Why is Qemu not in Handbook

2010-04-14 Thread Bob Johnson
to http://wiki.freebsd.org/qemu would be helpful. Thanks, -- -- Bob Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root

2010-02-13 Thread Bob Johnson
On 2/12/10, Jason Lin taosheng@gmail.com wrote: I try this method, after set the password of toor, I can't login with the account toor. It is possible (I don't remember) that the toor account does not have a shell in the default passwd file. If that's the problem, use vipw to add the path

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Johnson
, the PAM subsystem can allow remote root logins when you think they are disabled. You have to be careful to configure SSH (and anything else that uses PAM) correctly in that situation. - Bob Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 2/11/10, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On 2/11/10, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? Yes, use vipw to edit the password file. Add another

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

2010-02-04 Thread Bob Johnson
to the correct make.conf settings for the Linux kernel stuff. -- -- Bob Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Swap Partition First?

2010-01-27 Thread Bob Johnson
://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

NDIS panics (Was: Can I rescan for new PCI devices? Or should hotplugging Expresscards work?)

2010-01-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/9/10, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/16/09, Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using an ExpressCard for wireless networking because there seems to be no driver for the internal card in my laptop (and NDIS panics the system). The Expresscard shows up as a PCI device

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread Bob Johnson
of=disk.img bs=512 conv=sync,noerror will replace the unreadable blocks with blocks of NULs. -- -- Bob Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

2010-01-05 Thread Bob Johnson
is popular). -- -- Bob Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: snd_hda blues

2010-01-04 Thread Bob Johnson
...@freebsd.org -- -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Can I rescan for new PCI devices? Or should hotplugging Expresscards work?

2009-12-16 Thread Bob Johnson
found on the topic, it appears that automated hotplugging of PCI devices is probably still work in progress, but is there a way to manually have the system rescan for PCI devices so I don't have to reboot when I insert the network card? I'm using 8.0 RELEASE amd64. Thanks! -- -- Bob Johnson

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Bob Johnson
and gets confused without it. It appears that it has happened again. Thanks for helping to clear up my confusion... I hope I helped. -- -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

2009-10-26 Thread Bob Johnson
. - Bob -- -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Using ctorrent or other program to seed a torrent

2009-06-30 Thread Bob Johnson
, ctorrent automatically seeds for 72 hours after it finishes the download, and you can adjust that. -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Problem with burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Bob Johnson
by your post (no filesystem, other software) have been addressed by others, but fwiw I use mkisofs to build the filesystem, and then burncd to burn it to the cd. For storing data on DVDs, growisofs is much more convenient, install it as part of sysutils/dvd+rw-tools. -- Bob Johnson fbsdli

Re: something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/27/09, Michael Scheidell scheid...@secnap.net wrote: none of my freebsd systems can surf to www.freebsd.org anymore. host www.freebsd.org www.freebsd.org has address 69.147.83.33 telnet www.freebsd.org 80 Trying 69.147.83.33... on macos. just hangs. I see the same thing. I don't

Re: Inspiron 15 (aka 1545)

2009-05-26 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/16/09, Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: This question has sort of been asked before, but I never saw a clear answer, so here it is, in the hope that someone can save me some time: I need a cheap, simple, reasonably light laptop, but not a tiny display, and I'm looking at the Best

Re: Inspiron 15 (aka 1545)

2009-05-19 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/17/09, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: Bob Johnson skrev: [...] I need a cheap, simple, reasonably light laptop, but not a tiny display, and I'm looking at the Best Buy pre-configured Inspiron 15 (i.e. Inspiron 1545). Anyone have direct experience with FreeBSD amd64 on one

Inspiron 15 (aka 1545)

2009-05-16 Thread Bob Johnson
This question has sort of been asked before, but I never saw a clear answer, so here it is, in the hope that someone can save me some time: I need a cheap, simple, reasonably light laptop, but not a tiny display, and I'm looking at the Best Buy pre-configured Inspiron 15 (i.e. Inspiron 1545).

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-08 Thread Bob Johnson
On 4/8/09, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Tuesday 07 April 2009 23:35:03 Bob Johnson wrote: On 4/4/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi all [...] My suggestion is to start with a ports tree that is fixed in time. Make that ports tree available as part

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-07 Thread Bob Johnson
for Flash 9), and to figure out how to get the Gnome-related stuff to update smoothly without the constant need for manual interference (I get tired of running gnomeloganalyzer). But that's a discussion for a different thread. -- -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com

Re: Printing - standard? CUPS? ...??

2009-01-12 Thread Bob Johnson
-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Bob Johnson
kernels, but apparently not in i386. The logged error message in AMD64 mentions the sysctl, at least in 7.0-R. -- Bob Johnson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

2008-10-13 Thread Bob Johnson
On 10/10/08, Mark Tinguely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vm.pmap.pv_entry_count: 583006 vm.pmap.shpgperproc: 200 vm.pmap.pv_entry_max: 2243305 The system: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 07:51:58 UTC 2008 [EMAIL

kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

2008-10-10 Thread Bob Johnson
more, but I expect they will reappear eventually. Until then I probably can't actually test anything. Thanks for your time, -- Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: ntpd and GPS

2008-09-19 Thread Bob Johnson
to know if this turns out to be insurmountable. Good luck, -- Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: safest way to upgrade a production server

2008-09-08 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/8/08, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uname -a FreeBSD ***servername*** 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Dec 3 09:46:53 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/ src/sys/INET_ON amd64 oooh, that is a bit old I think. I chose this server as an example, because

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/27/08, prad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with windoze. Essentially, the UFS file system (and its close relatives) is intentionally fragmented in a controlled way

Re: 250GB hd: Can FreeBSD use 137GB (bios) as Linux or Windows do?

2008-07-31 Thread Bob Johnson
booting), or the hard drive itself lying. Does your drive have a jumper that causes it to report its capacity as 128GB for compatibility with older BIOSes? If so, remove the jumper and try again. -- Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: 250GB hd: Can FreeBSD use 137GB (bios) as Linux or Windows do?

2008-07-31 Thread Bob Johnson
On 7/31/08, Jan Henrik Sylvester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/31/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I wrote about CANNOT READ BLK from my new hd that I filled via firewire: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-July/179646.html The response suggested

Re: 250GB hd: Can FreeBSD use 137GB (bios) as Linux or Windows do?

2008-07-31 Thread Bob Johnson
On 7/31/08, Jan Henrik Sylvester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I should have put it more concise as some important details were lost in the middle of the background story. --- The important part: --- If I boot the FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE livefs CD, I have my 232GB hd limited to 128GB.

Re: local mirrors of ports and packages?

2008-07-29 Thread Bob Johnson
many data would it be in total? Does fetching from an existing mirror in South Africa help, e.g. cvsup.za.freebsd.org or ftp.za.freebsd.org? -- Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?

2008-07-22 Thread Bob Johnson
On 7/21/08, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That wouldn't solve the problem of the US dollar being a fiat currency. Basically, under a fiat currency, trying to financially plan for the future is a matter of gambling the economy won't blow up in your face in the interim -- which is

Re: tips about saving text in Easy Editor

2008-07-22 Thread Bob Johnson
On 7/22/08, Prakash Poudyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everybody Here I want to know some tips of the Easy Editor. Can any body say the Key word that will save the text of Easy Editor. Like you know we used to Esc :w in case in VIM Editor. So please if any body know please reply me. I

Re: calcru: runtime went backwards errors

2008-06-30 Thread Bob Johnson
On 6/30/08, David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been seeing errors like the following appearing: Jun 30 03:13:57 ford kernel: calcru: runtime went backwards from 261 usec to 258 usec for pid 516 (devd) [...] Jun 30 03:13:57 ford kernel: calcru: runtime went backwards from 486 usec to

Re: File Systems

2008-06-24 Thread Bob Johnson
On 6/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to contribute my knowledge of several otherwise ar cane file systems and wanted your take on modifying the FS types with other values. Is there a central authority for all file system types that these should be

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/29/08, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:14:26PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: On 5/29/08, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black

Re: Renaming root to homer?

2008-05-30 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/29/08, Gilles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello With all those scripts trying to connect to SSHd as root, I was wondering if it'd be OK to rename this account to eg. homer, to act as a first line of defense? I doubt it. Are there unknown consequences to doing something like that?

Re: Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-30 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/30/08, DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Zimmerman wrote: Foo JH wrote: I like Qmail. It's not overly difficult to configure, and it's extensible. and requires 400 patches to do basic things =( List them, not 100, not 399, all 400 please. Keep in mind that when your download x.x.x

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/29/08, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black [...] I'd be much obliged for any help here. Konqueror says that the comment that reads !-- click on

Re: Storage projects

2008-05-15 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/15/08, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you want a programming project, or a figure-out-how-to-do-it project? One thing that pops up once in a while is the need for a real-time distributed file server. I.E. two or more fileservers serving the same files from physically separate

Re: Storage projects

2008-05-15 Thread Bob Johnson
Do you want a programming project, or a figure-out-how-to-do-it project? One thing that pops up once in a while is the need for a real-time distributed file server. I.E. two or more fileservers serving the same files from physically separate locations, while keeping the files synchronized in real

Re: FreeBSD installation on AMD64

2008-04-01 Thread Bob Johnson
On 4/1/08, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sébastien Morand wrote: Hi, I'm new in FreeBSD, I'm used to GNU/Linux from many years but I'm trying to migrate to FreeBSD. My hardware is AMD64 / 1GB RAM / envy24ht network car / nVidia 7300GS GC / USB Scanner / HP 660 Printer This

Re: [FreeBSD 7] Radeon Mobility M10/9600 + xorg 7.3 + ati/radeon driver causes complete system hang/freeze

2008-03-18 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/17/08, Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: [,,,] I have the following problems with my xorg 7.3 installation, even after I have pkg_delete -a, and reinstalled all with packages. The system was updated with freebsd-update from 6.3-release to 7.0-release. This

LaCie Lightscribe Labeler on FreeBSD ?

2008-03-07 Thread Bob Johnson
Anyone out there tried to get the LaCie Lightscribe Labeler for Linux (or the version from the Lightscribe website) running under FreeBSD? http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3072070867.html http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10803

Re: panic: No BIOS smap info from loader: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=111955

2008-03-07 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/7/08, Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is anyone aware if this issue is fixed in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE / STABLE? It is NOT fixed in -RELEASE and I doubt it is fixed in -STABLE. I've been trying to get FreeBSD-7 amd64 installed on an HP dc7700p workstation at work, but the

Re: panic: No BIOS smap info from loader: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=111955

2008-03-07 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/7/08, Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bob, Thanks for the response.., On Fri, 07 Mar 2008, Bob Johnson wrote: On 3/7/08, Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Yep. The HP BIOS is a bit bogus. It won't reveal memory information to the AMD64 boot code. On the off

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/5/08, Isaac Mushinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/5/08, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:36:33AM -0500, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: I have new hardware (Abit ip35-pro, Intel Q6600), and was contemplating installing FreeBSD/arch, but now realise that I

mkisofs and timestamps in ISO-9660 filesystems

2008-01-23 Thread Bob Johnson
I posted this a few days ago and got only marginally helpful responses, so here it is again with more detail: 1) I'm using reasonably recent versions of things: # uname -a FreeBSD acer.wb4jcm.org 7.0-RC1 FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 #0: Mon Dec 24 10:10:07 UTC 2007 [EMAIL

Re: Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-21 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/21/08, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 1:38 PM, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Now, I'm even in a bigger hole. My power died this weekend, and I guess the / partition has some errors on it, so it is being mounted read-only. But I'm unable to get into single user

Wrong times written by mkisofs?

2008-01-19 Thread Bob Johnson
I recently built a CD of images to give to a friend. I noticed the timestamps displayed when I list the CD contents are five hours earlier than they should be. Five hours matches my GMT offset. This is a dual-boot system with Win XP, so the hardware clock is set to local time. E.g. a file on

Re: Wrong times written by mkisofs?

2008-01-19 Thread Bob Johnson
On Saturday 19 January 2008 05:22:58 pm you wrote: Irecently built a CD of images to give to a friend. I noticed the timestamps displayed when I list the CD contents are five hours earlier than they should be. Five hours matches my GMT offset. This is a dual-boot system with Win XP, so the

Re: Now that 6.3 ...

2008-01-19 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/19/08, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that 6.3 is official, I have to assume that 7.0 is very near? -- Best regards, Chris I think 7.0 is very near, but not because of the status of 6.3. When a release is in the RC stage, it is very near full release unless something very

Re: Error building OpenEXR

2008-01-11 Thread Bob Johnson
/usr/ports/UPDATING (entry 20071008) might help. The solution there isn't exactly what I ended up having to do (I don't actually remember exactly what I did), but it pointed me in the right direction. - Bob On 1/9/08, Gary Schenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attempting to upgrade the ports on my

Re: SATA DVD Drive Install Problem

2008-01-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/9/08, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone successful in installing FreeBSD from a SATA DVD Drive? I am having trouble as it boots from the CD of 6.3 RC2 but at the beginning of the install it fails. The CD I then tried in another computer and it installs fine. I was

Re: Nut and RAID on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-01-10 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/10/08, Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps I need to re-evaluate my line of thinking. Light sometime flicker, but power almost never goes out. When it does it is either back on in less than 1 minute, or out for hours. If the UPS detects critical correctly and gives me at

Re: short Q

2007-11-28 Thread Bob Johnson
On 11/27/07, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Originally, I was in a hurry and was having trouble with ports. This approach had worked for three machines. But one I was having endless problems with. Meanwhile I got it together to get ports to work. But the port did not install a startup

7.0-B2 IPFW/IP6FW interaction

2007-11-10 Thread Bob Johnson
I've been trying to learn about IPv6, using the 7.0 series as my platform so it gets some exercise before release, and I've run into a few odd interactions between IPFW handling of IPv4 and IPv6. The only one I can reliably reproduce is pretty straightforward: if I set up /etc/rc.conf to enable

Re: ip6fw without ipfw?

2007-11-06 Thread Bob Johnson
On 11/6/07, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2007 00:54:36 Bob Johnson wrote: So is it a bug or a feature that enabling ip6fw (/etc/rc.d/ip6fw start) also enables ipfw (the ipv4 version)? I didn't see it mentioned in IP6FW(8). It sure surprised me when I

Re: ip6fw without ipfw?

2007-11-06 Thread Bob Johnson
On 11/6/07, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2007 17:14:24 Bob Johnson wrote: Since this is apparently a bug, I'll file a PR. I'm going to install 7.0-BETA2 later today, I'll try again on that. Not saying that this is not a bug, but keep in mind

Re: ipv6 confusion

2007-11-05 Thread Bob Johnson
On 11/5/07, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to set my machine up to be on both IPv4 and IPv6. I have read the stuff on 6over4 and such and still a little confused on a few things: 1. The machine I want to do the tunneling on is behind a NAT'ed firewall how do I reliabelly

ip6fw without ipfw?

2007-11-05 Thread Bob Johnson
So is it a bug or a feature that enabling ip6fw (/etc/rc.d/ip6fw start) also enables ipfw (the ipv4 version)? I didn't see it mentioned in IP6FW(8). It sure surprised me when I was exploring IPv6 setup and I enabled ip6fw without configuring the IPv4 rc.firewall. Locked me out of the remote

Re: How to provide fail-over capability for servers?

2007-10-30 Thread Bob Johnson
It depends on what type of services the servers offer. Mail servers, web servers, file servers, DHCP servers? SMTP (the mail protocol) for instance has built-in provisions for automatic failover. - Bob On 10/29/07, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm completely new to this so some of

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-17 Thread Bob Johnson
On 10/17/07, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Anyone known why this time the release of 7.0 is so late ? In generaly the date on http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html is alway very optimist. But this time it's almost 5 mounth (annonced june 2007). I've see somewhere it's

Re: 1 TB data copy

2007-10-12 Thread Bob Johnson
On 10/12/07, CyberLeo Kitsana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Monah Baki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not completely up to speed with FreeBSD's NTFS support. Last I looked at it, it was experimental and there were warnings everywhere. I assume it's improved since

Re: Video chipset hardware list

2007-10-01 Thread Bob Johnson
On 10/1/07, Harry Matthiesen Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have tried to lookup a hardware list video chipset supported on x.org, but for some reason I can't find anything. Is there a good hint where to find it? I have had pretty good results looking at man pages for individual

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-26 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/25/07, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used Thinkpads for about 10 years with various Linux systems. My last one was a Thinkpad 600 which I used continuously from August 1999 through March 2007 when I got a Mac Powerbook (now if only I could run OS X on a Thinkpad :-). We have

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-25 Thread Bob Johnson
I've been happy with FBSD on Dell Inspirons, although the newest I've used it on is an 8600 (it's what I'm using now). Some things have been problems (e.g. on the 7500 the sound input never had a driver, on the 8600 it took a while to find a driver that would make a working NDIS driver for the

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-24 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/21/07, Lotfi kecir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Thanks. The short answer

Re: ssh forwarding question

2007-09-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/3/07, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2007 00:13:13 Pollywog wrote: On Monday 03 September 2007 23:08:45 Predrag Punosevac wrote: Pollywog wrote: bind: Can't assign requested address channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 15901 Could not

Re: sysinstall, packages, ports q.s

2007-09-07 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/5/07, Sur Demir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a bit new to FreeBSD, and have few questions challenging my Gentoo Linux mindset: There are a lot of approaches to managing FreeBSD systems. What is best for you depends on your goals. My suggestions are a bit different from what you have

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-06 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/5/07, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:37:11AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:52:56 -0400 Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case I haven't made myself clear, I despise Qmail with a passion. [...] I just realised

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/5/07, Andrey Shuvikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is exim not suitable for this task? It's

Re: (error) Your apache does not support DSO modules

2007-08-27 Thread Bob Johnson
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/dso.html What is it that you are actually trying to accomplish? What was the command that resulted in these errors? - Bob On 8/27/07, Anthony Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I searched for DSO modules I found this page:

Re: Monitoring CPU usage on multi-core system

2007-08-27 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/27/07, Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again. On a dual-core system, how do I tell how much of each of the CPU cores are in use? Is the CPU usage in 'top' for the two CPUs at once? Is there something in ports (that works without X...) that will give good info? Try: top -S or

Re: FreeBSD Wireless

2007-08-27 Thread Bob Johnson
Where does the question come from? Have you read about block relay on a Linux help page and trying to find the FBSD equivalent, or have you seen block relay as an undocumented option to ifconfig in FBSD? - Bob On 8/27/07, Thiago Pollachini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no one? regards, 2007/8/2,

Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-17 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/16/07, Chandhee Thala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running VLC 0.8.5 on FreeBSD 6.2. I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. In all but the oldest DVD drives, region encoding is supposed to

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/16/07, Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Here is a problem that I cannot solve. I have two offices with two file servers (FreeBSD 6.1). Clients are accessing files over samba and nfs (on the local server). I would like to share some directory structures between the two

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/16/07, Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I often suggest Coda (ports/net/coda6_server coda6_client) for this sort of situation, but it has been so many years since I've used it myself that I don't know what state it is in these days. I hope the documentation has improved. Note

Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-05-31 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/31/07, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or how about favourite most useless man page entry: The notion of errors is ill defined. Come to think of it, that last one is almost poetic, isn't it? In a Zen sort of way. Anyone recall which manpage it's from? grep

Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-05-31 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/31/07, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/31/07, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or how about favourite most useless man page entry: The notion of errors is ill defined. Come to think of it, that last one is almost poetic, isn't it? In a Zen sort of way. Anyone

Re: command to inentify the process that is listening in a port.

2007-04-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 4/10/07, Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 17:37, Martin Hudec wrote: Siju George wrote: How Do you actually Identify what process is listening on a TCP/IP port? nmap does not usually give the right answer. There should be some command that can be run on

Re: mail server blues

2007-04-09 Thread Bob Johnson
On 4/6/07, Jay Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: go with qmail... it rocks http://www.qmailrocks.org/ it's a damn good mta. My advice: stay away from qmail. Anything that requires a big pile of patches just to make it usable doesn't belong on your computer. And I probably get more

Re: NTP: Driving Me Nuts

2007-03-23 Thread Bob Johnson
Are all three of these systems using the same router to share the same IP number? It may be that the router is having trouble keeping track of three connections to the same port on the same server (I don't think it SHOULD, but maybe it is). If that's the case, you can fix it by using a

Re: Post DST changes

2007-03-12 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/12/07, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing some inconsistent and strange results after the DST change this weekend. On all the boxes, it seems setup OK [...] yet mixed in notice the /kernel entry... Its an hour off !? if I restart syslogd, it corrects it for the kernel

Re: Mounting multiple NFS shares to the same point

2007-02-12 Thread Bob Johnson
On 2/12/07, Tillman Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Further, you can mount /different/ shares to the same directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount /exports/srvbackup/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount_nfs nas:/pub /exports/srvbackup/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount | grep srvbackup nas:/srvbackup on

Re: whois weirdness...

2006-10-23 Thread Bob Johnson
The BSD whois command doesn't seem to get along well with the Verisign whois server. You get back every domain that includes MICROSOFT.COM in it, e.g. MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET, even if you attempt to specify the unique name with something like whois =MICROSOFT.COM A

Re: kppp DNS problem?

2006-10-23 Thread Bob Johnson
On 10/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kppp works as advertised, except for one little problem. my primary and secondary DNS servers are as follows: ns1.hosting.trueband.net ns2.hosting.trueband.net All well and good - BUT the kppp config untility will only allow

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-20 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/20/06, Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After using Dru Lavigne's excellent article http://tinyurl.com/da66a about Raid-1 I have a full Raid-1 mirror on a new rack server. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how best to monitor the hardware status to detect imminent failure of one of

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-18 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/18/06, Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to sanity check that it is possible. I think he just doesn't want to work on our server because it isn't Linux :) Ashley You might need to make sure AD support got enabled. In the samba3 port at least, it is off by default

Re: spamassassin

2006-09-18 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/18/06, justins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I`ve installed spamassassin rules on my sentmailserver and i am trying to filter my mail in order to pick out some spam. The spamd process is running only it doesn`t add anything to my mail heather so procmail can`t forward it to the caughtspam

Re: Too many Xorg modes

2006-08-25 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/24/06, Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 6.1, how would I set up xorg.conf to restrict Xorg to a few specific modes? The Xorg.8.log created during xorgcfg shows 24 modelines, but when I cycle through the modes using CtrlAltPlus there are two which don't work at all and the

Re: Too many Xorg modes

2006-08-25 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/25/06, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/24/06, Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 6.1, how would I set up xorg.conf to restrict Xorg to a few specific modes? The Xorg.8.log created during xorgcfg shows 24 modelines, but when I cycle through the modes using CtrlAltPlus

Re: FreeBSD from Scratch

2006-08-04 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/4/06, Rich Mayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone on the list familiar with the Linux from Scratch project? More to the point, is anybody aware if there is anything like a FreeBSD from Scratch project?? It depends on which aspect of Linux from Scratch is of interest to you. Building

Re: HOWTO wireless please.

2006-07-20 Thread Bob Johnson
On 7/20/06, Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello gurus, Can someone help me setting up my wireless device on my laptop im on 6.1R, I tried to do as instructed on handbook, but no luck. My laptop suppose to be the client, and i have a netgear wireless modem router up and running. How to

Re: ntpd configuration . . . and errors

2006-07-14 Thread Bob Johnson
On 7/14/06, Owen G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Following the suggestions regarding setting timekeeping up as a daemon I did the following and got these console messages . . . . . . Jul 14 13:04:29 epia ntpd[648]: no IPv6 interfaces found Jul 14 13:04:29 epia ntpd[648]:

Re: TIME loss

2006-07-13 Thread Bob Johnson
On 7/13/06, Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I have been trying to figure this one out for a couple of days, but no can do. My clock on my bsd box currently 19 minutes ahead of the real world. I have it set to query my w2k box as the time server. I do have the ntpd

Re: top and multiple CPU's

2006-07-13 Thread Bob Johnson
On 7/13/06, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 06:08:50PM +0530, Ashok TM wrote: use top -S There will be new column with 'C' tag which displays the the cpu id on which the process is running mptables to list the processors available Hmm, cvsup# mptables mptables:

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Bob Johnson
On 6/29/06, Fernando Pinguelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I realized that I did not have all the ports installed

Re: FFS data integrity

2006-06-21 Thread Bob Johnson
On 6/18/06, Pablo Marín Ramón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Johnson wrote: The short answer is that fsck can detect the bad inodes and fix or delete them. Assuming no programming errors, you don't have to worry about a file containing bogus data after fsck has run. Unfortunately, if write

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