(g_)vinum

2004-10-19 Thread Mark Frasa
Hello, First i want to quote something: >Vinum is being rewritten; the new one is called gvinum or geom_vinum. > > It handles swap, and it should be in 5.3. > > Greg Here Greg tells me that Vinum should be in 5.3 Yesterday after 5.3-RC1 came trough, i downloaded the ISO and installed 5.3-RC1.

RE: 5.3-STABLE ????

2004-10-19 Thread JohnsoBS
> -Original Message- > From: Vonleigh Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 5.3-STABLE > > > Sorry, forgot to add that I did do a cvsup before the make buildworld. > > > The relationship between the most

Kernel size 5.2.1

2004-10-19 Thread Florian Hengstberger
Hi! I have compiled my own kernel now, editing the GENERIC configfile that comes with the distrubtion and commenting out a huge number of options. The kernel size is still much larger than a linux kernel (3.7 MB - 1.2 MB). Why is this? Is there anything similar to lspci in FreeBSD? What about lsm

Re: Giant and MPSAFE

2004-10-19 Thread Ben Paley
On Monday 18 October 2004 21:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks - but I can't find 'aio' in my kernel config file at all. What > > line should I comment out to get rid of it? > > options VFS_AIO Easy when you know. Thanks a lot - I guess vmware won't be happy, but then it hasn't been workin

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 18 October 2004 11:10 pm, Christopher Nehren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 15:32 -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > Well, I'm not sure about pulling articles from multiple servers, > > but my GUI newsreader of choice is Pan. However, it never reached a > > stable or "go

Re: Video over Firewire?

2004-10-19 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Loren M. Lang, 2004-10-18] > I am intresting in doing video capture over firewire on FreeBSD. I > understand that FreeBSD supports firewire controllers that conform to > the OHCI spec (basically, all of them), but it seems that it really is > only useful for SBP2 which is just hard drives.

Re: Kernel size 5.2.1

2004-10-19 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Moin Florian! Florian Hengstberger schrieb am Tuesday, den 19. October 2004: > Is there anything similar to lspci in FreeBSD? pciconf -l > What about lsmod, is there a tool which lists the loaded > kernel modules? kldstat > How can I find out which driver modules are used for my > network car

Re: arbitrary programs in /etc/ttys

2004-10-19 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:04:00PM +0200, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > Hello, > > Geert Hendrickx wrote: > > >ttyv0"/usr/bin/cu -l cuaa0" vt100 on secure > > > >But this gives me the following error when restarting init: > > > >init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/t

Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

2004-10-19 Thread Eirik Oeverby
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 00:57 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Oct 18, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Eirik Øverby wrote: > > >> Adaptec AAC-2410SA 4-Port S-ATA RAID Controller > > > > This one is gonna be tricky on you, I think. > > Should work fine. I was using a 2200S, which uses the same aac

Re: vpn using ppp

2004-10-19 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2004 07:53 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi! > I'm a FreeBSD newcomer. And I've my eyes open wide: there is so much > of documentation, I just don't know what to believe... > My problem: my computer connected to the server via cable. The server You mean to a router? And wha

Re: Why would patch cause problems?

2004-10-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-18 20:03, Tuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I did a little more investigation of the problem with nVidia on > 5.2.1-RELEASE-pX where X is higher than 4... > > It turns out that after hand applying patches, once I apply the > "msync5.patch" that was p9, my nVidi

Mbuff on freebsd 4.x

2004-10-19 Thread Volker Lieder
Hello list, i have a problem on several freebsd-servers with the mbufs shown by netstat -m I have already compiled the kernel to switch the allocated size to 128MB mbufs and 32MB mbufs clusters, but some systems take the hole memory by time. First the system only needs 8MB. Has someone the same p

throughput test

2004-10-19 Thread Tomoki Taniguchi
I have a freebsd firewall/router. I want to test the data throughput through the router with and without the firewall turned on. How would I go about testing the network throughput of a machine? TIA, tomoki ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lis

Re: Kernel size 5.2.1

2004-10-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 10:34, Florian Hengstberger wrote: > Hi! > > I have compiled my own kernel now, editing the GENERIC configfile > that comes with the distrubtion and commenting out a huge number of > options. > The kernel size is still much larger than a linux kernel > (3.7 MB - 1.2 MB).

Re: 128 GiB+ disks on Intel PIIX4

2004-10-19 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Svein Halvor Halvorsen, 2004-10-18] > Is this at all possible? My BIOS don't seem to recognize my brand new 200 GB > disk, but that is nothing new. I can initialize a new slize, setup bsdlabel > and do newfs on if without problems. How can I verify that the entire disk is > usable without fil

Re: Recover lost ttyps

2004-10-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 18 October 2004 12:30, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: > Hi, > Is there a simple way (as root) to recover lost ttyps? Yes, watch(8) and snp(4) are your friends. kldload snp watch -w p0 and you'll have read-write access to /dev/ttyp0 Cheers, NikV

Apache2 + SSL

2004-10-19 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi, I've recently just installed apache-2.0.52_1 from ports on a new system. I've taken an already working configuration from an older machine and transferred it to the new server. No matter what I do I can't get SSL working even though it shows up as being used. www 54695 0.0 0.4 14256 90

Re: Apache2 + SSL

2004-10-19 Thread Dick Davies
* Nelis Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1041 11:41]: > Hi, > > I've recently just installed apache-2.0.52_1 from ports on a new system. > I've taken an already working configuration from an older machine and > transferred it to the new server. No matter what I do I can't get SSL > working even thou

Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers

2004-10-19 Thread Davon Shire
Dick Davies wrote: >* Davon Shire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1055 16:55]: > > >>Dick Davies wrote: >> >> >>>It's already in. man 4 ehci. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>*BUGS* <#end> The driver is not finished and is quite buggy. Currently there is no support for hubs that are connected with high speed upstream and

Re: Xmkmf/make problem

2004-10-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 19:39, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-10-18 19:25, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have several Xlib programs that compiled successfully on earlier > > versions of FreeBSD (4.1 and before), using xmkmf and make. With 5.1, I > > get an error message: > > > > "m

tar vs rar

2004-10-19 Thread dick hoogendijk
I like rar for freebsd for the possibility to make predefined archive sizes. If I tar a directory and want to burn it (later) to a cdr is it possible with (free/OSS) tar to predefine such chunks? Or is there some other utility to do this for me? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key:

RE: RAID in FreeBSD

2004-10-19 Thread Robert Covell
I have a 7506-4LP running Raid 1 on a 4.8 box and it had been working like a charm. It is not low profile, but don't know why it would matter. Sincerely, Robert T. Covell President / Owner Rolet Internet Services, INC Web: www.rolet.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 816.471.1095 Fax: 816.471.3

Re: ati driver with Radeon 9800XT

2004-10-19 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:02:28AM +0100, Shaun Friedle wrote: > Unfortunately he seems to be encountering more problems than I suspected > he would, and now he has encountered one I am unable to solve - if he > uses the ati driver then when he types startx he gets a hard lock, the > monitor goes i

Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers

2004-10-19 Thread Dick Davies
* Davon Shire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1016 12:16]: > >If by high-speed support you mean 'as fast as a local disk' then try it. It > works. > >> While I appreciate the quick reply. Reading my messages in detail > >>might have been a little more enlightening in the kind of info I wanted. If there was

Re: pam_ldap authentication based on pam_groupdn

2004-10-19 Thread Jason Lixfeld
Hi. Anyone have any insight on this? On 18-Oct-04, at 1:07 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: I'm wondering if someone can point out my error here. I've got PAM authenticating ssh users like so: authrequiredpam_nologin.so no_warn authsufficient

Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers

2004-10-19 Thread Davon Shire
Dick Davies wrote: * Davon Shire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1055 16:55]: Dick Davies wrote: It's already in. man 4 ehci. *BUGS* <#end> The driver is not finished and is quite buggy. Currently there is no support for hubs that are connected with high speed upstream and low or full speed d

About BSD

2004-10-19 Thread *NONE*
Hi, I was just wondering how did you make BSD, how many people did it take you, and how long it took to make? I want to see if I and a team of programmers has what its got to make an OS one day. Thanks

Re: Xmkmf/make problem

2004-10-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-19 07:26, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 19:39, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2004-10-18 19:25, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have several Xlib programs that compiled successfully on earlier > > > versions of FreeBSD (4.1 and before), usin

Re: Apache2 + SSL

2004-10-19 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Sorry about the top posting but the person who replied to my question was rejected( black listed by combined.njabl.org ) by our server and I found his message below via the web archives. In reference to the below message. Putting instead of in my httpd.conf which Includes ssl.conf causes Apache

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread terry tyson
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:36:32 -0400, Frank J. Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think evolution has a news reader. You might want to look into that. > > Regards, > Frank Yes evolution has a news reader and it works quite well for me. Have had a few problems but it wasn't with evolution, it

Re: About BSD

2004-10-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:44:33AM -0700, *NONE* wrote: > Hi, I was just wondering how did you make BSD, how many people did it > take you, and how long it took to make? I want to see if I and a team > of programmers has what its got to make an OS one day. FreeBSD 1.0 was released in 1993. That w

Re: About BSD

2004-10-19 Thread Michael Ross
*NONE* wrote: Hi, I was just wondering how did you make BSD, how many people did it take you, and how long it took to make? I want to see if I and a team of programmers has what its got to make an OS one day. Thanks

Re: tar vs rar

2004-10-19 Thread Björn Lindström
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like rar for freebsd for the possibility to make predefined archive > sizes. If I tar a directory and want to burn it (later) to a cdr is it > possible with (free/OSS) tar to predefine such chunks? Or is there some > other utility to do this for me?

Re: About BSD

2004-10-19 Thread Björn Lindström
*NONE* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I was just wondering how did you make BSD, how many people did it > take you, and how long it took to make? I want to see if I and a team > of programmers has what its got to make an OS one day. Not that I have a good answer to that one, but it might be th

Question about sound in 5.3-?

2004-10-19 Thread Thomas Moyer
I had sound working under FreeBSD 5.2.1 by using device pcm in my kernel config file and now under 5.3 I cannot get it to work. The soundcard is built into the MB. Not too sure of the type. How do I get it to work with 5.3-* ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

2004-10-19 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Oct 19, 2004, at 2:17 AM, Eirik Oeverby wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 00:57 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Oct 18, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Eirik Øverby wrote: Adaptec AAC-2410SA 4-Port S-ATA RAID Controller This one is gonna be tricky on you, I think. Should work fine. I was using a 2200

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread R. W.
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 08:59, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Monday 18 October 2004 11:10 pm, Christopher Nehren > > > Hmph. Just a few days ago I was thinking about how Pan deserves a > > 1.0 version number because of its full feature set, stability, and > > so forth. It's never crashed here, and

Re: Question about sound in 5.3-?

2004-10-19 Thread Frank Laszlo
Thomas Moyer wrote: I had sound working under FreeBSD 5.2.1 by using device pcm in my kernel config file and now under 5.3 I cannot get it to work. The soundcard is built into the MB. Not too sure of the type. How do I get it to work with 5.3-* I'm pretty sure this has been covered a million

how to convert a non-RAID system to RAID1?

2004-10-19 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a FreeBSD 4.10 server running on one IDE disk. Now I installed a 2nd disk which I want to use for RAID1 together with first disk. My question is: How can I convert this setup to a software RAID1, without rebooting the machine or something like that. Is this even possible? I know

Re: Question about sound in 5.3-?

2004-10-19 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 19 October 2004 16:13, Thomas Moyer wrote: > I had sound working under FreeBSD 5.2.1 by using device pcm in my kernel > config file and now under 5.3 I cannot get it to work. The soundcard is > built into the MB. Not too sure of the type.

Re: Apache2 + SSL

2004-10-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 05:40 am, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently just installed apache-2.0.52_1 from ports on a new > system. I've taken an already working configuration from an older > machine and transferred it to the new server. No matter what I do I > can't get SSL working ev

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 00:59 -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > Really? What version of FreeBSD are you using, and what's your window > manager/desktop? Currently, I'm using FreeBSD 5.3B7 with GNOME + XFce's window manager (I happen to like window docking and some other features that Metacity will appa

XFS for FreeBSD

2004-10-19 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I've been able to locate some postings that suggested there was an effort to get SGI's XFS ported to FreeBSD -- along with some concerns about licensing (GPL) issues. I'd like to get more information - is there an official project, who's heading it up, etc. etc. Thanks. __

Re: Problems with flash and native mozilla

2004-10-19 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Martes Wigglesworth wrote: Greetings. I have an issue with my mozilla install. I am unable to figure out how, or what people get flash7 to work with mozilla. And I also have trouble getting anything to work that I need, while maintaining a working desktop. Hence, if I want to install mplayer, I

Re: 5.3-STABLE ????

2004-10-19 Thread Lucas Holt
On Oct 18, 2004, at 10:18 PM, Vonleigh Simmons wrote: Sorry to hijack the thread. My box is running 5.2, and I'd like to upgrade it to 5.2.1. Problem is that the server is in a colo so I only have SSH access to it; because of this I can't drop into single user mode. So far I grabbed the stabl

Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Seth Henry
Guys, I am trying to decrease the amount of traffic going through my cable modem. Presently, I have a FreeBSD 4.10 system acting as a gateway router. It runs ipf/ipnat for filtering, and acts as a dhcp server to the internal network. I also run ntpd, and have pointed all of my internal machines

Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Robert Huff
Seth Henry writes: > I have seen a large number of HOWTO's on the web, but all seem to > assume that you want to propogate internal DNS info back > upstream. Install Bind 9. (It's now the default for 5.x, don't know about 4.x) In the ARM (/usr/share/doc/bind9/arm), read secti

Re: feasible w/ samba?

2004-10-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 18, 2004, at 2:26 PM, stheg olloydson wrote: --- Bart [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, it would be connectivity + bandwidth + geography. Some of the buildings are close together...close enough that you can lean on the wall of one and throw a softball to hit the other. Others are over 20

Re: Error compiling bison

2004-10-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:01:43PM +0930, Ian Moore wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install php4 on a 4.6-Release machine. bison-1.75 is a > dependency & it stops partway through compiling it. > > Here is the output: > > Making all in doc > makeinfo --no-split -I . `test -f 'bison.texinfo' || ec

Re: How to remove a patch from a port?

2004-10-19 Thread R. W.
On Monday 18 October 2004 23:06, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > I'm wondering how to remove a custom patch for a port. I am sort of > new at this, but I've managed to learn how to patch a port and > upgrade it for testing. But I'm not at all sure how to remove that > patch if need be. What I've been doing

Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, Seth Henry wrote: I want to run a private DNS server which is visible internally only. Comcast doesn't like servers, so I don't want to broadcast any DNS information upstream. (this would also be kind of dumb, as the entries would point to non-routable addresses) I also want to create a

Re: How to run a stream based command in place on a file

2004-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Richard Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I want to run stream based commands like `sed` and `tr` on the contents of a > file, and save the results to the same file. > > Obviously I can do this with a temporary file: > > $sed s/dog/cat/ myanimals.txt > tmp.txt > $mv tmp.txt myanima

how to reinstall a port after a "make install clean"?

2004-10-19 Thread Andy Firman
I need to rebuild the exim-mysql port with ldap lookups and am having trouble since I did a make install clean. I can't do a "make reinstall" because I did the "clean" and according to the handbook I have to do this: # pkg_delete exim-mysql-4.42+27 Now when I go back into /usr/ports/mail/exim-

make index & make fetchindex

2004-10-19 Thread Ezequiel O. Block
Hi list, Just having this question regarding an updated ports tree. Should the INDEX file have the same size whether i do make index or make fetchindex ? make index gives me an INDEX of 5847753 Kb make fetchindex returned and INDEX of 6020050 Kb Thanks. -- Ezequiel O. Block Cooperativa La Lonja

Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers

2004-10-19 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:43:13AM -0500, Davon Shire wrote: > That said, I'd very much like to know where on the horizon do USB 2.0 > highspeed drivers sit? I've seen that current is now into 6.0 but from what > I've read USB functionality is not even on the agenda. Short answer: It doesn't work

Re: make index & make fetchindex

2004-10-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:42:39PM -0300, Ezequiel O. Block wrote: > Hi list, > > Just having this question regarding an updated ports tree. > > Should the INDEX file have the same size whether i do make index or make > fetchindex ? No, if you build it yourself you'll get an index customized fo

Re: how to reinstall a port after a "make install clean"?

2004-10-19 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:44:59AM -0500, terry tyson wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 06:25:39 -0800, Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I need to rebuild the exim-mysql port with ldap lookups > > and am having trouble since I did a make install clean. > snip > > I don't know if this wil

configuring sendmail for relaying mail form data

2004-10-19 Thread John DeStefano
I'm trying to use a PHP form mail script (http://www.leveltendesign.com/L10Apps/Fm/) to process data submitted by a Web mail form. The installation test completed successfully, and I moved the PHP file into my Web site. Now, when I click the submit button, I'm brought to the 'success' page, but a

Re: how to reinstall a port after a "make install clean"?

2004-10-19 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/19/04 08:04 AM, Andy Firman sat at the `puter and typed: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:44:59AM -0500, terry tyson wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 06:25:39 -0800, Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I need to rebuild the exim-mysql port with ldap lookups > > > and am having troub

ssh refuses to use opie

2004-10-19 Thread listmail
Hi to all: I'm using 5.2.1. My logs show attempts to break into my system via ssh, telnet, and ftp (I use strong passwords, thankfully) and so I'm tightening security. I have run into a problem, however - I've set things up so only two accounts can connect via ssh (telnet disabled outside the l

Re: Problems with flash and native mozilla

2004-10-19 Thread R. W.
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 15:27, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > Martes Wigglesworth wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > I have an issue with my mozilla install. I am unable to figure out > > how, or what people get flash7 to work with mozilla. And I also > > have trouble getting anything to work that I nee

keyboard question

2004-10-19 Thread ann kok
Hi all I have problem about keyboard When I remotely reboot the server without keyboard present, the keyboard is not function when I plug in How can I make it working? The server automicatlly detects the keyboard Why this problem is not in linux? Thank you __

mouse problems

2004-10-19 Thread cris rizzo
I would like to know if there is another way to configure my mouse. I have a Belkin mini optical USB and a three button Belkin PS/2. Whenever I configure them by selecting TYPE, PORT and then ENABLE, they both seem to work fine during the test. However, when I start the "X" window desktop (KDE),

RE: mouse problems

2004-10-19 Thread Hauan, David
> -Original Message- > From: cris rizzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 9:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: mouse problems > > > I would like to know if there is another way to configure my > mouse. I have a Belkin mini optical USB and a three button

Problems installing devel/subversion port

2004-10-19 Thread Paul Schmidt
[I originally posted this to freebsd-ports, but figured this might be a better place to ask since the website says freebsd-ports is for discussion about the ports infrastructure, etc and freebsd-questions is for user questions and technical support -- should have double checked that first] :-/ I c

Apache 2 - "Directory index forbidden by rule"

2004-10-19 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I recently upgraded my existing Apache 1.3x server to Apache 2.0.52. I changed nothing (that I recall) in my httpd.conf file. In 1.3x, I had defined a virtual server to link to /usr/local/share/doc so I could easily read my docs from what ever computer I was using at the time. There was neve

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I'm looking for a newsreader that has multi-server capabilities in that it can piece together articles using different newsgroup servers. Similar to NewsPro for windoze. Anyone had any luck with a good newreader port for FreeBSD? I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 if that

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Björn Lindström
Benjamin Walkenhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It does not have the multiserver-capabilities you describe, but > otherwise I like it a lot. That can be worked around by using some sort of NNTP proxy, such as leafnode or noffle (both quite simple to set up). That will also get rid of the need

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Peter Schuller
> I'm looking for a newsreader that has multi-server capabilities in that > it can piece together articles using different newsgroup servers. > Similar to NewsPro for windoze. Anyone had any luck with a good > newreader port for FreeBSD? I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 if that makes any > difference. I

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread terry tyson
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:51:28 +0100, Walker, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really didn't know that. At the moment I am using evolution for my mail > and mozilla as my news client. > How do you access the news client? I just had a quick look through the > Ximian online doc's and couldn't fin

5.3 & Audigy?

2004-10-19 Thread Spiral Eyed Girl
Does anyone know if v5.3 will have support for a SoundBlaster Audigy? Sound is not an issue right now as I have a sound card on the motherboard, but it has no built in gameport. And the gameport on my Audigy doesn't seem to work right now with 5.2.1 (either that, or none of the games and program

Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Seth Henry wrote: Guys, I am trying to decrease the amount of traffic going through my cable modem. Presently, I have a FreeBSD 4.10 system acting as a gateway router. It runs ipf/ipnat for filtering, and acts as a dhcp server to the internal network. I also run ntpd, and ha

Re: how to reinstall a port after a "make install clean"?

2004-10-19 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:04:47 -0800 Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After pkg_delete, do I need to do some other sort of cleaning? In case of ports that make use of OPTIONS, you might what to do a `make rmconfig` if you what to choose other options; `make showconfig` will show you the cu

Re: How to remove a patch from a port?

2004-10-19 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:06:55 -0700 Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering how to remove a custom patch for a port. I am sort of new > at this, but I've managed to learn how to patch a port and upgrade it > for testing. But I'm not at all sure how to remove that patch if need >

RE: 5.3 & Audigy?

2004-10-19 Thread Michael Clark
> -Original Message- > From: Spiral Eyed Girl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 1:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 5.3 & Audigy? > > > Does anyone know if v5.3 will have support for a SoundBlaster > Audigy? Sound > is not an issue right now as I have a

Limit connections to minute via ipf?

2004-10-19 Thread fuser9bb
I'm using Postfix and would like to artifically limit incoming connections per minute to a certain value. We have ipf available. Postfix can be configured to limit concurrent connections, but not connections per minute. Has anyone gotten something like this working well with ipf? Pros/cons? I am u

BSD and L4 (was: Re: About BSD)

2004-10-19 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:44:33AM -0700, *NONE* wrote: > Hi, I was just wondering how did you make BSD, how many people did it take you, and > how long it took to make? I want to see if I and a team of programmers has what its > got to make an OS one day. >

Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Ezequiel O. Block
The allow-recursion option would limit queries only to your lan. like this options { allow-recursion { 192.168.1.0/24; 127.0.0.1; }; }; Olaf Hoyer wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Seth Henry wrote: Guys, I am trying to decrease the amount of traffic going through my cable modem. Presently, I

ifconfig alias: File Exists

2004-10-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Why would I be getting: # ifconfig fxp0 alias 200.46.204.9 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists when I know for a fact that it hasn't been configured? # ping 200.46.204.9 PING 200.46.204.9 (200.46.204.9): 56 data bytes ^C --- 200.46.204.9 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 packets r

RE: ifconfig alias: File Exists

2004-10-19 Thread Kevin Glick
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Marc G. Fournier > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ifconfig alias: File Exists > > > Why would I be getting: > > # ifconfig fxp0 alias 200.46.204.9 > if

Disk I/O Perforamnce with CCD

2004-10-19 Thread Kristofer Pettijohn
Im looking for some suggestions on I/O performance. I'm using FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE on a Usenet transit server running Diablo for the transit software. I have 4 Seagate ST373435LC SCSI drives, 70GB each, and I am using CCD to bind them together with RAID-0 stripes. I can pull in anywhere from 30

RE: ifconfig alias: File Exists

2004-10-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Kevin Glick wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ifconfig alias: File Exists Why would I be getting: # ifconfig fxp0 alias 200.46

Re: ifconfig alias: File Exists

2004-10-19 Thread Christian Kratzer
Hi, On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Why would I be getting: # ifconfig fxp0 alias 200.46.204.9 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists when I know for a fact that it hasn't been configured? you should use a netmask of 255.255.255.255 for ipv4 aliases. ifconfig fxp0 alias 200

Re: ifconfig alias: File Exists

2004-10-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Christian Kratzer wrote: Hi, On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Why would I be getting: # ifconfig fxp0 alias 200.46.204.9 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists when I know for a fact that it hasn't been configured? you should use a netmask of 255.255.255.255 for

Forcing specific (lower) version of gcc for port?

2004-10-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am trying to port minisip from linux to freebsd. The development team builds using gcc v. 3.3 but I am using -CURRENT which has gcc 3.4 as default. In the makefile I have specified USE_GCC= 3.3 - yet the source is compiled with gcc 3.4. On the other hand, I have tried to compile on -STABLE

Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hi, Ezequiel O. Block wrote: The allow-recursion option would limit queries only to your lan. like this options { allow-recursion { 192.168.1.0/24; 127.0.0.1; }; }; You can also say: options { ... listen-on { 192.168.0.1; 127.0.0.1; }; }; ^^^ (Or whatever

Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-19 Thread Glenn Sieb
I'd like to update a server from 5.1-RELEASE-p10 to 5.3-STABLE... What I'm wondering is: Are there any caveats to this upgrade? One of my compadres asked me: How stable is stable? Isn't this the release where they change some value from an int16 to an int32 and upgrading needs to be done with extr

Site-to-site VPN using MPD

2004-10-19 Thread Joel Gudknecht
Hello, Does anyone have working examples of connecting two private networks together via MPD? Configuring MPD to do client/server VPN connections was fairly easy to understand, after I discovered that the MTU should be set to 1300 for Windows XP clients. Thanks very much, Joel Gudknecht

WDMA mode won't enable? Old machine...

2004-10-19 Thread Mark Cullen
I have a rather old machine acting as a home server. According to dmesg it has a: -- atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0 -- However, both hard disks attached are running in PIO mode. -- ad0: 4103MB [8894/15/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO ad2: 6194

Re: Forcing specific (lower) version of gcc for port?

2004-10-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:53:33PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to port minisip from linux to freebsd. The development team > builds using gcc v. 3.3 but I am using -CURRENT which has gcc 3.4 as > default. In the makefile I have specified USE_GCC= 3.3 - yet the source > is com

Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-19 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:32:59PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote: > I'd like to update a server from 5.1-RELEASE-p10 to 5.3-STABLE... > > What I'm wondering is: Are there any caveats to this upgrade? The anwser to this question is to long for me to write and its written down in the handbook. Please fol

Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-19 Thread Glenn Sieb
Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 5:38 PM: The anwser to this question is to long for me to write and its written down in the handbook. Please follow the instuctions in this chapter. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Danke, Alex--since I'm

Re: Forcing specific (lower) version of gcc for port?

2004-10-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Kris Kennaway wrote: > You sure you're using an up-to-date ports tree? This was fixed a few > weeks ago. Thanks! No, my ports tree was one month old. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071

Re: disk geometry confussion

2004-10-19 Thread piotr . smyrak
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:23:38 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:30:51PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Please enlighten me. What way I should follow? > > > > First, make sure you've updated your machine to the most recent BIOS. > > Next, che

Dell Dimension 2400 and Netgear WG311 PCI Wireless Card

2004-10-19 Thread Matt Schwartz
I am hoping somebody can help me out. I have a Dell Dimension 2400 and I installed a Netgear WG311 card in it. It has the Atheros chipset and will work with the ath driver. However, I cannot get it to work. I am using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I have compiled a kernel adding the following lines: de

Re: Dell Dimension 2400 and Netgear WG311 PCI Wireless Card

2004-10-19 Thread Eric Crist
On Oct 19, 2004, at 5:28 PM, Matt Schwartz wrote: I am hoping somebody can help me out. I have a Dell Dimension 2400 and I installed a Netgear WG311 card in it. It has the Atheros chipset and will work with the ath driver. However, I cannot get it to work. I am using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I have

Dell Dimension 2400/Netgear WG311 more info

2004-10-19 Thread Matt Schwartz
I am hoping somebody can help me out. I have a Dell Dimension 2400 and I installed a Netgear WG311 card in it. It has the Atheros chipset and will work with the ath driver. However, I cannot get it to work. I am using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I have compiled a kernel adding the following lines: de

Re: hot swap scsi drive

2004-10-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:17:55PM -0500, luke wrote: > > Is this box designed do be hot pluggable? the IBM p-series servers I use > > at work have a back plane that allows this and sets the address > > the drives are designed to be hot pluggable they are in removable > trays that slide in and out

Re: Xmkmf/make problem

2004-10-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 08:31, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-10-19 07:26, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 19:39, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2004-10-18 19:25, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have several Xlib programs that compiled successful

Re: hot swap scsi drive

2004-10-19 Thread luke
> I guess it will depend a lot on the hardware you have, but you probably > want to try one or both of 'camcontrol stop' or 'camcontrol eject' before > pulling the drive. One of these should spin the drive down and leave it > in a safe state to be removed. this is exactly what i was looking for..

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