Re: df reports multiple devfs?

2004-12-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:16:47AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > Kris Kennaway writes: > > > It's normal; named is enabled on your machine, and needs certain > > devices to run in the /var/named chroot. > > As I thought. So if I disable the chrooting of named, this > should disappear?

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:16 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > >>I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. > >>Following the Dru Lavigne article on portupgrade at > >>http://www.onlamp.com/

RE: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:09 PM > To: Chris > > > > Maybe you can start, The Queer-Eye for the BSD-Guy. > > If thats what it takes to get FreeBSD out of obscurity and into t

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-23 Thread Jay O'Brien
Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > >>I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. >>Following the Dru Lavigne article on portupgrade at >>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1 >>I installed po

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:44 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > >I hate to see FreeBSD to something like my once favorite news site > >(www.antiwar.com) did. Early on they had a website that wasn't at > > all artistic, but they always had links to great news stories and

RE: The FreeBSD Foundation

2004-12-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Jay Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:32 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Foundation > > > > Yes - I buy from FreeBSD mall which I thought was run by Walnut > Creek. I'

Mystery message from mystery cron

2004-12-23 Thread John Conover
Root's inbox gets the message at the bottom about every half hour, or so. There is nothing in /var/cron/tabs, so I can't find out what's causing it. Any suggestions? Thanks, John -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 23 2

sendmail running on localhost 25?

2004-12-23 Thread John Conover
I just installed 5.2.1, and after installing qmail, I still have sendmail running on localhost 25; even though I have sendmail_enable="NO" in /etc/conf. Where is it launched? I don't see it in any /etc/rc* files. Thanks, John -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.john

Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-23 Thread Ian Moore
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:22, Ian Moore wrote: > Hi Vince, Oops, I mean David - sorry, I didn't read your name properly. -- Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc pgpDJ5vyfOgLY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-23 Thread Ian Moore
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:58, David Vincelli wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with a custom kernel I just compiled a > few days ago to have the atapicam device (the only difference with the > stock kernel). I added hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" to /boot/loader.conf, and > indeed the device is acc

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
John-Mark Gurney wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote this message on Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 22:46 -0600: 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of Cascading Style Sheets?) you mean a sans-serif font? yes,

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
Michael C. Shultz wrote: I hate to see FreeBSD to something like my once favorite news site (www.antiwar.com) did. Early on they had a website that wasn't at all artistic, but they always had links to great news stories and updated those several time a day. A while back they re-did the site int

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. > Following the Dru Lavigne article on portupgrade at > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1 > I installed portupgrade and then ran portsdb

Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-23 Thread David Vincelli
Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with a custom kernel I just compiled a few days ago to have the atapicam device (the only difference with the stock kernel). I added hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" to /boot/loader.conf, and indeed the device is accessed in UltraDMA mode 2. My DVD burner is a Pioneer DVR-10

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2004-12-23 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:13 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > See newfs_msdos(8), fsck_msdosfs(8), mount_msdosfs(8), msdosfs(5) I had a go with Mr Google and found www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml Which allowed me to download "fat32.exe" which allegedly will allow NT to read/write but not crea

Re: df reports multiple devfs?

2004-12-23 Thread Robert Huff
Kris Kennaway writes: > It's normal; named is enabled on your machine, and needs certain > devices to run in the /var/named chroot. As I thought. So if I disable the chrooting of named, this should disappear? Robert Huff

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2004-12-23 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:13 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Ah.  A crucial bit of information that was missing from the original > post.  Standard practice in that case is to create a partition on the > system with a filesystem that both OSes can read and write.  Between > Windows and FreeBSD that boils

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
Chris wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: From a business perspective we look amateurish. I have held off thus far... I REALLY REALLY agree with this point, from the prospective of an outsider the website and "Image" conveys a real lack of professionalism, which is not true. No you don't - would yo

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:01:58PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: > I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. > Following the Dru Lavigne article on portupgrade at > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1 > I installed portupgrade and then ran por

Re: df reports multiple devfs?

2004-12-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:11:53PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > huff@>> df > Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a495726 133492 32257629%/ > devfs 110 100%/dev > /dev/da0s1d 1012974 123400 80853813%

portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-23 Thread Jay O'Brien
I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. Following the Dru Lavigne article on portupgrade at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1 I installed portupgrade and then ran portsdb -Uu. It errored out, telling me that I shouldn't use my "refuse

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:46 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: > FreeBSD is badly in need of a PR/Design/Marketing department. > ___ It also needs people who realise that multiple cross-posting is deprecated. Could this conversation please be moved to -advocacy a

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Nikolas Britton wrote this message on Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 22:46 -0600: > 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a > modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of Cascading > Style Sheets?) you mean a sans-serif font? yes, most computer display fo

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 08:46 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: > >>From a business perspective we look amateurish. > > I REALLY REALLY agree with this point, from the prospective of an > outsider the website and "Image" conveys a real lack of > professionalism, which is not true. > > I'm looking at

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Chris
Nikolas Britton wrote: From a business perspective we look amateurish. I have held off thus far... I REALLY REALLY agree with this point, from the prospective of an outsider the website and "Image" conveys a real lack of professionalism, which is not true. No you don't - would you prefer multi

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
From a business perspective we look amateurish. I REALLY REALLY agree with this point, from the prospective of an outsider the website and "Image" conveys a real lack of professionalism, which is not true. I'm looking at the start page for FreeBSD right now and here are the things I do not

Re: No Gnome Text

2004-12-23 Thread Donald Perkovich
I installed gimp from ports and was very suprised to see that it looks fine. It has all the text in the menus and everywhere. I am not sure how reliable this is for dependency checking, but I found that a 'make clean' will try to clean all the ports on which it depends. This seems to produces a

df reports multiple devfs?

2004-12-23 Thread Robert Huff
huff@>> df Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a495726 133492 32257629%/ devfs 110 100%/dev /dev/da0s1d 1012974 123400 80853813%/var /dev/da1s1d 46287340 31254004 1133035073%/usr devfs

Re: dri install failing with portmanager

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 07:12 pm, you wrote: > sending the portInstalled.dri.log > > > also here is the error'ed output: > > --- snip --- > > > pmupgrade 0.2.0_3 command: #3 ( cd /tmp; pkg_create -b > xfree86-dri-4.4.0 ) > pkg_create: can't fin

Re: X problems after upgrade to 6.8.1

2004-12-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:11:00PM -0800, Your Name wrote: > Hi, > > i just upgraded a FreeBSD 5.3 box to Xorg 6.8.1 and it > went perfectly smoothly, then i tried to upgrade a > 4.10 box and im having problems. Please re-send to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the port maintainers. Kris pgpbpqnD8XzjD.pgp

X problems after upgrade to 6.8.1

2004-12-23 Thread Your Name
Hi, i just upgraded a FreeBSD 5.3 box to Xorg 6.8.1 and it went perfectly smoothly, then i tried to upgrade a 4.10 box and im having problems. i just did the usual portupgrade -rR xorg, and the entire build process worked fine with no errors. But when i restarted gdm, it died with the following i

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Re: Supported CDRW listing for 5.3

2004-12-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:11:04PM -0600, Chris wrote: > I'm going to be in the market for a new CDRW soon - I thought there was > a list of supported devices. There certainly isnt a mention in the 5.3 > Hardware Notes. I've not used it w/ 5.3; but I have a hard time believing that Plextor model

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Re: Supported CDRW listing for 5.3

2004-12-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:11:04PM -0600, Chris wrote: > I'm going to be in the market for a new CDRW soon - I thought there was > a list of supported devices. There certainly isnt a mention in the 5.3 > Hardware Notes. I believe just about all CD-RW drives you can buy today should work fine. -

5.3 Xorg jerky

2004-12-23 Thread Adrian Patino II
Hello, Fairly new to FreeBSD. Recently did a fresh install from 4.10 to 5.3, and noticed that when in X, things are a bit jerky, enough for me to notice at least. Anything scrolling jerks and SDL video programs are very jerky. Wondering what in particular should I look into to fix this? Also, w

Re: complete system backup recommendations

2004-12-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:21:52AM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote: > Hello, I'm asking for current recommendations on how to backup my > complete system (OS and all installed ports and user directories) now > that i've spent quite a bit of time getting it right. i'd hate to have > to reinstall ever

Supported CDRW listing for 5.3

2004-12-23 Thread Chris
I'm going to be in the market for a new CDRW soon - I thought there was a list of supported devices. There certainly isnt a mention in the 5.3 Hardware Notes. -- Best regards, Chris The probability that a household pet will raise a fuss to go in or out is directly proportional to the number and

Re: Xorg & xdm & securelevels

2004-12-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to push my securelevel up to 1 in order to better enforce > my security policy (protecting chflags, kernel modules etc) but this > of course would break Xorg as it requires access to /dev/io. I've > heard that it's possible to run Xorg via xdm whilst

Re: portmanager fails installing dri

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:56 pm, you wrote: > > Try: > > > > ls /var/db/pkg > > > > and see if you have a > > > > /var/db/pkg/apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 > > > > directory, if you do then you probably ran > > > > pkg_delete apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 > > > > instead of > > > > pkg_delete -

IPFW/IPNAT Troubles

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel Brown
Hi, I am encountering a problem with a machine I just recently set up as a NAT router. I am running 5.3-REL with ipfw and ipf loaded as modules (not compiled in). These are the ipnat rules I have set up: (I replaced my external IP with 22.22.22.22). map sis0 192.168.1.0/24 -> 22.22.22.22/32

Re: portmanager fails installing apache

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:43 pm, you wrote: > > Try: > > > > ls /var/db/pkg > > > > and see if you have a > > > > /var/db/pkg/apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 > > > > directory, if you do then you probably ran > > > > pkg_delete apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 > > > > instead of > > > > pkg_delete -

Re: The FreeBSD Foundation

2004-12-23 Thread Jay Moore
On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:34 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 11:02 am, Troy Mills wrote: > > > As some of you may or may not know the FreeBSD Foundation supports the > > > FreeBSD developers financially via funds mainly from donations from > > > the public. Anyw

Re: The FreeBSD Foundation

2004-12-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:07:56PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > >if the freebsdfoundation set up a paypal button and asked > >$5, i'd chip in my niickle. i bet at least thousands of others > >would too. > > Go to: > http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donating.shtml > and clic

RE: Effective ipfw rules for blocking MSN Messenger ... ?

2004-12-23 Thread Tom Connolly
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:33 PM To: Marc G. Fournier Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Effective ipfw rules for blocking MSN Messenger ... ? Marc G. Fournier wrote: > I ju

Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-23 Thread comm/JT
Hello, Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. Thanks! == -comm rwx.ca

RE: Effective ipfw rules for blocking MSN Messenger ... ?

2004-12-23 Thread Tom Connolly
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:33 PM To: Marc G. Fournier Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Effective ipfw rules for blocking MSN Messenger ... ? Marc G. Fournier wrote: > I

Re: Effective ipfw rules for blocking MSN Messenger ... ?

2004-12-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc G. Fournier wrote: I just setup a FreeBSD box for a router, so that I could make use of ipfw to block MSN Messenger traffic ... but I'm having a bugger of a time finding a "definitive" list of what needs to be blocked :( MSN Messenger appears to be smart enough to go *around* the usual port

Re: checksum mismatch on hicolor-icon-theme-0.5

2004-12-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:20:26PM -0800, Chandler May wrote: > Hi, > > I've been unable to compile a very large number of programs because of > a checksum mismatch on hicolor-icon-theme-0.5.tar.gz. If you already have a local copy of this file, you may need to remove it and re-fetch an updated c

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 12/23/04 12:41 PM, Joshua Tinnin sat at the `puter and typed: > On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:37 am, Stefan Farrenkopf > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --On Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2004 18:04 Uhr +0100 Karol Kwiatkowski > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A bit OT, but to make things clear

Re: Manpage interpreter

2004-12-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-23 13:15, Sally Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been subscribing to this list for over 3 years. I initially > subscribed to the -questions list also, but I couldn't handle the > volume, and also couldn't interpret the language used there. I need to > learn in a language that I

Re: WinTV Radio - CORRECTED

2004-12-23 Thread Mark
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:43:42PM -0600, Robert Small wrote: > My apologies, I was trying new mail software and had it misconfigured: > > > I just purchased a WinTV Radio card, and I can't get the bktr driver to > load. > > My kernel: > device bktr > device iicbus > device

Java [was: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines]

2004-12-23 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:20:09PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > to give you a confidence boost, I very recently built jdk14 on > a 5.3-RELEASE machine *by the instructions*, and it built > without problems, and apps were able to find it afterwards. > If that's all that's keeping from starting from

ppbus programming / porting freenomad to FreeBSD

2004-12-23 Thread Nimrod Mesika
Hi all, I'm trying to port 'freenomad' (an abandoned sourceforge project) from Linux to FreeBSD. The software uses the Linux parallel port framework (parport) to setup a simple IEEE 1284 ECP session. It seems like the equivalent functionality is provided by FreeBSD's ppbus(4). However, I can't f

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:37 am, Stefan Farrenkopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2004 18:04 Uhr +0100 Karol Kwiatkowski > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A bit OT, but to make things clear I'd like to point out it's not > > the devil. It's a daemon. > > BSD Daemon

checksum mismatch on hicolor-icon-theme-0.5

2004-12-23 Thread Chandler May
Hi, I've been unable to compile a very large number of programs because of a checksum mismatch on hicolor-icon-theme-0.5.tar.gz. Ports refuses to connect to any FTP or HTTP servers for the download, and will not recognize the file when I download it manually and put it in distfiles. Besides this s

freebsd-users list - semi regular post

2004-12-23 Thread cmc3list-bsdnews
FreeBSD Users is a small (too small, so far :-)) informal mailing list for people who use FreeBSD. The list is not meant to compete with the formal FreeBSD lists, but to be a place for people who like to use FreeBSD to hang out, ask questions, talk about what interests them with FreeBSD. Think of

Re: The FreeBSD Foundation

2004-12-23 Thread Jay O'Brien
Gary Kline wrote: >if the freebsdfoundation set up a paypal button and asked >$5, i'd chip in my niickle. i bet at least thousands of others >would too. Go to: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donating.shtml and click on donate. I did, using PayPal. Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, California, USA ___

ports resetting filesystem permissions everywhere

2004-12-23 Thread security
Hey list, A lot of ports I install will end up setting to the default permissions various directories (/usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/www, / , ...) depending on which port I'm installing. This is annoying as I have to set them to the permissions I use over and over again. I think the relation is wit

Re: ipfw - a detailed howto

2004-12-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:30:50 +0100, Florian Hengstberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi! > Can anybody recommend an in deep guide to ipfw? Yes. 'man ipfw(8)' If that's not in-depth enough for you, I don't know what would be ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___

Re: buildworld via ssh

2004-12-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:24:38 -0500, lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did a 'make -DNOCLEAN buildworld 2>&1 blah.txt &' and it didnt work as I > would have expected. > It spaced it out when I looked at the processes like this > make -DNOCLEAN buildworld 2 > & 1 blah.txt & > So, it tried to also

dc driver pagefaults on bootup

2004-12-23 Thread ice
I have the 5.2.1 CD. When I boot up, I can get to the installation boot menu. I choose option 1 and the kernel starts up. It crashes with a page fault in kernel mode. This is the text right above the page fault message: device 18.0 on pci0 pci_cfgintr_virgin: using routable interrupt 4 pci_cfgi

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Stefan Farrenkopf
--On Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2004 18:04 Uhr +0100 Karol Kwiatkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A bit OT, but to make things clear I'd like to point out it's not the devil. It's a daemon. BSD Daemon. Sure, you are right it's a daemon; I used "devil" because of it's relation to (d)"evil". regard

Re: The FreeBSD Foundation

2004-12-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:11:14AM -0500, Troy Mills wrote: > Ted Mittelstaedt explained it far better then I could have and I thank > him for that. > > FreeBSD is an awesome thing indeed and one of the wonderful things is > thatit is indeed free to the end user but really nothing is totally > fre

Re: help with installing Java

2004-12-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:03:05 -0500, Zachary Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am still trying to install Java (to FreeBSD 4.8), which is needed > for Tomcat. Are the instructions at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/x60.html > outdated? > > If you follow the ins

Re: UFS2 with Soft Updates Robust?

2004-12-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:53:18AM -0900, Damien Hull wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 09:52 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 06:48:41AM -, John Conover wrote: > > > Erik Trulsson writes: > > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:57:00PM -0900, Damien Hull wrote: > > > > > On Tue,

Re: Switching FreeBSD machines

2004-12-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:50:12 -0500, RL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a P4 2.8GHZ, 256MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard-drive. I might > just start from scratch. I just got a bad feeling I will run into > problems. The biggest pain in the ass was getting Java to work on my > old system. Besides

Re: buildworld via ssh

2004-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
lists wrote: I did a 'make -DNOCLEAN buildworld 2>&1 blah.txt &' and it didnt work as I would have expected. It spaced it out when I looked at the processes like this make -DNOCLEAN buildworld 2 > & 1 blah.txt & So, it tried to also tried to "make 2" and failed and wrote the output to a file named

Re: ipfw - a detailed howto

2004-12-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:30 am, Florian Hengstberger wrote: > hi! > Can anybody recommend an in deep guide to ipfw? > I googled now for a longer time and found nothing really apropriate. > The FreeBSD security howto is a little short, other guides > don't cover security topics. > Is there so

Re: UFS2 with Soft Updates Robust?

2004-12-23 Thread Damien Hull
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 09:52 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 06:48:41AM -, John Conover wrote: > > Erik Trulsson writes: > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:57:00PM -0900, Damien Hull wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:31 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > > > John Conover

Re: darcs and ghc building

2004-12-23 Thread Peter Schuller
> Does anyone know what is wrong with the ghc port? When trying to build > darcs, > I get: > > ===> darcs-0.9.23 depends on executable: ghc - not found > ===>Verifying install for ghc in /usr/ports/lang/ghc > ===> ghc-6.2.1 is marked as broken: Does not compile on FreeBSD >= 5.x. Witho

Re: VIM

2004-12-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:owner-freebsd->[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of unixadmin99 > >Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:38 PM > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Cc: Leon > >Subject: Re: VIM > > > >On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:35:58 -0500 (EST), Jerr

Re: traffic volume monitoring - what program

2004-12-23 Thread Peter Schuller
> I am looking at a new ISP that charges for a certain number > gigabites of traffic. I have -no- idea what my traffic volume > is. > > Can anyone recommend a good traffic volume checker in the > ports? I recommend setting up snmpd + rrdtool (portinstall net/net-snmp net/rrdtool). It's much easie

ipfw - a detailed howto

2004-12-23 Thread Florian Hengstberger
hi! Can anybody recommend an in deep guide to ipfw? I googled now for a longer time and found nothing really apropriate. The FreeBSD security howto is a little short, other guides don't cover security topics. Is there something like OpenBSDs pf-docu for ipfw? Thanks a lot Florian ___

Re: buildworld via ssh

2004-12-23 Thread lists
I did a 'make -DNOCLEAN buildworld 2>&1 blah.txt &' and it didnt work as I would have expected. It spaced it out when I looked at the processes like this make -DNOCLEAN buildworld 2 > & 1 blah.txt & So, it tried to also tried to "make 2" and failed and wrote the output to a file named "1" A redirec

darcs and ghc building

2004-12-23 Thread Mark Probert
Hi .. Does anyone know what is wrong with the ghc port? When trying to build darcs, I get: ===> darcs-0.9.23 depends on executable: ghc - not found ===>Verifying install for ghc in /usr/ports/lang/ghc ===> ghc-6.2.1 is marked as broken: Does not compile on FreeBSD >= 5.x. Regards, --

complete system backup recommendations

2004-12-23 Thread Kevin Smith
Hello, I'm asking for current recommendations on how to backup my complete system (OS and all installed ports and user directories) now that i've spent quite a bit of time getting it right. i'd hate to have to reinstall everything again in the event of a drive failure. Here is my allocation

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Ramiro Aceves wrote: > jsha wrote: >> 1. Not only is the logo misleading (associating evil) but it also looks >>like something 10-year-olds could produce in Paint Shop Pro ten years >>ago. OpenBSD has an artistic touch to theirs, however I was very >>disappointed when I heard that the n

Effective ipfw rules for blocking MSN Messenger ... ?

2004-12-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I just setup a FreeBSD box for a router, so that I could make use of ipfw to block MSN Messenger traffic ... but I'm having a bugger of a time finding a "definitive" list of what needs to be blocked :( MSN Messenger appears to be smart enough to go *around* the usual port 1863 and onto port 80

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Stefan Farrenkopf
--On Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2004 9:25 Uhr -0700 Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. Not only is the logo misleading (associating evil) well I love the daemon. If someone associates evil it's probably because he/she has a special cultural or religeous background. This "religeous" item has

Python Error, help

2004-12-23 Thread Rod Person
I'm trying to teach myself python. I installed py-ui package and I'm trying to run this example script: import pyui def onPress(button): print "the button was pressed" pyui.init(320,320,"gl") newFrame = pyui.widgets.Frame(10, 10, 200, 200, "hello world!") newFrame.setLayout(pyui.layouts.Gr

Python Error, help

2004-12-23 Thread Rod Person
I'm trying to teach myself python. I installed py-ui package and I'm trying to run this example script: import pyui def onPress(button): print "the button was pressed" pyui.init(320,320,"gl") newFrame = pyui.widgets.Frame(10, 10, 200, 200, "hello world!") newFrame.setLayout(pyui.layouts.Gr

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Ramiro Aceves
jsha wrote: Hello. I am writing this e-mail hoping that someone will share my thoughts on how the world's best operating system should represent its attributes and users to the rest of the world. I am new to FreeBSD, only one month of use or so. I come from Debian GNU/Linux world and only want to

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Scott Long
Sam wrote: If we want to be taken seriously in the commercial world then we need to have the right image. Look ma, a strawman! The concern you're addressing is the sort of thing distros solved in the Linux world. Each typically has their own "image," installer, system config style, etc. More imp

"max one 'fat' allowed as child of whole"

2004-12-23 Thread Walt Haynes
I found the following as the result of a search for the string "max one 'fat' allowed" at the following URL: http://www.watson.org/~arr/sri-audit/src/lib/libdisk/rules.c /* * * "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42)

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> I am writing this e-mail hoping that someone will share my thoughts > on how the world's best operating system should represent its attributes > and users to the rest of the world. representations are secondary to function. there are markets for which this relationship is inverted. cost of entry

Re: help with installing Java

2004-12-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zachary Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am still trying to install Java (to FreeBSD 4.8), which is needed > for Tomcat. Are the instructions at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/x60.html > outdated? > > If you follow the instructions, you cannot find the fil

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Sam
If we want to be taken seriously in the commercial world then we need to have the right image. Look ma, a strawman! The concern you're addressing is the sort of thing distros solved in the Linux world. Each typically has their own "image," installer, system config style, etc. More importantly for

Re: dmesg

2004-12-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
tethys ocean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a problem abaout dmesg .. > > whenever I said that dmesg sever give sto me some different log.. > such a > > connetsion atteöp to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:55519 > > > > why? Because you have the "log in vain" kernel option set and

RE: VIM

2004-12-23 Thread Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd->[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of unixadmin99 >Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:38 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Cc: Leon >Subject: Re: VIM > >On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:35:58 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister ><[EMAIL P

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Scott Long
jsha wrote: Hello. I am writing this e-mail hoping that someone will share my thoughts on how the world's best operating system should represent its attributes and users to the rest of the world. Being an architect as well as graphic designer, I feel it is about time for a complete revamp of the vi

RE: Problems with RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vladimir Chernykh > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 15:39 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Problems with RAM > > I've set RAM 640 Mb. I've corrected file GENERIC - inser

Re: Create multiple jails by copying

2004-12-23 Thread Alex Deiter
Siddhartha Jain wrote: I created one jail in FreeBSD 4.10. Since the compile time for make world and make distribution is too high, I copied the contents of jail1 to jail2 this way: jailbsd:/jails/jail1# find . | cpio -pdmv /jails/jail2 jail1 is functional. Now, when I run: # mount -t procfs proc /

Re: The FreeBSD Foundation

2004-12-23 Thread Troy Mills
Ted Mittelstaedt explained it far better then I could have and I thank him for that. FreeBSD is an awesome thing indeed and one of the wonderful things is thatit is indeed free to the end user but really nothing is totally free, peoples time is worth something and the hardware they need to continu

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2004-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
Brian Astill wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:39 am, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:20:40 +0200, P. B. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I do that? explore2fs is for ext2/3 only. I want to copy files from my FreeBSD filesystem (UFS2, I think?) using Windows. http://us1.samba.org/samba

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Mark
I'd be willing to contribute. I've had quite a bit of free time lately. Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
Hello, all I've scrounged up the archives of the thread the last time it was brought up, in March of 2004, when I called to initiate development for such a project. It would have been done in-hand with [EMAIL PROTECTED] The response was surprisingly low and the people who offered to contribute d

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel Blendea
:) why not send a mail like the one that started the thread to RedHat and suggest to change their 'old' red hat logo, or to linux community to drop the penguin...;) On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:34:40 +, Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 01:54:31PM +0200, Daniel Ble

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