Best filesysyem for FreeBSD Linux shared partition

2004-03-23 Thread Vasil Dimov
Hello Everyone, I am multibooting FreeBSD with a few Linux distributions such as Mandrake, Gentoo, Slackware, Red Hat. (I'll reduce that list to a couple of favourites eventually). I have set up a primary partition with ext2 filesystem to act as a single data partition accessable from

Re: Serial port (com1) baud rate oddity

2004-03-23 Thread Richard P. Williamson
At 17:41 22/03/2004, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:14:56PM +, Richard P. Williamson wrote: Hello, I'm using 4.8 Release on an embedded pentium class device, and I'm having trouble with the serial (console) port. From a development machine, I can 'tip com1' and get

Re: --enable-local with openldap21-server

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:24:08PM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Can't seem to find where or how to add the config arg for openldap '--enable-local'. No mention in the Makefile or should I just add it to CONFIGURE_ARGS? As far as I can tell, --enable-local is set automatically by the

Re: FreeBSD link aggregation / trunking / channel bonding

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:01:47PM -0600, lrnobs wrote: I have been googling for a while now and I can't find a how to on doing this with FreeBSD. Try the ng_one2many(4) manual page as a good starting point. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Need help -- Mozilla, no running window. Firefox, even less...

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:00:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've also tried pkg_add -r, but that didn't work out any better. same 'no window running' error message. That's not an error message. It's actually normal output for Mozilla if you invoke it from the command line when it

Re: Serial port (com1) baud rate oddity

2004-03-23 Thread Richard P. Williamson
At 08:31 23/03/2004, Richard P. Williamson wrote: At 17:41 22/03/2004, Nathan Kinkade wrote: tip gets it configurations from /etc/remote. Make sure that com1 in /etc/remote is set with appropriate values. The default is: sio0|com1:dv=/dev/cuaa0:br#9600:pa=none: According to stty, ba is 1355.

test...

2004-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
is anything getting thru? -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: test...

2004-03-23 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Gary wrote: is anything getting thru? Nope. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel Panic 4.9-stable PLEASE HELP!

2004-03-23 Thread Admin
Hi, Recently installed 4.9-RELEASE on my server. Upgraded to 4.9-STABLE. The machine was stable for 13 days until suddenly it automaticly rebooted. It seemed to have rebooted because of a kernel panic?. I have no idea why. Here is my log below. Please somebody help! If you need any more

apache2 + ssl

2004-03-23 Thread thomas may
Hi, i like to install apache2 with ssl support. For apache 1.3.x i can find a mod_ssl port. What must i do for apache 2 ? thanx --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.631 / Virus Database: 404 - Release Date:

Re: Java runtime?

2004-03-23 Thread Peter Schuller
Coming from the windows world I'm used to having the Sun java run-time. I went to install it from ports, naturally...and can't figure out what I should be installing! Can someone give me a clue? Your best bet is probably java/jdk14 which is the native version of JDK 1.4.2. It will need to

Re: ipfw enable firewall not working

2004-03-23 Thread Mark Weinem
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Byron Schlemmer wrote: I'm having a problem enabling the ipfw firewall on RELENG-4.9 boxes cvsuped and installed today. Basically ipfw enable firewall leaves net.inet.ip.fw.enable set to 0 and the ipfw counters are not changing when I do a ipfw show, so the firewall is

Repairing XFree86

2004-03-23 Thread tachles
I had installed and used XF86 with kdm correctly (FreeBSD 4.9). This installation is now damaged, and I suspect it is because of the installation of Gimp from the ports collection. Although Gimp was running, after restarting the system I am unable to login: X is not started and I get a black

Re: using make to use a specific mirror while building ports

2004-03-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:28:41AM +, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: 2. Instead of using cvsup to upgrade the ports tree, is there a command to upgrade a specific port, say, XMMS. Install the portupgrade port. I don't think that's quite what the

Re: The chown command

2004-03-23 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Gerald S. Stoller wrote: This gives the system owner the flexibility to leave it this way, or to restrict this ability to root as it is now by seting chown's permissions to 500 , it is already owned by root. The chown command merely uses the chown system call. It

portversion not working ?

2004-03-23 Thread RJ45
when I run portversion -v to check against current pacakges installed and the up to date versions many packages are reported as up to date but there is a new versio nin hte ports avaliable. this happened for example with freetype. I had freetype2-2.1.5_2 = up-to-date with port i did a

Re: portversion not working ?

2004-03-23 Thread RJ45
answer is portsdb -U sorry thx Rick On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, RJ45 wrote: when I run portversion -v to check against current pacakges installed and the up to date versions many packages are reported as up to date but there is a new versio nin hte ports avaliable. this happened for example

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:22:53AM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson typed: Steve Ireland wrote: This is a PS/2 thing, not an operating system thing. You really can fry your motherboard plugging and unplugging PS/2 devices while the system is powered up. I suppose it's possible, but I know I 've

RE: Java runtime?

2004-03-23 Thread Ralph M. Los
-Original Message- From: Peter Schuller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 3/23/2004 5:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ralph M. Los Subject:Re: Java runtime? Coming from the windows world I'm used to having the Sun java run-time. I went to install it from

Re: portversion not working ?

2004-03-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:02:01AM -0700, RJ45 wrote: when I run portversion -v to check against current pacakges installed and the up to date versions many packages are reported as up to date but there is a new versio nin hte ports avaliable. this happened for example with freetype. I

Re: traffic speed stats are not right

2004-03-23 Thread lists
anyone ? On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:00, lists wrote: Hello, The traffic stats on my freebsd stable box are way to low. When I copy over files from one server to another then it goes with about 6 meg/sec the box where i copy from is an linux machine and this one says the speed is indeed

Re: gaim error

2004-03-23 Thread uidzero
Adam Bozanich wrote: Hi all. I am trying to get the gaim port to work. If I build with: make WITHOUT_NSS=1 everything is fine, but I can't connect to msn. If I don't send any arguments to make, when I run gaim, I get: Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file

Re: apache2 + ssl

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:01:57AM +0100, thomas may wrote: i like to install apache2 with ssl support. For apache 1.3.x i can find a mod_ssl port. What must i do for apache 2 ? mod_ssl is a standard part of apache2. You don't need any extra software. Cheers, Matthew --

maxproc is automatically adjusted?

2004-03-23 Thread Mipam
Hi, I noticed that kern.maxproc was different than i expected. Same goes for maxusers. It seems FreeBSD sizes these values according to your system? I couldnt find any info upon this, whether this is happening and how and on bases upon what it sizes these sysctl's. Can anybody give me more info

Re: MUTA

2004-03-23 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: mutt or pine are CLI e-mail programs (I prefer mutt as you can see from the headers of this message, but pine is possibly a bit friendlier to the beginner): both of those have the capability to read mail out of a POP mailbox. However, they expect to

LDAP support for Heimdal

2004-03-23 Thread Toni Heinonen
When I make buildworld, I want to include LDAP support to Heimdal. I know if I go to /usr/src/crypto/heimdal and ./configure --with-openldap=/usr/local I get LDAP support, but is there any way to include this in /etc/make.conf? I am trying to join my FBSD box with samba3 to an Active Directory,

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Emmerton
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Wayne Sierke wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 16:52, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: Steve Ireland wrote: This is a PS/2 thing, not an operating system thing. You really can fry your motherboard plugging and unplugging PS/2 devices while the system is powered up. I

fast way to rename files?

2004-03-23 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Say, I have photo_1.jpg, photo_2.jpg ... photo_500.jpg in a directory. Is there a fast way to rename these files to 001.jpg, 002.jpg ... 500.jpg? Thank you. _ MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn

Anyone using dual-Sendmail + Amavis? Startup...

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Hello, Is anyone using Amavis with the dual-Sendmail setup? If so, how are you starting two daemons? (And amavisd, for that matter ...) I'm assuming I'm going to have to do some magic with /etc/rc.conf? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: fast way to rename files?

2004-03-23 Thread Toni Heinonen
Say, I have photo_1.jpg, photo_2.jpg ... photo_500.jpg in a directory. Is there a fast way to rename these files to 001.jpg, 002.jpg ... 500.jpg? for old in directory/photo*; do new=`echo $old | sed 's/photo_//g'`; mv -v $old $new; done Would give you 1.jpg, 2.jpg...500.jpg. If you

tell sendmail to use a different dns server?

2004-03-23 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I'm using the dns service on a router box. This router does provide dns service, on which every computer in the LAN has a local domain name (computername.our.lan) Now the built in dns server's function is limited; it does not relay MX type of record. Thus sending mail using sendmail

Re: maxproc is automatically adjusted?

2004-03-23 Thread Supote Leelasupphakorn
--- Mipam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I noticed that kern.maxproc was different than i expected. Same goes for maxusers. It seems FreeBSD sizes these values according to your system? I couldnt find any info upon this, whether this is happening and how and on bases upon what it sizes

Re: tell sendmail to use a different dns server?

2004-03-23 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I'm using the dns service on a router box. This router does provide dns service, on which every computer in the LAN has a local domain name (computername.our.lan) Now the built in dns server's function is limited; it does not relay MX type of record. Thus sending mail

Re: CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-23 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Scott I. Remick wrote: I'm thinking about setting up a FreeBSD-based CMS/intranet and wanted to know what other people were doing. I have a tiny bit of experience with PHP-Nuke because my webhost uses it. Although I have no real complaints about it, I am not wedded to it. snip Most promising

grep: writing output: Broken pipe

2004-03-23 Thread Andrew Thomson
I've done a bit of search and couldn't find much on this. However when I build some ports, I often get the following: === gdm2-2.6.0.0 depends on shared library: X11.6grep: writing output: Broken pipe - found === gdm2-2.6.0.0 depends on shared library: esd.2 - found === gdm2-2.6.0.0

Re: Enabling linux compatibility

2004-03-23 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
When I installed my system, it asked if I wanted to enable linux compatibility, and I said no. Now I think I may need it, and am wondering if I need to do anything special to enable it, other than setting linux_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf. You will need to install one of the linux-base packages

FreeBSD Logo Usage

2004-03-23 Thread Adam Hansen
Dear Sir or Madam: Our local Open Source User Group would like to use the FreeBSD logo on our website. This will be used in a promotional manner, as we spread the idea of Open Source software to the technical community of Northern Iowa. This is a non-profit organization that can be found at

Need assitance installin FreeBSD

2004-03-23 Thread chris.freeman
I downloaded the mini FreeBSD for this little pc i have, but im not sure what files to put on cd. Could you please give me a hand? the attached pic is what was unziped. Thank you -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: maxproc is automatically adjusted?

2004-03-23 Thread Mipam
Thanks for your answer. I only dont know where to find the LINT file in the src tree. in /usr/src i tried find . -name LINT but no result. (sorry for this luser question). Bye, Mipam. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: FreeBSD Logo Usage

2004-03-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Dear Sir or Madam: Our local Open Source User Group would like to use the FreeBSD logo on our website. This will be used in a promotional manner, as we spread the idea of Open Source software to the technical community of Northern Iowa. This is a non-profit organization that can be

Re: tell sendmail to use a different dns server?

2004-03-23 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I'm using the dns service on a router box. This router does provide dns service, on which every computer in the LAN has a local domain name (computername.our.lan) Now the built in dns server's function is limited; it does not relay MX type of

Re: maxproc is automatically adjusted?

2004-03-23 Thread Richard P. Williamson
At 13:13 23/03/2004, Mipam wrote: Thanks for your answer. I only dont know where to find the LINT file in the src tree. in /usr/src i tried find . -name LINT but no result. (sorry for this luser question). Bye, PMFBI obligatory winge: Where's the context of that follow-on question? For 4.8

Re: maxproc is automatically adjusted?

2004-03-23 Thread Mipam
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Richard P. Williamson wrote: At 13:13 23/03/2004, Mipam wrote: Thanks for your answer. I only dont know where to find the LINT file in the src tree. in /usr/src i tried find . -name LINT but no result. (sorry for this luser question). Bye, PMFBI obligatory winge:

/sbin/natd doesn't start

2004-03-23 Thread C. Kukulies
I have natd_enable in /etc/rc.conf but natd doesn't start at boot time. I also put /sbin/natd -n tun0 into /etc/rc.local to no avail. This is 5.2.1R. Any clues? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD 4.9 freezes

2004-03-23 Thread Jesse A. Coddington
I just got an update from ICP vortex Computersysteme GmbH. Here's what they had to say: we are working on a FreeBSD issue which occurs on specific platforms only, maybe it is similar to this effect. I will contact Jesse as soon as we have news about the progress of this investigation. As

Re: Need assitance installin FreeBSD

2004-03-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
I downloaded the mini FreeBSD for this little pc i have, but im not sure what files to put on cd. Could you please give me a hand? the attached pic is what was unziped. Thank you -Chris No attached PIC. It depends on your intent and the amount of disk space you have - also on how fast

Re: maxproc is automatically adjusted?

2004-03-23 Thread Richard P. Williamson
At 13:33 23/03/2004, Mipam wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Richard P. Williamson wrote: At 13:13 23/03/2004, Mipam wrote: Thanks for your answer. I only dont know where to find the LINT file in the src tree. in /usr/src i tried find . -name LINT but no result. (sorry for this luser question).

Re: maxproc is automatically adjusted?

2004-03-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Thanks for your answer. I only dont know where to find the LINT file in the src tree. in /usr/src i tried find . -name LINT but no result. (sorry for this luser question). I don't know if 5.xxx changes this, but /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ does it for 4.xxx and older. jerry Bye,

Re: maxproc is automatically adjusted?

2004-03-23 Thread Mipam
Okay, i found LINT, that is, in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf i did make LINT and the file was created. But i still didnt find the answers i was looking for, like kern.maxusers seems to be sized automatically based on you hardware? And so maxproc etc? I still didnt find further docs about this and how it

Re: tell sendmail to use a different dns server?

2004-03-23 Thread Luke Kearney
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:30:32 +0800 Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: Zhang Weiwu wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I'm using the dns service on a router box. This router does provide dns service, on which every computer in the LAN has a local

Re: Need assitance installin FreeBSD

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jerry McAllister wrote: I downloaded the mini FreeBSD for this little pc i have, but im not sure what files to put on cd. Could you please give me a hand? the attached pic is what was unziped. Thank you -Chris No attached PIC. Yup. Maybe it was stripped automagically --- that'd

Re: /sbin/natd doesn't start

2004-03-23 Thread Luke Kearney
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:43:07 +0100 (CET) C. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: I have natd_enable in /etc/rc.conf but natd doesn't start at boot time. I also put /sbin/natd -n tun0 into /etc/rc.local to no avail. This is 5.2.1R. Any clues? -- Chris

Re: maxproc is automatically adjusted?

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mipam wrote: Okay, i found LINT, that is, in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf i did make LINT and the file was created. But i still didnt find the answers i was looking for, like kern.maxusers seems to be sized automatically based on you hardware? And so maxproc etc? I still didnt find further docs about

Wanted to ask the questions again during the day

2004-03-23 Thread Shawn Guillemette
I have a 100M zip drive in my machine and want to start using it for some backups. I have a script working (always looking for more if you have urls) so it will erase the data on the zip disk using rm and then write some tar'ed files to the disk. I cant seem to get the drive to release the disk

Re: maxproc is automatically adjusted?

2004-03-23 Thread Mipam
Thanks, i read it. I also found this: # The `maxusers' parameter controls the static sizing of a number of # internal system tables by a formula defined in subr_param.c. # Omitting this parameter or setting it to 0 will cause the system to # auto-size based on physical memory. And looking at

Trying to run a Linux binary ...

2004-03-23 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
I installed linux_base, which turned on linux emulation: # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 17 0xc040 5b570c kernel 21 0xc09b6000 51ac8acpi.ko 31 0xc462 19000linux.ko # When I run the file, I get: ELF binary type 0 not known. # file filtercmd filtercmd:

Re: Trying to run a Linux binary ...

2004-03-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Shaun T. Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed linux_base, which turned on linux emulation: # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 17 0xc040 5b570c kernel 21 0xc09b6000 51ac8acpi.ko 31 0xc462 19000linux.ko # That installs the kernel

smartmontools + RAID + FreeBSD

2004-03-23 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi , I wonder, Does anybody use smartmontools to watch their SCSI disks for health. And Does anybody use it with RAID ?! Because I can't get any informaiton via RAID controller ?! Thanks Vahric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Trouble with atapicam and DVD+RW

2004-03-23 Thread Ed Alley
Ed Alley wrote: Does FreeBSD support ATA DVD writers the same way that it supports CD writers? I have been to SOS's web page, and have looked at hardware support info, but have found no hint at whether ATA DVD writers are supported under FreeBSD. Vulpes Velox replied: Look for dvd+rw

Re: maxproc is automatically adjusted?

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:55:01AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: Thanks for your answer. I only dont know where to find the LINT file in the src tree. in /usr/src i tried find . -name LINT but no result. (sorry for this luser question). I don't know if 5.xxx changes this, but

Re: Trying to run a Linux binary ...

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:54:46AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Shaun T. Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed linux_base, which turned on linux emulation: # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 17 0xc040 5b570c kernel 21 0xc09b6000 51ac8acpi.ko

Re: Trying to run a Linux binary ...

2004-03-23 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Shaun T. Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed linux_base, which turned on linux emulation: # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 17 0xc040 5b570c kernel 21 0xc09b6000 51ac8acpi.ko 31 0xc462 19000linux.ko # That installs the

amanda question

2004-03-23 Thread Michael Hollmann
hello everybody, sendbackup[20339]: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] any experience ??? thanks michael ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-23 Thread Joey Mingrone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guys, Thanks for the tips. I don't think the problem is with the drive itself overheating for the following reasons: First, I tried the touch-test you suggested and the drive seems warm, but definitely not hot. Second, I think the front case fan

Botting FreeBSD from GRUB

2004-03-23 Thread olig
I have Windows XP and Linux already installed on my Laptop and want to also install FreeBSD (by the way I'm new to FreeBSD but quite experimented with Linux). I successfully installed FreeBSD on a primary partition (slice) with most of the default options. However I did choose to leave the

Re: Trouble with atapicam and DVD+RW

2004-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ed Alley wrote: [ ... ] Thank-you Vulpes and Chuck; the atapicam mechanism looks like a fine idea. However, I am having problems getting it to work for me... O.K. I am running FreeBSD 4.9. I built a new kernel with: device ata0at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 device ata1at

Newly added Perl QT33 port gives libqt-mt errors

2004-03-23 Thread SKU
Greetings FreeBSD Questions! I've tried to get /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/p5-qt to work with no luck. I have tried to compile with the port and even by hand and keep getting the errror: freebsd-laptop# pqtsh /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/libqt-mt.so.3: Undefined symbol

compiling winex

2004-03-23 Thread Morgan O'Neal
Does anyone have a link or some tips on how to get winex to compile on freebsd current? I keep getting errors. With the CVS from last night I get: gcc -o wineserver async.o atom.o change.o console.o context_i386.o context_sparc.o debugger.o device.o event.o file.o gdbremote.o handle.o

Re: To use.perl port or not?

2004-03-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Keith Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-23 07:44]: Hi all, I recently installed the perl-5.8.2_5 port and ran 'use.perl port' to make that new perl the default system perl. I did several other upgrades at about the same time and since then: kernel cvsup and rebuild to 4.9-RELEASE-p4,

out of memory error?

2004-03-23 Thread Chip Wiegand
I'm using FreeBSD-5.1 and running MySQL-4.1.0, PHP-4.3.2, Apache-2.0.46. I am trying to backup my MySQL databases but am getting the following error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 11581840 bytes exhausted at (null):0 (tried to allocate 4683274 bytes) in

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-23 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:10:13AM -0500, Steve Ireland wrote: snip This is a PS/2 thing, not an operating system thing. You really can fry your motherboard plugging and unplugging PS/2 devices while the system is powered up. Regards, Steve This is off-topic to the list, but I've been

Re: wraparound value for time

2004-03-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 22), Chris Landauer said: i am running some very long programs, and it appears that time wraps around in its counting (the 72 cpu hour program did not wrap, the 164 cpu hour program did) Which value wrapped? user, system, or elapsed? i tried to figure out where the

Problem with pkgdb

2004-03-23 Thread Brian McCann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got an urgent problem that needs fixing...and i'm stuck. One of the admins on one of our servers decided to delete the /var/db/pkg directory. I tried rebuilding it using pkfdb -Fu, and it returned nothing. Is there a way to recover from

Re: special characters, ie spanish accents

2004-03-23 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:57:57PM -0800, chip wrote: How do I get the special characters to work, which work in MS Windoze using the conbination of right-alt+4digit code? I need to be able to use certain accents and characters found in spanish writing. I am using FBSD-5.1 with XFCE window

Re: Best filesysyem for FreeBSD Linux shared partition

2004-03-23 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Any thoughts? SOMETIMES no file system is the best file system. E.g., by putting a raw file on a partition with dd, cat, or , maybe with the raw file being a .pax, .tgz, or other archive file. Creative use of dd options should permit multiple files per partition but I've only ever used a

Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-23 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:23:11AM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:57:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 3:03:34 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: In a reply to my original question you stated that ``dd if=ad3 of=ad1 bs=8192

Re: To use.perl port or not?

2004-03-23 Thread Keith Beattie
On 3/23/2004 8:37 AM, Joshua Lokken wrote: So, does it seem reasonable that switching perl could have caused/solved this problem? How 'bleeding edge' is doing a 'use.perl port'? Is it something that indeed requires a large rebuild of one's system? If so, how does one go about finding the

Re: out of memory error?

2004-03-23 Thread Chip Wiegand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/23/2004 09:33:04 AM: I'm using FreeBSD-5.1 and running MySQL-4.1.0, PHP-4.3.2, Apache-2.0.46. I am trying to backup my MySQL databases but am getting the following error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 11581840 bytes exhausted at (null):0 (tried

Re: wraparound value for (user) time

2004-03-23 Thread Chris Landauer
hihi, dan - you werote: Which value wrapped? user, system, or elapsed? The best I could come up with was that elapsed time might be stored in a long variable in milliseconds, which would wrap at 49.7 days. User and system times are stored as struct timevals and should never wrap. thanx

Re: wraparound value for (user) time

2004-03-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 23), Chris Landauer said: you werote: Which value wrapped? user, system, or elapsed? The best I could come up with was that elapsed time might be stored in a long variable in milliseconds, which would wrap at 49.7 days. User and system times are stored as

Enabling USB ports for printing...

2004-03-23 Thread lists
I'm running 4.9-STABLE, CUPS 1.1.19 and I'm trying to get an Epson Photo Stylus 1270 (usb) working with the system and CUPS. So far, no luck. I've walked through the setup for CUPS via http://127.0.0.1:631/ in order to add the usb printer. I'm at a loss to figure this out. What am I missing?

Re: wraparound value for time

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:40:58PM -0800, Chris Landauer wrote: i tried to figure out where the actual code for time is, but i can't quite tell - it appears to be buried inside csh somewhere (it also appears that there are several different possibilities for the data type used, depending on

Re: Botting FreeBSD from GRUB

2004-03-23 Thread Jud
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:28:42 -0500, olig [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have Windows XP and Linux already installed on my Laptop and want to also install FreeBSD (by the way I'm new to FreeBSD but quite experimented with Linux). I successfully installed FreeBSD on a primary partition (slice)

Sendmail deferred email?

2004-03-23 Thread JJB
I see in mail log some deferred email being held. Is there a way to clear this email from sendmail? Maybe so sendmail sub command? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Problem with pkgdb

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:07:06PM -0500, Brian McCann wrote: I've got an urgent problem that needs fixing...and i'm stuck. One of the admins on one of our servers decided to delete the /var/db/pkg directory. I tried rebuilding it using pkfdb -Fu, and it returned nothing. Is there a way to

Re: Sendmail deferred email?

2004-03-23 Thread Danny Howard
JJB wrote: I see in mail log some deferred email being held. Is there a way to clear this email from sendmail? Maybe so sendmail sub command? sendmail -q -- Danny Howard[EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Support Manager (312)829- x235

Re: Sendmail deferred email?

2004-03-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 23), JJB said: I see in mail log some deferred email being held. Is there a way to clear this email from sendmail? Sendmail will by default process the mail queue every 30 minutes, I think, but you can also do it manually with sendmail -v -q. queued mail will expire

Re: Sendmail deferred email?

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:46:32PM -0500, JJB wrote: I see in mail log some deferred email being held. Is there a way to clear this email from sendmail? You can process the mail queue manually by: # /usr/sbin/sendmail -q -v or # /usr/sbin/sendmail -Ac -q -v for the clientmqueue

Re: Java runtime?

2004-03-23 Thread Peter Schuller
Alright. I tried, and after hours and hours of compiling...this: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java:1: 'class' or 'interface' expected I haven't encoutered this

Re: Botting FreeBSD from GRUB

2004-03-23 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
olig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And my Grub configuration concerning FreeBSD # For booting FreeBSD title FreeBSD 5.2 root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader Looks good (and matching your fdisk output) and similar to mine which works OK with 5.2+. I can confirm that kernel kernel doesn't

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-23 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, sorry for butting in late here, but this keyboard plugging issue has been a pet peeve of mine for quite a while. But of course, the best solution to this whole hot-plugging issue is this: BUY ANOTHER KEYBOARD OR MOUSE. What you would rather do? Buy a $20 keyboard/mouse or a $150+

what's a decent c++ debugger??

2004-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
Hoping this gets thru (since I've seen bizarre IPv6 happenings with sendmail), I'll venture this question: what is the best g++ dbugger? I seem to be missing my debugging tools that I used circa 2000-01. I'm looking for something that doesn't

Mysql4.0 Installation problems on FreeBSD

2004-03-23 Thread samy lancher
Hello, I have been running mysql3.23 on FreeBSD 4.5 server for a long time. I was having problems installing mod_php4 using portupgrade. So I decided to upgrade mysql3.23 to mysql4 using ports. I first did make uninstall in usr/ports/databases/mysql323-client and mysql323-server. I got

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Emmerton
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, sorry for butting in late here, but this keyboard plugging issue has been a pet peeve of mine for quite a while. But of course, the best solution to this whole hot-plugging issue is this: BUY ANOTHER KEYBOARD OR MOUSE. What you

RE: Sendmail deferred email?

2004-03-23 Thread JJB
Did sendmail -q -v and mailq The 15 deferred emails are still there deferred. So let me change my question from Is there a way to clear this email from sendmail? To Is there a way to FORCE DELETE this deferred email from sendmail? -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Sendmail deferred email?

2004-03-23 Thread Jamie
You're top posting. I'll follow suit on your answer, but some people find it really confusing. Check the man page on sendmail. There are a lot of options you can use to process files in the queue. If you have some specific jobs you'd like to process in the queue, you can skip the rest of

Re: Sendmail deferred email?

2004-03-23 Thread Mark Frank
* On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:27:54PM -0500 JJB wrote: Did sendmail -q -v and mailq The 15 deferred emails are still there deferred. So let me change my question from Is there a way to clear this email from sendmail? To Is there a way to FORCE DELETE this deferred email from sendmail?

Re: using make to use a specific mirror while building ports

2004-03-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-23 07:45]: On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:28:41AM +, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: hi 2 questions pls. 1.I happened to come across a fairly fast mirror while doing a CVSup. How can I configure make to use this mirror (as a first preference over

Re: drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-23 Thread Mark Terribile
[Joey Mingrone] I don't think the problem is with the drive itself overheating ... ... I tried the touch-test ... and the drive seems warm, but ... not hot. ... the front case fan is doing a pretty good job. ... there was a pretty good breeze blowing right around the drive itself. Two

RE: Sendmail deferred email?

2004-03-23 Thread JJB
Jamie Thanks for the info cd /var/spool/mqueue That is what I was looking for Deleted all the 15 entries and mailq returns nothing meaning there all gone. -Original Message- From: Jamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 2:44 PM To: JJB Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG

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