error when compiling 5.1

2003-06-06 Thread User
hi, i cvsed the new 5.1 source code and when i try to build the new kernel i got this error: buildsystem is 5.0 and buildworld build without any errors linking kernel init_main.o: In function `proc0_init': init_main.o(.text+0x279): undefined reference to `kse0_sched' init_main.o(.text+0x283):

hard error reading fsbn and file name

2002-11-04 Thread User
hi I get the same: ad0s2f: hard error reading fsbn 3978952 of 1207492-1207495 (ad0s2 bn 3978952; cn 3947 tn 5 sn 61) status=59 error=40 every day. I believe it happens during the periodic daily scripts at night. Is there a way to tell what file lives on that particular block

Re: can not make ltmdm ports

2004-07-30 Thread User
On Saturday, 26 June 2004 at 8:35:53 +0700, pirat wrote: Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:35:53 +0700 From: pirat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: can not make ltmdm ports hi sirs, my laptop is dell inspiron 1100 with Conexant D480 MDC modem controller.

make package-recursive

2004-08-21 Thread User
hi sirs, sorry for asking, but i need to know to aviod unnecessary making packages that have been made during 'make package-recursive' many thanks for any helps and hints. -- with best regards, psr http://www.thai-aec.org http://www.thai.net/makham

Re: make package-recursive

2004-08-22 Thread User
On Sunday, 22 August 2004 at 8:26:25 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:26:25 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: make package-recursive On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 10:57:42AM +0700

How do I chroot rsync like I chroot ftp ?

2005-10-21 Thread user
Generally I chroot ftp users by simply adding their username to /etc/ftpchroot. In older days, I used login.conf, etc. The point is, it's easy to take a specific user and set a chroot that applies to what they can see when they use ftp. What is the equivalent mechanism for rsync ? thanks

Re: How do I chroot rsync like I chroot ftp ?

2005-10-21 Thread user
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 21), user said: Generally I chroot ftp users by simply adding their username to /etc/ftpchroot. In older days, I used login.conf, etc. The point is, it's easy to take a specific user and set a chroot that applies

traffic accounting per username with ipfw in 5.4 ?

2005-10-24 Thread user
is going on with regard to what used to be called IPFW2, FreeBSD 5.x, and per-user traffic counting ? thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: traffic accounting per username with ipfw in 5.4 ? (more)

2005-10-24 Thread user
Hello, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Andrew P. wrote: On 10/25/05, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember that ipfw had been augmented some time ago to do traffic counting, etc., based on usernames ... but I see no mention of that in the ipfw man page on my 5.4-RELEASE system

Re: traffic accounting per username with ipfw in 5.4 ? (more)

2005-10-25 Thread user
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Andrew P. wrote: ipfw looks at the owner of a process, sshd in your case. If you really need to account the not-locally- initiated ssh traffic, start another sshd running as the user (on another port), and connect to that port [you can easily allow a user to connect

two quick conceptual questions RE: rsync (and rsyncing snapshots)

2005-11-01 Thread user
Hello, I have started using rsync somewhat extensively and had two questions regarding its operation. First, how does rsync respond to, and perform, when the source filesystem is under very heavy change ? If I have a filesystem that I want to rsync up to a backup server, but that filesystem is

Re: two quick conceptual questions RE: rsync (and rsyncing snapshots)

2005-11-01 Thread user
Chuck - thank you... On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: rsync complains when the filesystem changes underneath it, but it will continue to run. On the other hand, rsync is not going to safely maintain the referential integrity of a complex file like a live database, but it's okay

tarring over ssh question - pulling from the source to tarfiles

2005-11-01 Thread user
- /files | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar or if I want to split it into multiple files: tar cf - /files | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] split - -b 1024m /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar This works just fine. - My question is, what if I want to initiate this process from

snapshots on large filesystems

2005-11-04 Thread user
Hello, Considering a PC server running FreeBSD with 4 400 GB hard drives attached to a hardware raid controller doing raid-5. So this will present itself to the OS as a 1.2TB filesystem. Any comments on taking one or multiple snapshots of a filesystem of this size ? Given current disk

how do I tell FreeBSD to sync, for real ?

2005-11-08 Thread user
Sometimes you delete a large batch of files, or you do some other serious FS operations and the output of `df` does not tell you immediately of the new disk space, etc. If you run something like: sync Or even: sync ; sync it still doesn't show up. You either have to wait for a while, or you

Re: how do I tell FreeBSD to sync, for real ?

2005-11-08 Thread user
On 8 Nov 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: So my question is, well first off, why does this happen this way ? But mostly what I want to know is, is there a more graceful way to tell FreeBSD sync for real this time, not just for joke only ? Basically, is there a nicer way to get what I

Re: how do I tell FreeBSD to sync, for real ?

2005-11-08 Thread user
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, David Kirchner wrote: On 11/8/05, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I'm not asking why do I need to sync ... I understand why I need to wait, or issue a sync command. No problems there. What I am asking is, why is one issuance of `sync` not enough ? Why is two

Re: How do I chroot rsync like I chroot ftp ?

2005-11-10 Thread user
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: user writes: What is the equivalent mechanism for rsync ? I have not used it myself, but was looking at rssh tonight. There is also a program, not in the ports, called scopy or something of the like. Check the rssh port in the /usr

2610SA sata raid array ... backported yet ? driver update package ?

2005-11-11 Thread user
I would like to use an adaptec 2610SA SATA raid controller with FreeBSD 5.4. My research: http://lists.ooz.net/freebsd-hackers/?mid=19018 shows that aac_pci.c has this in it for 6.0, and there were some plans to backport it to 5.4 with a driver update ? Does anyone know the status of this ?

dvd-ripping to iso on freebsd ...

2005-11-24 Thread user
, because I want very much to remove macrovision and prohibited user actions (PUAs / PUOs) as well. I have always used dvd-decryptor under windows and it has worked great, but I would like to just do it in FreeBSD in the shell, with a command line. Thanks

how do I feed a script conf file variables on the command line ?

2005-11-24 Thread user
Ok, let's say I have a shell script named script.sh, and script.sh sucks in a file /etc/file.conf that contains nothing but variable declarations like: SETTING1=setting1 SETTING2=setting2 and so on. Very simple. My question is, what if I want to feed the script a setting on the command line ?

cp/mv/etc : argument list too long ... I am sick of this

2005-12-05 Thread user
Ok, so I have some big directories with lots of files. If I do mv or cp, it always refuses, telling me: cp: argument list too long so, no problem ... I get creative with things like this: for f in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ; do cp $f* /some/dir ;

Re: cp/mv/etc : argument list too long ... I am sick of this

2005-12-05 Thread user
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:56:22PM -0500, user wrote: [...] - since I live in 2005, what can I do to my FreeBSD system to upgrade it to handle the directories I have ? How do I fix this so I can do normal, simple command lines instead of butchered

_still_ looking for FreeBSD dvd ripping software...

2005-12-11 Thread user
In the windows world I used dvd decrypter. It output .iso files directly, and it supported removing macrovision (and most importantly) removing prohibited user actions ( PUA / PUO ). I cannot find anything like this for FreeBSD. I asked previously, and was shown sysutls/dvdbackup

I need a better way to loop in the shell...

2005-12-13 Thread user
I always do loops in /bin/sh like this: for f in `cat file` ; do rm -rf $f ; done Easy. I like doing it like this. The problem is, when I am dealing with an input list that has multiple words per line, this chops it up and treats every word as a new line... For instance, lets say I have a

how do I ... burn an audio CD from .WAV files _and_ add cd-text ?

2005-12-18 Thread user
I have wav files. The wav files come from cds that did not have cd-text information on them, so I have no cd-text examples or source files for these wav files. I want to burn an audio cd with some wav files (I know how to do this with burncd and cdrecord) BUT I also want to add cd-text to the

how can I determine the lowest not-in-use md device (for use with mdconfig) ?

2006-01-04 Thread user
The command: mdconfig -l will tell me what md devices are in use currently on the system. I have a situation where I want to automatically mount a vnode filesystem with an md device ... and I won't know ahead of time which devices are in use ... So ... can anyone think of an elegant way to

RE: how can I determine the lowest not-in-use md device (for use with mdconfig) ?

2006-01-04 Thread user
never mind - I see that mdconfig will take the first available device if you simply decline to specify one. thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

how can I find out which md device I just used ? (mdconfig)

2006-01-04 Thread user
mdconfig will use the next available md device, as long as you do not specify a particular device on the command line with the -u switch. Which is great. However, in a script, the very next thing I want to do is mount that mdconfig'd vnode filesystem. But I do not know which md device mdconfig

Re: how can I find out which md device I just used ? (mdconfig)

2006-01-04 Thread user
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Malcolm Kay wrote: On my system (5.4) mdconfig reports the created device to stdout: So: memdevice=`mdconfig -a -t malloc -s10M` sets the device name in $memdevice. Thank you very much - I have just verified that this works the same way on FreeBSD 6.0. I

how should I (best practice) set up permissions for rsync ?

2006-01-10 Thread user
Hi, I want to rsync /usr/home from one machine to another, for purposes of backup. This would be a cinch if I just rsyncd -e ssh, as user root from one machine to another. The cron job runs with root perms, and the destination machine gets logged into as root and can write into the destination

Re: how should I (best practice) set up permissions for rsync ?

2006-01-10 Thread user
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Hi, I want to rsync /usr/home from one machine to another, for purposes of backup. i do: rsync -e rsh -avzrlHpogDtS --delete --delete-excluded --force \ --exclude-from=../$1-exclude [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ . where $1 is server name

how do I (non-interactively) change a users password in a script ?

2006-01-16 Thread user
/bin/sh script. Need to change a users password within the script based on a file of user/pass I am feeding the script. Easy. Except the passwd command does not seem to be able to take a password as an argument - I don't think that the passwd command can run non-interactively. So how

cannot burn a CD with plextor atapi cdrom drive on 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-25 Thread user
I have: #dmesg|grep acd acd0: DVDR PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A/1.01 at ata0-slave PIO4 which comes up as acd0 in /dev - I can mount cds in this drive just fine with: /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 So far so good. I put in a new blank CDR. I run: burncd

very lightweight samba installation needed ... help ?

2005-10-09 Thread user
I have a freebsd 5.4-RELEASE system running on a 256 megabyte flash card. This system does not have the ports tree installed on it. On another 5.4-RELEASE system I went to /usr/ports/net/samba and ran make package ... the idea was that I would just copy over this package file and run pkg_add on

FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

2005-10-20 Thread user
I am trying to budget some disk space for filesystems with snapshots enabled on them. The following is simplified - I am just trying to get my concepts in order: Let's say I have a filesystem, and on that filesystem I create a snapshot every single night, and every night I delete the snapshot

creating snapshot capable ufs2 filesystems _after the fact_

2005-10-20 Thread user
I was just looking at the man page for newfs, and the new -n option ... basically if you newfs with -n, a .snap directory is not created in the new filesystem, and thus that new filesystem will not support snapshots. Does this mean that if I simply `mkdir .snap` in the root of a filesystem that

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

2005-10-20 Thread user
Doug, On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Doug Poland wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:01:42AM -0400, user wrote: Finally, are there any snapshot diag tools at all ? Like, something that reports snapshot sizes, percent of disk used for snapshots, and maybe even a way for me to actually calculate

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

2005-10-20 Thread user
Hello, On 20 Oct 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: user [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let's say I have a filesystem, and on that filesystem I create a snapshot every single night, and every night I delete the snapshot from 5 nights ago. This means that at all times, I have four snapshots

RE: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ... - resolved, but two more Qs

2005-10-20 Thread user
of snapshot. Man mksnap_ffs wasn't too helpful, and googling for snapshot etc. wasn't fruitful. I'm guessing that the original author of the thread (user at dhp.com) may also need such a definition. Can someone provide a pointer to a specification or at least an RFC-like paper? I found one: http

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ... - resolved, but two more Qs

2005-10-21 Thread user
On 21 Oct 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The snapshot doesn't know what the bits in the file are. All it knows is that the file's data used to be, say in block 1857 and now the file's data are in block 1956. The fact that both blocks are identical is not detected. If you're really

Re: Sound Capture/Editing under Freebsd

2004-05-26 Thread HOST user
look at ports for these rawrec sox lame On Thu, 20 May 2004, Dragoncrest wrote: Went looking all over the internet for this and can't find anything. I'm looking for either a console based or graphically based (preferably the second) sound capture and possibly a sound editing

Re: Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe

2004-06-27 Thread User LAFFER1
I've noticed that many newer Asus boards have ACPI problems with FreeBSD. Its a shame because i have always bought asus boards since I learned of them. On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Doug Poland wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:15:18AM +0100, Shaun Friedle wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 18:42, Doug Poland

Re: tripwire on 5.2.1

2004-06-27 Thread User LAFFER1
I was able to get a really old version in ports to work, but not the most recent build. The old version occasionally crashed on me when running a check on the filesystem. I would look at some of the alternatives to tripwire in ports for a 5.x system. On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, dave wrote: Hello, A

Re: Problem restarts

2004-06-28 Thread User LAFFER1
I had a similar problem with a server recently. The issue turned out to be the NIC/NIC driver. I changed it over to a 3com and it worked like a charm ever since. I'm also using that power supply in a server. I've noticed it gets very hot under load. I believe that model only has one fan

Re: Problem restarts

2004-06-28 Thread User LAFFER1
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Mark Terribile wrote: Dear User LAFFER1, I had a similar problem with a server recently. The issue turned out to be the NIC/NIC driver. I changed it over to a 3com and it worked like a charm ever since. Well, I'm using the motherboard NIC, which is an Intel RC82540EM I'm

Re: FTP server will not initiate DATA connection back to client

2004-07-01 Thread User LAFFER1
Does it work with ipfw disabled? If so, then it seems resonable that ipfw is causing the problem. One of the ftp modes (pasv or port) requires high level ports to be accessible on the server. I just started drinking coffee this moring, so i can't remember which one yet. :) If i remember

Re: adding webmail

2003-10-05 Thread User Sellis
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:22:41PM -0400, T Kellers wrote: On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:47 pm, S Ellis wrote: -I don't really grasp where the imap server comes into play -can I even keep the setup above and have squirrelmail? -can I continue to use the same 'unix' mailboxes, spools?

Re: adding webmail

2003-10-07 Thread User Sellis
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:47:52AM -0700, S Ellis wrote: I want to broaden access to my home email by adding a webmail interface. Right now I'm running sendmail with procmail and using spamassassin; I'd like to keep this setup. A quick note to tie up. I've gotten a long way towards what I

Network booting with PXE

2004-01-26 Thread User Mike
I've succesfully put up 4 diskless machines to boot up 4.9-release thru PXE. They all work almost flawlessly. But when I connected an old 1GB hard drive into one of them for swap, as NFS swap is a bit slow, it hangs for some reason at trying to mount the hard drive as / at boot up. Dmesg reports

Re: Network booting with PXE

2004-02-01 Thread User Mike
Did you recompile your kernel with options: options BOOTP # Use BOOTP to obtain IP address/hostname options BOOTP_NFSROOT # NFS mount root filesystem using BOOTP info options BOOTP_COMPAT # Workaround for broken bootp daemons. Yes, I did. How else would the other

Problems with djbdns

2004-03-23 Thread User Thrawn
Hi, Im runing djbdns on some boxes here at home. I haveing two major problems, The first one is that for some reason the DNS server won't answer queryies. Even thought that I have setup it right (to my knowlage), I might explain how many machines, I have. On thing that I should metion is that

Re: 5.2.1 can't find sound card

2004-04-20 Thread User LAFFER1
Audigy cards are not supported. I have the same problem. Supposedly, current supports audigy's and there are several patches that i could not get to work on the internet. I'm trying to build a current kernel right now to hopefully get sound on my desktop. On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving to apache2

2004-04-20 Thread User LAFFER1
apache2 has builtin support for SSL and doesn't require a seperate module. There might be a variable like WITH_SSL or something you need for the port. i never used the ports collection for apache. On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Marius Kirschner wrote: I just set up a new 4.9 box and want to install

Re: 5.2.1 can't find sound card

2004-04-21 Thread User LAFFER1
I can tell you that Audigy Gamers work in freebsd current. I *finally* got my sound working last night. I had a similar problem to yours when i had pcm in the kernel. You don't need it there. Just compile the kernel without sound and then kldload the snd_emu10k1 (or x in your case). If that

sound recsrc

2003-01-13 Thread User Lrk
I've been trying to get SpeakFreely working again on a 300 MHz Celeron machine with a Plug-and-Play ISA bus Soundblaster card. Seems like it finds everything on boot and all the speaker stuff works Ok. The mic doesn't work and I have about exhausted all the docs I can find. The same hardware

nuxeo ?

2003-01-16 Thread User Frankb
Hi Does anybody has successfully installed the nuxeo software on a FreeBSD box ? This is a Zope based workgroup package. Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Sharing among jails

2003-07-26 Thread User KATRINA
I was wondering if there's a way I can share my main /usr/ports directory with the jails I'm running. I thought this would save me a LOT of space. I tried just the standard ln -s to the ports directory when I log into the jails and try to access the ports directory I get the following: cd

Re: Sharing among jails

2003-07-27 Thread User KATRINA
Do you have any URL's with info on UNIONfs (setting up, etc.) - I'll look into this and NFS - Thank you! On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, The Hermit Hacker wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, BSD wrote: IMHO, the best way would be to use mount_union or mount_null (I still can't figure out what's the

16.2.5 options PNPBIOS aber 5.0 will nicht

2003-04-03 Thread User LINUXMAILING
Hey Leute, Ich bin dabei seit anfang der Woche Freebsd auf meinem Laptop zu installieren *g*... Also ich hab XFree86 noch nicht zum laufen bekommen, und da mir dmesg gesagt hat das er keinen treiber fuer meine graka und soundka nicht hat, hab ich mal im handbuch geguckt was da zur soundkarte

5.1R ftpd question

2003-06-13 Thread User vr
has anyone noticed in 5.1R that if the user has only plain spaces as password he will log in via ftp without any password, just pressing enter. I use the standard ftpd that comes with the distribution. thanks, slava. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

softupdate and squid-cache ?

2003-06-25 Thread User Frankb
Hi I'm setting up a Squid cache running on latest 4.8 release and I wondering about disk write performances as it is a crucial point on that kind on machine. My question : does softupdate slow down disk writes ? Thanks a lot ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mailman problems

2003-07-11 Thread User QUADRANT
Sorry, but this is probably a rudimentary question for some of you. Using mailman, I've created a list. But when I do (as root) a python mailmanctl -u start I get a Warning! You may encounter permission problems. Site list is missing: mailman and it exits. I've tampered with this program for

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2003-07-11 Thread User Quadrant
Sorry, but this is probably a rudimentary question to some of you. I've created a list (using mailman) but when I do a python mailmanctl -u start as root I get a Warning! You may encounter permission problems. Site list is missing: mailman and it exits. I've tampered with this program for hours

Re: mailman problems

2003-07-12 Thread User QUADRANT
Already ran newlist... On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Chuck Swiger wrote: User QUADRANT wrote: [ ... ] Warning! You may encounter permission problems. Site list is missing: mailman and it exits. Run newlist mailman first. I've tampered with this program for hours now, trying every possible

SMP problem with FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE

2002-10-09 Thread User Raymond
The following problem with an MSI E7500 MB with dual 2.0GHZ Xeon processors looks similar to: Problem Report i386/40564 Problem Report misc/42414 Symptoms are - build SMP kernel and boot - output ends at: Changing APIC ID for IO APIC #3 from 7 to 15 in MP table Changing APIC ID for IO APIC #4

tool for generating pkts with ip precedence

2002-10-27 Thread User sl
hi, anyone knows of a tool (in ports may be) that would generate ip packets with a predefined ip precedence? I need that to be able to experiment with cisco and QoS. thanks, slava. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Lava Computers Octopus-550 8-port serial

2002-11-03 Thread User Raymond
We are attempting to use a Lava Computers Octopus-550 8-port serial on 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD. Boot up gives the following (full dmesg follows): IOAPIC #0 intpin 16 - irq 2 puc0: Lava Computers Octopus-550 8-port serial port 0x9400-0x9407, 0x9000-0x9007,0x8c00-0x8c07,0x8800-0x8807 irq 2 at device

Re: advice on fine tuning diskless boot

2002-11-14 Thread User Rob
Looks to me your rc.diskless script is usig the fstab you created in making the root file system look in man diskless for /conf/default/etc/fstab I think you'll find what you need there. Rob Joao Pedras wrote: Hello all! Two small issues... 1) After sucessfully configuring a set of systems

Re: XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...)

2003-02-26 Thread User Tysken
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:03:50AM -0800, Aaron Burke wrote: This is the only file that you have to modify, however you need to make two seperate mods. The default file just says :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X Just change it to say the following. :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 :1 local

Re: XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...)

2003-02-28 Thread User Tysken
Hi, On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:09:24AM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: Noticed this, out of curiosity decided to try it. OK. This list is a good place to lurk on and read the topics that find intresting. Then forgot second X display was installed and next time the machine was started did not

Re: XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...)

2003-02-28 Thread User Tysken
Hi, Adding the other entry to XServers does not have anything to do with running it on multiple monitors. There are three connectivity sections to every X window. Adding a line to Xservers (to my knowlege) does not have anything to do with running on two different monitors in a

Questions using PartitionMagic for dual-boot with WinXP-Pro

2005-03-27 Thread Maude User
the Linux swap partition be a primary partition - or logical (extended)? (4) It would be nice (but not required) to create a second logical partition at this time for WinXP (a second logical drive, say X:), so I could keep my WinXP user or data file separate there. If I have a boot partition

Dual-boot WinXP: FreeBSD slice within 8GB? Space for EasyBoot?

2005-03-28 Thread Maude User
Hello - I'm going to install FreeBSD to make a dual-boot laptop (keeping WinXP-Pro). It has 60GB on a single hard drive, currently one big NTFS partition (C:) - which I will shrink down to about 16GB with PartitionMagic, leaving a new generic FAT or FAT32 slice which FreeBSD will overwrite.

Re: Questions using PartitionMagic for dual-boot with WinXP-Pro

2005-03-29 Thread Maude User
at this time for WinXP (a second logical drive, say X:), so I could keep my WinXP user or data file separate there. If I have a boot partition, a main WinXP partition, a Linux partition, and a Linux swap partition, then that makes 4 partitions. Is that the maximum (meaning I couldn't add

Re: newbie ACPI questions

2004-07-08 Thread User LAFFER1
I also have a precision 650 at home. What is acpi's setting in the bios? You can set it to s3 or s1 in there. I would check that. I just got my system on refurb from dell and haven't had a chance to play much yet. :) On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Duane Winner wrote: Hi all. I'm just getting my feet

Re: 100Mbit/s LAN slow, TX only ~3MB/s (esp. file transfer) -- why?

2004-07-15 Thread User LAFFER1
THe realtek driver in freebsd is very poor. I have a Dlink DFE 530+ with a realtek chipset and the machine would actually reboot once a week (small mail server) and had unusual statements in the log about oversized frames. I replaced it with a 3com 3c905c and it works great now. (even

Re: 3COM NIC Card???

2004-07-26 Thread User LAFFER1
They should be. I have used the same card in 4.9 stable and 5.2.1 release. On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Hakim Singhji wrote: Hello All, I recently purchased a pair of 3Com 3C905CTXM EtherLink XL PCI TX Network adapter PCI 100 Mbps NIC Cards and I wanted to know if they are compatible with FreeBSD 4.10

Re: Odd /etc/hosts entry

2004-07-26 Thread User LAFFER1
Its for ip6. On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Clint Olsen wrote: So, I just debugged a majorly annoying problem doing port forwarding with SSH. Thanks to some creative Googling, I realized I had a weird entry in my hosts file. What does this ::1 entry mean? #::1localhost

Re: Video Driver - Rage Pro Help

2004-08-02 Thread User LAFFER1
The IBM aptiva machines used a modified ati chipset. Some models do not work properly with x11, os/2 warp (ironically), and other non-windows environments. There is a rage driver present with x11 that might work. On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Bruce wrote: I have an old IBM Aptiva with a Rage Pro video

Mplayer, GTK2 and gcc33

2004-08-16 Thread FreeBSD User
FreeBSD fortytwo.zapto.org 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #0: Sun Aug 15 23:13:02 EDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FORTYTWO i386 # $FreeBSD: ports/multimedia/mplayer/Makefile,v 1.101 2004/08/16 09:43:58 vs Exp $ usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer/Makefile .if defined(WITH_GTK2)

Fwd: Dell PowerEdge 400SC fan speed monitoring

2004-09-03 Thread FreeBSD user
Howdy gang, I've got a Dell PowerEdge 400SC running 5.3-BETA2 nicely, and I'd like to be able to monitor the internal fan RPM, if possible. The PE 400SC motherboard is very similar to an Intel D875PBZ. I've added the following SMBus options to my kernel: # smbus interface to Intel ICH5

Need to boot from CD and delete a file on the hard drive

2005-10-25 Thread Maude User
Hello All -- SUMMARY: I changed a configuration file and now I can no longer boot from my hard drive (but I can still boot from the CD). I would like to boot from the CD and undo my change to the configuration file -- but when I boot from the CD it automatically launches the install

Re: Need to boot from CD and delete a file on the hard drive

2005-10-25 Thread Maude User
Micah wrote: The option you are looking for is fixit from the install disk menu. This'll get you a command prompt. You will have to manually mount the partion that boot is on then you can delete, rename, edit, etc the file in question. === Micah -- Thank you for your answer --

BTX halted with a flashcard usb plugged

2006-03-06 Thread User Patrice
Hello I m using a fresh new install of freebsd 6.0, on sata disk. I have a btx halted error every time i boot with a usb flashcard plugged. BTX loader 1.00 BTX version 1.01 Consoles Internal video/keyboard Bios drive A: is disk0 int=000derr=efl=00030002eip=2aca

console driver and keymaps

2006-03-25 Thread User Elisej
How to understand and write keymaps? Is this any document besides kbdcontrol(1) and kbdmap(5)? The later two is not enought for me. After reading of these two I have many questions. E. g.: How to make Alt+a acting as sequence Meta a Alt+a acts in other way, than a pressed after the key acting as

Re: Thanks! and... the su command

2006-03-26 Thread User Elisej
- freebsd.html -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Although it is described in the handbook, in my opinion an error message, or more generally a feedback message, should give more useful feedback to the user. Now the user must think of all the checks that can fail while - in this case

Mail service principles: can I have the second mailbox

2006-03-26 Thread User Elisej
Can a user have two mailboxes (and two addresses, of course)? Elisej Babenko mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Xemacs cursor in console

2006-03-26 Thread User Elisej
I use XEmacs 21.4 (patch 19) It sets the cursor as large blinking block on its own everytime. How to forbid it this? Elisej Babenko mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Mail service principles: can I have the second mailbox

2006-03-26 Thread User Elisej
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 01:54:17PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:19:21PM +0300, User Elisej wrote: Can a user have two mailboxes (and two addresses, of course)? Yes. Perhaps you could provide a bit more information? http://www.freebsd.org/doc

Re: Mail service principles: can I have the second mailbox

2006-03-27 Thread User Elisej
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:25:37PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: User Elisej wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 01:54:17PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:19:21PM +0300, User Elisej wrote: Can a user have two mailboxes (and two addresses, of course)? Yes

Re: Mail service principles: can I have the second mailbox

2006-03-27 Thread User Elisej
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 07:47:43PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:28:55AM +0300, User Elisej wrote: Yes, sir, I will provide any information you need. I could be a maam, you never can tell ;=) I want to have two mailboxes with two addresses (for one

The font iso05-8x16.fnt in FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE is broken

2006-03-28 Thread User Elisej
The font iso05-8x16.fnt in FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE is broken. The letter q looks like whitespace. How can I get a right font? Elisej Babenko mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

How to see keyboard scan codes?

2006-03-28 Thread User Elisej
Is there a program showing keyboard scan codes? I mean I press a key, and the program shows its code. Elisej Babenko mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Changing prompt

2006-03-28 Thread User Elisej
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:24:05AM -0300, Rodrigo G. Tavares de Souza wrote: Hi, How could I show the path on prompt or see colored files when I make a ls command? Best Regards, Rodrigo Souza Sao Paulo - Brazil The first depends on the shell used. For example, in bash do: export

What is sppp and how can I use it to set up PPP over Ethernet?

2006-04-19 Thread User Elisej
What is sppp and how can I use it to set up PPP over Ethernet? I have read sppp(4) and spppcontrol(8) but these two is too superficial. Elisej Babenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

XEmacs 21.4 (patch 19) Mule does not work

2006-04-22 Thread User Elisej
I have installed XEmacs 21.4 (patch 19) Constant Variable [Lucid] (i386--freebsd, Mule) But mule does not work at all. For the first, it does not read files in proper manner. I have done the following: 1) visit a file using cp866 with cyrillic letters; 2) set terminal-coding-system to

Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0

2006-04-26 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 on a regular x86 PC. I'm using the official install disk. It tells me that there are no CD/DVD drives are detected. I have a Pioneer DVD writer (DVR-110D). That has ATAPI interface and I booted the installer from it... I also tried to install the

about the wireless card on freebsd5.4

2006-01-06 Thread User Webname
hello freebsd-question: first ,i am sorry for my English .. i have a box of a notebook ,install the OS freebsd5.4 .at my office ,there is wlan ,i buy a wireless card of linksys WPC11 VER.4 ..when i install the card into my notebook ,but it not work .. i find the quiestion

Xorg - how to disable some video modes?

2006-01-09 Thread User Gandalf
Hello, I have FreeBSD 6.0 with an xorg server installed. I followed the instructions in the handbook, and I could create a working xorg.conf file. My problem is that xorg starts with [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] by default. I tried to add Modes 1024x768 Also

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