Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Ian Moore
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:09, Jesse Guardiani wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, you wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user. In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions: /boot swap / In FreeBSD, you seem to

RE: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Daniel Eriksson
Emanuel Strobl wrote: You can also use nullfs (man (8) mount_nullfs). It's slow and not certified to be bugfree but I never had any problems and especially for centralized ports very useful. What has given you the idea that nullfs is slow? I'm using it extensively and have not noticed any

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
Daniel Eriksson wrote: Emanuel Strobl wrote: You can also use nullfs (man (8) mount_nullfs). It's slow and not certified to be bugfree but I never had any problems and especially for centralized ports very useful. What has given you the idea that nullfs is slow? I'm using it extensively and

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 4. März 2005 01:50 schrieb Daniel Eriksson: Emanuel Strobl wrote: You can also use nullfs (man (8) mount_nullfs). It's slow and not certified to be bugfree but I never had any problems and especially for centralized ports very useful. What has given you the idea that nullfs is

Re: Vinum raid5 problems......

2005-03-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 3 March 2005 at 15:35:31 -0600, matt virus wrote: Hi all: I have a FBSD 5.2.1 box running vinum. 7 *160gb drives in a raid5 array. I can post specific errors and logs and such later, i'm away from the box right now --- anybody have any thoughts ? How about

Re: RELENG_5_3 to RELENG_5 make installworld fails

2005-03-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 03 March 2005 03:26 pm, Aaron Nichols wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:39:16 -0800, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You missed a step. Your system clock is off and that makes the installworld try to use touch. Set your system clock and you may have to remake your world but it

Found This In /usr - @LongLink

2005-03-03 Thread James A. Coulter
I found this in /usr on two FBSD 4.11 boxen: -- 1 root wheel 105 Dec 31 1969 @LongLink One box is my firewall/router/gateway attached to a cable modem and the other is behind the firewall. The 1969 timestamp and lack of file attributes is making the small hair on the back

Re: Found This In /usr - @LongLink

2005-03-03 Thread Eric F Crist
On Mar 3, 2005, at 8:08 PM, James A. Coulter wrote: I found this in /usr on two FBSD 4.11 boxen: -- 1 root wheel 105 Dec 31 1969 @LongLink One box is my firewall/router/gateway attached to a cable modem and the other is behind the firewall. The 1969 timestamp and lack of

Broken port: gettext

2005-03-03 Thread Andrew Lewis
Help! :( Spent all day @ a client trying to recover some data, then stayed up all night recovering it now doing a fresh setup on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, cvsupped with latest ports, and gettext port is broken (need for Samba3, PHP). Supposed to go back in about an hour to install new box. :(

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Bob Johnson
On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:45 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, [someone] wrote: I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you don't want to create more partitions, then don't. You can make an 80gb (or 300gb, or whatever) drive into two

Widescreen(16:10) woes. PLEASE HELP

2005-03-03 Thread Remington
FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Mar 3 18:39:00 PST 2005 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VAIO i386 Hello: I recently baught Sony VAIO FS570 notebook, its a 15.4 screen. I cannot for the life of me Xorg to go above 1024x768. It is running the vesa driver, native card is an

CVS Repository

2005-03-03 Thread cizuriet
Hi Guys, I have tried setting up my own CVS tree with the /src tree in my local machine, but after setting the CVSROOT to any of the suggestions on the web site, when I try to log on with the anoncvs passwd, I get the following response. Any help? Thanks! Clem-- setenv CVSROOT

cpu overhead

2005-03-03 Thread Bhaban Singh
Could anybody tell me is there any cpu monitoring tools for FreeBSD. pleas send me any idea. thanks bhaban ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Widescreen(16:10) woes. PLEASE HELP

2005-03-03 Thread Remington
Attaching /var/log/Xorg.log would be nice On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 20:25 -0800, Remington wrote: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Mar 3 18:39:00 PST 2005 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VAIO i386 Hello: I recently baught Sony VAIO FS570 notebook, its a 15.4 screen. I

portupgrade wrecked gnome!!! ~8-(

2005-03-03 Thread Karl Agee
Here is my tale of woe. Freebsd 4.11-stable. I upgraded my ports using portupgrade -arR after cvsuping and make fetchindex and portsdb -u. Things worked, so I went out and did portupgrade. But my gnome-2.8.2 install is hosed. It starts but gives me no taskbars or button bars. Just little

Re: 6 hours of trying to configure my printer - solved

2005-03-03 Thread bsdnooby
I got my printing working by installing apsfilter and by following some of the instructions in the (printed) The FreeBSD Handbook 2ed. I am using FreeBSD 5.3, an HP940c Deskjet, parallel port connection, and the lpr method of printing (rather than the CUPS method). Initially I followed the

RE: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
All Windows 2000, and above operating systems support NTP Logged in as administrator, at the command line net time /setsntp:XX.XX.XX.XX XX.XX.XX.XX = the IP address of a NTP server Then go in to Start Settings Control Panel Administrative Tools, Services, Windows Time and set startup to

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Jesse Guardiani writes: I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user. In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions: /boot swap / In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more: / swap /usr /var /tmp You don't _have_ to create these partitions. They are just the

RE: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Loren M. Lang Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 12:58 PM To: Luke Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:00:15PM -0800, Luke

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Jesse Guardiani writes: Doesn't the boot partition have to NOT have soft updates though? That's your choice. By default, it won't, since data loss is more likely with soft updates (anything that doesn't immediately write everything physically to disk creates a risk of data loss). But you can

RE: 6 hours of trying to configure my printer - solved

2005-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi bsdnobody, Looks great to me! apsfilter is a really nice filter program, allowing duplexing, multiple pages per page, etc. Of course, you actually don't need to run it. The real grunt work in your scenario is being done by ghostscript, which is converting the incoming postscript that

RE: Audio latency

2005-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J.E. Dooper Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:20 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Audio latency Hi, My sound works and when I use mplayer or xmms I don't experience any

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Bob Johnson wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, [someone] wrote: I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you don't want to create more partitions, then don't. You can make an 80gb (or 300gb, or whatever) drive into two partitions - a swap partition (2gig)

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 6:24 AM +0100 3/4/05, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Jesse Guardiani writes: Doesn't the boot partition have to NOT have soft updates though? That's your choice. By default, it won't, since data loss is more likely with soft updates (anything that doesn't immediately write everything physically

Re: Broken port: gettext

2005-03-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 03 March 2005 08:00 pm, Andrew Lewis wrote: Help! :( Spent all day @ a client trying to recover some data, then stayed up all night recovering it now doing a fresh setup on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, cvsupped with latest ports, and gettext port is broken (need for Samba3, PHP). Supposed

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Jesse Guardiani writes: Then why doesn't sysinstall enable soft updates on the root FS by default? Because the root is not often written, and any data loss on the root is likely to have more negative effects than on other directories (often it would be something like a kernel rebuild). So

Re: portupgrade wrecked gnome!!! ~8-(

2005-03-03 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 03 March 2005 08:58 pm, Karl Agee wrote: Here is my tale of woe. Freebsd 4.11-stable. I upgraded my ports using portupgrade -arR after cvsuping and make fetchindex and portsdb -u. Things worked, so I went out and did portupgrade. But my gnome-2.8.2 install is hosed. It starts

Re: portupgrade wrecked gnome!!! ~8-(

2005-03-03 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:58:50 -0800 Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my tale of woe. Freebsd 4.11-stable. I upgraded my ports using portupgrade -arR after cvsuping and make fetchindex and portsdb -u. Things worked, so I went out and did portupgrade. But my gnome-2.8.2 install

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