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Hey all,
I'm currently working on a project where I need to limit the amount of
physical memory a process uses. I've tried the rsetlimit function and the
limit shell command to do so, but I have had no luck (though I was able to
limit the virtual memory and cause it to segfault). Neither seems t
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Danny Pansters wrote:
> IIRC exec used to be needed for some reason, but that's been a while, merely
> startkde (which is just a shell script) will do.
The reasoning is in the man page for startx(1):
[[
The .xinitrc is typically a shell script which starts many clients
acc
Anyone have a suggestion for fixing a machine three states away after
you rm -rf * dir/* inside of /etc or am I just screwed. I even had zsh
ask me if that's what I really want to do. ::sob::
Sincerely,
Glen Smith
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Smith's PC Repair & Consulting
http://www.spcrepair.
Hi,
Is there any chance we could get either vinum or gvinum to the
reliability levels that vinum has had on 4.x before 5.4 gets out?
Now vinum does not start at boot time. Gvinum is still very
much promise-ware while missing resetconfig, etc. tools for
ma
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh wrote:
Hi,
I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X
applications from my fedora core 2.
So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit.
But it says :
(gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
After I had export DISPLAY=freebsdboxip:0.0
Tim Hogan wrote:
I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and
discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin
directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I
have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to wha
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 06:41:26PM -0500, Chris wrote:
> Can tar of some other compression util be set to archive a directory in
> chunks of say, 650 meg?
>
Something like
tar cjf - /dir/to/backup |split -b 650m - bkupname-
should do the trick. Note that using a pipe saves s lot of space. This
On 2005-04-16 21:10, Tim Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and
> discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory
> were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed
> the mailq
Non so se mi potete aiutare ma ho il seguente problema:
volevo installare freebsd 4.11 su un portatile ibm tinkpad 1200 sono
riuscito ad installare vari sistemi sempre e senza problemi
ora con l'installazione di freebsd 4.11 tutto fila liscio ma mi crea dei
problemi con la configurazione
Hello all!
I'm root inside a FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE jail, and I need to enable
SHMEM. I cannot recompile the kernel, because I cannot reboot the server.
Would anyone happen to have any suggestions?
Thank you,
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:21:39PM +0800, Edwin D. Vinas wrote:
> hi,
>
> how can i view streaming sites in FreeBSD? what applications do i need
> to install?
>
> thanks!
> -edwin
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Hello,
I have installed dhcp to get my FreeBSD system on line, a machine which I am
trying to set up as a web server. I used sysinstall and it seems to work
correctly (this e-mail is coming from my Linux workstation). However, when
working on the FreeBSD machine I keep getting the following me
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:52:41AM -0500, Glen Smith typed:
> Anyone have a suggestion for fixing a machine three states away after
> you rm -rf * dir/* inside of /etc or am I just screwed. I even had zsh
> ask me if that's what I really want to do. ::sob::
Well, asuming you don't have any backu
Hi all,
when using ssh I encounter the following situation
after a short moment of inactivity:
"write failed: permission denied"
Then I'm logged out and have to re-login.
The problem is anoying because whenever I let
postgresql for instance start a script, I can't walk
away.
I'm using openSSH
Joost van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed dhcp to get my FreeBSD system
> on line, a machine which I am trying to set up as
> a web server. I used sysinstall and it seems to
> work correctly (this e-mail is coming from my Linux
> workstation). However, when working on the FreeBSD
> mach
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:04:48PM +0200, Joost van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed dhcp to get my FreeBSD system on line, a machine which I am
> trying to set up as a web server. I used sysinstall and it seems to work
> correctly (this e-mail is coming from my Linux workstation).
>
Mike Woods wrote:
Tim Hogan wrote:
I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and
discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin
directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I
have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:04:48PM +0200, Joost van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed dhcp to get my FreeBSD system on line, a machine which I am
> trying to set up as a web server. I used sysinstall and it seems to work
> correctly (this e-mail is coming from my Linux workstation). How
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2005-04-16 21:10, Tim Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and
discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory
were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I ha
FreeBSD Culture
We are four undergraduate students (1st year) who have chosen Organizational
Culture and FreeBSD as the subject for our major written project. The
underlying assumption for our project is that the FreeBSD community can be
viewed and described within the framework of the theory for
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:28:27PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> I got this error on one of two 4.11 boxes.
is linux.ko loaded? That's the module responsible for reconizing elf
type 3 if I'm not mistaken.
>
> The other box seems to have upgraded without incident.
>
> I use gnome_upgrade.sh
Well, for what it's worth, I was doing some inverse traceroutes
yesterday, and it does appear that Indian ISPs take quite a tortuous
route from point to point. A traceroute from one Indian ISP (Net4India,
the only one I could even reach, which is already a bit worrisome) went
from India to Singapor
On Sunday 17 April 2005 14:17, Bob Hall wrote:
>
> My solution is in the archives, here:
>
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2005-January/071412.html
> Again, I can't promise that it will solve your problem.
>
> Bob Hall
I had a look at the document, but I am afraid that
On 2005-04-17 06:19, Tim Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I edited the /etc/mail/mailer.conf before I did the last update and it
> did not seem to work. I think that I will try the NO_SENDMAIL option
> in the make.conf file and see what happens. One question though, the
> NO_MAILWRAPPER option
On Sunday 17 April 2005 13:56, Roland Smith wrote:
> It looks to me like you're not running dhclient with sufficient
> permissions (i.e. not as root), or you have a firewall that doesn't let the
> traffic through.
I am logging in as root.
The firewall is enabled, but I have not got up to the chap
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 03:03:49PM +0200, Joost van Dijk wrote:
> On Sunday 17 April 2005 13:56, Roland Smith wrote:
> > It looks to me like you're not running dhclient with sufficient
> > permissions (i.e. not as root), or you have a firewall that doesn't let the
> > traffic through.
>
> I am log
On 4/17/05, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X
> applications from my fedora core 2.
> So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit.
> But it says :
>(gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open displa
On Sunday 17 April 2005 15:29, Roland Smith wrote:
> Look for firewall_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. Remove it and reboot to
> disable the firewall.
I did that and everything went fine. I also successfully updated my ports with
cvsup. So that was indeed the problem I mentioned to you a few days
>
> > Where's the actual code that accepts the input of a password and/or
> > encrypts it? I looked in login.c, but that only seems to
> call PAM or
> > something; from that point on, I wasn't sure where to look.
>
> Start with crypt(3).
As an aside, you can change the encryption used by lo
Hello!
I try to make a working configure.in but I have the following problem.
I write this:
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([netinet/in_systm.h])
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([netinet/in.h])
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([netinet/ip.h],,, [code to insert])
I run autoheader259 to make config.h.in. Thereafter I run configure
that doesn'
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:50:05PM +0200, Joost van Dijk wrote:
> On Sunday 17 April 2005 14:17, Bob Hall wrote:
> >
> > My solution is in the archives, here:
> >
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2005-January/071412.html
> > Again, I can't promise that it will solve your
Hi,
I'm trying to get heartbeat going. I have a problem though with the
udpport setting. The default is 694, but heartbeat won't start and say
that it cannot bind to that port something else is listening on it.
Using netstat dosn't show anything (the only thing running on the system
is ssh and sam
> Don't turn off the firewall.
> etc...
> Depends on what your network configuration is. If you are sitting behind
> an ethernet ADSL router, you're probably OK, since those usually come
> with a firewell and NAT built-in. If you don't have one of those, you
> would be wise to firewall all the sys
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 17:03 +0200, Joost van Dijk wrote:
> > Don't turn off the firewall.
> > etc...
>
> > Depends on what your network configuration is. If you are sitting behind
> > an ethernet ADSL router, you're probably OK, since those usually come
> > with a firewell and NAT built-in. If you
Hello:
Could someone tell me the steps necessary to connect freeBSD as a guest to a
Microsoft Windows peer-to-peer network that is running without a domain?
Windows has a network connectivity that doesn't require a domain controller,
DNS, or any of the normal network stuff. It uses a workgroup,
Good Afternoon,
I've spent the past three hours playing with openssl.cnf and surfing
google, and so far I've been unable to find an answer to this question.
So I thought I'd ask here :). The background is that I've finally got
around to getting a wildcard SSL certificate for my personal server,
On Sunday 17 April 2005 17:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hate to be the one to break it to you but YOUR privacy is probably the
> least important concern (though I mean no offence by this statement). If
> you have this kind of connectivity, I'd be more concerned with what a
> potential attacker co
Hello
Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an
ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain
everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to keep the
server up, and host about 100 domains. Thank you in ad
On Sunday 17 April 2005 17:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an
> ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain
> everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to keep
> the s
Guys,
Everything points to a missing package or a packages compatibility issue. I
know this isn't an intellectually satisfying way out, but since this is a
rencently installed machine, I reinstalled the system (just like when
Windows screws) and installed Xorg 6.7.0 and KDE-base 3.3.0 through pkg_
Hi Ruben
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:52:41AM -0500, Glen Smith typed:
> > Anyone have a suggestion for fixing a machine three states away after
> > you rm -rf * dir/* inside of /etc or am I just screwed. I even had zsh
> > ask me if that's what I reall
Hi Ahost
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Ahost Isco wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Could someone tell me the steps necessary to connect freeBSD as a guest to
> a Microsoft Windows peer-to-peer network that is running without a domain?
> Windows has a network connectivity that doesn't require a domain
> controller,
Gary Lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Afternoon everyone.
>
> I track RELENG_5 using cvsup that runs nightly. Today I've been trying
> to buildworld and keep running into problems with missing directories
> and files.
>First, build world was complaing that the /usr/src/sys/dev/ieee488
> dir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I've already installed cups-base.
That's ok?
Normally hpoj is installed with cups support:
.if !defined(WITHOUT_CUPS)
WITH_CUPS= yes
.endif
Then what I've to do?
Could you send me and example of lpr config?
Thanks for your support
Regards
Andrea
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 05:22:26AM -0500, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I'm root inside a FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE jail, and I need to enable
> SHMEM. I cannot recompile the kernel, because I cannot reboot the server.
>
> Would anyone happen to have any suggestions?
In 4.x you cannot
Hi freebsd-questions
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Glen Smith wrote:
> Hi Ahost
>
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Ahost Isco wrote:
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > Could someone tell me the steps necessary to connect freeBSD as a guest to
> > a Microsoft Windows peer-to-peer network that is running without a domain?
> >
Hi all,
I have installed 5.3 release and KDE 3.3 on a NEC machine (i386) with an
integrated sound chip. When I start KDE, i get the following error message :
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
Th
edward wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have installed 5.3 release and KDE 3.3 on a NEC machine (i386) with an
> integrated sound chip. When I start KDE, i get the following error message :
> Sound server informational message:
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No
In the last episode (Apr 17), Robert Slade said:
> I'm trying to get heartbeat going. I have a problem though with the
> udpport setting. The default is 694, but heartbeat won't start and
> say that it cannot bind to that port something else is listening on
> it. Using netstat dosn't show anything
I'm having a hell of a time trying to get a new development server to
boot FreeBSD.
The disk contents are an exact mirror from what I have running on a
production server, except for a different IP number in rc.conf. The
hardware is identical as far as I can tell.
The server is in a datacenter
Hi everybody.
I'm using a 56k connection to access the Internet. I'm using user PPP,
and everytime I dial up, everything works too slow. At least X works
quite bad (and so KDE). When I try "startx", it freezes for a few
seconds and then it starts and takes a long time to load KDE. Also,
the applic
Hi everybody.
I'm using a SoundBlaster PCI 128 and I get a problem with sound when
starting KDE. After builing and loading the sound moule
(snd_es137x.ko) everything seems to work allright. KDE's startup
melody sounds for a few seconds, but it suddenly stops without any
error message. When I try to
> Hi everybody.
> I'm using a 56k connection to access the Internet. I'm using user PPP,
> and everytime I dial up, everything works too slow. At least X works
> quite bad (and so KDE). When I try "startx", it freezes for a few
> seconds and then it starts and takes a long time to load KDE. Also,
On 4/17/05, Hexren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi everybody.
> > I'm using a 56k connection to access the Internet. I'm using user PPP,
> > and everytime I dial up, everything works too slow. At least X works
> > quite bad (and so KDE). When I try "startx", it freezes for a few
> > seconds and t
Emil Khatib wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> I'm using a SoundBlaster PCI 128 and I get a problem with sound when
> starting KDE. After builing and loading the sound moule
> (snd_es137x.ko) everything seems to work allright. KDE's startup
> melody sounds for a few seconds, but it suddenly stops without any
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:04:11PM +0200, Emil Khatib wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> I'm using a 56k connection to access the Internet. I'm using user PPP,
> and everytime I dial up, everything works too slow. At least X works
> quite bad (and so KDE). When I try "startx", it freezes for a few
> seconds
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an
ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain
everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to keep the
server up, and host about 100 do
Carissimi,
già esperto di linux sto cercando di configurare la mia cisco aironet 350
pccard (sicuramente supportata) sul mio laptop sotto freebsd 5.4, ma proprio
non ci riesco.
Nel kernel sono configurati ovviamente i device pccard, wlan, an.
In rc.conf ho pccard_enable.
A scheda pcmcia inserit
Sorry this message wasn't directed to this mailing list.
Sorry again
Vittorio
:-- Messaggio originale --
:Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:57:05 +0200
:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:To: "FreeBSD"
:Subject: PCCARD & WIRELESS
:
:
:Carissimi,
:
:già esperto di linux sto cercando di configurare la mia cisco airo
Works like a charm.
Thanks Chris.
Edward
> edward wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I have installed 5.3 release and KDE 3.3 on a NEC machine (i386) with an
>> integrated sound chip. When I start KDE, i get the following error message :
>> Sound server informational message:
>> Error while initializing the sou
Hi,
I just bought a Sony VGN-S380 laptop, which is based on Intel's Sonoma
platform. This includes the Intel i915 chipset. I'm looking for
ethernet (not wireless) drivers for it, the fxp driver reluctantly
loads, but doesn't recognize that there's a compatible card in my system.
I'm running t
Nick Triantos wrote:
Hi,
I just bought a Sony VGN-S380 laptop, which is based on
Intel's Sonoma platform. This includes the Intel i915
chipset. I'm looking for ethernet (not wireless) drivers
for it, the fxp driver reluctantly loads, but doesn't
recognize that there's a compatible card in my syst
I have a DB9-DB25 cable with a null modem adapter on the DB25 end
running from my PC to my Sparc Classic X currently. I would like to use
this same cable to connect to another x86 PC _from_ the Sparc which I
would access via ssh.
My question is, does it matter which end of the serial cable the nul
I have installed dhcp to get my FreeBSD system on line, a machine which I am
trying to set up as a web server. I used sysinstall and it seems to work
correctly (this e-mail is coming from my Linux workstation). However, when
working on the FreeBSD machine I keep getting the following message:
dhc
I am running FreeBSD 5.3 on an x86 system. I have a 3ware 9500-s 12 port
raid controller installed. Currently there is 8 250gig HD's attached. I
originally created a raid-50 (two raid-5, 4 drives each) but recently,
migrated the raid-50 to one large raid-5 (which freed up one of the disks) .
Aft
D'oh, you're right, the i915 is the graphics chip (I think, technically,
it's the whole northbridge. Intel is damn unclear about what functions
are in each chip.
The Win XP drivers list the ethernet as "Intel(R) PRO/100 VE"
PCI ID: vendor = 8086
dev= 1068
subsys = 81d0104d
hai,
Thanks for responding to my query,
actually it is a raid5 storage device it contains
firewire and usb ports, through this
interface a user can store data to the raid5 device
irrespective of file system.
once he copied data to the device it should be
immutable(i.e cannot be modify and delete
Hello!
I've a problem with two servers under FreeBSD.
CPU tools show me information about CPU utilization only few minutes
after system reboot.
And after that I see constant CPU utilization:
TOP: CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt,
0.0% idle
VMSTAT:
[EMAIL PROTECT
Hello.
I'm almost happily using gmirror on da0 and da1.
The problem is after every reboot da0 is gone and I have to issue:
gmirror forget gm0
gmirror insert gm0 da0
Then it will synchronize automatically.
Why? How do I resolve? Should I save the configuration in any way after
issuing the previous
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