Re: 7.4 -> X -configure gives No devices to configure

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:31:43PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:42 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > Upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 made X unsuable on FBSD 7.1-stable i386. > > I followed the UPDATE procedures, had no errors on build, > > but on X -configure I get > > > > No

Re: recovering from a power outage

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:00:16 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > 1) It was my understanding one has to force-mount a dirty > filesuystem. IF this sounds like a practice best left to senior > Jedi Masters ... it porbably is. Mounting possibly defective file systems is not a good idea. If it's possi

Re: recovering from a power outage

seeing fsck checking partitions after unclean shutdown, but when everything's okay, there's no problem running into MUM *afterwards*. exactly like me i have background_fsck="NO" in rc.conf unix doesn't crash every few hours so it's really not a problem to wait a bit more

xdm -debug 1 => Nothing left to do, exiting

On 6.4-stable alpha I cannot get xdm to become a daemon, it exits immediately with empty /var/log/xdm.log. I tried to use -debug option, and this is the output: # xdm -debug 1 DisplayManager.errorLogFile/DisplayManager.ErrorLogFile value /var/log/xdm.log DisplayManager.daemonMode/DisplayManager.

nss_ldap problems with pthread_atfork on RELENG_7

On 02/11/2009 04:20 PM, Benjamin Lee wrote: > On 02/10/2009 10:08 PM, Arjun Singh wrote: >> Thanks for the advice. I tried to see if I could get nscd to solve anything, >> but it seems to just hide the problem, and not completely. With nscd >> enabled, the first login fails. After that, it's fine..

Re: reread newsyslog.conf without reboot

Fbsd1 wrote: How do I get the system to reread /etc/newsyslog.conf file with out rebooting the system? /etc/rc.d/newsyslog restart -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Iptables in FreeBSD

On 02/12/09 3:31 AM, kashif imran wrote: Hi all I am a new to FreeBsd, can someone translate these iptables rules for freebsd? /usr/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE /usr/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT /usr/sbin

Re: Iptables in FreeBSD

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Moti Levy wrote: > On 02/12/09 3:31 AM, kashif imran wrote: > >> Hi all >> I am a new to FreeBsd, can someone translate these iptables rules for >> freebsd? >> /usr/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE >> /usr/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0

Re: recovering from a power outage

Wojciech Puchar writes: > background_fsck="NO" > > in rc.conf > > unix doesn't crash every few hours so it's really not a problem > to wait a bit more Cases and personal tolerance may vary. One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two full passes takes ab

Re: recovering from a power outage

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:11:56 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two > full passes takes about 7 minutes. > I have no idea how long it might take to check a multi-terabyte > RAID- set-up. It's not *that* hard to wait for an fsck. I hav

Re: Old user can't log in

On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:21 AM, Da Rock wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:52 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Da Rock wrote: With reasonable organization, and appropriate use of sudo or setgid binaries for things like people who use SVN or CVS, there generally isn't reason o

Re: recovering from a power outage

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:16:13 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:11:56 -0500, Robert Huff > wrote: >> One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two >> full passes takes about 7 minutes. >> I have no idea how long it might take to check a >> multi-terabyte RAID- set-u

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Re: recovering from a power outage

One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two full passes takes about 7 minutes. I have no idea how long it might take to check a multi-terabyte RAID- set-up. depends of how filesystem was created. multiterabyte arrays are usually used for large files, and filesys

Re: recovering from a power outage

>IMHO, if you are running a system where 'power outages' cannot >be tolerated, why not install a UPS, they are really quite >cheap, and be done with it? I cannot imagine any high end, >mission critical system not employing one. Power outages are not the only thing which c

Re: Help with high LA

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:04:41 -0200 (BRST) sc...@centroin.com.br wrote: > I need help for some strange problem with one of my servers, that can cost > my job. > > It's a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5/amd64 running on a Dell PowerEdge III as a > Virtual machine of VMware ESXi. There are only two VM

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Re: About FreeBSD hardware compatibility?

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:15:37AM +0800, aaron lewis wrote: > Hi, > I'm a freebsd lovers , i wonna install fbsd7.1 to my laptop (IBM > Thinkpad R400 a18). > There's no available informations on laptop compatibility lists. So do you > have any solutions to make a quick check if everything w

Re: 7.4 -> X -configure gives No devices to configure

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 09:26 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:31:43PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:42 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > Upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 made X unsuable on FBSD 7.1-stable i386. > > > I followed the UPDATE procedure

Re: Old user can't log in

On Feb 12, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Da Rock wrote: So you're talking in terms of the FS only? Nope. A filesystem might have ACL capability available in it's specification, but without kernel and userland support, that capability isn't accessible or meaningful. I thought you said the kernel wa

Re: recovering from a power outage

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:22:55 -0500 Robert Huff wrote: >> IMHO, if you are running a system where 'power outages' cannot >> be tolerated, why not install a UPS, they are really quite >> cheap, and be done with it? I cannot imagine any high end, >> mission critical system not employing one. > > P

Xorg - Resolution issues

Hi everyone, I got this TV : http://www.samsung.com/ca/consumer/detail/spec.do?group=tv&type=tv&subtype=lcd&model_cd=LN40A330J1DXZC&fullspec=F I'm trying to use it as my screen under FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE with a resolution of 1366x768 which is suposed to be suported by the TV, acording with th

Problems with xf86-video-ati driver (6.10.0)

Florent, I'm ccing you on this so you know about it. On an Intel dual core box running 7.1 RELEASE and Xorg 7.4, the radeon driver drives CPU to 100% and locks up the box. Keyboard and mouse input are ignored, and it's not possible to switch to another tty to escape from the problem. Kill won

Re: recovering from a power outage

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:22:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > Power outages are not the only thing which can cause (directly > or indirectly) file system corruption. Oh yes, that's so true - I experienced it in July 2008, and I still think it was a software problem... -- Polytropon >From Magd

Re: Assigning static ip address

Steve Bertrand wrote: >From what I understand (and correct me if I'm wrong): - you are working on a FreeBSD host system - you have a DHCP server on the network, but it is not on this host - you want to use all of the DHCP assigned parameters on the host, but you want to have a static IP on the h

Re: Xorg - Resolution issues

Maybe you can try Option "PreferredMode" "1366x768" in section Monitor? If it doesn't work, there's always an option to use xrandr via ~/.xinitrc: xrandr --size 1366x768 & xrandr --fb 1366x768 & I have a similar issue with the "ati" driver, using an ATI Radeon 9200 (RV2

FreeBSD 7.1 - rshd problems

I'm having problems getting "rsh/rshd" to work on my 7.1 installation. I have it configured the same as my 7.0 computer (which works fine) but when I try to run a command I get the following response: rsh u0610 ls rshd: Login incorrect. Thanks, Sam __

Re: Xorg - Resolution issues

Polytropon a écrit : Maybe you can try Option "PreferredMode" "1366x768" in section Monitor? If it doesn't work, there's always an option to use xrandr via ~/.xinitrc: xrandr --size 1366x768 & xrandr --fb 1366x768 & I have a similar issue with the "ati" driver, using

Re: Logcheck dependency hell

n j wrote: > could anyone help me what command should I use to find out which > logcheck-required port _exactly_ is trying to install half of the X > libraries? The Makefile says: | BUILD_DEPENDS= docbook-to-man:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/docbook-to-man | RUN_DEPENDS=lockfile:${PORTSDIR}/mail/proc

confontation

i need greek letters for math work. latex has the fonts of course, but i don't have the \mu \ro etc on regular programs such as inkscape. i've installed texcm-ttf, but only go a couple of greek letters. mathfonts don't install and i'm really not sure that mathmatica fonts are what i require anyway

Re: accents in file names

Ok, Thanks a lot... I will read carefully these articles... bye. daniel Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 12, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Daniel Leal wrote: is there a way to have a freebsd system with file names with accented words. Like "filé.txt" instead of "file.txt". Now if I copy a file with an accen

Re: confontation

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:07:00 -0800, prad wrote: > i need greek letters for math work. > > [...] > > any suggestions? I'm not sure if this helps you, but I've seen a font on an ancient "Windows" 3.11 installation that included all greek letters (uppercase and lowercase), but without special punc

Re: confontation

Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:07:00 -0800, prad wrote: i need greek letters for math work. [...] any suggestions? I'm not sure if this helps you, but I've seen a font on an ancient "Windows" 3.11 installation that included all greek letters (uppercase and lowercase), but without

Re: confontation

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:07:00PM -0800, prad wrote: > i need greek letters for math work. > > latex has the fonts of course, but i don't have the \mu \ro etc on > regular programs such as inkscape. > i've installed texcm-ttf, but only go a couple of greek letters. > mathfonts don't install and i

Re: confontation

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:06:56 +0100 Bernt Hansson wrote: > > i need greek letters for math work. > > Why? > i want to be able to put \theta or \mu into a drawing that i create with inkscape. i realize these things are available in xfig, but it would be handy if i could have a greek letter font

Re: Problems with xf86-video-ati driver (6.10.0)

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:34 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > Florent, I'm ccing you on this so you know about it. > > On an Intel dual core box running 7.1 RELEASE and Xorg 7.4, the radeon driver > drives CPU to 100% and locks up the box. Keyboard and mouse input are > ignored, > and it's not poss

Re: confontation

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:49:36 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > Was the font named "Symbol"? I can't remember, it's long time > ago. > ya i think that might have been it. there is a symbol in xfig. > But maybe you can check and find a TTF file that can be > imported to X and / or the application you use

Re: Old user can't log in

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Da Rock wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:48 -0500, John Almberg wrote: > > I've been following this thread with interest: are you saying FreeBSD > logins cannot handle more than 16 groups? If so, why? Is this mitigated > by using other authentication methods (ie k

Re: recovering from a power outage

On 2/13/09 7:22 AM, Robert Huff wrote: > >>IMHO, if you are running a system where 'power outages' cannot >>be tolerated, why not install a UPS, they are really quite >>cheap, and be done with it? I cannot imagine any high end, >>mission critical system not employing one. > >

Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to configure a catchall email account, and Exchange and I do not get along very well. So, today w

Re: Problems with xf86-video-ati driver (6.10.0)

--On February 13, 2009 7:38:04 PM -0600 Robert Noland wrote: There are no errors in the Xorg.0.log file, and the process of X startup appears to be perfectly normal. Switching to the vesa driver fixes the problem entirely. The radeon driver can be used, less than optimally, by disabling DRI

Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

Bobby Walker schrieb: So, today while brainstorming, I thought why not run FreeBSD as a guest OS on the box. Any suggestions for the best way of doing this? If it has to run on top of W2K3 server I would suggest VMware server 2.0 which can be used for free (as in free beer). Don't expect it

Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 22:32 -0600, Bobby Walker wrote: > I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. > I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing > additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to configure a > catchall email accoun

Upgrading gcc on FreeBSD 4.11

Hi all, One of my machines is running FreeBSD 4.11. It's a bit confused about its current incarnation of gcc: [sh...@agaliarept lang]$ pkg_info | grep gcc gcc-3.4.6_3,1 GNU Compiler Collection 3.4 [sh...@agaliarept lang]$ gcc -v Using builtin specs. gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD] An

How to interrupt hung boot process?

Working on updating a amd64 box from 7.0 to 7.1. A shell script called from rc.local hung. (Still don't know why, works fine in 7.0, works fine in 7.1 executed manually once system is up.) Tried ^C, ^\, ^P and nearly every other key on the keyboard. They echo, but nothing will interrupt the hung p

Re: Upgrading gcc on FreeBSD 4.11

On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:00 -0600, Shaun wrote: > Hi all, > > One of my machines is running FreeBSD 4.11. It's a bit confused about > its current incarnation of gcc: > > [sh...@agaliarept lang]$ pkg_info | grep gcc > gcc-3.4.6_3,1 GNU Compiler Collection 3.4 > [sh...@agaliarept lang]$ gcc -

Re: How to interrupt hung boot process?

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 22:32 +, Dieter wrote: > Working on updating a amd64 box from 7.0 to 7.1. > A shell script called from rc.local hung. > (Still don't know why, works fine in 7.0, works > fine in 7.1 executed manually once system is up.) > Tried ^C, ^\, ^P and nearly every other key on the

Re: Upgrading gcc on FreeBSD 4.11

Thanks Tim! I'm aware that 4.x has been EOL'd for a long time. This particular machine is tracking RELENG_4_11. Of course I'd love to upgrade, but I have no physical access. I've researched the potential paths from 4.11 to 5.x to 6.x, and while there are some success stories, there are horror s