Re: start up command for mysql

2005-08-19 Thread Ed Stover
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:53:13 -0700 Mick Wilcoxen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, really new at this FreeBSD Mysql stuff. Which file do i put the startup command and the location of this ? The startup command is as follows /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld .

Re: FreeBSD on current crop of laptops?

2005-08-19 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:11:38PM -0600, Tom Vilot wrote: I like the (big-ass) Toshiba Satellite machines, but I'm not wedded to them. I am curious what people's experiences are with some of the newer laptops and what might be recommended. I can recommend the IBM Thinkpad R51, especially

Re: src of boot loader.

2005-08-19 Thread Dev FreeBSD
On 8/19/05, Bsderss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can anyone please tell me where is the source code of i386 boot loader in the freebsd src tree? Obviously different arch has different boot loader. If I just want to see the src of i386 boot loader, is the path ./sys/boot/i386/loader the

5.4 or 6 ?

2005-08-19 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I will be installing a server that will be online for production environment in 1 month. I want your suggestions if I should use 5.4 or 6 ? I am thinking to install 6.0-Beta2 and upgrade to 6.0-RELEASE when it comes out. But I wanted to take your precious opinions.

Re: CVS files in src

2005-08-19 Thread Dev FreeBSD
On 8/19/05, Andrey V. Elsukov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All! Why doTARBALL target in src/release/Makefile create src tarballs without CVS directories? -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov Hi Usually an individual would download the tarball to build the stuff and not necessarily to sync up with

Re: fd_set

2005-08-19 Thread Dev FreeBSD
On 8/19/05, nawcom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now im your basic programmer, so the only thing i can relate fd_set to are the file descriptors (bit array i think) which are declared in the select function. select is used for basic input/output channel control. So by saying that - 1) perhaps

Re: 5.4 or 6 ?

2005-08-19 Thread Dev FreeBSD
On 8/19/05, Omer Faruk Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I will be installing a server that will be online for production environment in 1 month. I want your suggestions if I should use 5.4 or 6 ? I am thinking to install 6.0-Beta2 and upgrade to 6.0-RELEASE when it comes out. But I wanted

Re: Games + pciE

2005-08-19 Thread Dev FreeBSD
On 8/19/05, Eric Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all! quick question for ya I recently installed Enemy Territory to play a mod called ETF (www.etfgame.com) I got the game working with no problems by installing a few linux packages.. linux_base-8-8.0_6 Base set of packages

Re: CVS files in src

2005-08-19 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
Dev FreeBSD wrote: Usually an individual would download the tarball to build the stuff and not necessarily to sync up with the tree. If the CVS-files would be included into src tarballs on FreeBSD ISO, this would be another easy way to update sources.. If you need a specific release

Re: start up command for mysql

2005-08-19 Thread Dev FreeBSD
On 8/19/05, Ed Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dont forget to place it in the /etc/rc.conf as well.. darn rcsubr ;) Hi What is rcsubr ? -- thanks Dev. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 5.4 or 6 ?

2005-08-19 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
The reason I am asking this question that I beleive 6.0 seems to be more stable than 5.4. But sure I know the most stable one is 4.11. But I want a comment from those who has a deeper knowledge about the differences about stabilty of 5.4 and forthcoming 6.0-RELEASE Dev FreeBSD writes:

Re: start up command for mysql

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:36:31 +0530 Dev FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/19/05, Ed Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dont forget to place it in the /etc/rc.conf as well.. darn rcsubr ;) Hi What is rcsubr ? -- thanks Dev. Good question. I don't feel qualified to give

Re: 5.4 or 6 ?

2005-08-19 Thread Dev FreeBSD
On 8/19/05, Omer Faruk Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason I am asking this question that I beleive 6.0 seems to be more stable than 5.4. But sure I know the most stable one is 4.11. But I want a comment from those who has a deeper knowledge about the differences about stabilty of 5.4

Re: Odd Xorg instability, and KDE errors

2005-08-19 Thread Dev FreeBSD
On 8/19/05, Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there really nobody but me who has had problems with X dying? I've seen bug reported on Linux that Firefox seems to kill X. Should I take it to the ports list instead? I'm seriously doubting the sense of FreeBSD moving to Xorg. It

How to capture screen dump

2005-08-19 Thread Chris Ryan
Hi All Is there anyway I can capture the screen dump mentioned below to help with de-bugging... Cheers and thanks in advance Chris - Hi We have a microstar model ms9211 1ru server with p4 1.3 512mb ram... Mobo ms 9129 Ver 1 It boots all other cd's inc many other os's inc freeBSD

Re: 5.4 or 6 ?

2005-08-19 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: Hi, I will be installing a server that will be online for production environment in 1 month. I want your suggestions if I should use 5.4 or 6 ? I am thinking to install 6.0-Beta2 and upgrade to 6.0-RELEASE when it comes out. But I wanted to take

increasing latency on idle box with ASUS P4B533VM board

2005-08-19 Thread Arjan van der Oest
Hi, I've build a new P4 box (1.8Ghz, 512MB mem) based upon a ASUS P4B533VM motherboard. This board has an Intel 845G chipset and onboard 10/100 mbit/s LAN (fxp driver). When connected directly to a gateway (in my case an Extreme BD10k) I observe the following behaviour: a ping to the gateway

Load Balancing - Nice and Easy - no BGP, no isp help.

2005-08-19 Thread Ovidiu Ene
Hello friends I am trying for a while to make a load balancer under FreeBSD I would have: 3 nics, ISP1 nic, ISP2 nic and LAN nic. What i've done until now, after reading lots of posts, googling for a while: - I've suceeded to setup an outgoing load balancer with pf, it works perfectly but

portsnap, only for ports?

2005-08-19 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I have some questions about portsnap. The intention of portsnap seems to be reasonable. But I miss a similar facility updating the operating system! One of the major arguments using portsnap is to avoid the intrusion of malicous code, injected via a 'man in the middle'. Thinking of so

Re: man malloc

2005-08-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-18 22:17, Dmitry Mityugov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/18/05, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-08-18 12:08, Sergey Matveychuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: What is pointer coercion? I have no pointer before malloc() returns. Right. Well, malloc

Re: man malloc

2005-08-19 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/19/05, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-08-18 22:17, Dmitry Mityugov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/18/05, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It may be surprising, but casting back and forth *MAY* change the value of the pointer. ... Could you back up

Re: Sound card drivers

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew P.
Andrew P. wrote this in December 2004: I grepped sysctl list and found hw.snd.pcm0.spdif_enabled switch, but when I change it 0-1, the sound disappears (both analog and digital outputs are silent). I tried to play with other hw.snd switches, changed mixer levels and recsrc, searched the net

Re: multiple network interfaces

2005-08-19 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/18/05, Daniel Valencia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, everybody Is there any limit as of how many interfaces can freebsd handle? Im trying to build a switch in a PC box, putting multiple NICs and some software... The issue is, even though all of the cards work correctly by

Re: Xorg error

2005-08-19 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/19/05, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the Xorg x window system on a freebsd box, and it has been working for a while. One time i remotely (through ssh) rebooted the computer while apparently the x window system was up. After the reboot i get an error when using startx, which

Re: man malloc

2005-08-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-19 15:00, Dmitry Mityugov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/19/05, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-08-18 22:17, Dmitry Mityugov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/18/05, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be surprising, but casting back and forth *MAY* change

Re: 5.4 or 6 ?

2005-08-19 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:52:29 +0300 Omer Faruk Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I will be installing a server that will be online for production environment in 1 month. I want your suggestions if I should use 5.4 or 6 ? I am thinking to install 6.0-Beta2 and upgrade to 6.0-RELEASE when

Re: 5.4 or 6 ?

2005-08-19 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Omer Faruk Sen wrote: But sure I know the most stable one is 4.11. I don't know whether this is a legend or I am just lucky: I'm managing several servers, some with 4.11, some with 5.3, some with 5.4, and they are all definitely working in a stable way, with almost no problems. 4.11-based

Re: CVS files in src

2005-08-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-19 11:04, Andrey V. Elsukov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dev FreeBSD wrote: Usually an individual would download the tarball to build the stuff and not necessarily to sync up with the tree. If the CVS-files would be included into src tarballs on FreeBSD ISO, this would be another easy

Re: gif tunnel overhead

2005-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
FreeBSD MailingLists [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: about how much (what percent) bandwidth overhead should I expect if I connect two hosts using a UNENCRYPTED gif tunnel over a 2Mbps connection? It depends on the kind of packets you're sending. As a corollary to that, the overhead will probably

Re: 2. try: nfsd send error -1

2005-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aug 17 12:15:11 antsrv1 kernel: nfsd send error -1 Aug 17 12:15:11 antsrv1 last message repeated 8 times I got several of theese errors in my /var/log/messages. Can someone

creating ISO for bootable CD

2005-08-19 Thread Bsderss
Hi, I downloaded rtems source in the FreeBSD OS. Can anyone please tell me how to create a CD bootable ISO file of rtems in the FreeBSD OS? Thanks Sam __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard.

creating ISO for bootable CD

2005-08-19 Thread Bsderss
Hi, I downloaded rtems source in the FreeBSD OS. Can anyone please tell me how to create a CD bootable ISO file of rtems in the FreeBSD OS? Thanks Sam __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

HOW to boot off the 5.4-Release CD with a different kernel that supports more hardware

2005-08-19 Thread Ricky
Hi, The default 5.4 kernel does include the MK-III patches from Soren as the 6.0 default Kernel does. I have problems installing the 5.4 Release on my system because I am missing these patches. I have tried burning a cd while replacing the kernel with a recompiled one but apparently the

Re: Free version of RTCoreBSD

2005-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bsderss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I look into RTCoreBSD, I found that it may be not free. If it can be download, can anyone please tell me where can I download it? How much does it charge per copy? It is indeed a commercial product. Check with FSMLabs for information on it. Note that in

Re: portsnap, only for ports?

2005-08-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:46:37PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. I have some questions about portsnap. The intention of portsnap seems to be reasonable. But I miss a similar facility updating the operating system! One of the major arguments using portsnap is to avoid the intrusion of

Re: Postfix Help

2005-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Devin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings Everyone, I have recently been experimenting with FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE to setup an email server following the directions listed here: http://postfixwiki.org/index.php?title=Virtual_Users_and_Domains_with_Courie r-IMAP_and_MySQL I am pretty

Re: Xorg error

2005-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dmitry Mityugov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/19/05, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the Xorg x window system on a freebsd box, and it has been working for a while. One time i remotely (through ssh) rebooted the computer while apparently the x window system was up. After the

Re: bootparamd doesn't allow parameters?

2005-08-19 Thread Brian J. McGovern
Dan, Thanks. I'm out of the office today, but I'll give it a spin Monday and report. -brian --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In the last episode (Aug 18), Brian J. McGovern said: I'm in the process of

Nvidia driver problem: video ram not detected

2005-08-19 Thread Justin R. Smith
I'm using the latest nvidia driver with the FreeBSD AGP and it only detects 32meg of video ram even though the card has 128meg. I have the line VideoRam131072 in xorg.conf, but it has no effect. Any advice? Thanks in advance. ___

Re: portsdb: db format

2005-08-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stepan Rakhimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have 2 FreeBSD-6-BETA2 systems, I've noticed that my ports db's are in different format (dbm_hash and bdb1_btree) May i choose this format by hand to make them similar? (i've already recompiled appropriate ports, but with no effect) It's

Re: HOW to boot off the 5.4-Release CD with a different kernel that supports more hardware

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:39:37 -0400 (EDT) Ricky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The default 5.4 kernel does include the MK-III patches from Soren as the 6.0 default Kernel does. I have problems installing the 5.4 Release on my system because I am missing these patches. I have tried

increasing latency on idle box with ASUS P4B533VM board

2005-08-19 Thread Arjan van der Oest
Hi, I've build a new P4 box (1.8Ghz, 512MB mem) based upon a ASUS P4B533VM motherboard. This board has an Intel 845G chipset and onboard 10/100 mbit/s LAN (fxp driver). When connected directly to a gateway (in my case an Extreme BD10k) I observe the following behaviour: a ping to the gateway

dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Ilari Laitinen
Hello. Lately I have been getting more and more worried about data on my FreeBSD box at home. I am forming a real small-scale backup policy with two different big USB harddrives (yet to buy) storing regular incremental backups (yet to figure out). The idea is to have those harddrives mirror each

Re: increasing latency on idle box with ASUS P4B533VM board

2005-08-19 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/19/05, Arjan van der Oest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've build a new P4 box (1.8Ghz, 512MB mem) based upon a ASUS P4B533VM motherboard. This board has an Intel 845G chipset and onboard 10/100 mbit/s LAN (fxp driver). When connected directly to a gateway (in my case an Extreme

Embedded FreeBSD

2005-08-19 Thread Bsderss
--- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: useful. Have you looked at the FreeBSD Documentation article on FreeBSD and Solid State Devices? Thank you very much for the comperhensive documentation. I want to create a embedded freebsd gateway in the M-System DiskOnChip. Do you know

RE: increasing latency on idle box with ASUS P4B533VM board

2005-08-19 Thread Arjan van der Oest
Dimitry, vrijdag 19 augustus 2005 16:19, Dmitry Mityugov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a shot in the dark but is HT enabled in that P4? It's an older MB but as far as I can see in the BIOS and the specs on asus.com it doesn't support HT. Thanks, Arjan

multiple LCD monitors connection to a FreeBSD server

2005-08-19 Thread Bsderss
Hi, I want to connection more than 10 LCD monitors to a single FreeBSD server. Is there a way to do so? Thanks Sam __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

mount_udf: Invalid root file entry!

2005-08-19 Thread Björn König
Hello, I created an UDF filesystem with newfs_udf of udfclient[1] and I wrote some files with udfclient successfully to a DVD-RAM. I was also able to read the data with this program. Now I like to mount this file system read-only with mount_udf of FreeBSD: # mount_udf -o ro /dev/cd0 /mnt

Re: Nvidia driver problem: video ram not detected

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Justin R. Smith wrote: I'm using the latest nvidia driver with the FreeBSD AGP and it only detects 32meg of video ram even though the card has 128meg. If you mean the nvidia driver from the ports, then my 128Mb card detects just fine. If you mean the nv driver which comes with xorg, then

Re: multiple LCD monitors connection to a FreeBSD server

2005-08-19 Thread Dev FreeBSD
On 8/19/05, Bsderss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to connection more than 10 LCD monitors to a single FreeBSD server. Is there a way to do so? Thanks Sam Hi A possible starting point would be http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/xfree/Xinerama-HOWTO/ and

Re: How to capture screen dump

2005-08-19 Thread Chris Ryan
From: Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:03:08 -0700 To: 'Chris Ryan' [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: How to capture screen dump -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Ryan

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ilari Laitinen wrote: Handbook reads dump(8) is the best backup program there is. So I am giving it a try - only to find out that I don't understand at all the meaning of that modified Tower of Hanoi algorithm descibed in the manual page and elsewhere. The manual page says it is an efficient

Re: HOW to boot off the 5.4-Release CD with a different kernel that supports more hardware

2005-08-19 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Ricky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks in advance for any help regarding this. This isn't the short-cut you were probably hoping for, but this should explain how to make a CD like the Project did: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html There's also a release(7)

Re: start up command for mysql

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:09:42 -0700 Mick Wilcoxen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, Ok found the fill, but what do use to check it. Its not viewable in vi, so what do I use to check it ?? *** Mick Wilcoxen (530)933-2882 I

Vinum migration 4.x-5.4

2005-08-19 Thread Robin Smith
There seems to be a consensus in the references I've found that vinum is completely broken on 5.4 and that gvinum/geom_vinum is not ready for production use. As it seems to me, this means that anyone using 4.11 (say) and vinum will have to abandon vinum (i.e. quit doing software RAID) in order to

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello. Lately I have been getting more and more worried about data on my FreeBSD box at home. I am forming a real small-scale backup policy with two different big USB harddrives (yet to buy) storing regular incremental backups (yet to figure out). The idea is to have those harddrives

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Aug 19, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: [ ...a good explanation snipped... ] Personally I use a much shorter sequence: 0 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 3 2. But that's because I don't usually change vast amounts of data. I would also consider doing your backups daily, not weekly as your example

Re: multiple LCD monitors connection to a FreeBSD server

2005-08-19 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/19/05, Bsderss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to connection more than 10 LCD monitors to a single FreeBSD server. Is there a way to do so? Thanks Sam Shall they display the same information? -- Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality

Re: start up command for mysql

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:15:08 -0700 Mick Wilcoxen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, Found it. But the command is different from the command that The person who created the database gave. Should I change it to mach his command The command there is Start) /sbin/idcongif -m

bge1: WatchDog Timedout -- resetting

2005-08-19 Thread DeadMan Xia ....
I m using FreeBSD 5.4, on Dell Power Edge 6650 Quad Processor Machine with 2 GB Ethernets, but i m ussing one of them ... but tried both ,,, my system get stuck while i m accessing it through ssh. well after some time , when i acces the machine check , /var/log/messages ,, i get bge1: WatchDog

Re: Re[2]: (no subject)

2005-08-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Aug 18, 2005, at 6:20 PM, Неверов Дмитрий wrote: Hello, Garrett. Networking and Filesharing. Is it enough to configure Network, if I know IPv4 Adress, Netmask and workgroup name? - You wrote: On Aug 18, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Неверов Дмитрий wrote:

x41 tablet

2005-08-19 Thread john federis
Has there been any testing done on the Lenovo (IBM) tablet PCs. They are running on the Pentium M753 and and M758 procs. Just wanted to see if anyone had success or problems. THanks! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best

Re: Odd Xorg instability, and KDE errors

2005-08-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Aug 19, 2005, at 1:19 AM, Andreas Davour wrote: Are there really nobody but me who has had problems with X dying? I've seen bug reported on Linux that Firefox seems to kill X. Should I take it to the ports list instead? I'm seriously doubting the sense of FreeBSD moving to Xorg. It has

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-08-19 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ 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

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2005-08-19 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.

Re: Embedded FreeBSD

2005-08-19 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/19/05, Bsderss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: useful. Have you looked at the FreeBSD Documentation article on FreeBSD and Solid State Devices? Thank you very much for the comperhensive documentation. I want to create a embedded

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Ilari Laitinen
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:22:20PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Ilari Laitinen wrote: Handbook reads dump(8) is the best backup program there is. So I am giving it a try - only to find out that I don't understand at all the meaning of that modified Tower of Hanoi algorithm descibed in the

help with pppoed

2005-08-19 Thread vladone
Hi! I want to setup an freebsd server that support authentication via pppoe conexion. I make this steps: 1.I have compiled kernel with needed options 2. i modify rc.conf to include this: pppoed_enable=YES pppoed_flags=-d -P /var/run/pppoed.pid -l default pppoed_interface=fxp0

Re: Vinum migration 4.x-5.4

2005-08-19 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:01:55AM -0500, Robin Smith wrote: There seems to be a consensus in the references I've found that vinum is completely broken on 5.4 That is true. IMHO it should be removed from RELENG_5 and _6 if it isn't already. and that gvinum/geom_vinum is not ready for

FXP driver....

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Gonzalez
Hi, I've build a new P4 box (1.8Ghz, 512MB mem) based upon a ASUS P4B533VM motherboard. This board has an Intel 845G chipset and onboard 10/100 mbit/s LAN (fxp driver). When connected directly to a gateway (in my case an Extreme BD10k) I observe the following behaviour: a ping to the

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread David Israelsson
Ilari Laitinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Handbook reads dump(8) is the best backup program there is. So I am giving it a try - only to find out that I don't understand at all the meaning of that modified Tower of Hanoi algorithm descibed in the manual page and elsewhere. The manual page says

Calculating the load average in the freebsd kernel

2005-08-19 Thread Kannan Varadhan
Hello, I am staring at the code in kern/kern_synch.c that calculates the load average of the system, and I cannot fully understand how the freebsd version works. Specifically, it looks as: /* * Constants for averages over 1, 5, and 15 minutes * when sampling at 5 second intervals. */ static

Forcing symbol resolution in lib rather than bin

2005-08-19 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
I have a binary that links to a shared object library. That .so calls a routine in an archive library (.a). When I link the main app with -lar-a it works fine, even though the function is actually called in the .so. But when I link the .so with -lar-a, the linker doesn't resolve the symbol!

Re: SPAM Problem

2005-08-19 Thread Danny MacMillan
Aaron Siegel wrote: Hello This message is off topic but I was not sure were else I can go to get help with my problem. For the past week I have been receiving messages from various mail servers which have bounced messages I have not sent but have my email address as the originator of the

Re: Vinum migration 4.x-5.4

2005-08-19 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:01:55 -0500, Robin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a consensus in the references I've found that vinum is completely broken on 5.4 and that gvinum/geom_vinum is not ready for production use. As it seems to me, this means that anyone using 4.11 (say)

how to set backquote on PC keyboard telneting to FREEBSD

2005-08-19 Thread John Williams
Dear LIst, i'm sure this is simple ... I am using a PC to telnet to a FreeBSD system. The backquote key does not work. I believe the STTY command is used to set the backquote key on FreeBSD. Can anyone tell me the STTY command syntax to do this?? Thanks

Re: Forcing symbol resolution in lib rather than bin

2005-08-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-19 20:13, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a binary that links to a shared object library. That .so calls a routine in an archive library (.a). When I link the main app with -lar-a it works fine, even though the function is actually called in the .so. But when

Re: Forcing symbol resolution in lib rather than bin

2005-08-19 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:47:48PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : # flame:/tmp/jcm-lib/foobar$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/../libbar ./foobar : # libfoo initialized at 0x80062a8a0 : # libbar initialized at 0x4004e4 : # flame:/tmp/jcm-lib/foobar$ Hmmm. I'm using my own makefile setup rather than the

Adding Disk Drive

2005-08-19 Thread Edward Brown
I have a server running FreeBSD 4.5, which currently has 2 disk drives. One is being used and one has never been touched. I would like to format and possibly partition, and then begin using this 2nd drive. How should I proceed? Thanks, Edward Brown

Re: Forcing symbol resolution in lib rather than bin

2005-08-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-19 21:03, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:47:48PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : # flame:/tmp/jcm-lib/foobar$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/../libbar ./foobar : # libfoo initialized at 0x80062a8a0 : # libbar initialized at 0x4004e4 : #

Re: Forcing symbol resolution in lib rather than bin

2005-08-19 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:14:40PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : Doesn't ld *statically* link code from .a archives? : : 'statically' is such an overloaded term I prefer to avoid using it. : : The C linker will include the body of functions defined in non-shared : libraries into every

Re: Forcing symbol resolution in lib rather than bin

2005-08-19 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:14:40PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : On 2005-08-19 21:03, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:47:48PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : : # flame:/tmp/jcm-lib/foobar$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/../libbar ./foobar : : # libfoo

Re: Adding Disk Drive

2005-08-19 Thread Mark Kane
Edward Brown wrote: I have a server running FreeBSD 4.5, which currently has 2 disk drives. One is being used and one has never been touched. I would like to format and possibly partition, and then begin using this 2nd drive. How should I proceed? Thanks, Edward Brown Hi. This section of

Re: Forcing symbol resolution in lib rather than bin

2005-08-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-19 21:19, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:14:40PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : Doesn't ld *statically* link code from .a archives? : : 'statically' is such an overloaded term I prefer to avoid using it. : : The C linker will include the body

Re: Forcing symbol resolution in lib rather than bin

2005-08-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-19 21:26, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got it! I recalled something des or phk wrote me a while ago, then I skimmed the manpage again. I have to put the .a files AFTER the object files where the unresolved symbol is found. Ah! Yes, of course. I didn't realize you

Re: how to set backquote on PC keyboard telneting to FREEBSD

2005-08-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
i'm sure this is simple ... I am using a PC to telnet to a FreeBSD system. The backquote key does not work. I believe the STTY command is used to set the backquote key on FreeBSD. Can anyone tell me the STTY command syntax to do this?? I've always used... stty erase

Re: Forcing symbol resolution in lib rather than bin

2005-08-19 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:29:26PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : On 2005-08-19 21:26, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : Got it! I recalled something des or phk wrote me a while ago, then I skimmed : the manpage again. I have to put the .a files AFTER the object files where

Re: Hi

2005-08-19 Thread devnull
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Internet firewall

2005-08-19 Thread Gareth Campbell
Hey guys, I'm a newbie and have got my box all set up with FreeBSD 5.4, fluxbox wm, firefox, thunderbird etc... It's all looking awesome, with transparency, and working well. I run it on dial-up ppp but haven't set up any firewall. Should I be setting one up? If so, do I use one of the

Re: Calculating the load average in the freebsd kernel

2005-08-19 Thread Kannan Varadhan
Thanks Chris. Yes, I did see that earlier. Two things about it: 1. It is for the linux kernel. Interestingly, the linux kernel is almost close enough to the BSD kernel, particularly in the choice of constants and usage, although in atypical convolutions. The main difference is in how it

RE: FXP driver....

2005-08-19 Thread Arjan van der Oest
Daniel, I haven't used the fxp driver in a while but you can check out the man page for the driver (man 4 fxp) and it mentions that you can disable autoselect for media type and speed. I remember reading in an article (I can't locate the URL) that the autonegotiation between the NIC and

Re: Internet firewall

2005-08-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-20 09:12, Gareth Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, I'm a newbie and have got my box all set up with FreeBSD 5.4, fluxbox wm, firefox, thunderbird etc... It's all looking awesome, with transparency, and working well. I run it on dial-up ppp but haven't set up any

Re: Adding Disk Drive

2005-08-19 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
And http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Quick sound question

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Murphy
Hey all Im trying to install OSS to get 5.1 sound working -- I keep getting THIS error: (I get a similar error when trying to run glxgears as well) greed# ./oss-install /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libncurses.so.5 not found, required by oss-install So what packages am i missing?

Re: how to set backquote on PC keyboard telneting to FREEBSD

2005-08-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-19 12:39, John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LIst, i'm sure this is simple ... I am using a PC to telnet to a FreeBSD system. The backquote key does not work. I believe the STTY command is used to set the backquote key on FreeBSD. Can anyone tell me the STTY command

postfix 2.1.5 sasl2 on 5.4

2005-08-19 Thread dave
Hello, I'm trying to set up a new mailserver, config below, on a freebsd 5.4 box. I'm using chroot for the postfix processes and am going to introduce postfix-style virtual domains when i get sasl/tls working. Currently, i can connect, but authentication fails. I've got in my rc.conf lines

Re: how to set backquote on PC keyboard telneting to FREEBSD

2005-08-19 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 19 August 2005 03:46 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-19 12:39, John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LIst, i'm sure this is simple ... I am using a PC to telnet to a FreeBSD system. The backquote key does not work. I believe the STTY command is used to set the

Re: ctags with recursion and sort

2005-08-19 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Dev FreeBSD thusly... Tried to use 'ctags' for FreeBSD sources. However, I could not find the '--recurse' and '--sort' options in ctags available on FreeBSD. Are there any alternatives. deve/ctags port, in fact. - Parv --

could this be done?

2005-08-19 Thread Levi Campbell
Hi, I'm Levi Campbell and I was wondering if it would be possible to add a speech synthesizer to the kernel for those blind sysadmins and/or programmers? Please refer to the SpeakUp project for linux at http://www.linux-speakup.org for an example, also, feeldd free to email me. Thank you for your

very big files on cd9660 file system

2005-08-19 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! I have a cd9660 image with several files on it. One of the files is very large (above 4Gb). When I mount the image, the size of this file is shown as realsize % 4Gb -- 758876749 bytes instead of 5053844045. What should I blame: 1) The software, that created the image (modified

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