Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

2004-01-15 Thread Björn Andersson
I must say this were some great reading! Now I can give my dear GNU/Linux friends some better understanding why I love my BSD boxes. On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:15:36AM -0500, Scott W wrote: > Hey all, just wanted to share a link to an interesting article > comparing/contrasting *BSD (primarily

Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

2004-01-15 Thread Scott W
Hey all, just wanted to share a link to an interesting article comparing/contrasting *BSD (primarily FreeBSD) and Linux, at http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php No affiliation, came across it on one of the bsd news sites...as a long time Linux user/admin/developer(

Re: plz reply me i need ur help

2004-01-15 Thread Eric F Crist
There are many shell services out that, many of them free. You can also download and install your own freebsd system, free. You can download this at www.freebsd.org HTH -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

plz reply me i need ur help

2004-01-15 Thread shanishaytan
I m poor student from Pakistan Hi: this is shani paracha , a poor student from pakistan want study material about free bsd by mail my mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sir , one more request we are five friends who will take intrest in freebsd and read every materail send from you we need one on

timestamp changes when I ftp a file to server

2004-01-15 Thread Stephen Max Vincent
Hello All, I've set up two FreeBSD servers, (4.6 and 4.8) both have shown this same behavior. When I ftp a file from a remote pc to the server, upon completion of the upload the timestamp of the file advances to exactly 5 hours from the current time. I've confirmed that the server has the corre

Solved: Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:28 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:25:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:

Re: your mail

2004-01-15 Thread Till Plewe
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:07:48PM -0800, Evan Sayer wrote: > FreeBSD- > Please help, this is really important. I was told that i could get rid > of the ^m symbols at the end of the lines in my web page's html code > by using sed. They said to execute sed "s//^m^m" index.html > > index.html o

Re: your mail

2004-01-15 Thread Scott Kupferschmidt
To remove ^M's I've always used vi and entered the following cmd: :%s/^V^M and they go away. There's also another command called col(1) that can do this Sincerely, Scott Kupferschmidt ISPrime, Inc. 866.502.4678 ext. 3 AIM: Scott ISPrime - ICQ: 174337249 On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Evan Sayer wrote:

Re: Mail server?

2004-01-15 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:57:07PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Content-Description: signed data > Hello list, > > I have not run a production mail server for quite some time, but I've now > outgrown what my ISP is willing and really able to provide. I have used > sendmail in the past, but was wo

Re: zero out unused HD space

2004-01-15 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:25:27PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: > I am trying to zero out all the unused disk space in the FBSD system > Hard Drive. > Using this command > dd if=/dev/zero of=filler bs=1m > > but get error message saying file system full and have file named > filler. > > I don't think

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2004-01-15 Thread Evan Sayer
FreeBSD- Please help, this is really important. I was told that i could get rid of the ^m symbols at the end of the lines in my web page's html code by using sed. They said to execute sed "s//^m^m" index.html > index.html or something like that. This got rid of everything in the file. I re

Re:

2004-01-15 Thread Luís Vitório Cargnini
you must upgrade the bios i needed do this here when i change my HD to an Seagate 120 GB. Go to the manufactor site and download the last release of BIOS and follow the instructions to update your BIOS. Be The Force with you young Jedi. On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:24:50-0700"Jeremiah" <[EMAIL PROTECT

NAT and DHCP

2004-01-15 Thread Stanley Chan
Dear friends, I am running my servers with FreeBSD 4.8 Release and I am planning to use the NAT and DHCP functions to let my local area network machines to access the internet. Could you tell me where can I find these information's and documents as I could you quite understand the materials on the

Re: question

2004-01-15 Thread Simon Barner
faina bogdan wrote: > how can I mount the cd-rom under freebsd 4.9 as root Assuming that you have an IDE cdrom drive: Put the following line into /etc/fstab /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,nosuid,noauto 0 0 and make sure you have a mount point with the following permissions/owner. drwxr-xr-x roo

Re: BSD Website

2004-01-15 Thread Simon Barner
zam4ever wrote: [ quite impressive list ] FreeBSD mail archives search: http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mail server?

2004-01-15 Thread Eric F Crist
On Thursday 15 January 2004 08:06 pm, Nick Twaddell wrote: > Qmail is the way to go in my opinion. > > http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html > > http://www.pipeline.com.au/staff/mbowe/isp/webmail-server.htm > > two good sites :) > > Nick Ok, from what you've told me as well as others, I'm gonig to

Remove Boot Manger

2004-01-15 Thread Eric Rivas
Questions, I previously dual-booted Windows and FreeBSD with two hard disks, Windows on the first, FreeBSD on the seconds. After realizing that I never booted into Windows anymore, I swaped master/slave setting on the disk and fdisk, bsdlabel, etc. the previously Windows disk and now happily have

RE: Mail server?

2004-01-15 Thread Nick Twaddell
Qmail is the way to go in my opinion. http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html http://www.pipeline.com.au/staff/mbowe/isp/webmail-server.htm two good sites :) Nick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric F Crist Sent: Thursday, January 15, 200

Mail server?

2004-01-15 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello list, I have not run a production mail server for quite some time, but I've now outgrown what my ISP is willing and really able to provide. I have used sendmail in the past, but was wondering if there's a better solution out there? I've heard of qmail and considered it before. However,

RE: IBM 325 Server install - hangs on scsi settle

2004-01-15 Thread fbsd_user
Changes to PC Bios before installing FBSD Navigate around the Bios menus using the keyboard arrow keys looking for the following options, your PC bio's may not have all of these. Virus Warning=, set this option to disable. It's a firmware check of the hard drive boot sector looking for MS/Windows

apache SSL configuration problems

2004-01-15 Thread Nagib Jamal
Hi Tom, I have read some of your responses in connection to apache/virtual-host configuration issues ( eg. Owen Boyle june 03). Your responses are indeed clear and consise. However, I am a bit confused although I have managed to make some progress. My purpose is to set up an ecommerce site on a

4.9-Stable: Disk error booting from hard drive

2004-01-15 Thread Max Clark
Hi all, I am completely stumped by this one. I have a new MSI 1u P1-1000 server: 2.4GHz P4, 1GB Ram, with a 40GB IDE (38166MB [77545/16/63]) hard drive on the primary master channel. Here's the problem, I can install 4.9-Stable, but when I finish and reboot the machine the bios reports disk e

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 and PFIL_OUT

2004-01-15 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:14:36PM -0700, Lord Sith wrote: > My make buildworld/kernl keeps failing out with this error: > > error: 'PFIL_OUT' undeclared (first use in this function) > > Is this now required to compile IPFilter on FreeBSD 5.2? options PFIL_HOOKS Josh Paetzel ___

USB 2.0 / FreeBSD 4.x

2004-01-15 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Will there be support for USB 2.0 in FreeBSD 4.x, or must I update to FreeBSD 5.x and use "ehci". ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

zero out unused HD space

2004-01-15 Thread fbsd_user
I am trying to zero out all the unused disk space in the FBSD system Hard Drive. Using this command dd if=/dev/zero of=filler bs=1m but get error message saying file system full and have file named filler. I don't think this commands is doing what I want. How can I check to see if the unused spa

Re: Any comparison chart for FreeBSD and other OS about performans

2004-01-15 Thread Scott W
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi I found old chart about some comparison between some OS FreeBSD , Linux and like this . Does any body know any new report or chart about performans between Oss which included FreeBSD of course . Thanks Vahric ___ [EMAIL

KAME Racoon: turning on/off Anti-Replay Protection

2004-01-15 Thread Ayfang Yang
Hi. Would anyone please tell me how to control the anti-replay protection for IPSEC? In Freeswan, it is done by setting variables espreplay_window and ahreplay_window to 0..64. I did considerable amount of reading/searching to no avail. Thank you much in advance. A Yang

Re: ACPI errors at bit on Abit BP-6 mb (since 5.1) on 5.2RC

2004-01-15 Thread Scott W
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi. I have been getting these errors at boot time on a dual CPU Abit BP-6. This has been happening since I converted this old system into a test system a while back with 5.1R. It still happens with 5.2RC. I have not updated to 5.2R yet. It still seems

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg told a big fish story including the following on 1/15/2004 2:34 AM: Duane Winner wrote: Hello all again, I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good habits/methods/instructions for updating r

Re: [freebsd-questions] Error in Makefile?

2004-01-15 Thread David Meier
Hi Lowell, you are absolutely right. I was able to build it using gmake. Actually, I used mod_jk2 at the end and I have the system up and running now. Thanks for your help! Dave > "David Meier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am trying to build mod_jk-1.2.5 from source on 4.9-RELEASE and I >>

binary update failed badly 5.2

2004-01-15 Thread Espen
hi list, this afternoon i decided to update my freebsd 5.1 box to 5.2. i wanted to try the binary update through sysinstall to save myself some time. i've done the source update on my server some months ago to 4-stable, and it worked just fine. this is what i did: selected "base", "src"(did not ge

Re: Does FreeBSD try this w .......

2004-01-15 Thread Cordula's Web
> yesterday in Turkey, HP prepared a Roadshow about his strategy about > linux with Oracle , Novell , bea. I talked with ORACLE Turkey director, He > said that in USA, those firms ( Oracle or others ) does not make an > agreement with non-firm. What about the FreeBSD Foundation? http://

Re: 3-4MB/s vinum performance with two Promise PDC20268 UDMA100 controllers

2004-01-15 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
På Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:43:01 -0200, skrev jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Bjorn Eikeland wrote: Hi I had four 160G IDE drives in raid5 on a single controller and it worked just fine, never benchmarked it since it was faster than the network anyway. But when adding a second controller card and two m

configuracion de servidor

2004-01-15 Thread ROMERO Wilson
Hola. Mira, he instalado FREEBSD 5.1 como servidor de internet. Yo necesito hacer todo esto en dicho servidor, pero no se que paquetes tengo que usar y si es posible hacerlo, te cuento, necesito 1) hacer un servidor de correo (para conectarme desde cualquier parte del mundo), 2) necesito que d

Re:

2004-01-15 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
Try switching to the debug console and see if it shows any more detailed error messages? (press alt + f2 to switch) hth -bjorn I have a pc chip motherboard with: Processor: athlon 1600+ Graphics Card: Radeon 9200 128mb DDR RAM: around 1gb DDR Hard Drive: Maxtor 120gb my problem is that every time

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2004-01-15 Thread Jeremiah
I have a pc chip motherboard with: Processor: athlon 1600+ Graphics Card: Radeon 9200 128mb DDR RAM: around 1gb DDR Hard Drive: Maxtor 120gb my problem is that every time i go to install FreeBSD the install gets stuck at: ata0: detecting devices... If you could help I'd greatly appreciate it. S

ACPI errors at bit on Abit BP-6 mb (since 5.1) on 5.2RC

2004-01-15 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Hi. I have been getting these errors at boot time on a dual CPU Abit BP-6. This has been happening since I converted this old system into a test system a while back with 5.1R. It still happens with 5.2RC. I have not updated to 5.2R yet. It still seems to run fine and stably even with t

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2004-01-15 Thread ROMERO Wilson
Hola. Mira, he instalado FREEBSD 5.1 como servidor de internet. Yo necesito hacer todo esto en dicho servidor, pero no se que paquetes tengo que usar y si es posible hacerlo, te cuento, necesito 1) hacer un servidor de correo (para conectarme desde cualquier parte del mundo), 2) necesito que d

Re: Samba 3.x.x on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-01-15 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Antoine Jacoutot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > This is how I install samba-devel on my 5-2 boxes without anyu > problem: > > env CONFIGURE_ARGS=--with-ldap env > CONFIGURE_ENV="CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib" > make -DWITHOUT_CUPS -DWITH_QUOTAS -DWITH_M

Re: Tag for cvsup 5.2-RELEASE

2004-01-15 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:55:32 -0500 "Richard Cotrina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello : > > What is the correct tag for cvsuping 5.2-RELEASE ? I used RELENG_5 but it > does not work. Should I used tag "." ? > Acording the info in the web, tag "." refers to CURRENT, not RELEASE or > STABLE. .

Does FreeBSD try this w .......

2004-01-15 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi FreeBSD Users , Admins ... yesterday in Turkey, HP prepared a Roadshow about his strategy about linux with Oracle , Novell , bea. I talked with ORACLE Turkey director, He said that in USA, those firms ( Oracle or others ) does not make an agreement with non-firm. I wonder w

Re: 3-4MB/s vinum performance with two Promise PDC20268 UDMA100 controllers

2004-01-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 15 January 2004 at 10:44:20 +0100, Bjorn Eikeland wrote: > Hi > > I had four 160G IDE drives in raid5 on a single controller and it worked > just fine, never benchmarked it since it was faster than the network > anyway. But when adding a second controller card and two more drives the >

possibly lost data by "Burning Raw Data CDs"

2004-01-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings; Was running FreeBSD 5.1 Release on a Dell Inspiron 8500 with a CD-RW/DVD Combo drive and "backed up" data onto several new CD-RWs simply as follows: burncd -s max data archive.tar.gz Then after installing FreeBSD 5.2 Release, tried restoring as follows: tar -xvzf /dev/acd0 And unfor

Tag for cvsup 5.2-RELEASE

2004-01-15 Thread Richard Cotrina
Hello : What is the correct tag for cvsuping 5.2-RELEASE ? I used RELENG_5 but it does not work. Should I used tag "." ? Acording the info in the web, tag "." refers to CURRENT, not RELEASE or STABLE. I also know that 5 is not yet a stable release. Does it mean that it still remains in the CURRE

RE: Any comparison chart for FreeBSD and other OS about performans

2004-01-15 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
I know that , I'm looking for another one this Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tillman Hodgson Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Any comparison chart for FreeBSD and other OS about performa

IBM 325 Server install - hangs on scsi settle

2004-01-15 Thread Andy Clements
Hello, I have IBM 325 PCServer with one 200 Pentium Pro CPU and two SCSI HDD drives and a SCSI CDROM. I'm installing FreeBSD 4.9 via floppy and it hangs when it says: Waiting 15 seconds for drives to settle I notice that it is accessing the cdrom, during the wait, but nothing else happens.

Re: Samba 3.x.x on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-01-15 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Thursday 15 January 2004 23:18, Tim Aslat wrote: > I realise this is a maintainer issu, however I would like some > indication of wether it's a localised problem or if it's common enough > that something needs to be done about it. This is how I install samba-devel on my 5-2 boxes without anyu p

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:28 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:25:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:

Re: Any comparison chart for FreeBSD and other OS about performans

2004-01-15 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:29:37AM +0200, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: > Hi > > I found old chart about some comparison between some OS FreeBSD , Linux and > like this . Does any body know any new report or chart about performans > between Oss which included FreeBSD of course . Do a google search f

Re: Loading balancing with more than one ISP.

2004-01-15 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:10:01PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2004 16:41, Dirk Meyer wrote: > > Thats easy on your router: > > #!/bin/sh > > gateway1="10.10.10.1" > > gateway2="10.10.10.2" > > dmz="10.10.20.0/24" > > lan="10.10.30.0/24" > > ipfw add fwd ${gateway2} ip f

Any comparison chart for FreeBSD and other OS about performans

2004-01-15 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi I found old chart about some comparison between some OS FreeBSD , Linux and like this . Does any body know any new report or chart about performans between Oss which included FreeBSD of course . Thanks Vahric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:25:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > > If I'm trying to open the pdf

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > If I'm trying to open the pdf file as a normal user, I get the following > > > message: > > > > >

Re: Samba 3.x.x on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-01-15 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Jeff Royle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I have tried various versions of Samba 3.x.x on my FreeBSD 4.9 server > without success. (Including the current port) > > The install goes smoothly however running testparm I encounter the > following errors... I'm having the same

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > If I'm trying to open the pdf file as a normal user, I get the following > > message: > > > > "There was an error opening this document. A temporary file could not be >

FreeBSD 5.2 and PFIL_OUT

2004-01-15 Thread Lord Sith
My make buildworld/kernl keeps failing out with this error: error: 'PFIL_OUT' undeclared (first use in this function) Is this now required to compile IPFilter on FreeBSD 5.2? Isn't there some way to generate a LINT file? I remember doing it once but can't find it anymore. _

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > If I'm trying to open the pdf file as a normal user, I get the following > message: > > "There was an error opening this document. A temporary file could not be > opened." > > If I run acroread or xpdf as root, I can open the f

Abit KV7-KT600 Motherboard

2004-01-15 Thread karbassa
Dear All; Has any body running FreeBsd 4.XX on Abit KV7-KT600 motherboard?? The above motherboard has the following specification: Abit KV7 KT600A USB2+ LAN + 6CH. It also uses the VIA KT600 / VT8237 chipset. So any of you guy has any expricence with the above motherboard using UDMA133 (Since

acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
After portupgrading my system, I'm having difficulties opening pdf files using acroread5 and xpdf as a normal user. I've tried using the applications as stand-alone apps, and I've tried opening pdf files in Mozilla and Opera --all with the same results: If I'm trying to open the pdf file as a

Re: Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers

2004-01-15 Thread Adam Olsen
Daniela, When I press ctrl+alt+F1, I am on the virtual console, but I cannot see it because I'm getting the mode out of range error. X does not terminate - and if I press ctrl+alt+F9, I can get back to X just fine - no more out of range error on the monitor. I can be on the virtual console un

Re: 5.2-RELEASE - Show stopper problem

2004-01-15 Thread Ted Wisniewski
I have some followup details that I have discovered that make make a difference in nailing this down. I tried to duplicate the hung process on disk I/O problem on an older (hence slower machine) and was unable to duplicate it. This got me to thinking about the problems I have experienced;

Re: make -jX build(world|kernel): test results

2004-01-15 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:59:22PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Tillman Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * I built 4 kernels: 3 customized and GENERIC (see above for why) > Note that kernels are forced into serial compilation anyway, > so the -j flag has no effect on them. This test proba

Re: Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers

2004-01-15 Thread Daniela
On Thursday 15 January 2004 20:00, Adam Olsen wrote: > Daniela, > > Ok - Everything works perfectly in X. When I switch to the VT, I get a > mode out of range error. I can switch back to X just fine. Just the VT > has this problem. OK, when you press, say, ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to the VT, are y

Re: make -jX build(world|kernel): test results

2004-01-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tillman Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * I built 4 kernels: 3 customized and GENERIC (see above for why) Note that kernels are forced into serial compilation anyway, so the -j flag has no effect on them. This test probably spent a lot more time building kernels than the world, so it doesn

Re: Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers

2004-01-15 Thread Adam Olsen
CTRL+ALT+F1 etc... Jez Hancock wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:00:25PM -0700, Adam Olsen wrote: Daniela, Ok - Everything works perfectly in X. When I switch to the VT, I get a mode out of range error. I can switch back to X just fine. Just the VT has this problem. How are you 'switching t

Re: Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers

2004-01-15 Thread Jez Hancock
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:00:25PM -0700, Adam Olsen wrote: > Daniela, > > Ok - Everything works perfectly in X. When I switch to the VT, I get a > mode out of range error. I can switch back to X just fine. Just the VT > has this problem. How are you 'switching to the VT' exactly? -- Jez Ha

Re: BSD Website

2004-01-15 Thread Daniela
On Thursday 15 January 2004 19:33, zam4ever wrote: > Hi, > > Currently I try to collect all BSD website and will put it online for > future references. So far, these are in my list. Any other site that I > missed? user.berklix.org/~dgw That's my LiveCD project. Has started only a short time ago.

High incoming bandwith

2004-01-15 Thread meimi
Hello everyone, Today, I found out that my server has unusual high incoming bandwidth usage (4Mbit/s) in some hours. Usually, my server will not have more than 200Kbit/s. How can I check what the cause is? Thanks Meimi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

Re: CD Not Recognized after initial screen at install

2004-01-15 Thread David Armstrong
I've only got the one drive in their. I think there is a setup issue with the drive. The message MODE_SENSE_BIG timeout occurs on acd0 when the installation program starts. Does this ring any bells with anyone? Thanks for the help so far. Dave Daniela wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2004 15:25,

Re: Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers

2004-01-15 Thread Adam Olsen
Daniela, Ok - Everything works perfectly in X. When I switch to the VT, I get a mode out of range error. I can switch back to X just fine. Just the VT has this problem. I never get the wavy text while in X. If by chance I am able to switch to the VT for some reason without getting the mode

Re: BSD Website

2004-01-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-01-15T19:33:36Z, zam4ever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently I try to collect all BSD website and will put it online for > future references. So far, these are in my list. Any other site that I > missed? http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/WebHome -- Kirk Strauser

Re: Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers

2004-01-15 Thread Daniela
On Thursday 15 January 2004 19:29, Adam Olsen wrote: > Daniela, > > I see it when I switch to a virtual console only. When I switch back to > X, I'm ok again. Also, if I exit X, I get it the error, but I can > blindly startx again. I don't quite understand what you mean. I thought you can't swit

Re: BSD Website

2004-01-15 Thread peter lageotakes
http://mirbsd.bsdadvocacy.org/ http://www.ekkobsd.org/ http://www.dragonflybsd.org/Main/ --- zam4ever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently I try to collect all BSD website and will > put it online for future > references. So far, these are in my list. Any other > site that I missed? >

Re: CD Not Recognized after initial screen at install

2004-01-15 Thread David Armstrong
It is an ATAPI (IDE) device. The first device on secondary cable. Thanks! Simon Gray wrote: I'm installing FreeBSD and, although the installation can boot from the CD, when I select a CD/DVD as the installation source, it says it can't find the CD. Obviously, the BIOS can read the CD because it

Re: CD Not Recognized after initial screen at install

2004-01-15 Thread Daniela
On Thursday 15 January 2004 15:25, David Armstrong wrote: > Hi FreeBSD Folks, > > I'm installing FreeBSD and, although the installation can boot from the > CD, when I select a CD/DVD as the installation source, it says it can't > find the CD. Obviously, the BIOS can read the CD because it booted fr

BSD Website

2004-01-15 Thread zam4ever
Hi, Currently I try to collect all BSD website and will put it online for future references. So far, these are in my list. Any other site that I missed? FreeBSD "FreeBSD:The Power To Serve" FreeBSD Official Site http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation h

Re: Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers

2004-01-15 Thread Adam Olsen
Daniela, I see it when I switch to a virtual console only. When I switch back to X, I'm ok again. Also, if I exit X, I get it the error, but I can blindly startx again. At one point in FreeBSD 4.8 I could switch to the virtual console, but everything was wavy - text was moving around (it was

Re: Problems using portupgrade to recompile all ports

2004-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:38:41 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > portupgrade -rfx '>=2004-01-15' foo > > will force re-install 'foo' and everything that depends on package > 'foo', except those packages installed on or after the given date. Well, actually I want -R and not -r, but anyways.. almos

Re: Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers

2004-01-15 Thread Daniela
On Thursday 15 January 2004 17:06, Adam Olsen wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and have installed the latest nvidia > drivers available. Everything works ok _except_ once I load X I cannot > switch back to the virtual console. I get a "mode out of range" error. > I had this pro

Re: CD Not Recognized after initial screen at install

2004-01-15 Thread David Armstrong
I was trying to install FDSB 4.9. I've just noticed that I get a MODE_SENSE_BIG timeout on acd0. Sounds like there is something it doesn't like about the CDROM. Once again, though, it seems to be booting from it (which I guess is a function of the BIOS). I specified a non-plug and play OS in t

pppoed error message?

2004-01-15 Thread Bikrant Neupane
Hi, I'm trying pppoed in freebsd-4.9. It is working fine. I can connect from Win98, Win2k and winxp using Raspppoe. However I'm getting lots of message in my pppoed.log. It seems as if pppoed is responding to some request. But I'm not able to find out what it is. I get these message in e

Re: Bug tracking, Howto?

2004-01-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:40:53AM -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: > Is there a resource like bugzilla so I can track the bug? (My only idea > so far is to subscribe to the cvs update list and filter for key words.) Yes: FreeBSD uses Gnats for it's PR database. This is the page you need: http:

Re: Patch level - info

2004-01-15 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Joel Gudknecht wrote: Does the freebsd website explain what has changed with every RELEASE patch level? I.E. 4.9-RELEASE-p1 What is p1 exactly, what has changed since? TIA /usr/src/UPDATING documents what has changed. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING?only_with_tag=RELENG_4_9 --

Bug tracking, Howto?

2004-01-15 Thread Micheas Herman
Hi, Problem: There is a bug in FreeBSD 5.2 that is keeping me from migrating to it. Question: Is there a resource like bugzilla so I can track the bug? (My only idea so far is to subscribe to the cvs update list and filter for key words.) Thanks, Micheas -- Micheas Herman ema

Re: Problems using portupgrade to recompile all ports

2004-01-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:25:17PM -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote: > One question: it's not clear from man pkg_glob whether I can combine the > date format '<2004-01-15' with a package name, so that I only update the > dependencies of a SPECIFIC package that are older than that date (using -f > inste

Re: Samba 3.x.x on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-01-15 Thread Micheas Herman
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 08:40, Jeff Royle wrote: > I have tried various versions of Samba 3.x.x on my FreeBSD 4.9 server > without success. (Including the current port) > This doesn't answer your question, but here is my experience with Samba and FreeBSD. There was long time that the port samba-de

Re: dual-booting with xp

2004-01-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a machine that already has XP > installed. It has 3 SCSI drives. I would like to keep XP on the first > drive, and install FreeBSD on the third drive and make it dual-boot. > What's the easiest way? > > When I installed, I made a slice on the

Re: How to Select Compiler Version when Installing Port

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew Boothman
Daniel J Cain Jr. wrote: I am trying to get vmailmgr-0.96.9 to build from the ports collection of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. I 'think' it will work if I can have the port use a different compiler version during the build. I have been unable to figure/find out how (if?) this is possible. By default it

Re: Problems using portupgrade to recompile all ports

2004-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:12:27 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Work out what went wrong, fix it and then just run: > > # portupgrade -af '<2004-01-15' > > which does a forced update of all packages installed before the given > date. (Note: -R and -r are unnecessary with -a). Rinse, > repeat.

Re: Problems using portupgrade to recompile all ports

2004-01-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:03:31AM -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote: > So... my ultimate question is: how do you pros handle situations like this? > Is there a trick I'm missing? Work out what went wrong, fix it and then just run: # portupgrade -af '<2004-01-15' which does a forced update of a

Re: dual-booting with xp

2004-01-15 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hi, Start in windows xp and use bootpart from: http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm List your partition of your disks with this tool and have look where freebsd is installed. (It is a nice freeware tool and you don't risk any damage to the partition table!) You can than create with Bootpart a 51

Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers

2004-01-15 Thread Adam Olsen
Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and have installed the latest nvidia drivers available. Everything works ok _except_ once I load X I cannot switch back to the virtual console. I get a "mode out of range" error. I had this problem with FreeBSD 4.8 as well. This used to happen to me in L

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:47 am, Donald Turnbull wrote: > I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already > installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly > in the future? > > > > Donald M. Turnbull MCSE, MCDBA KDE and Gnome are on the in

RE: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Philip Payne
> I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome > GUI already > installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more > user friendly > in the future? Like any newbie I heartily recommend reading through the "handbook" under the documentation section of www.freebsd.org .

Tr: ERROR: Unable to write data to disk idad1

2004-01-15 Thread Didier Wiroth
(Sorry to insist, I'm still blocked with this "unable to write data to disk" dislaber editor problem. I really need to solve it urgently because I need new hd space. Is it possible that this problem occurs because the swap partition is also idad1s1? Perhaps you have some ideas I can try? --- Beg

Re: choice of boot manager

2004-01-15 Thread Quintin Riis
LILO is the best in my opinion. Quintin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, FreeBSD enthusiasts. I am planning a multiple operating system installation on a Compaq Proliant 5000. The purpose of the installation is hobbyist and instructional. The computer does not provide network manageme

Samba 3.x.x on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-01-15 Thread Jeff Royle
I have tried various versions of Samba 3.x.x on my FreeBSD 4.9 server without success. (Including the current port) The install goes smoothly however running testparm I encounter the following errors... ***

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:47:08 +, Donald Turnbull wrote: > I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already > installed? "Already" installed? No. A large number people want to run FreeBSD on their servers, and having a GUI on a server isn't usually a good or desired t

Re: Problems using portupgrade to recompile all ports

2004-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:02:44 + (GMT), Jan Grant wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Scott I. Remick wrote: > >> So I'm upgrading my 5.1R desktop to 5.2R. Used cvsup, followed the >> instructions in UPGRADING, did a custom kernel, etc etc. That part went >> fine, no probs. >> >> I noticed some of my

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