Re: fsck woes: no '-b' option?

2005-10-19 Thread darren david
fair enough, that seemed to get it working again. so now the question is... how does one go about selecting which block to use as a new superblock? i realize this may be a trivial question regarding filesystems ( it's over my head) so i will happily take a link to a comprehensive resource as a

Re: How well do USB -> parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-19 Thread Sandy Rutherford
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:19:59 -0400, > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The guy who provides our hardware recommended a USB -> parallel adapter, > but I've got no experience with these. I've been warned about USB -> > serial adapaters and how the translation isn't always 100%,

Has anyone ordered these FreeBSD case badges?

2005-10-19 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, A while ago I ran across a site that offers very cool FreeBSD (and other) case badges. Yesterday I decided to order a badge, but to no avail. :( when trying to do so, I got the following error: "ERROR Invalid Vendor ID: error Please use the Return link, and try again. If this problem pers

newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit

2005-10-19 Thread darren david
hey all- in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on these figures? It was previously set to the default( 16384 blocksize,

Re: newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit

2005-10-19 Thread darren david
darren david wrote: hey all- in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on these figures? It was previously set to the defa

Re: [FreeType2] Disabling the antialiasing

2005-10-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-18 16:27, Jessica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Documentation for FreeType2 does not explain the procedure to disable TrueType > antialiasing. Varus Online is rebuilding its website, and the new layout > template places avatar images (image/png) over some dark areas of the page. > The Tr

Re: portupgrade: what must I fix in this pkgtools.conf entry?

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/19/05, James Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:29:45PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: > > First, the other syntax seems much more readable: > > > > 'mplayer' => [ > >'WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes', > >'WITHOUT_RUNTIME_CPUDETECTION=yes', > >

RE: Contact Management Software

2005-10-19 Thread Murray Taylor
No problemo ... Its not uncommon for ports to be behind as they are maintained by someone who may not necessarily be on the actual developer team, but is just a user who has found the app, liked it, and (hopefully with the nod from the original developers) rolled it into a port. Keeping it up t

Imap-uw and openssl certificate

2005-10-19 Thread Frank Staals
Hi, I'm running an mailserver accessable with imap, to do so I followed this guide: http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html . When I run 'make cert' in mail/imap-uw and I fill in the 'wizzard' it asks for a Common Name in which I enter the name of the server ( fstaals.net )

Re: nvi for serious hacking

2005-10-19 Thread Danny Braniss
> At 1:25 PM -0600 10/17/05, M. Warner Losh wrote: > >In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >:vi was the first screen/cursor-based editor in computer > >:history. > > > >Are you sure about this? I was using screen oriented editors over a >

Re: Imap-uw and openssl certificate

2005-10-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Common Name (FQDN of your server) []: fstaals.net The first answer that come to my mind is that your IMAP{ server is certainly NOT called "fstaals.net", but it should rather be "imap.fstaals.net" or "mail.fstaals.net" or something. You must put the exact name of your server, as it is known by D

Apache log rotation

2005-10-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, If one install Apache from the ports, the logs go in /var/log, namely in: ssl_request_log httpd-access.log ssl_engine_log httpd-error.log Is there a clean way to rotate these logs a la newsyslog? I know I can use newsyslog to rotate them, but then how to notify Apache to use the new log fil

Re: Has anyone ordered these FreeBSD case badges?

2005-10-19 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:50:01AM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: [...] > Finally: in case placing an order from the above site will not work out, > does anyone know of any other good place to order such beastie case badges? I've had pretty good experiences with http://www.scotgold.com/ Cheers. -- J

Sparc64 root mirror

2005-10-19 Thread Healey, Sean
Can anyone recommend a sane approach for mirroring the root partitions on a Sun Netra under FreeBSD 5.4? We've tried using Vinum but are dissapointed to find that this is impossible on a SUN machine due to the way its disk geometry differs from PCs. I have considered using GEOM to perform the mir

Re: Apache log rotation

2005-10-19 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:54:15PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: [...] > Is there a clean way to rotate these logs a la newsyslog? > > I know I can use newsyslog to rotate them, but then how to notify > Apache to use the new log files? I don't expect a signal HUP sent to > httpd would be enough.

Re: Imap-uw and openssl certificate

2005-10-19 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:49:15PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Common Name (FQDN of your server) []: fstaals.net > > The first answer that come to my mind is that your IMAP{ server is > certainly NOT called "fstaals.net", but it should rather be > "imap.fstaals.net" or "mail.fstaals.net" or s

Re: Apache log rotation

2005-10-19 Thread Rob Pitt
Sending HUP is fine. Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, If one install Apache from the ports, the logs go in /var/log, namely in: ssl_request_log httpd-access.log ssl_engine_log httpd-error.log Is there a clean way to rotate these logs a la newsyslog? I know I can use newsyslog to rotate them, but t

Re: Imap-uw and openssl certificate

2005-10-19 Thread albi
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:46:23 +0200 Frank Staals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Common Name (FQDN of your server) []: fstaals.net > Common Name (default) []: localhost > > When I try to connect with my mail-client ( thunderbird ) it states that > the mail-certificate doesn't match with the server I

Re: Apache log rotation

2005-10-19 Thread Nicolas Blais
On October 19, 2005 04:54 am, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > If one install Apache from the ports, the logs go in /var/log, namely > in: > > ssl_request_log > httpd-access.log > ssl_engine_log > httpd-error.log > > Is there a clean way to rotate these logs a la newsyslog? > > I know I can use news

'spin lock sched lock held' panic in 5.4-RELEASE-p8

2005-10-19 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! Last night I upgraded our web server from RELENG_5_3 to RELENG_5_4. With RELENG_5_3 the machine had been quite stable. There was one kernel panic back in February, but other than that, no problems. Today during peak hours the server panicked. This panic is different from the one back

Re: FreeBSD routing

2005-10-19 Thread Bob Hepple
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:52:22 +1000 Richard Burakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Hepple wrote: > > >Well, it has to be taught ... eg with a FreeBSD 2.214 I can do this: > >route delete default > >route add -net 192.168.254.0 -interface xl0 # !!! > >route add default 192.168.254.245 > >cp /e

Re: Has anyone ordered these FreeBSD case badges?

2005-10-19 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, Finally: in case placing an order from the above site will not work out, does anyone know of any other good place to order such beastie case badges? I've had pretty good experiences with http://www.scotgold.com/ Tnx! Fortunately, these ones were better priced and had a wider range of va

Voip - solutions!

2005-10-19 Thread Carstea Catalin
Please give me some free (open source) solutions for VoIP over FreeBSD! -- Any help would be greatly appreciated. regards, Carstea Catalin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: How well do USB -> parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 03:34, Sandy Rutherford wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:19:59 -0400, > > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > The guy who provides our hardware recommended a USB -> parallel adapter, > > but I've got no experience with these. I've been warned about USB ->

Re: Voip - solutions!

2005-10-19 Thread Jason Stewart
On 19/10/05 05:02 -0700, Carstea Catalin wrote: > Please give me some free (open source) solutions for VoIP over FreeBSD! www.asterisk.org Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder - Solved

2005-10-19 Thread Charles Howse
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Kelly wrote: > | On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:54:15AM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > | > |>Hello List, > |> > |>I have a PowerMac G5, named "larry", which the 'Sharing' tab in System > |>Preferences tells me that other machines on the networ

Free BSD Certification

2005-10-19 Thread Eugene Prenzler
Hi, I would like to know if there is a institution in South Africa, Gauteng, Pretoria that offers Certification on Free BSD? And what are there contact details. Yours truly, Eugêne Prenzler IT Divisional Manager Behaviour Systems Development (Pty) Ltd. (+27)12-309-6000 Switchboa

Please help me !

2005-10-19 Thread mohammad ajorlou
Dear sir I'm Mohammad Ajorlou I have MCP,MCSA,MCSE 2000 & 2003 certification , but very like learn FreeBSD Operating System i know FreeBSD very very stable , reliable and secure but unfortunately i don't know where must learn it Please help me that which resource and document must

Re: Proper SSH set-up

2005-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Olaf Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I have some probably straightforward questions regarding SSH, and I > couldn't find the answers to all of them using Google, so I hope > someone can provide me with them. :) > > The situation: > Last week I added a second (fall-back) server ne

Re: Portversion question

2005-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rem P Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > >Rem P Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>I have crontab run cvsup, and make a new port index for me nightly. > >>This morning I ran portversion -l and found that there was a package > >>it regarded as not being up

Re: Please help me !

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/19/05, mohammad ajorlou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Dear sir > >I'm Mohammad Ajorlou >I have MCP,MCSA,MCSE 2000 & 2003 certification , but very like learn >FreeBSD Operating System >i know FreeBSD very very stable , reliable and secure but >unfortunately i don't know

Re: pam authentication

2005-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
RJ45 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a central authentication server (Windows 2K3), active directory. > Not for my choice... I need to authenticate users of BSD boxes > upon the windows server. > How can I make a smb authentication ? > can I use pam ? > how to do it? > how to delegate authent

Re: Voip - solutions!

2005-10-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Carstea Catalin wrote: Please give me some free (open source) solutions for VoIP over FreeBSD! -- Any help would be greatly appreciated. Do you have any idea of what you need? Are you looking for server solutions or VoIP clients? * ser is a sip router * siproxd a sip pr

Re: Please help me !

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:21:30 + "mohammad ajorlou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Dear sir > >I'm Mohammad Ajorlou >I have MCP,MCSA,MCSE 2000 & 2003 certification , but very like > learn FreeBSD Operating System >i know FreeBSD very very stable , reliable and secure but >un

RE: Please help me !

2005-10-19 Thread simon butsana
Hi, Please try: 1. The FreeBSD handbook (available on www.freebsd.org or from FreeBSD Mall www.freebsdmall.com). It has an excellent chapter on the installation process 2. Then you can check Afnog's website at ws.afnog.org They have interesting and clear, step-by-step tutorials on building

Re: Free BSD Certification

2005-10-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Eugene Prenzler wrote: I would like to know if there is a institution in South Africa, Gauteng, Pretoria that offers Certification on Free BSD? And what are there contact details. I am not aware of any recognized BSD certification, but there are two current initiatives t

Re: Free BSD Certification

2005-10-19 Thread Bill Moran
"Eugene Prenzler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if there is a institution in South Africa, Gauteng, > Pretoria that offers Certification on Free BSD? Information can be found here: http://www.bsdcertification.org/ -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.pote

Re: How well do USB -> parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-19 Thread Eric Schuele
Bill Moran wrote: This will be FreeBSD 5.4 machine. I need to hook a printer to a server (actually, it's a "plotter", an HP inkjet plotter). The server doesn't have a parallel port, and the printer doesn't have a USB port. The guy who provides our hardware recommended a USB -> parallel adapter

Re: Replacing a failing HD

2005-10-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > But, won't doing a dd between two disks with incompatible sizes create a bad > partition table on the destination drive? Basically yes, at least an incorrect one, even if you can make it work. It is much better to build your slices, partitions and file systems and then move your old data usi

Re: How well do USB -> parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-19 Thread Greg Barniskis
Eric Schuele wrote: Bill Moran wrote: This will be FreeBSD 5.4 machine. I need to hook a printer to a server (actually, it's a "plotter", an HP inkjet plotter). The server doesn't have a parallel port, and the printer doesn't have a USB port. The guy who provides our hardware recommended a

RE: Replacing a failing HD

2005-10-19 Thread Craig Deal
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gayn Winters > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 8:53 PM > To: 'Craig Deal'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Replacing a failing HD > > > > > Craig Deal wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >

ACPI on 6.0-RC1

2005-10-19 Thread J.D. Bronson
acpi0: reservation of fec01000, 1000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of fee0, 1000 (3) failed I notice that in 'dmesg' - but this machine has been running fine for days under a good load. Is this anything to be concerned (or fixed) about though? thanks- -- J.D. Bronson Information Serv

Re: firefox error

2005-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
eodyna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi everyone, > > I tried to install firefox 1.07 from > /usr/ports/www/firefox > > but i get the following error [snip] > nsDNSService2.cpp:528: error: `PR_AF_UNSPEC' At least one of the dependencies is out of date. Probably nspr in this case. Try portupgr

Re: NFS connection dropping

2005-10-19 Thread Alex Teslik
Hi Kelly, Thanks for your reply. I found out that the problem is caused by some files on my system that I received from Germany. The files have German words that contain the u-umlaut character in their name. Whenever I try to pass these files over NFS to the Mac, the connection dies. So, I ren

Re: newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit

2005-10-19 Thread Matt Virus
darren david wrote: hey all- in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on these figures? It was previously set to the defa

Re: Imap-uw and openssl certificate

2005-10-19 Thread Frank Staals
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:49:15PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Common Name (FQDN of your server) []: fstaals.net The first answer that come to my mind is that your IMAP{ server is certainly NOT called "fstaals.net", but it should rather be "imap.fstaals.net" or

Re: Apache log rotation

2005-10-19 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:00 PM +1300 10/19/05, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:54:15PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: [...] Is there a clean way to rotate these logs a la newsyslog? I know I can use newsyslog to rotate them, but then how to notify Apache to use the new log files? I don't expect

Re: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v 2.10 (mouse not being detected)

2005-10-19 Thread alejandro valenzuela
Paul, thank you for your reply. The MS wireless optical desktop is working correctly now that I've connected it through the PS/2 port (the mouse is detected now -- it was not defective, when I bought it the first thing I did was to test it in a windoze box). It would be nice if it worked when c

Re: Imap-uw and openssl certificate

2005-10-19 Thread Frank Staals
albi wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:46:23 +0200 Frank Staals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Common Name (FQDN of your server) []: fstaals.net Common Name (default) []: localhost When I try to connect with my mail-client ( thunderbird ) it states that the mail-certificate doesn't match with the

Re: Imap-uw and openssl certificate

2005-10-19 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 19 Oct Frank Staals wrote: > >Don't be so certain about that. "fstaals.net" *is* a valid hostname, > >and its IP-address can easily be found via DNS, and it can be > >connected to. > > > The MX-configuration of my domain is pointing to fstaals.net , to add > an subdomain for my small mailserver

RE: Replacing a failing HD

2005-10-19 Thread Gayn Winters
> -Original Message- > From: Craig Deal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Replacing a failing HD > > > > > > I tried this and got the following error: > > > > > > > > > > ad0: FAILUR

Portupgrade problem

2005-10-19 Thread Craig Deal
I installed portupgrade from packages today. Whenever I run "portupgrade -arR" or "pkgdb -uvF" I get the following message: "/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcrypt.so.3" not found, required by "ruby18" I'm not sure what to do from here. I have "ruby-1.8.2_4" and "ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2" install

Re: newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit

2005-10-19 Thread darren david
Matt Virus wrote: darren david wrote: hey all- in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on these figures? It was previo

Portupgrade problem

2005-10-19 Thread Robert Huff
Craig Deal writes: > I installed portupgrade from packages today. Whenever I run "portupgrade > -arR" or "pkgdb -uvF" I get the following message: > > "/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcrypt.so.3" not found, required by > "ruby18" Isn't libcrypt part of the base system?

RE: Portupgrade problem

2005-10-19 Thread Craig Deal
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Huff > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:15 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Portupgrade problem > > > Craig Deal writes: > > > I installed portupgrade from packages tod

Re: Portupgrade problem

2005-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Craig Deal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed portupgrade from packages today. Whenever I run "portupgrade > -arR" or "pkgdb -uvF" I get the following message: > > "/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcrypt.so.3" not found, required by > "ruby18" > > I'm not sure what to do from her

RE: Portupgrade problem

2005-10-19 Thread Craig Deal
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Lowell Gilbert > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:39 PM > To: Craig Deal > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem > > "Craig Deal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic

2005-10-19 Thread Danny Howard
Uhm. Ditto here never having trouble with D600. Just for sanity's sake, have you: - Tried a different ethernet cable? - Tried a different switched port, or whatever you are plugging in to? I'd say the easiest solution is to sweet-talk your friend into swapping hardware. You might also try the w

Re: Portupgrade problem

2005-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Craig Deal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Lowell Gilbert > > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:39 PM > > To: Craig Deal > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Portupg

Re: Portupgrade problem

2005-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Craig Deal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > > Lowell Gilbert > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:39 PM > > > To: Craig Dea

More chkrootkit errors

2005-10-19 Thread Matt Juszczak
Hi all, Now, on top of the time error i was receiving (earlier post last week), I am now getting: Checking `z2'... chklastlog in malloc(): error: recursive call Abort trap (core dumped) After running chkrootkit. Can someone help me understand z2 and why I'm getting all these errors? Thank

Re: GIANT lock in 5.4

2005-10-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:18:00AM +0100, Chris wrote: > On 17/10/05, Joerg Pernfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:11:07 +0300 > > Toomas Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > grep -i giant /var/run/dmesg.boot comes up blank on all my FreeBSD 5.4 > > > machines: the t

Re: More chkrootkit errors

2005-10-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:42:46PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote: > Hi all, > > Now, on top of the time error i was receiving (earlier post last week), I > am now getting: > > Checking `z2'... chklastlog in malloc(): error: recursive call > Abort trap (core dumped) > > After running chkrootkit. C

to keep mount options after making a snapshot

2005-10-19 Thread Lars Kristiansen
Hi! On some of my filesystems I use options like noatime, nosuid, nodev and noexec. If remounting one can in some cases use '-o current' to keep the current options, or '-o fstab' to load them from fstab. These two options does not work for me when making snapshots. I can specify other mount option

Re: Portupgrade problem

2005-10-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Craig Deal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Lowell Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:40 PM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Cc: Craig Deal > > Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem > > > > Lowell Gilbert <[EMAI

Re: Remote Desktop Connection Woes

2005-10-19 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:43:48 +0530 Remington L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All: > I am looking for a way to VNC or to connect to my FreeBSD laptop, > running Xorg and GNOME. I can ssh into, but I do not have access to > GNOME. > > My question is, I know I cannot use VNC because I use Xorg. Does

RE: Portupgrade problem

2005-10-19 Thread Craig Deal
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Lowell Gilbert > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:15 PM > To: Craig Deal; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem > > "Craig Deal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >

Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question is, can I simply match another Xeon of the same speed and expect it to work? If

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:44:46PM -0500 or thereabouts, Doug Poland wrote: > I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't > have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a > single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question is, can I simply match another Xeon o

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:44 PM 10/19/2005, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question is, can I simply match another Xeon

Installed Firefox on KDE 3.4 / FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-19 Thread Teo De Las Heras
I installed Firefox on KDE 3.4 / FreeBSD 5.4 but I don't see the icon in any of the menus. I can probably search for it and find it, but how do I add it as a menu selection? Teo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
Charles Swiger wrote: > On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: > >> I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't >> have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a >> single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question >> i

[Fwd: Re: port config questions]

2005-10-19 Thread Chris
Sorry, sent to respondent instead of list, resending to list Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 14:13, Chris wrote: Q2 Can I tell portupgrade to go through the configs of all the ports it is going to upgrade so that I can set them all in one go and then let portupgrade (or portm

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:57 PM 10/19/2005, Kurt Buff wrote: Charles Swiger wrote: > On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: > >> I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't >> have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a >> single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd li

Re: Installed Firefox on KDE 3.4 / FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-19 Thread Sean
Teo De Las Heras wrote: I installed Firefox on KDE 3.4 / FreeBSD 5.4 but I don't see the icon in any of the menus. I can probably search for it and find it, but how do I add it as a menu selection? Teo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: [Fwd: Re: port config questions]

2005-10-19 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 16:14, Chris wrote: > Sorry, sent to respondent instead of list, resending to list > > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Monday 17 October 2005 14:13, Chris wrote: > >>Q2 Can I tell portupgrade to go through the configs of all the ports it > >>is going to upgrade so that

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 06:26:54PM -0500 or thereabouts, Doug Poland wrote: > Well, I have dmesg output and the output from dmidecode. I may be dense > but I don't see the sSpec number in the output. Can it be derived from > these data? Well I don't know anything at all about sSpec num

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Glenn Dawson wrote: At 03:57 PM 10/19/2005, Kurt Buff wrote: [ ... ] You want to get the same speed, FSB, and family number of Xeon, and it is preferable to get the same stepping number if possible. It's better to match the sSpec numbers...those include the stepping, and not all processors

Epson Stylus C65

2005-10-19 Thread Alejandro Pulver
Hello, I have tried to make this non-Postscript printer work on FreeBSD without success. It is connected by USB and appears as '/dev/ulpt0'. I have tried 'apsfilter' with Gimp-Print drivers for Epson Stylus C64, but it only printed some ',' characters at the left. I remember it worked with a Kno

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:48 PM 10/19/2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 03:57 PM 10/19/2005, Kurt Buff wrote: [ ... ] You want to get the same speed, FSB, and family number of Xeon, and it is preferable to get the same stepping number if possible. It's better to match the sSpec numbers...those inc

dovecot can not find mailbox

2005-10-19 Thread Dave
Hello, Ever since updating to the latest dovecot port dovecot has not been able to get mail. At first i thought i wasn't getting any then i sent a message to myself and never got it. My MTA is delivering it as intended but dovecot isn't finding it. I use Maildir formatted boxes and the direc

Re: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-19 Thread Peter Clutton
On 10/18/05, Murray Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have mental question marks against the graphics card > and the response time of the monitor (I intend to use KDE and Xorg, am > not > interested in flashy games / video, but do want sharp, full colour > resolution) If you do not desire to pla

Re: ACPI on 6.0-RC1

2005-10-19 Thread Peter Clutton
On 10/20/05, J.D. Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > acpi0: reservation of fec01000, 1000 (3) failed > acpi0: reservation of fee0, 1000 (3) failed > > I notice that in 'dmesg' - but this machine has been running fine for > days under a good load. > > Is this anything to be concerned (or fixed

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:48:34PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Glenn Dawson wrote: > >At 03:57 PM 10/19/2005, Kurt Buff wrote: > [ ... ] > >>>You want to get the same speed, FSB, and family number of Xeon, and > >>>it is preferable to get the same stepping number if possible. > > > >It's better to

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:15:26AM +0200, martin hudec wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:44:46PM -0500 or thereabouts, Doug Poland wrote: > > I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and > > don't have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer > > ha

Re: dovecot can not find mailbox

2005-10-19 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 10/19/2005 16:07, Dave seems to have typed: > Hello, > Ever since updating to the latest dovecot port dovecot has not been able > to get mail. At first i thought i wasn't getting any then i sent a message > to myself and never got it. My MTA is delivering it as intended but dovecot > isn'

Re: one way network issue

2005-10-19 Thread Peter Clutton
On 10/19/05, Mohan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/18/05, Mohan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To answer my own question, I didn't add a gateway for the subnet in > question from this machine. Added it and everything is working now! > Strange that it could go out into the subnet, but n

IPv6 Addressing Question

2005-10-19 Thread Jim Bonner
When using Literal IPv6 addresses to access a share, is this how it would be done with the following address?: 3ffe:8311::f288:203:47ff:fe4e:2393 it’s file sharing literal would look like this: 3ffe-8311--f288-203-47ff-fe4e-2393.ipv6-literal.net Or can the actual address (3ffe:8311::f

Re: [Fwd: Re: port config questions]

2005-10-19 Thread RW
On Thursday 20 October 2005 00:14, Chris wrote: > Sorry, sent to respondent instead of list, resending to list > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > Setting BATCH=YES in /etc/make.conf will prevent those blue screens from > > popping up. I'm not sure if this is risky or not but BATCH=YES is a > > permame

Install Question

2005-10-19 Thread Kevin Yates
Hello, I have a question to which I am hoping there is a simple solution. I've got an old notebook (IBM Thinkpad 560X) and I'd like to install FreeBSD. I don't have a CD-ROM, floppy drive, or bootable PCMCIA drive. My hard drive has nothing on it at the moment. Can I image something onto the ha

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Well, I have dmesg output and the output from dmidecode. I may be dense > but I don't see the sSpec number in the output. Can it be derived from > these data? from what I understand you get the sSpec number from CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2793.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "Genuin

Re: Install Question

2005-10-19 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:57 PM 10/19/2005, Kevin Yates wrote: Hello, I have a question to which I am hoping there is a simple solution. I've got an old notebook (IBM Thinkpad 560X) and I'd like to install FreeBSD. I don't have a CD-ROM, floppy drive, or bootable PCMCIA drive. My hard drive has nothing on it at th

Re: Epson Stylus C65

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 20:01, Alejandro Pulver wrote: > Hello, > > I have tried to make this non-Postscript printer work on FreeBSD > without success. It is connected by USB and appears as '/dev/ulpt0'. > > I have tried 'apsfilter' with Gimp-Print drivers for Epson Stylus C64, > but it only printe

RE: Replacing a failing HD

2005-10-19 Thread Gayn Winters
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Ramakrishna Nalla > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 9:52 PM > To: Bob Ababurko > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Craig Deal > Subject: Re: Replacing a failing HD > > > But, won't doing a dd betw

Re: [Fwd: Re: port config questions]

2005-10-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote RW thusly... > > The blue menu screens are a useful way of spotting new port > options, and you lose that if you set BATCH. OPTIONS are right there in the Makefile. If i want to use particular i will specify it myself along w/ -DBATCH. What did i miss then

Release 5.4 make buildworld results in segfault

2005-10-19 Thread Fred McCann
I'm having a problem building from source with 5.4 release. I'm trying to set up my system (a new build from the 5.4 iso images downloaded yesterday) to use CVSup for updates. Here's my supfile: *default host=cvsup11.freebsd.org *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 *default base=/var/db *defa

How to install wireless card

2005-10-19 Thread Animesh Sharma
I have a WN825G Motorola wireless card with Windows XP drivers. I am not able to install it on my FreeBSD 6.0 RC1 installation. I have tried ndiswrapper and ndisgen tool, still no success. Please help, Regards, Animesh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

sftp and escape characters

2005-10-19 Thread ross
Recently, I wanted to upload a file to my friend using sftp. The problem is that the file had a space in the file name and the standard escape character of \ didn't seem to work. Is there a way around this? Am I crazy and doing it wrong? for reference, the line I entered in the sftp prompt is

Basic FreeBSD firewall and patching questions.

2005-10-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
G'day. I am quite new with supporting FreeBSD, although well experienced with Unix and Linux in general, so I hope these questions are not too silly. My first question is about firewalls: I have read the FreeBSD handbook and browsed the ports database, etc, to find out about firewalling. It look

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