Just an idea..

2006-06-11 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Hello... I was thinking well it was 2 months ago... FreeBSD I think is one of the most amazing opearting system ever coded... Stable, fast... etc... etc... The interfaces (Xwindow, with Kde, Gnome) have reached a very good level of usage, stable.. There are several problems still???

FreeBSD Boot Problem on Multiple HDDs

2006-06-11 Thread Sean M.
I just did my first ever bit of hardware hacking--salvaging a 6GB HDD from a useless computer and installing it as a slave--and went and put FreeBSD on it and a 3151MB partition on the master drive, which already had Windows 2000 Professional SP1. Here is how I chopped up the disks: ad0s1: FAT32

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-05-21 - 2006-06-10

2006-06-11 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Probelms with 'make clean'

2006-06-11 Thread vittorio
Yesterday, after portsnap(-ping) with fetch update, first I upgraded the portupgrade port of my freebsd 6.1 fresh box by means of make;make deinstall reinstall clean Then I started to upgrade my kde installation issuing portupgrade 'kde*' but it invariably failed complaining: [an example

FreeBSD vs. Debian Sarge Linux on Pention II 400 Mhz.

2006-06-11 Thread Eyal Weissblueth
Hello all, I am using now for a few months Linux Debian Sarge 3.1 on a Pentium II 400 Mhz. with 128 Mb. RAM. I recently stumbled upon FreeBSD and wondered if using the same hardware configuration will yield better (faster and lighter use) performance than Linux Debian sarge. Thank you for

Re: (no subject)

2006-06-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a newbie running 6.1 stable and I have what may be several simple questions: What exactly is happening when I run make index make readmes after I upgrade my ports tree? Why aren't the indexes and readmes made when we run cvsup ports-supfile? Finally, why does it

Re: FreeBSD vs. Debian Sarge Linux on Pention II 400 Mhz.

2006-06-11 Thread Reko Turja
I recently stumbled upon FreeBSD and wondered if using the same hardware configuration will yield better (faster and lighter use) performance than Linux Debian sarge. For me one of the main reasons of using FreeBSD is the ease of installation and keeping the system including ports up to

teTeX and portupgrade problem

2006-06-11 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Got errors when running portupgrade last night, when it tried to upgrade to teTeX-texmf-3.0_4. They're pasted in at bottom of this message, checksum problems. I did as the output said ftp'd the file off the main FreeBSD ftp site, copied it to

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-11 Thread Derek Jander
On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/10/06, Sergio Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE 10.1 a go. Good option I tried... fast

accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6

2006-06-11 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
Hi, I accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6 on my FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE systsem. After this, even 'ls' command is not working. Is there any possibility that I can restore the system? Thank you. Soo-Hyun ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6

2006-06-11 Thread Ashley Moran
On Jun 11, 2006, at 11:21 am, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: Hi, I accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6 on my FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE systsem. After this, even 'ls' command is not working. Is there any possibility that I can restore the system? Thank you. Soo-Hyun Can you boot into the

Re: Playstation emulator

2006-06-11 Thread Rod Person
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 June 2006 11:23 pm, Mark Kane wrote: On Sun, Jun 11, 2006, at 03:15:31 +, NgD Vulto wrote: Hi. I had the same problem until doing this from pkg-message: -- Moreover, some users report that the

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-11 Thread dgmm
On Saturday 10 June 2006 22:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: It's not possible using Firefox, but you might be able to do it if   you install Wine and Internet Explorer. I'd google for Wine Internet   Explorer; this will yield helpful information on how to get   everything setup with IE to work

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-11 Thread dgmm
On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:49, Nikolas Britton wrote: I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with Konqueror and it worked, well I got to the front page at least but I don't have an msn account so I can't test it any further. In Konqueror simply goto Settings Configure

Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I've got a file that I just synced from a major RBL, and I'd like to just use it to globally deny access to my system. Is there an easy way to do this within ipfw -- the file is about 3 *million* lines, and is from cbl.abuseat.org. -Dan -- SOY BOMB! -The Chest of the nameless

Re: FreeBSD Boot Problem on Multiple HDDs

2006-06-11 Thread Derek Ragona
You may need to do an upgrade reinstall. It sounds like the boot block is foobar. If you reinstall the same version using the upgrade option, that should take care of the problem. -Derek At 01:38 AM 6/11/2006, Sean M. wrote: I just did my first ever bit of hardware

Re: Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've got a file that I just synced from a major RBL, and I'd like to just use it to globally deny access to my system. Is there an easy way to do this within ipfw -- the file is about 3 *million* lines, and is from

Re: [freebsd-questions] Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread Howard Jones
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, I've got a file that I just synced from a major RBL, and I'd like to just use it to globally deny access to my system. Is there an easy way to do this within ipfw -- the file is about 3 *million* lines, and is from cbl.abuseat.org. I do similar

RE: Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread fbsd
Using such an list of ip address from a major rbl is flawed at the core of the idea. Over 85% of those 3 million ip address are spoofed in the first place. Most are what would be called false positives. Reread the info at the source cbl.abuseat.org it says the data is not intended to be used the

teTeX and portupgrade problem

2006-06-11 Thread Robert Huff
Denny White writes: Got errors when running portupgrade last night, when it tried to upgrade to teTeX-texmf-3.0_4. They're pasted in at bottom of this message, checksum problems. When I see either this: local modification time does not match remote or this:

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-06-10 22:44, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: much excised --- Anyway, this all works just fine. The MBR and initial boot record in the boot sector of each slice (or primary partition if you must degrade to MS terminology) have just enough standardization that

RE: Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, fbsd wrote: Using such an list of ip address from a major rbl is flawed at the core of the idea. Over 85% of those 3 million ip address are spoofed in the first place. Most are what would be called false positives. Reread the info at the source cbl.abuseat.org it says the

/dev nodes population errors with GELI/bsdlabel

2006-06-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net
well. i'm quit sure, it's a little bit complicated to explain what i did and what i figured out while i was doing it ;-), but: short description: attach-mount-umount-detach-attach-mount of GELI-encrypted filesystems does not work correctly if the fs is on a bsdlabel- partition inside the

Re: ports upgrade question

2006-06-11 Thread wc_fbsd
On 6/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a newbie running 6.1 stable and I have what may be several simple questions: What exactly is happening when I run make index make readmes after I upgrade my ports tree? Why aren't the indexes and readmes made when we run cvsup ports

Re: upgrading mysql-server

2006-06-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 10/06/06 Gerard Seibert said: I'm not aware of any port doing this. If you use portupgrade, use the AFTERINSTALL configuration options to call the rc.d scripts and restart. You can configure 'portmanager' to stop and restart a program also. I was having the same problem with MySQL.

RE: Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread fbsd
This is still wasted busy work. There are much simpler ways to stop ssh false login attempts and garbage to website guest books. In ipfw use rule limit option or change port number ssh uses and only give your ssh port number to your user group. And for all websites add a noise image to stop

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/11/06, dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:49, Nikolas Britton wrote: I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with Konqueror and it worked, well I got to the front page at least but I don't have an msn account so I can't test it any further. In

Re: teTeX and portupgrade problem

2006-06-11 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today Robert Huff wrote: Denny White writes: Got errors when running portupgrade last night, when it tried to upgrade to teTeX-texmf-3.0_4. They're pasted in at bottom of this message, checksum problems. When I see either this:

Re: Deny large number of IPs via ipfw (fwd)

2006-06-11 Thread John L
Using such an list of ip address from a major rbl is flawed at the core of the idea. Over 85% of those 3 million ip address are spoofed in the first place. Most are what would be called false positives. Actually there are almost no false positives in the CBL. The three million addresses on

Networking Training System for Laboratory

2006-06-11 Thread George Yap
Dear Sir/Madam, Good Day to you. One of Malaysia University from Networking Department, is seeking for Laboratory Networking Training Systems. These 2 networking systems are : LAN and ADSL Training System Could you advise me any good supplier that can provide the following: (1)

PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950

2006-06-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: Does anyone have details about the new PERC 5/E SAS RAID controller Dell is (or will soon be) shipping in the 1950/2950? This replaces the long standing PERC4 (which was an OEM LSI / AMI MegaRAID U320) in the [1,2]850 series. Obviously this is an OEM chipset as well. I see it listed in

Re: accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6

2006-06-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:21:43AM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: Hi, I accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6 on my FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE systsem. After this, even 'ls' command is not working. Is there any possibility that I can restore the system? You can use the tools in

Re: accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6

2006-06-11 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Em Dom, 2006-06-11 às 12:55 -0400, Kris Kennaway escreveu: On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:21:43AM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: Hi, I accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6 on my FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE systsem. After this, even 'ls' command is not working. Is there any

Upgrading Ports on 5.3

2006-06-11 Thread Ron
Is there a way to use the current ports system if I am still running 5.3? I really need to update subversion, mysql, plus make sure I'm running the latest versions of other software, but since 5.4 came out (and now 5.5 and 6.0), I am no longer been able to get new ports. If change my

gmirror problem

2006-06-11 Thread Dayton Clark
Folks, I set up a mirror on two identical disks (250 MB Seagates). After several weeks of use I discovered that fsck fails because it cannot read a block. At first I thought I had a bum disk but not I believe the block is the last one on the disk. As I understand it the last block is where

wikipedia article

2006-06-11 Thread Hámorszky Balázs
Hi! I'm looking for some help on an article on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_operating_systems THX! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Upgrading Ports on 5.3

2006-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to use the current ports system if I am still running 5.3? I really need to update subversion, mysql, plus make sure I'm running the latest versions of other software, but since 5.4 came out (and now 5.5 and 6.0), I am no longer been able to get

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread RW
On Saturday 10 June 2006 11:55, Hunter Fuller wrote: On 10 Jun 2006, at 11:45 AM, julien Chaffraix wrote: Hello, chainloader +1 Well, this is a different way to do it, usually this is used with Microsuck products... but I suppose it'd work here too. If you chainload you don't need UFS

Re: FBSD 6.0 and ppp

2006-06-11 Thread jhall
Hello jhall! Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 03:34:14AM - you wrote: Hello jhall! Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 06:07:26PM - you wrote: incoming: set device /dev/cuad0 set ifaddr 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.0/24 ^ Experience shows that the slightly-braindead

Hardware for FreeBSD6(motherboard for LGA775)

2006-06-11 Thread Andrey Slusar
Hi, peoples. I need buy the motherboard for LGA 775 CPU. My choice is ASUS P5RD1-VM(ATI X200 chipset). FreeBSD 6 is fully supported all devices on this motherboard without any problems or not? -- Regards, Andrey. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: USB keyboard and loader

2006-06-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Odhiambo Washington wrote: * On 10/06/06 11:21 +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: | NgD Vulto wrote: | | I have some doubts about your question, it happens at the screen of the | freebsd-loader when you are installing or you installed it already and then | you can't access the options of the

Re: Full screen graphics hangs my system

2006-06-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Derek Ragona wrote: You probably need to do: portupgrade -a Tried that before posting: didn't help. bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

[Fwd: Re: Hardware for FreeBSD6(motherboard for LGA775)]

2006-06-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrey Slusar wrote: Hi, peoples. I need buy the motherboard for LGA 775 CPU. My choice is ASUS P5RD1-VM(ATI X200 chipset). FreeBSD 6 is fully supported all devices on this motherboard without any problems or not? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html -- Lewis's Law of

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread RW
On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: In FreeBSd world, a slice is the primary division of the disk. It is generally referred to as a primary partition in Microsloth land. But that is the same. IIRC It's actually more of an IBM PC term than a Microsoft term. I'm being

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-11 Thread dgmm
On Sunday 11 June 2006 16:34, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/11/06, dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:49, Nikolas Britton wrote: I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with Konqueror and it worked, well I got to the front page at least but I

ppp starts BEFORE syslogd

2006-06-11 Thread J.D. Bronson
Ummm...I would like to see what ppp is doing (in userland) and since it logs to /var/log/ppp.log under syslogd...since syslogd does not start BEFORE ppp...how can I make this possible? rcorder /etc/rc.d/* ... /etc/rc.d/ppp /etc/rc.d/ipfw /etc/rc.d/nsswitch /etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl /etc/rc.d/atm2

Freeze

2006-06-11 Thread NgD Vulto
I just hate when it happens. I am here on tty1, then I go to tty2...3...and It's ok, but if I keep changing the tty, sometimes when I change the tty it freezes, my screen gets black, and my cpu leds start to blink. Specially when I am on X and I want to go to some tty1. There are systems that

Re: Full screen graphics hangs my system

2006-06-11 Thread Derek Ragona
You might need to force the rebuild of every port portupgrade -a -f Depending on which X window manager you are using, sometimes the a rebuild doesn't catch all the real dependencies that will be caught in a complete forced rebuild. -Derek At 03:29 PM 6/11/2006, Andrea Venturoli

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jun 11, 2006, at 2:24 PM, dgmm wrote: On Sunday 11 June 2006 16:34, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/11/06, dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:49, Nikolas Britton wrote: I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with Konqueror and it worked, well I got to

Re: Freeze

2006-06-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jun 11, 2006, at 3:07 PM, NgD Vulto wrote: I just hate when it happens. I am here on tty1, then I go to tty2...3...and It's ok, but if I keep changing the tty, sometimes when I change the tty it freezes, my screen gets black, and my cpu leds start to blink. Specially when I am on X and

Re: gmirror problem

2006-06-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
plenty of simply things. Anyway, is a mis-configuration a likely or possible cause of this behavior. It's hard to even speculate without seeing an error message. Paste here or pastebin.com? Thanks, ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-11 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Derek Jander wrote: Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about FreeBSD. I

Re: natd not starting on boot-up

2006-06-11 Thread Roger Merritt
At 07:21 AM 6/9/2006 -0800, you wrote: On 6/6/2006 21:13, Roger Merritt seems to have typed: Everything starts on boot-up as it should -- except natd. I can start it manually from the command line after booting up and logging in and it works fine, but I can't tell what's going on that it's

Participating in FreeBSD development

2006-06-11 Thread Martin
My name is Martin Caverly. I am interesting in participating into development of FreeBSD, but, don't know where and how to start. Would you kindly guide or give Martin information about participating into development of FreeBSD? Thanks in advance for your help. Martin Caverly PS. I have been

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: In FreeBSd world, a slice is the primary division of the disk. It is generally referred to as a primary partition in Microsloth land. But that is the same. IIRC It's actually more of an IBM PC term than a Microsoft term.

Re: Participating in FreeBSD development

2006-06-11 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 11 June 2006 17:10, Martin wrote: My name is Martin Caverly. I am interesting in participating into development of FreeBSD, but, don't know where and how to start. Would you kindly guide or give Martin information about participating into development of FreeBSD? Thanks in advance

Re: Participating in FreeBSD development

2006-06-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/11/06, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My name is Martin Caverly. I am interesting in participating into development of FreeBSD, but, don't know where and how to start. Would you kindly guide or give Martin information about participating into development of FreeBSD? Thanks in advance

Subversion ports problem

2006-06-11 Thread Ron
I'm running 5.3, and I'm trying to upgrade subverson and I get the following: === Building for subversion-1.3.2 cd subversion/libsvn_subr /usr/local/bin/libtool --tag=CC --silent --mode=link cc -O -pipe -g -O2 -L/usr/local/lib/db42 -L/usr/local/lib -rpath /usr/local/lib -o

storcon for FreeBSD 6.x ... ?

2006-06-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Does anyone know if there is one somewhere for FreeBSD 6.x? Intel's site only has a 4.1 version that I can find ... If not, what is the best method of connecting to and looking at an IIR controller with FreeBSD 6.x? Thx ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-11 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * IIRC NetBSD was a fork of FreeBSD that's an interesting theory when you consider that the first netbsd release came out 8 months before the first freebsd release. ___

Re: Subversion ports problem

2006-06-11 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Monday 12 June 2006 01:00, Ron wrote: I'm running 5.3, and I'm trying to upgrade subverson and I get the following: === Building for subversion-1.3.2 cd subversion/libsvn_subr /usr/local/bin/libtool --tag=CC --silent --mode=link cc -O -pipe -g -O2 -L/usr/local/lib/db42

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * IIRC NetBSD was a fork of FreeBSD that's an interesting theory when you consider that the first netbsd release came out 8 months before the first freebsd release. Yes as many others have

Re: Subversion ports problem

2006-06-11 Thread Ron
Hello, db-4.2 is required for the port. Go to the /usr/ports/databases/db42 directory and build this port. You should find some conflicts with the installed version, but you can make a portupgrade -vrR db4, and also this may impact other installed packages. OK, I think I'm starting to