Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
andrew clarke wrote: On Sat 2008-10-18 09:47:51 UTC+0200, Peter Boosten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#CAD-REBOOT Hmmm, didn't know about the second one, and doesn't seem to be working either (on both 7.0 and 6.3): sysctl h

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Peter Boosten wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting the system? Best regards, Olivier There are two ways of doing this, both described in the FreeBSD FAQ here: http://www.freebsd.org

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting the system? Best regards, Olivier There are two ways of doing this, both described in the FreeBSD FAQ here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#CAD-REBOOT _

Re: brasero

2008-10-14 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Dánielisz László wrote: hello! I just installed Brasero and because a strange reason I can not select any dvd writer drive, I included device atapicam to my kernel? Do you have any idea what can I try? Laci While I have not used brasero on FreeBSD, I know (from k3b) that you

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hi Manolis & everyone else, `ipdivert.ko' works fine as a module too. You don't really *have* to recompile the kernel, but we probably have to update the relevant Handbook bits to mention that `ipdivert.ko' can be kldload'ed now. Adding a few options in `loader.conf'

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Manish Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am poor at networking and need a little bit of help. My dad has a Windows 2000 machine with a network card but does not have a connection to the internet. When I started writing this, I thought that system had bee

Re: Minor problems with Xfce

2008-10-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
James Butler wrote: Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: James Butler wrote: My other problem is possibly unrelated, but any actions I perform which would remove or update icons on the desktop (deleting a file, emptying Trash) don't take effect until xfdesktop is res

Re: Minor problems with Xfce

2008-10-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
James Butler wrote: My other problem is possibly unrelated, but any actions I perform which would remove or update icons on the desktop (deleting a file, emptying Trash) don't take effect until xfdesktop is restarted or I log out and then in. Any ideas? Notably, automatic detection and mounting

Re: Minor problems with Xfce

2008-10-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
James Butler wrote: Greetings all, I'm using 7-stable on my Thinkpad X31, with Xfce recently (2 weeks or so) installed from packages. I have two minor problems with Xfce, at least one of which could be HAL/DBUS related - I'd appreciate some advice to rule out misconfiguration on my part. Firstl

Re: GEOM_JOURNAL: Timeout. Journal gjournal XXXX cannot be completed.

2008-10-08 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi, I'm trying to add a new disk to my system. I'm ready with labeling the disk. It is an SCSI device with and UFS partition and a SWAP partition. The swap is turned off, and I would like to use it as journal space. There is a screenshot attached showing what happens after

Re: gmirror prerequisite question

2008-10-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Dino Vliet wrote: Hey freebsd list, I've bought a secondry HDD to attach to my server running freebsd 7.0. I want to enable gmirror on it (will reinstall everything from scratch), but I want to know if my hardware is setup correctly as a prerequisite for doing this operation. The command d

Re: Utility to extract iso files without burning

2008-10-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: Im looking for a GUI or command line that will allow me to extract information within an ISO file... im using FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE KDE4.1.1 AMD64 You can mount an iso and copy files from it. First create a memory disk device to contain the file system: mdconfig -a -

Re: Kernel panic! 7.0-RELEASE-p4

2008-10-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Walter Venable wrote: Our box, without readily obvious provocation, started doing this today: Panic: softdep_setup_inomapdep: dependency for new inode already exists. cpuid: 0 physical memory: 1971 MB dumping 78MB: 63 47 31 15 The system then immediately reboots, and hits the panic, reboots, etc

Re: Limiting closed port RST

2008-09-25 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Vlad GURDIGA wrote: Hello, I've started an Apache bechmark with ab today and a lot of such messages from kernel appeared in /var/log/messages: Sep 25 16:16:34 dev01 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 270 to 200 packets/sec Sep 25 16:19:10 dev01 kernel: Limiting closed port RST respo

Re: Firefox won't start

2008-09-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Joe Tseng wrote: I recently did a ports update and after a bit of effort I got firefox3 to compile with no errors. But now when I either select Firefox from the menu or start it from a terminal window nothing happens. Firefox does not start and there's no indication of any problems. When I

Re: nvidia-xconfig

2008-09-14 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Dánielisz László wrote: Hello! I can not make my xorg.conf work with nvidia-xconfig. I do execute the command and it gives me always the following error: (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 GPU installed in this system is (WW) NVIDIA(0): suppor

Re: how to charater special files?

2008-09-09 Thread Manolis Kiagias
gahn wrote: hi, all: how could i create a character special files (such as crw-rw-rw-)? thanks Devices are normally managed by devfs(5). The standard way for creating device files is still mknod(8) (deprecated) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Error :Code 1

2008-09-08 Thread Manolis Kiagias
mohd hilmi mohd salleh wrote: I try to build and install custom kernel.However when i write this command, make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL I got this error: ERROR:Missing kernel configuration file(s) (MYKERNEL) Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src Can someb

Re: switching discs during install

2008-09-06 Thread Manolis Kiagias
James Strother wrote: I just completed an install of FreeBSD 7.0 and couldn't help but wonder why it was necessary for me to switch discs back and forth so much while installing ported applications. I've used FreeBSD on and off for a number of years and this issue has always irked me a just a li

Re: Automatically starting user programs on boot

2008-09-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Saša Stupar wrote: Hi! On my FBSD 7 server I also use screen with rtorrent. In case of server reboot (power outage, server goes on UPS then power down) the user need manually to login, then start screen and then rtorrent. Is it possible to start this procedure automatically and of course as cert

Re: pkg_create

2008-09-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matias Surdi wrote: I've a directory tree structure in /usr/local from wich I'd like to create a package. How are pkg_create arguments supposed to be? Where can I find an example? I've read the manpage, but an example would be really usefull. Thanks for your help again. pkg_create can cre

Re: starting sysinstall at boot time

2008-09-02 Thread Manolis Kiagias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Something seems magic in freebsd: I am looking for what does start sysinstall at boot time when I boot from the installation CD. The only thing related to systinstall is the setting of the init_path variable in the loader.rc file but it is in comment thus the loader

Re: Kde4 packages

2008-09-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
E. J. Cerejo wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Eduardo Cerejo wrote: Building kde4 from ports will take forever on my computer, does anyone where I can get these packages? I have uploaded a torrent with kde4.1 packages (including xorg, bash, samba and others). Get it here: http

Re: Kde4 packages

2008-08-31 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Eduardo Cerejo wrote: Building kde4 from ports will take forever on my computer, does anyone where I can get these packages? I have uploaded a torrent with kde4.1 packages (including xorg, bash, samba and others). Get it here: http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=c08d

Re: Conflicting packages installing to same dir

2008-08-31 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: ===> Installing for xf86-video-intel-2.4.0 ===> xf86-video-intel-2.4.0 conflicts with installed package(s): xf86-video-i810-1.7.4_1 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).

Re: complete listing of CPUTYPES

2008-08-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/30 Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I just switched from amd64 to i386 8-current on a machine and was using CPUTYPE?=nocona but want to know: a) Is this still correct for a intel dual core e6850 (3.0GHz) b) Is there a file that contains all the CPUTYPES

Re: K3b dosent detect either of my burners

2008-08-29 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: When the atapicam module is loaded, it treats ATAPI CDs like SCSI ones, so you should get names like cd0 and cd1. Can you perform an ls /dev/cd* and see if these devices exist? I haven't used a SATA recorder in my machine yet, but since the ata driver attaches to them, I see

Re: K3b dosent detect either of my burners

2008-08-29 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: On Saturday 30 August 2008 01:46:04 Oliver Peter wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:58:39PM +1000, Warren Liddell wrote: I have gone through the info from various sites, handbooks, email archives and yet still k3b doesnt detect neither 1 of my 2 SATA Burners .. i us

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Brian McCann wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Brian McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does gjournal complain about your drive, for example that it doesn't support BIOFLUSH? Actually yes...I meant to

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but when they came back up, the file systems wouldn't mount since they were not clean.

Re: turn on beastie beside the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot options menu

2008-08-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
enom-FBSD1 wrote: Is there a way to reactivate the black and white beastie which used to display to the right of the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot options menu? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: Impressions of kde-4.1

2008-08-20 Thread Manolis Kiagias
David Gurvich wrote: I've installed the kde4 packages for freebsd-7-stable and the only program that I've tested that doesn't work is konqueror, that has problems with speed and stability, terminal emulator does not work, and leaves zombie processing to take up memory. I noticed 10 konqueror pro

Re: Fetching precompiled packages for external install

2008-08-19 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:34:41 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: See this discussion in -questions a few days ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-August/180001.html Hmmm... this seems to refer to a procedure involving

Re: Fetching precompiled packages for external install

2008-08-19 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: Hi! I'd like to know if somebody could point me to a command which allows me to solve the following task: I have a machine that is not connected to the Internet. If it was, I would use # pkg_add -r to install the software I want. I have another machine with Intern

Re: Kopete, kplayer, kdelibs etc

2008-08-19 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: I know there ar eknown issues about kopete and it being able to connect to MSN & Yahoo, im runnind KDE4 on AMD64 FreeBSD7.0-STABLE .. cvsupd today so all ports & SRC are upto date portupgrade done and yet kopete still refuses to connect to MSN or yahoo .. is the bug still

Re: FreeBSD 7-STABLE +Gnome +Compiz-Fusion?

2008-08-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Novembre wrote: Manolis Kiagias gmail.com> writes: Well, the article is right to the point that you will not install nvidia drivers on an ATI card ;) However as I understand 3D support in ATI is a hit and miss even in Linux (and ATI's proprietary driver is awful). The xorg.conf

Re: FreeBSD 7-STABLE +Gnome +Compiz-Fusion?

2008-08-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Stacey Roberts wrote: Hi Manolis! Good to hear from you - thanks for responding.., On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Stacey Roberts wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get Compiz-Fusion + Gnome to work on my newly (completed installation + initial upgrades last night) inst

Re: FreeBSD 7-STABLE +Gnome +Compiz-Fusion?

2008-08-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Stacey Roberts wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get Compiz-Fusion + Gnome to work on my newly (completed installation + initial upgrades last night) installed IBM T43p notebook, but I'm not sure that I'm doing this right.., Basically, I've: - 1] Installed OS 2] Upgraded OS to latest Stable as of (ear

Re: USB Drive Reliability

2008-08-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Jason C. Wells wrote: I am running FreeBSD 6.3. I have found that attaching and detaching USB drives to my box is unreliable. Is this the experience of other users? Regards, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: security updates

2008-08-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
jdd sur free wrote: Hello :-) I'm new to freeBSD, so forgive me if my question is boring :-( I just discover than my computer hosting company allow the use of freeBSD (http://www.ovh.com/fr/particulier/items/distributions/free_bsd.xml?sort=bsd&gm=pop) on they cheap (20€/month http://www.ovh.

Re: Nvidia 6100 MCP RAID or GEOM

2008-08-14 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Iv. Karabojkov wrote: Hi! I am asking for recommendation. I'd like to use two SATA disks as RAID1 - mirror. My MB uses NVidia MCP6100 with hardware RAID. Is it better to use this RAID or to build a new one using GEOM? If I accidentally replace the MB will it be easy to reconfigure GEOM (for h

Re: Sound problems

2008-08-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list. Realy need some help! I can't seem to get snd_hda module to load from /boot/loader.conf Loading the module manualy is ok. loader.conf hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" atapicam_load="YES" if_tap_load="YES" aio_load="YES" ##

Re: KDE-4.1 in FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2008-08-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Dave Feustel wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:46:04PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: FuLLBLaSTstorm wrote: Just in case anybody knows: will be KDE-4.1 included in 7.1-RELEASE? ___ You mean as in "precompiled package on CD

Re: KDE-4.1 in FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2008-08-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
FuLLBLaSTstorm wrote: Just in case anybody knows: will be KDE-4.1 included in 7.1-RELEASE? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: tt/sbcglobal 2wire,1800 gateway (was: Re: freebsd)

2008-08-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
AAH wrote: Hi, Can someone give me the correct settings to configure an att/sbcglobal 2wire 1800 gateway(it's a modem, router/gateway)to work with FreeBSD? I have been told my other users of FreeBSD that this router/gateway does work with FreeBSD. (Freebsd 6.3). However, the values given t

Re: Client only supports checkout mode

2008-08-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
kalin m wrote: thanks i tried both cvsup and csup to update my ports and i'm not sure it's working. they both run through but the ports don't seem to be updated. like i can see a new port here http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/lang/php5/ which is 5.2.6 (also on freshports) but u

Re: creating package repository for offline installation

2008-08-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Monday 04 August 2008 14:34:45 Manolis Kiagias wrote: If you don't mind building the packages (on the remote system) from ports, I would suggest ports-mgmt/tinderbox Comprehensive instructions are located here: http://tinderbox.marcusco

Re: creating package repository for offline installation

2008-08-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Monday 04 August 2008 14:34:45 Manolis Kiagias wrote: If you don't mind building the packages (on the remote system) from ports, I would suggest ports-mgmt/tinderbox Comprehensive instructions are located here: http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com/ I've u

Re: creating package repository for offline installation

2008-08-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hi, I would like to update the installed packages at home. There are two problems: 1) there is only dialup internet connection. That pretty much rules out the possibility of using 'pkg_add -r' 2) I want to use packages, because using ports will take days

Re: Client only supports checkout mode

2008-08-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
kalin m wrote: hi all... why would i get : "Client only supports checkout mode" when i do; csup /cvsup_file on a new freebsd 7 install what does it mean?! thanks... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: How to update from 7.0-stable-200805 to 7.0-stable-200807 ?

2008-08-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Yavuz Maslak wrote: I use 7.0-STABLE-200805. I want to update it to 7.0-STABLE-200807. How do I update for the last updates clearly ? is there a way to update without reboot the machine or with only one reboot ? Use csup to synchronize your source: - Copy the file /usr/share/examples/

Re: Controlling read access

2008-07-31 Thread Manolis Kiagias
John Almberg wrote: I operate a server on which I am typically the only ssh user, but I do provide a small number of users ftp access. Each user has their own home directory. Currently all home directories have read permission set for 'other'. This means if I log in as one user, I can read an

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 Hardware Requirement.

2008-07-31 Thread Manolis Kiagias
ketan tada wrote: Hello I've tried to find hardware requirement for FreeBSC 7.0 but I couldn't found that. Can you please send me the hardware requirement? I have laptop(celeron 1.4, 256 ram) so Can you suggest me which verson is suitable for my hardware. Thanks and Regards, Ketan. You ne

Re: protecting my FreeBSD system

2008-07-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
DSA - JCR wrote: HI all again I would like to know if there is a method to know how well protected is my system (FreeBSD 6.2) in order to not permit a user to enter as root. I need it because I have intellectual propierty in that box, and I know some people is interested on it. I use inetd, and

Re: problem

2008-07-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Enebish Enkhbat wrote: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/Mail-SpamAssassin.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch ' ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/Ma

Re: Update Single Port tree due MOVED....

2008-07-29 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Agus wrote: Hi guys, Yesterday while updating my ports...I don't use all-ports, i instead choose the ones i use from the ports-supfile, i realized that when i wanted to install portaudit and some other ports management utils, they weren't anymore on sysutils...i looked at MOVED and swa that they

Re: Monitoring CPU temperature: mbmon shows 201 degrees C

2008-07-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Achilleas Mantzios wrote: Just to summarize (after 5.5 days of uptime), i'd like to recap on what happened next. I burned the SiS 651 based motherboard, while memtesting, and i replaced it with a new Asrock, Intel 82865G based motherboard. Hey, I have three of these! One of them is running

Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE

2008-07-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Yeah, but even though the router has customizable values for this range, and issues a warning when i try to change them, it still doesn't change them when I click "yes" on the warning. It is pre-configured to 10.0.0.2-10.0

Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE

2008-07-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Now, on this network, most of the computers get their IP by means of DHCP. Except our home audio server, which have a hard coded ip address in rc.conf, set to something within the range of the dhcp server (10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253). The server

Re: Network, routers, DHCP and PXE

2008-07-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Hi, list! I have a private home network, on an ADSL2+ connection to the internet. The home network is behind NAT, all automatically set up by the router/dhcp server/wlan access point/adsl modem that I got from my ISP. It's a Thomson SpeedTouch 585 router. Now, on

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Manolis Kiagias
FreeBSD Questions wrote: And what about "Absolute FreeBSD"? It's updated for FreeBSD 7, so I know it's current. Is it a "good book"? Is it worth the read? How valuable is its content? (I know I'm asking some very subjective questions, but if I'm going to spend hundreds of $$$ to build my lib

Re: ports dependency question

2008-07-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Andrew Gould wrote: I tried to install freemind from ports (ports/deskutils/freemind). The installation failed because I am missing jdk 1.5*. The Makefile requires java > 1.4. diablo-jre-1.5.0.07.01_10 is installed. Installing the latest binary via "pkg_add -r freemind" has the same results,

Re: Monitoring CPU temperature: mbmon shows 201 degrees C

2008-07-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Achilleas Mantzios wrote: Στις Tuesday 22 July 2008 14:27:28 ο/η Manolis Kiagias έγραψε: Achilleas Mantzios wrote: While experimenting, i noticed the 1st and 3rd temperatures from mbmon to be updated in a fashion that seems natural. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% mbmon Temp

Re: Monitoring CPU temperature: mbmon shows 201 degrees C

2008-07-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Achilleas Mantzios wrote: While experimenting, i noticed the 1st and 3rd temperatures from mbmon to be updated in a fashion that seems natural. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% mbmon Temp.= 41.0, 201.0, 42.0; Rot.= 3443,0,0 Vcore = 1.50, 1.81; Volt. = 3.30, 5.08, 11.43, -11.74, -1.69

Re: Monitoring CPU temperature: mbmon shows 201 degrees C

2008-07-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Achilleas Mantzios wrote: Στις Tuesday 22 July 2008 00:25:46 ο/η Tore Lund έγραψε: Achilleas Mantzios wrote: ... Having said that, the issue with the temperature must not be my thing :( after kldload coretemp, i get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% sysctl -a | grep tempera hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temp

Re: Monitoring CPU temperature: mbmon shows 201 degrees C

2008-07-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Achilleas Mantzios wrote: As you already noticed, mbmon is no good in recent hardware. It works successfully in my 865-based systems though. As others have said, I would recommend adding a rear out-take fan. Do not rely on the PSU's fan to take all the warm air out. The PSU generates

Re: Monitoring CPU temperature: mbmon shows 201 degrees C

2008-07-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Achilleas Mantzios wrote: My office goes to 38C in summer, and all 5 computers just keep on going, using the principles above. I fitted a fan to the UPS as well (-: My box has 3 fans, one on the case blowing from outside=>inside, one in the power supply and one on the CPU. In the even

Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2

2008-07-19 Thread Manolis Kiagias
David Newman wrote: Mark Boolootian wrote: which leads me to conclude I've got -p3, including the BIND update. However 'uname -a' says something else: FreeBSD mumble.ucsc.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 18 07:33:20 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GE

Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2

2008-07-14 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mark Boolootian wrote: Hi folks, I've done a couple of fresh installs on 7.0-RELEASE today, and subsequently run freebsd-update. freebsd-update reports: The following files will be updated as part of updating to 7.0-RELEASE-p3: /boot/kernel/kernel /boot/kernel/kernel.symbols /usr/bin/d

Re: weird restarts when compiling

2008-07-14 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Aggelidis Nikos wrote: The voltages as the BIOS reports them: Vcore = 1.258 V +3.30 V = 3.274V +5.00 V = 5.121V +12.00 V = 11.870V Not very useful here, since these may change under load I am afraid. i hope by the end of the day i will be able to test the system with a 1100watt Tagan PSU

Re: Upgrading from p2 to p3 on 7.0

2008-07-14 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Schiz0 wrote: Hey, I'm running 7.0-RELEASE-p2 on a production box. I'm aware that -p3 was released, which is a security patch for BIND. Is there any way to compile and install the changed files without restarting the system? I do run BIND as a caching daemon, so I would like to keep it up to dat

Re: Core(TM)2 Quad and TOP output

2008-07-14 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Josh Carroll wrote: He is already running with SMP, look at this part of his dmesg: ad10: 343399MB at ata5-master SATA300 ad12: 343399MB at ata6-master SATA300 acd0: DVDR at ata7-master SATA150 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! His problem lies elsewh

Re: Core(TM)2 Quad and TOP output

2008-07-14 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Josh Carroll wrote: I'm sorry, I completely missed that you were running 6.3 and not a 7.x release. You are running the GENERIC kernel then, and while the processors are visible, it's only using one since you are not running with SMP support. You can build the SMP kernel (basically, GENERIC + op

Re: Core(TM)2 Quad and TOP output

2008-07-14 Thread Manolis Kiagias
tethys ocean wrote: Hi all I have new server(webserver) quad core but performans is not well (according our old webserver pent IV ). Maybe its performans depends on our web page sourcecode. FreeBSD 6.3 stable is running on it. dmesg is in below. 1-I wonder in my TOP output can I see all CPU or

Re: weird restarts when compiling

2008-07-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Aggelidis Nikos wrote: Not really. All modern CPUs have BIST (built-in self tests) that run even before the BIOS starts, and it would be really rare to actually have a "working" system with a faulty CPU. Errors in mprime usually indicate some other problem, such as bad memory, bad BIOS settings,

Re: weird restarts when compiling

2008-07-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Aggelidis Nikos wrote: running mprime-torture i get: Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer. Please read stress.txt. Hit ^C to end this test. Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length. Test 2, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922943 using 1024K

Re: PACKAGESITE

2008-07-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mike Clarke wrote: On Sunday 13 July 2008, Manolis Kiagias wrote: As far as I know, pkg_add will only fetch dependencies recursively from the Internet when used with -r but it will then ignore PKG_PATH. Seems what you are asking cannot be done this way, but I might be wrong. I wonder

Re: PACKAGESITE

2008-07-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you specify the -r flag? Without that, the PACKAGESITE environment variable is note used ... No, I didn't, because -- unless I am misunderstanding the description of the -r flag -- that will cause pkg_add to look *only* on the FTP site. I want it to use packa

Re: weird restarts when compiling

2008-07-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Aggelidis Nikos wrote: PS: this was a ready-made pc that had it's p4 processor upgraded to a dual core. It also got a new motherboard and 2G of ddr2. It has an old nvidia GeForce fx 5200, and a 400watt nameless PSU. I only have freebsd,which i installed a month ago, on it. ___

Re: weird restarts when compiling

2008-07-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Aggelidis Nikos wrote: Hi to all the list, i 've been using FreeBSD for almost a month ,and i have this weird problem. Sometimes when i try to compile a program the computer will hard-reset itself, like someone pulled of the plug... For example yesterday i was trying to install jdk1.6 + eclipse,

Re: speedtouch 330

2008-07-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
fatome konate wrote: Hello! I am using FreeBSD 7.0 and i can't find a driver for Thomson usb modem: speedtouch 330. Can you help please? Thanks. There was a project to create an open driver for 330: http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net Rumor has it this was working in FreeBSD 5.1, but I can

Re: Linux for freebsd admins

2008-07-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Ian Lord wrote: I have to install a linux machine and don't know which distribution to take. I tried debian ubuntu and fedora and didn't like them. I want: - A basic install (not 900 packages installed by default - No gui, I like my flashing cursor - an equivalent of ports. I want to

Re: Recovering root password from a drive by mounting the cdrom

2008-07-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mukarram Syed wrote: Thanks for this response and others. However, my problem does not look to be so simple. I boot off the install cd and get into the fixit prompt. I dmesg | less and get the device name that I think is my hard drive /dev/ad0. I fdisk /dev/ad0 and get information about 3 slice

Re: Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release

2008-07-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 06:12:15PM +0200, Mel wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2008 17:56:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:40:35PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:27:42PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I d

Re: Saved Config Files for Ports

2008-07-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: Where are saved configuration files found for various ports if they've been previously compiled ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: When i try to su to root from konsole within kde it tells me.. $ su su: Sorry i got a feeling when i added my user client to operators group this may have done this an sadly now i cant run or do anything that requires root access. Any thoughts? Maybe you added you

Re: freebsd-update and more information

2008-06-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On June 30, 2008 2:22:41 PM +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all, I read man freebsd-update but it has not answered my questions. That is, after I have issued freebsd-update fetch/install, where can I find information about if the installed updates

Re: freebsd-update and more information

2008-06-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello again, Not all updates include kernel updates, some are just userland. If you are running a GENERIC, unomdified (from CD) kernel, this will be updated in the process. freebsd-update shows you a list of updated files, and will also show /boot/kernel/kernel if this

Re: freebsd-update and more information

2008-06-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I read man freebsd-update but it has not answered my questions. That is, after I have issued freebsd-update fetch/install, where can I find information about if the installed updates require recompiling the kernel or system restart? Thank you in advance!

Re: Using freebsd-update after upgrading from source

2008-06-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, I have been updating 6.2-RELEASE with freebsd-update. Recently I upgraded it to RELENG_6_3 from source. Can I continue using freebsd-update or must I upgrade only from source from now on? I don't see why not. freebsd-update will download binary updates to

Re: Howto get k3b to detect my Burner

2008-06-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: I was asking you to try k3b because internally it uses these commands to write. I don't currently have it installed (I am not really a KDE user, and I write most stuff from the command line anyway) but I think you probably have a permission problem of some kind. - Do you ha

Re: Howto get k3b to detect my Burner

2008-06-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: cdrecord writes DVDs as well, you just need a more recent version. Try sysutils/cdrtools-devel instead of sysutils/cdrtools. Fabian Being that it went to burn anyway, im assuming the burner is aok an is a matter of simply finding why k3b dosent detect it OR allow me

Re: Howto get k3b to detect my Burner

2008-06-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: Ok, it should be working. If you have an iso file and an empty CD at hand try something like this: cdrecord -v -dao speed=24 driveropts=burnfree dev=3,0,0 mytest.iso and see if it actually records it. Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (amd64-unknown-freebsd6.3) Copyright (C) 199

Re: Howto get k3b to detect my Burner

2008-06-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (amd64-unknown-freebsd6.3) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'LEXAR ' 'JUMPDRIVE SECURE' '3000' Removable Disk 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) *

Re: Howto get k3b to detect my Burner

2008-06-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: Followed a few things, but it seems ot not initalise my burner even though its detected..below is the read out when running from console. --- kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KActionCollection::KActionCollection( QObject *paren

Re: k3b not detecting my burner

2008-06-25 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: I not long got k3b compiled and running, but it comes up saying ti dosent detect i have a burner, when i got a SATA burner sitting there that has been working fine with Winblows. Whats happening an how do i fix this issue ? ___

Re: restart named in a cron

2008-06-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Nicolas Letellier wrote: Hi. I want to restart named in a script executed by a cron. My script is: #!/bin/sh # verify named conf and restart it /usr/sbin/named-checkconf if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "Errors when verifying named configuration" exit 1 else /etc/rc.d/named

Re: FreeBSD and Greek support

2008-06-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:39:19 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tore Lund wrote: Dimitris Giakoudis wrote: applied the settings and installed 'ports/x11-fonts/urwfonts' and everything is in Greek now. I have a problem tho

Re: FreeBSD and Greek support

2008-06-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Tore Lund wrote: Dimitris Giakoudis wrote: ... applied the settings and installed 'ports/x11-fonts/urwfonts' and everything is in Greek now. I have a problem though when viewing web pages that are encoded with el_GR, there are spaces among the letters and it is really ugly. Have yo

Re: Using gjournal + gmirror on 7.0-RELEASE-p1 (amd64) server

2008-06-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Hi list, I've two Intel Xeon dual core-based servers running 7.0-RELEASE-p1 (amd64). Those servers are running a software raid-1 using geom_gmirror. Today, when I rebooted them twice with 'reboot' command, raid-1 running on both servers got degraded to 0% + filesy

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