freeBsd

2003-10-14 Thread ral sitaro
can you tell me what a FreeBsd is and what i can do whit it? ral - Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

big vinum problem

2003-10-14 Thread Octavian Hornoiu
After a power loss last night i restarted my server with a 425 gig or so RAID-5 array and expected to go through a length fsck after which the system would come up. However, one of the vinum subdisks was down. So, i rebooted into single user mode, i restarted the home.p0.s3 subdisk and then i

Re: big vinum problem

2003-10-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 13 October 2003 at 23:46:12 -0700, Octavian Hornoiu wrote: After a power loss last night i restarted my server with a 425 gig or so RAID-5 array and expected to go through a length fsck after which the system would come up. However, one of the vinum subdisks was down. So, i

fonts question

2003-10-14 Thread Scott I. Remick
I understand a lot of things, but fonts sometimes confuse me. This is one of those times. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and XFree86 4.3.0. Most of the time, my fonts are beautiful and anti-aliased. However, I noticed some web pages some text wouldn't be. I narrowed down one site to it listing

Re: fonts question

2003-10-14 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 03:11, Scott I. Remick wrote: I understand a lot of things, but fonts sometimes confuse me. This is one of those times. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and XFree86 4.3.0. Most of the time, my fonts are beautiful and anti-aliased. However, I noticed some web pages some

Re: freeBsd

2003-10-14 Thread JacobRhoden
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:45 pm, ral sitaro wrote: can you tell me what a FreeBsd is and what i can do whit it? Read the first paragraph at http://www.freebsd.org/ It tells you what it is. To find out more, just browse the freebsd web site. ___ JacobRhoden --

Re: Windows Media (blech!)

2003-10-14 Thread Danny Woods
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:24:09PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 09:52 pm, Evan Dower wrote: Is there a way to watch Windows Media files on FreeBSD? I noticed NetShow, but it seems to be defunct/missing. Many thanks, haven't had much luck playing anything other

Re: installing amanda from ports

2003-10-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:12:07PM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Michelle wrote: I'm trying to install amanda from the ports collection. Before running make, the amanda instructions state to run ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=backup to change the default

Re: WINDOWID

2003-10-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:03:47AM -0400, Gerald S Stoller wrote: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 I run XFree86 on my system. Each process has an environment variable named WINDOWID

development process and theory (was: Re: Request for comments)

2003-10-14 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:15:46 -0400 Jem Matzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris- As stated in my original request, I am looking for comments from developers regarding the development process and theory. If this list is not able to provide that or if I've written to the wrong

Hardware RAID vs softupdates

2003-10-14 Thread Michael Lee
Hi, I have a Hardware RAID controller -- Mylex DAC960PG -- on the FreeBSD system. Before I installed the RAID controller card, I use one IDE hdd as the system drive and for other mounted file systems. I have 4 SCSI hdds connect to this controller card. I wonder if I should disable the

Re: FreeBSD Internals e-book

2003-10-14 Thread Jari Kirma
I am starting my own FreeBSD documentation project. The name of the new book I am writing is FreeBSD Internals. I can't resist mentioning that Kirk McKusick and others are working on a (paper) book on FreeBSD kernel, based on FreeBSD 5 series to replace very good but aging Design and

mjpegtools won't compile

2003-10-14 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi lists, when i try to compile the mjpegtools port under 5.1, i get: ## Making all in lavtools gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/mjpegtools/work/mjpegtools-1.6.1/lavtools' source='lav2divx.cpp'

Re: Problem with adding more swap !

2003-10-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, if you can spread it across multiple controllers, it can speed things up. Right. But, generally I think that swap is used in a serial manner, eg the first chunk gets used up before the next one is started, etc. That's

Re: sio3 (COM4) problems on FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

2003-10-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:37, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Howdy list, I'm having trouble with my sio3 (/dev/cuaa3) port on one of my servers (with an SMP kernel). When I try to `tip com4` to a cisco switch using this port, I get only partial data, and this appears in the logs: messages:Oct 10

Re: Do threads conflict?

2003-10-14 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 11:38 PM Subject: Re: Do threads conflict? In the last episode (Oct 13), Mark said: I just installed Sendmail::Milter, which I believe uses the

ignoring openssl port

2003-10-14 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:48:38 +0300, I wrote: Some of my machines were running RELENG_4_7 when I installed ports such as apache13_modssl and cyrus-imapd on them. Since that version of FreeBSD had OpenSSL 0.9.6 in the base system and these ports required 0.9.7, I ended up with openssl

Re: Problem with adding more swap !

2003-10-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, if you can spread it across multiple controllers, it can speed things up. Right. But, generally I think that swap is used in a serial manner, eg the first chunk gets used up before the next one is started, etc.

Re: freeBsd

2003-10-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
can you tell me what a FreeBsd is and what i can do whit it? ral Looks like you have a lot of reading to do. Go to the FreeBSD web page and start reading. http://www.freebsd.org/ Click on the links and follow their trails for complete information. Start with the link For Newbies under

Re: ignoring openssl port

2003-10-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:37:10PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: Anyway, I tried commenting out the above passage in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and rebuilding another port which depends on OpenSSL, namely /usr/ports/ftp/wget. I checked with ldd /usr/local/bin/wget before and after installing

Re: Hardware RAID vs softupdates

2003-10-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-14T09:44:31Z, Michael Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have 4 SCSI hdds connect to this controller card. I wonder if I should disable the softupdates feature for the FFS to make the system runs faster. Out of curiosity, what part of the system do you think would be faster without

Netflow compatible accounting generator.

2003-10-14 Thread Kirill Berezin
Hie all! Does anybody have a suggestion how to generate a cisco Netflow compatible ip-accounting in the FreeBSD-powered router. Any links, suggestions are welcome. Kirill. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: mjpegtools won't compile

2003-10-14 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi lists, when i try to compile the mjpegtools port under 5.1, i get: ## Making all in lavtools gmake[2]: Entering directory

Questions About Dial Up

2003-10-14 Thread Stephan Weaver
Hello Good Morning List! I have some questions for you to answer. 1)For Some Reason, after mabee 3 days my DIAL OUT/UP connection to my ISP hangs. 2) And When it hangs, when i try to ssh to that machine from my end. it takes very long before it ask for my password, but when the internet is

Re: Netflow compatible accounting generator.

2003-10-14 Thread Q
You might want to check out some of the following: (I haven't tried any of these on FreeBSD... yet) http://www.mindrot.org/softflowd.html http://fprobe.sourceforge.net/ http://psi.home.ro/flow/ http://www.ntop.org/nProbe.html Seeya...Q On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 00:32, Kirill Berezin wrote: Hie

apache/auth_ldap authentication to win2k active directory

2003-10-14 Thread Redmond Militante
hi all i've been given the task of setting up ldap authentication against a windows 2000 active directory from a webpage served up by our apache box. the documentation that exists for this is sparse. so far, i've: installed auth_ldap as an apache module recompiled php4 for openldap support

question about cvsup

2003-10-14 Thread Jon Reynolds
If I install applications from the ports tree and make all the configuration changes then upgrade my system using cvsup, will that break all the installed applications? Like say one of my apps has been updated for a security hole, will it break it? Jon

Re: Do threads conflict?

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 14), Mark said: From: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the last episode (Oct 13), Mark said: I just installed Sendmail::Milter, which I believe uses the ithreads model for Perl. I created my own Milter (Perl-threaded 5.8.0), and everything runs fine... Except

Re: Hardware RAID vs softupdates

2003-10-14 Thread Michael Lee
Hi Kirk, Thank you for your reply but I think that you probably misunderstand me. So far as I know, FFS with softupdates support acts quite similar to async. file system. However, hardware based RAID controller card is usually equipped with some cache RAM. In some aspects, RAID controller card

Re: question about cvsup

2003-10-14 Thread Jud
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:19:25 -0800, Jon Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If I install applications from the ports tree and make all the configuration changes then upgrade my system using cvsup, will that break all the installed applications? Like say one of my apps has been updated for a

Backup Solutions

2003-10-14 Thread Stephane Raimbault
Hi, I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run well on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking for software to utilize to backup the 10

GNU Pascal not ported?

2003-10-14 Thread Fredrik Carlén
Hi! I would like to use gpc, since that's what we use in the computer science class...but I can't find it among the ports. Isn't it ported? Sounds weird... /F ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

amd with ldap support

2003-10-14 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) This might sound like a dumb question, but is it possible to compile the amd automounter with ldap support in the base system ? I'm using openldap as an authentication system for my users (with nss_ldap, pam_ldap and samba) and I would love to use amd ldap maps. Right now, I have: Map

Re: Windows Media (blech!)

2003-10-14 Thread Simon Barner
I've had great success with MPlayer with up-to-date Windows Media files: same goes for Quicktime's Sorenson 3 codec. Unfortunately, compiling MPlayer is a bit of a pain, as the Windows codecs are pulled in from elsewhere. The ports collection helps here: cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer less

Re: Backup Solutions

2003-10-14 Thread Jamie
Try researching Amanda. http://www.amanda.org Amanda is also covered in O'Reilly's Unix Backup and Recovery. - Jamie On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Hi, I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software

Re: Backup Solutions

2003-10-14 Thread Bob Collins
At 12:26 PM 10/14/2003, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Hi, I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run well on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was

Re: GNU Pascal not ported?

2003-10-14 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, Hi! I would like to use gpc, since that's what we use in the computer science class...but I can't find it among the ports. Isn't it ported? Sounds weird... There used to be a port of gpc, but as you can see in the latest cvs log message the port has been removed since it was broken: See

Re: Backup Solutions

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Hogsett
I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run wel l on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking fo r software to utilize to backup the 10

Amanda or Bacula

2003-10-14 Thread Rick Duvall
Here is my situation: I have about 200 gigs of data to back up every night on multiple machines on the network. All are either FreeBSD or Linux based. My backup machine is FreeBSD. I have about 30 gigs of dump drive space, and a 20 gig tape drive. I am pretty much convinced that even if I use

Re: Backup Solutions

2003-10-14 Thread Brendan
The amanda chapter from the O'Reilly book can be found at: http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html -Brendan Jamie wrote: Try researching Amanda. http://www.amanda.org Amanda is also covered in

Re: Backup Solutions

2003-10-14 Thread Scott Hiemstra
Just so the original question does get answered, I have successfully used Backup Exec to backup FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris boxes with no real pain to mention. Veritas attempts to hide the fact they have agents for UNIX within backup exec but they are present, you just have to do a little digging on

Re: Backup Solutions

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 14), Stephane Raimbault said: I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run well on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was

Re: ignoring openssl port

2003-10-14 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! Matthew Seaman matthew at cryptosphere dot com wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:37:10PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: Anyway, I tried commenting out the above passage in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and rebuilding another port which depends on OpenSSL, namely /usr/ports/ftp/wget. I

Re: Amanda or Bacula

2003-10-14 Thread Rick Duvall
So to clarify just so that I understand correctly: 1. Each filesystem per system to be backed up qualifies as a dumpfile. 2. Multiple dumpfiles per backup 3. Multiple tapes per backup, as long as 1 dumpfile isn't larger than the tape. One of my systems has a 120 gig drive with about 36gigs

Re: Amanda or Bacula

2003-10-14 Thread Pat Lashley
--On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:07:18 -0700 Rick Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have about 200 gigs of data to back up every night on multiple machines on the network. All are either FreeBSD or Linux based. My backup machine is FreeBSD. I have about 30 gigs of dump drive space, and a 20

Re: Amanda or Bacula

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Hogsett
Yes! For amanda, the tape must be able to store the compressed dump file on one tape. Worst case scenario is that the 120 Gbyte partition is filled with uncompressable data making the dump file 120Gbytes. Amanda will need a tape drive which is capable of storing that on one tape. - Mike

Re: Amanda or Bacula

2003-10-14 Thread Pat Lashley
--On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:55:32 -0700 Rick Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So to clarify just so that I understand correctly: 1. Each filesystem per system to be backed up qualifies as a dumpfile. 2. Multiple dumpfiles per backup 3. Multiple tapes per backup, as long as 1 dumpfile

buildworld 4.8-RELEASE-p7 problem

2003-10-14 Thread Kenton Brede
I've been trying to make buildworld for the last three weeks on this machine - -su-2.05b# uname -a FreeBSD stax 4.8-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p7 #0: Thu Sep 25 13:25:08 CDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM i386 Each time I do so, the process stops with Error code 1. I

Re: buildworld 4.8-RELEASE-p7 problem

2003-10-14 Thread Tuc
Stop in /usr/src/secure/lib/libtelnet. *** Error code 1 I'm working through this too myself. This is on a PR#50507. This is caused by NO_OPENSSL at a minimum. I tried NO_CRYPTO but that didn't help. I've asked around to people, can't get an answer. I'm trying this against

max IDE drive capacity supported in 2.2.2 release

2003-10-14 Thread John Fox
Hello to all, I am trying to determine the maximum (IDE) drive capacity supported by FreeBSD 2.2.2. I have carefully read the release notes for 2.0 and 2.2.2 and seen no mention of this datum. At this point, I'm theorizing that there the only such limit has to do with the limitations of what

Re: Amanda or Bacula

2003-10-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-14T17:55:32Z, Rick Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Each filesystem per system to be backed up qualifies as a dumpfile. That's if and only if you use dump instead of tar. I use tar to back up some large filesystems that have large amounts of incompressible video by splitting

Re: Amanda or Bacula

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 14), Kirk Strauser said: At 2003-10-14T18:24:10Z, Mike Hogsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That can work, but I dont like using tar in place of dump. Various sources recommend using tar instead of dump on live filesystems. The essence of the argument is that dump

Re: mjpegtools won't compile

2003-10-14 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi lists, when i try to compile the mjpegtools port under 5.1, i get: [snip] Is anybody able to compile this? I tried to compile mjpeg tools some time ago and I got the same error. I was lucky it was in lav2divx which I didn't need, so I copied

Re: Backup Solutions

2003-10-14 Thread Bob Collins
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:38:54 -0400 To: Stephane Raimbault [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup Solutions Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:26 PM 10/14/2003, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Hi, I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution.

diskless/pxe booting problem...

2003-10-14 Thread Dave O
I've been experiencing a problem getting a soekris to pxe boot properly. I've tried this with both RELENG_4_8 and RELENG_4 and it still gives me the same problem. I've read and re-read the diskless operation, nfs, and freebsd booting process sections in the handbook, as well as tried to read

Re: How to create distribution for later NFS sysinstall on other box?

2003-10-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
redirected to -questions On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:39:41PM -0400, Chris Shenton typed: Some of my systems are 5.1-CURRENT but I still have some older 4.x boxes. I'd like to upgrade them to the same OS as my 5.1 boxes. It seems stupid to feed them boot floppies then FTP the OS across the

Re: Amanda or Bacula

2003-10-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-14T18:56:45Z, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you're running 5.x, you can use dump -L, which will snapshot the filesystem and back that up. True, but I can't vouch from personal experience whether that works as expected, so I left it out. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp

Re: diskless/pxe booting problem...

2003-10-14 Thread Wes Zuber
Are you sure that you have a kernel at /tmp ? Your config says that the root / for this boot is really at /tmp --Wes On Oct 14, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Dave O wrote: I've been experiencing a problem getting a soekris to pxe boot properly. I've tried this with both RELENG_4_8 and RELENG_4 and it

Re: diskless/pxe booting problem...

2003-10-14 Thread Dave O
Wes Zuber wrote: Are you sure that you have a kernel at /tmp ? Your config says that the root / for this boot is really at /tmp --Wes Yes, I've placed a stripped and gzipped kernel in both /tmp and, just to be on the safe side, in the /tftpboot directory as well. It seems to me that it

what version of openssh is running?

2003-10-14 Thread srenna
Hi all, I followed instructions from this site: http://www.jasonmorgan.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=24 So I could upgrade system Openssh. However, when I run ssh -V it tells me that the version on the system is 3.5p1 and no the updated version. Anyone know if this technique works

Newbie - calcru message questions-problem

2003-10-14 Thread Peter J. Mignone
Hi: I just complete my first installation of FreeBSD 5.1 and I keep getting messages scrolling on the screen which say calcru: negative time of -671171 usec for pid 10304 - message varies by pid. Obviously I have a problem but is it hardware, setup ot hacked. I am clueless, please help Thanks.

Re: diskless/pxe booting problem...

2003-10-14 Thread Wes Zuber
What about the /tmp/conf/default/etc/fstab ? --Wes On Oct 14, 2003, at 12:37 PM, Dave O wrote: Wes Zuber wrote: Are you sure that you have a kernel at /tmp ? Your config says that the root / for this boot is really at /tmp --Wes Yes, I've placed a stripped and gzipped kernel in both /tmp

Re: Newbie - calcru message questions-problem

2003-10-14 Thread Kenton Brede
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:03:48PM -0400, Peter J. Mignone wrote: Hi: I just complete my first installation of FreeBSD 5.1 and I keep getting messages scrolling on the screen which say calcru: negative time of -671171 usec for pid 10304 - message varies by pid. Obviously I have a problem but

altq with vlan...

2003-10-14 Thread Andrzej Kwiatkowski
I'm using FreeBSD 4.8 Stable with altq as my firewall for few networks. Now by FBSD box is connected to my switch with 4 patchcords(one for one vlan). Altq is working exactly as i want. Now i would like to have only one cable to switch. It's simpe and it's working, but how to force altq to

mounted hard disc gave device not configured

2003-10-14 Thread Rob .
(apologies in advance if this silly hotmail account adds any HTML..) Hi all, I have a 4.8-RELEASE server running stock Generic kernal as a NFS and samba file server. It's got a pile of standard IDE discs in it, 40 to 120Gb each, using two third party PCI IDE cards. Within the last couple of

route between LAN, DMZ and INET

2003-10-14 Thread Jason Lavigne
Hello all,   Below you will find my ifconfig output and my /etc/rc.conf file.   I would like to setup a firewall/router that will route between my private LAN, my DMZ and the Internet. Currently I have the following:   I installed FreeBSD 5.1 Installed 3 nics dc0 (LAN, 192.168.1.111), connected to

Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.4 on the same hard drive

2003-10-14 Thread Walt Haynes
I am currently running Windows XP Professional on a HP Pavilion with a 27.95GB hard drive which I've partitioned with FDISK. Windows is in the primary DOS partition (about 7GB) on disk drive C and the extended DOS partition had three logical drives (D, E, and F) defined in it; they are

Re: diskless/pxe booting problem...

2003-10-14 Thread Dave O
Wes Zuber wrote: What about the /tmp/conf/default/etc/fstab ? --Wes Initially I didn't have anything, not even that directory created. I've created and removed the /conf directory many times and must've confused /conf/base with /conf/default. Re-reading diskless(8) I see that that is

The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-09-21 - 2003-10-11

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list

Re: fish sftp and konqueror

2003-10-14 Thread Lauri Watts
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 05.46, Robert Froese wrote: I'm confused. I didn't get any response to my last post, in which I asked for information about getting fish working in Konqueror. Does nobody else use Konqueror as an sftp or fish GUI interface? Or, have I done something uniquely

HP Surestore DAT24i with FreeBSD

2003-10-14 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, How can I found out if this DAT tape drive (HP DAT24i) works with FreeBSD ? thanks, Darryl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GoVideo software

2003-10-14 Thread Brent Wiese
Anyone have a GoVideo/SonicBlue network dvd player? The software that comes with it is only for Windows, but all my files are on FreeBSD. Anyone write/port it? Getting an answer from GoVideo is nearly impossible. I always seem to get the techs that have been there 2 days or less. Cheers,

Re: Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.4 on the same hard drive

2003-10-14 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 01:48 pm, Walt Haynes wrote: I am currently running Windows XP Professional on a HP Pavilion with a 27.95GB hard drive which I've partitioned with FDISK. Windows is in the primary DOS partition (about 7GB) on disk drive C and the extended DOS partition had three

Re: freeBsd

2003-10-14 Thread ral sitaro
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you tell me what a FreeBsd is and what i can do whit it? ral Looks like you have a lot of reading to do. Go to the FreeBSD web page and start reading. http://www.freebsd.org/ Click on the links and follow their trails for complete information.

Re: freeBsd

2003-10-14 Thread ral sitaro
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you tell me what a FreeBsd is and what i can do whit it? ral Looks like you have a lot of reading to do. Go to the FreeBSD web page and start reading. http://www.freebsd.org/ Click on the links and follow their trails for complete information.

Re: HP Surestore DAT24i with FreeBSD

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Maltese
Greetings, How can I found out if this DAT tape drive (HP DAT24i) works with FreeBSD ? Hook it up and see if it works. =) Seriously though, it should work fine. It will show up as an sa device. I have a HP DDS-2 autoloader (the drive portion of it is similar to yours) that works flawlessly

Re: diskless/pxe booting problem...

2003-10-14 Thread Dave O
Wes Zuber wrote: Ah, ok I don't think you can just copy /etc/ straight over without changing a couple of things. We have our setup working but as I recall there were many details. We had to uncover one detail at a time (like you are doing). Here is our rc.conf in /tmp/conf/default/etc/ # --

Re: what version of openssh is running?

2003-10-14 Thread Simon Barner
So I could upgrade system Openssh. However, when I run ssh -V it tells me that the version on the system is 3.5p1 and no the updated version. Anyone know if this technique works in this page, if so, how do I update my box so it knows what version is running. Where is the file located

reading a linux drive w/o disklabels?

2003-10-14 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I've got a drive from a Linux box with partitions I need to read before I reformat the drive. All I have handy is FreeBSD boxes, but when I try to read the drive in a freebsd box, it doesn't read or recognize the disk slices from Linux. Any howto's or tips on how to handle this? TIA! --

Re: Restoring vinum root from dump

2003-10-14 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:54:50AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: ... In particular, if you restore /usr/lib you'll replace the C library /usr/lib/libc.so. It's then possible to crash dynamically linked processes (since they no longer have libraries), after which you could be left with a

Re: Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.4 on the same hard drive

2003-10-14 Thread Rod Person
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 04:48 pm, Walt Haynes wrote: I am currently running Windows XP Professional on a HP Pavilion with a 27.95GB hard drive which I've partitioned with FDISK. Windows is in the primary DOS partition (about 7GB) on disk drive C and the extended DOS partition had three

Re: reading a linux drive w/o disklabels?

2003-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, David S. Jackson wrote: I've got a drive from a Linux box with partitions I need to read before I reformat the drive. All I have handy is FreeBSD boxes, but when I try to read the drive in a freebsd box, it doesn't read or recognize the disk slices from Linux. Any

cross-compiling Linux apps on FreeBSD

2003-10-14 Thread C. Ulrich
Hi, I was wondering if there is any way (preferably an easy way) to build Linux applications from source on FreeBSD with the intention of running them in FreeBSD. My conundrum is this: I want to be able to use a Java (and perhaps Flash) plugin with Firebird on my FreeBSD workstation. From what I

Re: Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.4 on the same hard drive

2003-10-14 Thread Rod Person
It been quit some time since I've used 4.4 or installed FreeBSD with DOS partitions that existed, so someone can correct me if I am mistaken. As memory serves me you can install FreeBSD into a extended DOS partition. Sorry that should have been can't -- Rod @ Home So No Cool Signature

Re: cross-compiling Linux apps on FreeBSD

2003-10-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:04:24PM -0400, C. Ulrich wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is any way (preferably an easy way) to build Linux applications from source on FreeBSD with the intention of running them in FreeBSD. It's not completely straightforward, but you can install the

Re: HP Surestore DAT24i with FreeBSD

2003-10-14 Thread Jon Mercer
Using a DAT40i DDS4 for network backup with Amanda, been working fine for yonks with no problems setting up device access. Jon Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, How can I found out if this DAT tape drive (HP DAT24i) works with FreeBSD ? thanks, Darryl ___

Re: *Editing* PDFs?

2003-10-14 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote James Leone thusly... To convert the .doc file, open it with MS Word in Cross Over Office, print it, catch the postscript file before the job finishes, rename it as whatever2.ps Being ignorant about Cross Over Office, can it not print to a file, like

Logging SCP / SFTP

2003-10-14 Thread Luke Kearney
Hi List, Can anyone point me in the right direction here ? I would like to log all scp/sftp transfers to and from a certain machine and cannot find any logical method to do so. TIA LukeK -- Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Best 6.1 channel sound card for FreeBSD?

2003-10-14 Thread jason dictos
Whats the best 6.1 channel sound card for FreeBSD (i.e. what one has the most open source support behind it)? Thanks, -Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: How to turn off the HDD? How to reduce the overall noise?

2003-10-14 Thread Constantine
I do not have a monitor around my FreeBSD box, so there is no way of accessing the BIOS. Is there any utility that can do that for me from FreeBSD? On 2003-10-06 17:34, jason wrote: This is most easily done in the bios. Check for power settings or energy saver features. You can tell the bios

Weird usb keyboard problem

2003-10-14 Thread jason dictos
Hi All, I have a logitech wireless keyboard, plugged into the onboard usb on my Tyan dual pIII motherboard running a Via chipset. Whenever I use the keyboard and type at a normal rate, it seems like the usb driver or whatever detects more ekeys then I've pressed. Here is san example of fwhat

Re: fonts question

2003-10-14 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:20:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: I know the page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html ...but it doesn't go this deep. Actually, the Anti-Aliasing section at the bottom does. Hey Marcus... thanks for jumping in. I didn't

IP Change

2003-10-14 Thread Edward Aronyk
Good day all, I'm somewhat new to FreeBSD, so today when we had to deploy a new server to the colo running FreeBSD, I ran into problems. Basically the server has been in the office running for the last few weeks with a DHCP provided IP - but now that it's getting a static IP I'm not totally sure

Re: IP Change

2003-10-14 Thread Tim Kellers
For the gateway, from the command line as root: # route add default (ip address of gateway) you can also configure the networking (as root)from /stand/sysinstall #/stand/sysinstall select Configure select Networking Follow the prompts from there. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Tue, 14 Oct 2003,

Re: IP Change

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 14), Edward Aronyk said: I'm somewhat new to FreeBSD, so today when we had to deploy a new server to the colo running FreeBSD, I ran into problems. Basically the server has been in the office running for the last few weeks with a DHCP provided IP - but now that it's

Re: fonts question

2003-10-14 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 23:18, Scott I. Remick wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:20:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: I know the page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html ...but it doesn't go this deep. Actually, the Anti-Aliasing section at the

Mailing binary files

2003-10-14 Thread Carlos A. Carnero Delgado
Hello, I need to mail some users binary files (.tar.gz) from cron jobs. What's the best way to do that? Maybe uuencoding them? (bonus points if no ports involved ;) Thanks, Carlos. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Wine under 5.1-RELEASE

2003-10-14 Thread Nick H -- Network Operations
Has anyone successfully gotten Wine to run a Windows 2000 command line? What about other Windows 2000 core programs? (net, cmd, dir) or ones such as psexec, psinfo, psshutdown etc from sysinternals.com? Im having a bit of trouble right now trying to get it to work as I have a couple hundred

atacontrol(8)

2003-10-14 Thread Constantine
Hello, I have a few questions about atacontrol. First, why the option 'enclosure' does not seem to work? cnst# atacontrol enclosure 0 0 atacontrol: ioctl(ATAENCSTAT): Device not configured Second, where do I have to indicate that my DVD-ROM supports UDMA66? I assume that after saying

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Maltese
Second, where do I have to indicate that my DVD-ROM supports UDMA66? I assume that after saying atacontrol mode 1 udma66 udma66, the settings are going to be vanished the next reboot. Add the following to /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 Reboot. Check dmesg. Third, why it does not

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