Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote: > Garrett Cooper schrieb: > > Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there > > should be a noticeable difference. > > The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile > all in all because o

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Igor Robul
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:12:11PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there > should be a noticeable difference. AFAIK there is only one difference - 6.9 is traditianaly packaged (6 or 7 big source tgz), while 7.0 is broken smaller source

Re: Capi 4 BSD with FreeBSD 6

2006-02-03 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, * Matthias Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-02-06 16:04]: > I have a ITK active ISDN with a PCI Interface. > I used the card with FreeBSD 5.4 with the description from: > http://www.shellbang.org/freebsd/introducingc4b.html is the following card really not supported by FreeBSD 6? 1 controller

Re: Performance Monitoring

2006-02-03 Thread Duane Whitty
Craig wrote: Hi I am fairly new to FreeBSD and I am trying to find out how I can see what the CPU and memory utlization is at any time. What commands/tools are available? Thanks Craig ___ Run the command man top. Best regards, --Duane Whitty _

Re: remote x-window

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Fleming
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:48:56PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: > I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote machine with > x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right direction as > I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the machine. >

Re: Xorg - how to disable some video modes?

2006-02-03 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 02/02/06 22:20 Alejandro Pulver said the following: It says the extension is enabled, but it seems it hasn't been initialized / loaded. My output has a line (not directly) after it indicating that the extension is initialized. apologies on that, cut-n-paste error. the snippet continues, (

Re: remote x-window

2006-02-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote machine with x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right direction as I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the machine. Beech -- --

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 3, 2006, at 12:01 AM, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote: Garrett Cooper schrieb: Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there should be a noticeable difference. The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more

RE: Performance Monitoring

2006-02-03 Thread GamCo - Mail List
Hi Craig, I basically stick to 'top', and then set the delay in updates every x seconds. I am sure there are some more handy and dandy tools out there through :) Cheers GM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Sent: Thursday, February

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/3/06, Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote: > > Garrett Cooper schrieb: > > > Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there > > > should be a noticeable difference. > > > > The noticeable difference is that

Re: An Easier Way to Play CD's.

2006-02-03 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > There are some ports in audio categories; workman is the one i like > due to large small enough dependencies and generally simple enough > interface. I apologize for inflicting the above. Below is what i should have written in the first pla

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:12:11PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:58:25PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > > >> Just tried out Xorg 7.0 on my Gentoo box and it appears to render a > >>lot better than the 6.8 tree did. So, I was wondering if th

Script to generate names

2006-02-03 Thread Kristian Vaaf
Hello. I'm looking for pointers on how to make a simple shell script that will generate new names based on words (one word per line) from two different files, and output these to a third file. This would be nice to come up with new cool names, either for business or pleasure. The first file wi

Re: Script to generate names

2006-02-03 Thread Kristian Vaaf
I forgot to say; The script should mix the first word in the first list, front and back, with all the words in the second list before it continues to the second word in the first list. I hope that made sense ;) Thanks again ... At 11:08 03.02.2006, you wrote: Hello. I'm looking for pointer

Re: remote x-window

2006-02-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Friday 03 February 2006 00:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote > > machine with > > x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right > > direction as > > I've never had a

RE: Performance Monitoring

2006-02-03 Thread Henrik Lidström
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Craig Skickat: den 2 februari 2006 17:49 Till: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Ämne: Performance Monitoring Hi I am fairly new to FreeBSD and I am trying to find out how I can see what the CPU and memory utliza

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:53, Björn König wrote: > Garrett Cooper schrieb: > > Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), > > there should be a noticeable difference. > > The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile > all in all because of its mod

FreeBSD 6.0: Building and installing i386 kernel and world from amd64 environment

2006-02-03 Thread fbsdmlist
Hello List, I have FreeBSD 6.0 amd64 CDs and need to build i386 system. My actions after installing FreeBSD from CD: boot in single user mode # cd /usr/src # make buildworld TARGET_ARCH=i386 # make buildkernel TARGET_ARCH=i386 # make installkernel TARGET_ARCH=i386 # make installworld TARGET_ARC

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread make stuff up
hi all... again... i sent this message to general questions but nobody got excited about it. i just installed 6 on my t30 laptop. brand new. when trying dhclient i get: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 this trys 6 times then this shows up: No DHCPOFFERS receive

RE: Compaq ProLiant 1600 server freezes when detecting keyboard

2006-02-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
That's an interesting workaround, I'll have to remember that. Yes, it is the USB. Linux has the same problem and the same fix - disable the USB driver in the kernel. The problem is that in the 1600, the motherboard chipset has basically half a USB setup. It has the port chip but no USB buss.

RE: Getting a new server

2006-02-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Well the worst is verizon.net's servers. Verizon runs a home-grown callback verifier. You send them an e-mail and during the SMTP acceptance phase they attempt a mail-from from a separate IP subnet ( 206.46.252.0/24 ) and if that gets delayed, they don't accept the mail. (if it works they abort

RE: Compaq Proliant DL360 Quantum DLT4000 Tape Drive

2006-02-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Compaq had a lot of problems getting the windows ida driver to work with tape drives, as a matter of fact, and still won't guarentee it unless it's a compaq tape drive that was specifically sold with the server originally. We have lots of Compaq servers with tape drives, none of the tape drives a

Best way to partition a small HD

2006-02-03 Thread Gunnar Flygt
I have an old Toshiba laptop with 24MB of RAM and 500MB HD. What is the best way of partitioning this disk for 4.7-RELEASE or later? Should I use 450MB for / and the rest for swap or should I bother splitting the partition with / /usr and /var and swap? -- Gunnar Flygt OPC Data Sveriges Radio

problems with sh after upgrade to 4.7

2006-02-03 Thread Gunnar Flygt
After upgrade from 4.6.2-RELEASE to 4.7-RELEASE I've got problems with a shellscript that I have on one of my machines. The script (which I've taken over from a far better shellprogammer) looks as follows: #!/bin/sh RTSPCONTROL="/usr/local/etc/rc.d/rtspproxy.sh" cd `dirname $0` cd ../.. PREFIX=/u

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Björn König
Kent Stewart schrieb: On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:53, Björn König wrote: The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both: 6.9 took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246 machine with 2

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Marcin Jessa
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 06:10:18 -0500 (EST) "make stuff up" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all... again... > > i sent this message to general questions but nobody got excited > about it. > > i just installed 6 on my t30 laptop. brand new. when trying > dhclient i get: > > DHCPDISCOVER on fx

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread make stuff up
> > There was a change in DHCP between FreeBSD 5.x and 6. > I noticed the same behaviour with a couple of hw broadband routers. > AFAIR this was also reported back to the list, still no fix was > provided. thank you... does that mean back to 5.4 for now? this is the only system i have on the

Re: portsnap, excluding parts of the ports tree

2006-02-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"F. Even - fbsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know I can run "portsnap extract sysutils/portupgrade" ...or > something to that effectbut that will not "register" say for a > "portsnap update" after a new "portsnap fetch". This is what I will > get for an error if I try that: > >

Re: Sound and Video cards not detected at boot

2006-02-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Paul Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hardware: > Realtek High Definition Audio (integrated on mobo, ACL 880 I think) > Windows XP says 'Location 65535 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus)' > > Radeon X1600 > Windows XP says 'PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0' > > > Dmesg only shows

Re: How do I download an older version of PDF Handbook

2006-02-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't have access to my FBSD machine right now, only my WinXP > machine; and I'd like to get an older version of the Handbook that > matches my FBSD machine (4.7, but lets say 4-STABLE). I've Googled, > Gmaned, visited the ftp site and browed the CVS w

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Cristiano Deana
2006/2/3, make stuff up <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > thank you... does that mean back to 5.4 for now? Try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client/ -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I Italian FreeBSD User Group http://www.gufi.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

RE: Best way to partition a small HD

2006-02-03 Thread fbsd_user
FreeBSD 4.7 is no longer a supported release. You really should be looking at doing a fresh install of 6.0 from scratch so you can take advantage of the new file system which came out in 5.0. When it comes to FreeBSD slices on the hard drive, the sizes created by the auto selection during sysinstal

k3b hardware detection

2006-02-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I just tryed installing k3b and I did follow all the instruction from pkg-message5. The problem now is that my burner is detected as a cd-rom read only device. First of all: _ I'm using FreeBSD 6-STABLE; I followed the instruction for FreeBSD 5.x, since that's what I was presented with

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread kalin mintchev
> 2006/2/3, make stuff up <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> thank you... does that mean back to 5.4 for now? > > Try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client/ without a connection? > > -- > Cris, member of G.U.F.I > Italian FreeBSD User Group > http://www.gufi.org/ > ___

Re: We need your help

2006-02-03 Thread Ugo Bellavance
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Sir or Madame, > > we are about to launch a book about Free BSD and would like to ask if we may > use your logo for the front cover - I send you the dummy attached. > <<6538-8 Entwurf3_2.2.06.jpeg.jpg>> http://www.freebsd.org/art.html#USE > > We are looking for

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Alexey Karagodov
try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client and edit your rc.conf: dhclient_program="/usr/local/sbin/dhclient" dhclient_flags= see manual for isc-dhcp3-client 2006/2/3, Frank Altpeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi there, > > kalin mintchev wrote on 2006-02-03 at 13:55:01 CET: > > > 2006/2/3, make s

Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive

2006-02-03 Thread Mike Loiterman
I'm having trouble dumping /usr to a samba mounted drive. The process dies over processing 4 gigs worth of data. My other partitions dump fine, but they're all less than 4 gigs. This is the error I'm getting: DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Feb 3 03:31:05 2006 DUMP: Date of last level

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Marcin Jessa
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:02:41 +0100 Frank Altpeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > kalin mintchev wrote on 2006-02-03 at 13:55:01 CET: > > > 2006/2/3, make stuff up <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> thank you... does that mean back to 5.4 for now? > > > > > > Try install /usr/ports/ne

RE: Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive

2006-02-03 Thread Mike Loiterman
Mike Loiterman wrote: > I'm having trouble dumping /usr to a samba mounted drive. > The process dies over processing 4 gigs worth of data. > > My other partitions dump fine, but they're all less than 4 gigs. > > This is the error I'm getting: > > DUMP: Date of this lev

Building Identical Configurations

2006-02-03 Thread Steve Douville
I'd like to build and tune one server and then create an iso of the configuration so that I can easily build additional machines in the same configuration. I've tried googling but perhaps I just haven't used the right search parameters to find the info I'm looking for. I have figured out being

Re: How do I download an older version of PDF Handbook

2006-02-03 Thread Eric Schultz
Good morning... Lowell Gilbert wrote: A newer version of the Handbook won't necessarily have less information relevant to your system; just more information relevant to later versions. I seem to remember reading a thread in freebsd-docs that discussed forking the book when things changed betw

Toshiba Tecra: ACPI and APM woes...

2006-02-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, (apologies for the long email!) I've recently made the switch to FBSD 6.0 (FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #6: Mon Jan 30 15:08:44 EST 2006) from WinXP on my work laptop, a Toshiba Tecra A2. Apps work great, but the system feels a bit unstable...too many (fatal) crashes for my liking. (and hardly a

Re: Best way to partition a small HD

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen D. Spencer
I agree with the first reply that you should check out 6.0-R; however, with a 500M drive, I would go with your initial instincts to cut off a piece for swap and use the rest for a single filesystem. Unless you know the precise list of ports, where they go and how much space they take up, slicing u

RE: Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive

2006-02-03 Thread Gayn Winters
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Mike Loiterman > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 6:05 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive > > > Mike Loiterman wrote: > > I'm having trouble dumping /usr to a samba mounted

Re: How do I download an older version of PDF Handbook

2006-02-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good morning... > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > A newer version of the Handbook won't necessarily have less information > > relevant to your system; just more information relevant to later > > versions. > > I seem to remember reading a thread in freebsd-d

jabbderd

2006-02-03 Thread guru
Hello, I've installed jabberd-2.0.9 from the ports collection and it works fine to connect with Psi, register and chatting; I'm unable (or I don't know how) to bring up conferencing with this so that three or more can share the same chat room; there are also in the ports some older jabberd (1.4)

RE: Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive

2006-02-03 Thread Gayn Winters
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gayn Winters > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 7:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Be

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread kalin mintchev
> try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client > and edit your rc.conf: > dhclient_program="/usr/local/sbin/dhclient" > dhclient_flags= see manual for isc-dhcp3-client ok.. this sounds reasonable... but how do i tell the dhcp server what number am i assigning to fxp0? now ifconfig shows exactly

Re: remote x-window

2006-02-03 Thread Frank Staals
Michael Fleming wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:48:56PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote machine with x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right direction as I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 3, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Björn König wrote: Kent Stewart schrieb: On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:53, Björn König wrote: The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both: 6.9 took 19 minutes and 7.0 7

Re: Best way to partition a small HD

2006-02-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, February 03, 2006 09:07:33 -0600 "Stephen D. Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree with the first reply that you should check out 6.0-R; however, with a 500M drive, I would go with your initial instincts to cut off a piece for swap and use the rest for a single filesystem. U

Re: email cluster ?

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen D. Spencer
Vulpes, Good morning. Check out the cyrus imap project ( http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/). This software is not for the faint of heart; however, it has known, robust clustering capabilities. The e-mail lists are active and helpful. Regards, Stephen Spencer Lawrence, KS On 1/31/06, Vulpes

Problems installing SNMP from ports

2006-02-03 Thread Jon Brisbin
I just installed SNMPD from ports not an hour ago on a system I built yesterday. No problems. Now I try and install SNMP on another system that is running a non-PAE kernel, which I built a month ago, but on which almost everything is on the same version as the previous box. When I try and inst

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2006-02-03 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

2006-02-03 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

Re: Best way to partition a small HD

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/25/03, Gunnar Flygt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an old Toshiba laptop with 24MB of RAM and 500MB HD. > > What is the best way of partitioning this disk for 4.7-RELEASE > or later? > > Should I use 450MB for / and the rest for swap or should I > bother splitting the partition with / /us

motherboard recommendations for 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Peter
It's time to set up another box to act as file server and I'm at the crucial motherboard-choice stage. I'm looking for recommendations for an i386 single-cpu mid-price board that work well with FreeBSD 6.0-stable. I don't see the point in buying an Intel cpu but if you do then please make your po

Looking to build an HPC cluster.

2006-02-03 Thread Joshua Kampmeier
Hey Everyone, I have recently become increasingly interested in building a cluster at home(for the knowledge) so that I may be able to incorporprate one at work. I have 4 identical machines (i know this isn't required, but it will make things easier on my part). They are just Gateway desktops - 93

Re: Script to generate names

2006-02-03 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Kristian Vaaf thusly... > > I'm looking for pointers on how to make a simple shell script that > will generate new names based on words (one word per line) from > two different files, and output these to a third file. ... > The first file will be a list of cust

any issues with usb hard drives?

2006-02-03 Thread Peter
I'm wondering whether USB hard drives will work out of the box with FreeBSD. Anything I should be concerned about? -- Peter __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___

Re: Script to generate names

2006-02-03 Thread Will Maier
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:08:04AM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: > I'm looking for pointers on how to make a simple shell script that will > generate new names based on words (one word per line) from two different > files, and output these to a third file. How bout this? Works on OpenBSD's sh; I ass

pxe clients with freebsd 6.0-rel ?

2006-02-03 Thread Paul Eskello
Hi, for some months now I do run pxe clients running 5.4-rel with no problems, with a 4.10-rel box as dhcp/tftp/nfs server. I just followed the strategy outlined in the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html) . Now with the upcoming 6.1 release I

RE: Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive

2006-02-03 Thread Mike Loiterman
Gayn Winters wrote: >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike >> Loiterman Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 6:05 AM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: RE: Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive >> >> >> Mike Loiterman wrote: >>>

Re: any issues with usb hard drives?

2006-02-03 Thread John Levine
>I'm wondering whether USB hard drives will work out of the box with >FreeBSD. Anything I should be concerned about? I've been using them for backup and they're great. Support was flaky in 5.3 but it's been very reliable in 5.4 and 6.0. I would suggest using GEOM to label them so they have the

Re: Xorg - how to disable some video modes?

2006-02-03 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:11:47 +0800 Dinesh Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/02/06 22:20 Alejandro Pulver said the following: > > It says the extension is enabled, but it seems it hasn't been > > initialized / loaded. My output has a line (not directly) after it > > indicating that the extens

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread kalin mintchev
>> try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client >> and edit your rc.conf: >> dhclient_program="/usr/local/sbin/dhclient" >> dhclient_flags= see manual for isc-dhcp3-client > > ok.. this sounds reasonable... > but how do i tell the dhcp server what number am i assigning to fxp0? > now ifconfig sh

VPN not working

2006-02-03 Thread Subhro
Hello, I am trying to connect to my workplace which uses a Cisco IW600. I am putting the connect log from the router below. -- terminal monitor IW600# *Feb 3 22:00:44.051: IPSEC(sa_request): , (key eng. msg.) OUTBOUND local= 64.191.227.249, remote= 220.225.82.250, local_proxy= 172.16.3

Question about write failure during install

2006-02-03 Thread Rick Hubbard
I am tryin got install FreeBSD on a 380D IBM Thinkpad. I get my three floppies to load get a write failure, filesystem is full error when the about 40% of the load is done from the first .iso disc. The /mnt/usr file is set to 84 MB by default and the swap file is 115 MB. I have tried to resize t

choosing a UPS

2006-02-03 Thread Peter
I am in the market for a UPS to effect automatic shutdown (via DB9) of a file server (which will run FreeBSD 6.0). I have noticed some large price fluctuations and I don't understand why. I am comparing units of equal strength, say 750 VA. Any comments on what I should be looking for? -- Peter

Re: Sound and Video cards not detected at boot

2006-02-03 Thread Paul Murphy
- Original Message - From: "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 7:11 AM Subject: Re: Sound and Video cards not detected at boot "Paul Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hardware: Rea

"Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
When I try to launch Firefox, I get a message reading "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." I do not have a Firefox process running, and restarting the system (which is not something I

Re: choosing a UPS

2006-02-03 Thread lars
Peter wrote: I am in the market for a UPS to effect automatic shutdown (via DB9) of a file server (which will run FreeBSD 6.0). I have noticed some large price fluctuations and I don't understand why. I am comparing units of equal strength, say 750 VA. Any comments on what I should be looking

Re: "Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Jesse Sheidlower wrote: When I try to launch Firefox, I get a message reading "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." You've probably got a stale lockfile. Search for "*lock*" _

Sound card getting blocked somehow

2006-02-03 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
My soundcard seems to be blocked somehow, and I'm not sure how this happened or what to do about it. I don't believe I did anything specific, but sound simply stopped working; if I start up xmms (for example) I get a console message "** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp

Re: "Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:15:43AM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > >When I try to launch Firefox, I get a message reading "Firefox is > >already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you > >must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your >

Re: Question about write failure during install

2006-02-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Rick Hubbard wrote: I am tryin got install FreeBSD on a 380D IBM Thinkpad. I get my three floppies to load get a write failure, filesystem is full error when the about 40% of the load is done from the first .iso disc. The /mnt/usr file is set to 84 MB by default and the swap file is 115 MB. I

Re: "Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
As I said in my original message, "The only FreeBSD-related message about this that I found talks about deleting lock files in ~/.mozilla, but I don't have any Firefox lock files." I don't have any Mozilla lock files either, for that matter. Jesse Sheidlower How about http://kb.mozillazine.org/

Re: "Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:26:18 -0500 Jesse Sheidlower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:15:43AM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > >When I try to launch Firefox, I get a message reading "Firefox is > >

Re: "Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Robert Huff
Jesse Sheidlower writes: > > >When I try to launch Firefox, I get a message reading "Firefox is > > >already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you > > >must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your > > >system." > > > > > You've probably got a stale loc

Re: "Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Robert Huff wrote: Jesse Sheidlower writes: > >When I try to launch Firefox, I get a message reading "Firefox is > >already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you > >must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your > >system." > > > You've probably got a sta

Ethereal port doesn't install GUI

2006-02-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi, Is there other port that installs the GTK Ethereal interface ? net/ports is installing tethereal and lots of other files, but NOT /usr/X11R6/bin/ethereal. I've built net/ethereal as follows: portinstall ethereal but then I couldn't find bin/ethereal anywhere. pkg_info -f shows: [...] Fil

Re: Compaq Integrated SmartArray Quantum DLT4000

2006-02-03 Thread James Long
> > On 2/1/06, RA Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I'm running several Compaq Proliant DL360 servers, all with > > FBSD > > > 6.0-RELEASE. > > > > > > One of these has an internal Quantum DLT 4000 (that's how > > the > > > BIOS identifies it) tape drive. I need to use it,

How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?

2006-02-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi - I've got a new 6.0 box and have setup some jails. I'd like to share /usr/ports from the host, to each of the jails. I tried mount_unionfs and while it worked, the box would crash if I did anything intensive (ie. compile a port). Googling around and people say they are using nullfs oka

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Duane Whitty
kalin mintchev wrote: try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client and edit your rc.conf: dhclient_program="/usr/local/sbin/dhclient" dhclient_flags= see manual for isc-dhcp3-client ok.. this sounds reasonable... but how do i tell the dhcp server what number am i assigning to fxp0? now ifconfig

Re: How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?

2006-02-03 Thread albi
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 19:02:43 -0600 (CST) Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT > DOESN'T WORK) AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR > SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. BEWARE OF DOG. SLIPPERY WHEN WET. > > But then

Re: How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?

2006-02-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 07:02:43PM -0600, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Hi - > > I've got a new 6.0 box and have setup some jails. I'd like to share > /usr/ports from the host, to each of the jails. > > I tried mount_unionfs and while it worked, the box would crash if I did > anything intensive (i

Re: Java without Motif/X?

2006-02-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 02/02/06 Nikolas Britton said: > Is it possible to replace Motif with QT, GTK, etc? Not with the swing bindings, I don't think so. But, there are GTK bindings for Java separately. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...

Re: "Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:47:36PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:26:18 -0500 > Jesse Sheidlower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As I said in my original message, "The only FreeBSD-related > > message about this that I found talks about deleting lock > > files in ~/.mozilla, b

Re: How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?

2006-02-03 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Saturday 04 February 2006 10:02、Philip Hallstrom さんは書きました: > Hi - > > I've got a new 6.0 box and have setup some jails. I'd like to share > /usr/ports from the host, to each of the jails. > > I tried mount_unionfs and while it worked, the box would crash if I did > anything intensive (ie. compile

Re: Sound and Video cards not detected at boot

2006-02-03 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 16:03:04 -0500 "Paul Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Paul Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Hardware: > >> Realtek High Definition Audio (integrated on mobo, ACL 880 I > >think) > Windows XP says 'Location 65535 (Internal High Definition > >Audio Bus)' > >

can't install kdelibs3 port after upgrading

2006-02-03 Thread Peter
I'm running 5.4-STABLE and I'm receiving the following error: checking for pcre-config... /usr/local/bin/pcre-config configure: error: You're missing libpcre. Download libpcre from http://www.pcre.org or find a binary package for your platform. Alternatively, you can specify --disable-pcre, but s

Re: can't install kdelibs3 port after upgrading

2006-02-03 Thread Nicolas Blais
On Friday 03 February 2006 20:25, Peter wrote: > I'm running 5.4-STABLE and I'm receiving the following error: > > > checking for pcre-config... /usr/local/bin/pcre-config > configure: error: You're missing libpcre. > Download libpcre from http://www.pcre.org or find a binary package for > your pla

Re: Java without Motif/X?

2006-02-03 Thread Nick Triantos
OK, thanks very much. I'm going to look for a different tool that doesn't pull in all of Java. you've all been a great help. best, -Nick Hello Michael, On 02/02/06 Nikolas Britton said: Is it possible to replace Motif with QT, GTK, etc? Not with the swing bindings, I don't think so. But

freebsd as ghosting server for windows boxen

2006-02-03 Thread Peter
What is the best way to use FreeBSD (6.0) as a centralized server to ghost windows client images over the network? I have been thinking of g4u and there is the commercial acronis. Any suggestions out there? -- Peter __

Re: choosing a UPS

2006-02-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:44:57 -0500 (EST), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >I am in the market for a UPS to effect automatic shutdown (via DB9) of a >file server (which will run FreeBSD 6.0). I have noticed some large price >fluctuations and I don't understand why. I am comparing unit

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread make stuff up
> kalin mintchev wrote: try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client and edit your rc.conf: dhclient_program="/usr/local/sbin/dhclient" dhclient_flags= see manual for isc-dhcp3-client >>> >>> ok.. this sounds reasonable... >>> but how do i tell the dhcp server what number am i assig

Re: "Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:49:41PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > Jesse Sheidlower writes: > > $ lsof | grep fire > > bash 59914 jester cwd VDIR 0,84512 1530891 > > /usr/home/jester/.mozilla/firefox > > bash 90239 jester cwd VDIR 0,84512 1530891 > >

Re: "Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:45:10AM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >As I said in my original message, "The only FreeBSD-related > >message about this that I found talks about deleting lock > >files in ~/.mozilla, but I don't have any Firefox lock files." > >I don't have any Mozilla lock files ei

Re: How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?

2006-02-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 07:02:43PM -0600, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi - I've got a new 6.0 box and have setup some jails. I'd like to share /usr/ports from the host, to each of the jails. I tried mount_unionfs and while it worked, the box would crash if I did anything intensive (ie. compile a p

Re: choosing a UPS

2006-02-03 Thread Robert Huff
Mike Tancsa writes: > >I am in the market for a UPS to effect automatic shutdown (via DB9) of a > >file server (which will run FreeBSD 6.0). I have noticed some large price > >fluctuations and I don't understand why. I am comparing units of equal > >strength, say 750 VA. Any comments on wh

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