New to FreeBSD

2003-01-22 Thread Jack Raats
Hi JCBotha If you're really new to unix, then set up a second machine to play with, but do not set up a server on it. When you know unix then setup postfix and qpopper. A very good windows package is the argosoft mailer, which can be downloaded at http://www.argosoft.com Before postfix I used t

How to safely unmount a filesystem mounted async?

2003-01-22 Thread Darren Pilgrim
For performance reasons, I have a filesystem mounted with the async option. The FS isn't used for anything I really value, just assorted object files and other temp data. My question, though, is, how do I safely unmount an active async filesystem? Does the unmount process automatically force

HP ScanJet 2300c with SANE

2003-01-22 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, I have a HP ScanJet 2300c USB scanner. It's not listed as supported by the SANE hp backend. I see there's work in progress for the 2200c, but no mention anywhere of the 2300c. Just in case I've missed something glaringly obvious: does anyone on the list have a 2300c, and have you got it

Re: Backups

2003-01-22 Thread Gernot A. Weber
> My question is for all the rsync fans. (I have installed and am reading man > pages). What would you suggest for a command line in crone to completely > mirror one disk to another (both local). Permissions, ownerships, hidden > files etc etc etc. Try: rsync -vaHxS and probably -e if you want t

Uninstalling nvidia drivers on freebsd-5.0

2003-01-22 Thread Erik Sabowski
I installed the nvidia drivers on freebsd-5.0 by commenting out the appropiate lines in src/nv-freebsd.h, but all it does is make my machine freeze. So I tried to go back to the nv driver, but when I did X gave me this error: Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/

Re: How to safely unmount a filesystem mounted async?

2003-01-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:02:14AM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > For performance reasons, I have a filesystem mounted with the async > option. The FS isn't used for anything I really value, just assorted > object files and other temp data. My question, though, is, how do I > safely unmount an

New user problems with FreeBSD 5.0

2003-01-22 Thread Charlie Clark
Hi, I'm fairly new to BSD and have a question on what to do when I have a problem installing the system. I have checked the documentation and searched the website but have not found anything yet. I am running a Sony VAIO PCG-GR114EK and the system hangs when it gets to the cardbus. I've seen t

FreeBSD release 5.0 3c574tx poor performance

2003-01-22 Thread Mark Rowlands
Freshly installed cvsupped (RELENG_5_0) My 574 card is recognised and works but pings 1.6ms / ftp 900KBytes/s Windows box on the same hub 9000KBytes/s. dmesg attached, I assume it is only running at 10mb but I see no way of changing tht with the ep driver. A secondary issue is that the card

FreeBSD release 5. 3Com 3CCFE575CT (Cardbus)

2003-01-22 Thread Mark Rowlands
In eager anticipation I rammed this into my freshly installed and RELENG_5_0 box. Imagine the disappointment... I tried booting with the card in and out and tooling around with pccard.conf but.. no joy cbb1: card inserted: event=0x, state=3820 cbb1: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_0V

FreeBSD release 5. Xircom CEM56-100

2003-01-22 Thread Mark Rowlands
Not to worry I thought, I'll get out my trusty Xircom CEM56-100 and whack that in to the aforementioned FreeBSD 5.0 freshly installed and cvsupped and that'll see me right. Bugger Panic, press a button on the console or instant reboot in 15 secs.. So all in all, it looks like it

I need your help!

2003-01-22 Thread Phil
Hello FreeBSD-Team i had the freebsd 4.7 version installed. but i have a big problem with a *.tar.gz file, i can't open it with the tar/gzip programm. the error message says : "tar skipping to next header tar Archive contains absolexient base 64-headers gzip stdin invalid compressed data--forma

"simple" ipfw question

2003-01-22 Thread Brian Davis
Greetings, I am attempting to build a dual-homed firewall using FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE. The PC is presently connected to a corporate LAN with DHCP and DNS servers and a broadband connection to the Internet. The outside interface (rl0) is configured as follows: IP address: a.b.148.62 (dynamically as

Re: "simple" ipfw question

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
Brian Davis wrote: Greetings, I am attempting to build a dual-homed firewall using FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE. The PC is presently connected to a corporate LAN with DHCP and DNS servers and a broadband connection to the Internet. The outside interface (rl0) is configured as follows: IP address: a.b.14

Re: routing problem on 4.7 release

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
twig les wrote: Hey all, I have a 4.7 release box that needs to cvsup its ports. The problem is that this box never sees the outside world normally; it does IDS on an IP-less interface and of course has a backnet interface. So basically I added a temporary IP address to this box, edited my /etc/

Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on our School LAN?

2003-01-22 Thread Martyn Hill
Dear all I'd be very grateful for any insights you could share... Our school network continues to grow. Different departments within the school wish to piggy-back their windows machines on to our broadband internet connection, via our 100Mbps wired LAN within the building. Before I can allow anym

"unsubscribe freebsd-questions" is not working

2003-01-22 Thread Curtis, Brian A.--ORISE
To list monitor: I have attempted to unsubscribe from this mailing list thought normal procedure. The system is not removing my email address. Please remove my email. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

questions about static ipfw rules

2003-01-22 Thread Stephen D. Kingrea
running 4.7 with firewall, natd enabled kernel. i wish to create firewall rules outside of the rc.firewall script that remain static across reboots. to that end, i created a set (rc.firewall.rules), pointing rc.conf to that set: firewall_enable="YES" firewall_type="/etc/rc.firewall.rules" natd_ena

Re: questions about static ipfw rules

2003-01-22 Thread Norbert Koch
"Stephen D. Kingrea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > firewall_enable="YES" > firewall_type="/etc/rc.firewall.rules" This should be one of client etc, see rc(8) for more information. norbert. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the mes

Re: questions about static ipfw rules

2003-01-22 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:45:09AM -0500, Stephen D. Kingrea wrote: > running 4.7 with firewall, natd enabled kernel. i wish to create firewall > rules outside of the rc.firewall script that remain static across > reboots. to that end, i created a set (rc.firewall.rules), pointing > rc.conf to that

Re: Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on ourSchool LAN?

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
Martyn Hill wrote: Dear all I'd be very grateful for any insights you could share... Our school network continues to grow. Different departments within the school wish to piggy-back their windows machines on to our broadband internet connection, via our 100Mbps wired LAN within the building. Bef

Re: questions about static ipfw rules

2003-01-22 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:18:33PM +, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:45:09AM -0500, Stephen D. Kingrea wrote: > > running 4.7 with firewall, natd enabled kernel. i wish to create firewall > > rules outside of the rc.firewall script that remain static across > > reboots. to that

Re: New to FreeBSD

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:47:10AM +0200, JCBotha wrote: > Dear Sir > > I am new to this operating system and became interested when I started to > look at a solution for a network set-up. I do not know if I will be able to > master this OS because I grew up with Windows and know nothing about UNI

Problems with Netatalk 1.6

2003-01-22 Thread repairshop
I want to have netatalk 1.6 to run on it. But after ./configure comes only: error Berkeley DB3 not found What can I do? Helmut -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: Problems with Netatalk 1.6

2003-01-22 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to have netatalk 1.6 to run on it. > > But after ./configure > comes only: > error Berkeley DB3 not found > > What can I do? > > Helmut Are you installing it from the ports-system? Did you go to /usr/ports/net/netatalk and run make? If you w

Re: FreeBSD 4.7 -> 5.0 (Removing Perl/UUCP safly?)

2003-01-22 Thread Elden Fenison
* Karl M. Joch [01/22/2003 08:29]: > thats for sure one way, but deleting by date could maybe let some > stuff back. a touch on any file egardless the reason of it would cause > the date to change too. so a list of files which are to remove would > be fine. then there would be the possibility of ma

to make or add a package

2003-01-22 Thread David Bear
I'm very impressed with the ports collection. I have found there are two was to install a port, through pkg_add or the make. I was wondering that if a port were a make, if the compiler would do any optimizations on the final executable, therefore giving me a faster/smaller/whatever application.

Re: to make or add a package

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
David Bear wrote: I'm very impressed with the ports collection. I have found there are two was to install a port, through pkg_add or the make. > I was wondering that if a port were a make, if the compiler would do any optimizations > on the final executable, therefore giving me a faster/smaller/

RE: to make or add a package

2003-01-22 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm very impressed with the ports collection. > > I have found there are two was to install a port, through pkg_add or > the make. I was wondering that if a port were a make, if the > compiler would do any optimizations on the final executable, > therefore giving me a fa

Re: to make or add a package

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Meyer
[Text formatting corrected.] In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I'm very impressed with the ports collection. [Pat jkh on the back, though it's a long reach from here.] > I have found there are two was to install a port, through pkg_add or > the make. I was wonderin

Re: New to FreeBSD

2003-01-22 Thread Asenchi
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 10:40, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:47:10AM +0200, JCBotha wrote: > > Dear Sir > > > > I am new to this operating system and became interested when I started to > > look at a solution for a network set-up. I do not know if I will be able to > > master th

problems with adding ipfw rules via raw sockets

2003-01-22 Thread Alex
Hi ppl! I need to use direct access ti ipfw rules via raw sockets instead of some scripts using ipfw utility. I looked into ipfw sources and made a simple program to test if I could add a simple rule this way. Just rewrote pieces of original code intomy program w/out any serious change. But

Re: ata1 resetting

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:58:31AM +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote: > Does someone see some sort of pattern in the times (from > /var/log/messages) below? I do but know not what. > > And what could explain it? > > Please, note that it occurs on both harddisks and on both controllers. > > Something

I would like to contribute.

2003-01-22 Thread drunkk
Hello, I'm not sure if this is the e-mail address where i'm supposed to write, but maybe you can help anyway. I would like to contribute in any way to the FreeBSD Open-Source Project. I'm a coder from Romania, my english is pretty good, I have some code done and I really like what you guys doi

Re: ata1 resetting

2003-01-22 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, at 07:31 [=GMT-0800], Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:58:31AM +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote: [...] > > Jan 21 19:47:39 pan /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. ata1-slave: > > ATA identify retries exceeded > > Jan 21 19:47:39 pan /kernel: done > > Jan 21 22:06

Re: I would like to contribute.

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > I'm not sure if this is the e-mail address where i'm supposed to write, but > maybe you can help anyway. I would like to contribute in any way to the > FreeBSD Open-Source Project. I'm a coder from Romania, my english is pretty > good, I have s

Mozilla 1.2.1 and java

2003-01-22 Thread Aqua Daemon
Hello, I just upgraded Mozilla (1.1 to 1.2.1). In the 1.1, I had all the plugins working (java, plugger, and Shockwave). After upgrading via portupgrade (WITH_GTK2=yes), all plugins except java loaded fine. The results are the same for both of my 4.7-STABLE and 5.0-RELEASE computers. I tried s

Audio

2003-01-22 Thread Don Dugger
I've been using the "rsynth" package for years now, but after installing 4.6 Rel. The "say" command no longer works correctly, it doesn't say the last word. I thought I saw a bug report that sounded like this problem was fixed in 4.6.1 Rel. However I just installed 4.7 Rel. and the problems still t

Re: Problems with Netatalk 1.6

2003-01-22 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 10:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to have netatalk 1.6 to run on it. > > But after ./configure > comes only: > error Berkeley DB3 not found > > What can I do? Build Netatalk from ports: # cd /usr/ports/net/netatalk # make install clean Else, you can patch the defa

Re: Problem: Galeon2 spawning mutiple times on startup...

2003-01-22 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 17:36, Andy Akins wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:13, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > Is this a new user using Galeon for the first time, or do you have old > > 1.2.x prefs? If you type "galeon" from a shell prompt, do you get the > > same behavior? > > > > Joe > > Good i

Re: Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on our School LAN?

2003-01-22 Thread Martyn Hill
> > Martyn Hill wrote: > > Do I use ifconfig to alias the one internal NIC in the present gateway to > > create virtual sub-nets? > > Bill Moran wrote: > That would be the method I would suggest, however without more details of > your network it's kind of hard to be sure it's the best method. What

Re: New to FreeBSD

2003-01-22 Thread Mark Rowlands
> I won't lie to you, it takes time, but once you learn it you will never > understand why you use windows. (If it wasn't for my fiance I would use > fBSD all the time, but she isn't ready for the jump yet). and you're still gonna marry her?good grief man, get your priorities sorted! ;-)

Error compiling kernel

2003-01-22 Thread Ernest Hammerschmidt
Hello, I just installed FreeBSD 4.7 yesterday and tried to install a new kernel following the instructions from the handbook. Unfortunately I ran into the following problem when executing 'make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL': ===> crypto @ -> /usr/src/sys machine -> /usr/

Re: Problem: Galeon2 spawning mutiple times on startup...

2003-01-22 Thread Andy Akins
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 11:18, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > Something interesting is going on > > I agree, but I can't figure out what. Have you tried upgrading to > Galeon 1.3.1 and mozilla-gtk2 (1.2.1)? I have that working just fine > for me at home now. > > Joe I'll try de/reinstalling bo

PPP strangeness - hosed my /etc/hosts file

2003-01-22 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey all. I've been with Verizon DSL for 3 or 4 months now, and just when I think I'm getting things right, I start seeing some really screwy behavior. ifconfig shows the following for the PPP interface (tun0) tun0: flags=8051 mtu 1492 inet6 fe80::2a0:c9ff:fe74:12a3%tun0 prefixlen 64 scope

Interesting staff

2003-01-22 Thread Micahel
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Re: New to FreeBSD

2003-01-22 Thread Asenchi
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:25, Mark Rowlands wrote: > > I won't lie to you, it takes time, but once you learn it you will never > > understand why you use windows. (If it wasn't for my fiance I would use > > fBSD all the time, but she isn't ready for the jump yet). > > and you're still gonna marry h

Re: questions about static ipfw rules

2003-01-22 Thread Stephen D. Kingrea
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Daniel Bye wrote: >On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:18:33PM +, Daniel Bye wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:45:09AM -0500, Stephen D. Kingrea wrote: >> > running 4.7 with firewall, natd enabled kernel. i wish to create firewall >> > rules outside of the rc.firewall script tha

Re: Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on ourSchool LAN?

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
Martyn Hill wrote: Martyn Hill wrote: Do I use ifconfig to alias the one internal NIC in the present gateway to create virtual sub-nets? Bill Moran wrote: That would be the method I would suggest, however without more details of your network it's kind of hard to be sure it's the best method. Wh

RE: PPP strangeness - hosed my /etc/hosts file

2003-01-22 Thread JoeB
Add this to ppp.conf disable iface-alias# Stop adding old IP addr as alias when ppp # redials because line was lost. These old ips # showed using ifconfig -a on tun0. iface clear# Remove all previous IP address -Original M

cross-compiling - MIPS

2003-01-22 Thread Christer Gundersen
hi! Is it possible to build a crosscompiler to work for mips on freebsd? (not mipsel) if yes, how? any howto`s? -- Med Vennlig Hilsen / Best regards Christer Gundersen / dizzy tun3Z http://dtz.cjb.net - http://carebears.mine.nu To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe f

man -M

2003-01-22 Thread Kenneth Tucker
I have just installed mySQL on Darwin and I can't display the mySQl man pages. I have tried setting MANPATH, changing man.config and using man -M /usr/local/mysql/man mysql nothing seems to work. Any suggestions? Thanks Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe free

Re: "simple" ipfw question

2003-01-22 Thread Brian Davis
> > Greetings, > > > > I am attempting to build a dual-homed firewall using FreeBSD 4.7 > > RELEASE. The PC is presently connected to a corporate LAN with DHCP and > > DNS servers and a broadband connection to the Internet. > > > > The outside interface (rl0) is configured as follows: > > IP addre

Re: man -M

2003-01-22 Thread John Vender
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 06:03 AM, Kenneth Tucker wrote: I have just installed mySQL on Darwin and I can't display the mySQl man pages. I have tried setting MANPATH, changing man.config and using man -M /usr/local/mysql/man mysql nothing seems to work. Any suggestions? Thanks Ken ma

Re: New to FreeBSD

2003-01-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-22T18:23:43Z, Asenchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know, I know...you are not the first to say that. :) Let me be #3, then. I set my wife on a FreeBSD workstation back before the upgrade from Fiance 1.0. Get with the program, man! :) -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo no

Re: man -M

2003-01-22 Thread Kenneth Tucker
I neglected to mention that I installed mysql in /usr/local/mysql --- John Vender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 06:03 AM, Kenneth Tucker wrote: > > > I have just installed mySQL on Darwin and I can't display the mySQl man > > pages. I have tried > > setting MAN

portsman - need feedback and testers

2003-01-22 Thread Anselm Garbe
Hi all, a while ago I asked on this list, if someone knows an curses based frontend for the FreeBSD ports collection, which behaves like a package manager (e.g. dselect under Debian), but I got only responds, that this does not yet exist. So I invested much time in the last 7 weeks to dev

KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch

2003-01-22 Thread Justin P. Michel
Greetings, I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my crappy system, but, on the FreeBSD system, they work fine on startup, but after switching back and forth only once, the mouse (LED mouse) starts

Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch

2003-01-22 Thread Dax Eckenberg
> I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy > system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my > crappy system, but, on the FreeBSD system, they work fine on startup, but > after switching back and forth only once, the mouse (LED mouse) starts > f

Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch

2003-01-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-22T20:21:41Z, "Justin P. Michel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using FreeBSD 4.7-Release-p3. The two different KVMs (both create the > same problem) are a Belkin OmniView SE, and a StarTech StarView. I'm using an OmniView SE between several Unix machines without difficulty. Maybe

syslogd stops logging

2003-01-22 Thread Dan Langille
I have observed this behaviour today and yesterday. For some reason, syslogd stops logging. Here's what I'm seeing: [dan@undef:~/tmp] $ tail /var/log/messages Jan 22 00:00:00 undef newsyslog[50185]: logfile turned over [dan@undef:~/tmp] $ logger hi [dan@undef:~/tmp] $ tail /var/log/messages Jan

Re: Mozilla 1.2.1 and java

2003-01-22 Thread Dennis Moore
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:47AM +, Aqua Daemon wrote: > Hello, > > I just upgraded Mozilla (1.1 to 1.2.1). In the 1.1, I had all the plugins working >(java, plugger, and Shockwave). After upgrading via portupgrade (WITH_GTK2=yes), all >plugins except java loaded fine. The results are the

5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
Not a critical question, but ... Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed that 5.0-RELEASE does not have a mount_msdos command. It's no biggie, I just used 'mount -t msdos' and got what I wanted, but I was wondering why this was missing? Is there a reason why it was removed, or is it some ove

Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 22), Bill Moran said: > Not a critical question, but ... > > Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed that 5.0-RELEASE does > not have a mount_msdos command. It's no biggie, I just used 'mount -t > msdos' and got what I wanted, but I was wondering why this was > missin

Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 22), Bill Moran said: Not a critical question, but ... Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed that 5.0-RELEASE does not have a mount_msdos command. It's no biggie, I just used 'mount -t msdos' and got what I wanted, but I was wondering why this wa

Building Linux binaries under FreeBSD/Linux layer

2003-01-22 Thread J. Seth Henry
I know this is probably going to be an odd question, but is there a way to create true "linux" shell within FreeBSD, capable of running linux gcc and creating a linux binary? I want to play with Midori Linux, which involves compiling a lot of Linux source, for Linux. Dual booting is out of the que

Mobo has six USB ports but FreeBSD seams to only work with two, help please

2003-01-22 Thread Oscar Ivan Lepe Aldama
Hi, I have an Intel D815EEA2 mobo with six integrated USB ports. FreeBSD seams to only work with two of them, those besides the integrated NIC connector. I have done "/dev/MAKEDEV usb2" but when I do "/usr/sbin/usbd -f /dev/usb2" I get a "usbd: Could not open /dev/usb2, Device not configured" I'm g

Re: ata1 resetting

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 04:49:40PM +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, at 07:31 [=GMT-0800], Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:58:31AM +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote: > > [...] > > > Jan 21 19:47:39 pan /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. ata1-slave: > > > ATA ide

Reboot...

2003-01-22 Thread Wuzhen Zhang
Dear Sir, My computer came with win98. I intalled FreeBSD on the whole hard disk. I accidentally deleted my partition table because I want to re-install FreeBSD and with win98. I did sucessfully install FreeBSD in the second part of the Hard Disk, yet when I tried to install win98, My computer did

Re: Reboot...

2003-01-22 Thread John Bleichert
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Wuzhen Zhang wrote: > Subject: Reboot... > > Dear Sir, > > My computer came with win98. I intalled FreeBSD on the > whole hard disk. I accidentally deleted my partition > table because I want to re-install FreeBSD and with > win98. I did sucessfully install FreeBSD in the sec

Re: Mozilla 1.2.1 and java

2003-01-22 Thread Dru
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Aqua Daemon wrote: > Hello, > > I just upgraded Mozilla (1.1 to 1.2.1). In the 1.1, I had all the plugins working >(java, plugger, and Shockwave). After upgrading via portupgrade (WITH_GTK2=yes), all >plugins except java loaded fine. The results are the same for both of my

Re: PPP strangeness - hosed my /etc/hosts file

2003-01-22 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Thanks a lot. I found these in the manpage, and they look right. Is there a way to restart the ppp connection? I vaguely remember reading this somewhere, but I can't remember the details on what the correct steps are. Thanks again Lou On 01/22/03 01:48 PM, JoeB sat at the `puter and typed: > A

Re: New to FreeBSD

2003-01-22 Thread Asenchi
Well when the source becomes available on March 1st for Wife 1.0 I will cvsup to the latest release... :) On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:29, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-01-22T18:23:43Z, Asenchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I know, I know...you are not the first to say that. :) > > Let me

Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch

2003-01-22 Thread David Bear
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Justin P. Michel wrote: > Greetings, > > I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy > system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my > crappy system, but, on the FreeBSD system, they work fine on startup

Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
David Bear wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Justin P. Michel wrote: Greetings, I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my crappy system, but, on the FreeBSD system, they work fine

Re: FreeBSD 4.7 -> 5.0 (Removing Perl/UUCP safly?)

2003-01-22 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:34:08 -0800, Elden Fenison wrote: >* Doug Reynolds [01/21/2003 22:22]: >> according to /usr/src/UPDATING, multiuser updating from 4.7 to 5.0 is >> slim to impossible. > >Sorry, I should have clarified... it was the first part of his question >that interested me... and that i

Re: Error compiling kernel

2003-01-22 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:27:02 +0100, Ernest Hammerschmidt wrote: >Hello, > >I just installed FreeBSD 4.7 yesterday and tried to install a new kernel >following the instructions from the handbook. Unfortunately I ran into >the following problem when executing >'make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL': >

Re: PPP strangeness - hosed my /etc/hosts file

2003-01-22 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:49:12 -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: >Hey all. I've been with Verizon DSL for 3 or 4 months now, and just >when I think I'm getting things right, I start seeing some really >screwy behavior. ifconfig shows the following for the PPP interface >(tun0) >tun0: flags=8051 mtu 1492

Re: portsman - need feedback and testers

2003-01-22 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2003.01.22 21:11:26 +, Anselm Garbe wrote: Btw. could you wrap your lines at 72 chars? > Currently I have not much feedback about it, so it'd be great if you > could try it and give me feedback. :-) Very nice. I personally prefer command lines but especially for new users this seems very i

4.7 - cp437 (Dos linedrawing) font for xterm

2003-01-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
I used to use a font alias ibm-cp437 or 'vga' to get a xterm with dos linedrawing fonts. (as -fn and -fb param to xterm) I did a clean install of 4.7 for some reasons, but somehow I can't manage to get linedrawing again, and can't find 437 encoded fonts in X font.alias files. (I already installe

Re: PPP strangeness - hosed my /etc/hosts file

2003-01-22 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/22/03 05:00 PM, Doug Reynolds sat at the `puter and typed: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:49:12 -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > >Hey all. I've been with Verizon DSL for 3 or 4 months now, and just > >when I think I'm getting things right, I start seeing some really > >screwy behavior. ifconfig s

Unfortunate...

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Nolastname
It is unfortunate that one of the developers with freebsd.org also supports companies that hijack web browsers. I had respect for freebsd before learning this, now, I do not. Too bad. Bill Fahey Canada _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus

Re: Unfortunate...

2003-01-22 Thread Stephen Hovey
what are you talkin about? On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Bill Nolastname wrote: > It is unfortunate that one of the developers with freebsd.org also supports > companies that hijack web browsers. > > I had respect for freebsd before learning this, now, I do not. > > Too bad. > > > Bill Fahey > Canada

Re: Reboot...

2003-01-22 Thread John Bleichert
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Wuzhen Zhang wrote: > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:29:23 -0800 (PST) > From: Wuzhen Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Reboot... > > The screen freezes (Actually no screen, only the > prompt blinks). I did try the diagonistic disk f

Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch

2003-01-22 Thread jdunham
On 22 Jan 2003 at 16:32, Bill Moran wrote: > David Bear wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Justin P. Michel wrote: > > > >>I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy > >>system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my > >>crapp

cbb0: Unsupported card type detected

2003-01-22 Thread Søren Vrist
Im running: # uname -a FreeBSD laptop.seet.dk 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #4: Tue Jan 21 01:02:07 CET 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWLAPTOP i386 And my dmesg contains the following about cbb # dmesg|grep cbb cbb0: irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci1 cardbus0: on cbb0 pccard0:

Re: Unfortunate...

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Nolastname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > It is unfortunate that one of the developers with freebsd.org also supports > companies that hijack web browsers. This is pretty much an empty statement. The three active elements - "developers with freebsd.org", "support" and

Re: Unfortunate...

2003-01-22 Thread burningclown
Yes indeed. This was really textbook flamebait. Unfortunate? You bet it is. On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Nolastname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >typed: > > It is unfortunate that one of the developers with freebsd.org also supports > > companies that hijack we

RE: PPP strangeness - hosed my /etc/hosts file

2003-01-22 Thread JoeB
I take it you mean that you added iface clear to the ppp.linkdown? I thought I was supposed to add it to ppp.conf. I'm also trying to figure out the best way to kill ppp and restart the connection clean without having to reboot the machine. Any ideas there? Thanks a lot for the reply. Lou **

IPFW2 - Dummynet - Fair Link Sharing

2003-01-22 Thread gideon
Lo all I am trying to setup a box that can do fair link sharing ... We have 2 client bases .. Businesses which i want to allocate 70 % of the available bandwidth to and Residential which i want to allocate 30 % of the available bandwidth . This is quite easy to do with Dummynet and IPFW2 but i als

Re: Unfortunate...

2003-01-22 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Bill Nolastname wrote: > It is unfortunate that one of the developers with freebsd.org also supports > companies that hijack web browsers. > > I had respect for freebsd before learning this, now, I do not. > > Too bad. And your question was? KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail

ISO IMAGES 5.0

2003-01-22 Thread Thomas Marshall
I have downloaded your new iso images for FreeBSD 5.0-release twice from two different mirrors. The checksums do not match with those found with the images, and the images can not be booted. I do not know if anyone has emailed you about this yet, but I thought you should know. I cannot install over

linker issue?

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Ruhl
Howdy, I am running 4.7-stable, and tring to run an application (cross-elf-mips-gcc3.0-freebsd3.4/bin/gdb-mips) and I am getting this error: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libm.so.2: Undefined symbol "__stderrp" This did work before I updated to 4.7. I did some kerputzing, and have apper

Problems with IPSec

2003-01-22 Thread Scott Penno
Hi all, Wasn't sure where I should ask for help with this problem, so I'm starting here. If there's a more appropriate place, please let me know. I have a FreeBSD box running -STABLE which has had IPSec working with other hosts for quite some time without a problem. I've just setup another Free

Re: Problems with IPSec

2003-01-22 Thread Daxbert
> I have a FreeBSD box running -STABLE which has had IPSec working with other > hosts for quite some time without a problem. I've just setup another > FreeBSD box running 5.0-RC1 and am trying to establish a VPN tunnel but am > not getting too far. I'm using racoon and when attempting the negotia

error during mysql323-server installation, how to configure hostname command.

2003-01-22 Thread Mantas Kriauciunas
Hey! when i try to 'make install' mysql323-server i get: ===> Generating temporary packing list /usr/local/bin/mysql_install_db Sorry, the host 'mntkz' could not be looked up. Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct hostname. If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart

Re: Mozilla 1.2.1 and java

2003-01-22 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 15:39, Dru wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Aqua Daemon wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I just upgraded Mozilla (1.1 to 1.2.1). In the 1.1, I had all the plugins working >(java, plugger, and Shockwave). After upgrading via portupgrade (WITH_GTK2=yes), all >plugins except java load

Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-22 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:21:08 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >Not a critical question, but ... > >Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed that 5.0-RELEASE does >not have a mount_msdos command. >It's no biggie, I just used 'mount -t msdos' and got what I wanted, >but I was wondering why this was miss

Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
Doug Reynolds wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:21:08 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Not a critical question, but ... Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed that 5.0-RELEASE does not have a mount_msdos command. It's no biggie, I just used 'mount -t msdos' and got what I wanted, but I was wondering

Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos

2003-01-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-22 16:52, Doug Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:21:08 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > >Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed that 5.0-RELEASE does > >not have a mount_msdos command. It's no biggie, I just used 'mount > >-t msdos' and got what I wanted, but

installworld to directory other than "/"

2003-01-22 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
Hello, I would like to make installworld to some directory other than "/", e.g., to directory "/new", while the old system is working. The only way to do that which I can think of is - copy "/", /usr and /var to /new - chroot /new - make installworld from there Is there more easy/elegant way?

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