Re: Slowish 5.3 network throughput (LAN)

2004-11-11 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:38:48 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > About 4 days ago I downloaded 5.3-RELEASE (.iso) from ftp.nl. at about > 6mB/s from a server I have on a .nl provider. Today I wanted to do some > testing, and while downloading that same ISO (whi

Re: PID in linux emulation

2004-11-11 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 02:17 am, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 11), Malcolm Kay said: > > I am attempting to run a commercial CAD software suite compiled for > > Linux on a FreeBSD 4.10 OS. It runs as well or perhaps better than on > > a Linux box until the PID becomes large. > > > > Th

FreeBSD 5.3 floppy transfer rate problem

2004-11-11 Thread Andrej G. Zadorozhnyj
I have FreeBSD 5.3 installed on my Intel D865GBFL motherboard and I have low transfer rate (2.3 Kb/s) on my floppy drive 1.44 MB 3.5" for read operation, against 13 Kb/s in FreeBSD 4.10. Have anybody same problems. Andrej. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

mount hides underlying files

2004-11-11 Thread Jay O'Brien
If I mkdir /test and then place files in /test, those files are no longer visible when I use /test as a mount point. The files become visible again when I unmount the device. I have read documentation explaining this phenomenon, and I would like to review that documentation again. Is it in the

Re: portsdb -Uu Segmentation fault

2004-11-11 Thread Tabor Kelly
Tabor Kelly wrote: This has been discussed DOZENS of times on this list including TODAY. What do you think the archives are for?! Sorry, I will look harder. Like I said, I found a lot of people having the problem (in the archives), I didn't find anyone explaining what causes the problem or how to

RE: FreeBSD 5.3 and updating Kernel -do I need to rebuild world?

2004-11-11 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of robg Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:23 To: f-questions Subject: FreeBSD 5.3 and updating Kernel -do I need to rebuild world? Hi, Hello :-) Is it safe to simply edit the kernel file and `cd /usr/src/ &&

using a driver written for 3.x on 5.3 adaptation?

2004-11-11 Thread John Mearns
I'm wanting to play around with Asterisk some and have a Tormenta 2 pci card supporting 4T1s. Someone has written drivers for it, but the drivers and instructions were for 3.x, which was before I got into FreeBSD. The instructions are here for using the drivers http://www.zapatatelephony.org/inst

portsdb -Uu Segmentation fault

2004-11-11 Thread Tabor Kelly
Hello, This is on a Pentium-II running FreeBSD 4.10R, portupgrade-20040701_3, ruby-1.8.2.p2_1, and ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2. Here is what I did: $ pkgdb -F $ cvsup ports-supfile $ portsdb -Uu And here is the output I get from portsdb: Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.. Don

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-11 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:27:27PM -0700, eodyna wrote: > Hi all > > thank-you ohh so much for your help thus far! > It was indeed that little cable. When i looked it > didn't exist :) [not very good with hardware] i will > need to buy one and try that out! In the meantime, I think there are othe

RE: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-11 Thread James Hong
use /usr/ports/net/tsclient too if you're on rdp more than vnc GUI to rdesktop (still got some limitation than CLI) James H -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Louis LeBlanc Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:15 AM To: FreeBSD Questions S

Moving quotas from partition to partition

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I'm about to move my server up to a larger drive, and I'd like to know if it's possible to use an existing quota file, or migrate the quota file somehow onto the new drive? Otherwise, it's going to be a LOT of work by hand. -Dan Mahoney PS, is this question better asked in -hackers? -

Re: Please take this somewhere else (was RE: difference

2004-11-11 Thread Jay Moore
On Thursday 11 November 2004 05:49 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > Well, the person did address his complaint to the "moderator" of the > > list and, tho sent to the wrong place, did not address it to the > > list per se. > > There's a good reason for this: this list is (currently) unmoderated.

FreeBSD 5.3 and updating Kernel -do I need to rebuild world?

2004-11-11 Thread robg
Hi, I have a fresh copy of FreeBSD 5.3 and just finished updating the latest source code via cvsup and rebuilt world and the kernel using my custom kernel config. However, I forgot to add an option to my kernel that I'd like to add now. Is it safe to simply edit the kernel file and `cd /usr/src/

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-11 Thread eodyna
Hi all thank-you ohh so much for your help thus far! It was indeed that little cable. When i looked it didn't exist :) [not very good with hardware] i will need to buy one and try that out! thank-you so much. there are very knowledgable and talented people here. arigatou! and thanks for the expl

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-11 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, scott renna wrote: I created a FAT32 parition on the external drive from /stand/sysinstall and dropped some files onto it. I then moved it over to the win box to see if it could see it and sadly no. Is there a way to set up pseudo-drive assignments from FreeBSD on a FAT32 par

Re: Putting /usr on a vinum striped volume?

2004-11-11 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Artem Kazakov wrote: Tom Przybylinski wrote: Would someone be so kind as to point me at a HOWTO where I can RTFM on moving my /usr to a freshly vinum'd stripey vol? now either dump /usr or tar it and then restore or untar consequently. If you choose tar do the following: tar -

Re: Please take this somewhere else (was RE: difference

2004-11-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 10 November 2004 at 23:31:49 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > On Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:20 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> Also, there is a difference between censorship and taking an action >> against abuse of persons. The behavior indicated is indeed abusive. > > That is a

Slowish 5.3 network throughput (LAN)

2004-11-11 Thread klr
Hi list, About 4 days ago I downloaded 5.3-RELEASE (.iso) from ftp.nl. at about 6mB/s from a server I have on a .nl provider. Today I wanted to do some testing, and while downloading that same ISO (which I downloaded at 6 megabytes/s) from two different servers on the same subnet, the best I got w

Re: Upgrade to 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:36:15PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > I am doing some testing of 5.3 in preperation to converting a number of > production boxes from 4.6. A couple questions I have not been able to > find answers for: > > One of my systems has a very large IDE drive that is used to hol

Upgrade to 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Doug Hardie
I am doing some testing of 5.3 in preperation to converting a number of production boxes from 4.6. A couple questions I have not been able to find answers for: One of my systems has a very large IDE drive that is used to hold some long term very large files that are rarely created but occasion

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Network performance tests

2004-11-11 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Given these results, I would conclude that the raw routing stack in 5.3 > is 35-40% slower than its 4.x counterpart. > > The tests are easy enough to duplicate, so there is no reason to > question the numbers. Feel free to try it yourself. Obviousl

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Text wrapped. On Thursday, 11 November 2004 at 12:00:52 +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it > appears it's not restricted to that: > > Let's make a fresh start with vin

conf/72964

2004-11-11 Thread Bob Bomar
Curious to the status of conf/72964. It pertains to adding an rc.d script to start wireless interfaces. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: What are all these processes in `ps -aux`?

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 11), robg said: > I have FreeBSD 5.3 running on a remote machine and when doing `ps -aux` I see: > > root13 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq1: atkbd0] > root14 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq3: sio1] Those are all kernel

Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 11 November 2004 02:27 pm, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > >Quick question about interconnectivity. > > > >You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility > > called RDC (Remote Desktop Connection). Some of you other *BSDers > > may also be familiar

What are all these processes in `ps -aux`?

2004-11-11 Thread robg
Hi, I have FreeBSD 5.3 running on a remote machine and when doing `ps -aux` I see: root13 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq1: atkbd0] root14 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq3: sio1] root15 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL4:06PM 0:00.00 [irq4:

xfce4-xmms-controller-plugin Undefined symbol "pthread_mutex_trylock"

2004-11-11 Thread jimmie james
After running gnome_update.sh (and getting around the gnomevfs2 issue) and a fresh cvsup of ports at around 2pm EST, installing the multimedia/xfce4-xmms-controller-plugin on 4.10-STABLE, and relauncing the xfce4-panel, I'm getting: ** (xfce4-panel:81087): WARNING **: xfce4-panel: module /usr/X11R

Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-11 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Louis LeBlanc wrote: Quick question about interconnectivity. You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility called RDC (Remote Desktop Connection). Some of you other *BSDers may also be familiar with one called VNC (Visual Network Connection ?) or RDP (?). The purpose of said utili

Re: Rebooting fails after installing 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-11 Thread Travis J. Hicks
On 11/10/04 8:56 AM, "Subhro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:10:02 -0600, Travis J. Hicks > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Shutting down ACPI >>> Stray irq9 >>> ACPI-0265: *** Error: Hardware never changed modes >> > Really odd, could you just check the mo'bo manufacturer s

How to use ALT_PKGDEP?

2004-11-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm always having to manually fix dependencies that get broken whenever a port option I've chosen gives that port a different name than usual. For example, I installed openldap-{client,server} with the "SASL" option and the resulting packages are named openldap-sasl-{client,server}-$version.

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-11 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:56:54AM -0700, jason wrote: > Danny MacMillan wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:34:14PM -0700, eodyna wrote: > > >hi everyone, > > > > > >I can play mp3's :) but i cant seam to be able to play > > >cd's. > > > > > >any ideas? > > > > > >thanks again. > > > > It seems

Re: What's happening to FreeBSD 4.10 ?

2004-11-11 Thread Admin
Radek Kozlowski wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:06:34PM +0100, Hasse wrote: And now ruby is seg faulting and core dumps when I run portsdb -uU odin# portsdb -uU Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_jk2-apache2-2.0.2 Warning: Dupl

Netgear MA401 on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Dave Walton
I've got a Netgear MA401 that works great on 4.x. I just installed 5.3-RELEASE, and it's not recognizing the card. It reports: pccard0: Card has no functions I've also tried a Linksys EC2T, which also works in 4.x, with the same results. Both cards are present in /etc/defaults/pccard.conf. I

Re: Outputting command to a text file

2004-11-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 11 November 2004 01:08 pm, CHris Rich wrote: > I want to use the du command to check on the sizes of files in a > directory, but i want the output to be put into a text file so I can > look at it later. > > I did some search on google, and found nothing that applied. > Searched other pl

want to change my gateway to fbsd from win xp

2004-11-11 Thread Marty Landman
My office network is set up as follows: gateway/win xp home ed./apache fbsd 4.8/apache rh linux 9/apache win xp home/lots of im'g win xp home * dual boot - debian/win me That last one's pending a repair and os installs currently runs w98. I'd like to move the gateway from my xp workstation to the f

Re: What's happening to FreeBSD 4.10 ?

2004-11-11 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:06:34PM +0100, Hasse wrote: > And now ruby is seg faulting and core dumps when I run portsdb -uU > > odin# portsdb -uU > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please > wait..Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_jk2-apache2-2.0.2 > Warning: Duplicate INDEX e

RE: Outputting command to a text file

2004-11-11 Thread Haulmark, Chris
Someone broke the silence: > I want to use the du command to check on the sizes of files in a > directory, but i want the output to be put into a text file so I can > look at it later. > Use the character > at the end of your command to redirect it to wherever you want. For example, if I was

Re: Outputting command to a text file

2004-11-11 Thread Jorge Alvarenga
I want to use the du command to check on the sizes of files in a directory, but i want the output to be put into a text file so I can look at it later. you can try $ du > some_file HTH -- Jorge Luis Alvarenga Dpto. de Investigaciones I.T.H. Consultora Tecnológica ___

Re: Outputting command to a text file

2004-11-11 Thread Admin
CHris Rich wrote: I want to use the du command to check on the sizes of files in a directory, but i want the output to be put into a text file so I can look at it later. I did some search on google, and found nothing that applied. Searched other places (lists and things) and couldn't find what i wa

Re: Outputting command to a text file

2004-11-11 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:08:18PM -0600, CHris Rich wrote: > I want to use the du command to check on the sizes of files in a > directory, but i want the output to be put into a text file so I can > look at it later. You can do `command > filename` or use script(1). -Radek __

Re: Trying to build a speed demon

2004-11-11 Thread pete wright
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:54:41 -0700, Randy Grafton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to build a Samba file server that will serve 2TB to a single > dept. The dept will have a large variety of file types being saved to > the server; thousands of small (<32K) files to hundreds of m

Outputting command to a text file

2004-11-11 Thread CHris Rich
I want to use the du command to check on the sizes of files in a directory, but i want the output to be put into a text file so I can look at it later. I did some search on google, and found nothing that applied. Searched other places (lists and things) and couldn't find what i was looking for, pe

What's happening to FreeBSD 4.10 ?

2004-11-11 Thread Hasse
Hi everybody ! Am I the only one experiencing lots of problems with seg faults in 4.10 ? This server have been running with regular cvsups of source and ports for about 2 years now without any problems until a month ago when it all started. First I got a segfaulting Apache2 , and nobody seems abl

OT: Powerbook Problem.

2004-11-11 Thread pixiedave
Hope someone can help! When I boot my powerbook, my desktop image loads, and then the apple bar starts to load, then the rainbow wheel keeps spinning, and the apple bar keeps flashing on and off as iif it is trying to load. A disc will eject with the eject button, and the volume buttons work incl

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Network performance tests

2004-11-11 Thread pete wright
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:04:44 +0530, Subhro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 23:57 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FreeBSD 5.3 Network per

RE: FreeBSD 5.3 Network performance tests

2004-11-11 Thread Subhro
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 23:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD 5.3 Network performance tests As promised, I've tested the basic network stack for 5.3 -RELEASE The result

FreeBSD 5.3 Network performance tests

2004-11-11 Thread TM4526
As promised, I've tested the basic network stack for 5.3 -RELEASE The results follow: Hardware: Celeron 1.7Ghz processor Dual onboard Intel NICs, fxp driver Intel 845G chipset 256MB Ram, 120MB allocated to the kernel. Setup: Traffic Generator -> FreeBSD System -> Server The FreeBSD system is s

syslog imapd pop3d

2004-11-11 Thread Mark Frasa
Hello, I was wondering wheter it's possible that pop3d and imapd don't log to maillog My syslog.conf is like this: mail.info /var/log/maillog !imapd *.* /var/log/imapd.log !pop3d *.*

Re: Adding non-kernels to boot-loader

2004-11-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Dan Kilbourne wrote: > Nathan Kinkade extolled: > > > You will probably have better luck using a more flexible boot loader > > like GRUB. How about just putting memtest86 on a floppy or CDROM and > > your techs can boot to the removable media whenever the

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?

2004-11-11 Thread Anish Mistry
On Thursday 11 November 2004 11:45 am, you wrote: > * Anish Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20041110 03:21]: wrote: > > [snip] > > Hey Anish, > > Thank you so much for your script. > > I am not quite a newbie on Unix, but your script has gotten me lost, > such that I feel like a newbie ;) > > Could you

Bad blocks & 3ware RAID rebuild -- resolution

2004-11-11 Thread Matt Staroscik
I'm answering myself since (with the help of the list) I got my problem solved. I hope this summary helps a future searcher. Thanks to Jerry and everyone else who posted. Summary of problem: My RAID mirror (3ware 7000-2) lost a drive, and it was failing to rebuild with a new replacement disk (u

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Kim Helenius
Stijn Hoop wrote: Hi, On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:53:39PM +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: I don't know the state of affairs for 5.2.1-RELEASE, but in 5.3-RELEASE gvinum is the way forward. Thanks again for answering. Agreed, but there still seems to be a long way to go. A lot of 'clas

Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 11 November 2004 10:38 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 11/10/04 06:14 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: > > Quick question about interconnectivity. > > > > You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility > > called RDC (Remote Desktop Connection). Some of you

Re: Adding non-kernels to boot-loader

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Nathan Kinkade extolled: I would agree, but I am looking for more of an out of the box solution. We have a couple thousand servers, several hundred of them running FreeBSD. I want our build team to be able to simply install memtest as a bootloader option so that any time a machine needs to be t

Unable to move windows in KDE, FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-11-11 Thread Jay Moore
I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but I can no longer move or re-size any windows. Open windows behave normally otherwise - I can minimize, maximize, close, move to another desktop, etc, etc. They just can't be moved or re-sized. Is this a known problem, or just some weird anomaly requir

Re: Adding non-kernels to boot-loader

2004-11-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:43:02AM -0500, Dan Kilbourne wrote: > Hello, > I am looking for a way to add memtest86 to the FreeBSD bootloader so > that my techs can easily test RAM when needed. From what I > understand, the memtest86 build script makes two objects: > 1) linux-kernel-alike image. > 2

Using USB2.0 hard drives (performance) on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I need extra disk space on one of my machines (in short order). So I decided to experiment with attaching a USB2.0 hard drive (Maxtor OneTouch) to the system (SIIG PCI controller). I use a OneTouch on my Windows/XP sytem and it works really well. I wanted to explore placing my mailstore on a

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-11 Thread Brian McCann
Is this between 2 different PCs? Why not use Samba? Or, if you are daring, an NFS client for Windows. --Brian On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 05:58:23 -0800 (PST), scott renna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I was wondering if you all might be able to help on > this. I recently purchased an

Re: inetd problem with 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-11 Thread Boris Spirialitious
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:16:10PM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: > > inetd[xxx]: unknown rpc/udp6 rpc/tcp6 > > Any modification of GENERIC from 5.3 seems to have the > > problem. I have another config that I ported from 4.x that > > works fine (with

Adding non-kernels to boot-loader

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Hello, I am looking for a way to add memtest86 to the FreeBSD bootloader so that my techs can easily test RAM when needed. >From what I understand, the memtest86 build script makes two objects: 1) a linux-kernel-alike image. 2) an ELF object.

Re: Maybe a bug in 5.3 [Was: Re: BIND9 dump file]

2004-11-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Erik Norgaard wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Im getting a bunch of these in the logs -> Nov 10 10:30:48 gatekeeper named[312]: dumping master file: master/tmp-SLtSQEmBBK: open: permission denied So I figured a filesystem permissions problem. I chowned Thanks for any info that

Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/10/04 06:14 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: > Quick question about interconnectivity. > > You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility called > RDC (Remote Desktop Connection). Some of you other *BSDers may also be > familiar with one called VNC (Visual Netw

Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 11), Andy Firman said: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:11:37AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Nov 11), Andy Firman said: > > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:52:55AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > > Why wouldn't it unpack with root, wheel ownership? > > > > >

Re: Perl 5.005 on Freebsd 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Volker Lieder wrote: Hello list, i need the perlversion 5.005 on Freebsd 5.3. I tried to compile it by hand, but when i try "make" i got an error like make: don't know how to make . Stop I need this perl-version only for one application :-/ Perhaps anybody has an idea. I also need version 5.8.5, bu

Re: help

2004-11-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 11 November 2004 01:20 pm, Aaron Carranza wrote: > I installed freebsd version 4.9 after installing the os, I tried to > download some packages; however, I can't get connected to any site in > the sysinstall configuration window. Even if I try to do a pkg_add -r > cvsup-without-gui-161h

Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

2004-11-11 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:11:37AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 11), Andy Firman said: > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:52:55AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > Why wouldn't it unpack with root, wheel ownership? > > > > > > Tarfiles extracted as root preserve the original owne

Re: /dev/io problem in 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/10/04 11:22 PM, Gerard Samuel sat at the `puter and typed: > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > >Just got through buildworld/kernel on 5.3. Strange problem I can't > >find the solution to. > > > >Xorg won't start: > > > >Fatal server error: > >xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O > >

help

2004-11-11 Thread Aaron Carranza
I installed freebsd version 4.9 after installing the os, I tried to download some packages; however, I can't get connected to any site in the sysinstall configuration window. Even if I try to do a pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui-161h, it returns an error and at the en of the message I get file not fou

error in portugrading kdemultimedia to 3.3.1

2004-11-11 Thread FreeBsdBeni
Hello, When trying to portupgrade kdemultimedia to 3.3.1, I get the following error : ... /usr/local/lib/libtag.so: undefined reference to `std::__default_alloc_template::_S_node_allocator_lock' /usr/local/lib/libmusicbrainz.so: undefined reference to `std::__default_alloc_template::deallocate(v

Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 11), Andy Firman said: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:52:55AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > Why wouldn't it unpack with root, wheel ownership? > > > > Tarfiles extracted as root preserve the original ownership of the > > files. You can use the -o flag to make all the extra

Re: About FreeBSD

2004-11-11 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:18:19AM -0200, Rafa wrote: > Good Morning!! > > Hey, I'm from Brazil and I would like to know whereI can find the > "code source" of FreeBSD, I don't if this name is correct, but in > Portuguese it's "C?digo Fonte" of FreeBSD!!! Yes, source code is available with the sy

Re: Will a SD card reader solve this problem?

2004-11-11 Thread Ada Cheng
Just to close this thread, the SD card reader worked beautifully. I bought a Lexar JumpDrive Trio which cost less than US$20. Ada On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 10 November 2004 at 8:58:27 -0500, Ada Cheng wrote: Good morning, I am trying to connect my Mi

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:56 am, jason wrote: > Danny MacMillan wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:34:14PM -0700, eodyna wrote: > >>hi everyone, > >> > >>I can play mp3's :) but i cant seam to be able to play > >>cd's. > >> > >>any ideas? > >> > >>thanks again. > > > >It seems likely that t

Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

2004-11-11 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:52:55AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > Why wouldn't it unpack with root, wheel ownership? > > Tarfiles extracted as root preserve the original ownership of the > files. You can use the -o flag to make all the extracted files owned > by root. Hmm. I am Linux guy get

Re: problems with sound :[

2004-11-11 Thread jason
Danny MacMillan wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:34:14PM -0700, eodyna wrote: hi everyone, I can play mp3's :) but i cant seam to be able to play cd's. any ideas? thanks again. It seems likely that the tiny analog or digital cable between your sound card and your CD-ROM drive is not connec

Trying to build a speed demon

2004-11-11 Thread Randy Grafton
Hi All, I am trying to build a Samba file server that will serve 2TB to a single dept. The dept will have a large variety of file types being saved to the server; thousands of small (<32K) files to hundreds of medium to large files (a few hundred KB in size to a few hundred MB in size). I am us

Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 11), Andy Firman said: > I can't figure out why, when I unpack something like > awstats-6.2.tgz it gives me this: > > # tar xvzf awstats-6.2.tgz > # ls -al > drwx-- 5 1007 513 512 Nov 6 06:03 awstats-6.2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel860606 Nov 6

Re: PID in linux emulation

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 11), Malcolm Kay said: > I am attempting to run a commercial CAD software suite compiled for > Linux on a FreeBSD 4.10 OS. It runs as well or perhaps better than on > a Linux box until the PID becomes large. > > The MAX_PID for FreeBSD is 9 while Linux has a limit of 0

unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

2004-11-11 Thread Andy Firman
I can't figure out why, when I unpack something like awstats-6.2.tgz it gives me this: # tar xvzf awstats-6.2.tgz # ls -al drwx-- 5 1007 513 512 Nov 6 06:03 awstats-6.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel860606 Nov 6 06:26 awstats-6.2.tgz I have used vipw to get rid of a bunch

Perl 5.005 on Freebsd 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Volker Lieder
Hello list, i need the perlversion 5.005 on Freebsd 5.3. I tried to compile it by hand, but when i try "make" i got an error like make: don't know how to make . Stop I need this perl-version only for one application :-/ Perhaps anybody has an idea. I also need version 5.8.5, but thats not the probl

Re: Fixing bad blocks (was: Re: Do you need to dismount /usr to

2004-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > At 01:18 PM 11/10/2004, you wrote: > >Your problem seems to be bad blocks in the /usr file system. > >That has nothing to do with dump. It is a bad spot on the disk. > >fsck will not fix that sort of thing. If you can figure out > >what files sit on the bad spots, you might be able to delet

Re: About FreeBSD

2004-11-11 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Rafa wrote: I also would like to know if I can use FreeBSD without install in my PC, Look, there's a operational system, called Kurumin, that can be used in the CD!!! This thread on the questions@ mailing list from yesterday (Nov 10): http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2040659+0+current/f

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:53:39PM +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > Stijn Hoop wrote: > > I don't know the state of affairs for 5.2.1-RELEASE, but in 5.3-RELEASE > > gvinum is the way forward. > > Thanks again for answering. Agreed, but there still seems to be a long > way to go. A lot of 'clas

Re: Please take this somewhere else (was RE: difference

2004-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > -Original Message- > > From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:20 AM > > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Please take this somewhere else (was RE: difference > > > > A person may not realize there is a pla

Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-11 Thread Gary Hayers
On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: >Some of you other *BSDers may also be familiar with one called VNC >(Visual Network >Connection ?) Virtual Network Computing Regards, Gary Hayers IT Support & Unix Administrator WENN.com World Entertainment News Network _

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Kim Helenius
Stijn Hoop wrote: Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it appears it's not restricted to that. Are you running regular vinum on 5.x? It is known broken. Please use 'gvinum' instead. There is one caveat: the gvinum that shipped with 5.3-RELEASE contains an error in RAID-5

Re: /dev/io problem in 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:19:29AM +0200, Nelis Lamprecht typed: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:22:59 -0500, Gerard Samuel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > > > > > > >Just got through buildworld/kernel on 5.3. Strange problem I can't > > >find the solution to. > > > > > >Xo

RE: Thru a 'nasty' proxy

2004-11-11 Thread Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd->[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nelis Lamprecht >Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 6:47 AM >To: Vittorio >Cc: FreeBSD Questions >Subject: Re: Thru a 'nasty' proxy > >On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:55:43 +, Vittorio <[EMAIL PRO

Maybe a bug in 5.3 [Was: Re: BIND9 dump file]

2004-11-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Erik Norgaard wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Im getting a bunch of these in the logs -> Nov 10 10:30:48 gatekeeper named[312]: dumping master file: master/tmp-SLtSQEmBBK: open: permission denied So I figured a filesystem permissions problem. I chowned Thanks for any info that you may provide...

Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:45 PM, Matthew T. Lager wrote: rdesktop (net/rdesktop) is flawless. Use it everday to manage my Windows 2000 Servers. Supports many many many different features. Highly recommened. I'd also add that the WTS is encrypted. I don't believe VNC does much to encrypt the connecti

Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions

2004-11-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Quick question about interconnectivity. You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility called RDC (Remote Desktop Connection). Some of you other *BSDers may also be familiar with one called VNC (Visual Network Connection ?) or RDP (

FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-11 Thread scott renna
Hello list, I was wondering if you all might be able to help on this. I recently purchased an external hard drive case and dropped an IDE drive into it. It's great and all, except that the transfer speed is limited to 1Mb/s due to an error message that I had posted on the list a few days back(GE

Re: Thru a 'nasty' proxy

2004-11-11 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:55:43 +, Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Old linux user now moving gradually to freebsd 5.2.1, at office we have > a lan > 1) with an http proxy for which authentication via userid & passwd is > needed AND > 2) ftp is blocked, not permitted. > > I want to use the p

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:32:58PM +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:00:52PM +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > > > Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it > > > appears it's not restricted to that. > > > > Are

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Kim Helenius
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:00:52PM +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > > Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it > > appears it's not restricted to that. > > Are you running regular vinum on 5.x? It is known broken. Please use > 'gvinu

Re: /dev/io problem in 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:22:59 -0500, Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Louis LeBlanc wrote: Just got through buildworld/kernel on 5.3. Strange problem I can't find the solution to. Xorg won't start: Fatal server error: xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for

Network hang on 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I just installed a new bridge a couple of weeks ago, and the other day I upgraded it to RELENG_5_3 by source. It runs with a custom kernel which has bridge, ipfirewall, sound and some other things in it. Today the machine just suddenly locked up. This has also happened before (two days ago). The

Thru a 'nasty' proxy

2004-11-11 Thread Vittorio
Old linux user now moving gradually to freebsd 5.2.1, at office we have a lan 1) with an http proxy for which authentication via userid & passwd is needed AND 2) ftp is blocked, not permitted. I want to use the ports and compile my programs. I have already tried to set the http proxy (as unde

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:00:52PM +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it > appears it's not restricted to that. Are you running regular vinum on 5.x? It is known broken. Please use 'gvinum' instead. There is one caveat: the gvinum that sh

named logging: POKED TIMER

2004-11-11 Thread Rob
Hi, With 5.3, running named (cashing nameserver only) and ntpd to sync the time, I see in /var/log/messages about twice a day a line like this: Nov 11 05:41:44 para named[356]: *** POKED TIMER *** Nov 11 14:51:09 para named[355]: *** POKED TIMER *** What does this mean? Is it still a bug in 5.3

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