Re: DVD question.

2003-07-29 Thread Rowan Crowe
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, marlon corleone wrote: > i have xine installed from ports, is there any entry i > should put, in order to support dvd playing. Marlon, just a quick heads up. freebsd-isp is a list specifically for the discussion of technical issues involved with using FreeBSD at an ISP or web

DVD question.

2003-07-29 Thread marlon corleone
i have xine installed from ports, is there any entry i should put, in order to support dvd playing. thanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___

Re: Vinum on Root

2003-07-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] I wish you'd get a functional MUA. On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 23:29:46 -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: > I went back to the original root install method as per the book, and I got > vinum working. > > Now, needed to change th

Re: [SDBUG] Mirroring tool? web snake? getbot?

2003-07-29 Thread Gregory Sutter
On 2003-07-29 21:54 -0700, Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. I'm searching and searching the (X11 / GUI) ports at > www.freebsd.org and www.freshmeat.net but I was wondering if some of you > could help me with a better, targeted keyword that describes this kind of > tool or appli

Dell Inspiron 2650: Sound output slowed when using vchannels (fwd)

2003-07-29 Thread Mark J. Miller
(Sorry for the double post, this is a 2650, not 2600, dell laptop) Hi, I just tried adding some virtual channels to my laptop to get XMMS and KDE's sound server to play nicely using the commands: sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=4 As soon as I play the next mp3, even with

Re: Newbie question

2003-07-29 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:12 pm, B.Bonev wrote: > OK. But 192.168.1 can't connect to shared resorces on 192.168.2? > Any suggestion? I am no expert, but I can think of a few things: - both machines have the proper gateway ip set (as just mentioned in email) - the freebsd box rc.conf not setup pro

Dell Inspiron 2600: Sound output slowed when using vchannels

2003-07-29 Thread Mark J. Miller
Hi, I just tried adding some virtual channels to my laptop to get XMMS and KDE's sound server to play nicely using the commands: sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=4 As soon as I play the next mp3, even with XMMS still pointing at /dev/dsp0, Liz Phair starts sounding like sh

FW: Mirroring tool? web snake? getbot?

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Leftwich
Er, sort of cancel that. By luck, "Aria" falls at the early part of the alphabet and I seem to have found just the right graphical tool that can recurse X levels deep. The only problem is ... I think it respects a site's ".robots" or "robots.txt" file (this is bad). We'll see what I can come up

Re: Newbie question

2003-07-29 Thread B.Bonev
OK. But 192.168.1 can't connect to shared resorces on 192.168.2? Any suggestion? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: CUPS and HP LaserJet 4V printer: variable width font becomesfixed width

2003-07-29 Thread Rob Lahaye
Glenn, According to your comments (see below), the problem I addressed some weeks ago, was caused by the FreeBSD port at some stage during the upgrade to version 7.07 of ghostscript-gnu. Presently 7.07 has port upgrade "_3". I wonder if the problem has been addressed and solved by now. I am ask

Perl 5.8 in Ports on 4.8-S

2003-07-29 Thread Jason L. Schwab
Heya folks; Is there a way in the ports setup for perl5.8 (lang/perl5.8) to tell it build perl dynamically? I need to build it dynamic because without that, mod ssl and mod perl will not compile on apache. Thanks in advance. - Jason L. Schwab <[EMAIL PRO

Mirroring tool? web snake? getbot?

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Leftwich
Hi all. I'm searching and searching the (X11 / GUI) ports at www.freebsd.org and www.freshmeat.net but I was wondering if some of you could help me with a better, targeted keyword that describes this kind of tool or application? All I'd like is a graphical tool that prompts the user for a URL the

RE: Problems with Apache+ssl

2003-07-29 Thread liquid
You aren't running any sort of httpd. What do you do to start it? Try apachectl startssl. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daryl Hunt > Sent: July 29, 2003 11:55 PM > To: William Knechtel > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subj

Re: Newbie question

2003-07-29 Thread B.Bonev
Just I want Shared resources from 192.168.1 to use on 192.168.2 Thanks. I try and tell yo back is everything OK. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PRO

Re: Problems with Apache+ssl

2003-07-29 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:55 pm, Daryl Hunt wrote: > > When you run a ps ax|grep http what are the results? > 6598 p0 S+ 0:00.01 grep http This means the web server isnt running. > > Do you get ANY page (i.e. the default "it worked" page), and if not, what > No page whatsoever. It's the standard

Re: Crash with bpf

2003-07-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
** Reply to note from Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 29 Jul 2003 16:16:01 -0400 > > I understand, but upgrading this machine has a cost and I must be > > absolutely sure this will not introduce new problems as previous > > upgrades did. > > I understand, but my time has a cost as well.

Re: Newbie question

2003-07-29 Thread B.Bonev
Both nics have a private ips xl0 - 192.168.1.1 for 192.168.1/24 xl1 - 192.168.2.1 for 192.168.2/24 FBSD computer have a 3rd nic that is connected to D-Link Router for dial up to Inet that is rl0 - 192.168.0.2 part of 192.168.0/24 with gateway 192.168.0.1 _

Re: Problems with Apache+ssl

2003-07-29 Thread Daryl Hunt
- Original Message - From: "William Knechtel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daryl Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:34 PM Subject: RE: Problems with Apache+ssl > When you run a ps ax|grep http what are the results? 6598 p0 S+ 0:00.01 grep http > > Do you get ANY p

RE: Newbie question

2003-07-29 Thread Derrick Ryalls
> What I need to change on a PC with FreeBSD4.8 with 2 NICs, so > that for Win computers must see each other on different > subnets - 192.168.1/24 and 192.168.2/24? I want Win clients > to be just like they are on a Win network? Or maybe i must do > anything on those Win machines? Need more i

Problems with Apache+ssl

2003-07-29 Thread Daryl Hunt
am having a bear of a time getting apache+ssl to run on the system. It installs fine but I can't seem to get a page to display using localhost, the ipnumber or the Domain name. I come from the Windows World where it works right out of the box so bare with me. I run httpsd and it seems to load.

Newbie question

2003-07-29 Thread B.Bonev
What I need to change on a PC with FreeBSD4.8 with 2 NICs, so that for Win computers must see each other on different subnets - 192.168.1/24 and 192.168.2/24? I want Win clients to be just like they are on a Win network? Or maybe i must do anything on those Win machines? Sorry for my poor English.

Dinamyc DNS

2003-07-29 Thread Paredes Sánchez Martín A.
Hi: I read information in http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html that DDNS is supported DNS Protocol Enhancements IXFR, DDNS, Notify, EDNS0 Improved standards conformance ¿Does any body has implemented a DDNS server? Also, in the URL http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/ say, that this DHCP

Re: Vinum on Root

2003-07-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Mutilated quotation, known broken MUA: > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 18:54:53 -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: > On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:25 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On

Re: Vinum Sub-disk & Directory Structure Mapping

2003-07-29 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-29T20:31:55Z, "Richard Johannesson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /root Overkill? Bad idea. If you'd trying to repair a system failure, you'll want to be able to access /root. Putting it outside of / is asking for problems. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description

tape driver turmoil

2003-07-29 Thread David Bear
I have two freebsd boxes. Box A is 4.4. Box B is 4.7. Box A has a cybernetics DAT tape drive. Box B has a cybernetics AIT/dlt tape drive. I found that with the DAT drive I must set the tape density and blocksize or else the tapes are unreadable, ie the default driver status set the tape to var

RE: Vinum on Root

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Johannesson
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg 'groggy' Lehey > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:25 PM > To: Richard Johannesson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Vinum on Root > > On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 18:00:25 -0700,

error in fbdesk

2003-07-29 Thread marlon corleone
%fbdesk title font height=0 Load pixmap failed! (XpmOpenFailed) Using default pixmap Failed to read: Unknown event! (14) Unknown event! (14) Unknown event! (14) Unknown event! (14) Unknown event! (14) im running it under my home directory, anyone can help how to run this properly? thanks and mor

Re: FreeBSD and OSX applications

2003-07-29 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 07:33 PM, Rod Person wrote: Today I went to an Adobe seminar. All demos where done on OS X. I kept think that it looked a lot like KDE and of course I got to thinking... Can applications such as Acrobat and Illustrator run on FreeBSD? Of course, there is the prob

Re: Vinum on Root

2003-07-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 18:00:25 -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: > Is it possible to create vinum on a root drive without using the offsets in > the vinum configuration file? You need a configuration file to set up Vinum. If you mean "Is it possible to create vinum on a root drive without s

RE: 5.1 Hangs on boot

2003-07-29 Thread Geir Svalland
Hi everybody. Thx for your replies. First I tried to fix it with the " entropy harvest stuff " from /etc/defaults/rc.conf, with no luck. I tried the sysctl command and it went into a loop with ip-filter. Guessed the problem belonged to my custom kernelbuild, and rebuildt with GENERIC and the proble

Vinum on Root

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Johannesson
Is it possible to create vinum on a root drive without using the offsets in the vinum configuration file? What I trying to get to is that there seems to be two styles of getting vinum setup on a root drive: I. 1. setup unix partitions for swap, /, /usr, and /var 2. install FreeB

pppoe, can't ping tun0 from dmz machine

2003-07-29 Thread Rocco Caputo
I've acquired DSL. I didn't like the modem's NAT and PPPoE, so I switched it to bridged Ethernet and am using ppp(8) for that. I'm using ipfw2 for QOS things (pipes and queues). I'm using ipf for firewalling and ftp proxying. Almost everything works well, except (so far) active FTP and pinging

Re: FreeBSD and OSX applications

2003-07-29 Thread Lucas Holt
KDE is a window manager for x windows.. there is a big difference between x windows and mac os x's window manager. To emulate it, you would need to recreate Quartz, Quartz extreme, apple web kit, cocoa libraries designed for os X, etc. In fact it would be like writing a more complicated next E

Re: FreeBSD and OSX applications

2003-07-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:33:49PM -0400, Rod Person wrote: > Today I went to an Adobe seminar. All demos where done on OS X. I > kept think that it looked a lot like KDE and of course I got to > thinking... > > Can applications such as Acrobat and Illustrator run on FreeBSD? No. > Since OS X u

Re: Newbie's installation of portupgrade fails...

2003-07-29 Thread Rommel B. Ikeda
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:02:40 -0400 Jason Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How old is your ports tree, asin when was the last time you cvsupped a > new ports tree? > > Jason I have downloaded my ISO of FreeBSD 5.1 for more than a month now...after that I installed it in my IBM R40e Thinkpa

Re: Help with FreeBSD Bridged Firewall

2003-07-29 Thread Adam
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 18:26, William Knechtel wrote: > Hello! > > Help!! I'm running a PC with dual NICs and FreeBSD 4.8 as a bridged > firewall. This email is MUCH better suited for freebsd-net@ than here. -- Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ [EMAIL PRO

FreeBSD and OSX applications

2003-07-29 Thread Rod Person
Today I went to an Adobe seminar. All demos where done on OS X. I kept think that it looked a lot like KDE and of course I got to thinking... Can applications such as Acrobat and Illustrator run on FreeBSD? Since OS X userland is based on FreeBSD it seemed to me there should be a chance of it, i

Ignoring SIGSEGV (was: no subject line)

2003-07-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 9:16:29 +, cool46 cool46 wrote: > how can ignore SEGV signal on Freebsd? You can't. > I am not mean setting SEGV's handler to SIG_IGN,this way can prevent > program to exit,but can't restore environment to continue this > program,so the program will hang and can't

RE: named.conf et al and home network segments

2003-07-29 Thread liquid
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David S. Jackson > Sent: July 29, 2003 6:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: named.conf et al and home network segments > > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup dns for my two home network s

RE: named.conf et al and home network segments

2003-07-29 Thread liquid
You don't need to setup two servers. You can simply create two reverse zones for each of those networks. Something like this (I just did a quick copy paste, so most of this will not apply to you, be warned!) zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in { type master; file "db.192.168.0";

RE: hi

2003-07-29 Thread liquid
Don't be afraid to use the very good documentation you have at your disposal before making people on the mailing list think for you... There's a very clear and concise description of how to use cvsup at freebsddictionary.org. Look at it and modify to suit your preferences. Thanks. -Original

RE: Help with FreeBSD Bridged Firewall

2003-07-29 Thread William Knechtel
It is directly behind the router, but does not have a viable routable IP on it. Only the private IP on the internal card. Thanks, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Micheal Patterson Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 5:03 PM To: William Kn

Re: Help with FreeBSD Bridged Firewall

2003-07-29 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "William Knechtel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 5:26 PM Subject: Help with FreeBSD Bridged Firewall > Hello! > > Help!! I'm running a PC with dual NICs and FreeBSD 4.8 as a bridged > firewall. I've got a private IP 1

Re: Vinum Sub-disk & Directory Structure Mapping

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Conlen
I normally use / /usr /usr/local /var /tmp /home # or /usr/home /usr/ports # either it's own space, or link to /usr/local/ports Here's the rational, / and /usr can be mounted read only, /root shouldn't really get used, since you shouldn't be using the root account. when you update the source

Re: Calling all raid experts

2003-07-29 Thread Michael L. Squires
I'd take a look at vinum, the software RAID array. Performance seems as good as hardware-based RAID solutions. Under 5.1-RELEASE I've been told that the boot partition can be on a vinum volume; in 4.8 that's not possible but I've used extra space to create several duplicate boot partitions. I've

Re: USB keyboard with touchpad

2003-07-29 Thread Francisco Gómez Marín
Here is the dmesg if it could help! Francisco Gómez Marín wrote: Hi, I have bought an intel dot-station. It has an USB keyboard with a touchpad on it. The keyboard works but the touchpad doesn't work with a typic USB mouse configuration, nor in console (moused -p /dev/ums0 -t auto) nor in X.

USB keyboard with touchpad

2003-07-29 Thread Francisco Gómez Marín
Hi, I have bought an intel dot-station. It has an USB keyboard with a touchpad on it. The keyboard works but the touchpad doesn't work with a typic USB mouse configuration, nor in console (moused -p /dev/ums0 -t auto) nor in X. I have googled and searched in the archives of the list without suc

Help with FreeBSD Bridged Firewall

2003-07-29 Thread William Knechtel
Hello! Help!! I'm running a PC with dual NICs and FreeBSD 4.8 as a bridged firewall. I've got a private IP 10.0.0.1 tied to the internal card on the box for remote management. The firewall blocks any 10.x traffic coming in on the external card, so to remotely admin it, I have to shell into a machi

named.conf et al and home network segments

2003-07-29 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I'm trying to setup dns for my two home network segments, 192.168.0/24 and 192.168.1/24. I just need internal dns access, no outside access. It sounds like a relatively simple problem, but I'm just not sure how to go about it. Do I just set up 2 reverse zones, 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa and 1.1

Re: Apache + Frontpage question

2003-07-29 Thread Raider
yes you can install without remove the old using mod_frontpage be aware to take a look of security holes that mod_frontpage have.. good luck raider - Original Message - From: "Mike Maltese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1

Re: Apache + Frontpage question

2003-07-29 Thread Mike Maltese
Take a look at the following: /usr/ports/www/apache13-fp /usr/ports/www/mod_frontpage I believe that you can add frontpage support by adding mod_frontpage without having to remove your current installation. - Original Message - From: "Darryl Hoar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTEC

Apache + Frontpage question

2003-07-29 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I have just be nailed by the sales folks. They won't listen to reason at all. They demand that the webserver (apache) have frontpage extensions and support subwebs. I'm going to have to strip my freebsd server down and install a version of apache that does this support. What should I

Add link request

2003-07-29 Thread meimi
Hello, My friend have just send an "add link request" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] He follow the instruction in http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/consulting_bycat.html Just after he sent the email, he received this reply: Your mail to 'freebsd-www' with the subject: Adding our company link in Comm

Re: Problems with IBM etherjet PCMCIA card

2003-07-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, i've just bought an old ibm tinkpad 365XD. The machine works fine, but the CDROM > doesn't work, so i decided to install via FTP and the pcmcia card. > > When i boot with the floppies everything works fine, and the card's light turns > ON...

Re: Where to put backup files - /var/backups? [Basic DirectoryStructure Question]

2003-07-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Richard Johannesson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a dedicated hard-drive to store dump files on a daily basis. > > Is there a typical mounting point in the FreeBSD directory structure that is > generally used for backup images? At the moment using /backup, but noticed > that there is a /

ipfw ruleset question

2003-07-29 Thread Andrzej Kwiatkowski
Helo. I've got a bit strange problem.. My freeBSD works as NAT with natd. Whene rule divert 8668 ip from any to any via fxp0 is first everything is ok,but when i try to move this rule after some blocking spamer rules, my Nat won't work properly. Incoming traffic is well nated, but outgoing l

largest amount of memory a system can use

2003-07-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I need to know what is the upper limit on the amount of memory a process can use under freebsd. Using rlimit (under 4.8-RELEASE) seems to return 2GB. Is there any plan to support larger than this in the future 5.x releases ? Thank you, -ansh

Vinum Sub-disk & Directory Structure Mapping

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Johannesson
Using the unlimited number of sub-disk that can be created using vinum, what's a good way to separate the directory file structure to help limit file system corruption? Or, what's the happy medium between limiting fs corruption and complexity? Here's my guess of which part of directory structure s

re: Where to put backup files - /var/backups? [Basic Directory

2003-07-29 Thread thursday
What I usually do is use the folowing directory structure: /usr/backup{$machine_name}/{daily;weekly;monthly}/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTEC

5.1 mouse problems

2003-07-29 Thread C Peter Biessener
We have a test machine setup with FreeBSD v5.1. We're using the default XFree for 5.1. The machine is a PentiumPro 200 with 160MB RAM and a S3 VirgeGX video card. X-Windows displays beautifully, but the mouse is extremely sluggish. We've tried the Microsoft mouse that came with the computer,

Re: open source content management systems?

2003-07-29 Thread george donnelly
[Chris Shenton wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 7/29/03 1:36 PM] > http://www.plone.org/ > > It's even in ports: /usr/ports/www/plone: > > Info: A user friendly implementation of the CMF written on top of ZOPE its excellent, but also fairly complex and i would not install it from ports. last time i

Problems with IBM etherjet PCMCIA card

2003-07-29 Thread pjgonzalez
Hi, i've just bought an old ibm tinkpad 365XD. The machine works fine, but the CDROM doesn't work, so i decided to install via FTP and the pcmcia card. When i boot with the floppies everything works fine, and the card's light turns ON (i've read in the documentation about that problem, but i

Where to put backup files - /var/backups? [Basic DirectoryStructure Question]

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Johannesson
I have a dedicated hard-drive to store dump files on a daily basis. Is there a typical mounting point in the FreeBSD directory structure that is generally used for backup images? At the moment using /backup, but noticed that there is a /var/backups directory created by sysinstall. Is this the typi

XFree zooming funkiness...

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Losher
So, I finally have X11 running on this Dell Inspiron 5100, and all was running well (well, except getting the webfonts to show up right) for the initial 48 hours until yesterday. Now when I start X up, all keyboard input scrolls the screens thru 4 zoom levels. Has anyone seen this, and if so, how

Re: 5.1 Hangs on boot

2003-07-29 Thread Eivind Olsen
--On 28. juli 2003 16:40 +0200 Hasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stopping at Entropy harvesting. I have to press "CTRL+C" to continue booting. Then everything works as it's supposed to. ( I think ? ) Frankly, I don't have a clue on what I'm doing, but I've disabled ACPI in my /boot/device.hints file

Drivers for DWL 120

2003-07-29 Thread Sorin Chiorean
Hi everyone, I was wondering if somebody has tried to install an USB wireless adapter DWL 120 on a FreeBSD. I searched the Internet and I found drivers only for Linux (RedHat.) here http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net . What should I do to install this USB adapter? I am running a FreeBSD 4

Re: Fw: PERC 4/DI Raid SCSI Controler

2003-07-29 Thread Chris Shenton
"ipack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I bought a Dell PowerEdge 2600 with PERC 4/Di Raid SCSI Controler > and I would like to use FreeBSD on this server, so I would like to > know when it will be possible to have Dell PERC 4/Di drivers, I got a cheapie Dell 600sc server with a CERC 4-channel *IDE

Re: open source content management systems?

2003-07-29 Thread Chris Shenton
anubis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have a look at Bricolage > From the website http://bricolage.cc/ I've been thinking of giving that a whirl too, after reading that online tech site www.TheRegister.co.uk decided to use it. The article they link to points out that Salon.com and Macworld.com us

Page attaches

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Conlen
Is there a way to measure how many times an Inactive page gets reattached versus how many times the system has to go to the backing store (file on disk)? Programatic as well as command would be useful, though with one I can do/figure the other. -- Michael Conlen ___

Re: ps2pdf

2003-07-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:34:14PM +, thursday wrote: > Greetings, > > Ok, sorry for the idiot question, but I am a bit confued. > > I'm using FreeBSD 4.8 (FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0), > and I need to avail myself of the ps2pdf utility. > > I understand that this utility is

Server load balancing?

2003-07-29 Thread Chris McGee
I am using FreeBSD as a router for my network and I want to load balance multiple web servers. I have read a little about Pen. Does anybody have experience with Pen or any other load balancing tools to do this? Thanks, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Best way to add serial ports to STABLE machine?

2003-07-29 Thread stan
I've got a bunch of what I call "2nd generation" HP Vectras that I'm redeploying for an application that gets input for Serial RS-232 devices. At the moment the most input devices any 1 computer has to deal with is 2, and I thought I would be in good shape using the on motherboard ports (as I have

Re: DVD Writer

2003-07-29 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:26:33PM -0500 or thereabouts, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings, > I need to back up larger amounts of data. More than a CD-R could > handle. I don't want to do tape as the drives are expensive. > > What is a good DVD writer drive to use with FreeBSD for the > purpose

Re: Calling all raid experts

2003-07-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Greetings, > I need to build a file server for our marketing departments documents > and images. I want to use Freebsd. Since the data is large, and > backups would be difficult I was wondering if RAID would be a solution. > > I thought that RAID 5 would be the ticket, but after reading up on i

DVD Writer

2003-07-29 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I need to back up larger amounts of data. More than a CD-R could handle. I don't want to do tape as the drives are expensive. What is a good DVD writer drive to use with FreeBSD for the purpose of backing up data ? I am building a box so I would use a new version of FreeBSD. than

mailman install and setup

2003-07-29 Thread Kirk R. Wythers
I am trying to get a mailman list running on freebsd 5.0. I am confused as to which pre-install tasks need to be done before doing a 'make install' (or in my case... a make deinstall, make reinstall) on mailman. Here is what I've done so far: (1) adduser mailman (2) built apache13 (3) added the l

ps2pdf

2003-07-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
** Reply to note from thursday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:34:14 + > I understand that this utility is part of the psutils suite, which I installed > from ports without any problem. No need for this in order to have ps2pdf. > I know ps2pdf is just a shell script to gs (but

Re: df/nfs anomoly

2003-07-29 Thread John Ekins
Grrr, Apologies, I've just found an item on lists that describes this. It's to do with statfs rather than df per se. Apologies for the waste of time. John. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Promise Serial ATA Installation Target

2003-07-29 Thread Andrew Meaden
G'day, I've looked into google a lot, tracked some mailing lists, and had mixed success using the 'try everything on everything else' method, but alas I am stumped. I'm trying to install FreeBSD Release 4.8 onto my system, but the installer (and related ata kernel module) only recognises the m

ps2pdf

2003-07-29 Thread thursday
Greetings, Ok, sorry for the idiot question, but I am a bit confued. I'm using FreeBSD 4.8 (FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0), and I need to avail myself of the ps2pdf utility. I understand that this utility is part of the psutils suite, which I installed from ports without any pro

Re: tv-out under FreeBSD R4.8

2003-07-29 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 July 2003 16:43, dick hoogendijk wrote: > I'd always waned to know if it is simply possible to just run (linux) > programs under linux emulation. If so, HOW do you install those linux > proggies? Do I do some kind of chroot and install th

Re: Calling all raid experts

2003-07-29 Thread Mike Tancsa
While RAID5 gives efficient use of disk space for situations where you have 5 drives, its NOT a substitute for backups nor is it necessarily the best thing to use depending on the application. Writes for example are VERY slow and depending on the card, direct reads can not be that great eithe

Re: Sendmail_enable

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Conlen
Will Saxon wrote: -Original Message- From: Michael Conlen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sendmail_enable Is this true? Yes The reason I ask is that sendmail_enable="NO" appears to be starting an inbound process.

Re: Calling all raid experts

2003-07-29 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:26:19AM -0500 or thereabouts, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings, > I need to build a file server for our marketing departments documents > and images. I want to use Freebsd. Since the data is large, and > backups would be difficult I was wondering if RAID would be a soluti

RE: Sendmail_enable

2003-07-29 Thread Will Saxon
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Conlen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sendmail_enable > > Is this true? Yes > > The reason I ask is that sendmail_enable="NO" appears to be > starting an > inbound process. Ar

Sendmail_enable

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Conlen
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE I thought the following were true sendmail_enable="YES" # start all sendmail processes sendmail_enable="NO" # don't start an inbound process sendmail_enable="NONE" # don't start any processes Is this true? The reason I ask is that sendmail_enable="NO" appears to be starting

Calling all raid experts

2003-07-29 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I need to build a file server for our marketing departments documents and images. I want to use Freebsd. Since the data is large, and backups would be difficult I was wondering if RAID would be a solution. I thought that RAID 5 would be the ticket, but after reading up on it, maybe no

df/nfs anomoly

2003-07-29 Thread John Ekins
Hello, I have some NetApps mounted up via NFS on our FreeBSD 4.7 machines. I added another disk to one of the volumes on NetApps (need the I/O rather than space) and I find that the size returned by df has wrapped: netapp5:/vol/vol3 -1019785316 519424028 608274304 -51%/foo netapp7:/vol/vol3

Fw: PERC 4/DI Raid SCSI Controler

2003-07-29 Thread ipack
Hy, I bought a Dell PowerEdge 2600 with PERC 4/Di Raid SCSI Controler and I would like to use FreeBSD on this server, so I would like to know when it will be possible to have Dell PERC 4/Di drivers, Thks De Rosa Guillaume ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Crash with bpf

2003-07-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25 Jul 2003 14:17:40 -0400 >> The problem has started to show after an upgrade to 4.6 or 4.7 I believe (but I >> cannot recall exactly). >> I might as well try an upgrade to 4.8, but I'd rather have more insight. >It's more work to try to track the probl

Re: Qmail Upgrade

2003-07-29 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Monday 28 July 2003 21:27, Duane Stark wrote: > Quick question: > > I am replacing a server with a new one. Freebsd versions are > different (old 4.6 STABLE, new 4.8) and qmail / vpopmail versions are > most likely different (havent updated qmail since I built the server > over a year ago. > >

Re: Linux emulation questions (was Re: tv-out under FreeBSD R4.8)

2003-07-29 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:43:13PM +0200 or thereabouts, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On 29 Jul Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 14:03, Franz Stieber wrote: > > I have a GeForce TI 4200 and TV out works great :) > > > [ ... ] > > I'm using it under FreeBSD-4.8 with Linux emulation wi

Re: Fwd: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-29 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello Have you tried to using the XF86Config file from your Linux computer? You will need to disable the dri stuff, make sure all the font paths are the same. On Sunday 27 July 2003 08:39 pm, Karl Agee wrote: > >Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:15:57 -0700 > >To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: tv-out under FreeBSD R4.8

2003-07-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 29 Jul Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 14:03, Franz Stieber wrote: > I have a GeForce TI 4200 and TV out works great :) > > I found the program nvtv for the nvidia cards, but it is not > > possible to compile it under FreeBSD. Does it run with the > > linux-emulation under Fr

Re: RAID HW

2003-07-29 Thread Matthew Bettinger
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 08:17 am, Peter Elsner wrote: > I use the 3-Ware Escalade IDE RAID card. It's inexpensive, and works > right out of the box. > So far have not had any problems with it in 20 different servers for > the past 2 years. > > Peter Elsner I have had HELL with an adaptec 2400A ca

Re: RAID HW

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Elsner
I use the 3-Ware Escalade IDE RAID card. It's inexpensive, and works right out of the box. So far have not had any problems with it in 20 different servers for the past 2 years. Peter Elsner At 07:55 AM 7/29/2003 +0200, you wrote: Hello there, please, what RAID controller for ATA HDDs should

PERC 4/DI SCSI Controler

2003-07-29 Thread ipack
Hy, I bought a Dell 2600 with PERC 4/Di SCSI Controler and I would like to use FreeBSD on this server, so I would like to know when it will be possible to have Dell PERC 4/Di drivers, Thks De Rosa Guillaume ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://li

Re: Setting up a NAT Router that will route between 3 networks

2003-07-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Jason Hunt wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:14:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was wondering how to modify the appropriate files to setup a FreeBSD > > computer to act as a NAT Router, that would do the following: > > > > Check the natd(8) man page, it should g

Re: Qmail Upgrade

2003-07-29 Thread Raider
You can simple copy the old domains to a new install without problems i do that many times. dont forget to make the same to your autentication system too, some time i must create and delete after copy de domain. Good luck . raider I've never tried to migrate system accounts - Original Mess

Re: Newbie's installation of portupgrade fails...

2003-07-29 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello Rommel How are you connecting to the internet? Were you connected to the internet when you tried to install this port? Are you in Japan? I tried to install the port myself and was able to download it with out any problems . Try to ping the one of the ftp servers if successfull you should

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