Re: networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage

2009-11-13 Thread umage
Sounds like you are narrowing down the culprit(s). Also note that it could possibly be a timing issue related to the order things start up. If the NATD is attempting to start before the interface has come up it will die. /etc/rc.d/natd has no REQUIRE section, so it is indeed possible for it to

RE: atom based servers

2009-11-13 Thread David Rawling
Jack Barnett opined: Curious, how did you get it installed? I used the AMD64 MemStick image on a Corsair 2GB key. It's one I had lying around and that wasn't 8x larger than the image. My motherboard doesn't have an IDE port (so, no IDE CD-ROM) and don't think booting from USB-CDROM is

Re: FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems

2009-11-13 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Norbert Papke npa...@acm.org wrote: On November 6, 2009, Masoom Shaikh wrote: problem # 1 The problem is KDE4 is not able to display anti aliased fonts. I have made the required changes to make it work, of course, in System Settings - Appearance - Fonts

ATI Eyefinity support in FreeBSD

2009-11-13 Thread Jerry
I recently came across this web page regarding ATI: http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity.aspx Is this supported under FreeBSD also? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | No one gets sick on Wednesdays.

Re: ATI Eyefinity support in FreeBSD

2009-11-13 Thread PJ
Jerry wrote: I recently came across this web page regarding ATI: http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity.aspx Is this supported under FreeBSD also? Hey, this is indeed very interesting. But did you read the fine print at the bottom of the page? Linux support

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread James Phillips
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:28:10 -0800 (PST) From: James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca Subject: APM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 784120.47330...@web65508.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii SNIP! I realize the memory can't be shutdown without

Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Roger
Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other OS (linux) installed, since I have

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Julien Gormotte
Roger rno...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Adam Vande More
Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other OS (linux) installed, since I

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 13, 2009, at 12:15 PM, James Phillips wrote: I initially set the time-out to 60 seconds, then 300 seconds in a vain attempt to see the actual power savings. With a 900 second time- out, the drive only spun down once in the past 12 hours. It appears that syslogd can defer *one*

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:28:04PM -0500, Roger wrote: Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread David Allen
On 11/13/09, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi-- On Nov 13, 2009, at 12:15 PM, James Phillips wrote: I initially set the time-out to 60 seconds, then 300 seconds in a vain attempt to see the actual power savings. With a 900 second time- out, the drive only spun down once in the past 12

vpn or adhoc

2009-11-13 Thread kalin m
hi all... wondering if somebody has done vpn between a bsd box and a portable device running windows mobile. is it possible? looking at the wireless networking off the handbook gives a direct example with 2 bsd machines. the bsd machine and the wireless device are hooked up now adhoc. they

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, David-- On Nov 13, 2009, at 2:48 PM, David Allen wrote: There are options available in /etc/defaults/rc.conf to do just that, but how does one copy over the contents of /var at system boot? I'd consider adding something to /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal (which normally mounts the local

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:12:06PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:28:04PM -0500, Roger wrote: Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide:

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread David Allen
On 11/13/09, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi, David-- On Nov 13, 2009, at 2:48 PM, David Allen wrote: There are options available in /etc/defaults/rc.conf to do just that, but how does one copy over the contents of /var at system boot? I'd consider adding something to

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 13, 2009, at 3:54 PM, David Allen wrote: I'd consider adding something to /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal (which normally mounts the local filesystems) to setup a RAMdisk on /var and then do rsync -a /var_template /var (or use a dump/restore or tar pipeline). At the risk of sounding

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread David Allen
On 11/13/09, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi-- On Nov 13, 2009, at 3:54 PM, David Allen wrote: I'd consider adding something to /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal (which normally mounts the local filesystems) to setup a RAMdisk on /var and then do rsync -a /var_template /var (or use a

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread James Phillips
I was going to just respond to myself again, but I see I generated some discussion :) Anyway, In the http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1012 page at least two people mentioned the ATAidle utility. It is not recommended for the same reason APM isn't: devices sleep without OS consent.

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Polytropon
A little sidenote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:04 -0500, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a separate slice. In most cases,

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: A little sidenote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:04 -0500, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a