Installing FreeBSD 4.5 (was: I'm confused...)

2004-12-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 11 December 2004 at 16:26:07 -0700, Charlie Sorsby wrote: > Is the installer for freeBSD 4.5 broken? > > I've long procrastinated updating to a more recent version of > freeBSD, mainly because I hate trying to get things back the way I > had them afterwards. > > Consequently, I've been

Re: Use /var for storing webpages.. Why???

2004-12-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 14 December 2004 at 22:05:20 -0600, Adam wrote: > On Tuesday, 14 December 2004 at 21:50:45 -0600, Adam wrote: >>> In Greg Lehey's book "The Complete FreeBSD" 4th edition, he says, >>> "Do not have a separate /var file system unless you have a good idea >>> how big it should be. A good

Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD

2004-12-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 11 December 2004 at 19:01:43 -0600, Jay Moore wrote: > On Sunday 05 December 2004 03:47 pm, Damien Hull wrote: >> I've been a FreeBSD user for a while now and I love it. I'm running 4.10 >> and plan on upgrading soon. I'm also an OpenBSD user but I tend to use >> it for firewalls and r

Re: Use /var for storing webpages.. Why???

2004-12-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Tuesday, 14 December 2004 at 21:50:45 -0600, Adam wrote: > In Greg Lehey's book "The Complete FreeBSD" 4th edition, he says, > "Do not have a separate /var file system unless you have a good idea > how

Re: using two keyboards at the same time

2004-12-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 December 2004 at 17:34:01 +0100, Norbert Koch wrote: > Hello. > > I know, the syscons driver does not allow to have > two keyboards attached at the same time. > > So my idea was to have a userland application which polls the > keyboard(s) currently _not_ attached to syscons using s

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 18 December 2004 at 11:50:02 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 11:57:35AM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: >> Hi, i've had my server up for over a year now and it's been rock solid >> but for the latest weeks the server has rebooted evert Saturday at >> exact 04:19:57

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 19 December 2004 at 23:35:18 +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:59:19 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Saturday, 18 December 2004 at 11:50:02 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 19 December 2004 at 23:42:20 +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:08:01 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sunday, 19 December 2004 at 23:35:18 +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: >>> On Mon, 20 Dec 200

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Please don't quote out of sequence. On Sunday, 19 December 2004 at 14:44:22 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > On Sunday, December 19, 2004 2:38 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 19 Decembe

Re: Change Bash-3.00 Prompt

2004-12-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 19 December 2004 at 21:04:35 -0600, Adam wrote: > I installed bash shell and now my prompt says "bash-3.00#" > > How do I change the text before the #? I'd like it to say bash# instead of > bash-3.00#. export PS1="bash# " Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original

Re: Older versions of FreeBSD

2004-12-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraph. On Sunday, 19 December 2004 at 22:33:48 -0500, Al Bincarousky wrote: > > I am looking for older versions of FreeBSD. Any version 3.5.1 to > 4.4. Is it possible to still download these versions? If not can

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 1:53:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or > openbsd that is available to purchase??? I've had good results with Dell laptops. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients.

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 15:52:27 +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:32:53PM +, Dick Davies typed: >> * Gerhard Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1207 12:07]: >>> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote: I have a machine with FreeBSD 5

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 December 2004 at 0:45:45 +, Dick Davies wrote: > * Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1224 00:24]: >> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:30:20AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 15:52:27 +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote:

Re: Desperate for Help

2004-12-21 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 December 2004 at 17:24:02 -0500, alfredo perez wrote: > Heloo list > > I have been trying to set up my FreeBSD 5.3 to get my emails with no > results. I have installed and set up Mutt, Ssmtp and Fetchmail. None of > them are working properly. I have no idea where to start first. I ha

Re: triple monitor hardware setup on FBSD - suggestions needed...

2004-12-25 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Saturday, 25 December 2004 at 17:45:49 -0800, Joe Schmoe wrote: > > I am currently running a triple-monitor setup under > winXP, with an extended desktop that stretches across > all three monitors. I like it. > > I would, however, like to use FreeBSD. > > So, first off, what hardware (video car

Re: Program Backward compatibility for FreeBSD 2.25

2004-12-27 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 14:34:34 +0700, Twatchai Saelao wrote: > Hi > I have 1 application develope on FreeBSD 2.2.5 (a long time but still > in use). I need to upgrade OS from 2.25 to 5.3 but Application can not > run of this version. > Message after call application is "cannot execute bin

Minimal system installation (was: What version)

2004-12-27 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: > A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It > only has a floppy drive. What version of FreeBSD do you recommend > and would you send me the link to download it. It's possible to run FreeBSD on a machine li

Re: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 14:25:39 -0500, Leon wrote: > Hi, > > I have a "BSD5.3" > I'm trying to set-up a printer.(Dell AIO A960) > I think, that this printer made by "Lexmark". > They have one looks like what I have(Lexmark X6170) > > I do not know if "BSD" support this printer. Neither, i

Re: Minimal system installation (was: What version)

2004-12-27 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 16:01:57 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: > On Monday, December 27, 2004 3:08 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: >>> A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ra

Re: Unsubscribe

2005-01-04 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 4 January 2005 at 20:51:26 -0600, Tom Bratland wrote: > Just got this: > > Mailing list removal confirmation notice for mailing list freebsd-chat > > We have received a request for the removal of your email address, > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing > list. ...

Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-04 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal wireless card to work?

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:19:16 +, Sarunas Vancevicius wrote: > On 16:52, Wed 05 Jan 05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >> of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Resequenced, time: 40 seconds. See http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 19:24:27 +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote: > On Wednesday, January 05, 2005 07:23, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:20:31 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >> of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. >&

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-06 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 7 January 2005 at 9:46:23 +1100, John Birrell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:52:43PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >> of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've

Re: I can't get anything from mailing list

2005-01-08 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 9 January 2005 at 1:36:24 +0800, Der wrote: > I was join this list yestoday, and I can't get anything from mailing > list. Did you get your confirmation that you're signed up? > Is it due to time zone ?? No. > Or what?? Difficult to say. My guess would be that something went wr

Re: Freebsd 5.3 Performance

2005-01-09 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 9 January 2005 at 20:48:56 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Your "point" doesn't address the lack of support for major chipsets, > so that users can utilitize the latest fast processors > available. The point is that those using 4.x because of its > performance advantages, cannot use i

Re: Kris' World

2005-01-14 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 14 January 2005 at 18:36:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a name? > In a message dated 1/14/05 5:56:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL > PROTECTED] writes: >>> Why are you abandoning support for new hardware in 4.x when you >>> admit that 5.x is not ready? It makes no s

Re: Mrs. Butterworth vs Vermont Maid

2005-01-18 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 19 January 2005 at 0:39:51 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: > On Jan 18 at 17:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ejaculated this: > >> In a message dated 1/18/05 4:41:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> Gary, >>> Maybe if you offered solutions instead of whining and bashing

Enabling Dell Inspiron 1150 touch pad?

2005-01-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
I've just installed 5.3-RELEASE on an Inspiron 1150 (some of you will have seen my questions about this machine a couple of weeks ago). I can't get the touch pad to work. I've tried installing a -CURRENT (as of yesterday) kernel, and there's no improvement. The relevant parts of the dmesg (from

Re: Enabling Dell Inspiron 1150 touch pad?

2005-01-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 19 January 2005 at 17:11:07 -0600, Hauan David A wrote: > On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:36 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> I've just installed 5.3-RELEASE on an Inspiron 1150 (some of >> you will have seen my questions about this machine

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-01 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 1 March 2005 at 19:43:38 -0300, Alejandro Pulver wrote: > Hello, > > I have a PS/2 PC-101 keyboard. > > I would like to use my META (ALT in my keyboard) key instead of ESC in > console mode. META works fine in an xterm. I also would like to use DEL > and others. > > [description omitte

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-01 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 1 March 2005 at 19:30:55 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > [ ... ] >>> And C-d acts as DEL. >> >> That doesn't sound very likely, though I haven't played around with >> the termcap entries. > > C

Re: Vinum raid5 problems......

2005-03-03 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 3 March 2005 at 15:35:31 -0600, matt virus wrote: > Hi all: > > I have a FBSD 5.2.1 box running vinum. 7 *160gb drives in a raid5 array. > > I can post specific errors and logs and such later, i'm away from the > box right now --- anybody have any thoughts ? How about http://www.vin

Re: How to merge an unused partition.

2005-03-12 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
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. > > Here's what she looks like via fdisk: > > Disk name: ad1

Re: Backup on DDS-4 tapes

2005-03-14 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 14 March 2005 at 10:38:02 +0100, Ludo Koren wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 for backup on DDS-4 tapes 40GB in size. > > ... > > Why I cannot dump the filesystem on 2 tapes (it takes 3, it seems it > works without compression) no matter if I use dump or cpio? What I am > do

Re: Ebay Phishing

2005-03-20 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 20 March 2005 at 18:50:18 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 07:41:00PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > >>> What do you have to edit? If you're in Comcast dynamic space, why not >>> just smarthost through their servers? >> >> Not referring to Comcast, but for Rogers whi

Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely

2005-03-22 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
Since you mention mail etiquette, 1. If you have an issue with mail format, reply privately. Yes, I'm violating this rule here, but only as a followup. 2. Please don't "bottom post". It's just as irritating as "top posting". Please trim messages to the minimum length that maintai

Re: Which Way to Partition.

2005-01-21 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 21 January 2005 at 22:01:14 -0500, Peterhin wrote: > I am new to FreeBSD, and have only used Linux for less than a year. > > I have read the "Handbook", also "FreeBSD An open-source system for your > personal computer", they both suggest that I do a standard installation, > whereas in "T

Re: Which Way to Partition.

2005-01-21 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 21 January 2005 at 22:14:13 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > On Friday, January 21, 2005 9:28 PM, stheg olloydson wrote: >> >> This is a bikeshed question, i.e. everyone is expert enough to have an >> opinion. As such this has been discussed numerous times on this list. >> search the ar

Re: Which Way to Partition.

2005-01-21 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Friday, 21 January 2005 at 20:58:35 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2005, at 19:32, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 21 January 2005 at 22:01:14 -0500, Peterh

Re: They reply ALL button !!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-01-27 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 27 January 2005 at 8:57:18 +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > Can someone please configure the mailing list so that freebsd-question > is in the TO: field and the sender in the CC: field so i can push > reply instead of reply all because i really think i am not the only > one after pushing

Re: DDB? Debugging kernel?

2005-01-28 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 27 January 2005 at 22:39:05 -0600, John wrote: > OK, folks - I've looked in the Handbook, and I've looked in > _The Complete FreeBSD_ and I just get more confused. > > Is the option DDB gone? In -CURRENT, yes. > If so, how do you get ddb functions like db_readline into the > kernel?

Re: BSD

2005-01-28 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 28 January 2005 at 23:09:12 +0100, DanGer wrote: > Hello freebsd, > > does BSD means Barkeley Software Distrubtion, or > Barkeley Software Design? No. It means "Berkeley Software Distribution". Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don'

Re: Proliant 5000

2005-01-31 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Gratuitous line breaks removed. On Sunday, 30 January 2005 at 19:36:32 -0600, Brad wrote: > Hi, I have recently acquired a Proliant 800 and a Proliant 5000 > server. The 800 installed quite cleanly and is currently running > Fr

Re: Proliant 5000

2005-01-31 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quote indentation corrected. Trimmed. On Monday, 31 January 2005 at 21:16:03 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2005 5:30 PM, Brad wrote: > On January 31, 2005 8:13 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> "Brad" <[E

Re: FreeBSD 4.x, vinum and vrlock ...

2005-02-01 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 31 January 2005 at 20:02:50 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > What exactly does this mean? > > /proc/43414/status:rsync 43414 42774 23799 14838 5,1 ctty 1107214940,71735 > 3,779921 33,791868 vrlock 0 0 0,0,0,2,3,4,5,20,31 - > /proc/43479/status:postgres 43479 144 144 144 -1,-1 noflags >

Re: Docs for Berkeley Make?

2005-02-01 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Broken wrapping. On Saturday, 29 January 2005 at 17:47:29 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > On Saturday, January 29, 2005 12:53 PM, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >> I just got the O'Reilly book on GNU Make, but I'd really like to >>

Re: Proliant 5000

2005-02-01 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Tuesday, 1 February 2005 at 21:54:18 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: 4 X 200MHz processors. 512Mb RAM Scsi hardware raid controller. >>> >>> That may be your problem. >> >> Depends on the RAID controller.

Re: Proliant 5000

2005-02-01 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] I'm really puzzled how the quotation levels got the way they were. On Wednesday, 2 February 2005 at 1:00:20 -0600, Brad wrote: > On February 2, 2005 12:37 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> Greg '

Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

2005-02-05 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Saturday, 5 February 2005 at 17:45:25 -0500, Peterhin wrote: > > Is it better to leave a computer (a stand alone) running continuously or > is it OK to shut it down at the end of the day.? > I remember years ago someone mentioned that it is better for the > circuitry to leave it running. > Any

Re: vinum in 4.x poor performer?

2005-02-08 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 8 February 2005 at 23:21:54 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I have a Dual-Xeon server with 4G of RAM, with its primary file system > consisting of 4x73G SCSI drives running RAID5 using vinum ... the > operating system is currently FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #1: Fri Oct 22 15:06:55 > ADT 20

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a This seems to have difficulty wrapping quotes. On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 10:52:24 -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:58:17AM -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: >>> I

Re: emacs on freebsd 5.3

2005-02-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 17:20:24 -0800, Tony Tung wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an unusual problem I was hoping someone could help me with. I have > a FreeBSD 5.3 server that's been up for longer than a month. In that > period, everything seemed fine. However, all of a sudden, I'm no longe

Re: emacs on freebsd 5.3

2005-02-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 17:32:07 -0800, Tony Tung wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 17:20:24 -0800, Tony Tung wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have an unusual problem I wa

Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 23:25:05 -0600, Dmitri Furman wrote: > Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I > spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. > Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have Nvidia vide

Re: Domain registration

2005-02-21 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 21 February 2005 at 20:53:24 -0500, Sean wrote: > Can anyone recommend the better companies for domain registration? gandi Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more info

Multiple X servers on one machine (was: Different OS's? Marketshare)

2005-02-23 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
This is an excellent idea of why the weekly "how to ask questions" message suggests changing the Subject: line to match changes in topic. I have been deleting this thread, and only by chance did I stumble on this message before deleting it. On Wednesday, 23 February 2005 at 21:05:30 -0600, Kevin K

Window managers (was: Different OS's? Marketshare)

2005-02-23 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 23 February 2005 at 22:51:26 -0500, Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > >> [...] I keep wondering if [...] I should just continue with FreeBSD >> and install X on the machine (and KDE, probably, since it seems to be >> popular, although I welcome sugges

Re: Where are the Xorg config files ?

2005-02-24 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 24 February 2005 at 22:59:54 +0100, Edward Lichtner wrote: > Hi all, > I installed FreeBSD 5.3 along with Xorg 6.7.0-9 and KDE 3.3.0-4. I started > KDE by creating an .xinitrc file in my home directory containing the line : > exec startkde > I then run startx and KDE starts up and work

Re: Where are the Xorg config files ?

2005-02-24 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 24 February 2005 at 22:26:52 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:01:27AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 24 February 2005 at 22:59:54 +0100, Edward Lichtner wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I installed FreeBSD 5.3 along

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 and RAID

2004-01-05 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 4 January 2004 at 23:45:05 -0700, Shawn Dillon wrote: > I will be upgrading our FreeBSD 5.0 box to 5.2 right away. I would > like to install 2 200GB WD IDE drives in a mirror. > > Basic research has shown me that Vinum should do the trick... > > Any advice before I take the plunge? RTF

Re: converting manpages to postscript

2004-01-05 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 5 January 2004 at 10:22:36 -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Monday 05 January 2004 10:17 am, Dru wrote: >> I'm trying to convert a manpage to postscript and have tried these 3 >> variants: >> >> groff -Tps -mandoc /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz > ls.ps >> groff -Tps -mdoc /usr/share/man/

Re: growfs problem [was Re: Adding a drive in vinum]

2004-01-06 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 6 January 2004 at 19:18:06 +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > Ok, I could not wait, so I did : > a create with : > drive vinumdrive1 device /dev/ad3e > sd name data.p0.s1 drive vinumdrive1 len 0 > > then : > attach data.p0.s1 data.p0 > > That worked well, I had a 115GB volume, I now have a

Re: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-01-10 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Saturday, 10 January 2004 at 12:01:26 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 03:48:12AM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:02:01PM -0800, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> 6. Unless there's a good reason to do otherwise, reply to the sender >>> and to FreeBSD-ques

Re: 3-4MB/s vinum performance with two Promise PDC20268 UDMA100 controllers

2004-01-15 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 15 January 2004 at 10:44:20 +0100, Bjorn Eikeland wrote: > Hi > > I had four 160G IDE drives in raid5 on a single controller and it worked > just fine, never benchmarked it since it was faster than the network > anyway. But when adding a second controller card and two more drives the >

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 19 January 2004 at 8:25:28 -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Content-Description: signed data > What do people here use to edit HTML documents? I usually use Dreamweaver, > but I haven't gotten the time to try to get wine working so I can run > Dreamweaver on FreeBSD. Is Dreamweaver output s

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 January 2004 at 10:35:14 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> At 2004-01-19T22:59:05Z, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I think Macromedia have soughted that all out by now in MX. Frankly i >>> havent found an editor for Unix that is as good as either Quanta or >>> Zend Studio or eve

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-20 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 21 January 2004 at 2:39:58 +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> That's your call. A number of us have good reasons, and that's why many >> of us use "bollox". > > i'm

Re: The Complete FreeBSD

2004-01-21 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 21 January 2004 at 18:28:40 -0600, Jamie wrote: > > I am looking into a personal copy of "The Complete FreeBSD", but I'd > like to get an edition which focuses on the 4.x series. From what I've > read, the fourth edition focuses primarily on 5.x. Is there a version of > "The Compl

Re: 5.2 and Dell Inspiron 5100

2004-01-29 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 29 January 2004 at 17:01:44 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 16:53, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: >> Hello - recently purchased a dell inspiron 5100. Out of the box, 5.2 >> installed wonderfully. More than wonderfully. The only issue I ran >> into was with X. I am u

Re: Grave vinum problem (at least for me)

2004-02-10 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 5 February 2004 at 6:48:18 +0100, Ole Voss wrote: > > Last night I reinstalled freebsd and obviously somewhere along the way my > 400GB concat vinum volume wasn't unmounted (at least that's what freebsd > told me). Now, when I run 'fsck -t ufs /dev/vinum/abyss' > > I get this: > > ti

Re: Fixing vinum after removing a HDD

2004-02-11 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 4 February 2004 at 19:52:03 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:41:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on a system with 5 HDD's. ad0 is to be removed >> from the system. ad1, ad2 and ad3 contain my vinum drives. FreeBSD resides >> on the

Re: documentation on FreeBSD kernel

2004-02-11 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome On Friday, 6 February 2004 at 10:13:46 +0100, Uwe Doering wrote: > LACOSTE Thierry wrote: >> Are there books equivalent to e.g. "Understanding the Linux kernel" >> concerning FreeBSD ? More precisely, book

Re: Vinum or HD error?

2004-02-12 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 1 February 2004 at 12:42:31 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > Hi, > > here is a transcript of vinum reporting an HD failure. I just > want to confirm this is really a HD error before the throw > the HD out the window > > vinum volume fs5 is really not mirrored (~ 29G of only 1 120g disk >

Re: Stack Backtraces -- disk related?

2004-02-12 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Thursday, 5 February 2004 at 15:40:06 -0800, David Benfell wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been getting these messages on my console and in my kernel log. > I'm noticing stuff in there that looks like it has to do with the > filesystem. Both the disks on this system are IDE disks, so yes, this >

Re: slice editor in sysinstall

2004-02-15 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Sunday, 15 February 2004 at 23:25:19 -0500, Aaron Peterson wrote: > after the install, can i run a curses based slice/partition editor like > those used in sysinstall without actually running sysinstall? No. But you can run sysinstall for only this function. There's a special 'w' command to w

Re: vinum raid5 subdisks keep changing length?

2004-02-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Monday, 16 February 2004 at 22:04:44 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: > Hi all, > > Running vinum on RELENG_4. > > No changes to source, vinum loaded as a KLD as per instructions in handbook & > man pages. > > As per the subject I am having what appears to be strange behaviour with vinum. > > After a nu

Re: vinum raid5 subdisks keep changing length?

2004-02-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 February 2004 at 11:39:26 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:51:30AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 16 February 2004 at 22:04:44 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: >>> The original config looked as so: >>> >>&g

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-17 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Log output wrapped. On Tuesday, 17 February 2004 at 14:27:51 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Hello, > > About 6 weeks ago one of the disks in my Vinum array crashed. > However, the major problem is now that the file system is corr

Re: Debugging kernel panics

2003-09-15 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 9 September 2003 at 3:46:07 -0400, Michael Reynolds wrote: > I've recently cvsup'd from 4.8-STABLE to 4.9-PRERELEASE. After a > reboot, my machine's kernel panics at the initialization of the xl1 > device (a 3com nic). I've checked out the FAQ on the site, under > advanced topics, r

Re: How to remove a vinum volume?

2003-09-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 17:06:17 +1000, Ekrem wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 04:36, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 7 September 2003 at 0:39:57 -0600, Samuel Chow wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I have the following vinum volume that I want to remove. >>> The disks will be reassigne

Re: why

2003-09-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 0:33:56 +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > why is it i can't connect? Because something's wrong. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more informat

Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 14:10:29 +0200, Hans Vledder wrote: > On Saturday, September 13, 2003 9:18 PM, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Last weekend I bought a couple of 802.11b/g wireless routers (AirLink, >> I think). These boxe

Re: why

2003-09-16 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 23:27:05 -0700, Dragoncrest wrote: > At 08:23 AM 9/17/03 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 0:33:56 +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: >>> why is it i can't connect? >> >> Because som

Re: Large vinum volume -- only showing as the size of one subdisk.

2003-09-18 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 18:53:55 +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up a large concatenated vinum volume. I want a volume > called ``data'' that is ~200GB in size. Each subdisk is ~100GB (the > same size). > > However, when I mount it it only shows up as ~100GB.

Re: why

2003-09-18 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 11:24:31 +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On 17 Sep Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 23:27:05 -0700, Dragoncrest wrote: >>> At 08:23 AM 9/17/03 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>>

Re: [OT] replacing fan with mismatched specs

2003-09-18 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 20:27:27 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > This is terribly OT, but I'm asking here for two reasons: > 1) I have no idea where else to ask > 2) I know that someone on this list will know the answer > > Here's the problem. I have a switch that has a fan in it that failed

Re: vinum question

2003-09-18 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 10:16:20 -0400, synrat wrote: > I created an additional mirrored volume in my system, but screwed up with > disklabel, so now the new volume shows up as stale, actually after I did > the second time with the right labels, I got a duplicate stale and > crashed. The

Re: Vinum and SoftUpdates

2003-09-18 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 17:15:35 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folks. > > I have a few boxes which have recently begun to behave rather badly - > frequent panics and lots of errors being spewed out during fsck on reboot. > I note that these particular boxes have one thing in common

Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-18 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Broken quoting. On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 12:30:15 +0200, Hans Vledder wrote: > On Wednesday, September 17, 2003 4:49 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 14:10:29

Re: "May be forged"?

2003-09-18 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 19 September 2003 at 0:56:04 +, Mark wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 2:44 AM > Subject: "May be forged"? > >> Thanks to Kris I found the new sendmail. :) But a slight anomaly occurs

Re: "May be forged"?

2003-09-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 19 September 2003 at 3:20:21 +, Mark wrote: > On Friday, September 19, 2003 2:44 AM, Mark wrote: >> Thanks to Kris I found the new sendmail. :) But a slight anomaly occurs in> 8.12.10: AUTH=server, relay=my-xp-machine.net [192.168.1.3] (may be forged), auth

Re: Question about freebsd.org

2003-09-19 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 19 September 2003 at 20:13:15 -0700, Dan wrote: > I emailed you some time ago regarding our site and am wondering if you had > time to get to it. This is a mailing list, not an individual. See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for more details. > I saw that you mention alldomains.c

Re: Disklabe oddity

2003-09-20 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Output wrapped. On Saturday, 20 September 2003 at 10:44:28 +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > I get a strange message from disklabel: > Warning, partition c doesn't start at 0! > Warning, partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! >

Re: Disklabe oddity

2003-09-20 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
> > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 10:59, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] >>> The disk was formatted by the FreeBSD install procedure. >> >> If you haven't changed anything here, it would be i

Re: SCO Group

2003-09-20 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Saturday, 20 September 2003 at 17:16:59 -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:07:53 -0700, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:15:01AM -0400, Ryck wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I've heard that SCO Group has an issue with Linux and is planning to sue

Re: Postfix against spam

2003-09-23 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Friday, 19 September 2003 at 22:44:13 -0700, Mark wrote: > I just posted a short tutorial on Postfix on my website that deals with > today's MS virus outbreak, take a look here: > http://samba.netfirms.com/postfix/postfixrules.pdf Interesting stuff, once I found a magnifying glass to read it wi

Re: vinum crashed disk error -- addendum

2003-09-23 Thread Greg &#x27;groggy&#x27; Lehey
On Tuesday, 23 September 2003 at 11:29:44 -0700, John Fox wrote: > Maybe it'll help if I give some more comprehensive information: > > vinum -> l > 3 drives: > D ide0e State: up Device /dev/ad0s1e Avail: 0/8063 MB (0%) > D ide2e State: up Device /dev

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