Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-19 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Nick Pavlica writes: > I have had excellent results with Novell GroupWise. Groupware is fine if you need other functions more than e-mail, but for an organization interested primarily or exclusively in messaging, Exchange is the best choice. For example, Lotus Notes (like Groupwise, IIRC) is pri

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer

2005-03-19 Thread lists
I have made some limited progress on the FreeBSD 5.3 Netserver problem outline below. I have been able to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a Netserver using the onboard SCSI card. However it will not install if I use the HP 1si NetRaid card for the SCSI drives. So it appears to be having a problem with

Effective user issue with zope

2005-03-19 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Hi  I am setting up zope-2.7.5-final on a server (FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE). Installed python-2.3.5 from sources (not ports). After configuring and compiling it correctly, I got an initial error on running runzope. Following the exhortation I found on the following webpage : http://mail.zope.org/piper

RE: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 3:45 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD? > > > > Exchange is the best choice for intra-organizational e-

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-19 Thread Christian Tischler
Thanks for all the replies. I will take a look at the, more or less, open solutions. I never intended to use the MS exchange as my primary mail server. But its functionality for syncinig calenders, documents and so on, seemed to a "nice" "simple" way of dealing with my situation here. I have t

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 6:47 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Jerry McAllister; "Marco Greene (ML)"; > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt > > > > > The ultra-pro-beastie

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 6:47 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Jerry McAllister; ""Marco Greene (ML)""; > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt > > > > > The ultra-pro-beastie mo

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-19 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > Not really true unless you do an apples to oranges comparison. Comparing Exchange to groupware products _is_ largely an apples-to-oranges comparison. Despite what Microsoft says, Exchange is essentially a messaging system--an e-mail server. It does that very well--muc

Question: USB block dev, Olympus Camedia digital camera

2005-03-19 Thread Peer Böhm
Hello everyone, I am new to BSD-style operating systems, and currently reading about and seriously considering a migration from Linux to free BSD on my home machine. Before I do that, I would like to make sure (as far as possible) that my critical applications will continue to work, one way or th

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-19 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Christian Tischler writes: > Thanks for all the replies. I will take a look at the, more or less, > open solutions. I never intended to use the MS exchange as my primary > mail server. But its functionality for syncinig calenders, documents and > so on, seemed to a "nice" "simple" way of dealing

Serious issue with SATA disks again

2005-03-19 Thread Anthony Atkielski
I'm still getting errors like this: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=5601695 ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=4848803 ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LB

gnome cpu net hd mem applet resources

2005-03-19 Thread Gert Cuykens
Does the gnome cpu net hd mem applet take allot of resources to show on your desktop ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

How to set environment variable for a port daemon?

2005-03-19 Thread Doug Lee
SpamAssassin now recommends an environment variable setting like "export LANG=en_US" be made when unicode support is not needed, for performance reasons, as of the migration to Perl 5.8, which uses unicode by default at some expense to SpamAssassin's performance. I'm trying to figure out the best

Re: gnome cpu net hd mem applet resources

2005-03-19 Thread cyb
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 11:25 +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > Does the gnome cpu net hd mem applet take allot of resources to show > on your desktop ? Why do you not just test it yourself? All you need to do is to run 'top' in a terminal window. -- GnuPG key : 0xD25FCC81 | http://cyb.websimplex.d

Re: Serious issue with SATA disks again

2005-03-19 Thread David Kelly
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:38:13AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > I need to know what is causing these problems. They have been reported > for a year by various people on various configurations (different > motherboards and chipsets). I've seen lots of complaints and reports, > but no solut

unknown but working PNP devices

2005-03-19 Thread Lefteris Tsintjelis
Why are the last messages showing eventhough ports seem to be detected and working fine? Is there a way to disable/fix those "unknown" devices? PC is a notebook (with APM/PnP only, ACPI is disabled). Part of kernel: #device apic# I/O APIC device apm device a

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-19 Thread Christian Tischler
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Christian Tischler writes: Thanks for all the replies. I will take a look at the, more or less, open solutions. I never intended to use the MS exchange as my primary mail server. But its functionality for syncinig calenders, documents and so on, seemed to a "nice" "sim

Re: HDD idle shutdown.

2005-03-19 Thread Christian Tischler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:22:29PM +0100, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-18 11:24 +0100] On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:21:17AM +0100, Christian Tischler wrote: > I wondered whether there is an option to shut down an idle HDD until it > is n

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-19 Thread Jerry Bell
One option is to use communigate. It allegedly works with the outlook mapi client and should work on freebsd. http://www.stalker.com/content/solutions.htm I've heard from a lot of people that swear by it, particularly in the ISP space. Jerry > Thanks for all the replies. I will take a look at

Re: gnome cpu net hd mem applet resources

2005-03-19 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:43:59 +0100, cyb <"cyb."@gmx.net> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 11:25 +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > > Does the gnome cpu net hd mem applet take allot of resources to show > > on your desktop ? > > Why do you not just test it yourself? All you need to do is to run 'top' > in

Re: nNCL:registering deferred (0)

2005-03-19 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:13:10 +0100, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wanted to reinstall mozilla but this time with the mail thingie enabled. > I did make config make deinstall make reinstall but it get stuck doing > nothing at the end saying nNCL:registering deferred (0) > Any body kno

Recommendations for "All-in-One" device?

2005-03-19 Thread Brian J. McGovern
I'm currently in the market for an "All-in-One" device for the home network, mostly for the fax functionality (it'll be replacing an Canon scanner and Okidata 810e laser printer). Before anyone suggests their favorite FreeBSD Fax modem/app, I'll let it be known that I've been told that the expecta

Re: How to avoid forkbomb?

2005-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: Am I looking at the correct values? Yes. Which is the actual process limit? The lower number, 3632, is the max processes permitted per user. What would you recommend that I set it to in order to have my machine shrug off the fork bomb sooner? Probably around 300. What wo

file system type

2005-03-19 Thread Robert Munn
Is there any way of detecting the type of file system on a disk, specifically UFS2 or UFS1? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: file system type

2005-03-19 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:27:57AM -0500, Robert Munn wrote: > Is there any way of detecting the type of file system on a disk, > specifically UFS2 or UFS1? If all you need to know is wether a UFS file system is UFS1 or UFS2, you could use /sbin/dumpfs -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.c

Re: file system type

2005-03-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Robert Munn wrote: Is there any way of detecting the type of file system on a disk, specifically UFS2 or UFS1? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: do i need to reinstall

2005-03-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i recently bought a new and larger hard drive for my computer. i put it the machine as '/dev/ad3'. while educating myself about this new drive, i installed freebsd 5.3 on one of the slices. i am ready to eliminate the old 'ad0' and want to move the new drive so it will

Re: How to set environment variable for a port daemon?

2005-03-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Doug Lee wrote: SpamAssassin now recommends an environment variable setting like "export LANG=en_US" be made when unicode support is not needed, for performance reasons, as of the migration to Perl 5.8, which uses unicode by default at some expense to SpamAssassin's performance. I'm trying to figu

Re: Failure with php4 and libgd support

2005-03-19 Thread Alexander Chamandy
I take it noone can help me with this? On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:27:54 -0500, Alexander Chamandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > >I'm having some problems with php4 and libgd support. I'm > running FreeBSD/i386 5.3 which was upgraded from the 4.x STABLE branch > a long time ago, bu

Re: calcru: negative runtime

2005-03-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Brian Curnow wrote: Thanks for the reply. I saw a few other posts that talked about that setting. My list is bit different, I have TSC, i8254 and ACPI-safe. When I boot it picks ACPI-safe. I've tried the other options but they didn't seem to make any difference. How did you try them? I did not

Re: do i need to reinstall

2005-03-19 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i recently bought a new and larger hard drive for my computer. i put it the machine as '/dev/ad3'. while educating myself about this new drive, i installed freebsd 5.3 on one of the slices. i am ready to eliminate the old 'ad0' and want to move the ne

Re: Failure with php4 and libgd support

2005-03-19 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Hi Alexander, PHP actually comes with libgd bundled now. Just use --with-gd (but you may not even have to do that). You do not need the external library. Alexander Chamandy wrote: I take it noone can help me with this? On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:27:54 -0500, Alexander Chamandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

NFS and file locking

2005-03-19 Thread Philip M. Golllucci
Hi all, I've got a FreeBSD 6.x -current file server running NFS and I mount lots of things via NFS on other Freebsd 6.x -current servers with an NFS client. I get _lots_ of file locking issues. See below for just one example. I'm wondering, will NFSv4 fix this or switching to samba ? If not, I

Re: NFS and file locking

2005-03-19 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hi, I had exactly same problem, to resolve this, use the -L option of mount_nfs. But I don't know how can I add this option in /etc/fstab. Hope this help. Regards. On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:42:34 -0500, Philip M. Golllucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a FreeBSD 6.x -current

just finished install

2005-03-19 Thread Francis Whittington
Hello All, I just finished installing fbsd for the 8th time. I just want to get it up and running so I can start learning to use it . I have not gotten X to work yet on the bsd box yetexcept when I used an old 4MB card. But X was too slow. Here is my setup now: My main computer is Wi

Re: NFS and file locking

2005-03-19 Thread Philip M. Golllucci
Hi, That works! I haven't tried it yet, but is it better to use the -L or run these 3 services ? Also, if anyone knows how to add this in fstab that would be nice too... Not that I reboot that often :) Thanks! -L Do not forward fcntl(2) locks over the wire. All locks will be local and not s

Re: Recommendations for "All-in-One" device?

2005-03-19 Thread Madhusudan Singh
On Saturday 19 March 2005 08:29, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > I'm currently in the market for an "All-in-One" device for the home > network, mostly for the fax functionality (it'll be replacing an Canon > scanner and Okidata 810e laser printer). Before anyone suggests their > favorite FreeBSD Fax mod

Re: just finished install

2005-03-19 Thread Tom Vilot
Hello, Francis My main computer is WinXP (because the rest of the family uses it). It is connected to Adelphia cable modem via a D-Link, DI-524 wireless router. My Daughter is connected to internet via the WLAN. My freeBSD box is connected to modem via a crossover cable. bsd box has 96MB of R

Re: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7)

2005-03-19 Thread John DeStefano
> From: Jason Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:00:48 + > Subject: Re: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7) > On 03/13/05 15:44:32, John DeStefano wrote: > > I have seen a mention or two of this error on the lists before, > > in

aac support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
re: http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10032&offset=15&rows=28 See a posting from Scott Long of FreeBSD; --- Thanks for going to a public forum and saying I am full of crap. I really appreciate that. Boy, you sure do want to see all of our projects do well, don't you. Apparently you have ze

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-19 Thread pete wright
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 07:52:19 -0500 (EST), Jerry Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One option is to use communigate. It allegedly works with the outlook > mapi client and should work on freebsd. > http://www.stalker.com/content/solutions.htm > > I've heard from a lot of people that swear by it, pa

Re: aac support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
To make it easier for people to find Scott Long's post to osnews.com here it is in full: --- Direct comment link From a BSD and former Adaptec person... By Scott (IP: ---.samsco.org) - Posted on 2005-03-19 19:02:37 I don't know if it's better to post this here or onto the openbsd-m

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Theo de Raadt wrote: > >>While I understand what you want Theo lets not remove the support for > >>stuff that currently works. I just spent $349 on a Adaptec RAID card > >>for my home server and if the support is removed I will be very upset. > >>The drive is written. Leave it alone. Let it be

Re: aac support

2005-03-19 Thread Scott Long
Theo de Raadt wrote: re: http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10032&offset=15&rows=28 See a posting from Scott Long of FreeBSD; --- Thanks for going to a public forum and saying I am full of crap. I really appreciate that. Boy, you sure do want to see all of our projects do well, don't you. Appar

ksu doesn't use my ticket

2005-03-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have a working kdc on my LAN and use OpenSSH's "gssapi-with-mic" authentication to connect to other machines. However, I can't use /usr/bin/ksu to su to root without entering root's password, even if I have a current, valid ticket and am listed in root's .k5login; $ sudo cat /root/.k5login #

Re: aac support

2005-03-19 Thread Sean Hafeez
There has got to be a better way to work with the vendors in order to get the support we need. It just seem to me that the "screw you guys, I am going home" stuff just does not work. The vendors need a business case in order to do things - they are in business to make money and I can agree wit

Re: aac support

2005-03-19 Thread Aaron Glenn
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:38:48 -0700, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Otherwise, stop crying that no one will help you. Please enlighten us (those who buy Adaptec hardware and would like full functionality on OpenBSD) why no one at Adaptec will help the OpenBSD developers by simply giving t

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I'd love to have fully open stuff from all the RAID > companies too, but I also want the users of FreeBSD to be able to use > the resources that are out there to their full advantage and not be > pinned down by my political beliefs on the subject. Which is why you go onto public posting sites an

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 19, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: [ ... ] Sigh. Theo, there are lots of ways of interacting with other people: if you go out of your way to antagonize somebody, the result is generally not going to be positive. I think Scott is mature enough to continue to help other BSD projec

Re: just finished install

2005-03-19 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Francis Whittington wrote: My main computer is WinXP (because the rest of the family uses it). It is connected to Adelphia cable modem via a D-Link, DI-524 wireless router. My Daughter is connected to internet via the WLAN. My freeBSD box is connected to modem via a cross

Re: ksu doesn't use my ticket

2005-03-19 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:53:58PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I have a working kdc on my LAN and use OpenSSH's "gssapi-with-mic" > authentication to connect to other machines. However, I can't > use /usr/bin/ksu to su to root without entering root's password, even if I > have a current, vali

FreeBSD equivalent for SEGV_MAPERR?

2005-03-19 Thread J.T. Conklin
I'm working on autoconf support for ACE (A C++ framework) and TAO (Real-time CORBA ORB). The resulting configuration is failing for FreeBSD, something I'd like before the upcoming ACE/TAO release. I downloaded FreeBSD 5.3 and installed it under vmware to reproduce (and hopefully fix) this probl

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Jason Crawford
The OpenBSD community doesn't want help for closed utilities and drivers. All we want is documentation. No source, no binary-only-cannot-distrubute drivers and utilities, just enough documenatation for which to write their drivers, and support oursevles. No one has been able to answer us on how rel

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Scott Long
It's not a binary driver, it's a 2-clause BSD licensed driver that contains full source. You said that the OpenBSD driver is unstable, so I offered to help. That has nothing to do with binary apps. Deleting it from the OpenBSD tree is always an option, of course. Scott Jason Crawford wrote: The

/usr/ports/packages/

2005-03-19 Thread Gert Cuykens
Does only portmanager create packages ? Or does make install also make a package ? How can i tell them to put all the packages in the /usr/ports/packages/ instead of the port application directory ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> It's not a binary driver, it's a 2-clause BSD licensed driver that > contains full source. You said that the OpenBSD driver is unstable, > so I offered to help. That has nothing to do with binary apps. > Deleting it from the OpenBSD tree is always an option, of course. The driver is free, but

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Jason Crawford
Even a working driver without any management utilities is not what I would want to run on a production server. I need to be able to find out what is wrong with the RAID setup, if anything, state of all the disks, etc... which I cannot do without rebooting. And I fail to see how letting a community

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> It's not a binary driver, it's a 2-clause BSD licensed driver that > contains full source. You said that the OpenBSD driver is unstable, > so I offered to help. That has nothing to do with binary apps. From http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/sysutils/aaccli Sources for ports/s

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Sigh. Theo, there are lots of ways of interacting with other people: > if you go out of your way to antagonize somebody, the result is > generally not going to be positive. I think Scott is mature enough to > continue to help other BSD projects-- including OpenBSD-- regardless, > but this s

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 19, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: It's not a binary driver, it's a 2-clause BSD licensed driver that contains full source. You said that the OpenBSD driver is unstable, so I offered to help. That has nothing to do with binary apps. From http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I personally don't care about Adaptec anymore, but I do care about the > people there. If LSI or whoever else can provide better support, then > that's fine with me. I do however have quite a bit of experience in > knowing how things work at Adaptec and knowing what compromises can be > made.

cc: cannot

2005-03-19 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
"cc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations" Compiling of gnome-vfs-2.10.0 stops with errors and this is not nice, cause I need this dep for bluefish. Does this error sounds familiar to somebody? An error in the port? (gnome is up2date) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/Gn

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
> > ...deliberately breaking OpenBSD's support for Adaptec hardware as some > sort of ultimatum is a childish and self-destructive action. I hope > the other OpenBSD committers veto any such action as being > counterproductive and harmful to your users. Horsecookies. What was done was

Fwd: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Jason Crawford
Sorry, forgot you guys too! -- Forwarded message -- From: Jason Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:51:08 -0500 Subject: Re: Adaptec AAC raid support To: Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Aaron Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Theo de Raadt

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > -Original Message- > > From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 6:47 AM > > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > > Cc: Jerry McAllister; ""Marco Greene (ML)""; > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt > > > > > > > > The ul

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Bnonn
Theo, I'd like to make a comment as a new user in this community: I think BSD is great. I don't care what flavor you're talking about; I think they're great. I use FreeBSD, but I have great respect for OpenBSD and the others, and it was a hard choice deciding which to run. However, when I see TOP

what is the difference between WCPU and CPU

2005-03-19 Thread Gert Cuykens
I was looking at top and wondering the difference between WCPU and CPU ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Thierry Deval
Charles Swiger wrote: On Mar 19, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: Those controllers will not be supported in OpenBSD 3.7 in May. If Adaptec wishes them to be supported in a future release, they had better come and make amends. We are sick of supporting the hardware of vendors who shit on th

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
> you guys want to produce fully open and unencumbered stuff. That's > wonderful. But why is it so important to go around screaming and > yelling about it and alientating those who do try to help? Let me > tell you, Doug is about the most positive and supportive guy you'll > ever have at Adaptec

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
> Sorry, I got suckered into a side argument about why the kernel driver > in OpenBSD sucks. Yes, the management app is closed, but the driver is > open. And if the OpenBSD driver sucks and people want it to stop > crashing and don't want to go beating their heads against the wall at > Adaptec a

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-19 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Christian Tischler writes: > Actually the number of users will be quite small, and bandwidth is not > an consideration. For small installations, I don't think Exchange is really cost-effective. It's quite a monster. Easy to justify in a large organization where all IT projects are monsters, any

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 19, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: Sigh. Theo, there are lots of ways of interacting with other people: if you go out of your way to antagonize somebody, the result is generally not going to be positive. I think Scott is mature enough to continue to help other BSD projects-- includ

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Jason Crawford
The fact that the management utiltiy it uses is closed binary-only-can't-distrubute type of utility, means it can't be used by anyone who really cares about stability of their system, development, or who just loves freedom. And won't be used by this community which accounts for over 1,800 adaptec A

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> What part of the FreeBSD AAC driver is closed, emcumbered, or otherwise > non-free? The bits that do management. Therefore, the bits that let it do what RAID controllers are meant to do. Can you fully operate an aac(4) card -- 100% of it's abilities, on a FreeBSD machine, without using a bina

RE: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Theo and Scott, a few words: Theo: I happen to own a system that runs FreeBSD and uses an Adaptec AAA card, here's the dmesg: ahc0: port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0x4040-0x407f,0x4010-0x40100fff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2 RAID functionality unsupported device_probe_and_attach: ahc0 attach

Re: aac support

2005-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
> Of course, sooner or later someone will kindly point them in the > direction of electronic documentation, in which case I'm sure they'll > come up with the "oops, our Acrobat licence expired"-excuse. Your flippant reply, doesn't illustrate the source of the real problem. Companies in

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Scott Long
Theo de Raadt wrote: What part of the FreeBSD AAC driver is closed, emcumbered, or otherwise non-free? The bits that do management. Therefore, the bits that let it do what RAID controllers are meant to do. Can you fully operate an aac(4) card -- 100% of it's abilities, on a FreeBSD machine, witho

RE: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles Swiger > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 1:30 PM > To: Theo de Raadt > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Scott Long; Sean Hafeez; > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Adaptec AAC raid support > > >

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I'll heartily agree that there is little reason for any company to > keep information like this closed. Yet you are not helping. > But going around making personal > attacks on company employees that don't give you the cookie you want > is pretty shitty too. Then I guess that Doug Richardson m

RE: aac support

2005-03-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Beck > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 1:44 PM > To: Bram Van Dam > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: aac support > > > > > Of course, sooner or later someone will kin

RE: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bnonn > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:59 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List > Subject: Re: Adaptec AAC raid support > > > Theo, I'd like to make a comment as a new user in this community: > > I t

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I'm not stuffing anything down anyone's throats. You are insulting me on public lists. You are, thus, also telling your users not to bother your beloved Adaptec. You're telling them what the binary which you worked on is the best they are going to get. > I'm enabling FreeBSD > users to use t

Re: just finished install

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:32 PM -0500 Francis Whittington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, I just finished installing fbsd for the 8th time. I just want to get it up and running so I can start learning to use it . I have not gotten X to work yet on the bsd box yetexcept when I

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
> I'm not stuffing anything down anyone's throats. I'm enabling FreeBSD > users to use the resources that are available to them. That's quite > different than cancelling developer work and threatening to remove a > driver due to a political dispute. Freedom isn't about coercing others > to be

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Scott Long
Theo de Raadt wrote: I'm not stuffing anything down anyone's throats. You are insulting me on public lists. You are, thus, also telling your users not to bother your beloved Adaptec. You're telling them what the binary which you worked on is the best they are going to get. I'm enabling FreeBSD u

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Do you ask for the blueprints to the plane before you get onboard? Do > you demand that Ford or GM give you the source to the fuel ingector > computer before you get into a car? I'm saying that resources are out > there that will allow OpenBSD users to manage their RAID arrays RIGHT > NOW.

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 19, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Scott is or was under NDA with Adaptec. Scott certainly is not in a position to give away all of Adaptec's internal documentation. Frankly, I doubt even the CEO of Adaptec would be free to simply give away all of their internal docs-- Adaptec un

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I'm done with this thread. A closed binary managmeent app isn't ideal, > but it's better than nothing. I worked on it because I knew the > compromises I could make at the time and I wanted to give the FreeBSD > community something for it. I don't have infinite time and resources > to fight the

compile problem of mozilla

2005-03-19 Thread Antoine Solomon
having a problem trying to compile mozilla-1.7.5_2,2 nsFontMetricsPS.cpp: In member function `virtual void nsFT2Type8Generator::GeneratePSFont(FILE*)': nsFontMetricsPS.cpp:1625: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRec_' has no member named 'face_id' nsFontMetricsPS.cpp:1627: error: 'struct FTC_ImageTypeRe

RE: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Charles Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 2:21 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Theo de Raadt; freebsd list > Subject: Re: Adaptec AAC raid support > > I don't think Adaptec dictated terms to Intel vis-a-vis t

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-19 Thread Nick Pavlica
Hello, On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:16:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Nick Pavlica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Sent: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:45:44 -0700 > Subject: R

Weird USB KVM Woes in 5.4-PRE

2005-03-19 Thread Remington
FreeBSD baby 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #7: Sat Mar 12 14:22:16 PST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD64 amd64 What I am doing is using a KVM with my AMD64 laptop. The KVM cables are PS/2 so I have Radio Shack PS/2-2-TO-USB cable adapters to connect both my mouse and k

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Saturday, March 19, Scott Long wrote: > Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > Why do you keep discussing the free stuff, and distracting everyone > > from the non-free bits? > > > > Is it because you used to work for Adaptec? Are you paid to distract > > people from the non-free code? > > No, but you

QEMU not support Windows VPN ? (2nd try)

2005-03-19 Thread bsdzz
Hello, I have been trying to connect from my FreeBSD box to a Microsoft VPN. I am running Windows 2000 Pro and also Windows Millenium inside QEMU. I have also tried using both "-user-net" and "/dev/tun0" connections. The connections fail while trying to authenticate my name and password. Is

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 19, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I don't think Adaptec dictated terms to Intel vis-a-vis the i860 chips used for hardware parity computation on some of their RAID cards, for example. I don't think Adaptec dictated terms to Dell vis-a-vis the PERC 4 series, either. Whaat? Dell?

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Jason Crawford
You don't offer freedom of choice, what you offer is a binary-only solution, THAT IS THE ONLY SOLUTION, for that card. If you really did stand for freedom of choice, then you would have started pushing to open documentation way before this. Locking your users into only one way of doing something su

Re: /usr/ports/packages/

2005-03-19 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 19. März 2005 21:34 schrieb Gert Cuykens: > Does only portmanager create packages ? Or does make install also make > a package ? How can i tell them to put all the packages in the > /usr/ports/packages/ instead of the port application directory ? If "/usr/ports/packages" exists 'make p

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-19 Thread Nick Pavlica
Anthony, I referenced the Novell GroupWise product. I'm not sure what you were referencing with the generic "Groupware" that you mentioned. It's clear that you have little knowledge of this technology and may want to spend some time learning about it before making blanket statements about it.

Re: what is the difference between WCPU and CPU

2005-03-19 Thread Abu Khaled
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:04:10 +0100, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking at top and wondering the difference between WCPU and CPU Have you tried "man top" "WCPU, when displayed, is the weighted cpu percentage (this is the same value that ps(1) displays as CPU), CPU is the raw p

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-19 Thread em1897
You sound more like a politician than an engineer, Nick. I'm not a guinea pig, and I have a business to run,and I'm not going to spend an extra $400. per system to to get the same speed as with 4.x just to be one of the fellas. I have no obligation to care about their plight, just as they've in

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