Run away CPU FreeBSD 4.9 Release #0

2004-01-06 Thread Matt Villion
Greetings, I have just installed 4.9 R0 on to new hardware and have encountered an unusual issue. It was not detected straight away as everything appeared to do what it was supposed to do... Some processes run away with the CPU. Screen is one of the worst offenders along with python.. The CPU st

Re: DNS resources or "toaster"

2004-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
Marius Kirschner wrote: I have the task to set up a two DNS servers for my company, and while I have administered their DNS servers using BIND for a number of years I have never set them up from scratch. I have 2 boxes where FreeBSD 5.1 will be installed, and, to be honest, I'm not sure whether t

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:05, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:29:26 +1030 > > Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:59, Scott I. Remick wrote: > > > Sorry for the delay... holidays had me busy. > > Me too:) > > > > Hopefully you're still a

Geman ISDN

2004-01-06 Thread Dave Armstrong
Hi Folks, Just installed FreeBSD 4.9 and need to get my ISDN modem up and running. Any ideas on how to do that? Not sure where to start. Thanks, Dave Armstrong = Dave David Armstrong Am Kollergang 7 87656 Germaringen Germany Tel +49 8341 991400

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:38, Scott I. Remick wrote: > --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wonder whether editing the label and setting both offsets to 0 > > > might solve the problem. > > > > It definitely seems like that, as the actual offset of the partition is > > 0,

Two silly questions aboun netbooting

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey Lapin
Hi, all! I have two silly questions: 1. I have p1-75 with a small disk (40Mb), where I want to put kernel. And then want it to mount root from 192.168.1.1:/nfsroot, so diskless scripts located there took control and system should be running? The best could be if DHCP/BOOTP be avoided since there

Re: Geman ISDN

2004-01-06 Thread jan . muenther
> Just installed FreeBSD 4.9 and need to get my ISDN modem up and running. Any > ideas on how to do that? Not sure where to start. Depends heavily on what type of product you have there. Internal Fritz Card? See the i4b(4) manpages then, and check out the excellent documentation on the website. I

Re: Help

2004-01-06 Thread W. Ryan Merrick
Keith wrote: Hi, Could you please tell me a way to remove freebsd from my computer. Thanks for your time. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: error in port

2004-01-06 Thread W. Ryan Merrick
Dino Vliet wrote: I tried to do it once again and I'm getting the following error: ** gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu/work/ghostscript-7.07/gimp-print-4.2.1/src' gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu/work/ghostscript-

anyone have this problem of hotmail?

2004-01-06 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Several of my friends and I finally decide to leave hotmail for another mailbox (because we like IMAP). What I wish to do is to redirect hotmail messages to another mailbox. I tried gotmail from the port, that tool had worked fine, but that tool gets email from webpages which is changing (so it

re: anyone have this problem of hotmail?

2004-01-06 Thread Zhang Weiwu
how silly I am. Some one told me the famous fetchmail can do the work. _ 享用世界上最大的电子邮件系统― MSN Hotmail。 http://www.hotmail.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

XFree86 & Desktop installation

2004-01-06 Thread freebsd
Hi, I already configured the XFree86 on my FreeBSD system and I want to run the KDE or Gnome desktop applications. How is this possible. I appreciate your help. Totally newbie here :) Thanks. Cheers, Mazen S. Alzogbi www.mazenalzogbi.com ___ [EMAIL

Re: XFree86 & Desktop installation

2004-01-06 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:04:48AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I already configured the XFree86 on my FreeBSD system and I want to run > the KDE or Gnome desktop applications. How is this possible. > > I appreciate your help. Totally newbie here :) If you have the time, patience a

changing configure options when using a port

2004-01-06 Thread August Simonelli
Hi all, I'm slowly getting used to FreeBSD from a Linux background so forgive the ignorant questions. I'm curious what the best way to add configure options are when installing from a port. For example, i'd like to add --enable-rewrite to apache2. Can I just put it in the Makefile in /usr/port

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:43:44 +1030 Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:05, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:29:26 +1030 > > > > Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:59, Scott I. Remick wrote: > >

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:57:09 +1030 Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:38, Scott I. Remick wrote: > > --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I wonder whether editing the label and setting both offsets to 0 > > > > might solve the prob

Re: changing configure options when using a port

2004-01-06 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:33:49PM +1100, August Simonelli wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm slowly getting used to FreeBSD from a Linux background so forgive > the ignorant questions. > > I'm curious what the best way to add configure options are when > installing from a port. For example, i'd like to

Re: XFree86 & Desktop installation

2004-01-06 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:04:48AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I already configured the XFree86 on my FreeBSD system and I want to run >> the KDE or Gnome desktop applications. How is this possible. >> >> I appreciate your help. Totally newbie here :) >

[tompos@martos.bme.hu: jail on nullfs and 5.1-RELEASE]

2004-01-06 Thread Papp Tamas
Nobody answered on the freebsd-fs list. May be (I hope;)) here. Please, help me. thanx, tompos - Forwarded message from Papp Tamas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:11:38 +0100 From: Papp Tamas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: jail on nullfs and 5.1-RELE

Re: changing configure options when using a port

2004-01-06 Thread August Simonelli
Ok that makes sense. So something like make --enable-rewrite make install clean would do the trick? As well as make WITH_MODULES="include rewrite auth" install clean as suggested by Gautam Gopalakrishnan? august On 06/01/2004, at 11:13 PM, Subhro wrote: Hi August, System wide make options a

Re: libxmms.so troubles with building mplayer.

2004-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:08:17PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > For reasons I haven't sorted out, player is looking for > /usr/local/lib/libxmms.so, while the library xmms.so[.4] > is in the X11R6 tree. So mplayer quits. When I turn off > WITH_XMMS, mplayer dies elsewhere.

Re: changing configure options when using a port

2004-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:33:49PM +1100, August Simonelli wrote: > I'm slowly getting used to FreeBSD from a Linux background so forgive > the ignorant questions. > > I'm curious what the best way to add configure options are when > installing from a port. For example, i'd like to add --enable

Re: [tompos@martos.bme.hu: jail on nullfs and 5.1-RELEASE]

2004-01-06 Thread Papp Tamas
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:49:37PM +0530, Subhro wrote: > Hi Tompos, > RTFM? > Refer to the jail manual pages. It will tell you how to run services within > a jail. Running services within a jail is *not* like running services on a > bare system. Also find locked up as expected. For executing the f

Re: error in port

2004-01-06 Thread Dino Vliet
This worked!! I could get it to install with the package and I also managed to install Gnucash successfully which was dependent of ghostscript. Thanks --- "W. Ryan Merrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dino Vliet wrote: > > I tried to do it once again and I'm getting the > > following error: > > *

Re: changing configure options when using a port

2004-01-06 Thread August Simonelli
On 06/01/2004, at 11:52 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:33:49PM +1100, August Simonelli wrote: I'm slowly getting used to FreeBSD from a Linux background so forgive the ignorant questions. I'm curious what the best way to add configure options are when installing from a port.

p5-DBD-Oracle-1.14 with 9i

2004-01-06 Thread Vitalis
Hi, Should this driver also work for Oracle 9i? I get the following error at connection, though I don't think there is a real memory problem: DBI connect('MYBASE','mylogin',...) failed: at ./connect.pl line 4 ORA-01019: unable to allocate memory in the user side (DBD: login failed, probably a s

Re: p5-DBD-Oracle-1.14 with 9i

2004-01-06 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Vitalis wrote: > Should this driver also work for Oracle 9i? > > I get the following error at connection, though I don't think there is a > real memory problem: > > DBI connect('MYBASE','mylogin',...) failed: at ./connect.pl line 4 > ORA-01019: unable to allocate memory in the

Re: XFree86 & Desktop installation

2004-01-06 Thread freebsd
Gautam and Bernard, Thank you for your instant help. I will try that as soon :) Cheers, Mazen >>On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:04:48AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I already configured the XFree86 on my FreeBSD system and I want to >>> run the KDE or Gnome desktop applications

Re: jdk14+tomcat5 crashing box

2004-01-06 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On (2003/12/31 04:55), Brett Gulla wrote: > Thanks for the input, but the problem seems to have been fixed. Here's what I > did: > 1. cvsup'd to 5.2 RC > 2. upgraded to tomcat 5.0.16 > > PS. Using native threads (-lc_r not -pthread) I believe that the problem was fixed in FreeBSD itself, becau

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Beware; if you write a disklabel (or presumably bsdlabel; I have no > experience > with 5.x) to ad6 you create a "dangerously dedicated" > disk, i.e. a disk without slices. Ok. I am not saying that's what I want to do, I only mentioned it because

Re: How do I read digital camera on USB port with hppsmtools?

2004-01-06 Thread Ken Seggerman
Thanks for your reply. > > I plug the camera into the USB port, turn on the camera, it beeps and says > > it is connected to a computer. > > At this stage I think you could mount the camera with the /dev/da0s1 > device with msdosfs. Works for me with 5.1 I added this to my /etc/fstab: /dev/da0s1

Two unrelated questions

2004-01-06 Thread Scott Miller
Hi List, 1) Does the 5.x branch of freebsd support 32 bit cardbus? or will it be added to 4.x soon? 2) I have installed freebsd 4.9 on my Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, when I try to configure XFree86 I have to use the text based tool. After doing that, when I run startx I get a grainy desktop t

Re: Two unrelated questions

2004-01-06 Thread Kliment Andreev
> 2) I have installed freebsd 4.9 on my Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, when I > try to configure XFree86 I have to use the text based tool. After doing > that, when I run startx I get a grainy desktop that almost covers my screen, > but not quite, and has only a clock window, a login window, and an

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And maybe prefix that by a > > $ bsdlabel -R /dev/ad6s1c dislabel.ad6s1c.new > > which would just check your new layout for errors, without writing > anything, and print your file out as disklabel understands it. So you're saying, ru

Poor SCSI disk preformance

2004-01-06 Thread Derek Marcotte
Hi Everyone, I'm having difficulty getting my SCSI hard disks to preform well. I don't know what tools are available to help me diagnose this issue, or if there are specific tweaks that I need to make. Attached is the output from dmesg. The reason why I say that performance is slow is that wh

machdep.hlt_logical_cpus missing in 4.9-Release

2004-01-06 Thread Hall J D (ISeLS)
I've just installed 4.9-Release on a twin Xeon system and compiled a generic SMP kernel (GENERIC with SMP and APIC_IO enabled). The problem I'm having is the system is using the logical HyperThreading CPUs even though I don't want it to. The errata for 4.9-Release says that the logical CPUs are p

RE: inspiron 8000 pcmcia problem

2004-01-06 Thread michael Alexander
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of paul > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: inspiron 8000 pcmcia problem > > > I've already posted this question to -mobile just trying to > get as much traffic

Re: inspiron 8000 pcmcia problem

2004-01-06 Thread paul
- Original Message - From: "michael Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'paul'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 9:38 AM Subject: RE: inspiron 8000 pcmcia problem > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Getting "rid" of sendmail

2004-01-06 Thread Emmanuel Gravel
I'm looking for a way to entirely remove an MTA from a box and forward everything to another host. I've found the /etc/mail/aliases file and saw that I could configure it so that root would point to something else, so that's half the battle, possibly. Once that's done, however, is it simply a matte

mount Siemens m55

2004-01-06 Thread Michael Hollmann
i would like to mount my siemens m55. it would be identified as ugen0: Prolific Technology PL2303 Serial adapter (ATEN/IOGEAR UC232A), rev 1.10/2.02, addr 2 i allways get: /dev/ugen0.2: Block device required what is the problem? i also tried to fix it in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/umass.c but it wil

ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory

2004-01-06 Thread David Landgren
I recently rebooted a server that had been running for many months. I haven't touched the kernel or userland programs since it went into production. The server was rebooted with 'shutdown -h now', powered down, and then later restarted. I've since noticed that cron didn't restart, which is odd

Re: mount Siemens m55

2004-01-06 Thread jan . muenther
> ugen0: Prolific Technology PL2303 Serial adapter (ATEN/IOGEAR UC232A), > rev 1.10/2.02, addr 2 > > i allways get: /dev/ugen0.2: Block device required ugen(4) is the generic USB device driver. Your device is not being recognized. I don't think the M55 is a standard umass device, so I'd guess you

Re: Getting "rid" of sendmail

2004-01-06 Thread Ed Budd
I think what you want is: sendmail_enable="NO" "NONE" removes all mail sending ability on the local machine - not what you want if I interpret your post correctly... On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 07:59:38 -0700 Emmanuel Gravel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a way to entirely remove an MTA

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 06:31:08 -0800 (PST) "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And maybe prefix that by a > > > > $ bsdlabel -R /dev/ad6s1c dislabel.ad6s1c.new Sorry that was to be $ bsdlabel -R -n /dev/ad6s1c di

Opera7 won't install from ports collection

2004-01-06 Thread Dino Vliet
I want to install Opera onto my freebsd version 4.9 system and in the /usr/ports/www/opera direcory I issue a "make install clean" I get the following error (see below). Becausse i think my port is looking for opera-7.20-20030919 while the ftp servers are offering opera-7.23-20031119 or something

Re: Opera7 won't install from ports collection

2004-01-06 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Tuesday, January 06, 2004 07:40:31 -0800 Dino Vliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to install Opera onto my freebsd version 4.9 system and in the /usr/ports/www/opera direcory I issue a "make install clean" I get the following error (see below). Becausse i think my port is looking for o

Quit gcc from base install

2004-01-06 Thread Jose Maria
I want to use a FreeBSD like a production server and I don't need gcc in it. Can I quit or uninstall gcc from the base install? -- José María Ruiz Aguilera (www.tessier-ashpool.tk) Estudiante de Ingeniería Técnica de Informática de Sistemas Miembro de la Rama de estudiantes del IEEE de Málaga

Re: Getting "rid" of sendmail

2004-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:59:38AM -0700, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > I'm looking for a way to entirely remove an MTA from a box and forward > everything to another host. I've found the /etc/mail/aliases file and > saw that I could configure it so that root would point to something > else, so that's h

Re: Quit gcc from base install

2004-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:45:30PM +0100, Jose Maria wrote: > I want to use a FreeBSD like a production server and I don't need gcc in it. > Can I quit or uninstall gcc from the base install? FreeBSD is a good choice for a production server. Sure you can remove gcc if you want -- but you'll have

Re: Viability of 5.X line for production use

2004-01-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:43:26AM -0800, John Fox wrote: > Hello, > > We're planning some new mail servers, and until now I've been assuming > that they would run under FreeBSD 4.X. But it occurred to me this > morning that the 4.X line is going to go away relatively soon, and that > perhaps I'

Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-06 Thread Udo Schröter (Trionic Technologies)
Hi, first of all I want to congratulate you on FreeBSD, it is a really cool system! I have a question regarding the creation of a branded commercial distribution based on FreeBSD. Here is the thing: my company wants to offer a standard corporate Unix desktop that is certified (guaranteed) to r

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry that was to be $ bsdlabel -R -n /dev/ad6s1c dislabel.ad6s1c.new :( No worries... I figured it out :) > Indeed it's not like in 4.x, where they were the same. And what about > > # ls -l /dev/ad6s1a /dev/ad6s1b > > (these minor

Re: Opera7 won't install from ports collection

2004-01-06 Thread Dino Vliet
How to get cvsup to get past my proxy-server? --- Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --On Tuesday, January 06, 2004 07:40:31 -0800 Dino > Vliet > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to install Opera onto my freebsd version > 4.9 > > system and in the /usr/ports/www/opera dire

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 08:32:31 -0800 (PST) "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: I'm in the process of downloading the floppies... > --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry that was to be $ bsdlabel -R -n /dev/ad6s1c dislabel.ad6s1c.new :( > > No worrie

RE: Viability of 5.X line for production use

2004-01-06 Thread fbsd_user
How long can you wait for the 5.x stable release? The 5.x stable release is scheduled for May or June 2004. Then 1 or 2 months burn in by public users to verify it is really stable and you are pushing September. 4.9 is production now and has passed the public burn in period with flying colors. --

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in the process of downloading the floppies... ok cool > And what about ad4? Does disklabel show different values for the slice > and the `c' partition? Hmm not only are they different as w/ ad6, but I get the same error on the c

Re: Opera7 won't install from ports collection

2004-01-06 Thread Jud
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 08:37:58 -0800 (PST), "Dino Vliet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > How to get cvsup to get past my proxy-server? > > > --- Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --On Tuesday, January 06, 2004 07:40:31 -0800 Dino > > Vliet > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Adding a drive in vinum

2004-01-06 Thread Mathieu Arnold
Hi, A few months ago, I did : concat -n data -v /dev/ad2e which produced : drive vinumdrive0 device /dev/ad2 volume data plex name data.p0 org concat vol data sd name data.p0.s0 drive vinumdrive0 plex data.p0 len 241254455s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 0s Now, I've added a new drive to my box,

how to use lseek() system call with over 2G files?

2004-01-06 Thread Alex
Hi everybody! Some time ago there wasn't any possibility to create disk file larger than 2G and there was no problem with lseek(). But as for now we can do it but I looked into headers and found off_t is equal to long -> no more than 2G on i386 machines. As far as lseek() is a system call I cann

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:12:22 -0800 (PST) "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm in the process of downloading the floppies... > > ok cool > I can't find a zero-bad floppy in this place! It's all the holidays!

Re: Opera7 won't install from ports collection

2004-01-06 Thread Dino Vliet
But I installed freebsd through the http proxy server and that went fine. I can install all other packages just fine because I've set the http_proxy environment variable to our proxy server and everything works fine. Only the cvsup won't work. I'm now installing mozilla-firebird:-( --- Jud <[EMAI

Re: Poor SCSI disk preformance

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Maltese
> I also had (meaning it is not currently attached) a different > SCSI drive attached on the bus, with the same results. Has > anyone any tips for this from a FreeBSD point of view? I wouldn't say that dd is the greatest benchmarking tool. You may want to try benchmarks/rawio. Also, try monitorin

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't find a zero-bad floppy in this place! It's all the holidays! That's what AOL disks (vs. discs) used to be good for. :) > With `c', they're all offset by 63(why?). But still, you can mount the > partitions on the ad4s1, so the

Re: how to use lseek() system call with over 2G files?

2004-01-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 06), Alex said: > Hi everybody! > > Some time ago there wasn't any possibility to create disk file larger > than 2G and there was no problem with lseek(). Some time ago meaning around 1997? FreeBSD has had 64-bit file access since at least 2.2.0. I don't remember if ea

Re: how to use lseek() system call with over 2G files?

2004-01-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:32:23PM +0300, Alex wrote: > Hi everybody! > > Some time ago there wasn't any possibility to create disk file larger > than 2G and there was no problem with lseek(). > But as for now we can do it but I looked into headers and found off_t is > equal to long -> no more t

Re: Opera7 won't install from ports collection

2004-01-06 Thread Larry Rosenman
CVSup uses a different port. Did you get the mail I sent with the port included? LER --On Tuesday, January 06, 2004 09:42:25 -0800 Dino Vliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But I installed freebsd through the http proxy server and that went fine. I can install all other packages just fine because

Re: Poor SCSI disk preformance

2004-01-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 06), Mike Maltese said: > > I also had (meaning it is not currently attached) a different SCSI > > drive attached on the bus, with the same results. Has anyone any > > tips for this from a FreeBSD point of view? > > I wouldn't say that dd is the greatest benchmarking tool

why does inetd default to enable

2004-01-06 Thread fbsd_user
The 4.9 /etc/defaults/rc.conf file has inetd_enable="YES" Why is that? During the sysinstall I answered NO to inetd question. Is this not an error? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: why does inetd default to enable

2004-01-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 06), fbsd_user said: > The 4.9 /etc/defaults/rc.conf file has inetd_enable="YES" > > Why is that? > > During the sysinstall I answered NO to inetd question. > > Is this not an error? sysinstall should have created an /etc/rc.conf with inetd_enable="NO" in it, to overr

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Udo Schröter (Trionic Technologies) wrote: [ ... ] I have a question regarding the creation of a branded commercial distribution based on FreeBSD. OK. Here is the thing: my company wants to offer a standard corporate Unix desktop that is certified (guaranteed) to run our enterprise management soft

Re: Poor SCSI disk preformance

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Maltese
> It should go faster than 5MB/sec, though. Seagate's specs say that > drive should do 14MB/sec max. UW's top speed is 40MB/sec, so there > shouldn't be any bottlenecks. 14MB/s is the maximum internal transfer rate. Also, we're talking about write performance here, which will likely be quite a b

Re: Abit KD7-A KT400A

2004-01-06 Thread karbassa
Subhro wrote: Don't worry, Go ahead with the install. IT will work Regards Subhro Subhro Sankha Kar Indian Institute of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of karbassa

growfs problem [was Re: Adding a drive in vinum]

2004-01-06 Thread Mathieu Arnold
Ok, I could not wait, so I did : a create with : drive vinumdrive1 device /dev/ad3e sd name data.p0.s1 drive vinumdrive1 len 0 then : attach data.p0.s1 data.p0 That worked well, I had a 115GB volume, I now have a 301GB one, I'm happy :) Now, growfs, so, I launch it : # growfs -N /dev/vinum/data

Re: Poor SCSI disk preformance

2004-01-06 Thread Derek Marcotte
> I wouldn't say that dd is the greatest benchmarking tool. You may want to > try benchmarks/rawio. I'll check that out just for kicks, but I _actually want_ to write zeros to the drive first, not just as a benchmark. The reasoning for this is that I'm trying to create a dedicated box to format HD

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-06 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:22:55PM +0100, Udo Schr?ter (Trionic Technologies) wrote: > > Are there any FreeBSD references that MUST be taken out / MUST be left in? Well, you don't have to, but I would really appreciate it if you made sure that send-pr was either removed or changed to submit bugs

Re: ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory

2004-01-06 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:10:31PM +0100, David Landgren wrote: > I recently rebooted a server that had been running for many months. I > haven't touched the kernel or userland programs since it went into > production. > > The server was rebooted with 'shutdown -h now', powered down, and then >

wicontrol output

2004-01-06 Thread Proctor, Matthew
can anyone help with this please - it's very frustrating. what does the Channel list value mean? thanks Matt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: why does inetd default to enable

2004-01-06 Thread Massimiliano Stucchi
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:57:12 -0500 "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 4.9 /etc/defaults/rc.conf file has inetd_enable="YES" > > Why is that? That's normal behaviour. Inetd is active, but nothing is enabled by default. > During the sysinstall I answered NO to inetd question. You answ

RE: why does inetd default to enable

2004-01-06 Thread fbsd_user
Well it does not. So this is an error which should have PR submitted? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Nelson Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 1:02 PM To: fbsd_user Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: why does inetd default to enable In

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:48:40 -0800 (PST) "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can't find a zero-bad floppy in this place! It's all the holidays! > > That's what AOL disks (vs. discs) used to be good for. :)

hard time with routing

2004-01-06 Thread Markus Kovero
Well, I have this problem again, I hope I get help at this time, not big problem, its just something I'm missing here. interface to net: ep0 interface to lan: xl0 ep0 has 2001:a68:2:10::2/64 with default gw 2001:a68:2:10:: and she works fine. xl0 should have 2001:a68:2:10:dead::/96 ifconfig ep0 i

RE: why does inetd default to enable

2004-01-06 Thread fbsd_user
That may be the normal behavior, but it's wrong. Why run the inetd daemon consuming resources when all the optional servers it can launch are commented out in inetd.conf? If not selected in sysinstall inetd should not start. The statement in /etc/defaults/rc.conf should be changed to enable="NO

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can't find a zero-bad floppy in this place! It's all the holidays! > > That's what AOL disks (vs. discs) used to be good for. :) > > > With `c', they're all offset by 63(why?). But still, you can mount the > > partitions

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-06 Thread Udo Schröter (Trionic Technologies)
> You're creating a "turnkey" system with a known and well-defined layout which > includes all of the dependencies to run your proprietary software. Look into > "man release", which discusses how to customize a build and create CD images. Yes, I already made a few builds. We're currently (mainly)

Weird stuff after moving to a new MB

2004-01-06 Thread Gary Lum
Hello everyone, I'm hoping that someone might be able to give me some ideas on what to check to rule out a flakey MB. I had FreeBSD 5.1 installed on an older Dual 440BX motherboard which was current with CVS. I replaced the board with a 440GX dual. Basically, I took the HD out of the old syst

apache+php

2004-01-06 Thread gaspo1
GASPOFWIPV6LAB# uname -a FreeBSD GASPOFWIPV6LAB 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 08:04:10 CET 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GASPO i386 i have install from pkg_add the packages: apache-1.3.28 mysql-client-4.0.15 PHP ---error-- when i do : apachectl start usr/local/s

Re: What should I install?

2004-01-06 Thread Teilhard Knight
> On Monday 05 January 2004 11:34 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > I have running FreeBSD 4.7 in one computer and version 5.0 "was not for > > newbies". I see now, version 4.9 is out, but version 5.1 is too. In the > > official FreeBSD web page, they recommend to install 5.1. > > > > Now, I haven't g

Re: Updating Ports Index

2004-01-06 Thread Rishi Chopra
I installed perl, so I'm no longer getting the 'perl: not found' message (any reason why perl isn't installed when installing the ports tree??) The problem now is that the 'make index' command seems to take forever: idfubar# make index Generating INDEX-5 - please wait.. And then there's no addit

Slow boot when not plugged into network

2004-01-06 Thread Duane Winner
Does anybody know of a workaround for this? When I'm not connected to my ethernet network, it takes an extra 90 seconds to boot my FreeBSD laptop, as it hangs on this boot message before timing out: "Doing initial network setup: hostname" I'm guessing it has something to do with DNS lookup and c

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you already have a copy (the data at offset 32 seems to be it). > If you want, do a > > # dd if=/dev/ad6s1 skip=16 count=16 of=/some/file ok, done. Is there a way to use fsck_ufs -b now to fix this? Or is that premature? And i

Re: apache+php

2004-01-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GASPOFWIPV6LAB# uname -a FreeBSD GASPOFWIPV6LAB 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 08:04:10 CET 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GASPO i386 i have install from pkg_add the packages: apache-1.3.28 mysql-client-4.0.15 PHP ---error-- when i do : ap

Re: Poor SCSI disk preformance

2004-01-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 06), Derek Marcotte said: > Actually, just for kicks: > > # dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=128k & > [1] 1839 > # iostat -K -w 1 da0 > tty da0 cpu > tin tout KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id >1 42 64.00 607 37.92 1 0 1 0 98 >0

Re: apache+php

2004-01-06 Thread Kliment Andreev
>[Tue Jan 6 20:25:56 2004] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname >("GASPOFWIPV6LAB") >any suggest? Edit your httpd.conf and search for ServerName directive. Put something like ServerName www.xyz.com or whatever Then restart Apache... ___ [

Re: Updating Ports Index

2004-01-06 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 1:33 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: > I installed perl, so I'm no longer getting the 'perl: not found' message > (any reason why perl isn't installed when installing the ports tree??) Just because you installed the ports tree does not mean you installed Perl. If you did via th

Re: What should I install?

2004-01-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Teilhard Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the > official FreeBSD web page, they recommend to install 5.1. Depending on your application. Remember the caveats: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html Also b

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (is disklabel/bsdlabel only meant to be run on slices and not > > bsd-partitions?). > > You have it backwards in this question. Disklabel is meant to run > only on bsd partitions and not slices. Slices (1-4) are the major > divisions of t

Re: Poor SCSI disk preformance [more on camcontrol please!]

2004-01-06 Thread Derek Marcotte
> Aha. Check the WCE bit to see if your write cache is enabled on the > disk Bingo: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k & [1] 2253 # iostat -K -w 1 da0 tty da0 cpu tin tout KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id 2 38 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 1 0 98 0 43 64.00 2

Re: how to use lseek() system call with over 2G files?

2004-01-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the last episode (Jan 06), Alex said: > > Hi everybody! > > > > Some time ago there wasn't any possibility to create disk file larger > > than 2G and there was no problem with lseek(). > > Some time ago meaning around 1997? FreeBSD has had 64-bit fil

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > --- Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (is disklabel/bsdlabel only meant to be run on slices and not > > > bsd-partitions?). > > > > You have it backwards in this question. Disklabel is meant to run > > only on bsd partitions and not slices. Slices (1-4) are the major >

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Udo Schröter (Trionic Technologies) wrote: [ ... ] Btw, I looked really carefully and couldn't find any FreeBSD-based commercial distro (if you don't count OS X). Am I just to stupid to find one or is this an idea whose time has not come yet? Wind River Systems and other vendors will sell FreeBSD C

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