Re: pkgdb warning message

2006-03-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When running the following command: pkgdb -Fv, I receive the following message: Duplicated origin: devel/libtool15 - libtool-1.5.22_1 libtool-1.5.22_2 Unregister any of them? [no] I am unsure of what action to take, therefore I have chosen the

Re: Problem running Adobe acroread7

2006-03-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Donald T Hayford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Donald T Hayford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get the following error message when I try to open a file in Adobe acroread7, after which acroread quits: (acroread:7605): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'gnome

Re: specifying ftp mirror for port installs

2006-03-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, how can I specify what ftp mirror my system will use when downloading distfiles during a port installation? I'm using 6.0. Have you tried the variables described in the manual? (ports(7)) In particular, I think MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE is what you want.

Re: changing INMBCLUSTERS kernel configuration option

2006-03-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
XP 2600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a FreeBSD 5.4 server i try to change iNMBCLUSTERS kernel configuration option using sysctl nmbclusters but its giving me sysctl: unknown oid 'nmbclusters', am i missed something ? or its no longer available in FreeBSD 5 ?? It should be there. Please

Re: tomcat on freebsd

2006-03-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ashley Moran wrote: Hi Nope I dont have that. I did try run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat55.sh to start it but without having added tomcat_enable=YES to my rc.conf. Nothing happened. So I will add that line and try it again... Thanks for the info. Eoghan

Re: downloading version 6 freebsd

2006-03-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
T Dodds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to download Disk 1 of the iso’s for freebsd from various sites using Firefox,…the download always stops at 21,9MB Is their something wrong with your servers or the iso I am trying to download. I have tried it on ftp sites from

Re: Slow floppy operation

2006-03-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Maxim Vetrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've not used floppy in my notebook for a while, then when I did, I found that it worked very slowly :-) Here is the stats: dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/fd0 2880+0 records in 2880+0 records out 1474560 bytes transferred in 607.571848 secs

Re: Portupgrade woes ...

2006-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to find out which ports need updating by running 'portupgrade -arR' . However, I am getting the following error message: Stale dependency: ImageMagick-6.2.5.5_3 -- lcms-1.14_1,1 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. As

Re: mysql start on boot

2006-03-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I add something to my rc.conf to have mysql start at boot, something like: mysql_enable=YES? That or something like it, yes. See the script that the port added to the startup directory (/usr/local/etc/rc.d). ___

Re: smb_maperror unmapped error 1:158

2006-03-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steel City Phantom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Judging from google, this has been asked a few times and never really answered. my bsd box mounts several shares from a win 2000 box. not all of the files that appear in the win 2k box, appear on the bsd box in the mount location. switching over

Re: usb-serial ftdi trouble

2006-03-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
missing? Thanks, Well, for one, the manual for ucom(4) indicates that the device it creates is /dev/cuaU?. Is that present? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: smb_maperror unmapped error 1:158

2006-03-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steel City Phantom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Judging from google, this has been asked a few times and never really answered. my bsd box mounts several shares from a win 2000 box. not all of the files that appear in the win 2k box, appear

Re: How to start a script running at boot time?

2006-03-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a script I would like to launch at boot time, as a non-root user, to remain running in the background. What is the best way to accomplish this? I looked through the rc* stuff, and it looks like overkill for what I need, plus my scripting isn't that strong

Re: undefined variable error on startup

2006-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Troy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to track down an error I see upon booting. Mar 18 14:49:01 server term: Undefined variable I'm not sure what file and what term variable is being set so I can comment it out. Any help on how I can track this down I'd appreciate. Looking at what

Re: Number of routing tables

2006-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Valerio daelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello I would like to know if exists a sysctl to get the number of routing tables in the kernel. I don't want the list of the routing tables, I just want the number. The command 'netstat -rn|wc -l' could be a good candidate, but since I want to

Re: Backup Up On Unreliable Link

2006-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, No response so far on the rdiff-backup mail list. Does anybody have experience and/or recommendations and/or scripts that could help somebody who usning rdiff-backup up across an unreliable link? If rdiff-backup fails in the middle of a backup it

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE AMD64 where is VESA support ?

2006-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
TonicWater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why options VESA not work in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE for AMD64 ??? How make 1024x768 video mode or other mode in console ? What did you try? Did you install the kernel module? If you've followed the same technique that works with i386, you may need to ask the

Re: Problem with Hard Disk

2006-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
victor leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi i would like to install Freebsd 6.0 but my Hard Disk (SAMSUNG ST0822N 80 GB) is not detected (im using it to write this mail) sorry my english is not good see you Victor Leon The problem may be your disk controller rather than the disk. There have

Re: KDE App Launcher

2006-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For /bin/sh, you can't export a variable on the line you set it; that's an extension found in bash, ksh, and zsh, but is not part of the original sh: It is, however, supported by *FreeBSD*'s /bin/sh. ___

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 - mount_nullfs broken?

2006-03-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:39:30PM -0600, Viren Patel wrote: On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:05:31AM -0600, Viren Patel wrote: # umount /export/jails/testjail/dev # mount_nullfs -o ro /export/jails/basejail /export/jails/testjail/basejail

Re: spamassassin build failure

2006-03-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I think I only went from perl 5.6 to 5.8, I'm surprised that so much would be out of date. Good to know though. Do the other scripting languages have this kind of support? Python? Even among scripting languages, perl is unique in its

Re: CDROM and data on it

2006-03-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running FreeBSD 4.3 (see uname -a below) and I have only used the CDROM to install new versions of FreeBSD . Now I want to use it for file storage. What programs must I have to be able to read from and write to a CDROM

Re: Cron operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy

2006-03-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
this? Looks like the crontab entry has the wrong ownership. In RELENG_6, the entry is: */11* * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Removable drives

2006-03-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Christopher Sean Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question to the community about removable drives, pendrives and usb and firewire attached hard drives. I'm just wondering how people are dealing with them in FreeBSD. I don't have any operational problems with them. I'm just wondering

Re: Deleting Kernel conpile directory

2006-03-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running a little low on disk space in /usr Can I delete the /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/mykernel directory? Sure. And if you use the buildkernel method when you build kernels, you won't even need that directory again. If you use the old method,

Re: Deleting Kernel conpile directory

2006-03-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 30 Mar 2006 09:40:03 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running a little low on disk space in /usr Can I delete the /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/mykernel directory? Sure. And if you

Re: ssh session hangs when term is flooded with text.

2006-03-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
this is a networking problem but I'm not sure where to start. 1) Look at the state of the sshd task handling your shell. 2) Look at the network traffic for the sshd session. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: DHCPD config

2006-03-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kris Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the answer you are looking for lies in dhclient-script. I noticed it futzes with resolv.conf. If you happen to notice resolv.conf changing (You can test this about by making a backup of resolv.conf, erasing its contents and then rebooting the

Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named

2006-04-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, it was dumb, but while I have a backup of all of my domain info and have restored it all, starting named gives me this error now: devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl

Re: ISO Image for FreeBSD5.4 that is Current

2006-04-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The FreeBSD site has an installation ISO image for FreeBSD5.4 but it is dated last May. There have been several core security updates since then. should I be looking in a different place to find a stable 5.x ISO image that is current? Find

Re: upgrade 5.2 - 5.5

2006-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Perttu Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to upgrade 5.2 to 5.5 and buildworld, buildkernel and installkernel went just fine. reboot didn't. It halts on this with new kernel: atapci0: Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller port 0xfff0-0x at device 2.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, that's fine, but how can I have a port on my system that isn't in the ports tree available to the world? I mean, won't anything I add to my local tree be deleted by cvsup'ing? Not with the default cvsup settings, no. cvsup will only delete things that were in the

Re: Cvsup installworld process question

2006-04-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bryan Curl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hopefully this is right place for my question and not to redundant. When in doubt, this (freebsd-questions) is always the right place for questions about FreeBSD. I have a new minimalist installation for use as a file server only (FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE)

Re: understanding of make.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Beat.Siegenthaler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, i try to build NTP from ports. As I have a new old trimble GPS i want to add the parse clock for trimble tsip. When i do a ./configure --enable-TRIMTSIP directly in the work folder i get checking Trimble GPS receiver/TSIP

Re: How to read a damaged tape

2006-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a SLR 100 tape drive (SCSI interface) and a tape cartridge with 4 files. The first file is damaged so I cannot mt fsf over that file to read the others. Is there a secret way to to advance the tape by a certain number of meters, or by a

Re: Login broken and rc.conf variables suddenly invalid after kernel/world upgrade (?!?!)

2006-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way, I also ran mergemaster as shown above. I forgot to originally include that. Did you also forget to mention building and installing the new kernel before the reboot? If you actually left that step out, it would explain much of your trouble.

Re: exim does not compile on amd64

2006-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, i installed 6.1-BETA4-amd64 on an AMD64 and it works fine so far. However i cannot compile exim[-ldap2] from ports: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # portupgrade exim-ldap2 --- Upgrading 'exim-ldap2-4.60' to 'exim-ldap2-4.61_1' (mail/exim-ldap2)

Re: Why do I get this message by the server ?

2006-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Halid Faith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a freebsd5.4 server. I sometimes get a message on the screen as below; kernel: ipfw: pullup failed What cause this problem cause ? There weren't enough mbufs available for ipfw to properly inspect a packet. So one packet was dropped by the

Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Login broken and rc.conf variables suddenly invalid after kernel/world upgrade (?!?!)

2006-04-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Garrett Cooper wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way, I also ran mergemaster as shown above. I forgot to originally include that. Did you also forget to mention building and installing the new

Re: Why do I get this message by the server ?

2006-04-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post. Halid Faith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I increase value of mbufs ? I think I will need to increase value of kern.ipc.nmbclusters. value of kern.ipc.nmbclusters of the server is 51200. What is the limit for kern.ipc.nmbclusters ? What size can I increase it ?

Re: Partitioning on existing system

2006-04-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
be adjusted. Personally, I find memory-backed /tmp to be more useful anyway. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Bge Kernel Compile Issues

2006-04-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wil Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trying to upgrade a Dell Poweredge 1750 with Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet. However my buildkernel is erroring out with the following. Let us start with the usual questions: Did you do a buildworld first? Can you build a GENERIC kernel?

Re: Drive errors on boot

2006-04-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bryan Curl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My apologies if this is a repost. It seems either I had a gmail problem or list never posted the question. I have subscribed with another address to monitor problem. Anyway, here is my quesion again. I get the following errors from dmesg on one of my

Re: newfs fails on 300GB HDD

2006-04-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Justin P. Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having a slight problem with a 300GB IDE (Maxtor) HDD. Basically, I've run the drive on the system through a complete low-level format and test with the PowerMAX tools, which passed fine. The BIOS recognizes and auto-detects the drive okay as

Re: sysinstall won't write fs to new disk, bad magic number

2006-04-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was a thread about this a while ago, but it did not seem to end in a solution... In any case, I have a 160GB Seagate drive that I was trying to mount a partition on as /disk2. I went through the instructions in the Handbook under Formatting

Re: 6.1-PRERELEASE CVSUP tag=???

2006-04-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just did a make release using RELENG_6_1 The announcement your referring to is consistent with the docs, but I switched tags from RELENG_6 to RELENG_6_1 yesterday when I started having make release commands fail, and that fixed the problem. I

Re: unknown class root from sshd

2006-04-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you for your reply. I have not changed the class for root and this is occurring on several machines, all 6.x. By default, there *is* a root class in /etc/login.conf. It sounds like you have removed it. Is this the case?

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 02:37, Eric Schuele wrote: Either way... I hope somehow they see fit to loosen the language a bit in the future. Can't we petition Adobe somehow? Sure. Petitioning is easy. Which may be part of why Macromedia never paid

Re: I think I butchered my supfile - can anyone tell me why I get this result?

2006-04-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Stanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] top-posted: You currently have your default tag set to RELENG_6 (which is correct), but when you place tag=. next to your src, ports, and doc entries, you override the default setting of RELENG_6. Remove the tag=. next to your src, ports, and doc entires,

Re: mount floppy and CD

2006-04-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aguiar Magalhaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using FreeBSD 6.0, how can a ordinary user (without become root) mount the floppy an CDs? How do I let ordinary users mount floppies, CDROMs and other removable media? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT

Re: stop/start services

2006-04-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With rcNG, it seems that any script with the executable mode set and with a matching control statement in /etc/rc.conf will get started regardless of whether it ends in .sh or not. But with slightly different semantics.

Re: sysinstall won't write fs to new disk, bad magic number

2006-04-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 04:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was a thread about this a while ago, but it did not seem to end in a solution... In any case, I have a 160GB Seagate drive that I was trying

Re: unknown class root from sshd

2006-04-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for your reply. Is this a new feature with the latest 6.x? No. I just checked my login.conf file and i do see the login root class in it. It is not commented out. The database may be corrupt. Try rebuilding it. Directions are at the top of

Re: nvidia.ko kernel panic after upgrade to 6.0

2006-04-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alejandro Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I have upgraded my two identical (same CPU and motherboard) machines from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0 (cvs tag RELENG_6_0). Both of them have NVidia video cards. One has a GeForce 4 MX 440 w/AGP8X and the other a GeForce 6600. I upgraded the

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want a non-root user (I'm happy to limit it to wheel users), to be able to mount smb shares and rip music, but I don't know how to do this. Where can I find documentation on this? For the mounting part, see the FAQ entry titled How do I let ordinary

Re: Newbie question - using sysinstall Upgrade an existing system - easy?

2006-04-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What actually happens when you use Upgrade an existing system in sysinstall? Do you end up with the X-server, etc., all functioning as before, or is there a lot of cleanup to do afterwards? X doesn't get automatically updated by that path; just the

Re: nvnet fails to make

2006-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope this would be appropriate for this list, I have just downloaded the distfile for the nvnet network interface card built in to a Gigabyte motherboard. The make command aborted with an avalanche of errors, see attachment. Does anyone have any info that

Re: Out of memory during ridiculously large request

2006-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Roger Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since an upgrade to 6.0 (perl 5.8.8) I am getting the following error: Out of memory during ridiculously large request at /usr/local/pop-before-smtp-1.36/pop-before-smtp line 355 Below is the offending line: foreach (keys %db) While googling

Re: can not su

2006-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
dharam paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have by mistake removed /var/lib/ Now can not su or login as root. Any remedy please, /var/lib does not exist on a stock system. Maybe you removed something else? Do you know what? ___

Re: boot0: is booting from non-BIOS-recognized disk possible?

2006-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Amanda Babcock Furrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read the boot0cfg, disklabel (I have FreeBSD 4.9), and fdisk manpages trying to figure out if boot0 can solve my problem. I did not find the answer there, or in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/disks.html or the freebsd-questions

Re: USB MODEM

2006-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
FreeBSD MailingLists [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I purchased a usb modem recently and connected it to my FreeBSD box to see if it is compatible. I have recompiled my kernel with device ucom device umodem When I connect the modem I get the following kernel message. ucom0: OMRON OMRON

Re: Curious behavior today

2006-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ive been working on a pair of test boxes today, and 2 daemons in a row, have installed from ports without the .sh on the end of their startup script. ive done tons of installs on these test boxes, what am i all of a sudden doing wrong? Nothing is

Re: can not su

2006-04-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post. dharam paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are right to say that /var/lib/ does not exist that is what logrotation through webmin said. So I created the folder '/var/lib/ and when logrotate furhter gave different errors, I removed the folder '/var/lib/' Okay, so it

Re: mysql rc.d script

2006-04-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vlad GURDIGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a FreeBSD 6-current build from almost the most recent source. I have installed mysql41-server port and observed a strange behaviour: as usual, I only have to put the mysqld_enable=yes in my /etc/rc.conf to have mysql server started at boot, but

Re: memtest86 memory test

2006-04-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
FreeBSD Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a memory test suite other them memtest86/memtest86+ There are others in the ports, but they aren't nearly as effective. Of course, if you really want effective, there is no substitute for a dedicated device...

Re: How to create a .la file?

2006-04-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: trying to upgrade gimp from ports, the build process failed with: libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.la' libXcursor.la is usually provided by x11/libXcursor,

Re: How to create a .la file?

2006-04-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 20 Apr 2006 09:44:22 -0400 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: trying to upgrade gimp from ports, the build process failed with: libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/X11R6

Re: How to create a .la file?

2006-04-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 20 Apr 2006 10:45:48 -0400 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do *not* need the libXcursor *port*, because xorg-libraries will install the Xcursor library. I agree too. But the build process of gimp and others seem to need

Re: Changing Default Shell

2006-04-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running freeBSD 6 release (FreeBSD taurus.cruz 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 2 01:42:42 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FILESERV i386) and for whatever reason, i'm stuck in bourne. Sure, I can type bash and open a new

Re: learning to buildworld

2006-04-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ive seen several articles on the net, and of course, no one agrees on the exact steps to take to update your system. The actual release engineers *do* agree. Use the procedure in the Handbook. Or you will likely be on your own if you have problems.

Re: Cloning boot drive - more details

2006-04-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My system partitions (/, swap, /usr, /var, /home) are currently spread onto a 10GB and a 20GB IDE drive, but I'd like to save space by consolidating these along with some (not heavily accessed) data partitions into a larger 250GB disk. The other drives (at this

Re: Problem install 6.0 (release) on Sony Vaio TX610P

2006-04-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Myatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I apologise in advance if this is the wrong forum for such a question and, if it is, please direct me to the correct place. I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 on a Sony Vaio TX610P laptop. This laptop previously ran a Debian-based Linux distribution with

Re: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf?

2006-04-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. fbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have a script that does this, that they can share? It will be pretty similar to the script I posted recently for updating your local named's forwarders list automatically. [Which is another approach to the same problem, and

Re: bsnmpd help

2006-04-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 and would like to monitor it using the included bsnmpd. However the handbook did not have any information about it, the man page was pretty lean and the list archive is very scarce on the topic. I checked the

Re: Bourn Shell -n Flag Questions

2006-04-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read about the noexecute flag or -n flag which is supposed to check the syntax of a Bourn Shell script to see what it would do if run, but not actually do anything. This sounds like a wonderful thing, especially when one is going to run a

Re: mouse scroll not working

2006-05-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just updated my ports and now when I move my mouse scroll up and down it thinks that I'm scrolling horizontally instead of vertically. I am running on 5.4. Any ideas? In X? How are you configuring the mouse?

Re: force lease renewal from dhcpd

2006-05-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
fbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some way to force all leases under dhcpd to perform lease renewal routine? Even if the dhcpd implements INFORM, most clients won't. In practice, if you want the clients to update before their existing lease is due for renewal, you generally have to go

Re: Asus P4PE audio and lan driver

2006-05-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
I thought the base system had drivers for those devices on that board. In fact, I though the amd64 and i386 releases both did so. What version of FreeBSD are you trying it on? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Asus P4PE audio and lan driver

2006-05-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. Dhénin Jean-Jacques [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :; uname -a FreeBSD cypries.cyclopes.org 6.1-RC :; more /boot/loader.conf sound_load=YES snd_emu10k1_load=YES Are you sure that's the right driver? I can't (quickly) find enough information to know which driver it

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yuan, Jue wrote: On Wednesday 03 May 2006 22:52, you wrote: I'm trying to set up a new laptop, and I have an odd problem. The laptop has a Broadcomm NetXtreme 57xx Gig Nic, and the install didn't recognize it. The GENERIC kernel has support for

Re: file system full

2006-05-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rodrigo Mufalani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, My /var is fully 99%, because I create one tar.gz of the squid logs. I was move for smbfs, then network die!!! I try: rm -rf file.tar.gz and don't have more free space oon the file system. Somebody help

Re: ACPI Eror

2006-05-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael Alestock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed FreeBSD-5.4-Release on my Toshiba Satellite A105 laptop and keep getting this rather annoying error every so often ACPI-0370: *** Error: No installed handler for fixed event [0004] I Googled around and seems as though

Re: Fetch Problems...

2006-05-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jeff Molofee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having some odd problems with fetch. If I pkg_add or attempt portupgrade, portmanage, etc, I get endless errors about fetch operation timed out. I am able to ping the sites by ip and name, I am able to ftp to the site, open the sites in firefox,

Re: Recursive FTP upload tool?

2005-12-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Auty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Dec 30, 2005, at 1:03 PM, JK wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:10:07 +0100 (CET) Alexander Pohoyda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for a command-line tool to recursively upload all changed files/directories to my homepage server via

Re: getting sound in KDE

2005-12-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. But no sound if i try play an mp3... Okay, so you have FreeBSD's sound drivers working fine, and you just need to get KDE to use it properly. I don't know anything about KDE, but enabling virtual channels may make life easier. See the manual for sound(4) for details. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: How do I get gdbserver for FreeBSD 5.4?

2005-12-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Marciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] gdbserver isn't currently ported for FreeBSD. If you really need it (as opposed to some other form of remote debugging), you could probably best get started by asking obrien for hints. Thanks for the info

Re: RTL8201BL PHY Gigabit ethernet

2006-01-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
is try it and see if it's recongized. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Soekris Net4801 + sis DP83816A

2006-01-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jacques Beigbeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hardware: Sokeris Net4801 I boot using PXE and it hangs at the end. Here some lines of the boot: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 4 15:31:04 UTC 2006 [ ... ] sis0: NatSemi DP8381[56] 10/100BaseTX port 0xe100-0xe1ff mem

Re: internet on two lan cards

2006-01-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. If it handles your situation, just setting routes for specific destinations is the easiest solution. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: turning off IPv6 in kernel

2006-01-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if I comment out the ipv6net statement in the kernel source and recompile, how do I tell ipfilter and the ports not to include ipv6 support? make.conf(5) has a knob for this, but individual ports may have their own separate knobs. -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: hyperactive dhclient?

2006-01-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
version.) Hard to say. I'd start by looking at the traffic it's sending and receiving. A clue is likely to turn up there... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd

Re: portsnap vs cvsup

2006-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
What's the advantage of portsnap vs old-fashion cvsup ? The package description covers that. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/sysutils/portsnap/pkg-descr?rev=1.2content-type=text/plain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: disk mapping

2006-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the /. How can I fix this ?. I don't have the possibility to make many test or install with the disk array plug (because it's on production). Figure out what SCSI bus the boot disk is on, and wire it down (see scsi(4) for syntax) so that you can specify a fixed disk in fstab(5). -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
on the chip. Personally, I don't think there's a strong enough argument for one definition to be right and the other wrong, so you just have to be aware which one you're using. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: limiting Buf memory

2006-01-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on my 1GB machine: Mem: 529M Active, 209M Inact, 149M Wired, 38M Cache, 109M Buf, 1772K Free while Cache is dynamic, Buf is not and never goes down. how can i get it down to somehow like 40MB? I can't think of a way to do that. On the other

Re: Help with panic: vm_fault

2006-01-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. Not common, but I've certainly seen it (particularly with lower-end machines a couple or so years back). And since different brands of memory modules will have different capacitances (and there may be some variation even among identical units), it may not be easy to reproduce. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: System hangs for 30 minutes before booting normally into freebsd 6.0

2006-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ravi Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I am a new convert to freebsd 6.0. I installed it on one of my old machine - a celeron 333 MHz, 98 MB RAM, with ISA slots. While installing it on my system, I faced a problem that it took a long time to load the freebsd installer menu. So I

Re: /etc/rc.firewall and dhclient(8)

2006-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I activated my firewall client configuration on my desktop that uses dhcp for a cable modem. Everything works fine (I even enabled ping), however, everytime I shutdown and restart the modem I find myself having to check /var/db/dhclient.leases.xl0 to edit

Re: Unable to make buildkernel (fresh cvsup to RELENG_6)

2006-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
of /usr/src/sys/net/if_vlan_var.h. Do you have CPATH or C_INCLUDE_PATH set in the environment? If not, maybe you have some stale files around, or an incorrectly updated source tree. Make sure you have the correct /usr/src/sys/net/if_vlan_var.h, and try again with a pristine /usr/obj. -- Lowell

Re: upgrade of php5-gd

2006-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mathieu CHATEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello freebsd-questions, even with a cvsup of ports 5 minutes ago, i still have the following errors when i try to upgrade php5-gd from 5.0.4_2 to 5.1.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd] # make install clean === Vulnerability

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