The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-09-07 - 2003-09-27

2003-09-28 Thread Dan Langille
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Re: MBR problem

2003-09-28 Thread Vitalis
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 04:17, Dan Strick wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There are 2 partitions on my hard drive, one for FreeBSD and the other > > one for XP. I had to reinstall Windows and of course it blew the MBR up. > > I've reinstalled FreeBSD's boot manager with: >

Re: [Fwd: Support for default passive ftp mode in fetch]

2003-09-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 09:47:07AM +0300, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote: > To be really efficient I tried to send the following message to "core-team" > which obviously failed. So, here is the same minor change proposal sent > to freebsd-questions. I hope some of the people who can take appropriate > act

Re: [Fwd: Support for default passive ftp mode in fetch]

2003-09-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 09:52:19AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > That's not efficiency, that's bothering 3 extremely busy people with > something that is very unlikely to be anything close to their > particular interests within the FreeBSD sources. Please don't do that. Uh -- make that 9 people

VNC & ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-28 Thread aaaaa
Dear, I met the same problem and manage to solve it (thanks for your help) by replacing Connection/SSH/Tunnels/Destination/localhost:59XX by Connection/SSH/Tunnels/Destination/127.0.0.1:59XX. regards, Gilles ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://

how to get system information

2003-09-28 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi all, I am wondering how to find out system hardware information from a running system, I know for instance pciconf(8) but what are the corresponding ones for memory, cpu etc? Many thanks, Per olof ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

Re: how to get system information

2003-09-28 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Per olof Ljungmark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 5:36 AM Subject: how to get system information > Hi all, > > I am wondering how to find out system hardware information from a > running system, I know for insta

Re: how to get system information

2003-09-28 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
I am wondering how to find out system hardware information from a running system, I know for instance pciconf(8) but what are the corresponding ones for memory, cpu etc? more /var/run/dmesg.boot to get the info at boot time. vmstat 5 5 will give you 5 items 5 sconds apart to show you procs, memo

FreeBSD 4.8-P10 --Mouse doesn't move in the console or XFree86--

2003-09-28 Thread nw1
Neither mouse will work in the console or in XFree86. Gigabyte GA-6BXDS = main board BIOS= AWARD (2A69KG01) ver. 4.51PG In the PCI/ISA section of the BIOS, a USB setting of: "Assign IRQ For USB: Enabled" (is set) There is also a "USB Keyboard Support" setting within the BIOS's "INTERGRATED PEROP

R: Free BSD

2003-09-28 Thread Prashant Boricha
Hello, I would like to know more about FreeBSD, I m very much interested in it. But from what I infer it does'nt seem to be used at home. I would like to use it at home for connecting to the net, watching movies, playing songs, doing work in Office software. Please tell me if I can do so using

Re: Free BSD

2003-09-28 Thread Andreas Kohn
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 14:16, Prashant Boricha wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know more about FreeBSD, I m very much interested in it. But > from what I infer it does'nt seem to be used at home. I would like to use it > at home for connecting to the net, watching movies, playing songs, doing

Re: Newbie need help on configuring mouse and X windows

2003-09-28 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:51:10PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Lei Luo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am new to FreeBSD and just trying to learning something. I installed > > FreeBSD without X system on my computer and it works fine. But when I > > tried to configure mouse and X windows,

Re: cvsup + portupgrade Now no Gnome login

2003-09-28 Thread stan
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:48:44PM -0500, Frank Knobbe wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 14:17, stan wrote: > > I cvsup'd today (main and ports), then did a portupgrade -aRR, and now I > > can't get loged intot a session using gdm. > > > > I've rebooted the machine, and blown awa ~/.g[cn]* in my user

Ethernet Drivers with 5.1 not happening

2003-09-28 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hiya, I posted a question about this last week. I have done a little homework and I am resubmitting my question with more information and i hope someone can help this time around. I am building a FreeBSD 5.1 box for a client using a fairly new ASUS Mainboard, that SHOULD according to the HARDWARE

RE: My jail can not ssh..

2003-09-28 Thread maillist bsd
Hi all, What will be the possible problem.. As i make the jail environment with jail script. jail.sh file D=/home/jail/192.168.1.1 cd /usr/src mkdir -p $D make world DESTDIR=$D cd etc make distribution DESTDIR=$D -DNO_MAKEDEV_RUN cd $D/dev sh MAKEDEV jail cd $D ln -sf dev/null kernel #mk

Re: sophos on freebsd

2003-09-28 Thread Martin Schweizer
I run Sophos also as a cron job. It also updates the ide's and the software over scripts. Am Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:26:03AM -0400 synrat schrieb: > Has anyone setup virus scanning for e-mail and/or files shared via Samba ? > I'm wondering if I need to buy sophos antivirus only, or both antiviru

Sendmail redirect problem

2003-09-28 Thread Alex Zivenko
Hi people. I have some problem here. I need a mail account on the another server, which runs on freebsd. I have a mail account, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need a mail account like [EMAIL PROTECTED] But the acces is restricted to prevent security vulnerabilities. The mail server is closed f

Re: can FreeBSD run dos

2003-09-28 Thread Paul Everlund
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Jud wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:51:50 -0500, fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am new to different OS's . > > Can this Os run Wordperfect 5.1 for dos??? > > It might be possible with Wine, but you would need a FAT partition, so > that would definitely be the long way

Sendmail: Do I need it running?

2003-09-28 Thread Ekrem
Hi people, I'm using FreeBSD on my standalone desktop PC. I use dialup for the internet and use Evolution as the email client, but the following 2 processes always running; sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail) D

Update to earlier post (corrections)

2003-09-28 Thread nw1
There were errors in an earlier post with a subject: FreeBSD 4.8-P10 --Mouse doesn't move in the console or XFree86-- The udated particulars are posted at: 69.3.136.141/freebsd/usb_mouse.txt Cheese ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Update to earlier post (corrections)

2003-09-28 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 28 September 2003 08:22 am, nw1 wrote: > There were errors in an earlier post with a subject: FreeBSD 4.8-P10 > --Mouse doesn't move in the console or XFree86-- > > The udated particulars are posted at: > 69.3.136.141/freebsd/usb_mouse.txt BTW, if you had added http://69.. we could click

gtk-font-name (default) for gtk-2.0

2003-09-28 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Does anybody know where the default "gtk-font-name" for FreeBSD-4.8 is defined? Programs like gaim use it and I like to experiment w/ some other fonts. I cannot find the default file however. Anybody? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.8 ++ Debian GN

Re: Update to earlier post (corrections)

2003-09-28 Thread nw1
It will work with both moused and usbd specified in /etc/rc.conf. There is one thing i forgot to mention on that page: This install was created using another motherboard. The hdd's were transfered to this gigabyte motherboard. We have also tried doing a fresh install with the gigabyte board and

Re: Sendmail: Do I need it running?

2003-09-28 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Ekrem wrote: > Hi people, > > I'm using FreeBSD on my standalone desktop PC. I use dialup for the > internet and use Evolution as the email client, but the following 2 > processes always running; > > sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) > sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how to get system information

2003-09-28 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >> > >>I am wondering how to find out system hardware information from a > >>running system, I know for instance pciconf(8) but what are the > >>corresponding ones for memory, cpu etc? > >> > > > > > > more /var/run/dmesg.boot to get the info at bo

Re: Gaim

2003-09-28 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:43:11AM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > Has anyone had problems connecting to Yahoo on Gaim for the last couple days? > > Gaim v0.68 As soon as my Gaim client quit connecting to the Yahoo! Messenger service I read up on the issue, promptly dumped the Yahoo! account and we

Problems with audio recording

2003-09-28 Thread Daniela
Probably a stupid question: I need to record sound and it just won't work. I set the recording level to 75:75 and the recording source to "Line" (I'm not sure this is correct), and I tried sox, cat /dev/dsp > file, aurecord and numerous graphical recording utilities. I don't get any error messa

Re: Update to earlier post (corrections)

2003-09-28 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 28 September 2003 08:52 am, nw1 wrote: > It will work with both moused and usbd specified in /etc/rc.conf. > > There is one thing i forgot to mention on that page: This install > was created using another motherboard. The hdd's were transfered to > this gigabyte motherboard. We have al

Re: audio problem - /dev/dsp: op. not supported by device

2003-09-28 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 12:57:40AM -0400, Nick Holley wrote: > Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > >I recently upgraded my system from 4.8-STABLE to 5.1-RELEASE. I haven't > >had any problems except with XMMS. Randomly XMMS will fail after it > >finishes playing a song and before it has started the next -

Re: Port installation methods

2003-09-28 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:04:47PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: > On Saturday 27 September 2003 07:43 pm, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > > > If you've just installed a fresh FreeBSD system then there isn't > > much difference. I offten use the make method in this case. But I > > switch to portinstall a

Q: Compiles for wrong processor and it still worked

2003-09-28 Thread Alex de Kruijff
I have compiles my world sources for the PIII processors. I have recently discoverd that i have a number of PII processors. The compiled code for PIII still works on them. I'm ammazed. :o Can anybody explain why? I include this in to /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE=p3 -- Alex Articles based on solution

Re: can FreeBSD run dos

2003-09-28 Thread christian serb
i've coincidentally found that: Xdos is available at 1. sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/Incoming (will probably be moved to /pub/Linux/ALPHA/dosemu ) source: http://groups.google.de/groups?q=xdos&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF- 8&newwindow=1&selm=2ji219%24qkv%40klaava.Helsinki.FI&rnum=1 > On Sat, Sep 2

Re: FreeBSD 4.8-P10 --Mouse doesn't move in the console or XFree86--

2003-09-28 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:41:04AM -0400, nw1 wrote: > Neither mouse will work in the console or in XFree86. > > Gigabyte GA-6BXDS = main board > BIOS= AWARD (2A69KG01) ver. 4.51PG > > In the PCI/ISA section of the BIOS, a USB setting of: "Assign IRQ For USB: Enabled" > (is > set) > There is als

Re: FreeBSD 4.8-P10 --Mouse doesn't move in the console or XFree86--

2003-09-28 Thread nw1
Alex: please see the update/corrections to this post at http://69.3.136.141/freebsd/usb_mouse.txt - Original Message - From: "Alex de Kruijff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "nw1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 1:44 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8-P10 --

Re: Q: Compiles for wrong processor and it still worked

2003-09-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:37:59PM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > I have compiles my world sources for the PIII processors. I have > recently discoverd that i have a number of PII processors. The compiled > code for PIII still works on them. I'm ammazed. :o Can anybody explain why? The reason why

Re: Burn an ISO image

2003-09-28 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Well, > after the bug of the day drill, I'm replacing windows with Freebsd. > I want to install the most recent stable version of 4.8. > > I downloaded the mini.iso (as per the instructions), but I am > still on windows (with the Roxio burner software - ye

Re: Q: Compiles for wrong processor and it still worked

2003-09-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 28), Alex de Kruijff said: > I have compiles my world sources for the PIII processors. I have > recently discoverd that i have a number of PII processors. The compiled > code for PIII still works on them. I'm ammazed. :o Can anybody explain why? > > I include this in to /e

Re: audio problem - /dev/dsp: op. not supported by device

2003-09-28 Thread Nathan Kinkade
> Ok, it may be to soon to mark my problem as resolved, but after > deinstalling and recompiling XMMS and all of it's dependencies the > problem appears to be fixed. Well, I have now played about 10 or 12 > songs in a row without problem, which would have never been the case > before. While I w

Problems Bootstrapping FreeBSD Java while Making OpenOffice

2003-09-28 Thread RexFelis
Hello all, I am attempting to build OpenOffice from ports. (Running FreeBSD 5.1-p5) So far I've been able to figure out how to fix everything else that stopped the build, but this just leaves me lost. I don't have a clue what this refers to. The script capture of the error message is: -

Installing Apache from ports

2003-09-28 Thread Damien Hull
I need Apache installed with php. I see mod_php or something in the ports. I plan on jumping in and running make install. That should give me Apache with php ready to go. What should I do if I need to add another something else to Apache? Can I just go back to the ports and select something? N

Re: Installing Apache from ports

2003-09-28 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Damien Hull wrote: > I need Apache installed with php. I see mod_php or something in the > ports. I plan on jumping in and running make install. That should give > me Apache with php ready to go. > > What should I do if I need to add another something else to Apache? > > Can I

multiple ISP, one default gw

2003-09-28 Thread Peter J. Blok
Hi, I have two ISP, one gives my a dynamic IP and has the default route thru DHCP. The other has a fixed IP and obviously no default route. I would like to place a webserver behind the fixed IP address, but it is not able to answer because there is no route defined to the webclient. The defaul

How to mount USB drive in FreeBSD 5.0?

2003-09-28 Thread Frank Lee
Hi all. My first FreeBSD post. :-) I have a USB drive (Win95 formatted) that I'm trying to dd data off of. - FreeBSD 5.0-Release - USB 2.0/1.1 drive. - laptop is 1.1 How do I mount this USB drive? I done it on 4.7 with MAKEDEV and all, but can't find any info on getting it to mount in 5.0 (no M

Comparing buildworld times on twin machines

2003-09-28 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I have 2 machines on my home network with (almost) identical hardware. They both have Celeron 300, same motherboards, same BIOS, same options set in BIOS, etc. Same make.conf, same kernel config. I kill [EMAIL PROTECTED] before starting on each machine. The only difference is that curly has 1

Re: cvsup + portupgrade Now no Gnome login

2003-09-28 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 08:05, stan wrote: > BTW, out of curoisity, Did I need to delete the ~/.g[nc]* > filles/directories? If I had not would they have been auto upgraded? Your Gnome config files? No. Not unless you want to start with default settings :) > Looking foward to playing with Gnome 2.

Re: How to mount USB drive in FreeBSD 5.0?

2003-09-28 Thread Andreas Kohn
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 06:27, Frank Lee wrote: > Hi all. My first FreeBSD post. :-) > > I have a USB drive (Win95 formatted) that I'm trying to dd data off of. > > - FreeBSD 5.0-Release > - USB 2.0/1.1 drive. > - laptop is 1.1 > > How do I mount this USB drive? I done it on 4.7 with MAKEDEV and a

Slow network connection in -current

2003-09-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
I've noticed a certain slowness in doing network connections with -current. Can't explain this. While /usr/src/UPDATING does speak of slowness that I need to expect, this smells of another problem. I type "host mail.gmx.net" and it immediately comes back with an answer. I type "telnet mail.gmx.

Re: Comparing buildworld times on twin machines

2003-09-28 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 28 September 2003 12:37 pm, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > I have 2 machines on my home network with (almost) identical > hardware. They both have Celeron 300, same motherboards, same BIOS, > same options set in BIOS, etc. > Same make.conf, same kernel config. > I kill [EMAIL PROTECTED] bef

Re: How to mount USB drive in FreeBSD 5.0?

2003-09-28 Thread Frank Lee
On Sunday 28 September 2003 19:46, Andreas Kohn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 06:27, Frank Lee wrote: > > Hi all. My first FreeBSD post. :-) > > > > I have a USB drive (Win95 formatted) that I'm trying to dd data off of. > > > > - FreeBSD 5.0-Release > > - USB 2.0/1.1 drive. > > - laptop is 1.1 >

RE: Comparing buildworld times on twin machines

2003-09-28 Thread Charles Howse
> On Sunday 28 September 2003 12:37 pm, Charles Howse wrote: > > Hi, > > I have 2 machines on my home network with (almost) identical > > hardware. They both have Celeron 300, same motherboards, same BIOS, > > same options set in BIOS, etc. > > Same make.conf, same kernel config. > > I kill [EMAIL

Re: Sendmail redirect problem

2003-09-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 09:25:22AM +0300, Alex Zivenko wrote: > I have some problem here. I need a mail account on the another server, which runs on > freebsd. I have a mail account, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need a mail account > like > [EMAIL PROTECTED] But the acces is restricted to pr

Re: Comparing buildworld times on twin machines

2003-09-28 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:28 pm, Charles Howse wrote: > > On Sunday 28 September 2003 12:37 pm, Charles Howse wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have 2 machines on my home network with (almost) identical > > > hardware. They both have Celeron 300, same motherboards, same > > > BIOS, same options set in

Re: How to mount USB drive in FreeBSD 5.0?

2003-09-28 Thread Andreas Kohn
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 07:26, Frank Lee wrote: > On Sunday 28 September 2003 19:46, Andreas Kohn wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 06:27, Frank Lee wrote: > > > Hi all. My first FreeBSD post. :-) > > > > > > I have a USB drive (Win95 formatted) that I'm trying to dd data off of. > > > > > > - FreeBSD

Re: How to mount USB drive in FreeBSD 5.0?

2003-09-28 Thread Frank Lee
On Sunday 28 September 2003 20:57, Andreas Kohn wrote: > It doesn't even look like your usb drive is plugged in? Even if umass > hadn't accepted it, ugen should have had attached (outputting some > messages) ughh. well, it helps to plug it *all the way* in. :-( It's new and I didn't want brea

RE: Comparing buildworld times on twin machines

2003-09-28 Thread Charles Howse
> On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:28 pm, Charles Howse wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 September 2003 12:37 pm, Charles Howse wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have 2 machines on my home network with (almost) identical > > > > hardware. They both have Celeron 300, same motherboards, same > > > > BIOS, same opt

Bad Super Block Count

2003-09-28 Thread Grant Peel
Hello all, One of my Dell servers has rebooted itself twice in the past week. No panics or anything showing in any log. No overheating noted in mbmon. I don't know if the diskstuff below is related. Dell called me and told me I had to do a PERC III ROM flash, so I went to the POP and did that. At

Re: How to mount USB drive in FreeBSD 5.0?

2003-09-28 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 28 September 2003 11:13 pm, Frank Lee wrote: > On Sunday 28 September 2003 20:57, Andreas Kohn wrote: > > It doesn't even look like your usb drive is plugged in? Even if > > umass hadn't accepted it, ugen should have had attached (outputting > > some messages) > > ughh. well, it helps

Re: Ports woes.

2003-09-28 Thread cuddlesomebunny
> > I'm obviously getting into this very late, but I'll hazard a couple of > suggestions. Apologies if they've already been discussed/discarded. > > 1. If you haven't already, run portsdb -uU and pkgdb -F. > > 2. If it isn't among the "portupgrade stuff" you've already tried, the > -fRN options i

Re: How to mount USB drive in FreeBSD 5.0?

2003-09-28 Thread frank
On Sunday 28 September 2003 2:36 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 28 September 2003 11:13 pm, Frank Lee wrote: >> On Sunday 28 September 2003 20:57, Andreas Kohn wrote: >> > It doesn't even look like your usb drive is plugged in? Even if >> > umass hadn't accepted it, ugen should have had attach

Re: how to get system information

2003-09-28 Thread paul beard
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I am wondering how to find out system hardware information from a running system, I know for instance pciconf(8) but what are the corresponding ones for memory, cpu etc? more /var/run/dmesg.boot to get the info at boot time. vmstat 5 5 will give you 5 items 5 sconds apa

Re: how to get system information

2003-09-28 Thread paul beard
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I am wondering how to find out system hardware information from a running system, I know for instance pciconf(8) but what are the corresponding ones for memory, cpu etc? more /var/run/dmesg.boot to get the info at boot time. vmstat 5 5 will give you 5 items 5 sconds apa

INSTALLATIONM ON A HP PAVILION 8670C

2003-09-28 Thread Andrew Hilliard
Hi, I am haviing the worst time trying to install FreeBSD on a HP Pavilion 8670C.It has ATAPI CD-ROMS and when I attempted to do an installation of FreeBSD with version 4.7 of the software it failed. I attempted to do an installation from a MS-DOS partition and thatb also failed. The softwae erro

Re: How to mount USB drive in FreeBSD 5.0?

2003-09-28 Thread Andreas Kohn
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday 28 September 2003 2:36 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: > > On Sunday 28 September 2003 11:13 pm, Frank Lee wrote: > >> On Sunday 28 September 2003 20:57, Andreas Kohn wrote: > >> > It doesn't even look like your usb drive is plugged in? Even

Re: how to get system information

2003-09-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 28 September 2003 at 9:02:05 -0700, Mikko Tyljrvi wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > I am wondering how to find out system hardware information from a running system, I know for instance pciconf(8) but what are the corresponding ones for memory

Re: Bad Super Block Count

2003-09-28 Thread Andreas Kohn
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 23:20, Grant Peel wrote: > Hello all, > > One of my Dell servers has rebooted itself twice in the past week. No panics > or anything showing in any log. No overheating noted in mbmon. I don't know > if the diskstuff below is related. > > Dell called me and told me I had to d

Re: Bad Super Block Count

2003-09-28 Thread Andreas Kohn
[redirected mail to list, remember to use reply-to-all] On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:51, Grant Peel wrote: > I am now 120 miles from the server. Since it seems that the root filesystem > has no errors, can I simply umount the other filesystems and run fsck, (it > will be able to write then?) and then

Re: Sendmail: Do I need it running?

2003-09-28 Thread Ekrem
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 02:00, Rus Foster wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Ekrem wrote: > > > Hi people, > > > > I'm using FreeBSD on my standalone desktop PC. I use dialup for the > > internet and use Evolution as the email client, but the following 2 > > processes always running; > > > > sendmail: ac

Re: Sendmail: Do I need it running?

2003-09-28 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:27:14 +1000 Ekrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interestingly, I do have sendmail_enable="NO" in my /etc/rc.conf file, > yet sendmail continues to automatically start whenever I reboot. You need sendmail_enable="NONE" if you want to disable it completely. -Chris ___

Re: Sendmail: Do I need it running?

2003-09-28 Thread Rob
With the default configuration, this may disable sending mail from the command line (eg cron jobs). Have a look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the different sendmail_* variables, and read /etc/mail/README for more information on mail submission. - Original Message - From: "Chris Pressey" <[

Ethernet Drivers with 5.1 not happening

2003-09-28 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hiya, I posted a question about this last week. I have done a little homework and I am resubmitting my question with more information and i hope someone can help this time around. I am building a FreeBSD 5.1 box for a client using a fairly new ASUS Mainboard, that SHOULD according to the HARDWARE

Re: can FreeBSD run dos

2003-09-28 Thread Jud
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:40:45 +0200, christian serb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:51:50AM -0500, fred wrote: > I am new to different OS's . > Can this Os run Wordperfect 5.1 for dos??? You can use vmware2 (version 3 works only for FreeBSD 5.x) to run a vertual machine. This

Re: Sendmail: Do I need it running?

2003-09-28 Thread Ryan Merrick
Ekrem wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 02:00, Rus Foster wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Ekrem wrote: Hi people, I'm using FreeBSD on my standalone desktop PC. I use dialup for the internet and use Evolution as the email client, but the following 2 processes always running; sendmail: accepting connecti

Re: can FreeBSD run dos - whoops

2003-09-28 Thread Jud
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:44:31 -0400, Jud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:40:45 +0200, christian serb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:51:50AM -0500, fred wrote: > I am new to different OS's . > Can this Os run Wordperfect 5.1 for dos??? You can use vmware2 (

module_register: module miibus/ukphy already exists!

2003-09-28 Thread Edy Lie
Greetings, module_register: module miibus/ukphy already exists! linker_file_sysinit "miibus.ko" failed to register! 17 Anyone seen that before during intial bootup ? I was watching on console and somehow something was trying to init ifconfig rl0 (realtek). This box only has fxp0 and xl0 nic cards

Questions about mkisofs

2003-09-28 Thread Dragoncrest
Hi all. Just curious of something. I'm probably doing something wrong and totally not paying attention, but for some reason when I run mkisofs, all my files get truncated at 12 charecters and some weird 001 is appended to the rest of the name. I use the following command when buildin

Re: Upgrading HD difficulties

2003-09-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jesse Sheidlower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Originally I tried with dump, but I kept getting loads of > errors, so I switched to tar. I made one tarfile of /usr > (which is relatively large), and one of everything else. There might have been a hint in the errors you were getting with dump.

Re: ARP Question - Maybe?

2003-09-28 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 16:55:35 +, Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:31:16PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to get a Linksys WET11 Wireless Ethernet Bridge working with a D-Link 530 NIC that uses the rl driver. I have configured the bridge and gotte

Make world but not make kernel?

2003-09-28 Thread Dragoncrest
Just curious. If I wanted to upgrade all my sources, could I do a "Make World" without having to do a "Make Kernel" or are the two intertwined where if I do the one I have to do the other? Just curious. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://list

Re: Make world but not make kernel?

2003-09-28 Thread Daniel Hawton
It's better to go: make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=(Kernel Config name) make installkernel KERNCONF=(Kernel Config name) make installworld Basically, if you're upgrading from 4.6 to 4.7 for example, you need to upgrade your kernel to match your userland. -Daniel Dragoncrest wrote:

Re: Questions about mkisofs

2003-09-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003, Dragoncrest wrote: >Hi all. Just curious of something. I'm probably doing something >wrong and totally not paying attention, but for some reason when I run >mkisofs, all my files get truncated at 12 charecters and some weird 001 is >appended to the rest of the nam

Re: Questions about mkisofs

2003-09-28 Thread Andreas Kohn
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 02:30, Dragoncrest wrote: > Hi all. Just curious of something. I'm probably doing something > wrong and totally not paying attention, but for some reason when I run > mkisofs, all my files get truncated at 12 charecters and some weird 001 is > appended to the res

Re: Make world but not make kernel?

2003-09-28 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: "Dragoncrest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 6:00 PM Subject: Make world but not make kernel? > Just curious. If I wanted to upgrade all my sources, could I do a "Make > World" without having to do a "Make Kernel"

Re: Comparing buildworld times on twin machines

2003-09-28 Thread Mark Terribile
Charles Howse writes: > I have 2 machines on my home network with (almost) > identical hardware. ... The only difference is > that curly has 128 MB ram where larry has only 64. Memory available for caching certainly can make a difference. Remember that FreeBSD uses ALL otherwise uncommitted me

Re: Comparing buildworld times on twin machines

2003-09-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-28T19:37:37Z, "Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only difference is that curly has 128 MB ram where larry has only 64. Is the RAM of the exact same type on both machines, i.e. 133MHz non-ECC vs. 100MHz ECC? -- Kirk Strauser "94 outdated ports on the box, 94 outdated p

upgrading 4.0 to stable

2003-09-28 Thread F. Even
I would like to upgrade a 4.0 machine to STABLE, or at least to the RELENG security level. How difficult will this be? Is there anything special that I need to be concerned about, so I don't get bit? This is kind of an important boxand I don't want it to take a nose-dive after I reboot i

Ambit Cable Modem (Model 60194A-004)

2003-09-28 Thread Derek J Witt
Good evening, everyone. I have the above modem (Which is actually cable modem router; it allows two simultaneous connections through the ethernet and USB ports on separate computers). I have found out that I was getting carrier droppage through my ethernet card (I'll mess with a new cable later ;-

RE: Comparing buildworld times on twin machines

2003-09-28 Thread Charles Howse
> At 2003-09-28T19:37:37Z, "Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The only difference is that curly has 128 MB ram where > larry has only 64. > > Is the RAM of the exact same type on both machines, i.e. > 133MHz non-ECC > vs. 100MHz ECC? The first 64 MB on each machine is identical.

Re: upgrading 4.0 to stable

2003-09-28 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:57:04 -0500 (CDT) "F. Even" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to upgrade a 4.0 machine to STABLE, or at least to the > RELENG security level. How difficult will this be? Is there anything > > special that I need to be concerned about, so I don't get bit? This >

Re: Problems with audio recording

2003-09-28 Thread DoubleF
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 18:45:39 + Daniela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > Probably a stupid question: > > I need to record sound and it just won't work. I set the recording level to > 75:75 and the recording source to "Line" (I'm not sure this is correct) This depends on what you are act

utf8locale is being removed from system after "make installworld"

2003-09-28 Thread Ilia Chipitsine
Dear Sirs, I noticed that utf8locale is not found by PostgreSQL, for instance, after "make installworld". How should I fix that ? (I don't want to reinstall misc/utf8locale every time I "make installworld", it is not any clever) Cheers, Ilia Chipitsine ___