dynamic mouse(d) acceleration

2005-01-10 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Dear list, is it possible to get dynamic mouse acceleration with Xorg? moused only supports linear acceleration. Everytime I have to work with windows I love to return to my FreeBSD Workstation, but I'm missing the windows mouse support. Even after years of acclimatization to X mouse, the windo

Re: console resolution on a T41

2005-01-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005 08:07 schrieb Galanaki, Dimitrios: > I am trying to increase the console resolution on my Thinkpad T41 which has > an ATI mobility radeon card. > > >From what I read the standard step is to add the lines following lines in > > the kernel configuration file: > options

Re: gmirror disk mirroring

2005-02-27 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 27. Februar 2005 03:54 schrieb Stephen Kelly: > Hi All, > > I'm having a problem trying to set up disk mirroring of two 80G Western > Digital IDE drives. I'm using the instructions at > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ > I've included these instructions at the end of this e-mail.

Re: OpenAFS server for FreeBSD ?

2005-02-28 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 28. Februar 2005 16:54 schrieb Heinrich Rebehn: > Hi all, > > i just wanted to know if there is an OpenAFS server available for > FreeBSD. I found only a client in the ports and also nothing about it in > the ml archive There is a special freebsd-afs Mailing list ( http://docs.freebsd.o

areca RAID (6) Controller knwon?

2005-03-02 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Dear all, I found the following very interesting RAID controller: http://www.starline.de/en/produkte/areca/ARC_PCI_Express/arc_1220.php It's said to be FreeBSD supported, but I have neither heard of the vendor nor of the FreeBSD driver. Does anybody know this card and perhaps has made experienc

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 3. März 2005 17:04 schrieb Ean Kingston: > > How dangerous is it to share the ports directory with jails on the > > system? I am using the jails to give other access to a freebsd system. > > You can assume they are untrusted (hence the jail ;)). > > > > Is it enough just to: > > l

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 4. März 2005 01:50 schrieb Daniel Eriksson: > Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > You can also use nullfs (man (8) mount_nullfs). It's slow and > > not certified to be bugfree but I never had any problems and > > especially for centralized ports very useful. > >

ttydX and xterm size (LINES and COLUMNS understanding)

2005-03-07 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Dear console gurus, when I open a xterm on the local machine, say with 100x37, vi and man recognizes the size and display the content correctly. If I use cu/tip in a 100x37 xterm "ls" works fine (uses all lines) as long as I start vi but man doesn't work (no scrolling possible). After the vi ses

Re: ttydX and xterm size (LINES and COLUMNS understanding)

2005-03-07 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 8. März 2005 08:29 schrieb Dan Nelson: > In the last episode (Mar 08), Emanuel Strobl said: > > When I open a xterm on the local machine, say with 100x37, vi and man > > recognizes the size and display the content correctly. If I use > > cu/tip in a 100x37 xterm

Re: in-kernel pppoe ?

2005-03-10 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 9. März 2005 17:32 schrieb J.D. Bronson: > Does 5.4PRE offer in-kernel pppoe to use to connect to my DSL ISP (pppoe)? Yes, you can use kernelmode PPP (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip.html) or netgraph (man 4 netgraph). For netgraph you need mpd

Re: installworld fails (5.4-PRE)

2005-03-10 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 10. März 2005 14:53 schrieb J.D. Bronson: > At 07:48 AM 03/10/2005, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > > shadow# cd /usr/include/dev > > > shadow# ls -al > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4210 Mar 2 17:00 acpica > > > > > > > > > and how do I fix this? > > > >The problem here is that the acp

Re: minicom and ugen

2005-03-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 11. März 2005 17:33 schrieb Paulo Roberto: > Hello, > > I am not able to use a usb/serial converter with minicom. I loaded ucom > and uplcom, but only ugen messages are printed on the console. > > ugen0: FTDI USB <-> Serial, rev 1.10/4.00, addr 2 > > I tried ugen0, ugen0.1 and ugen0.2 w

Re: minicom and ugen

2005-03-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 12. März 2005 01:42 schrieb Paulo Roberto: > Hello Emanuel, > > THanks for your help. My usbdevs -v: > > Controller /dev/usb0: > addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), > Intel(0x), rev 1.00 > port 1 powered > port 2 powered > Controller /dev/usb1: > add

Re: How to merge an unused partition.

2005-03-13 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 13. März 2005 05:35 schrieb Chris: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >On Saturday, 12 March 2005 at 21:09:47 -0600, Chris wrote: > >>Heya folks - here's my issue; I removed a OS from my drive and that freed > >>up 10 gig. I wish to "merge" the free 10 gig into my FreeBSD file system. > >>

Re: Serial console

2005-03-16 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 15. März 2005 12:37 schrieb Daniel Bye: [...] > The machine boots - you see the BIOS POST, the SATA controller comes up, > then you see FreeBSD's boot messages on the console. As soon as the > kernel launches, we get the login: prompt and then nothing. So, we know > the hardware work

Re: no patch whats going on

2005-03-17 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 18. März 2005 01:35 schrieb Colin Percival: > >>>On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:52:30AM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: > >>>http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12825/info/ > > For the benefit of people on -questions who didn't read my reply > on -security: This bug doesn't exist in FreeBSD, thus

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 18. März 2005 14:06 schrieb Christian Tischler: > Hi, > I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing > to set up an MS box at all. ??? Windows is a really good, well maintained standardized and secure piece of software compared to Exchange. I can't imagine wh

Re: x11 cookie expires after some time

2005-03-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 14. November 2004 19:28 schrieb Emanuel Strobl: > Dear all, > > perhaps someone can explain me why I can't execute a x-program via a ssh > session after some time (some hours). When I log into the machine > everything is fine and xclock or any other x11 applica

Re: ntpq:write to localhost.domain failed: no route to host

2005-03-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 18. März 2005 23:42 schrieb Feroz F. Basir: > Hi, > > I compiled ipfilter option in my kernel. As usual > reboot my machine. When I run "ntpq -p" I got an error > "ntpq:write to localhost.domain failed: no route to > host". Before I compiled in ipfilter, it worked. My > /etc/ipf.rules c

Re: /usr/ports/packages/

2005-03-19 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 19. März 2005 21:34 schrieb Gert Cuykens: > Does only portmanager create packages ? Or does make install also make > a package ? How can i tell them to put all the packages in the > /usr/ports/packages/ instead of the port application directory ? If "/usr/ports/packages" exists 'make p

Re: FreeBSD HOWTO: Software Mirror System Disk

2005-03-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 22. März 2005 22:01 schrieb Aaron Trumm: > Hello is anybody there? I don't know if I'm subscribed... > > I have a question...is this a typo?: > > gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad6 > > I get to that step and get the message "class not found" > > should it be?: > > gmirror insert boot /dev/ad

Re: AMD64 very slow!

2005-03-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 00:38 schrieb Boris Spirialitious: > I have opteron 246 system with 2 port intel em > card. We have test bed with about 200Kbs traffic > and we route through 5.3/i386 system. Load is > about 50%. With same settings, amd64 system run > with 85% load. How could be so slow?

Re: scp stalling

2005-03-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 00:51 schrieb Bob Ababurko: > Hello- > > I have two boxes that I am trying to transfer files between and for some > reasson I am getting annoting slow transfers. I am running > OpenSSH_3.8.1p1on the server end with freeBSD 5.3 and OpenSSH_3.5p1 with > freeBSD 4.9 on the

Re: AMD64 very slow!

2005-03-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 01:19 schrieb Boris Spirialitious: > -- Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 00:38 schrieb Boris > > > Spirialitious: > > > I have opteron 246 system with 2 port intel em > > > card. We have test

Re: Issue with FreeBSD, Compact Flash

2005-03-23 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 21:02 schrieb Matt Juszczak: > Howdy, > > Does anyone have any ideas on the following? Trying to load m0n0wall, > which uses a FreeBSD 5 kernel. Keep getting the boot errors you see in > the paste link below. > > http://paste.atopia.net/107 > > We really dont want to ha

quick timestamp question (ctime/mtime)

2005-03-24 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, is it possible that mtime of a file can be changed without also changing ctime? Vice versa is easy, chmod or similar will do that. But if I change mtime with touch, also ctime gets changed. I ask because I'm about writing a little backup script and want to be sure to capture every file o

Re: Issue with FreeBSD, Compact Flash

2005-03-25 Thread Emanuel Strobl
ing HD is no solution. Have you checked your card in any other (ata-mode) device? In what kind of hardware do you plug in your card, Soekris, EPIA, WRAP, or general IDE-CF adapter? -Harry > > :-( :-( > > Thank you, > > Matt > > Emanuel Strobl wrote: > >Am M

Re: Issue with FreeBSD, Compact Flash

2005-03-25 Thread Emanuel Strobl
essary DMA hardwired lines you need to disable ata_dma, > > though it's working fine. I'd perfer experimenting, using a rotating HD > > is no solution. Have you checked your card in any other (ata-mode) > > device? In what kind of hardware do you plug in your card,

Re: kaudiocreator

2005-03-26 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 25. März 2005 19:14 schrieb dick hoogendijk: > kaudiocreator is a nice program for extracting audio tracks and > converting them w/ almost any encoder. Only pittfall is hat kde is > needed. You can read audio tracks directly from ata CD-Drives with /dev/acd0t1 t2 t3 etc. You just have

ot: FWIW meaning? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE: panic in ffs_valloc]

2005-03-26 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 26. März 2005 23:19 schrieb Gary Kline: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:16:57PM +, Gary Kline wrote: [...] > > Yours, > > -- > > Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This is a FWIW, but the same thing is happening with DMA While I see this on questions@ - What does FWIW mean? I

Userland "dig/host" for lookups against /etc/hosts?

2005-03-27 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Dear all, my testbed lacks of Ethernet Ports so one machine has no connection to my DNS, no problem, there is something called /etc/hosts I thought. It works if I ping 'hostname', but how can I find out the IP of 'hostname' from the command line? dig and host want to contact the DNS server, also

Re: Userland "dig/host" for lookups against /etc/hosts?

2005-03-27 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 28. März 2005 08:23 schrieb Alexander Chamandy: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:17:31 +0200, Emanuel Strobl > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > my testbed lacks of Ethernet Ports so one machine has no connection to my > > DNS, no problem,

Re: Partitioning

2005-03-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 30. März 2005 07:24 schrieb Quinn Ellis: > Help! FreeBSDamsel in distress. > > I'm just starting out with this OS and already running into a problem. > Initially I installed FreeBSD onto a seperate hdd but that died. I have > a 120gig drive, that i want to partition into two 10gig driv

Re: How do I kill the console? (or how to make nullconsole work)

2005-03-30 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 30. März 2005 09:16 schrieb John Pettitt: > I'm running 5.4 BETA1 on a soekris 4801 board. The unit emulates a > console on a serial port. I want to use the serial port for my GPS so I > want the console messages from BSD to go away - an in particular I want > BSD to ignore inbound d

Re: sendmail

2005-03-31 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 1. April 2005 03:17 schrieb Gert Cuykens: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:03:09 -0500, wizlayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [***] > Its 5.5mb and my gmail doesnt want to sent it :( > > So how do you do that with the sendmail command ? Well, sendmail was designed to transport eMails. And eMails

Re: "multyple gateway" or "load balancing" on two channels

2005-04-02 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 2. April 2005 09:26 schrieb ÐÐÑ'ÑÐ ÐÐÑÑÐÑÐÐ: > Hello. > > How I use "subject" without help of providers side (wthout BGP, pptp etc.). You can use pf for multihomed routers, if you just want to use multiple lines for downloads. If you want to provide Webservices or anything similar wit

Re: FreeBSD server behind router-NAT; how to configure sendmail?

2005-04-02 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 2. April 2005 18:07 schrieb Rob: > Hi, > > My ISP provides me with a fixed IP address and a > registered hostname. > > I use a Sitecom DC-207 that serves as a plain router, > NAT and 4-port switch, to connect three Windows PCs > and one FreeBSD PC simultaneously to the internet. > > The

Re: blanking the console

2005-04-02 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 2. April 2005 23:11 schrieb dick hoogendijk: > OK, probably a stupid question. I can't find it though. Sorry. > How can I blank the screen on the console (terminal). Hmmm, "clear" is not what you mean? > Something like the linux "setterm -blank 60" which will blank the screen > after

Re: Boot manager

2005-04-03 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 19:07 schrieb Teilhard Knight: > Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several > OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together > with a Drive Overlay. Yes, I can strongly recommend gag. Very powerfull, yet very simple

Re: Boot manager

2005-04-03 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 20:36 schrieb Gert Cuykens: > On Apr 3, 2005 7:33 PM, Christopher Nehren > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 2005-04-03, Teilhard Knight scribbled these > > > > curious markings: > > > Could you recommend a good b

Re: HZ=1000 ?

2005-04-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 5. April 2005 01:09 schrieb John Pettitt: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Interestingly, HZ=100 has remained constant for decades (!), despite > >CPUs getting faster all the time. This is an excellent value for most > >typical usage patterns. Cranking it up should only be required for >

Re: Promise TX2 Rebuild via atacontrol??

2005-04-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 4. April 2005 23:29 schrieb Edgar Martinez: > All, > > > > I have a failed member in a RAID1 array and using atacontrol can see that > the status is degraded. I am curious if I can use atacontrol to rebuild the > array if the original array was built using the Promise BIOS utility. If I

Re: too many illegal connection attempts through ssh

2005-04-06 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2005 12:07 schrieb Erik Nørgaard: > Edwin D. Vinas wrote: > > shown below is snapshot of too many illegal attempts to login to my > > server from a suspicious hacker. this is taken from the > > "/var/log/auth.log". my question is, how do i automatically block an > > IP address

no (t)csh read builtin?

2005-04-08 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, how can I interactively read a variable from the command line with tcsh? The *[^c]sh command "read" doesn't exist, so how can I do it with csh? Thanks, -Harry pgp31USGx8RFH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Temperature Sensors on a Mini-ITX Board

2005-04-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2005 23:39 schrieb Andrew: > Does anyone know how to read the temperature sensors on a VIA Mini-ITX > board? I've tried xmbmon, lmmon and healthd but nothing seems to read > it/them. I can't find anything under the dev sysctl hierachy either. > > I can't see anything relevant

Re: usb console

2005-04-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 00:50 schrieb Gert Cuykens: > Is it possible to do the console thingie not with a null modem serial > cable but with a usb cable ? > > When you do the serial console, it means that you have a screen like > it was the other pc's screen, right ? With boot messages and Right

Re: restricting "fat jails"

2005-04-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 15:18 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > i was wondering exactly which files in /dev/ can be removed in a jail ? If we're talking about FreeBSD 5.x none, sinc it's devfs. You can control which devices are in a jail by creating jail_NAME_devfs_ruleset. > and i thought of a dir

Re: FreeBSD 4.7

2005-01-23 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 23. Januar 2005 10:31 schrieb agent0013: > Hello, i'm a very very newbie in FreeBSD, so i tried to install it and > start the X windows system, but when I type "startx" the screen stays > black, how can i do to laucnh it correctely ? thanks for you answer. Why FreeBSD 4.7? If you want

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-24 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 24. Januar 2005 06:17 schrieb Oliver Fuchs: > > In addition, was on OS running a window manager and the other not? Was > > one running ssh and the other not, was FBSD running Linux emu? ... Was > > one running (insert program) and the other not... > > In addition to this: > - how often

Re: sendmail issue

2005-02-09 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 16:15 schrieb saravanan ganapathy: > Hai , > > I am using 5.3 release with updated all the ports. > > I am facing a problem with sendmail. > > # pkg_info | grep sendmail > sendmail-8.13.3 Reliable, > # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sendmail.sh start > # netstat -an | grep

Re: sendmail issue

2005-02-10 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2005 06:04 schrieb saravanan ganapathy: > --- Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 16:15 schrieb saravanan [...] > > > which is in /etc/rc.d/sendmail > > > > Sendmail is part of the FreeBSD base

Re: DNS' bind 9 chrooted by default ?

2005-02-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 11. Februar 2005 23:29 schrieb kilim: > Hello, > > regarding Bind 9, here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bind9.htm >l > > its stated that the configuration file resides in > /var/named/etc/namedb/ and that bind will be chrooted automatically. > >

Re: How do I set the source address on a multi-homed host?

2005-02-15 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 12. Februar 2005 16:05 schrieb Daniela: > On Friday 11 February 2005 21:27, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: > > Daniela wrote: > > > I have two NICs (one inside and one outside interface) with NAT > > > activated. The problem is that every time I establish a connection with > > > a machine on

Re: Trouble with sshd in jail

2005-02-17 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 16. Februar 2005 16:35 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] > Then I start jail: > > #jail /jail testhost 161.66.11.2 /bin/sh /etc/rc > > Two problems: then jail startup, the message "Starting > sshd..." stops for 10 min. That's one. Then booting This is because the sshd startupscript gen

Re: Headless system or serial console

2005-02-17 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 23:57 schrieb Joachim Dagerot: > The handbook describes a way to install freeBSD to a headless system. > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-advanced >.html) > > I'm used to drag'n'drop(!) my 45kg 21" spare monitor in and out from the >

Re: 5.3 Buildworld on Via C3 fails

2005-02-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 18. Februar 2005 23:21 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > It seems like a safe assumption that 5.3-RELEASE was compiled for > > i386, because I was able to use it without any problems on the C3, > > including make buildworld/buildkernel/... If you did a buildworld/ > > installworld with som

Re: Ack, the mysql41-server port killed my box

2005-02-21 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 19. Februar 2005 12:06 schrieb Matt Rechkemmer: > Lately my FreeBSD 5.3R system has been running fine. Tonight I decided to > load the mysql 4.1.x port. After loading it, glancing at mysql-server.sh, > and firing it up, things went haywire. > > At the time I had two root sessions open

Re: The perennial vfs.usermount query

2005-06-16 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2005 04:18 schrieb Joe Altman: > 1) If this: > > $: more /etc/sysctl.conf > > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/sysctl.conf,v 1.8 2003/03/13 18:43:50 mux Exp $ > # > # This file is read when going to multi-user and its contents piped > # thru ``sysctl'' to adjust kernel values. ``m

Re: FreeBSD L2TP client

2005-06-20 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 20. Juni 2005 21:05 schrieb Andy Miller: > I am looking for a way to use FreeBSD as a L2TP VPN client. Does anyone > know of a way to do this. I found ng_l2tp, but I'm not quite sure how > to use it. If anyone has a good how-to, or can give me some direction, Check mpd from the ports

Re: removing freebsd bootloader

2005-06-23 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2005 19:25 schrieb Paulo Roberto: > Hello, > > How do I remove the FreeBSD bootloader from the MBR without touching > the slices? Without warranty, but fdisk -B should do the trick. I think it keeps the partition table and replaces the boot code of the MBR. Make sure the X

Re: uplcom a callin only device?

2005-06-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 10:55 schrieb Norbert Koch: > Hello. > > I'm trying to get a sub-to-rs232 adaptor running with FreeBSD-5. > The vendor of this adaptor is some chinese company named > High-Edge Tech, but as usbdevs shows, it identifies as > USB_VENDOR_PROLIFIC(0x067b) and USB_PRODUCT_PR

Re: uplcom a callin only device?

2005-06-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 16:32 schrieb Norbert Koch: > > 5.4 has the new uplcom driver which checks the revision maybe you > > can apply > > the cvs version to your 5.3 (guess). > > > > -Harry > > I tested this with RELENG_5 as of last week. Hmm, then you have the new uplcom driver... > The dev

Re: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 21:28 schrieb ptitoliv: > Hello everybody, > > I have 2 120 Go Drives installed on my FreeBSD 5.4 Box. I want to create > with these 2 disks a software RAID-1 solution. I wanted to use vinum but > lots of people say that vinum is very unstable on FreeBSD 5.4. So I am I c

Re: Serial Access

2005-07-07 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 8. Juli 2005 00:16 schrieb Frank de Bot: > Hi, > > My server support by bios remote access via the serial port. Configured > it, bios shows up on my terminal client. But as soon the FreeBSD has > been loaded. (Last message I get through was: "Press [enter] to boot > immedialty". > Is it

Re: two default routes

2005-07-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 18. Juli 2005 05:25 CEST schrieb Jon Falconer: > I have two ISP connections, a 45Mb and a 6Mb. Depending on what block of > local addresses a packet is coming from will determine which ISP I want > to send the packet out. In essence the default route used for a packet > depends on its so

Re: I have found a pc on the side curb

2005-07-19 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 19. Juli 2005 00:17 CEST schrieb Greg 'groggy' Lehey: > On Monday, 18 July 2005 at 11:13:42 -0400, Martin wrote: > > [missing attribution] > > > >> a pentium 133mhz with freebsd. I was woundering if there was away > >> around the login: admin password: * > >> > >> maybe there

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

2005-07-28 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 16:49 CEST schrieb Warren Block: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, FreeBsdBeni wrote: > > Is there an easy way to get to know the volume id or disclabel of a cd > > or dvd ? Mounting the cd/dvd just gives me the contents of the disc, > > but not its "name". > > In k3b one can ask

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2005 19:48 CEST schrieb Unix: > O. Hartmann wrote: > > Mike Jakubik wrote: > >> On Wed, August 10, 2005 6:37 am, Dmitry Mityugov said: > >>> There are Maxtor MaXLine II and III, and perhaps several other > >>> models, that are supposed to work 24/7. > >> > >> Right, i have a

(bourne)shell variable names containing a variable?

2005-10-20 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, I try to assign a value to a variable, but the variable should consist of another variable. Is this possible (in bourne shell)? Example: #!/bin/sh list="one two three four" for item in $list; do ${item}_present=yes done This doesn't work since the shell tries to execute "one_present=

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 19. September 2004 01:08 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 2 Major Issues: > > - FreeBSD has a processor affinity design issue > > - The core kernel issues with FreeBSD is the horrible threading > support.There is so much crap in FreeBSD kernel. The multithreading issue > in freebsd has been

Re: Portinstall problem (config.guess not found)

2004-09-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 21. September 2004 18:12 schrieb Philip Payne: > Ooer... this gets weirder... see below... > > > > Philip Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm getting the following error when trying to build any port. > > > > > > > > /usr/ports//work/config.guess: No such

Re: Any motherboard (AOpen) fan control software for FreeBSD?

2004-09-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 21. September 2004 20:40 schrieb Peter Olsson: > I'm searching for some software that will let me control the speed of > my motherboard fan and CPU fan. I have mainly AOpen motherboards and > I have become addicted to their SilentTek/SilentTek2 software for > windows. They only have th

Re: Ntpd assistance

2004-09-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 22. September 2004 17:19 schrieb alden.pierre: > /etc/rc.conf contains the following: > > ntpdate_enable="YES" > ntpdate_flags="timex.cs.columbia.edu" > xntpd_enable="YES"# Run ntpd Network Time Protocol > > /etc/ntpd.conf contains the following: ^ Correct me if

Re: Ntpd assistance

2004-09-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 22. September 2004 23:27 schrieb Bill Moran: > Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 22. September 2004 17:19 schrieb alden.pierre: > > > /etc/rc.conf contains the following: > > > > > > ntpdate_enable="

Re: Ntpd assistance

2004-09-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 22. September 2004 23:43 schrieb Bill Moran: [...] > > > I don't believe you can reliably run both ntpdate and xntpd. Besides, > > > > This is working because ntpdate is invoked only once at startup, which > > is, in my case, because of possible empty BIOS-Battery where the date > > w

Re: Portinstall problem (config.guess not found)

2004-09-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 01:54 schrieb Adam Smith: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:59:35PM +0100, Philip Payne said: > > Didn't use Konsole but I am using KDE. It appears to be a problem in > > aterm & xterm, but strangely not Eterm. > > Exactly what I found, too. Any compiles I do need to b

Re: Official wallpapers

2004-09-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 04:20 schrieb Alex de Kruijff: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:14:09PM +0200, Julien Gabel wrote: > > >>> The flame detail around the daemon (can't remember his name...) > > >>> is excellent. > > >> > > >> IIRC, that's "Beastie". ;) > > > > > > Beastie was one name us

Re: MBR not overwritable with dd?

2004-10-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 11. Oktober 2004 04:37 schrieb Jerry McAllister: > > I tried to null out the MBR with the BETA7 fixit CD with the follwoing=20 > > command: > > dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad0 count=3D16 > > > > After that fdsik still showed me a valid partition tabel! > > How? Does GEOM map the beginnin

Re: How to make the boot menu just like I want?

2004-10-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 11. Oktober 2004 13:03 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] > > I want the menu to show like: > > F1: Windows > > F5 Drive 1 > > The FreeBSD bootloader doesn't have this capability as > far as I am aware of. Your best best is to use the Windows > boot loader, install grub, lilo or some other

Re: ntop 3.0 in daemon mode not working

2004-10-16 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 16. Oktober 2004 20:13 schrieb matt virus: > Installed ntop 3.0 today, edited the ntop.sh shell script and when I run > the script ntop launches and I can connect to the webserver interface. > The frame cross the top loads, but when I click ANY link to look at the > reports, i get a pop

Re: Single Board Computers for FreeBSD

2004-09-27 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 27. September 2004 13:42 schrieb Omer Faruk Sen: > Hi, > > I need some suggestions (and maybe URL if you send) for Single Board > Computers that runs FreeBSD without any problem. > > I am sure there are lots of people here that use FreeBSD on a SBC for > different purposes. Can you point

Re: How do I turn off "preemption" (getting "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA")

2004-09-28 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 28. September 2004 18:36 schrieb Kris Kennaway: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:15:54PM -0400, bsdfsse wrote: > > I am getting "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" messages on my ad2 and ad3 > > hard-drives. I never get them on ad0 or the CD drive. I did some > > searching, and it sounds like I need t

Re: 5.3-BETAx Boot Problems

2004-09-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 29. September 2004 18:53 schrieb Pratt, Benjamin E.: > Hello, I am still trying to get FreeBSD Beta to work but am running into > problems when my system boots. The boot problem appears to be occurring > just > after the IDE drives are detected but before the root file system is > mou

Re: apache - how to redirect page not found

2004-10-02 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 3. Oktober 2004 01:10 schrieb David Banning: > I notice on some web sites when you try to load a page that does not > exist, it directs the users browser to another page. How do I set > that up in apache? Three different methods: -Use .htaccess, I dont have a syntax example handy. -U

Re: password files

2004-10-02 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 3. Oktober 2004 01:27 schrieb Anthony Philipp: > Hello, > Which password files do I need to copy over so that the users will still /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group, then do 'pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd'. -Harry > all be there, and and the passwords will all be the same. Thanks for t

Re: DHCP Client

2004-10-04 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 4. Oktober 2004 23:18 schrieb Daniel M: > How do I configure my FreeBSD to get IP from my DHCP? > (as a DHCP client) When using sysinstall (configure -> Networking -> Interfaces -> select your physical device) answer the question "Do you want to try DHCP configuration of the interface

Release Compiler options

2004-10-04 Thread Emanuel Strobl
I really spent some time tracing the make release, but couldn't find any way to modify the compiler flags for the release. Why do I need a populated /usr/obj if it's never touched? I really think I'm missing something. Two years ago I had no problems building specail 4.4-RELEASEs. Any hint is w

Re: Release Compiler options

2004-10-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 03:52 schrieb Haulmark, Chris: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Emanuel Strobl > > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 8:43 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > S

Re: Release Compiler options

2004-10-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 12:00 schrieb Matthew Seaman: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:45:09AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: [...] > > > There is an excellent hint for compiler flags to be found in the > > > 19.4.3 section of the FreeBSD handbook. > > > > Hm, this

Re: Anyone booting from RAID

2004-10-07 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 6. Oktober 2004 20:30 schrieb Brent Wiese: > I have an Intel motherboard with onboard SATA raid. It uses the Adaptec > ICH5 chip, which appears to be supported in the very latest 5.3-beta6. > > However, on install, it sees the individual disks (ad4 & ad6) instead of > the mirror. It's

Re: Does anybody...

2004-10-08 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2004 20:24 schrieb Thomas Sparrevohn: > Hi > > Does anybody know whether the 3Ware 9500 Series work with FreeBSD with RAID > 5 - I am considering buying one and the manual page for twe only mentions > the 8000 series and RAID 0/1 Look at twa. twe is not for the 9xxx serie

IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hi all, I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask some questions: So far I know how to generate s site-local address on basis of the MAC address of the interface. That's what FreeBSD does itself for INET6 enabled kernels. Now in the 24-16-24 scheme of th interface id part of the IPv6 address, th

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 20:53 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: > Hi all, > > I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask some questions: > > So far I know how to generate s site-local address on basis of the MAC > address of the interface. That's what FreeBSD does i

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 20:53 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: > Hi all, > > I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask some questions: Here are two more: How do I use the eui64 option of ifconfig? 'ifconfig fxp0 inet6 fe80:0:0:0:eui64 ' doesn't work! What&#x

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 22:48 CEST schrieb Michael W. Oliver: > On 2005-08-12T21:03:35+0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 20:53 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 22:48 CEST schrieb Michael W. Oliver: > On 2005-08-12T21:03:35+0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 20:53 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 13. August 2005 00:03 CEST schrieb Michael W. Oliver: > On 2005-08-12T22:56:19+0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 22:48 CEST schrieb Michael W. Oliver: > >> ifconfig fxp0 inet6 3ffe:dead:beef:cafe::/64 eui64 alias > > > > Hmmm, tha

Re: multiport serial reccomendations?

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 13. August 2005 01:14 CEST schrieb Danny Howard: > Hello, > > I'm looking to build a nanny box to provide maintenance services to my > servers. One of these services ought to be serial console access. I've > currently got an old Cyclades box in service, but I'm curious to just > sport

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-13 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 13. August 2005 10:53 CEST schrieb David Malone: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:53:20PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > Now in the 24-16-24 scheme of th interface id part of the IPv6 > > address, the 16 bits were inserted with the value FFFE. And bit 57 was > >

Simple IPv6 question [Was: Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails]

2005-08-15 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 21:24 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: > Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 20:53 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask some questions: > > Here are two more: > > How do I use the eui

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