Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I >> am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles. >> >&

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Greetings All, > > I really appreciate all of the feedback and reply posts regaring my > inquiry about Darwin and FreeBSD. > > I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I > think is VERY good and

Re: detach/reattach remote GUI applications?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Dean wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Eric Schuele wrote: > >> On 11/12/06 18:37, Luke Dean wrote: >>> >>> I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the "screen" >>> utility with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application,

Re: bpf kernel module

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > On 12/11/06, Vlad GURDIGA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 12/11/06, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >>

Re: signal design questions

On Nov 11, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Wenyen, Shih wrote: Hi all, I have some questions. (1) I know how to delivery of a signal to a process. 1. The kernel places a signal context on the user's stack.(user level) 2. The kernel places a signal-handler frame on the user's stack.(kernel

Re: bpf kernel module

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to keep very close touch with 6.1_STABLE cvsupping sources > once a week or even more often. I'm thinking of removing as much as > possible devices from the kernel loading them from /boot/loader.conf > inste

Re: Another Hardware Issue

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Hardie wrote: > I have another machine which will not boot the first time after a power > on. It gives the following messages: > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: c6303000 > > syncing disks...

Re: How can I disable the lookback device?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris wrote: > First of all the motivation of this is my tftp problem with the address > 0.0.0.0. Trying to tftp from the same box doesn't reproduce the > problem, whatever is happening gets cleaned up in the loopback device. > So I want to disable

freebsd-questions : open posting? (was Re: [Mac-users] Mounting dante)

Garrett Cooper wrote: Amir Stone wrote: Hi, Is there any way to mount our dante account onto OSX with cmd-K? I find Fugu bothersome. Thanks, Amir 1. C&C doesn't export any of the NFS directories outside of the dante cluster (or homer cluster, etc). 2. smb shares are mountable

Re: [Mac-users] Mounting dante

Amir Stone wrote: Hi, Is there any way to mount our dante account onto OSX with cmd-K? I find Fugu bothersome. Thanks, Amir 1. C&C doesn't export any of the NFS directories outside of the dante cluster (or homer cluster, etc). 2. smb shares are mountable on-campus (keyword), so feel free to

Issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles. For some odd reason every couple days (~2 days) I have to restart the smbd daemon because it eats up 6000+ filehandles, just for sockets I assume (based on netsta

Re: Hard Drive Issues

On Nov 7, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Richard McIntyre wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Richard McIntyre wrote: I'm having a similar problem, Oct 13 03:01:31 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=40 LBA=181778119 Oct 13 07:11:15 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=40 LBA=181

Re: Install error - MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff806205d0, 0) error 6

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tecol wrote: > I tried to install the AMD64 build of FreeBSD 6.1. Very early in the > installation right after the Timecounter messages, I get this MOD_LOAD > error 6 and the system hangs: > > Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2011163535 Hz quality 800 > 2

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

On Nov 6, 2006, at 3:48 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Thanks everyone for the replay to my post as it did finally occur to me that perhaps this question had been asked on the mailing list, but unfortunately it occurred to me after I sent it. So, basically the Apple team took FreeBSD and the

Re: hotspot package ?

On Nov 5, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Marwan Sultan wrote: hello All, Anyone knows any free or cheap software/package that acts as a hotspot softwar? also that manage accounts and connects to radius? Im already running chillispot, but I want to try something diffrent than chillispot or coova-c

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorin Lund wrote: > Lonnie Cumberland wrote: >> Greetings All, >> >> Being a long time Linux user and now looking into moving over to >> FreeBSD, I decided to so some research on the web to try and get a >> better idea as to the strengths and weaknesse

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Greetings All, > > Being a long time Linux user and now looking into moving over to > FreeBSD, I decided to so some research on the web to try and get a > better idea as to the strengths and weaknesses as compared to other >

Re: About "how the GUI should look like after installation!"

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/1/06, Joerg Pernfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I logged in and typed > 'startx' to start the gui (that's what I should do! right!). > Consequently, it'd been loaded. I am just seeing four comand shells. > That's all I can see! No taskbars! No background picture

Re: question on my screen resolution

Frank Shute wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:37:47AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Sherry Zhang wrote: Dear Lane: thank you for reply my xorg.conf This is probably an xorg issue, not freebsd-specific. But send a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log, just for giggles. lane

Re: Ports collection issue

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lane wrote: > On Thursday 26 October 2006 23:16, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> Lane wrote: >>> On Thursday 26 October 2006 19:07, Rik Davis wrote: >>>> Guys, >>>> >>>> I'm a die hard freebsd us

Re: Ports collection issue

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lane wrote: > On Thursday 26 October 2006 19:07, Rik Davis wrote: >> Guys, >> >> I'm a die hard freebsd user, but I am finding myself becomeing quite >> frustrated with why you completely pulled the 5.4 ports collection off of >> your ftp sites. >> >

Re: Bug with tcsh? : if evaluating true instead of false

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Robillard wrote: >> Ok, so I tried to make a simple script to add users so I wouldn't have >> to type in groups/pw over and over again... the problem is that it's not >> behaving like it should =o. > > [ ...8<... Removed a bunch of lines ...8<..

Re: Bug with tcsh? : if evaluating true instead of false

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Robillard wrote: >> Ok, so I tried to make a simple script to add users so I wouldn't have >> to type in groups/pw over and over again... the problem is that it's not >> behaving like it should =o. > > [ ...8<... Removed a bunch of lines ...8<..

Re: Bug with tcsh? : if evaluating true instead of false

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Ok, so I tried to make a simple script to add users so I wouldn't have > to type in groups/pw over and over again... the problem is that it's not > behaving like it should =o. > > Script: >

Bug with tcsh? : if evaluating true instead of false

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, so I tried to make a simple script to add users so I wouldn't have to type in groups/pw over and over again... the problem is that it's not behaving like it should =o. Script: #!/bin/tcsh -x # if ( ( $# != 0 ) ) { set GROUPS="";

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Schulz wrote: > i guess this is kind of interesting and relating to the subject, at > least i have found it a good read : > http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php That's been around the list at least a few times sinc

Re: can burn cd's, can't read once burnt

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy Smith wrote: > Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Timothy Smith wrote: > > >>>> Paul Schmehl wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> --On Thursday, October 19, 2006 00:17:33 +1000 Timothy Smith

Re: can burn cd's, can't read once burnt

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy Smith wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: > >> --On Thursday, October 19, 2006 00:17:33 +1000 Timothy Smith >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> i have an odd issue with 6.0 that i've been trying to solve for ages and >>> nobody seems to know how to

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Gao wrote: > Robert Huff wrote: >> Jeff Mohler writes: >> >> >>> > > Linux supports more devices than FreeBSD, especially new devices. >>> >>> Linux clearly supports many more bugs than FreeBSD as well. >>> >> "Linux is closer to

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

Jim Stapleton wrote: Also, I'm not sure when you guys tried Gentoo, but as of late (within the past ~1 year), the quality of the packages and system as an OS has improved quite a bit, in the sense that many stable items now install and work properly in the OS. Another off-topic comment I admit, b

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

Raymond Pasco wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:19:27AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: I'd like to see portage in FBSD though, since ruby is pretty kludgy. You'd like to port a knockoff of ports to a system that has ports? (also, not sure what you're referring to with your

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

Jim Stapleton wrote: yeah the ports make me fell in love with FreeBSD, the only thing that came close to FreeBSD ports is the gentoo portage, note came close but not really at par. yeah, portage wasn't bad, but it wasn't as clean as ports either. More errors, more fixing. That's primarily b

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

Jim Stapleton wrote: No offense to those who swear by it (and I know this is a bit off-topic), but genkernel is shit. It's kernel compiling for people who are afraid of forgetting make commands.. -Garrett I agree, but since I couldn't get a decent custom kernel booting, that was my only option.

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

Jim Stapleton wrote: I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux. With Gentoo, version release does not matter tha

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Palmer wrote: > At 01:45 PM 10/16/2006, Simon Gao wrote: >> I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to >> upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I >> need to wipe them out and reinstall. Ho

Re: Perl's GetOpt::Std -- Where is it?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Carroll wrote: > Actually, it looks like you're trying to: > > use GetOpt::Std; > > But it should be: > > use Getopt::Std; > > Note the non-capital o there :) > > Josh > > On 10/13/06, Garrett

Re: Perl's GetOpt::Std -- Where is it?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: > I'm trying to make a Perl script with GetOpt::Std, a Perl module > that's supposed to exist with the base installation of Perl. Perl > reports that it doesn't exist in the @INC path for Per

Perl's GetOpt::Std -- Where is it?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to make a Perl script with GetOpt::Std, a Perl module that's supposed to exist with the base installation of Perl. Perl reports that it doesn't exist in the @INC path for Perl and I haven't really installed any additional Perl module

Re: Hard Drive Issues

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Justin wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I'm getting the following errors on the terminal: >>> >>> ad1:

Re: Hard Drive Issues

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm getting the following errors on the terminal: > > ad1: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=186691903 > ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=84 > LBA=186691903 > g_vfs_done():ad1s1d[READ(of

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello again, > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >>> Easier just to go ln -s /root/kernel/LISTS /usr/src/sys/[arch]/conf/ . >>> >>> -Garrett >> Err... omit that l

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

Garrett Cooper wrote: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: Yes, you can install the kernel. Applications don't live in kernelspace. If your kernel fails to boot you can boot the old kernel by in the loader menu go to a promt, unload the kernel and

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Hope you can advise me. I have a FreeBSD 6.1 stable system for which I want to build a custom kernel. However, I am scared to death (almost ;) and just want to make sure I have it done the right way. I have in the past used supfile with ports-all option and cou

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: Yes, you can install the kernel. Applications don't live in kernelspace. If your kernel fails to boot you can boot the old kernel by in the loader menu go to a promt, unload the kernel and load kernel.old. Now here co

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

ke han wrote: Patrick, Since you are already knowledgeable of X-11 apps on slackware, this opinion may not concern you. My opinion of FreeBSD is do not try to configure X-11 desktops and apps with it. Its just too much effort. I have the same opinion of any *nix system that require the user

Re: Expunging IMAP mailbox via cronjob : possible?

Garrett Cooper wrote: I know this isn't really a FreeBSD question, but I was wondering if there was a means available where I can expunge my email automatically from my IMAP inboxes / folders (I have a wide variety of custom folders). I just find it tedious logging in via SSH to each

Expunging IMAP mailbox via cronjob : possible?

I know this isn't really a FreeBSD question, but I was wondering if there was a means available where I can expunge my email automatically from my IMAP inboxes / folders (I have a wide variety of custom folders). I just find it tedious logging in via SSH to each host with pine and expunging

Re: problems ssh'ing debug1: An invalid name was supplied (OSX client)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Noah wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: >> On Oct 6, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Noah wrote: >>> any clues why ssh is hanging before a prompt is provided from the >>> server side. this prompt stalling behavior is only happening when I >>> am coming from my OSX ssh cli

Re: Cannot make depend without USB?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi: > > I'm trying to recompile a 6.2-PRERELEASE kernel without USB support. > After commenting out the USB devices in the kernel config file, and doing > a "make cleandepend" in the kernel source directory, I get this when

Re: Question about installing FreeBSD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jan gestre wrote: > On 10/4/06, Pete C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Quoting Michael Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I really hope that you're answering questions about installing >> > FreeBSD, since I can't yet start thr

Re: installing ports

On Oct 3, 2006, at 5:51 AM, Mbuthia Wangui wrote: I have a bandwidth manager running on FreeBSD 4.9 LOCAL. I want to install net-snmp so that traffic generated on the bwmger can be pointed to cacti (like mrtg). My problem is that I have gone through enough manuals to get assistance on which

Re: Questions about adding new disk

On Oct 2, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Daniel Johansson wrote: Hello, I've just bought two new Seagate SATA drives and a Promise TX4 SATA300 controller. The disks and the controller is working fine but I'm a little confused how I should setup them. First of all I'm running FreeBSD 6.1. The disks are t

Re: Checking remote processes

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to test a remote server to determine if certain processes are running? For example, can server 1 check server 2, which is at a remote location, to ensure squid is running? I have not been able to figure out how to do this, or if it is even possible. Than

Re: Using wget to mirror just part of a web site?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 stan wrote: > I looked at the mirror port, and it seemded complex to set up, > and looks like it is not bieng manitaned any more as teh link > reference in it's man page is dead. > > So I figure I can use wget to mirror the web sties I need to mirro

Re: Good networking books for a beginner?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Saturday 30 September 2006 20:12, Rob wrote: >> Does anyone happen to know of any good books that explain all about >> networking in detail (such as gateways, netmasks, etc)? I know the >> 'basics' but would like to dig in a

Re: Software before trying it

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Mac uses BSD would that not mean that any one can use Mac software on a PC-BSD... My mind is telling me that this is not possible so it be intresting to know the reason behind it... to learn Thanks Toby Short answer: not possible. This is due in part to a

Issues with configuring IPFW for NAT setup

I'm trying to configure a lightweight router/gateway just to block bad SMTP requests; many virii/spyware apps on Windoze boxes on my network have forced our ISP to almost shut us down more than once now because people don't know how to manage their machines =\. The problem with my config i

Re: linux recovery tool

Robin Becker wrote: Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: ... One of my hosters says they provide a ram based linux recovery tool, but I'm actually using freebsd on the hardware so am wondering if linux knows how to mount UFS partitions? -- Robin Becker Yes, it does .. thanks That is if the

Re: Kopete MSN + Cam

Warren Liddell wrote: Is or will there ever be support to allow the viewing of Webcams from others or is it simply not possible ? Webcam support still isn't fully functional in any of the opensource projects I think; gaim is the closest to getting a working prototype though, through the gaim-vv

Re: PAY offered - sshd won't allow client from same domain

On Sep 16, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Sep 16, 2006, at 6:05 PM, ke han wrote: On Sep 16, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: ssh -vv server1.domain.com form OS X: (real domain name edited to domain.com) > ssh -vv server1.domain.com OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7i

Re: PAY offered - sshd won't allow client from same domain

On Sep 16, 2006, at 6:05 PM, ke han wrote: On Sep 16, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: ssh -vv server1.domain.com form OS X: (real domain name edited to domain.com) > ssh -vv server1.domain.com OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7i 14 Oct 2005 debug1: Reading configuration data /

Re: PAY offered - sshd won't allow client from same domain

On Sep 16, 2006, at 5:46 PM, ke han wrote: I will PAY someone who can either answer this question or who wants to log into my server and help me figure it out. I can pay an hourly rate, make a donation to your favorite project...whatever. This problem is killing my productivity I ha

Re: FS size

On Sep 16, 2006, at 5:33 PM, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I've read http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html and I want know actually on i386 arch is the limit of a fs is already 2 Tb What's the situation on amd64/EMT64, can we have big fs ? something like 10 or more TB ?

Re: unknown ethernet card

On Sep 15, 2006, at 12:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning the install of 6.1 RELEASE on a Dell 1950. It uses Dual Embedded Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NICs, and they are not correctly recognized during the install. The system identifies them as bce0 and bce1, bu

Re: Firefox+Flash

On Sep 15, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a sin

Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Arindam wrote: > I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on > another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 > installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname > to this machine for both the FreeBSD an

Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

On Sep 14, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Arindam wrote: I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname to this machine for both the FreeBSD and RHEL insta

Re: Thank You and Mc OS games

On Sep 14, 2006, at 6:33 AM, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 13 September 2006, at 15:25, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On the other hand, you might have heard that Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD. Although it is based on BSD, I don't think it's FreeBSD it was based on. I think it goes al

Re: Thank You and Mc OS games

On Sep 13, 2006, at 10:11 PM, felix.schalck wrote: Hello in there, I'm kind of complicated person, so finding o good OS was really a pity for me. I googled around a lot, installed a lot and often get disappointed... until I discovered FreeBSD. Folks, this OS ist simply great because it i

Re: From FIXIT: (was:Re: System down, won't come up

Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:25:01PM -0400, Jerold McAllister wrote: Gary Kline writes: On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:33:44AM -0700, Atom Powers wrote: If it's only the data you want, try a FreeSBIE boot disk. That will give you access to the file system/network, s

Re: FREEBSD INSTALLING

özgür og(uz wrote: I have downloaded ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.1/6.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.1/6.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso EASE-amd64-bootonly.iso

Re: Upgrade ghostscript? How?

On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Hi, I wanna upgrade ghostscript to ghostscript-gpl-8.15 from ghostscript-gnu-7.07. I've installed the gpl version via port. But when I tried to pkg_delete the gnu version, it said pkg_delete: package 'ghostscript-gnu-7.07_15' is required by th

Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?

Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: On 30/08/2006 19:35, Philip Hallstrom wrote: I've got a freebsd server in the garage that has a low end soundblaster (I think) card in it that I've been using to play music. Works just fine. We moved and now I'd like to be able to have different music play in differen

Re: Various package/ports problems

On Aug 28, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I inherited a FreeBSD 4.8 box that had a lot of out of date ports on it. in trying to fix some of this, i seem to have screwed up the package or ports system in a way i cant manage to f

Fine tuning conditional compilation of 'make buildworld'

Hi, Just wondering if there was a more comprehensive list of variables that can be used when specifying what should and shouldn't be built other than what is specified in "man make.conf" for "make buildworld". I am configuring two 6.1 systems and want to trim down the junk as much as possib

Re: BSDstats: Error message

Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Just wondering if this is a usual response to my accidentally hammering the bsdstats server: bash-2.05b# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics & [1] 5437 bash-2.05b# Posting monthly OS statistics to bsdstats

BSDstats: Error message

Just wondering if this is a usual response to my accidentally hammering the bsdstats server: bash-2.05b# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics & [1] 5437 bash-2.05b# Posting monthly OS statistics to bsdstats.org Posting monthly device/CPU statistics disabled set monthly_statistics_re

Re: You've got an e-card at jwave.net!

Jonathan Horne wrote: On Saturday 26 August 2006 23:41, mail.jwave.net wrote: You've got an e-card at jwave.net A friend has sent you this e-card. "Sexy Surprise" from jwave.net! There are 2 ways to view the e-card. 1. Simply click the link below. [1]http://mail.jwave.net/i

Re: [OT] CVSUP (was "Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??")

On Aug 22, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:38:46AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gerard Seibert wrote: IMHO, it might be a lot easier for him to use portsnap. Especially if he

Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

On Aug 21, 2006, at 6:41 PM, backyard wrote: --- Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: backyard wrote: I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the

[OT] CVSUP (was "Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??")

Gerard Seibert wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 13:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:14:10 -0400 beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: To update portmanager, assuming you have an up-to-date port system: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager male install & make clean

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

beno wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager && make deinstall && make install I'm afraid that just reinstalled 0.2.0_1 ... if you haven't cvsup'ed lately, I'd try to grab a snapshot of ports first. How? TIA, beno Run "rm

Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

backyard wrote: I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice inappropriate boot image when they turn it on... It will boot from a floppy, but i

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: Run 'portmanager -V' and see if it equals: 0.4.1_6. 0.2.0 If not, you have an older version of portmanager. Update it just like any other port, only do not use portmanager to do it. That's my question. How do I update it if I can't use portmanager, portmas

Re: portupgrade upgrade procedure

Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, Why is the upgrade procedure recommended to be portupgrade -R instead of portupgrade -r ? If -R is "Act on all those packages required by the given packages as well." isn't it more important to rebuild the packages that depend on the package being rebuilt

Re: Flash Upgrade

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny Pansters wrote: > On Thursday 17 August 2006 12:52, Gerard Seibert wrote: >> chris wrote: >>> I didn't see any such notices in fresh ports. >> Port: linux-flashplugin-7.0r63_1 >> Path: /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7 >> Info: Adobe Flash

Re: NIS and Kerberos 5 : is it possible / smart?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Peshak wrote: > On 8/4/06, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> Just wondering if it's possible for NIS and Kerberos 5 to work in >> tandem with one another, such that NIS would handle

Re: Writing drivers that will work with FreeBSD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jekillen wrote: > Hello; > Is there a one stop location where I can get info on writing > device drivers that will work with FreeBSD (v6+)? There is > a book out called Linux Device Drivers (perhaps I shouldn't > mention the publisher). I would be most

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

On Aug 8, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: On 9/08/2006 9:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Can you tell me exactly what you do with those two pieces of data? Is there any way that information would be accessible from the internet? Absolutely

Re: Changing root's shell

Philip Hallstrom wrote: so it seems changed root login's shell to /usr/bin/bash which doesn't exist. now I can't login to root at all. Oh yes, sudo isn't installed. How would you grand masters of FreeBSD fix my embarrasing mistake. Boot into single user mode, then vipw the password file and c

Re: Howto insert string. (Was: Re: [freebsd-questions] awk quickie.)

Kurt Wall wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 07:13:03AM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:47:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've got 80 or so html/php files. Most do have but a whole slew do not/are missing the BG color code. So is there some scripto-magic wa

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 User Freebsd wrote: > > John pointed out a bug that I hadn't noticed, mainly because I was > testing single host ... basically, I installed PHP5 on the backend, and > stupidly didn't check to make sure that they *hadn't* gone and changed > all of the

NIS and Kerberos 5 : is it possible / smart?

Hi all, Just wondering if it's possible for NIS and Kerberos 5 to work in tandem with one another, such that NIS would handle groups and configuration file management and Kerberos would handle authentication only. Also, is this sort of overkill perhaps, where NIS is not really needed? I

Re: RealTek 8139 not identified in FreeBSD

Andrew Robinson wrote: Hi Marlon, This thread may (or may not) prove useful to you: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-March/011012.html Good luck! Andrew From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RealTek 8139 not identified in FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-I

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

etc. At least that was how it worked last I dealt with that about 7 years ago. I believe modern pentiums are also serialized. There's ways to do a unique ID nowadays. None of them are portable and so these methods are frowned on. Ted CPUID's on Intel processors can be found us

Re: help installing FreeBSD

adrian esquivel wrote: Sorry for the last message... Thanks everyone that has helped me. Ok, so I checked the ISO image and it was perfectly fine. So I checked the ribbon cable and it actually is a 40-conductor IDE cable. So this means that I need to change it for an UDMA (80 conductor)?? Oh, an

Re: newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

how do i invoke the KDE windows environment? If you configured everything properly-in terms of XWindows-and have installed KDE, bringing up the KDE environment can simply be done using the command "startkde". You may prefer setting up more than that though, so I suggest modifying .xinitrc and

Re: Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server:

On Jul 29, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: Dear FreeBSD Can I make my own bootable CD from FreeBSD, actually from the ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ? I really need it. I can't pay for your CD ROM so any help would be very much appreciated.

Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1

On Jul 29, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Igor Robul wrote: On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:50:40AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: A P1 with 32MB should be sufficient albeit painful, but I wouldn't use any large scale desktop/window managers (such as KDE/Gnome), I'd probably use one of the light weights like TWM

Re: X11/glx question

pete wright wrote: On 7/28/06, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: pete wright writes: > Hmm, I'd like to see your X.org config file. I am guessing you > may have the Nvidia glx module or Nvidia graphics driver > referenced in there. File is appended. hmm...that's wierd. th

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