Re: replacing harddisks

pepe wrote: I have gmirror of two 200GB disks where I have whole /usr f my freebsd 7.2 system. root, /var and /boot are on other disk, but I need to replace those both disks with bigger ones now. To get bigger /usr. So what I'm wondering now is if there is way to take one disk out of mirror

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

Brent Bloxam wrote: Chris wrote: The course is HTML. Mouse button operations should be close, a window that gives a simple file directory and a text editor that doesn't require learning a character command set would be the target. Hi Chris, Maybe look at using Xfce, which is a

Re: Missing man pages: gnupg

Daniel Underwood wrote: Coming from Linux, I'm accustomed to using gpg. I installed the gnupg port (which I assume is virtually the same as Linux gpg). Doing $ man gnupg returns nothing. Doing $ which gnupg reveals that the port (or at least the binary) is in fact installed. But where are

Re: scontrib

Brett Wiggins wrote: Hi, Depending on what you want to do with accessing the source code, it may be valid to say that you can leave out scontrib, but as far as I remember, it will be needed for building things from the source code (make vuildworld and buildkernel). I want to be

Re: freebsd-update: from 7.1-STABLE to 7.2-RELEASE?

Axel wrote: Hello, I have previously kept my machine updated by fetching the STABLE branch using csup and rebuilding the kernel. (As described in Handbook chapter 24.7) From now on, I want to use freebsd-update to simplify the process and follow the RELEASE branch (+patches) instead. But

Re: FreeBSD on E4200/E4300

Albert Shih wrote: Le 28/07/2009 à 10:27:04+0200, Matthias Apitz a écrit El día Tuesday, July 28, 2009 a las 10:17:02AM +0200, Albert Shih escribió: Hi all Anyone have try to install FreeBSD (any version) on Dell E4200 or E4300 ? If someone already do, can he tell me what's

Re: What is Freebsd 7.2pX

David Southwell wrote: Where is information about 7.2pX to be found on freebsd.org? I am running freebsd 7.2 64 amd 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 07:18:07 UTC 2009 r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 version on Intel quad core and was advised to upgrade to

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman)

at Manolis Kiagias work at http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/downloads-page Haven't tried it my self, but it seems I'm going to. Aloha, Manolis download worked for me. I used it to install a 7.2 FreeBSD on a Sandisk Flash stick. And I can bring it up from the USB port on my netbook. Works

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

James Phillips wrote: Put another way: I want a reliable, backed-up file-server before playing around on my workstation that would be a separate computer. I want to build myself a sand-box so I don't have to worry about breaking stuff that is unrelated. Another way of asking the question:

Re: X on Xterminals but not on console

On 6/10/2011 6:24 μμ, n dhert wrote: Hi, In your labserver, do you have a graphical login window at your labserver or not ? I don't want a graphical login, since I can't get anymore to the login prompt via Ctrl Alt F1 No graphical login. My lab server stops at the console login prompt. In

Re: changing baud rate without recompiling

On 9/11/2011 11:11 πμ, saeedeh motlagh wrote: i know adding the COM_CONSOLE_SPEED=115200 to make.conf and recompile it, change the baud rate but i want to know if there is a way to change it without recompiling. please let me know if there is any way to do that. my FreeBSD is 8.0 thanks. I am

Re: changing baud rate without recompiling

On 12/11/2011 1:02 μμ, saeedeh motlagh wrote: thanks for your reply it's good but includes recompiling again. i don't want to recompile in any way. is there any other solution for doing that? i don't think so:(. are you sure recompiling is the only way to change the baud rate? thanks for your

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

On 10/12/2011 5:19 μμ, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, R Skinner wrote: So I went to the handbook. I'm still a little confused though: can one still setup the usr and var (and so forth)? It said you possibly could, but it escaped me as to how. Use the bsdinstall partition editor to

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

On 10/12/2011 11:41 μμ, Da Rock wrote: On 12/11/11 02:09, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 10/12/2011 5:19 μμ, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, R Skinner wrote: So I went to the handbook. I'm still a little confused though: can one still setup the usr and var (and so forth)? It said you

Re: difference between cvsup and csup?

On 12/12/2011 7:39 πμ, Robert Huff wrote: Michael Powell writes: Csup is a rewrite of cvsup in the C language, and as such can be included as part of the base operating system. It is only linked against a few system libraries. This also means it can be built using the same tools and

ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 with XFCE packages released

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I have just completed an 8.1-RELEASE-p1 based build of the 'Custom releases' project hosted here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com At the moment only the 64bit version is available, while a 32bit version is in the works and is expected

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 with XFCE packages released

On 05/10/2010 10:20 π.μ., Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:26:26 +0300, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr a écrit : Hello, This release is based on the latest XFCE desktop and includes a wide variety of desktop-related packages, like OpenOffice, abiword, gnumeric, firefox35

Re: XDM not showing login screen

On 31/12/2010 7:07 μ.μ., Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my XDMCP to work, but for some reason the XDM daemon doesn't reply to XDMCP requests. I see the XDMCP packet arriving on my xdm server harley# tcpdump port 177 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full

Re: make buildworld errors

On 01/01/2011 9:54 ?.?., Mike wrote: Trying to buildworld but it keeps failing. I finally deleted /usr/src and recopyed from a cd then cvsup using standard-supfile. Tried limiting how much ram freebsd uses and only using one stick of ram. All attempts have failed at the same place. Would

Re: Kernel

On 01/07/2011 10:57 PM, Τάσκος Κωνσταντίνος wrote: Hello to all. I am a new user of FreeBSD-8.1 and I tried to compile a new kernel, according to the instructions given by the handbook. The command 'make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL' failed with 'stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL error

Re: want to install free bsd

Brian Guest wrote: Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to install freebsd 6.2 or 6.0 on my pentium three PC computer. At this moment my pentium three computer has XP installed on it i do not know which files from the freebsd website to download and write to a CDRW orCDR could you

Re: 6.2 iso images

hal wrote: On freebsd.org the date of the ISO images is 1-12-2007. There have been several updates since then. Is there a repository of ISO images that are kept current? hal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 6.2 iso images

hal wrote: On Oct 1, 2007, at Monday, Oct1, 2007 2:03 PM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Maybe you would like to download a 6-STABLE ISO image? Have a look at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots and in particular ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200709 BTW

Re: security patches and release number question

Duane Winner wrote: Hi, Question about patch numbers and applying patches: Last night, I got the openssl security advisory, and this morning am starting to patch my servers. I've always just done a make build world; make build kernel; make install kernel; make install world when I've

Re: xmms crashing at startup

Robert Marella wrote: On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:46:36 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manolis Kiagias writes: I believe this started after upgrading to Xorg-7.3: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmms Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 1492

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

James Jeffery wrote: Evening to you all (or morning in some parts of the world). Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this a dumb method, and the books pointless and stupid, but i have no knowledge of any lower level languages, so i do need to be spoon fed the

Re: Marvel NFE driver in 6 CURRENT

stan wrote: I'm building a new machine which (I beleive) needs the NFE driver fr the onboard NIC's. It appears that there is a third part (as in not in tree) driver for this chipset, Why is this not in 6.2 CURRENT? Are the issues with it? I am using this driver in 6.2-RELEASE:

Re: freebsd-update port uname/internal patch level mismatch

Vinny wrote: Hi, I noticed that using freebsd-update on a freshly installed 6.2-RELEASE system yielded the following mismatch: $ uname -vp FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr 26 17:55:55 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 The results of running a freebsd-update

Re: Copying CD tracks

Rem P Roberti wrote: Is it possible to copy all of the audio tracks on a cd to a directory at one time. The handbook gives instructions for copying one at a time, but there must be a way to do it all at once. Rem ___

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

David Benfell wrote: Hello all, Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing to

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

David Benfell wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:57:27 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: The following comes from the handbook and works for me: copy your master.passwd to /var/yp, i.e: cp /etc/master.passwd /var/yp/master.passwd Edit the copy of master.passwd and exclude all

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

Olivier Nicole wrote: Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't remember details). If I am not wrong, NIS does

Re: [OT] proper editor

Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Hi there, I'm beginner. Please recommend for proper editor so that ... I want to practice *Python* under best environment ... vim, emacs, gedit, or notepad.exe, ... If you give me good advice about that, I'll study very hard ... So which one is best editor? ...

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

Lowell Gilbert wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olivier Nicole wrote: Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal format is different

Re: [OT] proper editor

Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 08:47 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Hi there, I'm beginner. Please recommend for proper editor so that ... I want to practice *Python* under best environment ... vim, emacs, gedit, or notepad.exe, ... If you

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

Lowell Gilbert wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it. The manual says: If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD clients that have no support for password shadowing (which is most of them), you

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

Lowell Gilbert wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have experimented a bit further with my debian NIS server, and this is what I found: From a NIS client, I can do with my standard user account: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ypcat passwd.byname user1:x:1010:1010:Joe User

Re: The kernel source?

Roberth Sjonøy wrote: How do I get the kernel source for my kernel? I need it to install the nvidia-driver from ports, and is there anything else I need to do to make the kernel load the driver at startup? Regards, Roberth ___

Re: xorg install problem

AN wrote: I am trying to install a new system with Gnome and xorg on 7.0 beta 1. Here are the steps I have taken: install 6.2 release cvsup to releng_7 as of 10/21/07 buildworld -sucessful installworld -sucessful reboot into 7.0 beta set packagesite to ft2.nl.freebsd.org pkg_add

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

W. D. wrote: Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. Remote PuTTY: Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. At computer terminal: PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX Any ideas? Thanks! You are probably trying to login as

Re: tar Ignoring out-of-order file What Does that Mean?

Martin McCormick wrote: I need to modify the first installation image for a headless installation of Freebsd6.2. The file in question is: 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso Thanks to a helpful member of the list, I found out that tar works on unpacking these images and it mostly does

Re: fsck gave up on me!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been using FreeBSD 6.2 for a couple of months now with no major snags. Until now. I did a portupgrade this morning and afterwards, when I logged in as a user into Gnome, my desktop was missing most of the programs (Accessories, System Tools,

Re: FreeBSD 6.2-release and azalia sound chipset

Nicolas Letellier wrote: Hello, Two questions : it's a binary module ? I don't find the module for azalia. Where is it ? Thanks Nicolas Oliver Herold a écrit : Hi, http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/BINARY_MODULES/ just follow the README. Cheers, Oliver On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at

Re: List of sites using FreeBSD?

James wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 10:15 +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Does anybody out there know where I can find a list of sites running FreeBSD? I expected it on www.freebsd.org, but couldn't find it (maybe overlooked?) Thanks in advance for any pointer. -ewald

Re: Ports with GUI configs

RW wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:14:02 -0800 Mark D. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vince wrote: Ashley Moran wrote: Hi I was just wondering, what is the motivation behind the GUI configuration for some ports? Simply put, they drive me up the wall. I've lost

Re: Tkinter Libraries Needed

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. I tried that a while back and forgot I had. This is what I get: server726# cd /usr/ports/graphics/py-imaging server726# make install clean === Installing for py24-imaging-1.1.5 === py24-imaging-1.1.5 depends on file:

Re: Port GUI Config

Donovan R. Palmer wrote: I went to compile a programme in the port tree tonight. When I did so, a GUI popped up with different options. No probs. However, later I decided I wanted to compile it with different options. When I go to compile it, the GUI doesn't pop up any more, so I assume

Re: hyperthreading CPU and broken scheduling?

Wojciech Puchar wrote: i have machune with intel's CPU with hyperthreading. it is detected right, but only first thread is ever used. top shows at least 50% idle no matter what i run! what's wrong? root@:/usr62/src/sys/amd64/compile/serwer.tensor.gdynia.pl Timecounter i8254 frequency

Re: hyperthreading CPU and broken scheduling?

Wojciech Puchar wrote: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To enable hyperthreading, try setting the following in /etc/sysctl.conf: machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 and reboot (or execute sysctl

Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to the bellow mail, I giving processor details AMD Turion? 64 Mobile Technology SNIP Hi, Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follows HP Compaq

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

David Morton wrote: I have been out of work so long (since being diagnosed as autistic and scared) that even as an IT professional, I now get very anxious about messing with my PC. However, I got a magazine that included FreeBSD/i386 6.2 on the DVD and I have always wanted to play with BSD. My

Re: /usr/local/rc.d/apache22 start doesn't start Apache

Yuri wrote: I installed Apache port. But when I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start nothing happens. 'ps ax | grep httpd' returns nothing. So server wasn't started. Why nothing is printed and server not started with the first command? What is the right way to start the server?

Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We would like to tune FreeBSD according to our business needs. Please forward some documents for how to compile the Free BSD kernel and how we can deploy our compiled version of Free BSD into a new machine. Please help me ASAP Cheers, B.Manikandan UK

Re: Realtek sound driver query

Chris Makepeace wrote: I am a Linux distro fiddler who is trying to settle down... Just installed PC-BSD and the .../dev/dsp could not be opened (no such file or directory) error appeared. Mixer cannot be found, says the little panel icon. Sound is supposed to come via an integrated

Re: cvsup not getting 'everything' with standard-supfile?

Steve Franks wrote: I see folks talking about building snd_hda on 6.2, but when I cvsup, /usr/src/sys/modules/sound/driver/hda doesn't exist. I'm using an unmodified (except for the url) standard-supfile, which has src-all in big letters uncommented at the top, so I find the lack of anything

Re: Customized FreeBSD CD (was: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for your immediate response Yes, I spend two days and found out there are lot of tips in your documentation thanks… After compiling the Free BSD Kernel and making some changes on my system then how do I make the installable CD/DVD from my source (My

Re: Problem in /usr/local/etc/rc.d [SOLVED]

Mario Lobo wrote: On Friday 28 December 2007 09:23:20 Kris Kennaway wrote: Mario Lobo wrote: Hello; here is a snip of dmesg: - Starting sshd. Starting cron. Local package initialization: Starting Init Starting Samba Removing stale

Re: password againg and other policy enforcement

Patrick Dung wrote: I have some question about password policy in FreeBSD: 1. Administrator can enforce password expire in /etc/login.conf Is there any tool that can check when the password will expire for the users? 2. Any good way to enforce minimum password length and other

Re: backing up dvds

Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:39:29PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:46:36 Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a 6.2 box with a dvd writer in it. I want to back up some dvds to iso files so i can recreate the dvds at a later time should it be

Re: late filesystems and switching net configs

Chad Perrin wrote: I have a couple of niggling little, er, quirks that I'd like to get sorted out on my FreeBSD Thinkpad. 1. During boot, if I'm booting up anywhere but at home (where my static IP address configuration applies), the startup messages pause for a few long seconds at a

gnome logout problem

I am really confused about this one, and don't know where to start. I have gnome 2.18.3 compiled from ports (also gnome power tools and gnome fifth toe) Today, for the first time I used the lock screen option in the System menu to leave my desktop unattended for a few minutes. I then entered my

Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5

Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I wanted to update via freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5. But like you can see my system is after the update still p4! I have saved a script of my doing: Script started on Mon Jul 9 22:55:13 2007 vagabund# freebsd-update fetch

Re: make package-recursive

Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hello, I would like to create a custom set of packages, so that they will be installable to my other FreeBSD boxen. As I understand, I have to use 'make package-recursive', but I have some problems with it: 1. Is there a way to tell 'make package-recursive' not to

Re: IPW3945 in 6.2

Tom Grove wrote: What are the chances that IPW3945 will work in 6.2? Has anyone accomplished this? Also, is it likely that the wpi drivers will be ready for 7.0? -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I have kernel compiled with USB support and I plugged in a USB drive: messages show this information: Jul 11 09:48:22 lists kernel: umass0: Myson Century, Inc. USB Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/b0.07, addr 2 Jul 11 09:48:22 lists kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus

Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I created /mnt/usbck and would like to mount it there, then format it as it uses msdos file system (FAT). How do I determine the name of the drive is my first problem. It is not da0, it is? What is the command to check it? I mean I think

Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hi there again, Thank you for your answer. I do have da0s1 but mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbck mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument Also, it is not a flash drive, it is an external USB drive with IDE hd in it (80 GB). I will skip

Re: mod_security2

Bazy wrote: Hi guys, Do any of you use mod_security2? An article just came up on HowToForge about it, and I'm skeptic about installing it on my FreeBSD box. Is mod_security2 ok? Will it load the CPU? Will it make apache22 slow? http://www.howtoforge.com/apache2_mod_security_debian_etch

Re: FreeBSD-6.1 bootup hangs after power failure

Pollywog wrote: On Saturday 14 July 2007 17:36:05 Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: Thank you for your tips. I will download the FreeSBIE live CD tomorrow and follow it up with your suggestions. One thing I find FreeBSD very fussy and sensitive in comparison to Linux OSes is that whenever

Re: A question

Anthony Long wrote: Can I download your software from the web? I can't find a link. _ PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best web mail—award-winning Windows Live Hotmail.

Re: How to show the options screen again

Harry Jensen wrote: Hi, I just tried to install the pilot-link with portmanager palm/pilot-link, and with first run I got an options screen, one of the options was libusb, which I selected on. libusb failed, and now I tried a second run, the intention then was to select libusb off, but I

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

V.I.Victor wrote: I was wondering about the truth-of-clockspeed. Perhaps the 1800-MHz only applies to CPU internal cache, etc. while the external bus-clocking is down at 500-MHz or so. Sounds like a typical marketing ploy! About disabling the ACPI... Can I do it *safely* via the

Re: mysql upgrade from 5.0.27 to 5.0.45

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I currently have mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.27. I can see that the most current ports version is 5.0.45. So I tried to portupgrade and it tells me: --- Session started at: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:17:39 +0200 ** No need to upgrade 'mysql-server-5.0.45' (=

Re: mysql upgrade from 5.0.27 to 5.0.45

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Yes, indeed I now know what happened. The *-server version got upgraded and I was unaware that *-client stayed at 0.27. I was sure that upgrading *-server will upgrade *-client too. Apparently it did not happen: $ pkg_info -Ix mysql mysql-client-5.0.27 Multithreaded

Re: oops, what have i done!

Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 03:13:51PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: today, when i was auditing what needs to be updated, i came upon this: autoconf-2.13.000227_5 needs updating (port has 2.13.000227_6) autoconf-2.53_3needs

Re: make install a port, but with a package?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a bad feeling that this has been asked already, and not that long ago, but I can't find it in my mailbox. Is there a variable I can set so that running 'make install' in a port directory will cause it to download the package, if available, and install that

Re: Installation problem

Joel Hatton wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:46:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Rakhesh is correct. SATA / PATA drives show up under ad[m]s[n][l], where m is the disk number (zero based), n is the slice, aka partition number in the non-BSD (/Solaris?) world, number (zero based), and

Re: How to know the size of RAM memory

fbsd2 wrote: I tried what people said to do and I get different values that do not match what the bios say. Why is there so large a difference? How can this be explained??? # /root sysctl -a | grep -i memory Virtual Memory: (Total: 2871K, Active 91444K) Real Memory:

Re: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Supported ???

Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hello, Is the following audio '82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio' supported on FreeBSD6.2? If so, which device do I need to load in the kernel or how can I get it to work. Many thanks, Alain ___

Re: Matrox Video Card

Oscar Chavarria wrote: I tried the Xorg web page but I couldn't confirm if the *Matrox G550 32MB AGP (G55+MDHA32DB) *is specifically compatible with FreeBSD 6.1. Where do I obtain information for this specific card drivers' compatibility?

Re: Easy switch to xorg 7.2?

Richard Tobin wrote: I just did a 6.2-RELEASE install, only to find when I tried to install some packages from stable that everything has switched to Xorg 7.2. Can I just pkg_delete all the old xorg* packages and then pkg_add the new ones? Is pkg_add -r xorg all I need? -- Richard

Re: FW: Request to mailing list freebsd-hackers rejected

James Hicks wrote: Per instructions from the moderator below i'm making this post to the free-bsd questions mailing list. I'm building a samba server. I have an XP laptop using putty via ssh to remotley administer. I cannot use putty to logon as root directly. If I logon as my regular user

Re: Question on the IFS variable (not a FreeBSD question)

Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Hi, This isn't really a FreeBSD question. But I figure most people on this list would know the answer and so I'm asking. I've tried to get the answer out of Google, but I guess I am not asking it the right question and so not getting much hits. I understand

Re: problem compiling xfig

Predrag Punosevac wrote: I was trying to use xfig to do some graphs but application would froze every time I tried to use the mouse. After inspecting /var/db/pkg I realized I have xfig-devel version of program which is ALPHA version. I cd /usr/ports/graphics/ xfig-devel make deinstall I

Re: upgrade freebsd 6.1 to 6.2

Tomas wrote: Hello. I have frebsd 6.1 in my pc and I want to upgrade to 6.2, without any configuration application samba, apache, change. what sjpould do for make this task. somebody can I explain me. have a good night. TOMAS ___

Re: problem with supfile

Pollywog wrote: Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the problem is the tag but I am unsure why: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2 *default delete use-rel-suffix # If you seem to be

Re: problem with supfile

Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 10:47:21PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Pollywog wrote: Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the problem is the tag but I am unsure why: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default

Re: problem with supfile

Pollywog wrote: On Saturday 18 August 2007 19:47:21 Manolis Kiagias wrote: Pollywog wrote: Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the problem is the tag but I am unsure why: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr

Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration

Bahman M. wrote: One other question -a bit silly: If I use that configuration as the gateway, can it be left on and working 24x7? I mean, regarding the _hardware_, how often does it need to be powered off: once a day, once a week, ... to prevent hardware failures such as HDD crash? Bahman

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Manoliis: I took your advice. I copied the burned iso file into a FreeBSD directory and ran md5 and the check digits did not match. I then copied my downloaded iso image from Win98 into FreeBSD and ran md5 and the digits did match. So there was nothing wrong

Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

Howard Goldstein wrote: As the subject says, is there a straightforward way to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org? Clicking individual files in the web interface is really tedious. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Information about freeBSD

Gerdes, Mike wrote: Hi all, during a research project shall the company Philotech evaluate different operating system and middleware solutions. The FreeBSD OS is of high interest for this evaluation. To be able to evaluate freeBSd we need more information. I would like to know if it is

Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

Michael Hauber wrote: Hey, all... I've been a user of FreeBSD and OpenBSD for quite a while now. Unfortunatly, I haven't had much time to tinker lately, and that's unlikely to change in the near future. Sadly, I need to get an OS that my wife would be more comfortable using and that

Re: sysinstall, packages, ports q.s

Sur Demir wrote: { this is my second attempt to post, first one over Gmane did not appear in list. Sorry if you get this twice. } Hi, I'm a bit new to FreeBSD, and have few questions challenging my Gentoo Linux mindset: Welcome to the FreeBSD club! May I first suggest you read the

Re: wrong permission / files get 640

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, A web directory is chmod 755 but all files which I upload into it by default get 640 permission which means web users cannot read it, which means I have to manually change the permissions to 644. Is there any mask I can set on that directory so that files

Re: Newbie questions about updating

Predrag Punosevac wrote: I am not sure. I know that portsnap is the part of base package. dgmm wrote: On Friday 07 September 2007, Lars Eighner wrote: 2. Install cvsup from a package or the ports, but do not install any other ports. Isn't csup, a functional and faster

Re: modular Xorg: which driver?

Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hello, I am building Xorg, and I am about to choose drivers. My guess is I810. Would that be OK? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:0: class=0x03 card=0x12bc103c chip=0x25728086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82865G Integrated

Re: netcraft uptime

Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hi, I see that netcraft uptime doesnt function because the kernel timer is set to 1000 by default in freebsd 6.x So perhaps setting kern.hz=100 fixes the problem? What about things getting wrapped in 497 days? How are there some FreeBSD hosts which have 1600+days

Re: Running process on startup as a user

Jack Barnett wrote: Using FreeBSD 6.2 x86. I have a script called: /home/foo/scripts/MyScript.sh The user is 'foo'. The password is 'bar'. What I'm trying to do is run the MyScript.sh command on startup (that way if the box reboots, then this users process also re-starts it's self).

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