How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

2006-07-28 Thread Chris T.
Im toying with the idea of setting up a mini-itx server so I can move the dns and firewall daemons off of the fileserver so I can turn it off. I'm thinking I want to get a flashrom ide adaptor so that I can swap setups on the thing by swapping cards. I don't see myself using 4GB flash cards

Re: [freebsd-questions] How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

2006-07-28 Thread Howard Jones
Chris T. wrote: Im toying with the idea of setting up a mini-itx server so I can move the dns and firewall daemons off of the fileserver so I can turn it off. I'm thinking I want to get a flashrom ide adaptor so that I can swap setups on the thing by swapping cards. I don't see myself using

Re: How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

2006-07-28 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Chris T. wrote: Im toying with the idea of setting up a mini-itx server so I can move the dns and firewall daemons off of the fileserver so I can turn it off. I'm thinking I want to get a flashrom ide adaptor so that I can swap setups on the thing by swapping cards. I don't see myself using

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Walt Pawley
At 6:30 PM -0600 7/27/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to allocate our shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period! That is not as easy as you make it out to be. WHat one might in the short term see as the best tool may

Re: How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

2006-07-28 Thread Matti J. Karki
On 7/28/06, Chris T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im toying with the idea of setting up a mini-itx server so I can move the dns and firewall daemons off of the fileserver so I can turn it off. I'm thinking I want to get a flashrom ide adaptor so that I can swap setups on the thing by swapping

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: What we really need is score card to keep track of the good and bad companies. Someone with initiative could have this up and running in a day or less... After it's up we can put a BIG HONKING LINK on the FreeBSD main page.

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread jan gestre
On 7/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Born, Clinton wrote: Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to allocate our shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period! That is not as easy as you make it out to be.

Re: qemu with tap networking on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-28 Thread Fabian Keil
mal content [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Followed instructions from various places and ended up with the following procedure: # kldload bridge.ko # sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=fxp0,tap0 # sysctl net.link.ether.bridge.enable=1 I don't think it's part of your problem, but on FreeBSD 6.1 it

Re: qemu with tap networking on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-28 Thread mal content
On 28/07/06, Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mal content [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Followed instructions from various places and ended up with the following procedure: # kldload bridge.ko # sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=fxp0,tap0 # sysctl net.link.ether.bridge.enable=1 I don't

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Amitabh Kant wrote: I see the whole issue this way: companies are free to choose whether to support FreeBSD or not, and I am free to choose/recommend their product in my installations. It's only when we start to speak with our money bags, that it will make commercial

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:25 PM, jan gestre wrote: On 7/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Born, Clinton wrote: Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to allocate our shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period!

Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-28 Thread User Freebsd
Okay, here is the challenge ... for vendors to 'take notice' of the fact that exist as a market, there really needs to be *some* numbers that ppl like -core, -advocacy and -marketing can use ... right now, there is nothing out there that can be considered either 'half the story', or just

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Amitabh Kant
On 7/29/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And my point is that those not supporting FreeBSD already don't care, since as far as they are concerned, their is no market for them to be losing not buying their products isn't telling them anything they didn't already believe ... The

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-28 Thread Atom Powers
On 7/28/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Towards that end, as a starter, I would like to encourage everyone out there running 1 or more FreeBSD boxes to go to http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes register all of your hosts, and install /usr/ports/sysutils/uptimec and get it

Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-28 Thread Gobbledegeek
I've wanted to try this for a long time, but I believed its not possible, but never asked anyone so Is it possible to have multiple freebsd slices (partitions) on a single disk ? For example, I already got a fbsd slice with partitions in it, now I want to add another

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 28, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Amitabh Kant wrote: On 7/29/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And my point is that those not supporting FreeBSD already don't care, since as far as they are concerned, their is no market for them to be losing not buying their products isn't telling

bsnmpd: send: Connection refused

2006-07-28 Thread James Long
I'm trying to implement the bsnmpd service on one of my machines. In rc.conf I have: # run the bsnmpd daemon, with debugging bsnmpd_enable=YES bsnmpd_flags=-c /etc/snmpd-test.config -d -D dump In hosts.allow, very near the top, I have: bsnmpd : ALL : allow Here is the diff of the sample

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-28 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Gobbledegeek wrote: I've wanted to try this for a long time, but I believed its not possible, but never asked anyone so Is it possible to have multiple freebsd slices (partitions) on a single disk? Sure. You'd be mounting filesystems from

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 02:25:51AM +0530, Gobbledegeek wrote: I've wanted to try this for a long time, but I believed its not possible, but never asked anyone so Is it possible to have multiple freebsd slices (partitions) on a single disk ? Yes, of course. For example, I

Free BSD sources

2006-07-28 Thread Kakinada Umamaheswar-W00231
Hi, I am new to FreeBSD, would like get the FreeBSD sources, the network sources like IP stack and natd. I was trying to find it from the FreeBSD web site also looked at the hand book. Any tar format source tree for FreeBSD would be a great help, appreciate any help in this regard. Thanks

Re: Free BSD sources

2006-07-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I am new to FreeBSD, would like get the FreeBSD sources, the network sources like IP stack and natd. I was trying to find it from the FreeBSD web site also looked at the hand book. Any tar format source tree for FreeBSD would be a great help, appreciate any help in this regard.

Real Time scheduling

2006-07-28 Thread David Godsey
I have seen a blurb on realtime scheduling with FreeBSD, however there weren't many details on it. I'm looking for things like: 1) Is it similar to an RTOS with preemption, or it is round robin? 2) What is the jitter? 3) how to use that feature. A positive attitude may not solve all your

Re: Free BSD sources

2006-07-28 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 28, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Kakinada Umamaheswar-W00231 wrote: I am new to FreeBSD, would like get the FreeBSD sources, the network sources like IP stack and natd. I was trying to find it from the FreeBSD web site also looked at the hand book. Any tar format source tree for FreeBSD would

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
I've wanted to try this for a long time, but I believed its not possible, but never asked anyone so Is it possible to have multiple freebsd slices (partitions) on a single disk ? For example, I already got a fbsd slice with partitions in it, now I want to add

Module Compilation Error in vnode.h, missing vnode_if.h

2006-07-28 Thread Can Sar
Hi, I am trying to compile a module for 6.0-RELEASE that includes vnode.h . Unfortunately even the simple test file below fails. It claims that sys/vnode_if.h is missing (which upon checking is true) and seems to be missing in general as well:

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:16:55PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: And my point is that those not supporting FreeBSD already don't care, since as far as they are concerned, their is no market for them to be losing not buying their products isn't telling them anything they didn't already

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/28/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:16:55PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: And my point is that those not supporting FreeBSD already don't care, since as far as they are concerned, their is no market for them to be losing not buying their products

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Atom Powers wrote: On 7/28/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Towards that end, as a starter, I would like to encourage everyone out there running 1 or more FreeBSD boxes to go to http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes register all of your hosts, and

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Joao Barros
And on the subject, has anyone noticed this email from someone @Promise to the scsi mailing list? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2006-July/002543.html -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Can't print to hplip+CUPS+LJ1160Le

2006-07-28 Thread Anish Mistry
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 06:44, Anthony Agelastos wrote: On Jul 25, 2006, at 11:22 PM, Anthony Agelastos wrote: If I wait even longer, /var/log/messages adds the following: /var/log/messages snip Jul 25 22:52:33 dell python: hpssd [ERROR] Not found Jul 25 22:52:33 dell python: [ERROR]

Re: X11/glx question

2006-07-28 Thread Robert Huff
Alex Zbyslaw writes: Is it possible that you have installed nvidia-driver in the past? Much to my astonishment, it was. It turns out to have been installed when I installed mplayer. Make sure nvidia-driver isn't installed now and (hateful I know) try re-installing

Retrieving email to be servered by imap

2006-07-28 Thread Chris T.
I want to offload my mailing list retrievals to my server. I regularly get 500 to 1000 emails on various list and offloading them would make my email client faster for regular mail. How can I auto retrieve retrieve email (pop3) every 10 minutes or so for storage in berkley db format so I can

Re: nVidia FX5200 Dual Head Configuration

2006-07-28 Thread Richard Ehrlich
re: Generic 586 box, FreeBSD 6.1, X11R6, KDE 3.5.1, nVidia XF5200. The attached 'xorg.conf' works for dual monitors on the above system. It needs to be located in the following directory: /etc/X11 xorg.conf.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/28/06, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/28/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Towards that end, as a starter, I would like to encourage everyone out there running 1 or more FreeBSD boxes to go to http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes register all of your hosts,

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-28 Thread Gobbledegeek
Thanks all. I have XP and linux share the xtended partition, and now I want to say bye bye linux (I need XP for worldwind s/w) . Ido not see the extended logical drives containing ext3 from sysinstall that is the problem. The cmdline freebsd fdisk feels like a throw back tp

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Amitabh Kant [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 6:15 PM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Amitabh Kant [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:38 PM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on

Re: Retrieving email to be servered by imap

2006-07-28 Thread Micah
Chris T. wrote: I want to offload my mailing list retrievals to my server. I regularly get 500 to 1000 emails on various list and offloading them would make my email client faster for regular mail. How can I auto retrieve retrieve email (pop3) every 10 minutes or so for storage in berkley

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-28 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/28/06, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/28/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Towards that end, as a starter, I would like to encourage everyone out there running 1 or more FreeBSD boxes to go to

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Born, Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Born, Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 10:24 AM Subject: RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 9:39 PM Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? On 7/28/06,

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/28/06, Xiao-Yong Jin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/28/06, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/28/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Towards that end, as a starter, I would like to encourage everyone out there running 1 or more

nVidia TwinView Dual Head problem

2006-07-28 Thread Richard Ehrlich
I am running freeBSD 6.1. I just installed an nVidia GeForce FX5200 PCI card. When I booted , both monitors echoed the boot sequence (Monitor1 a clone of Monitor0). I downloaded and installed the current nvidia driver: NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-8762. Then I installed KDE 3.5.3. I ran

RE: Xircom Cardbus ethernet 10/100+Modem 56

2006-07-28 Thread keyhell
Hi! I'm using such Xircom device without any problems. Now, FreeBSD 6.1, but before that 6.0, 5.4, .5.2.1 without problems too. Do you have an appropriate devices included into your kernel? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

fatal trap 12 error

2006-07-28 Thread Halid Faith
Hello I use FreeBSD6.0. The machine is be locked every week. it gives an error as below: I add to kernel multi cpu support. Also I haven't changed the kernel fatal trap 12: page default while in kernel mode cpuid=1 ; apic id = 00 fault code = supervisor write, page not present trap number =

Re: icmp packets - disabling via sysctl, or cisco switch ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 28 July 2006 06:15, User Freebsd wrote: Two part question here ... first part ... is there a way of just disabling icmp by setting a sysctl, so that a server just doesn't respond to them? No. You can do this using the firewall of your choice ipfw example ipfw add deny icmp from any

Re: question about ttys

2006-07-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mihai Velicu wrote: Hi ! I'm new in FreeBSD and I made a mistake. In the file ttys I changed to insecure all the lines and now I cannot log on even as root. Only in single user I can log on but I cannot modify the file ttys is said something this is a read only file system.

Re: icmp packets - disabling via sysctl, or cisco switch ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 28 July 2006 06:26, User Freebsd wrote: Just an appendum, but this is what I'm seeing in /var/log/messages right now: Jul 28 00:22:37 io kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 6255 to 200 packets/sec Jul 28 00:22:38 io kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 6515 to 200

Re: Boot and Install from USB?

2006-07-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/28/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: Floppy and CD-ROM drives, why do I need them? They take up to much chassis real estate and I never use them after the

blanking cd never returns to prompt

2006-07-28 Thread Cor van Wandelen
Hi, 'burncd -f /dev/acd0 blank' never returns to the prompt. However it properly blanks the cd. Does anyone know why it does not return to the prompt and/or how to solve it? Thanks, Cor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

ntpd on FreeBSD

2006-07-28 Thread Freminlins
Hello, After a power outaga (Level 3 at Goswell Road, London), all our FreeBSD machines came up OK. Nearly all of them had a problem though with ntpd. I'm guessing that most of these machines booted before the the ntp servers came up. What happens is that the machine runs two copies of ntpd:

What is difference between FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1?

2006-07-28 Thread Tom King
What is difference between FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1? Why two new versions at same time? Is FreeBSD Unix, Linux or something elese? Do Solaris programs or Linux graphical programs run on FreeBSD? Does it make more sense to port from Windows directly to Mac OS X or to FreeBSD first? What is the

Flagstar-Bank Online Website Has Been Upgraded

2006-07-28 Thread Flagstar-Bank
Flagstar Bank Online website has been upgraded. You will need to re-enroll your Flagstar Bank online profile to gain access to these changes. Simply enter your login information and follow the prompts. To re-enroll for Flagstar Bank Online [1]click here

Script File Error

2006-07-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
I have a script that I located on the internet and attempted to alter to suit my personal needs. Since I kind of suck at witting scripts, it is not working correctly. When run from the command line, it appears to work fine. However, when run from CRON, I receive this error message: [: -a:

Re: vr0 interface and VLAN tagging

2006-07-28 Thread William
Hi list, I've made some progress.. my rc.conf looks like this: cloned_interfaces=vlan100 vlan200 vlan254 ifconfig_vr0=up ifconfig_vlan100=inet 192.168.100.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 100 vlandev vr0 ifconfig_vlan200=inet 192.168.200.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 200 vlandev vr0

Re: nVidia TwinView Dual Head problem (Rev 1)

2006-07-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, July 28, 2006 01:42, Richard Ehrlich wrote: I am running freeBSD 6.1. I just installed an nVidia GeForce FX5200 PCI card. When I booted , both monitors echoed the boot sequence (Monitor1 a clone of Monitor0). I downloaded and installed the current nvidia driver:

Re: cant get to my shell!

2006-07-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, at 09:03:41 +, Marwan Sultan wrote: i tried to use fixit from sysinstall by using the emergency shell, to delete libmap.conf (asuming its cuzing the problem) but from the emergency shell u cannot see that file, In order

Re: icmp packets - disabling via sysctl, or cisco switch ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Bill Moran
User Freebsd wrote: Two part question here ... first part ... is there a way of just disabling icmp by setting a sysctl, so that a server just doesn't respond to them? second part ... is there a way of telling a cisco switch to drop all icmp packets, preferrably to all but an exception

Re: What is difference between FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1?

2006-07-28 Thread Matias
Tom King escribió: What is difference between FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1? You can view the differences yourself here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/relnotes.html http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.5R/relnotes.html Why two new versions at same time? 5.5 is a maintenance release of the 5.x

Re: Script File Error

2006-07-28 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Hi, You may correct the script by changing: if ! [ -a $PHISH ]; then ... with: if ! [ -x $PHISH ]; then ... Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Senior System administrator ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD tel. +359 2 921 7161 fax +359 2 921 7110 http://www.procreditbank.bg Disclaimer: The information

checksum

2006-07-28 Thread justin
I have a problem with the checksum in /usr/ports/net /cvsup. It stop installing because of the checksum not working. How can i disable the checksum?? Thanks in advance, Justin Schlingmann. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Subversion web development question.

2006-07-28 Thread Chris Shenton
I'd definitely go with SVN for a code repo. I use a couple different SVN servers on various teams I work with at my clients. I also set one up for myself for code I'm working without other coders, mainly so I could get at it from home, on the road, or some client's site; a laptop or two, a

Re: Script File Error

2006-07-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: Hi, You may correct the script by changing: if ! [ -a $PHISH ]; then ... with: if ! [ -x $PHISH ]; then ... According to this site: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_07_01.html that would not be correct. Anyway, I corrected it by

Re: Script File Error

2006-07-28 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
My error. Correct syntax shoud be: if [ ! -x $PHISH ]; then ... -x checks if file exists (which I hope is your case). And makes source more clean to read :) Ivailo Tanusheff Senior System administrator ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD tel. +359 2 921 7161 fax +359 2 921 7110

Berkeley db xml on FreeBSD

2006-07-28 Thread Mohamad Babaei
Hi, Has anybody installed Berkeley db XML on FreeBSD ? Thanks, Mo. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vr0 interface and VLAN tagging

2006-07-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
William wrote: [ ... ] Switch config has stayed the same, what I want to do now is do a one-liner on the vr0 interface so I can bring it up and set the speed duplex to 100/full. When I do: ifconfig_vr0=up media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex It doesnt seem to work, any ideas what I'm doing

Re: What is difference between FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1?

2006-07-28 Thread jan gestre
On 7/28/06, Tom King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is difference between FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1? the kernel, 6.1 supports more new devices Why two new versions at same time? 5.5 is what we call legacy releases, i think the development is still going although they stop releasing new versions

Re: icmp packets - disabling via sysctl, or cisco switch ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bill Moran wrote: User Freebsd wrote: Two part question here ... first part ... is there a way of just disabling icmp by setting a sysctl, so that a server just doesn't respond to them? second part ... is there a way of telling a cisco switch to drop all icmp packets, preferrably to all

X11/glx question

2006-07-28 Thread Robert Huff
In attempting to disgnose an issue, I ran into this: from Xorg.log (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.8762 Module class: X.Org Server

How to Change the Time Zone Rules?

2006-07-28 Thread Martin McCormick
The rules for determining the yearly start and end of daylight saving time in the United States have changed beginning in March of 2007. All the FreeBSD systems I am in charge of need new rules and I read an article that mentions FreeBSD and Linux and the /usr/share/zoneinfo data base

Re: How to Change the Time Zone Rules?

2006-07-28 Thread Carlos A. Carnero Delgado
Hello, On 7/28/06, Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is, How do I get there from here? See zic(8). It's very easy. Best regards, Carlos. -- nick grah windows just crashed again, unstable crap. yukito Windows isn't unstable, it's just spontaneous.

Re: X11/glx question

2006-07-28 Thread pete wright
On 7/28/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In attempting to disgnose an issue, I ran into this: from Xorg.log (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation compiled for 4.0.2, module

Re: X11/glx question

2006-07-28 Thread Robert Huff
pete wright writes: Hmm, I'd like to see your X.org config file. I am guessing you may have the Nvidia glx module or Nvidia graphics driver referenced in there. File is appended. Robert Huff Section ServerLayout Identifier XFree86

long, large rsync slows down over time ?

2006-07-28 Thread Ensel Sharon
I am moving a large number of files (about 40 GB, comprising almost 3.5 million files) from one machine to another using rsync. I am noticing that the longer this rsync process runs, the slower it seems to go, and the more CPU time it is taking on the destination (FreeBSD 6.1). Is there a

Re: X11/glx question

2006-07-28 Thread pete wright
On 7/28/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pete wright writes: Hmm, I'd like to see your X.org config file. I am guessing you may have the Nvidia glx module or Nvidia graphics driver referenced in there. File is appended. hmm...that's wierd. the glx and dri drivers

Re: X11/glx question

2006-07-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
pete wright wrote: On 7/28/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pete wright writes: Hmm, I'd like to see your X.org config file. I am guessing you may have the Nvidia glx module or Nvidia graphics driver referenced in there. File is appended. hmm...that's wierd. the

qemu with tap networking on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-28 Thread mal content
Hi. I've been having serious trouble with this. I posted a message in the qemu forum, but with only 30-something threads in the BSD section, I don't think it's really a good place to get a decent answer about BSD. A copy of the post follows: Followed instructions from various places and ended

Re: How to Change the Time Zone Rules?

2006-07-28 Thread Martin McCormick
Carlos A. Carnero Delgado writes: See zic(8). It's very easy. DAve writes: This was sent to me earlier on this list when I had to adjust for Indiana changing to DST. Worked like a champ. https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Resources/KnowledgeBase/Docs/20060128100824 Thank you both.

Re: X11/glx question

2006-07-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
pete wright wrote: On 7/28/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pete wright writes: Hmm, I'd like to see your X.org config file. I am guessing you may have the Nvidia glx module or Nvidia graphics driver referenced in there. hmm...that's wierd. the glx and dri drivers should

Re: long, large rsync slows down over time ?

2006-07-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ensel Sharon wrote: I am moving a large number of files (about 40 GB, comprising almost 3.5 million files) from one machine to another using rsync. I am noticing that the longer this rsync process runs, the slower it seems to go, and the more CPU time it is taking on the destination (FreeBSD

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2006-07-28 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2006-07-28 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: checksum

2006-07-28 Thread Fabian Keil
justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with the checksum in /usr/ports/net /cvsup. It stop installing because of the checksum not working. How can i disable the checksum?? Are you sure your ports tree is up to date? It works for me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net/cvsup $make

RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Born, Clinton
A predilection to evangelize tools that supports ones own belief in software superiority is what curtails our ability to move any platform forward. I would keep a hesitant eye on any individual that holds such fervent beliefs. I have old NT servers that have run Disney.com for several years and

Re: The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2006-07-28 Thread Bryan Bonifacio
Greetings, Mr. Lehey, Thanks for the great book! I am just starting to learn FreeBSD and I think The Complete FreeBSD plus the FreeBSD Handbook beats the heck out of any pair of books out there for Windows and even Linux! I own the fourth ed, by the way, but thank you for making it available for

Re: checksum

2006-07-28 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:21:26PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with the checksum in /usr/ports/net /cvsup. It stop installing because of the checksum not working. How can i disable the checksum?? Are you sure your ports tree is up to date?

Re: nVidia TwinView Dual Head problem (Rev 2)

2006-07-28 Thread Richard Ehrlich
Doug, I edited '/root/xorg.conf' per your suggestion (see attached). No change. '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' appears the same. It looks like the card sees Monitor1, because when I do anything on the KDE desktop on Monitor0 I can see changes in the color bands on Monitor1 (still a clone, although

Re: nVidia TwinView Dual Head problem (Rev 2)

2006-07-28 Thread Richard Ehrlich
Doug, I edited '/root/xorg.conf' per your suggestion (see attached). No change. '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' appears the same. It looks like the card sees Monitor1, because when I do anything on the KDE desktop on Monitor0 I can see changes in the color bands on Monitor1 (still a clone, although