custom shell script .. OT maybe .

2004-11-03 Thread faisal gillani
Hello there ... well i want to make a simple/wieard shell script :) which checks somehow connection with the internet & rename some file files if it finds connectivity with the internet , & do nothing of it dont find connectivity with the internet ...is it possible with simple shell script ? or do

Re: adm 64

2004-11-03 Thread kalin mintchev
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:31:53AM -0500, kalin mintchev wrote: >> hi all... >> >> i'm trying to install fbsd 521 on an adm machine. > > ITYM "AMD", not "ADM" yea.. i just wrote too fast... > >> i got the isos from the freebsd site but can't boot off them after >> burning >> them to cd. the cd

Re: adm 64

2004-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:31:53AM -0500, kalin mintchev wrote: > hi all... > > i'm trying to install fbsd 521 on an adm machine. ITYM "AMD", not "ADM" > i got the isos from the freebsd site but can't boot off them after burning > them to cd. the cd drive is ok - tested with a redhat disc. > >

adm 64

2004-11-03 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... i'm trying to install fbsd 521 on an adm machine. i got the isos from the freebsd site but can't boot off them after burning them to cd. the cd drive is ok - tested with a redhat disc. any special instructions i need? thanks... -- ___ [EMAI

freebsd mpd server and win2k clients

2004-11-03 Thread dave
Hello, I've set up mpd 3.18 on a freebsd box. I want to be able to allow remote user's to map samba network drives to server resources. I thought to firstly configure this locally, both machines the server and a win2ksp4 box are on the same subnet. I've started mpd, i've got the log of the tran

Re: Trying to understand flock()

2004-11-03 Thread jason
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Greetings friends, I wonder if someone would be kind enough to enlighten me about the semantics of the flock(2) function. I have RTFM'd, and I am sad to say that I am still rather mystified that flock() doesn't seem to do what it is documented as doing. (I am testing it

Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Mark Jayson Alvarez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "albi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 7:46 PM Subject: Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab? --- albi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, >

Re: World Clock "timezones"

2004-11-03 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote borg thusly... > > I'm looking for a world clock that helps me keep track > of time in different cities by showing me clocks for > multiple time zones. Preferably under X if not I don't > mind using a non-GUI based application. Try sunclock in astro/sunclock.

Re: blackbox, bbkeys, and .xinit... (solved) --> UNIX behind the scenes

2004-11-03 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Mike Hauber thusly... > > I discovered that with the line "blackbox & bbkeys" in the script, > the bbscript remains when I exit blackbox, and I have to close > bbscript to return to KDM. ... > However, when I login and close bbkeys, then blackbox abruptly > clo

Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread albi
>> you can probably use e.g. >> >> //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 > > It still doesn't work. > I remember mounting it manually using the command > > mount_smbfs -I ipaddress //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mtpoint afair i've put a line like that in /etc/rc.local and it works for me (can't reach th

Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
--- albi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > > mountpt > > //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 > > you can probably use e.g. > > //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 It still doesn't work. I remember mounting it manually using the command mount_smbfs -I ipaddress //[

Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 05:05:47PM -0800, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Good day! >I wanted to mount our samba server whenever my > computer boots so I added an entry in fstab like this > > > mountpt > //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 > > > but I have no idea how

Re: Why can't startx find X's config file?

2004-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 08:37:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm building a new machine, and I've run into a problem I don't understand. > When I try to run startx I get this (among other messages): > > (EE) Unable to locate/open config file > > I've tried puting XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11. /usr/X11R6/l

Why can't startx find X's config file?

2004-11-03 Thread stan
I'm building a new machine, and I've run into a problem I don't understand. When I try to run startx I get this (among other messages): (EE) Unable to locate/open config file I've tried puting XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11. /usr/X11R6/lib.X11, and /etc. startx still can't seem to ind it, and it's rea

Re: Problems with portupgrade

2004-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 08:10:51PM -0500, Ralph M. Los wrote: > OK, so what I did was followed the UPDATING file's advice, and did the > customary: > > pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/imake-4* /var/db/pkg/XFree86-* > cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install > pkgdb -F > > But I STILL get this afte

Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread albi
hi, > mountpt > //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 you can probably use e.g. //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 in your /etc/fstab, but of course you can also add your samba-server in /etc/hosts ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

RE: Problems with portupgrade

2004-11-03 Thread Ralph M. Los
-Original Message- From: Ralph M. Los Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 12:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with portupgrade Hi, When I try to do a "portupgrade -var" I get some of these errors, and I'm not sure how to resolve them: ---> Session started at: Mon, 01

Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
>I wanted to mount our samba server whenever my > computer boots so I added an entry in fstab like this OK that is not really answering your question, but... Given that the samba server is a Unix machine, given that your client is a Unix machine, maybe NFS would be more efficient than samba fr

How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Good day! I wanted to mount our samba server whenever my computer boots so I added an entry in fstab like this mountpt //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 but I have no idea how will I specify the ip address of the server. using the mount_smbfs, I can mount it by pr

RE: Network Faxing?

2004-11-03 Thread Hauan, David
> -Original Message- > From: Kristofer Pettijohn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 11:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Network Faxing? > > > > Does anyone have any recommendations on software for network > faxing? Preferably via an email gateway o

Re: World Clock "timezones"

2004-11-03 Thread Murray Taylor
Under KDE KDEMenu / toys / worldclock puts up a world map that shows the correct time for most capital cities when the city is under the mouse cursor mjt On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 05:40, epilogue wrote: > On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:01:26 -0800 (PST) > borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings, > >

What is common practice on starting Tomcat on serverstartup?

2004-11-03 Thread Joachim Dagerot
When during startup is it good to start Tomcat 5.*, and do anyone have any example scripts that can be of use? This is probably very common knowledge, because I can't find anything useful Googeling around. Regards, Joachim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: blackbox, bbkeys, and .xinit... (solved) --> UNIX behind the scenes

2004-11-03 Thread Mike Hauber
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 03:48 am, Eric Kjeldergaard proclaimed: > On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:55:51 -0500, Mike Hauber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greets, > > > > This is something I haven't had to mess with before, > > and I'm confused by the docs... > > > > I have several WMs installed on my

Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-03 Thread W. D.
At 13:50 11/3/2004, terry tyson wrote: >On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:45:38 +0100, Henrik W Lund ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Actually, I read somewhere that UNIX systems are more vulnerable to >> buffer overflows than Windows systems. Can't confirm the validity of >> this, though. >> > >Buffer ove

5.3-RC2 Release delays 5.3-RELEASE?

2004-11-03 Thread Michael Milbach
Does anyone know if the latest decision to create a 5.3-RC2 will delay the scheduled 11/5/04 release of 5.3-RELEASE? And for how long if so? Thanks for any info. Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: FreeBSD + OpenGL

2004-11-03 Thread jason
Thanks for the input. I solved the problem. Read on: Actually, it doesn't depend on OS or drivers if you are using a unaccelerated software implementation. E.G. Mesa w/o DRI. I enquired on the Mesa users mailing list and here is the answer I got from Brian Paul, the author and primary maintain

Re: Filesystem quotas

2004-11-03 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of "Chris Burchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > In testing features on a FreeBSD mini installation I have modified the > /etc/fstab file so that the / partition is 'rq' instead of 'rw' - this > was done to enable quotas so I could try working with them. > (the man page said 'rq'

Re: bind 8 to 9 upgrade question

2004-11-03 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:38:34AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 06:25:54AM -0900, Andy Firman wrote: > > [...] > > The new IP address has been registered with the registar > > and all is well on the new box. > > > > The old box still has a bunch of sites on it that I am i

Re: PCI-Express

2004-11-03 Thread Huw Wynn-Jones
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 11:12, Albert Shih wrote: > Hi all > > Stupid question but I don't find any answer in google (good answer). > > FreeBSD 5.X (5.3 for example) have support for PCI-Express ? Can I use > XFree86 (or Xorg) with a PCI-Express video card event I don't have max > perfs (just

Re: portsdb: index generation error

2004-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:51:06PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: > >If you followed the URL in the error you'd learn that it's not in fact > >a supported release by the ports collection. > > > >Kris > > No I don't since I followed the url and checked it before posting it. > It worked two weeks ago

kernel tunable

2004-11-03 Thread Lee Lispon
Hi, I have a dell poweredge server with a Remote Access Card installed. I successfully installed FreeBSD 4.10 on this system and it works great. Unfortunately the RAC card does not accept input from a remote keyboard when there is not a local keyboard installed. I beleive this is because the kern

Re: portsdb: index generation error

2004-11-03 Thread Günther Dippe
On 2004-11-03, at 19.22, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 07:12:19PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: On 2004-11-03, at 18.31, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 06:14:48PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: On 2004-11-03, at 17.37, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:58:10PM

Re: no sound with snd_es137x

2004-11-03 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On 03 Nov 2004 14:51:20 + Damien Chaumette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi everyone, > > I am running 5.3-STABLE and have trouble with my Creative SB > AudioPCI CT4730 soundcard. > > I tried to use sound and snd_es137x both as modules or as kernel > parts but it doesn't change anything : the

(title correction) USB Controllers die when using EHCI

2004-11-03 Thread Martes Wigglesworth
Greetings all: I get the following dmesg output for usb devices, when there is no device installed on the usb port(s), and I get a kernel panic when there is a usb device installed. I have looked at the Current list, under EHCI, and I still cannot figure out if Intel ICH4 Controllers are supported

Network Faxing?

2004-11-03 Thread Kristofer Pettijohn
Does anyone have any recommendations on software for network faxing? Preferably via an email gateway or a printer gateway.. I'd imagine the printer gateway would be fairly complex since there is not a very efficient way to get the fax phone number from the sender when printing.. Just looking for

Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-03 Thread terry tyson
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:45:38 +0100, Henrik W Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, I read somewhere that UNIX systems are more vulnerable to > buffer overflows than Windows systems. Can't confirm the validity of > this, though. > Buffer overflows are already being addressed. http://www.o

no sound with snd_es137x

2004-11-03 Thread Damien Chaumette
hi everyone, I am running 5.3-STABLE and have trouble with my Creative SB AudioPCI CT4730 soundcard. I tried to use sound and snd_es137x both as modules or as kernel parts but it doesn't change anything : there is no sound. My card is detected as shown by dmesg : pcm0: port 0x10c0-0x10df,0x1

Re: Compatible NIC

2004-11-03 Thread TM4526
In a message dated 11/3/04 12:42:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >1) Wasted my time and everyone elses who read this crap. >2) Tried to give certain freebsd developers a bad name.> >3) Discredited several others on the list. >4) Contributed NO facts or hard evidence to back

Re: control utility for AMR driver.. (LSI logic Megaraid series)?

2004-11-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 03), Julian Elischer said: > Anyone got any tools for care and feeding of this puppy without going > into BIOS? > > this is on 4.x.. http://people.freebsd.org/~emoore/MegaRAID_SCSI/ has a daemon for consistency checking and automatic failure notification, a GUI app that d

Re: IPSEC (5.3-RC2) -- IKE traffic problem.

2004-11-03 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:33:47PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > I'm attempting to get an encrypted tunnel going between two machines. > Before I start pasting away my configs, tcpdump logs, racoon logs, etc. > I would like to ask the following question: > > I've read that 5.2.1 had broken IPSEC,

Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-03 Thread Henrik W Lund
Jorn Argelo wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:12:54 -0500 (PET), Richard Cotrina wrote Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting to post it to the list. A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused in data risk security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less breached OS in a sample of

Trying to understand flock()

2004-11-03 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Greetings friends, I wonder if someone would be kind enough to enlighten me about the semantics of the flock(2) function. I have RTFM'd, and I am sad to say that I am still rather mystified that flock() doesn't seem to do what it is documented as doing. (I am testing it on 4.10-RELEASE, by the

Re: World Clock "timezones"

2004-11-03 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:01:26 -0800 (PST) borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm looking for a world clock that helps me keep track > of time in different cities by showing me clocks for > multiple time zones. Preferably under X if not I don't > mind using a non-GUI based application.

control utility for AMR driver.. (LSI logic Megaraid series)?

2004-11-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Anyone got any tools for care and feeding of this puppy without going into BIOS? this is on 4.x.. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: World Clock "timezones"

2004-11-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:01:26AM -0800, borg wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm looking for a world clock that helps me keep track > of time in different cities by showing me clocks for > multiple time zones. Preferably under X if not I don't > mind using a non-GUI based application. You could run xcl

Re: portsdb: index generation error

2004-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 07:12:19PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: > On 2004-11-03, at 18.31, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 06:14:48PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: > >>On 2004-11-03, at 17.37, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:58:10PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wro

Re: portsdb: index generation error

2004-11-03 Thread Günther Dippe
On 2004-11-03, at 18.31, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 06:14:48PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: On 2004-11-03, at 17.37, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:58:10PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: I downloaded a fresh ports.tar.gz and unpacked it (FreeBSD 5.1). ***

Re: Schdule for 5.3 Stable release

2004-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:10:25AM +0700, Chen Cin Lung wrote: > When will 5.3 Stable release came out? See the release schedule on the website. > What will be the key upgrades compared to 5.21? See the release notes on the website. Kris pgpR54wkmEsqz.pgp Description: PGP signature

World Clock "timezones"

2004-11-03 Thread borg
Greetings, I'm looking for a world clock that helps me keep track of time in different cities by showing me clocks for multiple time zones. Preferably under X if not I don't mind using a non-GUI based application. I searched the /usr/ports for the string "clock" & "timezone" but nothing from the

Schdule for 5.3 Stable release

2004-11-03 Thread Chen Cin Lung
When will 5.3 Stable release came out? What will be the key upgrades compared to 5.21? Thanks Rendra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-11-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Christian Hiris -- > If you use the whole disk as provider and your disk has left free 512 > bytes after the end of the last slice, gmirror setup works very easy and > fast (no need to use dump/restore or dd): > > - Boot into the live-filesystem. > - Do a 'gmirror load' a

Re: up to date ports...portinstall/portupgrade won't work

2004-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:32:10AM -0600, Aaron P. Martinez wrote: > I have run up against a brick wall here and i'm not sure where to turn > next. > > I tried to install openoffice and limewire from a freshly updated ports > tree (fresh for openoffice = yesterday, fresh for limewire = 5 minutes

up to date ports...portinstall/portupgrade won't work

2004-11-03 Thread Aaron P. Martinez
I have run up against a brick wall here and i'm not sure where to turn next. I tried to install openoffice and limewire from a freshly updated ports tree (fresh for openoffice = yesterday, fresh for limewire = 5 minutes ago) as well as gnome2. I get a very similar message at the end of each, jus

Re: portsdb: index generation error

2004-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 06:14:48PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: > On 2004-11-03, at 17.37, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:58:10PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: > > > >>I downloaded a fresh ports.tar.gz and unpacked it (FreeBSD 5.1). > > > >>**

Apache 1.3 'lag' with PHP ...

2004-11-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm trying to track down an odd problem, and getting almost no where with it :( When you go to http://www.postgresql.org/index-test.php, at the bottom, there is 'load times' based on various settings throughout the code ... the file reads in one file, and has two database access sections to it

Re: portsdb: index generation error

2004-11-03 Thread Günther Dippe
On 2004-11-03, at 17.37, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:58:10PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: I downloaded a fresh ports.tar.gz and unpacked it (FreeBSD 5.1). Before reporting this error Er, and what did the

Re: [Fwd: Re: still more sendmail trouble]

2004-11-03 Thread Steel City Phantom
HA, got it. in my php.ini i originally had sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail changed it to sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i and it worked. Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-11-02 15:17, Steel City Phantom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: all of those are set as you suggested, here are my conf

Re: portsdb index generation

2004-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:50:00AM -0500, dave wrote: > Hello, > I just cvsupped my ports tree and tried to remake the index. I am > getting an index generation error. I then tried make fetchindex which worked > and again tried to regenerate the binary index with again this error. Any > help ap

portsdb index generation

2004-11-03 Thread dave
Hello, I just cvsupped my ports tree and tried to remake the index. I am getting an index generation error. I then tried make fetchindex which worked and again tried to regenerate the binary index with again this error. Any help appreciated. I didn't get any errors during cvsup and i don't use

Filesystem quotas

2004-11-03 Thread Chris Burchell
In testing features on a FreeBSD mini installation I have modified the /etc/fstab file so that the / partition is 'rq' instead of 'rw' - this was done to enable quotas so I could try working with them. (the man page said 'rq' was read/write/with quotas) for ease of testing, the system was only two

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-03 Thread Lloyd Hayes
>By modem you mean network card, yeah? Do the usb2 hub and the pcmcia slot show up? And have you tried removing that - don't think freebsd supports usb2 hubs yet, it might be causing some conflicts. The USB2 hub has to be recognized since I installed the system with a CD ROM attached to this hu

Realtek 8100B

2004-11-03 Thread Mark Cullen
Just wondering if anyone knows if this has the same 'bad design' as the 8139 cards. I'm looking at an embedded board computer which can either have 3xRealtek 8100B's or 3xIntel 82559's. The Realtek version is £170 and the Intel version says to contact them for a price, I think it's going to be

Re: portsdb: index generation error

2004-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:58:10PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: > I downloaded a fresh ports.tar.gz and unpacked it (FreeBSD 5.1). > > Before reporting this error > Er, and what did the say? Error messages are there for a

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and XFree86

2004-11-03 Thread Gerard Samuel
Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:32:07AM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: I just upgraded from 5.2.1 to 5.3. When running startx, it ends up with this error -> Fatal server error: xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O [...] device io etc. are not in your kerne

Re: FreeBSD + OpenGL

2004-11-03 Thread Jeremy W. Sheaffer
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, jason wrote: > Jeremy W. Sheaffer wrote: > > >I just purchased an emachines laptop with an amd64 and an ati radeon 9600 > >which is now running FreeBSD 5.3-BETA4 beautifully. I need to be able to > >run OpenGL programs using, among others, the ARB_vertex_program, > >ARB_fragme

Re: Somebody is using your logo

2004-11-03 Thread Jason Stewart
On 03/11/04 11:42 +0200, 3D Planet wrote: > Dear Sir Hi > I am sending you a company that uses your logo ! > > Below is the web site > > http://www.imp-computers.net/ > According to http://www.freebsd.org/art.html the image may be used commercially if the consent to it's usage is given by Marsh

Re: how do I get the status of a raid array?

2004-11-03 Thread Brian Bobowski
Dave Alden wrote: Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD (switching my primary NFS server over from RHEL) and I'm trying to figure out how I can get the current status of my RAID setup. I'm using an LSI MegaRAID 320-2x card and FreeBSD 5.3RC2 (don't worry, I'm just testing for now, I'm going to wait until 5.3 is

how do I get the status of a raid array?

2004-11-03 Thread Dave Alden
Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD (switching my primary NFS server over from RHEL) and I'm trying to figure out how I can get the current status of my RAID setup. I'm using an LSI MegaRAID 320-2x card and FreeBSD 5.3RC2 (don't worry, I'm just testing for now, I'm going to wait until 5.3 is officially releas

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and XFree86

2004-11-03 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:32:07 -0500, Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just upgraded from 5.2.1 to 5.3. When running startx, it ends up with > this error -> > > Fatal server error: > xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O > Does /dev/io exist ? Have you got Xwrapper ins

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and XFree86

2004-11-03 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:32:07AM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: > I just upgraded from 5.2.1 to 5.3. When running startx, it ends up with > this error -> > > Fatal server error: > xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O > [...] device io etc. are not in your kernel config or are no

Re: WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-11-03 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1113 00:13]: > >Start with the basics > > Exactly! > Here you go: > > plip0: flags=8851 mtu 1500 > lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 >inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 >inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 >inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > > On FreeBSD, I've

FreeBSD 5.3 and XFree86

2004-11-03 Thread Gerard Samuel
I just upgraded from 5.2.1 to 5.3. When running startx, it ends up with this error -> Fatal server error: xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O So I uninstalled XFree86, and reinstalled it, while including this in /etc/make.conf -> X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 XFree86 installed su

portsdb: index generation error

2004-11-03 Thread Günther Dippe
Hi all, I downloaded a fresh ports.tar.gz and unpacked it (FreeBSD 5.1). Then I did a portsdb -Uu Which resulted in the following: Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.."Makefile", line 26: warning: String comparison operator should be either == or != "Makefile", line 26

Somebody is using your logo

2004-11-03 Thread 3D Planet
Dear Sir Hi I am sending you a company that uses your logo ! Below is the web site http://www.imp-computers.net/ Andreas Oustas Managing Director 3D PLANET LTD 25H Kallipoleos Avenue Lykavitos, 1055, Nicosia Tel: 22 466899 Fax: 22 466898 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: PCI-Express

2004-11-03 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:12, Albert Shih wrote: > Hi all > > Stupid question but I don't find any answer in google (good answer). No such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers. > FreeBSD 5.X (5.3 for example) have support for PCI-Express ? Can I use > XFree86 (or Xorg) with a PCI-Express vi

Re: FreeBSD Device Driver Guide

2004-11-03 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:32, Balakumar Velmurugan wrote: > Hello, > Is there any published book or online guide for writing > FreeBSD device driver ?. I know a O'reily book for Linux called "Linux > Device Drivers", is anything like that exist for FreeBSD ?. Check out: * http://www.freebsd.

Re: Problem with mount_smbfs (not working for me)

2004-11-03 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi Nelis! On Wed, 03 Nov 2004, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > You have to use the netbios name of your samba server. Change > 10.4.1.222 to the netbios name. > > mount_smbfs -I 10.4.1.222 //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sfimages /mnt > or > mount_smbfs -I suedzwo.suedfac.com //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sfimages /mnt Tha

PCI-Express

2004-11-03 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all Stupid question but I don't find any answer in google (good answer). FreeBSD 5.X (5.3 for example) have support for PCI-Express ? Can I use XFree86 (or Xorg) with a PCI-Express video card event I don't have max perfs (juste fort Xterm/Vi/mozilla). Same question for SATA disk Lots of than

Re: ipnat.rules

2004-11-03 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:25:42 -0800 (PST), sonjaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear all > > after i finish add in my kernel ipnat , i use this > sample script : > /etc/ipnat.rules : > map rl0 172.18.5.11/255.255.0.0 -> 0.0.0.0/32 proxy > port ftp ftp/tcp ssh > map rl0 172.18.5.11/255.255.0.0 -> 0.

Re: Upgrading 5.2.1 to 5.3R2

2004-11-03 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:01:35 -0500, Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so I upgraded, ran mergemaster, and merged /etc/group (and > /etc/master.passwd I think) via mergemaster. > I merged those files to retain my non root user account. > I rebooted, and I haven't been able to log into m

FreeBSD Device Driver Guide

2004-11-03 Thread Balakumar Velmurugan
Hello, Is there any published book or online guide for writing FreeBSD device driver ?. I know a O'reily book for Linux called "Linux Device Drivers", is anything like that exist for FreeBSD ?. Thanks in advance. Bala ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Don't feed the (your word here): (was: Compatible NIC)

2004-11-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 31 October 2004 at 11:54:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 10/31/04 5:00:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A member of the Gustapo said: This is offensive. >> Kris was just asking you to respect the charter >> of the mailing list. I've lo

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 80, Issue 83

2004-11-03 Thread Martes Wigglesworth
Greetings all: I get the following dmesg output for usb devices, when there is no device installed on the usb port(s), and I get a kernel panic when there is a usb device installed. I have looked at the Current list, under EHCI, and I still cannot figure out if Intel ICH4 Controllers are supported

Re: blackbox, bbkeys, and .xinit...

2004-11-03 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:55:51 -0500, Mike Hauber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greets, > > This is something I haven't had to mess with before, and I'm > confused by the docs... > > I have several WMs installed on my FreeBSD (4.10) desktop, > one of which is blackbox. Is there a way to uniquely sta

Re[2]: Upgrading 5.2.1 to 5.3R2 (Maybe a problem adding a user) [SOLVED]

2004-11-03 Thread Hexren
GS> Gerard Samuel wrote: >> Gerard Samuel wrote: >> >>> Ok, so I upgraded, ran mergemaster, and merged /etc/group (and >>> /etc/master.passwd I think) via mergemaster. >>> I merged those files to retain my non root user account. >>> I rebooted, and I haven't been able to log into my non root acco

Re: Problem with mount_smbfs (not working for me)

2004-11-03 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:41:24 +0100, Axel S. Gruner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I run into a problem with "mount_smbfs". > Trying to mount a SMB-share on a AS/400 from a FreeBSD 4.10 or FreeBSD > 5.3-RC1 gives me the error: > > mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Connection re