Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer?

2006-03-21 Thread Yance Kowara
- Original Message - From: Vayu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Malcolm Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 5:36 PM Subject: Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer? On Monday 20 March 2006 20:04, Kevin Kinsey wrote:

Re: sendmail dns lookups

2006-03-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
fbsd_user wrote: How do you tell sendmail not to do dns lookups? FEATURE('nocanonify') ...is probably what you are looking for, otherwise you can enclose a raw IP address in square brackets (ie, [1.2.3.4]) in a mailertable entry or elsewhere which will disable the MX lookups for that specific

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Jud and friends: Note: At least one of the prompts ended with: # localhost Benjamin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Danny Butroyd
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Jud and friends: OK, I finally figured out how to make OSL2000 work. In scanning all bootable partitions, it lists FreeBSD as two partitions: the 512 MB /boot partition (name unknown) and the FreeBSD 37 GB partition. It will not boot FreeBSD from the FreeBSD

Re: Low network performance after upgrade from FreeBSD 4.8 to 6.0

2006-03-21 Thread Bohuslav Plucinsky
Hello, here is the output from top -S : last pid: 1570; load averages: 0.56, 0.20, 0.10 up 0+02:59:36 14:03:53 76 processes: 4 running, 47 sleeping, 2 stopped, 23 waiting CPU states: 14.9% user, 0.0% nice, 57.4% system, 27.7% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 17M Active, 6084K Inact, 14M Wired,

Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: [Dell 8200] First, my thanks to everyone who was kind enough to respond to my problem booting up to FreeBSD 6. I did a complete, fresh install from the CD and made sure to also configure the FreeBSD boot manager for MBR. Everything should be working but I still can't boot up.

Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: [Dell 8200] First, my thanks to everyone who was kind enough to respond to my problem booting up to FreeBSD 6. I did a complete, fresh install from the CD and made sure to also configure the FreeBSD boot manager for MBR. Everything should be working but I still can't boot up.

Re: Low network performance after upgrade from FreeBSD 4.8 to 6.0

2006-03-21 Thread Andrey V. Semyonov
Bohuslav Plucinsky wrote: I've tried PF, suggested by Martin Hudec and it seems that PF does not have this performance problem. I like IPFW, I use it since year 1999, but probably is time to switch to PF. The impact you receive is caused by user-level 'natd'. Use 'ipnat(8)' instead as it is

Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer?

2006-03-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
When I log out and select Turn off the computer it shuts down the system and leaves the machinery running, displaying this message: The operating system has halted. Please press any key to reboot. Pressing the power button fires up the system. I have to hold the power button down for

Re: hard error reading: set fstab mounts to frw: can no longer access filesystem

2006-03-21 Thread Edwin D. Vinas
I am using FreeBSD-4.10, how do I boot it in single user mode? -Ed On 3/21/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edwin, Boot the server single user, -s. Then if you need to, bring up the IP stack manually. Depending on your mount points, booting single user only mounts root, so you

Re: hard error reading: set fstab mounts to frw: can no longer access filesystem

2006-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
Edwin, Boot the server single user, -s. Then if you need to, bring up the IP stack manually. Depending on your mount points, booting single user only mounts root, so you can try to fsck the other unmounted filesystems. Only if those file systems are readable will you be able to get your

vm.kmem_size revisited

2006-03-21 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
What is the maximum value of vm.kmem_size? I tried to set it to vm.kmem_size=1069543424 (with 2G physical memory) but that apparently did not work out nicely (lost the machine, it's remote). Thanks, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: sendmail dns lookups

2006-03-21 Thread fbsd_user
Yes this is what I want, but the instructions to install are for native sendmail and not the FreeBSD way. What is the FreeBSD way of activating the nodsn feature? -Original Message- From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 11:10 PM To: fbsd_user

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Jud
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:45:41 -0500, Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Dear friends: [Dell 8200] First, my thanks to everyone who was kind enough to respond to my problem booting up to FreeBSD 6. I did a complete, fresh install from the CD and made sure to also configure the

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Jud and friends: OK, I finally figured out how to make OSL2000 work. In scanning all bootable partitions, it lists FreeBSD as two partitions: the 512 MB /boot partition (name unknown) and the FreeBSD 37 GB partition. It will not boot FreeBSD from the FreeBSD partition but, after changing

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Jud
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:41:15 +, Danny Butroyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Jud and friends: OK, I finally figured out how to make OSL2000 work. In scanning all bootable partitions, it lists FreeBSD as two partitions: the 512 MB /boot partition (name unknown) and

Re: sendmail dns lookups

2006-03-21 Thread Dan Busarow
On Tuesday, March 21, 2006, at 08:50 AM, fbsd_user wrote: Yes this is what I want, but the instructions to install are for native sendmail and not the FreeBSD way. What is the FreeBSD way of activating the nodsn feature? cd to /etc/mail vi your .mc file. It will be named

Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer?

2006-03-21 Thread regnans
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: When I log out and select Turn off the computer it shuts down the system and leaves the machinery running, displaying this message: The operating system has halted. Please press any key to reboot. Pressing the power button fires up the system. I have to hold the

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Jud and friends: OK, I finally figured out how to make OSL2000 work. Good, I guess. :-) In scanning all bootable partitions, it lists FreeBSD as two partitions: the 512 MB /boot partition (name unknown) and the FreeBSD 37 GB partition. It will not boot FreeBSD

where'd the rdiff-backup mail list go?

2006-03-21 Thread Noah
Okay off=topic I know. But where'd the rdiff-backup-users mail list go? I am not able to subscribe to it and have a semi-urgent matter. Hope for some assistance soon enough. Cheer,s Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: vm.kmem_size revisited [update]

2006-03-21 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: What is the maximum value of vm.kmem_size? I tried to set it to vm.kmem_size=1069543424 (with 2G physical memory) but that apparently did not work out nicely (lost the machine, it's remote). Got to the machine in question, the only information on console was:

sound on Compaq Presario (and kernel question)

2006-03-21 Thread Anna Davour
Trying to get the sound to work on my Compaq Presario M2000. With version 5.4 everything worked fine except sound and ACPI. After looking at http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ I had the impression that I could get the sound to work by applying the provided patch, but that it should work

specifying memory partitions to BTX loader

2006-03-21 Thread Lee Shackelford
Good morning dear person at FreeBSD questions. I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a Compaq Proliant 5000 with multiple Pentium Pro processors and SMART-SCSI 2/P hardware RAID array. It contains a flash-ROM BIOS. The BIOS does not follow the conventions of fixed-ROM BIOSes such as are

RE: sendmail dns lookups

2006-03-21 Thread fbsd_user
These are the steps is followed 1) cd /etc/mail 2) type make 3) edit /etc/mail/hostname.mc 4) locate line containing features 5) Inserted this line FEATURE(`nodns') 6) save file and exit 7) in /etc/mail type, make, make install, and make restart Is this the correct procedure? -Original

Re: sendmail dns lookups

2006-03-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-03-21 10:50, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-03-20 23:02, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you tell sendmail not to do dns lookups? You may be interested at the description of FEATURE(`nodns') in the file

Re: specifying memory partitions to BTX loader

2006-03-21 Thread robert
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 08:50 -0800, Lee Shackelford wrote: Good morning dear person at FreeBSD questions. I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a Compaq Proliant 5000 with multiple Pentium Pro processors and SMART-SCSI 2/P hardware RAID array. It contains a flash-ROM BIOS. The BIOS does not

Re: sendmail dns lookups

2006-03-21 Thread Dan Busarow
On Tuesday, March 21, 2006, at 09:56 AM, fbsd_user wrote: These are the steps is followed 1) cd /etc/mail 2) type make 3) edit /etc/mail/hostname.mc 4) locate line containing features 5) Inserted this line FEATURE(`nodns') 6) save file and exit 7) in /etc/mail type, make, make install, and

Re: sound on Compaq Presario (and kernel question)

2006-03-21 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:46:25 +0100 (CET) Anna Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to get the sound to work on my Compaq Presario M2000. With version 5.4 everything worked fine except sound and ACPI. After looking at http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ I had the impression that I could

change 2nd boot menu

2006-03-21 Thread Joseph Vella
I use grub, after that menu there is a FreeBSD menu with options for single user mode, safe mode, kernal loader, etc... Is there a way to eliminate the FreesBSD menu and move those options to the grub menu? (actually I only want a couple of those options, like safe mode, single user mode and

Re: change 2nd boot menu

2006-03-21 Thread Kenyon Ralph
On 3/21/06, Joseph Vella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to eliminate the FreesBSD menu and move those options to the grub menu? (actually I only want a couple of those options, like safe mode, single user mode and the loader prompt or maybe just the option to boot into my previously

ipfilter nat redirect

2006-03-21 Thread fbsd_user
I have a web server on my private lan that I want to be accessible from the public internet. dc0 is the interface facing the public internet I added this rdr rule after the map rules at the end of my nat file. rdr dc0 0/0 port 80 - 10.0.10.4 port 8080 also tried this rule rdr dc0

Re: How do I make 6.0-RELEASE see cdrom in Virtual PC 7 (OS X)?

2006-03-21 Thread Xn Nooby
I posted about this a few months ago, and emailed the guy at Microsoft who has the blog about VPC7. I never got anywhere, and eventually gave up. His blogchart says FreeBSD works with VPC7, which seemed wrong to me. On 3/20/06, Rocco Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The good news is that

What does udp port 514 use?

2006-03-21 Thread Halid Faith
Hello I have a machine which have Raid5 and Freebsd6.0 runs on it. I have 2 questions Let me ask you 1 - When I type in command line as below I sometimes see a thing. systat 1 -vmstat 3 usersLoad 0.00 0.00 0.00 Mar 21 21:03 Mem:KBREALVIRTUAL

Re: What does udp port 514 use?

2006-03-21 Thread Miguel
Halid Faith wrote: 2 - When I type netstat -na I see that udp port 514 is open as below udp4 0 0 *.514 *.* udp6 0 0 *.514 *.* Should I close this port ? then How can I close this port? shiva2# grep 514 /etc/services syslog

Kernel settings for Dell 1850 and 2850 with 4GB of ram

2006-03-21 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I am currently running freebsd 6 (amd64) on dells servers that have dual xeon processors in them. There is also 4 gigs of ram in them. I need to reinstall cause I want to go to i386 version (too much problems finding binairies compatible with amd64 with commercial vendors) Could

clock drifts after upgrade from 5.x to 6.x

2006-03-21 Thread Alfred Morgan
I have upgraded 4 different machines from various FreeBSD versions of 5 to various versions of 6 and 3 of the machines has a problem where the clock will drift very quickly slowing about 2 seconds per minute. These are the machines with dmesg | grep time: (specs from [1]www.hp.com)

Re: Kernel settings for Dell 1850 and 2850 with 4GB of ram

2006-03-21 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:57:15 -0500 Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently running freebsd 6 (amd64) on dells servers that have dual xeon processors in them. There is also 4 gigs of ram in them. I need to reinstall cause I want to go to i386 version (too much problems finding

Why the usage of disks exceed %100 in systat command ?

2006-03-21 Thread Halid Faith
Hello I have a machine which have Raid5 and Freebsd6.0 runs on it. When I type in command line as below I sometimes see a thing. systat 1 -vmstat 3 usersLoad 0.00 0.00 0.00 Mar 21 21:03 Mem:KBREALVIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER

Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer?

2006-03-21 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On 22/03/2006, at 3:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: When I log out and select Turn off the computer it shuts down the system and leaves the machinery running, displaying this message: The operating system has halted. Please press any key to reboot. I figure you use

Re: What does udp port 514 use?

2006-03-21 Thread Halid Faith
OK Might this condition ( udp port 514 is open ) be vulnerable ? - Original Message - From: Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Halid Faith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:47 PM Subject: Re: What does udp port 514 use? Halid Faith wrote:

Ports bsd.port.mk Broken?

2006-03-21 Thread Matt Rudderham
Greetings all, Since recently cvsup'ing my ports collection I'm now getting the following error each time I try to make any port. I'm guessing it could be because the system is running FreeBSD 4.8. This is the error after trying to make a port: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 5075: warning:

Re: Ports bsd.port.mk Broken?

2006-03-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 05:48:16PM -0400, Matt Rudderham wrote: Greetings all, Since recently cvsup'ing my ports collection I'm now getting the following error each time I try to make any port. I'm guessing it could be because the system is running FreeBSD 4.8. This is the error after

Re: Ports bsd.port.mk Broken?

2006-03-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 05:02:14PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 05:48:16PM -0400, Matt Rudderham wrote: Greetings all, Since recently cvsup'ing my ports collection I'm now getting the following error each time I try to make any port. I'm guessing it could be

Dropping into ddb from kernel panic

2006-03-21 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, I am trying to learn how to trace kernel issues or determine if a problem even is a kernel issue. Here are the debugging options I have set in my kernel config. makeoptions DEBUG=-g options KDB options KDB_TRACE options DDB options KTRACE options

Re: CPUTYPE value

2006-03-21 Thread martinko
Frederic Van Assche wrote: Hello, What would be the best CPUTYPE setting for a Pentium M 750? pentium-m or pentium4m? Thanks, Frederic pentium-m ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp:

2006-03-21 Thread David Armour
hello, the handbook directions seem direct and specific. but #pkg_add -r openoffice ... produces: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/openoffice.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch

Re: pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp:

2006-03-21 Thread Kenyon Ralph
On 3/21/06, David Armour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the handbook directions seem direct and specific. but #pkg_add -r openoffice ... produces: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/openoffice.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not

Re: pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp:

2006-03-21 Thread Ruud Jansen
* David Armour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, the handbook directions seem direct and specific. but #pkg_add -r openoffice ... produces: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/openoffice.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not

Re: pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp:

2006-03-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 02:44:02PM -0800, David Armour wrote: hello, the handbook directions seem direct and specific. but #pkg_add -r openoffice ... produces: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/openoffice.tbz: File

Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer?

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Yance Kowara wrote: [snip] Yes, strangely enough shutdown -h now in FreeBSD will only halt the machine. halt -p will poweroff the box, and shutdown -p now will also power off the box. The shutdown options don't seem very strange to me: H stands for Halt, P stands for

Re: pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp:

2006-03-21 Thread David Armour
Kenyon Ralph wrote: On 3/21/06, David Armour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the handbook directions seem direct and specific. but #pkg_add -r openoffice ... produces: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/openoffice.tbz: File unavailable

Problem with enabling soft-updates via tunefs

2006-03-21 Thread Sergey Kovalev
Several weeks ago I tried enabling soft-updates on / partition of active file system in multi-user mode via tunefs -n enable /dev/ar0s1a having remounted it read-only. After that I just rebooted the system and according to mount soft-updates were enabled. (I tried remounting / partition to RW

Re: Why the usage of disks exceed %100 in systat command ?

2006-03-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 21), Halid Faith said: Hello I have a machine which have Raid5 and Freebsd6.0 runs on it. When I type in command line as below I sometimes see a thing. systat 1 -vmstat Disks amrd0 pass0 52 ofodintrn 1996 cpu2: KB/t 6.04 0.00

lpr errors- using /dev/ulpt0

2006-03-21 Thread Rob
Hi, I am using a USB to centronix cable to my Lexmark Optra and lpr prints sometimes, and then sometimes it won't. /dev/ulpt0 support is compiled into my kernel. lpc status lp command reports that it is up, a job is spooled, and the printer is idle but nothing comes out. I am finding the

Re: lpr errors- using /dev/ulpt0

2006-03-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:59 PM -0800 3/21/06, Rob wrote: lpc status lp command reports that it is up, a job is spooled, and the printer is idle but nothing comes out. I am finding the following ... in /var/log/lpd.errs: lp: unable to open dfA000xenon ('f' line) lp: job could not be printed (cfA000xenon) xenon

Strange configure problem

2006-03-21 Thread Frederic Van Assche
Hello, Since two or three weeks running ./configure seems to ignore any command line arguments, because $ac_option is not set. Any suggestions? Thanks, Frederic -- PGP key: http://frederic.classic-gaming.net/PGP/frederic.asc pgpHKJfEOB4xA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: clock drifts after upgrade from 5.x to 6.x

2006-03-21 Thread John Murphy
Alfred Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have upgraded 4 different machines from various FreeBSD versions of 5 to various versions of 6 and 3 of the machines has a problem where the clock will drift very quickly slowing about 2 seconds per minute. Interesting. Were all the upgrades

Re: ipfilter nat redirect

2006-03-21 Thread John Murphy
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a web server on my private lan that I want to be accessible from the public internet. dc0 is the interface facing the public internet I added this rdr rule after the map rules at the end of my nat file. rdr dc0 0/0 port 80 - 10.0.10.4 port 8080 also

sendmail port problem

2006-03-21 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, I've sendmail running locally, I access it by telnet to 25 port but from a remote pc I cann't do it. What params of config do I must to touch to allow remote access to sendmail? Thanks... Efren Bravo. __

Problem in ports/multimedia/handbrake - seemingly wrong version (0.6.2 vice 0.7.1)

2006-03-21 Thread Donald T Hayford
When I try to install the multimedia/handbrake port, I get the following error message: _ === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = HandBrake-0.6.2-src.tar.gz doesn't

Re: pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp:

2006-03-21 Thread Kenyon Ralph
On 3/21/06, David Armour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's still fetching it, as we speak... (tip-toeing around) i installed the port a few weeks ago on a different install, and it required 9gb. is there a way to find out how much space the package needs / uses? i got the impression that the

Re: sendmail port problem

2006-03-21 Thread Kenyon Ralph
On 3/21/06, Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What params of config do I must to touch to allow remote access to sendmail? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: clock drifts after upgrade from 5.x to 6.x

2006-03-21 Thread Alfred Morgan
I have now enabled ACPI on one machine (making the computer more unstable) and it has stopped drifting. ntpd was disabled for this test. Now that it shows it stopped drifting I have enabled ntpd to see if that causes problems. On another machine I have left ACPI disabled and restarted ntpd

using KVM switch /dev/psm0 is missing

2006-03-21 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
I have a no name 2 port KVM switch and a Logitech marble mouse USB with a ps/2 adapter. The KVM switch works on port 1 and 2 when it is connected to the windows box. The mouse works on the ps/2 port when it is connected directly to the BSD box. When the mouse is connected via the KVM switch the

openoffice pkg install [WAS: pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp]

2006-03-21 Thread David Armour
* David Armour dfarmour at myrealbox.com wrote: the handbook directions seem direct and specific. but #pkg_add -r openoffice ... produces: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/openoffice.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no

Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer?

2006-03-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: On 22/03/2006, at 3:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: When I log out and select Turn off the computer it shuts down the system and leaves the machinery running, displaying this message: The operating system has halted. Please press any key

openoffice install [WAS: Re: pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp:]

2006-03-21 Thread David Armour
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 02:44:02PM -0800, David Armour wrote: the handbook directions seem direct and specific. but #pkg_add -r openoffice ... produces: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/openoffice.tbz: File unavailable (e.g.,

6.1-BETA 4 stable for normal use?

2006-03-21 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi, I'd like to try out FreeBSD and was wondering whether I should start with 6.1-BETA4 or 6.0? Its just for home use anyways, more as a way to fool around with FreeBSD a bit, so was wondering if 6.1-BETA4 would suffice for the purpose ... is it stable enough or would it give me issues? Also,

Re: 6.1-BETA 4 stable for normal use?

2006-03-21 Thread Sergey Kovalev
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Hi, I'd like to try out FreeBSD and was wondering whether I should start with 6.1-BETA4 or 6.0? Its just for home use anyways, more as a way to fool around with FreeBSD a bit, so was wondering if 6.1-BETA4 would suffice for the purpose ... is it stable enough or would

Re: 6.1-BETA 4 stable for normal use?

2006-03-21 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Great! That was a good point too. If I start with 6.0, it would be a good experience for me upgrading to 6.1. :) Super! Sergey Kovalev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Hi, I'd like to try out FreeBSD and was wondering whether I should start with 6.1-BETA4 or 6.0? Its just

Re: Problem with enabling soft-updates via tunefs

2006-03-21 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/22/06, Sergey Kovalev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago I tried enabling soft-updates on / partition of active file system in multi-user mode via tunefs -n enable /dev/ar0s1a having remounted it read-only. After that I just rebooted the system and according to mount

Re: Problem in ports/multimedia/handbrake - seemingly wrong version (0.6.2 vice 0.7.1)

2006-03-21 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/22/06, Donald T Hayford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to install the multimedia/handbrake port, I get the following error message: _ === Vulnerability check disabled,

Re: CPUTYPE value

2006-03-21 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/21/06, Frederic Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, What would be the best CPUTYPE setting for a Pentium M 750? pentium-m or pentium4m? Thanks, Frederic -- PGP key: http://frederic.cgarchive.com/PGP/frederic.asc

Re: What does udp port 514 use?

2006-03-21 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/22/06, Halid Faith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK Might this condition ( udp port 514 is open ) be vulnerable ? You bet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

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