Re: more then 2G shm on RELENG_7

2007-12-05 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
> Hello, > > I'm to test PostgreSQL on a 7-BETA3. The box has 12GB of memory in it, > I've adjusted the sysctls, but postgresql always fails to allocate the > SHM if it's bigger then 2GB. > > How can I make it to allocate more SHM than 2G at once? > > sysctl.conf: > kern.ipc.shmall=1572864 > ker

Re: freebsd log files

2006-03-31 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
On Friday 31 March 2006 08:25, Logan McNaughton wrote: > What log file stors things like system shutdown notices and that, I want to > run root-tail in my icewm background, and Im looking for the right log file > to show, i tried /var/log/messages, but it doesnt show shutdown notices, > can anyone

Re: Replacing hd

2004-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
On Saturday 17 July 2004 15:42, Mark wrote: > Hello, > I have a hd going bad. It is not the primary drive but is > ad2s1e > ad2s1f > > it holds /usr and /tmp > > How can I put in a new drive and copy everything over and not miss a beat. > if possible. > > THanks > Mark Hi! I did something like t

Re: Internet connection sharing

2004-07-18 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
On Sunday 18 July 2004 15:19, Stanley Wright wrote: > Hello All, > > What is the best way to share an internet connection between FreeBSD and > Linux and FreeBSD and windows. > > Thanks. > > Stanley > Good question. :) Well, make one of the machines a router. Preferably FreeBSD, Linux... Cheers,

Re: FreeBSD 5.3

2004-07-25 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! I guess when the stuff below is done... :) http://www.de.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/todo.html Cheers, Ben On Sunday 25 July 2004 15:41, Shamil Sabirov wrote: > Hello!!! I have question: > When FreeBSD 5.3 will be released? > Thanks. Bye. > > ___ >

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 + IBM ServeRAID + SMP?

2004-07-27 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! I have 5.2.1 running on an SMP machine and it works just fine. I never had any crashes. The machine is used for numerical calculations. I don't know about the RAID but SMP seems to work fine (for me). Cheers, Ben On Tuesday 27 July 2004 14:07, Joseph Koenig wrote: > Hello, > > I have an I

Re: C include question

2004-08-04 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! My stuff is also in /usr/X11R6/include/GL and I use to following line to compile: gcc -I /usr/X11R6/include/ -L /usr/X11R6/lib -lglut -lGLU -lGL -lXmu -lXext -lX11 -lm file.c Works for all the code examples given on www.opengl.org. Hope that helps Ben On Thursday 05 August 2004 00:41, y

Re: quick help ...

2004-12-28 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! 1. Well instead of pressing enter you can let the timeout occur. Standard is 10 seconds. If this is still too long add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: autoboot_delay=SECONDS However I would not go too short here, since you might want to able to go to i.e. single user mode. Btw whil

Re: Why can't I compile new kernel (fbsd5.3) with device ath?

2004-12-29 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi Just adding device ath is not enough. As your error messages suggest you also need to add "device ath_hal" to your config file... Ben On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 05:46, Eric F Crist wrote: > Hello all, > > I've copied /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC to ./GROG and added the line: > > device

Re: Help Please

2005-01-03 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hey! Disregarding the reason he might have had to take these actions, it should be easy to solve the problem if you have physical access to the machine. Just boot from a CD and change to passwords from there. There is many descriptions out there on how to do that in detail. HTH, Ben On Mon, 200

Re: Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration

2005-01-10 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
me to configure my system for Internet > Connection Sharing or do I have to tweak other settings? > I would really appreciate any help, hints, or advices... > Thank you in advance... > > By the way, since this is my first try in Internet Connection > Sharing...I a

Re: unplanned reboot failed

2005-01-11 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
//face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml > Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PR

Re: unplanned reboot failed

2005-01-11 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
t be better to just > > > rebuild this sandbox from the mini-iso... just need to recreate the > > > bootable floppies in that case, right? > > > > > > Marty > > > > > > > > > Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 > > >

Re: Networking problem

2004-04-18 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! I do have the same problem with my Intel Gigabit onboard NIC. The system detects it, but it doesn't work. Do you also get watchdog timeouts?? I traced it down to a PCI interrupt problem. dmesg: pcib2: could not get PCI interrupt routing table for \\_SB_.PCI0.CSAB - AE_NOT_FOUND

Re: make buildworld fails from 5.4->6.0

2005-12-05 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hey! You might want to have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html especially subsection 20.4.16.6. What do I do if something goes wrong Further, I believe that you run mergemaster -p before make installworld. Not buildworld, after all I believe bu

Re: Can't reboot

2005-12-05 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! The messages seem fine to me. However, I have no clue why it doesn't reboot. :) Ben On Monday 05 December 2005 03:59, Jose Borquez wrote: > I attempted to reboot my pc using FreeBSD 5.4 and it appears to begin > the process of rebooting and then I get the following message. After > this me

Re: make buildworld fails from 5.4->6.0

2005-12-05 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
On Monday 05 December 2005 09:51, Anthony Philipp wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:41:15AM +, > > Benjamin Sobotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey! > > > > You might want to have a look at > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/boo

Re: Dual Display

2005-12-05 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
On Saturday 03 December 2005 03:51, Darren Terry wrote: > I was wondering if any of you had a dual-head setup and if so what video > card were you using? > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: Dual Display

2005-12-06 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 04:07, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:15:35 + > > Benjamin Sobotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 03 December 2005 03:51, Darren Terry wrote: > > > I was wondering if any of you had a dual-head setup and if so

Re: SATA drive bootable ???

2004-08-17 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi I don't know about the controller but in general this should work. Just make proper adjustments in your BIOS. I'm booting FreeBSD from an SATA RAID0. Works perfectly fine. Cheers, Ben On Tuesday 17 August 2004 07:53, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Hi! > > I just started playing around with m

Re: The best release to install now?

2004-09-21 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi Well as far as I can tell from the upgrading point of view it make no difference whether you're coming from 5.2.1 or 5.3. Well I have 5.3BETA running on several machines without any problems. If I were you, I would try both. Install 5.2.1 to see if this works and then upgrade 5.3BETA. If an

Re: how to use an upgraded gcc compiler

2007-08-14 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
> Hi, > > I am running FreeBSD 6.2 Stable. The gcc version that was compiled in is > 3.4.6. I installed gcc 4.04. > > I'm trying to install libxml-ruby, and I need to use gcc 4.0x, apparently. > How do I use my newly installed gcc 4.04 to compile now? > > Charlie Hey Non-system gcc versions

Re: Asking for help on first installation

2007-02-19 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
> Hi FreeBSD folks, > > I'm a UNIX user for some time but now I'm trying to install my first > FreeBSD system > over the internet. I got along with the HW and pre-installation issues > easily, the disk space > is allocated, I know what to install. But I can't connect for download. > I'd like to as

Re: dualcore performance-smp technology

2007-02-23 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
> Hi folks, > > FreeBSD-6.2-amd64 > > Pls advice how to make FreeBSD fully utinize the benefit of dualcore. > In Linux I recompiled a smp-kernel then it used dualcore performance. > TIA > > > B.R. > Stephen Liu > Hi! I suggest you have a look at the output of "dmesg". More often than not,

Re: .wavs play but not .mp3s

2007-03-07 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:07:09 -0800 Von: David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org CC: Betreff: .wavs play but not .mp3s > Hello all, > > I'm not having any trouble playing .wav files; lame -h > seems to happily convert them, and m

Re: ext3 support

2007-03-08 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
> dear list, > > does freebsd 6.x support the ext3 filesystem? > > TIA > > zheyu > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Singlemode broken with USB keyboard

2005-09-06 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 17:55, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi, > > I am upgrading a system FBSD 5.4 to 6.0. I had tried to install 6.0 > BETA2 but it failed because the USB keyboard was not found. The PC is a > new Dell, it has no other connections for keyboard than USB so I can't > just use a lega

Re: Network interface restart

2007-05-09 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
> Op woensdag 09 mei 2007, schreef Sam Lawrance: > > Hi, > > > > Could someone please point out where I made the mistake? > > > > When your network interface went down, you lost the connection, your > > shell lost the terminal and your script was terminated before it > > could finish doing what

Re: FreeBSD and Asus A7N8X

2005-05-23 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi I don't know about your board but a quick search on google brought that link up: http://www.linorg.sc.usp.br/iso/FreeBSD/4.9/ If I were you I would definitely try 5.4. As far as I know alot of things were fixed. A more elaborate description of your problem might also yield better results

Re: WEBDAV on FreeBSD

2005-05-29 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
On Sunday 29 May 2005 19:09, Joshua Lewis wrote: > What port do I install to setup WebDav? > > Any how is webdav useful. > > Sincearly, > Joshua Lewis > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mobile: 951-637-9190 > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http:/

Re: 4.10 FBSD vs 5.x FBSD

2004-11-08 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
This might help to get a clearer picture. http://www.de.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html Section 3 contains the new features. Ben On Monday 08 November 2004 16:56, Laszlo Antal wrote: > Hi, > I am using 4.10 FBSD. Just started few months ago. My question is what > are the major di

Re: Soundcard Issues

2004-11-09 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! I'm not quite sure about this but try kldload snd_driver This will load every driver available. Then check /dev/sndstat again and see whether it found something. If it did you know that you just picked the wrong driver and it is be supported by something else. If it doesn't you're looking

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-09 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi This might help: http://www.de.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html You don't need to install any ports. BIND9 is part of the FreeBSD. Ben On Tuesday 09 November 2004 16:56, Andrew Smith wrote: > I want to setup a Caching DNS server for my network using FreeBSD 5.

Re: I did it, and now I need to undo it...

2004-11-10 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! Since single user doesn't work anymore I would try the use a LiveCD. Once you mounted your root partition you chroot in there and change the password. That should work. I didn't try, though. Ben On Wednesday 10 November 2004 19:29, Jules Gilbert wrote: > I need to reset my root password; I