partitioning "after the fact"

2006-01-17 Thread Rob
I guess I didn't plan well in my partitioning scheme for this laptop. I have a 15G primary partition #1 containing XP, 15G logical partition #2 containing empty space recovered from a previous Linux install, 15G primary partition #3 containing FreeBSD, and the rest of the disk unallocated. I th

php & pear

2006-01-17 Thread fbsd_user
Does the port php4-4.4.0 include the php pear interface? thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 05:00:26PM -0500, Tamouh H. wrote: > > > > Just get a different sound card. There are lotsof > > inexpensive sounds cards that are probably supported by > > FreeBSD for just a few (10-30) $ > > Oh come on, I've been working with all Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. > > Getti

kernel memory tunables

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Barnett
I am trying to figure out which system tunables determine memory resource usage by the amount of available physical memory in the box so i can hard code sane values on a system with a lot of memory. Thanks, -Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: partitioning "after the fact"

2006-01-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/01/06, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #2 containing empty space recovered from a previous Linux install, 15G > primary partition > t I would like to make partition #2 to also contain > FreeBSD. But if I remember correctly there is no way to do such a > thing without starting all over a

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/01/06, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone has an unsupported sound card with a Linux example. All the > tough details about the hardware are spelled out in the Linux driver. > Plenty of FreeBSD drivers have been ported to Linux and vice versa. Danger Will Robinson! The GPL ca

Re: partitioning "after the fact"

2006-01-17 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 02:13:43PM -0800, Rob wrote: > I guess I didn't plan well in my partitioning scheme for this laptop. > > I have a 15G primary partition #1 containing XP, 15G logical partition > #2 containing empty space recovered from a previous Linux install, 15G > primary partition > #

Re: partitioning "after the fact"

2006-01-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I guess I didn't plan well in my partitioning scheme for this laptop. > > I have a 15G primary partition #1 containing XP, > 15G logical partition #2 containing empty space recovered from > a previous Linux install, > 15G primary partition #3 containing FreeBSD, and the rest of > the d

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
Andrew L. Gould wrote: A FreeBSD vs Linux anecdote: I've read several articles over the years talking about how Linux can breathe new life into old computers. After the last couple of weeks, I don't buy it. After combining the hardware from 2 old computers (circa 1996 and 1998 -- anyone rememb

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
Tamouh H. wrote: Just get a different sound card. There are lotsof inexpensive sounds cards that are probably supported by FreeBSD for just a few (10-30) $ Btw, this problem happens with Windows, Mac OS X, etc as well. I have been trying to put an extra USB/Firewire card in my G5, and they wor

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 05:00:26PM -0500, Tamouh H. wrote: Just get a different sound card. There are lotsof inexpensive sounds cards that are probably supported by FreeBSD for just a few (10-30) $ Oh come on, I've been working with all Linux, FreeBSD and Wind

RE: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Tamouh H.
>That or the user(s). Microsoft doesn't write any sound card drivers, they make >>>manufacturers do it then pay and beg to be included on the master distribution >CD/DVD. >For a device to work in FreeBSD someone who wants it bad enough to do the work has >to have the skills and want it bad enough

Re: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?

2006-01-17 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Kilian Hagemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:07 AM Subject: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong? Hi there, I'm managing two FreeBSD based gateways, one running 5.2.1-RELEASE and the other 5.3-STABLE, both not having been

Re: Time Zone

2006-01-17 Thread Danny Howard
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:32:01AM -0400, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: > On 1/16/06, Ian Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the "prefered" time zone for a web server > > > > Is it better to keep it GMT or local timezone ? > > Both ;) Set the machine's clock to GMT (actually, UTC.) Th

Re: syslog logging recommendation

2006-01-17 Thread Jerry Bell
I'd recommend using rsyslog (www.rsyslog.com). The integration with mysql is much cleaner, IMO, than syslog-ng. Jerry http://www.syslog.org Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I'm looking for a recommendation for capturing syslogs from my small network. Specifically, initially I'd like to capture the s

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread David Kelly
On Jan 17, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Tamouh H. wrote: Still Microsoft has the upper hand! How about this for an idea, sponsored drivers ? Why not allow such service that if an organization or individual wishes to have a driver written they can sponsor a FreeBSD developer to do it? How is that

Re: php & pear

2006-01-17 Thread Gary Hayers
fbsd_user wrote: Does the port php4-4.4.0 include the php pear interface? thanks See /usr/ports/devel/pear or http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html and search for 'pear' -- Regards, Gary Hayers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread David Kelly
On Jan 17, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Dick Davies wrote: On 17/01/06, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone has an unsupported sound card with a Linux example. All the tough details about the hardware are spelled out in the Linux driver. Plenty of FreeBSD drivers have been ported to Linux and

Re: PAE causing system crashes

2006-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:47:30PM -0600, Michael Barnett wrote: > I have 3 dell machines with 2x xeon procs, 8G of ram, and a half > terabyte raid 5. I attempted to run the AMD64 distribution on these > boxes which was fine for everything except mysql, (which is all these > boxes are going

Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

2006-01-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 January 2006 at 13:38:39 -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 1/17/06, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> TO JEST ANGIELSKA LISTA MAILOWA. POSZUKAJ POLSKIEJ >> >> This is english mailing list, not Polish. >> > > Historically, this has not been an English-only list. Questions in

Re: PAE causing system crashes

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Barnett
It ran fine when we were only throwing a few dozen qps at it... when we tried to throw about 350qps its way, it was much much slower... slower than our existing server with significantly fewer resources available. I never could figure out what the issue was... tried recompiling with diffe

Re: konsole font size and colour ?

2006-01-17 Thread Micah
Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote: hi again, the question was about boot screen font size and colour. to be more clear, i copied the line from debian's grub.conf [/boot/grub/menu.lst] >kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=792 "vga=792" changes the font size seen at boot s

USB removable drive as dump device?

2006-01-17 Thread Mike Loiterman
Using 6.0-RELEASE I'm trying to use a USB removable drive as a dump device. The device is recognized and working corectly: Jan 17 18:12:55 eisenhower kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Jan 17 18:12:55 eisenhower kernel: da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device Jan 17 18:12:55 eisenho

portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi! OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM running 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 15 05:56:00 CET 2006 When I start a # portupgrade -a up to 671 MB swap are used and I see this message: make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily unavailable and of c

Re: PAE causing system crashes

2006-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:38:08PM -0600, Michael Barnett wrote: > It ran fine when we were only throwing a few dozen qps at it... when > we tried to throw about 350qps its way, it was much much slower... > slower than our existing server with significantly fewer resources > available. > > I

driver DELL PERC3

2006-01-17 Thread sumardi
Dear all, I have DELL PowerEdge 8450 Server that act as Mail-Server, using onboard SCSI for HDD controller.Now i want to upgrade the Storage hardware to RAID, using DELL PERC3/DC, also known as LSI Logic Elite 1600. Can anybody tell me, how to do that without reinstalling?? in linux, i've tried

Creating alternate passwd file

2006-01-17 Thread Micah
I'm trying to create a master.passwd file that I can crack as part of a demo for an IAS class. I don't want to muck about with my live master.passwd or even a copy of it, since the passwords there take too long to crack. I tried copying /usr/src/etc/master.passwd and /usr/src/etc/group to an

sendmail, sasl, ldap

2006-01-17 Thread Jon Falconer
Greetings, I'm trying to implement authenticated sending of email. But I want sasl to authenticate against my LDAP server. The how-to in the FreeBSD handbook is good but assumes only local authentication. The cyrus-sasl2 and openldap ports give hints that it is possible, but I'm just not quite get

generating new passwords

2006-01-17 Thread Jose Borquez
Is there a command in FreeBSD 5.4 that will assign a specified user a new password without having to create one manually using passwd? Is there also a way to generate new passwords for multiple users at once? Thanks in advance, Jose ___ freebsd-ques

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread Roger Merritt
At 04:25 AM 1/18/2006 +0100, you wrote: Hi! OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM running 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 15 05:56:00 CET 2006 When I start a # portupgrade -a up to 671 MB swap are used and I see this message: make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Res

question

2006-01-17 Thread Jose Jesus Ortega
I installed freeBSD 6.0 on my pc and kde but starting "startx" will only display a small part of the whole screen. I tried configuring the X11 but when I add the "HorizSync" at 30-107 and "VertRefresh" at 48-120 the screen only diplays colors. How do I make it make kde appear with the whole screen?

Re: generating new passwords

2006-01-17 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Is there a command in FreeBSD 5.4 that will assign a specified user a new password without having to create one manually using passwd? Is there also a way to generate new passwords for multiple users at once? man pw ... -h fd This option provides a special interface by which interac

Re: Creating alternate passwd file (solved)

2006-01-17 Thread Micah
Micah wrote: I'm trying to create a master.passwd file that I can crack as part of a demo for an IAS class. I don't want to muck about with my live master.passwd or even a copy of it, since the passwords there take too long to crack. I tried copying /usr/src/etc/master.passwd and /usr/src/e

Re: English only, please (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

2006-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1/17/06, Jerry Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > man Klingons No manual entry for Klingons they hate it when you try that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

FreeBSD and the Mexican jumping drive assignments

2006-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hello, I was wondering if there was any way where I could make my SCSI drive /dev assignments static because they always seem to change after rebooting the system, which is annoying for filesharing purposes, especially when I expect data to be on drive da0, but it ends up being on da2.

boot process failure (/boot.config, boot2, loader)

2006-01-17 Thread J oberweith
Booting problem... I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 on my little Pentium III box. My problem started when I was trying to have it boot ACPI enabled by default (now, of course, I know about the loader.conf control file). Anyway, I read another post stating that all I needed to do was put the boot op

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Z.C.B.
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:32:30 +0200 Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > any idea when i'll be able to use my sound card on freebsd ;) ? > [high definition audio :p] > changing the topic ;) > missed listening to music :'( [my speakers will get rot soon, dont > even know if they still w

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Roger Merritt wrote: At 04:25 AM 1/18/2006 +0100, you wrote: Hi! OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM running 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 15 05:56:00 CET 2006 When I start a # portupgrade -a up to 671 MB swap are used and I see this message: ma

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:25:57AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > Hi! > > OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM running > 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 15 05:56:00 CET 2006 > > When I start a > > # portupgrade -a > > up to 671 MB swap are used and I see this message: > > make

Re: FreeBSD and the Mexican jumping drive assignments

2006-01-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 17), Garrett Cooper said: > Hello, > I was wondering if there was any way where I could make my SCSI > drive /dev assignments static because they always seem to change > after rebooting the system, which is annoying for filesharing > purposes, especially when I

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:00:26 -0500 "Tamouh H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just get a different sound card. There are lotsof > > inexpensive sounds cards that are probably supported by > > FreeBSD for just a few (10-30) $ > > > > Btw, this problem happens with Windows, Mac OS X, etc as >

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:25:57AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: Hi! OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM running 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 15 05:56:00 CET 2006 When I start a # portupgrade -a up to 671 MB swap are used and I see

Re: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

2006-01-17 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Tuesday, 17 January 2006 at 13:38:39 -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On 1/17/06, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TO JEST ANGIELSKA LISTA MAILOWA. POSZUKAJ POLSKIEJ This is english mailing list, not Polish. Historically, this has not been an English-only list. Questions in any lang

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:54:39AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:25:57AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > >>Hi! > >> > >>OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM running > >>6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 15 05:56:00 CE

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jan 17, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Tamouh H. wrote: Just get a different sound card. There are lotsof inexpensive sounds cards that are probably supported by FreeBSD for just a few (10-30) $ Btw, this problem happens with Windows, Mac OS X, etc as well. I have been trying to put an extra USB/Fi

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: You are setting an illegal variable in your make.conf or environment that is causing the port makefile to recurse. Probably USE_GCC or some other USE_*. That could be a hint. I can find legal options in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk can I ? Sort of..b

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:17:32AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >>> > >>>You are setting an illegal variable in your make.conf or environment > >>>that is causing the port makefile to recurse. Probably USE_GCC or > >>>some other USE_*. > >>That could be

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:17:32AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: You are setting an illegal variable in your make.conf or environment that is causing the port makefile to recurse. Probably USE_GCC or some other U

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:51:12AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:17:32AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > >>On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > > > >You are setting an illegal variable in your make.conf or enviro

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:51:12AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:17:32AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: You are setting an illegal variable in your

ps "Bus error" under jail

2006-01-17 Thread Edwin
Hi, The machine is running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and i am trying out jails on it I have followed the tutorial in jail's man page and everythings seems working fine, except the ps command. When I execute ps, it say "Bus error" Here is the gdb output: GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Softw

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Graham Bentley
*Some* reasonable and balanced points for a questions list :) My laptop distro www.zenwalk.org My rack server www.trustix.org My webserver www.freebsd.org (of course:) For very boring locked in accounts work W2K Using the appropraite tool for the job seems to be the best advice I have had on this

Re: boot process failure (/boot.config, boot2, loader)

2006-01-17 Thread Björn König
J oberweith schrieb: [...] Now during boot it stops in (apparently) boot2 with: Free BSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)2 boot: [...] Any ideas on how to use the boot2 system to find/edit/remove the /boot.config file? You can't. Or maybe to just tell the boot2 process to ignore /boot.config

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:12:49AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:51:12AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > >>On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:17:32AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Wed,

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 121, Issue 28

2006-01-17 Thread Rithy- System Engineer
I got FreeBSD 5.3 release installed on my Server but its hard disk and mainboard are too old and i want to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.0 with new hard disk on the same PC how can i do this? is it necessary to install any third-party hardware or software? Rithy Ray System Engineer KhmerServer.NET Hostin

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 121, Issue 28

2006-01-17 Thread Rithy- System Engineer
I got FreeBSD 5.3 release installed on my Server but its hard disk and mainboard are too old and i want to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.0 with new hard disk on the same PC how can i do this? is it necessary to install any third-party hardware or software? Rithy Ray System Engineer KhmerServer.NET Hosting

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

2006-01-17 Thread Roger Merritt
At 12:55 AM 1/18/2006 -0500, you wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:54:39AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:25:57AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > >>Hi! > >> > >>OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM running > >>6.0-STABLE Free

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