FreeBSD 5.3 NVIDIA-1.0.7174 GLX extension problem

2005-05-03 Thread Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
Dear All, I have problem using NVIDIA-1.0.7174. It failed to load GLX. What i can do for this? This is a warnings and errors of my X.org log (WW) NV(0): Option CursorShadow is not used (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not found) I have attached the complete X.org log

Re: UPDATE -- Re: PHP 4.3.11 core dumps

2005-05-03 Thread Cezar Fistik
Hello, Mike. You wrote 29 àïðåëÿ 2005 ã., 21:57:18: I recently upgraded to PHP 4.3.11 from Ports on my 4.9-RELEASE system, and I'm suddenly having troubles running PHP. Whether we're talking a web app or running from a command line, I get core dump errors. Specifically: su-2.05b# php -i

New Site: sysctl.enderunix.org

2005-05-03 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi EnderUNIX.ORG has debuted a new site that you can add sysctl's on related OS (Currently FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux) In sysctl.enderunix.org you can add a new knob and the description of related knob. There is also a mailing list that you receive email when a new sysctl knob

backup with tar: Which dirs

2005-05-03 Thread v . demartino2
I have a large usb harddisk with a 60GB freebsd slice that I want to use to backup the FreeBSD 5.4 installation on my laptop once in a while. I think that tar is the right tool for this purpuse. Now I ask: What directories do *** NOT *** require to be backed up? I know this is the case of /tmp

Re: Support for Alviso (Intel i915) chipset networking?

2005-05-03 Thread Nick Triantos
Anyone have any ideas? I'm still a bit stumped as to why the stock 5.3 fxp driver does not work with my Sonoma-based laptop. thanks all, -Nick Nick Triantos wrote: D'oh, you're right, the i915 is the graphics chip (I think, technically, it's the whole northbridge. Intel is damn unclear about

Re: creating a local cvsup mirror.

2005-05-03 Thread Volker Kindermann
Hi Derrick, I want to create a local mirror for my internal freebsd systems. I seem to be confusing articles that are 'how to mirror' and 'how to be a mirror'. Is there some details/info out there that could be of help? I would have thought it would be enough to be running ports/net/cvsup- mirror

Re: How does one bootstrap DNS

2005-05-03 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Jim Freeze [2005-05-02 15:31 -0500] Suppose I own two domains: abc.com and xyz.org. I want to host these domains myself and have them provide the primary and secondary name servers for each other. Is this possible? Seems kind of circular. In theory I would have ns1.abc.com to

Re: blocking MAC address with ipfw ?

2005-05-03 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 02 May 2005 20:26:03 -0700, John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: faisal gillani wrote: faisal gillani wrote: how can i block a MAC address with ipfw ? can you share the syntax please ? thanks man ipfw reveals ... { MAC | mac } dst-mac src-mac

Re: QPL vs GPL for QT and derivatives

2005-05-03 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tue, 3 May 2005 03:16:17 +0200 Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: QT and derivs have either the GPL (2) or QPL license but we have and use the GPL one. First question: do they differ in distribution, eg x11-gpl versus the qpl version? I never tried but I'm sure someone

cannot get apache to start

2005-05-03 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
Hi All, i upgraded my ports tree this weekend and started a rebuild of apache13+modssl and php4 (with extensions) Now i can't get the *(#!($ thing to work anymore, i keep getting coredumps I thought it could simply be a problem because i used modssl so i switched to apache13 without modssl. I

Re: NFS mounting

2005-05-03 Thread Xian
On Friday 29 April 2005 12:52, Vyacheslav Druzhinin wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, I've added the nfs mounting point on my workstation to the /etc/fstab like this: nfs.myserver.com:/usr/ports /usr/ports nfs 0 0 When nfs.myserver.com is reachable everything is ok. But if

Installing DCOM98 with Wine

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
Hi, I have the latest Wine and Winetools installed and I am now trying to install DCOM98 with the purpose of installing internet explorer 6 for my web development needs. I have downloaded DCOM98.exe and ie6setup.exe into my /root/.wine/dosdevices/c:/ directory and then to install DCOM98 I do the

Full backup

2005-05-03 Thread Aguiar Magalhaes
Hi list, I´m using FreeBSD 5.3 - Release and I´d like to known how to make a full backup (image) of my HD scsi. With Linux machines I´ve used Norton Ghost to make a image from HD. If I had a crash in my HD, I restore the image in a few minutes. How can I to proceed in FreeBSD ? Aguiar

Re: Full backup

2005-05-03 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:14:20AM -0300, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote: Hi list, I?m using FreeBSD 5.3 - Release and I?d like to known how to make a full backup (image) of my HD scsi. With Linux machines I?ve used Norton Ghost to make a image from HD. If I had a crash in my HD, I restore the

OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello! In an effort to balance the awareness and usage of free and open source among the world's population, I am trying to obtain as many open source masterplans (in PDF) as possible. I plan to have them translated, revised and compiled into one masterplan above all masterplans which I can then

Re: Full backup

2005-05-03 Thread Roberto [khazad-dum]
Begin replayed message: On Tue, 3 May 2005 10:14:20 -0300 (ART) Aguiar Magalhaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With Linux machines I´ve used Norton Ghost to make a image from HD. If I had a crash in my HD, I restore the image in a few minutes. If you have 2 pair of disks, try gmirror (raid-1

HP PSC 1350 and hpoj and usb

2005-05-03 Thread Lars Eighner
I am trying to enable the scanning functions on an HP PSC 1350 all-in-one printer. The print functions work with hpijs/cups/foomatic-filters. I have installed hpoj, but ptal-init cannot find the scanner. The problem seems to be that the scan functions get improperly attached at boot time. This is

RE: Full backup

2005-05-03 Thread bob
I use Norton Ghost on my FreeBSD systems. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aguiar Magalhaes Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 9:14 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Full backup Hi list, I´m using FreeBSD 5.3 - Release and I´d like to

Re: Full backup

2005-05-03 Thread Steven Enderle
To hear that from someone with email address @a1poweruser.com makes me ill have a nice day Steven -- ++ message delivered by gizm0.org http://gizm0.org/ ++ free webmail - imap, pop3, ssl secured [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Norton Ghost on my FreeBSD systems. -Original Message- From:

VPN through a FreeBSD firewall?

2005-05-03 Thread Per B
Hello all! I have a small network at home which I am upgrading speedwise, i.e. I am about to go from 8 Mbit to 24 Mbit (ADSL2) on the WAN side. I intend then to use my FreeBSD 5.3 box as a firewall/NAT/proxy server. Two questions: First, the big one: I sometimes work from home. Then I connect

Re: VPN through a FreeBSD firewall?

2005-05-03 Thread J. Martin Petersen
Per B wrote: Second question: someone told me that the ZyXEL cannot handle 24 Mbit, therefor I want to use the FreeBSD box instead. Can FreeBSD handle 24Mbit from the ADSL modem? I think it can, anyone against? ;-) We're using a FreeBSD 5.3 machine with pf and AltQ as our

OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
J.C. Roberts, Where did this come from? What qualifications do you have that will convince us to believe you are able to just understand a single master plan, let alone properly combine all of them? Perhaps posting your IQ score would be sufficient. You seem to be against the less

Re: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread mario . lobo
//| //|| // | // || -//--//---|| ARIO LOBO // //|| - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ipad.com.br What is your interest? Who do you work for? A lot of people in poor and developing countries are already aware that they should move towards open source, and

Re: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 03 May 2005 08:24:56 -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! In an effort to balance the awareness and usage of free and open source among the world's population, I am trying to obtain as many open source masterplans (in PDF) as possible. I plan to have them translated,

Re: How does one bootstrap DNS

2005-05-03 Thread Jim Freeze
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: [snippage] I currently only have one computer on my domain, and it provides dns lookups for itself (and virtual servers)[1] [snippage] [1] One could argue that I should have at least two name servers, but why should I need greater redundancy on my name servers,

Re: My BIND is tWisted!!!

2005-05-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-05-01 14:57, Fafa Diliha Romanova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, what have you done with that machine before it stopped working? when you try to start named does it produce any error messages? You are not being helpful. lol, try this

OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Mario, Nice ASCII logo. I work for poor people through UNDP. I am not a government nor Microsoft employee. (Ask Bill) A lot of people in poor and developing countries are already aware that they should move towards open source, and they themselves keep up with those master plans everyday

Re: My BIND is tWisted!!!

2005-05-03 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Please do __NOT__ post your reply on top of a long quoted part of the original. Both top-posting and failing to trim quoted material to the absolutely minimum necessary size are considered bad netiquette on this list. Sorry! Having said that, you can check your /var/log/messages for

Re: backup with tar: Which dirs

2005-05-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:32:10AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a large usb harddisk with a 60GB freebsd slice that I want to use to backup the FreeBSD 5.4 installation on my laptop once in a while. I think that tar is the right tool for this purpuse. You could also use dump,

sound absent

2005-05-03 Thread Eugene M. Minkovskii
Hello people! I'm using HP motherboard with integrated audio chipset, and I made statically kernel. So, I wrote in my kernel configuration: device sound device snd_ich and NO_MODULES=yes in /etc/make.conf. Then I make kernel and reboot. Now I see following: $ dmesg | grep pcm0

createing users homedir on first login

2005-05-03 Thread Gerhard Schmidt
Hi, I have set up some FreeBSD 5 Workstations and configured nss to get the accounts from ldap. Pam is also set up to work with ldap. Everything so far is runningnperfectly smooth. The problem is the workstations don`t have a shared filesystem. Each user should have an seperate homedir on every

Re: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Timo Schoeler
please stop posting this! Nice ASCII logo. I work for poor people through UNDP. one more proof that there i) are wrong people in the wrong places and ii) much money is being wasted. I am not a government nor Microsoft employee. shouldn't make a difference as money rules the world

OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Timo, please stop posting this! Get your weak wood out of my wheels! I fight poverty to avoid ending up like you. I work for poor people through UNDP. one more proof that there i) are wrong people in the wrong places and ii) much money is being wasted. There are good people in the

Re: Domain Name in postfix on a Local Network

2005-05-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bill Schmitt (SW) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been struggling through setting up a mail server on my home network, with the goal to be running an imap server. As I've indicated on some other related postings I've made, networking is probably my weakest side and I need a little help. I

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 NVIDIA-1.0.7174 GLX extension problem

2005-05-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problem using NVIDIA-1.0.7174. It failed to load GLX. What i can do for this? This is a warnings and errors of my X.org log (WW) NV(0): Option CursorShadow is not used (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not

Re: [Mimedefang] Installing on FreeBSD

2005-05-03 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi, Ok but this basically sucks. I'm sure I should be installing from ports. But I don't seem to be able to do that, and I do know how to install source files. When I try to do a pkg_add to install the mimedefang port that I've downloaded from freebsd.org, I get this: radius# pkg_add -r

Re: [Mimedefang] Installing on FreeBSD

2005-05-03 Thread Toomas Aas
Lisa Casey wrote: Ok but this basically sucks. I'm sure I should be installing from ports. Me too. But I don't seem to be able to do that, and I do know how to install source files. When I try to do a pkg_add to install the mimedefang port that I've downloaded from freebsd.org, I get this:

Re: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Timo Schoeler
LAW (Lawyers Are Wimps) please stop posting this! Get your weak wood out of my wheels! I fight poverty to avoid ending up like you. I work for poor people through UNDP. one more proof that there i) are wrong people in the wrong places and ii) much money is being wasted. There are

Re: firefox doesn't show up

2005-05-03 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:53:29 -0400 jason henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trey Sizemore wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:40:43 -0800 Ben Munat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try running it from the command line? That way you can see if it prints errors when it fails. b

Multiple routes

2005-05-03 Thread Andrei Iarus
How can I have multiple gateways, and, all the packets to be sent using all the gateways simultaneously under FreeBSD 4.11? Is this possible only modyfing the kernel? :) Thank you very much for your help. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo!

Re: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Joel Rees
Fafa Hafiz, Pardon the top post, but master plans are for totalitarian governments and bureaucracies. Their sole purpose is to assist in perpetuating established institutions. (No institution is going to plan it's own demise. Oh, and how well they serve their purpose is a subject of some

RE: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread bob
hay nut case. take this bull shut some place else. this is not the place to be saying lies like that. You are so full of your own shit I can smell your rotten stink over the internet You have no idea what you are talking about. grow up and become a real member of the world -Original

Re: How does one bootstrap DNS

2005-05-03 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Me: [1] One could argue that I should have at least two name servers, but why should I need greater redundancy on my name servers, than I have on my other services? If my dns is down, so is my mail, and am in the mercy of the sender to keep retrying anyway. * Jim Freeze

Re: Looking for a KATE replacement

2005-05-03 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Clement Twine [02-05-05 14:24 +0200]: | Shantanoo Mahajan wrote the following on 05/01/2005 04:58 AM: | +++ Frank Staals [freebsd] [30-04-05 10:35 +0200]: | | Hey everyone, | | | | When I started using FreeBSD for desktop usage ( about a year ago ) I | | used KDE as desktop manager, but now

USB GPS Receiver

2005-05-03 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
Hi List, I shiped and usb gps receiver (http://www.deluoelectronics.com/customer/product.php?productid=60cat=0page=), he is detected as ugen but not attached with ucom: May 3 14:29:38 AleStation kernel: ugen0: Prolific Technology PL2303 Serial adapter (ATEN/IOGEAR UC232A), rev 1.10/2.02, addr 2

mail/sendmail submit question

2005-05-03 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Hi I am trying to allow mail submission and sending on a 5.3-RELEASE box from inside a jail, but not a running MTA... I have the following in the rc.conf sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO# Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission sendmail_outbound_enable=YES # Dequeue

OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello Joel! Pardon the top post, but master plans are for totalitarian governments and bureaucracies. Their sole purpose is to assist in perpetuating established institutions. (No institution is going to plan it's own demise. Oh, and how well they serve their purpose is a subject of some

Kdm problem

2005-05-03 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Hi, I have problem running kdm on a FreeBSD 5.3 server. When I start the kdm, I receive following error in /var/log/messages: May 3 20:45:10 test kdm[567]: XDMCP socket creation failed, errno 43 I was not able to find any answer searching with google, so I hope you can help me. Kdm is set for

Re: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Tue 3 May 05 10:47, Fafa Hafiz Krantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now any example will do. Thank you for your worthy input! I admire your enthusiasm, but perhaps this would be better in advocacy@ or [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy

swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, Simple question really... Can you ever have to much swap space? We're sitting with quite a nifty P4 System with 1GB Ram. We will more than likely add another 2 or 3GB in the month to come as our applications (mainly perl) are consuming vast amounts of memory and swap. We made the mistake

Re: Multiple routes

2005-05-03 Thread Tomas Quintero
On 5/3/05, Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I have multiple gateways, and, all the packets to be sent using all the gateways simultaneously under FreeBSD 4.11? Is this possible only modyfing the kernel? :) Thank you very much for your help. Under 5.3-RELEASE I have 3 DSL

Re: pkg_info output? ... 'homework' clarification sought!

2005-05-03 Thread David Armour
hello, thanks v. much for your kind reply. sorry for my delay in responding. i was heading off to work when i first saw your message. the translation of the tip segments helps immensely. as for the homework, well... i'm not 'there,' yet. some possible suspects: On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at

Re: Ignorance and file suffixes

2005-05-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:03:26PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] On running cvsup I received an error message Realease not specified for collection ports-all [...] My working file for -STABLE + ports looks like this: # Defaults that apply to all the collections #

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Clifton Royston
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:32:54PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: Simple question really... Can you ever have to much swap space? Only if there are better things you can do with that disk (or money.) In this case, RAM might be a better priority, see below. We're sitting with quite a nifty P4

Re: Where can i d/l VMware-workstation-3.2.1-2242.tar.gz

2005-05-03 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 03 May Warren wrote: I ended up finding it, but where would i find a list of various mirror sites and where would i add them into the list of mirrors to check as i often come across the problem of pkgs not found. Do you really mean this? The *only* file not found that I get using the ports

Raid Array Over 2Tb on Samba

2005-05-03 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, I plan on building a raid array of 8*400GB disks raid 5. Now as win2k cant support partitions over 2tb and I right in thinking that this is for the local machine only and that over samba (array in FreeBSD 5.4 machine [when it comes out]) it should be able to see all space or will I have

IPFW custom rules file not loading

2005-05-03 Thread Nicholas Henry
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 I'm a new BSD user installing the OS for the first time. Everything is running well except the firewall. IPFW is not loading the custom rules set I have created at startup/boot (although it does say it has but when I ipfw list it only gives me

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Knipe
We made the mistake however of just allocating 512MB swap as we did not know accurately at the time of installation what the resouce requires are going to be (especially not that it would be this high). A traditional rule of thumb is to have 1x - 2x the total RAM size in swap space. This assures

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
Actually having a separated disk for swap should increase your performance. But my opinion is that if you really need *all* the 40 GB of swap when your system's ram is 3 GB, you won't see the difference: most of the data your system needs is swapped out! You could add a partition to your new

Re: Raid Array Over 2Tb on Samba

2005-05-03 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 3, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Richard Collyer wrote: I plan on building a raid array of 8*400GB disks raid 5. Now as win2k cant support partitions over 2tb and I right in thinking that this is for the local machine only and that over samba (array in FreeBSD 5.4 machine [when it comes out]) it

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Knipe
PS: Is there a FreeBSD 5.4 stable version? FreeBSD pyro.acme.com 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Wed Apr 27 15:51:43 SAST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PYRO i386 Guess so :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
Time to upgrade then ;-) 2005/5/3, Chris Knipe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PS: Is there a FreeBSD 5.4 stable version? FreeBSD pyro.acme.com http://pyro.acme.com 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE#0: Wed Apr 27 15:51:43 SAST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PYRO i386 Guess so :)

MIT Zephyr available on FreeBSD?

2005-05-03 Thread N.J. Thomas
Does anyone know if the MIT Zephyr Notification System (which included the command zwrite), or some newer incarnation of it, is available on FreeBSD? A glance at ports didn't show anything. thanks, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:32 AM 5/3/2005, Chris Knipe wrote: Hi, Simple question really... Can you ever have to much swap space? We're sitting with quite a nifty P4 System with 1GB Ram. We will more than likely add another 2 or 3GB in the month to come as our applications (mainly perl) are consuming vast amounts

Re: Kdm problem

2005-05-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ivailo Tanusheff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problem running kdm on a FreeBSD 5.3 server. When I start the kdm, I receive following error in /var/log/messages: May 3 20:45:10 test kdm[567]: XDMCP socket creation failed, errno 43 I was not able to find any answer searching with

Re: Raid Array Over 2Tb on Samba

2005-05-03 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On May 3, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Richard Collyer wrote: I plan on building a raid array of 8*400GB disks raid 5. Now as win2k cant support partitions over 2tb and I right in thinking that this is for the local machine only and that over samba (array in FreeBSD 5.4 machine [when it comes out]) it

Re: pkg_info output? 'homework' clarification sought...

2005-05-03 Thread David Armour
hello, sorry: clicked wrong icon, truncated my reply/question. i think. i hope my lame-ish attempt at 'homework' doesn't screw with the list charter. i offer it in a spirit of open-source newbie encouragement. [note from previous message, orphaned by my mistake: [a] In a context address, any

Re: Raid Array Over 2Tb on Samba

2005-05-03 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 3, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: I would not recommend trying to use greater than 2GB partitions via Samba, or ^^^ You meant 2TB not 2GB right? Cause I've been using samba with 8GB shares for a looong time... I'm guessing

Problems with user ppp

2005-05-03 Thread Vittorio
On my PC with the latest freebsd 5.4 I'm trying to connect to my ISP alice by means of user ppp. Here is my /etc/ppp/ppp.conf: # default:  set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command  ident user-ppp VERSION (built COMPILATIONDATE)  set device /dev/cuaa0  set speed 115200  set dial ABORT BUSY

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:32:54PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: Hi, Simple question really... Can you ever have to much swap space? We're sitting with quite a nifty P4 System with 1GB Ram. We will more than likely add another 2 or 3GB in the month to come as our applications (mainly perl)

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 3, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Since it's a pain to add swap later you want to make allowances for future expansion (e.g. you'd need 32GB of swap if you ever plan to add 32GB of RAM). I understand that people recommend as much swap as you have ram or more. However, is this

Re: IPFW custom rules file not loading

2005-05-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-05-03 15:18, Nicholas Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May 3 14:25:22 babe kernel: firewall_enable: not found May 3 14:25:22 babe kernel: ipfw2 initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding dis$ May 3 14:25:22 babe kernel: Flushed all rules. May 3 14:25:22 babe kernel: Line

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:02:11PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Since it's a pain to add swap later you want to make allowances for future expansion (e.g. you'd need 32GB of swap if you ever plan to add 32GB of RAM). I

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Clifton Royston
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:02:11PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Since it's a pain to add swap later you want to make allowances for future expansion (e.g. you'd need 32GB of swap if you ever plan to add 32GB of RAM). I understand

fatal trap 12

2005-05-03 Thread Dan Langille
Hi folks. My gateway has been getting this a few times a day for the past few days. Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode More detail at http://www.langille.org/tmp/fatal-trap-12.txt Conversations to date indicate a hardware problem. Any recommendations/suggestions? -- Dan

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 3, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:02:11PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Since it's a pain to add swap later you want to make allowances for future expansion (e.g. you'd need 32GB of swap if

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 3, 2005, at 5:02 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Since it's a pain to add swap later you want to make allowances for future expansion (e.g. you'd need 32GB of swap if you ever plan to add 32GB of RAM). I understand that people

RE: IPFW custom rules file not loading

2005-05-03 Thread bob
You did not follow handbook instruction close enough. Your rc.conf statements are not correct. Use the ones from the handbook just like they are printed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nicholas Henry Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:18 PM

make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L
Hi. Im running FreeBSD 5.3-Release #0 and would like to do buildworld and buildkernel. The problem is that the machine is a remote one. Handbook states that to run mergemaster and make installworld I should boot into single user mode. That would mean that I can't access the machine remotely

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 3, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:15:54PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Thanks! Well, on my production system, I am not dumping any kernels. Once It crashes, I reboot it and go back into production. Anything dumped would get wiped out.

Re: Can't play CD / mount CDROM

2005-05-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 02 May 2005 08:42 pm, Michael Neeff wrote: when I try to mount the CD using the below it says: cd9660 /dev/acd0 Input / Output error Thanks! From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Neeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't play CD /

RE: Problems with user ppp

2005-05-03 Thread bob
Log has this ppp[505]: tun0: IPCP:  PRIDNS[6] 10.155.201.22 which means your ISP has handed you ip 10.155.201.22 is dsn server. you say first line in /etc/resolv.conf is 10.255.201.22 Are you sure you posted the correct stuff here. that number is to close not to be typo. Try deleting contents

Re: make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:29:40AM +0300, Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L wrote: Hi. Im running FreeBSD 5.3-Release #0 and would like to do buildworld and buildkernel. The problem is that the machine is a remote one. Handbook states that to run mergemaster and make installworld I should boot into

Language/codepage trouble

2005-05-03 Thread pps
Hello, I've been having alot of problems with encodings/language etc. In short, there's no such problem on winXP - in control panel/Reagional and Language Options I set this options: Standards and Formats (locale): English Language for non-unicode programs: Russian and I'd like to get the same

Re: make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:29:40AM +0300, Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L wrote: Would it be okey to run make installworld when running in multiuser mode and being the only person whos logged on and maby shutting down most of the network services (leaving my sshd running though) ?

Re: make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread Pat Maddox
http://layer0.layeredtech.com/showthread.php?t=2 Walks you through upgrading remotely. On 5/3/05, Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Im running FreeBSD 5.3-Release #0 and would like to do buildworld and buildkernel. The problem is that the machine is a remote one.

RE: make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread bob
Doing a remote buildworld is just too dangerous for an production box and expensive in backups because you have all the source files to deal with. The more popular method of updating a remote system is to have an local development box that has same components and do a fresh install to a empty ata

Re: NFS mounting

2005-05-03 Thread Benjamin Keating
So putting NFs mounts in the background, via fstab would look like this(?): nfs.myserver.com:/usr/ports /usr/ports nfs rw,-b 0 0 (is the -b in the right place? I don't have a test environment to check this setting) Thanks! - bpk On 4/29/05, Xian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 29

Sendmail with sasl2 build fails.

2005-05-03 Thread Richard Mcintyre
All, I've checked the mailing lists and it appears that this has been a problem for other people in the past, but I can't seem to fix the issue I'm having. I have installed cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd from ports. I then added the following to /etc/make.conf: # SASL (cyrus-sasl v2) sendmail build

unary operator expected

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Burchell
Hello: I'm working with a script written for Linux that has the following lines: # Check that networking is up. [ ${NETWORKING} = no ] exit 0 Everything else in the script works okay, but this one bombs with the following error: line 35: [: =: unary operator expected Can anyone help with

IPFW uid filtering (UID)

2005-05-03 Thread Kris Maglione
I have OpenVPN listening on an interface on UDP 1194. It drops to openvpn:openvpn after it opens the socket. sockstat confirms this. When I add a rule to allow packets in on udp 1194 with uid openvpn, they don't match. The rule is: 1340 allow udp from any to me 1194 in recv dc0 uid openvpn

Re: mutt working throu NFS only in read-only

2005-05-03 Thread Benjamin Keating
You can also omit the client-side lockd and statd options if you include the `-L` option when mounting the NFS export (man mount_nfs, nfsd) - bpk On 3/8/05, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:37:19AM +0300, Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: Hello, I have some trouble in

Re: unary operator expected

2005-05-03 Thread Clifton Royston
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:13:47PM -0600, Chris Burchell wrote: I'm working with a script written for Linux that has the following lines: # Check that networking is up. [ ${NETWORKING} = no ] exit 0 I don't think it's a Linux/BSD issue. This line won't work in sh if NETWORKING is unset.

php4-4.3.11 Port Question (mime_magic)

2005-05-03 Thread John Schneider
Newbie question, apologize in advance if I missed something obvious. I also apologize if this is not the best forum for questions on specific ports. I installed the port php4-4.3.11. The purpose of using this port to ugprade my working php4 install, was to be able to the horde 3.0 framework

Re: Sendmail with sasl2 build fails.

2005-05-03 Thread Andy W. Clements
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 19:10 -0400, Richard Mcintyre wrote: I have installed cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd from ports. I then added the following to /etc/make.conf: # SASL (cyrus-sasl v2) sendmail build flags... SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS+= -L/usr/local/lib

Re: Sendmail with sasl2 build fails.

2005-05-03 Thread Richard Mcintyre
Andy W. Clements wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 19:10 -0400, Richard Mcintyre wrote: I have installed cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd from ports. I then added the following to /etc/make.conf: # SASL (cyrus-sasl v2) sendmail build flags... SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS+=

The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-03 Thread Benjamin Keating
Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of date. A wiki would be a great way to acheive this. If there isn't a project like it yet, I'd like to propose we set one up. I can contribute quite a bit of

Re: IPFW uid filtering (UDP) (was (UID))

2005-05-03 Thread Kris Maglione
subject should read UDP Kris Maglione wrote: I have OpenVPN listening on an interface on UDP 1194. It drops to openvpn:openvpn after it opens the socket. sockstat confirms this. When I add a rule to allow packets in on udp 1194 with uid openvpn, they don't match. The rule is: 1340 allow udp

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:00:06PM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of date. What is out of date? Generally, if you want to improve something in the handbook,

Properly umounting a USB HDD

2005-05-03 Thread Benjamin Keating
Hey all, I've noticed that a 'umount /mnt/portable' properly umounts the drive like it should, but when I hold the drive in my hand and give it a very gentle horizontal spin with my wrist, the reading head / platter.. something, sounds loose, as if the arm wasn't properly docked. Is there any

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