Re: switching from linux to freebsd

2006-08-02 Thread Erik Norgaard
Yuan, Jue wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 23:18, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Yuan, Jue wrote: What about the first question? curious too :-) http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ is a good bookmark to have when you accidentially delete a post you later want to look at. Hi.

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

2006-08-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Xiao-Yong Jin [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 1:12 PM Subject: Re: Gotta

octave - problem with fsolve

2006-08-02 Thread Malcolm Kay
I installed octave-2.1.73 under FreeBSD 5.4 using the FreeBSD ports. This seems to be a very useful mathematical processor. Unfortunately the 'fsolve' function seems not to work. It seems always to return the given starting point value and a status of -1. Is this a known issue? Does anyone have

Re: iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-02 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, Scott! Ok guys, time for a small breather here. All these claims about EoE and orphanage and whatnot are a bit premature and underinformed. I only stated that according to ICP Vortex Germany the GDT products are EOE and ICP Vortex will not provide an updated driver for FreeBSD. Nothing

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

2006-08-02 Thread Yuan, Jue
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 14:23, Erik Norgaard wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 23:18, Erik Nørgaard wrote: I thought you wanted to know what the first question was (since I had deleted that from my reply), if you had accidentially deleted OP. Obviously, I didn't answer it because I

Re: spamfilter

2006-08-02 Thread jdow
Precisely how is this different from the basic SpamAssassin capabilities either via MySQL or via user accounts? I use per user BAYES filtering and per user rules and scores on the machine here. {^_^} Joanne - Original Message - From: User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want a

Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/1/06, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:04, Bill Moran wrote: In response to David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am

Re: Using dnscache locally with FBSD 6.x

2006-08-02 Thread Mark Powell
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Bill Moran wrote: However, I use svscan to start up dnscache, and that starts very late in the boot. That means I can't just have the single nameserver 127.0.0.1 line in resolv.conf, as every lookup would timeout until dnscache started. That means I need to replace

devd problem?

2006-08-02 Thread Johnny Choque
Hi all, I has been testing the execution of some commands after inserting and removing a wireless pc card, using the rules of devd.conf and I've noticed quite a strange behavior with devd. I have used it in debug mode, thus running 'devd -dD', in order to see the rules that will be happening.

Understanding top and memory usage

2006-08-02 Thread Philip Radford
Hi All, This is a question which probably applies to all unix based OS as well as FreeBSD. When using the top command I get the following in regards to memory usage. Mem: 223M Active, 970M Inact, 175M Wired, 50M Cache, 112M Buf, 73M Free Swap: 3029M Total, 12K Used, 3029M Free Can someone

gcc: cpp pre-defined variables

2006-08-02 Thread Lorin Lund
How can I find all the variables that are pre-defined in the pre-processor. Do these come from a configuration file? Or are the compiled in to cpp when it is ported to a platform? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: a good web statistics port?

2006-08-02 Thread Simon Phoenix
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 04:48, Jonathan Horne wrote: something other than webalizer? i would really prefer awstats, but its been in command injection limbo forever. can someone recommand something better than webalizer, that is preferrably searchable and sortable, etc etc? thanks in

Re: Running Windows Server in a VM?

2006-08-02 Thread Simon Phoenix
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 20:41, Atom Powers wrote: Simple question: Has anybody had any success running Windows Server 2003 in a VM on FreeBSD? If so, which VM product did you use? Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition run under QEMU 0.8.1 fine. (FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE) -- Best regards, Simon

Changing user password from command line

2006-08-02 Thread Mike Fern
Dear all, Does anybody know a program which is able to change user password from command line? We can add a user using single line pw (pw useradd), but i need ability to set the password also, instead of old command passwd user and then writing to stdin. Any ideas, suggestion?

Re: FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-08-02 Thread Harald Muehlboeck
Dylan Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does FreeBSD contain only free software? see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD#License FreeBSD contains software licensed under BSD-License, LGPL, GPL (which restricts redistribution without making the source code available), IP-FILTER (which does not

kernel debug questions: dual serial consolegdb

2006-08-02 Thread Eugeny Kuzakov
hi guys! I have some problems w/ promise SATAII tx2plus and blutooth stack under -current-stable. I want enable serial console then run gdb at time of kernel panics/etc... I have entered following: 1. /boot/loader.conf: ... comconsole_speed=115200 console=comconsole ... 2. cat /boot.config

Re: need help troubleshooting man

2006-08-02 Thread Matti J. Karki
On 8/1/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i remember a thread from a few weeks back, that i followed closely, but was never able to resolve my issue as the original poster did. i have a 6.1-STABLE system that the bulk of my mans to not work, but some that are recently installed from

Re: Unable to Print

2006-08-02 Thread Gerard Seibert
Garance A Drosehn wrote: On August 1/2006, I (Garance) wrote: Check to see if you have multiple versions of 'lpr' running. *If* you do, then the results that you see will probably depend on which version you run. What I meant to say was: Check to see if you have multiple versions of

Re: Unable to Print

2006-08-02 Thread Gerard Seibert
Garance A Drosehn wrote: On August 1/2006, I (Garance) wrote: Check to see if you have multiple versions of 'lpr' running. *If* you do, then the results that you see will probably depend on which version you run. What I meant to say was: Check to see if you have multiple versions of

Re: portsdb output and portaudit question

2006-08-02 Thread Gerard
jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] the box's running for almost 2 months now setup as webmail server, the only thing i removed was the linux compatible applications since i have no plans of installing linux. i ran pkgdb -F and pkgdb -fu to no avail, after doing cvsup this morning, ran portsdb

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.5 port build error

2006-08-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:11:27PM +0530, Chandan Haldar wrote: Having another crack at building firefox 1.5 on FreeBSD 6.0 Release... Anyone knows what this cryptic error could be due to? Thanks in advance. Chandan === Extracting for firefox-1.5.0.5,1 = Checksum OK for

Re: a good web statistics port?

2006-08-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i would really prefer awstats, but its been in command injection limbo forever. awstats isn't nearly as dangerous as the advisories make it out. The last few security problems only apply to systems where awstats is configured to allow you to

Re: Using dnscache locally with FBSD 6.x

2006-08-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Mark Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Bill Moran wrote: However, I use svscan to start up dnscache, and that starts very late in the boot. That means I can't just have the single nameserver 127.0.0.1 line in resolv.conf, as every lookup would timeout until

Weird result of portupgrade -aRr concerning pkgconfig or is it pkg-config?

2006-08-02 Thread Bobby Knight
HelloNewly installed 6.1. Barely touched ports so one would expect it to work, yet it fails brutally for me as a new user when I do portupgrade -arR just to upgrade a few packages.I have no clue why and what to do so I am hoping someone here knows. Can't see what I have done wrong.

Re: watchdog question.

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Moran wrote: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 20:39, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, I've a freeBSD box and I've been seeing this message for several months: sis0 watchdog timeout. The box has two ethernet cards, sis0 (100mb) and vr0 (10mb). The messages isn't

Re: spamfilter

2006-08-02 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 1 August 2006, at 22:55, User Freebsd wrote: If you want a truly user-friendly spam/virus solution, check out: http://www.renaissoft.com/maia/ I have this backing 200 VPS, including postgresql.org itself, and its literally a dream Misuse of literally - but I can second that

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

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Atom Powers wrote: It's still going to take you at least a release to get it into the base install. But if you can find a way to use the portsnap data and get useful information out of the cvsup data you can probably get numbers now with an error margin as low as 8% to 15%. Hey, I said that

Re: Changing user password from command line

2006-08-02 Thread Simon Phoenix
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 12:48, Mike Fern wrote: Dear all, Does anybody know a program which is able to change user password from command line? We can add a user using single line pw (pw useradd), but i need ability to set the password also, instead of old command passwd user and then

Re: watchdog question.

2006-08-02 Thread efrenba
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 20:39, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, I've a freeBSD box and I've been seeing this message for several months: sis0 watchdog timeout. The box has two ethernet cards, sis0 (100mb) and vr0 (10mb). The messages isn't frequent but yesterday it got my attention. What does

Re: watchdog question.

2006-08-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 20:39, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, I've a freeBSD box and I've been seeing this message for several months: sis0 watchdog timeout. The box has two ethernet cards, sis0 (100mb) and vr0 (10mb). The messages isn't frequent

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Richard Morse
On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Richard Morse wrote: Hi! I recently updated MySQL to version 5.0.22 using the ports system (portupgrade -r -R mysql-\*). Previous to this, MySQL was behaving perfectly normally. Since the upgrade, I have found that every so often -- sometimes two or three

Re: Need Advice for Tuning NFS to place nice with a Netapp

2006-08-02 Thread Freminlins
Nicole, On 02/08/06, N. Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have several web servers that are attached to a Netapp (network appliance) unit via NFS-3. A few servers are 5.5 and a few are 6.1 for comparison testing. All seem to have lousy performance. We have a similar setup and it runs

Telecom

2006-08-02 Thread root
Dear All, Can we use FreeBSD in Telecom industry? If I want to build an Internet Backbone which connect across country in asia. Is it suitable? How is its stability of routing compare to Cisco? Rgds, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

2 Gateways.

2006-08-02 Thread Лукьяненко Александр
Hi, all! Problem: PC with FreeBSD, there are 2 gateway GW1 and GW2, GW1 is default. Need: Queries that come from GW2 goes through GW2, not through default. How can I do it? -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Weird result of portupgrade -aRr concerning pkgconfig or is it pkg-config?

2006-08-02 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Bobby, On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:22:18PM +0200, Bobby Knight wrote: HelloNewly installed 6.1. I recently said hello to a newly installed FreeBSD 6.1 myself. Barely touched ports so one would expect it to work, That sounds like a reasonable expectation for FreeBSD. I'm new to

Re: Weird result of portupgrade -aRr concerning pkgconfig or is it pkg-config?

2006-08-02 Thread RW
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 13:22, Bobby Knight wrote: HelloNewly installed 6.1. Barely touched ports so one would expect it to work, yet it fails brutally for me as a new user when I do portupgrade -arR just to upgrade a few packages.I have no clue why and what to do so I am hoping

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
Not sure, seems more of a mysql question, but here's some guesses I have for diagnostics. could you run these queries? SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users WHERE status 3 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sessiions WHERE sid = d9fe25949f79f2c767a0d237b4fdf841 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM FROM users u INNER JOIN sessions s

Re: gcc: cpp pre-defined variables

2006-08-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Lorin Lund wrote: How can I find all the variables that are pre-defined in the pre-processor. Do these come from a configuration file? Or are the compiled in to cpp when it is ported to a platform? Something like: touch test.h; cpp -dM test.h ...will show you all of the predefined

Re: Understanding top and memory usage

2006-08-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Philip Radford wrote: [ ... ] When using the top command I get the following in regards to memory usage. Mem: 223M Active, 970M Inact, 175M Wired, 50M Cache, 112M Buf, 73M Free Swap: 3029M Total, 12K Used, 3029M Free Can someone advise me which figure relates to actual physical memory which

anyone have any luck on installing FreeBSD on a SATA drive on an Adaptec 1205SA card?

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I got this thinking adaptec would make their own chip, turns out it is a SiL 3112 (I got it to hopefully end the issues I was having with the SiL 2114 on my motherboard, turns out I just ended up with more). Anyway, while this new chip fixed the issues of write errors in windows, BSD cannot boot

options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE

2006-08-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
I followed some advice on how to get higher resolutions on the console for my 1280x1024 LCD monitor. I recompiled the kernel with options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE After a vidcontrol MODE_282 I get a 1280x1024 console. Nice, but the characters are just fat compared to the chars I get in Xorg

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! All of these queries worked just fine, without causing any problems. As this is more of a mysql issue, do you have any suggestions where it would be best for me to query them? Thanks, Ricky On Aug 2, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote: Not sure, seems more of a mysql question,

Re: Weird result of portupgrade -aRr concerning pkgconfig or is it pkg-config?

2006-08-02 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:34:46PM +0100, RW wrote: $ grep pkgconfig /usr/ports/MOVED devel/pkgconfig|devel/pkg-config|2006-05-27|Renamed to use real vendor package name You can probably just pkg_delete pkgconfig, and fix-up the dependencies. Between the two you probably need to install

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I thought there were mysql forums, but I am not sure. In the queries I gave you, none of the results were too large I take it (not above the low thousands)? -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! All of these queries worked just fine, without causing any

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

2006-08-02 Thread Eric
On 1 Aug 2006 at 17:23, Nikolas Britton wrote: The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other stupid problem with the cables. I need a vendor that has high quality latching SATA-II cables. Also...

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Richard Morse
No, they were all normal (the latter two were 0, the first was about 110). FWIW, the query usually proceeds normally; it's only when it doesn't that things go bad. I'm wondering if this is a problem with threads -- I've been doing research, and a number of places say that there are

Broadcom BCM5780 NIC on fujitsu primergy 220 server

2006-08-02 Thread ovidiu ene
Hi, I've found this post: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-net@freebsd.org/msg19247.html It seems that support for BCM5780 was added into bge driver, in CURRENT, so i've cvsuped, and tried, and still not working. Anybody have an ideea howto solve this problem? (I have a Fujitsu Primergy

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have SATA one cables/connectors, and they do come loose when fiddling in the case, but otherwise they are fine (when the case is closed and the machine is running. However, I do prefer the locking cables and jacks in SATA II. You might look at Newegg as your vendor, I believe I saw some

removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel
Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way to remove this file? Thanks, Scott Oertel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-08-02 Thread Joshua Lewis
I am actually not looking for a Windows look alike. I am simply replacing my XP system with a BSD solution. I am looking for a fast easy to configure and fun WM. I am absolutely looking for something new to use. not Windows like. That is why I was looking at enlightenment and

Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way to remove this file? If its timestamp updates when you touch a file on the main filesystem, it's

Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way to remove this file? If its timestamp updates when you touch a file on

Re: Telecom

2006-08-02 Thread RW
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 14:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Can we use FreeBSD in Telecom industry? If I want to build an Internet Backbone which connect across country in asia. Is it suitable? How is its stability of routing compare to Cisco? Internet backbone router don't run

Re: Weird result of portupgrade -aRr concerning pkgconfig or is it pkg-config?

2006-08-02 Thread RW
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 15:00, Kevin Monceaux wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:34:46PM +0100, RW wrote: $ grep pkgconfig /usr/ports/MOVED devel/pkgconfig|devel/pkg-config|2006-05-27|Renamed to use real vendor package name You can probably just pkg_delete pkgconfig, and fix-up the

Re: piperd in top

2006-08-02 Thread DAve
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 01), DAve said: We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've been watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough. But looking at top I am seeing a lot of processes with state of piperd. Piperd means the process is

Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way to remove this file? If its

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am actually not looking for a Windows look alike. I am simply replacing my XP system with a BSD solution. I am looking for a fast easy to configure and fun WM. I am absolutely looking for something new to use. not Windows like. That

Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way

Re: piperd in top

2006-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 02), DAve said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 01), DAve said: We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've been watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough. But looking at top I am seeing a lot of processes with state

Re: options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE

2006-08-02 Thread Simon Phoenix
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:58, dick hoogendijk wrote: I followed some advice on how to get higher resolutions on the console for my 1280x1024 LCD monitor. I recompiled the kernel with options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE After a vidcontrol MODE_282 I get a 1280x1024 console. Nice, but

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-08-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:56:33AM -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote: Other then personal preference. I have been using enlightenment for about a week and perhaps it is something I did but my resolution is stuck at 1600x1280 at

Re: piperd in top

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 02), DAve said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 01), DAve said: We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've been watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough. But looking at top I am

Systrace port status?

2006-08-02 Thread Michael Dexter
Hello, Does anyone know the status of the port of systrace to FreeBSD? The project page does not appear to be updated and the author has not replied to my e-mail. Thanks, Michael. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Atom Powers wrote: It's still going to take you at least a release to get it into the base install. But if you can find a way to use the portsnap data and get useful information out of the cvsup data you can probably get numbers now with an

Re: Need Advice for Tuning NFS to place nice with a Netapp

2006-08-02 Thread N. Harrington
--- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicole, On 02/08/06, N. Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have several web servers that are attached to a Netapp (network appliance) unit via NFS-3. A few servers are 5.5 and a few are 6.1 for comparison testing. All seem to have

Re: options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed some advice on how to get higher resolutions on the console for my 1280x1024 LCD monitor. I recompiled the kernel with options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE After a vidcontrol MODE_282 I get a 1280x1024 console. Nice, but the

Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another

2006-08-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:52:09PM -0400, David Banning wrote: I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging from one to the other via the windows box. This might seem like a silly question,

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

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the question then goes back to: can you make any kind of count out of cvsup servers? Someone already said they thought you couldn't. At the end of the day, I think that unique IP address is as close as it's

Unable to print

2006-08-02 Thread Gerard Seibert
I know I posted earlier about this; however, since then I have gathered more information. First, I installed LPRng and had it replace the base system. I rebooted the system and it started up fine. However, I still cannot print. I can print from within 'apsfilter' but that is it. The printer

Re: Will 'top' display cpu stats per cpu on SMP systems?

2006-08-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
joe mcguckin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Similar to top on Linux ? The layout is somewhat different, but yes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Adding To Path

2006-08-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
beno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi; I went to set env of my path to add another folder. Everything *seemed* to work fine (it added, I checked) until I shelled out and back in. Then it was gone! Here's what I tried: FreeBSD 5.3September 1, 1999 FreeBSD 5.3 server167#

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

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the question then goes back to: can you make any kind of count out of cvsup servers? Someone already said they thought you couldn't. At the end of the day, I

no stable zsh available in ports

2006-08-02 Thread beno0028
On 29 August 2005 the port shells/zsh-devel was removed (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1078555+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/cvs-all/20050904.cvs-all). Perhaps as a consequence, on 30 April 2006 the port shells/zsh was changed from version 4.2.6 of the stable branch to version

Office msg system

2006-08-02 Thread Mark Busby
Looking for suggestions on a web based msg system for an office. People are in and out quite a bit, they need to be able to log in from the road. Prefer email, notes, and maybe bulletin board to notify just a group or everyone in case of a disaster. Ability to link into cell phone text msg

Mysql from ports

2006-08-02 Thread Ron Clark
Good day all, I am building a new server and need Mys= ql. I have tried to install 4.1 server and 5.0 server. Both error out durin= g the build. I try to restart the install and it installs, but then will no= t start because /var/log/mysql directory does not exist. I create the

Re: Office msg system

2006-08-02 Thread Eric
Mark Busby wrote: Looking for suggestions on a web based msg system for an office. People are in and out quite a bit, they need to be able to log in from the road. Prefer email, notes, and maybe bulletin board to notify just a group or everyone in case of a disaster. Ability to link

Re: Need Advice for Tuning NFS to place nice with a Netapp

2006-08-02 Thread Freminlins
On 02/08/06, N. Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool! Can you share with me what sort of settings you use on your boxes? sysctl/kerneltunes/mount options? This may be a disappointment to you but... I didn't have to do anything :-( All I have is rw on the client. It has taken me a over a

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

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: This may sound dumb but why don't we just put a registration link on the FreeBSD main page... or registration in sysinstall. Isn't this how everyone else handles the problem? Not on the home page, I would suggest, because a) opt-in registrations have really low take-up

Re: Mysql from ports

2006-08-02 Thread Eric
Ron Clark wrote: Good day all, I am building a new server and need Mys=l. I have tried to install 4.1 server and 5.0 server. Both error out durin= the build. I try to restart the install and it installs, but then will no= start because /var/log/mysql directory does not

Re: Office msg system

2006-08-02 Thread bsd
Looking for suggestions on a web based msg system for an office. People are in and out quite a bit, they need to be able to log in from the road. Prefer email, notes, and maybe bulletin board to notify just a group or everyone in case of a disaster. Ability to link into cell phone text msg

Re: Mysql from ports

2006-08-02 Thread Gerard Seibert
Ron Clark wrote: Good day all, I am building a new server and need Mysql. I have tried to install 4.1 server and 5.0 server. Both error out during the build. I try to restart the install and it installs, but then will not start because /var/log/mysql directory does not exist.

Need help using ssh/netcat to proxy udp

2006-08-02 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to use ssh and netcat to forward dns queries from a 6.1-STABLE workstation to a remote 6.1-STABLE DNS server. I was inspired by the information supplied at: http://zarb.org/~gc/html/udp-in-ssh-tunneling.html The methodology is elegant and simple, but I'm unable to get it

upgrade port, a couple of questions

2006-08-02 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, How can I see which ports depend on libgmp-4.1.4_1? If I upgrade it, the applications that are using the old libgmp would be affected? Thanks... Efren Bravo. - Fight back spam! Download the Blue Frog. http://www.bluesecurity.com/register/s?user=ZWZyZW5iYQ%3D%3D

Re: upgrade port, a couple of questions

2006-08-02 Thread Nicolas Blais
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:27, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, How can I see which ports depend on libgmp-4.1.4_1? If I upgrade it, the applications that are using the old libgmp would be affected? Thanks... Efren Bravo. If you go into /var/db/pkg/libgmp-4.1.4_1 you'll see a file called

17 or 19

2006-08-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution (1280x1024) The 19 is $100 more expensive as the 17 What would to your opinions be the right thing to do. Go for the 17 or the larger (but probably a little less crystal sharp) 19 one. I'm not that rich. Probably my doubts are rooted in this;-) Thanks

Re: upgrade port, a couple of questions

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel
Nicolas Blais wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:27, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, How can I see which ports depend on libgmp-4.1.4_1? If I upgrade it, the applications that are using the old libgmp would be affected? Thanks... Efren Bravo. If you go into /var/db/pkg/libgmp-4.1.4_1

Re: Mysql from ports

2006-08-02 Thread Ron Clark
Yes, ports tree is current. I just ran cvsup yesterday. That= sould be current enough, right? Ron On Wed= Aug 2 16:25 , Eric sent: Ron Clark wrote: Good day all, I am building a new server and need Mys=l. I have tried to insta= ll 4.1

Re: 17 or 19

2006-08-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution (1280x1024) The 19 is $100 more expensive as the 17 What would to your opinions be the right thing to do. Go for the 17 or the larger (but probably a little less crystal sharp) 19 one. I'm not that rich. Probably my doubts are rooted in this;-)

Re: upgrade port, a couple of questions

2006-08-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Scott Oertel wrote: Nicolas Blais wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:27, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, How can I see which ports depend on libgmp-4.1.4_1? If I upgrade it, the applications that are using the old libgmp would be affected? Thanks... Efren Bravo. If you go into

Re: 17 or 19

2006-08-02 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Aug 2, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution (1280x1024) The 19 is $100 more expensive as the 17 What would to your opinions be the right thing to do. Go for the 17 or the larger (but probably a little less crystal sharp) 19 one. I'm

Re: need help troubleshooting man

2006-08-02 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 05:14, Matti J. Karki wrote: On 8/1/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i remember a thread from a few weeks back, that i followed closely, but was never able to resolve my issue as the original poster did. i have a 6.1-STABLE system that the bulk of my

4TB filesystem

2006-08-02 Thread Lutz Rabing
hi all, is someone still working on the bigdisk project? it becomes more an more easy to create disk arrays bigger than 2TB ... it would be a really nice to have feature. lutz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: need help troubleshooting man

2006-08-02 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 18:03, Jonathan Horne wrote: 1) i have only one box that is running STABLE, and its my x/kde workstation.   this is also my only computer with half-broken man pages. 2) i have several production and development servers (no desktops), and they are all RELENG.  all my

qauestion using ed.

2006-08-02 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, How, pray tel, do I use ed to delete 23 lines? I can find foo with /foo, but then .,20d or .,+20d or .,+20 d don't work. Anybody? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix

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

2006-08-02 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: This may sound dumb but why don't we just put a registration link on the FreeBSD main page... or registration in sysinstall. Isn't this how everyone else handles the problem? User A installs FreeBSD, registers, works with it for a week, finds he

Re: Changing user password from command line

2006-08-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 2 August 2006 at 16:48:48 +0700, Mike Fern wrote: Dear all, Does anybody know a program which is able to change user password from command line? Of course. I thought it was the only way. $ man -k password passwd(1), yppasswd(1) - modify a user's password From that man

Re: Changing user password from command line

2006-08-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 2 August 2006 at 15:53:07 +0300, Simon Phoenix wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 12:48, Mike Fern wrote: Dear all, Does anybody know a program which is able to change user password from command line? We can add a user using single line pw (pw useradd), but i need ability to

Re: 17 or 19

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution (1280x1024) The 19 is $100 more expensive as the 17 What would to your opinions be the right thing to do. Go for the 17 or the larger (but probably a little less crystal sharp) 19 one. I'm not that

Re: qauestion using ed.

2006-08-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, How, pray tel, do I use ed to delete 23 lines? I can find foo with /foo, but then .,20d or .,+20d or .,+20 d don't work. .,.+20d dotcommadot+20d If you use the ``ex'' invocation of vi(m), ``20dd'' should do it. Bill --

Re: Changing user password from command line

2006-08-02 Thread Micah
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 2 August 2006 at 15:53:07 +0300, Simon Phoenix wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 12:48, Mike Fern wrote: Dear all, Does anybody know a program which is able to change user password from command line? We can add a user using single line pw (pw

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