Re: GRUB: Filesystem type unknown (ufs2)

2008-11-14 Thread Unga
--- On Thu, 11/13/08, Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GRUB: Filesystem type unknown (ufs2) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 6:24 PM Hi all I have compiled and installed grub-0.97.tar.gz on FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). It

Re: immediate reboot switching window (alt-tab) to google earth

2008-11-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
went straight to the reboot. Anyway, if there are other reports, here's mine. I'd like to blame X, since I have yet to observe an X that really felt stable to me, but I suspect the culprit is more likely linux-base-fc4...shame. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that running linux programs

Re: GRUB: Filesystem type unknown (ufs2)

2008-11-14 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 13 November 2008, Unga wrote: --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used GRUB in the past to boot FreeBSD. The GRUB boot directory was located on the FreeBSD root partition, so it can work. I did use the port though. Now the issue is the root

New AMD Processor:RM-72

2008-11-14 Thread weinter.lim
Hi, I have tried installing FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 on my Laptop with a Relatively new Mobile Processor AMD X2 Turion RM-72 2.1GHZ 1MB L2 Cache I find that the temperature during normal operation is very high 70 degress IDLE When Compiling it hits 90 degress All this is happening even with power_d

Re: New AMD Processor:RM-72

2008-11-14 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 11/14/08, weinter.lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have tried installing FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 on my Laptop with a Relatively new Mobile Processor AMD X2 Turion RM-72 2.1GHZ 1MB L2 Cache I find that the temperature during normal operation is very high 70 degress IDLE When Compiling it hits

FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen?

2008-11-14 Thread Redd Vinylene
Hello hello. I want this hosting company to offer FreeBSD but they claim it's not yet stable enough for their Xen setup. Is there anything I can do to prove them wrong? Much obliged, Redd Vinylene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen?

2008-11-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Redd Vinylene wrote: Hello hello. I want this hosting company to offer FreeBSD but they claim it's not yet stable enough for their Xen setup. Is there anything I can do to prove them wrong? No. Xen work is highly experimental even in -CURRENT. It *can* be used, and people have successfully

Re: New AMD Processor:RM-72

2008-11-14 Thread weinter.lim
weinter.lim wrote: Hi, I have tried installing FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 on my Laptop with a Relatively new Mobile Processor AMD X2 Turion RM-72 2.1GHZ 1MB L2 Cache I find that the temperature during normal operation is very high 70 degress IDLE When Compiling it hits 90 degress All this is

Re: New AMD Processor:RM-72

2008-11-14 Thread weinter.lim
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 11/14/08, weinter.lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have tried installing FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 on my Laptop with a Relatively new Mobile Processor AMD X2 Turion RM-72 2.1GHZ 1MB L2 Cache I find that the temperature during normal operation is very high 70 degress

IPsec's use of processors

2008-11-14 Thread Riaan Kruger
I would like to know how IPsec makes use of a multi processor machine? I have gateway (FreeBSD 7.0) with four SAs configured. When testing throughput through the configured SAs, I see (with systat) that only one cpu works really hard (+-10% idle min), two others work a bit (+-70% idle min) and

FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

2008-11-14 Thread Redd Vinylene
Hello. I want this hosting company to offer FreeBSD but they claim it's not yet stable enough for their Xen setup. Is there anything I can do to prove them wrong? Much obliged y'all. Peace. -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene ___

re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread peter
Dear sirs please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use i am not sure if freebsd will work with my hardware and software kind regards Peter ___

host based authetication with OpenLDAP and FreeBSD

2008-11-14 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, I have a OT question and maybe some of the FreeBSD server admins here can help me out. Our setup has several Linux and FreeBSD boxes, users are kept in OpenLDAP without any further service like Kerberos V etc. The situation(s): We have locally and personally administered

Re: New AMD Processor:RM-72

2008-11-14 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 11/14/08, weinter.lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: weinter.lim wrote: Hi, I have tried installing FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 on my Laptop with a Relatively new Mobile Processor AMD X2 Turion RM-72 2.1GHZ 1MB L2 Cache I find that the temperature during normal operation is very high 70 degress IDLE

Re: New AMD Processor:RM-72

2008-11-14 Thread weinter.lim
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 11/14/08, weinter.lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: weinter.lim wrote: Hi, I have tried installing FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 on my Laptop with a Relatively new Mobile Processor AMD X2 Turion RM-72 2.1GHZ 1MB L2 Cache I find that the temperature during normal operation is

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Aggelidis Nikos
You have to be more specific, if you need actual help if you are not sure that FreeBSD will work with your hardware, you may try it and see what happens For the software part: FreeBSD has a large collection of software often refered to as ports.But again you have to be more specific, tell

inet hosts question

2008-11-14 Thread Gary Hartl
Hi all; I have a quick question, I am trying to block a range of ip's for the sake of example they are 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 For the life of me I can't remember how to do that. I thought I could do it by using the /class ie /32 for class c but i can't remember what the class delegation

Re: inet hosts question

2008-11-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Gary Hartl wrote: Hi all; I have a quick question, I am trying to block a range of ip's for the sake of example they are 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 For the life of me I can't remember how to do that. What mechanism? null route, ipfw, ipf or pf I thought I could do it by using the

Re: New AMD Processor:RM-72

2008-11-14 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 11/14/08, weinter.lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 11/14/08, weinter.lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: weinter.lim wrote: Hi, I have tried installing FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 on my Laptop with a Relatively new Mobile Processor AMD X2 Turion RM-72 2.1GHZ 1MB L2 Cache I

Re: New AMD Processor:RM-72

2008-11-14 Thread weinter.lim
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 11/14/08, weinter.lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try: # kldload cpufreq and restart powerd: # pkill powerd powerd -a adp Even if this one works it is only workaround. It returns the following powerd:lookup freq :No Such file or directory And

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

2008-11-14 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Outback Dingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: depends on how they do their installs, i know of a couple hosting companies doing it already On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I want this hosting company to offer FreeBSD

Missing Driver and Wireless Not detected

2008-11-14 Thread weinter.lim
I am installing FreeBSD 7.1 Beta 2 on my laptop model Acer Aspire 4530 1) Atheros AR5B91 is not detected Does anyone know how to get the drivers or patch it [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0:0:class=0x05 card=0x014a1025 chip=0x075410de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

2008-11-14 Thread Thomas Abthorpe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 14, 2008 11:32:34 am Redd Vinylene wrote: Hey! Which ones? http://www.rootbsd.net I have been a happy customer of their xen system for almost 1 year. If the company you are petitioning is unco-operative, then jump :) Thomas - --

Re: inet hosts question

2008-11-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
Vincent Hoffman wrote: Gary Hartl wrote: I thought I could do it by using the /class ie /32 for class c but i can't remember what the class delegation is for that size of pool, I think it is a class B. 192.168.0.0/16 for your example. and yes this is a class B (not all /16s are though.)

Re: inet hosts question

2008-11-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Matthew Seaman wrote: Vincent Hoffman wrote: Gary Hartl wrote: I thought I could do it by using the /class ie /32 for class c but i can't remember what the class delegation is for that size of pool, I think it is a class B. 192.168.0.0/16 for your example. and yes this is a class B (not

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

2008-11-14 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Thomas Abthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 14, 2008 11:32:34 am Redd Vinylene wrote: Hey! Which ones? http://www.rootbsd.net I have been a happy customer of their xen system for almost 1 year. If the

upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0 problems

2008-11-14 Thread Cam
Hello, I have a botched upgrade from 6.3-release to 7.0-release on my hands. The 'make buildworld', 'make buildkernel' and 'make installkernel' went fine. 'Make installworld' did not - I think I forgot to drop into single-user mode but did not keep good notes. uname -a: FreeBSD

php5 Only IE Users can View Pages.

2008-11-14 Thread Martin McCormick
I inherited a mrtg application thatnow is running on a FreeBSD6.3 system. Clients report that one can see the php pages when using Internet Explorer but not other browsers that should display the pages. Those customers see raw code. Any suggestion as to what I should be looking

Re: inet hosts question

2008-11-14 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote: Vincent Hoffman wrote: Gary Hartl wrote: I thought I could do it by using the /class ie /32 for class c but i can't remember what the class delegation is for that size of pool, I think it is a class B. 192.168.0.0/16 for your example.

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

2008-11-14 Thread Outback Dingo
i was going to recommend the same rootbsd.net seems to have their act together On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Thomas Abthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 14, 2008 11:32:34 am Redd Vinylene wrote: Hey! Which ones?

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:14:07PM -0500, Jerry wrote: I usually just use: #!/usr/bin/env bash It seems to work on both Linux and FBSD. That does work -- as long as you have bash installed. How portable do you want your script to be? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL:

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use maybe windows XP? i am not sure if freebsd will work with my hardware and software simply check it. ___

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Jim Pazarena
Wojciech Puchar wrote: please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use maybe windows XP? i am not sure if freebsd will work with my hardware and software simply check it. unless you think this may be a troll,

Re: (no subject)

2008-11-14 Thread John Almberg
Perhaps you should try the linux distros first to get a bit of a feel of *nix variants? FreeBSD can be daunting to the first time user, but is one hell of a production system once you know how to handle it properly. Several people in this thread have made this recommendation... I disagree

make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF

2008-11-14 Thread Gerardo Paredes
Hello, i have a problem compiling a custom kernel on a AMD 850 MHZ Processor, however on the last stage it fails with the following message: make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF the command i run is: cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNCONF=MIO where MIO is my kernel configuration file,

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-14 Thread GESBBB
From: Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED]   On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:14:07PM -0500, Jerry wrote: I usually just use: #!/usr/bin/env bash It seems to work on both Linux and FBSD. That does work -- as long as you have bash installed.  How portable do you want your script to be? The

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:19:34PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use maybe windows XP? i am not sure if freebsd will work with my hardware

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-14 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:49:35 -0800 (PST), GESBBB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point is that I would want it to work seamlessly between different flavors of *nix and FBSD. Since there seems to be a lack of consistency as to where 'Bash' is installed on different OSs, I find that using the

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
peter wrote: Dear sirs please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use i am not sure if freebsd will work with my hardware and software FreeBSD (or any Unix/Linux for that matter) is very different to Windows,

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:58 +0100, peter wrote: Dear sirs please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use i am not sure if freebsd will work with my hardware and software kind regards Peter Welcome to

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:00:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:58 +0100, peter wrote: Dear sirs please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use i am not sure if freebsd will work

portupgrade exception

2008-11-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo portupgrade -nRr faad2 libxml2 mysql-server py25-django --- Session started at: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:34:40 -0500 [Gathering depends for audio/faad .. done] [Gathering depends for multimedia/ffmpeg ... done] [Exclude up-to-date

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread eculp
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:00:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:58 +0100, peter wrote: Dear sirs please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:19:34PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use maybe windows XP? i am not sure if freebsd will work with my hardware and

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Glyn Millington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:00:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:58 +0100, peter wrote: Dear sirs please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:56:26PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:19:34PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use maybe

Re: make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF

2008-11-14 Thread Chris St Denis
Gerardo Paredes wrote: Hello, i have a problem compiling a custom kernel on a AMD 850 MHZ Processor, however on the last stage it fails with the following message: make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF the command i run is: cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNCONF=MIO where MIO is my

Re: dlsym can't use handle returned by dlopen?

2008-11-14 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Jeremy Chadwick writes: As promised: http://www.malkavian.com/~jdc/myprog.tar.gz This test program indeed works as expected. However, this doesn't quite reflect the situation in libdbi. I took your files and modified them accordingly, see:

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
simply check it. unless you think this may be a troll, your comments seem a great way to chase away a potential convert to FreeBSD. indeed. conversion from windows to unix that way is bad idea. if you/others will help them, soon we will have another linux - windows competitor and see

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
FreeBSD is a very powerful and stable system, but that said it is also very hands on - the opposite extreme of vista which is all hands off. This means that you will have a very steep learning curve. simply reading FreeBSD handbook will be the best move for the beginning. But it is NOT

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
opinion But why are we interested in converting people? That borders on religious, which an operating system should not be. exactly. it's a good idea to tell people about trying FreeBSD if they are already using some flavor of unix. One can be converted from Solaris to FreeBSD, from

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The OP asked advice on an OS alternative to Vista and asked about FreeBSD. Telling him that FreeBSD is a good choice is not making a religious statement. It is just answering his question in an honest manner. no - because it's not alternative for Windows Vista. Windows XP is an

mdconfig(8) with offset? Or: resizing a NTFS qemu image

2008-11-14 Thread cpghost
Hello, I'm trying to extend a ntfs filesystem in a qemu raw image, by following the instructions here: http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?p=12362 Of course, this requires sysutils/ntfsprogs and the equivalent of losetup. Of course, mdconfig is our losetup. Now, how is it possible to

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Steven Susbauer
Wojciech Puchar wrote: opinion But why are we interested in converting people? That borders on religious, which an operating system should not be. exactly. it's a good idea to tell people about trying FreeBSD if they are already using some flavor of unix. One can be converted from

Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-14 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi, I run several FreeBSD servers. Today I noticed an entry in the auth.log on one of them that concerns me. The entry is this: Nov 12 15:44:29 mail sshd[30160]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for michael from 89.123.165.3 po rt 55185 ssh2 There is a user michael on the system, but

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-14 Thread Steven Susbauer
Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I run several FreeBSD servers. Today I noticed an entry in the auth.log on one of them that concerns me. The entry is this: Nov 12 15:44:29 mail sshd[30160]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for michael from 89.123.165.3 po rt 55185 ssh2 There is a user michael

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Marchand
On Nov 14, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Steven Susbauer wrote: Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I run several FreeBSD servers. Today I noticed an entry in the auth.log on one of them that concerns me. The entry is this: Nov 12 15:44:29 mail sshd[30160]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for michael from

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-14 Thread Lisa Casey
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Tom Marchand wrote: Or michael is vacationing in Romania. Very odd. Sigh, Michael is not vacationing in Romania. Doubt he's ever been there. I got rid of the michael account (it wasn't used anyway), and downloaded a new copy of chkrootkit, installed it and ran it

Multiple sound cards snd_hda

2008-11-14 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
hello, can anyone verify that the new snd_hda driver in -current supports multiple sound cards? I am looking to put 3 of Encore ENM232-8VIA into a FreeBSD 8 PC any help would be appreciated Sam Fourman Jr. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Looking information about CF files of LPD

2008-11-14 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:55 PM -0700 11/13/08, Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: Hi: I have the idea of had seen the description of the content of CF files, but I can't find anymore in the handbook. That information had been removed? There's some RFC for it, but pretty much nobody implements CF-files in

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-14 Thread dan-freebsd-questions
isn't the main reason because other shells may reside on a filesystem which isn't necessarily mounted in maintenance/single user mode? Or, libraries for the same? -- Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just link the shell of your choice statically and put it somewhere in /. Problem solved. Why

Re: Looking information about CF files of LPD

2008-11-14 Thread Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez
El Vie 14 Nov 2008, Garance A Drosehn escribió: There's some RFC for it, but pretty much nobody implements CF-files in the exact way that is described in the RFC. I doubt it was ever described in any detail in the FreeBSD handbook, but it may have been in some of the books which have been

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:00:13PM -0500, Lisa Casey wrote: Very odd. Sigh, Michael is not vacationing in Romania. Doubt he's ever been there. I got rid of the michael account (it wasn't used anyway), and downloaded a new copy of chkrootkit, installed it and ran it along with chklastlog