Re: RAID1 is DEGRADED, but which disk is faulty?

2003-09-05 Thread jesse reynolds
At 18:26 +0200 3/9/2003, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:45:05PM +1000, jesse reynolds typed: Hi How do you tell which disk has problems in a hardware RAID1 array? My machine has been up for nearly six months, and only the last three weeks of messages logs are retained. There

Re: Question

2003-09-05 Thread Roman Neuhauser
please use better subject lines. please keep lines at-or-shorter-than 75 characters (except computer output). # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-09-03 10:46:03 -0500: Yesterday someone put me in charge of a server (it seems that is a Firewall) with FreeBSD 4.2-Release version, the first

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2003-09-05 Thread Denis
Hi All!!! Does FreeBSD support C++ or support C only? -- Best regards, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2003-09-05 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Denis wrote: Hi All!!! Does FreeBSD support C++ or support C only? C, C++, objective C, Fortran, Modula, Java ... Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

anyone have any experience with SWIG?

2003-09-05 Thread Paul Beard
I am trying to work with an extension to the gramofile analog - digital recording app, The stock version is in ports and works fine, but someone has written a clever extension to it that takes the track information for a recording (from freedb) and does all the track splitting, signal

FreeBSD 4.8, ASR2120, SMP, degraded RAID1/mirror = storage failure

2003-09-05 Thread rysanek
Dear Mr. Long, firstly, let me thank you for maintaining the Adaptec RAID drivers. I've got a problem with the Adaptec 2120S in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE and I haven't found any notes about that in the mailing lists. In SMP mode, upon a RAID array degradation event (a disk is ripped out), the system

Re: RAID1 is DEGRADED, but which disk is faulty?

2003-09-05 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:07:50PM +1000, jesse reynolds typed: At 18:26 +0200 3/9/2003, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:45:05PM +1000, jesse reynolds typed: Hi How do you tell which disk has problems in a hardware RAID1 array? My machine has been up for nearly six

help me please

2003-09-05 Thread RAMILISAONA Lova
How can I read with Windows 95 the SGML files about the FreeBSD docs ? Thanks many -- __ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job

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2003-09-05 Thread Guilmot Mike
From: Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:43 AM Does FreeBSD support C++ or support C only? If your compiler does support it, FreeBSD supports it. Standard install supports both C and C++. Kind regards, Guilmot Mike

Re: RAID1 is DEGRADED, but which disk is faulty?

2003-09-05 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: jesse reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:08 AM Subject: Re: RAID1 is DEGRADED, but which disk is faulty? Is it safe to shut it down and see what the Promise firmware is

Re: RAID1 is DEGRADED, but which disk is faulty?

2003-09-05 Thread jesse reynolds
At 10:40 +0200 5/9/2003, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:07:50PM +1000, jesse reynolds typed: At 18:26 +0200 3/9/2003, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:45:05PM +1000, jesse reynolds typed: Hi How do you tell which disk has problems in a hardware RAID1

Re: RAID1 is DEGRADED, but which disk is faulty?

2003-09-05 Thread jesse reynolds
At 9:41 + 5/9/2003, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: jesse reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:08 AM Subject: Re: RAID1 is DEGRADED, but which disk is faulty? Is it safe to shut it down and see

Re: VNC ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-05 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Scott I. Remick wrote: Figured I'd start with my FreeBSD friends first before bugging the VNC community. I used to have VNC tunneling over ssh just fine, but then had to redo my system drive. I used FreeBSD 5.1 before and still do now, however it's not working. I'm using

xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports

2003-09-05 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi lists, I upgraded Xfree86-clients from ports using portupgrade today and noticed that xdm was no longer working afterwards. After some searching i found that the config files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm had been overwritten. Since i had a similar problem with another port the other day, i

Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:59:38PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi lists, I upgraded Xfree86-clients from ports using portupgrade today and noticed that xdm was no longer working afterwards. After some searching i found that the config files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm had been

Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports

2003-09-05 Thread Mike Remski
Good Morning Heinrich. Yes, that's pretty much expected behaviour. Each port is different in the way that it treats it's configuration files. Some of them will have a file.config.sample that you usually copy over to file.config and modify. That way you don't lose your changes, but you can

Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports

2003-09-05 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:59:38PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi lists, I upgraded Xfree86-clients from ports using portupgrade today and noticed that xdm was no longer working afterwards. After some searching i found that the config files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm had

Re: host and hostname

2003-09-05 Thread horio shoichi
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:46:25 +0900 Rommel B. Ikeda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks very much for the reply, my apologies for not replying so soon Actually, I posted my question on host and hostname, because, I have been trying to find out if my Internet Settings is correct or not...I am

Re: Two X sessions on one machine???

2003-09-05 Thread Peder Blom
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:44:20 -0400 Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a hundred other questions, like how do you get an xsession to start different WMs or even different configurations of the same WM based on the display? I have a number of .xinitrc versions to start

USB and serial communication

2003-09-05 Thread Anders Jansson
Hi everyone, I have just installed FreeBSD 5.1 om my PC (my first FreeBSD ever and it looks really nice). However, there is one missing link to connect me to FreeBSD heave. I would like to have a larger number of serial ports than the 2 already aailable in my PC and so I turned my attention

I need to control a bunch of files.

2003-09-05 Thread Vitali Malicky
Hi, All! There is a question, sorry if you find it stupid. I need to control a bunch of files. As soon as any of these files changes it should be immediately rechecked and correct chmod and chown reset on this file(s). Though I can do it from a simple script executed by the cron every five

using FreeBSD plus KDE as a kiosk

2003-09-05 Thread Matt Hartzell
I am interested in using FreeBSD and KDE as a semi-publicly accessible internet terminal. I have a web-based application that I would like to run from this type of setup. Does anyone have any experience using a setup like this? Can any one point me toward relevant documents? Matt Hartzell Chief

some linux advice !!!

2003-09-05 Thread Sweetleaf
I am planning on setting up a host which has several OS's via VMware-4.x. Vmware-4 only runs on linux, so the host OS has to be linux according to their website and i suppose i will have freebsd etc.. as the guest. so my questions is, which linux distro out of the following supported by

RE: C/C++

2003-09-05 Thread int80
FreeBSD can compile C/C++ programs, if you have gcc or gcc-c++ installed respectively. And you can link those programs if you have an appropriate linker installed (binutils). Of course an assembler is also needed (which is installed along with binutils). --- On Fri 09/05, Denis [EMAIL

Re: VNC ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:58:16 +0100 (BST), Jan Grant wrote: Loks like the VNC srever isn't listening at that location. Is it running? Yep: -bash-2.05b$ ps PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 60273 p0- S 0:00.49 Xvnc :1 -desktop X -httpd /usr/local/share/vnc/classes 60277 p0- S 0:00.20

colored xterm window borders don't work

2003-09-05 Thread h0444lp6
Dear list I can't seem to get colored xterm window borders to work xterm -geometry 80x50 -fg blue -bg red Works well, giving me blue letters on red background, but xterm -geometry 80x50 -fg blue -bg red -bd green gives me just the same ... the -bd some_color flag doesn't work (see xterm(1))

Re: saving kernel output

2003-09-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Radko Keves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is another way to save kernel output without dumb terminal or old PC/XT till boot ? i read serialconsole-setup in handbook, but i think way without serial console for example something like dmesg, but if kernel fails i want have saved output too

Re: VNC ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-05 Thread Jan Grant
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Scott I. Remick wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:58:16 +0100 (BST), Jan Grant wrote: Loks like the VNC srever isn't listening at that location. Is it running? Yep: -bash-2.05b$ ps PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 60273 p0- S 0:00.49 Xvnc :1 -desktop X -httpd

Re: process memory peak recording

2003-09-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During a recent programming/installation project, I found myself wanting to know the peak memory usage of a given command/process. Is there any way to gather this information without recompiling an application with a sleep or wait statement at the

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Mark Terribile wrote: Todd: ... Has anyone gotten CUPS working using the foomatic-rip/gimp-print method [from] Linuxprinting.org? I have an Epson Stylus C82 at /dev/lpt0. ... Looks like I got it. I installed the printer again using a different driver (one that for some reason did

fwe in production? fwe bandwidth?

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, I'm researching GigE and faster-than-10/100- technologies. I run a FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE laptop, and I noticed the fwe device. I have a few questions regarding the fwe device: 1.) Does anyone use the fwe device? 2.) Is it stable? 3.) What kind of bandwidth is possible with the fwe

Re: process memory peak recording

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:53:09PM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Howdy list, I'm a Sys Admin running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE servers. During a recent programming/installation project, I found myself wanting to know the peak memory usage of a given command/process.

Re: VNC ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:51:08 +0100 (BST), Jan Grant wrote: I'd still recommend double-checking with sockstat on the BSD box, (and netstat -an on the windows box, but I don't think that's the problem). Sure... you help me, I help you help me. :) -bash-2.05b$ sockstat -l | grep vnc scottXvnc

what is a tinderbox?

2003-09-05 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
What is a tinderbox, in the context of computers? NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. jm -- My other computer is your windows box. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: process memory peak recording

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:03:31AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Sorry for the misleading subject. I meant to post a different message under that subject. process memory peak recording should have been the subject for this message. I'm not sure if that was a bug in my human CPU or a bug in

Cyrus Imapd install

2003-09-05 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Hi all, I'm having some problems configuring /usr/ports/mail/cyrus-imapd22 The port installs ok, but I can't seem to start it. Running /usr/local/etc/rc.d/imapd.sh.sample produces the following output: .: Can't open %%RC_SUBR%%: No such file or directory I am trying to do this on FreeBSD

Re: what is a tinderbox?

2003-09-05 Thread Marc Ramirez
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: What is a tinderbox, in the context of computers? NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. In general, it's a sandbox to do build testing and find build errors. More specifically, there's also this:

Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:45:03PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: However, I just keep a backup copy of the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm directory handy: # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ # rsync -avx --delete xdm/ xdm.bak/ Cheers, Matthew Ok, this would

Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Michael Vondung
Hello! My apologies for the length of this post. Summary: 4.x or 5.x for a desktop machine, disk partitioning for a workstation, miscellaneous installation questions. Okay, the details! Now that I have my local FreeBSD server (mail/news, router, firewall) successfully running, I'm ready to

Re: VNC ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-05 Thread Jan Grant
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Scott I. Remick wrote: Sure... you help me, I help you help me. :) -bash-2.05b$ sockstat -l | grep vnc scottXvnc 60273 0 tcp4 *:6001*:* scottXvnc 60273 1 stream /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 scottXvnc 60273 3 tcp4 *:5901

Re: I need to control a bunch of files.

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:37:34PM +0300, Vitali Malicky wrote: There is a question, sorry if you find it stupid. I need to control a bunch of files. As soon as any of these files changes it should be immediately rechecked and correct chmod and chown reset on this file(s). Though I

OpenGroupWare build failed

2003-09-05 Thread Kliment Andreev
I am trying to build OpenGroupware from sources. Using: FreeBSD 4.7 GNU Make 3.79.1 gcc 2.95.4 Everything went fine until I've tried to build SKYRIX Core Libraires # gmake -s nosasl=yes debug=yes install NGActiveSocket.m: In function `-[NGActiveSocket _unixWriteBytes:count:]':

Re: Cyrus Imapd install

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:54:53PM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Hi all, I'm having some problems configuring /usr/ports/mail/cyrus-imapd22 The port installs ok, but I can't seem to start it. Running /usr/local/etc/rc.d/imapd.sh.sample produces the following output: .: Can't open

how to check which COM port modem is connected to?

2003-09-05 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Hi folks, how can I check which COM port the modem is connected to? Please help. I need to set up internet connectivity. Thanks in advance AMIT Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger

Re: VNC ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:03:21 +0100 (BST), Jan Grant wrote: OK, two other things (increasingly bizarre) occur to me; after that, I'm stumped: 1. tcp wrappers or similar on your vnc? On the FreeBSD system? No. Well, not that I know of. I have not configured to use tcp wrappers w/ VNC so if

802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-05 Thread Vledder, Hans
All, I am considering building a 802.11g FreeBSD access point. I've read that I will need a network adapter that supports hostap (access point mode). Does anyone known a brand/model (PCI) that's being supported by FreeBSD ? Regards, Hans Vledder -- The contents of this e-mail are intended

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 05 September 2003 10:01 am, Michael Vondung wrote: Hello! My apologies for the length of this post. Summary: 4.x or 5.x for a desktop machine, disk partitioning for a workstation, miscellaneous installation questions. Okay, the details! Now that I have my local FreeBSD server

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Jud
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:01:41 +0200, Michael Vondung [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello! My apologies for the length of this post. Summary: 4.x or 5.x for a desktop machine, disk partitioning for a workstation, miscellaneous installation questions. Replying to selected bits - [snip] 4.8 or 5.1?

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 05-Sep-2003, Michael Vondung wrote message Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions. ~ 4.8 or 5.1? I have 4.8 at work, and 5 at

virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Lee_Shackelford
Dear freeBSD enthusiast, Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place of employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. Most of the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system. Most of the servers use either Novell operating system, or

Re: some linux advice !!!

2003-09-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003, Sweetleaf wrote: I am planning on setting up a host which has several OS's via VMware-4.x. Vmware-4 only runs on linux, so the host OS has to be linux according to their website and i suppose i will have freebsd etc.. as the guest. so my questions is, which linux distro

Re: virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear freeBSD enthusiast, Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place of employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. Most of the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system.

Re: virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
If so, could you describe the Unix/BSD approach to locating and eradicating these invaders of one's hard drive? If the issue is already explained in either printed literature, or posted at a world wide web site, it is sufficient to cite the location. Many thanks for your response. There

samba ldap+unix password sync

2003-09-05 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi ! I know this question isn't FreeBSD specific, but all the scripts I tried to achieve what I need only seem to work under Linux. I have a FreeBSD-5.1-p2+pam_ldap+nss_ldap+openldap+samba (with ldap support). Ldap authentication works for both unix and samba accounts. What I need is a way of

Re: virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 09/05/03 09:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at the `puter and typed: Dear freeBSD enthusiast, Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place of employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. Most of the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

ssh problem

2003-09-05 Thread Alex Zivenko
All known utility ssh. How can I configure it? I have one FreeBSD 4.8 machine in my net. I need to setup an ssh access there for some win-users. I use telneat for it. I have a problem with it. When I'm trying to connect to this machine I' got an error, which tells me something about DSA key.

converting internet addresses

2003-09-05 Thread Lee_Shackelford
Dear BSD enthusiast, Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. On Wednesday, a message was posted on FreeBSD-Announce by Mr. Nik Clayton announcing the creation of a wiki site for the upcoming BSD convention. He gave the address as follows: http://bsdcon.kwiki.org/;. In

Re: virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Marc Ramirez
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear freeBSD enthusiast, Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place of employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. Most of the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system. Most of

Re: help me please

2003-09-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
RAMILISAONA Lova wrote: How can I read with Windows 95 the SGML files about the FreeBSD docs ? I think you might be able to get Mozilla to do a reasonable job displaying raw XML or SGML files, but if you simply want to read the documentation on a Win95 box, using the HMTL or PDF versions would

Re: ssh problem

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 05 September 2003 12:09 pm, Alex Zivenko wrote: All known utility ssh. How can I configure it? I have one FreeBSD 4.8 machine in my net. I need to setup an ssh access there for some win-users. I use telneat for it. I have a problem with it. When I'm trying to connect to this

Re: process memory peak recording

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:03:31AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: [...] Another approach that occurred to me might be feasible would be to use the limits(1) facility to set a maximum virtual memory size for the process. Then do a binary search to find the smallest

Re: converting internet addresses

2003-09-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:00 PM Subject: converting internet addresses Dear BSD enthusiast, Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. See below. My question is this: What is the difference between what I am telling the

Re: converting internet addresses

2003-09-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference between what I am telling the DNS server and outgoing gateway router to do when I enter into my browser address box 'http://www.bsdcon.kwiki.org' and when I enter into my browser address box 'http://bsdcon.kwiki.org'? In this particular case, there

Re: process memory peak recording

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During a recent programming/installation project, I found myself wanting to know the peak memory usage of a given command/process. Is there any way to gather this information without recompiling an application with a sleep

bug in sh or misinterpretation?

2003-09-05 Thread The Anarcat
[please CC, I don't follow -questions] Hello! I've been struggling with an odd quirk in sh(1). Here is my sample code: --- 8 cut here 8 --- cleanup () { echo cleaning up $pid kill $pid } ( echo in subshell tail -f /etc/motd pid=$! trap cleanup 1 2 15 wait $pid ||

Strange Mouse issue

2003-09-05 Thread Dragoncrest
Recently I had my BSD install go totally down in flames with a smashing finale where it exploded into a billion pieces and wafted off into oblivion. (blame the hardware, not me.) Anywho, I've since resurrected the box but with one strange little quirk. The mouse freaks out like a cat on crack.

Re: Strange Mouse issue

2003-09-05 Thread Guilmot Mike
On Friday 05 September 2003 20:18, Dragoncrest wrote: Recently I had my BSD install go totally down in flames with a smashing finale where it exploded into a billion pieces and wafted off into oblivion. (blame the hardware, not me.) Anywho, I've since resurrected the box but with one strange

AVI format in FBSD

2003-09-05 Thread Denis
Hi All!!! Does FBSD support AVI format files? I can't open avi files, but why? What I can do to play avi? -- Best regards, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: AVI format in FBSD

2003-09-05 Thread Guilmot Mike
On Friday 05 September 2003 17:41, Denis wrote: Hi All!!! Does FBSD support AVI format files? I can't open avi files, but why? What I can do to play avi? I guess you mean DivX ? Xvid should work already in FreeBSD (i'm not sure, but I think). For DivX you have to install the DivX

Re: I need to control a bunch of files.

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Terribile
Vitali Malicky writes I need to control a bunch of files. As soon as any of these files changes it should be immediately rechecked and correct chmod and chown reset on this file(s). I'd like them to be controlled by a process which would monitor any possible changes in these files and

rsync install help

2003-09-05 Thread Brent Bailey
Im using FBSD 4.8rc1 ..IM getting ready to install rsync to help with mirroring to another redundant FBSD box. I was wondering if anyone could point me a a good howto for this ? any and all help is greatly appreciated -- Brent Bailey CCNA Bmyster LLC Computer Networking and Webhosting Network

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Terribile
... but here are the ADDITIONAL things I had to do to get the cups port/package working properly under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE: (This may not all be necessary under 4.8-RELEASE. YMMV.) Ah, yes. I think I forgot to add that I had to change the lpd_program variable in /etc/rc.conf :

Re: Strange Mouse issue

2003-09-05 Thread Daniela
On Friday 05 September 2003 18:18, Dragoncrest wrote: Recently I had my BSD install go totally down in flames with a smashing finale where it exploded into a billion pieces and wafted off into oblivion. (blame the hardware, not me.) Anywho, I've since resurrected the box but with one strange

Re: Two X sessions on one machine???

2003-09-05 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+-- KroNiC~BSD [freebsd] [04-09-03 09:36 IST]: | Is it possible to have more that one X session running on the same | machine? The problem is if i want to create a remote X connection to my | linux machine via my Freebsd machine i have to kill the current running | LOCAL X session first.then i

PAM, X11, and su as a normal user?

2003-09-05 Thread Steven G. Kargl
After a few hours of frustation, it's time to ask a question. I have 2 accounts on my machine. I use startx to start X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user sgk, I cannot fire up X clients. For example, troutmask:kargl[202] su sgk Password: troutmask:sgk[201] gnuplot Terminal type set to

Re: Necessary code or trash?

2003-09-05 Thread Daniela
On Monday 28 August 2028 17:52, Denis Troshin wrote: Hi! I have FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big. For example, rm - 410 268 bytes, mv - 407 568 bytes, date - 423 748 bytes. Do they really contain only necessary code or have more than a half of

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Mark Terribile wrote: ... but here are the ADDITIONAL things I had to do to get the cups port/package working properly under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE: (This may not all be necessary under 4.8-RELEASE. YMMV.) Ah, yes. I think I forgot to add that I had to change the

Re: virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Jim Durham
On Friday 05 September 2003 12:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear freeBSD enthusiast, Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place of employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. Most of the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating

sharing FW drive w/OS-X

2003-09-05 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I've been battling this for some time, and I figured perhaps someone here has done this already. I have a 60GB IDE drive in a firewire enclosure. Works great w/FreeBSD. It's partitioned like so: Offset Size(ST)End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0

Re: sharing FW drive w/OS-X

2003-09-05 Thread Marc Wiz
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:52:30PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi, I've been battling this for some time, and I figured perhaps someone here has done this already. I have a 60GB IDE drive in a firewire enclosure. Works great w/FreeBSD. It's partitioned like so: Offset Size(ST)

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Michael Vondung wrote: Partitions If anything brings out the perfectionist in me, it is figuring out how to partition a disk. What I have in mind for the 80GB FreeBSD disk for the workstation is this: / = 512MB (too spacey, but that should be plenty for future releases)

Re: sharing FW drive w/OS-X

2003-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I've been battling this for some time, and I figured perhaps someone here has done this already. I have a 60GB IDE drive in a firewire enclosure. Works great w/FreeBSD. It's partitioned like so: Offset Size(ST)End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags

Re: rsync install help

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:39:27PM -0400, Brent Bailey wrote: Im using FBSD 4.8rc1 ..IM getting ready to install rsync to help with mirroring to another redundant FBSD box. I was wondering if anyone could point me a a good howto for this ? Oooh... an easy one. # cd /usr/ports/net/rsync

Re: rsync problem

2003-09-05 Thread Jim Durham
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:59 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 23:27, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello I'm using rsync to sort of mirror two 40GB disks (once a day). All partitions work as expected, but root is weird (and as you can see below, I sort of made it too small).

Re: PAM, X11, and su as a normal user?

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:18:40PM -0700, Steven G. Kargl wrote: After a few hours of frustation, it's time to ask a question. I have 2 accounts on my machine. I use startx to start X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user sgk, I cannot fire up X clients. For example,

ipfilter vs. firewall appliance

2003-09-05 Thread Redmond Militante
hi i have an ipfilter/ipnat box, that i'm using to protect an apache webserver. the machine is 4.7-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p3 #1: Mon Aug 11 18:27:06 CDT 2003. the machine is a dell optiplex gx260 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz 512 mb of ram. it's been doing a fine job. i'd like to

FibreChannel Adapter support

2003-09-05 Thread Aidan Hayes
Hi I would appreciate any feedback/confirmation on FibreChannel HBA support (Qlogic, Emulex, etc), under FreeBSD versions 4.8 or higher. Best RegardsAidan Hayes RAIDTEC Corporation Aidan Hayes Raidtec Corporation Castle Road, Little Island, Cork, IRELAND Tel:

disk problem ATA = DMA problem fallback to POI mode

2003-09-05 Thread Dan Langille
Please CC me on replies. I arrived home this afternoon to find a box had rebooted and is having trouble with its IDE drive. A screen shot is at http://www.freebsddiary.org/tmp/ata-failure.jpg My current plan: 1 - add a new IDE drive 2 - install FreeBSD on that 3 - run fsck -y each on each

Re: ipfilter vs. firewall appliance

2003-09-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
Well, if you can, crack open a hardware firewall like a Cisco PIX. You will recognize a LOT of what is in there and you will be very surprised. I have hardware in quotes because the only real differentiator is that PCs have hard drives for storage, these unit dont. Yes, some will have

mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread Monah Baki
Hi, sorry for being ignorant, but I don't want to switch to another OS if freebsd can do the job. Based on the advices I installed the following on Freebsd 5.1: multimedia/openquicktime multimedia/mplayer www/mplayer-plugin www/mozilla (1.4) www/mplayer-fonts Still can't get mplayer working.

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Michael Vondung wrote: Hello! Howdy, Michael. My apologies for the length of this post. Summary: 4.x or 5.x for a desktop machine, disk partitioning for a workstation, miscellaneous installation questions. Okay, the details! Now that I have my local FreeBSD server (mail/news, router,

Re: rsync install help

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew Y Ng
I would also look into keychain, this way u won't have to have a passphrase-less ssh key... i rsync a bunch of stuff in cron with ssh and keychain: 25 2 * * * . ~/.ssh-agent-${HOSTNAME} rsync -av /foo/* bar.foo.com:foo/ /ayn On 0, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread James Leone
Monah Baki wrote: Hi, sorry for being ignorant, but I don't want to switch to another OS if freebsd can do the job. Based on the advices I installed the following on Freebsd 5.1: multimedia/openquicktime multimedia/mplayer www/mplayer-plugin www/mozilla (1.4) www/mplayer-fonts Still can't get

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread Monah Baki
I got it running in Linux all I need to is to compile the following: openquicktime-1.0-src.tar win32codecs.tar MPlayer-0.91.tar.bz2 mplayerplug-in-0.80.tar.gz mini.tar.bz2 Blue-1.0.tar qt6dlls.tar.bz2 Those too are the same files that freebsd looks for, but all I get is a white dialog box

5.1 WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

2003-09-05 Thread Jim
Let me start by qualifying I am extremely new to FreeBSD (I have performed a whopping two installs thus far). I am looking to fire up a machine with a single western digital special edition 80GB IDE drive for simple storage and testing. The BIOS detects the correct geometry for the drive, and

RE: Strange Mouse issue

2003-09-05 Thread Jim
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniela Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:49 PM To: Dragoncrest; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Strange Mouse issue On Friday 05 September 2003 18:18, Dragoncrest wrote: Recently I had my BSD

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 05), Monah Baki said: Hi, sorry for being ignorant, but I don't want to switch to another OS if freebsd can do the job. Based on the advices I installed the following on Freebsd 5.1: multimedia/openquicktime multimedia/mplayer www/mplayer-plugin www/mozilla

Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-05 Thread James Leone
I have come accross a few possible bugs or errors while using FreeBSD 5.1-Current. I wrote them down and thought I would at least pass on the information per chance it would help someone, etc. I know that some of the errors could just be me, etc. FreeBSD 5.1-Current Possible bugs: 1. When I

Re: virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
Dear freeBSD enthusiast, Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place of employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. Most of the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system. Most of the servers use either Novell operating

configuring a firewire scanner

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Diekhans
I would like to get a firewire scanner working on FreeBSD 5.1. It seems that the approach to this is to use the pt driver via sbp. The scanner is recognized, however sbp gets attached to pass0 (pt is linked in the kernel). I been digging through the code, but have not yet come to an

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