Re: FreeBSD vs Linux: more than 80 chars.

2004-09-03 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 04:22:22 +0200 Gianmarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, the question is very simple. > > I'd like to have more than 80 chars on my console. > My env is: > * Dell latitude D600 > * FreeBSD 5.3-ALPHA > * ATI Radeon Lf R250 Mobility 9000 M9 > > My vidcontrol -i mode shows: > >

Re: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

2004-09-03 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:29:23PM -0500, Jeff Hinrichs wrote: > Dan Finn wrote: > I thought I had seen an email to the list that the bug was found; and a fix committed. I waited a couple of hours, ran make update, etcetera; and this resulted: # portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... Generati

Re: AARRRGGHHH! (was Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors in security output)

2004-09-03 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 09/03/04 09:53 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: > On 09/02/04 08:56 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: > > Just for the record, that was definitely the wrong command. > > Had to boot to another kernel again. Lots of corruption on the root > partition. Non-recoverabl

Re: Errata Branch

2004-09-03 Thread stheg olloydson
It was said: > Just so I have this correct: > > After I install 4.10-RELEASE, before I complete the first_cvsup my > config file should look as follows: > > *default host=cvsup12.freebsd.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_10_0_RELEASE list=cvs:RE

make.conf optimzations [was ports vs source]

2004-09-03 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said by Vulpes Velox: >The ability to squeze the absolute max out using /etc/make.conf is >what I love about ports. > >CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp >CFLAGS= -O -m3dnow -msse -mmmx -pipe >CXXFLAGS+= -fmemoize-lookups -fsave-memoized -m3dnow -msse -mmmx Hello, This post raises a couple of questions

Re: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

2004-09-03 Thread Jeff Hinrichs
Dan Finn wrote: [ root @ stewie : /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade] : portupgrade ruby [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb in /usr/ports ... - 11725 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000.6000.7000.

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Robert Huff
Hugo Silva writes: > I try never to reboot my servers, only when critical security > updates are issued. The reason for this is I work with shell > providers mostly, and the uptime is a big factor for the clients. Surely these folks can afford a spare machine on which to do systems de

Re: sendmail setup

2004-09-03 Thread chip
Thanks Giorgos, That's a lot of info. Is all of that really necessary to allow just one machine to send mail thru the bsd box to the net? I know the sendmail people tightened up the app alot. I suppose that's a good thing. Just seems like a lot of work to do something that seems to be simple. Reg

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux: more than 80 chars.

2004-09-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Saturday 04 September 2004 11:52, Gianmarco wrote: > Hi, the question is very simple. > > I'd like to have more than 80 chars on my console. > My env is: > * Dell latitude D600 > * FreeBSD 5.3-ALPHA > * ATI Radeon Lf R250 Mobility 9000 M9 > > My vidcontrol -i mode shows: > > --> begin <-- > >

Re: portindex/portindexdb

2004-09-03 Thread kstewart
On Thursday 02 September 2004 06:17 am, Lucas Holt wrote: > After seeing several posts recently on portindex, I decided to try it > out. Most of the posts claimed you had to run portsdb -u after > portindex. > > Is it safe to use portindexdb instead of portsdb -u? > > Another words I want to do th

FreeBSD vs Linux: more than 80 chars.

2004-09-03 Thread Gianmarco
Hi, the question is very simple. I'd like to have more than 80 chars on my console. My env is: * Dell latitude D600 * FreeBSD 5.3-ALPHA * ATI Radeon Lf R250 Mobility 9000 M9 My vidcontrol -i mode shows: --> begin <-- mode# flags typesize font window linear buffer -

Re: any bandwidth limiting tools other than dummynet?

2004-09-03 Thread Nullius Void
Well you have some higher level tools embebed in some services like pure-ftpd/puredb you can limit up/down bandwitdh and quotas, etc.. But it's better to limit it with ALTQ/dummynet, that's why they exist. On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 01:14:07 +0200, Alex de Kruijff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Au

Re: AARRRGGHHH! (was Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors in security output)

2004-09-03 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 09/02/04 08:56 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: > > The ata controller(s) are, from the /var/run/dmesg.boot: > > atapci0: port > 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x374-0x377,0x170-0x177,0x3f4-0x3f7,0x1f0-0x1f7 mem > 0xfebffc00-0xfebf irq 18 at device 31.1 on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on a

portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

2004-09-03 Thread Mike Hauber
I've seen this twice on my system (4.1.0). The first time it happened, I fetched a new index, ran cvsup, updated the portsdb, and everything seemed to work okay for about three weeks. The second time was a couple of days ago. I rebuilt a cvsup'd system, removed the entire ports tree, reinsta

Re: sendmail setup

2004-09-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-09-03 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could someone please just explain what is needed to make it send mail > out to the world from just one machine on the lan. It can't be as hard > as it appears to be. The setup of my workstation at work to forward outgoing email to the mail gateway av

Re: gbde blackening feature - how can on-disk keys be "destroyed" thoroughly?

2004-09-03 Thread David Kreil
Dear LenZ, > Who are you worried about recovering the data, under what circumstances? The value of the blackening feature should be that you can give away the drive and your password, say, under pressure by the [court|mafia|whoever], without compromising any confidential information on the dri

sendmail setup

2004-09-03 Thread chip
At work I am trying to get a newly setup FreeBSD-5.2.1 box to work as a outbound mail only box, nothing else at will run on it. I have set up the relay-domains file, relay-local-hosts file and the access file. I then ran make. I may not have the file names exact, I'm at home now and the machine is

Re: gbde blackening feature - how can on disk keys be "destroyed" thoroughly?

2004-09-03 Thread Vijay Kaul
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 19:41:18 -0400, Len Zettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While i am not an expert in this area, I can not help but wonder--- Who are you worried about recovering the data, under what circumstances? My best guess is that recovering anything from even _one_ data over-write is going

Re: String replacement with sed

2004-09-03 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:37:08PM -0400, jd wrote: > > I need to change a bunch of Analog config files; among other things > change the location of IMAGEDIR. I made this simple script: > > #!/bin/sh > for loop in `ls analog/*` > do > > sed -e > '/IMAGEDIR/s/www2.3dresearch.com\/analog_i

Re: String replacement with sed

2004-09-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-09-03 19:37, jd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to change a bunch of Analog config files; among other things > change the location of IMAGEDIR. I made this simple script: > > #!/bin/sh > for loop in `ls analog/*` > do > sed -e > '/IMAGEDIR/s/www2.3dresearch.com\/analog_images\//f

Re: gbde blackening feature - how can on disk keys be "destroyed" thoroughly?

2004-09-03 Thread Len Zettel
On Friday 03 September 2004 07:18 pm, David Kreil wrote: > Dear Vijay, > > > I guess I took this off the list. It's OT, in my oppinion. > > Oh. Anywhere more appropriate to send it to that you could suggest at all? > Now also trying freebsd-geom - would that have been the better place to > send thi

String replacement with sed

2004-09-03 Thread jd
I need to change a bunch of Analog config files; among other things change the location of IMAGEDIR. I made this simple script: #!/bin/sh for loop in `ls analog/*` do sed -e '/IMAGEDIR/s/www2.3dresearch.com\/analog_images\//fiordiligi.3dresearch.com\/images\//p' $loop > $loop.sed done

Re: gbde blackening feature - how can on disk keys be "destroyed" thoroughly?

2004-09-03 Thread David Kreil
Dear Vijay, > I guess I took this off the list. It's OT, in my oppinion. Oh. Anywhere more appropriate to send it to that you could suggest at all? Now also trying freebsd-geom - would that have been the better place to send this to to start with? > I don't know much of anything about data re

Re: any bandwidth limiting tools other than dummynet?

2004-09-03 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:12:56PM +0300, Erik U. wrote: > I use ipf and i dont want to use ipfw and dummynet. Is there any way to > limit the bandwidth? Did you know you can use ipfw and ipf togetter? (I.e. ipf for firewalling and ipfw for traffic shapping.) You could try to combine ipf with ipa

Re: gbde blackening feature - how can on disk keys be "destroyed" thoroughly?

2004-09-03 Thread David Kreil
Hi, >From what I can see so far, they are simply overwritten with zeros - is that right? If so, the blackening feature would be much weakend, as once can read up to 20 layers of data even under random data (and more under zeros). I would be most grateful for comments, or suggestions of where/h

KDE 3.3 startup problem

2004-09-03 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Hi, I've updated my system to kde 3.3. This all when well. Then I had some problem with startin it and deceded to start with a new desktop. I.e. new home directory, and removing every other kde file related to my user. This worked and I was able to login a couple times. Now i'm in the middle of re

Re[2]: portsdb core dump

2004-09-03 Thread Chris
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* >Be patient. I just saw an email from Edenfield on [EMAIL PROTECTED] where >he has found the lines causing the problem. It doesn't always take long after >that happens for someone to whack their forehead and mutter "of c

Re: kdepim3.3

2004-09-03 Thread Tilman Linneweh
* "Osmany Guirola Cruz" [Fr, 03 Sep 2004 at 23:15 GMT]: > Hi people i am trying to install kdepim3 "kmail etc" but i am having problems in the > process of compiling ;-( .. kdepim3 depends on > >===> gnupg-devel-1.9.10 depends on shared library: gcrypt.12 - not found > > and try to install it

Re: portsdb core dump

2004-09-03 Thread kstewart
On Friday 03 September 2004 02:43 pm, Chris wrote: > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > server# /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.. Done. > done > [Updating the portsdb in /usr/ports ... - 11728 po

kdepim3.3

2004-09-03 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
Hi people i am trying to install kdepim3 "kmail etc" but i am having problems in the process of compiling ;-( .. kdepim3 depends on ===> gnupg-devel-1.9.10 depends on shared library: gcrypt.12 - not found and try to install it and this is the error that not let me continue with the installa

portsdb core dump

2004-09-03 Thread Chris
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* server# /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.. Done. done [Updating the portsdb in /usr/ports ... - 11728 port entries found .1000.2000.3000

Re: freeBSD for a CVS server

2004-09-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-09-02 16:00, Martin Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently in the process of setting up a CVS server for 15-20 users > and I'm now at choosing an OS for it. [...] > - Which version should I go with? Should I use 4.10 "Production > Release"? Is the 5.2.1 "New Technology R

Sendmail weirdness with 5.3 Beta2

2004-09-03 Thread epf1
I am having an odd problem with sendmail on a FreeBSD 5.3 Beta2 box that has been updated from 5.2.1. Here is the problem. I have a .forward set up for root that sends the mail from the periodic scripts on to a "real" account. Right now it doesn't work. It errors out with the following message fr

Re: Unable to write to CD-R

2004-09-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 03 September 2004 03:56 pm, Norm Vilmer wrote: > I am having trouble burning an iso image to a CD-R using FreeBSD > 4.10. I have tried using > burncd , cdrecord, and growifofs, all appear to have basically the > same problem (see details below) > "Operation not permitted". The only thing

Unable to write to CD-R

2004-09-03 Thread Norm Vilmer
I am having trouble burning an iso image to a CD-R using FreeBSD 4.10. I have tried using burncd , cdrecord, and growifofs, all appear to have basically the same problem (see details below) "Operation not permitted". The only thing bugs me is dmesg reports my drive as a DVD-R. I am not sure if

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Bill Moran
"Hugo Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had a 4.8 server with 280 days uptime, then the motherboard burned :/ > > I try never to reboot my servers, only when critical security updates are > issued. The reason for this is I work with shell providers mostly, and the > uptime is a big factor

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:45 AM +0100 9/3/04, Andy Holyer wrote: I explained that generally some upgrade comes along that requires a reboot, but I realized that I don't know how long a box would stay up in the maximum. So, come on, this should be fun, what's the biggest uptime you've ever had for a BSD box? I don't thi

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Hugo Silva
I've had a 4.8 server with 280 days uptime, then the motherboard burned :/ I try never to reboot my servers, only when critical security updates are issued. The reason for this is I work with shell providers mostly, and the uptime is a big factor for the clients. But of course, if choosing to reb

Re: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

2004-09-03 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Friday 03 September 2004 01:04 pm, Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Kent, > > > I am only seeing it on 5.3-beta. I use portindex to genereate INDEX > > on my 4.x machines and ruby isn't dumping on them. > > One of my 4.10-p2 servers exhibited the same behaviour with portsdb > -u (af

Re: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

2004-09-03 Thread kstewart
On Friday 03 September 2004 01:04 pm, Nico Meijer wrote: > Hey Kent, > > > I am only seeing it on 5.3-beta. I use portindex to genereate INDEX on my > > 4.x machines and ruby isn't dumping on them. > > One of my 4.10-p2 servers exhibited the same behaviour with portsdb -u > (after 'make index' in /

Re: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

2004-09-03 Thread Nico Meijer
Hey Kent, I am only seeing it on 5.3-beta. I use portindex to genereate INDEX on my 4.x machines and ruby isn't dumping on them. One of my 4.10-p2 servers exhibited the same behaviour with portsdb -u (after 'make index' in /usr/ports). Haven't touched the rest, yet... ;-) Kaboom, it said... Nico

Re: getting off windows

2004-09-03 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:42:29 -0400 David Litster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a windows machine and I am trying to figure out how to > replace the windows with freebsd. how do I do this? Read the freebsd handbook... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html if

Re: ports vs source

2004-09-03 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 17:26:11 +0300 Cristi Tauber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > Can anyone tell me which are the avantages of installing from > ports > rather than installing from tar balls ? I am kind of new to BSD, and > I'm familiar with linux install from tar & stuff. I k

Re: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

2004-09-03 Thread kstewart
On Friday 03 September 2004 12:38 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:18:04PM +0100, Steve Hodgson wrote: > > I've removed the ports tree and that didn't work. Given that it appears > > to be a problem in the ports tree (someone [sorry, I've deleted the > > email] said they have

error compiling kernel

2004-09-03 Thread messmate
Hello, to setup the pf firewall had to compile a new kernel. So added the options, compile and get this error : gensetdefs: kern_synch.o: not an ELF file gensetdefs: sys.pipe.o: not an ELF ile *** ERROR code 1 What could this mean ? Running release 4.10 Any help would be very appreciated. mess-

Re: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

2004-09-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:18:04PM +0100, Steve Hodgson wrote: > I've removed the ports tree and that didn't work. Given that it appears to > be a problem in the ports tree (someone [sorry, I've deleted the email] said > they have narrowed it down), I was planning on leaving it for now and just >

Re: driver : Promise SATA150 TX2/TX4 Serial ATA/150

2004-09-03 Thread Gordon Freeman
I don't think there is one. SATA support is pretty much limited to the FreeBSD 5.x branch. On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 04:39:14 +0800, Ben Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Sir > > our system need using FreeBsd 4.10, but it don't have driver for Promise > SATA150 TX4 > Can anyone give the driver >

RE: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

2004-09-03 Thread Steve Hodgson
> > I hate to add a "me too," but, well, me too. I'm running > 5.2.1-RELEASE, not > running portindex, and didn't have trouble until the instructions > from /usr/ports/UPDATING. Haven't tried to move and re-cvsup > /usr/ports. Anyone else have success via this route? > > Evan Nope, didn't work

Re: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

2004-09-03 Thread E. Eusey
On Thursday 02 September 2004 02:34 pm, Dan Finn wrote: > [ root @ stewie : /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade] : portupgrade ruby > [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb > in /usr/ports ... - 11725 port entries found > .1000.2000.3000.4000

Re: Moving MySQL database

2004-09-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:40:04PM +0100, Peter Risdon wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > iii) Move the database files to their new location, taking care to > > preserve ownership, permissions, timestamps etc. > > > Might a cp -p be slightly more cautious/paranoid until step vi has been

Re: Tape drive

2004-09-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > On Sep 3, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Joe Stuart wrote: > > > I'm trying to backup to tape, but everything I try I get device not > > configured. > > > > tar -c /home/joe > > tar: /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Device not configured > > > > mt -f /dev/sa0 rewind > > mt: /dev/sa0: Device not configured > >

Re: bash = default

2004-09-03 Thread Bill Moran
Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thank, i'll try it. > > tis easy. > Either vipw or chsh will do it fine. But, you need to use > the full path for bash (or whatever other shell you name) > Also, that path needs to be listed in /etc/shells so you may need > to edit that file as

Re: bash = default

2004-09-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Thank, i'll try it. tis easy. Either vipw or chsh will do it fine. But, you need to use the full path for bash (or whatever other shell you name) Also, that path needs to be listed in /etc/shells so you may need to edit that file as well - using regular vi. > -i means interactive. Yes, it

Re: Package version problem with portupgrade(1)

2004-09-03 Thread kstewart
On Friday 03 September 2004 11:23 am, Mark Ovens wrote: > kstewart wrote: > > His PACKAGESITE environment variable is set to a wrong location. I think > > that he needs to set it using something like > > > > setenv PACKAGESITE > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All >

Re:

2004-09-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
> Deferred: Name server: mail.mailserver.com.: host name lookup failure Can you verify proper DNS functionality on the box? Try: # dig mail.mailserver.com and; # dig freebsd.org Do these return IP addresses? Steve > > What is odd is this .forward worked before I updated the box to 5.3, > and

Re: getting ssh to work

2004-09-03 Thread Mark Vasquez
David Syphers wrote: On Friday 03 September 2004 02:56 am, David Syphers wrote: [a lot of stuff about how ssh doesn't work] Oh my, I feel silly. See, I have no experience with LANs, and foolishly though that I had a real IP, that computers off the LAN could use to find me... Didn't even realize I

Re: Package version problem with portupgrade(1)

2004-09-03 Thread Mark Ovens
kstewart wrote: His PACKAGESITE environment variable is set to a wrong location. I think that he needs to set it using something like setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All Thanks Kent, but it didn't work. Setting it made it search in ftp://ftp.fr

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2004-09-03 Thread epf1
I am having an odd problem with sendmail on a FreeBSD 5.3 Beta2 box that has been updated from 5.2.1. Here is the problem. I have a .forward set up for root that sends the mail from the periodic scripts on to a "real" account. Right now it doesn't work. It errors out with the following message fr

Re: Errata Branch

2004-09-03 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >I'm looking for some information on the Errata Branch for 4.10. I just >re-installed my FreeBSD system and am now running 4.10-RELEASE. I want >to make sure that I am running with the most-up-to-date security >patches applied. > >I would like to know the steps necessary for appling

Re: Tape drive

2004-09-03 Thread David Kelly
On Sep 3, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Joe Stuart wrote: I'm trying to backup to tape, but everything I try I get device not configured. tar -c /home/joe tar: /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Device not configured mt -f /dev/sa0 rewind mt: /dev/sa0: Device not configured The device is on and loaded with tapes. Below i

Fwd: Dell PowerEdge 400SC fan speed monitoring

2004-09-03 Thread FreeBSD user
Howdy gang, I've got a Dell PowerEdge 400SC running 5.3-BETA2 nicely, and I'd like to be able to monitor the internal fan RPM, if possible. The PE 400SC motherboard is very similar to an Intel D875PBZ. I've added the following SMBus options to my kernel: # smbus interface to Intel ICH5 management

Re: ports vs source

2004-09-03 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:34:32PM +0300, Cristi Tauber wrote: >Yes i know something ... like the avantages of rpm and another > linux package managers. But .. I want apache 1.3.31 with php-4.3.4 and > mysql 4.0.20 (let's say) ... from ports ... i understand that I can > %choose% what versi

Disk failed to mount during sysinstall -

2004-09-03 Thread Dao, Khai (K.)
Hello. Sysinstall from freeBSD has option during create disk pattrition ,. I have select "DD" option instead of "C" to create a slice. Now my hard drive cannot install linux/freeBSD/or OPENBSD any more.During install after create pattrition.&w hen the system format and mount filesystem it failed a

RE: Easy question about uninstalling

2004-09-03 Thread Tom Connolly
Much appreciated. Thank you. Thomas -Original Message- From: Subhro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Cc: Tom Connolly Subject: Re: Easy question about uninstalling pkg_delete -F /var/db/kde* Regards S. On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 0

Re: Enabling Serial Console

2004-09-03 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Marc, Try putting either '-h' or '-D' in /boot.config. I found '-D' worked for me. Personally, I'm wondering if I can put together a serial multiplexer to USB device and write a C or Perl script that will tee the output to respective files that I can 'tail -f' on. For a more thorough treatment

Sysinstall - setup freeBSD parttrition by using "DD" option .

2004-09-03 Thread Dao, Khai (K.)
Hello, I really need help on freeBSD sysinstall program. During disk parttrition setup I select ""DD" and confirm it "YES" now My harddisk has problems that I cannot continue install freebsd since during setup.system cannot mount the file system it create. Your guidance is greatly appreciated. Re

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2004-09-03 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-09-03 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at

Re: Moving MySQL database

2004-09-03 Thread Derrick Ryalls
> > I'd do it this way: > > > > i) Stop mysql I would actually perform a full mysqldump first and save that off. SQL dump file is more flexible concerning version changes than is saving the actual db files. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://

Tape drive

2004-09-03 Thread Joe Stuart
I'm trying to backup to tape, but everything I try I get device not configured. tar -c /home/joe tar: /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Device not configured mt -f /dev/sa0 rewind mt: /dev/sa0: Device not configured The device is on and loaded with tapes. Below is the output that is in the messages log whe

Re: CTRL+ALT+DEL

2004-09-03 Thread Richard Cotrina
Edit your kernel configuration, add the line : options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT then recompile your kernel, install and reboot. On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, mkondelk wrote: > How to disable CTRL+ALT+DEL ? Thanks. > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://list

Re: is there a how-to for : postfix + mysql + sasl + courier_IMAP + postfix admin using ports tree?

2004-09-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
> I came across this site yesterday: > > http://www.high5.net/howto/ > > I would like to know if anyone has gotten this setup working by > installing everything via the fbsd ports tree. Is there possibly a > how-to already out there in order to do this? I don't know how firm you are on using post

Re: CTRL+ALT+DEL

2004-09-03 Thread Santo Natale
Try add following line: options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT to your kernel conf, recompile and install the kernel. This should be work. regards, Santo Natale On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:16:41PM +0200, mkondelk wrote: > How to disable CTRL+ALT+DEL ? Thanks. > ___

Re: CRTL+ALT+DEL

2004-09-03 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, [ISO-8859-2] "Ing.Miroslav Kond?lka" wrote: > How to disable CTRL+ALT+DEL ? Thanks. Edit your keymap. The keymaps are in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/ . Assuming you are using cz.iso2.kbd, edit these lines in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/cz.iso2.kbd: 083 del'.''.'

Re: Quake2 graphics twicthy under normal user but not under root

2004-09-03 Thread Subhro
DO NOT run 6-CURRENT or DO NOT ask these questions ;-) Regards S. On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 19:07:29 -0700, Grover Lines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Quake2 runs perfect under root smooth as can be. Under a normal user > however it seems like every few seconds or every second the graphics twictch >

is there a how-to for : postfix + mysql + sasl + courier_IMAP + postfix admin using ports tree?

2004-09-03 Thread Dan Finn
I came across this site yesterday: http://www.high5.net/howto/ I would like to know if anyone has gotten this setup working by installing everything via the fbsd ports tree. Is there possibly a how-to already out there in order to do this? Thanks Dan

Re: Errata Branch

2004-09-03 Thread Bill Moran
Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew, > > Thanks for the information. You might have already answered this but I'm > not 100% sure, once I have cvsup RELENG_4_10 do I need to buildworld > just to get the errata branch installed or can I just do as: > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=GEN

Re: freebsd builds

2004-09-03 Thread Subhro
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:48:17 -0400, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Building kernels I am comfortable with. I have been doing it a while for SUSE. > Now I wanted to try freebsd 5.1. So I have some questions about freebsd > builds. > Some of the questions may sound dumb but I want to ma

CTRL+ALT+DEL

2004-09-03 Thread mkondelk
How to disable CTRL+ALT+DEL ? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 100,000 TCP connections - kernel tuning advice wanted

2004-09-03 Thread Subhro
netstat -m please Regards S. On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 22:07:35 +1000, Simon Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > As part of a team, I am working on a TCP multiplexor using FreeBSD. On side A > we have 100,000 TCP connections accepting packets, which are multiplexed > onto a single TCP con

CRTL+ALT+DEL

2004-09-03 Thread "Ing.Miroslav Kondělka"
How to disable CTRL+ALT+DEL ? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: getting off windows

2004-09-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 03 September 2004 10:42 am, David Litster wrote: > I have a windows machine and I am trying to figure out how to replace > the windows with freebsd. how do I do this? If you have free space on the hard drive, you can add FreeBSD to the computer without deleting Windows. If you choose

Re: Easy question about uninstalling

2004-09-03 Thread Subhro
pkg_delete -F /var/db/kde* Regards S. On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 08:52:30 -0600, Tom Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I have just recently installed 4.10 on my system and I chose the KDE desktop > as the default. Can someone please tell me how to safely remove all of KDE? > If I u

Re: getting off windows

2004-09-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
David Litster wrote: I have a windows machine and I am trying to figure out how to replace the windows with freebsd. how do I do this? Read, read, read: www.freebsd.org/handbook Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

Re: FreeBSD 4.10R/moused vs USB Mouse on an IBM A31p

2004-09-03 Thread ulairi
Thanks for the reply. I thought as much, but wanted to verify. I'd be willing to test your patches if you'd like. On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 08:34, Anish Mistry wrote: > On Thursday 02 September 2004 11:59 pm, ulairi wrote: > > I's confuzzled (and such). > > > > usbd picks up the rodent without a prob

Re: getting off windows

2004-09-03 Thread Subhro
Read through http://www.freebsd.org/handbook And for trashing windows, you can do it after booting with the FBSD CD and deleting the windows partition Regards S. On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:42:29 -0400, David Litster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a windows machine and I am trying to figure out

Re: Errata Branch

2004-09-03 Thread Paul Andrews
Matthew, Thanks for the information. You might have already answered this but I'm not 100% sure, once I have cvsup RELENG_4_10 do I need to buildworld just to get the errata branch installed or can I just do as: make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC or is it bette

getting off windows

2004-09-03 Thread David Litster
I have a windows machine and I am trying to figure out how to replace the windows with freebsd. how do I do this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PRO

Re: Moving MySQL database

2004-09-03 Thread Peter Risdon
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:42:36AM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: I have a server that is rapidly filling the var partition with a MySQL database. I'd like to move it to a subdirectory somewhere under /usr. Is there a document that would outline a "best practices" approach

Re: Which vendor for FreeBSD Rack-Dense Co-Lo Servers?

2004-09-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello all, > > We are an Australian company looking to buy some rack-dense hardware for a FreeBSD > implementation at a colocation facility. > > So far we have got some quotes from Dell for: > > * Some PowerEdge 1850 servers > * PowerEdge 2850 > * PowerVault 220S direct attach storage > >

Re: ports vs source

2004-09-03 Thread Cristi Tauber
Yes i know something ... like the avantages of rpm and another linux package managers. But .. I want apache 1.3.31 with php-4.3.4 and mysql 4.0.20 (let's say) ... from ports ... i understand that I can %choose% what version i want to install ?? Is that correct ? Cristi On Fri, 2004-

Re: FreeBSD 4.10R/moused vs USB Mouse on an IBM A31p

2004-09-03 Thread Anish Mistry
On Thursday 02 September 2004 11:59 pm, ulairi wrote: > I's confuzzled (and such). > > usbd picks up the rodent without a problem and spins up moused with > appropriate options (-p /dev/ums0 -I /var/run/moused.ums0.pid). > > Some simple tests: > $ sudo moused -p /dev/ums0 -i all > /dev/ums0 usb sys

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, September 03, 2004 10:55:09 AM -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Most of the servers I manage (which are all intended for 24/7 access) see about 3 months between reboots. That's an average. Some servers are more aggresively updated than others, and are rebooted more often.

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, September 03, 2004 09:15:00 AM -0500 "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andy Holyer wrote: The other day I was explaining something to my boss (a suit), You're a patient one, then ... and I mentioned that a FreeBSD box would easily run for a year or more. "Oh

RE: what is S.M.A.R.T and do I need it when I'm using freebsd (5. x...)

2004-09-03 Thread Michael Clark
SMART is not needed for anything. It will only warn you when your hard disks are going bad. I don't ever remember anything about it actually remapping sectors. Its a hardware function, so it has nothing to do with FreeBSD really. > -Original Message- > From: Angelin Lalev [mailto:[EMAI

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Robert Huff wrote: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes: IIRC, Netcraft now claims that most new FreeBSD builds "reset" to zero after 400-something days, so some of their statistics may be no longer as valid... From the NetCraft FAQ: Why do some Operating Systems never show uptimes abov

Re: what is S.M.A.R.T and do I need it when I'm using freebsd (5.x...)

2004-09-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 02), Angelin Lalev said: > It seems that the bios setup utility on my desktop machine (MB. > GA-8IPE1000-G Pro) does not support turning on S.M.A.R.T. > > I remember that long ago I've read somewhere in the net that > S.M.A.R.T has to do something with remapping the bad se

ports vs source

2004-09-03 Thread Robert Huff
Cristi Tauber writes: >Can anyone tell me which are the avantages of installing from ports > rather than installing from tar balls ? The upside of packages is someone else does all the work for you. You install the package, and you're done. The downside of packages is you g

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Robert Huff
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes: > I've heard accounts of boxen acting as, say, LAN routers or LAN file > servers with uptimes of years. Within the last year or two, I had a conversation with someone who claimed to have a machine runn9ing 2.2.x (or maybe it was 2.1.x) continuously

Re: what is S.M.A.R.T and do I need it when I'm using freebsd (5.x...)

2004-09-03 Thread Bill Moran
The date on your computer is wrong: Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:50:41 +0200 Sorry I don't know the answer to your question. Angelin Lalev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've got this question that bugs me. > > It seems that the bios setup utility on my desktop machine (MB. > GA-8

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