New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Loren M. Lang
I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might be setting up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating whether I should use FreeBSD or some Linux distro like mandrake or debian. I will be there most of

SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Joe Pokupec
Hey Guys, I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Single User Mode... I can't find any info on Single User Mode to help me: - I use

GUI-related questions.

2004-03-05 Thread Gary Kline
Hi, Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces configured with many xterms/workspace. I've hand-coded at least

Re:

2004-03-05 Thread bernard . el-hagin
Chris wrote: hi dear mr or mrs i use freebsd 5.0 . whenever i want boot my computer(when kernel want boot) i see this messages: unable to load kernel! cant load 'kernel' please guide me regads No offense - but without proper information, the list can't determine your real

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 4 March 2004 at 23:48:05 -0900, Joe Pokupec wrote: Hey Guys, I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Single User

Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread anubis
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 6:16 pm, Loren M. Lang wrote: I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might be setting up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating whether I should use FreeBSD or some Linux

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-05 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: The parity calculations for RAID-5 are a lot of work and that work scales linearly with the number of drives in the array. The longer you make the array, the worse the performance becomes for small writes in particular. How did you come to this

Re: RAID1 vs RAID5 [ was Re: 1 processor vs. 2]

2004-03-05 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: Also, RAID-5 performance degrades horribly if a drive is down, whereas RAID-1 does fine... Using the algorithm you indicate below, RAID-5 performance would not degrade on the loss of a drive, it's start out that badly. A five-disk RAID-5 array has to

Dual-boot FreeBSD 4.x/5.x

2004-03-05 Thread Loren M. Lang
Is it possible to dual boot FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2.1 on one system, each using a different / partition, but sharing the same /usr partition for example? I'd really like to try out some of the features of 5.x, but be able to easily go back to 4.9 if I find it too unstable. -- I sense much NT in

FreeBSD 5.2.1 nVidia Problem

2004-03-05 Thread Irakli
Hi I had same problem, when I install nvidia driver on BSD 5.2.1 X can't loads. The result was garbage and frozen screen I found your message: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3FF95CBD.8060304 and it was help me thanks if anybody has same problem: kernel configuration file: #device agp

Re: REALLY frustrated with ports problem

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Thanks, guys, it was the optimization settings. I was trying the ones I found on the bsd-tuning page, and thought -O3 was okay for non-kernel. You just helped a MAJOR headache go away. ;-) NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. jm -- My other computer is your windows

Re: priority-- curious about cpu resouce share

2004-03-05 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 00:34:37 +0800 Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Today I did't experiment on {rt|id}prio(1), just to be interesting. I am trying to understand FreeBSD priority mechenism. IMHO realtime/idle priority only starvs processes when

Qpopper SSL

2004-03-05 Thread Pelle Andersson (SPD Systems AB)
Hi! Want to get Qpopper to work with SSL on a FreeBSD 4.9. I have followed the instruction at various sites about how this should be done including eudora.com/qpopper. I have also followed alot of instructions on how to make a cert-file (cert.pem) from a .key and .crt file. That includes

Re: Dual-boot FreeBSD 4.x/5.x

2004-03-05 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:10:38 -0800 Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to dual boot FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2.1 on one system, each using a different / partition, but sharing the same /usr partition for example? I'd really like to try out some of the features of 5.x, but be able

Re: How can I rebuild prots databases?

2004-03-05 Thread stan
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:06:29PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:36:21PM -0500, stan wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:52:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:07:54AM -0500, stan wrote: I'n updating a bunch of older (around 4.2) machines.

Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password, seemingly sporadically

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan Neill
Why yes, as a matter of fact it is^H^Hwas... Something special about it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies if this is a stupid question and I should RTFM, but something on my Freebsd-5.1 box is creating a binary file in / with the same name as my root password and I was curious as to

Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-05 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:35:55 -0500 fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please expand on your comment about 4.10 being the next stable release. I take this to mean that 5.2.1 is an long way off from moving to the stable branch. Are you in the inter-circle that authorizes the movement of

Re: Growing RAID5 (using RAID0).

2004-03-05 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:15:14PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: I've been thinking about this and I'm wondering if it is possible to do something like the following: I have an existing RAID5 volume, comprised of just 3 120GB disks. However, I've just bought three more 250GB

RE: Qpopper SSL

2004-03-05 Thread Lee Dilkie
I have followed the instruction at various sites about how this should be done including eudora.com/qpopper. I have also followed alot of instructions on how to make a cert-file (cert.pem) from a .key and .crt file. That includes openssh.org. I cannot get it to work anyway. -- I must be

Re: vinum crashed

2004-03-05 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:14:06AM +0100, Axel S. Gruner wrote: I setup a disk stripping with two disks and vinum. I was impressed about the quick and easy setup. The configuration is, that i installed FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 on /, a little bit of swap, and the gave the rest for vinum.

RE: redirecting /tmp

2004-03-05 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, Stop all processess. # rm -rf /tmp # mkdir /usr/tmp # chmod 1777 /usr/tmp # ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp Restart all processess. Regards SSR _ Easiest Money Transfer to India. Send Money To 6000 Indian Towns.

vmware3 -CURRENT.

2004-03-05 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I've just CVSupped to -CURRENT in an attempt to learn more about FreeBSD development in general. However, vmware3 no longer works. I get errors about vmnet1 not existing, yet I have the appropriate entries in /compat/linux/dev. However, I /do/ have a vmnet4097 when I run ifconfig. I

Re: Growing RAID5 (using RAID0).

2004-03-05 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:28:17PM +1100, Tony Frank wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:15:14PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: i.e. can I create a RAID0 volume from two RAID5 volumes? I understand this might sound a little odd but if it works it would be the ideal solution for me. I would

Re: REALLY frustrated with ports problem

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:01:36PM +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Thanks, guys, it was the optimization settings. I was trying the ones I found on the bsd-tuning page, and thought -O3 was okay for non-kernel. Please be sure to tell whoever wrote the bsd-tuning page that they're giving out

Re: How can I rebuild prots databases?

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:18:45AM -0500, stan wrote: I'm getting things like this when I run portupgrade: ! (pgaccess-0.98.6)(missing origin) ! (acroread-3.02) (missing origin) ! (netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07)(missing origin) Well I spent about 3

Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password, seemingly sporadically

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:27:04AM -0600, Jonathan Neill wrote: Why yes, as a matter of fact it is^H^Hwas... Something special about it? Only that it's a spectacularly bad password that happens to coincide with an unrelated FreeBSD file. I hope your new root password isn't COPYRIGHT or

help

2004-03-05 Thread Umair Hussain
hi ... im using wana use pppoE its not that i cannot configure the thng ive got evrythng done with ppp.conf n my modem also getting connected now i need to get sum accounting done on my users which r on windows offcourse i wana use a radius server so can ne1 out there plz help me

filesystem

2004-03-05 Thread gRaPneLL
Hi, I can't seem to edit or create files under any other directory other than /usr, /var, or /home (and there respective subdirectories) even as root. i get the error: filesystem full. I have an 80 gig HD and a fresh install of FreeBSD, so i know my hd is not full. perhaps this has something

PowerChute Plus

2004-03-05 Thread K.S.Selvarajan
Advise me to install APC PowerChute Plus 4.5.2.1 on FreeBSD 5.1 or later. PowerChute 4.5.2_1 is for Red Hat 6.1 or 6.2 The other version of PowerChute 4.5.3_1 is for Red Hat 7.2 Which is suitable for our FreeBSD with available Linux Emulators. With regards Selvarajan

RE: filesystem

2004-03-05 Thread Remko Lodder
what's in df -h ? can you preview it here? Perhaps you have too many big files in your / partition, Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene mrtg.grunn.org Dutch mirror of MRTG

Re: filesystem

2004-03-05 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
[ 72 chars / line, please ] On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 00:44:06 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I can't seem to edit or create files under any other directory other than /usr, /var, or /home (and there respective subdirectories) even as root. i get the error: filesystem full. I have an 80

Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password, seemingly sporadically

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:11:49AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:27:04AM -0600, Jonathan Neill wrote: Why yes, as a matter of fact it is^H^Hwas... Something special about it? Only that it's a spectacularly bad password that happens to coincide with an unrelated

make of Cyrus-sasl fails

2004-03-05 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I tried to make Cyrus-sasl, but I failed like this: (My system is FreeBSD 5.2.1 with MIT Kerberos) cc -Wall -W -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o saslauthd saslauthd.o mechanisms.o auth_dce.o

Re: mysql in a jail

2004-03-05 Thread Uwe Doering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system running four jails. MySQL is running in two of the jails and I am trying to add it to a 3rd jail. Starting the server gets the message: 040302 19:34:15 mysql started 040302 19:34:15 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied 040302

Re: apache log files rotation

2004-03-05 Thread Uwe Doering
Dave McCammon wrote: --- fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can apache logs be rotated by /etc/newsyslog.conf? If not, how is it normally done? ___ Here is the relevent portion of my newsyslog.conf /var/log/httpd-access.log 640 14*$D0 Z

Re: Dual-boot FreeBSD 4.x/5.x

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
Is it possible to dual boot FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2.1 on one system, each using a different / partition, but sharing the same /usr partition for example? I'd really like to try out some of the features of 5.x, but be able to easily go back to 4.9 if I find it too unstable. I don't think you

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hey Guys, I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Single User Mode... You're right to make a copy before tinkering. I can't

fxp autoselect problem

2004-03-05 Thread David . Bauer
Hello, I have a problem with the fxp driver in FreeBSD4.9 RELEASE. The switch is 100Mbit full duplex but it seems the handshake with my network card does not work correctly. fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX)

Re: Jail setup

2004-03-05 Thread Chris Meyers
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 00:57, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: ...cut... Things seem to be fine. I can see the jailed environment and everything looks fine. I log out and then try to set up the last configuations so I can ssh in and run sendmail. In the non-jail /etc/rc.conf I added the

Re: filesystem

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I can't seem to edit or create files under any other directory other than /usr, /var, or /home (and there respective subdirectories) even as root. i get the error: filesystem full. I have an 80 gig HD and a fresh install of FreeBSD, so i know my hd is not full. perhaps this has

Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password,

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:18:38PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2004 04:13 pm, Jonathan Neill Jonathan Neill=20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies if this is a stupid question and I should RTFM, but something on my Freebsd-5.1 box is creating a binary file in /

address CD drive differently between 4.8 and 4.9

2004-03-05 Thread Chris McMahon
Hello... I'm mounting FreeBSD from a USB CD device. This doesn't happen automatically; at a mountroot prompt, in 4.8, I had to type cd9660:cd0 and it worked. For 4.9, the necessary command changed-- but I can't remember what it is! That is, it's mountrootcd9660:???. If someone

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-06 02:42]: Hey Guys, I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Single User

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
* Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-06 02:42]: Hey Guys, I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Single

Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:16:09 -0800 Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might be setting up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating whether I should use

Re: PowerChute Plus

2004-03-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:30:45 +0600 K.S.Selvarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Advise me to install APC PowerChute Plus 4.5.2.1 on FreeBSD 5.1 or later. PowerChute 4.5.2_1 is for Red Hat 6.1 or 6.2 The other version of PowerChute 4.5.3_1 is for Red Hat 7.2 Which is suitable for our FreeBSD

Re: Networking problem UPDATED

2004-03-05 Thread Chris Dillon
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Steve Ireland wrote: The two interfaces are on different subnets: 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.10.0/24. You need to either add a static route between them or change their netmasks to at least a /21. Huh? They _must_ be on different subnets. You can't route one subnet

sparc classic

2004-03-05 Thread Brian Henning
Is there a port of freebsd that will run on a sparc classic? I only see one for 64 bit sparc on the ftp site. Thanks, brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: fxp autoselect problem

2004-03-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-06 03:00]: Hello, I have a problem with the fxp driver in FreeBSD4.9 RELEASE. The switch is 100Mbit full duplex but it seems the handshake with my network card does not work correctly. fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST

make install problem

2004-03-05 Thread rfa
im in the middle of a #make deinstall #make reinstall of py-bittorrent, so i can download things using this fantastic tool. unfortunately, it seems like when i run that, or a #make all install clean, it shows this: wxPythonSrc-2.4.2.4.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.

Re: sparc classic

2004-03-05 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:15:09AM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: Is there a port of freebsd that will run on a sparc classic? I only see one for 64 bit sparc on the ftp site. No, there isn't. Sparc64 works wonderfully, however. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware.html I suspect that

make install problem

2004-03-05 Thread rfa
im in the middle of a #make deinstall #make reinstall of py-bittorrent, so i can download things using this fantastic tool. unfortunately, it seems like when i run that, or a #make all install clean, it shows this: wxPythonSrc-2.4.2.4.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.

Re: sparc classic

2004-03-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:15:09AM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: Is there a port of freebsd that will run on a sparc classic? I only see one for 64 bit sparc on the ftp site. No. FreeBSD currently does not support 32-bit Sparc machines, and AFAIK such support is not planned for the future

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-06 06:00]: Hey Guys, I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot You're right to make a copy before tinkering. That is correct, but, of course, it only gets the root (/) filesystem mounted.

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-05 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 5, 2004, at 5:57 AM, Jan Grant wrote: How did you come to this conclusion? For a RAID 5 with a single parity drive, the reason you zero the disks out completely on initialisation is to set up the integrity of the parity check. Then any update to any RAID5 with single parity requires a read

RE: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Remko Lodder
You know, Every OS is 'difficult' to learn. However the freebsd handbooks and other docs , on the site are very very informative which can tell you whatever you want, and a good FAQ And ofcourse We are there to help you (Questions mailing list, and the others ;)) Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko

Boot time, init? getty repeated too many times

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Leftwich
Hi everyone and happy Friday. When I boot my FreeBSD box, I think init is giving an error that getty repeated too many times and that it will halt for 30 seconds. Is there a simple fix for this? I am not getting a login prompt and AFAIK the other vtty's are not accessible. The system locks up.

Upgrading from 4.7 to 5.2.1 buildworld errors

2004-03-05 Thread Ray Seals
I have a 4.7 machine that I installed the 5.2.1 sources on (ie. copied the /usr/src directory from a fresh installed 5.2.1 machine). When I do a make buildworld I get an error about no target to make when it starts stage 4.1 (building includes). This is a production box and I don't want to

Antivir doesn't work on local 5.x file system, but works fine on mounted ...

2004-03-05 Thread George Swentek
Antivir ( http://www.antivir.de/ ) - a popular antivirus scanner doesn't work on local file system in Freebsd 5.X The result from FreeBSD 4.9 system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$antivir -s /var/log/ AntiVir / FreeBSD Version 2.1.0-9 Copyright (c) 1994-2004 by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH. All rights

Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Charles McManis
My less than complimentary thought is that they all suck, but that's only because 99% of the developers who are writing code for *Linux/*BSD don't really care about the new user experience. They care about whatever it is they are developing. Thus the difference between say standard install

Re: How can I rebuild prots databases?

2004-03-05 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:09:06AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:18:45AM -0500, stan wrote: I'm getting things like this when I run portupgrade: ! (pgaccess-0.98.6)(missing origin) ! (acroread-3.02) (missing origin) !

Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Charles McManis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-06 11:48]: My less than complimentary thought is that they all suck, but that's only because 99% of the developers who are writing code for *Linux/*BSD don't really care about the new user experience. They care about whatever it is they are

xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Gerald S. Stoller
I use xterm a lot and I always set the font size to tiny which requires (to my current knowledge) an additional action (this action is particularly reprehensible to me because it requires that I use both hands, one on the mouse and one on the keyboard) after the window is opened. Is

Re: xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Aaron Peterson
I use xterm a lot and I always set the font size to tiny which requires (to my current knowledge) an additional action (this action is particularly reprehensible to me because it requires that I use both hands, one on the mouse and one on the keyboard) after the window is opened. Is

x86 install routines

2004-03-05 Thread patrick
What's the problem with making this freebsd easy to install from the prompt? I am curious, is writing install routines for the x86 desktop difficult? and what exactly is the difficulty. Let me know, I am more than happy to help the project. Cordially, Patrick Sadler

Re: Qpopper SSL

2004-03-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Filmbetyg - Pelle Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-06 15:04]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT - Original Message - From: Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pelle Andersson (SPD Systems AB) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: GUI-related questions.

2004-03-05 Thread Lee Harr
Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces configured with many xterms/workspace. I've hand-coded at least three different sized

Re: xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Ed Budd
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:42:26 -0500 Gerald S. Stoller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use xterm a lot and I always set the font size to tiny which requires (to my current knowledge) an additional action (this action is particularly reprehensible to me because it requires that I use both

Re: x86 install routines

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
What's the problem with making this freebsd easy to install from the prompt? I am curious, is writing install routines for the x86 desktop difficult? and what exactly is the difficulty. Let me know, I am more than happy to help the project. Are you talking about installing FreeBSD or

FreeBSD scanning slides

2004-03-05 Thread Dave
Hi folks, I'm looking to replace an old scanner which died. It has a white light and colour scanning element and worked well enough for me to scan in negatives and slides without any special addons etc. I've been through the list at www.sane-project.org to see what might be my best low cost

Where to find e2fsck?

2004-03-05 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko
There's very stupid problem when using EXT2[3]FS partitions read-write on FreeBSD that after power failure you have nothing to check it (e.g. apropriate fsck) and can't use it rw any more (I've no linux on my machine for a year, the partition is one left from it's installation) - kernel

Accessing Oracle8i Data on a FreeBSD System

2004-03-05 Thread Martin McCormick
I have just been thrust in to unknown waters when it comes to data bases. I will be writing scripts which live on a FreeBSD Unix system and which will query a Pinnacle server on another host. The only oracle client for FreeBSD is oracle7-client. There is also oracle7 support in the

Questions regarding Sendmail on FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. I've been playing with Sendmail for a couple of weeks now and I feel pretty comfortable with it. Lately, what i've done is just download the source code for sendmail and build and compile as needed. It still works fine. However, I have some questions about how Sendmail comes

Partition Magic-like UFS drives manager

2004-03-05 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko
I really need UFS / FFS (internal slices) manager able to move merge both BIOS UFS partitions slices inside it. Does anyone know such tool? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Where to find e2fsck?

2004-03-05 Thread albi
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 22:02:30 +0200 Kyryll A Mirnenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's very stupid problem when using EXT2[3]FS partitions read-write on FreeBSD that after power failure you have nothing to check it (e.g. apropriate fsck) and can't use it rw any more (I've no linux on my

Re: Where to find e2fsck?

2004-03-05 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: There's very stupid problem when using EXT2[3]FS partitions read-write on FreeBSD that after power failure you have nothing to check it (e.g. apropriate fsck) and can't use it rw any more (I've no linux on my machine for a year, the partition is one left from it's

Building Packages - Links to Tutorials?

2004-03-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a faster machine that I'd like to use to build packages and then install those packages on my slower machine. I'm looking for links to info describing this process and some best practices. I'm familiar with using portupgrade to build and install ports. I've read the portupgrade man

Re: GUI-related questions.

2004-03-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:51:41 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces

in FreeBSD-4.5R: nl_langinfo() - where is it?

2004-03-05 Thread Charles Bacon
I've downloaded the FreeBSD 4.5-version of OpenOffice.org1.1.0 - this is the second version of OpenOffice.org I've tried. Incanting openoffice-1.1 (or any of the symlinks which point to it) results in the message /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/libsal.so.3:

Re: Where to find e2fsck?

2004-03-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 22:02:30 +0200 Kyryll A Mirnenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's very stupid problem when using EXT2[3]FS partitions read-write on FreeBSD that after power failure you have nothing to check it (e.g. apropriate fsck) and can't use it rw any more (I've no linux on my

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-03-05 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

2004-03-05 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: How can I rebuild prots databases?

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:06:18PM -0500, stan wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:09:06AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:18:45AM -0500, stan wrote: I'm getting things like this when I run portupgrade: ! (pgaccess-0.98.6)(missing origin)

Re: make install problem

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:43:00AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im in the middle of a #make deinstall #make reinstall of py-bittorrent, so i can download things using this fantastic tool. unfortunately, it seems like when i run that, or a #make all install clean, it shows this:

Re: Upgrading from 4.7 to 5.2.1 buildworld errors

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:28:25PM -0600, Ray Seals wrote: I have a 4.7 machine that I installed the 5.2.1 sources on (ie. copied the /usr/src directory from a fresh installed 5.2.1 machine). When I do a make buildworld I get an error about no target to make when it starts stage 4.1

Re: GUI-related questions.

2004-03-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:29:41PM -0600, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:51:41 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by CLI rather

Re: GUI-related questions.

2004-03-05 Thread Chris
On Friday 05 March 2004 07:40 pm, Gary Kline wrote: The err stated that I should pkg_delete 3.1.4 first; that KDE-3.2.0 was trying to install in the same place. A few hours ago I tried pkg_add to install this. It found kde but not kde3. Using mozilla I found there

Re: PowerChute Plus

2004-03-05 Thread K.S.Selvarajan
Dear Vulpes Velox, Thank you very much for your E-Mail. Really what I need that the system should be get switched off at a prescribed time and switched on at prescribed time with out user intervention. The said PowerChute is capable enough to do so. Anyhow, I would try the modules indicated by

Re: xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - You can add the fontsize as a parameter when you invoke it, like this: xterm -fn fontsize I use 'xterm -fn 9x15' on a high res monitor and set it (along with some other params) in my window manager (blackbox) menu config. Hi Ed, Where can I find window manager? From 'Control

Re: xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - you might check into setting options for xterm in the .Xdefaults file of your home directory... Hi Aaron, Kindly advise where can I find .Xdefaults. I found /home/user/.Xauthority but I can' read it TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL

speedy-CGI and Command 'apxs -q CC' failed

2004-03-05 Thread Noah
Hi! FreeBSD-STABLE errors building CGI-SpeedyCGI-2.22 from /usr/ports - any clues what I am doing wrong here? === Configuring for p5-CGI-SpeedyCGI-2.22 ERROR: Command 'apxs -q CC' failed. *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/www/p5-CGI-SpeedyCGI. thanks in advance, Noah

ruby1.8 segmentation fault

2004-03-05 Thread tscheng
Hi BSDers, I read the ports/UPDATING about ruby stuff and do accordingly, after reinstall portupgrade, I did portupgrade -fr /usr/ports/land/ruby16 and here it goes: [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 435 packages found (-22 +61)

Can't mount cd9660 file system.

2004-03-05 Thread David
Hi, everyone. I'm using freeBSD 5.1 I am having trouble mounting a cd9660 file system. I've done this hundredths of times with no problems. But for the first time, I am burning the iso image to dvd medium. A dvd+r exactly... First, I created the image with the mkisofs command: mkisofs -J -R -o

Re: Important notify about your e-mail account.

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segmentation fault - jdk4

2004-03-05 Thread Ricardo Britto
Hi, I'm running 5.2.1 Release version of FreeBSD, gcc 3.3.3 and I'm getting the same error when trying to compile JDK 1.4 from ports: *any_file_that_changes.c or .h*: *number_that_changes*: compiler error: segmentation fault I've searched for information and people say that could be problems

mount floppy/cdrom on diskless PC: vfsload: Exec format error

2004-03-05 Thread Rob
Hi, I have a diskless PC with a floppy and CDrom drive. I can create a dos floppy without a problem, but the mount fails: # /usr/sbin/fdformat /dev/fd0.1440 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0.1440'? (y/n): y Processing done. # /sbin/disklabel -B -r -w

Re: xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 19:21:24 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: - snip - you might check into setting options for xterm in the .Xdefaults file of your home directory... Hi Aaron, Kindly advise where can I find .Xdefaults. I found /home/user/.Xauthority but I can' read

SENDER ! Virus found in message from you !

2004-03-05 Thread virus
You sent to user perry message with VIRUS . Wiadomosc, ktora wyslales na adres perry zawierala WIRUSA. KAV Report: document_excel.pif infected: I-Worm.NetSky.d

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 and Bluetooth

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Schuller
We will shortly be starting some development with bluetooth and I'm looking to setting up a workstation dedicated for that. This workstation will also be used for palm os development since that is part of the same project so the workstation needs to be somewhat stable for that. Is the

Re: ruby1.8 segmentation fault

2004-03-05 Thread Steve Ireland
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 22:11 Subject: ruby1.8 segmentation fault Hi BSDers, I read the ports/UPDATING about ruby stuff and do accordingly, after reinstall portupgrade, I did portupgrade -fr

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