Re: Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 16:44 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: > I would not support your chaining idea, though.[...] > > The matter is, that you'll want 9600 bps speeds > for max compatibility. While it is usable for > occasional failure recovery, chaining it would > make it lag too much. Well, chaining is

Re: redundant ethernet adapters - fault tolerance?

2005-06-25 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:17 +0200, Martin Pála wrote: > Is ethernet adapter HA supported in FreeBSD? > > For example on linux it is possible to select active-pasive mode of > ethernet bonding module (linux alternative). This works perfectly > (only one interface is active at a time, the other is b

Re: simpler boot loader

2005-06-25 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 13:39 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > something like for NetBSD - just load one ELF file from disk and that's > all. > > FreeBSD /boot/loader and it's script are overcomplicated. What complicates the normal boot process is that the kernel requires a pre-boot environment to

Multisync plugin for Evolution 2

2005-06-24 Thread Frank Knobbe
Greetings, has anyone gotten the Multisync plugin for Evolution 2 compiled and installed under FreeBSD? The CVS snapshot of multisync 0.82 contains the evolution2 plugin and it seems people are using it under Linux. It is currently not available via the FreeBSD ports tree. Multisync can be install

Re: Running own servers

2004-12-21 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 22:16 -0600, Chris wrote: > > Or find someone with public name servers that is willing to pull zones > > from your name server. Your domains then reference those 3rd party name > > servers, but not your own. But since those 3rd party name servers pull > > zones from your box,

Re: Running own servers

2004-12-21 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 23:04 -0500, RL wrote: > So I guess my only option *if* I wanted to do this was to buy a > business class DSL service that offers a static IP? Or find someone with public name servers that is willing to pull zones from your name server. Your domains then reference those 3rd p

Re: Running own servers

2004-12-21 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 22:59 -0500, RL wrote: > I just called my cable modem ISP (adelphia) and they said a static IP > address is $130 per month!! Forget that! Now what are my other > options? I do have a dynDNS address for my dynamic IP, but I can't run > a DNS server and do reverse DNS with

Re: Do I have to rebuild my jails too when I rebuild the server?

2004-12-20 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:13:08AM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: > I see. So if I've got a synced jail and host then top will work? I > thought top never worked inside jail for some memoryissue or something > like that? No, I was using that as an example for the host. I don't think top will work

Re: Do I have to rebuild my jails too when I rebuild the server?

2004-12-20 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:04:54AM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: > Okay, I see. I've not done this with my jails so I think it's time to do it > > But until now everything has worked anyway, upgraded from 4.9 to 4.10-p5. > > How important is it to rebuild the jails too? I don't think it has t

Re: Do I have to rebuild my jails too when I rebuild the server?

2004-12-20 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:33:33PM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: > Okay, thank you but that page didn't help very much. I know how to > rebuild and update the server, and I've done it many times but what I > need to know is if I must rebuild my jails to when I rebuild the > server. Maby the hostsy

Re: placing syslogd logs into postgresql

2004-10-17 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 10:43, asolomon15 wrote: > Does anyone know of any scripts or programs that can place syslogd logs > into database tables? Not syslogd, but syslog-ng. http://kdough.net/docs/syslog_postgresql/ Regards, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: Official wallpapers

2004-09-24 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 21:51, Glenn Sieb wrote: > > > So then when do we get "Bride of Chucky"? :) http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nprountz/wallp/other/secure_bsd.jpg Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: FreeBSD and WinNT

2004-07-26 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 09:27, Fractal wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 4.8 and I need to install on the same machine > WindowsNT-like operating system. I tried to do this and installed it. > But after recovering of BSD bootstrap loader using sysinstall I found > that I cannot load Windows. Namely, there wa

Re: [OT] Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 10:39, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy > > dance... > > Too fluffy. FreeBSD is a no-fluff OS! ;-) No, but it keeps going and going and going and going and... Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a dig

ERserver for Postgres from ports

2004-06-10 Thread Frank Knobbe
Greetings, I'm curious if anyone had success installing/running the erserver port (databases/erserver) for Postgresql. It doesn't seem to install all files properly after ers_setup (had to copy from examples/erserver and edit them by hand). The next issue was that the Java stuff didn't run. After

Re: App like M$ Project

2004-05-25 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 13:05, Bob Collins wrote: > I am looking for a nice Open Source app like Microsloth's Project. I > have Googled a bit and find nothing interesting. Do any of you have a > suggestion for such a thing, assuming it even exists? Of course, I would > also like to run it on FBSD, bu

Gnome 2.6 on FreeBSD 4.8?

2004-04-07 Thread Frank Knobbe
Greetings, I noticed that Gnome 2.6 is not supported on FBSD 4.8. Has anyone tried running the upgrade script on 4.8 yet? What is the reason it is not supported? (Other than forcing folks to upgrade...) Are there any workarounds or hacks to get Gnome 2.6 play nicely with 4.8? Thanks, Frank --

portsdb issues / make index failure -- SOLVED

2004-03-29 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 19:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I can't see anything in this or some of the other ports you mentioned > (namazu2) that might cause problems. My best guess is that something is still > non-standard about your system, but I can't do better than that. Kris, I finally found the p

Re: portsdb issues

2004-03-29 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 15:54, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > make describe complains on each of them. > > Post the errors if you want us to be able to analyze things. Well, after doing a "make describe" in /usr/ports, it barfs with: --->8--- ===> databases/mytop mytop-1.4|/usr/ports/databases/mytop|/usr

Re: Best *nix OS for a laptop?

2004-03-20 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 17:42, Eric F Crist wrote: > Could some of you please send me an email telling me what OS you utilize on > your laptop, and why? I'm not looking for anyone bashing any other OS, just > why you use what you do. I use FreeBSD 4.8 on my Dell Inspiron laptop. Everything works

Re: portsdb issues

2004-03-08 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 17:00, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > I waited a bit, then ran cvsup on the ports, once more, and this time > there was more to download, including a new INDEX-5 file. I ran portsdb > -Uu once more, and it worked perfectly. I guess my ports tree was out of > sync somehow. Who

Re: Where can I find a list of the cvsup tags for ports?

2004-02-05 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 14:31, stan wrote: > I have a system that I have removed all teh non English language port > directories, and I run a cvsup _with_ a refuse file for these. Then I did a > portdb -Uu. This resulted in a fair number of complaints, but when I ran > portupgrade -aRr it hapilly too

Re: Retired Linux user wants to switch

2004-01-29 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 19:59, greg wrote: > FreeBSD is an operating system, not a religion. It is to me. :) Ever since I've seen the light and escaped from Windows hell into BSD heaven. Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Laptop starts back up on its own

2003-11-29 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 16:35, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > When i had this problem, the solution ended up being to set the computer > > to not power up when another computer tries to access it online. That seemed > > to stop the weird powering on. > > -Thomas > > How did you change this setting...wher

RE: 200gb hard drive?

2003-11-20 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:56, Derrick Ryalls wrote: > When manufacturers talk about drive size, they use base 10. When computer > report drive size, they use base 2. So, if you divide 200,000,000 bytes by > ( 1024 * 1024 ), you get roughly 190gig in binary, so off the bat you lose > 10gigs of spac

Re: DNS/Webhosting question

2003-11-20 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 07:25, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > which of my servers is primary and which secondary if I can edit the > data on either and have it synchronized to the other? The one you list as primary in the Start Of Authority :P Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Re: DNS/Webhosting question

2003-11-14 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:23, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings, > What tools exist in Freebsd to determine the primary dsn server for a domain Heh.. . everyone seems to be responding with 'nslookup -type=ns foo.com' or 'host -t ns foo.com', but those queries return *all* name servers and make no dist

Re: Evolution without gnome

2003-11-02 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 22:54, Chris wrote: > Evolution is slick. I loved it - but the fact remains that it is bloated and > runs horrid if you happen to save messages, and they are in the k's. The secret to get Evolution to run decent is to use the maildir format instead of mbox for all message f

Re: Problem with new laptop touch pad

2003-10-30 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:06, Ray Seals wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 14:28, Ray Seals wrote: > > Just purchased and eMachine M3512. I cannot get the touch pad to work. > > Anyone else know if it's supported or any ideas on getting this > > running. I have tried it with both 4.8 and 5.1. I woul

Re: ssh keys - howto?

2003-10-26 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 05:18, Jan Grant wrote: > No, you don't. Use puttygen to create the key (as you've done) and copy > the public half of it to your FreeBSD box (as you've done). I was reasonable sure that I created my keys on BSD and converted the public key to Putty using an import function.

Re: ssh keys - howto?

2003-10-24 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, I'm stumped. Just need to get ssh keys working. I have FBSD-5.1 web > server with > sshd running. I have a workstation running W2K with WinSCP3. I have tried > Puttygen to > create the keys and copied the key to .ssh directory on FBSD

Re: cvsup + portupgrade Now no Gnome login

2003-09-28 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 08:05, stan wrote: > BTW, out of curoisity, Did I need to delete the ~/.g[nc]* > filles/directories? If I had not would they have been auto upgraded? Your Gnome config files? No. Not unless you want to start with default settings :) > Looking foward to playing with Gnome 2.

Re: cvsup + portupgrade Now no Gnome login

2003-09-27 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 14:17, stan wrote: > I cvsup'd today (main and ports), then did a portupgrade -aRR, and now I > can't get loged intot a session using gdm. > > I've rebooted the machine, and blown awa ~/.g[cn]* in my user home > directory. Still no luck. I tried the "Gnome failsafe" session,

Re: Multiple screens TV and Monitor??

2003-08-01 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:24, kristof wrote: > Does anybody know how you to configure your Xfreeconfig file so that > it can lanch two X windows at the same time. I would like te be able > to view my screen on my tv and monitor at the same time. I can do it > separatly(TV or Monitor) but it has to b

RE: CDRom able to play DVD movies

2003-07-16 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 11:44, Neu, Benjamin S. wrote: > Is there an echo in this mailing list?! :) Maybe :) I only kept half of the thread. Sorry for wasting bits Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: CDRom able to play DVD movies

2003-07-16 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 03:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, what ive heard is there's some kind of tweaked emulation > under windows, which tricks the system into thinking the cdrom drive > is a dvd drive, and the system compensates for the work the drive cant > actually do [perhaps some kind

Re: Changed ISP now can't get to websites / traceroute

2003-07-07 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 13:52, Stacey Roberts wrote: > 2] Does anyone know of any reason why traceroute might fail on FreeBSD, > but work on Win2K Pro? Stacey, FreeBSD uses UDP based traceroute while Windows boxes use ICMP based traceroute. Some providers (like ComCast cable) block ICMP packets (s