On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 22:12, Marco Greene (Home) wrote:
..I am a little confused about tape devices in FreeBSD.
Under the /dev directory...I have the following tape devices:
# ls *sa*
ersa0 esa0.1 nrsa0.3 rsa0.0 sa0.1
ersa0.0 esa0.2 nsa0
Hello,
I wonder what exactly is the difference between booting the 'default mode'
and 'safe mode' from the initial booting menu in -CURRENT.
Because, with 'default' it _always_ hangs for me, but with 'safe' I
_never_ had a problem. Is it just setting some kernel variables
(like
Hi :)
This might be a dumb question, but I was wondering if a king of stable
branch existed for the ports tree. Under OpenBSD I think you can follow
the ports tree stable branch so you only get security updates for your
ports.
This does not seem possible under FreeBSD, if I understood
Hi,
can anyone suggest a good PIM [personal information manager] to use with
Gnome..? perferably something that has scope for conectivity to
bluetooth devices.
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Hi Im using FreeBSD 5.1 and I can't get my Logitech USB keyboard to work directly in
the consol. I have search trough the net and found very little (either I searched
wrong or there is very little info).
In rc.conf I have added support for usb by
usbd_enable=YES
From the dmesg I can see that
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:47:40AM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
Hi :)
This might be a dumb question, but I was wondering if a king of stable
branch existed for the ports tree. Under OpenBSD I think you can follow
the ports tree stable branch so you only get security updates for your
I'm trying to set the environment variable $XRACER_HOME to
/usr/local/share/xracer and don't know how. In the handbook it says
setenv ??? /path/ so I tried bothsetenv $XRACER_HOME
/usr/local/share/xracer and setenv XRACER_HOME /usr/local/share/xracer
and nothing works. Guess I don't get how to
I am trying to find something that will allow me to accept a webcam
invitation in a messeger app. I have tried gaim and yahoo messenger but
with no success. I dont want to have to use msn messenger just to be
able to accept this invite. Is there anything out there that will
communicate with msn
Hi,
I use two soundcards on my Freebsd5.1 box - Sb Live and SB AWE64, FreeBSD somehow
figured out that
Live is better than Awe and made it primary soundcard. The reason I have AWE still
in computer, is
it's amplyfing skills /2x4W/ so I don't need aditional amplyfier. With Xmms it's fine,
I just
I have a Belkin 802.11g router (model F5D-7230-4) and my freebsd 4.7 server
connected to it. Everything was working fine, but I moved and changed
ISPs. I'm not aware of anything that has changed in the configuration on
the server since I moved.
I have the router setup for DHCP and I'm having
Hello,
I got an ATEN USB to serial connector; installed and working
as ucom0. Plugged a serial modem and able to communicate
via tip.
However, when I try to use ppp, I get this error message:
unable to set physical to speed 0
I read the ppp man pages but couldn't find anything about
'set
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:20:12AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
I have a Belkin 802.11g router (model F5D-7230-4) and my freebsd 4.7 server
connected to it. Everything was working fine, but I moved and changed
ISPs. I'm not aware of anything that has changed in the configuration on
the
Hi,
Been reading an article around Sun's new Solaris tcp/ip stack:
Sun Microsystems' new Software Express program is alive and kicking with
the company delivering a rewritten TCP/IP stack for Solaris that is meant to
prepare customers for faster networking technology
code-named Fire Engine -
Hi Bryan!
Which shell are you using? The 'setenv' syntax works like a charm
for csh but you might want to try 'export VAR=VALUE' under bash.
BTW, the subject line states 'setend' - I guess you really meant 'setenv'.
Does it help?
Olivier
Bryan Cassidy écrit:
I'm trying to set the
Does FreeBSD have package management to view the packages installed
and their names with versions, remove the packages installed, and
track the packages installed to avoid conflicts and retain stability?
You can view what packages are installed by doing
ls /var/db/pkg | more
There is also a
Kris Kennaway wrote:
The reason I'm asking this is that I don't want to update my ports
everytime a new version comes out... except if it has a security issue.
FreeBSD doesn't provide this. Since our ports collection is about 5
times the size of OpenBSD's it's too much work.
Oh I know that :)
Howdy list,
Just in case anyone is interested, I have updated my
cups+samba install and post-install configuration HOWTO.
See attached.
Again, this is an update from the configuration I
provided here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.questions/65979/match=cups+jesse
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Hi,
What is the name of the /dev for the serial port in FreeBSD. dmesg says
there are sio0 and sio1 but there are no such file names in /dev.
What module should I use in Perl to access (read/write strings) to the
serial port?
10x.
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, SoloCDM wrote:
Does FreeBSD have package management to view the packages installed
and their names with versions, remove the packages installed, and
track the packages installed to avoid conflicts and retain stability?
Yes, it has, look at
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 22:01, Perica Veljanovski wrote:
What is the name of the /dev for the serial port in FreeBSD. dmesg says
there are sio0 and sio1 but there are no such file names in /dev.
The device name you are looking for is /dev/cuaa*
What module should I use in Perl to access
What is the name of the /dev for the serial port in FreeBSD. dmesg says
there are sio0 and sio1 but there are no such file names in /dev.
Most devices in the kernel are accessed through ``device special files'',
which are located in the /dev directory. The sio devices are accessed
through the
Hello.
Using SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD seems to result in massive
performance losses in NFS in conjunction with the Intel em-NICs.
We use some Intel P4 based diskless/dataless nodes for numerical
calculations over GBit LAN (all machines have Intel PRO/1000 LAN
NICs) with clusterit. On the
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, DanB wrote:
Is there a way to test bandwidth with a free bsd box?
Dan
you can also make use of pchar located in /usr/ports/net/pchar/
Joseph.
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:22:05PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
The reason I'm asking this is that I don't want to update my ports
everytime a new version comes out... except if it has a security issue.
FreeBSD doesn't provide this. Since our ports collection is
Using SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD seems to result in massive
performance losses in NFS in conjunction with the Intel em-NICs.
deletia
Does anybody recognized similar problems?
SCHED_ULE is very much a work-in-progress; I have seen reports
of both instability and
Matthew Seaman wrote:
However, is there a way to know if one of my installed packages has a
security alert ? I guess not... but we never know...
Subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- FreeBSD security notices cover
problems with ported applications, as do security alerts when the
software in
I'd recommend signing up to www.zone-h.org's daily advisory report
doesn't solve the problem for you, but has most advisories in a single daily
email, which you can eye ball or use mail filters to high light ones that
apply to you.
- Original Message -
From: Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL
Selon Simon Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd recommend signing up to www.zone-h.org's daily advisory report
doesn't solve the problem for you, but has most advisories in a single daily
email, which you can eye ball or use mail filters to high light ones that
apply to you.
That is a very good
Hi,
anyone got any tips on enabling testing a CDRW drive on 5.1?
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If anyone can give me a recipe for setting up poptop
I'd be very grateful. I want to run it on a machine which
is a gateway/firewall. One NIC has a public address and the other
is on a private network, ie 192.168.1.x. I want to allow XP
clients to connect into the private network.
I found the man
Howzit Maxim,
I had problems with my FreeBSD 4.7 machine not seeing my generic ISA PNP K56 Flex
fax/modem. Here is what I did to get it working:
1. Edit the /usr/src/sys/isa/sio.c file (as root, of course)
2. Insert the appropriate value for your modem in the file under the isa_pnp_id
function
- Original Message -
From: Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:00 AM
Subject: Using poptop
If anyone can give me a recipe for setting up poptop
I'd be very grateful. I want to run it on a machine which
is a gateway/firewall.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Simon Gray wrote:
Hi,
Been reading an article around Sun's new Solaris tcp/ip stack:
Sun Microsystems' new Software Express program is alive and kicking with
the company delivering a rewritten TCP/IP stack for Solaris that is meant to
prepare
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:56:34PM +, Anthony Carmody wrote:
Hi,
anyone got any tips on enabling testing a CDRW drive on 5.1?
Depends on the hardware. If it's scsi, you need scsi CD support. If
it's atapi, you need atapi CD support. You get the idea ;-)
cdrecord and burncd are
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:24:29PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote:
On the production systems we use FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10.
Does anybody recognized similar problems?
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and the ULE scheduler, are experimental
works-in-progress. Significant ULE improvements have been made in
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:11:40 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you
wrote:
I would use mpd but it has problems with XP clients.
What type of problems are you seeing with MPD (Netgraph variety) and
WinXP?
That's my VPN terminator software and all of my remote XP systems seem
to
have no
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:00:00 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you
wrote:
If anyone can give me a recipe for setting up poptop
I'd be very grateful. I want to run it on a machine which
is a gateway/firewall. One NIC has a public address and the other
is on a private network, ie 192.168.1.x. I
Hi,
I've changed my desktop MB from a (Gigabyte) GA-VA (KT400/VT8235) to
a GA-VT600 1394 (KT400/VT8237)
( http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-7VT600%2013
94.htm ).
I've swaped the HDD and the system came up with no problem except:
1. Mouse:
I have tried an A4 Tech
Hi,
I've changed my desktop MB from a (Gigabyte) GA-VA (KT400/VT8235) to
a GA-VT600 1394 (KT400/VT8237)
( http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-7VT600%2013
94.htm ).
I've swaped the HDD and the system came up with no problem except:
1. Mouse:
I have tried an A4 Tech
hello,
I just finished upgrading a freebsd 4.6 machine to the newest RELEASE
using CVSUP and the whole buildworld procedure.
the compiling went ok ..and the system is up ,,,however there are a few
problems...
1. for whatever reason the machine doesnt seem to read /etc/rc.conf
anymore for all
In the last episode (Oct 17), Jim Hatfield said:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:55:57 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you
wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:30:19PM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote:
Anyone know what causes this:
speyburn-isis(113) pkg_info -x php
pkg_info: read_plist: bad command
On Thursday 16 October 2003 20:23, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
Daniela wrote:
Hi there!
I found many interesting Linux programs on sourceforge.net and other
sites, but they're not in the ports collection. So I thought I'll port
some of these to FreeBSD. However, I'm still pretty
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 +
Matthew Faircliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and Word
docs in FreeBSD no problem! And its fast!
I'm trashing my Windows partition tonight! Viva BSD!
Why didn't you just get the FreeBSD precompiled
--- Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 16 October 2003 20:23, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
If so, good. I'm guessing the next step is UTS,L!
???
I believe that's Use the Source, Luke.
chris
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On Thursday 16 October 2003 21:32, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:44:17PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote:
On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 06:11 PM, Daniela wrote:
snip
I can't even compile most of the programs on my system, and I'm almost
sure it
has to do with
Since I'm going to be cvsuping (is that even a word?) up to RELENG_4 from
RELENG_4_8 this weekend, I was wanting to see what the general concensus
on /etc/make.conf optimizations is, particularly CPUTYPE. I'm running on
an Athlon processor and I currently have CPUTYPE = k7 in my
/etc/make.conf.
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:01:11 +0200, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 +
Matthew Faircliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and Word
docs in FreeBSD no problem! And its fast!
I'm trashing my
Hi all,
Just came out, originally cited on Slashdot
http://www.thejemreport.com/software/freebsd51.php
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dick hoogendijk wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 +
Matthew Faircliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and Word
docs in FreeBSD no problem! And its fast!
I'm trashing my Windows partition tonight! Viva BSD!
Why didn't you
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:55:41 -0400
Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dick hoogendijk wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 +
Matthew Faircliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and
Word docs in FreeBSD no problem! And its
Hello,
I followed this doc to install my firewall. Upon reboot I get about 12 lines
more or less like this:
ipfw: size mismatch (have 176 need..)
It also says that dev tun0 doesn't exist.
How do I correct this.
TIA
j
hullATmonisys.ca
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:55:41 -0400, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
dick hoogendijk wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 +
Matthew Faircliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and Word
docs in FreeBSD no problem! And its
Has anyone had any issues with the vr device driver, or the VIA Rhine
ethernet adapter? I recently built an Internet gateway box using FreeBSD
4.8-REL. I used a 3Com 3C905C-TX board for the internal interface, and used
the internal vr interface for the external interface (to the cable modem). I
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:12:14 -0400
Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:55:41 -0400, Jesse Guardiani
Maybe I just don't understand how to use the ports tree 100% yet...
If you cvsup the ports tree, you can choose to install from either
ports or packages.
Ports are just a
Hi there,
FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE
PHP3 and PHP4
I am concerned about PHP vunerabilities. can somebody send me to a good site
which discusses what should be enabled and disabled in the php.conf file?
thanks in advance,
Noah
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I am concerned about PHP vunerabilities. can somebody send me to a good
site
which discusses what should be enabled and disabled in the php.conf file?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.index.php
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Am Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:37:28 +0200 schrieb Julien Gabel:
i need to know where can i download the newest freebsd from, i do not
have a unix system, but i will, and i wanna know the site that i can DL
it from .
* Obtaining FreeBSD (all can be answered here):
I am running 5.1-RELEASE and would like to update to 5.1-STABLE. How
can I go about it? I just want to install the software and not the
kernel itself. Is that possible?
Also, where is the information for pkg_add kept? I mean when I say
'pkg_add -r bash2' how does it know where to go get it? Is
Me too , i need to know how to change from release to stable ...
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Am Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:03:55 +0100 schrieb Jez Hancock:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:01:21PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote:
/ports/Tools/scripts/portsearch
Sorry should have been:
/usr/ports/Tools/scripts/portsearch
of course :|
Sounds quite nice...
But, apt-cache isn't yet finished there.
Hi,
I have a compaq presario 1500 laptop with 5.1
Just after kernel boot, i have a white message that send me a Warning
CPU temperature (around 45-50°C).
Do you know how to get this temperature ?
I tried with apm and acpiconf but it seems there is nothing implemented.
Thanks
Regards,
Victor
i need to know where can i download the newest freebsd from, i do not
have a unix system, but i will, and i wanna know the site that i can DL
it from .
* Obtaining FreeBSD (all can be answered here):
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html
the *newest* would
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:37:55 -0400, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Jud wrote:
[snip]
If you cvsup the ports tree, you can choose to install from either ports
or packages.
Do you run a cvsuped ports tree? I used to run one last year, and I could
never install from a package
Jud wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:37:55 -0400, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Jud wrote:
[snip]
If you cvsup the ports tree, you can choose to install from either
ports or packages.
Do you run a cvsuped ports tree? I used to run one last year, and I could
never install from
Hello!
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
LG 1. I'd like to run termlog -u UID as soon as user with UID log in. How
LG should I do it?
LG I don't think there are any great answers there. The easy hack is to
LG mess with login scripts, but that would be visible to the user (if
LG they
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:21:15PM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:55:57 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you
wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:30:19PM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote:
Anyone know what causes this:
speyburn-isis(113) pkg_info -x php
pkg_info: read_plist:
They've said that unless the gaim project sanctions the use of OpenSSL
with their code, that I should not release the code. Apparently that
would require contacting all of the prior developers to get their
permission.
Who is they?
ChipX86, javabsp, a few others in #gaim
Anyway, if
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:35:07 -0400, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Jud wrote:
[snip]
I'm probably just being thick, but I'm not sure what cvsup-ing the ports
has to do with availability/installability of packages. What have you
read in the Handbook or elsewhere that gives you the
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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.
Osmany Guirola Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to install the 5.1Release and i am havin problems with ACPI
these is the message:
ACPI autoload failed - inappropiated file type or format
Fatal Trap 12 : page fault while in kernel mode
Fault virtual address = 0x240
Fault code =
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 04:24 pm, Nuno Teixeira wrote:
Hello to all,
I'm having a lot of problems with my ISP smtp server and I decided to find
a smtp service but for what I see it is rare to find one. You can find a
lot of pop3 services but few smtp ones.
I found one smtp.com but it
Is there a way to route traffic based on port? Basically, I want to have
all traffic on port 8080 use the rl0 interface for its gateway and all other
traffic use dc0. Here is a diagram of my network.
Internet
|
Public IP
|
ADSL Modem/Router
I get this when trying to play movies in mplayer.
audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy
AO: [arts] can't connect to aRts soundserver
/dev/dsp: Device busy
AO: [esd] esd_open_sound failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
ao_nas: init(): Can't open nas audio server - nosound
thanks god for uncle bill u guys r assholes your website
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Cheer a special someone with a fun Halloween eCard from American Greetings!
Go to
majordomo is the only thing effected. I can send mail to postmaster and root.
majordomo was working on this system when it was 4.7 (now 4.9). I found
something on google that suggested the error comes from a config file with a
line longer than 80 chars. I removed the new list but none of the
Hi, I'm having problems trying to install freebsd 4.8 on my sony vaio
pcv-rx850.Everything is factory except I added a 2gig hard drive..The
problem I have is my computer locks up trying to install and never gets to the menu.
However if the hard drives are disconnected I can get to
XFree86-4-clients is failing to compile, producing this output:
slipstream# make install
=== Building for XFree86-clients-4.3.0_3
making all in lib/lbxutil/lbx_zlib...
making all in lib/lbxutil/delta...
making all in lib/lbxutil/image...
making all in programs/appres...
making all in
Hi
Is it possible to have two kernels and at the boot time I want to select
which kernel I want?
I have two kernel code, one with IPRC (Modified kernel) and other
standard kernel of 5.1.
Every time I want to switch kernel I need to recompile the kernel.
Can I select kernel during boot time?
I
On Friday 17 October 2003 08:14 pm, billg wrote:
XFree86-4-clients is failing to compile, producing this output:
slipstream# make install
=== Building for XFree86-clients-4.3.0_3
making all in lib/lbxutil/lbx_zlib...
making all in lib/lbxutil/delta...
making all in lib/lbxutil/image...
On Friday, Oct 17, 2003, at 21:06 US/Pacific, Zahirul Haque wrote:
Hi
Is it possible to have two kernels and at the boot time I want to
select
which kernel I want?
I have two kernel code, one with IPRC (Modified kernel) and other
standard kernel of 5.1.
Every time I want to switch kernel I need
Indeed, after specifying 10Mbps media it works fine. Thanks!
Alex
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Andrew White wrote:
Mine is on 10/100 network, and negotiates 100mb everytime, still
functions ok, no issues at all (other than LEDS)
Andrew
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It's really pretty easy. I beat my head on the wall about a year ago, so I
don't recall where all the docs are, but this is what my configs look like:
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf:
pptp:
set timeout 0
set dial
set login
set ifaddr {IP address of internal interface} {IP address range
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:47, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
I get this when trying to play movies in mplayer.
audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy
AO: [arts] can't connect to aRts soundserver
/dev/dsp: Device busy
AO: [esd] esd_open_sound failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:52:34PM -0400, Scott W wrote:
cc -O -pipe -DSMP -DAPIC_IO -march=pentiumpro -W -Wall -ansi -pedantic
-Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wchar-subscripts
-Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith
-Wredundant-decls -Wshadow
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