Re: showdown transfering files with scp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using scp to copy several large (300-800mb) each files between two Freebsd machines. Both are on the same hub, 100MB Ethernet connection. The source box is FreeBSD 5.4 stable at a late October build date. The target is running 6.0 stable at a current build date. The first three files showed a transfer rate of about 3mb/sec and transfer took about a 5-7 minutes for each file. After the third one however the transfer rate dropped to 100-200 KB/sec. There was nothing else going on in the internal network at the time. Any ideas on what happened? Mark Jacobs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't be sure if it's the issue, but at one point some individuals on the network where I worked installed hubs of their own (the non-intelligent variety of connection) and it didn't just slow them down, it dragged down the entire network segment. Since hubs are not intelligent, there are an awful lot of collisions and putting a hub downstream from the routers means that all bets are off on performance. Hope that helps. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
syslog logging recommendation
I'm looking for a recommendation for capturing syslogs from my small network. Specifically, initially I'd like to capture the syslog from my Netgear router and store it on my FreeBSD machine. Later I'd add other machines on the network. I've seen msyslog in the ports, but there's virtually no information on it out there. I've also seen syslog-ng, which looks promising. I'd like to store the information in mySQL. I'd appreciate any recommendations and/or pointers to pages with setup examples. Thanks, Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40
Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: after alot of time spent in this problem, I still have no solution to this and no help yet, is there nobody using IBM Blade and FreeBSD? I've used FreeBSD since 1994 and never had a problem like this. but, I tried to boot from Gentoo Linux, and it detects everything fine with all lun's useable without any apparent problem is FreeBSD not going to support IBM Blade? it seems that I'm forced to stop using FreeBSD for Linux I'm not happy. kveðja/regards Gestur From: Gestur A. Grjetarsson Sent: 6. desember 2005 12:18 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: FW: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40 hi I have an update to my problem with booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade H40 I set the execution throttle to 256 from 255 and set Hard id to 5 from 125 by doing this, I get the ISP driver working and no delay when the driver boots = but when the system comes into sysinstall menu, I get no disks, it seems that the system doesn't see any drives or lun's ,,, what is causing this?? please help me with this anyone! kveðja/ best regards Gestur From: Gestur A. Grjetarsson Sent: 6. desember 2005 10:57 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: FW: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40 Hi I have this new IBM Blade Center, which I would like to run FreeBSD on with boot from SAN, when trying to boot I get problems and can't see any disks from the SAN. the configuration I have is a IBM Blade Center H40 DS400 diskbox with dual controller but only single connection Qlogic 2312 dual FC controller I have problem with the ISP driver: I tried to boot from the FreeBSD 6.0-Release cd but it always fails with the error can't load kernel and I can't see the cdrom to boot from after the boot loader has started. So I downloaded the boot floppies and tried to boot the blade using the floppies but it won't show me any drivers after a long waiting period while the isp driver hangs for awile in the boot process. I compiled a custom kernel and made new boot kern floppies to boot from, and now I'm stuck with this error in the boot process: isp0: bad execution throttle of 0- using 16 isp0: bad hard address 125- resetting to zero after reading all i've gathered on this subject and googl'd on it, I put ispfw_load=YES line in the loader.conf ,, but without result Can anyone point me out on how to solve this problem, I really need this to work !?!? please help! kveðja/regards Gestur ___ FYI, I've had an issue where I can install from the ISO disk in 4.10 and 4.11, but hang when it boots from the Hard Drive. From 5.x on, I can't even get through the installation from the CD. In both cases, it hangs at the end of the detection process. 4.9 worked fine, but I'm getting further and further behind with software updates. I tried submitting it as a bug, but nobody seems interested in working on it. Clearly something changed in the detection process at that time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Restoring Data from a DD image
I've just replaced a hard disk that was dying fast. I've done a full installation of 4.9 (later releases won't install, which I've submitted a problem report on already). The old disk is connected but not mounted. Searching around, I found some suggestions to try to read the old disk to restore what I can and I used dd to copy what could be found (dd -if=/dev/ad0s1e of=/usr/olddsk/oldimag.dmg conv=noerror,sync) and it seems to have copied the file. Now, I'm a little stuck. Can someone help me understand how do I mount that image somewhere to browse it and copy what I can from it? If I'm not going about this the right way, I'd appreciate other suggestions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Restoring Data from a DD image
Gayn Winters wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Schmitt (SW) Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restoring Data from a DD image I've just replaced a hard disk that was dying fast. I've done a full installation of 4.9 (later releases won't install, which I've submitted a problem report on already). The old disk is connected but not mounted. Searching around, I found some suggestions to try to read the old disk to restore what I can and I used dd to copy what could be found (dd -if=/dev/ad0s1e of=/usr/olddsk/oldimag.dmg conv=noerror,sync) and it seems to have copied the file. Now, I'm a little stuck. Can someone help me understand how do I mount that image somewhere to browse it and copy what I can from it? If I'm not going about this the right way, I'd appreciate other suggestions I'm a little confused: Did you try to copy (dd) the old disk before you did a new install? If so, to where? Is /dev/ad0 your new disk with the fresh 4.9 installation on ad0s1? Or did you just add a new disk as /dev/ad1 and did the fresh install on ad1s1? Is your unmounted old disk /dev/ad0 or /dev/ad1 now? I'm guessing that ad1 is your new install, ad0 is not mounted, and you were able to copy ad0s1e to oldimag.dmg with the above dd command. If so, continue. If not, send a correction. Why not try mount -r -t ufs /usr/olddsk/oldimag.dmg /mnt cd /mnt ls I ***think*** mount will do this. If not, try dd'ing oldimag.dmg to a spare slice, e.g. if you created /tmp as /dev/ad1s1e, then you could dd if=/usr/olddsk/oldimag.dmg of=/dev/ad1s1e cd /tmp ls Good luck! -gayn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, when I first decided to try FreeBSD, I had a 4.7GB as the primary on ad0 and moved usr to ad1 when I added the drive that ultimately went bad (a 60GB) as ad1. When I had to do a full installation again, I put a new drive (80GB) into place where the 4.7GB drive was and started from scratch with ad1 disabled. So, now I'm booting from the new drive and have used dd to copy whatever is found on the damaged ad1 to an image on ad0. It's after that I get stuck. I've looked at the man page for mount, but I haven't seen anything specific to an image. I tried your suggested mount command, but it responded Block device required. I suppose I can try to dd back to the 4.7GB drive that I would now mount as ad1. We'll see what happens. Thanks, Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cannot Boot 5.4
I have a 300MHz Gateway that was resurrected with new memory (128MB) and an additional Maxtor 60GB IDE hard disk to run FBSD about a year and a half ago. At the time, when I tried to install an early 5.x release (I don't recall which), I could boot the CD and go through the installation, but the machine hung on the subsequent boot from the Hard Disk. I tried 4.10, and it did the same thing, but I managed to install 4.9 and have run that ever since. booting from the original Maxtor 4.7GB (configured as the master) IDE drive with most storage on the newer drive that I added. This week, the added (60GB) drive started sending out error messages, and fsck just cycled through hours of fixes and told me to run itself again when it completed. I've purchased a new 80GB hard disk and decided to try to install 5.4 again. I installed the new disk in place of the original 4.7GB drive with the dying drive left as a slave in the hopes that I might be able to retrieve something from it. When I boot from the 5.4 ISO image, the systems messages scroll through until the devices are recognized. The last three lines listed are: ad0: 78533MB HDS728080PLAT20/PF20A2B [159560/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ad1: 58644MB Maxtor 6Y060l0/YAR41BW0 [119150/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA33 acd0: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1102/1426 at ata1-master P104 At that point, it hangs and I see no activity at all. I've tried the Boot FreeBSD (default), Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled options., and Boot FreeBSD in Safe Mode options, but all have the same results. Before I go back to 4.9, can anyone suggest steps to resolve this or point me to a resource that would help me resolve it? Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fingerprint Reader?
Does anyone know of a fingerprint reader that has been successfully used with FBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenWebMail won't make
I've been trying to install openwebmail. I've tried portupgrade and make and both seem to have the same issue. I get an error message that perl 5.6.1 or higher is needed and suggesting that I install 5.8. I've done that (several times) but I still get the error message. Has anyone come across this and have a solution? I'm running FBSD 4.9. Thanks, Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenWebMail won't make
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Bill,
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote:
|I've been trying to install openwebmail. I've tried portupgrade and make
|and both seem to have the same issue. I get an error message that perl
|5.6.1 or higher is needed and suggesting that I install 5.8. I've done
|that (several times) but I still get the error message. Has anyone come
|across this and have a solution? I'm running FBSD 4.9.
What the command bellow shows to you:
# perl -v
Following is a script to upgrade perl:
i) Install the perl5.8 port:
# portinstall lang/perl5.8
- or -
# cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
# make install
ii) Set the new version of perl to be the default. (This also turns
off building perl as part of the base system):
# use.perl port
iii) Re-install any 3rd party modules, etc that you've installed so
the new perl can access them. There should be a neater way of
doing this...
# find /usr/local/lib/perl5/{site_perl/5.005,5.00503} -type f \
-print0 | \ xargs -0 -n 1 pkg_which | sort -u /tmp/perl-ports
# vi perl-ports
[ Sanity check the results: take out any non-ports (like
'?'), ports that are now bundled with perl or that you no
longer wish to have installed ]
# portupgrade -f `cat /tmp/perl-ports`
iv) All of the versions of automake use perl and have the version to use
as the 1st line. You need to:
portupgrade -f automake
to get things ready for your new version of perl.
- Marcelo Souza
I thank you very much Marcelo. I had forgotten about the use.perl thing
(I'm rebuilding a crashed system).
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General PHP Port Question
I think I'm missing something pretty basic. There appear to be two ways to install php4; using the port under lang/php4 and using the port under www/mod_php4. The Long Description under each is the same. Under Lang, the Short Description refers to CLI, but otherwise they appear to be the same thing. Other than the CLI reference, what is the difference between installing one or the other and why is one listed under lang and the other under www? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hostname problem on a local network
I have a FreeBSD 4.9 system on a private network, connected to the internet through a Netgear router/firewall which acts as a DHCP server and receives its names through netbios. I'm trying to set it to respond to the fully qualified name schfrbsd.lan. In my rc.conf, I have the line: hostname=schfrbsd.lan I've also tried adding a dot to the end of it: hostname=schfrbsd.lan. Whatever I do, I cannot get the machine to register itself on the network (though Samba) as schfrbsd.lan. It always shows up as schfrbsd. hostname -s returns the same value. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Domain Name in postfix on a Local Network
I've been struggling through setting up a mail server on my home network, with the goal to be running an imap server. As I've indicated on some other related postings I've made, networking is probably my weakest side and I need a little help. I have no real internet name for the box, which I call schfrbsd (named with a dot at the end in rc.conf hostname=schfrbsd.). Using that name, I've managed to get Samba working and a local web server, but when I come to mail, I get confused. The network is made up of a bunch of XP Home Machines, the FreeBSD 4.9 machine, and a Netgear Router/Firewall that also runs DHCP. I don't think it's relevant here, but the workgroup name I use for Samba and Windows Peer Networking is olympia. The router is called schrout, if that helps. When I come to configuring postfix, there are entries for myhostname and mydomain. I believe myhostname should be schbsd. What do I use for mydomain? Where should I be naming the domain? Thanks for any help. Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need help setting up an IMAP Server on a local network
I would like to set up an IMAP server on a FreeBSD box for my home network. I don't have a lot of depth in this area, so could really use some help or pointers to how to pages. Searching the web and reading the documentation has left a couple of gaps that I would appreciate someone filling in. Most of what I've found seems to concentrate on running internet connected servers with real domain names on them, and this would sit in the local network with a separate router/firewall connecting the local network to a cable connection. The FreeBSD box is not normally visible to the outside world. For my primary mail, I have POP and SMTP services running at the hosting company for my domain. The access that I have to that machine is restricted to pop, ftp, etc. I do not have telnet access. It appears that I would use something like fetchmail to get the mail from that server (if someone thinks there is a better tool, I'm not committed to it). Several of the mailboxes I have are used by people outside the home network, so I would leave those alone and only process a select list. I intend to try openxchange locally, if that impacts anything. I'd like to be able to retrieve mail occasionally from some other servers, like my ISP, though I don't use that often, so it isn't as important. SMTP is where I start to bog down. I would like to have mail sent out from this central point, as well, but don't know where to start. If I have to configure the various email clients to send directly I will, but that seems like a partial solution. I also use the FreeBSD box as a sandbox for trying things that will be put on a web connected server. That box has postfix and courier-IMAP installed, so if I could use those applications in the mix, I would like to, but that is not a firm requirement if someone has a good reason that I shouldn't. I did replace sendmail with postfix on the box a while ago, but haven't used it for anything. Any suggestions, recommendations, pointers, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need a recommendation for Log File Analysis
I'm looking for an application to run on our FreeBSD 4.9 server that will allow some mining of data from our mail logs (Postfix). For example, what ip's are rejected because they are incorrectly formatted or what domains are not providing reverse dns entries (which we reject). Being able to mine down looking for repeated mailings to invalid mailboxes would be nice. Looking at the information in the ports doesn't seem to indicate a specific application that does these things. Does this kind of animal exist? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Increasing Semaphores
Over the past few days, I had some problems with too few connections availabe for postgresql. I resolved them for the short term, but when I tried setting the max_connections for postgresql as high as 64, I received a message indicating that I had to increase the semaphores available in the kernel before I could do that, which seems to require a recompile of the kernel. I haven't compiled the kernel before, so this is new to me. Before I go ahead and do that, after reading through the handbook, etc., I wanted to ask if there were any gotcha's I should be aware of. IOW, would increasing the number of semaphores available have any cascading effect in general, all other things being equal? I'm running FBSD 4.9. Thx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Defining MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf
I'm trying to define some arguments in pkgtools.conf to use in a
portinstall of moregroupware (deskutils/moregroupware). I haven't used
pkgtools.conf before, and I'm apparently doing something wrong. I'm
doing this under FBSD 4.9.
In the Makefile, there is a section that states:
.if defined(WITH_APACHE2)
RUN_DEPENDS=${LOCALBASE}/libexec/apache2/libphp4.so:${PORTSDIR}/www/mod_php4
.else
RUN_DEPENDS=${LOCALBASE}/libexec/apache/libphp4.so:${PORTSDIR}/www/mod_php4
.endif
.if defined(WITH_MODULES)
DISTFILES+=${PORTNAME}-modules-insecure-${PORTVERSION}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
PLIST_SUB+=MODULES=
.else
PLIST_SUB+=MODULES=@comment
.endif
(note I removed some spaces to make wrapping fit)
So, in the pkgtools.conf file, I added:
MAKE_ARGS = {
'deskutils/moregroupware' = 'WITH_APACHE2 WITH_MODULES'
}
But, when I execute portupgrade moregroupware, I receive a message that
states:
make: don't know how to make WITH_APACHE2. Stop
What am I doing wrong?
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Re: Defining MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2005-01-12 18:28, Bill Schmitt (SW) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, in the pkgtools.conf file, I added:
MAKE_ARGS = {
'deskutils/moregroupware' = 'WITH_APACHE2 WITH_MODULES'
}
But, when I execute portupgrade moregroupware, I receive a message that
states:
make: don't know how to make WITH_APACHE2. Stop
Try setting the make options to something... anything, it doesn't
matter. make(1) sees that the respective command-line arguments do not
contain an '=' character and assumes they are not make variables, but
targets to be made from the port source. For example, try this:
MAKE_ARGS = {
'deskutils/moregroupware' = 'WITH_APACHE2=yes WITH_MODULES=yes',
}
This should work fine.
That seems to have done it. Thanks.
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Which opengroupware port to install
I want to try the opengroupware application, but am not sure about which version to install. Specifically, the ports collection has a linux version of the software listed, but the opengroupware.org site lists a version specifically for FreeBSD, which also appears to be a linux version. But the ports collection has a date of 2003-07-20 and the version listed for FreeBSD on the opengroupware web site has a date of 12-Oct-2004. Can anyone offer any guidance? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Openwebmail with maildir patch on FBSD?
I know it's not technically a FreeBSD question, but answers on the openwebmail forums are slow in coming and I was wondering if anyone here had tried to use openwebmail with the maildir patch. The patch is listed as for openwebmail 2.32, and the current port of openwebmail in the FreeBSD Ports Collection is 2.41. The only note I can find on the subject is in the changes.txt file maintained at the openwebmail.org site which SEEMS to indicate that it's been updated to work with 2.40. I've got postfix installed with the maildir format, so if this doesn't work, I'll go to squirrelmail or other alternative for web based email. TIA Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD
I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find anything using PostgreSQL. Does anyone here have any documentation, suggestions, or pointers to web sites? I'm working with FBSD 4.9, PostgreSQL 7.2, and Postfix 2.15. TIA, Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD
Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find anything using PostgreSQL. Does anyone here have any documentation, suggestions, or pointers to web sites? I'm working with FBSD 4.9, PostgreSQL 7.2, and Postfix 2.15. TIA, Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: Bill, These instructions have always worked for me: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.2/static/installation.html The important thing is to make sure you use gmake when compiling. Here is a quick install that I modified to work on BSD: ./configure gmake su gmake install pw useradd postgres mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data su postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data logfile 21 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test I hope that this helps. Regards, Ryan Thanks for responding, Ryan, but I'm confused. I have managed to start postgres with a user I called pgsql. The install appears to do that with a user called postgres but doesn't reference postfix. How do I tell postfix that I want to use postgres? Thanks Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD
Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find anything using PostgreSQL. Does anyone here have any documentation, suggestions, or pointers to web sites? I'm working with FBSD 4.9, PostgreSQL 7.2, and Postfix 2.15. TIA, Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: Bill, These instructions have always worked for me: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.2/static/installation.html The important thing is to make sure you use gmake when compiling. Here is a quick install that I modified to work on BSD: ./configure gmake su gmake install pw useradd postgres mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data su postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data logfile 21 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test I hope that this helps. Regards, Ryan Thanks for responding, Ryan, but I'm confused. I have managed to start postgres with a user I called pgsql. The install appears to do that with a user called postgres but doesn't reference postfix. How do I tell postfix that I want to use postgres? Thanks Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: What is Postfix using PostgreSQL for? Is there a reason why you are not using the most current version of PostgreSQL? Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: Aliasing and virtual users/domains. We're using 7.2 because we came across a few concerns (turned out to be questionable, but we had already started) about 7.2 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD
Manuel Rabade Garcia wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:43:04 -0500 Bill Schmitt (SW) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find anything using PostgreSQL. Does anyone here have any documentation, suggestions, or pointers to web sites? I'm working with FBSD 4.9, PostgreSQL 7.2, and Postfix 2.15. First of all: I suggest you to use 5.3 instead of 4.9 (more support, more features, better preformance, etc). I have working Postfix+PostgreSQL+CyrusIMAP in FreeBSD, i read this tutorial: http://www.web-cyradm.org/documentation/Postfix-cyrus-postgreSQL-web-cyradm.pdf The paper talks about the setup in Linux Red Hat, but is a good starting point for any unix-like OS :) Greetings. Paper looks good. The reasons we stuck with 4.9 were practical. When we started bringing up the box, 4.10 and the 5.x releases hung on the setup of some of them. We think it was related to the presence of an unused graphics adapter on the motherboard that kept being detected and which we couldn't turn off on this older Gateway computer, but that is purely a guess. Thanks, Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with portinstall of mod_perl
I'm having some difficulty installing mod_perl (I tried make install, as
well with the same results). I've tried reading through the various
files I can find, and did several web searches, but haven't found
anything pointing me in the right direction.
When I try to execute portinstall -r usr/ports/www/mod_perl under FBSD
4.9, I get the following:
--
=== Extracting for p5-URI-1.34
Checksum OK for URI-1.34.tar.gz.
=== p5-URI-1.34 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0 - not found
===Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0 in
/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
=== Returning to build of p5-URI-1.34
=== Patching for p5-URI-1.34
=== p5-URI-1.34 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0 - not found
===Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0 in
/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
=== Returning to build of p5-URI-1.34
/usr/local/bin/perl -pi -e 's/^our\s+([EMAIL PROTECTED])/use vars qw($1);/'
/usr/port
s/net/p5-URI/work/URI-1.34/URI/urn.pm
=== p5-URI-1.34 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0 - not found
===Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0 in
/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
=== Returning to build of p5-URI-1.34
=== Configuring for p5-URI-1.34
env: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0: No such file or directory
*** Error code 127
Stop in /usr/ports/net/p5-URI.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/www/p5-libwww.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/www/mod_perl.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
/tmp/portinstall1766.0 make
** Fix the problem and try again.
** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
! www/mod_perl (unknown build error)
--- Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
perl5.8.0 isn't there because perl5.8.5 is. After reading through some
suggestions for other things, I tried modifying pkg_tools.conf with the
following lines:
ALT_PKGDEP = {
'/usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0' = '/usr/local/bin/perl5.8.5'
}
I'm relatively new to this, so I'd appreciate a more verbose help if
possible.
Thanks,
Bill
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Portinstall question
I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing software using portinstall, but I think I'm missing something basic because there seems to be more guesswork involved that I expected there to be. How do you know what name to use for the portinstall to work? For example, I wanted to install MySQL 41. The folders under /usr/ports/databases include several variations on my-sql. Among others are mysql323-server, mysql40-server, mysql41-server, and mysql50-server. In the Makefile for mysql41 it states PORTNAME?= mysql. But trying portinstall mysql or portinstall mysql41 or portinstall mysql41-server all result in a message that the port doesn't exist. The command that works is portinstall mysql-server, which I found with a basic google search, but I don't find that in the descriptions or Makefiles. Looking just at what is in the ports tree (or anywhere else on a 4.9 system), where would I properly find that name? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portinstall question
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 05:44 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing software using portinstall, but I think I'm missing something basic because there seems to be more guesswork involved that I expected there to be. How do you know what name to use for the portinstall to work? For example, I wanted to install MySQL 41. The folders under /usr/ports/databases include several variations on my-sql. Among others are mysql323-server, mysql40-server, mysql41-server, and mysql50-server. In the Makefile for mysql41 it states PORTNAME?= mysql. But trying portinstall mysql or portinstall mysql41 or portinstall mysql41-server all result in a message that the port doesn't exist. The command that works is portinstall mysql-server, which I found with a basic google search, but I don't find that in the descriptions or Makefiles. Looking just at what is in the ports tree (or anywhere else on a 4.9 system), where would I properly find that name? ___ Hi Bill, I was just wondering why you would want to use portinstall to install new software, rather than (using your example port): cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql-server41 make install Is using portinstall magical in some way? If you use the make install method, there isn't any guesswork as to what name to use. Don I've been using portupgrade/portinstall whenever possible because of the built-in dependency checking. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portinstall question
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:27:16AM -0500, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 05:44 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing software using portinstall, but I think I'm missing something basic because there seems to be more guesswork involved that I expected there to be. How do you know what name to use for the portinstall to work? For example, I wanted to install MySQL 41. The folders under /usr/ports/databases include several variations on my-sql. Among others are mysql323-server, mysql40-server, mysql41-server, and mysql50-server. In the Makefile for mysql41 it states PORTNAME?= mysql. But trying portinstall mysql or portinstall mysql41 or portinstall mysql41-server all result in a message that the port doesn't exist. The command that works is portinstall mysql-server, which I found with a basic google search, but I don't find that in the descriptions or Makefiles. Looking just at what is in the ports tree (or anywhere else on a 4.9 system), where would I properly find that name? I was just wondering why you would want to use portinstall to install new software, rather than (using your example port): cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql-server41 make install Is using portinstall magical in some way? If you use the make install method, there isn't any guesswork as to what name to use. portinstall is just portupgrade by another name. Infact, it's pretty much identical to 'portungrade -f'. As to why anyone would want to use portupgrade? That's a no-brainer. Just try it and you'll see. To answer the original question, portupgrade or portinstall can select a port to operate on in two ways. You can either give it the package name -- with or without the version number -- or you can give it the port origin -- ie. the port directory relative to /usr/ports. Now, usually, the first part of package name is the same as the last part of the port origin, but not always. For instance the www/apache2 port installs apache-2.0.52_1. That similarity of names is what was confusing the OP. He could either have issued the command: # portinstall mysql-server-4.1.6 or # portinstall databases/mysql41-server and it all would have worked. The command he did use: # portinstall mysql-server worked for him, but that was partly a matter of luck, as it happened to default to the 4.1.x branch of MySQL. (Maybe he had WANT_MYSQL_VER=41 defined in /etc/make.conf or some such -- the default is to install databases/mysql40-server) To find out what package name a port will install, just: % cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server % make -V PKGNAME portupgrade processes the /usr/ports/INDEX file into a database of port origins and package names, which is why you always need an up-to-date INDEX when using it. Cheers, Matthew Actually, I found the correct entry by searching for portinstall mysql through google until I found an example that included some results other than not found. (WANT_MYSQL_VER was not defined). Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portinstall question
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 09:27 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: I was just wondering why you would want to use portinstall to install new software, rather than (using your example port): cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql-server41 make install Is using portinstall magical in some way? If you use the make install method, there isn't any guesswork as to what name to use. portinstall is just portupgrade by another name. Infact, it's pretty much identical to 'portungrade -f'. As to why anyone would want to use portupgrade? That's a no-brainer. Just try it and you'll see. Actually, I think you mean 'portupgrade -N', don't you? 'portupgrade -f' would be used if you want to force the upgrade of an already installed port (eg. you want to change some option). Remember, to someone unfamiliar with a process, how to use it it is not a no brainer, that's why Bill posted his question. The reasons to use a process, for someone familiar with it, probably is a no brainer. To someone who knows several ways to do something, it becomes more complicated. To answer the original question, portupgrade or portinstall can select a port to operate on in two ways. You can either give it the package name -- with or without the version number -- or you can give it the port origin -- ie. the port directory relative to /usr/ports. Now, usually, the first part of package name is the same as the last part of the port origin, but not always. For instance the www/apache2 port installs apache-2.0.52_1. That similarity of names is what was confusing the OP. He could either have issued the command: # portinstall mysql-server-4.1.6 or # portinstall databases/mysql41-server and it all would have worked. The command he did use: # portinstall mysql-server worked for him, but that was partly a matter of luck, as it happened to default to the 4.1.x branch of MySQL. (Maybe he had WANT_MYSQL_VER=41 defined in /etc/make.conf or some such -- the default is to install databases/mysql40-server) To find out what package name a port will install, just: % cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server % make -V PKGNAME You're already there now, why not just use 'make install'? You can even do 'make package' if you want to save a built package for later (you made an oh, oh and have to reinstall) emergency reinstalling a port. portupgrade processes the /usr/ports/INDEX file into a database of port origins and package names, which is why you always need an up-to-date INDEX when using it. So very true, you can read the many posts from people who have not done that. But, unless you do a 'portupgrade -a', you're going to have to run portversion (I use -vL=) in order to find the ports that need upgrading. I won't mention pkgdb -F (yes, I just did) sometimes needs to be run, I'm sure you circumstances for doing so. Cheers, Matthew All that being said, I just don't use portinstall as I feel I don't have the control I have with 'make install'. Would I ever use portinstall? Probably not, I can do the same thing with portupgrade -n, if I ever felt inclined to do so. The reason for asking the OP the question about why he would want to use it, was to try to get him to see that there are other ways to do things and think about them. It evidently didn't work as I received from him, an exact copy of your email to me. Good thinking Don. Some people don't realize that it's good to learn new ideas, and they can be learned by thinking about a few hints. By the way, I did relearn something from you email. Thank you. Now I have a question for you, rather, I would like to know your opinion. I have been using '*default tag=RELENG_5' in my supfile. At some point I will be changing that tag to 'default tag=RELENG_5_3' to avoid getting something like 5.4 beta1 when it comes down the pike. How soon after the release of 5.3 do you think that should be done? Thank you, Don Don, Actually, I'm quite happy learning new ideas, or I would not have posted a ques tion regarding something I didn't understand (or be installing FreeBSD on a hom e machine previously running under Windows). If you look at the bottom of what you received from me, you'll note that I did not send an exact copy of Matthew Seaman's quote, but merely answered the comment from Matthew in the thread at t he point where all discussion to that point had taken place rather than multipl e times to multiple users and messing up any continuity that the bottom postin g requests imply. Not knowing whether you were (or are) a subscriber, I includ ed you as a cc. I've used both means of installing, am aware (as per the man page) that portins tall is the same as portupgrade -N, and simply thought that I was misunderstand ing some of the information I found in the files I was reading. Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Host name question
I know I've seen the answer to this question somewhere here, but I can't seem to find it. I'm running FBSD 4.9 on a machine which is connected to a router (Netgear) that provides DHCP services. The FBSD box gets the IP correctly (assigned based on the MAC address), but the router never sees it by name. I have the name of the machine in the hosts file and rc.conf, but the router never gets the name back. Can anyone help? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Host name question
Alexey Karguine wrote: Bill Schmitt wrote: Well, every other computer on the network is listed as an attached device except the FBSD box. And, when I've booted Knoppix in the past, it showed up, too. Also, when I start Apache (2.0) I receive a message Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName. Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:09:49AM -0400, Bill Schmitt (SW) typed: I know I've seen the answer to this question somewhere here, but I can't seem to find it. I'm running FBSD 4.9 on a machine which is connected to a router (Netgear) that provides DHCP services. The FBSD box gets the IP correctly (assigned based on the MAC address), but the router never sees it by name. I have the name of the machine in the hosts file and rc.conf, but the router never gets the name back. Can anyone help? What makes you think the router *should* get the name back? Please, show contents of /etc/resolv.conf file on your machine. Two lines in resolv.conf: search albyny.adelphia.net nameserver 192.168.0.1 Thanks, Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Host name question
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:18 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: Alexey Karguine wrote: Bill Schmitt wrote: Well, every other computer on the network is listed as an attached device except the FBSD box. And, when I've booted Knoppix in the past, it showed up, too. What are the operating systems of the other computers? Is this your own personal lan? I use a Linksys router, the only things that show up are ip's that it has supplied dynamically. If a box is using a static ip, it wont show up on the router. If it's a FBSD box, just the ip shows up, if it's a Win box, the ip and copmuter name will show up. I don't think you have to worry about that. Also, when I start Apache (2.0) I receive a message Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName. Ruben de Groot wrote: I don't remember exactly, it's been a while since I've had Apache install and operating, but I seem to remember having to go into the Apache config file and putting in the the name and ip address. Someone else can probably tell you better than I can. On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:09:49AM -0400, Bill Schmitt (SW) typed: I know I've seen the answer to this question somewhere here, but I can't seem to find it. I'm running FBSD 4.9 on a machine which is connected to a router (Netgear) that provides DHCP services. The FBSD box gets the IP correctly (assigned based on the MAC address), but the router never sees it by name. I have the name of the machine in the hosts file and rc.conf, but the router never gets the name back. Can anyone help? What makes you think the router *should* get the name back? Please, show contents of /etc/resolv.conf file on your machine. Two lines in resolv.conf: search albyny.adelphia.net nameserver 192.168.0.1 You've got 192.168.0.1 listed as a nameserver. Can't be. That's the ip address of your Netgear router, it acts as a DHCP server not as a DNS server. What is albyny.adelphia.net? Is that your ISP? You need to get one or more nameserver ip's from your ISP. That's what goes in resolv.conf Thanks, Bill Don It's a personal lan with primarily Windows machines on it. albny.adelphia.net is the ISP prefix. I don't recall editing resolv.conf before, meaning something I did in sysinstall must have put that in there. Adelphia is the isp (cable connection). They're configuration instructions for Windows say to automatically DNS address automatically. I've got that option checked in the router, as well. I believe the router gets it from the isp, then provides it to the rest of the machines, but networking has never been my specialty! :-p Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome Package
I've been getting my feet wet with FreeBSD. I have a package/ports question that I'm hoping someone can shed some light on. I think the question belongs here rather than on a Gnome list, because it's related to the various types of installations available to FreeBSD, but if I should go over to a Gnome list, please let me know. I've done the installation several times in different ways, beginning with installing everything from a CD I burned from an ISO image (4.9, because I can't get past the boot on later versions, which is a different issue). When I installed Gnome directly from /stand/sysinstall, either from the disk or via FTP, it went relatively quickly. More recently, I decided to look at getting a completely (?) current installation. This is a sandbox system, so I did a minimal installation from formatting the drive on up using FTP as a source, then installed and ran cvsup (without gui) with ports-all configuration. Then I installed portupgrade, did a pkgdb -F, and then ran portupgrade -Pra. I installed XFree86 using pkg_add -r XFree86 and it took a little longer than when I had installed if from sysinstall, but it didn't seem like a lot. Then I executed pkg_add -r gnome2. 24 hours later, it's still running. I'm not super-concerned, but I'm trying to understand what the differences are between the original, from the CD, installation and this one. It's a slow machine (300MHz Pentium 2) so I don't expect stellar performance, but it seems rather long. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
firefox help
I'm a newbie who is trying to install a recent release of firefox under version 4.9 of FreeBSD. I downloaded the installer (for linux since there doesn't appear to be a FreeBSD version, yet) from Mozilla, but when I try to execute it, I get the message error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0. I've tried finding a package that includes this library, but haven't been successful. Can somebody help? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help: booting 5.2.1 hangs on pcm
I've been having similar problems with the system hanging. I received a lot of helpful information and suggestions here, and haven't tried installing X yet, but have gotten past the boot. Unfortunately, the solution (so far) has been to use an older release. Nvidia has FreeBSD drivers posted on it's web site. In the README.txt file there, I found the statement, FreeBSD -STABLE versions older than 4.9 are not supported. Note that if you are using FreeBSD 4.10, the NVIDIA driver will not work correctly by default; please refer to the FAQ section for details. If you are using a -CURRENT kernel more recent than 05/25/2004, this may apply to your system, as well. There are instructions for applying patches, but they are all executed after BSD is running, and being a newbie myself I couldn't come up with a way to use them. So, I tried all the 5 installs and the 4.10 installs, and kept getting the same hanging installation until I got to 4.9. In my case, the hang happened after the line installing my CD Drive. During the 4.9 install, the next step is the switch to /root. There is a delay between the two (at first I thought I was back to the beginning again) but it did start. Again, I haven't gotten to X, yet. If any of the regulars read this, how would I go about reporting this to the bug teams (or finding out if it is a known issue)? Bill esmaeel pashapouri wrote: Hello list. I am trying to setup freebsd on a new hp pavilion with the following configuration. cpu: amd64 mem: 1Gb hd: 160 Gb gc: nVIDIA GeForce FX5200XT AGP 8X with 128Mb dvd: 1 nec dvd rw/cd rw cd: 1 cd 48x r sc: integrated sound card not sure on details of it but windows show it as ac97 monitor: sharp 17 lcd I have downloaded and burned 5.2.1 amd64-disc1.iso and disk2 also. But when trying to boot of cd, the boot process starts and after the listing of some devices gets hanged, the last line on the screen is, pcm: measured ac97 link rate at 16109 Hz The hard boot gets the computer start over again. I have tried 5.3 beta3 and no succes there eather. Any pointer to any document or links to help get past this point would be apritiated greatly. thanks esmaeel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need advice
I'm a newbie to FreeBSD, and I like what I've seen so far. I've been trying it on a machine I have here to get an idea of the plusses and minuses of using it as a basic desktop system. I could use a little advice to guide me in the process. I'm working with Version 4.10 now, simply because at the time I downloaded it, the 5 release kept locking up in the middle of the detection process. Also, my configuration seems to indicate that I should be using XFree86, too, and a lot of the comments here have stated that 5 will begin the use of xorg. However, xorg doesn't seem to support the graphics adapter on the machine I'm working with (though, tweaking XFree86 has been a bit of a challenge!). The machine I'm working with is a Gateway with a 300MHz PII that had otherwise been retired. It started with 32MB of memory which I replaced with a single 128MB chip. The motherboard has a built-in graphics adapter that was put out by a company called Mpact, which doesn't appear on any support list I've been able to find. Apparently the company was acquired by somebody, who was then acquired by somebody else (ATI, I believe) which then retired the processor. Because of that, when it didn't work right away I didn't put too much effort into it. Instead, I added a Diamond Stealth 2001 I had with the Arklogic 2000pv chip set and 2MB of DRAM (from another retired machine) and used xf86cfg to create a configuration file that disabled the onboard adapter and worked with the Stealth adapter. While I'm not done tweaking it, I have managed to bring up xfce at 800x600 in a low color mode, so far. I intend to try out the various desktops and Window managers I've seen documented but chose xfce to start because the comments here have generally indicated that it's a good choice for a light, speedy, environment to begin. I did a full install of FreeBSD, beginning with a minimal system from a CD, then switching to FTP to continue, which seems to give me more options to choose from. I used xf86cfg to get to the point where I can where I can use xstart to bring up xfce with the a basic desktop on it. First, I got it working with the basic VESA driver, and then with the ARK driver. However, While I don't expect the machine to be a speed demon, it still seems quite slow in comparison to the MS Windows versions (95 and ME) that had previously been on the machine (I did a completely clean install, so there are no Windows components, or anything else, left on the drive). Considering all of that, my questions are: - Am I being unrealistic in choosing a machine with a 300MHz processor? - If I add another 128MB of memory, should I expect to see a dramatic improvement? - Could the graphics adapter itself be the bottleneck? - If I picked up a newer graphics adapter that was supported by xorg, would a switch to 5.x and/or xorg be expected to pick up the speed a bit? Thanks to anyone who might help fill in the blanks. Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
