Re: atapicam problem (again): hang on boot with DVD burner

2006-02-06 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:29 am, Sergey Lungu wrote: Hi! I'm not burning DVDs frequently, so I haven't seen this problem before. I have burned a DVD with growisofs and after that I am seeing a 3-5 min hang at boot time. No error messages at all, just hang :) Here is what I have: Copyright

Re: 5.x: how do I get a *swap*-backed /tmp via rc.conf?

2005-10-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:37 am, David Wolfskill wrote: I made the somewhat unexpected discovery that in FreeeBSD 5-STABLE, if I use the tmp* variables in /etc/rc.conf to have an MFS /tmp created, it is apparentyly not swap-backed -- as I expected from the part of the mdmfs man page that reads:

Re: Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4

2005-10-06 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 02:21 am, J. T. Farmer wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:06 am, Jeremy Bogan wrote: You could try running a caching DNS server locally, DjbDNS is simple to setup and get going. Yes, I have thought that maybe a local simple caching dns server would help

Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4

2005-10-04 Thread Malcolm Kay
networks: files passwd: compat passwd_compat: nis shells: files Am I missing something? (Probably) Is this behaviour normal? Can the lockups be avoided? Any help, ideas or clarification would be appreciated. Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Fwd: Re: Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4

2005-10-04 Thread Malcolm Kay
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 01:13 am From: Spartak Radchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 12:50:26AM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: [...] But if the internet connection

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4

2005-10-04 Thread Malcolm Kay
in FreeBSD 4.x so any comparison with Windows seems quite irrelevant. Thanks for trying, Malcolm BZAG --- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have sytems both at home and at work running FreeBSD 5.4 ... But if the internet connection breaks -- e.g. the routers crash

Re: Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4

2005-10-04 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 01:13 am, Spartak Radchenko wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 12:50:26AM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: [...] But if the internet connection breaks -- e.g. the routers crash or the ISP connection fails for some reason then trying to ssh into the machine from another local

Re: Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4

2005-10-04 Thread Malcolm Kay
appreciate your suggestion of DjbDNS. It does seem however that this should not be necessary. Thanks, Malcolm Kay On 05/10/2005, at 1:20 AM, Malcolm Kay wrote: ... But if the internet connection breaks -- e.g. the routers crash or the ISP connection fails for some reason then trying to ssh

Re: dmesg queries

2005-06-26 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:39 am, Chris Phillips wrote: Hi All, ... Finally, is it considered bad form, to ask multiple questions like I have, or should I have separated them sent them in multiple emails? I don't know about bad form; but human nature being what it is many potential respondents

Re: Context sensitivity in beastie.4th?

2005-06-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 27 May 2005 03:13 pm, Scott Long wrote: Scott Long wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE on a new machine, Celeron + SATA drive, without and problems, include a kernel rebuild to support a PCI serial card. But now I wish to change the graphic, beastie

Re: Context sensitivity in beastie.4th?

2005-05-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 27 May 2005 03:11 pm, Scott Long wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE on a new machine, Celeron + SATA drive, without and problems, include a kernel rebuild to support a PCI serial card. But now I wish to change the graphic, beastie, that appears

Context sensitivity in beastie.4th?

2005-05-26 Thread Malcolm Kay
.^ ^ 1+ at-xy . I E S P h o e n i x --- Any ideas gratefully accepted, Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: HEADSUP: XFree86 4.3.0 update

2003-03-12 Thread Malcolm Kay
with opera-6.11.20021129. With X running depth 8 it crashes and dumps on exit but OK at depth 15 and up. Perhaps your problem is also depth related. Malcolm Kay To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message