kernel panic

2009-01-09 Thread Kamlesh Patel
Hi there, I changed the following file of FreeBSD 7.0: sys/boot/forth/beastie.4th variable rebootkey variable mykey (added line) I built and installed kernel, then i reboot the system, it gives me the following error: --- panic: free:

7.1 : watchdog bge0 timeout ?

2009-01-09 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I've installed 7.1 onto our mail exchager (MX) then it suddendly stopped to work last night with the following message watchdog bge0 timeout The machine is a HP pc which was doing the same service at 6.3 without that kind of trouble Any info welcome Thanks a lot.

3945ABG wireless problems

2009-01-09 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF --- Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo

Re: Login accounts don't work after update to 7.1

2009-01-09 Thread Bert-Jan
Bert-Jan i...@bert-jan.com writes: Hi Folks, I just updated one of my servers from 7.0-RC1 to 7.1-RELEASE. During the first freebsd-update install, before rebooting, I was surprised to find that it was going to change my /etc/passwd (deleting all my accounts, keeping only the built-in

Nature is Closer than You Think

2009-01-09 Thread Selayang Springs
Nature is Closer than You Think At: [pic.JPG] [MASA.jpg] Another successful project by: MASA Group of Companies Developed by: Barisan Tenaga Perancang (M) Sdn Bhd At this early stage of preparation of the whole marketing campaign, the developer is offering, only to the

Re: how to use the MFS ?

2009-01-09 Thread chris.scott
or you should be able to use unionfs to mount the md1 device over /usr/ports if in not mistaken Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 09), PstreeM China said: hi all: i want to know ,how to compile better speed during the installation of Ports , use the memery filesystem(MFS) ..

Re: how to use the MFS ?

2009-01-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
hi all: i want to know ,how to compile better speed during the installation of Ports , use the memery filesystem(MFS) .. during make world , mount the md0 to /usr/obj , but what can i do for better use tmpfs the port ? rm -rf /usr/ports/ mkdir /usr/ports mount -t tmpfs tmpfs

Re: how to use the MFS ?

2009-01-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
In the last episode (Jan 09), PstreeM China said: hi all: i want to know ,how to compile better speed during the installation of Ports , use the memery filesystem(MFS) .. during make world , mount the md0 to /usr/obj , but what can i do for the port ? Set WRKDIRPREFIX to point to a

Re: how to use the MFS ?

2009-01-09 Thread chris.scott
Wojciech Puchar wrote: hi all: i want to know ,how to compile better speed during the installation of Ports , use the memery filesystem(MFS) .. during make world , mount the md0 to /usr/obj , but what can i do for better use tmpfs the port ? rm -rf /usr/ports/ mkdir

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-09 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Yes, I did. And although the system appears to list the specified amount of RAM (3GB or 2GB), the X server crashes nonetheless... On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/9/09, Giuseppe Pagnoni gpagn...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message --

Re: how to use the MFS ?

2009-01-09 Thread PstreeM China
i think the option WRKDIRPREFIX is a good idea , and i whill test the methon unionfs. but i want to know , after i mount the unionfs , like this :#mount -t unionfs /usr/ports /usr/ports.real the /usr/ports is memery FS, what can i used to install software ?? go to the dir : /usr/ports/**/** to

Re: 3945ABG wireless problems

2009-01-09 Thread PstreeM China
what tha AP you connect ?? maybe , the wlan can not connect a AP, the hardware will turn off ... check your file /etc/wpa_supp**.conf On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.netwrote: Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0:

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

2009-01-09 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Brian McCann wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropon escribió: I could only suggest to eliminate all slices and partitions on the thumb drive (such as it was a new disk right from the

Re: 3945ABG wireless problems

2009-01-09 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Actually, I've just sofar tried to perform a 'ifconfig wpi0 list scan' to verify which AP are availableafter I have put the interface up of course. But it just gets stuck on this scandoesn't do anything. info from /var/log/messages Jan 9 13:05:31 desmo sudo: username : TTY=ttyp2 ;

Can't boot machine after upgrade

2009-01-09 Thread Frank Shute
Hi all, I just updated my server from 6.3-RELEASE to 6.4-RELEASE and I now can't boot my machine - a rather crappy HP desktop. The boot seems to go along nicely without any errors that I can see but when it comes to mounting the root filesystem it bails out: Trying to mount root from

Re: Can't boot machine after upgrade

2009-01-09 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:27:20 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Anybody got any idea on what's going on how to fix it? The messages you presented seem to indicate that ad0 is not found. It's not listed in the available devices, and boot fails. Could you check its presence using a

Re: 3945ABG wireless problems

2009-01-09 Thread PstreeM China
i don't know what happen ... i use the 3945ABG too , i use the three config file ... /boot/loader.conf /etc/rc.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf you may lose the thried file ,give you for a example. ### the loader.conf file legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 if_wpi_load=YES wlan_load=YES

Re: Restore deleted files

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Copeland
Polytropon wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask a two-stage question: 1. Is it possible to recover files that have been deleted? 2. Which tools or procedures are suggested for recovery? While sorting out some files and transfering them to another hard disk, I accidentally deleted too much: the

Re: Anybody using Lenovo S10?[ Model Correction ]

2009-01-09 Thread eculp
Quoting Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com: ec...@casasponti.net wrote: Quoting ec...@casasponti.net: I bought a Lenova S10 for my wife. It comes with WindowsXP and while configuring it for her I found it to be a nice, new generation laptop. I liked it well enough to consider buying

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-09 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-09 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: Glen, Well, I never loaded into /boot/modules and at this point I've removed the *bcmwl5-stuff* to begin again. Note that *kldload bcmwl5_sys.ko* output that there was no such file. Below is some info as to what lead to

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, For those that have been following this thread: I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR -Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk, -The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR, -It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager install),

Re: programs...

2009-01-09 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:03:29PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've going to give away what I think could be at least a multi-thousand dollar idea, something we nearly have already. And a wish-list for a program that does not, AFAIK, exist. Its called

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Copeland
why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless you specifically need fbsd boot manager Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, For those that have been following this thread: I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR -Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind up with: F1 Windows F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 -Grant -

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Copeland
also, doing it the way i suggested will still give you the option to re-select windows, and then from there right back to freebsd is you accidentally hit the wrong button. creates a nice loop. eg: machine boots, windows shows you Windows XP or FreeBSD you select FreeBSD, you get the menu you

Re: Can't boot machine after upgrade

2009-01-09 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:54:55 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: I tried booting a FreeBSD CD going into sysinstall then fdisk but it said it couldn't find any disks. Ah! This means something like the disk *really* can't be accessed. You can easily conclude from % dmesg |

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

2009-01-09 Thread Brian McCann
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:30 AM, chris.scott k...@snaffler.net wrote: if your still stuck i can give you a dd of my usb image that definitely works if it still doesnt work for you you will know its a hardware issue and not your building skills 8) Brian McCann wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at

Problem compiling gnome2

2009-01-09 Thread rg
Hello, I am trying to compile gnome2, but libggz fails to compile because of missing library: gcrypt1.5. It does on to complile security/ libgcrypt, but evidently the current version 1.4.3 doesn't help much. How can I fight with this beast? Thank you.

Re: Problem compiling gnome2

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Copeland
rg wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile gnome2, but libggz fails to compile because of missing library: gcrypt1.5. It does on to complile security/libgcrypt, but evidently the current version 1.4.3 doesn't help much. How can I fight with this beast? Thank you. i would assume upgrade to

Re: Can't boot machine after upgrade

2009-01-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:42PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:27:20 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Anybody got any idea on what's going on how to fix it? The messages you presented seem to indicate that ad0 is not found. It's not listed in the available

Re: Sun sucks

2009-01-09 Thread RW
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:16:25 -0500 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: RW wrote: Just create a new account for some made-up name, don't specify any company, download your file, and then (if you really care) go through the hoops afterwards. Improper subject, wrong attitude. If one

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

2009-01-09 Thread Brian McCann
Well this just got a LOT more frustrating and interesting. I made a stick following those directions using a new stick...worked fine, booted off of it...did some work on it...somehow the filesystem got very corrupted in one of various things I was doing to it (I think it was when I

Re: Login accounts don't work after update to 7.1

2009-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bert-Jan i...@bert-jan.com writes: I do find it strange though, that freebsd-update replaced those files, even though it tells you it's going to change them. I don't use freebsd-update, so I'm just trying to figure it out from reading the program. [freebsd-update is mostly just a shell

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Copeland
well, there are many easy ways. one is to install an IFS version of UFS, if you're using ufs. that way windows can read the ufs slices and you can grab your file that way. Grant Peel wrote: Mike, In order to do that, I need to be able to get the the /boot/boot1 file that is located in the

Re: Problem compiling gnome2

2009-01-09 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:14:03PM +0200, rg wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile gnome2, but libggz fails to compile because of missing library: gcrypt1.5. It does on to complile security/libgcrypt, but evidently the current version 1.4.3 doesn't help much. How can I fight with this

Re: ports tree build ignores /etc/make.conf

2009-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk writes: I have: # uname -srm FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha # In /etc/make.conf I have .if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang/gcc*} NOT_FOR_ARCHS= .endif However, I get: # cd /usr/ports/lang/gcc43 # make === gcc-4.3.3_20090101 does not run on

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:23:01PM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Hi all, I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box. In that machine, there is one SATA drive.

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:37:28PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: So then, IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, should we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then, use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager? Maybe, but better to

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:40:58AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, For those that have been following this thread: I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR -Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk, -The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR, -It

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:53:51AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? Maybe.But, MS software is notorious for not recognizing any other OSen nor being able to boot them So, use the FreeBSD fdisk which will plant the FreeBSD MBR.

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Derek Funk
From the point the message below, I would set up freebsd to give me a graphical gui so I can use gparted to unflag the bsd partition as boot and flag the windows as boot. Before restarting, I would copy /boot/boot1 to somewhere accessible by windows named something like freebsd.boot. Then

Re: how to use the MFS ?

2009-01-09 Thread chris.scott
cd /usr/ports as normal have a look at man mount_unionfs your basically stacking fs on top of each other writes goto the tmpfs as its at the top of the stack its not persistent over boots mind PstreeM China wrote: i think the option WRKDIRPREFIX is a good idea , and i whill test the methon

re: Help with dmesg (problem solved)

2009-01-09 Thread Rem P Roberti
OK...follow me through on this one. The line 48 that was referred to in the error message as being in sendmail.cf was actually line 48 in the /etc/mail/freebsd.mc file, and subsequently in the hostname.mc file that is created with the make command. That line is: OSTYPE(freebsd6), and it

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

2009-01-09 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Hello I notice that when you write zeros to the first sectors of the pen drive it gets mad about it and you must make fsck and disklabel TWICE... the first time, it complains, the second time it works fine I assume you have grub installed (pkg_add -r grub) I use the folowing procedure: 1)

Re: Login accounts don't work after update to 7.1

2009-01-09 Thread Colin Percival
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bert-Jan i...@bert-jan.com writes: What is the proper way to handle this ? Can I run a command after the update finishes that regenerates the account databases from the master.passwd ? I checked the history and *I* never touched it during the update, so it was merged like

best way to debug intermittent system freezes?

2009-01-09 Thread Steve Franks
I've got me a laptop with a very clean, updated 7.1 (stable) install. Started at 7.0. Only problem is about every 2-4 hours it locks up solid - no disk, no keyboard, console frozen (not running X yet, although it's installed and does boot from startx). How do I even go about poking into this?

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-09 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: Glen, Well, I never loaded into /boot/modules and at this point I've removed the *bcmwl5-stuff* to begin again. Note that *kldload

Re: Can't boot machine after upgrade

2009-01-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:05:57PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:54:55 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: I tried booting a FreeBSD CD going into sysinstall then fdisk but it said it couldn't find any disks. Ah! This means something like the disk *really*

weird samba error

2009-01-09 Thread Aggelidis Nikos
hi to all the list, i have a question concerning samba and freebsd: whenever i use the option username map = /usr/local/etc/samba/smbusers in my smb.conf , and i try to connect to samba server like this #smbclient //apollo/username Password: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE i get

Re: how to use the MFS ?

2009-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
PstreeM China pstr...@gmail.com writes: i think the option WRKDIRPREFIX is a good idea , and i whill test the methon unionfs. Definitely benchmark against just using a native local filesystem, though. Taking away all of that memory that FreeBSD would otherwise use for *caching* file data

FreeBSD ral(4)

2009-01-09 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
Hello list, I found this recent post (added to the bottom of the Email) in a OpenBSD mailing list, and I am experiencing the same problems connecting our Iphone 3G phones to our FreeBSD based AP Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks fromTodd T. Fries t...@fries.net reply-tot...@fries.net

Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

2009-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes: Hello. I come across device.hints manual which says I can set irq for each device there. I am using 6.1. Kind of old now. I don't know specifically of any reason that would matter, but for several reasons I wouldn't be at all surprised. The settings

Re: Sun sucks

2009-01-09 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
RW wrote: On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:16:25 -0500 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: RW wrote: Just create a new account for some made-up name, don't specify any company, download your file, and then (if you really care) go through the hoops afterwards. Improper

Re: Restore deleted files

2009-01-09 Thread Rockingham500
1. Yes, you can recover your deleted files. 2. The best file recovery program is File Restore Professional. It will also recover files that have lost their file header details and hence have no file names. Most other products can't do this. You can also preview your deleted files before you make

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-09 Thread Glen Barber
I'm in the process of sync'ing up my system with source . . . but, in the meantime I'm wondering about the choice of Broadcom driver. Is it really a matter of trying different ones? It was for me. It took me 3 tries before I found one that 'worked'. I updated the driver this morning to a

Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent

2009-01-09 Thread GESBBB
From: Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com On Thursday 08 January 2009 12:08:55 pm Michel Talon wrote: Hello, would it not be interesting to have the DragonFlyBSD mail agent in FreeBSD? It is a very simple mail agent, like ssmtp, but with some more features: it can either deliver mail

Re: weird samba error

2009-01-09 Thread Aggelidis Nikos
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Aggelidis Nikos aggelidis.n...@gmail.com wrote: hi to all the list, i forgot to mention that i use almost the same smb.conf and smbusers in a debian lenny and everything works, that's why i prefered to post this message in questi...@... best regards, nikos

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:37:37AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: You're kind of stuck then aren't you -- at least in respect TLS/SSL and x509 certificates? If you don't trust any of the bodies who have the capability to authenticate the owners of a particular cryptographic key/certificate on

Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent

2009-01-09 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Friday 09 January 2009 5:56:42 pm GESBBB wrote: From: Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com On Thursday 08 January 2009 12:08:55 pm Michel Talon wrote: Hello, would it not be interesting to have the DragonFlyBSD mail agent in FreeBSD? It is a very simple mail agent, like ssmtp, but

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:08:56PM -0800, Walt Pawley wrote: At 12:31 PM -0700 1/6/09, Chad Perrin wrote: On the other hand, I don't trust Verisign, either. What's to trust? If you pay them, you in. Exactly. That's why I -- as the guy sitting in front of the *browser* -- don't trust

Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Rem P Roberti
Question 1) I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c: alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c' It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by mounting /c at boot-up time, so I added this to fstab: # DeviceMountpoint FStype

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Question 1) I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c: alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c' It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by mounting /c at boot-up time, so I

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Question 1) I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c: alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c' It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by mounting /c at boot-up time, so I

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Rem P Roberti
Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Question 1) I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c: alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c' It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by mounting /c at

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:05:20PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Roland Smith wrote: When using the built-in mount_ntfs you should really mount read-only. Maybe using the options 'ro' and 'late' will help. I changed the fstab options to 'ro' and /c still won't mount at startup. This is not

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Copeland
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? Maybe.But, MS software is notorious for not recognizing any other OSen nor being able to boot them So, use the FreeBSD fdisk

/usr/ports/databases/dbf segmentation fault

2009-01-09 Thread Tom Mende
Hi; Hoping for some help on this application that converts dbf files into csv format. I'm not sure if the problem is with the source dbf file ... my usage / syntax ... and/or something else... BACKGROUND... uname -rs FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE dbf --version dBase Reader and Converter V.

Help me select hardware and software options for very large server

2009-01-09 Thread Terry Kennedy
[I decided to ask this question here as it overlaps -hardware, -current, and a couple other lists. I'd be glad to redirect the conversation to a list that's a better fit, if anyone would care to suggest one.] I'm in the process of planning the hardware and software for the second generation

native lpd X LPRng

2009-01-09 Thread luizbcampos
Following LPRng documentation, I removed native lpd (/usr/sbin/lpd) and I come into a great mistake... # lpd another printer spooler is active possibly 731 Is there any way to fix the problem, i.e, get /usr/sbin/lpd without reinstalling the OS?

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:09 PM -0800 1/4/09, David Christensen wrote: I have changed the root shell to Bash on another machine I use as a CVS server and haven't noticed any issues yet, but I've been wondering if I'm setting myself up for problems by doing so. Does anybody know if it's okay to change the root

Re: how to use the MFS ?

2009-01-09 Thread RW
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:30:30 -0500 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: PstreeM China pstr...@gmail.com writes: i think the option WRKDIRPREFIX is a good idea , and i whill test the methon unionfs. Definitely benchmark against just using a native local

Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

2009-01-09 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes: That's strange, I didn't find manual where it say it work in some condition or for some device only. Consult individual device drivers' manual pages for available keywords and their possible values. Thanks. I

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread RW
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good idea. According to the man page, some limited writing can be

Builder for many architectures and releases

2009-01-09 Thread Andrew Hotlab
Hi to all. A lot of new FreeBSD systems have appeared in my server farm since I started studying to where I could migrate from some MSFT-*sigh*-death technologies, almost two years ago. Today the time and the bandwidth required to update all FreeBSD servers (I use the source-based method)

laptop battery + i2c bus reprogramming

2009-01-09 Thread michael
several of my laptop batteries(L-ION) have an i2c bus to the eeprom inside the case. is it possible to reprogram or reset a battery i have repacked from within freebsd or will i need to do this with the available windows programs? what i'm asking is if freebsd actually supports sending of data