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Excuse for my English. Pair ideas for promotion FreeBSD! 1) Everyone search for a place in the organization desktop on base FreeBSD Probably, it is necessary to use as follows On one computer to force to work at once some monitors, some keyboards and mouses. To whom it is necessary to those ca

Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:09:48 -0500 (CDT) Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all - > > I've got a freebsd server in the garage that has a low end > soundblaster (I think) card in it that I've been using to play > music. Works just fine. We moved and now I'd like to be able to have >

Advertising opportunity on http://www.freebsd.org

Hi, My name is Liz and I am an Internet Advertising Coordinator for a marketing company located in California. We are engaged in an advertising campaign for our clients, and found your site, http://www.freebsd.org/old/ports/games.html to be a great match for our needs. At the

Re: linux-firefox

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:59:17 -0400 Pete C wrote: > did a 'make install' for linux-firefox I got an error that > libXfixes.so.3 (as part of linux-glib2, IIRC) could not be found . . . > after some googling and a few bad leads for some reason I did another > make install and got no errors . . . but

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

[ added freebsd-questios@ ] On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:08:59AM +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote: > Hello > > In this emails > you > wrote that you don't install freebsd with sysinstall. May I ask you how you > do this? Maybe in so

Re: Any suggestion regarding /DEV wipe out on freebsd 4.7?

On Thursday 31 August 2006 09:29, babak badaei wrote: > Hello, > > A few days ago I was not able to log into my machine using SSH. I got this > following message "Server refused to allocate pty". I was, somewhat > fortunately, able to log using SCP. So SCP works. The file system looked > good for t

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote: > On Wednesday 30 August 2006 21:55, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > RW wrote: > > > What's the canonical way of mounting the Linux procfs at boot-time? > > > > > > I've seen several recommendations to add the following to fstab: > > > > > > linproc/compat

Re: SMP detection

2006/8/31, Skylar Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Michal Mertl wrote: > No! Kernel threads (e.g. handling interrupts) aren't that much different > to normal processes. > > Logical CPUs on a single HTT capable CPU share most of the CPU logic, > especially all the external stuff (handling interrupts

Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

I'm setting up a remote server with two identical hard drives, running FreeBSD-6.1. I want to set the drives up as a mirror for data redundancy. I also want to be able to break the mirror when I need to update the OS or installed software, so that if anything goes wrong with the update on one d

Re: 6.1 current instabilty on Sun Ultra 40's

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:44:28PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:01:07 -0400 > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On that disk is a world, built from last weekends cvsup. I was able > > to reproduce it's instability to build a generic kernel. It fails with > > a signal

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

Boris Samorodov wrote: > > I tried it and it didn't work. Irrespective of whether it should begin > > linproc > > or linprocfs, /compat is a link to /usr/compat, and /usr isn't mounted at > > that point. Do you have a different arrangement? Would it be possible to submit the output of 'dme

Re: Playing Audio CDs

I use fluxbox :( no kde On 8/31/06, Andriy Babiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Viswas Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to BSD and have mplayer installed > (Gmplayer) and I do not see the > option to play an Audio CD, only CDs, files and > DVDs. How do I get Audio > CD's to play? Can

firefox starts up always in the first virtual screen in XFCE

Hi all, I don't know whether this qualifies as a bug. In any case it is only a mild annoyance, but if anyone knows how to fix it, please let me know. I upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1 from 5.4 with all ports updated to the latest about one week ago. My desktop is XFCE, which is configured with 6 virtual

Re: SMP detection

Skylar Thompson wrote: > Michal Mertl wrote: > > No! Kernel threads (e.g. handling interrupts) aren't that much different > > to normal processes. > > > > Logical CPUs on a single HTT capable CPU share most of the CPU logic, > > especially all the external stuff (handling interrupts). Scheduling >

Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf

On 31/08/2006 05:25, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:47:06PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: >> ive noticed that apache can be started manually using the apachectl tool, >> even> if it is not enabled in /etc/rc.conf. do many other daemons have this >> ability? i have a dev server th

6.1 kernel messages

Having just migrated a server from 4.10-STABLE to 6.1-STABLE, I'm curious about some kernel messages in dmesg that I hadn't seen before: asr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] (adaptec RAID adapter) uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] (USB driver) atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] (keyboard driver) I'm running SMP with 2 CPUs...a quic

Re: Monitor display problem

Sorry about my bad typing, I meant eratta. I would look at http://www.s3graphics.com/ And look for documentation on issues running X -Derek On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Roger Merritt wrote: At 08:38 AM 8/30/2006 -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: I would check the errat on the S3 you are using. It

Re: firefox starts up always in the first virtual screen in XFCE

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:30:05 +0200 Markus Hoenicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1 from 5.4 with all ports updated to the latest about > one week ago. My desktop is XFCE, which is configured with 6 virtual screens. > If you start an X program, its window will pop up in the s

Re: SMP detection

--- Skylar Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jordi Carrillo wrote: > > 2006/8/30, backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> > >> > >> --- Jordi Carrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > I've read that SMP should be disabled for > >> > performance issues (I did not know > >> > that before

Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:43:20PM +0200, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > It does more, it will force the script to run even if a daemon is > running. What OP is looking for is 'one' prefix: Ah! Even better. Thanks for the tip. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: http://www.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey-dan.

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:09, Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote: > Can't confirm that the problem exists: > $ uname -a > FreeBSD srv.sem.ipt.ru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed May 17 > 23:26:59 MSD 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SRV i3

Re: SMP detection

--- Michal Mertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Skylar Thompson wrote: > > Jordi Carrillo wrote: > > > 2006/8/30, backyard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> --- Jordi Carrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > I've read that SMP should be disabled for > > >> > performance i

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

> > On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:09, Boris Samorodov wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote: > > > Can't confirm that the problem exists: > > $ uname -a > > FreeBSD srv.sem.ipt.ru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed May 17 > > 23:26:59 MSD 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/us

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

--- Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ added freebsd-questios@ ] > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:08:59AM +0200, Thomas > Vogt wrote: > > Hello > > > > In this emails > > > > you > > wrote that you don't install

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

Am Donnerstag, den 31.08.2006, 07:53 -0700 schrieb backyard: > > --- Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --snipp--- > Out of curiosity... > also along these lines how do I make the system allow > me to seed the entropy engine? Usually after an > install it asks to fill in a screen full of j

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:53:28AM -0700, backyard wrote: > Out of curiosity... > > So If I made a custom boot cd I could boot a dead box, > setup the drives and slices, CVSUP the system I want > to build, tweak the build environment for the proper > temporary build locations and build a system fr

Re: shared cache -- Re: SMP detection

--- "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2006, at 12:12 PM, backyard wrote: > > > with HT disabling in FreeBSD is more for the > security > > issues about a potential exploit whereby one > process > > in one pipe can access the priveledged information > of >

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:44:39 +0100 RW wrote: > On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:09, Boris Samorodov wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote: > > Can't confirm that the problem exists: > > $ uname -a > > FreeBSD srv.sem.ipt.ru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed May 17 > > 23:26:59 MS

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

--- Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:53:28AM -0700, backyard > wrote: > > Out of curiosity... > > > > So If I made a custom boot cd I could boot a dead > box, > > setup the drives and slices, CVSUP the system I > want > > to build, tweak the build environme

Re: shared cache -- Re: SMP detection

Core 2 Duos have the EM64T extensions. Core Duos (Yonah) are a mobile chip only, not a full line of processors like the Core 2 architecture (Merom, Conroe, Woodcrest). I suspect the Core 2 chips do not suffer from the same security implications as HT-enabled processors. I'm not certain, but I thi

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:24:45AM -0700, backyard wrote: > how does cron save entropy??? I've noticed "saving > entropy files" at shutdown but have always wondered > what it is using. or does it just read from > /dev/random? > # Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot. */11*

Re: free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra

"The right stuff": sudo mount_smbfs -I -W -d 550 -f 550 //@/ That's about it. On 8/30/06, Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 31/08/2006 2:18 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote: > nevermind, my own dumb mistake with the connection string, first I > didn't have the right stuff for logging into a

can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

I'm trying to VPN in to work from home, and the IT group there only supports windows. There are Cisco pre-configured clients for Linux, MacOS X, and Windows available, but not BSD. I tried running the Linux binary, but it wanted to move to a nonexistant driectory, and didn't tell me which directo

Re: can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to VPN in to work from home, and the IT group there only supports windows. There are Cisco pre-configured clients for Linux, MacOS X, and Windows available, but not BSD. I tried running the Linux binary, but it wanted to move to a nonexistant driectory, and didn'

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

On Monday 07 August 2006 21:19, Nagy László wrote: > I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees) > will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular > programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. Jamie Zawinski has done such a thin

Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf

Jonathan Horne wrote: ive noticed that apache can be started manually using the apachectl tool, even if it is not enabled in /etc/rc.conf. do many other daemons have this ability? i have a dev server that i would like to not have many things enabled in the rc.conf, but i would like an easy wa

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

I use gmirror for this very purpose. It works well. - Original Message - From: "Jonathan McKeown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:25 AM Subject: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror? > I'm setting up a remote server with two identical hard drives, running > FreeBSD-6

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

I'm setting up a remote server with two identical hard drives, running FreeBSD-6.1. I want to set the drives up as a mirror for data redundancy. I also want to be able to break the mirror when I need to update the OS or installed software, so that if anything goes wrong with the update on one driv

Re: The future of NetBSD

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:57:32AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote: > On 8/31/06, Gilles Gravier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ahem... so no Apache... but why games, X11, compiler? > > So don't install the games set, the X set, or the comp set if you > don't want that stuff. > > I think the point I'm tryi

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

- Original Message - From: "David Robillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jonathan McKeown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror? > Bonus Tip of the day! If you ever have two disk drives w

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

- Original Message - From: "David Robillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jonathan McKeown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror? > Bonus Tip of the day! If you ever have two disk drives w

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

On 8/31/06, Elliot Finley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ad0: 4112MB at ata0-master UDMA33 ad3: 4028MB at ata1-slave UDMA33 > Then make sure you install FreeBSD on the bigger one (i.e. here that > would be ad0) then setup gmirror. If you do the oposite, you will have > a "Consumers too small" err

Netgear FA511 + Linksys BEFSR41 v.2 = 6.1-STABLE woes

Someone recently gave me a Linksys BEFSR41 v.2 10/100 four-port switch/NAT router. I had previously been using an eight-port 10baseT hub. To take advantage of the higher bandwidth now available on my LAN, I bought some NICs from eBay to upgrade the 10baseT ones to 100baseT. Unfortunately, I'm hav

Re: firefox starts up always in the first virtual screen in XFCE

Hi, your comment rang a bell. The Firefox window was apparently maximized when I upgraded the box. Firefox remembers the previous window size, and it seems like the (updated) XFCE window manager now thinks that the (updated) Firefox window is too big, and displays it on virtual screen 1 as a fallb

Re: 6.1 kernel messages

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having just migrated a server from 4.10-STABLE to 6.1-STABLE, I'm curious about some kernel messages in dmesg that I hadn't seen before: asr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] (adaptec RAID adapter) uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] (USB driver) atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] (keyboard driver) I'm runni

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

- Original Message - From: "David Robillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Elliot Finley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Jonathan McKeown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:08 PM Subject: Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror? > On 8/31/06, Elliot

Re: The future of NetBSD

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:47:48PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > As I said, Yahoo are the one big company I remember being cited as using a > BSD. My point was not that "Yahoo does not give back to the FreeBSD > project," but that the BSD licence *allows* them not to give back in a way > that the

Re: SMP detection

backyard píše v čt 31. 08. 2006 v 07:45 -0700: > --- Michal Mertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Skylar Thompson wrote: > > > Jordi Carrillo wrote: > > > > 2006/8/30, backyard > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> --- Jordi Carrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:26, Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:44:39 +0100 RW wrote: > > On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:09, Boris Samorodov wrote: > > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote: > > but it's complaining that /compat/linux > > Who? Can you provide us with some

Re: SMP detection

2006/8/31, backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: --- Michal Mertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Skylar Thompson wrote: > > Jordi Carrillo wrote: > > > 2006/8/30, backyard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> --- Jordi Carrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > I've read that SMP s

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:31:33 +0100 RW wrote: > On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:26, Boris Samorodov wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:44:39 +0100 RW wrote: > > > On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:09, Boris Samorodov wrote: > > > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote: > > > but it's complaining th

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

I've got a write-up of the steps required to do this if you or anyone else needs them. I also routinely disconnect one of the drives in my mirror before a major upgrade to the OS or ports so that if I mess it up, I can boot back to the previous state. I have a write-up of the steps needed to do

Re: Playing Audio CDs

mount your CD, change to the mount point, then, for example, issue the command: gmaplyer *.mp3 On 8/31/06, Viswas Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Viswas Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am new to BSD and have mplayer installed > > (Gmplayer) and I do not see the > > option to play an A

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

On Thursday 31 August 2006 22:12, Boris Samorodov wrote: > Move this line down and place it after mounting of /usr. Thanks. That was actually one of the first things I tried, I guess I must have screwed-up something else at the time. ___ freebsd-quest

Anyone Using the New Free Mulberry Mail Client?

There used to be a port of Cyrusoft's Mulberry mail client that installed the Linux rpm version; then Cyrusoft went bankrupt and the port dissappeared. Mulberry is now available for free as a standalone Linux binary: http://www.mulberrymail.com Has anyone got this working? If you

Re: SMP detection

--- Jordi Carrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006/8/31, backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > --- Michal Mertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Skylar Thompson wrote: > > > > Jordi Carrillo wrote: > > > > > 2006/8/30, backyard > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> >

Re: can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

On Thursday 31 August 2006 11:28, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Jim Stapleton wrote: > > I'm trying to VPN in to work from home, and the IT group there only > > supports windows. There are Cisco pre-configured clients for Linux, > > MacOS X, and Windows available, but not BSD. > > > > I tried running the L

Re: Anyone Using the New Free Mulberry Mail Client?

--On September 1, 2006 12:18:20 AM +0100 RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There used to be a port of Cyrusoft's Mulberry mail client that installed the Linux rpm version; then Cyrusoft went bankrupt and the port dissappeared. Mulberry is now available for free as a standalone Linux binary:

newbie. how to compile gcc-4.1.1

hi everyone, i'm trying to compile and install gcc-4.1.1 from the port section. errors: Syntax error: redirection unexpected *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/home/g/Applications/gcc-4 ... /build-i386-unknown- freebsd6.1/fixincludes. *** Error code 1 i tried making the object code in another l

VIA C3 - cant boot CD

i have an ML6000 (no floppy) and have downloaded the 4.11 mini-iso image, and burned it to a CD-RW. CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (666.55-MHz 686-class CPU) after rebooting, the CD is found, and a boot attempt is made. within 5 seconds, the kernel locks up after about 3 seconds of the kernel data+234238

Re: newbie. how to compile gcc-4.1.1

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:21:04PM -0400, g wrote: > hi everyone, > > i'm trying to compile and install gcc-4.1.1 from the port section. > > errors: > > Syntax error: redirection unexpected > *** Error code 2 > > Stop in /usr/home/g/Applications/gcc-4 ... /build-i386-unknown- > freebsd6.1/fix

Help re nvnet driver

Hello: I have a machine with two SLI slots and two regular pci slots. The motherboard is Gigabyte with nVidia network interface built in. I have one regular pci slot taken with a video card and one with a D-Link nic. I need another nic and as it stands either the video card goes or I get a functi

Freebsd -Squid - danguardian- Winbind- XMalloc Error

I have a box with freebsd 6.1, squid-2.5.13_1 (Ntlm authentication), dansguardian-2.9.6.1_1 and samba-3.0.22,1 2gb RAM 2 cpu. When The box has 800MB memory active, 1.2GB memory inact and 0 free memory. I get the error "FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate 65535 bytes" and the squid process restart.