Re: Nvidia driver problem: video ram not detected

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Justin R. Smith wrote: I'm using the latest nvidia driver with the FreeBSD AGP and it only detects 32meg of video ram even though the card has 128meg. If you mean the nvidia driver from the ports, then my 128Mb card detects just fine. If you mean the nv driver which comes with xorg, then

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ilari Laitinen wrote: Handbook reads dump(8) is the best backup program there is. So I am giving it a try - only to find out that I don't understand at all the meaning of that modified Tower of Hanoi algorithm descibed in the manual page and elsewhere. The manual page says it is an efficient

Re: backing up remote servers

2005-08-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Glenn Dawson wrote: At 05:54 PM 8/17/2005, Noah wrote: Hey there, Well I just built a nice happy Fedora box with a ton of dirve space here at home and trying to get a scheme for using it to backup two servers I have at my colo facility. what are my other options for backup? I know there

Re: FreeBSD on current crop of laptops?

2005-08-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tom Vilot wrote: I'm itching for a new laptop. I like the (big-ass) Toshiba Satellite machines, but I'm not wedded to them. I am curious what people's experiences are with some of the newer laptops and what might be recommended. Also -- I am interested (possibly) in an AMD 64 laptop, if

Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 16), Alex Zbyslaw said: UFS2 expanded some fields from 32 bits to 64, and added or changed a few features, but the two are still very similar. UFS2 also added snapshots which make live dumps safer, among other things. Snapshots work

Re: cache-only named won't resolve localhost

2005-08-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Now host, dig, and nslookup work OK, even without an /etc/resolv.conf file. But sendmail seems to need the later. (It just has nameserver 127.0.0.1.) [...] Mozilla apparently doesn't even use my local DNS as it still hangs. (I must admit that I've never checked my

Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Glenn Dawson wrote: Even if there were, if the file systems you are using now are working, there isn't much reason to change them. UFS2 expanded some fields from 32 bits to 64, and added or changed a few features, but the two are still very similar. UFS2 also added snapshots which make

Re: wizard mode docs

2005-08-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-11 16:09, Randy Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Is there any documentation on wizard mode? I'm just wondering what the scan function does. What is wizard mode supposed to be? A way to hack very old sendmail's. But probably not in

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-11 18:00, Tom Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hexren wrote: I'll say exim *let the holly wars start* So, should I use vi, emacs, or pico to edit the config files ;) You missed nano, joe, jed and /usr/bin/ee. Not to mention vim :P

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tom Norris wrote: Something else just occured to me. Am I going to need a separate pop3 daemon, or does postfix do that too? No, it doesn't (and shouldn't). popa3d, qpopper. Or maybe you need imap :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: need some advice

2005-07-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Benjamin Lutz wrote: If price is important, why not go for a Sempron 3100+ using the Palermo core? Granted, it's a bit slower than the Athlon64 3000+, but it does have an advantage: Under load, it outputs 62W of heat instead of 89W like the 130nm Athlon64 cores. And of course it only costs half

Re: need some advice

2005-07-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 28 Jul Trevor Sullivan wrote: I would recommend purchasing an Athlon 64 3000+ Venice core. I just picked one of these up along with 2 gigs of ram and a 6600GT and it runs sooo nice. Not only that, but it's cheap. I tend to switch to this 3000+ Venice

Re: How to restore MBR / boot0

2005-07-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jörg Reisenweber wrote: Hi list, I know the command how to restore the MBR ('fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0), but know this stupid question of mine (Windows has overwritten the old MBR with its own): How do I manage to get to a working prompt with at least some useful commands such as

Re: make buildworld fails in openssl/colldef [SOLVED]

2005-07-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Marius Korsmo wrote: It took two weeks to fix this problem, and therefore I do have a few questions. The error turned out to be in err.h. The file located in /usr/include was totally different from the one located in /usr/src/include. /*- * Copyright (c) 1993 *The Regents of the

Re: Problems with booting MBR

2005-07-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gary W. Swearingen wrote: If you're sticking to FreeBSD's boot0 MBR, you'll have to put one on each disk. I don't know if boot0 can remember F5 as the default choice for auto-booting or not. But one way or another the first disk's boot0 needs to use F5 to start the second disk's MBR/boot0

Re: make buildworld fails in openssl/colldef [SOLVED]

2005-07-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Marius Korsmo wrote: That does not look like an *old* version, it looks like a completely different file. Did you install anything not from ports that might have overwritten it? Did you try and install a port into a target hierarchy that /usr/local? (The same copyright header as the real

Re: Samba without Cups ?

2005-07-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joerg Pulz wrote: tha package build defaults to build with cups printing support. so if you use the package, you will always get cups installed as a dependency. if you want to entirely remove this dependency you have to build this port from source.and you need to run make config in the ports

Re: Samba without Cups ?

2005-07-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Norbert Koch wrote: So for samba, you just need to make with WITHOUT_CUPS=1 and samba 3 with WITH_CUPS=0, either on the make line or through pkgtools.conf (portupgrade). I think that's not quite correct. For samba 3 you should just 'make'. WITH_CUPS=0 defines the symbol, and that's what

Re: Where to put scripts ?

2005-07-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Norbert Koch wrote: I have a short script for Flexbackup ; #!/bin/sh # Backup using Flexbackup /bin/rm -f /data/IT/Backup_Log/data* /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -newtape /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -dir /data /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/sa0 rewind /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/sa0 offline I put this in /usr/bin/

Re: bsdlabel and moving to a bigger drive

2005-07-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Omar Thameen wrote: I had sysinstall create all the filesystems on /mnt so I could do the dump/restore. Because there was no / partition (it was /mnt on the new drive), sysinstall did not create an ad2s1a partition. The / partition on the new drive is thus ad2s1d. This is easy, if a

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ross Kendall Axe wrote: I admit, I didn't know the /boot was new in FreeBSD, but then, I am a BSD virgin. As for reasons to support a /boot partition, how about BIOS bugs/quirks? There's no shortage of those. Well, until someone proves otherwise, I don't believe in them anymore. I believe

Re: storing make options / interactive configuration

2005-07-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Rob Paxon wrote: 3.) Where do you guys prefer to store your make options? I've read using 'pkgtools.conf', but assume this doesn't effect 'make install', only portupgrade et al. If you use portupgrade, you use portupgrade and don't use make install. (Or rather, you can use make install if

Re: Journaling vs. Softupdates

2005-07-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zev Thompson wrote: Apparently one of the Google Summer of Code projects is to add journaling to UFS. When it already has softupdates, why? I've seen benchmarks that seem to indicate that softupdates performs as well or better in most cases, though I have nothing on hand to substantiate

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ross Kendall Axe wrote: That's what I'm going for now. 100MB in / and the rest of the disk given to /usr and swap. Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea of keeping the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a separate partition. Being pragmatic, the problems you are

Re: Billing Server

2005-07-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matt Juszczak wrote: We're setting up a billing server on a Xeon 3.06 ghz with IDE drives (but it doesn't need to be amazingly fast). The billing system we're using supports freebsd 4.11 natively with 5.x support. I need this machine to be tight, and although it will have a public IP, pf

Re: DHCP assigned unregistered IP address

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bob Hall wrote: 1) It is a Motorola cable modem. (SB5100) The modem web page contained this: The SURFboard cable modem can be used as a gateway to the Internet by a maximum of 32 users on a Local Area Network (LAN). When the Cable Modem is disconnected from the

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chuck Swiger wrote: Nick Barnes wrote: [ ... ] 3c: Opinions on using firewire hard disks for this at all? Would I be better off writing DVDs? Hard drives provide near-online backup, but only a single full iteration. You can do incrementals to DVD or CD-RW or tape, and keep many

Re: DHCP assigned unregistered IP address

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bob Hall wrote: However, note the When the Cable Modem is disconnected from the Internet... so the only reason it should be handing you the local IP is if it cannot talk back to the DHCP server it gets your real IP from. If Yea, that's pretty obvious. It's also pretty undesirable.

Re: DHCP assigned unregistered IP address

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Hornet wrote: On 7/15/05, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the person you talk to has a script which doesn't go beyond turn if off; leave it for 30 seconds and turn it back on again, you are in trouble. You must use comcast. :) Actually, Blueyonder/Telewest. The same

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
lars wrote: -/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools can help you monitor your HDDs But if your disk is a hardware RAID of any kind, and you cannot see through the controller to individual disks, then you'll only be told about one of the disks, I would presume. That's where a CLI comes

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nick Barnes wrote: Here are my previous questions on the related subject, some 4 years ago now: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=872461+0+archive/2001/freebsd-questions/20010617.freebsd-questions Shame no-one answered your badsect question. Did you ever figure it out? --Alex

Re: IPFW+natd Cisco VPN tunnelling....

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chuck Swiger wrote: Is there any way to convince natd to re-read the natd.conf file short of killing and restarting the daemon entirely? The manpage didn't say so, and kill -HUP terminates the process. If there was, I would expect /etc/rc.d/natd to support a reload option, but I don't see

Re: DHCP assigned unregistered IP address

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bob Hall wrote: two types of techs. The ones for whom their cloacal anatomy is indistinguishable from their articulatio cubiti, and the ones who Damn. Trumped by medical Latin. I hate it when that happens. :) Well, one has to rise to a challenge :-) (And I'll admit cheating and

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
George Ruch wrote: On the little machine, it came up looking like a minimal LILO. It would boot XP correctly, but came up with '??' for the XP partition. It says ?? but boots XP just fine. If you care about the cosmetics then I posted a patch which makes it say DOS instead, a while ago, done

Re: Problems since 5.3-RELEASE-p15

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: I assume there are no other messages obvious errors in /var/log/messages? Nope, I have debug turned all the way up... And just out of the blue on the 9th at 3am I see : Jul 9 03:01:30 himinbjorg kernel: pid 49967 (mailwrapper), uid 0: exited on sig nal 11

Re: DHCP assigned unregistered IP address

2005-07-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bob Hall wrote: Tonight, during a thunderstorm, I shutdown the household FBSD internet gateway. After the storm passed, I booted it up again, only to discover that during the bootup, my ISP's DHCP server had assigned me a new IP address. That wasn't a problem in itself, but the new address was

Re: How do I build i386 arch on Athlon 64?

2005-07-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gary W. Swearingen wrote: So how do I build a i386 system on the amd64 system? Download the i386 iso and burn that onto CD. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Left/right arrow and backspace translation confusion

2005-07-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Doug Lee wrote: This one is making me feel dumb...I've been using FreeBSD for at least six years but I can't seem to figure this out... I have two FreeBSD systems running 4.10/4.11 (these problems have plagued me through several versions though). On one system, arrows and backspace work as

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7

2005-07-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Rick Preston wrote: On 7/14/05, Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was under the impression that if you had physical access to the console and a default init setup, ctrl-alt-delete would reboot even if one wasn't logged in... perhaps I'm mistaken though. Thanks for pointing

Re: usr data/fax modem under 5.4

2005-07-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
dave wrote: I've enabled sio2 and set it's irq to 2, also 4, 5, and 9, all of which give me the error: configured irq x not in bitmap of probed irq's 0 under dmesg output i see the sio2 port, it's i/o address, and the fact that fbsd sees the modem's uart as a 16550a which again if i remember

Re: Disk repair

2005-07-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Richard Jones wrote: I have a disk which seems to have developed some faults or bad sectors. fsck yields the following: THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 50795409, etc. there's about 4 sectors/blocks that can't be read. Now I know I should go and buy a new disk, but I

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
John Oxley wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:13:24AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/12/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... this thing is WAY OFF... if you type in 85.49 and then hit the + key the thing automatically jumps to 85.48488409230252727866172791!!! My

Re: Make GNU Make behave like BSD Make?

2005-07-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
David Kelly wrote: So my question is Is there a way to make GNU Make handle .depend the BSD way? And is it possible for the same Makefile to run the same way on either BSD or GNU Makes? I don't know the answer to your question (but I suspect it's no, unless you hack the source). However,

Re: tar or gtar

2005-07-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hmmm, I'm not sitting on FreeBSD, but looking at the manpage I can only see -y (bzip2 compression) and -z (gzip compression); I couldn't find an option called -Z. -Z is compress -- possibly gtar only. It's much worse than the alternatives and is only useful for

Re: tar or gtar

2005-07-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) wrote: Hi all. I am running 5.3. I noticed that by default the BSD tar is used. Are there any advantages of gtar over tar? If so which ones? Also which compression switch is more efficient -z or -Z ? It depends what you need. If you need command-line argument

Re: Forcing a packet through an interface (OT?)

2005-07-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mario Lobo wrote: Yeah Stefan. They do take the default route. That is what I am already doing. I even wrote a little prog using a variation of ping to do just that. The problem lies with the fact that, there is a router between my rl0 and the internet. 1) rl0 --- router --

Re: Mouse problem solved???

2005-07-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paul Schmehl wrote: I still need to know if it's OK to use portupgrade to upgrade gnome-related ports after upgrading to gnome2.10 using gnome_upgrade.sh. I think if it wasn't OK then UPDATING would have said so. gnome_upgrade.sh seems to have been specifically because of a major leap in

Re: FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG)

2005-07-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I would bet that if you took that 6600 card to enough DIFFERENT systems, you would find a motherboard in which it worked perfectly under FreeBSD 5.4. 6600 GT in an Asus A8V Deluxe + nvidia drivers (but not nv drivers where mozilla corrupts one a day). Of course

Re: SSH and gigabit NICs

2005-07-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gustavo De Nardin wrote: On 07/07/05, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a clue what might be going on? Dunno, but you might take a look at /usr/ports/security/hpn-ssh/: Thanks for the tip. Will have a look as soon as I get the time to play again :-( Does

Re: Make Image of Hard Drive

2005-07-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Phusion wrote: I recently built a FreeBSD server, and was wondering how I can make an image of the hard drive. I am going to build an another FeeBSD server using identical hardware. How can I make an image of the hard drive of the original server I built and copy/install it to the new server?

Re: SSH and gigabit NICs

2005-07-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gustavo De Nardin wrote: On 07/07/05, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a clue what might be going on? Dunno, but you might take a look at /usr/ports/security/hpn-ssh/: WWW: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ Actually, this also seems to add

Re: install FreeBSD 5.3 and gnome2 help

2005-07-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Brian Duke wrote: libtool15: link: CURRENT `1000' is not a nonnegative integer http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-May/087588.html If that doesn't work then try uninstalling libtool3 and forcing re-installation of libtool5. You don't look like you use portupgrade

Re: SSH and gigabit NICs

2005-07-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Deyan Dyankov wrote: I'm not sure that this is the problem, but ..keep in mind, that ssh encrypts the data and ftp doesn't. The delay might be actually the time for encryption, right? Yes, this is a possibility, and I'll revisit it tonight. I thought I'd looked at the CPU usage during

Re: FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG)

2005-07-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Andreas Kohn wrote: Hi, say, do you see any messages like NVRM: Xid: 13, 02005600 0056 0c28 006500ac 0080 (Numbers may vary, I think) in your kernel messages after such a lock-up happened? AFAIK this is not a FreeBSD-specific problem. I think this URL is right but

Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ?

2005-07-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Shark Wang wrote: Today, I heard something on the partition policy for FreeBSD. Someone said that we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice, otherwise, the System will not boot up ! So what? Please explain what actual problem you are trying to solve and why you

Re: Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive

2005-07-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Roos wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Chris Roos wrote: One final question is whether the dump/restore process is the best approach in this instance? I have read about using dd but am not entirely sure whether this would do what I need? No, you should use dump/restore

Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ?

2005-07-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Shark Wang wrote: I put '/boot' for an individual partition just for 1023 cylinder story, although FreeBSD did not need this action ! the following is my partitions layout, pls help to do some check: ad0s1d /boot - 30M ad0s1a / - 512M ad0s1b swap - 512M ad0s1e /usr -

Re: Problems since 5.3-RELEASE-p15

2005-07-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: *If* there are intermittent memory errors, then it could be that SETI always happens to get them in the data it is dealing with, in which case it might run perfectly happily but just produce the wrong results. Memtest is dull, and stops you using your PC, but like

Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ?

2005-07-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
RW wrote: On Thursday 07 July 2005 18:27, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: 1Gb just because it's peanuts to a 200Gb disk, and I don't bother with /tmp separately. I use one because, by default, / is mounted without soft-updates. It is possible to turn it on, but for the sake of a few hundred MB

SSH and gigabit NICs

2005-07-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
The setup: Both machines FreeBSD/i386 5.4 a) AMD64 machine with on-board Marvel Gigabit NIC b) Athlon XP with cheap SMC Gigabit NIC (also Marvel) Cabling is brand new Cat5e. Have tried various different cables of different lengths to no effect. To rule out problems with a cheap

Re: Problems since 5.3-RELEASE-p15

2005-07-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: The only pattern I see is that it starts all of a sudden, goes for a little while, EVERYTHING you try to do fails, I get the /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: top: Shared object has no run-time symbol table type errors, and then all of a sudden it goes about its merry way.

Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ?

2005-07-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Shark Wang wrote: as I had read some partitions material about legacy Unix, I try to separate '/boot' from '/' for my large space on '/' . another question come up : Is ad0s1d the first blocks of the disk which based on partitions layout that my gave? No, it isn't. ad0s1a would be the

Re: How do I reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager?

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-07-06 10:27, Bob Willcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager on one of my systems and was hoping someone can point me in the right direction on doing this. I tried running /sbin/sysinstall but decided that I wasn't confident

Re: make distribution fails with call to cap_mkdb

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
jdyke wrote: h. sweet. thanks. i'll check that out. my cvs-supfile is *default release=cvs tag=. *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Roos wrote: One final question is whether the dump/restore process is the best approach in this instance? I have read about using dd but am not entirely sure whether this would do what I need? No, you should use dump/restore and if it is the root partition you will need to edit fstab

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
David Gerard wrote: Ayn Rand(founder of Scientology) Ayn Rand was really L Ron Hubbard. At last, a conspiracy theory worth believing in :-) The truth *is* out there: http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/ayn-rand-and-hubbard.htm http://www.facade.com/celebrity/L_Ron_Hubbard/ and search for Birth

Re: accidental overwrite

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
steve lasiter wrote: until today when I tried to copy over a .sql file so MySQL could see it and run it. I accidentally copied it over to /usr/local/bin/mysql thinking mysql was a directory. My question(s) are: Is there any way to revert back to the original file if this type of mistake is

Re: fsck_ext2fs problems

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jaap Boender wrote: Hi all, I'd like to share a filesystem on the same computer between FreeBSD and Linux, and as it seems that FreeBSD supports ext2 better than Linux does ufs(2), I've created an ext2 filesystem. Mounting accessing Works fine, except when I try to fsck it, fsck_ext2fs

Re: Dump Restore to smaller partition

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if the dump and restore method for moving a partition to a new disk requires the destination partition to be as big or bigger that the source? It will need to be big enough to contain all the data. It the old file system had a lot of empty

Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes

2005-07-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
markzero wrote: (WW) The NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU installed in (WW) this system is supported through the NVIDIA Legacy (WW) drivers. Please visit (WW) http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more (WW) information. The 1.0-7667 NVIDIA driver will ignore

Re: RAID Cards

2005-07-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Simon wrote: Just because there is no monitoring tool available due to lack of support, doesn't mean the card itself is bad. You wouldn't be saying that if you had had one of your RAIDed drives fail and had no indication whatsoever that it had done so. IMHO, OS level monitoring of a RAID

Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes

2005-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
markzero wrote: Oh the joys of binary drivers. I awake from a peaceful slumber after a portupgrade to find that I suddenly no longer have X. The playful and exciting words dance across my colourless and tormented screen: (WW) The NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU installed in (WW)

Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes

2005-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: On Jun 30, 2005, at 5:29 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: markzero wrote: Oh the joys of binary drivers. I awake from a peaceful slumber after a portupgrade to find that I suddenly no longer have X. [...] (WW) The NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU installed

Re: Installing Apache 2 with custom options

2005-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nicholas Henry wrote: Thank you for your reply. I guess I was under the assumption that the Apache port would come pre-configured with some options. So I didn't want to do a configure and overwrite what is there. So can you confirm that it isn't pre-configured anyway? Are any of the ports have

Re: Moving Files to new hardware

2005-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: Is it possible to copy the files from the old server already online directly to this new server using broadband? What do I need to know and do to accomplish this? I appreciate any other insight in transitioning this change over/ Well, presuming your setup allows

Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes

2005-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Can you use the x.org nv driver instead? I've never really figured out what the binary driver buys you over the standard one, but then all I do is run X with fvwm2, mainly for software development, so I have never needed any fancy features. (I've never had a

Re: rw access to ntfs

2005-06-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ben Paley wrote: On Wednesday 29 June 2005 13:22, Mantas Smelevicius wrote: writing into NTFS it is not officialy supported yet. on of the solutions - is to create some partition with FAT32 for example and use it. :-) Mantas, I had thought of that, but hoped there was a more

Re: rw access to ntfs

2005-06-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: * Alex Zbyslaw [2005-06-29 15:07 +0100] Perhaps you could ask Microsoft to provide support in Windows for accessing any kind of filesystem other than their own. ;-) http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ Will let you mount a ffs filesystem on Windows. Not sure

Re: freebsd as the basis for something better?

2005-06-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm sure we could do something innovative with: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival for instance, just having a hot voice reading my command outputs would already be darn cool to me. I worked there for a while, and know a couple of the people who worked on

Re: sata raid controllers compatibility

2005-06-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gayn Winters wrote: For disk controllers, the hardware notes begin with the ata driver but does not list any hardware that this driver supports. Where is the list of hardware that the ata driver supports? The hardware notes (i386 at least) begin with a *link* to man 4 ata. --Alex

Re: firewall on FreeBSD

2005-06-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-06-26 00:40, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: pf on freebsd does support the quick keyword. The default firewall, ipfw, does not. This makes no sense to me. The two firewalls work very differently. [...] You

Re: FireFox is beeping at me! a question

2005-06-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris O'Dell wrote: here's the issue i'm having. i just installed a new video card and firefox has decided to start making weird beeping and almost hissing noises when i have an audio application running. for example, i use winamp and firefox with tabbed browsing and whenever i select another

Re: PartitionMagic question

2005-06-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Iavor Raytchev wrote: When I run PartitionMagic it reported 3 errors - different LBA and CHS values - the errors are on the first sector of the FreeBSD partitions and on the first sectors of the next two partitions (seeing from the LBA). PartitionMagic says in all 3 cases that the LBA and CHS

Re: Managing updates in jails

2005-06-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mark Bucciarelli wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:29:42PM +0200, Ruben Bloemgarten wrote: What I find a lot easier is to use freebsd-update for the base system updates and, after having mount_nullfs'd /usr/ports from the host system onto the jailed systems, portsnap and portupgrade. -

Re: firewall on FreeBSD

2005-06-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On June 25, 2005 8:42:24 AM +0200 mess-mate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a firewall/router/proxy with openbsd and think to replace it with freebsd 5.4 Do you mean freebsd's PF don't support the 'quick' keyword ?? Thought PF on freebsd and openbsd was identical, isn't ?

Re: SMP and networking under FreeBSD 5.3

2005-06-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joe wrote: Hello, ps: root542 0.0 0.7 1320 812 ?? Ss Tue09AM 2:22.10 /sbin/natd -dynamic -d -log_ipfw_denied -log_denied -dynamic -n dc0 Is this just after a reboot? If so, it does show that natd is running, so I'm not sure why you're getting the message you were getting.

Re: Newbie question about ports.

2005-06-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Sam Ip wrote: I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is its ports collection 1. Can you do a CVSup to update your ports via http?

Re: HTML Mail from Command Line

2005-06-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mick Walker wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 01:55 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: pipe it through mimencode and do other massaging to it. You do realize HTML mail is not standardized, don't you? I don't have a mimencode binary on my system and nothing in the ports tree. I am using

Re: FreeBSD dieing, now has died doing portsdb -uU

2005-06-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris wrote: Jonathan Chen wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:04:44PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote: Hi all, In relation to my previous post(s) (I no longer know the subject line), my freebsd mail server died again, this time while I was doinga portsdb -uU ... it got halfway through

Re: HTML Mail from Command Line

2005-06-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Then you need to look a little harder :-) The computer looks harder. ;-) Only when you tell it to! --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Steve Bertrand wrote: I know this technique isn't feasable in all situations, but I try to have duplicate hardware. Especially with my IDE RAID1 servers, I'll from time to time during a maintenance window pop one of the RAID disks out, throw it in another box and ensure BOTH machines boot up

Re: OT Shell Script

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Knipe wrote: May be a bit off topic, but I don't know any sh scripting lists that I'm subscribed to... :) If I run the script from shell / console, it runs without a problem Running it via cron, I get: [: 6: unexpected operator The script: #!/bin/sh HOSTNAME=`/usr/bin/uname -n`

Re: Correct step for setting up MBR on a windows drive?

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mac Mason wrote: I've got a machine with FreeBSD on it. Recently, I added another drive, on which I put Windows. Given that I don't really trust the Windows install program with my MBR, I unplugged the FreeBSD drive during the install. Now, the FreeBSD bootloader can't load windows; if I

Re: OT Shell Script

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Knipe wrote: Call me stupid, I wasn't aware that [ is a command... ;) Not knowing is ignorance and all of us are ignorant about plenty of stuff. Deliberately staying ignorant is stupid, and asking questions and being interested by the answers is the opposite of that. Of course, I

Re: Anyone using doormand

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gene wrote: Has anyone implemented the doorman port knocking package? I tried to get it going on 5.4, but when I start doormand, I can find no evidence of it listening to it's default port (1001). I've checked the config (see below) but all seems correct. I can find no mention of doormand or

Re: DDS Tape problems

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Pavel Duda wrote: I've just switched tape drive for a DDS-4 and this one works fine. Funny is that DDS3 drive works wo problems on my workstation with Windows and same (well same type not exactly same) SCSI adapter. I have also found some information that there could be problem with SCSI

Re: DDS Tape problems

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: Windows drivers could easily be doing something clever to compensate for some known (to Microsoft at least) problem with the specific tape drive. Being Windows it wouldn't bother to tell you. That is probably true. I just wish someone could find out what

Re: Problems since 5.3-RELEASE-p15

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: Yes. I have a 2 part process I run : [process elided] I guess I could re-run it and see if it continues. I took the plunge and am now at 5.4-RELEASE-p2 I upgraded my Nvidia driver too. So far I saw : Jun 21 01:24:17 himinbjorg

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Sandy Rutherford Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:52 PM In order to boost read performance, a RAID card should interleave reading from a RAID-1 volume by reading alternately from one drive and then the other. You can see this in alternate blinking of the activity

Re: cvs

2005-06-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alistair Sutton wrote: On 20/06/05, Muhammad Kashif Yaqoob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip parsing supfile /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile connecting to cvsup.uk.freebsd.org cannot connect to cvsup.uk.freebsd.org: connection refused will retry at 23:15:30 I don't

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