Re: Quiet computer

2006-08-20 Thread David King
I am looking for a small computer that is silent or very quiet to sit in a home office.I use this one (3 ethernets): http://shop.tronico.net/pd1100964260.htm?categoryId=0 with 7-CURRENT and I've happily replaced an AMD K6-III 450/384MB Ram using a 4GB Microdrive ( but thats not even close to

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-07-30 - 2006-08-19

2006-08-20 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: nforce audio problem

2006-08-20 Thread Brad Kowalczyk
Hi Greg, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Sunday, 20 August 2006 at 4:44:06 +, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anyone has any experience getting sound working for an nforce1

Superuser, newwannaBe

2006-08-20 Thread jonathoncadena
Well, I can't figure out how to log in as superuser to configure. New instructions to the process can be located. I did create a password- no user name was requested. new system install also indicates Bind address already in use Please help me. Sincerely, Jonathon Pentium 3 596 MgH Bsd i

Re: how to change the root user's name on FreeBSD 6.1 running postfix

2006-08-20 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Paul Hamilton wrote: Hi, I am running postfix on FreeBSD 4.11 and 6.1 servers. In FreeBSD 4.11, you can run 'chsh root' and edit the name to what you want. However, on my FreeBSD 6.1 servers, I still receive email addressed from 'root unix'. I would like to be able to differentiate

Re: Superuser, newwannaBe

2006-08-20 Thread jdow
The username you want is root. Give it the root password you entered during install after giving it that username and the login prompt will exhibit magical properties. {^_-} Joanne's feeling silly tonight. Maybe it's bed time. - Original Message - From: jonathoncadena [EMAIL

Re: how to change the root user's name on FreeBSD 6.1 running postfix

2006-08-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I am running postfix on FreeBSD 4.11 and 6.1 servers. In FreeBSD 4.11, you can run 'chsh root' and edit the name to what you want. However, on my FreeBSD 6.1 servers, I still receive email addressed from 'root unix'. I would like to be able to differentiate the root mail

etheeal port?

2006-08-20 Thread stan
I'm building a replacement machine for my workstation at work this weeked (6 STABLE). The ethereal port seesm to be missing from the ports tree. This packages is a must have app for me. Cany anyone enlighten me as to what has ahppened here, since the last time I built a machine? -- Unix is

Re: Missing operating system (puzzle)

2006-08-20 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:31 am, Peter wrote: On a test system I have 3 SATA drives. On the 1st drive I installed FBSD 6.0, updated sources/ports, build and install world/kernel. Rebooted. All is well. I set up RAID0 on the other 2 drives using my (Tyan) mobo's controller (NVRAID). This

Re: etheeal port?

2006-08-20 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 8/20/06, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building a replacement machine for my workstation at work this weeked (6 STABLE). The ethereal port seesm to be missing from the ports tree. www.google.com /usr/ports/MOVED /usr/ports/net/wireshark ___

Re: etheeal port?

2006-08-20 Thread Simon Phoenix
On Sunday 20 August 2006 17:36, stan wrote: I'm building a replacement machine for my workstation at work this weeked (6 STABLE). The ethereal port seesm to be missing from the ports tree. This packages is a must have app for me. Cany anyone enlighten me as to what has ahppened here, since

Re: etheeal port?

2006-08-20 Thread stan
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 05:57:28PM +0300, Simon Phoenix wrote: On Sunday 20 August 2006 17:36, stan wrote: I'm building a replacement machine for my workstation at work this weeked (6 STABLE). The ethereal port seesm to be missing from the ports tree. This packages is a must have app for

free?

2006-08-20 Thread Bob Richards
WhenI was using Linux, I got used to running free; a quick nd dirty way to ascertain memory/swap usage. Is there an equivalent command in freebsd? Bob pgptirgi6Rys6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: free?

2006-08-20 Thread doug
vmstat and swapinfo On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Bob Richards wrote: WhenI was using Linux, I got used to running free; a quick nd dirty way to ascertain memory/swap usage. Is there an equivalent command in freebsd? Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Web server requirements

2006-08-20 Thread doug
I did not see the answer to the dynamic content question. I ran 400-500 web sites on a 300 MHz processor until it died. My problems were memory, disk space and bandwidth. If you are going to use perl or modperl for dynamic content, any processor you can buy today will probably be fast enough.

Re: user level

2006-08-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the Internet to conduct personal business. What must I know to configure sbcglobal.net to operate FreeBSD. And, do you think I need to learn a If DHCP is all you need to setup your internet connection, there is nothing easier you can have. Just put the

[Fwd: porting the RealPlayer]

2006-08-20 Thread Matt Olander
Hi all, I met with a developer of the Real Player at Linux World. She says they would *love* to port a native version of the Real player to FreeBSD. Yay! She even showed me that they have an older FreeBSD dev environment set up and are ready to start to try compiling it for release after we

Upgrade the ports after performing a binary upgrade

2006-08-20 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello everybody, I did a binary upgrade on my FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE system up to 6.1 RELEASE. However, I'm still running KDE 3.4 and firefox still doesn't work. I didn't understand this, but apparently the ports that are installed to a system don't upgrade with a binary upgrade. Ok, so, the

Re: [Fwd: porting the RealPlayer]

2006-08-20 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:19:07 -0700 Matt Olander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I met with a developer of the Real Player at Linux World. She says they would *love* to port a native version of the Real player to FreeBSD. Yay! She even showed me that they have an older FreeBSD dev

Re: Drive Failure or User Error?

2006-08-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was setting up a new server (6.1 i386 STABLE) - more specifically, I was mirroring the functioning server drive - when I suddenly got this: ad0 FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=611703808 GEOM_MIRROR: Request

Add colored border around console?

2006-08-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
How do I do this: http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/IMG_5496-2.jpg What I want is the colored border around the console window... I have no clue how to do it, /dev/random made the border you see the photo! I let it run all night to generate interrupt load as part of a system stress test. -- BSD

the real player port

2006-08-20 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Em Dom, 2006-08-20 às 11:19 -0700, Matt Olander escreveu: Hi all, I met with a developer of the Real Player at Linux World. She says they would *love* to port a native version of the Real player to FreeBSD. Yay! She even showed me that they have an older FreeBSD dev environment set up

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2006-08-20 Thread carl
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a problem setting screen resolution with Xorg-6.9.0

2006-08-20 Thread carl
Fellow FreeBSDers, I originally sent this to FreeBSD-X11, but this may be a more appropriate venue. I have recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a Pentium III box, using an NVidia GeForce 2 GTS card and a CTX PL9 monitor. Running X -configure as root generates the file xorg.conf.new, and then

Re: Two Dell PE1850s keep locking up...

2006-08-20 Thread Martin Hepworth
Can you do anything else that hits the machine with high disk I/O? If this an SMP enabled kernel? If so does the same thing occur if you use a non-smp enabled kernel? -- Martin On 8/19/06, Jason Lixfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Please forgive the verbosity of this note) I have two

portmanager ignoring update perl

2006-08-20 Thread Noah
Hi there, I am running portmanager and updating all dependencies along the way. I am finding that perl gets updated to the system version. I want to keep it to version 5.8. . FreeBSD4-11 is my OS. so in order to get portmanager to stop updating perl do I add the following to

Re: portmanager ignoring update perl

2006-08-20 Thread Gerard Seibert
Noah wrote: I am running portmanager and updating all dependencies along the way. I am finding that perl gets updated to the system version. I want to keep it to version 5.8. . FreeBSD4-11 is my OS. so in order to get portmanager to stop updating perl do I add the following to

Re: portmanager ignoring update perl

2006-08-20 Thread Noah
Gerard Seibert wrote: Noah wrote: I am running portmanager and updating all dependencies along the way. I am finding that perl gets updated to the system version. I want to keep it to version 5.8. . FreeBSD4-11 is my OS. so in order to get portmanager to stop updating perl do I add the

portmanager and perl handling

2006-08-20 Thread Noah
I am running portmanager with the following switches portmanager -u -f -l -y which is building all the dependencies. I find that perl is set to the system version of 5.003 . I do not want this behavior. I want to keep updating Perl to the newer version and I want perl to always be set to

Re: a problem setting screen resolution with Xorg-6.9.0

2006-08-20 Thread Chris Whitehouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fellow FreeBSDers, I originally sent this to FreeBSD-X11, but this may be a more appropriate venue. I have recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a Pentium III box, using an NVidia GeForce 2 GTS card and a CTX PL9 monitor. Running X -configure as root generates the file

Showstopping FreeBSD 6.1 bug

2006-08-20 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hello all I need to report a serious bug in 6.1-RELEASE. On both AMD64 and x86, sysinstall appears to work correctly but fails to install a kernel on the target filesystem. This has the additional effect of rendering the -bootonly .iso almost useless since if the error is not caught before

Re: portmanager and perl handling

2006-08-20 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sunday 20 August 2006 17:40, Noah wrote: am running portmanager with the following switches portmanager -u -f -l -y  which is building all the dependencies.  I find that perl is set to the system version of 5.003 .   I do not want this behavior. I want to keep updating Perl to the newer

new firewall rules

2006-08-20 Thread Noah
Hi there, I want to activate the new rules I added to rc.firewall . Is there anyway to easily do this without rebooting? Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: portmanager and perl handling

2006-08-20 Thread Noah
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Sunday 20 August 2006 17:40, Noah wrote: am running portmanager with the following switches portmanager -u -f -l -y which is building all the dependencies. I find that perl is set to the system version of 5.003 . I do not want this behavior. I want to keep

Re: new firewall rules

2006-08-20 Thread Chris Knipe
sh /etc/rc.firewall LABEL Regards, Chris. - Original Message - From: Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:24 AM Subject: new firewall rules Hi there, I want to activate the new rules I added to rc.firewall . Is there anyway

Re: new firewall rules

2006-08-20 Thread Noah
Chris Knipe wrote: sh /etc/rc.firewall LABEL thanks whats the LABEL fer? Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Showstopping FreeBSD 6.1 bug

2006-08-20 Thread Ralph Ellis
On Sunday 20 August 2006 6:05 pm, Jeff Rollin wrote: Hello all I need to report a serious bug in 6.1-RELEASE. On both AMD64 and x86, sysinstall appears to work correctly but fails to install a kernel on the target filesystem. This has the additional effect of rendering the -bootonly .iso

Re: Add colored border around console?

2006-08-20 Thread Alexey Mikhailov
Nikolas Britton wrote: What I want is the colored border around the console window... I have no clue how to do it, /dev/random made the border you see the photo! I let it run all night to generate interrupt load as part of a system stress test. I think you need to use vidcontrol. So man

system mails appears blank after upgrade to php4.4.4

2006-08-20 Thread jan gestre
i recently cvsup and upgraded the php4 port to version php4.4.4 but when i login to read mails, all system mails are blank i.e. security run output, daily run, weekly run. i have no idea what caused this, any suggestions? i'm using apache22 + dovecot + postfix + mysql4.1 + amavisd-new + clamav +

Where are teh choices stored when I build a port?

2006-08-20 Thread stan
Lately I've noticed that once I've built a given port, the configurtaion chocies I make, in the menu, seem to be saved. Where is this information saved? Andm how can I overide it, if I want to rebuild the port with different options? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand

portupgrade upgrade procedure

2006-08-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hello, Why is the upgrade procedure recommended to be portupgrade -R package instead of portupgrade -r package ? If -R is Act on all those packages required by the given packages as well. isn't it more important to rebuild the packages that depend on the package being rebuilt, ala -r?

Re: nforce audio problem

2006-08-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 20 August 2006 at 10:47:17 +, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 20 August 2006 at 4:44:06 +, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: Seems I have the correct driver loaded and the device exists but no sound... It would be good to say which one (kldstat output),

Re: portupgrade upgrade procedure

2006-08-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, Why is the upgrade procedure recommended to be portupgrade -R package instead of portupgrade -r package ? If -R is Act on all those packages required by the given packages as well. isn't it more important to rebuild the packages that depend on the package

setting up imap/sasl

2006-08-20 Thread Dan Langille
I'm having trouble setting up imap/sasl. Here's what I have: # pkg_info | grep cyrus cyrus-imapd-2.3.7 The cyrus mail server, supporting POP3 and IMAP4 protocols cyrus-sasl-2.1.22 RFC SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.22 SASL authentication

Re: Showstopping FreeBSD 6.1 bug

2006-08-20 Thread PATRICK CARTER
Jeff, I hate to state (or rather ask) the obvious but are you sure you selected the appropriate options to install the kernel? One of the people were I work swore they had the exact same problem on an x86 they were installing on and it turned out that she was just forgetting to select an

Re: Where are teh choices stored when I build a port?

2006-08-20 Thread ke han
Under /var/db/ports you will find directories for each port you have set options for. In each directory, if a file called options exists, remove it...you're all set!!! ke han On Aug 21, 2006, at 9:45 AM, stan wrote: Lately I've noticed that once I've built a given port, the configurtaion

Re: Where are teh choices stored when I build a port?

2006-08-20 Thread roukounas
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:45:49 -0400 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lately I've noticed that once I've built a given port, the configurtaion chocies I make, in the menu, seem to be saved. Where is this information saved? Andm how can I overide it, if I want to rebuild the port with different

Re: Where are teh choices stored when I build a port?

2006-08-20 Thread roukounas
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:53:43 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:45:49 -0400 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lately I've noticed that once I've built a given port, the configurtaion chocies I make, in the menu, seem to be saved. Where is this information saved? Andm how

FROM ARGENTINA

2006-08-20 Thread Sergio Milardovich
Hi!, my name is sergio and i`m from Argentina, i and too many people in my city was interested in use freebsd but we haven`t got a hight internet conection, so can you send me to Argentina some freeBSD cd`s?, these are the directions: postal code: 2176 adress: san martin 378 city villada

[FreeBSD] Incoming mail configuration; catch-all e-mail account; virtusertable

2006-08-20 Thread Dan Bikle
People, I want to configure sendmail for incoming mail. I want to funnel all mail destined for a specific domain to a catchall account. On my FreeBSD 5.3 box I looked in /etc/mail/ I found this file: /etc/mail/virtusertable.sample and studied it. I made this file: /etc/mail/virtusertable

Re: FROM ARGENTINA

2006-08-20 Thread Dan Bikle
Sergio, I'd suggest you install bittorrent on a pc which has a burner. Then, every time you dial up, you will down load a small piece of the freebsd cd. After 2 or 3 weeks , you will have the entire freebsd cd. This is different than ftp which only works well with a high speed connection.

Re: [FreeBSD] Incoming mail configuration; catch-all e-mail account; virtusertable

2006-08-20 Thread Dan Bikle
Yes, I used /usr/sbin/adduser to create an account named catchall. And if I send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , the e-mail does appear in /var/mail/catchall Does anyone out there know how to tinker with the configuration of incoming mail on FreeBSD ?? -Dan On 8/20/06, Greg Groth [EMAIL

Re: [FreeBSD] Incoming mail configuration; catch-all e-mail account; virtusertable

2006-08-20 Thread Dan Bikle
Wow, excellent advice. I now have 2 lines in virtusertable [EMAIL PROTECTED] catchall @mydoemain.com catchall Inside of /etc/mail... I then ran make all Then I ran make restart Now, anything sent to mydomain.com , lands in /var/mail/catchall I'm happy. Thanks!! -Dan On 8/20/06, Greg

Re: nforce audio problem

2006-08-20 Thread Brad Kowalczyk
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 20 August 2006 at 10:47:17 +, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 20 August 2006 at 4:44:06 +, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: Seems I have the correct driver loaded and the device exists but no sound... It