush or pleather? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: Question about old FreeBSD versions

2004-11-23 Thread Adam Fabian
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 03:47:23PM -0800, Peter Trinh wrote: >I am working on some FreeBSD driver code that was written a few >years back for FreeBSD 4.3. I already downloaded and installed 4.10 >(using FTP ISO image), but there have been so many changes in the >kernel between the 4.3 and 4.10. As

Re: Question about old FreeBSD versions

2004-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 03:47:23PM -0800, Peter Trinh wrote: > Hi FreeBSD Administrator, > > I am working on some FreeBSD driver code that was written a few years back > for FreeBSD 4.3. I already downloaded and installed 4.10 (using FTP ISO > image), but there have been so many changes in the k

Re: Question about old FreeBSD versions

2004-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Tuesday, 23 November 2004 at 15:47:23 -0800, Peter Trinh wrote: > Hi FreeBSD Administrator, > > I am working on some FreeBSD driver code that was written a few > years back for FreeBSD 4.3. I already d

Re: Question.

2004-11-21 Thread urh.lednik
Hello, One month ago I sent you mail, if I could get a freebsd.org (domain) subdomain for web page about freebsd security stuff. You sent me reply, and there wrote (It is not a problem, we accordance with that but you must contact owner of freebsd.org (domain) for subdomain). I was contact owne

Re: Question about nice

2004-11-16 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Svein Halvor Halvorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-17 01:52 +0100]: > > nice isoqlog > > isoqlog > According to the man page nice(1) > The nice utility runs utility at an altered scheduling priority, by > incrementing its ``nice'' value by the specified increment, or a default >

Re: Question about nice

2004-11-16 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[David J. Weller-Fahy, 2004-11-16] > 1. I understand nice is useful if you need to run a program at a certain > priority. Is nice useful when not passing a priority? If so, what is > the difference between the following two commands (in terms of priority > level)? > > nice isoqlog > isoq

Re: Question about nice

2004-11-16 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-16 16:56 +0100]: > In the last episode (Nov 16), David J. Weller-Fahy said: > > If so, what is the difference between the following two commands (in > > terms of priority level)? > > nice isoqlog > > isoqlog > > man nice: > The nice utility runs utility

Re: Question about page faults and swap space

2004-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:14:11AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > : Accesses to executable images or mmaped files will cause page faults. > : They'll show up as vnode pageins as opposed to swap pageins in "vmstat > : -s" or "systat -v". > > Ah, yes. I think I remember now. You don't actually 'l

Re: Question about page faults and swap space

2004-11-16 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:14:11AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: : Accesses to executable images or mmaped files will cause page faults. : They'll show up as vnode pageins as opposed to swap pageins in "vmstat : -s" or "systat -v". Ah, yes. I think I remember now. You don't actually 'load' all of an

Re: Question about page faults and swap space

2004-11-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 16), Jonathon McKitrick said: > This is probably a dumb question, but it's been a long time since my > OS theory classes. ;-) > > How can I get a page fault if swap space is never used? Why would > anything be swapped out and yet not appear as usage on the swap > partiti

Re: Question about nice

2004-11-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 16), David J. Weller-Fahy said: > I've set a very few commands as NOPASSWD in sudo, and run them from > my normal user's crontab. I've seen some examples of crontab's that > use nice, but none that use sudo and nice. That led me to a few > questions. All paths have been s

Re: question

2004-11-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 15 November 2004 08:36 am, Cotabitiu Mihai - Serban wrote: > I have a AMD Athlon 2600+, which version of FREEBSD I must download > to install it on my computer > > > > Thx > Either FreeBSD 4.10 or FreeBSD 5.3 of the i386 architecture/platform should work well. Much has changed between

RE: question

2004-11-16 Thread Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd->[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cotabitiu Mihai - Serban >Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 7:37 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: question > >I have a AMD Athlon 2600+, which version of FREEBSD I must download to >install

Re: Question regarding X windows client-server implementation

2004-11-10 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:10:57PM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: [...] > But then I'm confused by the fact that I can let my > x clients connect to a remote x server,(eg, on a LAN). > > How can that be? > For example, I'm looking at my monitor right now.. > And then there is this xorg ins

Re: question: how do I burn a UFS filesystem onto a CDROM

2004-11-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Murray Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wish to burn a CDROM that I can mount and show > people that "yes there really is readable data on it" > BUT I dont want it to be readable in a windows host. > > So I am thinking that instead of the usual mkisofs routine that > makes a cd9660 files

Re: Question about ISO filesystems and CD-R's

2004-11-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:39:00AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > : but you can keep on adding further ISO images to a CD-R (or CD-RW) until > : it's full, using mkisofs + burncd at least. Very handy here for certain > : types of backups, especially

Re: Question about ISO filesystems and CD-R's

2004-11-02 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:39:00AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: : but you can keep on adding further ISO images to a CD-R (or CD-RW) until : it's full, using mkisofs + burncd at least. Very handy here for certain : types of backups, especially on a remote box visited weekly. Ah, that's exactly what I'

Re: Question about ISO filesystems and CD-R's

2004-11-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 18 > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:43:02 -0800 > From: "Michael C. Shultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Monday 01 November 2004 06:29 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Question: If I have an iso image smaller than the CD-R I am burning > > it to

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