Re: 4x Kernel

2006-09-12 Thread Mark Cullen
NetBSD or OpenBSD a try perhaps? I had even 4.x panic'ing and locking up on my machine, where NetBSD 3 is totally stable. I *think* NetBSD 3 supports ICH7 at least. -- Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSc (Hons), Computer Science ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Booting more than 4 OSes from a hard disk?

2006-08-08 Thread Mark Cullen
*think* GAG can do this, though I have never actually personally tried it. If I ever use a boot loader though, GAG is my first choice. It's incredibly simple to install and configure. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ -- Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSc (Hons), Computer Science

Re: Temperature Monitor

2006-07-21 Thread Mark Cullen
with 'mbmon'. I think you can find it in ports, possibly under 'xmbmon' -- in which case I think you'll need to specify the option to build the console version, not the X version. -- Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: 4.11 Server Locks Up

2006-03-28 Thread Mark Cullen
Tom Grove wrote: Over the past few months I have noticed that our mail server is flat out locking up. I monitor it via Nagios and about once every two months I get emails saying it is down and when I go over to the console the server is totally unresponsive. I've gone through logs every time

vinum RAID 1, FreeBSD 4-STABLE two different size drives

2006-01-18 Thread Mark Cullen
Hello :-) I've come across a deal where by I can either buy two identical 20GB drives, or a 20GB drive and a 40GB drive for the same price as the two 20GB's. I was intending to use the drives for a RAID 1 array and have read that ideally the drives should be identical, but it is do-able with

Re: Help With 'for' Loop

2005-10-14 Thread Mark Cullen
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Sorry to be such a pest today. I'm working on a sh script that uses a for loop. To test, I've written the following: for i in `/usr/bin/find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.jpg -or -iname *.gif -print` do echo -e \n$i done The first line 'find' returns is

Re: Help With 'for' Loop

2005-10-14 Thread Mark Cullen
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Sorry to be such a pest today. I'm working on a sh script that uses a for loop. To test, I've written the following: for i in `/usr/bin/find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.jpg -or -iname *.gif -print` do echo -e \n$i done The first line 'find' returns is

Re: booting original kernel

2005-10-09 Thread Mark Cullen
Micah wrote: Siriphan Brigder wrote: This page from the handbook will hopefully help you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-troub le.html Good luck! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sudheer Gupta

Re: Converting from IPFW to IPFILTER

2005-10-07 Thread Mark Cullen
Charles Swiger wrote: On Oct 6, 2005, at 5:44 PM, Brian E. Conklin wrote: I am getting ready to switch a FreeBSD 4.11 machine from IPFW to IPFILTER for better FTP and NAT support. Hmm. Is there something natd doesn't handle for your case...? I currently have IPFW compiled into

Re: Complete hangs while extracting source

2005-10-01 Thread Mark Cullen
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jakob Breivik Grimstveit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My entire system stops completely while unpacking large tar files, like when building OpenOffice2.0-devel. Sound goes into a loop with a timeframe of 0.001 seconds, mouse pointer stops responding, everything goes to a

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Cullen
Mike Jeays wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a

dhclient + DHCPNAK = release ip?

2005-09-24 Thread Mark Cullen
Good morning :-) I've recently switched ISP and got a static IP. However, my ADSL modem is a bit dense it seems. With a dynamic IP things worked reasonably well. With my new static IP, however, whenever the connection drops - I don't have the worlds highest quality phone line or something -

dhclient + DHCPNAK = release ip?

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Cullen
Good morning :-) I've recently switched ISP and got a static IP. However, my ADSL modem is a bit dense it seems. With a dynamic IP things worked reasonably well. With my new static IP, however, whenever the connection drops - I don't have the worlds highest quality phone line or something -

tightvnc compile errors

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Cullen
Hi, I decided to install tightvnc and during the X stuff I got this error.. - [...snip...] rm -f xdpyinfo cc -o xdpyinfo -O -pipe -march=pentium -ansi -Dasm=__asm -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -L/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/exports/lib xdpyinfo.o -lXtst -lXi

Re: any way to tell memory config of a machine?

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Cullen
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 21, 2005, at 8:52 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if there was any way to tell the memory configuration of a server running FBSD 5 (while running). By this I mean: can I tell if 2GB

Re: dhclient oddness?

2005-04-08 Thread Mark Cullen
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right, I have this weird annoying issue with my modem which I have finally got around to looking in to. Basically, it's all good and works fine (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be here!), except when I reboot the internet computer the IP

Re: dhclient oddness?

2005-04-08 Thread Mark Cullen
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right, I have this weird annoying issue with my modem which I have finally got around to looking in to. Basically, it's all good and works fine (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't

dhclient oddness?

2005-04-05 Thread Mark Cullen
Right, I have this weird annoying issue with my modem which I have finally got around to looking in to. Basically, it's all good and works fine (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be here!), except when I reboot the internet computer the IP will change, the connection DOESN'T drop, but the IP

Re: Something wrong in stable 5.3?

2004-12-30 Thread Mark Cullen
Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: Hi! I'm confusing now: about a month ago I have upgrated from FreeBSD 5.2.1 to stable 5.3. Since this moment strange things have been happens on my PC. Usually system works Ok, and can be run as long as I need without errors. But sometime, (after a little time after the

Re: FreeBSD 4.8

2004-12-12 Thread Mark Cullen
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: Jerry Hoover wrote: I would like to learn FreeBSD 4.8 (I think I have a copy) What I need to know, what does it require? CPU? RAM? Hard Drive Space? A 486-grade CPU or later, 16MB of RAM, and 1 GB of disk space is something resembling

Increase 'routetbl' maximum size?

2004-12-11 Thread Mark Cullen
Nothing bad has happened.. yet. But the high memory usage column for routetbl on vmstat -m looks like it got close to limits. high limit routetbl 29192 3953K 8681K 10210K 160873650 0 16,32,64,128,256 Suppose it did reach the limit, what would happen? Would it

Re: Linux kernel on FreeBSD

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Cullen
Jeff Lawlor wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 09:07, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:49:50AM -0600, Jeff Lawlor typed: For programs that require linux kernel source code what about copying the linux kernel source files from a linux box on to the FreeBSD machine? Has anyone tried this?

Re: Linux kernel on FreeBSD

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Cullen
Jerry McAllister wrote: Jeff Lawlor wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 09:07, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:49:50AM -0600, Jeff Lawlor typed: For programs that require linux kernel source code what about copying the linux kernel source files from a linux box on to the FreeBSD

lcdproc port

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Cullen
Just to tell you I got the newest version of lcdproc to compile (0.4.5). I don't have an LCD ready yet, so I don't know if it works.. but it compiles now. Attached is a tar of the patches in the 'files' directory. It seems there was no need for patch-port anymore, so I removed that and fixed

Realtek 8100B

2004-11-03 Thread Mark Cullen
Just wondering if anyone knows if this has the same 'bad design' as the 8139 cards. I'm looking at an embedded board computer which can either have 3xRealtek 8100B's or 3xIntel 82559's. The Realtek version is £170 and the Intel version says to contact them for a price, I think it's going to be

Serial console weirdness

2004-10-26 Thread Mark Cullen
Ok, I am having a bit of trouble setting up a serial console login. The cable is attached to com1, heres my /etc/ttys # If console is marked insecure, then init will ask for the root password # when going to single-user mode. console noneunknown off secure # ttyv0

Re: Serial console weirdness

2004-10-26 Thread Mark Cullen
Artem Kazakov wrote: Mark Cullen wrote: Ok, I am having a bit of trouble setting up a serial console login. The cable is attached to com1, heres my /etc/ttys # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 dialup on secure Now, my

Re: Serial console weirdness

2004-10-26 Thread Mark Cullen
Mark Cullen wrote: Artem Kazakov wrote: Mark Cullen wrote: Ok, I am having a bit of trouble setting up a serial console login. The cable is attached to com1, heres my /etc/ttys # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 dialup

Re: First impressions of FreeBSD 5.3

2004-10-26 Thread Mark Cullen
Gordon Freeman wrote: Well, After upgrading a very vanilla 5.2.1 to 5.3 a lot of things are just broken. ipfstat doesn't run. The error: openkmem:open:no such file or directory My RAID card (Adaptec 2150 using asr driver) is inaccessible because the rasr control device no longer exists. Making

How is 4-STABLE doing these days?

2004-10-24 Thread Mark Cullen
Hi there, I was just wondering what the state of 4-STABLE is these days? I have just installed 4.10-R on a machine and was going to update it to STABLE. What sort of changes have there been in STABLE since 4.10-R was released? UPDATING just stops at 4.10 released. -- Internet Explorer? Try

Re: How is 4-STABLE doing these days?

2004-10-24 Thread Mark Cullen
Mike Hauber wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 12:04 pm, Mark Cullen proclaimed: Hi there, I was just wondering what the state of 4-STABLE is these days? I have just installed 4.10-R on a machine and was going to update it to STABLE. What sort of changes have there been in STABLE since 4.10-R

Re: WDMA mode won't enable? Old machine...

2004-10-20 Thread Mark Cullen
Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:18:18PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote: I have a rather old machine acting as a home server. According to dmesg it has a: -- atapci0: Intel PIIX WDMA2 controller port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0 -- However

WDMA mode won't enable? Old machine...

2004-10-19 Thread Mark Cullen
I have a rather old machine acting as a home server. According to dmesg it has a: -- atapci0: Intel PIIX WDMA2 controller port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0 -- However, both hard disks attached are running in PIO mode. -- ad0: 4103MB ST34321A