Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this

make.conf - question

2005-10-31 Thread Vladimir Dvorak
Hello, where can I found ALL parameters suited for /etc/make.conf ? For example, I wanted install some software from ports without X11, but man 5 make.conf doesn`t include WITHOUT_X11 option. Fortunatelly I found this page http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5topic=make.conf and

Re: make.conf - question

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Vladimir Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, where can I found ALL parameters suited for /etc/make.conf ? For example, I wanted install some software from ports without X11, but man 5 make.conf doesn`t include WITHOUT_X11 option. Fortunatelly I found this page

Re: Mounting an iPod

2005-10-31 Thread Christopher Illies
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:03:02PM +0100, edward wrote: I rebuilt the kernel with HFS/HFS+ support and it boots and loads OK. May I ask how you got this to work and which FreeBSD version you are using? On my FreeBSD 6.0 system the hfs-freebsd-03p2 port fails to build after printing some warning

Basic Port Management.Is there any?

2005-10-31 Thread George Katsanos
Hello ! , As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X environment and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff. Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers. So after I see some screenshots [it would be very nice and handy if some screenshots could be added

Re: Mounting an iPod

2005-10-31 Thread 莫雪涛
I wonder when i can download the 6.0-release version? wait for it for a long time. I am glad to use freebsd for my daily job. 2005/10/31, Christopher Illies [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:03:02PM +0100, edward wrote: I rebuilt the kernel with HFS/HFS+ support and it boots and

Re: Mounting an iPod

2005-10-31 Thread Edward Lichtner
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:03:02PM +0100, edward wrote: I rebuilt the kernel with HFS/HFS+ support and it boots and loads OK. May I ask how you got this to work and which FreeBSD version you are using? On my FreeBSD 6.0 system the hfs-freebsd-03p2 port fails to build after printing some

Teamspeak Server

2005-10-31 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I recently tried running the Teamspeak linux server on a 4.7ish something box with linux compat installed but all I got was daemon failed to start or a message similar to that with no reason or errors.. Has anyone had any success running the linux binary on FreeBSD? Would

Re: make.conf - question

2005-10-31 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:53 AM 10/31/2005, Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello, where can I found ALL parameters suited for /etc/make.conf ? For example, I wanted install some software from ports without X11, but man 5 make.conf doesn`t include WITHOUT_X11 option. Fortunatelly I found this page

Skype freeze

2005-10-31 Thread gb
Hi all, I installed the latest port of skype on my FreeBSD 6.0 laptop using linux_base 8. The program comes up without any problems until I type in my user info and press connect. then the whole OS freezes. The only thing left for me to do is to press the power button. I have never had a

Re: floppy install problems with strange message

2005-10-31 Thread Rino Mardo
yes this are made fresh from the fbsd ftp server. i've also checked the distribution set in options and it is set correct (5.4-RELEASE). the handbook only mentioned setting the Release name as far as cvsup is concerned. i found warning messages from tty2 though: DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file

Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic)

2005-10-31 Thread Nick Larsen
Just for shell scripters' information: the line in the script: PREFIX=`basename ${file} | sed 's/.nfo//g'` could be replaced with the simpler: PREFIX=`basename ${file} .nfo` basename can remove whatever you give as $2 On 10/29/05, Fafa Hafiz Krantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I

File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Edward Lichtner
Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154 /dev/ad0s3a: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY.

Re: File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Edward Lichtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154

Re: Basic Port Management.Is there any?

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, George Katsanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ! , As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X environment and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff. Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers. So after I see some screenshots [it would be

Re: An installation on SCSI Drives

2005-10-31 Thread Toomas Aas
Ronald Maggio wrote: Other then /root, /swap, /user, and /var, what other partitions are needed for a first go at FreeBSD, in Linux /home is often used, but what is a good lineup for FreeBSD other then the ones named so far? First, let's get our terms correct. A typical FreeBSD

Re: File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:06 AM 10/31/2005, Edward Lichtner wrote: Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154 /dev/ad0s3a:

FreeBSD 5.4 on HP ML370 G4

2005-10-31 Thread Srinivasu.Kakumani
Hi How to install BSD on ML350 G4 with Raid 5 server. Regards K.Srinivasu. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Basic Port Management.Is there any?

2005-10-31 Thread Philip Lykke Carlsen
Monday 31 October 2005 10:00 skrev George Katsanos: Hello ! , As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X environment and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff. Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers. So after I see some screenshots [it would be

Re: Teamspeak Server

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Jerahmy Pocott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I recently tried running the Teamspeak linux server on a 4.7ish something box with linux compat installed but all I got was daemon failed to start or a message similar to that with no reason or errors.. Has anyone had any success

Re: portaudit reports: how to exclude a specific vulnerability

2005-10-31 Thread Daniel Pittman
Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:45, you wrote: G'day. [...] I can't work out how to tell portaudit to stop bothering me about [a single] particular vulnerability, though. Can I ask it to exclude a vulnerability, or (ever better) a

Re: Compile problem (syntax error) ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel

2005-10-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:22:59 -0500 Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Bert van de Grift thusly... There seems to be a problem with ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel. Recently it is upgraded from 2.5.13_1 to 2.5.14_4 but when I try to compile this new version I

kernel crash dump could not be obtained

2005-10-31 Thread kamal kc
dear all, i have to make modifictions to the kernel and i have been encountering kernel crashes all the time. the kernel panics with messages starting with vm_fault: and then crashes and reboots. i guess i have done incorrect memory operations and i want to know where i went wrong. so i

Re: libXcursor.so.1.0.2 reference in libX11.so.6 ??

2005-10-31 Thread Rob
--- Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob wrote: See here: http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/lib/X11/CrGlCur.c?rev=1.3view=markup The open_library() call is the source of the confusion. First, it tries loading libXcursor.so.1.0.2 (why it's hardcoded in FreeBSD If you do find

Re: An installation on SCSI Drives

2005-10-31 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:56 pm, Toomas Aas wrote: Ronald Maggio wrote: Other then /root, /swap, /user, and /var, what other partitions are needed for a first go at FreeBSD, in Linux /home is often used, but what is a good lineup for FreeBSD other then the ones named so far? First, let's

Re: laptop firewall rules

2005-10-31 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 30, 2005, at 6:23 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I want to let all connections

dlopen()/dlsym()/dlerror() was: Re: libXcursor.so.1.0.2 reference in libX11.so.6 ??

2005-10-31 Thread Igor Robul
Rob wrote: So you can see, from where we got 1.0.2 Yes, indeed, very true. It's Xorg that has this library version hardcoded. Meanwhile, I also found out following: On FreeBSD, the dl* functions do not reset a previous error indicator. In this specific case, in xc/lib/X11/CrGlCur.c

Freebsd / FireFox / Macromedia Flash : The Quest

2005-10-31 Thread George Katsanos
I m currently trying to figure how I m gonna have a Flash Plugin at my Firefox. I know there are like 5 or 6 threads on the mailing list archive about this , but some different than others , and some buggy! I see know that to have the linuxflashplugin pkg's installed I'm downloading

Re: Mounting an iPod

2005-10-31 Thread edward
OK, this is the status : - I have built HFS/HFS+ support into the kernel as described in : http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ - My iPod is recognised on ad0 when I plug it in under console mode : firewire0: New S400 device ID:000a270002b6bcd8 da0 at sbp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da: Apple Co iPod

Re: Basic Port Management.Is there any?

2005-10-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
George Katsanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X environment and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff. Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers. So after I see some screenshots [it would be very nice and handy

RE: DMA errors

2005-10-31 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 02:11, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Mike Jeays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:04 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DMA errors On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 19:48, Ted

mp3.sh: Asking for advice

2005-10-31 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello! I got this script here: #!/bin/sh # # Generate SFV and M3U for MP3 releases. # $URBAN: mp3.sh,v 1.0 2005/10/24 15:05:09 fafa Exp $ # for file in `find . -name \*.nfo | sed 's,^\./,,'`; do directory=`dirname ${file}` prefix=`basename ${file} | sed 's/.nfo//g'`

Re: Freebsd / FireFox / Macromedia Flash : The Quest

2005-10-31 Thread Michał Masłowski
Question is this : Why don't 'we' have a Freebsd native flash plugin and we need to run Linux compat stuff ? Is it a Macromedia Licence issue? Is it a Firefox issue ? Is it a freebsd team thing? It's a Macromedia Licence issue. ___

Re: File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Edward Lichtner
On 10/31/05, Edward Lichtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154

modem

2005-10-31 Thread Chrystian Lopez
how can i see where my modem is coneccted how can accees to i t? _ Busca a la vez en Internet, en directorios, en enciclopedias... [1]Atrévete con el nuevo MSN Search References 1.

SAP R/3 ISO images

2005-10-31 Thread Vishal Ballabh
Hi I have seen the document regarding installation of SAP R/3 on FreeBSD. I am interested in installaing a stand alone system for learning purporse. I am unable to find the SAP ISO images that you have mentioned in the document. It would be great if you can guide me to a location where I can

Can not make alias for rl0

2005-10-31 Thread anthony endra
Cheers, I got a problem when making alias for rl0. localhost# ifconfig rl0 inet 192.168.0.131 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists localhost# May somebody help me, because nobody using that ip address in my lan. Thank you very much.

Re: modem

2005-10-31 Thread Igor Robul
Chrystian Lopez wrote: how can i see where my modem is coneccted how can accees to i t? What do mean by connected? If you wish check that your serial modem works, then check manual page for cu. For example, you can talk to modem on COM1: cu -l /dev/cuaa0 # (/dev/cuad0 on

Re: dlopen()/dlsym()/dlerror() was: Re: libXcursor.so.1.0.2 reference in libX11.so.6 ??

2005-10-31 Thread Rob
--- Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob wrote: However, the last successful dlopen call does NOT clear the earlier dlerror indicator. dlerror() resets error indicator. From /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c: Error indicator is not reset by successful call to dlopen(), but I'm not sure

Re: Sed howto

2005-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-30 15:56, K?vesd?n G?bor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I concur. The 20 pages on sed are probably part of what you want. It doesn't answer your besides... however. Perhaps someone else can help there. Here's a link to O'Reilly:

Re: Can not make alias for rl0

2005-10-31 Thread Igor Robul
anthony endra wrote: Cheers, I got a problem when making alias for rl0. localhost# ifconfig rl0 inet 192.168.0.131 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists localhost# if primary IP on rl0 is in 192.168.0/24 network then you need specify netmask

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Csaba Henk
Thanks for all the tips and answers, I will consider the mentioned alternatives. Yet I have one more question... On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:22:35PM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: dump(8) will create a snapshot of a live filesystem, dump the snapshot and then remove the snapshot, if given the

Re: SAP R/3 ISO images

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Vishal Ballabh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have seen the document regarding installation of SAP R/3 on FreeBSD. I am interested in installaing a stand alone system for learning purporse. I am unable to find the SAP ISO images that you have mentioned in the document. It would

Re: laptop firewall rules

2005-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-30 17:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I'd strongly recommend pf(4) over IP Filter. The PF firewall seems to have all the

Re: laptop firewall rules

2005-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-30 18:23, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I want to let all

Re: An installation on SCSI Drives

2005-10-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, let's get our terms correct. A typical FreeBSD installation on one HDD uses two partitions: a FreeBSD partition and a swap partition. Inside the FreeBSD partition are slices, which are mounted under directories (mountpoints) such as /var. So,

Re: modem

2005-10-31 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Chrystian Lopez wrote: how can i see where my modem is coneccted how can accees to i t? I guess you want to use a serial modem to connect to your Internet Service Provider? If so, have a look at # man ppp the section MANUAL DIALING . You can use this to

Covert m4p to mp3 (in FreeBSD ?)

2005-10-31 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, Does anyone know how to convert a .m4p file to a .mp3 file? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, Andrew P.

Re: laptop firewall rules

2005-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-31 16:45, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-10-30 18:23, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Eric Schuele
Csaba Henk wrote: Thanks for all the tips and answers, I will consider the mentioned alternatives. Yet I have one more question... On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:22:35PM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: dump(8) will create a snapshot of a live filesystem, dump the snapshot and then remove the

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Csaba Henk
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:40:16AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: How do snapshots work and how do they provide the consistency necessary for a dump? [...] SoftUpdates are required on the filesystem. This sounds beautiful. I am amazed. I knew of softupdates, but they were always a shady corner

MAC_by_default

2005-10-31 Thread Максим Голунов
Hello my friends.I want to SORRY from my English. I'm from Russian. I happy that I'm using FreeBSD. And I've got some questions. I know where is setupping MAC-policy by default. This is /etc/mac.conf (I need mls and biba policy). But I don't know where setup security-level for MAC-policy by

Re: Sed howto

2005-10-31 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-10-30 15:56, K?vesd?n G?bor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I concur. The 20 pages on sed are probably part of what you want. It doesn't answer your besides... however. Perhaps someone else can help there. Here's a link to O'Reilly:

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Eric Schuele
Csaba Henk wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:40:16AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: How do snapshots work and how do they provide the consistency necessary for a dump? [...] SoftUpdates are required on the filesystem. This sounds beautiful. I am amazed. I knew of softupdates, but they were

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Csaba Henk
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:32:02AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: The online manual mentions it in 16.13. Wouldn't hurt for it to be in the man page as well. Oh, yeah, thanks. This makes things clear. I missed this somehow. AFAIK FreeBSD 5.0+. Other *BSD as well, i believe... but someone else

cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?

2005-10-31 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card associates fine, but then fails to send any IP packets in the air, or at least that's what I presume is going on. I cannot ping the AP, I

Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?

2005-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-31 19:25, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card associates fine, but then fails to send any IP packets in the air, or at

Re: An installation on SCSI Drives

2005-10-31 Thread Toomas Aas
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:56 pm, Toomas Aas wrote: A typical FreeBSD installation on one HDD uses two partitions: a FreeBSD partition and a swap partition. Inside the FreeBSD partition are slices, which are mounted under directories (mountpoints) such as /var. So, your

Re: Covert m4p to mp3 (in FreeBSD ?)

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Family, Does anyone know how to convert a .m4p file to a .mp3 file? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?

2005-10-31 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:28:51PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-10-31 19:25, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card

Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?

2005-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-31 19:40, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:28:51PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Any hints on where I might go from here to debug this? I know the setup should work because in a previous life [1] it Worked With Windows[TM] (and on the same AP).

Login Max Chr?

2005-10-31 Thread Sean Murphy
I am running FreeBSD 5.4 Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more characters? The reason is I would like to do first initial last name for the login. However some last names are longer than eight characters. It would also work well for email addresses on the

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:59:21 +0100, Csaba Henk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:32:02AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: The online manual mentions it in 16.13. Wouldn't hurt for it to be in the man page as well. Oh, yeah, thanks. This makes things clear. I missed this

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 31), Paul Mather said: The other thing to note about FreeBSD snapshots that I don't think has been mentioned is that they are only supported on UFS2 filesystems, meaning they are unavailable under FreeBSD 4.x and earlier (or on older filesystems created by those older

Re: Login Max Chr?

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more characters? The reason is I would like to do first initial last name for the login. However some last names are longer than eight characters.

Re: kernel crash dump could not be obtained

2005-10-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:58:50AM -0800, kamal kc wrote: but rebooting does not show any crash dump file on /var/crash. What is displayed when savecore is run at boot time? Alternatively, what happens when you run savecore yourself? You may not have enough space on /var to save the dump.

Re: Login Max Chr?

2005-10-31 Thread Sean Murphy
Andrew P. wrote: On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more characters? The reason is I would like to do first initial last name for the login. However some last names are longer than eight

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:53 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 31), Paul Mather said: The other thing to note about FreeBSD snapshots that I don't think has been mentioned is that they are only supported on UFS2 filesystems, meaning they are unavailable under FreeBSD 4.x and

Re: Login Max Chr?

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. wrote: On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more characters? The reason is I would like to do first initial last name

The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

2005-10-31 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello. POST YOUR COOLEST SCRIPTS! 3 (trick or treat) I thought I'd create this thread for all you script enthusiasts out there. I've newly started basic shell programming, and just the very thought of it gives me this warm fuzzy feeling of having scripts assisting me in shaping things exactly

Re: Login Max Chr?

2005-10-31 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005, Sean Murphy wrote: Andrew P. wrote: On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more characters? The reason is I would like to do first initial last name for the login. However

Compile Kernel Question

2005-10-31 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All, I am new to FreeBSD but have a lot of Linux experience so I think that the migration should not be too difficult. The reason that I am investigating FreeBSD is because I hear that it performs GREAT under heavy loads and many larger ISP are using it without fail. In my

Re: Compile Kernel Question

2005-10-31 Thread Robert Slade
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 21:35, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Greetings All, I am new to FreeBSD but have a lot of Linux experience so I think that the migration should not be too difficult. The reason that I am investigating FreeBSD is because I hear that it performs GREAT under heavy loads

Re: Compile Kernel Question

2005-10-31 Thread Subhro
Lonnie Cumberland sat at his 'puter and typed on 11/1/2005 3:05: Greetings All, I am new to FreeBSD but have a lot of Linux experience so I think that the migration should not be too difficult. The reason that I am investigating FreeBSD is because I hear that it performs GREAT under heavy

Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

2005-10-31 Thread dgmm
On Monday 31 October 2005 21:21, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: POST YOUR COOLEST SCRIPTS! 3 (trick or treat) Unless it's FreeBSD specific scripts you are talking about would news://comp.unix.shell not be better for this? -- Dave ___

Re: Compile Kernel Question

2005-10-31 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All, Actually I did read over that information in the handbook but it only seems to go into detail on mounting a CDROM and then installing the sources. It does not tell me how, or where to download the sources over the net or if there is some pkg way to get the sources. That is why

Re: xorg.conf block my machine

2005-10-31 Thread Pablo Allietti
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:01:35AM -0700, Micah wrote: Pablo Allietti wrote: yepo this solution works., thabnks hi all. i have xorg loading in tty7 at startup. i change my mouse and i modified the file xorg.conf to mouse0 to mouse1. well the problem is my machine cant start again :(

Re: Compile Kernel Question

2005-10-31 Thread Grigory O. Ptashko
Lonnie, run /stand/sysinstall as root choose Configure-Distributions-src- choose what sources to install and sysinstall will ask you what media would you like to use for installation. You can choose the installation over the net from various servers. And generally, you have to read chapters

Serial ATA drive in UDMA33 mode, nForce 4 chipset

2005-10-31 Thread Hans Nieser
Hi list, I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard (which has an nForce4 chipset) and use a 200GB Western Digital Serial ATA hard disk in a box with FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8 on it. For some reason, this disk is using the UDMA33 mode. I have come to understand that it should be able to use a

Re: Compile Kernel Question

2005-10-31 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Thanks Grigory, That did the trick I am starting to get a feel for the layout of the FreeBSD system and it looks to ber really clean. Thanks again, Lonnie Grigory O. Ptashko wrote: Lonnie, run /stand/sysinstall as root choose Configure-Distributions-src- choose what sources to

Re: Compile Kernel Question

2005-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-31 18:25, Lonnie Cumberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Grigory, That did the trick I am starting to get a feel for the layout of the FreeBSD system and it looks to ber really clean. Cool! What version of FreeBSD did you install, if I may ask? Once you get the hang

Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

2005-10-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:18:12PM +, dgmm wrote: On Monday 31 October 2005 21:21, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: POST YOUR COOLEST SCRIPTS! 3 (trick or treat) Unless it's FreeBSD specific scripts you are talking about would news://comp.unix.shell not be better for this? Yeah, but

Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

2005-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-31 17:11, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:18:12PM +, dgmm wrote: On Monday 31 October 2005 21:21, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: POST YOUR COOLEST SCRIPTS! 3 (trick or treat) Unless it's FreeBSD specific scripts you are talking about would

Re: Compile Kernel Question

2005-10-31 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
For a particular project as small web hosting company called PeoplesQuest Web Hosting Services we are going to be using a control panel H-Sphere that needs FreeBSD 4.11 because of some particular Java dependency so I have had that version loaded onto the server so that we can migrate over

Re: Compile Kernel Question

2005-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-31 19:57, Lonnie Cumberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a particular project as small web hosting company called PeoplesQuest Web Hosting Services we are going to be using a control panel H-Sphere that needs FreeBSD 4.11 because of some particular Java dependency so I have had that

Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

2005-10-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-10-31 17:11, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:18:12PM +, dgmm wrote: On Monday 31 October 2005 21:21, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: POST YOUR COOLEST SCRIPTS! 3 (trick or treat) Unless it's FreeBSD

Re: Compile Kernel Question

2005-10-31 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Thanks again, I look forward to great success with FreeBSD for my projects. Cheers, Lonnie Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-10-31 19:57, Lonnie Cumberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a particular project as small web hosting company called PeoplesQuest Web Hosting Services we are going

What does Replaced Drive: mean in raidutil?

2005-10-31 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Stupid question, but considering that all the others state 'Optimal', I'm a wee bit concerned: # raidutil -L physical AddressType Manufacturer/Model Capacity Status --- d0b0t3d0 Disk Drive

Quick Routing Question

2005-10-31 Thread Jason Morgan
I am setting up a wireless subnet and, while the gateway (FreeBSD system) is communicating fine with the wireless router, my other subnet is not able to connect to the wireless router. Here is a diagram of my network, I think it's fairly typical. Wired Subnet (10.0.0.x)

Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

2005-10-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:30:50AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-10-31 17:11, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:18:12PM +, dgmm wrote: On Monday 31 October 2005 21:21, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: POST YOUR COOLEST SCRIPTS! 3 (trick or treat)

Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

2005-10-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:13:31PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-10-31 17:11, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also sounds a tad like forum fodder. bsdforums.org is fairly well trafficked --- I daresay it'd do fairly well there, considering there's a

beastie menu

2005-10-31 Thread Evren Yurtesen
I see that beastie menu is gone from what I read of some posts... I have a weird problem, my computer starts rebooting itself when I install a new 'loader' I am able to get it boot with the 'loader' from freesbie cd though. by the way, can this be because of color beastie command I used in my

Freebsd 5.4 smp on amd64

2005-10-31 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I compiled my kernel using options SMP it seems to work, I now see 4 cpus on my server (2 xeon with HTT) so It seems fine. Following the documentation I tried to use either device apic or options APIC_IO both are refused by /usr/sbin/config are they mandatory or does the

Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

2005-10-31 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 31 Oct 2005 it looks like Gary Kline composed: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:13:31PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-10-31 17:11, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also sounds a tad like forum fodder. bsdforums.org is fairly well trafficked --- I

Intel 945G for FreeBSD5.4

2005-10-31 Thread Nguyen Huu Bach
Hi all, My FreeBSD 5.4 does not recognize the Intel 945G Graphic (on board) card. Is there any way to make this possible ? Thank you very much ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions