FreeBSD Versions 4.10 vs. 5.2.1

2004-06-22 Thread freebsd
Just a quick questions. I've been running into a few problems with 5.2.1 not being very stable and was thinking of reverting back to 4.10. I usually run the current versions from the ports collection, such as Gnome. I was wondering if this will be a problem? Also, what will I loose when I go back

Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 21, 2004, at 3:25 PM, Bill Moran wrote: You'd be much better off with some sort of NAS in a raid config, even if it were home grown, to store the spools. We already have a home-grown NAS (just a FreeBSD box with Vinum RAID) but it doesn't protect me if the machine with the drives has a

Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:57 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 21, 2004, at 3:25 PM, Bill Moran wrote: You'd be much better off with some sort of NAS in a raid config, even if it were home grown, to store the spools. We already have a home-grown NAS (just a FreeBSD box with Vinum RAID)

Re: Reinstalling And /usr

2004-06-22 Thread dvv
Rishi Chopra writes: What is the effect on the /usr partition when reinstalling over an installation? I suffered a kernel panic that wiped my MBR; I'd like to simply reinstall with the same partition/slice values - will my /usr partition and the data therein still be accessible after

[no subject]

2004-06-22 Thread olexander
Good morning. I have this error. When i work updates /usr/src with yor site: cvsup.nl.freebsd org print this error === include cd

Re: package managment

2004-06-22 Thread Anthony Edwards
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:59:16PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Note that portupgrade gives you two specific options for upgrading: using a package to upgrade, or upgrading from the ports collection. It depends on what options you give it. Software installed from ports is normally newer, while

Re: Sendmail for Large Sites

2004-06-22 Thread Andy Holyer
On 18 Jun 2004, at 12:13, Martin McCormick wrote: How well does the administration of Sendmail scale up to sites serving as many as 25,000 users? At this moment, everything is more or less on the table, but what I envision is 25,000 work stations or so, each using Microsoft Outlook

Re: perl-tk no longer working

2004-06-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, I rolled my own perl-tk script for adding/removing users on our cluster and it has been running fine for some years now. But when i wanted to use it today, it died with: My SWAG is that you've updated perl recently, but

Re: wpc54g pcmcia

2004-06-22 Thread jon . mercer
Anatoliy, Don't know whether you will have had an answer off thread but here is one to consider. The Broadcom chipset has been successfully made to run under FreeBSD, so there should not be a problem with the card per se. You will certainly need to get NDISulator (a.k.a. Project Evil) running

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Bill Moran wrote: During my research of the IMAP protocol, I determined that _the_best_ way to store email for high-performance would be to put them in a database. This is because IMAP doesn't see email as a big blob of text like POP does. It sees the headers as one

Error doing 'make buildworld'

2004-06-22 Thread LEFEVRE Sébastien
Bonjour, J’ai une erreur lorsque je fais un « make buildworld », que faire ??? mkdep -f .depend -a-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/src/utils/tfmtodit/../../../../../../contrib/gr off/src/include -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/src/utils/tfmtodit/../../../src/include

Re: Error doing 'make buildworld' (english trans)

2004-06-22 Thread Richard P. Williamson
At 11:15 22/06/2004. LEFEVRE Sébastien had this to say: {{{ (Hello,) (I've an error while doing a make buildworld , what should I do???) mkdep -f .depend -a-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/src/utils/tfmtodit/../../../../../../contrib/groff/src/include

Re: maxproc limit reached with trivial exec() in cgi script

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Risdon
Hi Alexander, Alexander wrote: Hello Peter, Try tunning maxusers in your kernel configuration file maxproc = 20 + 16 * maxusers Thanks for this. Since posting my first message, I have been investigating the problem further. The server on which this behaviour appears also has mod_php

Re: Error doing 'make buildworld'

2004-06-22 Thread Luke Kearney
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Re: Command 'w' gives no user output

2004-06-22 Thread Alexey Karguine
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:33:37 +0200 Martin Sommerhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ w 6:29pm up 9:41, 0 users, load averages: 0,01 0,02 0,00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT This is on a recently upgraded 4.10-STABLE machine. Just after the upgrade the command

Re: Courier-imap + Postfix problem

2004-06-22 Thread Gareth Bailey
Ok, i haven't got any responses regarding this post, but i have found what i think might be causing the problem. I setup my server with the hostname berkeley and installed everything i needed including postfix and courier-imap. I have since changed the hostname to server which was the name of my

ports cd

2004-06-22 Thread arden
hi all is it possible to download a cd of the ports so i can use it on a standaloan machine arden ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-22 Thread arden
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 02:36, Tom McLaughlin wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 02:59, Lloyd Hayes wrote: Linux is for people who hate Micro$oft. BSD is for people who love Unix. Under these conditions, I guess that I need to go for Linux... I'f you're going to go with Linux then I'd

vinum disks references crashed state

2004-06-22 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, I just had a crash on two of the drives on one vinum RAID-5 volume; fortunately I could recover the data and build a new one. However, while doing this I did something 'stupid', which I managed to fix, but I wanted to know what the right way would have been. Like I said one RAID-5 volume was

Re: ports cd

2004-06-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:27:54PM +0100, arden wrote: is it possible to download a cd of the ports so i can use it on a standaloan machine There isn't an iso image of the ports tree available as such. There's a split up tar-ball of the ports tree created for each release, which is what you

Re: FreeBSD Versions 4.10 vs. 5.2.1

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick questions. I've been running into a few problems with 5.2.1 not being very stable and was thinking of reverting back to 4.10. I usually run the current versions from the ports collection, such as Gnome. I was wondering if this will be a problem? Also,

Re: Courier-imap + Postfix problem

2004-06-22 Thread Andy Harrison
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:27:52 +0200, Gareth Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, i haven't got any responses regarding this post, but i have found what i think might be causing the problem. I setup my server with the hostname berkeley and installed everything i needed including postfix and

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Jan Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Bill Moran wrote: During my research of the IMAP protocol, I determined that _the_best_ way to store email for high-performance would be to put them in a database. This is because IMAP doesn't see email as a big blob of text like

HardWare may be

2004-06-22 Thread îÕÖÄÉÎ å×ÇÅÎÉÊ îÉËÏÌÁÅ×ÉÞ
Russia, Chitinskaya state, Chita city. FreeBSD 5.2.1, it freezes on start load(default) of install. Probably it because of that of incompatibility with the hardware. I the beginning user BSD. I do not know how to generate the Bug report. I can not find the help in Chita. Almost everyone use

:::Support PHP/perl???:::

2004-06-22 Thread Dragan Veljkovic
Is this FreeBSD support PHP/Perl application/language? Sincerely Mr. Dragan Veljkovic www.reliable-server.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

::::freeBSD work under LINUX Mandrake??:::

2004-06-22 Thread Dragan Veljkovic
Is this open freeBSD work under LINUX Mandrake? Sincerely Mr. Dragan Veljkovic ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: atapi/cam driver

2004-06-22 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, your kernel configuration looks good: # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering [...] # Yes they

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ I don't think that stuffing email into a database is a particularly good idea since that means keeping large blobs of non-relational data floating around, something that the filesystem can do a

Re: :::Support PHP/perl???:::

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Dragan Veljkovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this FreeBSD support PHP/Perl application/language? Yes, both PHP and perl are installable through the ports system. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ::::freeBSD work under LINUX Mandrake??:::

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Dragan Veljkovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this open freeBSD work under LINUX Mandrake? It appears as if you're confused. FreeBSD can _replace_ Linux. It's a similar OS to Mandrake. More information is available at http://www.freebsd.org Check at the top-right of that page to see if it's

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-22 Thread Matt Juszczak
What are some of the other approaches (if you dont mind). I can't really do a NAT, I'd really like to stay with a bridge and not do any routing. Charles Swiger wrote: On Jun 21, 2004, at 5:10 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote: [ ... ] So basically, I either have to use some other form of redirecting web

Re: FreeBSD Versions 4.10 vs. 5.2.1

2004-06-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 2004-06-22 01:07 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick questions. I've been running into a few problems with 5.2.1 not being very stable and was thinking of reverting back to 4.10. I wouldn't necessarily think of it as reverting. They're almost two different (but similar)

Darwin/NFS fixes

2004-06-22 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
I understand that the Darwin development team has implemented some useful NFS changes/enhancements in their codebase. I was wondering if any of the NFS work from Darwin has been merged into the FreeBSD codebase. Does anyone here know? Kevin ___ [EMAIL

RFC: Chenbro Chassis (RM214)

2004-06-22 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Looking for thoughts/comments on the above rackchassis ... going to be putting a Tyan Thunder K7x into her, with 6xSeagate drives ... looking at the 460W power supply option ... Anyone with good (or bad) experiences? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services

Re: Command 'w' gives no user output

2004-06-22 Thread Martin Sommerhein
Alexey Karguine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:33:37 +0200 Martin Sommerhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ w 6:29pm up 9:41, 0 users, load averages: 0,01 0,02 0,00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT This is on a recently upgraded

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread David E. Meier
The other advantages is it would scale like nobody's business. Since the data is in postgres, you could use multiple backends (replicated with Slony) and have the IMAP daemons contact different back ends if the load got heavy. With a little work, the system could failover silently as well.

Re: Courier-imap + Postfix problem

2004-06-22 Thread Gareth Bailey
Thanks. But now i'm back in the dark. Does anyone have any idea what the source of my errors in maillog could be? To recap, i'm running postfix and courier-imap and i'm getting errors as follows: maillog: Jun 20 15:47:05 server imapd-ssl: Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (fre Jun 20

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
David E. Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said, we'll never know till someone tries it. It looks like Dovecot is going to try it eventually, but it seems like they have other priorities at this time. Someone already stores mails in a database: Oracle (Email Server and Collaboration

Re: ports cd

2004-06-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
Howdy, hi all is it possible to download a cd of the ports so i can use it on a standaloan machine The entire ports collection would not fit on a CD or even a boxful of CDs. Someone counted a little while ago and found there were more than 10,000 ports available in the system. I think

Re: Sendmail for Large Sites

2004-06-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 22), Andy Holyer said: The advantages of Postfix are as follows: Just a comment on some of these. Postfix is a fine mailer, but some of your reasoning against sendmail is inaccurate. 1) It's not sendmail - it acts identically, but shares no code, so it's immune to

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Bill, The other option is to take what appears to be the best IMAP server out there (Cyrus) and figure out a way to do real-time mirroring of the mailboxes. Depending on the size / number of messages: how about using rsync and OpenBSD's CARP? True, it will not be realtime, but the

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bill, The other option is to take what appears to be the best IMAP server out there (Cyrus) and figure out a way to do real-time mirroring of the mailboxes. Depending on the size / number of messages: how about using rsync and OpenBSD's CARP?

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Christian Laursen
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bill, The other option is to take what appears to be the best IMAP server out there (Cyrus) and figure out a way to do real-time mirroring of the mailboxes. Depending on the size / number of

Re: password expiry

2004-06-22 Thread Piotr Gnyp
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah... so you're using sshd(8). You didn't happen to mention that rather relevant information before. Can you try logging in on the console to test your changes? If login.conf settings work on the console then sshd is the problem.

Re: Redirection with a bridge ?

2004-06-22 Thread Jason Taylor
What are some of the other approaches (if you dont mind). I can't really do a NAT, I'd really like to stay with a bridge and not do any routing. I'm using a bridging setup (specifically to grab all web traffic and divert it all to a proxy/policy manager), I had to perform a kernel patch in

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Christian Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bill, The other option is to take what appears to be the best IMAP server out there (Cyrus) and figure out a way to do real-time mirroring of the

Firefox will not start after javaplugin install failed.

2004-06-22 Thread Andreas Davour
Hi! I stumbled upon a page that complained that I had to install a java plugin to view the page. I do have a java jvm installed but din't think and clicked the webpage and told it to install that Linux plugin, since it would probably work better than the Windows one anyway. Now, afterwards

Re: ports cd

2004-06-22 Thread arden
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 15:31, Jerry McAllister wrote: Howdy, hi all is it possible to download a cd of the ports so i can use it on a standaloan machine The entire ports collection would not fit on a CD or even a boxful of CDs. Someone counted a little while ago and found there

Firefox will not start after javaplugin install failed.

2004-06-22 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:44:28 +0200 (CEST) Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I stumbled upon a page that complained that I had to install a java plugin to view the page. I do have a java jvm installed but din't think and clicked the webpage and told it to install that Linux

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Christian Laursen
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] If you are running FreeBSD 5, you should be able to make a filesystem snapshot and rsync from there. I suppose I should have commented on that ;) We're not running FreeBSD 5 on these production

Question about HP drivers

2004-06-22 Thread Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC)
Hi Folks, we have installed two FreeBSD, is been used as firewall, but own equipment were upgraded and now have HP Compaq d530C/P2 but we use internal interface ethernet but FreeBSD doens´t recognize. Do you have new drivers ??? Salu2!! Carlos Lizana V. Data Especialist E

Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-22 Thread Richard Kästner
[...sniped...] Disrearding any pro's and con's for the discussion: as a 'consumer' of this list, I want to say thanks for much valuable information I received from this list! Sure, many questions are somewhat ... well, could have been better worded However, even wrong answers gave me a lot

Re: Question about HP drivers

2004-06-22 Thread Lucas Holt
Is the ethernet chipset listed as supported on freebsd.org? What version of freebsd are you using? On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC) wrote: Hi Folks, we have installed two FreeBSD, is been used as firewall, but own equipment were upgraded and now have HP Compaq d530C/P2 but

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bill Moran wrote: Christian Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are running FreeBSD 5, you should be able to make a filesystem snapshot and rsync from there. I suppose I should have commented on that ;) We're not running FreeBSD 5 on these production machines yet ... but it's likely we will be

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Christian Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are running FreeBSD 5, you should be able to make a filesystem snapshot and rsync from there. I suppose I should have commented on that ;) We're not running FreeBSD 5 on

Re: HardWare may be

2004-06-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
wrote: Russia, Chitinskaya state, Chita city. Hello to you ?untranslatable name?, too. :-) FreeBSD 5.2.1, it freezes on start load(default) of install. Probably it because of that of incompatibility with the hardware. Perhaps so. You might try booting with APCI disabled, or in safe mode, and

RE: Question about HP drivers

2004-06-22 Thread Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC)
FreeBSD 4.5 Salu2!! Carlos Lizana V. Data Especialist E E-mail Business : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Fixed Number : +56 2 372 5082 * Mobile Number : +56 9 879 5050 -Original Message- From: Lucas Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Martes, 22 de Junio de 2004 12:54 To:

FreeBSD 5.1 DSL:Bellnet HS Network Connection Set-up Problems

2004-06-22 Thread freebsder
NETWORK CONFIG/SETUP: +++ISP - DSL(high-speed) - Modem FreeBSD51 server machine in at Gateway vr0 (192.168.0.1) +++Freebsd machine LAN Interface at ed0 (192.168.0.3) - HUB +++HUB 1) 192.168.0.2 - WinXP #1 machine 2) 192.168.0.3 - Freebsd machine in at ed0 3) 192.168.0.4 - Winxp #2 machine

Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Danny MacMillan
On June 21, 2004 11:20, Bill Moran wrote: ... Does anyone have a solution to provide real-time mirroring of IMAP folders? ... Hi. I know I'm a little late to the game, but I'm going to posit an alternative quite different from anything that's been suggested so far. It seems to me it

Boot Loader Config

2004-06-22 Thread whizkid
Hey all, I have a rather stupid question... I currently have an old Compaq DP6000 6266mmx box running as one of my test servers. The default boot option is Non-ACPI (running FreeBSD 5.1). If I just let the loader screen come up (The one with the little ascii devil) and not do anything, the

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:56:00AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:41:53PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: With that little disk space, I would be inclined to make it all just one root (/) partition - with a bit of swap. You might not even be able to have a

'ftp' command does what...?

2004-06-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, all-- Is there a reason why the ftp command does odd things when presented with the URL format on this particular FTP server? 5-epia% ftp ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu Connected to ASG2.WEB.cmu.edu. 220 asg2.web.cmu.edu FTP server (Version 6.00+Heimdal 20031031+KTH-KRB 1.3-20031 030) ready. 331

/etc/hosts and /etc/host.conf confusion

2004-06-22 Thread David Fuchs
Hello, I'm having some difficulties understanding the semantics behind the resolver in FreeBSD, and how /etc/host.conf, /etc/hosts, and /etc/resolv.conf fit together. The manpage 'host.conf(5)' states: The host.conf file holds part of the configuration for the resolver of FreeBSD.

Re: Boot Loader Config

2004-06-22 Thread Luke
What can I modify to make the machine Automatically select option # 2 during the boot process? Check out your /boot/loader.conf file. Comment out the hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 if it's in there. I don't know for sure that this will work, but I'd try it. ___

Re: 'ftp' command does what...?

2004-06-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 2004-06-22 01:36 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: ftp ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu ...is not a valid URL in that no path component is specified (even a trailing '/') - at least, that's my understanding of it. Try this instead: ftp ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/ which works as expected from here.

Re: Boot Loader Config

2004-06-22 Thread whizkid
What can I modify to make the machine Automatically select option # 2 during the boot process? Check out your /boot/loader.conf file. Comment out the hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 if it's in there. I don't know for sure that this will work, but I'd try it. my /boot/loader.conf file is empty.

Re: Boot Loader Config

2004-06-22 Thread Luke
What can I modify to make the machine Automatically select option # 2 during the boot process? Check out your /boot/loader.conf file. Comment out the hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 if it's in there. I don't know for sure that this will work, but I'd try it. my /boot/loader.conf file is empty. Perhaps

Re: atapi/cam driver

2004-06-22 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 08:28 am, Simon Barner wrote: Hi, your kernel configuration looks good: # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives options

Re: read vs. mmap (or io vs. page faults)

2004-06-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
(current removed, but I'm leaving this on question@ since it contains some useful information). :This is, sort of, self-perpetuating -- as long as mmap is slower/less :reliable, applications will be hesitant to use it, thus there will be :little insentive to improve it. :-( Well,

Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-22 Thread Bob Johnson
Bill Moran wrote: David E. Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said, we'll never know till someone tries it. It looks like Dovecot is going to try it eventually, but it seems like they have other priorities at this time. Someone already stores mails in a database: Oracle (Email Server and

Appaulingly slow DNS resolution from gnome apps

2004-06-22 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, I'm getting a nasty problem with Gnome 2.6 on 4.10-RELEASE. Any apps with a GTK2 UI (evolution, firefox) are having real issues doing DNS lookups. They time out regularly. Nslookup on the same hosts is instant. Anyone seen this or know how to fix it? Thanks all, - Chris.

Kernel compiling. gcc stops at warnings

2004-06-22 Thread Karim Forsthofer
Good evening I tried to compile a new kernel from my 5.1 bsd cd. Config and make depend worked well, but make has put out some warnings about unused functions in npx.c (or something else). I searched in the newsgroup and found some similar postings to this subject It seems to me, that the problem

Re: Question about HP drivers

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Risdon
I sent this off-list, but it would be better here. Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC) wrote: FreeBSD 4.5 Is the ethernet chipset listed as supported on freebsd.org? What version of freebsd are you using? On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Carlos Lizana (CH/CEC) wrote: Hi Folks, we have installed two FreeBSD,

Re: 'ftp' command does what...?

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Risdon
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 2004-06-22 01:36 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: ftp ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu ...is not a valid URL in that no path component is specified (even a trailing '/') - at least, that's my understanding of it. Try this instead: ftp ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/ which works as

Re: Migrating cvs repositories from Linux to FreeBSD

2004-06-22 Thread login
Hello all, I got two hosts with the following specs: The oldhost is running Mandrake Linux 8.2 version 2.4.18-6mdk and newhost is running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. The cvs versions on these hosts are: oldhost# cvs -v Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.1p1 (client/server) ..

NVidia Riva TNT2 64 ?

2004-06-22 Thread hemepar
Dear Friends : I´m trying to install a 5.0 FreeBSD and, after my tenth try... I´m quitting. The XFree86 don´t recognize my video card ! Also, after a buggy installer (!) , after choosing KDE at the installation, I have to type startx at the terminal (?) and nothing happens or worst, I have a

Courier IMAP and SSL question

2004-06-22 Thread Brent Wiese
Posted this once before, got no response... Hoping maybe someone may have some ideas now... Please!!! -Original Message- I'm a bit stumped and hoping someone else has had (and solved) my problem. First, working on a system installed by another tech. That's always lovely. FreeBSD 4.9

How many hosts can utilize one NAT server?

2004-06-22 Thread Minnesota Slinky
I was wondering how many hosts can a single NAT server server? I couldn't find it on the net, although I know it's there somewhere. Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

three libtools - portupgrade question

2004-06-22 Thread Ben Paley
Hello, I've got three versions of libtool on my system: bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep libtool libtool-1.3.5_2 Generic shared library support script (version 1.3) libtool-1.4.3_2 Generic shared library support script libtool-1.5 Generic shared library support script bash-2.05b$

Re: three libtools - portupgrade question

2004-06-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 22), Ben Paley said: I've got three versions of libtool on my system: bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep libtool libtool-1.3.5_2 Generic shared library support script (version 1.3) libtool-1.4.3_2 Generic shared library support script libtool-1.5 Generic

Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 64 ?

2004-06-22 Thread Lucas Holt
I can't comment on the video cards, but the realtek NIC chipset might cause you some problems. I recently had to replace a realtek based NIC in a lowend server with a 3com because of oversized packets in the logs and the server would halt after about a week up. If you are using the machine

Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 64 ?

2004-06-22 Thread Brian Astill
FWIW, I have that card and it seems to work just fine using the nv driver. When you are given choices in the helper programs for XFree86 setup, just choose the nearest descrptor you can find which uses that nv driver. You could also write that nv manually into your XF86Config file, if you

Re: Kernel compiling. gcc stops at warnings

2004-06-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:01:22PM -0800, Karim Forsthofer wrote: Good evening I tried to compile a new kernel from my 5.1 bsd cd. Config and make depend worked well, but make has put out some warnings about unused functions in npx.c (or something else). I searched in the newsgroup and

Re: FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-22 Thread Curtis Almond
I have been playing with Linux and BSD for about 3 years. I have landed on the following. 1. FreeBSD is great for non-cluster server install bases. 2. FreeBSD is great for a workstation if you really really like compiling and hand editing config files. 3. Linux is best for a workstation desktop

Re: fsck not working / Soft Update error / Can't boot Up

2004-06-22 Thread Curtis Almond
Did you try fsck -y? On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:13:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, I booted my system up and it gets an error and goes into single user mode I think. It gives me a /bin/sh question. So, I press enter. I run the command fsck After running

FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release Userland ppp set server issue.

2004-06-22 Thread Kruptos
Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone was having problems with ppp in 5.2.1 release and if you have a way to fix it. Here is my problem. I run ppp in ddial mode. I open a server/socket so that I can tweak it without killing it or to check on its status. Just in case. I have been doing this

Problem with Remote Kernel Debugging

2004-06-22 Thread Mark Teel
Hello: I have configured remote kernel debugging as prescribed in the developer's handbook. I am able to step through code, but once I enter cont in gdb on the debug machine, I cannot ever interrupt or break the target kernel execution. It is as if the Ctrl-C character is being ignored on the

how do I switch kernels in 5.x ?

2004-06-22 Thread Joe Schmoe
I successfully compiled a new kernel, and was using it. No problem. Then I decided to move back to the old, GENERIC kernel. I did this by moving /boot/kernel to /boot/kernel.new, and then renaming /boot/kernel.old to /boot/kernel Is this correct, or will there be problems when I

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 OpenLDAP21-server won't start

2004-06-22 Thread David Snyder
Well, I finally figured out how to get it to work. It installed the script into: /etc/rc.d instead of where i thought it would be... /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and I had to put the following line in /etc/rc.conf slapd_enable=YES But on boot... it was saying that it was having a problem with the

Multiple choices for RAID-0, best performance?

2004-06-22 Thread Daniel Eriksson
With the recent addition of a geom-enabled vinum, and the discussed (but not yet functional?) geom stripe module, we now have 4 different choices for software RAID-0 on ATA devices (the other two are regular vinum and ataraid). I'm currently using a mix of vinum and ataraid on one of my servers,

Problem with Remote 5.2.1 Kernel Debugging

2004-06-22 Thread Mark Teel
Hello: I have configured remote kernel debugging as prescribed in the developer's handbook. I am able to remotely connect to the target and step through code, but once I enter cont in gdb on the debug machine, I cannot ever interrupt or break the target kernel execution. It is as if the

j2sdk

2004-06-22 Thread miguel calvo
Where i can download the j2sdk-1_4_2_02-linux-i586.bin file? htmlDIVFONT color=#003366FONT face=Verdana size=5EMMFONT size=4IGUEL CALVO/FONT/EM/FONT/FONT/DIV/html _ MSN Amor: busca tu ½ naranja http://latam.msn.com/amor/

j2sdk

2004-06-22 Thread miguel calvo
Where i can download the j2sdk-1_4_2_02-linux-i586.bin file? htmlDIVFONT color=#003366FONT face=Verdana size=5EMMFONT size=4IGUEL CALVO/FONT/EM/FONT/FONT/DIV/html _ MSN Amor: busca tu ½ naranja http://latam.msn.com/amor/

j2sdk

2004-06-22 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:55:10 + miguel calvo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where i can download the j2sdk-1_4_2_02-linux-i586.bin file? try java.sun.com for starters, then follow the links. htmlDIVFONT color=#003366FONT face=Verdana size=5EMMFONT size=4IGUEL

Problems with Kuser

2004-06-22 Thread Douglas Korinke
I am running FBSD 4.9 with KDE 3.1.2 on a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221. Problem arose today when using kuser while under root and adding a user with the program. I shut down x windows system and kde and shutdown the laptop and returned to it later that night to find out my password for root was

apache13 security alert

2004-06-22 Thread fbsd_user
I missed this alert last week and I believe many people on the questions list missed it also. So here is the alert. apache-1.3.31_1 has known vulnerabilities: mod_ssl stack-based buffer overflow. Reference: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2004-0488 Apache13 has been updated in

Re: Problems with Kuser

2004-06-22 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:17:34 -0500 Douglas Korinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FBSD 4.9 with KDE 3.1.2 on a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221. Problem arose today when using kuser while under root and adding a user with the program. I shut down x windows system and kde and shutdown

Re: how do I switch kernels in 5.x ?

2004-06-22 Thread Andy Miller
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:32:10PM -0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: I successfully compiled a new kernel, and was using it. No problem. Then I decided to move back to the old, GENERIC kernel. I did this by moving /boot/kernel to /boot/kernel.new, and then renaming /boot/kernel.old to

cvsup and ports INDEX

2004-06-22 Thread epilogue
hello all, Connecting to cvsup.ca.FreeBSD.org Connected to cvsup.ca.FreeBSD.org Server software version: SNAP_16_1e Negotiating file attribute support Exchanging collection information Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection Running Updating collection ports-all/cvs Checkout ports/INDEX

interpreting netstat

2004-06-22 Thread Robert Huff
Poking around the system, I discovered the m option to netstat and got this: 261 mbufs in use 74/17088 mbuf clusters in use (current/max) 0/4/4528 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 213 KBytes allocated to network 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 0 requests for

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