Re: Problems since 5.3-RELEASE-p15

2005-06-20 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H
> > On 6/17/05, Tuc at T-B-O-H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Ever since I upgraded to 5.3-RELEASE-p15, I've started to run into > > problems... All of a sudden, anything I do results in a Segfault. Sometimes > > I'll get : > > > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: top: Shared o

Re: mac osx disklabels

2005-06-20 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Jun 20, 2005, at 10:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder, can FreeBSD read GPT organized disks (ia64) under i386? Yes, but you typically cannot boot from a GPT disk. This applies to all platforms FreeBSD supports (with the obvious exception of ia64 of course, where GPT is the native pa

Re: Problems since 5.3-RELEASE-p15

2005-06-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: On 6/17/05, Tuc at T-B-O-H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ever since I upgraded to 5.3-RELEASE-p15, I've started to run into problems... All of a sudden, anything I do results in a Segfault. Sometimes I'll get : /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: top: Shared object has no ru

Upgrading 5.3 to 5.4

2005-06-20 Thread Cartoon Factory
Hi: I am a fairly novice user of FreeBSD. I just recently built two boxes with 5.3, and now that 5.4 is out, I was curious how easy it would be to upgrade. The "Migration" guide deals with 4.X => 5... do I essentially follow the Source upgrade instructions? Is there a better/easier (for a novice!)

Correct step for setting up MBR on a windows drive?

2005-06-20 Thread Mac Mason
I've got a machine with FreeBSD on it. Recently, I added another drive, on which I put Windows. Given that I don't really trust the Windows install program with my MBR, I unplugged the FreeBSD drive during the install. Now, the FreeBSD bootloader can't load windows; if I unplug the FreeBSD drive

Re: any ipf wizards out there?

2005-06-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 10:58:17PM +0200, Michal Mertl wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Folks, > > > > A couple weeks ago I realized that my ipf ruleset was messing > > up my web access ... ad had been for months I just tried an > > older, simpler ipf.rules. Same results. Can anyb

Re: EM Driver problems

2005-06-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:48:17 + (UTC), in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: >I have been using fxp network based cards, without issues. I have recently >changed over to em cards, and get kernel panics about once every few days >with them (mainly sbdrop panics). I already have nsfclusters se

Re: FreeBSD L2TP client

2005-06-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:05:28 +, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >I am looking for a way to use FreeBSD as a L2TP VPN client. Does anyone >know of a way to do this. I found ng_l2tp, but I'm not quite sure how to >use it. If anyone has a good how-to, or can give me some direction

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-20 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: *snip* FreeBSD is a typical system driven by technical people. Clearly its weakest point. Once again, that depends on your audience. If you ask me, its one of FreeBSD's strongest points. Im one of those "technical people", and the main reason I like BSD is that its

Re: FreeBSD L2TP client

2005-06-20 Thread Andy Miller
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:31:51PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:05:28 +, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions > you wrote: > > >I am looking for a way to use FreeBSD as a L2TP VPN client. Does anyone > >know of a way to do this. I found ng_l2tp, but I'm not quite sure how

apache Logging output changed?

2005-06-20 Thread Noah
apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 FreeBSD-4.11R3 so I upgraded apache 1.3.33 from /usr/ports some about a month ago and around that time I stopped seeing POST log messages for my perl scripts ending up in my server's access logs. any clues why this is no longer being logged. is there some log granu

iPod Shuffle and FreeBSD?

2005-06-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey folks. I just got a new toy for Father's Day, an iPod Shuffle. Not a bad little gadget (though I'd think they could get more than 512M in there by now), but I don't own a Mac (yet?), and I hate windoze. So I'd like to know which of the port apps people are using with the iPod, particularly th

Re: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-20 Thread Matt Juszczak
I would start by disabling Hyperthreading in the BIOS. It doesnt really have much benefit with the default scheduler (might make some things slower), and seems to cause problems. ---Mike But I have hyperthreading disabled in the sysctl variable for hyperthreading (can't remember

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: This sounds good. How much time is left for you to write it? A couple of weeks :) So I have a lot of time to do research. You could subscribe to more technical lists to see how help is done and what kind of problems people face with a none-technical background.

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until the process owning them exits Have not found any program to see what programs are using the swap, but as I think about it, the

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: > > When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used > > blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until > > the process owning them exits > > Have not found any program to s

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: How wonder how the current method affects performance. Basically if there is a surge of memory usage and processes start that use the swap and these processes are long lived.. I wonder if performance will

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-20 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello. Thank you all for everything so far. But I am not looking for comparisons. I am looking for stuff that has been written so that people can understand. Let's say this: Multi-threaded SMP architecture capable of executing the kernel in parallel on multiple processors, and with kernel pr

Finding a wireless lan card

2005-06-20 Thread Mike Meyer
I recently asked for help finding a wireless lan card. I got a couple of solid suggestions, some suggestions on buying a "wireless ethernet bridge", and a "wireless lan master list" for Linux systems. Since my solution was none of the above, I wanted to post it so it would show up in the search eng

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: > >In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: > >>How wonder how the current method affects performance. Basically if > >>there is a surge of memory usage and processes start that use the > >>swap

OT: Crypyography

2005-06-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, This is unrelated but if there is any cryptography guru around, I know the crypted text, I know the decrypted text, but I am looking for the algorythm, or a direction where to look for. Each pair is crypted then decrypted text. TIA Olivier ^WWQFNY:([EMAIL PROTECTED](^>Qc5/;J]X-G4Gb6Q*V^)S:

Re: utility that will dump a web page to std out?

2005-06-20 Thread Frederic Andres
you can also use Lynx with the -dump option. Fred Quoting David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:05:48AM -0500, Brian John wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of a utility that will get a webpage and dump the output to standard out? I was going to use wget, but it dumps the ou

Unable to decipher error "ELF binary type 3 not known"

2005-06-20 Thread Bob Perry
Cvsup'd system last weekend but was unable to complete portupgrade due to following error: ELF binary type "3" not known execution of expat-1.95.5_2 script failed, exit status 255 ELF binary type "3" not known /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpec

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