Installation

2003-10-26 Thread murali
I have used FreeBSd before which installs only on a primary partition.Does the new version install on a logical partition without in antway upsetting the current design? Murali ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

What is a good MOTHERBOARD ? ( FreeBSD 4.6-RC2 / Raid 1 )

2003-10-26 Thread Ethan Akins
URGENT!! I am on an emergency search to purchase a new motherboard / CPU that will run with [ Version: Freebsd 4.6-RC2 / RAID 1 configuration ]. What motherboard are you currently using that has ZERO problems while using Raid 1? Also, if you can link me to the site in which you purchased it

The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-10-05 - 2003-10-25

2003-10-26 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list

Re; CVSipd

2003-10-26 Thread Jeremy
I have a collection sources.. in my releases file for it I have cvs list=list prefix=/usr/local/cvsroot/sources when I check it out via cvsup it doesn't extract into a directory called sources, rather into the base defined in my supfile. What am I do wrong?

FAM

2003-10-26 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) I'm having a problem with FAM (file alteration monitor). Each time I'm opening a folder under KDE (using Konqueror), I get the following error in my message logs: Oct 26 10:36:47 sta01 kernel: pid 8731 (fam), uid 1000: exited on signal 6 Oct 26 10:36:47 sta01 inetd[562]:

Installing FreeBSD 5.1 on i386 (ASUS motherboard).

2003-10-26 Thread Krishna Ramanathan
Hello, I have a machine with the following configuration : 1. AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz. 2. 512 Mb DDR RAM. 3. Samsung CD/RW Drive 4. 2 HDDs - IBM(80G) + Samsung(40G). 5. ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard. 6. NVidia GEForce MX-440(64Megs dedicated DDR) Display card. 7. DLing DFE538-TX 10/100 Mbps, ethernet

Re: Website up, then down, then up, etc.

2003-10-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:07:31PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:25:54PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: Hmmm... It's not the basic look up the IP number part as that's working just fine. You don't seem to be using their (dynDNS) web redirection service (ie.

Help: recover deleted file

2003-10-26 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I accidently ran rm on some files I still need (as a user).. OK, that's what you get for running a terminal early on a sunday morning :-( The files were fairly recent, and are not on any of my backups yet (something I will need to fix). I tried to install ffsrecov, but it is broken on my

Total Recorder/streambox for freebsd?

2003-10-26 Thread Martin Va
Hi, I would like to use software similar to winplatform Total Recorder/Streambox to rip RealPlayer streams. Is there something like this in Ports Collection or ported for freebsd? Thank you Martin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: ssh keys - howto?

2003-10-26 Thread Jan Grant
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Frank Knobbe wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'm stumped. Just need to get ssh keys working. I have FBSD-5.1 web server with sshd running. I have a workstation running W2K with WinSCP3. I have tried Puttygen to create the keys and

Re: how do you actually download an up date for KDE

2003-10-26 Thread Jan Grant
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, hawley wrote: How do you actually download an up date for KDE. I have been playing with Freebsd off and on for 3 yrs now. At present I have DSL internet access. I am running a 500 meg Hz intell machine. I have read untell my eyes bleed and tryed things untell my fingers

Re: Bind 9.2.3rc4

2003-10-26 Thread Jens Rehsack
Vladimir wrote: , Jens. Vladimir, you've forgotten to cc questions@ - added. 25 2003 ., 19:24:56: JR Vladimir wrote: Hi, freebsd-questions. ;; res_nsend: Operation timed out JR Furthermore I don't use acl's, I'm using packet filtering. ? You have 2 lines with defined acl's in your config

Re: Installation

2003-10-26 Thread Brian Reichholf
murali wrote: I have used FreeBSd before which installs only on a primary partition.Does the new version install on a logical partition without in antway upsetting the current design? Murali indeed, i installed it on a logical partition and had no problem at all.. version installed: FreeBSD

Mozilla crashes with ASP sites

2003-10-26 Thread Brian Reichholf
i've been googleing on this for quite a while now, and i find it rather annoying: i've just installed mozilla 1.5 from the ports a day or two ago but it strikes me as _very_ odd that when i load up an .asp page that mozilla crashes entirely. has anybody else experienced this problem? or does

Re: fsck -b 32 no updating Standard Superblock

2003-10-26 Thread Tilman Linneweh
* Tilman Linneweh [So, 26 Okt 2003 at 01:51 GMT]: I managed to trash my superblocks. When I try fsck -b 32 everything goes well, but the original superblock is not updated: sauna# fsck /dev/ad0s1e ** /dev/ad0s1e Cannot find file system superblock LOOK FOR ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS? [yn] y

RE: Website up, then down, then up, etc.

2003-10-26 Thread Charles Howse
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:25:54PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: Hmmm... It's not the basic look up the IP number part as that's working just fine. You don't seem to be using their (dynDNS) web redirection service (ie. howse.homeunix.net resolves to 66.168.145.25 which whois

subsribe freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2003-10-26 Thread Dmitry Dergachev
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test

2003-10-26 Thread R.T.G. TAN
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Re: Process priority

2003-10-26 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way ho to assign priority (cpu time) for each process ? I'm using Samba server for PDF printing and in case of big printouts it could eat whole cpu time for few seconds, so i'd like to control it and give to this process lower

Using FreeBSD Graphics

2003-10-26 Thread Sean P Shehan
I own and operate a small commercial web site hosting business. We have recently begun using FreeBSD on our new servers and wanted to ask if it was ok to use FreeBSD graphics in our advertising for hosting? Thank you, Sean P Shehan President, CEO Data Serve Technologies, Inc. www.eDataRack.com

System Backup help.

2003-10-26 Thread whizkid
I have been running BSD for a week or so now. I have everything setup just right, Webmail, DNS, IMAP, Webserver, etc I just install a DDS-2 tape drive, I have been reading about using dump for backing up filesystems. How can I use dump to backup the entire drive? If I try using: dump 0 -A

5.1 with old PIIX3 ide-controller?

2003-10-26 Thread Marc Schneiders
I have an old dual pentium pro mother board, Elitegroup, ECS P6FX2-A. It has the sometimes troublesome PIIX3 ide controller. I am very happy with it running 4 stable for web and DNS and mail. But the hard disks in it are now too small. So I decided to do it up totally and put in a 120 GB harddisk.

Re: System Backup help.

2003-10-26 Thread DavidB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running BSD for a week or so now. I have everything setup just right, Webmail, DNS, IMAP, Webserver, etc I just install a DDS-2 tape drive, I have been reading about using dump for backing up filesystems. How can I use dump to backup the entire drive? If

RE: Website up, then down, then up, etc.

2003-10-26 Thread Charles Howse
It certainly is perplexing. It is, isn't it? Yes. I've had similar impossible problems in the past. One time it turned out to be a broken network cable, and the other time it was just my inability to fathom the somewhat obscure way a particular device implemented packet

Auto thumbnail/index.html generation program in ports?

2003-10-26 Thread jason dictos
Is there a program that will auto rezise large .jpg images into smaller ones, while making index.html pages which have links to the large images with the smaller thumbnail ones as links? thanks, -Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

HELP FOR SUN NETRA T1 HME1

2003-10-26 Thread Wang Feng
Dear Sir: I have installed FREEBSD 5.1 o my Netra T1 computer, But I can't find 2nd Network Card , HME1, May you give me any suggestion? regards yours Wangfeng _ MSN Explorer: http://explorer.msn.com/lccn/

Wireless networking hardware recomendations?

2003-10-26 Thread stan
I've got to set up a wireless network. I plan on using a FreeBSD machine as the access point. It will be the gateway between an existing network, and a new subnet dedicated to various 802.11/B (and later perhaps /G) enabled devices. I'm looking ofr recomendations for hardware on the FreeBSD end.

Re: Auto thumbnail/index.html generation program in ports?

2003-10-26 Thread Brian Reichholf
it shouldn't be too much of a problem to do the same thing with a php/cgi script... probably simpler and quicker even. or, if you don't have php/cgi available or don't want to do it, the simplest option i can think of is shellscripting ;) jason dictos wrote: Is there a program that will auto

Re: How does one record audio?

2003-10-26 Thread DavidB
If it use to work under Linux but no longer, are sure you hardware is ok. Have you ever been able to play any audio files? Also, you have to use mixer to adjust the input level and the recording source. See man mixer. Sounds like a hardware or configuration issue. Also there is a Windows version

Re: ssh keys - howto?

2003-10-26 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 05:18, Jan Grant wrote: No, you don't. Use puttygen to create the key (as you've done) and copy the public half of it to your FreeBSD box (as you've done). I was reasonable sure that I created my keys on BSD and converted the public key to Putty using an import function.

Pls answer my question.

2003-10-26 Thread Valerian Galeru
I`ve got a Pentium MMX 150 MHZ. Tell me pls what is the best version of FreeBSD for my computer. Pls send the response to this e-mail. Thank You! - Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears ___ [EMAIL

Re: Pls answer my question.

2003-10-26 Thread Brian Reichholf
to me there is no such thing as `the best version' imho any version will do fine, you can select what you want to install and what you don't want. i don't know any exact numbers, but i guess you could easily achieve a 100-300 MB installation if you just installed the essential stuff (just

RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE vs RELENG_4_8

2003-10-26 Thread Robert H. Perry
I'm upgrading from 4.7 RELEASE and intended to build and install 4.8 RELEASE. It was recommended that I consider RELENG_4_8 because it contained some 13 security fixes. I came across a CVS website indicating that the code was for security advisories and other seriously critical fixes.

Re: Pls answer my question.

2003-10-26 Thread Brian Reichholf
basically any is fine, the main desicion that you have to make is if you want to install new software from source, or use the binary updates from the ports system... Valerian Galeru wrote: I`ve got a Pentium MMX 150 MHZ. Tell me pls what is the best version of FreeBSD for my computer. Pls send

Re: Getting sound in KDE

2003-10-26 Thread Rick Hoppe
Jacob Rieper wrote: I am having trouble getting my soundcard to work in 5.1 stable. It didn't automatically detect the Soundblaster Live card so I added it to the kernel with kldload snd_emu10k1.ko and rebooted. It then shows up under pcm0 like this pcm0: Creative EMU10K1 port 0xd400-0xd41f

Re: RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE vs RELENG_4_8

2003-10-26 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Robert H. Perry wrote: I'm upgrading from 4.7 RELEASE and intended to build and install 4.8 RELEASE. It was recommended that I consider RELENG_4_8 because it contained some 13 security fixes. I came across a CVS website indicating that the code

Compile Errors during Make Buildworld - FreeBSD 4.9

2003-10-26 Thread Chris Willis
I am having errors during a make buildworld command. Just did a CVSUP this morning. Does anyone know what this means? DMESG Output mordor# dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents

Re: Mozilla crashes with ASP sites

2003-10-26 Thread Robin Schoonover
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:54:52 +0100, Brian Reichholf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been googleing on this for quite a while now, and i find it rather annoying: i've just installed mozilla 1.5 from the ports a day or two ago but it strikes me as _very_ odd that when i load up an .asp page that

Re: Compile Errors during Make Buildworld - FreeBSD 4.9

2003-10-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:15:57PM -0800, Chris Willis wrote: I am having errors during a make buildworld command. Just did a CVSUP this morning. Does anyone know what this means? You seem to be doing a make buildworld -j (i.e. parallel compile), which means that the tail end of your log does

Process priority

2003-10-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there some way ho to assign priority (cpu time) for each process ? I'm using Samba server for PDF printing and in case of big printouts it could eat whole cpu time for few seconds, so i'd like to control it and give to this process lower priority. Thanks P.Duda

Re: RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE vs RELENG_4_8

2003-10-26 Thread Robert H. Perry
Jeremy Faulkner wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Robert H. Perry wrote: I'm upgrading from 4.7 RELEASE and intended to build and install 4.8 RELEASE. It was recommended that I consider RELENG_4_8 because it contained some 13 security fixes. I came across a CVS website

Re: How does one record audio?

2003-10-26 Thread andi payn
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 08:02, RexFelis wrote: I am using FreeBSD 5.1-p10, and recently I have need to record spoken sounds. As DavidB said, the fact that it no longer works in linux implies that you might have a hardware problem--with the sound card, or even with the mic. (Is this the same mic

Choosing A Stripe-Size (RAID5 Array)

2003-10-26 Thread Rishi Chopra
I've had a tough time getting help for this question on the newsgroups and freebsd.org discussion forums, so I thought I'd mail the list... I'm setting up a 600GB Raid-5 array (4-200GB 8MB Buffer IDE disks connected to an Adaptec 2400A controller) and would like some help picking a stripe-size

Apache-2.0.47 and mod_jk-apache2-1.2.2

2003-10-26 Thread John Ridge
Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD and attempting to migrate an Apache-2.0.47 / Tomcat-4.1.27 web app server from Mandrake Linux to FreeBSD. I've obtained the current apache-2.0.47, jakarta-tomcat-4.1.27 and mod_jk-apache2-1.2.2 ports from the FreeBSD website and everything seemed to compile correctly, but

sound in a MPU-401

2003-10-26 Thread Martin Paredes
Hi how can i enable a multifuncion card Basking Combo from Shark Multimedia wich is compatible with a MPU-401. maps ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

0: unknown option MAXUSERS config

2003-10-26 Thread Ben Palumbo
Hello, I am trying to complie a new kernel for IPsec and having problems with config(8) palumbo# /usr/sbin/config SECONDKERNEL SECONDKERNEL:0: unknown option MAXUSERS Snip from SECONDKERNEL file machine i386 cpu I586_CPU ident SECONDKERNEL maxusers15

Re: System Backup help.

2003-10-26 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 4:52 PM Subject: System Backup help. I have been running BSD for a week or so now. I have everything setup just right, Webmail, DNS, IMAP, Webserver, etc I just install a DDS-2

pop3 and socket 110

2003-10-26 Thread Gary Kline
Trying to install a GUI MUA has me wedged ... and lost!! I've been trying to get the mozilla mail/news suite to work for a long time--well, on and off! I finally installed cucipop on NS1.THOUGHT.ORG and tried to start it. [EMAIL

Re: SUID /usr/bin/rsh on Stable 4.8 after installworld

2003-10-26 Thread Allen Landsidel
At 09:10 10/26/2003, Jim wrote: [snip] At some point in this process however, I get to cvsup, buildworld, and installworld. This process re-enables the old permissions on the files I so diligently locked down. I would expect there is a flag or include/exclude file somewhere I need to lookup to

Re: Pls answer my question.

2003-10-26 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 06:25:44 -0800 (PST) Valerian Galeru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I`ve got a Pentium MMX 150 MHZ. Tell me pls what is the best version of FreeBSD for my computer. Pls send the response to this e-mail. Thank You! I personally would wait a few days till 4.9-release comes out and

russian xkblayout

2003-10-26 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
Hello, After recent reinstallation of X I cannot use Russian layout anymore. With the old release (4.1.0), I had two lines in the XF86Config file which did the job: Option XkbLayout ru Option XkbOptions grp:shift_toggle They installed the map with columns 1,2 filled

Re: pop3 and socket 110

2003-10-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:34:36PM -0700, Robin Schoonover wrote: On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:23:34 -0800, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to install a GUI MUA has me wedged ... and lost!! I've been trying to get the mozilla mail/news suite to work for a long

a quesions

2003-10-26 Thread ops yop
Dear Sir, Im one of the FreeBSD user and am so happy with with ur OS ,, but i have a quesuion ,, i heard that there is an OS of FreeBSD has 56 CDs ,, i mean a FreeBSD for Server consists of 56 CDs ,,, is that right ?? thanks in advance

Log every access to a file

2003-10-26 Thread chael
Hello, How do you create/add a system log to monitor every access to a specific file (say a database file accessed through samba)? A sample line for syslog.conf would be greatly appreciated ?? :-) Thanks in advance. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: RCS question

2003-10-26 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:17:18PM -0500, Alden Louis-Pierre wrote: I'm learning how to use the RCS utility. I never knew such a tool existed. I understand the commands and concept, but as always I need some enlightment with the following question: /home/apierre/RCS - my RCS

Re: RCS question

2003-10-26 Thread Scott W
No- IIRC, the default sis to look for an RCS subdirectory within the directory of the original file, failing that, the delta/file will be checked in to the local directory. This is generally 'the right behavior,' as RCS doesn't inherently store directory structures, so each file is in it's

RCS question

2003-10-26 Thread Alden Louis-Pierre
I'm learning how to use the RCS utility. I never knew such a tool existed. I understand the commands and concept, but as always I need some enlightment with the following question: /home/apierre/RCS - my RCS directory /home/apierre/Prog/C/Joy_of_C/chp_1 - the location of my C files from a

Re: RCS question

2003-10-26 Thread Ryan Thompson
Ryan Thompson wrote to Jez Hancock: To both of you, ci -l is your friend. and, of course, ci -u does the same thing, but leaves the revision unlocked. You'll use both. - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901-1st Avenue North -

Re: RCS question

2003-10-26 Thread Alden Louis-Pierre
Thanks everyone. I now understand RCS, so for each directory I plan to co/ci there should be an RCS directory. Thank You Alden Louis-Pierre ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Installing FreeBSD 5.1 on i386 (ASUS motherboard).

2003-10-26 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Sunday 26 October 2003 10:45, Krishna Ramanathan wrote: Hello, I have a machine with the following configuration : 1. AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz. 2. 512 Mb DDR RAM. 3. Samsung CD/RW Drive 4. 2 HDDs - IBM(80G) + Samsung(40G). 5. ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard. 6. NVidia GEForce MX-440(64Megs

hard disk problem

2003-10-26 Thread Valery
Hello! I use FreeBSD 4.4 Stable I faced the following problem. Here is a part from messages --- ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 32727951 of 16363936-16364175 (ad2s1 bn 32727951; cn 32468 tn 3 sn 18) status=59 error=40 ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 32727967 of