Toomas Aas wrote:
Roger Merritt wrote:
I guess I'm just looking for recommendations -- should I install 5.3
now or stick with 4.10?
I'd say go with 5.3. Contrary of what you think, it's now STABLE.
Ditto
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Hi everyone,
Is there a Firefox version for Freebsd or must we use the one for Linux?
thanks,
Dimitris
Yes, its in the ports system (/usr/ports) under www/firefox
If you want the java plug-in I suggest you install that first, its under
/java/jdk14 read my notes before you
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
I like a .30-06 for deer, antelope, etc, .762[mm] for terrorists, and a
.340 Weatherby magnum for big game (cape buffalo, elephant, etc,
where legal). The Weatherby is also great for moose and elk with a
Nosler 210 gg. partition bullet and a good high-velocity p
Bill Campbell wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Adam wrote:
In Greg Lehey's book "The Complete FreeBSD" he reccomends changing the default
shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94
What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells?
That's largely a religious issue. I used csh f
Rae Kim wrote:
Thank you all guys..
I've tried daemon, nohup and Nicolas' csh method
all works fine.
My way isn't a csh way it's just that I use csh as my default shell and
was just stating the fact that with csh background jobs do not die when
you exit, so the "nohup" is optional (but recomme
Rae Kim wrote:
I connect to my computer from school computer.
I want to cvsup or/and portupgrade and logout but the program keep running?
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Hello,
I have an old laptop (P100 / 40MB RAM / 40GB hdd) that I'm trying to
squeeze every last drop of performance out of and I like some advice on
things I can do. Currently It's running 4.10-STABLE with a kernel that
has been striped clean of all the useless crud, also I add in sound
support
Christian Hiris wrote:
AFAIK the define is named DSP_BUFFSIZE (in src/sys/dev/sound/pcm/sound.h.
DSP_BUFFSIZE can be used to define the default buffersize for sound drivers,
but most of the sound drivers use their own defines.
If you want to change the default buffersize for a sound driver you n
Sandy Rutherford wrote:
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:03:15 -0600,
"Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I wonder if it wouldn't be:
> set hw.snd.pcm0.bufffersize=N
This doesn't work either. No error --- it just ignores the setting.
> in accordance with other v
Ben Washington-Yule wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make world,
when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g. setting cvsup
to track RELENG_5_3?
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rain cip wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone know the status of java support in FreeBSD
5.x release? Their website says there is a binary
compatibility issue in 5.x but doesn't give further
detail on what the issue is. Has anyone had any
success using linux port of java in the 5.3 release?
Thanks.
rain
Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make world,
when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g. setting cvsup to
track RELENG_5_3?
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Sandy Rutherford wrote:
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:59:51 -0600,
Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> In FreeBSD 5.3 you can change the buffersize by adding
> hint.pcm.0.buffersize="foo" to /boot/loader.conf, have you try'ed this
> with 4.x?
Yes
Ben Washington-Yule wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Ben Washington-Yule wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make
world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g.
setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3
Excerpt from the handbook:
"To set the number of virtual channels, there are two sysctl knobs
which, if you are the root user, can be set like this:
# sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4
# sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=4
The above example allocates four virtual channels, which is a practical
number for ev
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Dec 13), Nikolas Britton said:
How does one go about generating heavy interrupt loads? Running bonnie
and nbench (at the same time) does not seem to be able to do it because
when I look a systat (iostat) it shows no interrupt load.
Try something
How does one go about generating heavy interrupt loads? Running bonnie
and nbench (at the same time) does not seem to be able to do it because
when I look a systat (iostat) it shows no interrupt load.
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In FreeBSD 5.3 you can change the buffersize by adding
hint.pcm.0.buffersize="foo" to /boot/loader.conf, have you try'ed this
with 4.x?
Sandy Rutherford wrote:
Is it possible to change the sysctl variable hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize
(DMA buffer size for the soundcard) in FreeBSD 4.10? I know that in
Jorge Mario G. wrote:
--- Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
After switching my main box from windows to freebsd
I have notice a shit
load of clicks and pops when playing my mp3s. I have
have a relatively
nice sound system setup on my computer (SoundBlaster
Live!, high end
After switching my main box from windows to freebsd I have notice a shit
load of clicks and pops when playing my mp3s. I have have a relatively
nice sound system setup on my computer (SoundBlaster Live!, high end
Yamaha 2.1 speaker system, and my mp3s encode at 150KB VBR) and this is
really ann
Andrew Lewis wrote:
Hi list,
We have a client running a fBSD 5.2.1 box that needed its root password
hacked.
I couldn't boot into single user mode w/o the root password, so I
installed fBSD 5.3 on another machine, and slaved the drive from the
5.2.1 box in mine.
What?
Step 1: Boot the computer.
Rob wrote:
Scott Long wrote:
Rob wrote:
Wilko Bulte wrote:
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:02:28PM +0900, Rob wrote..
Hi,
I thought 386 support had been removed since 5.X. But
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386.html
says:
1.2 Hardware Requirements
FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 48
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Damien Hull wrote:
I'm using 4.10. How much free space do I need to cvsup?
I had a lot of space until I installed KDE. /usr is down to 2.3G. If
this isn't enough space can I move everything to another drive with more
space in /usr?
If you have done a buildwo
Damien Hull wrote:
I'm using 4.10. How much free space do I need to cvsup?
I had a lot of space until I installed KDE. /usr is down to 2.3G. If
this isn't enough space can I move everything to another drive with more
space in /usr?
If you have done a buildworld in the past you can delete everyth
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:18:08 -0600, Nikolas Britton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gerard Seibert wrote:
I am going to do a fresh install of FreBSD 5.3 this weekend on my
computer. Immediately after the installation I want to do a
buildworld and install a
Gerard Seibert wrote:
I am going to do a fresh install of FreBSD 5.3 this weekend on my
computer. Immediately after the installation I want to do a buildworld
and install a custom kernel.
My question is what special arguments should I use in the 'make.conf'
file for this project. Is it really nece
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I too am trying to get a tv tunner working today, here's my notes so far
(might be some links in it to help you out):
Pinnacle Systems
EMPTYV
EMPTYV-51013825-1.5
Chips:
Conexant
Fusion 878A
25878-13
Philips
TDA9885TS
http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/TDA9885.html
Dan Nelson wrote:
One nice tool to install is ports/sysutils/smartmontools, which will
monitor the error counters kept by the drive and let you know if it's
going bad. Works on both SCSI and ATA disks.
Cool, what about drives that have a built-in temperature sensor... When
I had windows on thi
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Nov 23), Nikolas Britton said:
Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote:
This is what produced the output:
"camcontrol modepage da1 -m 1 -e -P 3"
I ended up using the utility on my SCSI controller to remap the bad
blocks. For the moment it is wo
Piotr Gnyp wrote:
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:06:44AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:
The first problem is your trying to run 5.3-STABLE. the -STABLE tag does
NOT mean the system will be stable it mean the code base is relatively
stable compared to -CURRENT. Until FreeBSD 5.x matures a bit more
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote:
This is what produced the output:
"camcontrol modepage da1 -m 1 -e -P 3"
I ended up using the utility on my SCSI controller to remap the bad
blocks. For the moment it is working fine.
I'd start looking for a replacement drive if I
Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote:
This is what produced the output:
"camcontrol modepage da1 -m 1 -e -P 3"
I ended up using the utility on my SCSI controller to remap the bad
blocks. For the moment it is working fine.
I'd start looking for a replacement drive if I where you.
_
Piotr Gnyp wrote:
Hi,
after upgrade from 5.2.1 o 5.3-STABLE my system started to reboot on regular
basis. The error message on screen (not always showing):
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
cpuid = 0; apic id=03
fault virtual address = 0x1c
fault code = supervisor write, page not prese
Chip wrote:
I used to have Firefox installed, then tried to run portupgrade, and
it failed. I then did a make deinstall and make reinstall now I get a
failed install. Also tried to install mozilla and netscape, both also
fail. Below is the last bit from the firefox install. BTW, I sent this
( a
Oliver Fuchs wrote:
Hi,
I am at the moment unsure about the localhost entries in my /etc/hosts. From
/usr/src/etc/hosts I have found this one:
# Host Database
#
# This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts that
# share this file. Replace 'my.domain' below with the domainn
scott renna wrote:
Hello list,
Had a concern regarding sshd on a freshly built and
cvsuped 5.3 box. Here's whats going on. Whenever I
try to ssh to the system from a Windows client, my
system accepts the FreeBSD SSH key, but then cannot
authenticate.
This is the message received from SecureCRT:
S
Ruben de Groot wrote:
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:49:15AM -0600, Nikolas Britton typed:
I've play a bit with screen but I don't think it will work for my
problem so let me restate it. Lets say I wanted to buildworld, build a
port, cvsup, portupgrade, etc. but forgot to do it before
James Hong wrote:
correct me if im wrong, but just because user is a part of WHELL group does
that mean he/she is a root ? or equivlent of root ?
I know lot of things like "su -" may require you to be wheel group but Im
not sure why a user has to be non wheel group in order to log in.
I think using
Martin Hepworth wrote:
Nikolas
Presumably you've also nohup -ed the background job too:-)
anyway have a look at 'screen' to give you virtual terminals that you
drop out of and back into when you want to.
--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
I
Lets say I put a job in the background and then exit the shell (csh) and
then open another shell, how do I get that background possess back into
the foreground in the new shell?
Also:
%ll
drwxr-xr-x 2 nbritton nbritton - 512 Nov 22 04:40 test/
-rw-r--r-- 1 nbritton nbritton - 0
Ben Haysom wrote:
I'm having major problems setting up my FreeBSD machine as a
router/gateway type thing. Where can I go for help?
http://www.m0n0.com/wall/
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James Pole wrote:
On 9/11/2004, at 3:13 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote:
Which one, MySQL or PostgreSQL, is most compatible, stable, etc.
with FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x
P.S. I'm NOT looking for opinions on which is better a product.
Both work perfectly fine with FreeBSD, although I find MySQL easi
Which one, MySQL or PostgreSQL, is most compatible, stable, etc. with
FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x
P.S. I'm NOT looking for opinions on which is better a product.
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Nikolas Britton wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Quinn Ellis wrote:
Why do you download with bittorrent as opposed to FTP?
Lets do the math...
you'll note that http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ at this moment
says there's been 1978 completed downloads.
Lets pick an arbitrary average siz
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Quinn Ellis wrote:
Why do you download with bittorrent as opposed to FTP?
Lets do the math...
you'll note that http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ at this moment says
there's been 1978 completed downloads.
Lets pick an arbitrary average size for each file downloa
Quinn Ellis wrote:
Why do you download with bittorrent as opposed to FTP?
Lets do the math...
you'll note that http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ at this moment says
there's been 1978 completed downloads.
Lets pick an arbitrary average size for each file downloaded: 388MB
388 * 1978 = 767.5GB
11/[
Louis LeBlanc wrote:
What's the mininst disk for?
(I'm guessing it means minimum install)
The mininst iso is a bit of a misnomer. It has everything in the base
install, full docs, full src, etc the only thing it doesn't have is
X11 and all the extra 3rd party packages that are on disk1 (KDE,
How do you operate a 7 button mouse when you only have 5 fingers?
;-P
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peter lageotakes wrote:
Just a guess here: It is probably best to wait for
FreeBSD.org to announce the release, for a couple of
reasons.
1) Allow the ISO to propgate to the various mirrors so
that the loads can be distributed evenly between all
servers.
Yes this is the main reason. but I was runn
Quit reading this list and go vote!
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Richard Cotrina wrote:
Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting to post it to the list.
A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused in data risk
security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less breached OS in a
sample of more that 200K computers permanently connected to the inter
For the sake of clarity and completeness here is a better step by step
guide for upgrading from src:
0: % su
1: # cvsup -g -L 2 foobar-supfile
2: # cd /usr/src
3: # make buildworld && make buildkernel && make installkernel
4: # reboot
5: Login as root (multi-user mode).
6: Breifly test your new K
Erik Norgaard wrote:
Hi,
I just upgraded to -CURRENT (yesterdays). Everything goes well, I reboot
into single user mode, mount all partitions and run 'make installworld'
To finish the upgrade I run "mergemaster" still in single user mode, but
this fails with the following output:
# /usr/sbin/mergem
Jon Adams wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Jon Adams wrote:
BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use
another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in
this hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current
setup as much as possible.
What about
Jon Adams wrote:
BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use
another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in
this hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current
setup as much as possible.
What about PostgreSQL? :-)
I had a hard enough time
Luke wrote:
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using
old computers I have some general tips for you:
1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a
CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc.
http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml
To go off on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
Here is a better idea!
Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB
IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram).
Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the
rder_by=price%5Fcurrent%5Fselling%5Fprice+asc
Shipping & Handling is $27.50 per unit though.
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Paul Hoffman wrote:
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet
Paul Hoffman wrote:
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on
the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows, and
http://buy.apc.com/commerce/storefronts/factoryoutlet/default.asp
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
I have a backups 280 and there is no serial port on it. Are you
sure your looking at the right thing? In any case a 280 is barely
enough to keep a PC powered much less a PC and monitor. I use mine
for my DS
Oliver Fuchs wrote:
Hi All,
I am using FreeBSD since 5.2 RELEASE and I am now running 5.2.1 RELEASE.
I upgraded between the two versions from scratch that means I backuped
the main configuration files and directories (like home), deleted the
old version, installed the new one and reconfigured the w
Björn Lindström wrote:
Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Yea kind, The sound card still has to convert the pcm data from the CD
into music and output it to the speakers though,
No, the CD-ROM does that and sends it to the sound card as a plain old
analog audio signal, so th
Björn Lindström wrote:
Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
now put a music cd into your cd player and type in (as root)
"cdcontrol play" if you hear something that sounds like music your
good to go
Actually, that's a pretty bad test, since that will use your
Thomas Moyer wrote:
I've read the handbook and searched through /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES
and found the list of snd_* drivers. I'm just not sure which one I
should use. I have an Asus P4P800E-Deluxe. The website says the
onboard audio is ALC850 CODEC which is AC' 97 compatible. Does anyone
kn
Pierre LeBlanc wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to the port collection and updating ports with CVSup but I managed to
update the ports of my FreeBSD 4.10 system using CVSup.
Now, I want to upgrade Perl to version 5.6 and I notice there is a perl5 port
in the list I`ve seen on:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/Fr
Mike Woods wrote:
Ajesh John wrote:
Hi,
How can I know if there is an in-built NIC in my mother-board?
And How can I know the RPM of my hard disk?, Is it possible to know both
these in FreeBSD?, I'm using FreeBSD5.1 - Release,
For the NIC, ifconfig will show all the network devices installed
Kaboofa wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to setup a headless FreeBSD machine (5.1 Release Cd
version), using a serial console, but instead of using a serial port,
is it possible to use a lan cable instead?
Or, is there anyway to set up a ssh server when the installer program
is booted?
Thank you,
Tom Norr
I'm getting an "Input/output" error message when trying to mount a ufs
floppy ("mount -o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt") in FreeBSD 5.2 (Stock).
Tried to duplicate this problem using a stock FreeBSD 4.9 with same
floppy/drive/system but it works perfect.
Both installs of FreeBSD are VMWare Guests (v4.0.5 bu
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