Re: FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED!

2004-01-24 Thread Robert Eckardt
Hi, thank you for this analysis. I ran into the same problem in that FreeBSD (fdisk) did not accept the values the BIOS uses. I was able to complete the installation, but when turning on my raid-1 FreeBSD recognized on next reboot all of a sudden the BIOS values and was therefore unable to find

Re: recommendation for disk sector editor

2004-01-24 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:51:46 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Good morning, FreeBSD enthusiasts, Would you wish to recommend a disk sector editor program? I am looking for something that provides functionality similar to Microsoft DskProbe, but not requiring a graphics user

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Mark
what about security between the two ? which if either is better secure ? easier to secure ? more likely to be cracked ? lets say for newbies mostly. thanks all - Original Message - From: Puna [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:53 PM Subject: Re: Why

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Thorsten von Plotho-Kettner
Am Samstag, 24. Januar 2004 09:26 schrieb Mark: what about security between the two ? There are ways for both to harden your system. which if either is better secure ? In which cases? easier to secure ? It's a fact of patches and a fact of your ability to use 'vi' ;) more likely to be

Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS

2004-01-24 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Michael Clark wrote: I configure the two devices that way (CD-ROM as slave, hard drive as master), sysinstall refuses to mount the CD, giving me an error about CD/DVD drive not found!. It's worth noting that no other OS I've run on this same PC ever had any trouble finding the CD-ROM drive

Eterm question

2004-01-24 Thread marlon corleone
hey guys, how do you remove the options of 'scroll bar border' , which file should i edit? cheers :) _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

Re: CPU usage goes way up on 5.1 when memory is added

2004-01-24 Thread Quintin Riis
Install GENERIC kernel and see if the problem persists. Quintin Richard G. Roberto wrote: Hi, I've been running 5.1-RELEASE for quite some time on my dual PIII 333Mhz Micron PC with 384MB of RAM and 670MB of swap. Its a little low on memory for what I'm now doing with it though, so I added

Re: Hot Swap hardware on FreeBSD?

2004-01-24 Thread me
what about buying an external raid-box? then you dont have to care about these questions ;) the external box is doing raid 5 with hot standby disk and is connected to the system via scsi and looks like one big drive. the box itself is full of hot-swappable ide drives and the system does not

Re: framebuffers?

2004-01-24 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Ok, I wasn't aware of this difference, thanks. I put options VESA in my kernel config, as I already mentioned in my first post. When I search through dmesg, I read this: VESA: v2.0, 8192k memory, flags:0x0, mode table:0xc0378382 (122) VESA: S3 Incorporated. M7 BIOS But the last two

Re: FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED!

2004-01-24 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Keith Kelly wrote: I've found a bug in FDisk which is responsible for all the problems I've had trying to get FreeBSD installed. I also found a work-around, and I'm happy to report I'm typing this message from Konquerer inside FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE right now. Gratulation. Basically, the problem

Re: Folding@Home problem

2004-01-24 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Sara Trice wrote: I'm trying to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] running on freeBSD. I get the console running fine, but once it gets running it just keeps failing when it tries to run FahCore_65.exe. Partial Log: [23:14:50] Trying to unzip core FahCore_65.exe [23:14:52] Decompressed FahCore_65.exe

Re: FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE buildworld failure.

2004-01-24 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:13:24PM -0800, erek wrote: I cvsuped today using tag RELENG_5_2 (i'm already using 5.2-RELEASE), [...] During the buildworld I get this VERY odd error: [...] /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/freebsd-native.h:62:25: attempt to use poisoned malloc [...] mkdep:

Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

2004-01-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:13:02PM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Why perl 5.8? My 5.2 machine is running postfix, perl 5.6.1 and amavisd-new without any trouble at all. perl-5.8.2 is the official stable and recommended version of perl by the perl developers. Actually, I tell a lie --

Re: Package from the packages-5.1-release directory won't install on a 5.1 system

2004-01-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:12:36PM -0500, Francis Litterio wrote: Aren't packages bound to a given base system version precisely to avoid this kind of upgrade creep? Packages aren't bound to a particular base system version. The ports tree and the base system are essentially developed

a few words on BIOS/FDISK geometry

2004-01-24 Thread Dan Strick
I find most of the BIOS/MBR/FDISK disk geometry gospel that has recently appeared in freebsd-questions to be confusing if not actually incorrect. In the interest of world peace of mind, I feel compelled to offer my own model of reality. It really isn't that complicated. There are two common ways

Re: amadmin not in man pages (amanda)

2004-01-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:24:05PM +0100, sysadmin wrote: I am installing amanda on a new client and I have noticed that amadmin is not in the man pages (and it should according to the amanda man page). This is true both with the package and the port. [...] package used :

iso files

2004-01-24 Thread F.Aydýn DÜNDAR
I downloaded .iso image files release 5.2. But sysinstall not read qt-3.2.1.tbz and arts-1.1.4,1.tbz. How can I make install? Thanks a lot... __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 23 January 2004 10:40 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian sid. I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than

Re: iso files

2004-01-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 24 January 2004 04:50 am, F.Aydýn DÜNDAR wrote: I downloaded .iso image files release 5.2. But sysinstall not read qt-3.2.1.tbz and arts-1.1.4,1.tbz. How can I make install? Thanks a lot... Use pkg_add to install the packages from the ftp site:

/dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Hello, I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but lsof | grep dsp yields nothing. Can anyone help me with this mystery? :-) Thanks in advance, GH -- powered by

Re: framebuffers?

2004-01-24 Thread Geert Hendrickx
I tried again, and it works now. It's really great, thank you! GH -- powered by FreeBSD/Postfix/KMail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Corrupt files with perc 4/dc

2004-01-24 Thread Jerlique Ban
Hello, I have a dell power edge 2650 with a perc 4/dc raid controller which connects to a powervault 220s storage system. I am running FreeBSD v4.9. I am experiencing some problems with file corruption, when I abruptly reboot the system (in order to simulate power failure). I have tried

fetchmail+ppp

2004-01-24 Thread iwank Kasep
hi im have problem with fetchmail+ppp how to setup fetchmail with ppp. if ppp connect then fetchmail download email and if fetchmail not finish then ppp always connect __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!

sis0 short cable fix

2004-01-24 Thread scott renna
Hello all, I found an old post about applying to this topic at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-currentm=107070464016939w=2 I'm wondering exactly, however, what would cause a message such as this to be displayed in dmesg: kernel: sis0: Applying short cable fix(reg=e8) My card seems

Umass/Pass0 CDRW USB external issue

2004-01-24 Thread scott renna
Hello, I've been trying to get my USB CDRW drive to work on 5.2. I've found this post on a patch for umass : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-currentm=107450556315054w=2 I'm currently building world right now so that it may work. But here's my question, if this patch is what I need,

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Cordula's Web
/dev/dsp: Device busy esd is the culprit. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: a good ip subnet calculator with gui..!

2004-01-24 Thread fbsd_user
I use this one http://jodies.de/ipcalc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neal Hamilton Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: a good ip subnet calculator with gui..! Is there any subnet calculators with a gui

Re: DHCP and multiple vlans

2004-01-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Guy Antony Halse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears to me that there is a limit of ten bpf devices somewhere. This is backed up by what I see in dhcrelay. So the question is how do I overcome this limitation? I took a look at the code (a fairly quick look -- I'm not running 5.x myself)

Re: network and firewall questions

2004-01-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone access your computer by a port if nothing is listening to that port? Hopefully not. If not, then if you turn off services that you don't use and need to access used services remotely (i.e. let them through a firewall), do you need a

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Saturday 24 January 2004 16:00, Cordula's Web wrote: /dev/dsp: Device busy esd is the culprit. But esd is not running... I checked it with ps. Besides, esdplay foo.wav gives the same error. GH -- powered by FreeBSD/Postfix/KMail ___

Re: ARP poisonong. LIVE_MAC

2004-01-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexey Kuzmenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a kernel module under Linux which is called LIVE-MAC. This module provide a sort of arp spoofing attack. It broadcasts arp replies for restricted host causing these hosts (basically windows) not to work in the LAN. What an incredibly ugly

Re: failing hardware panic

2004-01-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running a FreeBSD 5.2 system and have just started getting a panic/reboot problem. It *appears* to be a hard drive issue. I'm not sure where to start, however, in trying to work out which for the 3 IDE drives has the problem. What commands/tools can I use

Re: pkg_fetch argument syntax question

2004-01-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Francis Litterio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The man page for pkg_fetch says this: The following command line arguments are supported: pkgname Specify a full pkgname, a pkgname without version followed by an @, or a full URI. But it doesn't

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Saturday 24 January 2004 16:15, Michael Clark wrote: Do you have a onboard sound card as well as a pci sound card? I use to run into this when I forgot to disable my onboard sound in bios. I don't think so. It's a laptop (Toshiba), and I doubt they'd put a second sound card in it. I

RE: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread yo _
This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian sid. I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than Linux? Honest question. Thanks, Jeff why not? -rian

apm device not configured ?!

2004-01-24 Thread Julian Holley
Hi all - I'm still having problems persuading my laptop to work with apm - apparently my machine should work on 4.9 - I have re-compiled with apm enabled, set rc.conf to enable apm etc, but apmd, apm will not operate and gives the message :- apm device not configured, although /dev/apm does exist

Re: Sendmail 8.12.11

2004-01-24 Thread Mark
Just a quick question: has Sendmail 8.12.11 been ported yet? You can try going to http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html And do a search at the bottom of the page for sendmail. The output will show that the ports currently include sendmail 8.12.10 I went to the

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Robert Huff
Mark writes: what about security between the two ? which if either is better secure ? easier to secure ? more likely to be cracked ? lets say for newbies mostly. There's an old saying: The least safe part of any car is the nut behind the wheel.. Both Linux and *BSD are

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Cordula's Web
/dev/dsp: Device busy esd is the culprit. But esd is not running... I checked it with ps. I'm having the same problem with mpg123, which uses esd: $ ps ax|grep esd $ mpg123 somefile.mp3 /dev/dsp: Device busy audio: Device busy $ ps ax|grep esd 11041 ?? Ss 0:00.14 esd -terminate

Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

2004-01-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 23, 2004, at 8:13 PM, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Why perl 5.8? My 5.2 machine is running postfix, perl 5.6.1 and amavisd-new without any trouble at all. I don't believe that there is anything wrong with perl-5.6.x. For that matter, I don't feel religious opposition to using the stock

Re: CURL in PHP performance question

2004-01-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 23, 2004, at 7:05 PM, Brent Wiese wrote: I've never used it, but based on the way it reads, it seems like the overhead of the calls on even a moderately busy site could have serious server impacts. Am I worried about nothing or do I need to put my foot down so he doesn't affect the other

Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS

2004-01-24 Thread Keith Kelly
I wrote the message to which you replied, not Michael Clark. See my comments in-line. From: Hendrik Hasenbein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: 'Keith Kelly' [EMAIL PROTECTED], Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-bugs [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'freebsd-questions ORG'

Re: FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED!

2004-01-24 Thread Keith Kelly
See my comments in-line. From: Hendrik Hasenbein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED! Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:43:17 +0100 Keith Kelly wrote: I've found a bug in FDisk which is

Re: Adaptec 2400A Performance

2004-01-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 24, 2004, at 12:51 AM, Rishi Chopra wrote: I was rather disappointed with the results. Can anyone suggest what might be causing such slow disk speeds, or whether these speeds are out of the ordinary for a 4-disk FreeBSD RAID5 installation? I have done nothing to configure the card

Re: sis0 short cable fix

2004-01-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 24, 2004, at 9:20 AM, scott renna wrote: I'm wondering exactly, however, what would cause a message such as this to be displayed in dmesg: kernel: sis0: Applying short cable fix(reg=e8) My card seems to be working fine, and I'm wondering exactly what this means. Does anyone know and has

Installing from ISO images

2004-01-24 Thread Chip Morton
Is there a way for me to install FreeBSD from CD images that I have downloaded without burning them to CD? Can I boot from a floppy and then mount the images like a CD? I'm installing versions 4.9 and 5.2. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

NIS problems

2004-01-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
I've recently set up a NIS server on my lan. All machines are running freebsd 4stable. I have added the nisdomainname and nis_client_enable lines to the client machines along with the correct lines on the server in rc.conf. I have also added +: to the end of /etc/master.passwd and +:*::

Cricket setup help

2004-01-24 Thread stan
Long agao, and far away I set up mrtg to monitor various aspects of a nrtwork. Twoard the end of this excersise, I remeber being frustrated by some limitations of mrtg. I looked around, ad decided that if I ever needed to do this job again, I'd use cricket. Well, the time has come to setup this

Re: amadmin not in man pages (amanda)

2004-01-24 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! I am installing amanda on a new client and I have noticed that amadmin is not in the man pages (and it should according to the amanda man page). This is true both with the package and the port. package used : amanda-client-2.4.4,1 I think this is because amadmin is part of

WRITE(06). CDB: error in /var/log/messages

2004-01-24 Thread Ryan Petty
Hello, I am not a new user to FreeBSD, but I am seeing some errors in /var/log/messages that I am not familiar with and have had difficulty finding a definition and ultimately a resolution. I have researched the FreeBSD documentation, but my searches lead to developer information which does

Re: Cyrus-IMAPD users...question

2004-01-24 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! Was just curious for anyone out there, who is running cyrus on FreeBSD, did you install the software through the ports tree? Yes. I'm currently running Cyrus-IMAPD 2.0.17 installed from ports. What DB version are you running? # pkg_info | grep db db3-3.3.11,1The Berkeley DB

Re: WRITE(06). CDB: error in /var/log/messages

2004-01-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 24), Ryan Petty said: I am not a new user to FreeBSD, but I am seeing some errors in /var/log/messages that I am not familiar with and have had difficulty finding a definition and ultimately a resolution. I have researched the FreeBSD documentation, but my searches

Re: Default /var directories/permissions in 4.9R

2004-01-24 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! Are the default layout and permissions documented anywhere? See mtree(8) and /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Life would be easier if I had the source code. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE 4, 6, or 8 port ATA PCI Controller

2004-01-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Howdy list, Does anyone know of a 4, 6, or 8 port ATA PCI Controller that works well with FreeBSD? Preferably ATA-133 and large capacity drive capable. Thanks! How about non-RAID? I got one recommendation for 3ware Escalade controllers, but they are all RAID, and

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jeff Elkins wrote: This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian sid. I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than Linux? Honest question. For

Re: iso files

2004-01-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 02:50:14AM -0800, F.Aydýn DÜNDAR wrote: I downloaded .iso image files release 5.2. But sysinstall not read qt-3.2.1.tbz and arts-1.1.4,1.tbz. How can I make install? Thanks a lot... Did you verify that the ISO image had the correct MD5 checksum prior to trying to

Re: NIS problems solved

2004-01-24 Thread kitsune
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 12:47:32 -0600 Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently set up a NIS server on my lan. All machines are running freebsd 4stable. I have added the nisdomainname and nis_client_enable lines to the client machines along with the correct lines on the server in

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread John Adams
Hi, folks, All these very intelligent, well-reasoned, sometimes philosophical answers--mine is nothing like that. A company for which I want to work uses FreeBSD extensively, so I'm learning something about it at home. That simple, John A see me fulminate at

Re: beastie in 5.2 boot menu

2004-01-24 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 23 at 19:06, John Mills spoke: Hanspeter - On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Hanspeter Roth wrote: how can I turn off (delete) the beastie in the boot menu in 5.2? The ASCII image is part of a text file. I think it is found in /boot and named similar to beastie2nd.[something]. Go with

sendmail /etc/mail/Makefile usage

2004-01-24 Thread JJB
Looking for explanation documentation on the customization process of FBSD's sendmail. The /etc/mail/README talks about using the m4 command to customize sendmail. I have all ready been told that process is incorrect for the built in version of sendmail as delivered by the FBSD install. Previous

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 24 January 2004 03:26 pm, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Occasion 2.) Got sick of Win 98 SE on my wife's computer, so I decided to give Linux a second chance. This time I WANTED to go with Red Hat, since it's arguably the most popular Linux distro. However, one look at their

strange font error on Konsole

2004-01-24 Thread Alex Walker
I'm running KDE on FreeBSD 4.8. Everything was working great, but after a recent run of the CVSUP/Portupgrade dance I'm getting a weird error when I open a shell through Konsole. Any time I run it, I get an error message that reads Font `-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1'

Problem With Configuring Name Servers

2004-01-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am fairly new to BSD. I seem to be having a problem setting up my name servers correctly. I have the following in the resolv.conf file: domain rcn.com nameserver 207.172.3.8 nameserver 207.172.3.9 The following entry is in the re.conf file ifconfig_rl0=DHCP Everything, including nslookup,

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:26 PM Subject: Re: Why BSD? Jeff Elkins wrote: This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating

Re: Problem With Configuring Name Servers

2004-01-24 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 4:40 PM Subject: Problem With Configuring Name Servers I am fairly new to BSD. I seem to be having a problem setting up my name servers correctly. I have the following

Re: Problem With Configuring Name Servers

2004-01-24 Thread Teodor Iliescu
Hello Gerard, This seems to be obvious enough. You are trying to statically assign your DNS search order, as well as static name servers, but you have your nic, rl0 on DHCP, which overwrites the file on boot-up, as you mention. What you should do is take off DHCP, in rc.conf file. Something

Re: Problem With Configuring Name Servers

2004-01-24 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 4:48 PM Subject: Re: Problem With Configuring Name Servers - Original Message - From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Hot Swap hardware on FreeBSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Stephen P. Cravey
Two reasons: 0)Price. 1)To learn something useful. It shouldn't be difficult, I just can't seem to locate any information on it. This seems the most appropriate place to ask. -Stephen On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:24:45 +0100 me [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what about buying an external raid-box? then

Install gettext-0.12.1 and gettext-0.13 simultaneously?

2004-01-24 Thread Richard Bejtlich
Hello, I have a question on resolving port dependencies. I have several tools installed which depend on gettext-0.13: ORBit-0.5.17_1 bison-1.75_1 ethereal-0.10.0a_1 fvwm-themes-0.6.1_1 gmake-3.80_1 gtk-1.2.10_10 mozilla-1.6_1,2 openoffice-1.1.0_1 popt-1.6.4_1 rpm-3.0.6_8 wget-1.8.2_5 I am

Re: sendmail /etc/mail/Makefile usage

2004-01-24 Thread Matt Emmerton
Looking for explanation documentation on the customization process of FBSD's sendmail. The /etc/mail/README talks about using the m4 command to customize sendmail. I have all ready been told that process is incorrect for the built in version of sendmail as delivered by the FBSD install.

Re: Install gettext-0.12.1 and gettext-0.13 simultaneously?

2004-01-24 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 10:46, Richard Bejtlich wrote: Hello, I have a question on resolving port dependencies. I have several tools installed which depend on gettext-0.13: ORBit-0.5.17_1 bison-1.75_1 ethereal-0.10.0a_1 fvwm-themes-0.6.1_1 gmake-3.80_1 gtk-1.2.10_10 mozilla-1.6_1,2

Mounting free space

2004-01-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On FreeBSD 5.2 I have a RAID-5 host drive with 100GB of free space. What can I use to mount this free space? I tried the Disk Label Editor in /stand/sysinstall, but it does not seem to hold my settings when creating and the existing mount points show up as none. Can someone give me some guidance

FreeBSD AMD64 malloc(), mmap()

2004-01-24 Thread descarte
Hi. I can't find a direct answer for these two linked questions, hence the query to this email address. We're looking into FreeBSD running on Athlon64 processors to give us the ability to handle seriously huge datasets. We did buy a G5 machine, but their implementation of BSD seems still only

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 23 January 2004 11:40 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian sid. I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than Linux?

Re: apm device not configured ?!

2004-01-24 Thread pbdlists
Julian, Did you try to add the following line to your /boot/kernel.conf file? en apm and make sure the file ends with a q all by itself on a line. Unfortunately I have quite some issues with either apm or acpi on my Dell laptop as well when installing FBSD 5.2; it stops during boot when a

Re: Installing from ISO images

2004-01-24 Thread pbdlists
Sure, On a separate machine setup an ftp server, create a directories named 4.9-RELEASE and 5.2-RELEASE right where you will be placed when connecting with ftp. Then mount the iso image as follows (4.x syntax): vnconfig -e /dev/vn0 4.9-image.iso vnconfig -e /dev/vn1 5.2-image.iso mount -t cd9660

Is anyone running Gnomad on FreeBSD 5.2?

2004-01-24 Thread scott renna
I was wondering if any of you out there were running Gnomad for the Nomad Zen on 5.2. If anyone is, please let me know. I've been talking with the developer and trying to work through issues with it, but have met with little success. scott __ Do you Yahoo!?

Re: New freebsd user here

2004-01-24 Thread Ken Deeter
Just a quick check. Make sure you do a #include iostream and using namespace std; symbols like cout and endl are in the std namespace, so if you don't have the above statement, you have to say something like std::cout hello world std::endl; -Ken On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:50:02 -0500 Bill

Re: NIS problems solved

2004-01-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:07:51PM -0600, kitsune wrote: Found my problem... a pwd_mkdb is required... but not mentioned in the hand book... The handbook section dealing with setting up NIS clients tells you to use 'vipw' to edit master.passwd, which will make sure that a pwd_mkdb is done.

sendmail + sasl SOLVED

2004-01-24 Thread Robert Huff
Robert Huff writes: My stupid, all better now. Gilda Radner voice Never mind. Robert Huff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Jason M. Leonard
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Jeff Elkins wrote: This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian sid. I have to ask: Why

Re: Problem With Configuring Name Servers

2004-01-24 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Gerard Seibert wrote: Everything, including nslookup, etc works fine until I reboot. Then the files are over written. The resolv.conf file then has the following entries: the files are overwritten with values provided by you dhcp server. you can refuse a subset of those

Re: apm device not configured ?!

2004-01-24 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Julian Holley wrote: Hi all - I'm still having problems persuading my laptop to work with apm - apparently my machine should work on 4.9 - I have re-compiled with apm enabled, set rc.conf to enable apm etc, but apmd, apm will not operate and gives the message :- when

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Dorin H.
--- Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but lsof | grep dsp yields nothing. Can anyone help me with this

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Lucas Holt
BSD is arguably more popular. Mac OS X uses BSD code for portions of the kernel and the userland. 10.3 uses FreeBSD 5.0 code, and previous releases used FreeBSD 3.2 or NetBSD code. SInce Apple is the number one supplier of *NIX, i'd say that is a good reason. Apple has shipped more OS X

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread George Vagner
if your dual booting i found you must turn off power before you boot into bsd something with windows on a restart dont fully reset the soundcard on mine. toshiba satellite S2805-401 P3 700 with yamaha 741 soundcard. - Original Message - From: Dorin H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geert

NAT

2004-01-24 Thread Stanley Chan
Dear All, I am building my NAT and firewall using FreeBSD 4.9. Can anyone tell me how to configure the Address Redirection. which file should I use.The explanation on the handbook is not so clear. Also, if I have built up the NAT , can I use my external IPs because I need to build another web

SlickEdit for Linux

2004-01-24 Thread Erick Smith
I've been trying to get SlickEdit V8 for Linux to work under FreeBSD. Has anyone gotten this to work? My problem has to do with the shells for Linux (I think) Whenever I send a message to the shell through VS, including the compile command, the shell appears to do a ls, and then VS is kinda

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 24 January 2004 8:19 pm, Dorin H. wrote: --- Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but lsof | grep dsp yields

Re: FreeBSD AMD64 malloc(), mmap()

2004-01-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:35:20PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I can't find a direct answer for these two linked questions, hence the query to this email address. We're looking into FreeBSD running on Athlon64 processors to give us the ability to handle seriously huge datasets. We

Problem with pcn ethernet driver

2004-01-24 Thread Aaron Burghardt
I have an older HP Kayak XU workstation that I cannot get the ethernet working on. I have tried FreeBSD 4.9, 5.1, and 5.2. The device is recognized and configured under ifconfig, I can bring the interface up and down, change media options, etc. But, I don't get any communications over the

Re: Adaptec 2400A Performance

2004-01-24 Thread Rishi Chopra
Just wanted to make sure I wasn't skipping any obvious steps. One other (slightly lamer) question: if my device configures as da0, is that scsi or ide? The reason I ask is I wish to write a custom kernel, and would like to eliminate all unnecessary configurations/devices. Charles Swiger

htdig and mailman 2.1.4

2004-01-24 Thread T Kellers
Can anyone point me to a doc or resource that will help explain setting up mailman with htdig? I already have it built and installed, but htdig's documentation regarding mailman (and vice versa) is hard to find. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT ___ [EMAIL

Re: Adaptec 2400A Performance

2004-01-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Rishi Chopra said: I've run some imperical tests on the Adaptec 2400A raid controller (results and setup can be seen here): http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra/RaidResults.html I was rather disappointed with the results. Can anyone suggest what might be

help O_o

2004-01-24 Thread zzerver
I was securiting my Box ,,,and then i used to have alex on wheel group so i su to root, but i modify and change su to antother group and then i ,,, chmod o-xr /bin/su and chmod g-xy /bin/su ...no now i cannot login ..from my terminal or from my boz, i dont hace root enabled mark as insecure,

Spam Assassin?

2004-01-24 Thread Eric F Crist
Where is the Spam Assassin port? The only thing I can find is spamass-milter which just USES Spam Assassin. TIA -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

lpt0 blocking i/o causes ghostscript to hang system

2004-01-24 Thread Peter C. Lai
Hi. I have this peculiar issue with printing to lpt0 with ghostscript-gnu 7.05. I'm running stock lpd(1) with a handwritten input filter. If I am printing a huge file (such that the printer can't buffer all of the document at once and I am spooling to the printer as the printer is printing), and

Re: Adaptec 2400A Performance

2004-01-24 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:48:15 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One other (slightly lamer) question: if my device configures as da0, is that scsi or ide? SCSI. IDE would be ad0. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: NAT

2004-01-24 Thread Deling Ren
It depends on what you are using, ipf or ipfw? On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Stanley Chan wrote: Dear All, I am building my NAT and firewall using FreeBSD 4.9. Can anyone tell me how to configure the Address Redirection. which file should I use.The explanation on the handbook is not so clear.

Re: Spam Assassin?

2004-01-24 Thread Scott Pepperdine
Newbie here, so I could be wrong, but try looking at /usr/ports/mail/p5-mail-SpamAssassin There's also a p5-mail-SpamAssassin-snapshot. Don't know what that is. - Original Message - From: Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 9:51 PM

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