Regarding FreeBSD proc entries

2004-06-21 Thread ravi
Hi, Is it possible to create a new proc entry under /proc ? If yes, then how to do that ? Please tell me the relevant documents for this . -- Regards, N Ravi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-21 Thread Lloyd Hayes
In reading the reviews, the book/CD set got the most praise. However, from the reviews, it sounds like it needs to be updated. Lloyd Hayes Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 Web Journal: http://lloyd_hayes.bravejournal.com/ [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-21 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Linux is for people who hate Micro$oft. BSD is for people who love Unix. Under these conditions, I guess that I need to go for Linux... Seriously, one thing that catches my attention is that I don't see any really great differences between the BSD (Any version) and the Linux community. In doing

[FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread LW Ellis
Ok gang don't be to rough. I am a long time windows user, and am used to running disk maintenance. Scandisk, defrag, etc Do I need to run something similar on FreeBSD? or not? I let my machine run 24/7 and have received the weekend reports (which I found fascinating.) If I need to run such apps,

Re: [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread Edd
fsck is what your looking for. To find out more type: man fsck On 6/21/2004, LW Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok gang don't be to rough. I am a long time windows user, and am used to running disk maintenance. Scandisk, defrag, etc Do I need to run something similar on FreeBSD? or not? I let

Re: FreeBSD weakness(It's not. hear my story)

2004-06-21 Thread Lloyd Hayes
I liked your story. Here is mine. In the 1980s, I was offered programming jobs at Microsoft and Intuit, and few other companies. I wasn't sure if I was willing to commit to working full time on computers. Up until this point, writing computer programs had simply been a hobby. So, I went back to

Encoding MPEG2 using open source software

2004-06-21 Thread Edd
Hi there, Maybe the question I am asking is how do I burn a dvd using open source. But I know that dvd's ar encoded in MPEG2. Apparently ffmpeg can encode mpeg2, but I havent been able to get mencoder (compiled against ffmpeg) to work for me. Anyone have any tips? Thanks!

Re: [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread Jan Muenther
fsck is what your looking for. To find out more type: man fsck Hm, not really. UFS doesn't fragment as hard as FAT or NTFS do, so there's no need to actively defragment it. It's just a tad bit more clever with block allocation than those other file- systems. You don't need to run fsck

Re: Encoding MPEG2 using open source software

2004-06-21 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:52:45AM +0100, Edd wrote: Hi there, Maybe the question I am asking is how do I burn a dvd using open source. But I know that dvd's ar encoded in MPEG2. Apparently ffmpeg can encode mpeg2, but I havent been able to get mencoder (compiled against ffmpeg) to work

Thanx [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread LW Ellis
Cool, I noticed that it was not as defragged as W* would have been with all the stuff I've been doing. I am beginning to really like BSD... Leon You don't need to run fsck manually, on a regular basis. It's there to fix things when problems appear or you didn't dismount the filesystems

Re: FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-21 Thread Muhammad Reza
BSD cant do multipath routing behind NAT, just like iproute(8) Linux, hope Paul Hening Kamp Patch will work... regards reza Linux is for people who hate Micro$oft. BSD is for people who love Unix. Under these conditions, I guess that I need to go for Linux... Seriously, one thing that catches my

Re: FreeBSD weakness(It's not. hear my story)

2004-06-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-21 01:42, Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll repeat this so there is no misunderstanding. The people here have been great in their response to help! But there is also no getting around the fact that I am much older (54) and less able to absorb new ideas as fast That's

pam_group in FBSD 4.8?

2004-06-21 Thread Andrew McNaughton
I've got an offshore server which is running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE. Because of the awkwardness of physical access in case of problems. I would however like to have one of the features to have been added since 4.8 - namely the pam_group access control module. Can anyone tell me what's involved to

Slocate?

2004-06-21 Thread Jon Adams
Okay, I am a relative FreeBSD newbie, my main question is Is there a tool similar to Linux secure locate (slocate) that can be used on FreeBSD. I dont want to do a complicated find with 50 million options to find a file. I downloaded the slocate-2.7 source and I get a weird makefile error I

Re: linux-realplay and esd

2004-06-21 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 20 June 2004 12:04, grint wrote: Hello, I want use linux-realplay with esound, but when i try it i have some error. I search about it in google, and find that i must have libesd.so.0, but i have only libesd.so.2. I create symlink to libesd.so.0 from libesd.so.2. And now when i try

Re: Slocate?

2004-06-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:24:58AM -0400, Jon Adams wrote: Okay, I am a relative FreeBSD newbie, my main question is Is there a tool similar to Linux secure locate (slocate) that can be used on FreeBSD. I dont want to do a complicated find with 50 million options to find a file. I

RE: kdm and startkde

2004-06-21 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Show us your ~/.xinit ! for kdm/xdm/gdm, - check your hostname. Try to run xdm, gdm and kdm manually and let us know if there is any difference between them. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Wiggins Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:50

Terminal Server

2004-06-21 Thread Mike Miocevich
Hi, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Thanks, Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Question about KVM switch

2004-06-21 Thread Hillman Dai
Hi all, I have just installed the FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm using a KVM switch to share the monitor, mouse and keyboard. I could managed to use keyboard while the mouse still doesn't work. Could you help me to solve the problem? What kind of command I could use to check and which file you want me to

ping command question

2004-06-21 Thread adrian kok
Hi all Do you know why the command ping in unix and window is different? I start from one ISP to ping other ISP 1/ If the following result from window, it is good or not? lost = 7 within 3 thousand packets 2/ how do I kow the average ms is good or not? 3/ Which one (unix or window) is best

ping command question

2004-06-21 Thread adrian kok
Hi all Do you know why the command ping in unix and window is different? I start from one ISP to ping other ISP 1/ If the following result from window, it is good or not? lost = 7 within 3 thousand packets 2/ how do I kow the average ms is good or not? 3/ Which one (unix or window) is best

Aboout pptp+ipfw

2004-06-21 Thread ..
Hello, What ports I should pass in ipfw for vpn - pptp (poptop)? ipfw add allow tcp from any to my-gateway 1723 ipfw add allow tcp from my-gateway 1723 to any is not working... With best regards, Sege V. Salsky ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

FreeBSD weakness.

2004-06-21 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 00:59:58 -0600 Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux is for people who hate Micro$oft. BSD is for people who love Unix. Under these conditions, I guess that I need to go for Linux... Seriously, one thing that catches my attention is that I don't see any really

Re: Terminal Server

2004-06-21 Thread John Oxley
On Sun 2004-06-20 (11:00), Mike Miocevich wrote: Hi, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Hi Mike, The short answer is yes. The longer answer is FreeBSD, like all unices, has been built from the ground up as a multi-user network operating

Re: Question about KVM switch

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Hillman Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have just installed the FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm using a KVM switch to share the monitor, mouse and keyboard. I could managed to use keyboard while the mouse still doesn't work. Could you help me to solve the problem? What kind of command I

ping command question

2004-06-21 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:56:32 +0800 (CST) adrian kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Do you know why the command ping in unix and window is different? Not if and how they are different. Perhaps someone else can help out here... I start from one ISP to ping other ISP 1/ If the

Re: ping command question

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
adrian kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Do you know why the command ping in unix and window is different? Yes. I start from one ISP to ping other ISP 1/ If the following result from window, it is good or not? lost = 7 within 3 thousand packets No, that's not good. There's no

Re: Terminal Server

2004-06-21 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Mike, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Yes. HTH... Nico ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: dpt on old PC

2004-06-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
I have compiled a kernel (based on 4.10) on a newer PC with several options to get my dpt scsi controller for my older PC to work. The size of the kernel is bigger than an 1.44MB floppy disk. How can I make a kern.flp ready floppy with my new kernel ? How much bigger is it? Can you

Re: [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
LW Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok gang don't be to rough. I am a long time windows user, and am used to running disk maintenance. Scandisk, defrag, etc Do I need to run something similar on FreeBSD? or not? I let my machine run 24/7 and have received the weekend reports (which I found

Courier-imap + Postfix problem

2004-06-21 Thread Gareth Bailey
Hi all, This problem has to do with my mail setup. I'm running postfix MTA and courier-imap server. My maillog file is filled with messages like the following: Jun 20 15:47:05 server imapd-ssl: Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (fre Jun 20 15:47:05 server imapd-ssl: Error: Input/output

CURRENT does not build (annotate.texi)

2004-06-21 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, i got some problems building CURRENT maybe someone can tell me what the problem is: echo @set VERSION 2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23 ldver.texi ln -sf /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/doc/../../../../contrib/binutils/ld/gen-doc.texi configdoc.texi makeinfo --no-validate -I

Re: Aboout pptp+ipfw

2004-06-21 Thread Christian Hiris
On Monday 21 June 2004 05:49, .. wrote: Hello, What ports I should pass in ipfw for vpn - pptp (poptop)? ipfw add allow tcp from any to my-gateway 1723 ipfw add allow tcp from my-gateway 1723 to any is not working... You are missing the rules to allow the GRE (Generic Routing

Re: Terminal Server

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Mike Miocevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? I know of no software that will server as a Windows Terminal Server on FreeBSD. However, as others have pointed out, there are a number of alternatives: ssh if

How to Cure Disk/Controller (RAID) Problem?

2004-06-21 Thread Jud
I have an ASUS A7V333 motherboard with a Promise 20276 onboard chip controlling two IBM 120GXP 40GB hard drives in RAID-0 (striped) configuration. This configuration has operated flawlessly for years. However, in the past two weeks, twice when rebooting after the preliminary stages of a

Re: Slocate?

2004-06-21 Thread Jon Adams
Thanks for handling my (really dumb) question... -- Jon Quoting Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:24:58AM -0400, Jon Adams wrote: Okay, I am a relative FreeBSD newbie, my main question is Is there a tool similar to Linux secure locate (slocate) that

Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Yes. I wanted to start a brief discussion about these kinds of answers to questions. I've been seeing this quite a bit lately. I don't know if it's just

CURRENT does not build (annotate.texi) CONFIRMED

2004-06-21 Thread Robert Huff
Axel S. Gruner writes: i got some problems building CURRENT maybe someone can tell me what the problem is: I'm having the same issue: gzip -cn gasp.info gasp.info.gz ln -sf /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/doc/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/doc/all-cfg.texi gdb-cfg.texi echo @set

Question about KVM switch

2004-06-21 Thread Robert Huff
=?big5?q?Hillman=20Dai?= writes: I have just installed the FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm using a KVM switch to share the monitor, mouse and keyboard. I could managed to use keyboard while the mouse still doesn't work. Could you help me to solve the problem? What kind of command I could use to

Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:27:44 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Yes. I wanted to start a brief discussion about these kinds of answers to

Re: CURRENT does not build (annotate.texi) CONFIRMED

2004-06-21 Thread Jorn Argelo
Robert Huff wrote: Axel S. Gruner writes: i got some problems building CURRENT maybe someone can tell me what the problem is: I'm having the same issue: gzip -cn gasp.info gasp.info.gz ln -sf /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/doc/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/doc/all-cfg.texi gdb-cfg.texi

Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
I'm curious as to whether this is only my opinion, or if others feel the same way. I hope this thread in no way leads to a flame war, but I think this is a good discussion. In no way would I like to bash or flame anyone, but users who receive responses like this (albeit in this particular

Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Yes. I wanted to start a brief discussion about these kinds of answers to questions. I've been seeing this quite a bit lately. I don't

Re: ping command question

2004-06-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Sunday 2004-06-20 07:56 pm, adrian kok wrote: I start from one ISP to ping other ISP That's *probably* the answer. The machine returning those pings may not be the one you think. For instance, if one of the machines is behind a NAT gateway, then the gateway may be returning the pings and

Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Yes. I wanted to start a brief discussion about these kinds of answers to questions.

Re: Encoding MPEG2 using open source software

2004-06-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:52:45 +0100 Edd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Maybe the question I am asking is how do I burn a dvd using open source. But I know that dvd's ar encoded in MPEG2. Apparently ffmpeg can encode mpeg2, but I havent been able to get mencoder (compiled against

Re: [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
Ok gang don't be to rough. I am a long time windows user, and am used to running disk maintenance. Scandisk, defrag, etc Do I need to run something similar on FreeBSD? or not? Not those, but you should set yourself up a nice backup script/routine and dump(8) everything to something that

Re: Bittorrent not in ports?

2004-06-21 Thread Gordon Freeman
Try: /usr/ports/net/ctorrent /usr/ports/net/py-torrent /usr/ports/net/qtorrent /usr/ports/net/torrentsniff I am currenlty using py-torrent. But I will be taking a look at the other two (ctorrent and qtorrent) shortly. On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:05:22 -0300, Joey Mingrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Encoding MPEG2 using open source software

2004-06-21 Thread arden
i use transcode under linux to re-encode movies into different standards i think you can do the same under bsd ive burned mpeg2 as svcd before using vcdimager prob i have is producing a dvd standard file system also would like to know if there is a way to shrink dvds down to 4gig in bsd arden

Audio?

2004-06-21 Thread Tom Moyer
I am setting up a new computer and the motherboard I am using has integrated audio. It says it is Realtek ALC850 does anyone know if it is supported by FreeBSD? If so, what driver should I use? The motherboard is the Asus P4P800-E Deluxe. ___ [EMAIL

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:41:53PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10 on an older computer with a 852 MB hard disk. According to the handbook, 250 MB should suffice for text mode only. However, both the User and (retried) Minimal

Re: read vs. mmap (or io vs. page faults)

2004-06-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
On Sunday 20 June 2004 08:16 pm, Julian Elischer wrote: = On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Matthew Dillon wrote: [...] = It is usually a bad idea to try to populate the page table with = all resident pages associated with the a memory mapping, because = mmap() is often used to map huge files...

Re: Encoding MPEG2 using open source software

2004-06-21 Thread arden
---BeginMessage--- i use transcode under linux to re-encode movies into different standards i think you can do the same under bsd ive burned mpeg2 as svcd before using vcdimager prob i have is producing a dvd standard file system also would like to know if there is a way to shrink dvds down to

Re: Audio?

2004-06-21 Thread Andropos
On Monday 21 June 2004 16.55, Tom Moyer wrote: I am setting up a new computer and the motherboard I am using has integrated audio. It says it is Realtek ALC850 does anyone know if it is supported by FreeBSD? If so, what driver should I use? The motherboard is the Asus P4P800-E Deluxe.

Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
I wanted to start a brief discussion about these kinds of answers to questions. I've been seeing this quite a bit lately. I don't know if it's just one person, of if multiple folks have picked up on it. opinion This is not an answer to the question. It does not

package managment

2004-06-21 Thread arden
hi all I'm just getting to know my way round BSD now Ive got my box running and am happy with it i want to make it more useful. on my Linux boxes i set up ftp sources of applications (most of which i now keep a local copy.) and then just ask the package management tool to install it as long as

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
Actually, some of the heavy hitters out there say they have been leaning toward all / disk partitioning + swap, of course. A little OT, but although it has been advised over and over that you should never use a / only system, in some cases I have found it very useful. It is exceptionally easy

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-21 Thread eyesonly
On 20-06-2004 at 18:14 Robert Huff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10 on an older computer with a 852 MB hard disk. snip First, a question: what do you want this machine to do? Hi, thanks! Fortunately, no special requirements at this stage. I simply

USB problems after upgrading from 4.9 to 4.10

2004-06-21 Thread Joey Mingrone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, After an upgrade from 4.9 to 4.10 the following messages appear during bootup: uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0x9800-0x981f irq 5 at device 17.2 on pci0 usb0: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI

Installing FreeBSD on Sparc Ultra II clone

2004-06-21 Thread Hank Allen
I would like to get some info on installing FreeBSD by booting with floppies and using ftp to download on a Tatung machine. I'm not sure where to get the disk images. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hank Allen Hub of the Earth ___ [EMAIL

Re: Question about KVM switch

2004-06-21 Thread Pavel Duda
Hillman Dai wrote: Hi all, I have just installed the FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm using a KVM switch to share the monitor, mouse and keyboard. I could managed to use keyboard while the mouse still doesn't work. Could you help me to solve the problem? What kind of command I could use to check and

Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk

2004-06-21 Thread Remko Lodder
Hi Mark, 852 MB should be enough. Go with a Custom installation, and you'll need to be utterly ruthless about not installing unneeded distribution sets. Custom installation scares me a little, as I don't really know what I'm doing yet. I will try and read docs and probably start over

LiveCD

2004-06-21 Thread Ray Seals
Anyone had any experience with LiveCD? I'm trying to run it and I get an error about an expected then at line 298. -- Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: USB problems after upgrading from 4.9 to 4.10

2004-06-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:31:02PM -0300, Joey Mingrone wrote: After an upgrade from 4.9 to 4.10 the following messages appear during bootup: uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0x9800-0x981f irq 5 at device 17.2 on pci0 usb0: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0

Re: Regarding FreeBSD proc entries

2004-06-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 21), ravi said: Is it possible to create a new proc entry under /proc ? If yes, then how to do that ? Please tell me the relevant documents for this . For things not directly related to processes, take a look at sysctls instead. Grep for SYSCTL_ in the kernel source

Re: Installing FreeBSD on Sparc Ultra II clone

2004-06-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:41:26AM -0500, Hank Allen wrote: I would like to get some info on installing FreeBSD by booting with floppies and using ftp to download on a Tatung machine. I'm not sure where to get the disk images. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Either here:

Re: CURRENT does not build (annotate.texi) CONFIRMED

2004-06-21 Thread Axel S . Gruner
Hi, Am 21.06.2004 um 15:51 schrieb Jorn Argelo: Umm, guys, I don't want to be rude, but why don't mail it to the CURRENT folks? I mean, that's what the mailing list is for :) Hehe, ok, you are right, my fault. asg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: LiveCD

2004-06-21 Thread Remko Lodder
Ray Seals wrote: Anyone had any experience with LiveCD? I'm trying to run it and I get an error about an expected then at line 298. When i was at the supermarket there was a line 298, there was indeed an error, well a pretty error, a nice young lady who was in the way, not that i hated that

Re: Installing FreeBSD on Sparc Ultra II clone

2004-06-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:02 PM +0100 6/21/04, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:41:26AM -0500, Hank Allen wrote: I would like to get some info on installing FreeBSD by booting with floppies and using ftp to download on a Tatung machine. I'm not sure where to get the disk images. Any help would be

perl-tk no longer working

2004-06-21 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, I rolled my own perl-tk script for adding/removing users on our cluster and it has been running fine for some years now. But when i wanted to use it today, it died with: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # usrmgr/usrmgr.pl [the usual messages about unused variables] X Error of failed request:

Command 'w' gives no user output

2004-06-21 Thread Martin Sommerhein
$ w 6:29pm up 9:41, 0 users, load averages: 0,01 0,02 0,00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT This is on a recently upgraded 4.10-STABLE machine. Just after the upgrade the command worked fine, but today it suddenly started to give no user output. Anyone have any

Re: package managment

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all I'm just getting to know my way round BSD now Ive got my box running and am happy with it i want to make it more useful. on my Linux boxes i set up ftp sources of applications (most of which i now keep a local copy.) and then just ask the package

Spamassassin

2004-06-21 Thread Chris Sechiatano
Hi, I just converted my RedHat box to BSD 5.2.1 and installed Spamassassin with Sendmail and Procmail. This is the same configuration I had on the RedHat machine, but Spamassassin seems to not catch as much spam as it did before. I get so much more junk in my inbox and they only get one or two

Re: perl-tk no longer working

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, I rolled my own perl-tk script for adding/removing users on our cluster and it has been running fine for some years now. But when i wanted to use it today, it died with: My SWAG is that you've updated perl recently, but not updated the

Re: LiveCD

2004-06-21 Thread Ray Seals
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:14, Remko Lodder wrote: When i was at the supermarket there was a line 298, there was indeed an error, well a pretty error, a nice young lady who was in the way, not that i hated that but... Those pretty errors are always the most forgivable ones No really,

What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Hey, I know questions like this get asked a lot, but I'm going to be really specific. I know how to set up failover with a backup MX. That's not what I'm looking for. We have a cyrus-imap server with lots of users connecting via IMAP, while everything gets backed up, this only happens once a

Re: Spamassassin

2004-06-21 Thread Remko Lodder
Chris Sechiatano wrote: Hi, I just converted my RedHat box to BSD 5.2.1 and installed Spamassassin with Sendmail and Procmail. This is the same configuration I had on the RedHat machine, but Spamassassin seems to not catch as much spam as it did before. I get so much more junk in my inbox and

questions on UFS2 usage and snapshots

2004-06-21 Thread Joe Schmoe
Hi - a few questions about UFS2: 1. Is it dangerous to mount all 20 possible filesystem snapshots and _leave them mounted_ to use at any time ? What about automatically mounting all 20 snapshots at boot time ? 2. Related to the first question, it seems like I am getting space out of nowhere

Re: LiveCD

2004-06-21 Thread Remko Lodder
Ray Seals wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:14, Remko Lodder wrote: When i was at the supermarket there was a line 298, there was indeed an error, well a pretty error, a nice young lady who was in the way, not that i hated that but... Those pretty errors are always the most forgivable ones

Re: Spamassassin

2004-06-21 Thread Rafi Jacoby
Hi, I just converted my RedHat box to BSD 5.2.1 and installed Spamassassin with Sendmail and Procmail. This is the same configuration I had on the RedHat machine, but Spamassassin seems to not catch as much spam as it did before. I get so much more junk in my inbox and they only get one

Re: LiveCD

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:14, Remko Lodder wrote: When i was at the supermarket there was a line 298, there was indeed an error, well a pretty error, a nice young lady who was in the way, not that i hated that but... Those pretty errors are always the most forgivable ones

missing ports; portsdb problem

2004-06-21 Thread Jim Arnold
I'm missing a few ports collections such as Japanese and Russian. Now when I try to run portsdb -Uu after CVSUPing the ports collection I get an error of a missing japanese port. The strange thing is that my cvsupfile is set to fetch ports-all. Why is it not pulling in the missing ports? I don't

Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:27:44 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Yes. I wanted to start a brief discussion about these kinds of

Re: FreeBSD weakness

2004-06-21 Thread hoe-waa
On 2004-06-21 01:42, Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll repeat this so there is no misunderstanding. The people here have been great in their response to help! But there is also no getting around the fact that I am much older (54) and less able to absorb new ideas as fast ALoha

Re: missing ports; portsdb problem

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Sawyer
Jim, I had the same problem. I think it was a tk port, if I recall correctly. The only way I could fix it was to rm -drv /usr/ports rm my refuse file, then cvsup again. After that, portsdb -Uu ran properly (though it took forever). Bill Sawyer Information Systems Six Flags St. Louis (636)

Re: Terminal Server

2004-06-21 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Mike Miocevich wrote: Hi, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Rather than asking a fairly loose and undefined question ('is software X like software Y?'), perhaps you would be better served if you specified more precisely

error in jdk14 and lang/php4

2004-06-21 Thread Tim Kellers
from lang/php4: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libSM.so.6, needed by /usr/local/lib/libungif.so, not foun d (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/bin/ld: warning: libICE.so.6, needed by /usr/local/lib/libungif.so, not fou nd (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/bin/ld: warning: libX11.so.6, needed by

RE: Spamassassin

2004-06-21 Thread Rajamani, Rajarajan (Rajarajan)
I had a quick question regarding this. If I use sa-learn as root, does it learn just for the root account or on a system wide basis. Thanks RR -Original Message- From: Rafi Jacoby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

iSCSI support in FreeBSD?

2004-06-21 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Is there planned iSCSI support in FreeBSD 4 or 5. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the best possible email failover solution

2004-06-21 Thread Andy Harrison
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:20:06 -0400, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I know questions like this get asked a lot, but I'm going to be really specific. I know how to set up failover with a backup MX. That's not what I'm looking for. We have a cyrus-imap server with lots of users

Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:27:44 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Yes. I

problem installing 4.10, boot hangs after PLIP0

2004-06-21 Thread White, Sean
Help! (please...) I am having a problem getting FreeBSD 4.10 installed on my machine. Strangely, I have two almost identical boxes, and the problem exhibits itself on one but not the other. Any help as to why this is happening would be greatly appreciated. I have googled, searched list

WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC errors with my ata drive(s)/controller

2004-06-21 Thread Kendall Gifford
Greetings. I recently upgraded my server from 4.9-RELEASE to 5.2.1-RELEASE and immediately started to get the following error logged whenever there is significant disk activity: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=137690696 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

Re: missing ports; portsdb problem

2004-06-21 Thread Kendall Gifford
Bill Sawyer wrote: Jim, I had the same problem. I think it was a tk port, if I recall correctly. The only way I could fix it was to rm -drv /usr/ports rm my refuse file, then cvsup again. After that, portsdb -Uu ran properly (though it took forever). I had the same problem recently since I

Upgrading Expat2 in FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-06-21 Thread Lonnie Santella
In order to install latest ports of Apache1.3 and MySQL 4.20 - I received a system error informing me to upgrade expat2. So I run my CVSUP get all the latest ports, then run it again with just upgrading the BASE. Now I upgrade to expat2 (expat-1.95.7) which was successful according to

Re: Upgrading Expat2 in FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-06-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 21 June 2004 12:16 pm, Lonnie Santella wrote: In order to install latest ports of Apache1.3 and MySQL 4.20 - I received a system error informing me to upgrade expat2. So I run my CVSUP get all the latest ports, then run it again with just upgrading the BASE. Now I upgrade to

Re: Installing FreeBSD on Sparc Ultra II clone

2004-06-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:22:15PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 5:02 PM +0100 6/21/04, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:41:26AM -0500, Hank Allen wrote: I would like to get some info on installing FreeBSD by booting with floppies and using ftp to download on a Tatung

Re: Installing FreeBSD on Sparc Ultra II clone

2004-06-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:23 PM +0100 6/21/04, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:22:15PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: It would be an interesting Sparc Ultra II clone which could boot up off of i386 floppies... Tatung's latest products include a range of AMD Opteron and Xeon based rack mount and

missing ports; portsdb problem

2004-06-21 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:14:44 -0600 Kendall Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Sawyer wrote: Jim, I had the same problem. I think it was a tk port, if I recall correctly. The only way I could fix it was to rm -drv /usr/ports rm my refuse file, then cvsup again. After that,

Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)

2004-06-21 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:51:40 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:27:44 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, Can FreeBSD act like Windows

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