Re: kde & kdm & mouse

2005-05-14 Thread Doug White
ton cumpulsorily (and annoyingly). > > Why in your opinion is that crazy behavior and what should I do? Are the startx-launched and kdm-launched X daemons using the same config file? Check the top of /var/log/Xorg.*.log for sure. If you ran "X -configure" at some point i

Re: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive

2005-05-14 Thread Doug White
a miniinst.iso > file? That's a good question :-) I didn't realize we hadn't made one. -- Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Long-standing sound driver issues

2005-05-13 Thread Doug Lee
ed this before because I've always found ways around these issues and figured it was relatively rare to use FreeBSD for sound anyway, but it would really be nice to take advantage of some of the capabilities of these cards under FreeBSD. Thanks much for any help. Please Cc replies. --

Re: tcpwrappers problem

2005-04-25 Thread Doug White
P clients will just ignore your banner since it won't conform to the FTP protocol specification. If you want it to display when the user logs into your FTP server, put it in /etc/ftpmotd. If you want your telnet client to see it, put it in /etc/motd. -- Doug White| Free

Problem installing super smack on 5.4-STABLE

2005-04-12 Thread Doug Poland
rror: `ERESTART' undeclared (first use this function) client.cc:347: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) *** Error code 1 Stop in /home/doug/super-smack-1.2/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /home/doug/super-smack-1.

Re: Anyone ever consider a filesystem served by MySQL for mail folders?

2005-04-09 Thread Doug Lee
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 05:33:22PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Doug Lee wrote: >Is it practical to implement a mountable filesystem for mail archiving >whose contents are served by a MySQL (or other SQL) database? >Creating this is surely way beyond my level of expertise in FreeBSD, >an

Anyone ever consider a filesystem served by MySQL for mail folders?

2005-04-09 Thread Doug Lee
ages to/from the database. If such a thing now existed that could serve Mutt-compatible (MMDF, I think) mail files, I would wish to import about 400 megabytes of messages as soon as possible. :-) Thoughts welcome. Please Cc me. -- Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.dlee.org

Re: (LONG) ATA Benchmark: 5.x Reads Slower than Writes

2005-04-08 Thread Doug White
are simply misinterpreting your results here. File creation tests are usually more for filesystem-specific benchmarking than for throughput benchmarking. I'd suggest something more like iozone for throughput testing. If the volumes have nothing on them you care about then rawio can

Re: cmpq dl380 server. ipmi bmc question

2005-04-08 Thread Doug Poland
S? > That's the real question > The reason that I ask, is that the 330's and 350's have a temp sensor > that isn't detected until during post, so there's a few seconds on > them that the fans run full on. I'm just

Re: IBM eServer 346 ServeRaid is too slow

2005-04-08 Thread Doug White
27;s been any recent work on > this. We're waiting on a driver update that is tied up in legalities at the moment. -- Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: cvsup through ssh forwarding

2005-03-31 Thread Doug Poland
vsup command itself, reference localhost: #cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/ports -h localhost -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ath driver usage for Netgear WG511T

2005-03-26 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 09:56:31AM -0500, Rodger Castle wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:37:10 -0600 Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 07:30:41AM -0500, Rodger Castle wrote: > > > I am trying to get a Netgear WG511T working with FreeBSD 5.3-R

Re: ath driver usage for Netgear WG511T

2005-03-26 Thread Doug Poland
gs at the moment as I am currently compiling an upgrade to > 5.4-PRERELEASE to attempt to correct the problem. > load if_ath.ko at boot -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Unsubscribe?

2005-03-25 Thread Doug Paquette
Group, Sorry to have to ask this question here, but does anyone have the address to where I unsubscribe to the various free bsd mailing lists? Thanks Doug __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http

Re: Compaq DL 320...

2005-03-25 Thread Doug Paquette
How about with the HP DL380 as well? Doug --- Alberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, is there a way to slow down system fans in > an HP DL 320 with BSD > 5.3? > Perhaps using hpasm driver and linux emulation? >

Teaming / Load Sharing of NIC Cards

2005-03-23 Thread Doug Paquette
do or where to start, is there anyone who has done this before with my kind of setup (dl380 server and free bsd O/S) that can either point me in the right direction, explain to me how to do this, or walk me through it? Thanks Doug __ Do you

Re: Free BSD and HP's Integrated Lights Out

2005-03-23 Thread Doug Paquette
integrated lights out that has not used up their 30 day trial that would be willing to test and verify this? Doug - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As far as I know, basic iLO features are not OS > dependent at all. But if > you need a licens

Free BSD and HP's Integrated Lights Out

2005-03-22 Thread Doug Paquette
trial, and HP doesn't know how to get me more trial time. I hate to buy the licencing pack without knowing for sure. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks Doug __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources

How to set environment variable for a port daemon?

2005-03-19 Thread Doug Lee
day-to-day activities on this old box. I'm hoping the unicode evasion will help with that, though I don't know how likely this is. Please Cc replies to me. Thanks much for any advice. -- Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot build openoffice

2005-03-17 Thread Doug Poland
o install the package from: http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomisc/FreeBSD/ HTH -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-15 Thread Doug Poland
Gvinum. Which utility should be used? It's my understanding that > Gvinum is the most current and should be used on 5.3+? Does the > hadbook refer to Vinum, Gvinum or both? > This is not an answer to your question, but another option for you to consider

Re: questions regarding $PAGER

2005-03-15 Thread doug
Thanks, your excellent answer prompted me to actually read the less man page :) Lots of usful stuff. One question. On 4.11, at least no meaning is suggested for MM (rather than M). Is this a typo or an undocumented feature? On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Mar 15, 2005, at 1:46 AM,

Re: rc.subr startup question

2005-03-15 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:19:17AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-03-14 15:56, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm running 5.3-STABLE and I want to write a startup script for > > ports/sysutils/mcron. The twis is, I want an mcron process f

rc.subr startup question

2005-03-14 Thread Doug Poland
tance. I've read rc.subr(8) and it's not apparent if I can use the rc.subr tools in this scenario. Perhaps this is something best accomplished in /etc/rc.local? Any and all suggestions welcome. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

rc.subr startup question

2005-03-14 Thread Doug Poland
tance. I've read rc.subr(8) and it's not apparent if I can use the rc.subr tools in this scenario. Perhaps this is something best accomplished in /etc/rc.local? Any and all suggestions welcome. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Portinstall/upgrade stops with no error

2005-03-13 Thread Doug Lee
ncyDir, "\n" ) - portDependencyDir; (gdb) print portDependency $1 = 0x8050049 "cclient-2001a,1" (gdb) Core size 417 K. If you need it, I'll email it privately. I doubt there's anything compromising in there... -- Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.d

Re: connecting a FreeBSD-4.10 to Internet using DSL with static ip address

2005-03-12 Thread doug
If your ISP does not use PPPoE it is really quite simple. I included my laptop rc.conf just to show it plays no part: hostname="mneme.boltsys.com" moused_enable="YES" sshd_enable="YES" usbd_enable="YES" linux_enable="YES" nfs_client_enable="YES" nfs_server_enable="YES" nfs_reserv

Re: Portinstall/upgrade stops with no error

2005-03-12 Thread Doug Lee
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 01:58:58PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Saturday 12 March 2005 12:16 pm, Doug Lee wrote: > You said simply to try sysutils/portmanager. I must have really made > a mess here: > > Kirk 3# po

Re: Portinstall/upgrade stops with no error

2005-03-12 Thread Doug Lee
all. On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:09:14PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 25 February 2005 09:26 pm, Doug Lee wrote: > System: FreeBSD-STABLE (4.10). Ports updated recently, but I've had > trouble with the database and probably never straightened it out. > > Problem: &quo

bash restricted shell

2005-03-11 Thread doug
On a standard 4.11 install /usr/local/bin/bash = v2.04. rbash does not exist. So I added it as an sh script. This works okay in that normal things I tried do not break out. This is probably good enough for the users I would give this shell to. My question is basically: what is the "right" way to do

copying cron files between computers

2005-03-11 Thread Doug Poland
ng the dump and read of each user's cron. Thanks for the help and suggestions. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 10, 2005, at 18:30, Warren Block wrote: milter-greylist works great with sendmail. Here's a somewhat-dated article I wrote about using it and clamav-milter with sendmail: http://www.wonkity.com/greylist.pdf I am getting a no such file back on that.

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 10, 2005, at 17:38, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Doug Hardie writes: I doub't thats the reason. I am presuming you are referring to wanado.fr. No, I'm referring to e-mail sent directly from my own server (not relayed through Wanadoo). Time-Warner and a few other ISPs either reject

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 10, 2005, at 15:24, Anthony Atkielski wrote: As it is, sometimes I can't answer clients by e-mail because their own ISPs (e.g., anything run by Time-Warner) simply throw away my e-mail because it doesn't come from a Big ISP. I doub't thats the reason. I am presuming you are referring to wa

Re: how to deal with spam for good?

2005-03-10 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 10, 2005, at 01:49, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies that know what they are doing. SPF is only go

Re: mutt working throu NFS only in read-only

2005-03-08 Thread Doug Poland
server: nfs_server_flags="-u -n 10" nfs_server_enable="YES" rpc_lockd_enable="YES" # Run NFS rpc.lockd needed for rpc_statd_enable="YES" # Run NFS rpc.statd needed for Implement those changes, reboot (or restart daemons), and you sho

Re: tech question

2005-03-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 6, 2005, at 23:45, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Mar 7, 2005, at 12:31 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 11:28 pm, popbox wrote: Excuse me for foolish question and "pig latin". I'm a new user of FreeBSD and I have a trouble with mounting DVD. There is no s

Re: Disk Error

2005-03-06 Thread Doug Hardie
. tunefs ( enable softupdate) 3. backup to new hard disk 4. remove this faulty hard disk Your hard disk is dyeing . Doug Hardie wrote: I have been getting the following disk errors consistently for the last month. ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 6934399 of 3467168-3467295 (ad2s1 bn 6934399; cn 431 tn

Disk Error

2005-03-06 Thread Doug Hardie
I have been getting the following disk errors consistently for the last month. ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 6934399 of 3467168-3467295 (ad2s1 bn 6934399; cn 431 tn 164 sn 52) status=59 error=40 spec_getpages:(#ad/0x20014) I/O read failure: (error=5) bp 0xc5678f94 vp 0xcb5f3a80

su from root

2005-02-26 Thread Doug Hardie
I have encountered an unusual issue where the behavior is different between FreeBSD 4.6 and 5.3. If I login and then su to root successfully, then do a su to a non-root user I get: pam_login_access: pam_sm_acct_mgmt: user-id is not allowed to log in on /dev/ttyv0 In chasing this down it app

Portinstall/upgrade stops with no error

2005-02-25 Thread Doug Lee
). I think my ports database must be irreparably hosed, but I welcome suggestions on how to salvage things. :-) Please Cc me. -- Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bartsite.com "The nice thing about standards is that

Port Problem

2005-02-23 Thread Doug Hardie
I seem to have done something to a port that is causing a problem. The port is dspam and I first did a make on it. Up cam this nice configuration option window (similar to sysinstall) where I select what turns out to be incompatable options. However, that wasn't obvious at the time. The pa

Re: SSH terminal locking up from OS X to FreeBSD

2005-02-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 22, 2005, at 22:57, Jim Freeze wrote: * Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-22 22:58:17 -0700]: Just for giggles, what happens when you try a different encryption method with the ssl client? For example, -c blowfish Ok, so I tried this, but it still locks up. However

Re: SSH terminal locking up from OS X to FreeBSD

2005-02-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 22, 2005, at 13:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-22 15:35:53 -0600]: On Feb 22, 2005, at 3:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version of Mac OS X are you using? All of my workstations are Mac OS X, and all but one server (an old cobalt raq 2) are

Promise PDC20267 UDMA100 controller channel attaching trouble

2005-02-22 Thread doug reynolds
I've having a bit of trouble with my promise ATA100 controller card on my server computer. I used to use it fine with my older system (k6-450 with freebsd 4.xx). I've built this newer box (with FreeBSD 5.3 and also 5.3-STABLE, running a K7-650 now) and swapped a lot of things over. The problem

Re: buildworld fails on: ===> bin/domainname

2005-02-21 Thread Doug White
h/var.h,v": 1: "head" expected > > Then when I run "make buildworld", that fails What cvsup server are you using? It appears to be corrupted. -- Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org _

Re: Good rentable servers?

2005-02-21 Thread Doug Poland
that SkyPoint used > to offer this when I worked for them (www.skypoint.net). > Here's another company that offers FreeBSD virtual servers: http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Promise PDC20267 UDMA100 controller channel attaching trouble

2005-02-20 Thread doug reynolds
I've having a bit of trouble with my promise ATA100 controller card on my server computer. I used to use it fine with my older system (k6-450 with freebsd 4.xx). I've built this newer box (with FreeBSD 5.3 and also 5.3-STABLE, running a K7-650 now) and swapped a lot of things over. The prob

Re: Shell script question

2005-02-17 Thread Doug Poland
I install bash? I am using FreeBSD/i3b6 5.2.1 > pkg_add -r bash http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html > Also, whats the command to check which version of FreeBSD I am using? > uname -a Good luck... -- Regards, Doug ___

Which list for ULE issues?

2005-02-16 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've been playing with ULE on 5.3-STABLE and have come up with some repeatable issues. To which list should I post these? -STABLE, -CURRENT, -QUESTIONS? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Valid statement in hosts.allow

2005-02-08 Thread Doug Van Allen
Is this valid in hosts.allow: ALL : 151.103.xxx.xxx-151.103.xxx.xxx : allow The x's are just hiding the other part of the ip address. I need to allow a range of ip's like 192.168.0.1-192.168.64.254. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: SCSI Problem

2005-02-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 5, 2005, at 15:59, Doug Hardie wrote: I have a system that was running fine with 2 SCSI drives. Both on the same line, the last one terminated. I removed the first one leaving the one with the termination. Now when the system boots I get the strangest messages and the results are

Re: Can't ssh to server

2005-02-05 Thread Doug Van Allen
I got it fixed. I forgot I kept ssh commented in inetd.conf until I wanted to use it. On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 12:49:29 -0500, Doug Van Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 and I'm trying to connect to it from school > using ssh. At school, I get connecti

SCSI Problem

2005-02-05 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a system that was running fine with 2 SCSI drives. Both on the same line, the last one terminated. I removed the first one leaving the one with the termination. Now when the system boots I get the strangest messages and the results are quite unusual. Here are the console messages dur

Re: Can't ssh to server

2005-02-05 Thread Doug Van Allen
EMAIL PROTECTED] fingered me!" root) & \ : deny # The rest of the daemons are protected. ALL : ALL \ : severity auth.info \ : twist /bin/echo "You are not welcome to use %d from %h." On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:27:02 -0600, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &

Can't ssh to server

2005-02-05 Thread Doug Van Allen
I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 and I'm trying to connect to it from school using ssh. At school, I get connection refused. I checked the auth.log and found: Feb 3 21:23:05 FreeBSD sshd[44237]: twist x..edu to /bin/echo "You are not welcome to use sshd from x..edu." I ran tcpdmatch and

Re: Possibly OT: ports question/suggestion

2005-02-04 Thread Doug Poland
if > they were only installed becasue of the port in the first place. > I believe pkg_deinstall -R will behave in the manner you describe. > "Would you like to remove Package B, since it was installed as a > dependancy? [y/N]?", etc. > pkg_deinstall will

Disk Label Problem

2005-02-02 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a system with two SCSI disks. da1 has a complete working system on it that I need to clone onto da0. The disks are different sizes. So I went to sysinstall and used 'disk label' to create the desired structure. Thats where the problems started. If I create the first partition and se

Reboot Hangs

2005-01-28 Thread Doug Hardie
FreeBSD 5.3-P5 with optionsBROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET in the kernel. System was first built on hardware that required that option to be able to avoid hanging on reboot. However, now I have installed it on a newer system. It still has the option defined. And it hangs. I suspect that I don'

Possible SCSI address conflicts

2005-01-28 Thread Doug Hardie
FreeBSD 5.3-P5 with device atapicam in the kernel. From dmesg.boot: Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 35074MB (7183309

Re: RAID1, a failed disk and performance

2005-01-27 Thread Doug Poland
I didn't notice any performance degradation. However, I must note that I wasn't running any monitoring software nor gathering empirical data. It's just my observation of the responsiveness of the system while one drive was gone. YMMV. -- Regards, Doug ___

Running public IP's inside an RFC 1597 network

2005-01-25 Thread Doug Poland
ve explained the situation clearly. Googling and reading the friendly manuals has not revealed a solution to me. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

GNOME nautilus-cd-burner problems

2005-01-25 Thread Doug Poland
on't for CDR. Maybe I want to burn an audio CD and therefore need different switches to drive cdrecord. So how does one tell nautilus-cd-burner these things? I've searched the docs and the lists. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@free

Any way to get an audio representation of packet flow?

2005-01-25 Thread Doug Lee
, for future planning. Please Cc me if you have any ideas. Thanks much. -- Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bartsite.com The very smart may feel they have nothing to learn from anyone; The very wise will

Re: Which Way to Partition.

2005-01-21 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 21, 2005, at 23:20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Friday, 21 January 2005 at 20:58:35 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: On Jan 21, 2005, at 19:32, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 21 J

Re: Which Way to Partition.

2005-01-21 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 21, 2005, at 19:32, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 21 January 2005 at 22:01:14 -0500, Peterhin wrote: I am new to FreeBSD, and have only used Linux for less than a year. I have read the "Handbook", also "FreeBSD An open-source system for your personal computer", they both suggest tha

Re: gmirror: replacing failed disks

2005-01-19 Thread Doug Poland
dated. > > > > and on and on... > > > > Hi Doug, seems to me, that when you pulled drive ad4, data on it were > damaged. Thanks for trying this with ad4 as provider! > > Now simply try to simulate a replacement with a fresh disk, as you > would do in real li

Re: gmirror: replacing failed disks

2005-01-18 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:02:48AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > >> GEOM_MIRROR: Component ad4 (device gm0s1) broken, skipping. > >> GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot add disk ad4 to gm0s1 (error=22). > > > > You can set 'kern.geom.mirror.debug=2' in /boot/load

Re: gmirror: replacing failed disks

2005-01-18 Thread Doug Poland
d gm0s1 ad4, but gmirror said: "No such provider: ad4". -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: purpose of /var/backups

2005-01-18 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:20:50AM +, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:04:52PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > On my 5.3-STABLE systems I have a directory in /var called backups. > > ... snip ... > > > > I'm curious, what process are writi

Re: gmirror: replacing failed disks

2005-01-17 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:14:48PM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Sunday 16 January 2005 21:14, Doug Poland wrote: > > > > (My system has a provider gm0s1 with ad4 and ad6 as consumers, so > > I'll use those device names) > > > > Simulate ad4 failing: &g

purpose of /var/backups

2005-01-17 Thread Doug Poland
iting these files to this directory? Does something depend on these files existing? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-17 Thread Doug Poland
Is it different than running # cd /usr/obj # chflags -R noschg * # rm -rf * as documented in the handbook? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-17 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 17, 2005, at 11:07, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:32:31PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: The only way I can think for this to happen is if your source tree was inconsistent (i.e. not completely updated), or you updated your sources after you did the installworld, and the kernel

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-16 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 16, 2005, at 23:19, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:15:23PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: On Jan 16, 2005, at 22:05, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: The instructions for building world/kernel for 4.x are straight forward and work

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-16 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 16, 2005, at 22:05, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: The instructions for building world/kernel for 4.x are straight forward and work fine. However, I seem to have munged two 5.3 installations now. I have been through all the UPDATING

Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-16 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 16, 2005, at 22:05, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: The instructions for building world/kernel for 4.x are straight forward and work fine. However, I seem to have munged two 5.3 installations now. I have been through all the UPDATING

5.3 Building Kernel/World

2005-01-16 Thread Doug Hardie
The instructions for building world/kernel for 4.x are straight forward and work fine. However, I seem to have munged two 5.3 installations now. I have been through all the UPDATING notes and the handbook and something is obviously not clear. The approach I used is: Clean install from 5.3 dis

gmirror: replacing failed disks

2005-01-16 Thread Doug Poland
hronize) That should work, yes? How does gmirror know about /dev/ad4s1 if that drive was previously unformatted or brand new? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: gmirror problem on 5.3-R i386

2005-01-15 Thread Doug Poland
.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/5a74c8f3573d7b9f/27e9c8b078e4755a?q=gmirror+i386&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fmailing.freebsd.questions%2Fsearch%3Fgroup%3Dmailing.freebsd.questions%26q%3Dgmirror+i386%26qt_g%3D1%26searchnow%3DSearch+this+group%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#27

Re: gmirror problem on 5.3-R i386 (SOLVED)

2005-01-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:12:28AM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2005 20:43, Doug Poland wrote: > > > > size=`fdisk ad6 | grep ', size ' | head -1 | sed -e 's;^.*size > > \([0-9]*\).*$;\1;'` (echo "p 1 165 63 $size"; echo &q

Re: gmirror problem on 5.3-R i386 (SOLVED)

2005-01-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:51:03AM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:54, Doug Poland wrote: > > > > I'm having a problem with gmirror. It would seem that I cannot add my > > first disk to the mirror after booting off

Re: gmirror problem on 5.3-R i386

2005-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:51:03AM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:54, Doug Poland wrote: > > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 bs=512 count=79 > > You probably destroyed your slice table here. The dd command only > makes sense if you inse

Re: How to use X without installing X?

2005-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:32:10PM -0500, Richard Morse wrote: > On 13 Jan 2005, at 2:34 PM, Doug Poland wrote: > > >On my 5.3 servers, I install xorg-libraries so I can run X clients on > >remote X servers.? From a remote host use a command similar to: >

Re: How to use X without installing X?

2005-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
remote host use a command similar to: xserver% ssh -Xf xclient.mydomain.com /path/to/install/directory/OracleInstaller where: xserver = your X workstation xclient = your server w/xorg-libraries installed -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

gmirror problem on 5.3-R i386

2005-01-12 Thread Doug Poland
2048 16384 28552 e: 2097152 214436644.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 f: 132755506 235408164.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 bsdlabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standar

Re: ATi and Xorg Troubles in FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-11 Thread doug
.x and 5.x. > > The vesa drive works okay, but I miss the larger screen and better font > rendering. > > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Joe Altman wrote: > > > Doug, Ronny... > > > > I'm running 4.11 with xorg 6.8.1, built from source on December 28, 2004 > >

Re: ATi and Xorg Troubles in FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-08 Thread doug
Thanks Joe I will try to upgrade. My experience was the same, in that the problem tracked X (both projects) across several levels of 4.x and 5.x. The vesa drive works okay, but I miss the larger screen and better font rendering. On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Joe Altman wrote: > Doug, Ronny... >

Re: atheros (ath) wifi driver problem

2005-01-06 Thread Doug Poland
u may have already checked this, but be sure that "Plug and Play OS" is "NO" in your BIOS. I've seen weird things happen w/PCI cards when this BIOS setting is on. HTH -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: ATi and Xorg Troubles in FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-06 Thread doug
pe this helps. On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Ronny Fischer wrote: > Hi Doug > > I saw your answer at > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/065330.html > > and would like to ask, where can I found this workaround ? > > I have a Sony PCG-C1VE with an A

Re: Ultra Speed CD-RW media and cdrecord

2005-01-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:17:12PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 04), Doug Poland said: > > My son gave me a package of Memorex Ultra Speed CD-RW blanks for > > Christmas. I was going to burn an ISO on my 5.3-STABLE system but > > ran into a brick wa

Ultra Speed CD-RW media and cdrecord

2005-01-04 Thread Doug Poland
fill was 0%. FWIW, I've tried forcing it with various speed=x arguments but to no avail. Any suggestions? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: migrating from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 best practice?

2005-01-04 Thread Doug Poland
is documentation with success: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Upgrading-from-4.0.html -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ACPI and APM on 5.3

2005-01-03 Thread doug
I finally got around to cleaning up rc.conf, now using only acpi. 'acpiconf -s 1' works. Resume is _much_ faster. That only leaves me with a couple of acpi boot errors to clean up (they do not affect anything AFAIK) and to set rc.resume to restore the network connection. I have some glitches that

Re: FreeBSD box causes workgroup to crash

2004-12-31 Thread Doug Van Allen
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:35:13 -0500, Jonathan Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:59:54 -0500 > Doug Van Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When my FreeBSD 5.3 box is connected to the network, no one can browse > > the network. The inter

FreeBSD box causes workgroup to crash

2004-12-31 Thread Doug Van Allen
When my FreeBSD 5.3 box is connected to the network, no one can browse the network. The internet works fine and on the other 2 PC's(WinXP). When I disconnect the BSD box from the switch, the other 2 PC's can browse the network. I have no idea why it would be doing this. Thanks!

ACPI and APM on 5.3

2004-12-30 Thread doug
In attempting to get sound working on a Dell 7500 Inspiron (cira 1994) I tried many combinations of ACPI and APM thinking that my sound problems stemmed from interrupt or irq/pnp problems. That turned out not to be the case. Now everything is working, but I am using a combination of the two as docu

Re: x86 files

2004-12-28 Thread doug
i386 On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Julian Sy wrote: > Hey, my names Julian and I seem to be having a problem on your site. I > see all the other platforms but I can't find the freebsd files for x86 > platforms. In supported platforms it says, "with the exception of x86, > since most of the information on

Re: Looking for 'ideal' web-server partitions

2004-12-28 Thread doug
Without passing on your numbers here are some reason to partition: var - A good idea, I think, especially with apache. It keeps a nimba style dOs from filling your disk. / - Without a var partition I believe var is in '/' and not user. /var/log, var/mail, var/spool/mqueu

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-28 Thread doug
Does portmanager handle packages? If not any plans to do so? I would be happy to help with testing. On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > > Portupgrade has one serious flaw in my opinion and that is running > > > something like pkgdb -F damages the port installation database as > >

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