Re: libutil.so.4

2004-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:57:06PM -0700, Shawn Dillon wrote: I am trying to install SpamAssassin and I get the following error. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libutil.so.4 not found You seem to be installing a FreeBSD-4.x package on FreeBSD 5.x. To avoid this problem, (in order of

How to build diskless kernel?

2004-01-02 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm following the instructions in the handbook for diskless boot. In Chapter 19.6.1.4 Building a Diskless Kernel, it says: Build the kernel (See Chapter 9), and copy it to the tftp directory ... I have two problems here: 1. Chapter 9 only explains how to build and install a kernel on a

Re: CDMA and GPRS support

2004-01-02 Thread jan . muenther
Hi Would you please advise where I can find a hardware compatibility list for GPRS and CDMA modems (or just a recommended hardware supplier/make/model(s)) for FreeBSD? being .de based, I don't know much about CDMA apart from how it works - as of GPRS/GSM however, I can tell you that it's fully

'Portsdb -Uu' Fails

2004-01-02 Thread Rishi Chopra
I'm attempting my first 'portsdb -Uu' after a successful CVSUp, but am running into some problems: idfubar# portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... perl: not found /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `write': Broken pipe (Errno::EPIPE) from

What is wrong with pppd version 2.3.5?

2004-01-02 Thread Achim Gorski
Recently I installed 5.2-RC2 for testing purpose and saw an unexplainable behaviour of pppd 2.3.5. I have an old FreeBSD 4.2 running and connecting via modem with ppp to an ISP using ipfw, natd and pppd. Then I configured the 5.2-RC2 install logical identical, but it does not route any packets.

Problem installing the ISO images (5.1 and 5.2)

2004-01-02 Thread Olivier Gautherot
Hi FreeBSD'ers! I'm facing a funny situation that I don't really understand... I'm currently running 5.1 (I thought it was -STABLE but the CDROM says -RELEASE, so I'm not completely sure as I have had it for some time). It installed painlessly. As I was reorganizing my hard disk, I thought I

Re: 'Portsdb -Uu' Fails

2004-01-02 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 02 January 2004 01:39 am, Rishi Chopra wrote: I'm attempting my first 'portsdb -Uu' after a successful CVSUp, but am running into some problems: idfubar# portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... perl: not found /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `write': Broken pipe

Re: Which architecture?

2004-01-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:06:06PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: AMD, Cyrix. The amd64 arch is for the new 64 bit Opterons (i.e. FX64). What is FX64??? Opteron is the server 64-bit CPU Athlon64 FX51 is the high-end desktop CPU Athlon64 is the desktop CPU -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2

2004-01-02 Thread Jaroslaw Nozderko
OS: FreeBSD 5.2-RC2 (MAC - biba,mls) Hi, I have problem with X on 5.2-RC2. Sometimes the whole system hangs when I start X by startx or 'setpmac mls/equal startx' (with MAC policies loaded). In about 30% of attempts it hangs on XFree startup messages and hard reset is required. The problem

sendmail

2004-01-02 Thread Shawn Guillemette
I got some issues with sendmail and was hoping if I showed someone the logging that they might be able to point me in the right direction.. FreeBSD 4.8-RC1 sendamil 8.12.7_2 Thank you Shawn This is from /var/mail/maillog Jan 2 06:50:20 skywalker sendmail[28956]: i02BoKXY028956:

Re: unknown slowdown

2004-01-02 Thread Simon Strandgaard
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 20:43, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:45:49PM +0100, Simon Strandgaard wrote: In my wardrobe I have my noisy/fast server, to which I can connect via the xdmcp protocol, either with my silent desktop machine or if im not at home I can use ssh. It

pkg_add and me

2004-01-02 Thread Mauricio
I want to upgrade the version of libiconv that is in this machine (PC running freebsd 5.1). So, I try pkg_add: daffy# pkg_add libiconv-1.9.1_3.tgz pkg_add: package 'libiconv-1.9.1_3' or its older version already installed daffy# Ok then, I force it to be installed (-f option). All I get

using freebsd

2004-01-02 Thread Aeden
How can i connect two windows machine togehter using freebsd and securing them with a vpn and even suply them with internet. i have a pentium 3 pc running freebsd 4.x and it has 5 pci ehternet cards one for internet two for the other machines can you indicate some information on this thank you

Recent 4.8-STABLE Compaq Proliant System drive issues

2004-01-02 Thread JP
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Recent 4.8-STABLE Compaq Proliant System drive issues

2004-01-02 Thread JP
Hi, I have a prolinea compaq system, one with no real bios. And yes, I cant get the floppy install method to see the IDE drive. Very annoying. JP ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

busybox

2004-01-02 Thread Maarten
Hi, I'd like to run Busybox (http://www.busybox.net/) or something similar on FreeBSD. Has anyone on this list succesfully managed to do so yet, or do you know about alternatives? Ta, -- http://unsavoury.net/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

shared objects(.so files)

2004-01-02 Thread niraj kumar
i want to create shared objects (.so files) in freebsd what is the command and the parameters for that. niraj Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online.Post your profile. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: busybox

2004-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Maarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to run Busybox (http://www.busybox.net/) or something similar on FreeBSD. Has anyone on this list succesfully managed to do so yet, or do you know about alternatives? Sounds like crunchgen(1). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: busybox

2004-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 02:13:01PM +0100, Maarten wrote: I'd like to run Busybox (http://www.busybox.net/) or something similar on FreeBSD. Has anyone on this list succesfully managed to do so yet, or do you know about alternatives? Take a look at the contents of the /stand directory.

Re: shared objects(.so files)

2004-01-02 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:16:38PM +, niraj kumar wrote: i want to create shared objects (.so files) in freebsd what is the command and the parameters for that. I think it's: $ gcc -shared -o libname.so (object files) Gautam ___ [EMAIL

Jails for websites

2004-01-02 Thread Chris
5.1 I have a server with 5 public IP addresses, so I'm thinking I'll set it up with one IP for the server (as a host) and the other 4 assigned to 4 jails. The jails are for websites... From a security standpoint, wouldn't it be better to run four instances of ftpd (one in each jail), as

Re: libutil.so.4

2004-01-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:43:35AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:57:06PM -0700, Shawn Dillon wrote: I am trying to install SpamAssassin and I get the following error. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libutil.so.4 not found You seem to be installing a

Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2

2004-01-02 Thread Trey Sizemore
Jaroslaw Nozderko wrote: OS: FreeBSD 5.2-RC2 (MAC - biba,mls) Hi, I have problem with X on 5.2-RC2. Sometimes the whole system hangs when I start X by startx or 'setpmac mls/equal startx' (with MAC policies loaded). In about 30% of attempts it hangs on XFree startup messages and hard reset is

Re: My /etc/ttys file has been overwritten

2004-01-02 Thread Trey Sizemore
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:29, Trey Sizemore wrote: I edited my /etc/ttys file in Easy Editor and then saved and exited (or so I thought) to enable kdm. When I rebooted, my machine would hang. I went back into /etc/ttys and noticed that the file is now empty!! What is the best

Name Server error / problem with Win XP

2004-01-02 Thread Ajitesh K
Hi freinds, Wish you all a very Happy New year. I am get some kind of error on my name server nameserv1. FYI, TM25 system is laptop of out side client and OS is Windows XP Home. nameserv1.lan.mycompany.com kernel log messages: 31 10:47:32 nameserv1 dhcpd: if IN A TM25.dhcp.mycompany.com

Grumpy 'xdm' won't take logins

2004-01-02 Thread John Mills
Freebies - I just finished a fairly lightweight ftp installation of 5.1-Release and want to offer an X11 login screen. Basic XF86 seems to work fine. I followed the 'Configuring xdm' instructions in Greg Lehey's _Complete_FreeBSD_, ch.17, but didn't get quite all the way home. I get the X11

PHP port 4.3.4_4

2004-01-02 Thread Marius Kirschner
Tried upgrading my php to the latest but 'make' fails with the following error: /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.3.4/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:1060: structure has no member named `advance' /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.3.4/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:1061: structure has no member named `advance' *** Error

Re: Strange calloc problem

2004-01-02 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
From: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Willem Jan Withagen writes: I'm running this compiler which is rather heap intensive and it crashed with a SigFault in calloc/malloc (I've tied both, but as expected calloc calls malloc) What suggestions are there

Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2

2004-01-02 Thread Trey Sizemore
Trey Sizemore wrote: Jaroslaw Nozderko wrote: OS: FreeBSD 5.2-RC2 (MAC - biba,mls) Hi, I have problem with X on 5.2-RC2. Sometimes the whole system hangs when I start X by startx or 'setpmac mls/equal startx' (with MAC policies loaded). In about 30% of attempts it hangs on XFree startup

Re: isc-dhcpd weird effect

2004-01-02 Thread Pierrick Brossin
On 01 Jan 2004 20:13:39 -0500 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's an artifact of the way the data structures get initialized at the daemon startup. I don't see any problem with it... There's no problem. It's just I like normal things :) usually when you count your fingers you do not

Re: Recent 4.8-STABLE Compaq Proliant System drive issues

2004-01-02 Thread Mohsin Rahman
Not knowing which compaq server you are referring to, perhaps this link will help. http://www.daemonnews.org/23/cpqraid.html I used these instructions and had FBSD4.8 happily running on Compaq5000R w/ 4x200MHz CPU, 1.2GB of RAM, the Compaq 2P raid controller. However, even though it has a

Changing Apache

2004-01-02 Thread Marius Kirschner
I currently have Apache 1.3.29 running and want to switch to the Apache mod-ssl version. My question is, do I need to deinstall the standard apache before building the mod-ssl one from the ports? And what would be the best procedure to minimize the downtime? Thank you, ---Marius

Clamd sendmail ??

2004-01-02 Thread Greg Bernard
Hello, I am trying to have sendmail used clamd in order to filter incoming mail for viruses on my mail server. I have configured clamav following the instruction found here : http://linux-sxs.org/administration/clamav-milter.html I have modified my settings in order to have sendmail parsed

Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2

2004-01-02 Thread J S Goldberg
I had another ACPI related problem on my asus (nvidia) a7n8x, and posted to the 'current' mailing list. One of the replies suggested how to disable acpi cleanly: At 09:17 +0200 01/01/2004, Danny Braniss wrote: try adding in file /boot/device.hints: hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 danny That worked - it

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-02 Thread Jason Bacon
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 02:04 pm, Francisco wrote: On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Jason Bacon wrote: 3ware IDE RAID. Agree on the 3ware controllers. No such thing as cheap tape backups. :-( If the amount of data can compress into a CD or DVD you could consider a burner. Moreover,

Getting SCSI Drive info.

2004-01-02 Thread Daryl Chance
I'm adminning some remote servers and I need to get the drive model numbers so the owner can buy more disks. I've tried dmesg, but the only thing that gives me is the raid volume and the raid adapter model. I can go to the server with ATA Raid and it gives me all the drives and their model

Problem with FreeBSD

2004-01-02 Thread orlandina
Hello freebsd-questions, I have one problem with system. Always after rebooting it says that file systems was uncorrectly unmounted and i have no way to recovery system without reinstallation. Can you help with solving this problem? May be problem is in compatibility with processor

Single File Limit Size

2004-01-02 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi Everybody, I'm using FreeBSD 4.9 with UFS file system support . I gave to question . I saw that single file can only grow 2 GB How Can I grow it? Does it tunable from Kernel or File System ? Secound question is How can I change files system for example turn FreeBSD 4.9

Re: Getting SCSI Drive info.

2004-01-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 02), Daryl Chance said: I'm adminning some remote servers and I need to get the drive model numbers so the owner can buy more disks. I've tried dmesg, but the only thing that gives me is the raid volume and the raid adapter model. I can go to the server with ATA Raid

Re: Single File Limit Size

2004-01-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 02), Vahric MUHTARYAN said: I'm using FreeBSD 4.9 with UFS file system support . I gave to question . I saw that single file can only grow 2 GB How Can I grow it? Does it tunable from Kernel or File System ? FreeBSD 4 does not have a 2gb filesize limit. I have

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-02 Thread Jason Bacon
On Thursday 01 January 2004 07:09 am, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Scott Mitchell wrote: As for RAID, we use Vinum, but only because I inherited a bunch of machines with hot-swap SCSI bays and no hardware RAID. It works well, once you have it set up, and I've even managed to

Re: Problem with FreeBSD/uncorrectly umount after reboot

2004-01-02 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, orlandina wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, I have one problem with system. Always after rebooting it says that file systems was uncorrectly unmounted and i have no way to recovery system without reinstallation. Can you help with solving this problem? May be

Re: File system full?

2004-01-02 Thread Eric F Crist
On Thursday 01 January 2004 11:46 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a 1008M92M 835M10%/ /dev/ad0s2 1020M19M 1001M 2%/dos /dev/ad0s3g 4.8G69M 4.3G 2%/home /dev/ad0s3e 3.9G

Re: Changing Apache

2004-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Marius Kirschner wrote: I currently have Apache 1.3.29 running and want to switch to the Apache mod-ssl version. My question is, do I need to deinstall the standard apache before building the mod-ssl one from the ports? And what would be the best

Re: File system full?

2004-01-02 Thread Eric F Crist
On Thursday 01 January 2004 10:15 pm, Scott W wrote: Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a 1008M92M 835M10%/ /dev/ad0s2 1020M19M 1001M 2%/dos /dev/ad0s3g 4.8G69M 4.3G 2%/home

Re: libutil.so.4

2004-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 06:03:21AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:43:35AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:57:06PM -0700, Shawn Dillon wrote: I am trying to install SpamAssassin and I get the following error. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:

Sata Raid FreeBSD 4.9

2004-01-02 Thread IzyData Software Company
Hello, We are IzyData Software Developping company from Switzerland. And now, we are going to dedicated server. For our OS we choose FreeBSD 4.9. And one problem appeared. We can't make working sata raid disks which are on mirroring, we simply do not see it in a system. Is this feature

Re: Problem with FreeBSD

2004-01-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
orlandina wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, I have one problem with system. Always after rebooting it says that file systems was uncorrectly unmounted and i have no way to recovery system without reinstallation. Can you help with solving this problem? May be problem is in compatibility with

Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2

2004-01-02 Thread Jaroslaw Nozderko
Hi Trey, Yes, see my post from earlier today called Can't shutdown, logout, or restart cleanly. I have not run 5.1-RELEASE before, so I can't say if it didn't happen there, but it definitely happens with 5.2-CURRENT. I'm at my wit's end trying to find out why! thanks, I've read it - I

Re: Clamd sendmail ??

2004-01-02 Thread Jon Mercer
I had this problem and traced it down to the fact that the default location where clamav puts its socket is wrong. After editing /usr/local/etc/clamav.conf so that LocalSocket looked like: # Path to the local socket. The daemon doesn't change the mode of the # created file (portability reasons).

once again rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz

2004-01-02 Thread Frederick Thomas
Hello, I'm trying to get some help installing the tarball in the subject line because I do not have an internet connection at home, and every time I have tried to build a binary from source I've have been unable to because of some missing dependencies. I'm new to asking for help but I would

Does anyone know how to subscribe to the isc dhcp list?

2004-01-02 Thread stan
I'm still not able to get failover working on ISC dhcpd, and it looks like this list is out of answers. The REAME in the work directory of the port mentions a couple of mailing lists dedicated to that project (great anoth mailinglist to subscribe to :-(), but it does not explain how to subscribe

RE: Changing Apache

2004-01-02 Thread Marius Kirschner
Thanks, Matthew, much appreciated. I assume I'll be able to use my current httpd.conf file, but just rename it to httpsd.conf? Also, if I get a certificate for www.whatever.com will I be able to refer to it via http:// and https://? ---Marius -Original Message- From: Matthew

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Scott Mitchell wrote: There no particular reason for an ATA RAID to be slower than SCSI, assuming similar disks in each. 10krpm 'server class' ATA disks are available these days, although I don't know that anyone has done a 15krpm one yet. That is the point. SCSI disks

Re: Does anyone know how to subscribe to the isc dhcp list?

2004-01-02 Thread Mark Woodson
At 09:50 AM 1/2/2004, stan wrote: I'm still not able to get failover working on ISC dhcpd, and it looks like this list is out of answers. The REAME in the work directory of the port mentions a couple of mailing lists dedicated to that project (great anoth mailinglist to subscribe to :-(), but it

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Jason Bacon wrote: Well, I'm in a position to provide some comparison data with not-too-many variables, Thanks much for sharing the results. They seem close enough that someone who is price concious or on a limited budget may want to consider the 3Ware. However, what a

Re: Which architecture?

2004-01-02 Thread Nate Lawson
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:06:06PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: AMD, Cyrix. The amd64 arch is for the new 64 bit Opterons (i.e. FX64). What is FX64??? Opteron is the server 64-bit CPU Athlon64 FX51 is the high-end desktop CPU Athlon64 is the desktop

Re: Changing Apache

2004-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:09:17PM -0500, Marius Kirschner wrote: Thanks, Matthew, much appreciated. I assume I'll be able to use my current httpd.conf file, but just rename it to httpsd.conf? No, it's still called httpd.conf. There's a whole passel of extra configuration stuff to do with

remove boot delay

2004-01-02 Thread J.D. Bronson
What do I have to do to lower (or remove) the typical 10 second delay: Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. ..I need this machine to boot ASAP and cant see to find anywhere to adjust this? thanks in advance! -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information

Re: remove boot delay

2004-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do I have to do to lower (or remove) the typical 10 second delay: Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. ..I need this machine to boot ASAP and cant see to find anywhere to adjust this? I seem to recall that

Re: remove boot delay

2004-01-02 Thread T Kellers
For 4.x it's defined in /boot/defaults/loader.conf: ## ### Loader settings ## #autoboot_delay=10# Delay in seconds before

Re: remove boot delay

2004-01-02 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 01:08 PM 1/2/2004, T Kellers wrote: For 4.x it's defined in /boot/defaults/loader.conf: ## ### Loader settings ##

In 5.2: camcontrol = devfs = GEOM ? How?

2004-01-02 Thread Mark Terribile
Hi, With Nate Lawson's help, I have my FC/SCSI target mode operations working; now I need to make things work on the initiator side. A camcontrol rescan 1 causes the new target to become visible on the initiator-side card. But the target is listed as FreeBSD Emulated Disk 0.1 at

help me!!!

2004-01-02 Thread dc
Hi, I have just build a freeBSD box with some parts I had lying around. I was wondering what I need to do to make the machine shutdown completely. When I run the shutdown -h now command the machine starts the process and than I get the message that I need to press any key to reboot. I would like

buildworld: ENCODING GB18030 is not supported by libc

2004-01-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
I just got this failure on a FreeBSD freepuppy.bellavista.cz 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #3: Tue Aug 26 12:34:53 CEST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEPUPPY2_5 i386 in a buildworld of freshly updated /usr/src. UPDATING, marc.theaimsgroup.com, and google are quiet about the

Re: help me!!!

2004-01-02 Thread Dany
This question has been asked yesterday. Try using shutdown -p now instead of -h and you system should turn his power off automatically. DAny dc wrote: Hi, I have just build a freeBSD box with some parts I had lying around. I was wondering what I need to do to make the machine shutdown

Re: 1024x768 on a toshiba 8100 tecra in a text (Non X) Console

2004-01-02 Thread Michael L. Squires
Hi, This problem even appears when installing the OS though sysinstall. Disabeling acpi was the solution. I just did a buildworld from 5.2-CURRENT and haven't had any problems. I did install by putting 5.1-RELEASE on the 8100 via ftp and then cvsup'ing sources. The only boot error

Confused about sound servers

2004-01-02 Thread Trey Sizemore
I run KDE, Gnome, and occasionally IceWM (although I haven't yet installed this on my FreeBSD machine). Coming from a linux background, I'm a little confused about sound servers. I have a SoundBlaster Live Value PCI card on my machine running 5.2-CURRENT. I have compiled my kernel with

RE: Changing Apache

2004-01-02 Thread Marius Kirschner
Also, if I get a certificate for www.whatever.com will I be able to refer to it via http:// and https://? Well, ish. When you compile the port, you will be given the option to generate several flavours of test key. These will permit the HTTPS server to work, but visitors will get

laptop hardware profile

2004-01-02 Thread Dru
Is anyone aware of a tutorial/documentation available for creating a hardware profile? I'm thinking of something that allows the user to choose to either configure a wireless or a wired NIC during bootup. I could script it after bootup, but I'd prefer to do it during loader. Will this require

Re: Confused about sound servers

2004-01-02 Thread T Kellers
Don't use both device pcm and the .ko modules. The sound won't work at all or, if it does, not properly. You may not even have any keyboard beeps (^G's) if both are loaded. Get rid of the device pcm and just load the modules. KDE comes with artsd as it's sound server; some people love it,

Re: Changing Apache

2004-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:03:39PM -0500, Marius Kirschner wrote: Also, if I get a certificate for www.whatever.com will I be able to refer to it via http:// and https://? Well, ish. When you compile the port, you will be given the option to generate several flavours of test key.

Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-02 Thread Eric Rescorla
I'm finally getting to the point where my disk capacity massively outruns my tape capacity, so I'm thinking of converting to removable disk-only backup. I could just use Amanda to backup to disk, but I'm intrigued by Plan 9's archival filesystem where backups from (say Jan 1, 1999) would go in

swapping external hard drives

2004-01-02 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! OS version: 4.9-RELEASE-p1. 'device firewire' and 'device sbp' compiled into kernel. I've bought two external FireWire drives (Maxtor 5000DV) as a cheap backup media. The idea is to use Amanda, define 5 virtual tapes on each disk, and swap the disk at the end of every week, keeping one

Re: swapping external hard drives

2004-01-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 02), Toomas Aas said: However, when I umount /backup and remove the drive, the da0 device somehow remains active (can be seen with 'camcontrol devlist'). When I then plug in the second drive, it becomes da1, which spoils all my beautiful backup plans. I would prefer

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-02 Thread Jason Bacon
On Friday 02 January 2004 07:19 am, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Jason Bacon wrote: Well, I'm in a position to provide some comparison data with not-too-many variables, Thanks much for sharing the results. They seem close enough that someone who is price concious or on a

Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2

2004-01-02 Thread Martin Brecher
Jaroslaw Nozderko wrote: [...] Yes, see my post from earlier today called Can't shutdown, logout, or restart cleanly. [...] thanks, I've read it - I have Asus P3B-F motherboard :)) But seriously, I'm not sure it's hardware-related - I don't remember a single occurence of this problem in 5.1 and

Re: laptop hardware profile

2004-01-02 Thread Eric F Crist
On Friday 02 January 2004 02:06 pm, Dru wrote: Is anyone aware of a tutorial/documentation available for creating a hardware profile? I'm thinking of something that allows the user to choose to either configure a wireless or a wired NIC during bootup. I could script it after bootup, but I'd

Re: Confused about sound servers

2004-01-02 Thread Eric F Crist
On Friday 02 January 2004 02:06 pm, T Kellers wrote: Don't use both device pcm and the .ko modules. The sound won't work at all or, if it does, not properly. You may not even have any keyboard beeps (^G's) if both are loaded. I find I only add the device pcm line to my kernel and everything

How can I duplicate a set of installed ports?

2004-01-02 Thread John Mills
Freebies - I have an installation I'm comfortable with, between those ports I chose to install, those I chose _not_ to install, and those I went around and added individually. Now I want to install the same set in a number of other systems. I know I can get a list of installed options with

Re: netgear nic

2004-01-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:36 PM Subject: netgear nic the NIC selection at the local store was terrible. I ended up buying a netgear FA311. I cannot tell what chipset this has.. It is the numbers

Re: How can I duplicate a set of installed ports?

2004-01-02 Thread Martin Brecher
John Mills wrote: [...] I have an installation I'm comfortable with, between those ports I chose to install, those I chose _not_ to install, and those I went around and added individually. Now I want to install the same set in a number of other systems. [...] The machines have 3.5 diskettes,

Re: Which architecture?

2004-01-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:45:51AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: Not to mention it's impossible to find clock frequencies on amd.com. Agreed, the easiest public way I've found is: goto http://ask.amd.com/ select Desktop, Server, Workstation Processor Products search CPU specs

Re: netgear nic

2004-01-02 Thread Dorin H
--- Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:36 PM Subject: netgear nic the NIC selection at the local store was terrible. I ended up buying a netgear FA311. I

Re: How can I duplicate a set of installed ports?

2004-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Martin Brecher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Mills wrote: [...] I have an installation I'm comfortable with, between those ports I chose to install, those I chose _not_ to install, and those I went around and added individually. Now I want to install the same set in a number of other

Re: sshd crashing server

2004-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Will Prater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: List, sshd seems to be crashing my server. I am looking for any help regarding why this could be happening. I am running sshd version OpenSSH_3.6.1. Here is the output from dmesg: the machine crashed every time when running #ipfw show or #dmesg

Re: Confused about sound servers

2004-01-02 Thread Trey Sizemore
Eric F Crist wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 02:06 pm, T Kellers wrote: Don't use both device pcm and the .ko modules. The sound won't work at all or, if it does, not properly. You may not even have any keyboard beeps (^G's) if both are loaded. I find I only add the device pcm line to

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-02 Thread paul beard
On Jan 2, 2004, at 9:26 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote: I'm finally getting to the point where my disk capacity massively outruns my tape capacity, so I'm thinking of converting to removable disk-only backup. I could just use Amanda to backup to disk, but I'm intrigued by Plan 9's archival filesystem

AMD Processors

2004-01-02 Thread Sal Aldana
I was wondering which AMD Processors are compatible with FreeBSD. I have a Athlon XP 2700 and wanted to know if it would work. I was also going to build a Dual Processor machine using Athlon MP Processors. If any of these work could you let me know before I decide to use FreeBSD. Thank you for

memory use on 5.2RC2 i386

2004-01-02 Thread J.D. Bronson
I have noticed that when building apps (via gcc for example) that my free RAM (seen via 'top') is diminishing down to almost nothing... Is it going to buffer space? it looks like at this rate, I will start swapping soon... Any comments or any way to change this behavior? ..I dont remember

Re: Confused about sound servers

2004-01-02 Thread T Kellers
On Friday 02 January 2004 06:49 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 02:06 pm, T Kellers wrote: Don't use both device pcm and the .ko modules. The sound won't work at all or, if it does, not properly. You may not even have any keyboard beeps (^G's) if

Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2

2004-01-02 Thread Jaroslaw Nozderko
Hi Martin, I agree: I experienced X11 freezes on 5.2 with both a nvidia card as well as a card using the i740 chipset. The nv freezed the computer as soon as I started X, the i740 happend to freeze it when I killed the X server I also have nvidia - Geforce 256. And for me it also freezed on

Re: memory use on 5.2RC2 i386

2004-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have noticed that when building apps (via gcc for example) that my free RAM (seen via 'top') is diminishing down to almost nothing... Free RAM is wasted RAM. Is it going to buffer space? it looks like at this rate, I will start swapping soon... I

Re: Can't shutdown, logout, or restart cleanly

2004-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running 5.2-CURRENT on my PII-400 desktop. I have done 3 installs of FreeBSD each time cvsupping to 5.2 current (using ISOs for 5.1 and 5.2) to do the initial install. EVERY time I get the following problem. When I try to logout, reboot, or

Re: memory use on 5.2RC2 i386

2004-01-02 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 06:52 PM 1/2/2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote: J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have noticed that when building apps (via gcc for example) that my free RAM (seen via 'top') is diminishing down to almost nothing... Free RAM is wasted RAM. Is it going to buffer space? it looks like at

Re: How to build diskless kernel?

2004-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm following the instructions in the handbook for diskless boot. In Chapter 19.6.1.4 Building a Diskless Kernel, it says: Build the kernel (See Chapter 9), and copy it to the tftp directory ... I have two problems here: 1. Chapter 9 only explains how to

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-01-02 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2004-01-02 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: using freebsd

2004-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can i connect two windows machine togehter using freebsd and securing them with a vpn and even suply them with internet. i have a pentium 3 pc running freebsd 4.x and it has 5 pci ehternet cards one for internet two for the other machines can you indicate

Re: AMD Processors

2004-01-02 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 02 January 2004 03:53 pm, Sal Aldana wrote: I was wondering which AMD Processors are compatible with FreeBSD. I have a Athlon XP 2700 and wanted to know if it would work. I was also going to build a Dual Processor machine using Athlon MP Processors. If any of these work could you let

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