Re: How stable is FreeBSD WiFi support?

2008-10-03 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 23:07 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 03:53:20PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:11 -0700, Yuri wrote: > > > I have FreeBSD-70 machine and Linux Gentoo machines side by side (within > > > 10 feet). > > > Gentoo Linux (with old

Re: Vista Dual Boot issues - Does not start on a track boundary

2008-10-03 Thread Leslie Jensen
Tom Stuart skrev: Hi Guys, I'm nowhere near new on the FreeBSD front but have Never done a dual boot with vista. Vista came pre-installed on this machine and I created another partition using the resize function of Vista. When I'm setting up my slices its complaining about Chunk ad0S1 does not

Re: How stable is FreeBSD WiFi support?

2008-10-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 03:53:20PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:11 -0700, Yuri wrote: > > I have FreeBSD-70 machine and Linux Gentoo machines side by side (within > > 10 feet). > > Gentoo Linux (with old AirLink101) connects to a particular encrypted > > WEP network without

Re: exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?

2008-10-03 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 00:18 +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: > Use SFTP (aka SSH file sharing) and mount the folder's using SftpDrive on > Windows and various tools are available for doing that under UNIX. Wouldn't an ssl version of webdav do the same sort of thing without all the extra hassle in (heav

Re: How stable is FreeBSD WiFi support?

2008-10-03 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:11 -0700, Yuri wrote: > I have FreeBSD-70 machine and Linux Gentoo machines side by side (within > 10 feet). > Gentoo Linux (with old AirLink101) connects to a particular encrypted > WEP network without any problems all the time. > FreeBSD (with ral0 device and native dr

Vista Dual Boot issues - Does not start on a track boundary

2008-10-03 Thread Tom Stuart
Hi Guys, I'm nowhere near new on the FreeBSD front but have Never done a dual boot with vista. Vista came pre-installed on this machine and I created another partition using the resize function of Vista. When I'm setting up my slices its complaining about Chunk ad0S1 does not start on a track boun

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Re: exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?

2008-10-03 Thread Ross Cameron
Use SFTP (aka SSH file sharing) and mount the folder's using SftpDrive on Windows and various tools are available for doing that under UNIX. On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Joachim Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I wish to store some files on my FreeBSD 7 server that will be used by > vari

Re: exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?

2008-10-03 Thread Peter Membrey
Hi Joachim, If I were setting something like this up, I would make sure that it was done over a VPN. OpenVPN is a pretty neat solution that works easily on all of the platforms you'll be using. It's very straight forward to set up and will give you a secure network that you can run whatever file s

How stable is FreeBSD WiFi support?

2008-10-03 Thread Yuri
I have FreeBSD-70 machine and Linux Gentoo machines side by side (within 10 feet). Gentoo Linux (with old AirLink101) connects to a particular encrypted WEP network without any problems all the time. FreeBSD (with ral0 device and native driver) connection is very unstable, keeps disappearing, th

exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?

2008-10-03 Thread Joachim Rosenfeld
I wish to store some files on my FreeBSD 7 server that will be used by various clients (FreeBSD, Windows, and Linux). What is a good way to export a directory so that it can be mounted on various systems and seen as a local directory? NFS is out, for security reasons. I was thinking of Samba, but

Re: port marked as IGNORE ?

2008-10-03 Thread RW
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:26:04 -0400 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I portupgrade, I see this > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# portupgrade -a [Updating the pkgdb > in /var/db/pkg ... - 369 packages found (-2 +1) (...). done] > ** Port marked as IGNORE: misc/ldconfig_compat: >

Re: newsyslog and apache

2008-10-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:08:52 +0200 "DA Forsyth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2 Oct 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about > "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 235, Issue 11": I'm replying to the digest too, so threading is doubly screwed :) > > No need to change log rotation software since t

portupgrade failure

2008-10-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So, I recently upgraded from 5.5 to 6.3, and as such, ran a portupgrade -fa to rebuild my ports against 6.3. I just noticed this. ===> Cleaning for ruby-1.8.6.287,1 ---> Cleaning out obsolete shared libraries [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... Inappropriate file type or format - /var/db/

port marked as IGNORE ?

2008-10-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
When I portupgrade, I see this [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# portupgrade -a [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 369 packages found (-2 +1) (...). done] ** Port marked as IGNORE: misc/ldconfig_compat: isn't needed (part of base rc.d) But a couple of ports need it to upgrade, so they fail.

Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours

2008-10-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 04:04:47PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2008, Roland Smith wrote: > > > Gimp uses Gutenprint doesn't it? So you could try using the > > gutenprint driver? > > That's the odd thing, CUPS is (supposed to be) using the gutenprint > driver. Here's a list

Re: A question about the root shell

2008-10-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:20:32PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > > I'm not a csh user, in fact I hate it. Though, I use it as it is out of > the box for root so I'm reminded I'm not an unpriv user any longer. > > That being said I'm getting annoyed by the fact that the root shell is > always s

Re: A question about the root shell

2008-10-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:20:32PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > I'm not a csh user, in fact I hate it. Though, I use it as it is out of > the box for root so I'm reminded I'm not an unpriv user any longer. > > That being said I'm getting annoyed by the fact that the root shell is > always sho

Network card SiS 191 not detected

2008-10-03 Thread Amer Alhabsi
Hi, I have Benq Joybook R43 notebook. It has network interface based on SiS 191. However, I can't configure it as it does not show up in ifconfig nor in sysinstall/configure/networking/interfaces. Dmesg says: No Driver Attached. I wonder if there is a way to get it working. Here is part of the ou

Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours

2008-10-03 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 02 October 2008, Roland Smith wrote: > Gimp uses Gutenprint doesn't it? So you could try using the > gutenprint driver? That's the odd thing, CUPS is (supposed to be) using the gutenprint driver. Here's a list of the relevant packages: kestrel:/home/mike% pkg_info -Ix cups gutenprin

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-03 Thread RW
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:14:35 -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never been 100% clear on the exact differences, but it basically > has to do with where the data in RAM came from. Depending on whether > it was a VM page, or a disk page will determine what bucket it goes > into when

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 03 October 2008, RW wrote: > The terms are a bit misleading, because the don't all relate to the use > of the memory from the user's perspective, but how it's seen within > FreeBSD's integrated cache/VM system. Thanks to you and everyone else who wrote. I guess I'll go back to using it

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-03 Thread RW
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:58:54 -0500 Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an AMD system with 6GB of RAM. From dmesg: > > usable memory = 6428237824 (6130 MB) > avail memory = 6203797504 (5916 MB) > > However, most of it is just sitting there when it looks like it could > be u

Re: Utility to extract iso files without burning

2008-10-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
mdconfig -a -t vnode -f isofile mount_cd9660 /dev/md0 /somemountpoint On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Warren Liddell wrote: Im looking for a GUI or command line that will allow me to extract information within an ISO file... im using FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE KDE4.1.1 AMD64

Re: Utility to extract iso files without burning

2008-10-03 Thread Glyn Millington
Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Im looking for a GUI or command line that will allow me to extract > information > within an ISO file... im using FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE KDE4.1.1 AMD64 well, you can mount it and then search around inside .. mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -

Re: nat and firewall

2008-10-03 Thread Dominique Goncalves
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:24 AM, fire jotawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Dominique Goncalves > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:09 AM, fire jotawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Kevin Kinse

Re: Running cron jobs as nobody

2008-10-03 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:11 AM 10/2/2008, DAve wrote: Good morning all, We have a cronjob we need to run as nobody from /etc/crontab and it seems to be not working. The job runs, but not as user nobody. I noticed two things, 1) the job to update the locate DB runs as nobody, because the script uses su to beco

Re: Utility to extract iso files without burning

2008-10-03 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Fri, 3 Oct 2008 20:28:44 +1000, Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Im looking for a GUI or command line that will allow me to extract > information within an ISO file... im using FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE I never tried it but bsdtar is able to extract an iso image. "tar creates and m

Re: Utility to extract iso files without burning

2008-10-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: Im looking for a GUI or command line that will allow me to extract information within an ISO file... im using FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE KDE4.1.1 AMD64 You can mount an iso and copy files from it. First create a memory disk device to contain the file system: mdconfig -a -

Re: Utility to extract iso files without burning

2008-10-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Warren Liddell wrote: > Im looking for a GUI or command line that will allow me to extract > information > within an ISO file... im using FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE KDE4.1.1 AMD64 > Easiest way normally would be to mount the image and use the filesystem. assuming you are not root and have sudo ins

Re: Utility to extract iso files without burning

2008-10-03 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello Warren, On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im looking for a GUI or command line that will allow me to extract > information > within an ISO file... im using FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE KDE4.1.1 AMD64 From the man page of mdconfig(8): To mount an ISO

Utility to extract iso files without burning

2008-10-03 Thread Warren Liddell
Im looking for a GUI or command line that will allow me to extract information within an ISO file... im using FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE KDE4.1.1 AMD64 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Jail, pf and ftpd: Connection refused

2008-10-03 Thread Max Laier
On Friday 03 October 2008 11:11:57 Redd Vinylene wrote: > Greetings ladies and gentlemen! > > Why does the below pf.conf (run from box1) give me > "getpeername(control_sock): Transport endpoint is not connected, > Socket error (Connection refused) - reconnecting" when trying to log > onto box3 via

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-03 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:25 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:04:24PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST) > > Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD > > >> speci

Jail, pf and ftpd: Connection refused

2008-10-03 Thread Redd Vinylene
Greetings ladies and gentlemen! Why does the below pf.conf (run from box1) give me "getpeername(control_sock): Transport endpoint is not connected, Socket error (Connection refused) - reconnecting" when trying to log onto box3 via passive FTP? Active FTP gives me "425 Can't build data connection:

Re: Mysqldump password issue

2008-10-03 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Hi, I suspect your password contains some illegal character for the comand line syntax. Change the password to 123 for example and test it with: mysqldump -u user -p123 --all-databases > backup.sql I suspect it will work OK, so you have to do one of the: - change password for something that does

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-03 Thread Bruce Cran
Robert Huff wrote: Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: nVidia, at least, is aware of the issue and has offered to write and maintain drivers ... provided certain capabilities are added to the kernel. (See previous discussion in this mailing list.) This has - obviously - not happened,

Re: Intel S3210SHLC motherboard and FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:37:56AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 2) BIOS: Thermal monitoring I should be more precise: I'm referring to things like fan speed auto-slowdown or PWM. These boards often offer numerous methods of throttling fans and other features. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: ZFS on root with atime=off

2008-10-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:26:52AM +0300, Artis Caune wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I install ZFS on root just like in Andrew ZFSOnRoot wiki page. > I don't use legacy mount points. > > I also set "atime=off" on tank and all partitions inherit it from tank. > When I reboot after install, root file sy

Re: Intel S3210SHLC motherboard and FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:58:24PM -0700, Carl wrote: > I've had a couple of incidents where pressing the reset button actually > powers down the server for 5 seconds or so before automatically powering > back up. Not a big deal, but doesn't instill confidence in this > motherboard. This is c

ZFS on root with atime=off

2008-10-03 Thread Artis Caune
Hi everyone, I install ZFS on root just like in Andrew ZFSOnRoot wiki page. I don't use legacy mount points. I also set "atime=off" on tank and all partitions inherit it from tank. When I reboot after install, root file system is mounted with atime option: # zfs get atime tank NAME PROPERTY VAL

Re: newsyslog and apache

2008-10-03 Thread DA Forsyth
On 2 Oct 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 235, Issue 11": > No need to change log rotation software since the problem clearly is > somewhere else. You need to inspect Apache's error logs to see why it > cannot start. > the previous error log shows [Wed Oct

acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd ignored (-269.7C)

2008-10-03 Thread dhaneshk k
People ; I installed freebsd-7.0 in a p4 machine , after installation when I reboot the machine , I am getting the message acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd ignored (-269.7C) in every 3 seconds .. intel p4 3.0 GHz Intel 82915G (915G GMCH ) How can i get rid off this ... can someon