Re: Thank you!

2005-01-13 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:57:49 -0800 (PST) Boris Spirialitious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to thank you for making Freebsd 5.3 so badly. We changed to linux and our application runs so much faster its unbelievable. I report a small problem and they work hard to fix it. Not like

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:00:30 -0900 Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: What is this person doing? or attempting to do? I'm guessing nothing good. Is there anything within...say httpd.conf..that I could do to prevent

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:36:36 -0500 Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/14/05 10:17 AM, Jacob S sat at the `puter and typed: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:00:30 -0900 Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: What

Re: Will my friend's computer work with FreeBSD?

2005-01-14 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:01:25 -0800 Sergei Gnezdov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think most of your questions will be answered on the FreeBSD website under Hardware Notes... Have your friend research it. I would not ask if I could find the answers in Hardware Notes. For example, onboard

Remote FreeBSD Installation

2005-01-25 Thread Jacob S
Hello list, Is there a way to do a remote installation of FreeBSD on a server that's currently running Linux? I know in Linux there are ways to install a new version/distro. by using chroot, but was wondering if there is an easy way to do that type of thing with FreeBSD from a Linux

Re: Remote FreeBSD Installation

2005-01-25 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:13:34 +0100 Hexren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JS Hello list, JS Is there a way to do a remote installation of FreeBSD on a server JS that's currently running Linux? JS I know in Linux there are ways to install a new version/distro. by JS using chroot, but was

Clean FreeBSD Installations

2005-01-25 Thread Jacob S
Ok, hopefully I'm not throwing out flamebait or opening a can of worms here. But I'll ask anyway. Knoppix is based on Debian and comes with a script to install it to the hard drive. Nevertheless, Knoppix is not considered to be a clean Debian installation, as you can have problems migrating over

Re: Remote FreeBSD Installation

2005-01-25 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:26:02 +0100 Matthias Buelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S wrote: http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ The penguin shall fall ;) Looks nice. Thanks! But make sure first how much a re-setup costs you. Or how much they charge for remote hands. Or at best

Re: mplayer vs xine

2005-02-04 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:32:06 +0100 Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So who do you like the most and why ? I like mplayer for cli stuff and xine for gui. Mainly because the cli stuff I do is downloading and converting streams from wma/rm to wav/ogg/mp3, etc. and I use the gui for watching

Re: mplayer vs xine

2005-02-04 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:08:02 +0100 Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:44:04 -0600, Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:32:06 +0100 Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So who do you like the most and why ? I like mplayer for cli stuff

Re: mplayer vs xine

2005-02-04 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:50:10 -0800 (PST) Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S wrote: I like mplayer for cli stuff and xine for gui. Mainly because the cli stuff I do is downloading and converting streams from wma/rm to wav/ogg/mp3, etc. and I use the gui for watching videos

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:25:32 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Louis LeBlanc writes: Neutrality is purely objective in this case (and many others). Uninformed neutrality can be highly inflammatory. Beastie is only considered inflammatory to those uninformed

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:37:43 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julio Capote writes: Untrue, I know a NUMBER of emerging graphic artists, who would kill for this kind of exposure, and are much better than any commercialized firm I've seen. If they are so good, why would

Re: FreeBSD on 8x AMD64

2005-02-15 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:59:59 -0800 Richard Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if anyone has tested 5.3 release or later on a 8 CPU AMD Opteron system? No, but I'd be glad to give one a workout if anybody gave me one. :-) Jacob ___

Re: Quota Questions 5.3 Release

2005-02-15 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:57:20 -0500 Jon Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 2. Is there a trivial way to get the kernel sources and ports tree (and more importantly, how safe (in terms of the box coming back) is it to recompile the kernel if I can get the sources) - they pretty much killed

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 04:30:35 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Kim, Wireless Internet / Wifi Hotspot Advisor Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:49 AM To: List Free Bsd

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:21:06 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: Note that Linux is doing much better against these measuring sticks because the Linux community, for all their loud proclamations about being GPL, has been steadily making Linux less

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:49:55 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S writes: You must be looking at a different Linux community than the one I'm familiar with. I thought boxed sets of Linux had gone out of retail stores years ago. I bought a copy of Mandrake Linux

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:46:47 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S writes: Good. I'm glad to see the average Windows user looking around the computer store still gets to see an alternative once in a while. I'm pretty sure I've seen Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, Fedora

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:32:50 -0700 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 23, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Jacob S wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:46:47 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S writes: Good. I'm glad to see the average Windows user

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:39:08 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S writes: So, FreeBSD is vulnerable to this same hypocrasy; where it is sold in stores but still hailed as a free OS? The FreeBSD was at an unbeatable price--I think it was only $10 or so, just a bit

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-23 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:24:36 +0100 Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew L. Gould writes: snip Fourth, I appreciate all the hard work that goes into developing and packaging an operating system and its related applications. I am happy to pay for the convenience of an operating

Re: Different OS's? Marketshare

2005-02-24 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:29:52 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jacob S Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:53 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Different OS's

Kernel problems on 5.3

2005-03-02 Thread Jacob S
Hello list, Out of 3 new dell servers, one is having some instability problems in the form of 2 kernel panics in less than a month. The problem server, in this case, is also the server that averages a load of 4.0 - 9.0, while the other two loaf around at 0.2. The servers are running FreeBSD

Re: Kernel problems on 5.3.

2005-03-10 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:25:02 -0500 David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jacob, Hello David, You should try to CVSup your FreeBSD machines to get the latest code. Read section A.5 of the FreeBSD Handbook. Here's the link:

Re: sshd behaviour

2005-03-16 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:41:09 +0300 Eugene M. Minkovskii [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I see strange to me behaviour of sshd. Please tell me is it bug or feature? I use following network configuration: ######## # LAN # - # gateway # - # router # ###

Re: A Riddle

2005-03-25 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:05:42 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q: Why are FreeBSD users like Liberals? A: They panic and start to call you names when you tell them the truth. Please don't associate yourself with the conservatives/non-liberals. We don't like trolls either! Jacob

Re: Indiana goes to DST

2006-03-28 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:19:21 -0500 DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not ever having had to configure DST before, any advice on a work around since most OSes provide no DST for my timezone? Sure. Just pick a city in the Eastern Timezone that is

Ipf problem

2006-01-05 Thread Jacob S
Hello list, I'm having a problem setting up ipf on a FreeBSD server and can't figure out where I'm going wrong. I copied my ipf.rules file from another server I have where ipf is working great. But after I customized the rules to this server it is filling /var/log/messages with lines like the

Re: Ipf problem

2006-01-10 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:05:14PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-01-06 00:17, Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I'm having a problem setting up ipf on a FreeBSD server and can't figure out where I'm going wrong. I copied my ipf.rules file from another server I have

Re: LiveCD FreeBSD

2006-02-01 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:17:44 -0600 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD Up untill Dec 01 '05 I was a die hard MicroShaft user, too many lockups and garbage caused me to search for a new OS. That is when I came up with PCLOS. Then I got a

Re: Firefox is already running problem on 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:26:18 -0500 Jesse Sheidlower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:15:43AM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Jesse Sheidlower wrote: When I try to launch Firefox, I get a message reading Firefox is already

Re: postfix vs. qmail?

2005-06-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:48:11 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For one who wants to host email accounts for multiple domains, which is better? I've started installing and configuring qmail according to the tutorial on qmailrocks.org but i'm wondering if i should stop and consider postfix before

Mysql40-server installation problem

2005-07-22 Thread Jacob S
Hello list, I'm having some trouble getting mysql installed on a FreeBSD 5.4 server. When I cd to /usr/ports/databases/mysql40-server and run make install, I get the following error: checking for gcc... cc checking for C compiler default output file name... Abort trap (core dumped) configure:

Re: Mysql40-server installation problem

2005-07-23 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:07:56 -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On July 22, 2005 3:35:40 PM -0500 Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I'm having some trouble getting mysql installed on a FreeBSD 5.4 server. When I cd to /usr/ports/databases/mysql40-server and run

Re: Mysql40-server installation problem

2005-07-23 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:49:37 -0300 Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can u try to compile a program just to check if the compiler is ok? maybe something with the linker? If you had not tried it make a smalll c program like: -- #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h

Re: Mysql40-server installation problem

2005-07-23 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:35:40 -0500 Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I'm having some trouble getting mysql installed on a FreeBSD 5.4 server. When I cd to /usr/ports/databases/mysql40-server and run make install, I get the following error: checking for gcc... cc checking

Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely

2004-12-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:15:27 -0500 Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day to you all, I would greatly appreciate any recommendations, related experiences, and tips for the following goal: On a monthly and manual basis - to take a snapshot of data from a FreeBSD server and Windows

Re: syslogd will be removed from freebsd???

2005-04-14 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:44:06 -0700 perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/13/05, Alec Berryman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perikillo on 2005-04-13 22:37:44 -0700: I found this info on www.syslog.org http://www.syslog.org http://www.syslog.org --

Re: Does FreeBSD work with SB Live and GeForce?

2005-04-29 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:45:56 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I'm looking at doing a build-your-own desktop/tower system. It's an Intel 2.9GHz motherboard with builtin graphics and sound. But to be on the safe side I just want stuff to

Running out of memory

2005-05-05 Thread Jacob S
I've got a server that keeps running out of memory and crashing. It has 1GB of swap and 1GB of ram. I originally made the swap the same size as the ram, as my previous experience with *nix machines was that when swap is double the size of ram, the computer is almost totally unuseable for at least

Re: Running out of memory

2005-05-05 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 5 May 2005 13:33:04 -0500 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:59 am, Jacob S wrote: I've got a server that keeps running out of memory and crashing. It has 1GB of swap and 1GB of ram. I originally made the swap the same size as the ram, as my

Re: Running out of memory

2005-05-05 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 5 May 2005 11:39:05 -1000 Clifton Royston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:08:00PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: This server's hosting about 250 websites - the majority being poorly written php, and incoming e-mail for those domains. It has cPanel installed, so incoming

Re: A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day?

2005-05-06 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 06 May 2005 12:30:27 -0700 John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: [another message] Dude, you asked for your posts to be deleted why are you posting more stuff you know is going to get archived? Because he found a way to spam his political viewpoint

Re: Bash: Setting Prompt

2005-05-18 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 18 May 2005 06:26:53 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time) Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 5.4 and Bash 3.00.16(1) I hope that this is the right place to post this. I have the following in my '.bash_profile' file. # # Set the prompt to display the '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: fsck on startup

2005-05-26 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 26 May 2005 09:04:20 -0700 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:32:25AM +0300, Sergey S. Ropchan wrote: snip is a co-located server in a remote datacenter which I unfortunately can not get to as easily as I would want. Is there anyway to tell

Problem with HT support in 5.4

2005-05-27 Thread Jacob S
Hello list, I upgraded a few 5.3 servers to 5.4 yesterday and everything seemed to go well. After booting the new kernel, dmesg correctly showed 2 logical cpus (1 xeon with HT). However, when I look at top's output, it always shows at least 50% cpu idle time - even when the load is above 10. To

Re: Problem with HT support in 5.4

2005-05-27 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 27 May 2005 18:05:48 +0400 Dmitry Mityugov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/27/05, Jacob S wrote: Hello list, I upgraded a few 5.3 servers to 5.4 yesterday and everything seemed to go well. After booting the new kernel, dmesg correctly showed 2 logical cpus (1 xeon with HT

Re: Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet

2005-05-27 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 27 May 2005 12:15:07 -0500 Fafa Hafiz Krantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I got this Broadcom BCM5751 network interface that works just great in FreeBSD. I was just wondering though, does anybody know where to find its Windows XP driver? I need it to function in both

Block Zeroing Tool

2002-10-04 Thread Jacob S. Barrett
compression the image size should be much smaller. So, is there utility to zero out those blocks? Does this make sense? Is there a better way to take images of FreeBSD machines? -Jake -- Jacob S. Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.amduat.net I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute

VMWare 3, USB, devusbfs... Oh my...

2003-12-26 Thread Jacob S. Barrett
reference to the effort. Has that effort died? Has anyone found a solution to this problem? -- Jacob S. Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.amduat.net I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http