Re: Disc space

2005-10-29 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 10/27/05, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 October 2005 16:08, Igor Robul wrote: > > > 2) you can buy more memory and use memory backed md (4) /tmp > > And you can create a 100 MB memory-backed /tmp simply by adding the > following > to rc.conf > > tmpmfs="YES" > tmpsize="100m" >

Re: HP 1315

2005-10-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:07:41PM -0600, Slavik wrote: > Hi! > Help me please.I have HP 1315 All-in-one.How can I set it in FreeBSD(6.0RC). You'll find a driver at http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/. It was written for Linux, but might work in FreeBSD, because the "printer drivers" usually reside i

language catalan

2005-10-29 Thread Pep Guix
Hello, i am called, Pep Guix, I am interested in the Operating System FreeBSD, i have installed and am studying, everything in relation to FreeBSD. I am and live in Catalonia, we have own language Catalan, culture etc. Catalonia is a region of Spain. I propose to them if it interests a pag

Re: ports manager vs. portupgrade

2005-10-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday, October 28, 2005 8:33:50 PM, "Elliot Finley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ports manager vs. portupgrade Wrote these words of wisdom: > pros and cons anyone? > > I've always used portupgrade and it works pretty well, but I'm curious as to > how ports manager compares. > > Elliot > ***

Re: Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server?

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/28/05, Dinesh Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/26/05 21:28 Paul Hamilton said the following: > > Hi, > > > > I have FreeBSD 4.11 running nicely on a HP DL-140 (80GB Parallel ATA HD), > > but is anyone running FreeBSD on a HP DL-140 *G2* (80GB SATA HD)? > > works with the HP ML110

Re: ports manager vs. portupgrade

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/29/05, Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, October 28, 2005 8:33:50 PM, "Elliot Finley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: ports manager vs. portupgrade > Wrote these words of wisdom: > > > pros and cons anyone? > > > > I've always used portupgrade and it works pretty well, but

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/29/05, John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep > this from happening again? What can/can't I safely include in cron to > automate database and index maintenance? > cvsup or portsnap, then portsdb -uUF. Work under an

RE: Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server?

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi Dinesh, Ah, the ML-110 G2. I have ordered one of those. I thought I would have a go at installing FreeBSD on it before I have to install Windows 2003 on it for a client. I am thinking about purchasing one next year, along with the new 3ware raid 5 card. Try my hand at building a 1.5TB raid

RE: Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server?

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi Andrew, Thanks for that. Yes, I can't wait to have a crack at 6.0. I downloaded the first beta, but it refused to install. I read recently on the list, a thread talking about this. I just haven't had time to test out the fix. Going on holidays shortly, so I hope 6.0 will be released by the

Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...

2005-10-29 Thread Jack T
On 10/23/05, Jack T wrote: > It's broken only for the reason that it overwrites files from > security/heimdal. Otherwise, I believe it works > just fine on FreeBSD 5.4. On 10/29/05, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Is this something that needs to be fixed in the port? > How stable is it? How about perform

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-29 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 28, 2005, at 7:31 PM, John DeStefano wrote: cd /usr/ports/www/apache20 && make deinstall && make clean && make reinstall See what happens. Talk about strange: # cd /usr/ports/www/apache20/ # make deinstall ===> Deinstalling for www/apache20 ===> apache not installed, skipping # m

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-29 Thread Eric F Crist
I ended up deinstalling that apache installation (which I was not keen on doing), and installing the apache20 port (which was the same version (2.0.55) as the apache2 port ), and, thankfully, it's working fine. I'm also now able to run both 'pkgdb -F'and 'portsdb -Uu' without ANY errors (except f

reusing existing mysql permissions/dbs/tables after update

2005-10-29 Thread John DeStefano
mysql was among the many ports I just upgraded, and (of course) I can now no longer connect using mysql or mysqladmin. I've tried just about every method I've found including starting the daemon with the --skip-grant-tables option to reset the password (which has worked in the past), and most ever

kernel debug options

2005-10-29 Thread Elliot Finley
does having: options KDB options DDB makeoptions DEBUG=-g in the kernel make it slower? Or does it just make it take more memory? TIA Elliot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Installing from File System

2005-10-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dean Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have setup FreeBSD 5.4, with a minimal installation from the CDRom, I > would like to be able to change configuration options, such as adding > something from the packages collection on the CDs, or adding more of the > distributions at a later point remo

Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...

2005-10-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
Jack T wrote: RE:Performance, it seems to perform fine enough for me. YMMV. How many machines do you have connected using it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Dual dvi on FreeBSD

2005-10-29 Thread pete wright
On 10/28/05, Kep Woof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I've just bought a pair of TFT screens and wanted to connect them to > my FreeBSD box via their DVI connectors. I've been searching with > google and the list archives, and it seems that the NVidia stuff > doesn't dual head and that A

Re: Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server?

2005-10-29 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 10/29/05 20:57 Paul Hamilton said the following: Where did you get the patch from? i wrote it. find attached. :) these will add support to the intel ICH7 SATA controller as well as the ITE 8211F and ITE 8212F controllers. i've yet to test the SATA 150 RAID on the intel ICH7, hence the c

installation failure

2005-10-29 Thread some one
Any one help!! Installing on i386 platform, AMD Athlon 2100, 512MB memory, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 graphic card I get an error while trying to install FREEBSD 5.0 which is: ata0: reseting devices.. Please help me! I could be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANXS ---

Re: installation failure

2005-10-29 Thread Eric F Crist
FreeBSD 5.0 is relatively outdated. Try 6.0RC1. On Oct 29, 2005, at 2:28 PM, some one wrote: Any one help!! Installing on i386 platform, AMD Athlon 2100, 512MB memory, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 graphic card I get an error while trying to install FREEBSD 5.0 which is: ata0: reseting devices

UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY - fsck

2005-10-29 Thread John
Hi, There was recently a power outage in the area, which lasted longer than the UPS did. By the time I was notified the server had already crashed. When the power was restored, the computer was restarted, but failed to boot correctly. The error was: /dev/rda0s1e: 1920298835 BAD I=3219136 /dev

FreeBSD 5.3 with openldap

2005-10-29 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I've some question about FreeBSD 5.3 using Openldap authentication server. Everthing work fine, but it's very slow to do something like ls -l. For each line there're a connection between the serveur and the Openldap server. On my Linux I can use some cache like nscd. What can I do on my

Re: FBSD 5.4 and old PC

2005-10-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:58:23AM +0200, Sasa Stupar wrote: > Hi! > > I have an old Compaq Deskpro 2000 (P166) with 64M RAM and HDD 1.5G. I was > thinking to make it as router with FBSD 5.4. > Did anyone had any kind of problems with setup on that kind of machine? Try it and see! Kris pgpuQ

Re: kernel debug options

2005-10-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 11:36:59AM -0600, Elliot Finley wrote: > does having: > > options KDB > options DDB > makeoptions DEBUG=-g > > in the kernel make it slower? Or does it just make it take more memory? Neither. Kris pgpe1Sta4Iq4m.pgp Description: PGP signat

Re: MySQL crashes on amd64

2005-10-29 Thread Stefan Cars
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Sequence recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Thursday, 13 October 2005 at 17:56:11 +0200, Stefan Cars wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 12 October 2005 at 9:27:17 +0200, Stefan Cars wrote: Hi! We are having troubles w

Can a process be made immune to out-of-swap-space kills?

2005-10-29 Thread Doug Lee
Sometimes, I accidentally run something that eats up too much memory and causes the pager to run out of swap space and start shooting down processes to rectify the situation. Sometimes, the process chosen for demolition happens to be `screen.' Since this process sorta manages a whole lot of other

Mounting an iPod

2005-10-29 Thread edward
Hi all, I'm not quite sure how to mount an iPod mini on a x86 machine under 5.4 Stable, to use with gtkpod. I installed gtkpod, then connected the iPod through firewire. But I'm not sure how to adjust my fstab file to make the iPod mount when connected. My fstab currently is : # DeviceMo

Re: 5.4 CD and floppies enter boot loop

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/28/05, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I've got an older, as of june/july 5.4-release official disk. Whenever i > try to boot a box with it the system enters a boot loop, creating floppies > also gives me this behavior. This is on a pair of p3 733 mhz systems. > I've tried

compiling chrooted kernel makes drive unbootable

2005-10-29 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got a box that has died. The data on it is rather important and a reinstall is not feasible. I put the hard drive in a test box, mounted all the partitions of the previous drive under /mnt then did a chroot /mnt and compiled a generic kernel. The processor on this board is differ

Re: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY - fsck

2005-10-29 Thread Albert Shih
Le 29/10/2005 20:41:56+0100, John a ?crit > Hi, > > There was recently a power outage in the area, which lasted longer than the > UPS did. > By the time I was notified the server had already crashed. > > When the power was restored, the computer was restarted, but failed to boot > correctly.

Re: Mounting an iPod

2005-10-29 Thread James Seward
On 10/29/05, edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The iPod uses an HFS+ file system. It's been loaded from a Mac. > I would like to mount it to /mnt/ipod A quick Google suggests you can try http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ to add HFS support to FreeBSD, otherwise you're going to have to reformat

Help with Apsfilter and HP 842c

2005-10-29 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 and my printer used to print perfectly until I did a fresh install because had to change hard drives, now I can't get my printer to print using apsfilter. Everytime I print the printer starts feeding the paper and to print and then it just hangs and sometimes it turns off.

Re: compiling chrooted kernel makes drive unbootable

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/30/05, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I've got a box that has died. The data on it is rather important and a > reinstall is not feasible. I put the hard drive in a test box, mounted all > the partitions of the previous drive under /mnt then did a chroot /mnt and > compiled a g

Re: Can a process be made immune to out-of-swap-space kills?

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/30/05, Doug Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes, I accidentally run something that eats up too much memory > and causes the pager to run out of swap space and start shooting down > processes to rectify the situation. Sometimes, the process chosen for > demolition happens to be `screen

Re: Can a process be made immune to out-of-swap-space kills?

2005-10-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-29 16:34, Doug Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes, I accidentally run something that eats up too much > memory and causes the pager to run out of swap space and start > shooting down processes to rectify the situation. Sometimes, > the process chosen for demolition happens to be

DMA errors

2005-10-29 Thread Mike Jeays
I have a 40GB Maxtor D740X-6L disk, and have been unable to install 5.4 or 6.0 on it. I get errors: ad0: FAILURE WRITE_DMA STATUS=51 error=84 (IRC, ABORTED) LBA=.. as soon as I try to commmit the changes in sysinstall. I have checked that the IDE cable is the 80-wire type, and cleaned up the c

Unable to perform clean shutdown.

2005-10-29 Thread Hans Nieser
Hi list, I am experimenting with using FreeBSD as a desktop OS (with Xorg and GNOME), and because I still need to keep Windows around for certain applications, I have decided to create 3 partitions (or slices in the BSD world). One NTFS, for Windows (ad8s1, 40GiB), one for FreeBSD (ad8s2, 20GiB)

RE: DMA errors

2005-10-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Try a different disk drive. What motherboard is in use here? Ted >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Jeays >Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:28 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: DMA errors > > >I have a 40GB Maxtor D740X

sound on FreeBSD

2005-10-29 Thread Jim Pazarena
does anyone have a link where a web page has been created which explains clearly how to install sound drivers _and_ test them I.E. play a sound? I found on BSDForums.org an explanation which describes first using kldload to try to determine what driver you need, and then it speaks a bit about com

Re: sound on FreeBSD

2005-10-29 Thread albi
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:15:32 -0700 Jim Pazarena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anyone have a link where a web page has been created > which explains clearly how to install sound drivers > _and_ test them I.E. play a sound? > > I found on BSDForums.org an explanation which describes > first usi

Re: sound on FreeBSD

2005-10-29 Thread Mark Kane
Jim Pazarena wrote: does anyone have a link where a web page has been created which explains clearly how to install sound drivers _and_ test them I.E. play a sound? I found on BSDForums.org an explanation which describes first using kldload to try to determine what driver you need, and then it s

Re: sound on FreeBSD

2005-10-29 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:15:32 +0200, Jim Pazarena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: does anyone have a link where a web page has been created which explains clearly how to install sound drivers _and_ test them I.E. play a sound? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ http://www.f

Re: su command & PPP

2005-10-29 Thread Chris
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: on 11/04/05 at 15:58 > Dears, > I have 2 question : > 1.for dialing PPP ,Am i do compile kernel? > 2.When i run gdm,i can't use su command.When i use this command,i > recieve following text : > "su : sorrry!" > Please guide me... > Yours,Mohsen. Why don't you fix the d

Re: Is there a Data Communications Program Native to FreeBSD?

2005-10-29 Thread Bob Perry
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 22:28 -0500, Noel Jones wrote: > On 10/22/05, Bob Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 and just installed HylaFAX. I'm just curious if > > there is a data communications program native to FreeBSD that I could > > easily install and run t

Enumerating a Windows based PC from a FreeBSD based server

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi, I am trying to document which managed switch port (HP 4000m), a users PC is plugged into. I had thought to use a login script to dump some info into a MySQL DB, but I am now leaning on scanning the switch, and build up the data backwards from there. The info will all end up on a PHP searchab

RE: DMA errors

2005-10-29 Thread Gayn Winters
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Jeays > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:28 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: DMA errors > > > I have a 40GB Maxtor D740X-6L disk, and have been unable to > install 5.4 or 6.

Re: Aztech modem

2005-10-29 Thread J65nko BSD
On 10/29/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, 15 November 2005 at 6:37:40 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > > Dears, > > I can use my modem in GNU/Linux (each distro,without problem) > > My modem is external & its mark is Aztech.I use dos port. > > But i can't use /

RE: DMA errors

2005-10-29 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 19:48, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Try a different disk drive. > > What motherboard is in use here? > > Ted > > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Jeays > >Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:28 PM > >To: freebsd-

wrkdirprefix default?

2005-10-29 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello. Sometime back, I posted a message mentioning that I planned on installing OpenOffice once it reached 2.0 status on my FreeBSD machine using a nonstandard wrkdirprefix path (original email is shown via the below link). http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=184696+187981+/usr/l

firewall messages to syslogd

2005-10-29 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
Hello, How can I add firewall log messages to syslogd, I have added the following lines to the syslog.conf: # router +router *.* /var/log/router.log Also, syslogd is running with the flag -a with the ip address of the firewall -- the mask, and service. The computer

Re: Can a process be made immune to out-of-swap-space kills?

2005-10-29 Thread Doug Lee
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:59:53AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-10-29 16:34, Doug Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sometimes, I accidentally run something that eats up too much > > memory and causes the pager to run out of swap space and start > > shooting down processes to rectify t

RE: Enumerating a Windows based PC from a FreeBSD based server - Resolved

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi, OK, after a lot more searching of the ports system - nothing found so far. Something joggled a neuron to have a look at what samba utils could tell me. By running: "nmblookup -A " it quickly returns a nice list of info. All I need to do then is grep for '<03>' and exclude the PC name to have

Re: Sed howto

2005-10-29 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 28 Bill Campbell contributed the following: On Fri, Oct 28, 2005, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a good sed howto that can be useful for contributing to ports collection. Replacing text is I'm especially interested in. Beside