Re: assus sk8n onboard sound

2004-11-26 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:57:10 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7rxI# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 55 0x8010 5cea80 kernel 21 0x806cf000 31e0 snd_driver.ko 32 0x806d3000 5c70 snd_vibes.ko 42

Re: assus sk8n onboard sound

2004-11-26 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:18:56 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:57:10 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7rxI# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 55 0x8010 5cea80 kernel 21 0x806cf000 31e0

Re: kernel compile error

2004-11-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:03:52PM +0900, Rob wrote: Matt Emmerton wrote: /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/if_rue.c:104:23: miibus_if.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c:122:23: miibus_if.h: No such file or directory mkdep: compile failed You need device miibus in your kernel

Re: Problems with samba under FreeBSD, not under Linux

2004-11-26 Thread Peter Risdon
Hexren wrote: V Dear All, V From the win 2000 box I can see my freebsd box fqdn but can't connect V any share. Win 2000 keeps compalining You have no authorization to V connect to the share, ask the Administrator (sorry, translating from V Italian) V PLEASE HELP V Ciao V Vittorio

Re: Xorg/Modes issue

2004-11-26 Thread Jake Stride
Adam Fabian wrote: (II) I810(0): Not using mode 1280x1024 (no mode of this name) [EMAIL PROTECTED] looks like it might be the name of a mode. Otherwise, you could just write a modeline that does what you want. It still does not seem to work, I have put a modeline in the config file and

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 81, Issue 18

2004-11-26 Thread Terry
V Dear All, V From the win 2000 box I can see my freebsd box fqdn but can't connect V any share. Win 2000 keeps compalining You have no authorization to V connect to the share, ask the Administrator (sorry, translating from V Italian) V PLEASE HELP V Ciao V Vittorio

Re:29 Problems with samba

2004-11-26 Thread Terry
V Dear All, V From the win 2000 box I can see my freebsd box fqdn but can't connect V any share. Win 2000 keeps compalining You have no authorization to V connect to the share, ask the Administrator (sorry, translating from V Italian) V PLEASE HELP V Ciao V Vittorio

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-26 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Don Wilde wrote: J65nko BSD wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:26:38 -0700, Don Wilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, folks - I need to find a way to kick off an xterm running BASH and then execute a program within that xterm, but NOT close the new xterm after the

sysinstall flakey after PXE booting 5.3 / AMD64

2004-11-26 Thread allan
Hello, This message is directed toward PXE masochists. I'm heading straight to the gory details. I loopback mounted 5.3-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso and copied the entire boot directory onto my OpenBSD DHCP server. I tweaked this by adding the directive boot_askname= to loader.conf. Then I PXE

Re: Playing DVD movies with Xine

2004-11-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 25 November 2004 10:39 pm, RL wrote: I just installed Xine from ports because I have been having very odd issues with ogle. However, it says there is no demuxer plugin to handle /dev/acd0 Usually this means that the file format was not recognized when I attempt to play DVD

squid-downloads

2004-11-26 Thread metallarch
-- How can i deny downloads from squid? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sysinstall flakey after PXE booting 5.3 / AMD64

2004-11-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't able to discover much in the holographic console. That console has rm but not ls. It has ifconfig but not netstat. I can cd into /stand but hardly any other directory listed in the PATH variable. Next time I'll try typing xyzzy to see if more commands

WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)

2004-11-26 Thread craig
hi, i wrote about this issue some weeks back, but have still not yet adequately resolved it. (http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-November/0638 07.html) i have, however, done more testing and found some interesting results. first off, i am working off the following:

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-25 17:30, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I think I've found what you're looking for: xterm -e /usr/local/bin/bash --rcfile bash_commands -i Substitute your program's startup script for bash_commands in the above. Using the -i switch to bash forces interactive

Running commands at startup

2004-11-26 Thread Danny Browne
This will probobly seem like such a basic question, but where can do i put commands i want to run at startup. freeBSD 4.10 i want to run (for example) alias 'ls=ls -G' alias 'vi=vim' alias 'shutdown=shutdown -h now' etc... Also, i am running fluxbox, but my mouse is very slow when it starts

Diskgeometry - sysinstall bug?

2004-11-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have problems making sysinstall behave, interactive or scripted. The disk is 60GB Hitachi Travelstar, on boot the kernel FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE identifies the geometry as: 116280/16/63, but sysinstall refuses these values as insane, and tries to rewrite the disk geometry to 7296/255/63.

Re: Playing DVD movies with Xine

2004-11-26 Thread Graham Bentley
I had to do this before Xine would recognise my DVD's ln -s /dev/acd0 /dev/dvd ln -s /dev/acd0 /dev/rdvd Check these :- http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/video-playback.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/03/FreeBSD_Basics.html Custom PC North West Open

Re: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)

2004-11-26 Thread Peter Risdon
craig wrote: hi, i wrote about this issue some weeks back, but have still not yet adequately resolved it. (http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-November/0638 07.html) [...] to repeat the original problem, when installing 5.3R it fails about 12% into extracting base into \

Re: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)

2004-11-26 Thread Peter Risdon
Peter Risdon wrote: craig wrote: hi, i wrote about this issue some weeks back, but have still not yet adequately resolved it. (http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-November/0638 07.html) [...] to repeat the original problem, when installing 5.3R it fails about 12% into

Re: Running commands at startup

2004-11-26 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:04:14 + Danny Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will probobly seem like such a basic question, but where can do i put commands i want to run at startup. for example cron, see @reboot freeBSD 4.10 i want to run (for example) alias 'ls=ls -G' alias

Re: squid-downloads

2004-11-26 Thread David Landgren
metallarch wrote: -- How can i deny downloads from squid? Here's a novel idea, how about reading the documentation? http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-10.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Updating packages list (using cvsup?)

2004-11-26 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi all, I was wondering about a thingy. Whenever I use sysinstall to add a package, the list seems to be constantly the same (i.e. often outdated), whereas more recent versions should be available of several of the packages. Of course I can manually d/l the packages and if necessary compile them

Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk

2004-11-26 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:26:38 -0800 (PST), rain cip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 and ad3. My hardware configuration is such: ad0 --

RE: Updating packages list (using cvsup?)

2004-11-26 Thread Thomas S. Crum - AAA Web Solution, Inc.
Packages are pre-compiled so there is little ability to configure them, should you need to. Although I still know many people who prefer using packages. Do not use sysinstall to accomplish this. Also, there is no need to 'download or update' your 'packages'. Simply follow the below command to

RE: Updating packages list (using cvsup?)

2004-11-26 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi Thomas (and others), First off: thanks a lot for your answer, this is indeed what I was looking for... Then some specifics: Packages are pre-compiled so there is little ability to configure them, should you need to. Although I still know many people who prefer using packages. I find them

Re: kernel compile error

2004-11-26 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:03:52PM +0900, Rob wrote: Matt Emmerton wrote: /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c:122:23: miibus_if.h: No such file or directory mkdep: compile failed You need device miibus in your kernel config if you want to use device rl. Having such a mechanism, would

Re: kernel compile error

2004-11-26 Thread Brian Bobowski
Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:03:52PM +0900, Rob wrote: Matt Emmerton wrote: Having such a mechanism, would prevent lots of beginners in the kernel compiling stuff, to get frustrated with errors like above. Also, as you see, it's well-documented in the kernel

Re: Updating packages list (using cvsup?)

2004-11-26 Thread Rob
Thomas S. Crum - AAA Web Solution, Inc. wrote: Packages are pre-compiled so there is little ability to configure them, should you need to. Although I still know many people who prefer using packages. Do not use sysinstall to accomplish this. Also, there is no need to 'download or update' your

Re: Error in ghostscript

2004-11-26 Thread Doug Van Allen
Tried that and it didn't work. On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:23:39 -0600, Adam Fabian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had an error building afl ghostscript a while ago. It required svgalib, which wasn't pulled in as a dependency. (Kind of snuck at it the back way by having drivers that required

Re: kernel compile error

2004-11-26 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:32:08 -0500, Brian Bobowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:03:52PM +0900, Rob wrote: Matt Emmerton wrote: Having such a mechanism, would prevent lots of beginners in the kernel compiling stuff, to get frustrated with

Best driver setup for GeForce2 MX

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Maloney
Hi All, I've got a 5-STABLE box with a GeForce2 MX 32M card (dual-head and SVideo out). My last card was a 4M Rage Pro (Nethack was AWESOME on this card!), so I don't have any experience with any of these fancy new-fangled graphics accelerators. Anyways, I'm having trouble figuring out the

Re: Restarting rc.conf

2004-11-26 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:54:39PM +0900, Rob typed: This does not work if a service has been changed from YES to NO (or has been removed from rc.conf). Therefore I think this is better: foreach dir in /etc/rc.d /usr/local/etc/rc.d do cd $dir foreach file in * do $file

Re: kernel compile error

2004-11-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Brian Bobowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1134 14:34]: Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:03:52PM +0900, Rob wrote: Matt Emmerton wrote: Having such a mechanism, would prevent lots of beginners in the kernel compiling stuff, to get frustrated with errors like above.

Re: Updating packages list (using cvsup?)

2004-11-26 Thread RW
On Friday 26 November 2004 14:22, Olaf Greve wrote: Hi Thomas (and others), First off: thanks a lot for your answer, this is indeed what I was looking for... I should also install portupgrade if I were you, it make managing ports a lot easier. It also has the -P and -PP options (and

Re[2]: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)

2004-11-26 Thread DanGer
Hi Peter, Friday, November 26, 2004, 2:04:33 PM, you wrote these comments: WARNING : WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR LBA. blah FAILURE : WRITE_DMA status = 51Ready, DSC, error... blah this continues until i run out of patience. This is a really major problem that has affected every 5.3

Re: Playing DVD movies with Xine

2004-11-26 Thread RL
I have that already. I already had /dev/dvd linked ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)

2004-11-26 Thread Peter Risdon
DanGer wrote: [...] i have the same issue on brand new 200gb ata maxtor hard drive. i had the same issue on 5.2.1, but when i upgraded to 5.3 i decided to turn on ata dma but after 9 days of uptime it froze..no logs, whatever...so i turned ata dma off for now, and i will stay and watch what will

Re: Playing DVD movies with Xine

2004-11-26 Thread RW
On Friday 26 November 2004 12:30, Graham Bentley wrote: I had to do this before Xine would recognise my DVD's ln -s /dev/acd0 /dev/dvd ln -s /dev/acd0 /dev/rdvd You can setup this kind of thing inside xine, but you have to change your experience level setting, otherwise it hides a lot of

loading ndis at boot ?

2004-11-26 Thread FreeBsdBeni
Hi, How do I load the ndis.ko driver at boot/startup ? I've followed the instructions on how to get the ndisulator working for my Z-Com wi-fi mini pci card and got a (working) ndis0 dev now. I can kldload the ndis.ko and if_ndis.ko but is there a way to automate this via /boot/loader.conf or

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-26 Thread Don Wilde
If you have the option to modify it, ensure that your script exits via exec sh. Alternatively a wrapper that does this is straightforward to build. It's looking more and more that I need to make a temporary file that packages both the init file and the program command line (eval blah...)

Re: Best driver setup for GeForce2 MX

2004-11-26 Thread Kees Plonsz
I got the driver from the NVIDIA site and it works without any problems. My system is 5.3 release and the card I use is: nvidia0: GeForce2 MX/MX 400 mem 0xd000-0xd7ff,0xde00-0xdeff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 I excluded Module dri ( I dont remember why ) and I use the Xorg

eject DAT tape via command?

2004-11-26 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, is it possible to eject a DAT tape via a command from CLI? eject does not seem to work :( Greets and TIA, Matthias -- Oh, honey, I didn't get drunk, I just went to a strange fantasy world. -- Homer Simpson El Viaje Misterioso De Nuestro Jomer

Re: eject DAT tape via command?

2004-11-26 Thread Martin Hepworth
Matthias mt -f /dev/sa0 rewoff replace /dev/sa0 with required device... -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, is it possible to eject a DAT tape via a command from CLI? eject does not seem to work :( Greets

Re: eject DAT tape via command?

2004-11-26 Thread lists
Try: mt -f /dev/tape rewoffl Regards, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, is it possible to eject a DAT tape via a command from CLI? eject does not seem to work :( Greets and TIA, Matthias ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: eject DAT tape via command?

2004-11-26 Thread Gary Hayers
Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, is it possible to eject a DAT tape via a command from CLI? eject does not seem to work :( Greets and TIA, Matthias In my backup script I have # Wait 5 minutes for rewind sleep 300 if [ $EJECT -eq 1 ] then mt offline fi # mt offine does it for me :)

Re: eject DAT tape via command?

2004-11-26 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter -- is it possible to eject a DAT tape via a command from CLI? eject does not seem to work :( thanks guys for all this *quick* answers! greets, Matthias -- Around the house, I never lift a finger As a husband and father I'm sub-par I'd rather

Re: Xorg/Modes issue

2004-11-26 Thread Jake Stride
Adam Fabian wrote: (II) I810(0): Not using mode 1280x1024 (no mode of this name) [EMAIL PROTECTED] looks like it might be the name of a mode. Otherwise, you could just write a modeline that does what you want. OK I have fixed this issue, it seems I missed the fact that the bios had set

Re: Running commands at startup

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Fabian
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 12:04:14PM +, Danny Browne wrote: This will probobly seem like such a basic question, but where can do i put commands i want to run at startup. freeBSD 4.10 i want to run (for example) alias 'ls=ls -G' alias 'vi=vim' alias 'shutdown=shutdown -h now' etc...

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2004-11-26 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-11-26 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Fabian
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 09:15:11AM -0700, Don Wilde wrote: If you have the option to modify it, ensure that your script exits via exec sh. Alternatively a wrapper that does this is straightforward to build. It's looking more and more that I need to make a temporary file that packages

Anti-Aliasing

2004-11-26 Thread Jake Stride
I have managed to fix the resolution issue from my previous post, but now seem unable to have anti-aliased within X. I have attached a copy of my new config file, and have followed through all the instructions in the handbook at:

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With that in mind, sometimes, the very best memory test programs can give you better ideas that memory you thought was failing IS failing. The opposite, proving that memory is good, is just totally, totally useless, you cannot take any data home at all

Re: Restarting rc.conf

2004-11-26 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 it looks like Ruben de Groot composed: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:54:39PM +0900, Rob typed: This does not work if a service has been changed from YES to NO (or has been removed from rc.conf). Therefore I think this is better: foreach dir in /etc/rc.d

Re: Restarting rc.conf (SOLVED-duh)

2004-11-26 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 it looks like Bill Schoolcraft composed: At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 it looks like Ruben de Groot composed: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:54:39PM +0900, Rob typed: This does not work if a service has been changed from YES to NO (or has been removed from rc.conf). Therefore I

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-26 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 03:46:20 + Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : This is what I get from make buildworld. I've gotten signal 10, 11, and now: 5. : : Is

upgrade from 4.10 to 5.2 over SSH?

2004-11-26 Thread Steel City Phantom
can it be done? how? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-26 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:57:31 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-11-25 17:30, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I think I've found what you're looking for: xterm -e /usr/local/bin/bash --rcfile bash_commands -i Substitute your program's startup

help about sysctl.conf

2004-11-26 Thread ann kok
Hi all I got error message /var/log/messages my system is running amd64 freebsd 5.3 with 2G memory but don't have idea why don't have enough memory thank you # sysctl -a |grep physmem 118Nov 26 13:41:08 snmpd[5849]: sysctl: physmem: Cannot allocate memory 118Nov 26 13:44:53 snmpd[5901]:

Re: Restarting rc.conf

2004-11-26 Thread David Jenkins
On Fri, 26 November, 2004 15:00, Ruben de Groot said: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:54:39PM +0900, Rob typed: This does not work if a service has been changed from YES to NO (or has been removed from rc.conf). Therefore I think this is better: foreach dir in /etc/rc.d /usr/local/etc/rc.d do

Re: loading ndis at boot ?

2004-11-26 Thread Khairil Yusof
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 17:11 +0100, FreeBsdBeni wrote: How do I load the ndis.ko driver at boot/startup ? I've followed the instructions on how to get the ndisulator working for my Z-Com wi-fi mini pci card and got a (working) ndis0 dev now. I can kldload the ndis.ko and if_ndis.ko but is

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-26 Thread Vulpes Velox
Not seen this exact error before, but I recently had a mobo go bad that would produce errors with compiles and ect before it would hardlock. It would go flaky under heavy I/O. I tested for it by swapping out the proc and ram. On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:16:23 + Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL

Re: Problems with samba under FreeBSD, not under Linux

2004-11-26 Thread Vittorio
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Found the solution for the problem widely described below, after the symbols. Here you are the solution: I created under /root the following °°° .nsmbrc file [default] workgroup=BOH_SS # The 'FSERVER' is an NT server. [SRVS1] #charsets=koi8-r:cp866

Re: Running commands at startup

2004-11-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
This will probobly seem like such a basic question, but where can do i put commands i want to run at startup. freeBSD 4.10 i want to run (for example) alias 'ls=ls -G' alias 'vi=vim' alias 'shutdown=shutdown -h now' etc... You should put alias commands in your shell startup

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-26 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 11:45:06PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: : Given the cost of memory these days, swapping it out is generally cheaper : than the cost of random downtime and recovering from crashes in a production : environment. I am *really* not a hardware guy. I just had a box built and

FreeBSD/amd64 5.3-RELEASE on an Asus k8n-e

2004-11-26 Thread Robert McHugh
Has anyone been able to install 5.3-amd64 using an Ausus k8n-e motherboard? I have two 512 mb memory modules and two 160gb sata disks. This system runs the 32 bit version of 5.3 but hangs when trying to boot from the 64 bit install CD. I booted with verbose logging and found that the system

The UFS support of Linux (was: Re: what is the bsd fs called outside the bsd sphere?)

2004-11-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-25 20:08, Matthias Buelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Williamson wrote: Ok, I'll recreate the original flash image to ensure it is -O 1, and then try again. in order to mount ufs1 on linux, you also have to specify the ufstype=44bsd option to mount. otherwise the mount

Airlink+ wireless card

2004-11-26 Thread stan
I'm visiting myy parents in Atlanta over the holidays, and I discovered there isa Fryes there! I bought a Airlin+ wireless card for my laptop for $9.99 I pluged it into my FreebSD 4,10 machine, and got a message about 32 bit Cardbus not being supported. Seems like I remeber that I need to go to

fsck inadequacies

2004-11-26 Thread Mardoc Inc
I run a FreeBSD system at a remote site. It costs me over $4000 to visit the site (northern arctic). It, along with some other equipment, runs off 2 x 50 kW diesel generators which are swapped by a mechanic once per week. The swap-over takes less than a minute. The computer runs off a UPS,

Bootable Hard Drives

2004-11-26 Thread Peter Hoskin
Hi, I'm having some difficulty with making a hard drive bootable. I'm upgrading from a 40gb to an 80gb, and I have imaged one drive to the other with dd. I've then proceeded to increase the size of the freebsd partition and my /usr slice, then used growfs. My question, however, is after my use

Re: fsck inadequacies

2004-11-26 Thread Peter Hoskin
I'm currently in the works of replacing a hdd in my server. fsck refused to mount the disk at all, due to a bad sector in the wrong spot. I can fsck it over and over again, yet it won't be marked clean. Found the force option quite useful when mounting the disk, although this is considered to

Re: fsck inadequacies

2004-11-26 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: But, unlike the other windows systems that run up there, the FreeBSD system seems incredibly prone to disk corruption. Often the system will not reboot, and hangs while it asks for a file check. I can't do that remotely - it has to be a person. I frequently need to run fsck, and

acl enabling

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Stroud
All: I am trying to enable ACL support of my FreeBSD 5.3 box. I drop into single user mode and run the tunefs -a enable command on my partition and get the following: tuenfs: ACLs set tunefs: /dev/ad0s1a: failed to write superblock When I reboot it seems that the ACL are not set. Any ideas?

Re: fsck inadequacies

2004-11-26 Thread Dan Ferris
Do you have soft updates enabled? If not, you may want to reenable them next time you go up there. Mardoc Inc wrote: I run a FreeBSD system at a remote site. It costs me over $4000 to visit the site (northern arctic). It, along with some other equipment, runs off 2 x 50 kW diesel generators

ACL and tunefs

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Stroud
All: I am trying to enable ACL support of my FreeBSD 5.3 box. I drop into single user mode and run the tunefs -a enable command on my partition and get the following: tuenfs: ACLs set tunefs: /dev/ad0s1a: failed to write superblock When I reboot it seems that the ACL are not set. Any ideas?

Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk

2004-11-26 Thread RW
On Friday 26 November 2004 04:26, rain cip wrote: Hello, I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 and ad3. My hardware configuration is such: ad0 -- primary IDE, master (all for

Looking for advice before upgrading 5.1-p17 to 5.3-p1

2004-11-26 Thread Bill Moran
Hey all. I've got a machine I'm hoping to upgrad per the subject line this weekend. This machine is 6 hours from me. I'm doing a remote upgrade via ssh, and if I screw up and have to call the colo facil, it's going to cost me big $$$. Does anyone have and stories, good or bad, regarding

Re: Airlink+ wireless card

2004-11-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
stan wrote: I'm visiting myy parents in Atlanta over the holidays, and I discovered there isa Fryes there! I bought a Airlin+ wireless card for my laptop for $9.99 I pluged it into my FreebSD 4,10 machine, and got a message about 32 bit Cardbus not being supported. Seems like I remeber that I

Solved: Diskgeometry - sysinstall bug?

2004-11-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: if (d-bios_cyl 65536 || d-bios_hd 256 || d-bios_sect = 64) { Sanitize_Bios_Geom(d); } It's a bug that sysinstall refuses to accept what you type. I have found that I could create working file system with both geometries editing the above code. The

Re: Restarting rc.conf

2004-11-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-26 18:59, David Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of interest, does anyone think it would be useful to have such a script? i.e. to restart all services in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d (after checking rc.conf obviously) Not much. For instance, why would you want to

Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk

2004-11-26 Thread Ian Moore
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:21, RW wrote: On Friday 26 November 2004 04:26, rain cip wrote: Hello, I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 and ad3. My hardware configuration is such:

Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk

2004-11-26 Thread Peter Hoskin
It appears to me that I did not have the boot manager installed on the ad0. But when I tried to install boot manager onto the ad0, the fdisk gave me no hint where to write the MBR. Basically what I did was: select install boot manager select ad0 hit the q key select install boot manager select

AGP support in FreeBSD 5.2.1 (AMD64)

2004-11-26 Thread John
Hi I am using FBSD 521 for AMD64 on a AMD Athlon 64 system. I have an ATI Radeon 9250 AGP card, but when I do a dmesg, I didn't see that the Ati card is being recognised. In addition, I can't find /dev/agpgart the AGP device node. I tried editing /boot/loader.conf to includes agp_load=YES but

problem with freebsd site

2004-11-26 Thread Claude Zipfel
I am searching for the 'sane' scanner package. In my browser, i did www.freebsd.org -- ported applications -- search 'sane' 'all' 'submit' i got a page with (among others) sane-frontends, sane-backends, when i click on the Package link (for sane-backends) i get an error '550 No such

Re: 100.chksetuid in /etc/periodic/security resets the mashine

2004-11-26 Thread Nielsen
Andrei Grudiy wrote: I have a problem. When I (or system) start the script 100.chksetuid in /etc/periodic/security my machine resets. Are you using null mounts? Or perhaps jails? I've had a combination of these features cause a kernel panic. Too many 'find' processing going at once. Setting

Re: fsck inadequacies

2004-11-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 26 November 2004 03:16 pm, Mardoc Inc wrote: I run a FreeBSD system at a remote site. It costs me over $4000 to visit the site (northern arctic). It, along with some other equipment, runs off 2 x 50 kW diesel generators which are swapped by a mechanic once per week. The swap-over