Re: whi?

2005-11-25 Thread AK
Why not just say no while it's doing that? Then when you want to switch the CDs, say yes and it then starts installing the apps from that one. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

RE: Does FreeBSD 6.0 fully support PCI-Express?

2005-11-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: Micah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 8:11 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Hans Nieser; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 6.0 fully support PCI-Express? > > >> >> Micah, if this has changed, please cite where. I

RE: Mozilla Firefox - anyone succeeded in installing?

2005-11-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
firefox is one of those programs that you need a current ports tree. When I'm installing a system that I want to run firefox on, what I do is I install the release, WITHOUT xorg, and without ports, then cvsup ports, then compile xorg, then compile firefox. Ted >-Original Message- >From:

Re: Mozilla Firefox - anyone succeeded in installing?

2005-11-25 Thread Alistair Sutton
On 24/11/05, Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All attempts at compiling firefox on 5.4-STABLE fail at the same point: > > > c++ -o nsDNSService2.o -c -DMOZILLA_INTERNAL_API -DOSTYPE=\"FreeBSD5\" > -DOSARCH=\"FreeBSD\" -DBUILD_ID=00 -DIMPL_NS_NET -I./../../base/s > rc -I

Re: Whi?

2005-11-25 Thread Uncle Deejy-Pooh
>Message: 38 >Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 03:42:39 -0500 >From: AK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: whi? >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Why not just say no while it's doing that? Then when you want to switch the >CDs, sa

Re: so much clock interrupts?!

2005-11-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:45:03AM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:43:59PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:40:40AM +, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > > On 2005-11-24, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > that's what i see in

Re: Troubles getting firmware for ipw (wifi) driver to load [SOLVED]

2005-11-25 Thread Hans Nieser
Hans Nieser wrote: I found this in the portstree at net/ipw-firmware, but it won't install saying: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/net/ipw-firmware# make install clean ===> ipw-firmware-1.3_4 ipw(4) support is already included in your tree. ===> Cleaning for ipw-firmware-1.3_4 Turns out all I

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-25 Thread martinko
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:36:48 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote > > boot: > > > > Simply copy the default line and append ".old", as in: > > > > boot: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader.old > > loader.old??? AFAIK loader is not rebuilt while compiling kernel and > there is no such file like loader.old created

RE: License Question

2005-11-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Manolo >Fredricks >Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:27 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: License Question > > > Hi All > > I'm new to this forum. I am a bit confused about the FreeBSD

devfs problem at bootup 6.0R

2005-11-25 Thread Enrique Ayesta Perojo
Hello, i have the next problem with devfs. It's a FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE (but the problem is there since the first available beta versions). I want to use an ATA dvd rewriter as SCSI. I have added the ATAPI/CAM and if i do a: camcontrol devlist i can see correctly the devices at scbus1

Re: Whi ?

2005-11-25 Thread Uncle Deejy-Pooh
>Indeed, so. But why has someone gone to all the extra programming >trouble to >interrupt ( ! ) an install routine this way ? Is there a dependency issue, >one wonders ? If the head honcho who wrote the install routine could >enlighten us, it will save this issue from turning into a "Te

Re: Windows/FreeBSD VPNs

2005-11-25 Thread Nathan Vidican
Hexren wrote: I need to set up a VPN so a remote windows client can access some Samba shares. All of the documentation I've found are for FreeBSD to FreeBSD tunnels, not for a client connecting directly. Pointers to documentation? David ___ freeb

Re: defaultroute

2005-11-25 Thread Nathan Vidican
Steve Bertrand wrote: Is there a way after changing the value defaultroute in /etc/rc.conf that freebsd accepts the change without restarting? # /etc/netstart Should also reload network settings for you. Steve Thanks... Efren Bravo.

Re: umapfs file system

2005-11-25 Thread Mario Hoerich
# Valerio daelli: [ compiling umapfs ] > ../../../fs/umapfs/umap_vfsops.c:56: error: prototype declaration > ../../../fs/umapfs/umap_vfsops.c: In function `umapfs_root': > ../../../fs/umapfs/umap_vfsops.c:300: error: 'td' redeclared as different > kind of symbol > ../../../fs/umapfs/umap_vfsops.c:

Re: abcde ripping to mp3 and ogg using different folders

2005-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > What abcde does is first rips the files to wav then encodes them > to the indicated format. What i've got mine doing is encoding to both > .mp3 and .ogg, now it places the files in the same folder, only with > different extens

Re: Unresolved symbol in libdri.a (X.org)

2005-11-25 Thread Mario Hoerich
# Louis LeBlanc: > First my config: > OS: 5.4-RELEASE-p8 > X.org version: xorg-6.8.2 (built from ports) > video driver: nvidia-driver-1.0.7676_1 (built from ports) > > > My xorg.conf (only including what I suspect is relevant: > > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" > Load "extmod" >

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-25 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
thanks, but the issue is with the loader itself Telling it to use loader.old should definitely work around that problem. Unless, of course, the problem lies within something that starts even earlier. In this case, you could always use a 6.0 CD to restore the original, working, files. - Bart

Re: Upgrade a firmware under FreeBSD

2005-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Guillaume R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > Since a long time I've got a problem with my burner which is : > cd0: . > Cdrecord writes something like: "cannot load media" while there is a > media inside which works find on another burner. > So now I decided to use the last chance: the fir

Re: Package upgrade

2005-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Miao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi list, > > I have already installed 'python-2.4.1_3.tbz' package from FreeBSD6.0 > i386 disc 2, may I use below command to install the up-to-date python > 2.4.2 without uninstall old version in advance? > > # cd /usr/ports/lang/python (I have downloade

openoffice pkg

2005-11-25 Thread eoghan
Hello Im attempting to install the openoffice package and need to use a template cos it fills /var and then fails. I have used: pkg_add -r -t /max/tmp/instmp.XX openoffice but it still writes to /var? Anyone ideas what im doing wrong? Thanks Eoghan __

Re: dvd-ripping to iso on freebsd ...

2005-11-25 Thread RW
On Friday 25 November 2005 03:26, user wrote: > Hello, > > What is a tool I can use on FreeBSD to rip dvd movies to _iso_ ? > > Every document I see refers to vobcopy, which is not what I want, as I > want single-file iso dumps of the dvd. The port sysutils/dvdbackup will backup a dvd to your hard

Re: so much clock interrupts?!

2005-11-25 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:45:03AM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > Yes, I guess it increases performance on a high throughput webserver or > router that uses polling. > But on the Desktop it only increases the overhead without any benefits > at all. 2000 interrupts per second per core for the

Re: Trouble installing fvwm2

2005-11-25 Thread Igor Robul
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:57:54AM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Ivan, I do know that with kdm, I had to link my ~/.fvwm/fvwm2rc file > to ~/.fvwm2rc in order to have it recognized when starting from kdm. > Starting it from xdm didn't seem to require that, but for whatever > reason, kdm did. Perha

Re: FreeBSD Wireless Acces Point

2005-11-25 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 05:11:04PM -0500, Tim Holmes wrote: > > I just picked up a LinkSys WMP55AG, and installed it. I added the > wlan and ath options to the kernel and rebuilt it with out fail. > I'm running 5.4-STABLE, and this machine is my gateway. It already > had 2 NICs to handle this.

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-11-25 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that a

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2005-11-25 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

Cleaning-up stale PID files on reboot

2005-11-25 Thread RW
I start mlnet, the daemon part of mldonkey, from it's local rc.d script on bootup. If mlnet isn't shutdown properly, it leaves behind a pid file that prevents the daemon running until I notice and manually delete the file. What's the best way to deal with this? I was wondering if there is some

FreeBSD network install using PXEGrub

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Finkelstein
Hi all, I have successfully implemented a solution to install FreeBSD over the network using pxeboot and Alfred's guide on; http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html I'm trying to take this further one step by allowing the installation of various supported o

CVSup doubts

2005-11-25 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, I'm trying to configure CVSup to download only ports but I've several doubts about it. I took /usr/share/examples/ports-supfile file. (freeBSD 6.0 RELEASE-i386) 1- When I update a specific port, only is updated his skeleton or his binary files are downloaded too? 2- For instance if I'm

Re: USB mouse problem

2005-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
miri yun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > problem USB mouse OS FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i maked command > moused -p /dev/sysmouse -t auto > vidcontrol -m on only make nothink. > On 5.1-RELEASE no problem Is moused actually running? Is there a /dev/sysmouse? _

verrevpath -- ipfw: unknown argument ``not''

2005-11-25 Thread Mark Edwards
I am trying to implement the verrevpath suggestion in the ipfw man page, as follows: The verrevpath option could be used to do automated anti- spoofing by adding the following to the top of a ruleset: ipfw add deny ip from any to any not verrevpath in However, when I t

Questions regarding wlan, ipw and project evil

2005-11-25 Thread Hans Nieser
Hello, I have been trying to get my Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 NIC working with WPA with FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE, but am left with a few questions that I couldn't find clear answers to. - It seems that when I put ipw in my kernel instead of loading it as a module, it won't will not attach to my NIC

Viewing Programs Running From CRON

2005-11-25 Thread Gerard Seibert
I have asked many dumb questions before, and this will no doubt add to the list. Scenario: I start a program from CRON. As an example, let us use /sysutils/portmanager. Now this program is being run in the background. How do I get it to run in the foreground so that I can view what it is doing, a

can't build apache2 + openssl 0.9.8 beta to get around 0.9.7 problems

2005-11-25 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I've been trying to build the apache2 port with the openssl 0.9.8 beta (becuase I keep getting errors with the port built with the 0.9.7i openssl port when attempting to start apache2. I'm working on FreeBSD6 -amd64 (trying to get apache+openssl+subversion+postgresql+blah,blah,blah working):

Re: Viewing Programs Running From CRON

2005-11-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gerard Seibert wrote: I have asked many dumb questions before, and this will no doubt add to the list. Scenario: I start a program from CRON. As an example, let us use /sysutils/portmanager. Now this program is being run in the background. How do I get it to run in the foreground so that I can

FreeBSD Torrent Tracker

2005-11-25 Thread Allen D. Tate
I am looking for recommendations for torrent trackers (other than BNBT) to run on FreeBSD 6. I would like to use one that requires a user to login before (s)he can download a torrent. Thanks in advance. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editor

Re: CVSup doubts

2005-11-25 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:38:34PM +0100, Efren Bravo wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to configure CVSup to download only > ports but I've several doubts about it. I took > /usr/share/examples/ports-supfile file. (freeBSD > 6.0 RELEASE-i386) > > 1- When I update a specific port, only is updated > h

broken openssl on freebsd60

2005-11-25 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I should preface this with "I'm not sure if this is correct but I've got a server running that doesn't make exstensive use of openssl and everything seems to run alright for the apps I've been running"... so, I've been trying to install a new server using the openssl port and keep finding pro

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-25 Thread martinko
Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: loader.old??? AFAIK loader is not rebuilt while compiling kernel and there is no such file like loader.old created! It is installed with world and not kernel then. Sorry for getting that wrong, I didn't check. But it makes no difference to the original poster becau

Re: so much clock interrupts?!

2005-11-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm also wondering wether 1000 Hz on a Soekris net4801 (Geode 266 MHz) won't be overkill. I'm planning to migrate some of them from 5.4 to 6.0, probably not. my 400Mhz PII works almost as fast with HZ=1000 and HZ=100 - tested today and doubting wether to change the new default to its more co

Re: MX freebsd

2005-11-25 Thread Francisco Reyes
dick hoogendijk writes: Any idea how long it takes until the MX freebsd mailservers know that my mail relay has changed? It's three days ago now that I changed my MX records and still mail for nagual.st is routed to my old mx mailservers. dig nagual.st mx ;;; QUESTION SECTION: ;nagual.st.

FreeBSD on a Compaq Presario R4125

2005-11-25 Thread NuclearDog
(Sent once already. Trying one more time.) I have been trying to get FreeBSD installed on my Compaq Presario R4125 for a while now. I have tried: - FreeBSD 5.2.1 (i386) - FreeBSD 5.3 (i386) - FreeBSD 5.4 (i386) - FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) - FreeBSD 6.0 (amd64) I have tried safe mode, and booting w

Re: Upgrading to pgsql 8.1 via ports

2005-11-25 Thread Francisco Reyes
Pat Maddox writes: Should I use postgresql81-server now instead? Yes. What do I need to do in order to upgrade my system to use pgsql 8.1? I believe you need to go a pg_dumpall all to copy data. Also keep a copy of your postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf If you don't have any dependenci

Re: troubles with apcupsd (basic setup)

2005-11-25 Thread Dan O'Connor
> > My config file: > > UPSNAME APC_BACKUPS_650 > UPSCABLE 940-0020B > UPSTYPE dumb > DEVICE /dev/cuaa0 > LOCKFILE /var/spool/lock > > ONBATTERYDELAY 10 > > BATTERYLEVEL 20 > MINUTES 5 > TIMEOUT 600 > Nope. Same thing. Well, first off, try setting UPSTYPE to "apcsmart" then just set UP

Re: MX freebsd

2005-11-25 Thread Beecher Rintoul
On Friday 25 November 2005 03:43 pm, Francisco Reyes wrote: > dick hoogendijk writes: > > Any idea how long it takes until the MX freebsd mailservers know that > > my mail relay has changed? It's three days ago now that I changed my MX > > records and still mail for nagual.st is routed to my old mx

Re: MX freebsd

2005-11-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:53 PM 11/25/2005, Beecher Rintoul wrote: On Friday 25 November 2005 03:43 pm, Francisco Reyes wrote: > dick hoogendijk writes: > > Any idea how long it takes until the MX freebsd mailservers know that > > my mail relay has changed? It's three days ago now that I changed my MX > > records an

Re: so much clock interrupts?!

2005-11-25 Thread RW
On Friday 25 November 2005 06:45, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > 2000 interrupts per second per core for the timer is a > ridiculous high number and I reduce it simply for aesthetic reasons. > This may be a religious issue and everyone should use what he or she > seems fitting. If you think in a w

Portmanager 0.3.9 asserting

2005-11-25 Thread Wes Santee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Just updated to portmanager 0.3.9 from 0.3.7 and now every command (except --help) is causing an assert: $ sudo portmanager --version rParseCommandLine 0.3.9_1 $ sudo portmanager --status MGdbRead error: unable to open file /usr/local/share/portm

Re: Portmanager 0.3.9 asserting

2005-11-25 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 25 November 2005 18:49, Wes Santee wrote: > Just updated to portmanager 0.3.9 from 0.3.7 and now every command > (except --help) is causing an assert: > > $ sudo portmanager --version > > rParseCommandLine 0.3.9_1 > > $ sudo portmanager --status > MGdbRead error: unable to open file > /us

How to find system call in kernel source code?

2005-11-25 Thread David Kelly
The sendfile(2) function is apparently a kernel system call. I've "find /usr/src -type f -exec grep -il sendfile "{}" \;" and several variations yet not found where the code which performs sendfile() is located. Is system call 393. Guessing I'm just missing the dispatch table. This is als

RE: MX freebsd

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
> Any idea how long it takes until the MX freebsd mailservers > know that my mail relay has changed? It's three days ago now > that I changed my MX records and still mail for nagual.st is > routed to my old mx mailservers. Mail arrives (luckely) > because those servers are still operational, b

inetd.conf becomes blank after reboot

2005-11-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, On some of the machine where I have FreeBSD 5.4, /etc/inetd.conf becomes a blank file soon after reboot. I have kept a copy of the file and when the service fails after reboot I restore the backup and restart the inetd service. What I need to check, to solve this issue. How can this be solve

How do I use the 3dm2 CLI without a web browser ?

2005-11-25 Thread Joe Schmoe
Hi, Let's play a game. Let's imagine for just one second that I am not a fucking asshole. Let's imagine that I do not want to manage my _disk drive arrays_ over a fucking web interface like a fucking little child. Let's pretend that I am a grown person, and not some bright-blinkenlights sourcef

gmirror comments and questions (causes panic)

2005-11-25 Thread Elliot Finley
I'm on 6-Stable as of yesterday. I've been playing around with gmirror and overall I'm very impressed. I created a mirror with three components: gmirror label -v -b round-robin test twed12 gmirror insert -v test twed13 gmirror insert -v test twed14 in the man page for gmirror the synopsis for t

Re: How do I use the 3dm2 CLI without a web browser ?

2005-11-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:26 PM 11/25/2005, Joe Schmoe wrote: Hi, 3ware has a command line utility, it's not in ports, but you can download it from their web site. You didn't mention which 3ware product you are using, or which version of FreeBSD you have, but I suspect that this will probably work: http://w

Unable to install on large hard drive

2005-11-25 Thread Christopher Kelley
Up until now, I've installed FreeBSD on smaller drives (< 15 gig), but I recently had to replace the HD in my windows machine, so I got a larger hard drive with the idea of installing fBSD on it as well and dual booting that machine. The motherboard is an Asus A7V133, and the hard drive is a M

RE: Unable to install on large hard drive

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
> I have a small partition for the windows system that is 5 > gig, a large partition for programs and data that is 18 gig, > and around 15 gig left for fBSD. The installer squawks about > the drive geometry, and says it will use a more sane > geometry. I set up the slices and it doesn't squa