jails; sharing parts of file system; mounting pieces of file system in other positions, etc.

2004-01-07 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On linux you can do a % mount -bind olddir newdir to remount a piece of the FS somewhere else. The NullFS on FBSD seems to allow similar things. However, as much as I could find on NullFS in Google seems to indicate that it is pretty much broken and shouldn't be used. What I want to do is

would Promise SX6000 controller work under 5.1?

2004-01-07 Thread alex
Hi ppl! I've a FreeBSD box with Promise TX2000 UATA controller and RAID0 array on it. It works good. But not long ago I've lost some importaint data because of disk failure. (Jesus last years HDDs are getting worse and worse) So I decided to change for SX6000 that can handle RAID5 in IDE array

Re: jails; sharing parts of file system; mounting pieces of file system in other positions, etc.

2004-01-07 Thread Rob
Chad Leigh asked on Wednesday January 07, 2004: On linux you can do a % mount -bind olddir newdir to remount a piece of the FS somewhere else. The NullFS on FBSD seems to allow similar things. However, as much as I could find on NullFS in Google seems to indicate that it is pretty much

Re: growfs problem [was Re: Adding a drive in vinum]

2004-01-07 Thread Mathieu Arnold
+-Le 07/01/2004 13:30 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey écrivait : | On Tuesday, 6 January 2004 at 19:18:06 +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote: | Ok, I could not wait, so I did : | a create with : | drive vinumdrive1 device /dev/ad3e | sd name data.p0.s1 drive vinumdrive1 len 0 | | then : | attach data.p0.s1

Re: How do I read digital camera on USB port with hppsmtools?

2004-01-07 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:11:02AM -0500, Ken Seggerman wrote: Thanks for your reply. I plug the camera into the USB port, turn on the camera, it beeps and says it is connected to a computer. At this stage I think you could mount the camera with the /dev/da0s1 device with msdosfs.

Problems after KDE upgrade with particular users only

2004-01-07 Thread Guenther Schmidt
Hi all, I couldn't find the answer elswhere. I upgrade to KDE 3.1.4 all fine and good in my account. No crashes no problems. Another user tries to run Kopete and it crashes, in my account no problem. Could this be caused by some files/sockets that need to be erased in that users directory after

Re: ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory

2004-01-07 Thread Rob
David Landgren asked on Wednesday January 07, 2004: I watched the server boot, and I saw nothing that resembled a shell error. Is there a way to tee the output of /etc/rc to a file, so that I could scan it afterwards? If you uncomment the 'console.info' line in /etc/syslog.conf, and touch

Re: jails; sharing parts of file system; mounting pieces of file system in other positions, etc.

2004-01-07 Thread Martin Brecher
Chad, Rob, - On linux you can do a % mount -bind olddir newdir to remount a piece of the FS somewhere else. The NullFS on FBSD seems to allow similar things. However, as much as I could find on NullFS [...] I'm currently setting up my 4.9-RELEASE webserver to do something similar - each jail

Re: fixit

2004-01-07 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:55:29 -0500 (EST), Peter Leftwich wrote: I like how you say that - a place to stand. It's a good lead-in for my question: The problem is this... the fixit shell is started and it doesn't really show you WHAT it is technically doing. Is it started in RAM(/ramdisk/) or

Re: ports confusion - are they configurable like I want?

2004-01-07 Thread August Simonelli
hi, I build my apache from source and it runs wonderful on fbsd 5.1. Now I tried to do the same with the fbsd apache-port but I have no idea how to install the port with the same(exact) configuration arguments I used for my source build: ./configure --enable-layout=xyz --enable-file-cache

Size of /var worries me

2004-01-07 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi there, I've installed freebsd 4.9 and am currently busy with installing third party apps through the ports collection. What worries me however is the size of my /var directory. Take a look at my disk geometry.. I also had to get rid of a pkg.db file in the /var/db/pkg directory because it took

Size of /var worries me

2004-01-07 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi there, I've installed freebsd 4.9 and am currently busy with installing third party apps through the ports collection. What worries me however is the size of my /var directory. Take a look at my disk geometry (below) I also had to get rid of a pkg.db file in the /var/db/pkg directory because

Re: Size of /var worries me

2004-01-07 Thread Jez Hancock
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:38:35AM -0800, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi there, I've installed freebsd 4.9 and am currently busy with installing third party apps through the ports collection. What worries me however is the size of my /var directory. You might consider symlinking /var to /usr/var

Re: Size of /var worries me

2004-01-07 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Dino Vliet thusly... I've installed freebsd 4.9 and am currently busy with installing third party apps through the ports collection. What worries me however is the size of my /var directory. Take a look at my disk geometry (below) I also had to get rid

.bin executable

2004-01-07 Thread gffds fsdff
How would I go about executing hlds_l_1120_full.bin (STEAM) in order to extract it. I have also tried non-steam hlds_l_3110_full.bin with no success, however due to STEAM taking impact on modifications I must now use STEAM. _

Re: changing configure options when using a port

2004-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:52:21PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: To apply these options without having to remember to type them in on the command line all the time, you can create a 'Makefile.inc' in the port directory which just contains the 'WITH_FOO=bar' variable assignments, or you can use

raid: dell perc 4/dc support amr queries

2004-01-07 Thread colm ennis
hi, i'm considering purchasing raid controllers bundled with some dell 1750's. the current raid controller's offered by dell with these devices are: perc 4/di perc 4/dc the perc 4/di seems to be an embedded megaraid device which is supported by the amr driver:

Re: rationale for /var/spool/mqueue permissions with 5.1R

2004-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:59:31PM -0500, Ed Budd wrote: I've been working my way through the sendmail bat book (not *ALWAYS* the most exciting read but informative nonetheless) and have come across a recommendation to ensure that /var/spool/mqueue is set as root-owned with mode of 0700.

Re: switching from sendmail to postfix

2004-01-07 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Markus wrote: Hello all, I´m running an FreeBSD 4.9 System and from scratch is an sendmail MTA installed and active. I would use postfix as my MTA. How should I switch to postfix at best? When you install the postfix port you are given instructions on how to do just that. If you've already

Re: switching from sendmail to postfix

2004-01-07 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus wrote: Hello all, I´m running an FreeBSD 4.9 System and from scratch is an sendmail MTA installed and active. I would use postfix as my MTA. How should I switch to postfix at best? When you install the postfix port you are given instructions on how to do

How to use LDAP passwd at 4.9 ?

2004-01-07 Thread Frank
Hi I have a centralized mail server that actually use NIS to access users's passwd, as we use a LDAP server to authenticate all users I had to setup a YP -- LDAP gateway to let our mail server access to the LDAP. The YP -- LDAP software is from HPUX 11.11 but it suffers of some bugs and sometime

Re: .bin executable

2004-01-07 Thread Jez Hancock
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:03:22AM +, gffds fsdff wrote: How would I go about executing hlds_l_1120_full.bin (STEAM) in order to extract it. I have also tried non-steam hlds_l_3110_full.bin with no success, however due to STEAM taking impact on modifications I must now use STEAM. From

Re: switching from sendmail to postfix

2004-01-07 Thread Ernst de Haan
On woensdag 7 januari 2004 13:07, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice mail client you have :-) Ernst ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: switching from sendmail to postfix

2004-01-07 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Ernst wrote: On woensdag 7 januari 2004 13:07, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice mail client you have :-) Unfortunately, at work (where I am right now) I have to use what they tell me to use. I also have to do what they tell me to do, which is much worse. ;-) -- Cheers,

5.2-RC Install Issue

2004-01-07 Thread Thomas Moyer
Well the BIOS is not that old (less than 6 monthes) and as far as I know nothing special is enabled. I succesfully installed 5.0 and 5.1 on it when they came out but when trying to install 5.2-RC2 it fails with messages below. Hi Thomas, What's the age of the BIOS which is there on the mother

Re: p5-DBD-Oracle-1.14 with 9i

2004-01-07 Thread Vitalis
Lukas Ertl wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Vitalis wrote: Should this driver also work for Oracle 9i? I get the following error at connection, though I don't think there is a real memory problem: DBI connect('MYBASE','mylogin',...) failed: at ./connect.pl line 4 ORA-01019: unable to allocate

Install With Serial Console Troubled Using Hyperterminal (FreeBSD 5.2 RC2 I386)

2004-01-07 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi people, I am having real problems installing FreeBSd on a (in practice) headless box (which is actually a FIC 5200-CD Birch notebook with the lid closed up and sealed forming a nice little box with peripherals showing :-) ) using M$

ADMtek USB To LAN Converter and HomePNA

2004-01-07 Thread Dinesh Nair
hey, i have one of the above. it's a usb device which connects to a HomePNA network, with a 10/100Mbps ethernet port as well as a couple of RJ11s for the HomePNA connection. my problem is i am unable to utilize this device to connect to the HomePNA network. upon plugging it in, the console

Re: p5-DBD-Oracle-1.14 with 9i

2004-01-07 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Vitalis wrote: Lukas Ertl wrote: Unfortunately, you can't connect to Oracle 9i with an Oracle 7 client. :-/ Hi Lukas. Thanks for your answer but this is not true =) I finally managed to make it working. This would be a real relief. After many tests, I figured out

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-07 Thread Martin Brecher
Scott Mitchell wrote: [...] Is there some standard tool for doing this on FreeBSD? You can't just do a direct copy cause this results in major disk space wastage so I'm imagining you need to use hard links or something to keep the size down. Check out rsync and the --link-dest=DIR option. This

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-01-06 22:39, Scott W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm not entirely wrong (which is certainly possible) I thought Alan Cox of Linux kernel fame has also done some work on the BSD kernel(s?)? I hope you're not confusing Alan Cox of Linux fame with our own, different, Alan Cox who happens

RE: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-07 Thread David D.W. Downey
I think you're missing the point here. There were 2 questions asked in the original thread. First was are there any commercial distributions and second, are there any companies that provide a for-fee support chain. Linux was brought up as a well known example of the types of services being

Re: raid: dell perc 4/dc support amr queries

2004-01-07 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, colm ennis wrote: hi, i'm considering purchasing raid controllers bundled with some dell 1750's. the current raid controller's offered by dell with these devices are: perc 4/di perc 4/dc the perc 4/di seems to be an embedded megaraid device which is

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, I see, first mount the cdrom, then make an iso from its filesystem - then that's OK, but is seems a little of an overkill, as the cdrom already `contains' the iso. If created your way, the image will not be completely identical to the

RE: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-07 Thread David D.W. Downey
Personally I see nothing wrong with top posting since if you have any involvement with the thread you've been reading, along with the fact that timestamps make chronological ordering easier. However, so as to not offend the Tikki god, or the resident Stick Wavers, I shall endeavor to bottom post.

swap_pager: out of swap space -- doxygen installation fails

2004-01-07 Thread thelen
Hi list, I suppose, that the repeated messages on ttyv0 swap_pager_getswapspace: failed, swap_pager: out of swap space, /kernel: pid 7184 (cc1plus), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space and the error code of the failed compilation of doxygen c++: Internal compiler error: program cc1plus got

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
Personally I see nothing wrong with top posting since if you have any involvement with the thread you've been reading, along with the fact that timestamps make chronological ordering easier. However, so as to not offend the Tikki god, or the resident Stick Wavers, I shall endeavor to bottom

Re: Cd rom device naming - thanks for helping

2004-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Craig Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Just an info on something I could found nowhere (searched the device namings section of FreeBSD handbook, books, other forums..etc) I know that IDE ATAPI cdrom drive is acd - acd0 = 1st IDE ATAPI cdrom acd1 = 2nd IDE ATAPI cdrom acd2 = 3rd

Re: Install With Serial Console Troubled Using Hyperterminal (FreeBSD 5.2 RC2 I386)

2004-01-07 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7 Jan 2004 at 13:30, I spoke, thus: [...] I'll try testing this on earlier versions, going back to 4.9, where I have a nasty suspicion from what I've read somewhere that it will, in fact, work there. It does without saying though that I would

Re: Run away CPU FreeBSD 4.9 Release #0

2004-01-07 Thread Simon1
[snip] Some processes run away with the CPU. Screen is one of the worst offenders along with python.. The CPU starts out at about 15% and slowly ramps up to 100%. As the % ramps up, the priority increases up to about 60 If more than one screen is launched, then the will share the CPU

mass word find/replace

2004-01-07 Thread M.D. DeWar
I am trying to find a way to replace one word in a file with another word, like windows wordpad find/replace. I need to change pn_ to nuke_ and have a 188000 lines to do it on. ugh thanks Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-07 Thread Shantanoo
+++ Scott W [freebsd] [06-01-04 22:39 -0500]: | I know this one may be seen as sacrilege to some, but think about this: | | 1. *BSD uses a fairly significant amount of GNU and GPL licensed | (opposed to the BSD license) code in it. gcc, Perl, XFree86, Apache, | GNU Make, autoconf, mysql,

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-07 Thread Udo Schrter (Trionic Technologies)
FreeBSD is different, because the complete OS is developed and managed by the project, including ports. There is basically no need for a distro maker, because FreeBSD _is_ the distro itself (call it the _canonical_ distro, because nothing prevents you from changing stuff and forking off a

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-07 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Wednesday, January 07, 2004 19:15:37 +0530 Shantanoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++ Scott W [freebsd] [06-01-04 22:39 -0500]: | I know this one may be seen as sacrilege to some, but think about this: | | 1. *BSD uses a fairly significant amount of GNU and GPL licensed | (opposed to the BSD

Re: mass word find/replace

2004-01-07 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Mark wrote: I am trying to find a way to replace one word in a file with another word, like windows wordpad find/replace. I need to change pn_ to nuke_ and have a 188000 lines to do it on. ugh perl -i.bak -pe 's/pn_/nuke_/g' /input/file(s) The old file(s) will be saved with the extension

Re: mass word find/replace

2004-01-07 Thread Lance E. Lott
load it up in vi and type: :%s/pn_/nuke_/g Lance At 09:21 AM 1/7/2004, you wrote: I am trying to find a way to replace one word in a file with another word, like windows wordpad find/replace. I need to change pn_ to nuke_ and have a 188000 lines to do it on. ugh thanks Mark

Re: mass word find/replace

2004-01-07 Thread Björn Andersson
sed(1) should be able do the trick. sed -e /pn_/s//nuke_/g * The above command should replace all pn_ to nuke_ in all files in the directory you run the command. /Björn I am trying to find a way to replace one word in a file with another word, like windows wordpad find/replace. I need to

windows killed my boot manager

2004-01-07 Thread Dan Dan
I needed to reinstall Windows after a FreeBSD 5.x install. I knew that I could reinstall the boot manager from the CD. However, looking at the FAQ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#WIN95-DAMAGED-BOOT-MANAGER to answer my question, the answers don't work for me: -

Re: windows killed my boot manager

2004-01-07 Thread Björn Andersson
Actually had the same problem myself last week. The write option _is_ there but it isn't showing. Simply pressing 'w' will ask if you want to write. :-) Best luck, Björn. I needed to reinstall Windows after a FreeBSD 5.x install. I knew that I could reinstall the boot manager from the CD.

Where is my KDE?

2004-01-07 Thread Mazen S. Alzogbi
Hi, I installed kdebase along with other packages using pkg_add but I cannot run start-kde. Why? Where is my KDE files that I installed are located? TIA. Mazen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: windows killed my boot manager

2004-01-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:35 am, Dan Dan wrote: I needed to reinstall Windows after a FreeBSD 5.x install. I knew that I could reinstall the boot manager from the CD. However, looking at the FAQ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#WIN95-DAM AGED-BOOT-MANAGER

Re: Where is my KDE?

2004-01-07 Thread Ernst de Haan
I installed kdebase along with other packages using pkg_add but I cannot run start-kde. Why? Where is my KDE files that I installed are located? Did you try 'startkde' (without the hyphen) instead of 'start-kde' ? Ernst ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Where is my KDE?

2004-01-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:44 am, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: Hi, I installed kdebase along with other packages using pkg_add but I cannot run start-kde. Why? Where is my KDE files that I installed are located? TIA. Mazen There is a meta-port kde3 that will install the desktop

RE: ACPI and 4.9?

2004-01-07 Thread Lord Sith
It's not device acpi. It is: device acpica _ Take advantage of our limited-time introductory offer for dial-up Internet access. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ___ [EMAIL

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-07 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: Ah, I see, first mount the cdrom, then make an iso from its filesystem - then that's OK, but is seems a little of an overkill, as the cdrom already `contains' the iso. If created your way, the image will not be completely identical to

Application compatibility

2004-01-07 Thread Lee . Sweeney
Hi guys, I am interested in running VMWare. It is available to run on Linux as your host operating system, however I would like to use FreeBSD as the host operating. I was wondering since so many linux apps and utilities run on BSD would it be possible to run VMWare also? If not what possible

Fwd: scsi_target driver on FreeBSD 4.7

2004-01-07 Thread Chhavi Kansal
Note: forwarded message attached. - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes---BeginMessage--- Hi all, I want to write a scsi target driver to send some vendor specific commands to the scsi disk. For that I have modified

FreeBSD 4.7: kernel routine for open, close, ioctl

2004-01-07 Thread Chhavi Kansal
Hi all, I want to open a /dev file from kernel module itself. Is there any interface to perfrom open, close and ioctl call ? I know that on linux filp_open calls exist. I'm looking for the same kind of interface.. Any pointers would be of great help. thanx and regards, Chhavi

Re: Where is my KDE?

2004-01-07 Thread dave
At 10:58 AM 1/7/2004, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:44 am, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: I installed kdebase along with other packages using pkg_add but I cannot run start-kde. Why? Where is my KDE files that I installed are located? TIA. Mazen There is a meta-port

RE: Where is my KDE?

2004-01-07 Thread Mazen S. Alzogbi
Thanks to all of you guys. It worked like a charm :) Cheers, Mazen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dave Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Where is my KDE? At 10:58 AM 1/7/2004, you wrote:

SCSI to IDE device bridges

2004-01-07 Thread Derek Marcotte
Hello, I've checked the H/W compatibiltity list for 4.9 for any SCSI to IDE bridges (IDE drive to SCSI bus), and I don't see any mention of these type of devices. I would think that they would be supported though, because they should just appear as HDDs. I plan on at least to try one out,

SCO binary compatibilkity

2004-01-07 Thread FGA
What versions of FreeBSD have the SCO binary compatibility built into the kernel and install by default? If they don't install by default is it a relatively easy task to recompile a new kernel to enable compatibility? I'm considering moving my extensive POS to this platform if somebody would

Re: Application compatibility

2004-01-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I am interested in running VMWare. It is available to run on Linux as your host operating system, however I would like to use FreeBSD as the host operating. I was wondering since so many linux apps and utilities run on BSD would it be possible to run VMWare

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-07 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Francisco Reyes wrote: Other than speed is there any consideration about the buffer size? I assume you are referring to the 'bs=2048' argument to dd. The argument 'bs=2048' sets the block size to be used for the device. You can't use another value for cdrom drives than 2048 except you are able to

Re: switching from sendmail to postfix

2004-01-07 Thread Andrew Boothman
Gilad Rom wrote: Markus Espenhain wrote: Hello all, Im running an FreeBSD 4.9 System and from scratch is an sendmail MTA installed and active. I would use postfix as my MTA. How should I switch to postfix at best? Has someone a suggestion? Thank you! Greetings from Stuttgart, Germany

5.2-RC2 Install Problems

2004-01-07 Thread T. Green
I am trying to install FreeBSD verison. 5.2-RC2 on a computer from floppy 1 2 disks with the following hardware: motherboard-Intel D875PBZ chipset---Intel 875P Canterwood processorIntel Pentium 4 /with FSB @ 800mhz / Hyper-Treading/ @ 3.30 ghz

Question on port usage

2004-01-07 Thread Jason Williams
Good morning everyone. I wanted to ask a question about ports, the makefile and customizing port installation. I was reading through 'Absolute BSD' last night and was reading up on the section on port's. I was unaware that with ports, you can actually edit the makefile to add certain options

Disk defragmentation

2004-01-07 Thread Mazen S. Alzogbi
Hi, How can I defragment my HDD partitions in FreeBSD? Cheers, Mazen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCO binary compatibilkity

2004-01-07 Thread Lance E. Lott
Since about version 2.2.7. :) Seriously... I had SCO's FoxPro 2.6 running on as early as version 2.2.7. at that time it was a bitch, but since about 4.0 came out, it's been easier and easier. I have now been running SCO's FoxPro 2.6 on FreeBSD 4.0 - 4.9 without problems. All you have to do to

Re: Disk defragmentation

2004-01-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, How can I defragment my HDD partitions in FreeBSD? You don't need to. The FreeBSD file systems don't have a problem with fragmentation.If you run fsck and see the word fragments, it means something other than in the MS world. But, if you insist on doing it, your best bet would be

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-07 Thread Lucas Holt
Apache's testing platform is FreeBSD. So probably it is release under BSD license. Will have to check it out though. HTTPD might be tested on FreeBSD, but not all apache projects are. Tomcat is tested on sun and linux system I believe. Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hardware requirements for firewall

2004-01-07 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Hi all, I'm trying to place a FreeBSD firewall into our network. It needs to be able to filter traffic for up to 50 machines using a total of up to 128 IP addresses between them. The daily average traffic inbound is 4276.3 kb/s with today's max being 7695.0 kb/s. We do need to be able to cope

RE: Disk defragmentation

2004-01-07 Thread Mazen S. Alzogbi
Yeah, I just landed from MS Planet to FreeBSD and I am NOT leaving :) Thanks for the explanation. Cheers, Mazen -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:27 PM To: Mazen S. Alzogbi Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disk

KDE damaged ...

2004-01-07 Thread Mazen S. Alzogbi
Hi, With the help of the great people here I was able to install and run KDE3 on my FreeBSD 4.9. After that, I was trying to change the theme to the skin-less default one which made KDE freeze for a very long time. I forced a restart (and maybe it was me who killed KDE). Now KDE is showing

IPFW confusion

2004-01-07 Thread Ben Quick
Hello all, I've been hunting around for information on IPFW, and how to set up the rules I require. I found a tutorial that seemed to fit my needs: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ipfw.html However, I can't get the config to work. I've commented out all the deny rules. In this

Re: ACPI and 4.9?

2004-01-07 Thread Eric F Crist
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 10:02 am, Lord Sith wrote: It's not device acpi. It is: device acpica Do I have to remove device apm? Also, once I compile with device acpica, is there a port I have to install for acpiconf and the other configuration programs? -- Eric F Crist AdTech

Re: Disk defragmentation

2004-01-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: Hi, How can I defragment my HDD partitions in FreeBSD? Cheers, Mazen FBSD partitions do not need degframenting. The native UFS does a great job of allocating space. Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Question on port usage

2004-01-07 Thread Mathieu Arnold
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:32:23AM -0800, Jason Williams wrote: Hi Mathieu, Thanks for your reply. I do appreciate. You bring up a interesting point, regarding cyrus-sasl. Since cyrus-sasl is a dependency of cyrus-imapd, if I wanted to add some additional options to have cyrus-sasl

Re: Question on port usage

2004-01-07 Thread Jez Hancock
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:13:24AM -0800, Jason Williams wrote: I was reading through 'Absolute BSD' last night and was reading up on the section on port's. I was unaware that with ports, you can actually edit the makefile to add certain options at installation time. Sorta like ./configure

staying 'up-to-date' questions

2004-01-07 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I'm suffering from some confusion regarding keeping my FreeBSD systems up-to-date. Does anybody have any 'best practices' advice? I've been reading three books (Complete BSD, Absolute, Unleased) as well the handbook, but I'm still not clear about how I should manage my up-to-date

Re: windows killed my boot manager

2004-01-07 Thread Dany
I use Smart Boot Manager to boot my Windows and FreeBSD. If fits on the MBR of the first disk and allow ID swap as well as hidding. http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ Dan Dan wrote: I needed to reinstall Windows after a FreeBSD 5.x install. I knew that I could reinstall the boot manager from the

Re: 5.2-RC Install Issue

2004-01-07 Thread Dan Strick
On Wednesday, January 07, Thomas Moyer (?) wrote: When I try to boot the install CD I get a huge list of error messages before it even gets to sysinstall. ata2-master: WARNING - SETFEATURES recovered from missing interrupt ata2-master: WARNING - SETFEATURES recovered from missing interrupt

Re: Disk defragmentation

2004-01-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
Yeah, I just landed from MS Planet to FreeBSD and I am NOT leaving :) You mean you just escaped from MS alter-world that is striving to disolve the real world. Congradulations! jerry Thanks for the explanation. Cheers, Mazen -Original Message- From: Jerry

Re: Hardware requirements for firewall

2004-01-07 Thread Francisco
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Pentium III 667 Mhz with 512MB RAM 2 x Intel EtherExpress 100Mb cards Would either of these machines be able to meet my firewall requirements Why not just try it? It should be fairly simple to move from one machine to the other if need be. If the

Re: Run away CPU FreeBSD 4.9 Release #0

2004-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
What's the actual problem? Are important programs failing to get cycles? I don't know the reason for the issue, but I too have had many problems with screen. (4.8 or 4.9 box?) It works, it just uses up all the CPU available. (Starting at 0.x percent going up to 100 percent) The fix was to

Re: SCSI to IDE device bridges

2004-01-07 Thread Leif Neland
- Original Message - From: Derek Marcotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:39 PM Subject: SCSI to IDE device bridges Hello, I've checked the H/W compatibiltity list for 4.9 for any SCSI to IDE bridges (IDE drive to SCSI bus), and I

Re: Weird stuff after moving to a new MB

2004-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had FreeBSD 5.1 installed on an older Dual 440BX motherboard which was current with CVS. I replaced the board with a 440GX dual. Basically, I took the HD out of the old system and put into the new since the boards are pretty similar.The system is

pkg_create switches

2004-01-07 Thread Dru
Has anyone on the list used the -i, -I, -P or -r switches with pkg_create in a real world situation? If so, could you contact me off list? TIA, Dru ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Hardware requirements for firewall

2004-01-07 Thread Wayne Pascoe
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:36:25PM +, Francisco wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Pentium III 667 Mhz with 512MB RAM 2 x Intel EtherExpress 100Mb cards Would either of these machines be able to meet my firewall requirements Why not just try it? Because it's a

Re: SCO binary compatibilkity

2004-01-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 07), Lance E. Lott said: Since about version 2.2.7. :) Seriously... I had SCO's FoxPro 2.6 running on as early as version 2.2.7. at that time it was a bitch, but since about 4.0 came out, it's been easier and easier. I have now been running SCO's FoxPro 2.6 on

Re: staying 'up-to-date' questions

2004-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Duane Winner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I know when to build a new kernel? How will I know when there is a security patch for the kernel? If I cronjob cvsup and rebuild the kernel once a week, will I be up to date? Well, you'll never be more than a week out of date that way. If you're

Re: SCSI to IDE device bridges

2004-01-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 07), Derek Marcotte said: I've checked the H/W compatibiltity list for 4.9 for any SCSI to IDE bridges (IDE drive to SCSI bus), and I don't see any mention of these type of devices. I would think that they would be supported though, because they should just appear as

Re: Weird stuff after moving to a new MB

2004-01-07 Thread Gary Lum
Yeah, it's kinda weird with the floppy, it'll make the noises like it's trying to start and just sit there, Same thing with the IDE drives. Have tried to boot from CD as well. The FreeBSD will start and get hung after loading uhcio (??) and I'll have to power cycle the system. Windows 2000

Re: SCO binary compatibilkity

2004-01-07 Thread Lance E. Lott
Actually, the FoxPro 2.6 I have runs fine under SCO Openserver 5.x and FreeBSD 4.x. I have it running on about 50 sites nationwide... Lance At 01:08 PM 1/7/2004, you wrote: In the last episode (Jan 07), Lance E. Lott said: Since about version 2.2.7. :) Seriously... I had SCO's FoxPro 2.6

Free X terminals for a good home!

2004-01-07 Thread J. Seth Henry
Guys/Gals, In another attempt to reduce my inventory of gadgets, I've decided to to a bit more purging. This time, it's X terminals. Yes - I do have the server side software for all of them, so they won't end up as doorstops. 2x IBM Netstation 1000 terminals. Nice, fast - but limited to 256

Re: mass word find/replace

2004-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:30:34PM +0100, Björn Andersson wrote: sed(1) should be able do the trick. sed -e /pn_/s//nuke_/g * The above command should replace all pn_ to nuke_ in all files in the directory you run the command. Except that will print the result to stdout -- I suspect that

Re: ACPI and 4.9?

2004-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:37:01AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 10:02 am, Lord Sith wrote: device acpica Do I have to remove device apm? Also, once I compile with device acpica, is there a port I have to install for acpiconf and the other configuration

Re: IPFW confusion

2004-01-07 Thread Ben Quick
Hi Subhro, Thanks for your reply The reason I want the server to route between the internal network and the router is because I only want to allow specific clients out onto the internet, and I can't see how to do this with the router I've got. Plus, it's a good excuse to try to learn something

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-07 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:05:47PM +0100, Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: Francisco Reyes wrote: Other than speed is there any consideration about the buffer size? I assume you are referring to the 'bs=2048' argument to dd. The argument 'bs=2048' sets the block size to be used for the device. You

gdm doesn't allow username input

2004-01-07 Thread Mark Zytkovicz
This is a strange one. I've just finished a massive port upgrade on 5.0-release. I logged out of gnome (probably shouldn't have even been there, but whatever) and it noted that the versions of gdm were different, restart gdm or reboot. I figure it was as good a time as any to reboot. Well, gdm

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