Re: where do i get freebsd kernel source code only

2004-02-23 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:44:58 -0800 (PST), Ashok Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > i am interested in looking at the source code of > freebsd. but i was unable to find only source code in > ur ftp sites. so i want to know the path from where i > can download only the source code of fre

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 February 2004 at 8:30:15 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: >>> vinum and ide on my system results is very poor disk performance, I >>> see a 10-fold increase in read/write actions. I'll be interested in >>> revisiting vinum with some SCSI disks sometime soon. >> >> How did you test it? >

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-23 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:44:45AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > >> > > Since I have this same problem I ran 'make describe' and here's the >> > > result: >> > > >> > > - >> > > ===> devel/sparc-rtems-gdb >> > > *** Error code 1 >> > > >>

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-23 Thread Danny Carroll
> We already discussed this. The likelihood of such far-reaching damage > is low. > Hmmm ok.. > > I can't prove any of this since I urgently needed about 150gb of > > space. So I re-formatted. > > > > Like I said it is a shame since I wanted to understand what happened > > now, but, then again,

Re: How to switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5

2004-02-23 Thread Matt Navarre
On Monday 23 February 2004 22:22, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 24), Stephen Liu said: > > 5.2 > > == > > > > Kindly advise the key combination switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5 > > > > Ctrl + Alt + F2 = INIT 3/Text mode (works) > > Ctrl + Alt + F7 = INIT 5/Graphic mode (does not w

XF86Config - ProSavage DDR 8DO4

2004-02-23 Thread gareth bailey
X server message generated is "(WW) Savage: Chipset "ProSavage DDR" in Device section "Card0" isn't valid for this driver" After experiencing difficulty configuring X Server for use with the above graphics hardware, i downloaded a new savage_drv.o file and replaced the original. No joy. Has anyon

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:44:45AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > > > Since I have this same problem I ran 'make describe' and here's the > > > result: > > > > > > - > > > ===> devel/sparc-rtems-gdb > > > *** Error code 1 > > > > > > Stop in /usr/ports/devel. > > > *** Error code 1

Re: KDE startup slowly on "initializing system service"

2004-02-23 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Teodor, FreeBSD 5.2 I encounter the same problem. KDE starts very slow, first popup desktop icrons, bottom tool-bar, welcome screen, etc., one by one taking prolonged time. Starting K package from desktop also takes lengthy time to start. Immediate after installation from CD1 compl

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-23 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Kris wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:57:18AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:28:32AM +, Robert Woolley wrote: > > > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jeff Penn wrote: > > > > > > > > > My ports system is in a bit of a mess. The problems first

where do i get freebsd kernel source code only

2004-02-23 Thread Ashok Raj
hello, i am interested in looking at the source code of freebsd. but i was unable to find only source code in ur ftp sites. so i want to know the path from where i can download only the source code of freebsd (without installing freebsd). regards, ashok __ Do yo

Re: How to switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5

2004-02-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 24), Stephen Liu said: > 5.2 > == > > Kindly advise the key combination switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5 > > Ctrl + Alt + F2 = INIT 3/Text mode (works) > Ctrl + Alt + F7 = INIT 5/Graphic mode (does not work) FreeBSD does not have "init" levels. You've got off, single

How to switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5

2004-02-23 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, 5.2 == Kindly advise the key combination switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5 Ctrl + Alt + F2 = INIT 3/Text mode (works) Ctrl + Alt + F7 = INIT 5/Graphic mode (does not work) and the method switching to multi-user-mode from single-user-mode instead of rebooting PC TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:57:18AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:28:32AM +, Robert Woolley wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jeff Penn wrote: > > > > > > > My ports system is in a bit of a mess. The problems first surfaced > > > > after l

Help on kernel debugger

2004-02-23 Thread sundeep.puliccott
I need to use a kernel debugger on FreeBSD 4.8 to check if my messages to the kernel have all the info required and if Is being processed. DDB is the debugger mentioned in the handbook. Will DDB help Me debug the kernel on the target itself? All that I have read abt DDB is debugging from a remote

Re: filesystem permissions using dump on live filesystem

2004-02-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:47 PM -0500 2/23/04, Aaron Peterson wrote: > i put a user in the operator group in /etc/group: -snip- and attempted to dump a live filesystem: -snip- what am i missing here? nevermind. i had to log out and log back in. that solved my problems. now my only question is why does one ha

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-23 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:28:32AM +, Robert Woolley wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jeff Penn wrote: > > > > > My ports system is in a bit of a mess. The problems first surfaced > > > after last weeks 'cvsup; portsdb -uU'. This weeks cvsup did not > > > improve the si

Re: filesystem permissions using dump on live filesystem

2004-02-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Aaron Peterson wrote: i put a user in the operator group in /etc/group: -snip- and attempted to dump a live filesystem: -snip- what am i missing here? nevermind. i had to log out and log back in. that solved me problems. now my only question is why does one have to log ou

Olicom Token-Ring PCI NICs

2004-02-23 Thread Hillside Studio
I have 3 Olicom Token-Ring PCI/II 16/4 OC-3137 that need a home, tryed to send this email once b4 to donations but was bounced. /Nikolas Send Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: filesystem permissions using dump on live filesystem

2004-02-23 Thread Aaron Peterson
> i put a user in the operator group in /etc/group: -snip- > and attempted to dump a live filesystem: -snip- > what am i missing here? nevermind. i had to log out and log back in. that solved me problems. now my only question is why does one have to log out and log in for addition to a new

thinkpad T40 5.2 kernel panic

2004-02-23 Thread Adam Bozanich
Hi all. I can't boot into the GENERIC kernel on a IBM Thinkpad T40. cd /usr/src/kern/i386/conf/ config GENERIC cd ../comple/GENERIC make depend make make install When I boot I get this: ata1-slave: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY no interrupt ata1-slave: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY no interrupt Memor

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:28:32AM +, Robert Woolley wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jeff Penn wrote: > > > My ports system is in a bit of a mess. The problems first surfaced > > after last weeks 'cvsup; portsdb -uU'. This weeks cvsup did not > > improve the situation: > > I don't have a solu

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-23 Thread Robert Woolley
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jeff Penn wrote: > My ports system is in a bit of a mess. The problems first surfaced > after last weeks 'cvsup; portsdb -uU'. This weeks cvsup did not > improve the situation: I don't have a solution, but I'm getting just the same problem with portsdb -uU; and it happened

Re: backup

2004-02-23 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Eric, I think what you are looking for is drive mirroring (which I think is known as RAID 1). Although I have never done this myself, the Handbook seems to give good pointers at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/raid.html For more information on mirroring control, the

filesystem permissions using dump on live filesystem

2004-02-23 Thread Aaron Peterson
i put a user in the operator group in /etc/group: wkstn% pw groupshow operator operator:*:5:root,alpete and attempted to dump a live filesystem: wkstn% dump -L -0u -f /mnt/storage/incoming/dump_test.dmp /usr /sbin/mksnap_ffs: Permission denied dump: Cannot create /usr/.snap/dump_snapshot: No suc

Re: 32 bit on FreeBSD 5.2

2004-02-23 Thread Lucas Holt
I'm assuming you mean IA-32 (x86) architecture. The answer is yes. The freebsd project has expanded to support AMD64, Sparc 64, and PowerPC chips in addition to Intel/AMD/Cyrix IA-32 chips. (PowerPC support isn't finished!) Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 32 bit on FreeBSD 5.2

2004-02-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 05:57:50PM -0800, Mateusz Rajca wrote: > Hi, > > Does FreeBSD 5.2 have the 32 bit mode option? BSD 4.4 > has it. Please explain what you mean by "32 bit mode option". Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: imap question

2004-02-23 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Louis LeBlanc wrote: Might as well use POP, correct? Yes and no. POP is fine if you only ever check mail from one system. Otherwise, imap is more appropriate. Security is a separate issue altogether when you look at it this way. Well, you also have to take into consideration where you want you

Re: imap question

2004-02-23 Thread Lucas Holt
Passwords would be sent in clear text if you compiled WITHOUT_SSL and connected to port 143. make cert is used on that port to create the certificate file imap(d).pem and an symbolic link for pop3d. I suspect that there is something wrong with the certificate or the permissions are wrong. It

Re: imap question

2004-02-23 Thread stan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:28:09PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 02/23/04 08:29 PM, stan sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:02:22PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > On 02/23/04 07:38 PM, stan sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > I'm trying to help a firend of mine get a

Re: ssh no longer connecting automatically

2004-02-23 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Any idea why updating to 4.9 stable would give me this error? > I have to set it to protocol 1 and log in manually. The auto login with the > id_rsa and authorized_keys doesn't seem to work anymore, but gives this > error: > > neptune:~> ssh [EMA

Re: imap question

2004-02-23 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/23/04 08:29 PM, stan sat at the `puter and typed: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:02:22PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > On 02/23/04 07:38 PM, stan sat at the `puter and typed: > > > I'm trying to help a firend of mine get an imap server running on one of > > > his FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE machines.

32 bit on FreeBSD 5.2

2004-02-23 Thread Mateusz Rajca
Hi, Does FreeBSD 5.2 have the 32 bit mode option? BSD 4.4 has it. Thank You Mateusz __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

Re: XF86Config - ProSavage DDR 8D04

2004-02-23 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Gareth Bailey wrote: > X server message generated is "(WW) Savage: Chipset "ProSavage DDR" in > Device section "Card0" isn't valid for this driver" > > Has anyone had any success with this hardware? Please advise. I've gotten these to work as part of an MSI KM4M motherboar

Re: imap question

2004-02-23 Thread stan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:02:22PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 02/23/04 07:38 PM, stan sat at the `puter and typed: > > I'm trying to help a firend of mine get an imap server running on one of > > his FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE machines. > > > > We have built the UW imapd port, and installed it. Howe

Re: custom kernel

2004-02-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 05:54:05PM -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > Hello I use FreeBSD 4.9 Stable and am tring to compile a custom kernel > but get the following error. > Also i am running a Intel865glcl with a cleron 2.4 the board supports > hyperthreading do the chip and operating system. Y

fm801 + FreeBSD 5.2, even the hack doesn't do the trick anymore

2004-02-23 Thread Whyking
Hi, I'm using a Terratec 512i with a fm801 chipset. It's long known (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/45182) that there is a bug in the fm801.c file since version 1.3.2.7. The driver simply doesn't attach to the soundcard. Until now I was able to use the 1.3.2.6 version of the dri

Re: imap question

2004-02-23 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/23/04 07:38 PM, stan sat at the `puter and typed: > I'm trying to help a firend of mine get an imap server running on one of > his FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE machines. > > We have built the UW imapd port, and installed it. However we seem to be > habing a bit of a problem making it work. > > Tha m

custom kernel

2004-02-23 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Hello I use FreeBSD 4.9 Stable and am tring to compile a custom kernel but get the following error. Also i am running a Intel865glcl with a cleron 2.4 the board supports hyperthreading do the chip and operating system. bp.o: In function `sbp_probe_target': sbp.o(.text+0x750): undefined referenc

Re: Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

2004-02-23 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:46:07AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > On Feb 23, at 09:12 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > D J Hawkey Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > : True or False: Setting CPUTYPE to the lowest target CPU ("p2") in > > : a buil

ftp Redirect problems using RDR

2004-02-23 Thread Nicolás de Bari Embríz G . R .
Hi all. I am having some problems redirecting a ftp using rrd, i am using ipfilter and ipnat my ipnat.rules on Server 1 file has some thing like: map fxp0 192.168.50.1/24 -> 148.243.246.2/32 portmap tcp/udp auto map fxp0 192.168.50.1/24 -> 148.243.246.2/32 rdr fxp0 148.243.246.2/32 port 21 -> 19

imap question

2004-02-23 Thread stan
I'm trying to help a firend of mine get an imap server running on one of his FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE machines. We have built the UW imapd port, and installed it. However we seem to be habing a bit of a problem making it work. Tha man page, and the docs (which I only found in the ports work directory

RE: backup

2004-02-23 Thread Eric F Crist
I've been looking for a solution for this, as well. I want RAID level copying, so I can just swap harddrives and be back up and running. If I have two identical 160GB HDD, on the same IDE cable (pri/sec), how would I accomplish this, and roughly how long would it take? Figure both HDD are full.

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 23 February 2004 at 12:44:19 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Greg, > > Thanks for all the responses. Unfortunatly I ran out of time and resorted to a > restore of week old data. No big loss for me, but I really wanted to debug > this to better understand what happened. > > I think it wen

Re: backup

2004-02-23 Thread Steven N. Fettig
I think there are better ways per se, but that is usually personal opinion... That being said, there are a few questions: 1) how big of an installation are you trying to back up? 2) is it necessary to back up all of the information? 3) do you have access to a faster drive (this one may not be

Re: backup

2004-02-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > We're currently doing a back up of a FreeBSD 4.9 (2) server by plugging a > USB external drive in and then doing > > cp /dev/ad0 /dev/da0 > > This takes about 30 hours, (USB 1). > > Is this the best way to do it, or can someone suggest a better way. We'd > rather not have the server offlin

backup

2004-02-23 Thread Richard Beyer
We're currently doing a back up of a FreeBSD 4.9 (2) server by plugging a USB external drive in and then doing cp /dev/ad0 /dev/da0 This takes about 30 hours, (USB 1). Is this the best way to do it, or can someone suggest a better way. We'd rather not have the server offline while we d

Re: KDE startup slowly on "initializing system service"

2004-02-23 Thread Teodor Iliescu
Hello, On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: > Good afternoon everybody, > I know this is not a new problem. But till now i found no solution for > this. My KDE 3.1.4 and 3.2 (just updated recently through ports) enter the > same problems: startup slowly on "initializing system service", k

RE: ISP dialing with callback - def. route problems

2004-02-23 Thread JJB
You do not need the line compress stuff it's over kill and outdated, it just slows down the connection. On callback you are not logging into his box, he is logging into your box You also need gateway="YES" in rc.conf if dialin user want to access public internet through your gateway box. IF you h

Re: Preferred MTA and mail configuration

2004-02-23 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Gareth Bailey wrote: I'm new to email on FreeBSD. Could someone please advise at what MTA i should use. I thought courier might be a good choice since it has integrated POP3 and IMAP servers (bearing in mind i have to serve Outlook clients). I want simple install. Thank you Gareth ___

FreeBSD 5.3

2004-02-23 Thread Caio Souza Mendes
Hello, It would like to know if the next version to the FreeBSD, the 5.3 will be same stable? If yes, for when is foreseen the launching of exactly? __ Yahoo! Mail - O melhor e-mail do Brasil! Abra sua conta agora: http://br.ya

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:33:01PM +, Jeff Penn wrote: > My ports system is in a bit of a mess. The problems first surfaced > after last weeks 'cvsup; portsdb -uU'. This weeks cvsup did not > improve the situation: > > ttyp5[-1]> portsdb -uU > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tm

portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

2004-02-23 Thread Jeff Penn
My ports system is in a bit of a mess. The problems first surfaced after last weeks 'cvsup; portsdb -uU'. This weeks cvsup did not improve the situation: ttyp5[-1]> portsdb -uU Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..===> accessibility/kdeaccessibility failed: kdeaccessi

Re: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot

2004-02-23 Thread Kevin F. Berrien
If you look at the archive at the time I origionally posted, you'll find some 4 others with the same issue. A resolution was posted. I had inquired on how the issue could get included in the erratta and got no reponse. The bug, erratta bit, and other issues with FreeBSD left me uninclined to

Re: posting messages to freebsd-newbies new group

2004-02-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:35:38PM -, David Clarke wrote: > Hello: > > I have been trying for days to configure Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 and now > Outlook Express as my new reader, I am able to read postings, but I cannot > post any messages. > > When I attempt to post a message I get the fo

can't portupgrade XFree86

2004-02-23 Thread Noah
freeBSD-4.9-STABLE okay I upgraded to 4.9 but still running into troubles with installing XFree86. I simply am new to this and dont appear to completely know what I am doing. I did the following to install XFree86. -- snip -- pkg_add -r XFree86 -- snip --- now I am attmepting to portupgra

RE: Mail storage in Postfix

2004-02-23 Thread Remko Lodder
what delivery method do you use? in case of local i thought (from head) /var/mail/$username Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene mrtg.grunn.org Dutch mirror of MRTG -Oorspronkelijk ber

Mail storage in Postfix

2004-02-23 Thread Gareth Bailey
Where is mail actually stored under Postfix MTA? Thanks -Gareth ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: won't buildworld

2004-02-23 Thread Robert Downes
Bernardo Marcelo Brummer wrote: I'm trying to upgrade from 4.7 to 4.9 I made cvsup (src-all), with no problems, then: cd /usr/src and: make buildworld It runs for a while (about 10 -15 minutes) and stops (see message bellow) I already tried cvsup three more times but always with the same result. A

Re: Nvidia

2004-02-23 Thread ajacoutot
Selon Uwe Laverenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After reading all the answers to my mail, I downloaded the > 5.2.1-RC2-mini and started another attempt: you're right, the NVidia > drivers work with 5.2.1-RC2. > > Thank you! No problem... glad I could help.

Re: Nvidia

2004-02-23 Thread Uwe Laverenz
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Well... it works great under 5.2. After reading all the answers to my mail, I downloaded the 5.2.1-RC2-mini and started another attempt: you're right, the NVidia drivers work with 5.2.1-RC2. Thank you! Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: ISP dialing with callback - def. route problems

2004-02-23 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko
Thanks to JJB, callback is set up, e.g. ISP calls back & modems answers the call. The most stupid bug was in /etc/ttys: ttyl0 "/usr/libexec/getty callback1" dialup on (instead of ttyd0 - for Lucent winmodem driver). Now I've got more sophisticated callback problem. Saying again, when

Re: fail to recognize sound device

2004-02-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Dear Sirs, > Thank you for Giving FreeBSD for free. > Basically I would like to ask you about a problem I have with the sound hardware > which I wasn't able to resolve. And I also have some suggestions to make! > > After Installation when writing #startx, at the prompt KDE loads and I get a

RE: Preferred MTA and mail configuration

2004-02-23 Thread Remko Lodder
Here's a url that points on postfix with courier, (with an SQL server) for virtual delivery's Perhaps usefull for your might be next step. Otherwise there might be good information for your current setup. Also be sure to checkout www.postfix.org/docs.html Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder El

serial multi-port

2004-02-23 Thread Jim Pazarena
I purchased a comtrol rocketport (PCI) with the intention of loading on FreeBSD. I cannot see where/how I get the kernel to acknowledge the card. Can anyone offer suggestions? TIA -- Jim Pazarenamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.qcislands.net/paz

Re: fully deinstall X

2004-02-23 Thread Noah
> > Do a search on XFree86 and use the dependancies to delete it. You > can do this the "make search" way or you can use a tool called > portsearch that is located in /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/portsearch I > copied it to a convenient location and then aliased it as "alias > search'portsear

RE: Preferred MTA and mail configuration

2004-02-23 Thread Goodleaf, John M
I don't know if others have already chimed in, but I recommend Postfix. I actually use a combination of Postfix + Courier to handle my mailing needs. Postfix is by all accounts secure, and is much, much easier to configure than Sendmail (I'm told by people who pretend to understand Sendmail that i

Re: Can Freebsd run on linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Simon Rutishauser
Cordula's Web wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:49:10PM -0800, Ken Finegood's Office 2 wrote: >> > Subject: Can Freebsd run on linux? >> >> Yes, it can, but you'll likely need a product like VMWare to to it. > > Or (very slowly) under Bochs. or (faster) unter Plex86 (on an x86 Prozessor) Pe

Re: Mail on FreeBSD

2004-02-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi, > I was wondering if there was a web based system to check mail on a freebsd > system.I wanted to setup a mail system for all users on the intranet.I have > successfully installed sendmail and can send and receive mail on the > system.(using pine).But how do i go about setting up a system

Preferred MTA and mail configuration

2004-02-23 Thread Gareth Bailey
I'm new to email on FreeBSD. Could someone please advise at what MTA i should use. I thought courier might be a good choice since it has integrated POP3 and IMAP servers (bearing in mind i have to serve Outlook clients). I want simple install. Thank you Gareth ___

Re: [FAQ pointer] Re: How to start single user mode or safe mode

2004-02-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:38:35AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: This one is fine... > # fsck /dev/ad4s1a (I suppose boot) but these two aren't: > # fsck /dev/ad4s1b (I suppose swap) > # fsck /dev/ad4s1c (I suppose /) You can only run fsck(8) on partitions containing filesystems. The 'b' parti

kern.shutdown_timeout sysctl

2004-02-23 Thread Dominic Bishop
I just tried setting the value of the kern.shutdown_timeout sysctl and it failed with: sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.shutdown_timeout' I am trying to increase the maximum time allowed for rc.shutdown to run for reasons explained in my previous post "Help needed modifying shutdown scripts" >From the

Re: changing the boot0 menu

2004-02-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 23), Alan Freed said: > I have a specific ? I use several OS's, and your bootloader finds > them all; however, it prints a ?? on the screen because they are > unknown to BSD. I look at the /boot/boot0 file which contains this > information, but I don't know how to edit it

Re: [FAQ pointer] Re: How to start single user mode or safe mode

2004-02-23 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - Kindly advise how to boot to 'single user mode' or 'safe mode' The precise answer depends on what version of FreeBSD you're running, which you failed to mention. You can work it out from the FreeBSD FAQ entry titled "I made a mistake in rc.conf, or another startup file, and now I ca

Re: id like to help

2004-02-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > hi im a freebsd user and i live in istanbul and im trying to get people > to use freebsd and stuff like this. i would love to help in a part of > freebsd an some kind of way. is there anything i could help with? i dont > mind maybe translating a few docs to turkish and stuff like that. > Goo

posting messages to freebsd-newbies new group

2004-02-23 Thread David Clarke
Hello: I have been trying for days to configure Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 and now Outlook Express as my new reader, I am able to read postings, but I cannot post any messages. When I attempt to post a message I get the following error: Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject 'Veri

XF86Config - ProSavage DDR 8D04

2004-02-23 Thread Gareth Bailey
X server message generated is "(WW) Savage: Chipset "ProSavage DDR" in Device section "Card0" isn't valid for this driver" After experiencing difficulty configuring X Server for use with the above graphics hardware, i downloaded a new savage_drv.o file and replaced the original. No joy. H

Re: Which video adapter for dual-head 5.2-R/XF86 4.3?

2004-02-23 Thread Doug Poland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Selon Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> So, can someone recommend a graphics apapter that runs dual-head in >> 5.2/XFree86 4.3? > > I'm using FreeBSD-5.2-RC with an NVidia TI-4200 dual-head and it works great :) > I never had a problem with this setup. > Feel free to as

changing the boot0 menu

2004-02-23 Thread Alan Freed
Hi, I have just installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my laptop. I've been an avid RedHat user since vs 3, but their recent marketing change has made it unrealistic for me to stay with them, so I purchased your CD bundle and installed it. I have a specific ? I use several OS's, and your bootloader finds

Re: Which video adapter for dual-head 5.2-R/XF86 4.3?

2004-02-23 Thread ajacoutot
Selon Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So, can someone recommend a graphics apapter that runs dual-head in > 5.2/XFree86 4.3? I'm using FreeBSD-5.2-RC with an NVidia TI-4200 dual-head and it works great :) I never had a problem with this setup. Feel free to ask me any question if you need more i

Which video adapter for dual-head 5.2-R/XF86 4.3?

2004-02-23 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, I've done a lot of reading and searching mailing lists in an attempt to identify a graphics adapter that will run dual-head in FreeBSD 5.2/XFree 4.3 One of the problems with searching lists is what you see a lot of is people's problems and it tends to skew your impressions. There's lot's of

RE: Help needed modifying shutdown scripts

2004-02-23 Thread Dominic Bishop
> -Original Message- > Subject: Help needed modifying shutdown scripts > > I am trying to use some custom startup+shutdown scripts to > control a Belkin > UPS using the nut utility. Essentially to achieve what is > shown in point 4 of > > http://quasar.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~selinger/ups/

Re: How to start single user mode or safe mode

2004-02-23 Thread Jez Hancock
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:49:53PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Accidentally I made a mistake > > # ee /etc/rc.conf > . > hostname=localhost > > > and could not start the PC > > At booting > .. > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > Hit > # ee (could not work) > >

RE: Patching the system

2004-02-23 Thread Remko Lodder
Hi, you should install cvsup, and update your entire source branch, install it from ports and have a look at the /usr/share/examples/cvsup files. then go to /usr/src/usr.bin/script and make && make install, If it isn't a freebsd patch perhaps fetching the patch into /usr/src/usr.bin/script an

Re: KDE startup slowly on "initializing system service"

2004-02-23 Thread Nguyen Tam Chinh
Oh, I'm sorry. Please cc me, I don't register in these mailling lists. On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: > Good afternoon everybody, > I know this is not a new problem. But till now i found no solution for > this. My KDE 3.1.4 and 3.2 (just updated recently through ports) enter the >

Patching the system

2004-02-23 Thread MHA
Hi all (and excuse my English, please) I need to patch "script" (/usr/src/usr.bin/script - /usr/bin/script), but I don't know how to do it correctly. Here is the patch and the bug report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=56166 I think "script" is the problem, I have some errors with p

Re: Can Freebsd run on linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:49:10PM -0800, Ken Finegood's Office 2 wrote: > > Subject: Can Freebsd run on linux? > > Yes, it can, but you'll likely need a product like VMWare to to it. Or (very slowly) under Bochs. > Questions about what software can run in Linux should probably be > directed t

RE: [doc pointer] Re: "make installworld" to only install new/changed files?

2004-02-23 Thread Rob MacGregor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert > > See the "INSTALL" variable as documented for make.conf(5). Thanks to both yourself and Matthew. For some reason I never thought of looking at make :( -- Rob | Oh my God! They ki

Re: "make installworld" to only install new/changed files?

2004-02-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 05:34:08PM -, Rob MacGregor wrote: > I have a strange (maybe) desire to be able to only install the new or > changed files when doing a "make installworld" on FreeBSD (5.2 or later > ideally). Does anybody know if this is possible? Putting INSTALL=install -C into

[doc pointer] Re: "make installworld" to only install new/changed files?

2004-02-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Rob MacGregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a strange (maybe) desire to be able to only install the new or > changed files when doing a "make installworld" on FreeBSD (5.2 or later > ideally). Does anybody know if this is possible? See the "INSTALL" variable as documented for make.conf(

Re: id like to help

2004-02-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
siraj kutlusan wrote: hi im a freebsd user and i live in istanbul and im trying to get people to use freebsd and stuff like this. i would love to help in a part of freebsd an some kind of way. is there anything i could help with? i dont mind maybe translating a few docs to turkish and stuff like t

id like to help

2004-02-23 Thread siraj kutlusan
hi im a freebsd user and i live in istanbul and im trying to get people to use freebsd and stuff like this. i would love to help in a part of freebsd an some kind of way. is there anything i could help with? i dont mind maybe translating a few docs to turkish and stuff like that.

Re: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot

2004-02-23 Thread Michael L. Squires
> I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled > "4.9 install buglet". > > I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100% > of the time. After install, after system reboot, the boot loader comes > up with F1: FreeBSD, and reboots continually fore

"make installworld" to only install new/changed files?

2004-02-23 Thread Rob MacGregor
I have a strange (maybe) desire to be able to only install the new or changed files when doing a "make installworld" on FreeBSD (5.2 or later ideally). Does anybody know if this is possible? The reason for asking is that I run a box (shortly to be 2) off of a compact flash card (since the process

"make installworld" to only install new/changed files?

2004-02-23 Thread Rob MacGregor
I have a strange (maybe) desire to be able to only install the new or changed files when doing a "make installworld" on FreeBSD (5.2 or later ideally). Does anybody know if this is possible? The reason for asking is that I run a box (shortly to be 2) off of a compact flash card (since the process

Re: Can Freebsd run on linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:49:10PM -0800, Ken Finegood's Office 2 wrote: > Subject: Can Freebsd run on linux? Yes, it can, but you'll likely need a product like VMWare to to it. Questions about what software can run in Linux should probably be directed to a Linux mailing list. -- Paul Chvost

Re: Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

2004-02-23 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Feb 23, at 09:12 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > D J Hawkey Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : True or False: Setting CPUTYPE to the lowest target CPU ("p2") in > : a build machine's make.conf will cripple the performance of target > : machines with h

FTP Problems with FreeBSD 5.2.1 RC 2 install

2004-02-23 Thread Barry Hawkins
List, Would anyone have insight on problems accessing FTP installation sources for 5.2.1 RC2? I was installing just fine using ftp5.us.freebsd.org (mit.edu, I believe, one of the sources closer to me), and began to have the installation return to the menu for selecting my FTP source. Invaria

Re: Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

2004-02-23 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D J Hawkey Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : True or False: Setting CPUTYPE to the lowest target CPU ("p2") in : a build machine's make.conf will cripple the performance of target : machines with higher CPUs ("p3", "p4", "i586", "i686", etc.). False. It

problem with USB hub

2004-02-23 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) I use a USB hub with a scanner and a printer plugged-in under FreeBSD-5.2-RC2. The USB hub is self-powered. After some time of inactivity, the hub turns of the ports where my devices are connected which means I cannot access my printer nor scanner anymore... I there a way to tell FreeBSD t

Re: USB modem support?

2004-02-23 Thread hay
you can try this link http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoa.html - Original Message - From: "Daniela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tony Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:23 PM Subject: Re: USB modem support? > On Sa

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