The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-10-31 - 2004-11-20

2004-11-21 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list arc

Re: Lost am I (FreeBSD4.10)

2004-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:52:25PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > >On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:19:05PM -0500, gazwacker the kazmaster wrote: > >>Annoyed am I. For mine computer hath been tampered upon by a fool > >>which hath deleted mine "/usr/share" folde

FreeBSD 4 and 5 changes?

2004-11-21 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I was about to make slides about changes of FreeBSD 4 and FreeBSD 5. I was looking for a complete document but couldn't able to find. I have looked to migration guide (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html) it seems perfect but I wanted to be sure if it contains all of t

Re: install: which cdrom?

2004-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:48:22PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm getting ready to do my last install (out of 3) ... on the sparc64 this > time, but I'd like to kknow one thing ... the instructions on cdrom > booting keep on referring only to "the cdrom" although there are 3 > different cdroms tha

Re: BTX halted on backup server

2004-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 10:03:07PM -0800, Jeffrey S. Kaye wrote: > We have two servers, one mirrors the other. The backup server showed > the following a couple days ago. It's still down. Any ideas? The > primary is working just fine. > -jk > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 > (

Re: FreeBSD 4 and 5 changes?

2004-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 10:45:19AM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > I was about to make slides about changes of FreeBSD 4 and FreeBSD 5. I was > looking for a complete document but couldn't able to find. I have looked to > migration guide (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html)

Tracing Disk Activity

2004-11-21 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I have set an idle timeout for the hard-disk. But when there is no user activity there are frequent disk accesses. How can one trace disk access? I'd like to know the kind of access and on which files/directories/ nodes. I'd like to log on the console or on a memory disk file. -Hanspeter _

Re: Question.

2004-11-21 Thread urh.lednik
Hello, One month ago I sent you mail, if I could get a freebsd.org (domain) subdomain for web page about freebsd security stuff. You sent me reply, and there wrote (It is not a problem, we accordance with that but you must contact owner of freebsd.org (domain) for subdomain). I was contact owne

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread Panagiotis Christias
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:59:23 +1100, andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 04:50:58PM +, Danny Browne wrote: > > > How do i turn off IPv6 support in FreeBSD 4.10? > > Remove "options INET6" from your kernel config file > (/sys/i386/conf/XXX), rebuild your kernel an

aureal-kmod on 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-21 Thread Norhisham Khalil
hi, I upgraded freebsd from 5.2.1 to 5.3-RELEASE my soundcard broke with messages like these pcm0: port 0xdfe0-0xdfe7,0xdff0-0xdff7 mem 0xff9a-0xff9 b irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci2 pcm0: failed: rid 0x14 is ioport, requested 3 pcm0: failed: rid 0x18 is ioport, requested 3 i've uninst

Re: "amr0: bad slot x completed" and fsck_ufs hanging

2004-11-21 Thread Panagiotis Christias
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:18:27 +0100 (CET), Marco Beishuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having some problems with my new dual xeon with an Intel scsi raid > controller (SRCU42X). I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on it. > > First I get a message in my dmesg saying: "amr0: bad slot co

Re: FreeBSD 4 and 5 changes?

2004-11-21 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
I was thinking to inspect release notes of FreeBSD 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.2.1 and 5.3 have a deep understanding of the changes. Maybe that helps. But I will see. Matthew Seaman writes: On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 10:45:19AM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: I was about to make slides about changes of Fr

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread David Jenkins
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:27:19 +0200, Panagiotis Christias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:59:23 +1100, andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 04:50:58PM +, Danny Browne wrote: > > > > > How do i turn off IPv6 support in FreeBSD 4.10? > > >

Re: "amr0: bad slot x completed" and fsck_ufs hanging

2004-11-21 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Sun, 21 Nov 2004, the wise Panagiotis Christias entered: the only hint I could find is from the amr(4) man page: amr%d: bad slot %d completed The controller reported completion of a command that the driver did not issue. This may result in data corruption, and suggests a hardware or

Re: Lost am I (FreeBSD4.10)

2004-11-21 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Seaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "gazwacker the kazmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:52 PM Subject: Re: Lost am I (FreeBSD4.10) Matthew Seaman w

Passing options to configure / compiler

2004-11-21 Thread Vittorio
I couldn't find in the docs how to pass options to the configure script. For instance, I'm compiling postgresql under FreeBSD 5.3 stable. After 'cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql7' and ' make' a list of configure options is shown; among them I'm interested in "WITH_TESTS"" but I do not know how

Re: Passing options to configure / compiler

2004-11-21 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:06:05PM + or thereabouts, Vittorio wrote: > I couldn't find in the docs how to pass options to the configure script. > > For instance, I'm compiling postgresql under FreeBSD 5.3 stable. > After 'cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql7' and ' make' a list of > co

RE: Passing options to configure / compiler

2004-11-21 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vittorio Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 18:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Passing options to configure / compiler For instance, I'm compiling postgresql under FreeBSD 5.3 stable. After 'cd /usr/ports/d

php mail() sendmail hanging

2004-11-21 Thread Thomas S. Crum
Pardon me if this is off list, but any help would be appreciated. When hitting php pages that use the mail() function, I get a 5 second hang in the browser. The mail is then being delivered fine. Many of the same scripts that use this mail function ran fine with ½ sec. or less delay on my old re

openssl 0.9.7e

2004-11-21 Thread J.D. Bronson
Has anyone been successful at building openssl 0.9.7e from src on FreeBSD 5.3? ./config --prefix=/usr --openssldir=/etc/ssl threads shared zlib It will fail if I use 'shared' but build fine with static. Last time a new version came out, I built it from src and then moved files where I needed to so

Looking for a good NSS/Pam_LDAP/Open LDAP how-to for 5.x

2004-11-21 Thread Jon Adams
I tried this one: http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html and it emphatically does not work, and I followed it to the letter I think it has something to do with NSS only using SSL/port 636. so then I tried it with that added still

Re: Call for help: -lkse (libkse trouble)

2004-11-21 Thread klr
I fixed this some days ago, edited the makefile @ usr src lib libpthread and changed LIB=pthread to LIB=kse , then make all install. Perhaps I ran into this problem because I installed from a 5.2.1 cd (5.3 over NFS) and did a minimal install. Hope this helps someone in the future with this fishy

Re: vinum problems

2004-11-21 Thread Александр Деревянко
Chris Smith wrote: Hi, I've just built a machine with a vinum root successfully. All vinum sets show that they are up and working. There are two ATA disks in a RAID1 root formation. Some questions? 1. The set has just failed completely (sorry it isn't up and working now) on the first reboot. It

Re: Tracing Disk Activity

2004-11-21 Thread David Jenkins
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:33:47 +0100, Hanspeter Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have set an idle timeout for the hard-disk. But when there is no > user activity there are frequent disk accesses. > How can one trace disk access? > I'd like to know the kind of access and on which files/

Re: Looking for a good NSS/Pam_LDAP/Open LDAP how-to for 5.x

2004-11-21 Thread Cezar Fistik
Hello Jon, Sunday, November 21, 2004, 3:16:27 PM, you wrote: JA> I tried this one: JA> http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html JA> and it emphatically does not work, and I followed it to the letter I JA> think it has something to do

book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread J.D. Bronson
I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble locally. (My wife is looking for some gift ideas for me and I felt this might be a good start) I dont need a totally novice book, nor do I need a super-advanced book. Something that

Building own installer DVD with customized packages bundle

2004-11-21 Thread Nyoman
Hi, I want to build a DVD for release 5.3, so that I can have bunch of packages in just one installer media. I have read this two articles: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/index.html so far the

Re: book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
J.D. I really like the two following books: 1. Complete FreeBSD (ISBN: 0596005164) 2. Absolute BSD (ISBN: 1886411743) Regards, Ryan J.D. Bronson wrote: I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble locally. (My wife is looking for

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-11-21T11:01:09+, David Jenkins wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:27:19 +0200, Panagiotis Christias > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:59:23 +1100, andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 04:50:58PM +, Danny Browne wrote: >

Re: book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread Volker Kindermann
Hi, > I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation > that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble > locally. I would recommend Michal Lucas' "Absolute BSD" from NoStarch Press. Only caveat is perhaps that it was written in 2002. -volker ___

Re: book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 09:03 AM 11/21/2004, Volker Kindermann wrote: Hi, > I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation > that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble > locally. I would recommend Michal Lucas' "Absolute BSD" from NoStarch Press. Only caveat is perhaps that it was written in 2

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:58:39AM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote: > To get rid of IPv6 completely (why would you want this? :) ), you should > definitely rebuild your kernel without INET6. I suppose it would be a good idea to remove IPv6 support from hosts on IPv4-only intranets because it's the

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Isn't it supposed to be ipv6_enable="NONE" I could be wrong. andrew clarke wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:58:39AM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote: To get rid of IPv6 completely (why would you want this? :) ), you should definitely rebuild your kernel without INET6. I suppose it would be a

Re: openssl 0.9.7e

2004-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:01:53AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > Has anyone been successful at building openssl 0.9.7e from src > on FreeBSD 5.3? > > ./config --prefix=/usr --openssldir=/etc/ssl threads shared zlib > > > It will fail if I use 'shared' but build fine with static. > > Last time a

Re: vinum problems

2004-11-21 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 November 2004 14:36, Александр Деревянко wrote: [...] > From my point of view, vinum root partition is really useless. You will > never have the availability comparable to hardware RAID (i mean, > downtime), and will have a lot of trouble

Re: Tracing Disk Activity

2004-11-21 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Nov 21 at 14:00, David Jenkins spoke: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:33:47 +0100, Hanspeter Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have set an idle timeout for the hard-disk. But when there is no > > user activity there are frequent disk accesses. > > How can one trace disk access? >

Warning Message Showing up on install

2004-11-21 Thread Doug Paquette
Group, I have a warning messaeg showing up on my computer when trying to install Free BSD 4.9 on an IDE hard drive and cannot for the life of me figure out what is causing this. I have looked into everything I know and dont know what to do. The Warning message says something about a Geometry er

Re: Warning Message Showing up on install

2004-11-21 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Sunday 21 November 2004 16:01, Doug Paquette wrote: > Group, > > I have a warning messaeg showing up on my computer when trying to > install Free BSD 4.9 on an IDE hard drive and cannot for the life > of me figure out what is causing this. I have looked into > everything I know and dont know wha

Re: Installation of Free BSD

2004-11-21 Thread FrostyPup
Can you send me simple detailed directions on the installation as well as how to set up for IP address and DSL. The instructions with the disks were a bit confusing. I can't get the software to open after installation so I know that we are doing something wrong. Thanks. _

Re: book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 09:27, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation > that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble > locally. > > (My wife is looking for some gift ideas for me and I felt this might be a > good start) > > I dont need a totally

Re: Tracing Disk Activity

2004-11-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hanspeter Roth wrote: I have set an idle timeout for the hard-disk. But when there is no user activity there are frequent disk accesses. Yes, this is Unix. Even when there is no user activity, a Unix system normally is still running a number of daemons such as syslogd which regularly write to th

Can't remove files: Operation not permitted

2004-11-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have messed around trying to set up a freebsd diskless, so to populate a root directory i ran (FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT) # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make DESTDIR=/var/nclt installworld Now the problem is that I can't get rid of /var/nclt again, not even in single user mode. I can't change

Re: Installation of Free BSD

2004-11-21 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can you send me simple detailed directions on the installation as well as > how to set up for IP address and DSL. The instructions with the disks were > a bit confusing. I can't get the sof

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread David Jenkins
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:58:39 -0500, Michael W. Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-11-21T11:01:09+, David Jenkins wrote: > > > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:27:19 +0200, Panagiotis Christias > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:59:23 +1100, andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROT

seaching for asterisk/freebsd isdn hardware

2004-11-21 Thread Thomas May
Hi, i have installed the asterisk pbx port, does anyone know about isdn hardware to work with ? thanx thomas --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.799 / Virus Database: 543 - Release Date: 19.11.2004 _

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread Robert Huff
David Jenkins writes: > > ipv6_enable="YES" is defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, so you > > have to define ipv6_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf to realize any > > change. > > Not on my system (RELENG_5_3)... > > # cat /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep ipv6_enable > ipv6_enable="NO"

Re: Can't remove files: Operation not permitted

2004-11-21 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:18, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi, > > I have messed around trying to set up a freebsd diskless, so to populate > a root directory i ran (FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT) > > # cd /usr/src > # make buildworld > # make DESTDIR=/var/nclt in

Re: Can't remove files: Operation not permitted

2004-11-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:33, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:18, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have messed around trying to set up a freebsd diskless, so to populate > > a root directory i ran (FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT)

Re: book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
J.D. Bronson wrote: I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble locally. The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey is very good. If you don't mind something more general, Essential System Administration" by Aeleen Frisch is very good,

RE: Can't remove files: Operation not permitted

2004-11-21 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Norgaard > Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 21:49 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Can't remove files: Operation not permitted > > Hi, > > I have messed around trying to set up a

Re: Can't remove files: Operation not permitted

2004-11-21 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:38, Erik Norgaard, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:33, Christian Hiris wrote: > > On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:18, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have messed around trying to set up a

Solved: Can't remove files: Operation not permitted

2004-11-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Christian Hiris wrote: # chflags -R noschg * Thanks, this solved my problem. I looked at chmod for some strange options - but I overlooked the reference to chflags... Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.o

Re: book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Volker Kindermann wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation > > that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble > > locally. > > I would recommend Michal Lucas' "Absolute BSD" from NoStarch Press. Only > caveat is perhaps that it

Diskless Servers

2004-11-21 Thread Evan Sayer
Hello- Is it a good idea to run a mail server or web server diskless? The reason I want to do this is so that all of our server's files will be in one place which will make backups more convenient. Basically I am thinking of running one NFS/TFTP file server with disks, and those disks will co

Re: Installation of Free BSD

2004-11-21 Thread W. D.
At 10:07 11/21/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Can you send me simple detailed directions on the installation as well as >how to set up for IP address and DSL. The instructions with the disks were a >bit confusing. I can't get the software to open after installation so I know >that we are do

Re: Passing options to configure / compiler

2004-11-21 Thread Remko Lodder
Vittorio wrote: I couldn't find in the docs how to pass options to the configure script. For instance, I'm compiling postgresql under FreeBSD 5.3 stable. After 'cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql7' and ' make' a list of configure options is shown; among them I'm interested in "WITH_TESTS"" but I

Re: Passing options to configure / compiler

2004-11-21 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 05:40:01PM +0100 or thereabouts, Remko Lodder wrote: > Vittorio wrote: > >I couldn't find in the docs how to pass options to the configure script. > > > > if you want to use WITH_TESTS for example you need to add > > make WITH_TESTS=yes install clean (or something

Re: Passing options to configure / compiler

2004-11-21 Thread Remko Lodder
Martin Hudec wrote: It would be nice for him to set options pkgtools.conf, which can be usually found in /usr/local/etc. For example: I want links to be compiled without X11 support, so I set in section named MAKE_ARGS following: 'www/links' => 'WITHOUT_X11=yes', so this compilation opt

Re: newsyslog and chrooted bind on 5.3

2004-11-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 07:45:56AM +0100, Kees Plonsz typed: Vince Hoffman wrote: Hi all, since i updated my server to 5.3 and went with the default option of chrooting bind, anytime named recives a HUP signal it dies. Is this expected ? its a bit of a b

Re: Tracing Disk Activity

2004-11-21 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Nov 21 at 10:50, Chuck Swiger spoke: > Hanspeter Roth wrote: > >I have set an idle timeout for the hard-disk. But when there is no > >user activity there are frequent disk accesses. > > Yes, this is Unix. Even when there is no user activity, a Unix system > normally is still running a numb

RAM facilities

2004-11-21 Thread Dude Dude
hey, i'm buying a new amd64 processor, and i would like to know if having 2*256+512 is equal to have 1GB of RAM, the speed will be the same? thx _ MSN Messenger: converse com os seus amigos online. http://messenger.msn.com.br _

two hdd partitation

2004-11-21 Thread Dude Dude
hey, i will install tomorrow freebsd in a machine with two hdd (60+80GB), and i would like to use freebsd on both, what should i do? During installation put /usr under onde disk, and all the other stuff in the other? will these work? thank u _

device problem

2004-11-21 Thread Ivars
Hi! I got an old PC - Compaq Deskpro 4000 - 166mhz/64ram/etc. And i tried to install FreeBSD 5.2 on it, but i failed. Everything goes ok - system boots normaly (from CD), freebsd installer starts, and when i choose to install it says - "no disks found". and this message also appears when i want

Where to install DNS?

2004-11-21 Thread Laszlo Antal
Hi, Where is the best place to install DNS?? Does it have to be on a separate computer, or can I install it on the same machine with the web and ftp server? Thank you all advice Laszlo --lantal ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: Where to install DNS?

2004-11-21 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Laszlo Antal wrote: Where is the best place to install DNS?? Depends. Does it have to be on a separate computer, No. or can I install it on the same machine with the web and ftp server? You can. Depending on the machine (ie CPU, Memory) and how much combined usage you have you

RE: RAM facilities

2004-11-21 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dude Dude > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 1:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RAM facilities > > i'm buying a new amd64 processor, and i would like to know if having > 2*256+512

RE: two hdd partitation

2004-11-21 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dude Dude > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 1:11 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: two hdd partitation > > hey, i will install tomorrow freebsd in a machine with two hdd (60+80GB), >

Re: openssl 0.9.7e

2004-11-21 Thread Chris
How do you get openssl port to overwrite the base files, the following does NOT work. make OPENSSL_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes install clean it displays "# # this ports does not support the dynamic root # please undefine OPENSSL_OVERWRITE_BASE # and use WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes instead. # *** Error code 1 S

RE: two hdd partitation

2004-11-21 Thread Dude Dude
just because i never install freebsd in a machine iwth two hdd, and i dont know if it is possible to partitionate 2 hdd at the same tipe under the installation!! the most reasonable thing to do is, the 80GB hdd under /usr and the 60GB hdd put it with fbsd automatic partitionable method, isnt i

freetype 2 error question

2004-11-21 Thread dick hoogendijk
I get a lot of the following errors. They all are related to Xft. I.e. "portupgrade -rR XFree86-4-clients" stops with the following errors: #ifndef FT_FREETYPE_H #error "`ft2build.h' hasn't been included yet!" #error "Please always use macros to include FreeType header files." #error "Example:" #e

Gravis USB gamepad, FreeBSD 5.3, and ZSNES

2004-11-21 Thread Cam
I can't get my gamepad to work with zsnes. dmesg tells me that its connected and recognized ugen0: Gravis GamePad Pro USB, rev 1.00/2.00, addr 2 but when I start zsnes through the console, it says ZSNES could not find any joysticks. help? ___ [EMAIL PR

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-11-21T11:31:44-0500, Robert Huff wrote: > David Jenkins writes: > > > ipv6_enable="YES" is defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, so you > > > have to define ipv6_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf to realize any > > > change. > > > > Not on my system (RELENG_5_3)... > > > > # cat /etc/defaults/rc.c

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Michael W. Oliver wrote: On 2004-11-21T11:31:44-0500, Robert Huff wrote: David Jenkins writes: ipv6_enable="YES" is defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, so you have to define ipv6_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf to realize any change. Not on my system (RELENG_5_3)... # cat /etc/defa

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread dave
Hello, If you turn off ipv6 support either in the kernel or via rc.conf will it be possible to load ipfilter as a module vs. compiling it in to the kernel? I turned off ipv6 in the kernel on a 5.3 box, but ipfilter was unable to load the module was not found because it depended on ipv6. Thanks.

Re: two hdd partitation

2004-11-21 Thread Brian Bobowski
Dude Dude wrote: hey, i will install tomorrow freebsd in a machine with two hdd (60+80GB), and i would like to use freebsd on both, what should i do? During installation put /usr under onde disk, and all the other stuff in the other? will these work? thank u You may want to consider putting som

Re: Ogle Question

2004-11-21 Thread RL
Anyone? And BTW, I also linked /dec/acd0 to /dev/dvd; still got the same issue. On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:49:20 -0500, RL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I just installed ogle-gui and when I try to open up a dvd or play > it, I get such things as "DVDSetDVDRoot: Root not set" That is both > when

Alsmost have NSS/PAM/LDAP... neew a lil help ( was Re: Looking for a good NSS/Pam_LDAP/Open LDAP how-to for 5.x)

2004-11-21 Thread Jon Adams
After much banging my head against the desk, I have it kinda working... I can su - to a user (from root) and get home directory... but... and I have tried PLAIN, CRYPT, and SSHA passwords... I cannot login, su - (when prompted for password), ssh in... here is a some of the conf files east# more

Re: Looking for a good NSS/Pam_LDAP/Open LDAP how-to for 5.x

2004-11-21 Thread Jon Adams
Cezar Fistik wrote: Hello Jon, Sunday, November 21, 2004, 3:16:27 PM, you wrote: JA> I tried this one: JA> http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html JA> and it emphatically does not work, and I followed it to the letter I JA> think it h

Re: openssl 0.9.7e

2004-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 08:39:31PM +, Chris wrote: > How do you get openssl port to overwrite the base files, the following > does NOT work. > > make OPENSSL_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes install clean > > it displays > "# > # this ports does not support the dynamic root > # please undefine OPENSSL_OVER

FreeBSD 5.3 + any smtp server, Refuses to receive any emails...

2004-11-21 Thread Erik Ellis
FreeBSD 5.3 + any smtp server, Refuses to receive any emails from any external domain EXEPT bredband.net, witch is odd, cuz I haven't entered anything about bredband.net. Right now im using Sendmail, but iwe tried postfix but I get the same problem. No errors in logs, no errors from "Postmaster".

Re: oracle 9.2.0.4 client on freebsd 5.3

2004-11-21 Thread eodyna
hi there, i followed this guide. http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200402/oracle.html i ran /compat/linux/bin/bash \ /data01oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/root.sh which is that scripty thing :) and i also created an arch directory prior tothe install. but that doesn't seam fix this problem bash-2

mplayer and mozilla...

2004-11-21 Thread Gary Kline
People, Before I upgraded mplayerplugin, it worked happily with NPR (and other sites). I checked "Helper-Applications" in mozilla; did not see anything Windows. It is probably that I don't have this entered correctly. ---Maybe this was never

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 + any smtp server, Refuses to receive any emails...

2004-11-21 Thread Brian Bobowski
Erik Ellis wrote: FreeBSD 5.3 + any smtp server, Refuses to receive any emails from any external domain EXEPT bredband.net, witch is odd, cuz I haven't entered anything about bredband.net. Right now im using Sendmail, but iwe tried postfix but I get the same problem. No errors in logs, no errors f

Re: Passing options to configure / compiler

2004-11-21 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:32:14 +0100, Martin Hudec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 05:40:01PM +0100 or thereabouts, Remko Lodder > wrote: > > Vittorio wrote: > > >I couldn't find in the docs how to pass options to the configure > > >script. > > > > > > > if you want

Re: Diskless Servers

2004-11-21 Thread Tabor Kelly
Evan Sayer wrote: Hello- Is it a good idea to run a mail server or web server diskless? The reason I want to do this is so that all of our server's files will be in one place which will make backups more convenient. Basically I am thinking of running one NFS/TFTP file server with disks, and th

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2004-11-21 Thread Antoine Solomon
Hello, I am unable to build the jdk14 port. Here are the errors that I get .java ; \ fi /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java:1: 'class' or 'interface' expected Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location ^ /usr/po

unable to compile jdk14

2004-11-21 Thread Antoine Solomon
Hello, I am unable to build the jdk14 port. Here are the errors that I get .java ; \ fi /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java:1: 'class' or 'interface' expected Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location ^ /usr/po

Re: your mail

2004-11-21 Thread Dick Davies
* Antoine Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1159 00:59]: > Hello, I am unable to build the jdk14 port. Here are the errors that I get > > > .java ; \ > fi > /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java:1: > 'class' or 'interface' expected > Java HotSpot(TM) Cli

Re: unable to compile jdk14

2004-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:59:40PM -0500, Antoine Solomon wrote: > Hello, I am unable to build the jdk14 port. Here are the errors that I get > > > .java ; \ > fi > /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java:1: > 'class' or 'interface' expected > Java Ho

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 + any smtp server, Refuses to receive any emails...

2004-11-21 Thread Ash
Erik Ellis wrote: FreeBSD 5.3 + any smtp server, Refuses to receive any emails from any external domain EXEPT bredband.net, witch is odd, cuz I haven't entered anything about bredband.net. Right now im using Sendmail, but iwe tried postfix but I get the same problem. No errors in logs, no errors f

Re: Gravis USB gamepad, FreeBSD 5.3, and ZSNES

2004-11-21 Thread jason
Cam wrote: I can't get my gamepad to work with zsnes. dmesg tells me that its connected and recognized ugen0: Gravis GamePad Pro USB, rev 1.00/2.00, addr 2 but when I start zsnes through the console, it says ZSNES could not find any joysticks. help? __

Problems about Grub and FreeBSD

2004-11-21 Thread 殷鸣
Hi, all I got some problems while installed FreeBSD onto a big disk. I installed 3 OS on my box, WIN98, Redhat9, and FreeBSD5r. BSD is resident in the third partition, from 768cyl to 1800cyl, but the bios of my box is rather old, which doesn't support big disks greater than 1024cyl. I should have

Most Suitable version of FBSD for server?

2004-11-21 Thread Steve Camp
Which version of FBSD is currently most appropriate for use as a server (mail, NFS, samba)? 4.9? 4.10? 5.somethingorother? Thx, -- Steve Camp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Most Suitable version of FBSD for server?

2004-11-21 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
> Which version of FBSD is currently most appropriate for use as > a server (mail, NFS, samba)? 4.9? 4.10? 5.somethingorother? Obviously you'll want something current so 4.9 is out of the question. That kind of leaves the 2 distinct branches. These are the 4.x and 5.x and are currently repres

bypass beastie press <1> to boot

2004-11-21 Thread Kevin Smith
Is there a simple way to configure the boot loader so that it immediately boots freebsd from the harddisk without having to get the beastie menu and pressing the <1> key. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: bypass beastie press <1> to boot

2004-11-21 Thread Chris
Kevin Smith wrote: Is there a simple way to configure the boot loader so that it immediately boots freebsd from the harddisk without having to get the beastie menu and pressing the <1> key. Have a look at /boot/defaults/loader.conf - there ought to be something there. Then, add it to /boot/load

Re: bypass beastie press <1> to boot

2004-11-21 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
> Is there a simple way to configure the boot loader so that it > immediately boots freebsd from the harddisk without having to get the > beastie menu and pressing the <1> key. This may seem a bit basic, but you realise that you don't have to press the '1' key, right? It'll boot up after the ti

Re: bypass beastie press <1> to boot

2004-11-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 21), Kevin Smith said: > Is there a simple way to configure the boot loader so that it > immediately boots freebsd from the harddisk without having to get the > beastie menu and pressing the <1> key. I use this in loader.conf: beastie_disable="YES" autoboot_delay="1" T

Re: Most Suitable version of FBSD for server?

2004-11-21 Thread Chris
Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: Which version of FBSD is currently most appropriate for use as a server (mail, NFS, samba)? 4.9? 4.10? 5.somethingorother? Obviously you'll want something current so 4.9 is out of the question. That kind of leaves the 2 distinct branches. These are the 4.x and 5.x and

Re: Most Suitable version of FBSD for server?

2004-11-21 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
> Is the branch of 5.x (assuming 5.3 based on previous response) > been fairly stable in people's experiences? Has it been fairly bug-free? > (I realize that is a pretty subjective question...) correct on 5.3 being the current release. I find it quite stable. I have not crashed or locked or an

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