Re: 9.3.0 on FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-31 10:35, Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J.D. Bronson wrote: At 09:07 AM 12/31/2004, Richard Cotrina wrote: Is there any reason for not using bind 9.3.0 that comes with FreeBSD 5.3 ? It can be run chrooted with the same flags you are using. I deleted it by accident. I dont

Re: Programming with Bourne or C shell

2005-01-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-31 21:20, Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have most of my interactive shell experience using bash on Linux and shell programing on Unix-like systems with Bourne shell. Since FreeBSD's default shell is csh/tcsh, I was wondering if it's still considered an atrocity to

Re: 4.8 - / out of space

2005-01-03 Thread David Kelly
On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:31 PM, McCy Ron wrote: System: FreeBSD 4.8 with standard config on PII/400...used mainly as a backup server. df shows... Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a128990 119660-988 101%/ /dev/ad0s1f257998 4 237356 0%

Re: Sharing drive data with windows

2005-01-03 Thread Jonathan Franks
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:37:42 +0100 Phil Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/01/05 23:54, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Is it possible to have NTFS writable? Do I have to use FAT32 to share data with Windows XP? there is limited support for writing to an ntfs filesystem in freebsd. see

Re: Help Please

2005-01-03 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 03 January 2005 11:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ANYONE: I have a huge problem. Our systems admin at my work went nuts and locked us out of our BSD 5.0 server. He has disabled anyone's su privs. Additionally, we cannot boot into single user mode without entering the root

Re: 4.8 - / out of space

2005-01-03 Thread Gregor Mosheh
--- David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another goof is for root to write to an unmounted filesystem. Later when the filesystem is mounted the written files are hidden yet still consume space on the fs containing the mount point (usually /). Could you explain how this happens (or point

Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread S Salamander
I'm trying to get my Epson Stylus C84 printer setup with CUPS and gimp-print (both of which are installed). The cups daemon is running and I can access localhost:631 for the administrative setup. However, don't see the option to use the CUPS/gimp-print driver. There is no PPD file as I can see

Re: 4.8 - / out of space

2005-01-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:07:23PM -0800, Gregor Mosheh wrote: --- David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another goof is for root to write to an unmounted filesystem. Later when the filesystem is mounted the written files are hidden yet still consume space on the fs containing the

xorg/dri-6.2_1,2 upgrade problems

2005-01-03 Thread Ned Harrison
On 12/30/04 22:18:32, Ned Harrison wrote: The upgrade to 5.3 fixed the Dri build problems. Thanks for the hint, Jason. It is much appreciated. I had to run xorgconfig to make a new config file in order to get the X server going again. My kde desktop keeps crashing but the Windowmaker

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread Jon Drews
It appears that you should use the C82 driver. From: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C84 Parallel and USB ports. With Gimp-Print 4.2.2 or newer it will work (except full-bleed) when choosing the Epson Stylus C82 as printer model, with older Gimp-Print versions

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 3, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: A couple more questions, then I'm done. Promise. I need to verify whether or not there is an entry for grog_firewall_oif and grog_firewall_iif in /etc/rc.conf. If not, I want to exit with an error. You want to check for either grog_firewall_oif or

Re: Backup with dd?

2005-01-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 04:27 am, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello all, I've decided to try doing a complete system backup, attempting a bit-for-bit copy. A friend told me to try the following: # dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6 Both drives are identical SATA150. Is this the best way? I'm hope to be

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer

2005-01-03 Thread lists
It looks like it is having a problem relating to the mounting the drives. When I rerun the FreeBSD5.3 install a second time - it lists the drives from the first install but they are missing the mount locations. Any suggestions on a work around? Lino lists wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sun, Jan

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:22:45 -0500 Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: First off, let me thank you very much for the massive amount of information you've given me thus far. I am a commandline geek from way back, so you're welcome. My

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread S Salamander
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:13:43 -0700, Jon Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears that you should use the C82 driver. From: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C84 Parallel and USB ports. With Gimp-Print 4.2.2 or newer it will work (except full-bleed) when

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:41:21 -0600 (CST) I wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:22:45 -0500 Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: First off, let me thank you very much for the massive amount of information you've given me thus far. I am a

Re: Samba on a router; doesn't work for outer network.

2005-01-03 Thread James Jhai
On Monday 03 January 2005 08:45 am, Rob wrote: James Jhai wrote: On Monday 03 January 2005 07:12 am, Rob wrote: Hi, I have tried to configure Samba on a FreeBSD (5.3) router NAT. I want to have a single accessible directory with a password, that can be accessed from the inner

Re: xorg/dri-6.2_1,2 upgrade problems

2005-01-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:49:43PM +, Ned Harrison wrote: CPUTYPE=athlon-xp CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -fschedule-insns2 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops COPTFLAGES=-O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -fschedule-insns2 It turned out to be the kdemultimedia package. It would not

Running top on system console without being logged on

2005-01-03 Thread Anthony Atkielski
I'd like to run top on the system console to keep an eye on the system, but I'd prefer not to have the console logged on to do so. Is there an elegant way to do this? I know I can start top and redirect output to /dev/console and detach it from the current terminal with top -s 3 /dev/console ,

Re: 4.8 - / out of space

2005-01-03 Thread David Kelly
On Jan 3, 2005, at 7:07 PM, Gregor Mosheh wrote: --- David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another goof is for root to write to an unmounted filesystem. Later when the filesystem is mounted the written files are hidden yet still consume space on the fs containing the mount point (usually /). Could

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 3, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: A couple more questions, then I'm done. Promise. I need to verify whether or not there is an entry for grog_firewall_oif and grog_firewall_iif in /etc/rc.conf. If not, I want to exit with an error.

Re: ACPI and APM on 5.3

2005-01-03 Thread Eric Schuele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got around to cleaning up rc.conf, now using only acpi. 'acpiconf -s 1' works. Resume is _much_ faster. That only leaves me with a couple of acpi 'acpiconf -s 1' works well for me too on my laptop while using only acpi. However 'acpiconf -s 3' causes an

Re: atacontrol during boot ?

2005-01-03 Thread jason henson
On 01/03/05 14:28:02, Hexren wrote: I need to change the mode of ata channel 1 to UDMA33. When the system is up I use atacontrol mode 1 UDMA33 UDMA33 for that. How can I do this during boot, before mounting HDDs (The reason for all this is, that one of my HDDs only likes UDMA33)? Thanks Hexren

Re: portupgrade system destruction?

2005-01-03 Thread Andrew Sinclair
Moved to freebsd-questions by Andrew Sinclair. Eric Anderson wrote: I have a few dedicated servers at a hosting company (about 3 hours drive time away). On one of the systems I ran a 'portupgrade -arR' this morning, and then disconnected (I ran it in a screen session). About an hour later, I

RE: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Why in heavens name are you bothering with CUPS? And furthermore in FreeBSD 4.10 gimp-print version 4.2.6 is in the ports and that DOES have support for the C84, the advice to use C82 is just plain wrong. That's what you get for depending on some GPL-crutch like CUPS. Here's what you do: cd

installing a linux rpm, wants perl

2005-01-03 Thread Karl Agee
freebsd 4.11-pre with linux compatibility. I'm trying to install a linux rpm but I am getting the following errer: -su-2.05b# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm package.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/perl is needed by package -su-2.05b# whereis

mounting firewire/USB storate devices

2005-01-03 Thread Kevin Smith
I'm a little new at this, but can some suggest what is the best way to mount firewire and usb storage devices ? I am using both my ipod and compact flash devices with freeBSD but I find that I do not have a simple setup that allows me to mount them easily without manually looking at the /dev

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-03 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:49:26 +1100 (EST) Dave Horsfall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote: I've also tried burning the first file to CD-Rs using Windows XP Home's own facilities and using Sonic RecordNow! under said system, but did not get bootable CDs

3ware Esclade 7006-2

2005-01-03 Thread Justin England
I have just installed 5.3-RELEASE on an IBM eServer series x330 with the primary ATA controller being an Esclade 7006-2 with two drives in a RAID 1 array. I configured the array with the BIOS utilities, and when installing 5.3 from the CD, it recognizes the array on the twe driver and

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote: As root, I did the following (assuming I remember the Windows path correctly:-): mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt [...] Try copying the file to a local BSD file-system; the NTFS semantics could be getting in the way. Also try write-once media, if

Re: installing a linux rpm, wants perl

2005-01-03 Thread jason henson
On 01/04/05 00:24:38, Karl Agee wrote: freebsd 4.11-pre with linux compatibility. I'm trying to install a linux rpm but I am getting the following errer: -su-2.05b# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/ rpm package.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/perl

Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?

2005-01-03 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, it's in the ports tree. I don't think we've ever included a linux openoffice port - are you perhaps thinking of staroffice, for which a freebsd binary is not produced by sun? There's been quite a few reports of people having trouble getting past

Re: installing a linux rpm, wants perl

2005-01-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 03 January 2005 09:24 pm, Karl Agee wrote: freebsd 4.11-pre with linux compatibility. I'm trying to install a linux rpm but I am getting the following errer: -su-2.05b# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm package.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies:

Re: Samba on a router; doesn't work for outer network.

2005-01-03 Thread Rob
James Jhai wrote: On Monday 03 January 2005 08:45 am, Rob wrote: James Jhai wrote: On Monday 03 January 2005 07:12 am, Rob wrote: Hi, I have tried to configure Samba on a FreeBSD (5.3) router NAT. I want to have a single accessible directory with a password, that can be accessed from the inner

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 3, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jan 3, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: A couple more questions, then I'm done. Promise. I need to verify whether or not there is an entry for grog_firewall_oif and grog_firewall_iif in

USB Bidirectional printer

2005-01-03 Thread regis rampnoux
Hi, Could you confirm that the use of bidirectional printer feature is not yet implemented? Now I need it because the new printers have no parallel port! -- regis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: BTX halted

2005-01-03 Thread kalin mintchev
this is a few days old. i got a reply saying to try floppies but from the INSTALL.txt under the amd64/5.3-REL it says: 1.3 Floppy Disk Image Instructions Floppy disk based install is not supported on FreeBSD/amd64. like i said i played with bios settings and nothing really worked. can

Re: Samba on a router; doesn't work for outer network.

2005-01-03 Thread James Jhai
Wish that my advice fixed it for you. Sounds like you found a better solution though. -- - James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

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