Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?

2007-11-14 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm looking for an external, firewire-based, hard-drive from which to run FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). Ideally, I'd boot from this device as well, but I'm not sure if FreeBSD (or my BIOS) supports booting from firewire. Can anyone recommend a manufacturer and/or model? -- Regards, Doug _

Re: Changing console size, vidcontrol only lists 80x25

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Poland
Joshua Isom wrote: I recently bought a new LCD monitor for my computer. It handles 1440x900 and seems to automatically do some scaling(although buggy) to utilize the entire screen, resulting in a stretched, blurry, and cropped screen for the console. After some time and playing around, I was

Re: First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

2007-10-24 Thread Doug Poland
Kris Kennaway wrote: Doug Poland wrote: I'd like to report the details but I'm unfamiliar with the process. Should I post here on -questions or on -current mailing list? -stable. Looks like the issue is: kernel: current process = 46 (ath0 taskq) Well, unfortunately that does

First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

2007-10-24 Thread Doug Poland
I'd like to report the details but I'm unfamiliar with the process. Should I post here on -questions or on -current mailing list? Looks like the issue is: kernel: current process = 46 (ath0 taskq) -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

if_bridge, if_tap and wireless NICs

2007-10-24 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've finally gotten emulators/qemu to work with bridge/tap networking on FreeBSD-7.0-BETA1 i386 using bfe0: For reference, I used the tutorial listed at: http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1563 My issue is, however, that QEMU/bridge/tap does not work with my wireless NIC (

Re: Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE

2007-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:57:08PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on i386 and I was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. Specifically, is it necessary to rebuild all ports? So far, I ha

Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE

2007-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on i386 and I was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. Specifically, is it necessary to rebuild all ports? So far, I haven't rebuilt any ports and haven't had any problems... -- Regards, Doug ___

Re: QEMU and tap problems

2007-09-21 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, September 20, 2007 20:47, RW wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:21:20 -0500 > Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I've been following the various instructions I've found on the web >> in an attempt to get tap networking with qemu-devel-0.9.

QEMU and tap problems

2007-09-20 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've been following the various instructions I've found on the web in an attempt to get tap networking with qemu-devel-0.9.0s.20070802 and kqemu-kmod-1.3.0.p11_2 on 6.2-STABLE. qemu was compiled with: _OPTIONS_READ=qemu-devel-0.9.0s.20070802 WITH_KQEMU=true WITHOUT_HACKS_CIRRUS=t

VIA Technologies USB 2.0 IDE Bridge woes

2007-09-08 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running 6.2-STABLE on i386. Yesterday I purchased a 3.5" USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure kit under the brand name RocketFish, model number RF-HD35. My intention was to put a couple of extra 250GB PATA drives to work. I mounted a WD 250GB PATA drive in the enclosure and plugged it into

Re: ath Driver please help ath0

2007-08-27 Thread Doug Poland
man ath(4) and look under the "HARDWARE" heading. Looks like you may be out of luck... -- Regards, Doug Dan Sikorsky wrote: Hello, I just purchases an Atheros AR5005GS wireless mini pci card for my dell latitude x300 laptop. I cant for the life of me get it to connect to my wireless network.

ndis wrapped Intel wireless driver causes panic

2007-08-13 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got an HP/Compaq nx7400 and am having trouble with kernel loadable object generated by ndisgen. (6.2-STABLE, i386). Following the man page for ndisgen(4), I have the following files: -rwx-- 1 dpoland wheel27546 May 4 14:14:52 2007 NETw4x32.CAT* -rwx-- 1 dpoland whee

Re: Resolution problem with i810 and Xorg 7.2

2007-08-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:12:58AM +0300, Ghirai wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:26:46 -0500 (CDT) > "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I've got a Compaq nx7400 running on 6.2-STABLE with Xorg 7.2. > > Desp

Re: Resolution problem with i810 and Xorg 7.2

2007-08-13 Thread Doug Poland
Gabriel Linder wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:26:10 +0300 Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (EE) I810(0): Failed to allocate framebuffer. Is your VideoRAM set too low ?? I had this error on my laptop, and solved it by running 6-STABLE. It seems to be related to the agp module which refuses to

Re: Resolution problem with i810 and Xorg 7.2

2007-08-11 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, August 10, 2007 16:02, Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Friday 10 August 2007 14:19:00 Doug Poland wrote: >> nope > > im 99% sure thats where your solution will lie. Thanks, I'll give that a try... -- Regards, Doug _

Re: Resolution problem with i810 and Xorg 7.2

2007-08-10 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, August 10, 2007 14:08, Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Friday 10 August 2007 12:26:46 Doug Poland wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've got a Compaq nx7400 running on 6.2-STABLE with Xorg 7.2. >> Despite my best efforts, I'm unable to get the screen into >>

Resolution problem with i810 and Xorg 7.2

2007-08-10 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a Compaq nx7400 running on 6.2-STABLE with Xorg 7.2. Despite my best efforts, I'm unable to get the screen into 1680x1050 resolution. I have followed the instructions in the handbook but the issue appears to be getting /dev/agpgart recognized. Here's some relevant data... host%

Re: FreeBSD systems

2007-08-08 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, August 8, 2007 09:33, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:25:59PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Does anyone have any experience dealing with www.freebsdsystems.com >> I am looking to purchase some servers that will work a with a >> minimum of hardware cha

Re: restart network without shutdown

2007-08-07 Thread Doug Poland
Xihong Yin wrote: How can I restart my network card without shutdown/reboot? I use DHCP. try /etc/rc.d/netif restart -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: Transfering a File From One Server To Another

2007-07-12 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 07:42:07AM -0700, Pat Singer wrote: > Hi; > I have a server that's screwed up. I'm building out another server > now. I need to transfer a 1/2G file from the old one. FTP doesn't > work. I tried this: wget http://203.223.111.11/path/to/file It > connected to the mach

Netgear WG111 / WG111T USB NICs

2007-05-17 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Running 6.2-STABLE on i386... Anyone know if there is support for USB Wireless NICs? I have a Netgear WG111 that is recognized as /dev/ugen0, but that's it. Netgear also makes their "T" model (WG111T) that has their "Super G" technolgy that often uses Atheros chipsets. Since Atheros i

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:51:18PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Doug Poland wrote: > >I just used the "Drive Fitness Test" for IBM ATA drives on a > >particular disk and it finished without detecting errors. However, I > >see messages

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:06:53PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello, > > > > I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd > > like to quickly and efficient

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:46:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 17/04/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I&

Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-17 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations. Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, what tools do people use to stress-test disk dr

Can iostat(8) report on gmirror devices?

2007-03-28 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've grown quite fond of iostat(8) for monitoring various i386 6.x servers and have several boxes using gmirror(8). It appears that iostat will not accept things like "gm0" as a drive argument. Is that a feature or am I missing something. -- Regards, Doug

Re: OT: how to read BIND's debug file (named.run)

2007-03-21 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:23:39PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Doug-- > > On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Doug Poland wrote: > [ ...named logs... ] > >I trimmed out date/time stamp and it's obvious what the client, > >IP#port, query: name are for. Also, I get w

OT: how to read BIND's debug file (named.run)

2007-03-21 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I realize this is not FreeBSD specific, other than the fact that I'm running BIND on 1/2 dozen FreeBSD 6.2 servers. But I'd like to know if someone knows of a resource to help me interpret what I'm seeing in BIND's debug output file. For example: # rndc trace # rndc querylog # tail /var/

Re: Portupgrade and replacing apache 1.3.37 with apache 2.2.4

2007-03-17 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:17:48PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Doug Poland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE on an i386 test box with apache > > 1.3.37/PHP-5/MySQL-5. As the subject says, I'd like to replace > > apache

Portupgrade and replacing apache 1.3.37 with apache 2.2.4

2007-03-16 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE on an i386 test box with apache 1.3.37/PHP-5/MySQL-5. As the subject says, I'd like to replace apache 1.3 with apache 2.2. I understand httpd.conf will change and that I'll have to edit that by hand, but is there a portupgrade command that will remove 1.3.37

Re: UFS2 Snapshot limitiations

2007-03-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, March 13, 2007 10:10, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hello, >> >> I seem to recall, but cannot find, the limitation on the number of >> snapshots allowed on UFS2. Could someone point me in the righ

UFS2 Snapshot limitiations

2007-03-13 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I seem to recall, but cannot find, the limitation on the number of snapshots allowed on UFS2. Could someone point me in the right direction please? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: PRISM3(PCMCIA) and/or wi(4) driver unable to do WPA?

2007-03-08 Thread Doug Poland
The driver sadly, see http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-wi Its possible someones working on it but not that i know of. Thanks for the info. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: PRISM3(PCMCIA) and/or wi(4) driver unable to do WPA?

2007-03-07 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, March 7, 2007 17:57, Patrick Bowen wrote: > Doug Poland wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have just acquired a Linksys "Instant Wireless Network PC Card" >> 802.11b wireless NIC. When plugged into a 6.2 i386 laptop, dmesg >> reports: >> >>

PRISM3(PCMCIA) and/or wi(4) driver unable to do WPA?

2007-03-07 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I have just acquired a Linksys "Instant Wireless Network PC Card" 802.11b wireless NIC. When plugged into a 6.2 i386 laptop, dmesg reports: wi0: at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard1 wi0: using RF:PRISM3(PCMCIA) wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.2)

PRISM3(PCMCIA) and/or wi(4) driver unable to do WPA?

2007-03-07 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I just acquired a Linksys "Instant Wireless Network PC Card" 802.11b wireless NIC. When plugged into a 6.2 i386 laptop, dmesg reports: wi0: at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard1 wi0: using RF:PRISM3(PCMCIA) wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.2) wi0

Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-02 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, March 2, 2007 13:24, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Well, I skip'd reporting last month, like anyone missed it, right? > I did :) > Well, last month, and this month, have been seen ~10% increases in > first of month numbers, so its still growing ... > The

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:07:49PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > Garrett Cooper writes: > > > One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech > > definition but the traditional definition, "to divide") filesystems > > such that if one person fills up "/", it won't cause a pr

Re: Confused with jails (ezjail) and mergemaster

2007-01-16 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:08:07AM -0500, Dave wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:37 PM > Subject: Confused with jails (ezjail) and mergemaster >

Confused with jails (ezjail) and mergemaster

2006-12-19 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Sorry for the confusion here, but I just am not getting it ... I have just built and installed world on a 6.1-STABLE i386 machine and run mergemaster. For the jails, I have run: root# ezjail-admin update -i and it performed an installworld. Cool so far. What about mergemaster

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:20:33PM +, Mark wrote: > > > > Could someone tell me whether I can use the > > APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD 4.11 > > installation? > > Anyone? Please? > APC brand SMART-UPS work quite well with 4.x FreeBSD. Assuming you want to monitor the UPS, make sure y

Moving jails from one computer to another

2006-10-25 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm curious if anyone has comments on moving a jail environment from one computer to another. Not having actually tried it yet, it would seem to be possible given: Both computers: are the same arch (i386, in my case). are running the same kernel and userland (e.g., FreeBSD RELENG_6_

Re: requesting help to make sound work on thin/diskless client

2006-10-12 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 05:28:36PM -0500, Raymond Gibson wrote: > On Monday 09 October 2006 19:43, Doug Poland wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:00:23PM -0500, Raymond Gibson wrote: > > > > > > I'm looking for help. I built a thin/diskless client that I boot >

Re: requesting help to make sound work on thin/diskless client

2006-10-09 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:00:23PM -0500, Raymond Gibson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for help. I built a thin/diskless client that I boot via > etherboot. After power up the client boots and gives me a login > prompt. At that time I enter 'root' and I am presented with a command > prompt. I th

Re: printer recommendation

2006-09-29 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, September 29, 2006 14:03, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: > Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet printer that is known > to work under FreeBSD. I don't mind if it's an older model. I'd > like to go cheap with it. > I've got an HP-4050 LaserJet (addin JetDirect) at home that works

BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Doug Poland
I just glanced at the latest statistics on www.bsdstats.org. In the last week or so OpenBSD has "overtaken" FreeBSD in the USA. Should one conclude that OpenBSD admins have enthusiastically embraced this project and FreeBSD admins have not; or, is OpenBSD really more widely deployed than FreeBSD

Re: gmirror on different sized disks

2006-08-19 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:58:22PM +, Jason Morgan wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:47:57PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > > > > Until just a few moments ago, I thought I had identical sized drives > > (arrays, really) on my i386 6.1-STABLE box. > > > > I

gmirror on different sized disks

2006-08-18 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Until just a few moments ago, I thought I had identical sized drives (arrays, really) on my i386 6.1-STABLE box. I was trying to create a gmirror on ar1 from ar0 when gmirror reported to me: Provider ar1 too small. my dmesg reports: ar0: 152638MB status: READY ar1: 152637MB status: REA

Need help using ssh/netcat to proxy udp

2006-08-02 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to use ssh and netcat to forward dns queries from a 6.1-STABLE workstation to a remote 6.1-STABLE DNS server. I was inspired by the information supplied at: http://zarb.org/~gc/html/udp-in-ssh-tunneling.html The methodology is elegant and simple, but I'm unable to get it

Re: nVidia TwinView Dual Head problem (Rev 1)

2006-07-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, July 28, 2006 01:42, Richard Ehrlich wrote: > I am running freeBSD 6.1. I just installed an nVidia GeForce FX5200 > PCI card. When I booted , both monitors echoed the boot sequence > (Monitor1 a clone of Monitor0). > > I downloaded and installed the current nvidia driver: > NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x

Re: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID?

2006-06-19 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:18:05AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: > Hi, > > I've got two boxes that would be perfect for a small server. The > motherboards are: > > - ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe, with ICH5R and Promise PDC20378 > - ASUS P5WD2, with ICH7R > > I intend to install FreeBSD 6.1, and I wonder w

make installkernel and getcwd(3)

2006-05-18 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm having a problem getting make to understand the current working directory. For example, I have a directory structure where /usr/src and /usr/obj are symbolic links to another location. When I type: make installkernel, make thinks I'm in the directory /mnt/src, instead of /usr/src, and

Bourne shell scripting resources

2006-05-11 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Can someone point me to a good on-line reference for Bourne shell scripting? I've come across some syntax I don't understand and, since I don't understand it, don't know how to search the web for it. For example, what do these special variable characters do? ${UNISON_SCHED%% *} # w

make installkernel confused by automounter and symlinks

2006-04-24 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running 6.x i386 and am having a problem with "make" and symlinks. In this case, I'm exporting /usr/src and /usr/obj from an NFS server. The box in question has the NFS exports defined in fstab: fs:/usr/src /mnt/src nfs -3,-R=3,-b,-i,-s,-r=32768,-w=32768,rw,noauto fs:/usr/obj /mnt

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 12:49:50PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > I can still boot FreeBSD off my FastTrack controller (ar0), that's > > where I'm writing this email from. I can see both the Intel RAID > > device (ar1), and mount the data from NTFS (ar1s1), and newly > > created UFS-2 (ar

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:51:58AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > In your case, it sounds like you have two raid devices, one on > > > each controller. You would have to have an MBR on each and it > > > sounds like you think you wiped the one on the INTEL controller. > > > Figure out

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:27:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > On Tue, April 11, 2006 09:08, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >> > > >> I'm in a bit of a mess here. I've got an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe > > >> motherboard with two on-board SATA RAID controllers, an Intel > > >> MatrixRAID (ICH5R

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-11 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, April 11, 2006 09:08, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> I'm in a bit of a mess here. I've got an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe >> motherboard with two on-board SATA RAID controllers, an Intel >> MatrixRAID (ICH5R) and Promise Fasttrak (PDC20378). My BIOS allows >> me to boot from either the Promise or

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-10 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 08:06:11PM -0400, Huy Ton That wrote: > On 4/10/06, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm in a bit of a mess here. I've got an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe > > motherboard with two on-board SATA RAID

Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-10 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm in a bit of a mess here. I've got an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with two on-board SATA RAID controllers, an Intel MatrixRAID (ICH5R) and Promise Fasttrak (PDC20378). My BIOS allows me to boot from either the Promise or the Intel controller. The PDC20378 runs two drives in a RAI

Re: passively cooled pci-e dual head video cards for X?

2006-03-29 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:08:59PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > > http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadronvs.html > > which seem to almost cut it. Googling suggests that xinerma > performance isn't usable, but that they do ok as separately managed > desktops. > Nvidia has a proprietary mode called

Re: 6.0, allow remote logging?

2006-03-22 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, March 22, 2006 14:40, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > At Wed, 22 Mar 2006 it looks like Doug Poland composed: > >> On 2/5/06, Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> I've been trying to get 6.0 to allow itself to accept logs. >>>> &g

Re: 6.0, allow remote logging?

2006-03-22 Thread Doug Poland
On 2/5/06, Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've been trying to get 6.0 to allow itself to accept logs. >> >> I have a line in /etc/rc.conf that states the remote machine: >> >> syslogd_flags="-a 192.168.0.3" >> >> I have restarted "syslogd" so the output of "ps -auxw | grep syslog" >

Re: one virtual IP interface on two ethernet ports ?

2006-02-09 Thread Doug Poland
On 2/9/06, Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Is it possible with FreeBSD to setup a virtual IP interface > with load balancing that use two or more ethernet ports ? > I think you should have a look at carp -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-q

Re: Replacing cron with mcron

2006-02-09 Thread Doug Poland
On 2/9/06, Iantcho Vassilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone tried this? > I even think of proposing this to the base system - cron is such an old > idea.. > But old ideas are not necessarily bad ideas... I've implemented mcron on two hosts that needed to have custom cron jobs replicated. I

Re: "screen" alternative

2006-01-26 Thread Doug Poland
Grzegorz Danecki wrote: Hi List! I'm running 5.4 Stable and I'm looking for something, that can let me detach my session leaving my software running. First thought - "screen", but hey, there is no screen package in ports collection :( Google says something that it was removed due to high cpu uti

Re: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, January 12, 2006 12:46, Kiffin Gish wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:37 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: >> On Thu, January 12, 2006 12:15, Li, Qing wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone successfully gotten the sound to work on the Dell D600 >>> laptop running FreeBSD 6

Re: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, January 12, 2006 12:15, Li, Qing wrote: > > Has anyone successfully gotten the sound to work > on the Dell D600 laptop running FreeBSD 6.0? > > If you've done it, could you please share your tricks > with me. > I've got a C600 laptop working with sound. Not sure if

Xprt doesn't find printers on FreeBSD 6

2006-01-04 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm having a problem with Xprt (xorg-printserver-6.8.2_2) on FreeBSD 6-STABLE. It would seem that Xprt is supposed to automatically detect my printers, but it doesn't. I have two printers in my /etc/printcap and successfully print to both. When I start Xprt, I receive this warning... #

Re: command to add file contents to end of existing file

2006-01-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, January 4, 2006 10:40, fbsd_user wrote: > I know I have done this in the past, but having brain fart today. > > What is command or command sequence to copy the contents of file B > to the end of the contents of file A? > how about: % cat B >> A -- Regards, Doug ___

Re: log file conversion (OT?)

2006-01-03 Thread Doug Poland
On 11/9/05, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-11-09 13:44, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > >Yes. Perl should work fine here. > > > > > >$ echo '1131556815.537101 172.16.2.153 TCP_HIT/200 35674 GET

Re: rc question: one-time script

2005-12-15 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, December 15, 2005 07:53, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Hello list, > > Is there any way of runnning a script, only once? > at boot time for example? and all that in an rc friendly > way, without having to change the /etc/rc* scripts? > man 5 crontab | grep -C5 reboot -- Regards, Doug

Re: Completely disable sendmail

2005-12-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:59:41AM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > before someone begins to flame me, I'll tell you that I'm running > 6.0-STABLE and that my rc.conf contains: > no flames, relax :) > sendmail_enable="NO" > sendmail_submit_enable="NO" > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" > sendmail_ms

Re: Dual Display

2005-12-02 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:51:08PM -0500, Darren Terry wrote: > I was wondering if any of you had a dual-head setup and if so what > video card were you using? > yup, nVidia GeForce's: MX-440, TI-4200, FX-5700 -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: dhclient.conf is being ignored

2005-12-01 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, December 1, 2005 11:00, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-12-01 10:48, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm running 6.0-STABLE and having an issue with dhclient "ignoring" >> dhclient.conf(5). >> >> On thi

dhclient.conf is being ignored

2005-12-01 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running 6.0-STABLE and having an issue with dhclient "ignoring" dhclient.conf(5). On this dual-homed host, I've created dhclient.conf in it's proper location with the option modifiers I want. However, everytime dhclient negotiates a new lease, I get my ISP's values in resolv.conf(5) a

Re: Creating bootable DOS floppy w/FreeBSD

2005-11-16 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:07:33PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:32:13PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm stuck... I need a bootable DOS floppy (for BIOS upgrade) to fix a > > broken Windows box. > > > >

Creating bootable DOS floppy w/FreeBSD

2005-11-16 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm stuck... I need a bootable DOS floppy (for BIOS upgrade) to fix a broken Windows box. I have no problem formatting and putting an msdosfs on a floppy but it appears I cannot make it bootable with native tools. I tried emulators/mtools mformat, but it doesn't create bootable media. I

Re: FreeBSD reliable on Asus P4C800-E Deluxe?

2005-11-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 09:32:29PM -0500, Danny wrote: > Anyone have FreeBSD running on an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe without any > issues? > With 6.0-RELEASE, I can now use all hardware on the board, including both the SATA RAID controllers. ACPI works fine. ad4: 76319MB at ata2-master SATA150 ad6:

Re: FreeBSD reliable on Asus P4C800-E Deluxe?

2005-11-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:58:12AM -0500, Danny wrote: > On 11/14/05, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 09:32:29PM -0500, Danny wrote: > > > Anyone have FreeBSD running on an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe without any > > > issues? > >

Re: cvsup the wrong version???

2005-11-12 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:36:31AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: > Hello list, > > Two days ago, I cvsupped the RELENG_5_4 tag, and rebuilt the system > using make buildworld, make buildkernel KERNCONF=mykernel, make > installworld, make installkernel KERNCONF=mykernel. Before I > started, I was at

Re: RELENG_6 cvsup returns 6.0-RC1

2005-11-11 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:30:32AM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 06:07:13PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:54:11PM -0800, Frank Jahnke wrote: > > > > I just ran a cvsup with a tag of RELENG_6 and rebuilt world/kernel. > > > > After installing kern

RELENG_6 cvsup returns 6.0-RC1

2005-11-11 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I just ran a cvsup with a tag of RELENG_6 and rebuilt world/kernel. After installing kernel/world and subsequent reboot, I expected to see a kernel labeled: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE but am instead seeing: FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 I double-checked my supfile and my tag is indeed RELENG

Re: Buildworld fails for 6.0-RC1

2005-11-02 Thread Doug Poland
On 11/2/05, Reko Turja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Eric F Crist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Eric Schuele" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Buildworld fails for 6.0-RC1

2005-11-02 Thread Doug Poland
On 11/2/05, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/2/05, Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 05:28 AM 11/2/2005, Doug Poland wrote: > > >On 11/2/05, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 11/2/05, Eric F Crist <[EMA

Re: Buildworld fails for 6.0-RC1

2005-11-02 Thread Doug Poland
On 11/2/05, Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 05:28 AM 11/2/2005, Doug Poland wrote: > >On 11/2/05, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/2/05, Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Something you could try in this in

Re: Buildworld fails for 6.0-RC1

2005-11-02 Thread Doug Poland
On 11/2/05, Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:24 AM 11/2/2005, Doug Poland wrote: > >On 11/2/05, Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Something you could try in this instance is deleting everything > > > under /usr/src: > > >

Re: Buildworld fails for 6.0-RC1

2005-11-02 Thread Doug Poland
On 11/2/05, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/2/05, Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Something you could try in this instance is deleting everything > > under /usr/src: > > > > #cd /usr/src && rm -rf ./ > > > >

Re: Buildworld fails for 6.0-RC1

2005-11-02 Thread Doug Poland
On 11/1/05, Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 1, 2005, at 9:50 PM, Doug Poland wrote: > > > Just cvsup'd from a different server ( cvsup8.freebsd.org ), this time > > I saw some updates go by. Now my error is occurring here... > > > Isn&#x

Re: Buildworld fails for 6.0-RC1

2005-11-02 Thread Doug Poland
On 11/2/05, Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something you could try in this instance is deleting everything > under /usr/src: > > #cd /usr/src && rm -rf ./ > > Then re-sup your source tree. > giving that a try now, thanks... -- Regards, Doug __

Re: Buildworld fails for 6.0-RC1

2005-11-01 Thread Doug Poland
On 11/1/05, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to run buildworld on a 5.4-STABLE machine. I've cvsup'd > the source with a tag RELENG_6 > > This is where the error occurs... > > ===> share/termcap (all) > gzip -cn /usr/src/sh

Buildworld fails for 6.0-RC1

2005-11-01 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to run buildworld on a 5.4-STABLE machine. I've cvsup'd the source with a tag RELENG_6 This is where the error occurs... ===> share/termcap (all) gzip -cn /usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.5 > termcap.5.gz TERM=dumb TERMCAP=dumb: ex - /usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.src < /usr/src

Removing kernel options and devices in today's world

2005-10-28 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've been using FreeBSD since 2.1.5 and have dutifully tweaked my kernels to include devices I need, and remove unwanted things. This made a big difference on 486's with 16MB of memory. Over the years I've developed a procedure for keeping track of changes in GENERIC and reducing the am

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

2005-10-20 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:01:42AM -0400, user wrote: > > Finally, are there any snapshot diag tools at all ? Like, something that > reports snapshot sizes, percent of disk used for snapshots, and maybe even > a way for me to actually calculate what the percent change for time period > X is for a

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:15:26AM +0200, martin hudec wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:44:46PM -0500 or thereabouts, Doug Poland wrote: > > I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and > > don't have convenient access t

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:48:34PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Glenn Dawson wrote: > >At 03:57 PM 10/19/2005, Kurt Buff wrote: > [ ... ] > >>>You want to get the same speed, FSB, and family number of Xeon, and > >>>it is preferable to get the same stepping number if possible. > > > >It's better to

Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question is, can I simply match another Xeon of the same speed and expect it to work? If

Re: How can I cut and paste from xterm _into_ another program ? (NOTE - I am not an IDIOT)

2005-10-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:20:20AM -0500, Will Maier wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 03:11:29PM +0100, Spec wrote: > > couldn't see if you got an answer to this but I just found out > > that you can do it (in fedora/xfce anyway). > > This is a feature of the graphical environment (X windows), not

Re: Setting mount_nfs options in /etc/fstab

2005-10-06 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:45:32PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote: > I am reading large log files via NFS, and I find that if I mount them > with mount_nfs -a 4 then performance is improved. > > My question is: is there any way to set the option '-a 4' in > /etc/fstab? Or am I forced to mount the file

Re: OT: New design

2005-10-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, October 5, 2005 22:43, Kirk Strauser said: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 05:43 pm, Chris wrote: >> I see the site is sporting a new design. I like it. > > I like the idea, but the rendering is lacking in some browsers. This > screenshot comes from Konqueror 3.4.2 on a FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 >

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