Undelivered mail: Let's be friends

2003-03-05 Thread DrWeb-DAEMON
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Mirroring/load-balance two servers

2003-03-05 Thread Jonas Fornander
Does anyone know if there is a "simple" way to mirror two servers without spending $ on hardware? I'm NOT talking about mirroring the OS and the files, I'm talking about sending http requests to a second server if the first server is down/un-reachable. This is sometimes referred to as load-bal

FreeBSD 5.0 with a Japanese keyboard

2003-03-05 Thread Nick
I have a Japanese Keyboard made by Sun and I am trying to use it with a FreeBSD 5 system. The system works fine with a normal PS/2 keyboard. The Japanese keyboard, however, is recognized by the BIOS but after FreeBSD loads I cannot use it. I have ssh access to the system, so I can try anything. Th

not woking

2003-03-05 Thread Kenneth Tucker
Thanks Adam and Daxbert for your help To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Promise SX6000

2003-03-05 Thread romero3000
Does Anyone know how to get the Promise sx6000 raid card working with FreeBSD 4.7??? I have seen it in the Hardware Release Notes but I'm not sure about installation procedure or driver support. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of

bandwidth prioritization

2003-03-05 Thread William Wong
Hi there, I read this and I was wondering if anyone has done this with ipfw & dummynet. http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html Thanks, - Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: AbiWord

2003-03-05 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:24:48 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No question, just help for anyone that needs it. > After struggling with AbiWord 1.04, available > at www.abisource.com, this is what you need > to make it work with FBSD 4.7, the "easy" solution > to which I did not come across in my sear

CVS repository

2003-03-05 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
While I am thinking about it, Is there any way to make an identical copy of the actual CVS respositories themselves. I'd like to drop them into my CVSROOT so I can browse it with cvsweb_graph for kicks. I'd just check it ou and import it, but then I loose all the useful revision/branching histo

MFC'ing

2003-03-05 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Thanks in advanced. Sorry for the crosspost, but I know some of you FreeBSD developers do this all the time. Note the naming scheme ... wink wink. Okay fine, so I couldn't resit the developer like apache cvs tags :) say I have branches: RELENG_1(stable/prod), RELENG_2(release/qa), HEAD(current/de

Re: gnome2 & sawfish on Freebsd 5.0

2003-03-05 Thread Radhika Sambamurti
Hi Joe, No I didnt see it, ie your email asking for more info. Could you please send it agian. This time i wont be in such a rush to delete. thx, radhika --- Joe Marcus Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 22:27, Radhika Sambamurti wrote: > > Hi, > > I seem to be having probl

make world fails at sendmail

2003-03-05 Thread John Baker
Greetings. I'm having problems upgrading to *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 I tried a 'cd /usr/src && make world' three times tonight without success. I get the following error msg: ===> etc ===> etc/sendmail make: don't know how to make freebsd.mc. Stop After the second fail

vnconfig (was Re: More... Sorry ;)

2003-03-05 Thread Warren Block
[subject added] On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, William Flecher wrote: > Been trying to mount a vmware image with vnconfig... > It refuses to mount it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ #] vnconfig /dev/vn0c > /usr/home/ultraviolet/christianos.image > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ #] mount_msdos /dev/vn0c /mnt/vn/0 > mount_msdo

Re: printing to HP LaserJet 4050 TN

2003-03-05 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Darren Spruell wrote: > I've seen a couple of sample scripts, but if you have one that works > specifically with Laserjet, that would suit :) Ah, that's the beauty of it--it works with any PostScript printer. (Or non-PostScript... see below.) First, the /etc/printcap: # /et

Re: gnome2 & sawfish on Freebsd 5.0

2003-03-05 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 22:27, Radhika Sambamurti wrote: > Hi, > I seem to be having problems with my Xserver on FreeBSD > 5.0, running gnome2 and Sawfish. > > My Xserver verion is: XFree86-Server-4.2.1_6 XFree86-4 X > server and related programs. > > The output for dmesg regarding my video card is

Java and mozilla

2003-03-05 Thread Adam Stroud
Can someone tell me how to get java working with mozilla under Freebsd. I have installed the jre from the ports collection, but I cant get java support in any browser working (opera, mozilla or konqueror) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the

DUMP errors FreeBSD 4.7-RC

2003-03-05 Thread joe mcguckin
While dumping a 75G partition, I receive the following errors: DUMP: 21.52% done, finished in 0:51 DUMP: read error from /dev/ad2s1: Invalid argument: [block -622926708]: count=7168 DUMP: read error from /dev/ad2s1: Invalid argument: [sector -622926708]: count=512 DUMP: read error from /de

Re: Another Sendmail question

2003-03-05 Thread Michael K. Smith
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM wrote: > One more sendmail question. After installing the ports version and > telnetting to my local host on port 25 I get the following greeting: > > 220 myhost.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8/8.11.1; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:03:12 > -0500 (EST) > > Should 8.11.1 b

Re: gnome2 & sawfish on Freebsd 5.0

2003-03-05 Thread Radhika Sambamurti
Hi, I seem to be having problems with my Xserver on FreeBSD 5.0, running gnome2 and Sawfish. My Xserver verion is: XFree86-Server-4.2.1_6 XFree86-4 X server and related programs. The output for dmesg regarding my video card is: agp0: mem 0xf000-0xf007,0xf400-0xf7ff irq 5 at devi

Re: Another Sendmail question

2003-03-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-03-05 21:06, Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AAA> One more sendmail question. After installing the ports version and > telnetting to my local host on port 25 I get the following greeting: > > 220 myhost.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8/8.11.1; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:03:12 > -0500 (E

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:52:31PM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > --- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>burnP6 and burnMX have been running all night > > >> > > >>342:16 49.17% 49.17% burnBX > > >>340:52 48.10% 48.10% burnP6 > > >> > > >>and there are no problems so far. > > > > Have yo

Re: Suggested Laptop system

2003-03-05 Thread John Bleichert
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tak Pui LOU wrote: > Subject: Suggested Laptop system > > Hi All, > > Could anyone suggest a laptop model which has all the device support by > FBSD? I don't want something too old but I want to have sound card, > network card, etc. working under FreeBSD. > > Thanks, > --- >

elektroniczny miesiecznik polskiego eksportera - 1 wydanie

2003-03-05 Thread AMPE
www.Eksportuj.pl skierowany jest do wszystkich tych, ktorzy na co dzien zajmuja sie problematyka wspolpracy handlowej z zagranica. Ma wskazywac Panstwu potencjalne mozliwosci nawiazania korzystnych kontaktow w sferze handlu i inwestycji oraz kierowac Panstwa uwage glownie w strone regionow i

Another Sendmail question

2003-03-05 Thread Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM
One more sendmail question. After installing the ports version and telnetting to my local host on port 25 I get the following greeting: 220 myhost.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8/8.11.1; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:03:12 -0500 (EST) Should 8.11.1 be showing up? Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - [EMAIL PROTECTED] My t

Re: How many mbufs do I need?

2003-03-05 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 04:40 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I killed my FreeBSD 4.8-PRE (2003-02-18) server today by exhausting the > available mbufs. I'd seen warnings like "All mbuf clusters exhausted, > please see tuning(7)." in /var/log/messages, so I added > `kern.ipc.nmbclusters="16384"' to

Re: A couple of questions related to the sendmail patch, etc.

2003-03-05 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 05:27 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2003-03-04 22:38, taxman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 01:08 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2003-03-04 10:02, Phillip Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > : A couple of quick questions... > > > : >

Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4

2003-03-05 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, IAccounts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > Basically: > > > Update your source with cvsup > > > read /usr/src/UPDATING and follow any instructions required (I believe > > > you'll need to manually create the relatively new sendmail users) > > > Reveiw you kernel config fil

AbiWord

2003-03-05 Thread ai1
No question, just help for anyone that needs it. After struggling with AbiWord 1.04, available at www.abisource.com, this is what you need to make it work with FBSD 4.7, the "easy" solution to which I did not come across in my searching: 1. Download AbiWord 1.04 (1.03 crashed non-stop for me).

ZYNX ZX346 - 4 Port PCI Ethernet card

2003-03-05 Thread Administrator
Greetings, I'm making a couple small pc routers using ZYNX ZX346 - 4 Port PCI Ethernet cards in small Compaq deskpro systems (one pci slot). I'm using 4.8RC1 with polling enabled at the moment, but it does not matter if it's on or off. What the problem is is that everything is fine until the car

Re: dvipdfm DVI - PDF converter SOLVED

2003-03-05 Thread Murray Taylor
Answering own question... Digging further into the build logs found ps2pdf from the Ghostscript build which does it perfectly ... YAY. mjt On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:26, Murray Taylor wrote: > Hmmm ... where did that pdflatex come from ... check latex build script > capture ... > hh ..Ahah

Re: Major upgrades and vinum (was Re: Make installworld problem (4.7))

2003-03-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 March 2003 at 13:40:50 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-03-05T18:04:14Z, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Since kernels have to support old binaries, but not vice versa, you can >> usually reboot with the new kernel and old world and have it work. > > Sometimes, tho

Suggested Laptop system

2003-03-05 Thread Tak Pui LOU
Hi All, Could anyone suggest a laptop model which has all the device support by FBSD? I don't want something too old but I want to have sound card, network card, etc. working under FreeBSD. Thanks, --- Lou To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in th

Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4

2003-03-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
IAccounts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Basically: > > > Update your source with cvsup > > > read /usr/src/UPDATING and follow any instructions required (I believe > > > you'll need to manually create the relatively new sendmail users) > > > Reveiw you kernel config file to see if any option

Re: vinum: low level access to subdisks / drives

2003-03-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 March 2003 at 19:33:04 +0100, Alexander Haderer wrote: > Hello, > > Here is a vinum question. It was sent as a followup of a question about installation problems. That causes problems with threading. > Assume this setup: Two partitions ad0s1e and ad2s1e of type vinum > with the

Re: dvipdfm DVI - PDF converter

2003-03-05 Thread Murray Taylor
Hmmm ... where did that pdflatex come from ... check latex build script capture ... hh ..Ahah lookit all those other things that come with LaTeX ... Seriously though ... didnt work. pdflatex does the same thing as dvipdfm ... creates a nice pdf but no pictures Thanks Simon. Any ot

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
Bsd Neophyte wrote: --- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: burnP6 and burnMX have been running all night 342:16 49.17% 49.17% burnBX 340:52 48.10% 48.10% burnP6 and there are no problems so far. Have you tried running memtest for equal lengths of time? reading the man page stated that burnMX -

Re: dvipdfm DVI - PDF converter

2003-03-05 Thread Simon Barner
> I am using this port to make PDFs for the Windoze people from my > LaTeX files... but it is not inserting the epsfig pictures. > > A is there a way to get it to do this -- the man page does not seem to > indicate this ability ... > > B Is there a different tool to do 'production-grade' PDFs fr

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Martin Karlsson
* Bsd Neophyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-05 15.52 -0800]: > > --- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Have you tried running memtest for equal lengths of time? > > memtest doesn't seem to exist in the ports anymore :/ the file can't be > fetched from any of the listed sites. Yo

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>burnP6 and burnMX have been running all night > >> > >>342:16 49.17% 49.17% burnBX > >>340:52 48.10% 48.10% burnP6 > >> > >>and there are no problems so far. > > Have you tried running memtest for equal lengths of time? memtest doesn't seem to exist

Re: A few 5.0-Release questions...

2003-03-05 Thread John Wilson
--- Chris Shenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, I had absolutely no trouble booting and > installing 5.0-R on my 600SC, with the DELL-supplied CERC > RAID card (amr device recognized it, but it drives 4x > ATA disks rather than SCSI), and an Intel gigabit > ether card. Got X11 working on it r

dvipdfm DVI - PDF converter

2003-03-05 Thread Murray Taylor
I am using this port to make PDFs for the Windoze people from my LaTeX files... but it is not inserting the epsfig pictures. A is there a way to get it to do this -- the man page does not seem to indicate this ability ... B Is there a different tool to do 'production-grade' PDFs from DVI files w

Re: Gnome2-2.2 and Nvidia GeForce MX 440 64 mb (NOT) DDR

2003-03-05 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 15:47, Stefano Ceci wrote: > Hello all, I'm going crazy with Gnome2-2.2 on a stable > (cvsupped)version. It seems to be a conflict with NVIDIA drivers. Gnome > started only one time and goes very very very slow (30 seconds to open > each window). However, normally, it doesn't

Re: firewall revisited

2003-03-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-03-05 09:32, Brian Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello- > currently my rc.conf is set up like this for my gateway router. > gateway_enable="YES" > firewall_enable="YES" > firewall_type="OPEN" > natd_enable="YES" > natd_interface="rl1" # natd -interface rl1, public interface > nat

libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 problems

2003-03-05 Thread Mark Pearce
HI all I have a problem with installing the macromedia flash6 plugin on netscape7 on my friends computer. I get the following error when initalizing the plugin: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/lib/linux-netscape7-english/plugins/libflashplayer.so [libstdc++-libc6.2-2.s

Re: firewall revisited

2003-03-05 Thread Jeff Walters
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 02:48 pm, Brian Henning wrote: > Jeff, > > you must have your firewall_type set to the default then in rc.conf or > /etc/defaults/rc.conf. does you setup not run the standard rc.firewall file > in /etc? > > does this rule allow any access to the outside network? > ipfw a

Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
IAccounts wrote: Basically: Update your source with cvsup read /usr/src/UPDATING and follow any instructions required (I believe you'll need to manually create the relatively new sendmail users) Reveiw you kernel config file to see if any options have changed since 4.3 make buildkernel make insta

Re: Mail vs SMTP [newbieish tendencies]

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
Richard Shea wrote: Hi - I've got a FreeBSD machine from which I can use 'Mail' to send emails to any internet email address. However when I try to use it as a SMTP server from within the LAN the connection times out. I'm sure there are many places I could look for a solution but I just wanted to c

checkouts.cvs - looking inside it ?

2003-03-05 Thread Richard Shea
Hi - Three months ago I did _something_ with CVS for the first time ever. I think _something_ involved all the files necessary to take my 4.4 machine to 4.5. However I failed to take any decent notes and my memory fails me. What I would really like is to find a log file of CVS activity so that I co

Mail vs SMTP [newbieish tendencies]

2003-03-05 Thread Richard Shea
Hi - I've got a FreeBSD machine from which I can use 'Mail' to send emails to any internet email address. However when I try to use it as a SMTP server from within the LAN the connection times out. I'm sure there are many places I could look for a solution but I just wanted to check one thing. If

Re: USB Epson perfection 1250, support?

2003-03-05 Thread Peter B
Dirk Meyer wrote: >Peter B wrote: > >> I have a "Epson Perfection 1250" USB scanner. It works fine under "Windows Me" >> I'm trying to get it to work under FreeBSD-4.7 and have patched usbdevs, >> usbdevs.h, usbdevs_data.h, uscanner.c in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb > >without patches: >FreeBSD 4.8-PREREL

How many mbufs do I need?

2003-03-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
I killed my FreeBSD 4.8-PRE (2003-02-18) server today by exhausting the available mbufs. I'd seen warnings like "All mbuf clusters exhausted, please see tuning(7)." in /var/log/messages, so I added `kern.ipc.nmbclusters="16384"' to /boot/loader.conf.local a while back. This server has 768MB of me

HELP: Exim - SMTP AUTH, STARTTLS, and PAM or pwcheck on FreeBSD

2003-03-05 Thread David P. Discher
--- Sorry if this gets posted twice, sigh, email issues - I've been playing with exim for a little bit now, my new server I'm going to roll out I would like to use exim instead of sendmail. So far, exim is much nicer to use, however, I am at a loss where to go now. I figure many would like

Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4

2003-03-05 Thread IAccounts
> > Basically: > > Update your source with cvsup > > read /usr/src/UPDATING and follow any instructions required (I believe > > you'll need to manually create the relatively new sendmail users) > > Reveiw you kernel config file to see if any options have changed since > > 4.3 > > make buildkern

Gnome2-2.2 and Nvidia GeForce MX 440 64 mb (NOT) DDR

2003-03-05 Thread Stefano Ceci
Hello all, I'm going crazy with Gnome2-2.2 on a stable (cvsupped)version. It seems to be a conflict with NVIDIA drivers. Gnome started only one time and goes very very very slow (30 seconds to open each window). However, normally, it doesn't start! I've ramoved the NVIDIA driver and and then, with

Re: Make installworld problem (4.7-p2 - > p7) (reply to all)

2003-03-05 Thread dslb
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:34:26 -0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Make installworld problem (4.7-p2 - > p7) > > But when I cd to /usr/src and type "make installworld" I get: > > mkdir -p /tmp/install.362

TCP in TIME_WAIT for too long.

2003-03-05 Thread Sten Daniel Sørsdal
Im using a 4.7-STABLE box with Zebra BGPD for full BGP feed and i have come across an unusual problem. It works great except when i come up in the situation when the provider reboots their router. FBSD doesnt seem to detect that the link has been broken and the TCP connection will stay in

Re: firewall revisited

2003-03-05 Thread Brian Henning
> > how can i have the script /etc/ipfw.rules run instead of /etc/rc.firewall. > > can i change > > firewall_type="OPEN" to firewall_type="" and create the entry > > firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules"? > > I have that working right now with: > > firewall_enable="YES" > firewall_script="/etc/rc.firew

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
Tuc wrote: It exercises the hardware vigorously (CPU, RAM, disk, I/O controllers, =2E..). This is exactly the situation under which failing hardware is most likely to fail. So the next question is how do I approach Dell to replace the motherboard/cpu/memory? If I show them FreeBSD they'll laug

Re: cd sound on onboard card

2003-03-05 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear Justin thanks for your suggestion. I checked the mixer settings and they're fine, also the CD is connected to the sound card because it does work in windows. I suspect it has to do with the fact that the sound module is onboard because I never encountered this problem with proper sound c

Major upgrades and vinum (was Re: Make installworld problem (4.7))

2003-03-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-05T18:04:14Z, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since kernels have to support old binaries, but not vice versa, you can > usually reboot with the new kernel and old world and have it work. Sometimes, though you can't. I've found myself in the situation where the old version of

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Tuc
> > It exercises the hardware vigorously (CPU, RAM, disk, I/O controllers, > =2E..). This is exactly the situation under which failing hardware is > most likely to fail. > So the next question is how do I approach Dell to replace the motherboard/cpu/memory? If I show them FreeBSD they'll

Re: Make installworld problem (4.7-p2 - > p7)

2003-03-05 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > > I have a i386 computer with FreeBSD 4.7-p2 installed. I have > downloaded the source to 4.7-p7 and cd to /usr/src. Here I ran: > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNCONF=SOCKETD > make installkernel KERNCONF=SOCKETD > reb

Re: Make installworld problem (4.7-p2 - > p7)

2003-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:26:00PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > > I have a i386 computer with FreeBSD 4.7-p2 installed. I have downloaded > the source to 4.7-p7 and cd to /usr/src. Here I ran: > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNCONF=SOCKETD > make installkernel KERNCONF=SOCKETD

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:59:05PM -0500, Tuc wrote: > > > > It could be incompatible hardware (i.e. mostly compatible hardware) that > > works most of the time, but occasionally causes a reboot. Meanwhile, the > > vender drivers for Windows make it work perfectly there. > > > Its been work

Make installworld problem (4.7-p2 - > p7)

2003-03-05 Thread dslb
Hi all I have a i386 computer with FreeBSD 4.7-p2 installed. I have downloaded the source to 4.7-p7 and cd to /usr/src. Here I ran: make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=SOCKETD make installkernel KERNCONF=SOCKETD rebooted into single user mode and did a uname -a: FreeBSD loadmaster 4.7-RELEAS

Moved anonymous ftproot, any security concerns?

2003-03-05 Thread Michael
Hello to my favorite list of people. =] and without any further ado.. I recently reinstalled FreeBSD and i am afraid i didnt think to take the fact that i wanted to mirror freebsd isos and the ports collection into consideration. I also forgot that i had a personal library of a few gigs of ebook

Re: cd sound on onboard card

2003-03-05 Thread Justin P. Michel
Giuseppe, Off hand, I can think of the following that may be affecting CD audio: a) There is a special cable for audio that connects a CD-ROM to the sound card internally. Perhaps that cable is missing, or is malfunctioning. b) Your mixer settings may be allowing digital sounds through, but the

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Tuc
> > It could be incompatible hardware (i.e. mostly compatible hardware) that > works most of the time, but occasionally causes a reboot. Meanwhile, the > vender drivers for Windows make it work perfectly there. > Its been working reliably since last May in 4.5/4.6/4.7 Then the hard dr

cd sound on onboard card

2003-03-05 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
I have installed freebsd 4.8 prerelease on a Dell Dimension 8250. This box has onboard sound which I managed to make work adding the lines: device pcm options PNPBIOS Now general sound works (e.g. playing .wav files) but I can't get the cd to output sound (it reads music cds, plays them, get

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
Tuc wrote: Your problems certainly sound like failing hardware. The archives are littered with examples of people who swore black and blue that failing hardware could not possibly be the cause of their mysterious reboots, until they found the failing hardware and replaced it :-) Check and swap out

Re: FreeBSD-SA-03:04 and postfix

2003-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:25:38AM -0500, IAccounts wrote: > 2. I am doing some testing of postfix/mysql/courier the last week or so > and somewhere I read that if you update your system, you will need to > reinstall the postfix binaries. I'm almost certain that this was stated > in the Postfix IN

vinum: low level access to subdisks / drives

2003-03-05 Thread Alexander Haderer
Hello, Here is a vinum question. Assume this setup: Two partitions ad0s1e and ad2s1e of type vinum with the same size. vinum is set up to use this disks as RAID 1 (mirror): drive drive0 device /dev/ad0s1e drive drive2 device /dev/ad2s1e volume mirr plex org concat sd len 0s drive disk0

RE: connecting two computer through a hub

2003-03-05 Thread Aaron Burke
> Hi: > > I have a machine set up with freebsd and it was set up to > connect to the internet. Cool. > > However, now I need to connect that computer to another > computer through a hub without any interent connection at > all. (I just want to have a VNC viewer up in the freebsd > box so that

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Tuc
> My second suggestion is going to sound really weird. > My FreeBSD system disappears into the boonies when I have a screen saver > enabled. That is xscreevsaver. Given enough time, and enough core dumps. > it crashes my system as sure as eggs is eggs. I kind of proved this by > leaving the systen

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Tuc
> > Your problems certainly sound like failing hardware. The archives are > littered with examples of people who swore black and blue that failing > hardware could not possibly be the cause of their mysterious reboots, > until they found the failing hardware and replaced it :-) Check and > swap o

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
Tuc wrote: I feel for you. I too am having it. Most of the time it does it while I'm not around, but once I was in elm writing mail, and the screen went black, and the DELL splash screen came on. I ran burnP6 for a few minutes (Boy does it make the system unhappy, but it kept chugging) and

Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4

2003-03-05 Thread IAccounts
> > Unfortunatly, I have never successfully upgraded a Free box yet, mind you > > I have only tried it on one. > > > > Last year I was dropped into a production environment with all 4.3 > > machines. I have no devel equipment prior to 4.6. The upgrade attempts > > were all only on one box (4.6) and

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-05 Thread Tuc
> > I feel for you. I too am having it. Most of the time it does it > > while I'm not around, but once I was in elm writing mail, and the screen > > went black, and the DELL splash screen came on. I ran burnP6 for a few > > minutes (Boy does it make the system unhappy, but it kept chugging) and

Re: How can I completely replace gcc installed by default with newgcc-3.2?

2003-03-05 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sergey dyshel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Hi > > As I know, FreeBSD 4.7 installed gcc-29.5 on my system > by default (not as package but as part of base > system). When I installed gcc-3.2.1 from binary > package I noticed that it didn't overwrote lib and > include files >

Re: Make installworld problem (4.7)

2003-03-05 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Elsner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > The steps I do are as follows: > 1) cvsup -g -L 2 stable-supfile (from /usr/src/cvsup) > 2) make buildworld (from /usr/src) > 3) make installworld (from /usr/src) > 4) modify my kernel (from /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/KERNEL NAME) > 5) m

Problems with Mime Defang from ports collection

2003-03-05 Thread LUCAS HOLT
I have been trying to compile Mime Defang from the ports collection for about a week now. I cvsup'd the other day to upgrade sendmail to the latest (8.12.8?) after that vulnerability. I have SASL2 compiled in with it (used ports collection). Here is the error message that I keep getting from

Re: Make installworld problem (4.7)

2003-03-05 Thread Peter Elsner
I've upgraded many servers remotely without ever booting into single user mode... The steps I do are as follows: 1) cvsup -g -L 2 stable-supfile (from /usr/src/cvsup) 2) make buildworld (from /usr/src) 3) make installworld (from /usr/src) 4) modify my kernel (from /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/KERNEL N

Re: Make installworld problem (4.7)

2003-03-05 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:38 am, Peter Elsner wrote: > The only thing I can see wrong is: > > you forgot make installworld after your make buildworld. Peter, no he didn't. He did the basic steps in the right order. read carefully: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ma

Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
IAccounts wrote: Unfortunatly, I have never successfully upgraded a Free box yet, mind you I have only tried it on one. Last year I was dropped into a production environment with all 4.3 machines. I have no devel equipment prior to 4.6. The upgrade attempts were all only on one box (4.6) and failed

Re: out of curiosity..

2003-03-05 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, charles pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > is there an app that would allow me to play CDs on my BSD box and have that > stream over an intranet? I want to set up a CD tower that allows for that > sort of thing. Here's what i've got: I use esd to stream audio over the n

How to determine if cpu-cache is working?

2003-03-05 Thread Marc Schneiders
I am talking about a PII 300 MHz. The bios settings are OK for cpu-cache. The machine is slower than a PI 75 MHz. It does not look like hard disks. There is nothing in dmesg or messages that looks weird. So how can I see whether the cpu-cache memory is functioning? Could it be broken? Bonus quest

Re: Can I run my own Dynamic DNS server for private use ??

2003-03-05 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, at 07:54 [=GMT-0800], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 07:29:29 -0800 (PST), Peter Elsner wrote: > > > Sure... I'm almost positive there are ports available that do that > > sort > > of thing, > > I see a number of ports that can do the Client side but none to r

Machine does not not do a normal "Reboot"

2003-03-05 Thread Joseph Maxwell
Hello, FreeBSD 4.2, PC 512MMB RAM, 2- HD 60 & 40 Mb. System found in indeterminate state, assumed power failure problem. Several reboot and boot attempts failed. Re-installed O/S, system came back up, data intact on 2nd HD but not seen in fstab file, remount etc. OK smoo

USB Epson perfection 1250, support?

2003-03-05 Thread Peter B
I have a "Epson Perfection 1250" USB scanner. It works fine under "Windows Me". I'm trying to get it to work under FreeBSD-4.7 and have patched usbdevs, usbdevs.h, usbdevs_data.h, uscanner.c in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb However the only thing I'm getting is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/sys/dev/usb #us

buildworld fails

2003-03-05 Thread Riley
Hi all, Trying to upgrade from 4.4-20020114-STABLE to 4.7-R-p7. /usr isn't big enough but /var is so: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 8 Mar 4 12:28 /usr/obj@ -> /var/obj lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 8 Mar 4 12:28 /usr/src@ -> /var/src Ran mergemaster.sh -p, but for 2 buildworlds it fails with:

4.3 -> RELENG_4

2003-03-05 Thread IAccounts
Unfortunatly, I have never successfully upgraded a Free box yet, mind you I have only tried it on one. Last year I was dropped into a production environment with all 4.3 machines. I have no devel equipment prior to 4.6. The upgrade attempts were all only on one box (4.6) and failed due to suspect

Re: DVD burner suggestions

2003-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Sorry - forgot to CC the list...] For some backups at work, I'm thinking of getting a DVD burner. I was looking at the Sony dru500a, since its compatible with all the various dvd media out there. Has anyone had any luck/experience with this drive (or any dvd burner)? I h

Re: Can I run my own Dynamic DNS server for private use ??

2003-03-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-05T16:03:22Z, Ruben de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it absolutely necessary to use BIND9? After all, nsupdate and dnskeygen > are allready in the base system. I was planning to start playing with this > myself soon, but not if it involves upgrading bind. Actually, probably no

Project Planning Software

2003-03-05 Thread massey
Is there a good project planning software for FreeBSD? Something like http://www.criticaltools.com/ Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

panic on server w/ 3GB RAM

2003-03-05 Thread Salmaan Ahmed
We are running a custom webserver application along with squid on a couple of Dell PowerEdge dual processor boxes. They ran fine for weeks with 2GB of RAM but once we increased it to 3GB of RAM we continually get kernel panics... Does anyone know if there is a problem with FreeBSD, 3GB of RAM, an

Re: firewall revisited

2003-03-05 Thread Jeff Walters
> how can i have the script /etc/ipfw.rules run instead of /etc/rc.firewall. > can i change > firewall_type="OPEN" to firewall_type="" and create the entry > firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules"? I have that working right now with: firewall_enable="YES" firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall.local" ...

ldap support for amd?

2003-03-05 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, is there any ldap support for the amd automounter? The manpage says that i can specify map_type = ldap but amd says: conf: no such map type "ldap" I read some time ago, that ldap is not available for amd, maybe in 5.0? Otherwise, the man page would be erroneous Regards, Hein

Re: Coexistence Freebsd and win2000

2003-03-05 Thread Lord Sith
From: kxen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Coexistence Freebsd and win2000 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:58:25 +0200 (EET) On my PC i have only win2000 and the whole disk is devoted to it. I want to install freeBSD. How can I create a new partition, taking some space from win2000 and

Re: Can I run my own Dynamic DNS server for private use ??

2003-03-05 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:44:47AM -0600, Kirk Strauser typed: > At 2003-03-05T05:25:50Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > To make support/access easier can I set up my own Dynamic DNS server on > > the static address and have those remotes register their IP's with it when > > they change ? Thanks

Re: Calling a Linux library from FreeBSD

2003-03-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 05), Martin Nilsson said: > Is it possible to open and call functions in a static Linux library > (.so) from a native FreeBSD program? Important things like struct stat and off_t are different sizes, so even if you can link with them, all except the most basic program will

Re: Can I run my own Dynamic DNS server for private use ??

2003-03-05 Thread jdroflet
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 07:29:29 -0800 (PST), Peter Elsner wrote: > Sure... I'm almost positive there are ports available that do that > sort > of thing, I see a number of ports that can do the Client side but none to run as a server. > I have 2 Perl scripts that do exactly what you want. (well a

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