Re: pxeboot looping

2006-04-26 Thread Erik Nørgaard
John Pettitt wrote: > Help! > > I'm trying to set up a machine to boot using pxe and have run into an > odd problem. > > The box (a Soekris 4510) load pxeboot via TFTP prints a few lines of > text then reboots - the last text I see is: > >> Building the boot loader arguments >> Relocating the lo

driver problem or HD dying /dead?

2006-04-26 Thread Henrik Hudson
Hey List- running: FreeBSD 6.1-pre hardware: 3ware 9550SX using the pre- twa driver in a RAID5 (3 drives + 1 standby) My logs starting filling up with this and I noticed the server rebooted itelf a few days back. Is this a driver issue or is one of the drives going south? It "looks" to me to b

Re: Help needed compiling printer source code

2006-04-26 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On 27/04/2006, at 7:33 AM, P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I've set up a printer. location: lpt0 Printer State: idle, accepting jobs device URI: parallel:/dev/lpt0 Printing the test page does not work, the job is aborted with error: client-error-not-possible

bge on IBM xSeries 335 with FreeBSD-6.0

2006-04-26 Thread Lin, Tsung Ching
hi all, I installed FreeBSD 6.0-Release on a IBM xSeries 335. It works fine while installing. After finishing intalling, i try to enable bge1 using the folling command # ifconfig bge1 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 then the box jus hangs. no any messages. i have to press "reset" to reboo

Re: scripting languages...

2006-04-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-26 19:41, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi People, > I am NOT trying to start any kind of flame debate, but would > like to know what real advantage perl has over the newer > so-called all-in-one language, ch. (Other than the obvious > fact that there are literally billions

Flash 7 and Firefox 1.5.0.2

2006-04-26 Thread Jeff Cross
I hate to ask you this, but can you assist me in getting Flash 7 to work in Firefox? I changed the symlinks in the browser_plugins from /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so and /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt

SOLVED - gnash, FreeBSD and OpenGL -- usable?

2006-04-26 Thread Oliver Iberien
It turns out that this is an xorg module. To load it, uncomment the line Load "glx" in xorg.conf. So now we do have some Flash for FreeBSD. I got gnash to run a .swf movie (no sound though) and Firefox can use the plugin to some extent. Oliver On Wednesday 26 April 2006 17:45, Oliver

[SOLUTION] Re: How to create a .la file?

2006-04-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On 22 Apr 2006 08:48:19 -0400 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 20 Apr 2006 10:45:48 -0400 > > Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You do *not* need the libXcursor *port*, because xorg-libraries will > > > install the

scripting languages...

2006-04-26 Thread Gary Kline
Hi People, I am NOT trying to start any kind of flame debate, but would like to know what real advantage perl has over the newer so-called all-in-one language, ch. (Other than the obvious fact that there are literally billions of lines of perl existant.)

Re: X11 and virtual consoles.... (startx + vlock)

2006-04-26 Thread Eric Schuele
Bigby Findrake wrote: 1. What about backgrounding startx and then exiting your shell? Errr? I can do that??? Let's see Just tried (startx &; logout). That works pretty well. I guess it never occurred to me. Though had it... I would've thought I'd have had to nohup it. Works great! T

RE: Simple firewall question: Blocking a handful of IPs

2006-04-26 Thread fbsd
block in quick on rl0 from x.x.x.x to any -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of H. Wade Minter Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 8:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Simple firewall question: Blocking a handful of IPs I'm not extremely comfort

strange install problem

2006-04-26 Thread alfantor
A notebook p3-450 cpu mainboard sis 630 64×2 sdram share graphics ram install NetBSD ,error message: + Status: Command failed Command: disklabel -w -r -f /tmp/disktab wd0 'TOSHIBA MK6014M' Hit enter to continue

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2006-04-26 Thread alfantor
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Re: sendmail_enable in rc.conf

2006-04-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-27 06:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. > It seems there is collision between /etc/defaults/rc.conf and > /etc/rc.sendmail in sendmail startup control. > In /etc/defaults/rc.conf: > sendmail_enable="NO"# Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO). > In /etc/rc.

WPA2 with Atheros ATH(4)

2006-04-26 Thread C M
does anyone know if the ath(4) ATHEROS driver supports WPA2 PSK? _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

Re: sendmail_enable in rc.conf

2006-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. > It seems there is collision between /etc/defaults/rc.conf and > /etc/rc.sendmail in sendmail startup control. > In /etc/defaults/rc.conf: > sendmail_enable="NO"# Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO). > In /etc/rc.sendmail: > "<...>

OT - drives in a RAID5 configuration

2006-04-26 Thread Jonathan Horne
i would like to ask my freebsd peers a hardware question: my FreeBSD 6.0 server has a 3ware 6800 8 channel IDE raid controller. configuration is 6 disks, 4 120GB disks (/opt) in RAID5, and 2 76GB disks in RAID1 (everything else). one of the 76GB drives has failed. i have a few options that

pxeboot looping

2006-04-26 Thread John Pettitt
Help! I'm trying to set up a machine to boot using pxe and have run into an odd problem. The box (a Soekris 4510) load pxeboot via TFTP prints a few lines of text then reboots - the last text I see is: > Building the boot loader arguments > Relocating the loader and the BTX > Starting the BTX lo

Re: How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network?

2006-04-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:16:06 -0700 (PDT), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Hi, > >How can I verify that a 1Gb/s network is indeed >operating at its optimal speed? I tried this: There are some useful tools in /usr/src/tools/tools/netrate/ to generate a lot of traffic. Also, /usr/por

Re: PHP5 Compile Problems

2006-04-26 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I'm currently trying to run: make CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-pcre-regex \ CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-fastcgi \ CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-force-cgi-redirect However, every time I run the command, I get an error about a problem with apache13. But I do not want to install apache, because I plan to use li

Simple firewall question: Blocking a handful of IPs

2006-04-26 Thread H. Wade Minter
I'm not extremely comfortable with doing firewall testing remotely on production systems, but I need to set up some incoming IP blocks. I've got a FreeBSD RELENG_5_4 system with public interface rl0. I want all traffic allowed unfettered, except traffic from particular IPs to be completely

gnash, FreeBSD and OpenGL -- usable?

2006-04-26 Thread Oliver Iberien
I've just installed the latest port (0.7_1) of gnash. Trying to run it, I get this: $ gnash (gnash:69101): GdkGLExt-WARNING **: Window system doesn't support OpenGL. $ Is there a fix for this? (And if there is, are there more issues to face after this one is dealt with?) I know it is still ear

sendmail_enable in rc.conf

2006-04-26 Thread applecom
I have FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. It seems there is collision between /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.sendmail in sendmail startup control. In /etc/defaults/rc.conf: sendmail_enable="NO"# Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO). In /etc/rc.sendmail: "<...> start_mta() { case ${sendmail_

Re: Updated 6.1 schedule?

2006-04-26 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:48:14AM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > I've been watching the 6.1-RC1 web pages, etc... following the > wonderful progress. > > However, the dates on the schedule page seem to be a little off > now. I was wondering if anyone had some idea of what the new > date

PHP5 Compile Problems

2006-04-26 Thread Bradford Fisher
I'm currently trying to run: make CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-pcre-regex \ CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-fastcgi \ CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-force-cgi-redirect However, every time I run the command, I get an error about a problem with apache13. But I do not want to install apache, because I plan to use l

postfix with OpenLDAP 2.3

2006-04-26 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi, When I try to install postfix from ports (postfix or postfix-current) with LDAP lookups I get: [tw] /usr/ports/mail/postfix-current# make WITH_OPENLDAP_VER=2.3.21 ===> postfix-2.3.20060418,2 is marked as broken: unknown OpenLDAP version: 2.3.21. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail

How do I swap tape drives (sa0) without rebooting?

2006-04-26 Thread fbsd
Hello list. I have a freebsd 6.1-RC1 machine that I am using to test bacula and various tape drives. If the machine boots up while the tape drive is attached and powered up, the tape drive is recognized. If I turn off the tape drive and attach a different drive, I cannot seem to convince the OS

Re: gprof

2006-04-26 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
Any Ideas ? On 4/19/06, Alexandre Biancalana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi list, > > I'm trying to compile my C application with gprof but it is not working. > This is a multithreaded program that use mysql and openssl libraries. > Reading the man page I see that is need add -pg to the com

Re: X11 and virtual consoles.... (startx + vlock)

2006-04-26 Thread Bigby Findrake
1. What about backgrounding startx and then exiting your shell? 2. Have you tried using "lock -np" instead of vlock? On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Eric Schuele wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, [hadn't worn my newbie hat lately... so I thought I'd try it on.] Is there a way to run X via startx and p

Re: Obsolete packages

2006-04-26 Thread Panagiotis Christias
On 4/26/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:23:31PM +0300, Panagiotis Christias wrote: > > > Well, speaking as the maintainer of the ftp.gr.freebsd.org mirror site > > I would say that in this case the monolithic form of the FreeBSD FTP > > repository is a draw

Re: CGI "service".

2006-04-26 Thread Øyvind Skaar
Hi, I´m developing a web app in C++. But it loads a huge amount of from a Database to memory, and I can´t afford doing this everytime someone asks for the page. Is there a way to make the program to keep running, and reading requests made via CGI? Hi.. Maybe fastCGI can do what you are looking

Re: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf?

2006-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:56:57 -0700 Telting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to know how I can propagate the dns servers which the dhcp > client puts in resolv.conf to dhcpd. I only see how I can only > explicitly list a domain server with "option domain-name-servers". How > do I propoga

Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf?

2006-04-26 Thread Telting
I would like to know how I can propagate the dns servers which the dhcp client puts in resolv.conf to dhcpd. I only see how I can only explicitly list a domain server with "option domain-name-servers". How do I propogate non static dns servers? Chris __

em64t cpu build

2006-04-26 Thread henk . thuis
Hi, Want to build a new kernel for fbsd 5.4 on a system with a Celeron D cpu with em64t support and wondering if my config is correct in src/sys/amd64/conf/KERNEL: machineamd64 #cpu HAMMER cpu I686_CPU ident KERNEL This

Re: Which Wireless Adapter

2006-04-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Bryan Curl wrote: Hello, referencing: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/6-STABLE/hardware/pc98/support.html , section 3.6 Wireless Network Interface None of these adapters are familiar to me. Will Linksys, Netgear, or Dlink pci wireless adaptors work with one of these drivers? Other recomendation

Re: Obsolete packages

2006-04-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:23:31PM +0300, Panagiotis Christias wrote: > Well, speaking as the maintainer of the ftp.gr.freebsd.org mirror site > I would say that in this case the monolithic form of the FreeBSD FTP > repository is a drawback. Mirroring around 350GB/1.600.000 files, or > even a subs

Which Wireless Adapter

2006-04-26 Thread Bryan Curl
Hello, referencing: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/6-STABLE/hardware/pc98/support.html , section 3.6 Wireless Network Interface None of these adapters are familiar to me. Will Linksys, Netgear, or Dlink pci wireless adaptors work with one of these drivers? Other recomendations? -- -- Bryan bc39

Re: postgres

2006-04-26 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:14:53PM +0100, eoghan wrote: > Thanks guys: > > Required by: > kde-3.5.1 > koffice-1.4.2_3,1 > php5-extensions-1.0 > php5-pgsql-5.1.2_1 > postgresql-libpqxx-2.5.5 > > I wanted to use it with php5, so i guess forcing an uninstall would bork > my php5 support? My sugge

Re: Obsolete packages

2006-04-26 Thread Panagiotis Christias
On 4/25/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:39:58AM +0300, Panagiotis Christias wrote: > > On 4/25/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >Hi, > >

Re: postgres

2006-04-26 Thread eoghan
Greg Barniskis wrote: eoghan wrote: Hi I am installing postgres81-server from ports, but it gives me an error. It requires postgres81-client but I have postgres74-client installed. I have not installed this port, so is there something that uses this? I cannot find any pgsql script. Would it be s

Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Barniskis
Questions wrote: Anyone have any opinions about the quality and/or value of these respective vendors? [snip] How does Dell fit into all of this? I haven't dealt with Dell in years but when I have in the past, there didn't seem to be any major issues. I'm looking at a Power Edge 1850 with the

Re: postgres

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Barniskis
eoghan wrote: Hi I am installing postgres81-server from ports, but it gives me an error. It requires postgres81-client but I have postgres74-client installed. I have not installed this port, so is there something that uses this? I cannot find any pgsql script. Would it be safe to remove 74-client

Re: postgres

2006-04-26 Thread Nathanael Hoyle
eoghan wrote: > Hi > I am installing postgres81-server from ports, but it gives me an error. > It requires postgres81-client but I have postgres74-client installed. > I have not installed this port, so is there something that uses this? > I cannot find any pgsql script. Would it be safe to remove 7

postgres

2006-04-26 Thread eoghan
Hi I am installing postgres81-server from ports, but it gives me an error. It requires postgres81-client but I have postgres74-client installed. I have not installed this port, so is there something that uses this? I cannot find any pgsql script. Would it be safe to remove 74-client and install t

Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf?

2006-04-26 Thread Telting
I would like to know how I can propagate the dns servers which the dhcp client puts in resolv.conf to dhcpd. I only see how I can only explicitly list a domain server with "option domain-name-servers". How do I propogate non static dns servers? Chris

Re: error squid when using pf

2006-04-26 Thread applecom
i try use pf for transparant proxy ( i get from here http://www.benzedrine.cx/transquid.html ) when i configure manual to use proxy is working fine . then i try to use pf for redirection connection to proxy : int_if="vr0" ext_if="xl0" rdr on $int_if inet proto tcp from any to any port www -> 127.

Re: Whay does "port is interactive" mean?

2006-04-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 19:02, Steve Friedrich wrote: > I couldn't portupgrade acroread7 because it is marked "interactive". > > What does that mean? How do I upgrade it? Undefine BATCH. acroread wont build with it set as it needs you to agree to their terms. _

Re: Whay does "port is interactive" mean?

2006-04-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Steve Friedrich wrote: I couldn't portupgrade acroread7 because it is marked "interactive". What does that mean? How do I upgrade it? It probably means that you've got to do some "manual magic" - generally, accept a license or perform some action that requires visiting a site and registerin

Re: Whay does "port is interactive" mean?

2006-04-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 11:02, Steve Friedrich wrote: > I couldn't portupgrade acroread7 because it is marked "interactive". > > What does that mean? How do I upgrade it? > You have to agree to the license and you probably have batch=yes turned on in /etc/make.conf. Comment it out and then bu

Re: Whay does

2006-04-26 Thread Steve Friedrich
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:17:28 +, Chris wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: Steve Friedrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 01:02 PM >>To: 'FreeBSD Questions' >>Subject: Whay does "port is interactive" mean? >> >>I couldn't portupgrade acroread7 because it is

Whay does "port is interactive" mean?

2006-04-26 Thread Steve Friedrich
I couldn't portupgrade acroread7 because it is marked "interactive". What does that mean? How do I upgrade it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: When 5.5-stable?

2006-04-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:21:21AM +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >>> > >>yeah I like to have STABLE tag this is the longest prerelease stage I > >>have witnessed since I started using fbsd, I suspect 5.5 is delayed > >>because of the 6.1 delay and all the dev's are working

vm_object resident_page_count and vmspace.vm_pmap.pm_stats.resident_count

2006-04-26 Thread kapil jain
Hi, What is the different between the 2 values: vmspace.vm_pmap.pm_stats.resident_count and the sum of vm_object resident_page_count of all objecsts in that vmspace? I thought they might be the same, but looks like they are not. For eg. for 1 process I get from vmspace 168 pages, and

Re: OT: Domain Registration

2006-04-26 Thread Miguel Ramos
Qua, 2006-04-26 às 01:59 +0100, martin mccann escreveu: > I need to do a few more checks to make sure I havn't overlooked anything, but > it all looks grand atm - if you are looking for a no nonsence, just give me > what I want type of setup, I would highly recommend them. I'm now going to > tr

Re: CGI "service".

2006-04-26 Thread Miguel Ramos
Qua, 2006-04-26 às 12:07 -0300, Pgold escreveu: > Hi, I´m developing a web app in C++. But it loads a huge amount of > from a Database to memory, and I can´t afford doing this everytime > someone asks for the page. Is there a way to make the program to keep > running, and reading requests made via

Re: Help needed compiling printer source code

2006-04-26 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I've set up a printer. location: lpt0 Printer State: idle, accepting jobs device URI: parallel:/dev/lpt0 Printing the test page does not work, the job is aborted with error: client-error-not-possible The most probable reason for this is that so

Re: PXE boot jumpstarting

2006-04-26 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Erik, * Erik Nrgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [25-04-06 20:44]: > Server went down, power failure I think, at 9.XXam and I wasn't home to > put it back up. ah ok :) Great manual! Best regards, Matthias pgpxvhInyMvK3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-26 Thread Miguel Ramos
AND make sure that either /etc/resolv.conf doesn't exist or that it contains a single nameserver line like this: nameserver 127.0.0.1 otherwise your local nameserver isn't queried. You see, there's really nothing else to do on a standard installation of freebsd... 1- named_enable="YES" in /etc/

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-26 Thread Denis R.
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html Richard, besides simple you want a _secure_ caching name server. Yes, you can type "named_enable" in rc.conf and be done with it, just don't forget to periodically check the security updates web page for BIND exploits. Regards! Richard Collyer wrote: > Hello

Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
I can't answer this too well unfortunately, but I can give you a bit of info. Dell does not carry AMD, and probably will not for a long time. However they do have AMD64 compatable Intel chips, which are better at bandwidth, though not as good for calculations. Dell treats their business customers

Re: CGI "service".

2006-04-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 26, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Pgold wrote: Hi, I´m developing a web app in C++. But it loads a huge amount of from a Database to memory, and I can´t afford doing this everytime someone asks for the page. Is there a way to make the program to keep running, and reading requests made via CGI? If it

Re: Huge (100k+) number of processes

2006-04-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 26, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: The problem is that kern.maxproc=20 line in /boot/loader.conf only raised the real value to 21576. Is that authoritative, or should I just try and run 200k processes? I only have 512Mb of RAM, and I wonder if it's enough to run 100k+ of, say, /b

Re: Huge (100k+) number of processes

2006-04-26 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 4/26/06, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 26), Andrew Pantyukhin said: > > On 4/26/06, Iantcho Vassilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 4/26/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was wondering if it's possible to run over 100k processes >

Antigen forwarded attachment

2006-04-26 Thread Antigen_WEBMAIL
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CGI "service".

2006-04-26 Thread Pgold
Hi, I´m developing a web app in C++. But it loads a huge amount of from a Database to memory, and I can´t afford doing this everytime someone asks for the page. Is there a way to make the program to keep running, and reading requests made via CGI? If it helps, i´m running FreeBSD 6.0 with Apache 2

wierd output from pfctl -vvsq

2006-04-26 Thread Andy Greenwood
I've got all my queuing working like I want it to, but when I run pfctl -vvsq, I get this (sample) output queue root_dc0 bandwidth 256Kb priority 0 cbq( wrr root ) {tcp_ack, dns, ssh, http, std, p2p} [ pkts: 1018 bytes: 768010 dropped pkts: 0 bytes: 0 ] [ qlength: 0/ 50

Re: Huge (100k+) number of processes

2006-04-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 26), Andrew Pantyukhin said: > On 4/26/06, Iantcho Vassilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/26/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was wondering if it's possible to run over 100k processes > > > simultaneously on a FreeBSD box with sufficient amount

FBSD 5.x and Skype sound

2006-04-26 Thread scuba
Hi all, I know that there is a lot o threads about this, but none of the workarrounds had worked with me. I trying to use skype (1.2.0.18 from ports), on a FBSD 5.4 (last cvs), but the sound is failing. My on-board sound chipset is CMI8738, I'm using the snd_cmi_load="YES" in the /boot/

Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-26 Thread Questions
Anyone have any opinions about the quality and/or value of these respective vendors? I'm looking for something that has good AMD64 support, great RAID1 support and good Serial Console Redirection support, all obviously reasonably priced. I've had bad experiences in the past with onboard SATA and/

Re: Huge (100k+) number of processes

2006-04-26 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 4/26/06, Iantcho Vassilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure,why not? > > > It`s FreeBSD for God sake! Yeah, I know :-) The problem is that kern.maxproc=20 line in /boot/loader.conf only raised the real value to 21576. Is that authoritative, or should I just try and run 200k processes? I on

Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?

2006-04-26 Thread hernan
>Please, check your RAM. I had similar problem with changing MD5 on PC with bad RAM. I had a similar problem that drove me crazy for a long while. It all made sense when I opened up the box and saw that the CPU fan was stopped. Luckily, there was no permanent damage to the CPU and replacing the

Re: Huge (100k+) number of processes

2006-04-26 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
Sure,why not? It`s FreeBSD for God sake! On 4/26/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering if it's possible to run over 100k processes > simultaneously on a FreeBSD box with sufficient amount > of RAM (and CPU power). > ___ >

error squid when using pf

2006-04-26 Thread sonjaya
hi all i try use pf for transparant proxy ( i get from here http://www.benzedrine.cx/transquid.html ) when i configure manual to use proxy is working fine . then i try to use pf for redirection connection to proxy : int_if="vr0" ext_if="xl0" rdr on $int_if inet proto tcp from any to any port www

RE: FreeBSD 5.4 & Cannot detect my Hard Disk

2006-04-26 Thread fbsd
In your bios disable the following power management & plug-n-play For OS type select UNIX or other. IE: not windows If your bios don't have these options then disregard this post. If HD is a replacement, insure you have correct ribbon type for HD type and HD jumpers are correct for ribbon nippl

Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?

2006-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:10:26 + Ben Paley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 April 2006 10:24, Nick Withers wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:08:58 + > > > > Ben Paley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could anyone give me a hint as to how to get started checking the > > > hardware

Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?

2006-04-26 Thread Nick Withers
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:10:26 + Ben Paley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 April 2006 10:24, Nick Withers wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:08:58 + > > > > Ben Paley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could anyone give me a hint as to how to get started checking the > > > hardware

RE: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0

2006-04-26 Thread fbsd
I had this problem when I was using an older model motherboard with only 64k memory. I moved HD to an newer pc to install FreeBSD to HD them returned HD to first box and all was ok. Then configured FreeBSD OS on older box with out any problems after that. Read 6.0 notes about dropped support for i

Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?

2006-04-26 Thread Ben Paley
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 10:24, Nick Withers wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:08:58 + > > Ben Paley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could anyone give me a hint as to how to get started checking the > > hardware? It's a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. I really don't have the > > foggiest idea what to

Re: Take us off this list please

2006-04-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-26 07:30, Ingrid Kast Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please take CityScope Net off this Japanese list. We only want to be on > English reading websites. (USA/England/Australia) > Thanks. > > www.it.freebsd.org/ja/gallery/cgallery.html Hi, I've forwarded your request to ``freebsd-w

FreeBSD 5.4 & Cannot detect my Hard Disk

2006-04-26 Thread Mohamad Babaei
Hi, i want to istall FreeBSD 5.4 & 6 on my PC with an " ASUS P4V533-MX ", but every time i get the message: "no disks found! please verify that your disk controller is being properly probed" what settings in my BIOS should i use for above mentioned Mother Board? Regards, Mo _

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0

2006-04-26 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Jeff Rollin wrote: could you post the partition layout? (i know you said you used automatic partitioning but the size of the filesystems varies depending on the size of the slice.) Slices screen: Disk name: ad0 Geometry: 14596 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 234484740 sectors (114494 MB) Offset

Re: How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network?

2006-04-26 Thread Daniel A.
On 4/26/06, Chris Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob wrote: > > > How can I verify that a 1Gb/s network is indeed > > operating at its optimal speed? I tried this: > > By transferring large amounts of data using a light-weight protocol > (maybe FTP) and timing the amount of time it takes. > >

Re: account maintenance and verification ( Your account is suspended )

2006-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
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Re: How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network?

2006-04-26 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 4/26/06, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a few years back, i had a gigabit fiber switch, and 2 intel gigabit fiber > cards that i put in my 2 fastest computers (at the time, dual p3 1000 and > dual p3 933). they both had 10k rpm ultra160 SCSI drives. the fastest i > could get for c

Take us off this list please

2006-04-26 Thread Ingrid Kast Fuller
Please take CityScope Net off this Japanese list. We only want to be on English reading websites. (USA/England/Australia) Thanks. www.it.freebsd.org/ja/gallery/cgallery.html Ingrid Kast Fuller CityScope Net 713-477-6161 3910 Fairmont Parkway #264 Pasadena, TX 77504-3076

Huge (100k+) number of processes

2006-04-26 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
I was wondering if it's possible to run over 100k processes simultaneously on a FreeBSD box with sufficient amount of RAM (and CPU power). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network?

2006-04-26 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 23:17, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:16 PM, Rob wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How can I verify that a 1Gb/s network is indeed > > operating at its optimal speed? I tried this: > > > > [master]$ ping -s 65507 node > > 65515 bytes from node: icmp_seq=0 t

Re: GDM sessions....

2006-04-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:13:02 -0500 Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah... that's why I started out with XDM. However, after some time, > and loading apps I was interested in, I turned around and noticed I was > only missing two GDM dependencies anyway... so I figured a little eye >

Re: Cloning boot drive - more details

2006-04-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > My system partitions (/, swap, /usr, /var, /home) are currently spread > onto a 10GB and a 20GB IDE drive, but I'd like to save space by > consolidating these along with some (not heavily accessed) data > partitions into a larger 250GB disk. The other drives (at this p

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-26 Thread DAve
Richard Collyer wrote: Hello, I've recently been getting a lot of trouble with SpamAssassin performing a lot of rDNS lookups which is causing network issues (timeouts etc to DNS servers). I am trying to install BIND (or djbdns) as a simple caching nameserver. Just to take some of the load o

help

2006-04-26 Thread hongz
Hi guys: I tried to use kldload to load our HBA driver. But the driver's pci probe function can not find the HBA card! Does it mean that kldload can not trigger pci bus rescan? If so, what should I do for triggering pci bus rescan after loading our pci driver? Thank you for your help! H

Re: How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network?

2006-04-26 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 4/26/06, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How can I verify that a 1Gb/s network is indeed > operating at its optimal speed? I tried this: > > [master]$ ping -s 65507 node > 65515 bytes from node: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.97 ms > 65515 bytes from node: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.95 ms > 655

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0

2006-04-26 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Did you do a custom newfs? No. What's you partition layout? First slice is a Windows NTFS, 45GB Then I have a 35GB slice for FreeBSD (type 165). Inside that slice, I used automatic partitioning. What did you install (only the bare base? or also additional distributions/packages) I selected

RE: Security Run Output

2006-04-26 Thread fbsd
The daily security email to root all ways lists a count of blocked packets if you have one of the three firewall activated. So what you are seeing is informational and nothing to be concerned about unless you did not active the ipfilter firewall. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0

2006-04-26 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:34:44 -, User Gandalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 on a regular x86 PC. I'm using the official install disk. It tells me that there are no CD/DVD drives are detected. I have a Pioneer DVD writer (DVR-110D). That has ATAP

Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0

2006-04-26 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 on a regular x86 PC. I'm using the official install disk. It tells me that there are no CD/DVD drives are detected. I have a Pioneer DVD writer (DVR-110D). That has ATAPI interface and I booted the installer from it... I also tried to install the sys

Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?

2006-04-26 Thread Nick Withers
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:08:58 + Ben Paley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could anyone give me a hint as to how to get started checking the hardware? > It's a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. I really don't have the foggiest idea what > to look for or what to check - I've never had any problems with i

Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?

2006-04-26 Thread Ben Paley
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:46, Thomas Ludwig wrote: > > If the problem is Apache, though, it doesn't explain the other problems > > I've been having, like the corrupted ftp uploads. Perhaps they are > > unrelated? Or perhaps Apache is not the problem? > > I recommend checking your hardware. I h

Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?

2006-04-26 Thread Thomas Ludwig
> If the problem is Apache, though, it doesn't explain the other problems I've > been having, like the corrupted ftp uploads. Perhaps they are unrelated? Or > perhaps Apache is not the problem? I recommend checking your hardware. I had a similar problem with huge files, although unrelated to Ap

Re: How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network?

2006-04-26 Thread Chris Howells
Rob wrote: How can I verify that a 1Gb/s network is indeed operating at its optimal speed? I tried this: By transferring large amounts of data using a light-weight protocol (maybe FTP) and timing the amount of time it takes. Also various testing utilities, for instance ttcp. [master]$ pin

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