Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-02-27 Thread Pat Maddox
It doesn't only happen when I receive mail from my gmail account - it's with all email that passes through this server. On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:54:56 +1000, Timothy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: check your gmail account it's set to the wrong time zone or something. if date gives the correct

The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-02-06 - 2005-02-26

2005-02-27 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Rebooting removes libauthmysql.so

2005-02-27 Thread Pat Maddox
Whenever I reboot my machine, libauthmysql.so gets deleted, so I can't use courier-imap anymore. I can't figure out why it's doing it, and it's bugging the hell out of me. Anyone familiar with this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Question, is there any way or program that will let youclone/image a FreeBSD system

2005-02-27 Thread Volker Kindermann
Hi Andrew, Is there any way to do? I have read about with g4u, dd, dump/restore but they do not seems to be able to do create the clone/image on a secondary attached hard disk drive. g4u has definitely the ability to copy to another disk: --- 4.4 Copying a disk locally If you just

Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Pat Maddox writes: I forgot to give a bit of info. My local machine has the correct time of 10:05PM, and the server has the correct time of 11:05PM. If I send an email from a mail account on the server to gmail, it has the correct time. If I send an email from gmail back to the server,

Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-02-27 Thread Pat Maddox
I've included the headers of messages from both Gmail and Hotmail, to show that it's not on Gmail's end. Also, here's the output from date: %date Sun Feb 27 02:42:21 CET 2005 They should show up in my inbox as being received at 1:40am or so, but they show up as 6:40pm instead. From Gmail:

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
John writes: I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running it by hand. It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with. How much space have you got to play with? About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled up a few hundred megabytes,

Re: Constant mysterious SCSI errors

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dan Nelson writes: Try lowering the max tags for that drive: camcontrol tags da0 -N 32. Tried it. I still get the same error; it doesn't seem to have diminished. I get the queue full stuff in bursts, then the process trying to do the I/O stalls, then after 30-40 seconds I get one of those

Which app to watch movies?

2005-02-27 Thread bsdnooby
I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org. Am I supposed to install the codecs separately? Or should I be using a different video

Re: Which app to watch movies?

2005-02-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:24:16AM -0500, bsdnooby wrote: I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org. I use mplayer. Kris

Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Pat Maddox writes: I've included the headers of messages from both Gmail and Hotmail, to show that it's not on Gmail's end. Also, here's the output from date: %date Sun Feb 27 02:42:21 CET 2005 That can't be right. You sent your message in reply to a message I sent at 9:34 CET. The time

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: Cisco's online knowledgebase is far superior. Since Cisco equipment is outside my budget, I've never had any occasion to look at theirs, but I'll take your word for it. (Then again, hopefully I wouldn't _need_ the knowledgebase if I had Cisco gear.) -- Anthony

Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-02-27 Thread Pat Maddox
Alright, I got it all working now. Not sure how to change the time zone with config files, so I just used sysinstall to change it to MST (time zone is arbitrary, but since this is the zone I live in, it's convenient for me). Then I used ntpdate to sync it, and it's working well now. Thanks for

Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Pat Maddox writes: Alright, I got it all working now. Not sure how to change the time zone with config files, so I just used sysinstall to change it to MST (time zone is arbitrary, but since this is the zone I live in, it's convenient for me). Well, no, time zone isn't arbitrary, it needs

Re: I killed my system with grep

2005-02-27 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello FreeBSD friends: I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap. Yesterday I entered the command: # grep -R something / and after a while, my system did not respond. I do not remember the exact messages as I am on a winbugs at the University. The error

Matlab on FreeBSD 5.3

2005-02-27 Thread cali
I've tried installing Matlab 13 on FBSD5.3 according to the handbook but I can't get it to work. This is pretty annoying since it cost a lot of money. I was really stupid, in that, I had a years technical support from Mathwords, but kind of gave up because their suggestions got me nowhere and

Re: Matlab on FreeBSD 5.3

2005-02-27 Thread Santo Natale
Hi, I managed to install matlab 6.5 on a freebsd 5.3, but I can't tell you exactly how I did now, since I have no matlab here. I remember that I played a bit with scripts regarding the detection of architecture ( I just edited these scripts and forcely set environment variable to i386 or so )

glabel - refuses to label = g partitions

2005-02-27 Thread Peter Schuller
If I do: glabel label somelabel /dev/ad1s1g geom_label labels /dev/ad1 instead of /dev/ad1s1g[1]. However labeling /dev/ad1s1{a,b,d,e,f} worked fine. But /dev/ad1s1{g,h} does not (and probably not the rest above h either). Any idea what to do about it? I did some cursory checks to make sure

FreeBSD 5.3 and net.key.preferred_oldsa

2005-02-27 Thread John Doe
Hi, I am trying to use FreeBSD 5.3_Stable with the KAME implementation of IPSEC that comes standard with this version. I however get the message WARNING: sysctl net.key.preferred_oldsa does not exist when I put net.key.preferred_oldsa=0 in sysctl. I take it that this new variable has not yet

open office freeze

2005-02-27 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... i've been waiting for long time to start using open office tested it a long time ago on linux but didn't have enough patience to install it on my freebsd laptop. well finally - after 4 - 5 hours build of java ports and 12 hours (on a 2.2ghz laptop!?!?) of build of the oo-1.1 port

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-27 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Anthony Atkielski wrote: John writes: I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running it by hand. It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with. How much space have you got to play with? About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled up a

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-27 Thread Leonard Zettel
On Sunday 27 February 2005 04:01 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: John writes: I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running it by hand. It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with. How much space have you got to play with? About 2 GB total remaining on

Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How?

2005-02-27 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm running 5.3 STABLE. I need to change the MAC address of my PC. I know it can be done like this: ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66 So I guessed I could make life a little easier by adding this in my /etc/rc.conf file as: ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.123.2 netmask 255.255.255.0

recovering lost data

2005-02-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Everyone, I have a question in regards to file recovery, to be precise, recovering an entire directory [with files] that may have been deleted/moved. /usr1 FreeBSD Unix Filesystem (ufs) /dev/ad1s1d Yes Yes 2nd level directory on /usr1, /usr1/AudioDrive/spoken I had a quick

Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-02-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 03:10:12 -0700 Pat Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright, I got it all working now. Not sure how to change the time zone with config files, so I just used sysinstall to change it to MST (time zone is arbitrary, but since this is the zone I live in, it's convenient

FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid

2005-02-27 Thread Robert Slade
Hi, Sorry if this is dumb question. I have a new install of FreeBSD on a single IDE drive. I have backed this up so I am not too concerned about drive failure. I have now added 2, 250 Gbyte drives (ad3 and ad4) to hold data. I would like to mirror them using sofware raid and mount them as

Re: Kernel/Userland Mem-Space Tuning (1/3 on IA32)

2005-02-27 Thread David G. Lawrence
Hello. I read about address space division of recent operating systems like Linux and Windows XP. In both cases, the whole address space of the 32 or 64 Bit system is divided into halfes, 2GB for kernel, 2 GB for process(es) (speaking in 32Bit words). The same in 64bit systems like

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ramiro Aceves writes: If you have 2 GB remaining in /usr, install the ports tree, it will eat about 350 MB. I tried it. The system generates so many SCSI errors that it panics before the entire tree is installed. -- Anthony ___

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Leonard Zettel writes: My own experiences have given me a definite bias toward using the ports system to compile stuff to be added to my system rather than going with the binary packages. I get the impression that many port maintainers who are fairly careful about keeping their port

Re: recovering lost data

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question in regards to file recovery, to be precise, recovering an entire directory [with files] that may have been deleted/moved. Just restore from backup. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: XF86Config problem

2005-02-27 Thread Gerry Freymann
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 06:13:36 -0500 (EST) kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: problem with XF86Config. i did the configuration a few times. and tried different versions of the file... i get: (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration. fatal error: no screens found... Has

WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
I've gotten two messages like the ones below today on my production server (5.3-RELEASE): messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=4848803 messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out What do these messages

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid

2005-02-27 Thread Peter Schuller
I have read the manual and searched the web for a simple way to do the above. The manual seems to cover complex solutions and may be somewhat behind the times. Personally I would go for geom_mirror. See gmirror(8) ('man gmirror') for usage instructions including examples. Creating a mirror

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid

2005-02-27 Thread Ean Kingston
On February 27, 2005 08:59 am, Robert Slade wrote: Hi, Sorry if this is dumb question. I have a new install of FreeBSD on a single IDE drive. I have backed this up so I am not too concerned about drive failure. I have now added 2, 250 Gbyte drives (ad3 and ad4) to hold data. I would like to

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid

2005-02-27 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:59:35PM +, Robert Slade wrote: I have a new install of FreeBSD on a single IDE drive. I have backed this up so I am not too concerned about drive failure. I have now added 2, 250 Gbyte drives (ad3 and ad4) to hold data. I would like to mirror them using sofware

Re: Kernel/Userland Mem-Space Tuning (1/3 on IA32)

2005-02-27 Thread O. Hartmann
David G. Lawrence wrote: Hello. I read about address space division of recent operating systems like Linux and Windows XP. In both cases, the whole address space of the 32 or 64 Bit system is divided into halfes, 2GB for kernel, 2 GB for process(es) (speaking in 32Bit words). The same in 64bit

Re: updating system version of OpenSSH

2005-02-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
wo_shi_big_stomach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Phil Schulz wrote: If you can't afford to upgrade the base OS and you do not want to install OpenSSH from the ports Sorry, I wasn't clear. I have no problem installing or upgrading OpenSSH from ports. Indeed, that's all I know how to do.

Re: Kernel/Userland Mem-Space Tuning (1/3 on IA32)

2005-02-27 Thread David G. Lawrence
sure about the exakt syntax but I know someone can change the half by half parity towards 1 to 3 in XP). I'm not sure whether FreeBSD divides kernel/userland address space this way, I know Linux and Windows does and on Windows we changed this (not yet on Linux and not yet on our FreeBSD

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:53:30PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=4848803 messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out [...] Is there a way to work backwards

Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
I get an e-mail like the following every eleven minutes on my test system: = From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 27 16:55:00 2005 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:55:00 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel/Userland Mem-Space Tuning (1/3 on IA32)

2005-02-27 Thread O. Hartmann
David G. Lawrence wrote: sure about the exakt syntax but I know someone can change the half by half parity towards 1 to 3 in XP). I'm not sure whether FreeBSD divides kernel/userland address space this way, I know Linux and Windows does and on Windows we changed this (not yet on Linux and not

Re: Which app to watch movies?

2005-02-27 Thread Robert Huff
Kris Kennaway writes: I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org. I use mplayer. Same here, except for .rm

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Theoretically, one could use 'fsdb -r' in a scripted manner, to generate a mapping of file names to blocks (relative to the partition of the file system you are mapping). Once you have the blocks, you'll need to do so artithmetics to map those blocks to LBA address

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.

Optimising FreeBSD

2005-02-27 Thread Richard Danter
Hi all, I'm still fairly new to this, so I hope you all don't mind another question. Actually, several questions First let me explain what I have, then what I want to do. I have 2 machines which I want to run FreeBSD on. So far I have set one of them up, a P-II machine, as a file print

Re: complete rookie sendmail question

2005-02-27 Thread Ken Hawkins
Found out it was a firewall issue and that is open now. though my problem has gone from connection refused to: Feb 27 08:22:04 web1 sendmail[85505]: j1MIj4DI065443: ... delay=4+19:37:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=22920813, relay=bhost1.broadjam.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-27 Thread Marty Landman
At 10:47 PM 2/26/2005, wo_shi_big_stomach wrote: --- Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just can't help but notice that this is only a problem on my 5.3 box and not on the 4.8. you might try paging through dmesg | more to see if the system recognizes your interface on bootup. %dmesg |

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I get an e-mail like the following every eleven minutes on my test system: = From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 27 16:55:00 2005 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:55:00 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-27 Thread Marty Landman
At 11:32 PM 2/26/2005, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:06:41PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: I just can't help but notice that this is only a problem on my 5.3 box and not on the 4.8. AFAIK the config's are identical, although obviously I am still a newbie at this. As I said

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:58:31PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I get an e-mail like the following every eleven minutes on my test system: = From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 27 16:55:00 2005 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:55:00

Re: Optimising FreeBSD

2005-02-27 Thread RW
On Sunday 27 February 2005 16:32, Richard Danter wrote: ... I guess the last step is to recompile the ports I have installed. Is there a quick way to rebuild just the ports I have installed or do I need to go through them all one by one and 'make install clean' them? The easiest way is to use

RE: Optimising FreeBSD

2005-02-27 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Danter Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 22:03 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Optimising FreeBSD First, I think I need to edit the /etc/make.conf file. This is what

Re: I killed my system with grep

2005-02-27 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:42:48PM -0500, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Loren M. Lang thusly... On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:14:04PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap. Yesterday I entered the command:

smbus and freebsd 5.3

2005-02-27 Thread Andrea Riela
Hi folks, I've a mobo GA-7VT880 (Gigabyte with VIA KT880 chipset), and for monitoring the temperatures I've to use healthd or lmmon with SMB interface. Well, the man healthd and man lmmon say that I've to add in my kernel: controller smbus0 controller iicbus0 controller iicbb0

Re: open office freeze

2005-02-27 Thread Anish Mistry
On Sunday 27 February 2005 07:25 am, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... i've been waiting for long time to start using open office tested it a long time ago on linux but didn't have enough patience to install it on my freebsd laptop. well finally - after 4 - 5 hours build of java ports

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-27 Thread Eric F Crist
On Feb 26, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Marty Landman wrote: At 10:32 AM 2/26/2005, Eric F Crist wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: that the IP address for the 5.3 box gets changed on a fairly regular basis [snip] The 4.8 box's IP addr has been stable. The other thing you

Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64

2005-02-27 Thread RW
I'm thinking about upgrading my hardware from an Intel P3 to an AMD 64, and replacing the graphics card, without buying a new hard disk. Has anyone done this kind of thing successfully? I've recompiled kernel+world for 686 and I've done a portupgrade -fR on cvsup and portupgrade. Typical

No ports without ftp ?

2005-02-27 Thread Claudiu Bichir
Hello guys ! I'm on a LAN which has the ftp port blocked. Is there any chance for me to install aplications from ports ? Thank you ! - Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard.

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Roland Smith writes: The save-entropy script is being run from cron. See /etc/crontab. The first line of this script after the header begins with # This. It looks like the hash mark was removed, and the shell is trying to find the This command and fails. I checked both

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
David Fleck writes: As a wild guess, check to see that line 29 in /usr/libexec/save-entropy has a comment mark at the start of it: # This script is called by cron to store bits of randomness which are It does. It looks identical to the same file on my production system. The only difference

RE: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64

2005-02-27 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RW Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 23:06 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64 I'm thinking about upgrading my hardware from an Intel P3 to

RE: No ports without ftp ?

2005-02-27 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Claudiu Bichir Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 23:12 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: No ports without ftp ? Hello guys ! I'm on a LAN which has the ftp port blocked. Is

FW: Optimising FreeBSD

2005-02-27 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: Richard Danter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 23:13 To: Subhro Subject: Re: Optimising FreeBSD Subhro wrote: Yeh a rebuild of world is necessary. Well, not necessary but definitely recommended. So just to be clear,

Re: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64

2005-02-27 Thread RW
On Sunday 27 February 2005 17:49, Subhro wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RW Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 23:06 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64 I'm

Re: Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How?

2005-02-27 Thread J65nko BSD
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 05:54:49 -0800 (PST), Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running 5.3 STABLE. I need to change the MAC address of my PC. I know it can be done like this: ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66 So I guessed I could make life a little easier by adding this in

Re: Which app to watch movies?

2005-02-27 Thread bsdnooby
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:24:16AM -0500, bsdnooby wrote: I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org. I

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 05:19:32PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Theoretically, one could use 'fsdb -r' in a scripted manner, to generate a mapping of file names to blocks (relative to the partition of the file system you are mapping). Once you have the blocks,

Re: Which app to watch movies?

2005-02-27 Thread bsdnooby
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:24:16AM -0500, bsdnooby wrote: I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org. I

Re: Set user/group for installed files?

2005-02-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Brent Macnaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've looked everywhere and i can't seem to find anything. If I build software from source, when i do make install, I would like to be able to set the owner and group for the installed files at that time so I don't have to go searching all over the

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-27 Thread Ben Munat
Dru Lavigne's book BSD Hacks has a hack called Build a Port Without the Ports Tree which might be useful to you... and -- lucky you -- it's one of the sample hacks on O'Reilly's site: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bsdhks/chapter/hack82.pdf Ben Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ramiro Aceves writes: If

RE: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64

2005-02-27 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RW Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 23:29 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64 On Sunday 27 February 2005 17:49, Subhro wrote:

Re: Which app to watch movies?

2005-02-27 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:07:37 -0500 bsdnooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get an error when I try to install mplayer. Something about a fetch size mismatch on Blue-1.4.tar.bz. I'm not sure how to cut and paste the error, I thought the middle mouse button would cut from an xterm window, but

Re: No ports without ftp ?

2005-02-27 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 09:41:42AM -0800, Claudiu Bichir wrote: Hello guys ! I'm on a LAN which has the ftp port blocked. Is there any chance for me to install aplications from ports ? Thank you ! - Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you

tap interface, bridging and freebsd 5.3

2005-02-27 Thread Andrea Riela
Hi folks, I would test openvpn with bridging options, then I need a tap interface. I've compiled my kernel with device tap then 'kldload if_tap' via command line, but I don't see a tap interface in /dev or with ifconfig ... Obviously: tcpdump -i tap0 tcpdump: BIOCSETIF: tap0: Device not

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:44:16PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Roland Smith writes: The save-entropy script is being run from cron. See /etc/crontab. The first line of this script after the header begins with # This. It looks like the hash mark was removed, and the shell is trying to

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-27 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:46:47AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: [...] Ok, then the reason my DHCP server on my XP gateway would have to be discriminating between the boxes since it's consistently only happening to one box and not the other. Correct. It is possible to set up DHCP servers so

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid

2005-02-27 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 15:26, Ean Kingston wrote: On February 27, 2005 08:59 am, Robert Slade wrote: Hi, Sorry if this is dumb question. I have a new install of FreeBSD on a single IDE drive. I have backed this up so I am not too concerned about drive failure. I have now added 2, 250

Re: Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How?

2005-02-27 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Rob wrote: I'm running 5.3 STABLE. I need to change the MAC address of my PC. I know it can be done like this: ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66 So I guessed I could make life a little easier by adding this in my /etc/rc.conf file as: ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.123.2 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: Which app to watch movies?

2005-02-27 Thread bsdnooby
Miguel Mendez wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:07:37 -0500 bsdnooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get an error when I try to install mplayer. Something about a fetch size mismatch on Blue-1.4.tar.bz. I'm not sure how to cut and paste the error, I thought the middle mouse button would cut from an

Re: NAT rules in ppp

2005-02-27 Thread Jeff Penn
Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is the rule i presently have in my ppp.conf file nat port tcp 10.100.6.10:6881-6999 6881-6999 What im wanting to change without the need to use an actual FW is to have it so those ports are forwaded across my entire local subnet rather then a specific

Re: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64

2005-02-27 Thread RW
On Sunday 27 February 2005 18:12, Subhro wrote: As I said, I'm recompiling for 686 (which I think is pentium pro), my undestanding is that the AMD 64 is back-compatible to 686. Negative. AFAIK there are incompatible in both the ways. I found this thread:

Share connection with PF

2005-02-27 Thread Bachelier Vincent
Ok, I have FreeBSD 5.3 with PF. How to share connection from a routeur with only one network card ? My network is like that: Internet connection in DHCP, Routing computer, Workstation computer on a switch The router take connection by DHCP and share it to my Workstation The workstation use my

Blocking on multiple threads with timeout

2005-02-27 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
I have a few threads that might need as long as a minute or more to complete and terminate. If they exceed an arbitrary time, they can be canceled. In Win32, there is a 'wait on multiple objects' call. I'm not sure if it blocks or spins, but it *does* take a timeout argument. Is there a

Re: Which app to watch movies?

2005-02-27 Thread Randi Harper
Here is the error: = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/. fetch: ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2: size mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221733 = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/. fetch:

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: It does. It looks identical to the same file on my production system. The only difference is that I'm not getting this mystery message on my production system. What else might cause this? Hmmm. Well, I don't know, but I'd try running the save-entropy

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-27 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:25 PM 2/27/2005, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:46:47AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Ok, then the reason my DHCP server on my XP gateway would have to be discriminating between the boxes since it's consistently only happening to one box and not the other. Correct. It is

Re: Which app to watch movies?

2005-02-27 Thread bsdnooby
Randi Harper wrote: Here is the error: = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/. fetch: ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2: size mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221733 = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/. fetch:

missing XKB rules file

2005-02-27 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, I am getting a warning message during configuration of X.Org under FreeBSD 5.3: XKB rules file '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/' not found Keyboard XKB options will be set to default values. Press enter to continue, or ctrl-c to abort. I need the german XKB rules file and I think that

Re: Which app to watch movies?

2005-02-27 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:44:39 -0500 bsdnooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I need to try again in a few hours. I did a make deinstall clean distclean and then another make install clean, and it got the same error. The first time I tried to install, I got a screen where I picked what

Re: Matlab on FreeBSD 5.3

2005-02-27 Thread cali
I just got it to work, thanks to the encouragement of Santo Natale. One thing is the architechture, to fix this you can edit the matlab binary, which is actually a script gvim /usr/local/bin/matlab or whatever if you read down you will see some stuff about ARCH_LIST go down below the fucntion

How can I cut and paste from xterm _into_ another program ?

2005-02-27 Thread Joe Schmoe
Hi, I am using a very vanilla XFree86 installation on fbsd 5.3. I am using ratpoison as my window manager. If I highlight text in an xterm, it is immediately in my buffer, and I can paste it into that xterm, or any other xterm. Further, if I copy text in my web browser, I can paste it into all

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Roland Smith writes: Could it be that the cron output is mailed to someone else on the production machine? I checked my aliases and stuff and sent some test messages to operator, and they get through okay. Apparently it's not happening on my production box, only on the test box. It works OK

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
David Fleck writes: Hmmm. Well, I don't know, but I'd try running the save-entropy script manually and see if you can recreate the message that way. If so, add a -x to the first line #!/bin/sh -x and run it manually again - you should be able to see what command precedes the

Re: complete rookie sendmail question

2005-02-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-02-27 11:44, Ken Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found out it was a firewall issue and that is open now. though my problem has gone from connection refused to: Feb 27 08:22:04 web1 sendmail[85505]: j1MIj4DI065443: ... delay=4+19:37:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=22920813,

Re: XF86Config problem

2005-02-27 Thread Stevan Tiefert
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, kalin mintchev wrote: hi... problem with XF86Config. i did the configuration a few times. and tried different versions of the file... i get: (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration. fatal error: no screens found... this is on an old amd machine

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:53:30 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: I've gotten two messages like the ones below today on my production server (5.3-RELEASE): messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=4848803 messages:Feb 27

Interjet requires warm reboot from 5.x boot loader?

2005-02-27 Thread Royce Williams
When warm/cold booting an Interjet under FreeBSD 5.2.1 or 5.3 (vanilla installs), kernel loading fails. The only workaround I've figured out so far is to reboot from the boot loader OK prompt, as shown below. I'm not skilled in the hardware troubleshooting arena, so I'm stumped. I've searched

Re: Optimising FreeBSD

2005-02-27 Thread Adam McMaster
On 27 Feb 2005, at 16:32, Richard Danter wrote: Assuming the settings above are right, now I guess I can rebuild my kernel again without changing the configuration but I should now have p2 specific code? Is there anything in the kernel config file I need to check? Do I even need to rebuild

Re: How can I cut and paste from xterm _into_ another program ?

2005-02-27 Thread Adam McMaster
On 27 Feb 2005, at 20:16, Joe Schmoe wrote: Hi, I am using a very vanilla XFree86 installation on fbsd 5.3. I am using ratpoison as my window manager. If I highlight text in an xterm, it is immediately in my buffer, and I can paste it into that xterm, or any other xterm. Further, if I copy text

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Leonard Zettel wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 04:01 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: John writes: If space is tight, running make distclean after make install helps, as does periodically deleting the contents of /usr/ports/distfiles Does pkg_add do this? There's no need for [one

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