Re: disable cntl+alt+del function

2007-01-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 18 January 2007 16:55, Sean Murphy wrote: cntl+alt+del at the console without being logged in reboots the server. The server runs through its shutdown procedure and reboots. How do I disable this function? Add this to your kernel config file: options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT JN

Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:37, Firas Kraiem wrote: Hi to all of you ! The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install seems to run without problems but when I try to run it, no joy. If I try to run it from a terminal, I just get thrown back to the prompt without

Re: Reread rc.conf....

2007-01-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 16:23, Guido Demmenie wrote: A little bit offtopic: Only /etc/rc.d/mountd won't stop mountd on my 6.0 system. But to restart my nfsd I use the next commands #killall mountd #/etc/rc.d/nfsd restart This usualy works to restart and reread my /etc/export file. A

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 07:56, Christian Baer wrote: Greetings fellow computer haters! :-) As I have already written on the STABLE mailing list, I can't seem to get Firefox to start on my Sun U60. Thunderbird works fine (as far as I can tell after two days), but Firefox just exits

Re: FreeBSD 6.2, rebuild the system with CPUTYPE=prescott?

2007-01-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 15 January 2007 14:42, Daniel Tourde wrote: Hello, Let me present myself: - I am an advanced user of Gentoo Linux. I know quiet a lot about that system and about how to optimize it to fit the hardware the best possible way. - I am a casual FreeBSD user. I like it a lot though, it

Re: advice on compiling a new kernel upgrading to the latest sources

2007-01-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 14 January 2007 15:44, kbtrace wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-01-14 11:56, Dino Vliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf which contains the file MYKERNEL No it doesn't. CVSup will delete the files it doesn't know about, so you should *SAVE a copy*

Re: CUPS +

2007-01-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 12 January 2007 12:53, César Amaya wrote: Hi list, have you ever installed cups + samba for a print server? That is what I am trying to do, the print server box set up is as the following: - FreeBSD 6.1 release - cups-1.2 - samba 3 - hpijs-2.1.4 - foomatic-db-20061214 -

Re: startup script for poppassd

2007-01-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:26, Joe Auty wrote: Does anybody have a startup script or experience with how to get the poppassd port to listen on port 106? You run it from inetd, so all you have to do is add a line to /etc/inetd.conf (and enable inetd if it isn't already). There are examples

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 08 January 2007 14:52, DAve wrote: We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI without much success. We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more in the queue/on

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 14:18, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 12:34, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, I have a new system with NO FLOPPY CONTROLLER and a 3ware 9550 card

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 12:34, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, I have a new system with NO FLOPPY CONTROLLER and a 3ware 9550 card. It's a 1u system -- sticking extra things into PCI slots as

Re: The moving-your-system FAQ: Anything else I should know?

2006-12-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 17 December 2006 18:16, Oliver Iberien wrote: I'm about to move my system, I've read the FAQ, I don't want to rearrange anything. I want to make sure I have the process down correctly before I try, so I am asking here. I am using 6.0 #2. First, I hook up both drives. I partition the

Re: Setting up RAID-1 on 2 unequal disks

2006-12-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 11 December 2006 03:47, Foo JH wrote: Hi all, I unfortunately have 2 uneuqally sized SATA disks to set up a mirrored shared folder: 80GB and 120GB. On the 120GB I plan to set up this way: /temp2GB (double the system memory) /shared80GB / 38GB I plan to

Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)

2006-12-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 08 December 2006 07:12, Vince Hoffman wrote: On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, å¼ é~_¡æ­¦ wrote: Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great firewall of China: 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; 2) I run this command on my desktop: $ ssh -L

Re: How to install the same port twice but at different locations?

2006-12-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 08 December 2006 15:57, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: Lane a écrit : On Friday 08 December 2006 13:58, Alexis Dorais-Joncas wrote: Hi all, Subject says it all. I would like to install the package phpMyAdmin on two different locations on my server. Is this doable? If so, how?

Re: Xorg 7.2 ante portas

2006-12-06 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 12:42, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. Xorg 7.2 is about to be released - with nice new features an, more important, bugfixes, upgraded drivers etc. Are there any plans of supporting this version via the ports collection? Yes. See the freebsd-x11 mailing list archives

Re: wifi dhcp

2006-12-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:21, Steve Franks wrote: Ok, we're losin our minds here. Me and a friend just bought up no less than 4 boxes (server, 2 laptops, and a net-device) in about 2 weeks on stable 6.1. My first foray into bsd since '95, and I'm way-pleased. One little problem: every

Re: Realtek (re(4)) Driver in 6.1

2006-12-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 04 December 2006 13:54, Jon Drukman wrote: I'm about to install 6.1 on a machine that's been happily ticking away with 4.1.1 for years now. (I need to upgrade it to gigabit ethernet.) Does the default kernel on the 6.1-R installation CD include the realtek re(4) driver? Yes. If

Re: DVD Movies

2006-12-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:49, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 12/2/06, Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to play a DVD without loading X ? Apparently, yes http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_MPlayer_on_Framebuffer I think most of those framebuffer options are

Re: Using Screen

2006-11-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:35, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-11-29 12:22, Dan Sikorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I have a good question for you guys. Lets say, I started a job on a computer, if you must know, portmanager -u , and then left... but I know its sitting there

Re: Using Screen

2006-11-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:43, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:35, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-11-29 12:22, Dan Sikorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I have a good question for you guys. Lets say, I started a job on a computer, if you must know

Re: Fixing OpenOffice

2006-11-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 06:26, Gerard Seibert wrote: Using: /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL= produces this: openoffice.org-2.0.3! Comparison failed I was told this is because OpenOffice has moved in the 'ports tree'. My question is other than reinstalling it,

Re: FreeBSD VPS providers

2006-11-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 10:41, Eric wrote: I am looking to move a website i run from its current provider (linux based shared box) to a VPS solution. I have been doing some searching via google and the mailing list and so far have found http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html which

Re: now it's openoffice.org-2

2006-11-27 Thread John Nielsen
Both of the applications you've mentioned problems with use GTK and other GNOME-related libraries. About a month ago the default location for gnome libraries was switched from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local in conjunction with a GNOME update and presumably in an effort to modernize/standardize the

Re: question on virtusertable - sendmail

2006-11-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 24 November 2006 14:39, David Banning wrote: I have several times where I have no user setup in virtusertable but the mail is still delivered to the user. If I delete the user then the mail bounces - I want to keep the user and still have the mail bounce - how would I do that?

Re: question on virtusertable - sendmail

2006-11-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 24 November 2006 15:04, David Banning wrote: @domain.com bounce You can define bounce in /etc/mail/aliases, or just leave it undefined (since it will probably bounce anyway). I am looking at my /etc/mail/aliases how would I define bounce? I know I could simple send

Re: question on virtusertable - sendmail

2006-11-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 24 November 2006 15:18, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-11-24 15:04, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @domain.combounce You can define bounce in /etc/mail/aliases, or just leave it undefined (since it will probably bounce anyway). I am looking at my

creating a broken graid3 array?

2006-11-23 Thread John Nielsen
Is it possible to create a (degraded) graid3 array with only two (or one less than the planned total) providers? I'm asking since I would like to move from my current one-disk setup to a three-disk raid3 array, but I'd like the disk currently in use to be a member of the array and I don't have

Re: creating a broken graid3 array?

2006-11-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 23 November 2006 17:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is the loss of your data worth less than the cost of an extra hd? if so, buy another hd. if not, make a clean install? should read: is the cost of an extra hd less than the value of your data/install? if so, buy another hd.

Re: creating a broken graid3 array?

2006-11-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:00, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/23/06, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a (degraded) graid3 array Maybe you'll be able to create graid3 with md0 as the third member (based on sparse file for example) and later emulate

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 02:54, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 18:13, Scott Schappell wrote: The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long enough. What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive amount of ports

Re: desktop for bsd

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 08:05, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:28:58AM -0800, Marshall wrote: hi, I was on the freesbie site and it is a live cd version, but i'd like to have a full version, with XFCE, is this already in freebsd? I'd like to have it as the

Re: gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...)

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:40, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:58, John Nielsen wrote: It is possible to convert regular devices into gmirror members after they have data on them, but unless you're extremely careful there's a small risk of the gmirror metadata

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:42, Armin Arh wrote: I would like to recompile all of the xfce4 stuff. Is the ports system offering a solution here? maybe something like: make reinstall IF CATEGORIES IS xfce4 If you use portupgrade, you should be able to do something like: # portupgrade

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:47, Christian Walther wrote: On 15/11/06, Armin Arh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to recompile all of the xfce4 stuff. Is the ports system offering a solution here? maybe something like: make reinstall IF CATEGORIES IS xfce4 hmm, cd

dhcpd with wi and base system dhclient stopped working

2006-11-13 Thread John Nielsen
I have a FreeBSD 6.x machine with an ath interface that serves as a wireless access point, dhcp server, router and gateway for my network. I have a FreeBSD 6.x laptop with an older wi interface that until recently was working just fine, using the base system dhclient. However, the other day

Re: ftp over ssh

2006-11-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 04:45, Gorobets Igor wrote: Hello. How correctly to adjust this miracle? :-) Assuming you have a server that is running sshd (on all interfaces) and ftpd (only on the loopback interface): ftpclient# ssh -fnN -l 20:localhost:20 -L 21:localhost:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ftp over ssh

2006-11-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 14:12, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 08 November 2006 04:45, Gorobets Igor wrote: Hello. How correctly to adjust this miracle? :-) Assuming you have a server that is running sshd (on all interfaces) and ftpd (only on the loopback interface): ftpclient# ssh

Re: Compatible SATA controllers?

2006-11-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 22:20, Gene Dinkey wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 Release and am looking for a compatible 32bit PCI SATA controller. I don't need, and can't afford, a hardware RAID solution so I'm planing on building my storage on vinum. I checked

Re: ethernet port bondage

2006-11-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 15:52, Kenny Dail wrote: I'm running 6.1 Release, and I've been looking for information on how to bond multiple ethernet adaptors in one box so that if one card or connection fails or is disconnected I still have network connectivity. Have a look at carp(4). It's

Re: qemu networking help with windows98

2006-10-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 29 October 2006 12:06, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: [I've searched for the answers, but have come up empty] I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE and Qemu 0.8.2_2. I've gotten Windows 98 running inside of the emulator, but I'm having trouble getting the network to work.

Re: Freebsd Access Point

2006-10-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:23, Erik Richards wrote: This is my first submission to a freebsd mailing list so please bare with me. I am relatively new to Freebsd but I have so far set up a box at home acting as a gateway, firewall, and webserver with php and I'm really loving this OS (my

Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system?

2006-10-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 05 October 2006 07:25, albi wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:14 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the wheel group during the add users portion of the installation. For some reason I have not put a finger on yet I

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 10:48, Jeff Dickens wrote: John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote: I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware host system

Re: cheapskate webmail interface

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 12:54, Desmond Coughlan wrote: snip Now we just need forums and webmail. The latter will be http://www.phpbb.com/ but for webmail, we're having difficulty finding a free solution. ismail won't install from the ports, and other than that, everything I've found

Re: no specifc dhcpd port found

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 17:46, Noah wrote: Hi there, I am unable to find the dhcpd port in /usr/ports where should I be looking? net/isc-dhcpd and friends. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: no specifc dhcpd port found

2006-10-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 17:53, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 04 October 2006 17:46, Noah wrote: Hi there, I am unable to find the dhcpd port in /usr/ports where should I be looking? net/isc-dhcpd and friends. Sorry, net/isc-dhcp3-server and similar. JN

Re: optimal kernel options for VMWARE guest system

2006-10-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:58, Jeff Dickens wrote: I have some Freebsd systems that are running as VMware guests. I'd like to configure their kernels so as to minimize the overhead on the VMware host system. After reading and partially digesting the white paper on timekeeping in VMware

Re: Raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions

2006-09-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 28 September 2006 19:43, Damian Wiest wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:35:10PM +, m3 BSD wrote: Hi, i would like to do a raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions and not with a entire disk. For example: I've a two SCSI drivers with 68Gb. I want to make a two partitions

Re: Question!

2006-09-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 29 September 2006 05:13, Дмитрий Ефремов wrote: Hello! I have one question. I had installed Free BSD 6.1 and i use GNOME.My monitor is Philips 107p5 and i want to have 100 Hz at 1024x768. I wrote the characteristics of my monitor to xorg.conf,but it doesn't switch to 100 Hz, only 85

Re: Swap Size Importance?

2006-09-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 29 September 2006 11:52, Chris wrote: As a standard practice, I've always configured swap file to be double the size of real ram split across system and data disk. For example, 8gb on da0 and 8gb on da1 if the system has 8g real ram. In practice, In 7 or 8 years, I've never seen swap

Re: moused insists on starting

2006-09-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:08, Bill Moran wrote: 6.1. Moused starts on boot, and issuing /etc/rc.d/moused stop has not effect. My /etc/rc.conf has the line: moused_enable=NO yet the damn thing starts. Assuming you have a USB mouse, this is controlled by /etc/devd.conf (or

Re: Resizing Partitions, Losing Windows XP...

2006-09-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 22 September 2006 14:23, Jeff Cross wrote: I have been dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP for quite sometime. However, I never boot into Windows XP any longer. I can pretty much do everything I need to do from within FreeBSD. Is there a way that I can wipe out the Windows XP

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 21 September 2006 06:15, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Robin Becker wrote: Dave wrote: Hi, I've got smartd going on a gmirror system, however when smartd starts up it says it can't find the various drives. I've tried both the autodetection line as well as specifying the individual

Re: geom - help ...

2006-09-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 21 September 2006 01:37, Matthew Seaman wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: So, again, if I'm reading through things correctly, I'll have to do something like: gstripe st1 da1 da2 gstripe st2 da3 da4 gmirror drive st1 st2 newfs drive That's the wrong way round, I think. If

Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure

2006-09-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 16 September 2006 12:38, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: At Sat, 16 Sep 2006 it looks like Viswas Nair composed: I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. Just go to any website using flash and opera will ask you to download the plugin and automatically

Re: got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

2006-08-27 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i just brought home new samsung 22 widescreen LCD. so far, i cannot get xorg to take anything other than standard CRT type resolutions, such as 1280x1024. snip the first part, seems to be the normal video modes that i would expect to see from an i810

Re: Which version of Flash to use

2006-08-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 24 August 2006 14:29, Gerard Seibert wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE Using 'Firefox 1.5.0.6,1' is there any version of flash that I can install that will work with it. I cannot seem to get anyone of them to work with it when running from with KDE. It makes it rather difficult to watch

Re: FreeBSD on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread John Nielsen
When running sysinstall from the FreeBSD CD the debug screen is at Alt-F2. JN On Tuesday 22 August 2006 12:02, Derek Ragona wrote: The debug screen should not be blank, in addition to this error message you will see all the output from the install up to that point. If this is a new install,

Re: How do I access external USB fat32 160 GB drive?

2006-08-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 18 August 2006 13:40, Bobby Knight wrote: When I try to mount the drive with mount_msdos it tells me the filsystem is to big. The drive consists av a single fat32 partition. Windows can access it so it must be possible in FreeBSD too. I read about recompiling the kernel with

Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 08:12, Igor Robul wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:19:05AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: None of the pre-v3.x clients can talk to the v3.x server, since the DB format has totally changed, so everyone needs to grab the latest version and run it so that we can

Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 14 August 2006 09:19, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Over the past few days, I've been working with Paul Schmehl and Matthew Seaman to come up with a more security sensitive version of BSDstats ... one that reduces the amount of sensitive information stored in the database down to ... zero.

Re: Accessing FreeBSD partition from Windows with dual boot

2006-08-10 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 10 August 2006 09:22, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Martin Miedema wrote: I'm looking for a way to access (read only is fine) a FreeBSD partition on my Windows installation on a dual boot notebook (so Samba won't do the trick) Maybe this will do: http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/

Re: Ndis + Netgear WG311v3 ; Won't attach device correctly

2006-08-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 11:40, Frank Staals wrote: The only thing changed since the first time I loaded the module was I copied it to /boot/kernel and I added WG311v3XP_sys_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf but those changes shouldn't have effect on not correctly loading it I think. This is

Re: nppdf.so: undefined symbol __ctype_b_loc

2006-08-05 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Hi all, after upgrading firefox and acroread, I got this when I tried to use the plugin, LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 05 August 2006 00:21, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: 'k folks ... the quick and dirty .. actually, not too dirty ... The attached script [...] Can you make this into a port which users can install? I'm not sure, can I?

Re: cups problems

2006-08-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 04 August 2006 14:34, David Johnson wrote: Like millions of other users, my printing capabilities came to an abrupt end when I upgraded cups to version 1.2. After weeks of wasting time on the problem, I'm still not printing. I've seen lots of hints and tips on this list and

Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another

2006-08-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:04, Bill Moran wrote: In response to David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging from one to the other via the windows box.

Re: gmirror dual mirrors?

2006-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 09:38, Mark Busby wrote: New to gmirror so a newb question. I have my computer setup with 4 sata drives. I am using one for the operating system then one to mirror it. One has data and I want a mirror of that. When creating the first mirror I used gm0. Now creating

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 11:23, Joshua Lewis wrote: I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window manager. There are what seems like hundreds of different WM in the ports collection and

Re: Adding another hard drive

2006-07-23 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Rich Demanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to add another hard drive into my system, a 250GB Western Digital 7200RPM SATA drive, and when I have it plugged into the motherboard the system hangs when it gets to: Timecounter TSC frequency 1803775604 Hz quality 800 Timecounters

Re: HOWTO wireless please.

2006-07-20 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 20 July 2006 15:30, Bob Johnson wrote: On 7/20/06, Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello gurus, Can someone help me setting up my wireless device on my laptop im on 6.1R, I tried to do as instructed on handbook, but no luck. My laptop suppose to be the client, and i

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 13 July 2006 20:24, stan wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:20:56PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 13 July 2006 08:34, stan wrote: i have a Sun Ultra 40 with 4 500F SATA drives. I plan on using this machine primarily for a large data storage requirement. What I

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 14 July 2006 10:37, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 13 July 2006 20:24, stan wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:20:56PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 13 July 2006 08:34, stan wrote: i have a Sun Ultra 40 with 4 500F SATA drives. I plan on using this machine

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 14 July 2006 13:39, stan wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 11:11:47AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Friday 14 July 2006 10:37, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 13 July 2006 20:24, stan wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:20:56PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 13 July

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 13 July 2006 08:34, stan wrote: i have a Sun Ultra 40 with 4 500F SATA drives. I plan on using this machine primarily for a large data storage requirement. What I want is one large /data partition. Given all the choices for doing this in FreeBSD (software) what's the best

Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution)

2006-07-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 08:43, Peter wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-07-10 23:32, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Stubborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to recompile your kernel with below options VESA Allright, did that. [snip] I

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:07, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Nagy László [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are there any alternative IMAP servers that have good support (e.g. working mailing list, up-to-date documentation), and can share IMAP folders between users? dovecot -- early stages of

Re: Creating vinum RAID 1 on place

2006-07-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 July 2006 00:29, Olivier Nicole wrote: Is there a trick on the way to build a vinum RAID 1 without backup-in the data first? I have the two disk that will get mirrored. One of the disk if formated as UFS 4.2 and already holds all the data. The second disk is blank. NormallyI

Re: Creating vinum RAID 1 on place

2006-07-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 July 2006 08:04, John Nielsen wrote: On Friday 07 July 2006 00:29, Olivier Nicole wrote: Is there a trick on the way to build a vinum RAID 1 without backup-in the data first? I have the two disk that will get mirrored. One of the disk if formated as UFS 4.2 and already

Re: KDE Text to Speech

2006-07-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 18:03, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Tuesday 04 July 2006 17:48, Danny Pansters wrote: On Tuesday 04 July 2006 17:12, Gerard Seibert wrote: System Info: FreeBSD seibercom.net 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sat May 13 19:46:07 EDT 2006 [EMAIL

Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied

2006-07-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 01 July 2006 12:40, Jan-Espen Pettersen wrote: The problem is that read operations on usb printers might just block/hang with no data from the printer (?). ulpt doesn't have non-blocking I/O, so I've made a patch that simply times out read operations, and disables further reads

Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied

2006-06-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 26 June 2006 00:15, Micah wrote: John Nielsen wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 20:04, Anthony Agelastos wrote: On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:35 PM, John Nielsen wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 19:28, Anthony Agelastos wrote: I updated CUPS and I cannot print to my USB laser printer. The web

Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied

2006-06-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 19:28, Anthony Agelastos wrote: I updated CUPS and I cannot print to my USB laser printer. The web interface shows the following: hp_LaserJet_1160Le (Default Printer) Unable to open USB device usb:/dev/ulpt0: Permission denied Description: Hewlett-Packard LaserJet

Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied

2006-06-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 25 June 2006 20:04, Anthony Agelastos wrote: On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:35 PM, John Nielsen wrote: On Sunday 25 June 2006 19:28, Anthony Agelastos wrote: I updated CUPS and I cannot print to my USB laser printer. The web interface shows the following: hp_LaserJet_1160Le (Default

Re: from STABLE to RELENG?

2006-06-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 23 June 2006 00:46, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Thursday 22 June 2006 23:16, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 22, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: generally, how risky of an operation is it to change the branch im following (assuming i have a server in good

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 08:53, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/12/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, FreeBSD is #1 to me because it is the most painless operating system I've ever used... Ignoring the 5.x installer. Never used pre-5.x -Jim What do you mean 5.x? FreeBSD

Re: Correct CPUTYPE= for Intel Celeron 2.50GHz (2500.10-MHz 686-class CPU)

2006-06-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 09 June 2006 09:20, Frank Steinborn wrote: can someone tell what the right choice for CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf is for that CPU? You probably want: CPUTYPE?=pentium4 See /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf for a full list. And, is it safe to build kernel and world with --march= too?

Re: Correct CPUTYPE= for Intel Celeron 2.50GHz (2500.10-MHz 686-class CPU)

2006-06-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 09 June 2006 11:48, Frank Steinborn wrote: John Nielsen wrote: You probably want: CPUTYPE?=pentium4 If I put a ? after CPUTYPE, buildworld won't use CPUTYPE, correct? Is it better to do so, or is it safe to use CPUTYPE=pentium4? Incorrect. The ? means that if the CPUTYPE

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:22, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:41, Daniel Bye wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply make installkernel seems install native kernel modules

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:41, Daniel Bye wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply make installkernel seems install native kernel modules into /boot/kernel/, but kldload seems to want to load them

Re: FreeBSD Wireless Access Points with Atheros Cards

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:42, Mark Moellering wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 8:11 am, Nick Withers wrote: G'day all, I was recently asked to set up a wireless access point by a mate. Having read section 27.3.3.2 - Building a FreeBSD Access Point

Re: burncd error

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:04, Josh Paetzel wrote: I'm running 6.1-RELEASE Trying to burn iso's using burncd gives me an error. gimpy# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 48 data i386pkg-3.0.iso fixate next writeable LBA 0 writing from file i386pkg-3.0.iso size 710566 KB written this track 710566 KB

Re: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2006-05-25 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robertsen A. Riehle writes: Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a workstation that had ~300 packages on it. And, let's hypothetically say that this workstation's ports tree was up to date as of yesterday. Is there

Re: what does this mean

2006-05-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 21 May 2006 05:19, Imran Imtiaz wrote: i've seen the following log in my messages can any body tell me what does it mean? May 21 02:50:29 darkstar sm-mta[55021]: k4KLoTeq055021: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA It means that someone

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-20 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gang, A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having to buy a DOS/Win platform. I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu on this one

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:07, Barnaby Scott wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Barnaby Scott wrote: So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was bang up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and behold, first attempt to use it and I get this:

Re: Please explain make -j to my little brain

2006-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:06, martinko wrote: i remember from mailing lists there used to be a problem with using -j while compiling kernel or world or ports or sth. is it resolved now pls? make -j N has never been a supported option for ports. It is supported for buildworld and

Re: Does NDISulator work on amd64? Has anyone made this work?

2006-05-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 00:33, Lorin Lund wrote: I have a Compac Presario V2607CL notebook with a Turion chip. I have 6.1-RELEASE for amd64 loaded. It is running fine. But I'm trying toget the built in Broadcom wireless working. I downloaded the driver from hp.com. The .INF file was over

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 12 May 2006 12:28, bsd wrote: Hi again, Most of the files that are large seems to be located in /usr/ports/ distfiles/ What will be the effect of deleting some of these files ? You will have to download them again if you rebuild / reinstall the packages that use them. Of course,

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