Re: make buildworld

2005-12-27 Thread Björn König
Doug Hardie schrieb: I am upgrading a server to 6.0 and encountered an error in make buildworld. However, I don't know what the error was as I piped stdout to a file, but not stderr. It was fairly near the end so I really hate to restart from the beginning again. The master server is a

Re: 3D Hardware Graphics

2005-12-27 Thread Björn König
Jon schrieb: Hello all, I'm wondering how to get 3D Hardware graphics going under FreeBSD. I tried both the LibGL.so that came with the driver for my graphics card and the default LibGL.so that came with FreeBSD '/usr/X11R6/lib' but no go, still slow software mode. I have a DRI radeon enabled

Re: kernel options

2005-12-27 Thread Björn König
Imran Imtiaz schrieb: where can i find all the customization options of ther kernel? See src/sys/conf/NOTES for platform-independent options and for example src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES for i386-specific options. Regards Björn ___

RE: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danial Thom Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 6:28 PM To: Beech Rintoul; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Question's. --- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Does it meet the test I already outlined? Download the FreeBSD iso then upload it to a remote server, with both lines connected. Time it. Disconnect 1 line, then repeat the test. If the time to download and upload when both DSL lines are connected is half the time it takes when 1 DSL line is

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote: It doesn't really matter what the accepted standard is; its the one that *most* people are using. Bring this rule to society and it won't take all that much time before we'll live in a jungle (happely ever after ? ;-) It's the decease of this era that lost of

Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...

2005-12-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
Since I upgraded from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0, I cannot for the life of me get the wi0-interface to work at all (real bummer). During boot I get the following error message: ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_wep module by hand for now If afterwards I try to fiddle around with ifconfig wepmode

Re: how to dual boot

2005-12-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 26 Dec Jerry McAllister wrote: Just put the FreeBSD install CD back in and install the FreeBSD MBR. It will give you a choice as to which to boot. It works just fine. It's only quirk is that, if the MS slice is an NTFS type of filesystem it will identify it as ??? in the menu rather than

Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...

2005-12-27 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 12/27/05 18:22 Kiffin Gish said the following: Since I upgraded from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0, I cannot for the life of me get the wi0-interface to work at all (real bummer). During boot I get the following error message: ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_wep module by hand for now If

Memory upgrade and resizing the /swap partition ...

2005-12-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
I just upgraded my laptop from 512MB to 1024MB memory. It is said that the /swap partition has to be at least as much as the maximum available memory, but my current value is still based on the old 512MB size. Can I increase the size of the existing swap partition or do I have to create a new

Re: Memory upgrade and resizing the /swap partition ...

2005-12-27 Thread Björn König
Kiffin Gish schrieb: I just upgraded my laptop from 512MB to 1024MB memory. It is said that the /swap partition has to be at least as much as the maximum available memory, [...] This is more an ancient rule of thumb. You can even have a working system without swap at all. Swap will be only

sysinstall full install remotely with no serial console, possible?

2005-12-27 Thread Elliot Crosby-McCullough
Hey guys. Basically in my situation I have a broken server in colo with no serial console. It works for the most part but write access to / is gone, and all attempts at repair are not coming about. I'd like to reinstall all but /home (has a seperate slice), however I would have to do so

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom wrote: Schwab Streetsmart Accounting Software (CA) Quicken Photoshop Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs) Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there are some half-assed alternatives for some of these, but if I have to use something inferior to use

Re: Memory upgrade and resizing the /swap partition ...

2005-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
=?windows-1252?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kiffin Gish schrieb: I just upgraded my laptop from 512MB to 1024MB memory. It is said that the /swap partition has to be at least as much as the maximum available memory, [...] This is more an ancient rule of thumb. You can

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:03 am, Danial Thom wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-12-24 14:01, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, FreeBSD is about twice as fast/easy to install/configure, and infinitely

Re: how to dual boot

2005-12-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On 26 Dec Jerry McAllister wrote: Just put the FreeBSD install CD back in and install the FreeBSD MBR. It will give you a choice as to which to boot. It works just fine. It's only quirk is that, if the MS slice is an NTFS type of filesystem it will identify it as ??? in the menu

Re: projector under FreeBSD?

2005-12-27 Thread Yuan Jue
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 09:37, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 27 December 2005 at 9:35:07 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all can projectors be used under FreeBSD? Yes. if it could, how? What's the issue? Plug it in and it should work. yes, it does work just when I plug

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:35:04 AM Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BSD Question's. Wrote these words of wisdom: I would claim that XP is quite capable of screwing up its system without any real help from the user. I installed a HP all-in-one scanner-plotter on my a NEC

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread Danial Thom
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote: It doesn't really matter what the accepted standard is; its the one that *most* people are using. Bring this rule to society and it won't take all that much time before we'll live in a jungle (happely ever

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-27 Thread Danial Thom
--- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Danial Thom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 7:50 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Winelfred G. Pasamba Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD router

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 27 Dec Danial Thom wrote: --- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote: It doesn't really matter what the accepted standard is; its the one that *most* people are using. Bring this rule to society and it won't take all that much time before

a SED need

2005-12-27 Thread Jack Stone
I have some HTML files with hundreds of URLs that I need to modify using a search/replace string. I assume that SED(1) is the right tool to use, but every syntax I've tried has not worked. Here is what I'm trying to do: Change full URLs to relative paths, in other words, chop off the

pf, pfil hooks and if_bridge

2005-12-27 Thread Aaron Peterson
I was reading about the new if_bridge driver, and the ability of any packet filter to interface with it that uses pfil hooks. But I can't seem to find any documentation that says whether pf is such a packet filter? Would someone enlighten me if pf is useable with the new if_bridge driver?

Re: a SED need

2005-12-27 Thread Dmitry Sidorov
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 09:18 -0600, Jack Stone wrote: I have some HTML files with hundreds of URLs that I need to modify using a search/replace string. I assume that SED(1) is the right tool to use, but every syntax I've tried has not worked. Here is what I'm trying to do: Change full URLs

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread Danial Thom
--- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom wrote: Schwab Streetsmart Accounting Software (CA) Quicken Photoshop Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs) Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there are some half-assed alternatives for some

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread Danial Thom
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Dec Danial Thom wrote: --- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote: It doesn't really matter what the accepted standard is; its the one that *most* people are using. Bring this rule to

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-27 Thread Danial Thom
--- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it meet the test I already outlined? Download the FreeBSD iso then upload it to a remote server, with both lines connected. Time it. Disconnect 1 line, then repeat the test. If the time to download and upload when both DSL lines

Re: a SED need

2005-12-27 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 09:18:56AM -0600, Jack Stone wrote: I have some HTML files with hundreds of URLs that I need to modify using a search/replace string. I assume that SED(1) is the right tool to use, but every syntax I've tried has not worked. Here is what I'm trying to do: Change

Quick Install Question

2005-12-27 Thread Daniel Goldberg
Dear FreeBSD- I'm a FreeBSD 6.0 newbie and very excited. Could you please by any chance answer the following basic install Question? What is the order of installing FreeBSD for a dual-boot XP environment on a single HDD using GAG (ie, which do I install first, which partition for each os,

Re: 3D Hardware Graphics

2005-12-27 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 06:28, Jon wrote: I'm wondering how to get 3D Hardware graphics going under FreeBSD. I tried both the LibGL.so that came with the driver for my graphics card and the default LibGL.so that came with FreeBSD '/usr/X11R6/lib' but no go, still slow software mode. I

Re: a SED need

2005-12-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 09:18 -0600, Jack Stone wrote: I have some HTML files with hundreds of URLs that I need to modify using a search/replace string. I assume that SED(1) is the right tool to use, but every syntax I've tried has not worked. Here is what I'm trying to do: Change full URLs

Re: Quick Install Question

2005-12-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 Daniel Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD- I'm a FreeBSD 6.0 newbie and very excited. Could you please by any chance answer the following basic install Question? What is the order of installing FreeBSD for a dual-boot XP environment

Re: Palm (Zire) and /dev/ucom0 on 6.0

2005-12-27 Thread DW
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 12:15:11PM -0500, DW wrote: [...] I do all this on my new 6.0 machine. When I hit the sync button on zire, I get the expected dmesg output (detecting the palm device), but there is no /dev/ucom0 device in /dev. Why? Aside from adding

RE: Quick Install Question

2005-12-27 Thread Gayn Winters
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Goldberg Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:14 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Quick Install Question Dear FreeBSD- I'm a FreeBSD 6.0 newbie and very excited.

Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...

2005-12-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
Yes I have. I also added it to the loader.conf file, the kernel configuration file, done a buildkernel etc. but no luck. # /boot/loader.conf wlan_wep_load=YES # /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC device wlan_wep But still no luck. What am I forgetting?

Re: That Drive Geometry Bug

2005-12-27 Thread Daniel Rudy
At about the time of 12/26/2005 5:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated the following: I am trying to back up the drive I have been using (which is now full) onto a 60GB Seagate IDE drive - ST360020A. After a bunch of failures at configuring the disk, I did some searching on the web and found some

RE: sysinstall full install remotely with no serial console, possible?

2005-12-27 Thread Webster, Andrew
You might want to check out ethercons, but you'll probably have to roll your own boot CD with this included. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elliot Crosby-McCullough Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 07:13 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Quick Install Question

2005-12-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:39:04 AM Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Wrote these words of wisdom: On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 Daniel Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD- [..] 1. Install Windows first, in the first

Re: DVD burning GUI

2005-12-27 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [freebsd] [26-12-05 16:15 -0200]: | Hi Nicolas, | | I forget to say that I'm using Gnome, does k3b work with it? Yes. KDE libraries will be installed. -- pgp1hNi1iCyyY.pgp Description: PGP signature

dvd drive

2005-12-27 Thread eoghan
Hello Im wondering how to tell freeBSD about my 2 dvd drives. k3b automatically detects them but it hasnt found either. Thanks Eoghan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Missing lib

2005-12-27 Thread scuba
Hi all, My system (FBSD 5.4, Xorg, Gnome2), started to show the following message. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libexif.so.10 not found, required by nautilus I indeed, could not find libexif.so.10. How can I fix that? - Thank you

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-27 Thread Danial Thom
--- Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it meet the test I already outlined? Download the FreeBSD iso then upload it to a remote server, with both lines connected. Time it. Disconnect 1 line, then repeat the test.

Re: Quick Install Question

2005-12-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:21:26 -0500 Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:39:04 AM Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Wrote these words of wisdom: On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 Daniel Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Firefox 1.5 complains that it is already running

2005-12-27 Thread Rob
Hi, I compiled Firefox 1.5 from ports but when attempting to start it I get the error message: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. I could not find any Firefox or Mozilla type of

Re: Firefox 1.5 complains that it is already running

2005-12-27 Thread Aaron Peterson
On 12/27/05, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I compiled Firefox 1.5 from ports but when attempting to start it I get the error message: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. I

Re: dlink wireless adapter

2005-12-27 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Imran Imtiaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how can i make my dlink DWL-G122 wireless usb adapter work with freebsd? IIRC it's supported by the ural driver. With that knowledge and the wireless networking chapter in the Handbook, you should be fine. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first

Re: Quick Install Question

2005-12-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:42:54 PM Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Wrote these words of wisdom: Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD? Or is the NTFS partition a shared directory on a separate WinXP computer? (I was

Re: Using Sendmail to add headers to mail

2005-12-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday, December 24, 2005 2:23:28 PM Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using Sendmail to add headers to mail Wrote these words of wisdom: I am not sure if this is possible or not. Is it possible to add custom 'X-' headers to mail using Sendmail? For instance, suppose I wanted to

unattended ports upgrade possible?

2005-12-27 Thread Peter
Is there any way to fully automate the upgrade of all installed ports? Typically ncurses screens prompt for compile options. Is there any way to instruct portupgrade to use default compile values? -- Peter

port tree fetch errors

2005-12-27 Thread Tofik Suleymanov
My ports-supfile is: *default host=cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all i do: cvsup -g -z -L 2 /etc/ports-supfile and get this: Updating collection ports-all/cvs Cannot

troubles while cvsuping ports

2005-12-27 Thread Tofik Suleymanov
ms# uname -a FreeBSD ms.gltcall.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 ms# ms# cat /etc/ports-supfile *default host=cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default

Re: port tree fetch errors

2005-12-27 Thread Pav Lucistnik
Tofik Suleymanov píše v út 27. 12. 2005 v 22:24 +: My ports-supfile is: *default host=cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all i do: cvsup -g -z -L 2 /etc/ports-supfile

Re: unattended ports upgrade possible?

2005-12-27 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 03:20:07PM -0500, Peter wrote: Is there any way to fully automate the upgrade of all installed ports? Typically ncurses screens prompt for compile options. Is there any way to instruct portupgrade to use default compile values? Add a `BATCH=yes' to /etc/make.conf. --

Re: Missing lib

2005-12-27 Thread Björn König
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi all, My system (FBSD 5.4, Xorg, Gnome2), started to show the following message. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libexif.so.10 not found, required by nautilus I indeed, could not find libexif.so.10. How can I fix that? There are several ways

Scanner in FBSD

2005-12-27 Thread Bernt Hansson
Hello?! I have a scanner that is on the list at sane and it is connected to ppc0 which I belive is the first parallelport. Anyone got a scanner attached to ppc0 to funktion? How? Scanner: Primax 4800 Direct Driver: plustek_pp OS: FreeBSD 5.4 -- NB. This is NOT a life supporting

upgrade by hand

2005-12-27 Thread David Bear
In all the searches I've done about upgrade from a Rel4.x to Rel6. all the info seems to center on using cvsup and port upgrade, and using Rel5 is an intermediate step to get to Rel6. Maybe I just like pain, but are there any instructions for 'manually' upgrading from 'most any prior freebsd' to

New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-27 Thread Robert Ames
I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC (the latest and greatest) can't deal with anything larger than 32MB. This PC is working well for

Re: Scanner in FBSD

2005-12-27 Thread Micah
Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello?! I have a scanner that is on the list at sane and it is connected to ppc0 which I belive is the first parallelport. Anyone got a scanner attached to ppc0 to funktion? How? Scanner: Primax 4800 Direct Driver: plustek_pp OS: FreeBSD 5.4 The last time I

Re: Quick Install Question

2005-12-27 Thread Doug Hawkins
Gerard Seibert wrote: On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: Actually, there are three computers. One is running FreeBSD 5.4 and the other two have WinXP Pro installed. I networked all three together. The WinXP systems are using the NTFS format. Samba can read and write to both of the WinXP

question

2005-12-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good morning ! Sorry for my bad English. I'm write from Russia. I have some problem with installing FreeBSD 6 amd64 ! You my last chance ! No one dont give me a answer for my question. I put CD to cdrom and after some second I press 1 to install default settings. After some second I see that

3D Hardware Graphics

2005-12-27 Thread Jon
Hello all, I'm wondering how to get 3D Hardware graphics going under FreeBSD. I tried both the LibGL.so that came with the driver for my graphics card and the default LibGL.so that came with FreeBSD '/usr/X11R6/lib' but no go, still slow software mode. I have a DRI radeon enabled driver

Re: Quick Install Question

2005-12-27 Thread albi
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 Daniel Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the order of installing FreeBSD for a dual-boot XP environment on a single HDD using GAG (ie, which do I install first, which partition for each os, is there a resource for this answer published somewhere

Re: FreeBSD Logo Contest -- whom to contact about?

2005-12-27 Thread Martin P. Hansen
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, martinko wrote: also, could other submitted designs be seen somewhere? (at least top 5 of them) I'd like to see them as well. I suppose, if bold enough, one could mail the authors found at http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/ . I've come to belive that this

Re: Scanner in FBSD

2005-12-27 Thread Bernt Hansson
Micah wrote: Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello?! I have a scanner that is on the list at sane and it is connected to ppc0 which I belive is the first parallelport. Anyone got a scanner attached to ppc0 to funktion? How? Scanner: Primax 4800 Direct Driver: plustek_pp OS: FreeBSD 5.4 The last

Segment Fault w/ PHP

2005-12-27 Thread Brent Jensen
I'm getting segment faults on all 3 of my webservers. I upgraded all of my packages thinking that would fix the offending program; however, php is throwing segment faults. For example, when trying to INSTALL pear_DB. I get seg faults when updating # cd /usr/ports/databases/pear-DB # make

Re: question

2005-12-27 Thread Martin P. Hansen
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some problem with installing FreeBSD 6 amd64 ! ... I put CD to cdrom and after some second I press 1 to install default settings. After some second I see that ... Vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:15 am, Danial Thom wrote: --- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom wrote: Schwab Streetsmart Accounting Software (CA) Quicken Photoshop Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs) Those are the ones I use daily.

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Quoting Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Danial Thom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 7:50 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Winelfred G. Pasamba Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Quoting Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it meet the test I already outlined? Download the FreeBSD iso then upload it to a remote server, with both lines connected. Time it. Disconnect 1 line, then repeat the test. If

Re: make buildworld

2005-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-26 23:49, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am upgrading a server to 6.0 and encountered an error in make buildworld. However, I don't know what the error was as I piped stdout to a file, but not stderr. I usually keep them both, with something like: # cd /usr/src/ #

Load Balancing: How Busy are the servers?

2005-12-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Two part question here ... first leads into the second, and the second might answer the first ... 1. What variables on a server should be monitored to determine how busy a server is? For instance, I've always been taugth that 'loadavg' is not an indication of how busy a server is, since a

Re: Alpha 6.0 Install...

2005-12-27 Thread Dieter
boot_osflags0,0 leads to: Unrecognized boot flag '0'. Unrecognized boot flag ','. Unrecognized boot flag '0'. NetBSD/alpha uses s single-user mode bootstrap. a (automatic) multi-user mode bootstrap. although FreeBSD may well use different flags. I

Re: upgrade by hand

2005-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-27 15:05, David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all the searches I've done about upgrade from a Rel4.x to Rel6. all the info seems to center on using cvsup and port upgrade, and using Rel5 is an intermediate step to get to Rel6. That's right. It should always be possible to use

Re: Wireless NIC in FreeBSD 6.0 ?

2005-12-27 Thread Yuan Jue
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 00:12, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-12-26 11:07, Yuan Jue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: instead, I figure out another way to work around. 1.ifconfig bge0 delete % this would shut my local NIC down totally 2.kldload if_ath dhclient ath0 then I can

Re: IPv6: routing on the local LAN

2005-12-27 Thread Dan Langille
On 25 Dec 2005 at 2:59, Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:37:56 -0500 Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gidday folks, I have an IPv6 routing problem within my LAN behind the gateway. I have an IPv6 tunnel supplied by Hurricane Electric. The tunnel is setup and

Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...

2005-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-27 18:13, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I have. I also added it to the loader.conf file, the kernel configuration file, done a buildkernel etc. but no luck. # /boot/loader.conf wlan_wep_load=YES # /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC device wlan_wep I think this is why

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Quoting Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it meet the test I already outlined? Download the FreeBSD iso then upload it to a remote server, with both lines connected.

Re: Load Balancing: How Busy are the servers?

2005-12-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc G. Fournier wrote: 1. What variables on a server should be monitored to determine how busy a server is? For instance, I've always been taugth that 'loadavg' is not an indication of how busy a server is, since a high loadavg on a single CPU server might be an overloaded server, but

Re: ker.ipc.maxpipekva error again and again

2005-12-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Imran Imtiaz wrote: I am getting the following messages again and again, why it is accuring and how can I correct and track it? Dec 27 00:48:00 darkstar kernel: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) You might look at ps or top for lots of stuck processes generated by something which

Re: ker.ipc.maxpipekva error again and again

2005-12-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Imran Imtiaz wrote: actually i am running some graph generating scripts this is because of them but it doesn't happened all the time so how can i correct it ? Adjust or serialize your scripts, or recompile the kernel with more KVA allocated to pipes. See the Handbook about rebuilding the

Sendmail X port

2005-12-27 Thread Brett Glass
I don't see Sendmail X available as a port or package. I'm interested in trying this version because it's the first to eliminate the horribly cryptic system of m4 macros, classes, and address parsing rules that configured earlier versions. Is there a reason why it's not available as a package or

RE: backups spanning tapes help

2005-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi Brent, The BSD tar that is in FreeBSD cannot span tapes, you have to use gtar. (GNU tar) the old original tar in FreeBSD was gtar, then they renamed tar to gtar, and added in a BSD tar (that is unencumbered code) man gtar should tell all you need. Also a note on your 8MM, 14gb

pkg_delete question

2005-12-27 Thread Yuan Jue
hello, all I wanna delete a package that I don't want now. I know that when I use portinstall -R xxx to install it, many dependencies have been installed too. Now I wanna delete them all if they are not used by any other packages. how can I do it? can I pkg_delete -r xxx? thanks. -- Best

Re: pkg_delete question

2005-12-27 Thread Dmitry Sidorov
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:55 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all I wanna delete a package that I don't want now. I know that when I use portinstall -R xxx to install it, many dependencies have been installed too. Now I wanna delete them all if they are not used by any other packages. how

Re: pkg_delete question

2005-12-27 Thread Yuan Jue
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:00, Dmitry Sidorov wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:55 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all I wanna delete a package that I don't want now. I know that when I use portinstall -R xxx to install it, many dependencies have been installed too. Now I wanna delete

Re: pkg_delete question

2005-12-27 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 22:10, Yuan Jue wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:00, Dmitry Sidorov wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:55 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all I wanna delete a package that I don't want now. I know that when I use portinstall -R xxx to install it, many

RE: BSD Question's.

2005-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Malcolm Kay Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: rod person; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Question's. Cadence have a wide range of products some of which run

Re: Palm (Zire) and /dev/ucom0 on 6.0

2005-12-27 Thread Igor Robul
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:58:00AM -0500, DW wrote: I then type: # pilot-xfer -p /dev/cuaU0 -b backup and I get: Listening to port: /dev/cuaU0 Please press teh HotSync button now Works fine for me with Palm TE2. You need press HotSync button and wait a little.

Re: Quick Install Question

2005-12-27 Thread Robert Slade
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 19:18, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:42:54 PM Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Wrote these words of wisdom: Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD? Or is the NTFS

Re: Desktop Note on FreeBSD?

2005-12-27 Thread Yuan Jue
On Monday 26 December 2005 01:09, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 01:35, Yuan Jue wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 00:15, you wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 00:54, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all is there any software that like Rainlender on Windows? I need to

Re: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-27 Thread Robert Slade
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC (the latest and greatest) can't deal with

ftp nologin problem

2005-12-27 Thread Imran Imtiaz
I am running ProFTPD 1.2.10 on my bsd server but the problem is that if a user don't have a shell and I've defined his shell as nologin then the ftp server does not logon and give the following error C:\Documents and Settings\Asifftp 192.168.0.3 Connected to 192.168.0.3. 220 ProFTPD 1.2.10

Re: pkg_delete question

2005-12-27 Thread Yuan Jue
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:21, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Tuesday 27 December 2005 22:10, Yuan Jue wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:00, Dmitry Sidorov wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:55 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all I wanna delete a package that I don't want

ipwcontrol load firmware on boot

2005-12-27 Thread Beastie
Dear lists; I tried to do network auto configuration by DHCP with integrated Intel Pro Wireless 2100 wlan device (ipw2100). I have trouble when load firmware with ipwcontrol on boot. Initialitation script (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ipw.sh) always execute after network init (specify in rc.conf). Is