fvwm port does not seem to have changed since FreeBSD release 8.1
when it was still working correctly.
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> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 07:22:34PM -0800, Dan Strick wrote:
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> > ...
> >
> > I tried printing to a file, but both the Linux and FreeBSD Firefox
> > programs create slightly strange postscrip
On Fri, 4 Dec 2010, Warren Block responded to my previous email:
> > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Dan Strick wrote:
> >
> > I tried /usr/ports/www/firefox which installs as firefox3, a native
> > FreeBSD Firefox program. It will print via lpr, but It won't
> > do flash
problem. There are sometimes when I just
*have* to be able to save a postscript image (e.g. a map) and print
it later.
My sister tells me that I should be using MS Windows because that always
works correctly. I don't know how to prove her
on.
I have looked very very hard for documentation on this stuff in an
obvious place but have not found any. Where should I have looked?
Thanks,
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tchmail with the
fetchmail sslcertfile option. At least fetchmail is now happy.
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Thanks for any information you can provide.
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81.106.49.69.in-addr.arpa. 21124 IN PTR
mail871.carrierinternetsolutions.com.
Is this a temporary condition?
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www/rt-3.2.3 and there
is now a new www/rt-3.4.4 port. I would guess that the new ports install
in pretty much the same was as www/rt32.
Dan Strick
P.S.:
On several occasions I tried to install RT-3.4 on RH Fedora Core 4 with
Apache 2.0 and on Core 2 with Apache 1.3 (because the RT-3.4 insta
European
company and the alleged property rights violation occurred in Europe.
These issues are a bit subtle. If you really care about them, you should
ask a lawyer who works with intellectual property rights law.
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:36:00 +0200, Arno wrote:
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> hello,
> why is the colouization lost in:
> ls -alhG | more
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Educated guess: "| more" is not a tty.
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ht try to boot using boot0.
To verify that you are using boot0 and to determine how it is configured,
issue a command like:
boot0cfg -v ad0
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ow be running Linux instead of FreeBSD. (Modern ATA
disks seem to work quite well under FreeBSD if you can somehow manage
to avoid ATA controller and cable misconfigurations that drive I/O rates
way down.)
Does anyone know if there are online records of d
set
> Windows to use 'internet time', using the same time server
> (time.nist.gov), I get a difference of about 8 1/2 hours!
>
> Anyone have a similar issue?
>>
See the man page for adjkerntz.
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ting too high and asked,
"Why would anyone want 5 GB on a single spindle?")
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n lies within the first 8 GB of the
the disk in order to avoid various bootstrap configuration problems.
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believed, it overlaps partition 1. I would not dare to format
it. Instead, I would use the "fdisk -u ad1" command to delete it and
hope that it never comes back. If you do this, it would be a good idea
to back up your FreeBSD system first, especially since you are probably
not very f
ed the "bsdlabel" command
to display the FreeBSD disk label on /dev/ad1s1. That suggests you
are running FreeBSD 5.x. In my experience, release 5.x won't recognize
FreeBSD disk labels in non FreeBSD slices and won't create special
files for the partitions in /dev. This sugg
) it complained about an incorrect partition table that was
> generated by a tool that didn't have the right BIOS geometry. When I
> reinstalled FreeBSD on the same drive, but changed the geometry from
> 58168/16/63 to 3649/255/63, and launched the Fedora Core setup again -
> it didn
se 5.2, 5.2.1, and 4.10 fixit CDs are bootable, just like the
installation CD. The difference is that when you boot the fixit CD you
can't really do an installation (because the bytes to install are not
there) and when you go into fixit mode you don't have to change the CD
in th
this way:
1) Boot your FreeBSD installation medium.
2) Go into "fixit" mode.
3) Reissue the boot0cfg command.
You will need a "fixit" diskette or a "live filesystem" cd-rom.
See the file floppies/README.TXT in your FreeBSD installation medium.
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ver will work
very well. I made them on my system (release 4.9) and it now sees
the SiI 3112 SATA controller, but I have not yet dug up any spare
SATA drives to test with the controller. Note that these modifications
will not support the RAID features of your controller.
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eason and this caused the
script to think that all the setuid files discovered during the previous
run of this security script had gone away. The next time this script
runs it may well report that these files have reappeared.
This is probably not
The actual BOOTEASY program, which is *not* the bootstrap program
you want to use, may be found in the tools subdirectory of any recent
FreeBSD release: .../X.X-RELEASE/tools/srcs/bteasy.
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he
block number is unsigned) on a single hard disk.
If you try to make a single file system that large, you may find
that things like fsck don't scale very well.
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oo short to spend most of it trying to
understand obscure sendmail documentation.
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t be a bad example. Neither the man page for mount_cd9660
nor the man page for mount lists "rw" as option specifiable with the
"-o" flag. The "-w" flag (which is not an "option") is listed on the
mount man page but not on mount_cd9660 man page. I was under
quot;pci:1.0.1" in the configuration file. An AGP slot
is in a very practical sense just a mutated PCI slot. (long story)
In particular, AGP devices have PCI device addresses.
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u could specify in /boot/whatever.
I strongly advise against this also. Disk space and main memory are
very cheap these days. If you have enough main memory, you don't
need much swap space. Creating a dependency of one OS on another's
installation could create a painful
to be ata2 and ata3.
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> I don't recall seeing an announcement about 5.2.1-RC (presumably RC1)
> anywhere (I am subscribed to freebsd-announce).
>>
It was announced in freebsd-current. Here is a copy of the announcement
of the second release candidate:
>
r cable is special because one of
the positions in the socket connector is disconnected from the cable so
that the host can tell which kind of cable is attached. If the cable
is plugged in backwards and the middle connector is plugged into a
drive, the host thinks the cable is a low speed 40 conduc
x27;m confused on a few parts.
>>
I found simplified instructions on rebuilding sendmail to use SASL on
FreeBSD at this url:
http://home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/articles/mailsetup/article.html
It worked for me. (eventually)
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SAMSUNG SM-352B.
3) I get similar errors (not sure of the ascq) when any of my CD drives
(both ATA and SCSI) try to read the first blank sector at the end of
a CD-R (should be a short read or EOF).
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a "slice") table.
Use the "fdisk" command "-B" option to install the bootstrap program
from /boot/mbr. Be sure to set the desired "active" partition so that
the bootstrap program knows which partition to boot.
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> Have you put this up as a FAQ somewhere? It seems like a good idea
> to do so.
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I don't have a place to put it. I would gladly offer it to anyone
who does.
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he MBR will be wrong. I typically
manually set them to 1023. Remember that you can only boot partitions
beyond cylinder 1023 if all bootstrap programs use the extended int13
functions.
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urage random access and favor contiguous
files. (However, I do see a small environmental niche for UFS on CD.)
Given all these nagging little software issues, we may be stuck with
mkisofs/burncd/cdrecord for the near future even with CD-RW.
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imes or perhaps much less.
There are probably some well trampled blocks in a UFS file system
that would wear out very quickly.
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contains all the modifications
that Red Hat makes to the basic Linux in the Enterprise product.
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ully understand exactly which ata controllers have
the problem.
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"disklabel" or
"bsdlabel".
If you can't boot the FreeBSD OS that you previously installed, you should
be able to boot your installation media and run these commands in "fixit"
mode (or whatever it is called these days). You will need either the fixit
flo
down and error rates
go up. The nature of the recording technology requires such aggressive
media error recovery that marginal operation may not be quite obvious.
Sometimes it seems that the technology was designed to be frustrating.
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asty nasty problem if you have it.
Enough people seem to be affected by this bug that it some special
attention should be given to it before 5.2 is released. (Assuming of
course that the bug has not already been fixed.)
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ilable).
You might as well forget about testing/diagnostics programs. These
things just don't seem to work anymore and the hardware manufacturers
don't seem to have much interest in producing them, perhaps because
the primary effect of such software is to increase the number of
requests fo
The author of the following email apparently had difficulty sending this
to freebsd-questions, so I am forwarding it to the mailing list without
comment.
DRS
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 12 14:11:27 2003
> From: "McMahon, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: ...
> Subject: FreeBSD 4.8 will not bo
ts of
difficulty with this particular SATA controller. I don't know how
seriously the bugs are viewed by the FreeBSD release engineering team
(or if the bugs will be fixed in 5.2).
Note that the HARDWARE.TXT files in FreeBSD releases still do not claim
any particular supp
mount() system
call) would have to be somewhere in the root and that would make
the root busy.
You can't unmount the root file system. Even the mere notion makes
me feel a little queasy.
I have to give you big points for originality. :-)
(Why did you *want* t
gt;>
It probably means you accidentally typed the magic "debug" key combination
(usually ctl-alt-esc) at the system console driver but you didn't have
"options DDB" in youer kernel configuration. This is not anything serio
acilities only to read the disk when booting.
It is highly unlikely that your file system corruption problems were
related to the BIOS Large Disk Access Mode option unless you were also
using a non-FreeBSD OS on the same disk and it inadvertently did disk
writes through the BIOS to wrong
he FreeBSD boot0 program. I don't know much about lilo,
but I am guessing that it does not set the active partition in the MBR
partition table before it boots a partition. Then the boot1 program
tries to load the boot2 program from ad0s1 instead of ad0s4.
Workaround: you can make ad0s4 the only ac
ine:
FEATURE(access_db, `hash -o -T /etc/mail/access')
Can someone who knows how this is supposed to work help me out?
Is there an SMTP authentication protocol that protects the
authentication information from network snoopers?
Dan Strick
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e same contents and
doing "makemap hash /etc/mail/access". The sendmail.mc file
contains the standard line:
FEATURE(access_db, `hash -o -T /etc/mail/access')
Can someone who knows how this is supposed to work help me out?
Is there an SMTP authentication protocol t
ry easily try to boot the wrong slice.
If I understand your email, you must have run afoul of the fragile
assumptions made by boot2. What program were you using for the master
bootstrap? Do you know which slice had the active partition flag?
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y be used routinely
(in case the mounted device gets sick).
I use "/fs" for the mount point directory, "/fs/fd" for my primary floppy
drive, and "/fs/cd" for my primary cd (rom) drive. I chose the name "/fs"
because any
want to deal with the
consequnces of overheating. I don't know of any video cards for which
decibel levels are specified. Disk drive and case fan manufacturers do
typically specify noise levels. Modern medium speed ATA disk drives with
"fluid dynamic bearings" may be very
e F1")
>>>
You can't change the prompts without changing/rebuilding/reinstalling
the bootstrap program. (The source is in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0.)
You can suppress the listing of specific partitions in the bootstrap
menu. See the boot0cfg command and its -m option.
Dan S
. (There is apparently no convention
by which the boot0 program can pass the booted slice number to the boot1
program.)
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files from these backups by mounting pseudo
disk devices configured with the vnconfig program on FreeBSD 4.x (or
perhaps the mdconfig on FreeBSD 5.x).
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Can anyone suggest a PCI ATA host adapter card that supports booting
off CD-ROM drives (and is supported by FreeBSD)?
I can't find any PCI cards that really support ATAPI devices.
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Can anyone suggest a PCP ATA host adapter card that supports booting
off CD-ROM drives (and is supported by FreeBSD)?
I can't find any PCI cards that do that.
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arger compilation, see
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html
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I don't think you will have a problem
at only 1000 GB, but I am not certain. This issue was discussed recently
on one of the FreeBSD mailing lists.
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n motherboard whose BIOS
implements the modern "EDDS" int-13 disk functions, perhaps the Asus
P4P800 you just mentioned in a previous posting to freebsd-questions.
Caveat: I have not yet tried the boot0cfg packet option and don't
know for sure that it works. I also wonder how the boot
> From: Tom Munro Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on GigaByte GA-8EGXDR-E?
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:36:10 +1200
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Try:
>
> http://tw.giga-byte.com/Server/Products/Products_Server
0, is more or less what
all recent FreeBSD releases are using.
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D-4.8, but also
when reading an ATAPI CD on both FreeBSD-4.8 and FreeBSD-5.1.
It also slows down if I use a larger buffer size, though not to
such a ridiculous extent.
Can someone explain what is happening? How should I go about making
a copy of a CD?
Dan Strick
[
p". I don't enable that feature, but I do find that
when the system is in the "press any key to continue" halted state
it seems to ignore the power button. So I press any key and let it
reset and start to reboot. Then the power button works. This is
indeed a little annoying
I can't be more helpful, but I don't think anything else I can
write would do you much good. You have to learn about Wine yourself
(mostly the hard way).
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> How do I add a disk containing data to a new system without erasing
> that data.
>
> I searched the mailinglist and the documentation but could not find
> information
> for this scenario.
>
> The system in question is running 4.8
> The disk is coming from a 5.1 system and uses ufs with s
se that geometry.
Since I don't boot off that drive and I don't access it using any
operating system that uses BIOS disk I/O, it won't make any difference
if the physical disk addresses are wrong. I am pretty sure that
FreeBSD uses the partition starting block numbers and sizes in t
ingle line of text. I broke it up at blanks
into three lines to make it more readable.)
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raps to be written when you exit the menus so that
you don't have to do an installation "commit". I usually do this
kind of thing when booted from FreeBSD installation media, but I gather
that it works ok when running multiuser. The man page is "sysinstall".
Dan Strick
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owner/modes/times of symbolic links. I recently
made and tested a dump/restore of a FreeBSD 4.8 root file system and it
looks like those problems have been fixed.
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something relevant into the freebsd-stable mailing list.
The subject is, "FreeBSD STABLE support for new motherboards."
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To u
ons
for doing this somewhere in the sendmail documentation. I think it
involves hacking /etc/mail/submit.cf.
Note: the sendmail binary that comes with FreeBSD was built with libwrap.a
support. That means it obeys /etc/hosts.allow and can be told to reject
all non-local connections to port 25.
Dan
0:1 I then get an error
> complaining that no Device section for PCI:1:0:0 is found
>
> The card does have dual output but I'm only trying to use the main VGA
> connector. Am I even using the right device for the 9800pro ?
(Oops.) I guess my previous observation that the 980
n 9500 instead
of something newer.
XFree86 ought to support the Radeon 9800 as a generic SVGA card anyway.
See also <http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6>
and <http://www.xfree86.org/current/ati.html>.
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he wrote it?
Learn to love penguins?
Please help ... I am slowly going crazy...
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*P.S. An example of the extent of the insanity: the "disklabel -W"
command does a DIOCWLABEL ioctl to write enable the slice label.
It used to be the case that the label write
cted so far. If anyone
reading this has anything to contribute, I would very much like to see it.
My new motherboard, a Gigabyte 8KNXP, is sheduled for delivery in about a
week. Like the MSI 875P-NEO-FIS2R, it uses the Intel 875P/ICH5R support
chipset with an I
ector. This makes
for a slow copy.
Another problem is that is that if you tell dd to ignore input errors,
it skips the bad blocks on input but not on output so that after a read
error blocks are copied to a wrong disk address. I just did a man on the
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE dd command and disco
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