boot loader

2005-07-16 Thread e-mail for freebsd
Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 (from CD) onto a ThinkPad A21. I also have Win2Kpro on this laptop. FreeBSD is installed at about the 7G mark on the harddrive. I had 4.3 installed previously, and thought I would just start over. Howver, when the laptop boots, I get the f1 DOS f2 Freebsd

RAID Level 55

2005-07-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
I was reading on wikipedia about RAIDs trying to pass the time and I was thinking why not have RAID 5+5 or 5+5+5 levels, sure you waste 2/3th's of your space but wouldn't this be a killer setup for a directory server where fast reads are of the utmost importance? Would you add up the transfer

Re: install Apache1 and Apache2 on the same server

2005-07-16 Thread Tsampros Leonidas
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 01:51:32AM +0200, Ksenia Marasanova wrote: Greetings, I have FreeBSD box that runs Apache1 from ports. Now I'd like to install Apache2 from ports (and run it on different IP), without overwriting httpd binary of Apache1. What would be the correct, port-friendly :)

freebsd 4.9 and ports cvsup

2005-07-16 Thread Cezar Fistik
Hi all, I need to upgrade some applications with many dependencies on an older 4.9 system. I was thinking to start with ports tree upgrade but when I try to run cvsup I get connection refused messages from all cvsup servers I tried, meaning that there's no a fresh port tree for version 4.9. So,

flash plugin on freebsd amd64

2005-07-16 Thread Emil Khatib
Hi, I can't get flash movies to play in freebsd 5.4 amd64. The movies play too fast. I've tried the flashplugin-mozilla plugin in the ports. I also tried another one. Is there any way to solution this? Thanks in advance. ___

Download ports from another machine

2005-07-16 Thread Emil Khatib
Hi everybody, I'm using freebsd on a 56k connection, so you'll probably imagine how frustrating is to spend hours and hours downloading a simple program (plus its dozens of dependecies). I wanted to know if there is any way to get a list and download the programs from another computer with a

Re: Download ports from another machine

2005-07-16 Thread Jonathan Glaschke
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 01:52:33PM +0200, Emil Khatib wrote: Hi everybody, I'm using freebsd on a 56k connection, so you'll probably imagine how frustrating is to spend hours and hours downloading a simple program (plus its dozens of dependecies). I wanted to know if there is any way to get a

motherboard fbsd 5.x

2005-07-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
I read the pages about supported hardware. It dazzles me. I want to buy a new motherboard. I will run FreeBSD-5.4 (and later on v6.x) on it. No fancy stuff like raid. Just plenty of memory and good performance and fbsd support tothe fullest(!). From what I understand there are still some

Re: boot loader

2005-07-16 Thread Gunter Wambaugh
On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:53 AM, e-mail for freebsd wrote: Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 (from CD) onto a ThinkPad A21. I also have Win2Kpro on this laptop. FreeBSD is installed at about the 7G mark on the harddrive. I had 4.3 installed previously, and thought I would just start over.

Re: motherboard fbsd 5.x

2005-07-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 03:17:01PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: snip From what I understand there are still some problems with AMD64 boards. Still, 64bits is the future.. so is it better to wait a while, _or_ are there *good* supported motherboards for amd64? Avoid boards with NForce

Re: gettext won't install

2005-07-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please do not top-post. Paweł Madej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD 5.3 from ISO / standard kernel world ports tree: current AMD Sempron 3000+ / Gigabyte K8NS / 1GB RAM Okay, then just build the port, but don't try to install it. See if the missing library is present. [find

Re: Download ports from another machine

2005-07-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Emil Khatib [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everybody, I'm using freebsd on a 56k connection, so you'll probably imagine how frustrating is to spend hours and hours downloading a simple program (plus its dozens of dependecies). I wanted to know if there is any way to get a list and download the

Strange messages log entry

2005-07-16 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, I've noted a strange entry in /var/log/messages on machine here that I'm hoping someone might be able to shed some light on, please. Here is what I found: su: _secure_path: /nonexistent/.login_conf is not owned by uid 65534 There are two (2) entries at exactly 04:15 this morning,

Re: RAID Level 55

2005-07-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
Nikolas Britton wrote: I was reading on wikipedia about RAIDs trying to pass the time and I was thinking why not have RAID 5+5 or 5+5+5 levels, sure you waste 2/3th's of your space but wouldn't this be a killer setup for a directory server where fast reads are of the utmost importance?

Re: install Apache1 and Apache2 on the same server

2005-07-16 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 01:51 +0200, Ksenia Marasanova wrote: Greetings, I have FreeBSD box that runs Apache1 from ports. Now I'd like to install Apache2 from ports (and run it on different IP), without overwriting httpd binary of Apache1. What would be the correct, port-friendly :) way to do

Re: freebsd 4.9 and ports cvsup

2005-07-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Cezar Fistik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to upgrade some applications with many dependencies on an older 4.9 system. I was thinking to start with ports tree upgrade but when I try to run cvsup I get connection refused messages from all cvsup servers I tried, meaning that there's no a

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-16 Thread Michael L. Squires
I have as similar setup on my Toshiba 8100 notebook (XP Pro on ad0, FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and an NTFS partition on ad1); if you install XP first and then FreeBSD second the FreeBSD boot manager works as well as anything I've used to manage the process. The installation is also automatic, as long

Re: Spam Assassin Reject

2005-07-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
How aout asking this on the spamassassin users email list? -- Martin On 7/12/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed Spam Assassin and MIMEDefang with Sendmail however I would like Spam Assassin to tell sendmail to Reject Spam on the connection. Instead of accepting the spam

FreeBSD 5.4 Adaptec 2010s - raidutil / aaccli

2005-07-16 Thread M. L.
Hi, I've managed to install FreeBSD 5 on a RAID-10 after my weird problem of random letters/numbers scrolling on the screen upon a CD boot (actually installed 4.10 from CD, cvsupped to 5.4, it worked - seems to be something related to the CD boot loader..). Wanting to have something to

Boot in 1024x768x16

2005-07-16 Thread Nicolas Blais
Hi, Can anyone tell me how to boot in 1024x768x16 (vidcontrol MODE_279) or at least have all the ttyv at that resolution after boot. I have seen the sc flag 0x0080 to set it at 800x600 but I would want 1024 since my lcd native resolution is 1024x768 and in 800x600 the refresh rate causes

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 Adaptec 2010s - raidutil / aaccli

2005-07-16 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 16, 2005, at 10:45 AM, M. L. wrote: Hi, I've managed to install FreeBSD 5 on a RAID-10 after my weird problem of random letters/numbers scrolling on the screen upon a CD boot (actually installed 4.10 from CD, cvsupped to 5.4, it worked - seems to be something related to the CD

Re: Boot in 1024x768x16

2005-07-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-16 13:17, Nicolas Blais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me how to boot in 1024x768x16 (vidcontrol MODE_279) or at least have all the ttyv at that resolution after boot. I have seen the sc flag 0x0080 to set it at 800x600 but I would want 1024 since my lcd native

Floating Point Exception (SDL Parachute Deployed), Nvidia, 5.4

2005-07-16 Thread Justin L. Boss
Is anyone else getting this error in FreeBSD 5.4 with Nvidia drivers. I use 4.3 with no problem. Is you have seen or had this problem please just send me in the right direction. Thanks much. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re[2]: freebsd 4.9 and ports cvsup

2005-07-16 Thread Cezar Fistik
Hello Lowell, Saturday, July 16, 2005, 7:05:55 PM, you wrote: Cezar Fistik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to upgrade some applications with many dependencies on an older 4.9 system. I was thinking to start with ports tree upgrade but when I try to run cvsup I get connection refused

Top output isn't quite right

2005-07-16 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I'm confused about the output from top in 5.4-RELEASE-p4. The gkrellm CPU monitor is telling me I'm running at 95% load while updating the portsdb, but top tells me everything is taking 0.0% of the CPU. It may have something to do with the CPU HT being enabled, but I don't know. The system has

Re: Top output isn't quite right

2005-07-16 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 13:54 -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: I'm confused about the output from top in 5.4-RELEASE-p4. The gkrellm CPU monitor is telling me I'm running at 95% load while updating the portsdb, but top tells me everything is taking 0.0% of the CPU. It may have something to do with

Re: boot loader

2005-07-16 Thread freebsd
Gunter Wambaugh wrote: On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:53 AM, e-mail for freebsd wrote: Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 (from CD) onto a ThinkPad A21. I also have Win2Kpro on this laptop. FreeBSD is installed at about the 7G mark on the harddrive. I had 4.3 installed previously, and thought I

DISPLAY problem

2005-07-16 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am attempting to use the following combination of commands. $ export DISPLAY=:0.0 $ xhost +local: $ boinc -allow_remote_gui_rpc $ boincmgr After the second command, I receive this error message: xhost: unable to open display 0.0 I am not sure what I am doing wrong, or if

Re: Top output isn't quite right

2005-07-16 Thread Jonathan Glaschke
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 01:54:56PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: I'm confused about the output from top in 5.4-RELEASE-p4. The gkrellm CPU monitor is telling me I'm running at 95% load while updating the portsdb, but top tells me everything is taking 0.0% of the CPU. It may have something to

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 Adaptec 2010s - raidutil / aaccli

2005-07-16 Thread M. L.
Hi, I can't post exact messages now, but dmesg detects an asr Adaptec Caching RAID, and the only disk detected (the RAID-10) is da0. As I mentioned, raidutil (from the asr utils package) keeps saying /dev/rdpti17 doesn't exist, and if I symlink asr0 - rdpti17, the next time I run raidutil,

Re: Top output isn't quite right

2005-07-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 16), Louis LeBlanc said: I'm confused about the output from top in 5.4-RELEASE-p4. The gkrellm CPU monitor is telling me I'm running at 95% load while updating the portsdb, but top tells me everything is taking 0.0% of the CPU. portsdb -U ends up running a lot of

Re: Cannot use cvsup

2005-07-16 Thread Brian John
Igor Robul wrote: Brian John wrote: Hello, I can't use cvsup for some reason. I just tried upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4. When I try to use cvsup, it says this: su-2.05b# cvsup /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXaw.so.8 not found, required by cvsup If you dont have X11 on this machine,

Re: Cannot use cvsup

2005-07-16 Thread Brian John
Brian John wrote: Igor Robul wrote: Brian John wrote: Hello, I can't use cvsup for some reason. I just tried upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4. When I try to use cvsup, it says this: su-2.05b# cvsup /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXaw.so.8 not found, required by cvsup If you dont have

Re: RAID Level 55

2005-07-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/16/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: I was reading on wikipedia about RAIDs trying to pass the time and I was thinking why not have RAID 5+5 or 5+5+5 levels, sure you waste 2/3th's of your space but wouldn't this be a killer setup for a directory server

Re: Cannot use cvsup

2005-07-16 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:05 pm, Brian John wrote: Igor Robul wrote: Brian John wrote: Hello, I can't use cvsup for some reason. I just tried upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4. When I try to use cvsup, it says this: su-2.05b# cvsup /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXaw.so.8 not

Can I use jumbo frames on my LAN?

2005-07-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
Is it true that jumbo frames are only useable with VLANs or LANs that are 100% GigE? The current LAN has a 16port 100Base-TX switch with a mix of 10/100 devices connected to it. 4 of the machines connected to the switch have built-in GigE support and their usage profile can take full advantage of

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 Adaptec 2010s - raidutil / aaccli

2005-07-16 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:06 PM, M. L. wrote: Hi, I can't post exact messages now, but dmesg detects an asr Adaptec Caching RAID, and the only disk detected (the RAID-10) is da0. As I mentioned, raidutil (from the asr utils package) keeps saying / dev/rdpti17 doesn't exist, and if I symlink

Re: Spam Assassin Reject

2005-07-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
I've installed Spam Assassin and MIMEDefang with Sendmail however I would like Spam Assassin to tell sendmail to Reject Spam on the connection. 1) SpamAssassin cannot detect spam until it has received and analyzed the FULL message, so rejecting on connection is not possible. 2) that is

little lost with my netstat -m output

2005-07-16 Thread Justin Robertson
I have a couple of issues that I'm somewhat concerned about based on some netstat output results. I have a few boxes running 4.11-STABLE that provide this; FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Wed May 4 09:49:52 PDT 2005 (i386) # netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot allocate memory

Re: motherboard fbsd 5.x

2005-07-16 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 16, 2005, at 7:17 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: I read the pages about supported hardware. It dazzles me. I want to buy a new motherboard. I will run FreeBSD-5.4 (and later on v6.x) on it. No fancy stuff like raid. Just plenty of memory and good performance and fbsd support tothe

Re: Spam Assassin Reject

2005-07-16 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 16, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: I've installed Spam Assassin and MIMEDefang with Sendmail however I would like Spam Assassin to tell sendmail to Reject Spam on the connection. 1) SpamAssassin cannot detect spam until it has received and analyzed the FULL message, so

little lost with my netstat -m output

2005-07-16 Thread Justin Robertson
I have a couple of issues that I'm somewhat concerned about based on some netstat output results. I have a few boxes running 4.11-STABLE that provide this; FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Wed May 4 09:49:52 PDT 2005 (i386) # netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot allocate memory

Re: Can I use jumbo frames on my LAN?

2005-07-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:50 PM 7/16/2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: Is it true that jumbo frames are only useable with VLANs or LANs that are 100% GigE? There's a bunch of good info here: http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/net/jumbo/ -Glenn ___

Re: Three questions...

2005-07-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-15 13:27, George Ruch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on a 5.4-REL test installation on my main desktop machine. Hardware specifics: MSI MS-6378 MB AMD Athalon 1800 @ 1536 256 MB memory 2 x Maxtor 30 GB drives Zip 100 ATA DVD-RW This

Question on Routing

2005-07-16 Thread Mark
I'm looking for a reccomendation on the best software to publish RIP routes for IPSpace I own. I'm aware I'd have to get approval from my bordering routers to allow me to publish routes for public space, but I am just looking to publish updated routes (dynamically) via RIP or BGP from a FreeBSD

Re: can't mount floppy

2005-07-16 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Olga Zenkova [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt and get /dev/fd0: No such file or directory Maybe it's write-protectd. I've seen strange things happen with those disks. I didn't get that error when I tried just now, but now I can't unmount the thing.

Re: Cannot use cvsup

2005-07-16 Thread Steve Quinn
Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:05 pm, Brian John wrote: Igor Robul wrote: Brian John wrote: Hello, I can't use cvsup for some reason. I just tried upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4. When I try to use cvsup, it says this: su-2.05b# cvsup

RE: DHCP Server Offline.

2005-07-16 Thread Paul Hamilton
The du command is your friend. Have a look at 'man du' Maybe something like: du -d2 /var Cheers, Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephan Weaver Sent: Friday, 15 July 2005 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: Question on Routing

2005-07-16 Thread Hornet
On 7/16/05, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a reccomendation on the best software to publish RIP routes for IPSpace I own. I'm aware I'd have to get approval from my bordering routers to allow me to publish routes for public space, but I am just looking to publish updated