Re: Intel EMGD driver on FreeBSD?

2011-12-29 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Mark Felder wrote: Are you sure that the problem isn't just that the current releases of FreeBSD don't have GEM/KMS support which the newer Intel drivers require? I'm running a test build on my Google CR48 and have OpenGL acceleration without any major hiccups except

Intel EMGD driver on FreeBSD?

2011-12-27 Thread Luke Dean
I've recently acquired an Asus Eee PC 1201HAB netbook with GMA500 Poulsbo video. My research and experiments show that this hardware is not supported by the usual mainstream Intel driver. The only driver that I seem to have any luck with at all under FreeBSD is vesa, but even vesa has

Re: kern.geom.journal.stats.low_mem refers to what?

2011-03-30 Thread Luke Dean
I've recently set up gjournal on top of gmirror on FreeBSD 8.2. I understand that this setup has a lot of redundant writing. It is working, but I'm not sure I've set it up as efficiently as I should. During prolonged writes, such as copying large files to the file system across the

kern.geom.journal.stats.low_mem refers to what?

2011-03-27 Thread Luke Dean
I've recently set up gjournal on top of gmirror on FreeBSD 8.2. I understand that this setup has a lot of redundant writing. It is working, but I'm not sure I've set it up as efficiently as I should. During prolonged writes, such as copying large files to the file system across the

Re: Shutting down X with control+alt+backspace

2009-06-07 Thread Luke Dean
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Luke Dean wrote: This is an answer to a question I started to post, but then decided to research instead. I know many readers of this list use the feature I'm describing. When Xorg was upgraded to version 7.4, the historic

Shutting down X with control+alt+backspace

2009-06-06 Thread Luke Dean
This is an answer to a question I started to post, but then decided to research instead. I know many readers of this list use the feature I'm describing. When Xorg was upgraded to version 7.4, the historic ability to shut down X with Control+Alt+Backspace became a non-default option. The

How to recover disk space after filesystem full

2009-05-22 Thread Luke Dean
Yes, it sounds like a stupid question, but let me tell the story. The log for my dhcp server filled up /var last night, which meant that dhcpd was also unable to hand out new leases, which meant that I had effectively been DOSed. I'll have to look into changing my logging policies. So, to

Re: How to recover disk space after filesystem full

2009-05-22 Thread Luke Dean
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Steve Bertrand wrote: Luke Dean wrote: I ended up rebooting the box. Was there any other possible solution I could've tried? You have to restart the service that was holding the log file(s) open. The system does not release the space while an application is 'using

ath_hal problem on slow hardware, can be tuned?

2009-05-05 Thread Luke Dean
I'm following 7-STABLE with my laptop. As soon as ath_hal appeared, I started having trouble with my wireless connection dropping every few hours. +ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 11 (2462 Mhz, flags 0x480 hal flags 0xc0), hal status 3 The ath manpage documents this error as:

Noisy GEOM_LABEL on boot of 7-STABLE

2009-04-28 Thread Luke Dean
I just upgraded my old laptop from an older 7.1 release to the latest 7-STABLE for i386, and I started getting a lot of new GEOM_LABEL noise during the boot process. It says it's removing and adding labels every time it does the filesystem checks. What's that all about? Should I be concerned?

boot0cfg: read /dev/ad1: Input/output error using nanobsd

2009-02-15 Thread Luke Dean
I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 on a soekris 4801 with an image built by nanobsd. It's a small piece of headless hardware that boots from a compact flash drive - no moving parts. I wanted to update the operating system to 7.1 and install some more packages on it, so I built a new image with nanobsd

Re: boot0cfg: read /dev/ad1: Input/output error using nanobsd

2009-02-15 Thread Luke Dean
I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 on a soekris 4801 with an image built by nanobsd. It's a small piece of headless hardware that boots from a compact flash drive - no moving parts. I wanted to update the operating system to 7.1 and install some more packages on it, so I built a new image with nanobsd

Re: X.org-update - screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

2009-01-30 Thread Luke Dean
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my system (ports) so I got x.org 7.4 installed. Given the various entries in /usr/ports/UPDATING about the recent updates for xorg I wonder what the correct settings/combinations are for my installation: I've got hald running

Re: Restarting new Xorg freezes system

2009-01-30 Thread Luke Dean
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:18:10PM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Glen Barber wrote: Luke Dean wrote: The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the radeon

Re: Restarting new Xorg freezes system

2009-01-29 Thread Luke Dean
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Glen Barber wrote: Luke Dean wrote: The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the radeon driver on i386 7-STABLE My xorg.conf was built from scratch by Xorg -configure, plus I added Option

Restarting new Xorg freezes system

2009-01-27 Thread Luke Dean
The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the radeon driver on i386 7-STABLE My xorg.conf was built from scratch by Xorg -configure, plus I added Option AllowEmptyInput off to the ServerLayout section, per

Re: Port forwarding behind two routers

2008-11-19 Thread Luke Dean
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Jakub T wrote: 2008/11/15 Luke Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Port-forwarding through two NATs is something I've never had any success with. I have a few suggestions that have worked for me and my friends with this setup. A) Disable NAT on the ADSL router. I think the term

Re: Port forwarding behind two routers

2008-11-15 Thread Luke Dean
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Jakub T wrote: Good day people, I'm trying to get wireless Internet access for my laptop and to use this wireless router as a switch for my FreeBSD box at the same time. This wireless router has one Internet plug and for Ethernet plugs for wired boxes. Now I have this

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote: Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these rules[*], use of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this

Re: Nvidia Driver - OpenGL - Compiz

2008-08-13 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Jeff Molofee wrote: Can anyone tell me why, how to fix, or even what is happening on my machine. I ran the 169.x driver for a long time with no issues at all. I decided to upgrade to 173, and noticed instantly that any time I run an OpenGL application X crashes

Re: aterm whacked?

2008-07-13 Thread Luke Dean
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Neil Short wrote: I just mem-wiped my laptop and am in the process of installing everything after. I have several issues (linux-firefox with linux-flash plugin crashes on sites with flash), not the least of which is aterm doesn't seem to behave very well. When I run

Re: Can't run WindowMaker. Fatal server error:

2008-07-06 Thread Luke Dean
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Pedro Alves wrote: Hello I have a serious problem with windowmaker. Every time I configure .xinitrc to launch wmaker, the server aborts here what I get: Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting xnit: connection to X server lost. wmaker warning: got

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Luke Dean
Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk away, allowing my

Stop building all those kernel modules

2008-05-17 Thread Luke Dean
I'm trying to use nanobsd to build a small kernel for an embedded system on FreeBSD 7. In previous versions, I could modify GENERIC by just commenting out all the devices and options that I wasn't interested in, and buildkernel KERNCONF=myconf would happily ignore all the things I wasn't

Re: Stop building all those kernel modules

2008-05-17 Thread Luke Dean
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Luke Dean wrote: In previous versions, I could modify GENERIC by just commenting out all the devices and options that I wasn't interested in, and buildkernel KERNCONF=myconf would happily ignore all the things I wasn't interested in. This no longer works. Now

Re: Stop building all those kernel modules

2008-05-17 Thread Luke Dean
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Luke Dean wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2008, Luke Dean wrote: In previous versions, I could modify GENERIC by just commenting out all the devices and options that I wasn't interested in, and buildkernel KERNCONF=myconf would happily ignore all the things I wasn't interested

DHCP server with no persistent storage

2008-05-15 Thread Luke Dean
I'm running FreeBSD on a Soekris net4801. It boots from a read-only flash card, and has no permanent writable storage media - only memory disks. It runs several critical network services for me like DNS, and a firewall. One important service that it does not currently run is a DHCP server.

Re: time drift

2008-05-15 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Christopher Cowart wrote: David Kelly wrote: Its PC commodity-grade. Not all that unusual even for stuff sold claiming to be a server. This is in no small part why ntpd exists. nptd calculates a correction coefficient and (under FreeBSD) stores it in /var/db/ntpd.drift

Re: netbeans 6.0.1 not run

2008-05-11 Thread Luke Dean
On Sun, 11 May 2008, cuongvt wrote: Hi all! full explanation: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (i386) uid=1001(mak) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),69(network) installed: jdk-1.6.0.3p4_1 diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_10 javavmwrapper-2.3.2 I'm using zsh so I set JAVA_HOME and PATH of java into in my .zshrc.

Re: Firewalls

2008-05-02 Thread Luke Dean
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Zane C.B. wrote: On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:50:06 +0100 Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: FreeBSD supports 3 firewalls: IPF, IPFW, and PF. Some time ago (perhaps years) I seem to recall some discussion that one or more of those was better maintained

Re: pf traffic shaping and perfomance

2008-04-23 Thread Luke Dean
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I would like to implement traffic shaping using pf. I know I need to recompile kernel to be able to achieve this but I have a more general question. I used to have pf with traffic shaping on a Pentium III 866 before and as soon as I

Re: determining what's in the base system

2008-04-15 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Chad Perrin wrote: I have two questions. First: Assume you have a FreeBSD system installed that has been running for at least a year, with a bunch of graphical desktop and productivity software installed, and have both installed and uninstalled a lot of software over

Re: Question regarding mail and dns server on Alix/Soekris?

2008-04-09 Thread Luke Dean
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, David Duong wrote: I'm planning to redoing my home network. I currently have one server (Opteron 170) that is currently a NAS, Email, and DNS server (btw, the main OS is FreeBSD). I was thinking of purchasing an Alix2c3/Soekris 5501 and use it as a Email + DNS server.

Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping

2008-04-01 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to limit the bandwidth available to some connections and I'm not sure FreeBSD can handle this. Maybe some of you can help. Here's what I need to have exactly. No matter what the number of connections, each connection should have at

How to replace libpthread correctly on 7.0?

2008-03-30 Thread Luke Dean
This weekend I upgraded a desktop system from 6.2 to 7-STABLE using source. I removed and rebuilt all my ports using the ports system, and so far I haven't noticed any problems with them. When I attempted to rebuild some software outside the ports system, I ran into problems. I like to

Re: How to replace libpthread correctly on 7.0?

2008-03-30 Thread Luke Dean
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Luke Dean wrote: This weekend I upgraded a desktop system from 6.2 to 7-STABLE using source. I removed and rebuilt all my ports using the ports system, and so far I haven't noticed any problems with them. When I attempted to rebuild some software outside the ports system

RAID mirror really worked

2008-01-13 Thread Luke Dean
This isn't really a question, just a testimonial and a thank you to the people who make this work. I've got a Promise TX2300 SATA Raid controller that I use on my FreeBSD fileserver at home. It uses ataraid. I've set up a simple two-drive mirror. One of the drives has been sending me

Re: wxPython 2.8?

2007-09-10 Thread Luke Dean
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2007 21:09, Luke Dean wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2007 15:09, Luke Dean wrote: I've got a Python app that seems to require wxPython 2.8. The ports collection only has 2.6. Do you think

Re: wxPython 2.8?

2007-09-10 Thread Luke Dean
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Neal Nelson wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 09:49 +0200, Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2007 21:09, Luke Dean wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2007 15:09, Luke Dean wrote: I've got a Python app that seems to require wxPython 2.8

wxPython 2.8?

2007-09-09 Thread Luke Dean
I've got a Python app that seems to require wxPython 2.8. The ports collection only has 2.6. Do you think it would it be worthwhile for me to download the source and attempt to compile it on my system or should I ask the port maintainer? ___

Re: wxPython 2.8?

2007-09-09 Thread Luke Dean
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2007 15:09, Luke Dean wrote: I've got a Python app that seems to require wxPython 2.8. The ports collection only has 2.6. Do you think it would it be worthwhile for me to download the source and attempt to compile it on my system

kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed

2007-04-14 Thread Luke Dean
The latest version of Opera claims to be faster by taking advantage of shared X memory if I set the sysctl kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed. I don't like to change sysctls from their default settings unless I understand the consequences. I've been unable to find a manpage that describes this

Re: How to reset /dev/dsp ?

2007-01-03 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Luke Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running FreeBSD 6.1. My sound device shows up like this in my dmesg: pcm0: Intel ICH5 (82801EB) port 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xdc00-0xdc3f mem 0xfc001000-0xfc0011ff,0xfc002000-0xfc0020ff irq 17 at device 31.5 on pci0

How to reset /dev/dsp ?

2006-12-31 Thread Luke Dean
I'm running FreeBSD 6.1. My sound device shows up like this in my dmesg: pcm0: Intel ICH5 (82801EB) port 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xdc00-0xdc3f mem 0xfc001000-0xfc0011ff,0xfc002000-0xfc0020ff irq 17 at device 31.5 on pci0 pcm0: primary codec not ready! pcm0: Avance Logic ALC658 AC97 Codec My sound

detach/reattach remote GUI applications?

2006-11-12 Thread Luke Dean
I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the screen utility with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application, detach from it, and then reattach to it later to see how it's going. I'm wondering if there's a tool I can use that would allow me to do that with GUI

Re: detach/reattach remote GUI applications?

2006-11-12 Thread Luke Dean
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Eric Schuele wrote: On 11/12/06 18:37, Luke Dean wrote: I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the screen utility with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application, detach from it, and then reattach to it later to see how it's going. I'm

Re: grub on FreeBSD

2006-05-30 Thread Luke Dean
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: Hi, I am trying to use grub instead of the usual boot0 thing on a Compact Flash card I use in Soekris and PC Engines WRAP systems. I installed grub from ports/sysutils/grub and put the package on my nanobsd system on the CF card. Booting on a

Re: 6.1_RELEASE Install Problem

2006-05-10 Thread Luke Dean
On Wed, 10 May 2006, bc wrote: Ceri Davies wrote: On 10/5/06 05:03, bc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After make installworld I ran the final run thru of mergemaster and recived this error: ERROR CODE 64 FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'dc' into /usr/src/etc/ and install files to the temproot

Re: find not finding file.

2006-04-27 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, RW wrote: Can anyone explain this: # find /etc/ -name 'named.conf' # ls -l /etc/namedb/named.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3715 Nov 13 17:35 /etc/namedb/named.conf named.conf is not found, but as a sanity check a similar search for ppp.conf succeeds # find

Re: Update from Ports removes dependency data

2006-04-04 Thread Luke Dean
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently noticed if I update a package from ports, the package manager looses the dependency data for the package. eg: updating old version of gettext # pkg_info -R gett* Information for gettext-0.14.5_1: Required by: libgpg-error-1.1

Re: show port's deps

2006-04-01 Thread Luke Dean
Hi, how can i know what the dependencies are for a particular port? try: # make pretty-print-run-depends-list - or - # make pretty-print-build-depends-list Where do you guys find these interesting and useful make targets? I've searched the manpages for make and make.conf and the

Re: Removable drives

2006-03-28 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: I have a question to the community about removable drives, pendrives and usb and firewire attached hard drives. I'm just wondering how people are dealing with them in FreeBSD. I don't have any operational problems with them. I'm just

Determining proper order to upgrade

2006-03-04 Thread Luke Dean
I'm one of those masochists who insists on manually building all my pakages from the ports collection without using automating software like portmanager. Typically I upgrade my ports collection with cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/supfile-that-I-made-for-ports then run pkg_version -v -L '=' to get a list

Gripe about new dhclient

2005-12-29 Thread Luke Dean
Ever since FreeBSD switched to OpenBSD's dhclient, I've had a serious problem. I'm running 6-STABLE as of earlier this week, but the problem has existed ever since we switched dhclients. Whenever I take the system offline long enough for the lease to expire, it will never get a new lease.

Possible solution to lockups on FreeBSD 6?

2005-12-20 Thread Luke Dean
In my ongoing quest to figure out why my machine keeps locking up since I upgraded from 5.4 to 6.0, I came across this interesting passage in man (5) pf.conf: BUGS Due to a lock order reversal (LOR) with the socket layer, the use of the group and user filter parameter in conjuction with

Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

2005-12-08 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: I have a home network with two FreeBSD servers (web- and file-server), a number of Windows desktops and a wireless FreeBSD laptop all connected to one another using Samba. What is the best tool to create automatic central backups? For now I just

Troubleshooting a lockup

2005-12-02 Thread Luke Dean
I run a headless machine that has sporadic lockup problems, and I need some advice on what I can do to gather enough information to give me some idea of what's causing it. The machine acts as a router, DNS, web server, mail server, nfs server, firewall, and lots of other services. These

kernel: rl0: watchdog timeout

2005-11-23 Thread Luke Dean
Since I upgraded to version 6, my server has frozen under heavy network traffic three times. It ran happily for months on various versions of 5. Same hardware, same configuration. There was never anything in /var/log/messages until this last time. This time I found: kernel: rl0: watchdog

Re: dhclient.leases grows forever?

2005-11-15 Thread Luke Dean
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Luke Dean wrote: I've recently upgraded to version 6, and I'm using the new dhclient. It seems to be working happily, but I've noticed that /var/db/dhclient.leases.rl0 just keeps growing and growing, with new leases being added to the end. Leases that expired several

dhclient.leases grows forever?

2005-11-14 Thread Luke Dean
I've recently upgraded to version 6, and I'm using the new dhclient. It seems to be working happily, but I've noticed that /var/db/dhclient.leases.rl0 just keeps growing and growing, with new leases being added to the end. Leases that expired several hours ago remain in the file. According

illegal option in mergemaster

2005-11-10 Thread Luke Dean
I synchronized my sources to RELENG_6 built the world, built the kernel, and installed the kernel. When I run mergemaster, it always dies with the following message. It's trying to use a -l option with cap_mkdb and that's not a legal switch. I can't find any documentation on that switch

Re: illegal option in mergemaster

2005-11-10 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Luke Dean wrote: I synchronized my sources to RELENG_6 built the world, built the kernel, and installed the kernel. When I run mergemaster, it always dies with the following message. It's trying to use a -l option with cap_mkdb and that's not a legal switch. I can't

Re: higher resolution console screen?

2005-09-22 Thread Luke Dean
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, bob self wrote: 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 20 15:33:58 EDT 2005 I have a 19 LCD monitor and usually run in console mode. My screen resolution is 80x25, but I'd like to get something like 120 x 60 if possible. I've played with vidcontrol, but so far can't

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-18 Thread Luke Dean
a year ago, I had to split up a drive to solve the same problem you're having, but I went the small / route instead, so you might be running into a problem I didn't have. Luke Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 / linux-opera

2005-06-23 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Thomas Hill wrote: However, I was previously using the web browser Opera under Linux emulation because it supports lots of the browser plugins But now when installing linux-opera from the ports collection it complains about libX11.so.6, which I know is a common X11

Enabling acpi_thermal

2005-05-31 Thread Luke Dean
After having a router literally melt during a period of record-high temperatures last week, I've become interested in remotely monitoring the temperature of some of my systems. I've got two FreeBSD systems running 5.4. Both use acpi, and several acpi sysctl variables are present, but the

Re: Enabling acpi_thermal

2005-05-31 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 31), Luke Dean said: After having a router literally melt during a period of record-high temperatures last week, I've become interested in remotely monitoring the temperature of some of my systems. I've got two FreeBSD systems

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-26 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID, would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID card? What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring

Re: CVS tag for specific release candidate

2005-05-07 Thread Luke Dean
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 08:55:56PM -0700, Luke Dean wrote: I was using 5.4-RC1 until today. Today I attempted to update to 5.4, but I can't get into single-user mode without a panic. I'm just about certain that this is because of the work in progress

CVS tag for specific release candidate

2005-05-06 Thread Luke Dean
I was using 5.4-RC1 until today. Today I attempted to update to 5.4, but I can't get into single-user mode without a panic. I'm just about certain that this is because of the work in progress in that ata-raid driver right now. I'm using a Promise FastTrack S150 TX2Plus, and it's not happy with

Re: CVS tag for specific release candidate

2005-05-06 Thread Luke Dean
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Luke Dean wrote: I was using 5.4-RC1 until today. Today I attempted to update to 5.4, but I can't get into single-user mode without a panic. I'm just about certain that this is because of the work in progress in that ata-raid driver right now. I'm using a Promise FastTrack

Re: FreeBSD Installation Horror

2005-05-05 Thread Luke Dean
I downloaded the three floppy images for 5.3-RELEASE and dd'ed them on the disks. Then I booted the installation and tried to partition my hard drive. To my surprise, the partition table shown by the installation was complete nonsense. I figured it probably had something to do with the fact

Re: Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread Luke Dean
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Ryan Winograd wrote: Charles Swiger wrote: On May 4, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Ryan Winograd wrote: I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i do to solve/investigate this problem?

Re: Prevent DHCP from changing resolv.conf

2005-04-22 Thread Luke Dean
I have a minor problem regarding my network configuration, specifically that the external interface on my router gets it's IP via DHCP from the ISP, so in rc.conf ifconfig_xl0=DHCP is set. This leads to the single entry in resolv.conf that I want to be there, namely nameserver 127.0.0.1 being

Re: problems with pf

2005-04-22 Thread Luke Dean
I have read the manpage on pf but I am still stumped. I get some error messages when starting up that say something like 'rule expands to no possible valid combination' or something to that effect. If someone can tell me how I can find out what the error messages are when I boot I will post

Re: problems with pf

2005-04-22 Thread Luke Dean
Parse your rules without actually loading them: pfctl -n -f /etc/pf.conf Flush the old rules and load the new ones without rebooting: pfctl -F -f /etc/pf.conf Gah! I knew that didn't look right... pfctl -F all -f /etc/pf.conf Or check out man pfctl for other options. Both are must-haves for

Re: Reusing a port after a crash

2005-04-21 Thread Luke Dean
defaulting to false. I bet if I explicitly set it to true that I'll get the behavior I want (or break the whole thing...) Open Source is fun. :) Luke Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd