df size mismatch

2005-07-20 Thread a . shterenlikht
why does df show that used+available < size? in my case there is 20M missing for smaller partitions and 6GB missing for the larger one. How much can I really use? anton pw29# df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 247 1299857%/ devfs

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: ... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how to diddle the bootloader to accept this

Re: Obtaining portsmanager meta package for alternate OS

2005-07-15 Thread Jacob A. Siehler
Try running configure then make just like any other linux program and see if it compiles, if it doesn't let me know what the error is. I understand Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, does it have FreeBSD's port infrastructure? My Mac (OSX 10.2) doesn't have anything remotely re

Question

2005-07-02 Thread Rich A.
Hi I wasn't sure where to post a question at on your site, so hopefully you can point me in the right dirrection. I am running a website on a designated server. My question involves making a backup server that can run if my designated server goes down. Is there any programs out there tha

Yamaha DS-1E sound card problem

2005-07-01 Thread Sergio A. Reyes-Peniche
Hi, I'm installing FreeBSD for the first time (version 5.4), although I've been a Linux user for some years. The machine is an old laptop, Toshiba Satellite 2805. I followed the instructions in section 7.2.1 of the handbook, and found out the needed kernel module is snd_ds1, and modi

Re: Possibly silly question. . .

2005-06-28 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 6/28/2005 03:49, Bryan Maynard seems to have typed: > I know Kopete is availible - I've used it in a previous install. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/kopete/Attic/pkg-descr Try installing the kdenetwork3 port. ___ freebsd-q

Anonymous WU-FTPD

2005-06-26 Thread Douglas A. Maske
I have wu-ftpd setup for anonymous access and my only problem is that I can't list the files in any directory, but when I cd I can cd to all directories and if I figure out the file names I can download them. Any ideas? FreeBSD 5.3 and latest wu-ftpd. Thanks, Doug ___

Re: ruby18 build err

2005-06-24 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko
Got the same problem as this (from archives): > Mon Apr 11, Gary Kline kline at tao.thought.org wrote: > > I need some insight here. The following "[BUG]" with ./lib/mkmf.rb is > causing the latest ruby18 to not build; I think this causes the > latest gnome_update script to fault. Does anybody

broken threads in qt33

2005-06-19 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko
ting ok, but fail on run for different reason: a) most of 'em (e.g. KDE games, kmail) abort w/ message: "Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.' at line 988 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_mutex.c (errno = 0) Abort trap (core dumped)" b)`gwenview` p

qt33 threading issue after 5.3->5.4

2005-06-16 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko
Having qt33 installed from recent ports working failless I've got upgraded 5.3 base to 5.4. After that all threaded qt applications (`kmail`, `uic`, `gwenview`, etc.) fail to start saying: Mutex init failed Plz, give any ideas about fixing it - 'cause I'm totally confused about the reason of

Re: php4-xml port

2005-06-10 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 6/10/2005 09:34, james g. seems to have typed: > cc: /usr/local/lib/.libs/libexpat.so: No such file or directory > *** Error code 1 [snip] > libexpat.so is in /usr/local/lib, but the .libs on that path looks > bizarre. Any thoughts? ln -s /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/.libs cd /usr/ports/l

Re: Migration Guide

2005-05-28 Thread Bruce A. Mah
ote: > >> >> Hi > >> >> Have I missed something -- I do not see any notes for source upgrade > >> >> from 5.3 to 5.4 in the Migration guide. There see notes on upgrade 4.x > >> >> to 5.x. > >> > > >> >The usual update

Re: moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:24 PM -0400 5/24/05, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to preserve modification times as well). I can move a

Re: query

2005-05-16 Thread PALMA A
thank you I amreally grateful to a whole community that takes up the question posed by a semi ignoramus like myself. On Mon, 16 May 2005, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2005 21:42:21, PALMA room #205 off#9196603065 mob#9195997065 > both have voicemail wrote: > > danke,

Re: Big delay on login: What's wrong?

2005-05-12 Thread Andrei A. Voropaev
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 07:41:28AM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:49:52AM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: > > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > I'm on a Pentium 120 with FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE, and zsh-4.2.5. > >

Re: is 4.11 still a good idea?

2005-05-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:02 PM +0800 5/9/05, Foo Ji-Haw wrote: Can I get some feedback on whether development and/ or support on 4.11 is still active and updated? I've spent quite some time on the 4.x series, so I am quite comfortable with it. Let me also mention that 5.3-release was a little rocky for some

Re: is 4.11 still a good idea?

2005-05-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:02 PM +0800 5/9/05, Foo Ji-Haw wrote: Hi guys, I'm thinking of installing 4.11 on my next server, seeing that we have some Java issues on the 5.x series (I've been informed that native Java on 5.x is not a good idea). Can I get some feedback on whether development and/ or support

OT how to register with google ?

2005-05-08 Thread S t i n g r a y
Well i have a opensource softwares website which i use to promote open software such as freebsd in my region, i have registered with google so many time sine soo long time , still my site dont come on google ? any ideas how to register with google ? site is http://www.openpakistan.org/ thanks

heavy load proxy+nat server with ipfw ?

2005-05-08 Thread S t i n g r a y
i want to replace my microsoft based firewall with a freebsd based firewall + proxy + NAt server based on ipfw , with internet users approx upto 800-1000 simaltanious . i already have the internet link + hardware to support it , do you guys think ipfw + squid with freebsd will be able to handle

Re: Sendmail masquerading breaks local mail delivery

2005-05-03 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hi Charles, On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:53:55PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > On May 3, 2005, at 10:36 PM, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > > This is in bert.coremedicalsolutions.com.submit.mc: > > I'm not convinced it's a good idea to do MASQUERADE'ing in the > subm

Sendmail masquerading breaks local mail delivery

2005-05-03 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, Because of a bizarre email topology that exists at an office I have a 5.3 machine installed at, I have recently configured sendmail to masquerade the hostname of outgoing mail to drop the machine name part. This is in bert.coremedicalsolutions.com.submit.mc: divert(-1) # Comments

Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)

2005-05-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:42 AM -0500 5/2/05, Eric Schuele wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: I believe that 'portupgrade -n' only works right for ports which you have already installed. Yes... That is the conclusion I have come to. I'm sure what I am trying to accomplish is just one savvy shell script aw

Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)

2005-05-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
t its giving me difficulties. I am using `portupgrade -nN -rR "x11-fm/rox-filer"` for example. I believe that 'portupgrade -n' only works right for ports which you have already installed. It keeps a database of already-installed ports, and that's what it is using to track 

Some MMC memory cards do not work while e.g. CFC are just fine

2005-04-23 Thread Jukka A. Ukkonen
Hi all, I have a USB attached multi slot memory card reader which I use with FreeBSD-4.11. It has worked just fine with CFC cards for ages. A while ago I managed to get it work briefly with the MMC card used in Nokia 9300 mobile phones. Later when

5.4: vinum not starting at boot & gvinum lacking functionality

2005-04-17 Thread Jukka A. Ukkonen
managing spindle configurations. Even gvinum man pages and other gvinum documents are still missing. It is making plain and relatively straight forward OS version upgrades awfully hard, if people have to start rebuilding their whole volume management environments as a

Re: Using PPPoE

2005-04-14 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:40:18AM -0300, Alexandre Vasconcelos wrote: > It's working now! Commenting 'set ifaddr' line and seting > ifconfig_ppp0="DHCP", This surprises me, since you shouldn't have a ppp0 interface, and PPPoE doesn't use DHCP to sup

Re: Using PPPoE

2005-04-13 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
nt to the Handbook which the OP has already read. (In fact, some of the text looks even less than marginally different to the Handbook---for example, start reading at, "Sometimes it will be necessary to use a...".) Is that you, Joe? -- Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http:

Re: Using PPPoE

2005-04-13 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
d > set dial > set login > add default HISADDR Presumably this is a cut-and-paste artefact, but the space in column one of non-label lines is significant. I assume it's correct in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, since you seem to be getting somewhere according to ppp.log. Also, some ISPs need a &#

Affiliate/ Reseller

2005-04-13 Thread bite-a-byte.COM
Dear Sir, Kindly advice me how to get affiliate/ reseller account to FreeBSD.org and OR its partners. my web site: http://bite-a-byte.com Regards, Mustaffa Ali -- Your Buddy ... http://bite-a-byte.com/mje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

5.4 & vinum

2005-04-10 Thread Jukka A. Ukkonen
gvinum which has been reported as a supported replacement for the old vinum does not work either. The latter seems to even be missing support for many of the commands mentioned in "man vinum". E.g. dumpconfig, info, and resetconfig do not work. To mak

Keeping installed packages up to date

2005-04-04 Thread Kenneth A. Bond
Hello, I am a relatively new BSD user, making the move from various Linux distros such as Debian GNU Linux. I have been running Linux servers for quite some time in a production environment, but based on recent events in the Linux world, have made the decision to move to FreeBSD. I have made the

Re: how to restrict lpd

2005-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:37 PM -0700 4/3/05, Bill Ding wrote: Hello, I am setting up some jails and have limited all the host daemons to the host's IP except for lpd. I can't find a way of doing that. Can it be done? I know it can in LPRng, but I prefer to install as little software as possible on server

Re: Samba problems

2005-03-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:29 PM -0300 3/26/05, Alejandro Pulver wrote: Hello, I am using FreeBSD 5.3 with Samba 3.0.7,1. I can read all files from a Windows 2000 Pro. But when I try to access a mount point that is an NTFS filesystem, I have no read permission (files and directories appear as zero length files) until

Problem using "MAKE"

2005-03-29 Thread Michael A. Alestock
I'm trying to update my source tree. When I 'CD' to /usr/src and execute the command, "make update" I get this error make: don't know how to make update. Stop Am I missing something? Did I forget to install a port to aid in the MAKE process??

Re: hyper threading.

2005-03-26 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:54:06PM -0800, John Pettitt wrote: > > Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > > >I note a slight difference in the 10 minute load average in favour > >of the uniprocessor run (0.00 vs 0.10 in the hyperthreading run), > >though I doubt this a

Re: hyper threading.

2005-03-26 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:45:21PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Where can I see the measurements? Here are some measurements. A few weeks ago I ran Unixbench 4.1.0 (/usr/ports/benchmarks/unixbench) on a P4 2.8GHz with and without hyperthreading enabled. I note a slight difference in

healthd does not show the correct temperature

2005-03-25 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
start-up of the computer: host.name 62.0 15.0 69.0 3096 1.46 1.50 3.31 5.03 11.86 -11.62 -4.80 Then after a few minutes of ideling, BIOS would show the temperature of the processor at around 30 or 35. healthdc shows this: host.name 72.0 38.0 70.5 3096 1.46 1.50 3.31 5.03

Re: cvs question?

2005-03-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:00 PM + 3/24/05, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: Hi people I am learning in the use of cvs for sync my src and ports i use this command line and works perfectly #cvs -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs co src but this line update my source tree with the current version 6.0. But i don't want this ve

Re: First Time Experience-FreeBSD/i368 login:

2005-03-22 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:02:03PM +1100, Johaness Terra wrote: > The server, I understand is a proxy mail server running on > FreeBSD/i386. I am new and the management wants me to add a new > email account user on the server. I am really having a hard time and > would very much ap

Re: Doug Richardson is (probably) back online

2005-03-22 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:45:10 -0700, Ben Goren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005 Mar 21, at 4:47 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > In reading any document, one should never undoubtedly believe > > everything it says. :-) > > I don't believe you. I

Re: linksys WPC54G (ver.2)

2005-03-22 Thread Knut . A . Nordbo
I tried both of them, I manage to get it work with ndiswrapper on linux but i cant get it to work on freebsd :( why are you showing me the information of ndiswrapper for linux?, can you use the linux version on freebsd? (I dont think you can?) I have the linksys WPC54G PCMCIA card Thank you for tr

linksys WPC54G (ver.2)

2005-03-20 Thread Knut . A . Nordbo
Hello did anyone here manage to get linksys WPC54G working on freebsd? I tried with ndis but i cant manage to get the card activated, maybe I have the wrong drivers? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Ethernet issue: works one way but not another

2005-03-18 Thread John A.
dr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: at device 7.3 (no driver attached) ahc0: port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0xd700-0xd7000fff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0 ahc0: [GIANT-LOCKED] aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xe

Re: Ethernet issue: works one way but not another

2005-03-17 Thread John A.
No problem with the english, if you didn't mention it, I wouldn't have known. I can ping FBSD from M$, can't ping anything from FBSD. M$ box works when plugged into hub and directly into radio. All systems are on same subnet. FBSD box worked when plugged into a 100mb hub, but do

Re: Ethernet issue: works one way but not another

2005-03-17 Thread John A.
The system uses a standard installation. I have only configured the ethernet card with the proper ip address for the wireless side of the network. The windoze box is running M$ firewall, but it works fine and allows me to ping my gateway and the FBSD box. What concerns me at this point is the

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:06 AM -0500 3/13/05, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: hello i find that loader prompt very frustrating: 1. it is *VERY* unprofessional For what it's worth, the default for displaying that image has changed for freebsd 6.x. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems

Re: IP aliases and forcing outbound IP

2005-03-09 Thread Mark A. Garcia
patrick wrote: I have a FreeBSD 4.11 box whose ethernet card has several IP address. inet 10.0.1.254 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255 inet 10.0.1.111 netmask 0x broadcast 10.0.1.111 Is there a way I can cause outbound connections to certain hosts to be from

Re: Found This In /usr - @LongLink

2005-03-04 Thread James A. Coulter
Eric F Crist wrote: James, I'm not trying to be rude, but a 30 second search through Google results for @LongLink turned up the following entry (on the first results page): Eric, You are correct and I did exactly that 30 seconds after hitting on the send button on that e-mail. Sorry -

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Garance A Drosehn
mediately write everything physically to disk creates a risk of data loss). But you can force it if you wish. Softupdates is generally turned off for '/', because '/' is expected to be a relatively small partition. Earlier versions of softupdates would behave badly if a partition was lo

Found This In /usr - @LongLink

2005-03-03 Thread James A. Coulter
I found this in /usr on two FBSD 4.11 boxen: -- 1 root wheel 105 Dec 31 1969 @LongLink One box is my firewall/router/gateway attached to a cable modem and the other is behind the firewall. The 1969 timestamp and lack of file attributes is making the small hair on the back

RE: Printing to a Windows

2005-03-01 Thread Hauan David A
> -Original Message- > From: Pietro Cerutti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yes, I think the problem is in CUPS. > The Unix Printing System service on w2k3 is enabled, and the > /etc/printcap is ok (i followed the instructions on the books). > > I created

RE: Printing to a Windows

2005-03-01 Thread Hauan David A
> -Original Message- > From: Pietro Cerutti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:29 PM > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Printing to a Windows > > > Hi folks, > I would like to print from my FreeBSD box to a Windows > printer on a Win200

RE: tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread Hauan David A
> -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:20 AM > To: Ben Munat > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: tab completion > > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:28:02AM -0800, Ben Munat wrote: > > None of those commands work

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

2005-02-28 Thread Hauan David A
utorials. All I want to > know is, why can I not properly cut and paste from > xterm TO opera, when I can already do it successfully > gtom opera TO xterm ? > > Thanks. Hopefully anyone responding will actually > read the post this time. Your question was answered. Do you have a

Re: how long does it takes you to do a make buildworld

2005-02-28 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 08:05:17PM +, Wouter van Rooij wrote: > I'm very curious about how long it took you guys to do a make buildworld. > So I thought let's start a topic about it.;-) Between 22 to 26 hours. Pentium classic, 166MHz, 32 MB RAM. When I bumped up the RAM to

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
The referenced drive is one of two identical SATA drives on the server; it holds /tmp and /var. I don't recall seeing these messages before. Is there a way to work backwards from the LBA to the filesystem so that I can see which file was being referenced when this occurred? First question:

RE: PPP Connection.

2005-02-25 Thread Hauan David A
get my dial-up going. > In the handbook under 21.2.1.2 when I try to do a > 'cd /dev' > 'sh MAKEDEV tun0' > I get "can't open makedev: No such file or directory" The 5.x series uses a devfs filesystem which creates devices on the fly. You don'

RE: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive

2005-02-24 Thread Hauan David A
Original Message- From: ygb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive I have notebook IP-120MHz, without FDD He is not boot from CD. It is very old. How can i install FreeB

RE: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-22 Thread Hauan David A
-Original Message- > From: Aftab Jahan Subedar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: SCO file system mounting > > > Hello to all. > > Would 'mount' mount the SCO file system ? Does any body know > ? I presume the SCO

Fwd: Fwd: RE: Domain registration

2005-02-21 Thread Andrew A. Babichev
This is a forwarded message From: Andrew A. Babichev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 11:18:26 AM Subject: : RE: Domain registration ===8<==Original message text=== This is a forwarded message From: Robert Kim, Wireless

RE: Mic boost in FreeBSD 5.3

2005-02-17 Thread Hauan David A
> -Original Message- > From: Timo Nisula [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:14 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Mic boost in FreeBSD 5.3 > > > How can I boost my mic? When I use my mic with skype my frend > complaits > my voice is so quie

Re: Setting up own domain and mailserver

2005-02-15 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:56:01PM -0800, Luke wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, RL wrote: > > >1. I have adelphia cable internet. I would like to get a dyndns or > >no-ip.com account to have a static IP for my new godaddy domain. > >Simple enough. However, I would like

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 2:06 AM -0800 2/12/05, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: For the last time, it is not the contest that I and others are objecting to. I am glad to hear that this message was the last time you mention it. Thanks. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer

Re: Setting up own domain and mailserver

2005-02-12 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 07:52:08PM -0500, RL wrote: > 1. I have adelphia cable internet. I would like to get a dyndns or > no-ip.com account to have a static IP for my new godaddy domain. I assume both of those services are dynamic DNS providers, and I'll assume your cable provider

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:56 PM -0800 2/11/05, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 02:44 pm, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joshua Tinnin writes: > > Hmmm, let's see, Anthony Atielski, 30 posts on this subject > > alone, on a tech help list. Makes you wonder what

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
to work on it, most commiters/developers do it as a hobby. ...but there is a mighty long list who would love to get paid to work on FreeBSD! :-) Many of us are paid to work on some Linux machines, and I think it would be much much nicer if we could convince our employer to go with FreeBSD instead

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:09 PM -0800 2/10/05, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > While you seem determined to pretend that Robert Watson is > somehow the sole person interested in this, let me note I am > one of the FreeBSD committers who would like to see some new > ideas for a logo. Good. At least you hav

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:00 AM -0500 2/11/05, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Just to sum up things as I understand it... People want to change the logo from Beastie to something else because Beastie isn't professional enough, so some committers decided to hold a contest for a new logo? We thought it would be nice,

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
THEY WOULDN'T GIVE ME AN HONEST ANSWER! THEY MUST BE HIDING SOMETHING!". 1. Why was this so hush-hush (ie, Why was it "leakable" (ie, why the secrecy, if FreeBSD is supposed to be a project where everyone can take part in?))) As noted in other messages, this isn't

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:13 PM -0500 2/10/05, Mike Hauber wrote: And quite frankly, it doesn't take weeks to figure out how to use correct grammar in an announcement or a responce (and even if the grammar is left _so_ wanting, take a look at the archives for this list. It can't be all _that_ bad, can it

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Mark A. Garcia
thumpers"? Only my personal experience. In addition to not being comfortable with the BSD logo, a couple of the programmers here didn't like my Ouija-board mouse pad, because they associated it with the occult, and thus The Devil. I'd like to hear a story of a system administr

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 5:27 PM -0500 2/10/05, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 02/10/05 03:31 PM, Jacob S sat at the `puter and typed: And a very poor example, IMHO. Can you give any proof that it's a valid example to say that Christians object to the use of the acronym "daemon" in Unix-like operating syst

Re: DNS virgin

2005-02-10 Thread Mark A. Garcia
kilim wrote: Now that I've registered a certain domain through godaddy.com I wish to set up my own DNS server. In the Godaddy's web interface there is a way to set two new DNS server. Can I just put one of the server to be my DNS primary leaving out the secondary ? Or can I l

Re: changing logo

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 3:36 PM -0600 2/10/05, Tom Mecke wrote: Many people may think twice about donating money to the project if you are worrying about trivial complaints about a cute little "daemon" logo instead of directing energy all to the project! Oooo. I work on FreeBSD for free. I get zero mon

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:37 PM +0100 2/10/05, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Julio Capote writes: > Untrue, I know a NUMBER of emerging graphic artists, who would > kill for this kind of exposure, and are much better than any > commercialized firm I've seen. If they are so good, why would they kill fo

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
developers who actually work on freebsd had a very energetic debate on the topic. Core stepped in before we started throwing pies at each other, and came up with this idea: *Keep* Beastie as the official mascot, but then have a > PUBLIC CONTEST < o

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
other core members are arguing with him over this) not IMMEDIATELY becoming completely forthright with the FreeBSD community as soon as the leak occurred. Geez. Get real. One committer had *just* put up the site, and then other committers were given a chance to look it over and see if it all made sense

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
one-and-only-one valid logo for FreeBSD, and that is because FreeBSD is so very open-minded? Note that the contest is just to see what logos people can come up with. It's not like we are demanding that the logo must have angels in it, or a picture of some other religious figure. Nothing more

Re: Firewall throughput question

2005-02-09 Thread Mark A. Garcia
Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I have had a Freebsd firewall (Older computer with (1) 3com 10Mb ethernet PCI card, and (1) 3 com 10/100 Mb ethernet PCI card). The firewall croaked on me (motherboard died). As a quick fix, I plugged in a Linksys BEFSX41. My Question is, should I build a new

Re: vinum in 4.x poor performer?

2005-02-09 Thread Mark A. Garcia
Olivier Nicole wrote: All servers run RAID5 .. only one other is using vinum, the other 3 are using hardware RAID controllers ... Come on, of course a software solution will be slower than an hardware solution. What would you expect? :)) (Given it is same disk type/speed/controler

Re: vinum in 4.x poor performer?

2005-02-09 Thread Mark A. Garcia
vm plex org raid5 512k sd length 0 drive d0 sd length 0 drive d1 sd length 0 drive d2 sd length 0 drive d3 It's worth pointing out that your performance on the raid-5 can change for the better if you avoid having the stripe size be a power of 2. This is especially true if the (n)umb

Re: Newbie Security Concerns

2005-02-08 Thread Mark A. Garcia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am a new user of UNIX and FreeBSD and have never had to do any administration or security configuration myself before. I am running IP Firewall on FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE. Last night I was checking my logs and discovered that sshd reported many illegal users

Re: httpd in /tmp - Sound advice sought

2005-02-08 Thread Mark A. Garcia
Bret Walker wrote: Last night, I ran chkrootkit and it gave me a warning about being infected with Slapper. Slapper exploits vulnerabilities in OpenSSL up to version 0.96d or older on Linux systems. I have only run 0.97d. The file that set chkrootkit off was httpd which was located in /tmp

Re: dell poweredge servers

2005-02-07 Thread Mark A. Garcia
David Bear wrote: I was looking at the support hardware list for Fbsd 5.x and could find no mention of the PERC3-DI scsi controller.. so I was wondering if anyone has used a dell poweredge 2650, and what your experience was running Freebsd 4.X and 5.x on it. I've been running FBSD 4.7 sinc

Onboard GigE on ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe

2005-02-05 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, My ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe has an onboard GigE NIC: Marvell 88E8053 PCI Express Gigabit LAN controller I have installed 5.3-RELEASE from an installation CD, and the supplied GENERIC kernel does not seem to detect it. Shouldn't the sk driver handle this NIC? Does anyone else have this motherbo

Silicon Image SiI 3114 SATA RAID on ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe

2005-02-05 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
200G Seagate drives, and I used the in-ROM Silicon Image setup utility to create a RAID 1 array with them. When I boot using a 5.3 installation CD, it sees the SiI 3114 controller, but then presents me with ad4 and ad6 as separate drives. It seems my problem is much like the one described here:

Re: camcontrol cdb to disconnect drive

2005-02-04 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
> $ camcontrol |& grep stop > camcontrol stop [dev_id] [generic args] > > Works for me. There's also a 'start' command. I'm blind as a bat (no offense to any bats out there). I have no idea how I missed that. Thanks! _

camcontrol cdb to disconnect drive

2005-02-04 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
Hey, all. I want to replace a 9 GB SCSI drive with an 18 GB SCSI drive. All the hardware supports hot-swapping. Just for kicks, I thought I'd try to turn the drive off via SCSI commands and replace it without rebooting. The camcontrol utility doesn't have a disconnect command or a

Re: Freebsd firewall

2005-02-03 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:22:09AM -0500, Aperez wrote: > Yes, I am sorry I made a mistake. I meant 64 MB > > Any idea what is the problem? It's possible that it's faulty hardware. A system that old could very well have its share of problems. You may try replacing the

Re: gtar failing, please help!

2005-02-03 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:22:21PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > since you are using a tape, have you checked with > dmesg (for kernel message about the tape) > mt errstat (cryptic output, but maybe someone here could help) I get this in my dmesg output: (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): AutoSense Fa

Re: gtar failing, please help!

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:03:45PM -0500, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: > I have some backup scripts that manipulate a tape library and tape > drive to perform my nightly backups. Ever since the switch from > gtar to bsdtar in the base system, gtar fails to write any data > to my tape and

gtar failing, please help!

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
I have some backup scripts that manipulate a tape library and tape drive to perform my nightly backups. Ever since the switch from gtar to bsdtar in the base system, gtar fails to write any data to my tape and usually puts my SCSI bus in an unusable state. I must then issue a camcontrol reset

Re: let me just throw this out there..

2005-01-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:02 PM -0800 1/24/05, gabriel wrote: Has it ever happened to anyone here where your computer (in this case, my gateway running ipfw+natd) just restarts out of nowhere. It isn't even a crash, it just restarted. Yes. Turned out to be an overheating problem. (one of the CPU fans was starti

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-24 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hi, Firstly, thanks for the comprehensive reply. On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:06:32AM +0100, J65nko BSD wrote: > It could be that the MS Windows DNS server, which is derived > from/patterned after named or however you want to call it, suffers > from a similar defect. Being not familiar

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-24 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:03:05PM -0500, Niy wrote: > Just a quick thought, I had a similar problem on my LAN. I set up > /etc/hosts files, and that did the trick for me. This was one of the first things I tried. It didn't work in the particular situation I described. -- Pau

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2005-01-24 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
[I didn't realise Joe's question was Cc'd to the list. I replied privately days ago.] On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:28:43PM +, Joe Kraft wrote: > have you found out any more about why it's not working? I'm also > curious about the entry in mailertable because my feeble attempt > didn't work.

FreeBSD 5.3: Kerberos and SSH

2005-01-23 Thread Mark A Gebert
I have the SSHD PAM setup to use Kerberos the way I do under FreeBSD 4.x. When I SSH into the box I authenticate fine the KDC issues a ticket for me but the credentials cache does not get created. Clues? --geeb /etc/pam.d/sshd # # $FreeBSD: src/etc/pam.d/sshd,v 1.15 2003/04/30 21:57:54 markm

RE: Re[4]: Connection via proxy

2005-01-19 Thread Hauan David A
gt; the nameservers I got from windows XP but got the same > results after trying to run mozilla .. that the proxy > server could not be found. > if you updated /etc/resolve.conf it won't work! drop the 'e' off resolve dave > --- Hexren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

RE: Enabling Dell Inspiron 1150 touch pad?

2005-01-19 Thread Hauan David A
installed 5.3-RELEASE on an Inspiron 1150 (some of > you will have seen my questions about this machine a couple > of weeks ago). I can't get the touch pad to work. I've > tried installing a -CURRENT (as of yesterday) kernel, and > there's no improvement.

Re: IPFW - How to allow NAT client to CVSup

2005-01-17 Thread James A. Coulter
dvance... Srot BULL ___ I also had problems using a similar "stateful" ruleset with IPFW & NAT. As I understand it, a stateful ruleset will not allow passive ftp connections from machines behind the firewall (although I was able to establish

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