Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-29 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Hi, On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 01:36 +, Andrew Wasilczuk wrote: [...] HP ProLiant servers are generally decent. The onboard RAID is usually supported by the ciss driver. I haven't dealt with HP yet, but I'm starting to seriously consider them. How is good is their support when things go

Re: evil idea

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 10:16:50PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: mv wrote: Hello, Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his problem? I have been running amd64 since it was first released and am quite pleased with its performance and stability.

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Wasilczuk
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:08:12AM -0400, David Robillard wrote: We run FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on several IBM x3550 machines with the onboard RAID controller using the aac(4) driver. We haven't had any problems, the machines are stable and backed by IBM Professional Services. Nice, I think

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:03:47AM +, Andrew Wasilczuk wrote: Hi, I'm interested to see what servers people use for FreeBSD. I used to buy the IBM xSeries x306 for firewalls and web servers and the x206 for low budget file servers, but both aren't being sold anymore. I recently got a

Re: Atheros wireless

2007-10-29 Thread Necati Demir
Ok, then... how to update only installed applications? On 28/10/2007, Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:51:19 +0200 Necati Demir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [.] If you are running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, you could try updating to either the latest

Re: slight emergency here...

2007-10-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:03:06AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the damage.

Greeter application missing (??) gdm login ?

2007-10-29 Thread Gary Kline
Well, I managed to hose my gnome config *thoroughly*. Can anybody clue me in how to set things right? /home is now where /usr/home was before. I have a dummy acccolunt that when I typr (as root) kdm, KDE starts up. But trying gdm (or automating this in

Re: i810 driver problem

2007-10-29 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Predrag Punosevac wrote: I was wondering if anybody encountered any problems with i810 video driver on 7.0Beta15 current. Namely I did yesterday a fresh installation of an older Pentium III machine and was unable to get X going. I got Xorg as pkg_add -r by the way and the rest of the system was

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

2007-10-29 Thread David Robillard
Nice, I think those use the ServeRAID-8k controller. Have you tried hot-swapping the disks? Does it work on FreeBSD? No, I haven't tried to hot-swap the disks. The machines are redundant web heads and DNS servers which we can bring down without service down-time. But come to think of it, I

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

2007-10-29 Thread David Robillard
I'm interested to see what servers people use for FreeBSD. I used to buy the IBM xSeries x306 for firewalls and web servers and the x206 for low budget file servers, but both aren't being sold anymore. I recently got a few IBM x3200 and x3550. They are really nicely built and I hardly have

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-29 Thread Eric Crist
On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 01:36 +, Andrew Wasilczuk wrote: [...] HP ProLiant servers are generally decent. The onboard RAID is usually supported by the ciss driver. I haven't dealt with HP yet, but I'm starting to seriously

abiword refuses to start on 8-current (amd64) gnome-2 (the one came out last week)

2007-10-29 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #5: Wed Oct 24 18:14:31 EDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONSTER amd64 gnome 2.20.1 abiword will not start from menu or command line (no error messages given)... the starting abiword window appears but after it completes no

Re: evil idea

2007-10-29 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:49:46 -0400 mv wrote: Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his problem? I have been running amd64 since it was first released and am quite pleased with its performance and stability. However, as a desktop there are still a number of

Re: slight emergency here...

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the damage. At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all

Re: DVD distribution

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 09:25:40PM -0500, Chris wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:19:01 -0700 Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:47:20AM +0200, Michel Ali wrote: Hi, I???m an IT manager. I am just wondering

Re: project management software for freebsd?

2007-10-29 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, October 27, 2007 a las 08:00:36PM +0330, Bahman M. escribió: On 2007-10-27 zbigniew szalbot wrote: I am looking for recommendation of software which could be installed from ports and which would help us register new ideas, be able to see if they have been

Re: project management software for freebsd?

2007-10-29 Thread Bahman M.
On 2007-10-29 Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Saturday, October 27, 2007 a las 08:00:36PM +0330, Bahman M. escribió: On 2007-10-27 zbigniew szalbot wrote: I am looking for recommendation of software which could be installed from ports and which would help us register new ideas, be able

Re: cp --verify?

2007-10-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see a --verify switch on cp, so I presume it does not. Is there an automated way to ensure a copy has gone well byte-for-byte without writing a script to filter diff? I want to be relatively sure my family pics are in the destination and not

Re: slight emergency here...

2007-10-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:13:42PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the

Re: Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-10-29 Thread Hakan K
What version of VNC are you running.. ? Anyone here tried Ultra VNC ? Thanks Hakan http://dominor.com On 10/28/07, Josh Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So VNC server will run, and I can connect to it from a VNC-client, but the window manager fails to start correctly. I am having

Re: i810 driver problem

2007-10-29 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Predrag Punosevac wrote: I was wondering if anybody encountered any problems with i810 video driver on 7.0Beta15 current. Namely I did yesterday a fresh installation of an older Pentium III machine and was unable to get X going. I got Xorg as pkg_add -r by the way and the

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-29 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Hello, On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:05 -0500, Eric Crist wrote: On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 01:36 +, Andrew Wasilczuk wrote: [...] HP ProLiant servers are generally decent. The onboard RAID is usually supported by the ciss

Re: Atheros wireless

2007-10-29 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Hello, On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 18:40 +0200, Necati Demir wrote: Ok, then... how to update only installed applications? Applications is packages taken from ports, so you go to ports if you want to upgrade all applications. For more details, see ports(7) or refer to FreeBSD Handbook. If you

ifconfig -- how to remove address and mask?

2007-10-29 Thread freebsd
running 6.1, Is there a way to bring an interface down and remove the ipaddr and mask? I've tried ifconfig destroy with no effect, and I'm getting tired of twiddling rc.conf and rebooting... The problem arises when testing a new configuration where an existing interface has an assigned ip addr,

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-29 Thread Eric Crist
On Oct 29, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Hello, On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:05 -0500, Eric Crist wrote: On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: How do HP servers compare to Dell? We're Dell fans here, but always willing to look at something better. I do not know about

ipfw -- why need to let icmp out that I already let in?

2007-10-29 Thread freebsd
I'm now running 6.1 using PPPoE through a bridging DSL modem. Using ipfw I have the following rules regarding for ping / traceroute: oip, oif are the outside tun0 ip addr and interface inet, imask, and iif are the internal netip/mask/interface from ipfw.conf: # Allow pings out # Note that

is this for OO-2 for FBSD?

2007-10-29 Thread Gary Kline
I'm in the middle of upgrading some platforms and just caught OOo_OOG680_m6_source.tar.bz2 (278MB) being downloaded. The port says that this is OO-2.3, but the build says Ishould have 11GB of disk and ~2GB of memory. I somehow downloaded OO_2.3 as a

Re: LaTeX oder teTeX

2007-10-29 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed TeXLive 2007 to use /usr/local/texlive/2007 as its prefix and data directory, and that works fine. Everything is contained within that tree. It does not put things in /etc or /usr/local/etc if you do this. What you do need to do after

Re: Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-10-29 Thread Josh Carroll
What version of VNC are you running.. ? vnc-4.1.2_2 from ports. I wonder if this is related to it compiling against ancient XFree86 source? Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

How to provide fail-over capability for servers?

2007-10-29 Thread Stephen Allen
I'm completely new to this so some of my ideas may sound ludicrous... please put me right where necessary! I will have 3 net-facing servers which must be available 24/7. I had planned to have an additional box located in a different building on the same site (in case of part power-outage)

Firefox crashing

2007-10-29 Thread Neil Munro
Hey, I have recently gotten FreeBSD working for the first time ever. I am very happy with it, however there are a few things I have having trouble getting to work, firefox is my main issue atm, it got installed along with Gnome 2.20 as you would expect however when I tried to run it nothing

Re: Greeter application missing (??) gdm login ?

2007-10-29 Thread James
On 10/29/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I managed to hose my gnome config *thoroughly*. Can anybody clue me in how to set things right? /home is now where /usr/home was before. I have a dummy acccolunt that when I typr (as root) kdm, KDE

Re: Greeter application missing (??) gdm login ?

2007-10-29 Thread Tino Engel
Stupid question: Have you reinstalled gdm? That should fix missing files. Best regards, Tino Am Montag 29 Oktober 2007 06:24 schrieb Gary Kline: Well, I managed to hose my gnome config *thoroughly*. Can anybody clue me in how to set things right? /home is now where

Re: Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-10-29 Thread Josh Carroll
vnc-4.1.2_2 from ports. I wonder if this is related to it compiling against ancient XFree86 source? The tightvnc port has the same problem, actually. Same message in the vnc log, but also another: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major

Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-29 Thread Jeff D
I've decided to try to build up my 1st FreeBSD server. Reading the Handbook is mostly helpful, but I' getting hit with a couple of problems I can't figure out. I was looking for a beginner's list. I think this is the closest to it. The main reason I'm trying out FreeBSD is because I want to

Re: Greeter application missing (??) gdm login ?

2007-10-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:13:55PM -0600, James wrote: On 10/29/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I managed to hose my gnome config *thoroughly*. Can anybody clue me in how to set things right? /home is now where /usr/home was before. I have a dummy

nvidia display driver on amd64

2007-10-29 Thread Tino Engel
Dear all, Does anyone see any chance to get the nvidia display driver (with OpenGL support) set up on amd64? Or someone has even succeded? The ports driver tell me they are only for i386, the downloaded driver from nvidia stops with: ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format