Re: Install Freebsd 5.4

2007-03-09 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:46:49 +0100, Thomas H. Bellus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been able to see the screens for configuring X for my monitor or video card. I have ver 5.4, I have used both the standard install and the custom install. I have used the most recent install documents

logout from gnome panel stops responding.

2007-03-09 Thread Anuj Singh
Hello, I am using 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 while using gnome when i click on logout it (logout panel only) stops responding, and i need to Force quit, same thing is happening with my gaim. It crashes. Is anyone facing the same

Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...

2007-03-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 08 March 2007 13:49, Modulok wrote: To the best of my knowledge, most processes can be killed explicitly by kill -s KILL; There are a few which cannot, such as disk i/o processes. The idea here is data integrity. A process might be in cannot-be-killed condition while in kernel e.g.

Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server

2007-03-09 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:43:01AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: cpghost wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: That's pure speculation (and quite paranoid). The daemon image is still visible on many FreeBSD.org web pages. In fact, no less pages than

Package missing

2007-03-09 Thread Olivier Vimont
The pdflib binary package which is needed by gnuplot-4.0 is missing on the AMD64 port of the 6.2 release in th ftp site Thanks if you can restore it Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

fetch - size of remote file is not known

2007-03-09 Thread David Schulz
Hello all, Viewing a certain Url results in a dynamically generated .png graph being displayed in my Browser. I would like to fetch this Graph.png via Command-line, but a simple fetch https://www.domain.com/grapher/chart.php? graphid=1stime=mmddhhmmperiod=7200from=0width=-108 wont

Re: syncing user passwd information between servers

2007-03-09 Thread dex
Doesn't NIS have an 8 character limit on usernames? -Original Message- From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:07:59 To:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syncing user passwd information between servers Noah wrote: see more questions below? Daniel

RE: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:24:40 +0100 From: Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I am trying to get my Palm Treo sync with

Re: fetch - size of remote file is not known

2007-03-09 Thread David Schulz
ok this is fixed. It actually was a permission problem. sorry On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:45 PM, David Schulz wrote: fetch https://www.domain.com/grapher/chart.php? graphid=1stime=mmddhhmmperiod=7200from=0width=-108: size of remote file is not known

Re: syncing user passwd information between servers

2007-03-09 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am trying to figure out the Best admininstrative way to do the following: We have two FreeBSD 6.2 servers and want to keep the passwd files in sync so all the same users can log into each machine, their UID's match, and when the update the

Re: 65535 outbound connections

2007-03-09 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Atis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3/9/07, Niklaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I could be wrong in the below description or might have misunderstood many of the concepts , please correct appropriately. 65535 ports can allowed . So on a machine namely C you can have max

Re: DEFAULT CFLAGS SETTING

2007-03-09 Thread Gerard
On Thursday March 08, 2007 at 07:45:06 (PM) Christian Walther wrote: CFLAGS can be defined in /etc/make.conf My CFLAGS is set to -O2 -pipe. You might want to take a look at CPUTYPE, too. This can be set to match your CPU type, which means you'll get the most of it. You can find some

65535 outbound connections

2007-03-09 Thread Niklaus
Hi I could be wrong in the below description or might have misunderstood many of the concepts , please correct appropriately. 65535 ports can allowed . So on a machine namely C you can have max 65535 outbound connections What i was thinking was to send to another machines A and B from the

Re: 65535 outbound connections

2007-03-09 Thread Atis
On 3/9/07, Niklaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I could be wrong in the below description or might have misunderstood many of the concepts , please correct appropriately. 65535 ports can allowed . So on a machine namely C you can have max 65535 outbound connections There can be simultaneous

Re: Using gpg-agent on freebsd

2007-03-09 Thread Gerard
On Thursday March 08, 2007 at 10:19:27 (PM) Joe Vender wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 6.2 I've been tinkering with using gpg-agent for GnuPG passphrase caching when using Kmail. I have been able to get it working as per the instructions at http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/gnupg-kmail.php for

zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11

2007-03-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I got all my servers playiung nice with the new port for zoneinfo, all but one which is a simple slave nameserver ruynning FreeBSD 4.4. When I installed the port on it, and try to run make, I get this: voyager ROOT /usr/gpeel/zoneinfo make zoneinfo-: You need to define PORTNAME and

respect sophomoric

2007-03-09 Thread Christensen
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Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...

2007-03-09 Thread Modulok
Thank you for your reply, it was quite informative and very much appreciated, but the underlying question remains un-answered: How do you kill a hanged process that (seemingly) cannot be killed because of the two conditions below? -It's hanged, so it's not ever going to self terminate. -It's a

PERC 3/DC RAID controller

2007-03-09 Thread Barnaby Scott
I have recently aquired a server which is a Dell PowerEdge 4600 with a PERC 3/DC RAID controller. I was just about to start intalling FreeBSD 6.2, but noticed the hardware notes mentions practically every other Dell RAID controller except this one! Does anyone know if it will work? I have a

Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...

2007-03-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 09 March 2007 15:28, Modulok wrote: Thank you for your reply, it was quite informative and very much appreciated, but the underlying question remains un-answered: How do you kill a hanged process that (seemingly) cannot be killed because of the two conditions below? -It's

Re: DEFAULT CFLAGS SETTING

2007-03-09 Thread RW
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:53:00 -0500 Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday March 08, 2007 at 07:45:06 (PM) Christian Walther wrote: CFLAGS can be defined in /etc/make.conf My CFLAGS is set to -O2 -pipe. You might want to take a look at CPUTYPE, too. This can be set to match your

Re: PERC 3/DC RAID controller

2007-03-09 Thread dex
I'm not sure if this helps, but I've been working with FreeBSD on dell hardware of all kinds for many years and have not had a problem with a PERC controller. The easiest way to see is boot from the install CD and start a standard install. It will error if it doesn't recognize any drives.

Re: DEFAULT CFLAGS SETTING

2007-03-09 Thread RW
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:04:50 -0800 Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Walther wrote: On 08/03/07, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the default CFLAGS setting in FBSD-6.2 and would it improve performance any to set CFLAGS=Os as opposed to the default

limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-09 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. On FreeBSD 6.2 i386 with 2GB of physical memory I can't allocate more than 500Mb for my program. I'm a new to FreeBSD. Is this limitatin is something known, how do I overcome it ? (On linuxes I can allocate arrays of size close to sum of physical and swap memory, on similar machines)

Re: remote install of 6.2

2007-03-09 Thread David Robillard
I have a remote machine running 4.8-p21. The system has two disks in it, but only one is used on a daily basis (the other is filled via dd every now and then). I want to get this remote machine running 6.2, so I figured I'ld install the new OS on the second disk, then boot off the second disk,

Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Aniruddha
Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: You may want to check out devfs.rules(5) for changing permissions on hotplug devices. That said, I do use a similar entry in usbd.conf to spawn pppd when I connect my Tungsten E. With that I find I need to add a sleep 2; to the beginning of the 'attach'

RE: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD
-Original Message- From: Aniruddha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2007 15:32 To: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: You may want to check out

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Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
check out your sysctl values. man sysctl for more information. -Derek At 08:32 AM 3/9/2007, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. On FreeBSD 6.2 i386 with 2GB of physical memory I can't allocate more than 500Mb for my program. I'm a new to FreeBSD. Is this limitatin is something known, how do I

Re: Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:52:20 -0600 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should add a line: /usr/bin/su [to your username] OK, I'll try that. A way to do this without needing special permissions to touch system files is to use cron; it has an

Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Aniruddha
Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: Sorry, that's me not making myself clear. I mean like this: device Palm devname ucom[0-9]* attach sleep 2; chmod 0666 /dev/ttyU* But like I said, devfs.rules is really designed for this kind of thing. HTH. Peter Harrison. Sorry,

RE: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD
-Original Message- From: Aniruddha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2007 16:12 To: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: Sorry, that's me not making myself

Re: remote install of 6.2

2007-03-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:30:44AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: I have a remote machine running 4.8-p21. The system has two disks in it, but only one is used on a daily basis (the other is filled via dd every now and then). I want to get this remote machine running 6.2, so I figured I'ld

Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Vince
Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: -Original Message- From: Aniruddha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2007 16:12 To: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD Sorry, but I must ask you

Re: Install Freebsd 5.4

2007-03-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:46:49PM +0100, Thomas H. Bellus wrote: I have not been able to see the screens for configuring X for my monitor or video card. I have ver 5.4, I have used both the standard install and the custom install. I have used the most recent install documents on the internet

Re: remote install of 6.2

2007-03-09 Thread David Robillard
OK. First, it was someone else who posted. I was one of the responders. My mistake! Sorry about this. That can be a good way of doing it. I have posted a list of steps for doing essentially that (slightly different circumstances) a couple of times in the past. But there is one

Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Aniruddha
Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: No, that's the syntax for usbd.conf - which should work but is not the 'preferred' way of doing it. I'll check my devfs.rules file over the weekend and email you again with the syntax for that. Peter Harrison. Thank for the effort! Btw I tried adding

Re: zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11

2007-03-09 Thread Vasile Cristescu
On Friday 09 March 2007 15:11, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I got all my servers playiung nice with the new port for zoneinfo, all but one which is a simple slave nameserver ruynning FreeBSD 4.4. When I installed the port on it, and try to run make, I get this: voyager ROOT

Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Aniruddha
Aniruddha wrote: I am trying to get my Palm Treo sync with Jpilot. Unfortunately so far without results :-( . Who can help me with this? Here's what I tried so far: Added this line to etc/usbd.conf just above the fallthrough entry: / device Palm devname ucom[0-9]* attach chmod

Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Aniruddha
Vince wrote: for devfs.rules add something like [system=10] add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 to /etc/devfs.rules you also need to add devfs_system_ruleset=system to rc.conf Vince Ok I will try that :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Vince
Aniruddha wrote: Vince wrote: for devfs.rules add something like [system=10] add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 to /etc/devfs.rules you also need to add devfs_system_ruleset=system to rc.conf Vince Ok I will try that :-) Oh i forgot to mention you will have to restart devfs afterwards,

Re: zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11

2007-03-09 Thread Dan Busarow
On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Vasile Cristescu wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 15:11, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I got all my servers playiung nice with the new port for zoneinfo, all but one which is a simple slave nameserver ruynning FreeBSD 4.4. When I installed the port on it, and try to

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2007-03-09 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2007-03-09 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: remote install of 6.2

2007-03-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:39:31AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: OK. First, it was someone else who posted. I was one of the responders. My mistake! Sorry about this. That can be a good way of doing it. I have posted a list of steps for doing essentially that (slightly different

Perforce access

2007-03-09 Thread FreeBSD Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dear list, is it prossible (for a normal mortal, aka non-committer ) to access the the perforce repository to get code? i'd be interested in the mips code TIA Zheyu Shen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)

Re: Package missing

2007-03-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:09:04AM +0100, Olivier Vimont wrote: The pdflib binary package which is needed by gnuplot-4.0 is missing on the AMD64 port of the 6.2 release in th ftp site Thanks if you can restore it This software may not be freely redestributed according to the license imposed

Re: zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
I have been reading lots about simply updateing the zone file itself, but have not been undersztanding what I am seeing. If anyone could simplify, I would appreciate it. You can simply take the /etc/localtime file from one of the completed servers, copy it to the server that is failing, and

Re: remote install of 6.2

2007-03-09 Thread dex
Also see my post to doc about restoring dump files over an http connection, in case your existing systems' partitions don't have enough room to temporarily store them. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2007-February/012190.html ___

Re: Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-09 Thread RW
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:24:47 -0500 Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried starting it from CRON; however, the variables: GPG_AGENT_INFO GPG_TTY are not set.. See crontab(5) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ext3 support

2007-03-09 Thread RW
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:06:29 +0100 Benjamin Sobotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear list, does freebsd 6.x support the ext3 filesystem? TIA zheyu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Changing command-line resolution

2007-03-09 Thread Frank Staals
John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:48, frzburn wrote: Hi! I was wondering if there is a way to change the command-line snip FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE amd64. Build and install a kernel with options VESA and SC_PIXEL_MODE. Reboot. Run vidcontrol -i mode. Pick one you like and

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. On FreeBSD 6.2 i386 with 2GB of physical memory I can't allocate more than 500Mb for my program. I'm a new to FreeBSD. Is this limitatin is something known, how do I overcome it ? Google for MAXDSIZ and relevent discussions. See here for example:

Re: awk question

2007-03-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You are trying to remove the files whose names are given by ls -lt | awk '{if ($8 == 2006) print $9}'; If you are in the same directory, or you have full pathnames, you can do just (and avoid the 'for do done' loop) rm $( ls -lt | awk '{if ($8 ==

Re: ext3 support

2007-03-09 Thread Carsten Fuchs
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:12:06 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's fsck support for syncing the ext3 journal. I think it's in a port, but I can't remember which. sysutils/e2fsprogs ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten

Epson P2100 parallel port mode

2007-03-09 Thread Milan Knizek
Hello list! I have spent some time installing Epson P2100 (aka P2200 in the U.S.) - the USB connection did not work (printer was recognised, but any access to it caused only a quick double-tick of the printing head and nothing more). The good thing was that it supports also the parallel

Re: Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:52:20 -0600 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should add a line: /usr/bin/su [to your username] OK, I'll try that. A way to do this without needing special permissions to

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
Dima, Not all the settings there are tuneable. In 6.X the allowable memory is somewhat automatic based on the max users. Your kernel is set to 384. You can try changing that. You can also make some kernel settings in: /boot/loader.conf You can see the possible variables to set in:

Re: Epson P2100 parallel port mode

2007-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
You may be able to change the port setting in your BIOS, most newer BIOS allow this. -Derek At 01:25 PM 3/9/2007, Milan Knizek wrote: Hello list! I have spent some time installing Epson P2100 (aka P2200 in the U.S.) - the USB connection did not work (printer was recognised, but any

Re: DEFAULT CFLAGS SETTING

2007-03-09 Thread Christian Walther
On 09/03/07, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:04:50 -0800 Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Walther wrote: On 08/03/07, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] CFLAGS can be defined in /etc/make.conf My CFLAGS is set to -O2 -pipe. Note that by

Re: zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11

2007-03-09 Thread DAve
Dan Busarow wrote: On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Vasile Cristescu wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 15:11, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I got all my servers playiung nice with the new port for zoneinfo, all but one which is a simple slave nameserver ruynning FreeBSD 4.4. When I installed the

FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-09 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hello, I plan to install a FreeBSD 6.2 router/gateway/DHCP server on a EPIA box with 1GB Transcend IDE Flash drive. Since Transcend says that this device is capable of 10,000 insertion/removal cycles I assume that I must minimize the number of writes to the drive. It is okay with me if I have to

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-09 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hey, this device is capable of 10,000 insertion/removal cycles I assume Sorry for replying my own post, but now I fould out that this actually means how many times can I insert/remove the module into/from the motherboard. Actually the number I am interested in is much higher: 2,000,000

pgp-mime on kmail without gpg-agent

2007-03-09 Thread Joe Vender
Is it possible to use pgp-mime on kmail without using gpg-agent? When I try it, decryption fails with an error message about a bad passphrase, even though kmail never even prompts for a passphrase when opening an pgp-mime encrypted mail if I don't have gnupg set to use an agent and no agent is

Custom scripts files locations?

2007-03-09 Thread Andy Kendall
Where should I put any scripts I write or use for the use of all system users please? For example in the FreeBSD Manual in section 9.4.3.2 there's a script for Network Printing; where should this reside please? Thanks Andy ___

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: However I have no idea how to measure how many writes are performed during a normal operation of a FreeBSD server running DHCP and pf firewall. You could get an upper bound by running a perpetual iostat... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Custom scripts files locations?

2007-03-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:55:12PM -, Andy Kendall wrote: Where should I put any scripts I write or use for the use of all system users please? For example in the FreeBSD Manual in section 9.4.3.2 there's a script for Network Printing; where should this reside please? Do you mean that you

Re: Custom scripts files locations?

2007-03-09 Thread Bob
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 20:55:12 - Andy Kendall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where should I put any scripts I write or use for the use of all system users please? public executables go in /usr/local/bin Bob -- /\ \ /ASCII Ribbon Campaign- Motor Vessel Tamara B X against HTML

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
You will want the swap to some other device such a a regular hard drive. A flash drive can get worn out cells and fail. -Derek At 02:09 PM 3/9/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nejc_=A9koberne?= wrote: Hello, I plan to install a FreeBSD 6.2 router/gateway/DHCP server on a EPIA box with 1GB

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-09 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hello Derek, You will want the swap to some other device such a a regular hard drive. A flash drive can get worn out cells and fail. Also when just reading the flash drive? I would like to write to it only when it is absolutely necessary (configuration change). I think 2 million

Re: zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11

2007-03-09 Thread Dan Busarow
On Mar 9, 2007, at 1:04 PM, DAve wrote: Dan Busarow wrote: On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Vasile Cristescu wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 15:11, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I got all my servers playiung nice with the new port for zoneinfo, all but one which is a simple slave nameserver

Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...

2007-03-09 Thread Modulok
...alright then... How do I work-around a situation where cp, hangs forever? -Modulok- On 3/9/07, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 15:28, Modulok wrote: Thank you for your reply, it was quite informative and very much appreciated, but the underlying

Re: Epson P2100 parallel port mode

2007-03-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:25:34PM +0100, Milan Knizek wrote: A search on google revealed that it is possible to switch the port mode to extended polling by command lptcontrol -e -d /dev/lpt0. Then, the printer worked normally. ltpcontrol supports only connected (and powered on) printers,

Mounting into a jail

2007-03-09 Thread Troy Schultz
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 6.2. I am currently mounting a smb share and then remounting the smb mount into a jail with nullfs. /etc/fstab # smbfs mount //user@servername/share /path/to/smb/mount smbfs rw 0 0 # local mount /path/to/smb/mount /path/to/jail/directory

Re: Custom scripts files locations?

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Slothouber
Dependent on the type of script, I would usually use /usr/local/bin See hier(7) in the man pages. Andy Kendall wrote: Where should I put any scripts I write or use for the use of all system users please? For example in the FreeBSD Manual in section 9.4.3.2 there's a script for Network

Re: Mounting into a jail

2007-03-09 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 9, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Troy Schultz wrote: Hello, I am running FreeBSD 6.2. I am currently mounting a smb share and then remounting the smb mount into a jail with nullfs. /etc/fstab # smbfs mount //user@servername/share /path/to/smb/mount smbfs rw 0 0 # local mount

Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Aniruddha
Vince wrote: Aniruddha wrote: Vince wrote: for devfs.rules add something like [system=10] add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 to /etc/devfs.rules you also need to add devfs_system_ruleset=system to rc.conf Vince Ok I will try that :-) Oh i forgot to mention you will have

Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Slothouber
Check out /etc/defaults/devfs.rules Aniruddha wrote: Vince wrote: Aniruddha wrote: Vince wrote: for devfs.rules add something like [system=10] add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 to /etc/devfs.rules you also need to add devfs_system_ruleset=system to rc.conf Vince Ok I will try

Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-09 Thread Aniruddha
Chris Slothouber wrote: Check out /etc/defaults/devfs.rules Thanks at least now I found devfs.rules :-) . I adjusted it accordingly (and /etc/rc.conf) but still my Palm refuses to sync. Maybe this error message reveals something: # /etc/rc.d/devfs restart /etc/rc.d/devfs: WARNING:

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-09 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hello Derek, You will want the swap to some other device such a a regular hard drive. A flash drive can get worn out cells and fail. Also when just reading the flash drive? I would like to write to it only when it is absolutely necessary (configuration change). I think 2 million

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-09 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Sorry for replying my own post, but now I fould out that this actually means how many times can I insert/remove the module into/from the motherboard. Actually the number I am interested in is much higher: 2,000,000 Program/Erase cycles. However I have no

Re: Custom scripts files locations?

2007-03-09 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Andy Kendall wrote: Where should I put any scripts I write or use for the use of all system users please? Depends on what they're for; 'man hier' describes the general rules. For example in the FreeBSD Manual in section 9.4.3.2 there's a script for Network Printing;

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-09 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hi, m0n0wall gets around this by running out of RAM after booting from flash (or CD, or hard disk): Yes, I know both m0n0wall and pfSense, but I prefer a custom FreeBSD installation since I have developed some custom scripts which I would like to use. This is what I am trying to do now -

Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-09 Thread Brian J. Conway
I'm trying to track down a watchdog timeout that shows on average once a day, usually at a random time when idle. The system has two 3c905C NICs and does ipfw+natd duty with a couple services, and spends most of its time idle, both CPU and bandwidth-wise. Nothing out of the ordinary happens when

question?

2007-03-09 Thread Roofscum614
hi i am doing a project for school: find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer without Windows being installed. The cheaper the better (Hint start your search with the word free). Find out what the software does, what applications it supports (e.g., will it run

mounting usb flash drive as user

2007-03-09 Thread Jon Wolfgang
I am trying to mount a usb flash drive as a user under FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. I have followed the steps in the handbook, but it is not quite working. My user account is jon and is a member of the operator group. I have set the vfs.usermount variable to 1. I am trying to mount the drive at

Re: mounting usb flash drive as user [SOLVED]

2007-03-09 Thread Jon Wolfgang
Jon Wolfgang wrote: Did I miss a step somewhere? Any suggestions are appreciated. As soon as I sent the message I had a moment of clarity! I don't have the msdosfs compiled into the kernel and I don't load it at bootup. The user account couldn't load the module dynamically. By adding the

Re: question?

2007-03-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 09/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i am doing a project for school: find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer without Windows being installed. The cheaper the better (Hint start your search with the word free). Find out what the software

Re: question?

2007-03-09 Thread Paulette McGee
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i am doing a project for school: find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer without Windows being installed. The cheaper the better (Hint start your search with the word free). Find out what the software does, what