How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-10 Thread Mark Terribile
Marco Beishuizen writes: I own a HP LaserJet 2100, connected to my home network. According to the specifications it should be able to print 10 pages per minute. When using Windows that's not a problem. But using FreeBSD (with lpd configured with help of Apsfilter from the ports) it prints very

Re: sftp and ftp servers access only

2003-12-10 Thread login
Hello all, Here is our environment: 1. FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE 1. proftpd running and a user account called 'sandy' is chrooted and working fine. 2. sshd version OpenSSH_3.6.1p1 FreeBSD-20030423 with DenyUsers for user account 'sandy'. Tested, sandy can not ssh to the system. This is also

Kernel Panic (obelix)

2003-12-10 Thread bsd
Hi folks! I have had two kernel panics in quick succession, after being stable for 6 months. Strange The box is quite up to date on the 4 Stable branch: # uname -v FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Nov 28 09:49:42 SAST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/obelix Suddenly it has

Re: Lots of disks.

2003-12-10 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: Is it even possible to have 4 IDE disks? I know the performance would be terrible but I have considered this and realised it is irrelevant since the box only has a 10Mbit connection (it's for storing large data files (videos, etc.)). Yes - you

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-10 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Wed, 10 Dec 2003, the wise Mark Terribile entered: When something is slow, the first thing to learn is _why_ it is slow. With it running, call up systat 1 -vmstat (systat-one-dash-vmstat) and look at the bar graph from the lhs to the center of the display. If you see lots of

Re: for understanding correctly -- Up-to-date - Upgread ..

2003-12-10 Thread Mark Weinem
When I want to upgread to new release when it available Which way is true to that ; Binary Update Mechanism to move from release to release ( using freebsd-update-1.4 ports is correct or Do you know any ports ) or Using New release CD and using sysinstall program ... Maybe wrong, but I

Re: It's very relevant replying me, please

2003-12-10 Thread Mark Weinem
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Run pkgdb -F first After that run portupgrade -a pkgdb and portupgrade are not available after a fresh installation. Use pkg_add or sysinstall (Configure - Packages) to install additional software. Setting up the XFree86 GUI: sysinstall -

Re: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-10 Thread Siegbert Baude
Frederick Bowes wrote: I've solved the problem and repreat it here for future generations reference (: It appears that the MBR was infact corrupt, causing fdisk to get confused... the following command made the hd appear blank and let it all work again: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=2000

performance gain by compiling ports and kernel / java issues

2003-12-10 Thread Bert Lagaisse
Hey, 1) I now use the pre-build ports and kernel. (4.9-Release) What performance-gain do I obtain by building my own kernel and compiling the ports ? (the system is a PIII 500 Mhz with 512 MB ram) Does the extra work and efforts compare to the gain ? 2) Installing Eclipse on my box drives me

fsck not recognizing vinum filesystem type

2003-12-10 Thread DAVID THOMPSON
Hello all... I am a relatively new FreeBSD user and I have never posted a request for help before so I hope I am doing this right and not plugging up the board with irrelevant and out of context questions. My apologies if I am. Here is my problem: I have vinum installed on my FreeBSD

Re: sftp and ftp servers access only

2003-12-10 Thread Edward Epstein
Lines prefixed with are what [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. Hello all, Here is our environment: 1. FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE 1. proftpd running and a user account called 'sandy' is chrooted and working fine. 2. sshd version OpenSSH_3.6.1p1 FreeBSD-20030423 with DenyUsers for user account 'sandy'.

Re: Kernel Panic (obelix)

2003-12-10 Thread bsd
As expected - it crashed again today at 14:21... Stack trace at http://docs.perimeter.co.za/crash/2003-12/20031210_1421_a. HHeeeppp !:) Regards, Patrick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks! I have had two kernel panics in quick succession, after being stable for 6 months.

Re: Anyone have /usr/ports/java/jdk14 working on 4.8?

2003-12-10 Thread Eric Pogroski
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:44:54 -0600 Charles Howse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please tell me how you did it. My build always fails. I have /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 working. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/bin]# ./java -version java version 1.4.2_02 Java(TM) 2 Runtime

Re: how to make dhclient give up its lease and get a new one with routes, etc. ?

2003-12-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: somewhere other than on my network. As luck would have, I got assigned a new IP address last night (for the first time since I used @home more than 3 years ago) and for some reason the dhcp client wouldn't get the new address. I ran dhclient and that just

Re: Anyone have /usr/ports/java/jdk14 working on 4.8?

2003-12-10 Thread Charles Howse
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 07:16 am, Eric Pogroski wrote: On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:44:54 -0600 Charles Howse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please tell me how you did it. My build always fails. I have /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 working. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone have /usr/ports/java/jdk14 working on 4.8?

2003-12-10 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:25:46AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: You don't by any chance have OpenOffice-1.1 working do you? That's where I'm going with this, but I have to get jdk working first. attempting to install jdk takes 6+ hrs on my machine. :-) I just got both working less than a week

Re: Anyone have /usr/ports/java/jdk14 working on 4.8?

2003-12-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 08:47, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:25:46AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: You don't by any chance have OpenOffice-1.1 working do you? That's where I'm going with this, but I have to get jdk working first. attempting to install jdk takes 6+ hrs

Re: Linux Hardware Drivers with FreeBSD?

2003-12-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathan Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I connect to the internet with a wireless card (Blitzz 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN PCI Card, http://www.iblitzz.com). This has always worked well under Windows 2000, but now I'd like to do the same with FreeBSD 4.9. Unfortunately, the closest drivers

RE: performance gain by compiling ports and kernel / java issues

2003-12-10 Thread fbsd_user
To answer your question number 1. I have done it both ways and I have not seen any performance gain building things by hand. Time is money, so using an pre-built port which is called an package is all ways my first choose. If the port I want does not have package then I use the port. Only at

Re: Apache

2003-12-10 Thread C. Ulrich
[Forgot to CC the list.] On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:51, Payne wrote: Hi, Thanks, yes FreeBSD rocks!!! I know this is the right place to ask, so if you have the apache group list that would be nice, but what do I have to do to get my users account to work? Are they place for example

sed from a shell script - invalid command code

2003-12-10 Thread Jez Hancock
I'm trying to get the following Bourne shell script to output a list of all users on the server with the exception of those listed in the $ignore_users variable: -snip- #!/bin/sh sed=/usr/bin/sed passwd_file=/etc/passwd

Re: performance gain by compiling ports and kernel / java issues

2003-12-10 Thread Lucas Holt
On Dec 10, 2003, at 8:12 AM, Bert Lagaisse wrote: Hey, 1) I now use the performance-gain do I obtain by building my own kernel and compiling the ports ? (the system is a PIII 500 Mhz with 512 MB ram) Does the extra work and efforts compare to the gain ? If you have a newer processor, there

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-10 Thread Mark Terribile
Marco, I haven't much time at the moment, so this will not be a clean reply. ... I did the test: - When ps is busy processing the document, a lot of angle brackets are visible in the middle of the graph (under user). But only for a second or two. - When the data is sent to the printer, a

Re: group file limits

2003-12-10 Thread C. Ulrich
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 17:45, jonathan wrote: Hi, I'm running a freebsd 4.8 data server on an intranet. There is many group (10 and more will come) and a lot of members (10-12 by group) into them... So i'm having big trouble with the fact that 'pw' doesn't read further than 1024 characters

Re: freebsd mount nwfs

2003-12-10 Thread Feroz F. Basir
Hi all, At last, I got it to work. I be able to mount nwfs. Thank you for those who gave me information and guideline. Thank you again. feroz --- Cristian Salan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:22:02PM +, Feroz F. Basir wrote: Hi, IPX network number is

chroot(2)ed or jail(8)ed www/apache{13,2,21} ports?

2003-12-10 Thread Cordula's Web
Hi, is there a configuration option to install www/apache13 and www/apache2 [www/apache21] in a chroot(2) environment, or perhaps even in a jail(8)? There's no knob in the ports Makefile(s) for this, and doing it manually is error-prone... BTW, what's the difference between www/apache2 and

Re: Anyone have /usr/ports/java/jdk14 working on 4.8?

2003-12-10 Thread Eric Pogroski
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 07:25:46 -0600 Charles Howse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 10 December 2003 07:16 am, Eric Pogroski wrote: On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:44:54 -0600 Charles Howse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please tell me how you did it. My build always fails. I have

Re: Anyone have /usr/ports/java/jdk14 working on 4.8?

2003-12-10 Thread Charles Howse
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 07:53 am, Steve Bertrand wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 08:47, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:25:46AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: You don't by any chance have OpenOffice-1.1 working do you? That's where I'm going with this, but I have

Re: Anyone have /usr/ports/java/jdk14 working on 4.8?

2003-12-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
That's much help, thanks! OK, next question... Assuming I get OO installed, what versions of MS Office files will it open? I have need to open MS Office *XP* files. (cross fingers) I can successfully import/export Word, excel, ppt documents successfully, and although some will say that some

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-10 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Wed, 10 Dec 2003, the wise Mark Terribile entered: I'm wondering if the problem is that everything going through APSFILTER is sent as Postscript or raster. If this is on a 4.x (did you say 4.9?) then you are limited to the 1.1 Meg/sec of USB1 (I'm assuming that it's a USB

I'm having a hell of a time with mysql/apache/php

2003-12-10 Thread chip . wiegand
I installed 5.1 and need to install apache2/mysql/php. I did this a month ago and it worked great. Now I cannot get any of them to install. (I'm using the same cd, on a computer that is the same as the previous one). The errors keep coming back to the compiler. It says Checking if conversion

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-10 Thread Chris Howells
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 11:13, Marco Beishuizen wrote: I got the impression that the printer is processing the data coming from Windows a lot faster than when the data is coming from FreeBSD. I have a similiar issue with a HP LaserJet 4 Plus, which is capable of 12ppm. It's connected to

Re: Kernel Panic (obelix)

2003-12-10 Thread Peter Risdon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As expected - it crashed again today at 14:21... Stack trace at http://docs.perimeter.co.za/crash/2003-12/20031210_1421_a. HHeeeppp !:) I glanced at the stack trace. I emphasise that I am NOT qualified to interpret such output properly but whenever I've seen

Re: I'm having a hell of a time with mysql/apache/php

2003-12-10 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 5.1 and need to install apache2/mysql/php. I did this a month ago and it worked great. Now I cannot get any of them to install. (I'm using the same cd, on a computer that is the same as the previous one). The errors keep coming back to the compiler. It says

Re: I'm having a hell of a time with mysql/apache/php

2003-12-10 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 5.1 and need to install apache2/mysql/php. I did this a month ago and it worked great. Now I cannot get any of them to install. (I'm using the same cd, on a computer that is the same as the previous one). The errors keep coming back to the compiler. It says

Re: Linux Hardware Drivers with FreeBSD?

2003-12-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Jonathan Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I connect to the internet with a wireless card (Blitzz 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN PCI Card, http://www.iblitzz.com). This has always worked well under Windows 2000, but now I'd like to do the same with FreeBSD 4.9. Unfortunately, the closest

Terminal setting

2003-12-10 Thread Hossein
Hello; My FreeBSD box is going to serve some young shell users who have begun with Linux. In order to atract them it mustbe as good looking as a Linux system but I am having serious peroblem with my terminal settings. Some vary important keys such as Back Space, home, end and ... don't

Spam Filter - Sieve

2003-12-10 Thread Ajitesh K
Hi All, I am using Cyrus mail appn and its filter appn is sieve. FYI I am FreeBSD newbie want to learn to filter spam. Any suggetions. Thanks in Advance. Ajit ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-10 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Wed, 10 Dec 2003, the wise Chris Howells entered: I have a similiar issue with a HP LaserJet 4 Plus, which is capable of 12ppm. It's connected to my network using a JetDirect card on 100mbit switch, so speed of the interface shouldn't be an issue. I'm using the hpijs drivers

Re: Terminal setting

2003-12-10 Thread Cordula's Web
Hello; My FreeBSD box is going to serve some young shell users who have begun with Linux. In order to atract them it mustbe as good looking as a Linux system but I am having serious peroblem with my terminal settings. Some vary important keys such as Back Space, home, end and ...

UPS

2003-12-10 Thread dave
Hello, I've got a 5.1 box and a few other systems, one that comes to mind and a cable modem, possibly other stuff will be added in the future, that i'd like to put a UPS on. I'm looking for information and user experiences with UPS's under fbsd. I'd like something that i can query via fbsd or

Stupid vinum questions

2003-12-10 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi! Before I start experimenting, I would like to find out, if I am on the right track. I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left. 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or is it more like a partition, which can be sliced)? 2) Can I boot from such a thing, or do I

group limits

2003-12-10 Thread jonathan
Hi, I'm running freebsd 4.8. I need to know if there is a maximum number of group a user can be member of. If yes, can that maximum number can be set to an higher value. Any help or suggestion will be appreciated. tank's to C. Ulrich for anwsering my last question.

Re: Spam Filter - Sieve

2003-12-10 Thread Kenzo
IMGate, join the mailling list and ask for config files and docs. http://imgate.meiway.com/index.cfm - Original Message - From: Ajitesh K [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD - Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD - Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:26 AM

Mozilla display issues, esp. with hover

2003-12-10 Thread Eric H. Barlow
Hello I'm running Mozilla on Windows and I get the same thing. Its funny, I post the code on my apache (1.3) server and it does this (on php includes) however, it doesn't do this when I post it to a web server off site (hostultra) it doesn't do this. I wonder if it is the way the web server

Question about ports...

2003-12-10 Thread Payne
Hi, I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't want to have to reinstall ports everytime I add something new. Thanks, Payne ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Stupid vinum questions

2003-12-10 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 17:57 10.12.2003 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left. 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or is it more like a partition, which can be sliced)? Its like a partition/partitions that you newfs and mount like: mount

Re: UPS

2003-12-10 Thread Dave McCammon
--- dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a 5.1 box and a few other systems, one that comes to mind and a cable modem, possibly other stuff will be added in the future, that i'd like to put a UPS on. I'm looking for information and user experiences with UPS's under fbsd. I'd

Trouble Adding New Boot Drive

2003-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a 4.9 system that has two identical 850 MB drives and a 4 GB drive. The system boots from one of the 850 MB drives (ad0s1a) and uses a 50 MB slice (?) for root. The rest of this drive is unused. The 4 GB drive (ad2s1e) contains /usr. The other standard filesystems such at /var, /tmp,

Re: How to Setup Reverse DNS on LAN?

2003-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:40 AM On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 05:50:25AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 33 lines which said: When connecting via ssh to my FBSD boxes, it takes over a

Re: Spam Filter - Sieve

2003-12-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
I am using Cyrus mail appn and its filter appn is sieve. FYI I am FreeBSD newbie want to learn to filter spam. Any suggetions. http://spamassassin.org Steve Thanks in Advance. Ajit ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

freeBSD 4.9 won't boot after installation

2003-12-10 Thread estate
HI, I am pretty sure this is a misconfigured partition problem but maybe someone there can help. installing freeBSD 4.9 onto a compaq deskpro, 4 GB IDE, 192 MB RAM, previous OS is XP home ed. I dedicated a 4 GB drive to freebsd 4.9 and specified it be bootable. I also installed (at least

Installing 5.1 on a Proliant 3000

2003-12-10 Thread Michael L. Hostbaek
Hola, I am trying to install 5.1-RELEASE on an old Compaq Proliant 3000. When I boot on the cd, and choose 'default' in the bootloader - I get the following error message - followed by a panic: acpi: bad RSDP checksum (182) NMI ISA D0, EISA ff RAM parity error, likely hardware failure. and

NGROUPS_MAX

2003-12-10 Thread jonathan
Hi, i'm jonathan and i'm running a freebsd 4.8 box. i wish to increase the value of NGROUPS_MAX into /usr/src/sys/sys/syslimits.h. I'd like to know how increasing that number to permit users from /etc/passwd to be member of more than 16 groups will affect system performances. What will be an

Re: sed from a shell script - invalid command code

2003-12-10 Thread Jez Hancock
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:40:58PM +, Jez Hancock wrote: I'm trying to get the following Bourne shell script to output a list of all users on the server with the exception of those listed in the $ignore_users variable: -snip- #!/bin/sh sed=/usr/bin/sed passwd_file=/etc/passwd

Upgrading

2003-12-10 Thread Marius Kirschner
I need to upgrade my 4.3 box, but haven't done so in a long time. Is the below still valid? cvsup -g -L2 supfile cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL make installworld reboot ---Marius

Re: Upgrading

2003-12-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:36:43PM -0500, Marius Kirschner wrote: I need to upgrade my 4.3 box, but haven't done so in a long time. Is the below still valid? The upgrade procedure is documented in the handbook and in /usr/src/UPDATING. Your list omitted a few things. Kris

Printing from FreeBSD to Windows XP

2003-12-10 Thread Marc Smith
Hello, I have a small home network with 2 computers, one running FreeBSD and the other with Windows XP Professional. I have a printer hooked up to the Windows XP machine and I would like to be able to print to it from my FreeBSD box. I have already install Printer Services for Unix in Windows.

RE: Printing from FreeBSD to Windows XP

2003-12-10 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Hello, I have a small home network with 2 computers, one running FreeBSD and the other with Windows XP Professional. I have a printer hooked up to the Windows XP machine and I would like to be able to print to it from my FreeBSD box. I have already install Printer Services for Unix

Re: how to make dhclient give up its lease and get a new one with routes, etc. ?

2003-12-10 Thread Ryan Sandridge
On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:33 PM, paul beard wrote: Advice on automagically notifying zoneedit is welcome, as well but not as pressing: I think they work with dyndns and of course I chose no-ip.org. I think you need to install /ports/dns/ddclient. This will update zoneedit when your IP is

mount_smbfs problems

2003-12-10 Thread Doug Poland
Hi, I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on a box that, daily, connects to a windows machine and writes files to a share. This system was working for about a month. But now, every time I issue the mount_smbfs command I get mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = RPC struct is bad In

Re: mount_smbfs problems

2003-12-10 Thread HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER
Maybe your Google is broken. =) The string mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = RPC struct is bad returned ten or so relevant results including... http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg41941.html Looks as though the Windoze user that you are connecting with has a

scp between windows and freebsd

2003-12-10 Thread KURT BUFF
All, I'm following the directions here: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/postfix-exchange-users.html to improve the gateway to our Exchange box, and am stuck on a particular step. I just can't seem to make the Putty SCP work from my workstation. I used Putty's window copy function to paste

I can't connect to internet. Plz help me

2003-12-10 Thread nil ban
Hello, I'm a novice linux user currently switched over to freebsd when many linux users told me that freebsd is real unix and only slackware is somehow matched with it. So I installed feeebsd 4.8 but I am getting few problems I can't handle. Kindly tell me how to do the following ; I can't

Re: I can't connect to internet. Plz help me

2003-12-10 Thread Cordula's Web
because pppd does run ) but whenever I try to visit a website it doesn't work, browser says unknown host. I even tried xchat, it says something like have u missspelled your host name ?. I also don't know what my host name is. Whenever Have you properly configured the DNS nameservers

Re: I can't connect to internet. Plz help me

2003-12-10 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 10, 2003, at 4:11 PM, nil ban wrote: I can't connect to internet. [ ... ] names are mail.myisp.com(pop3)and smtp.mail.com. I tried using kpp and I could connect to my isp ( I am telling this because pppd does run ) but whenever I try to visit a website it doesn't work, browser says unknown

Re: I can't connect to internet. Plz help me

2003-12-10 Thread Peter Risdon
nil ban wrote: ... sp gave me to use for having mail and surfing internet like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and my mail servers names are mail.myisp.com(pop3)and smtp.mail.com. I tried using kpp and I could connect to my isp ( I am telling this because pppd does run ) Do that then, once you are

Re: Printing from FreeBSD to Windows XP

2003-12-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Marc Smith wrote: Hello, I have a small home network with 2 computers, one running FreeBSD and the other with Windows XP Professional. I have a printer hooked up to the Windows XP machine and I would like to be able to print to it from my FreeBSD box. I have already install Printer Services

Re: I can't connect to internet. Plz help me

2003-12-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:11:22PM -0800, nil ban wrote: Hello, I'm a novice linux user currently switched over to freebsd when many linux users told me that freebsd is real unix and only slackware is somehow matched with it. So I installed feeebsd 4.8 but I am getting few problems I can't

cvsup behind http proxy

2003-12-10 Thread Feroz F. Basir
hi, anybody ever cvsup behind http proxy? The only way to go out (internet) is going through http proxy. And this http require authentication as well. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. BT Yahoo! Broadband - Save £80 when

Strange errors swap...

2003-12-10 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello I've got some strange errors but don't no what they realy mean: [snip] Dec 8 09:47:52 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 52232, size: 4096 [snip] Dec 9 09:40:27 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno:

Re: Thanks,

2003-12-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:07:24PM -0800, nil ban wrote: Thanks, Yes , when I run kpp it says /etc/resolve.conf is missing or can't be read. I havn't got anything except username and password from my isp. I'll do what u said I don't have to use any address explicitly in windows. And yes

Re: Problem with vnconfig and ISO images

2003-12-10 Thread Marc Wiz
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:07:49PM -0600, Marc Wiz wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 4.9 I used to be able to mount an ISO image (disk file) using vnconfig on 4.7 and 4.8. Now I cannot. -su-2.05b# vnconfig -c vn2c /stage/daily-1.iso -su-2.05b# file /stage/daily-1.iso /stage/daily-1.iso: ISO

Re: Apache

2003-12-10 Thread staf wagemakers
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:51:24PM -0500, Payne wrote: Thanks, yes FreeBSD rocks!!! I know this is the right place to ask, so if you have the apache group list that would be nice, but what do I have to do to get my users account to work? Are they place for example

Re: cvsup behind http proxy

2003-12-10 Thread staf wagemakers
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:14:14PM +, Feroz F. Basir wrote: anybody ever cvsup behind http proxy? The only way to go out (internet) is going through http proxy. And this http require authentication as well. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. Try to set HTTP_PROXY HTTP_AUTH variable:

problem with perl when installing port dvdrip

2003-12-10 Thread mikael backman
Hi. I don't understand what this mean: %cd /usr/ports/multimedia/dvdrip %make === dvdrip-0.50.13_1 is marked as broken: You need at least perl 5.6.0. Do not use FreeBSD 4.x' system perl, it's outdated. Install lang/perl5 and issue 'use.perl port' I installed perl5 ,but issue 'use.perl port'

RE: scp between windows and freebsd

2003-12-10 Thread Lee Mx
From: KURT BUFF [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: scp between windows and freebsd Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:50:01 -0700 (MST) All, I'm following the directions here: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/postfix-exchange-users.html to improve the gateway to our Exchange box, and am

Adelphia at home and NAT...

2003-12-10 Thread ander Sendzimir
I chose Adelphia for my high speed internet service here in lovely Vermont. Well, actually, Adelphia is the ONLY choice. Don't get me started. DSL isn't even in sight. I would like to be able to ssh into my home machine from a remote internet site or someone else's computer. I've tried a

Good understanding about kernel

2003-12-10 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi , I check the kernel file it's come to me too big . For example with default installation My kernel size is 5,473,370 You will say because of GENERIC kernel too many driver support for this reason it can be . My question is here 1) in document said that FreeBSD support dynamic

Re: cvsup behind http proxy

2003-12-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:19:37AM +0100, staf wagemakers wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:14:14PM +, Feroz F. Basir wrote: anybody ever cvsup behind http proxy? The only way to go out (internet) is going through http proxy. And this http require authentication as well. Any ideas?

Creating New FreeBSD CVS Server in Turkey

2003-12-10 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi , I don't know How or to Whom I have to contact to create a cvsupdate server in Turkey for mirror . I mean Turkish people or closer countries can access from this server more easy and Download FreeBSD and in Turkey I did not hear too much people who are using FreeBSD for this

Re: Good understanding about kernel

2003-12-10 Thread Cordula's Web
I check the kernel file it's come to me too big . For example with default installation My kernel size is 5,473,370 You will say because of GENERIC kernel too many driver support for this reason it can be . My question is here What's (statically) included in the GENERIC kernel, is

Sound Blaster Vibra 128

2003-12-10 Thread Riv Octovahriz
Can you please tell me how to install SoundBlaster Vibra 128 on my FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE ? I've tried pcm, sb and sbc, and none of them works Thx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Creating New FreeBSD CVS Server in Turkey

2003-12-10 Thread Cordula's Web
and in Turkey I did not hear too much people who are using FreeBSD for this reason I want to translate this Handbook into Turkish and put it on the web for easy access for reading and Learning . How can I do that ? From Whom I have to get okey for this job ... Someone already wrote a

Re: diskless swap filename

2003-12-10 Thread ian j hart
Re: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200311291436.37674.ianjhart On Saturday 29 November 2003 2:36 pm, ian j hart wrote: Does anyone have a patch to use the mac address instead of the ip address for the swapfile name? Feeling lazy this week :) Cheers No takers then :( For the archive,

RE: Adelphia at home and NAT...

2003-12-10 Thread fbsd_user
I have Adelphia Cable also and this is how it works. They use DHCP to issue dynamic ip addresses to their cable modem. The ip address does not change unless you power off the cable modem or there is an power outage in your area. Use ifconfig command to display info about your interfaces (IE: Nic

Re: Spam Filter - Sieve

2003-12-10 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:47:58PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: I am using Cyrus mail appn and its filter appn is sieve. FYI I am FreeBSD newbie want to learn to filter spam. Any suggetions. http://spamassassin.org You might wanna combine spamfiler (which is _realy_ good) with

FreeBSD 4.x Shuttle FB75

2003-12-10 Thread Brian Costello
Hello, Two questions: First, I am wondering whether FreeBSD 4.x will work on a Shuttle FB75. Here are the specs of this system: Form Factor : Shuttle Form Factor CPU Socket : Intel Socket 478, support 533/800MHz FSB HT CPU Chipsets : North bridge:Intel 875P, South bridge:ICH5-R Memory

Re: Printing from FreeBSD to Windows XP

2003-12-10 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Marc Smith wrote: Hello, I have a small home network with 2 computers, one running FreeBSD and the other with Windows XP Professional. I have a printer hooked up to the Windows XP machine and I would like to be able to print to it from my FreeBSD box. I have already

Re: problem with perl when installing port dvdrip

2003-12-10 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:29:48 +0100, mikael backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I don't understand what this mean: %cd /usr/ports/multimedia/dvdrip %make === dvdrip-0.50.13_1 is marked as broken: You need at least perl 5.6.0. Do not use FreeBSD 4.x' system perl, it's outdated. Install

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:37:48AM +0200, Vahric MUHTARYAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 46 lines which said: Why some programs are in base system . What is the meaning of Sendmail or SSH in base system . Programs are only executable things What is the relation about those

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:42:17PM -0500, Scott W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 104 lines which said: 1. Kernel. Umm, I hope I don't have to expain this one ;-) 2. Core system- This one can likely be argued a bit with bsd (and 3. userland apps- Kernel and core make a

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:19:04AM +0100, Simon Barner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 101 lines which said: If you have a look at all this, you will easily understand why there aren't multiple FreeBSD distributions (like in the Linux world): The FreeBSD Project provides more than a

Re: Stupid vinum questions

2003-12-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 10 December 2003 at 17:57:56 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hi! Before I start experimenting, I would like to find out, if I am on the right track. I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left. 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or is it

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2003-12-10 Thread Joel Crane
hi, i am kind of a newbie to FreeBSD so i have some questions... I have an older 4/86 laptop that currently has nothing but dos on it. I want to install FreeBSD on this machine but without windows i can't get on the internet to download freeBSD. I have a newer desktpo machine that i will have

Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-10 Thread Tony Jones
Install Perl 5.8.2 from ports (or source) I did this (/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8). Made fine, but grokked during 'make install': /bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/perl/lib/perl5/5.8.2/BSDPAN/ExtUtils install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/BSDPAN-5.8.0/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm

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2003-12-10 Thread Luke Kearney
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:57:08 -0800 Joel Crane [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: hi, i am kind of a newbie to FreeBSD so i have some questions... I have an older 4/86 laptop that currently has nothing but dos on it. I want to install FreeBSD on this machine but without

re-process mail queue

2003-12-10 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I'm using dial-up ADSL, So my notebook isn't always on-line. I have sendmail enabled. Now the problem is, mailq showed that #mailq /var/spool/mqueue (6 requests) -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- Sender/Recipient--- hBB4UpWD050471 834 Thu

Re: [Possible SPAM] Upgrading

2003-12-10 Thread Mark Pearce
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:36:43 -0500 Marius Kirschner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to upgrade my 4.3 box, but haven't done so in a long time. Is the below still valid? cvsup -g -L2 supfile cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL make installkernel

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-10 Thread Scott W
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:42:17PM -0500, Scott W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 104 lines which said: 1. Kernel. Umm, I hope I don't have to expain this one ;-) 2. Core system- This one can likely be argued a bit with bsd (and 3.

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