In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Hartland
> > As a general rule, deciding that something is "useless and dangerous"
> > and removing it isn't the Unix way
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> 2. Once the blank /usr was mounted over the working nfs /usr
> apps under /usr couldnt be run e.g. vim gave me no such file..
This is correct behavior. If you want to see the files underneath a
mounted file system, you need to us
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Eric Anderson wrote:
> > I don't know about the fs corruption, but the double mounts is
> > something you asked it to do (maybe unknowingly). When you added
> > that partition, one of the options is to mount it.
> Clearly an easy
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Mike Meyer wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to install 5.4-RELEASE off of CDROM on an ASUS P5S800 motherboard
> > with a SATA drive in it. The SATA drive shows up as ad4 during the i
I'm trying to install 5.4-RELEASE off of CDROM on an ASUS P5S800 motherboard
with a SATA drive in it. The SATA drive shows up as ad4 during the install
process, and the install goes just fine.
But the resulting system fails to boot. It goes through the boot sequence,
draws the cute 5.x booto menu,
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Reilly
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 11:17, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> >
> > If you actually do run into problems with the way the XFree86 4.2.0 got
> > integrated, give a holler.
> First biggie: the build doesn't seem to have the interactive busin
I've got an interesting - not harmful - occurence here. I'm running a
dual-headed system, and it's obvious which monitor is the primary
(console) and which is the secondary. I ran a second X session, ran
fxtv and watched clicked it into fullscreen mode. Then I went to
another window and killed it.
In <057a01c1ecb7$7a0e1c80$b9e2910c@daleco>, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> My wife files my email, so I can't say with
> surety, but I don't recall seeing the SA on stdio
> either. I've grepped for the headers and found
> several (zlib, squid, openssh) but not this o
[Replies have been pointed to -hackers to get this off of -stable.]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, The Anarcat
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Wed Apr 24, 2002 at 12:17:37AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, The Anarcat
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
typed:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> > Yes, but the problem I usually have is twofold: I usually run
> > mergemaster in single-user mode,
> You don't have to do that. Nothing you install in /etc (except
> hosts.allow
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fictif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> The idea is to allow normal users to use the ports dir to install apps.
> I think it's an interesting idea to allow users to keep a clean home dir
> and this would allow the Admin to know what apps users are using... Then
> a script could
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erlend Simonsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> I have a machine with an ASUS P4S333-M/SWA/LAN/REALTEK-UAY motherboard
> where I'm having some problems getting the onboard SiS 900 nic to work.
> It works fine under linux-2.4.19, but not on any of the *BSDs. =(
>
> GENERIC k
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Sierchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> > Depends on the user. My rc.conf has perhaps 15 lines and some of those
> > are simply there because the OpenSSH and bind ports in STABLE tend to
> > lag quite a bit behind the release and the port versions are installed
> > in
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
typed:
> is it safe to use the 5 boot loader with 4.5 kernels?
If you're talking about /boot/loader, probably not. If you're talking
about boot0, probably so.
> (I'm guessing that without new bootblocks, I can't play, although
> you
Morgan Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> With all the trouble people are having with this, perhaps the previous
> (working) USB/ulpt code should be put back in, and leave the newer code
> for testing under -current until it is truly ready for -stable.
It would certainly get my agreement. I'd be
Crist J. Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> Now that 4.5-RELEASE is well past, I am considering MFC'ing the new
> periodic(8) structure for doing the daily security checks.
The firstURL told me the important thing - that if you haven't changed
the scripts, the change would be transparent and you
Max Shron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> So, seeing as the SanDisk SDDR-55 is not supported by umass, would
> it need its own driver or am I going to have more luck getting a smart
> media reader that uses ATA (and, thus, is the umass compatible), unless
> none exist?
Yes and yes and no.
> So
[Replies pointed to -current, where this is relevant.]
Paul Fardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> When the rc.conf file includes
> foo_enable="NO"
> it's right to expect that the system will operate like a system that does
> not
> have foo installed.
So you think that if I install a syslog f
Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> At 12:28 AM -0500 1/31/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> Why should only Joe Experienced User be getting the benefit of
> booting up with the firewall active? Now, I am *definitely* not
> suggesting this for -stable, but why don't we have the default
>
Nate Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> > Note that "do not enable firewall" (which is implied by firewall_enable="NO")
> > is *not* equivalent to "disable firewall".
> Maybe we're having an English language question.
I'd say you are.
> If something isn't enabled, doesn't that imply that it'
Gerhard Sittig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:57 -0600, David Syphers wrote:
> > [ ... surprise ... ] As others have pointed out this behavior is
> > documented, but we must remember that a variable name itself is the most
> > important and immediate documentation. And
Patrick Greenwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Bob K wrote:
> > The problem is that you're not taking into account the installed base of
> > users who twiddle this knob. How many angry firewall admins will come
> > into being when the behaviour suddenly stops being, "don't lo
Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> Just discovered the utility /usr/share/misc/file is either broken or has
> changed behavior. Now, in order to determine what a file is, I must
> append the -i switch. Did I miss or mess something up in the upgrade
> from 4.3-R to 4.4-Stable?
File change
Bruce A. Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> If memory serves me right, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Note that pkg_version uses the INDEX file, which is in the repository
> > but not get up to date. For best results, you need to do a "make
> > index" in /usr/ports.
Peter Constantinidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> I would like to be able to edit it to say Windows 2000 but I cannot seem to
> find information on how to do this.. It boots fine, but for asthetic
> reasons it's really bugging me seeing F??
>
> Is it possible?
Well, you could try adding the appr
Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> On 20-Sep-2001 Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> > For what I heard, I concluded that we shouldn't use softupdates with write
> > cache turned on. The first time that I tried this I loose a lot of work
> > due to a power failure.
> You shouldn't use write cach
Ruben van Staveren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:24:46PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > I found the source of this jar.
> > > I'he installed 'gkrellm' from ports.
> > > It's installed as root:kmem with SUID b
Eugene Grosbein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:24:46PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
>
> > There have been multiple reports of gkrellm causing SMP systems to
> > freeze - more accurately, gkrellm plugins cause this to
> > happen. Which prompts me
Alex Varju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> Considering that you've seen problems with this, it seems worth mentioning
> that I also have gkrellm running all the time. I have the following
> monitors enabled: Clock, CPU, Disk (composite), Network (xl0), Mailcheck,
> and Uptime.
Turns out that gkrell
Brian McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> I've run in to a rather disturbing problem.
>
> When running a fresh install of 4.4RC1 (not an upgrade), I try to run top. It
> takes approximately 1 minute, 29 seconds to begin to display data.
FWIW, I've got a fresh install from the 4.4RC1 ISO. top
I just wanted to verify that the upgrade option for 4.4-RC1 was
intentionally missing, and not left off by accident.
http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.
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klein brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> i want to upgrade my FreeBSD4.2-STABLE to
> FreeBSD4.3-STABLE
>
> can anybody help me ? or give me some suggestion which
> doc should i read ?
If you're running 4.2-STABLE - and not -RELEASE - you're already most
of the way there. Updating your source tre
FreeBSD Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> I haven't posting anything in some time, so I'm making up for it now with
> this tome. 8-) It says nothing important and means nothing, so skip as you
> like.
You do have some very good points, and some of them are being
addressed already.
> Don't thi
Dmitry Karasik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> On 21 Jun 01 at 16:45, "Jason" (Jason Watkins) wrote:
> Jason> Don't camoflage one problem by providing a solution to
> Jason> another. What you're really worried about is how stable -stable
> Jason> is. Address that, and things will be better than ma
re freebsd apps that work
> > with
> > > digicams to transfer pics to pc?
> >
> >
> >
> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
>
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
> Is there any way that Oracle will work on FreeBSD? I have version
> 4.2 Stable FreeBSD and would like to install a reliable and stable
> database package for personal and production usage.
This is asked - and answered - on -questions every few months. Check
the ar
Juha Saarinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> :: The real issue is why should a command raise an error for no good
> :: reason. Either a kernel panic or a message is a bit extreme just
> :: because a user issued a command that someone else thinks is
> :: unusual. Until you can prove that there is no
Juha Saarinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> :: Well, yes, tail on a directory is a silly thing to do unthinkingly.
> :: But the silly one isn't tail, it's the user who issued the command
> :: without thinking.
> So the butter-fingered luser must be punished?
Having to live with the consequences of
Juha Saarinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> :: tail is doing as ordered. Directories and files are the same. So it's
> :: giving you the last ten lines of the file /
>
> Tail voss only obeyink orters???
>
> Well, it's silly to do that unthinkingly.
Well, yes, tail on a directory is a silly th
Karsten W. Rohrbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> Mike Meyer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.04.25 09:59:49 +:
> > If the FTP site uses some obscure mechanism like accounts, that might
> > be a problem. But I don't think that's the case here.
> every ftp site uses so
Ceri Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:48:23AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Very cool idea, but the graphviz port doesn't build on 4.3-STABLE,
> > failing with
> >
> > ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for graphviz-1.7c
> &g
John Merryweather Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> "Robert T.G. Tan" wrote:
> > I tried /etc/ttys:
> >
> > ttyv5 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm-color on secure
> >
> > but I didn't get the xterm-color value for TERM.
You need to log out of the X session, then hup init f
will fail if
you make it cover the first part of the disk, but not the entire disk.
I think I'm going to add playing with this to my list of things to
do
- Original Message -
> From: "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "The Babbler" <
Helge Oldach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> Generally I'd say it's not a bad idea to have write caching on the disk
> enabled - assuming that it is decently implemented. BTW, don't SCSI
> disks use write cacheing as well? :-)
Yes, they do. And it's recommended that you turn it off if you turn on
so
I just upgraded to 4.3-BETA, and at boot got a warning about
"/var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory" when I rebooted. It now
exists, and is a berkeley db file.
Could someone tell me what this file is, and what creates it?
Thanx,
Dima Dorfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Check the -security archives for about 3 or 4 weeks ago -- someone
> > posted a big list of all of the things which the security setting in
> > sysinstall does, which will hopefully make its way into the Offici
Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:01:36PM +1100, Kal Torak wrote:
> > Hiyas...
> >
> > I kinda did a fdisk -BI on my main HDD by accident... It killed
> > all my partitions... I tried to get them back with sysinstall and
> > the live file system, but I cant mou
Hajimu UMEMOTO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:11:15 -0500
> > Chris Faulhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > I believe wmlmmon is lmmon in a Gnome(GTK) window.
> jedgar> Ummm, no. :) It is a windowmaker dock app...
>
> GKrellM is GTK+ based monitor that can dis
Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> I always update my remote machines by building all necessary kernels,
> building the world, and installing it all on a build machine first to
> make sure I've got the upgrade procedure down. Then I NFS-export
> /usr/src and /usr/obj read-on
Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:52:33PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote:
> > You can't reboot to single user mode when you are doing a remote
> > update. He is specifically asking about the best way to do
> > a remote update. You have to do everything multiuser an
Andrew Hesford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> I've been wondering about the limits of FreeBSD on an x86 system. Nobody
> has been able to find a straight answer...
This question comes up on -questions at irregular intervals, and
answers can be found in the archives there.
> First, what is the larg
John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> I bet 99% of all users leave their crontab entries for the periodic
> scripts unchanged.
I expect it's higher than that if you add more precision. First, most
users (more than 90%) never fool with software configuration *at all*,
though that's probably lo
Jonathan Smith writes:
> I, for one, like the functionality, and thought it kinda already worked
> that way (or maybe I _made_ it work that way on my machines, cn't
> remember). I would like solid facts, rather than a religious/exagerated
> discussion.
I agree. I first ran into this on solaris.
Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
;->> -current (all the latest greatest experimental).
;->> -stable (all the latest gretest "Stable" stuff).
;->> -missioncritical (conservative release, once a year or so - only bug
;->> fixes after release).
;->Actually, the -missioncritical branch is sort of provided
John Baldwin writes:
;->> The bottom line is that taking the name people have standardized on
;->> for installing *local* packages and installing system-provided
;->> packages there is a bad thing(TM). None of the solutions I used
;->> suffered from that flaw.
;->Umm, if the name /usr/local distur
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Aldenor Falcao wrote:
:->
:->I need to build python, cause the one the comes with 3.2 is broken.
:-> It doesn't have the thread and SHA compiled in.
Huh? The one I just built (3.2-STABLE from late May) has thread built
in.
Not sha, though - you're right. You do want the stuf
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Neil Long wrote:
:->I have a FreeBSD+drawbridge host which just runs and runs and has no
:->problems. It has been up now for 444 days
:->(2.2.6-RELEASE DRAWBRIDGE-3.0b2)
:->and I am planning to upgrade it RSN!
:->
:->Just wondered if FreeBSD ever suffered the 'uptime' problems
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Narvi wrote:
:->> No, that just means the port is trivial, not unnecessary. Adding it as
:->> a port means that it's got a record in the list of avaiable
:->> applications, and that a package for it should wind up on the CD-ROM
:->> distribution. These are Good Things(TM), and
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, W Gerald Hicks wrote:
:->When I kept up with the numbers for these things in a former
:->life working for a disk manufacturer, I was always astounded
:->at how much current the drives pulled during their power-on
:->sequence. After startup, current begins to taper off rapidly
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:->Supermicro usually has a jumper for PIIX versus BIOS Power save state.
:->Set it to the NON-default setting.
Well, they only had one such jumper - labeled PIIX4 vs. save PD
state. Changing it seemed made the system power back up after I
removed power
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
:->> Jordan should have to say something about this. AFAIR, bumps are
:->> allowed but only by one between releases. We will have to provide
:->> libc_r.so.3 in /usr/lib/compat/compat3x, though (we'll have to do this
:->> anyway by the time 4.x is rel
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