Re: scripting languages...
On 4/28/06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I recall reading about C# is that it was a DOS/Win C++ ish language. There's more to it than that, and not really DOS, it's a fairly new fully object oriented alternative to languages like Java. Not that it's much good. ch is a C/C++ scripting language that is like /bin/sh only with C syntax.Some C wizards created a perl regex library for ch; thus my question. That would csh or tcsh not ch. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD telnetd and Microsoft Internet Explorer
On 12/3/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoah whoah whoah Guys, I have several 5.4 servers. Hitting them with IE 6.0.2800.1106 ftp client I get NO PROBLEMS seeing dot files. I DO NOT see the behavior that the OP claims. NOR do I see the behavior that you guys are claiming either of IE's FTP client being bad. Nor do I see this behavior on a 6.0 FreeBSD server. I respectfully submit that both you and the OP are off your rockers. You guys, probably because you don't know how to setup Windows properly. (which is understandable) The OP probably because he doesen't know how to setup FreeBSD properly, plus has borked some settting in his IE. Note he hasn't posted the IE version. Note he hasn't setup a test login on his FTP server and invited anyone to try it and see if they are getting the same problem. Can you say Troll bait? I knew you could. AND YES, I did try a few FTP sites on that URL. No problem with any of them. AND NO I do not recommend IE as a FTP client either. And I respectfully submit that a recommendation against IE from someone who must apparently know how to set it up properly should IMHO carry more weight than one from someone who apparently doesen't know how to set it up properly. If you think IE's FTP client is so bad then post a few sites and I'll go to them and put up some screen captures of my IE. Go ahead, prove I'm wrong. I'd like to see it crash. I dare you. The reason it works for you is because you manually set the ftp type setting of IE. I do happen to know how to set up IE and alot of other network related setting in WIndows. When these are not set (as they do not absolutely-have-to-be with other clients) it crashes. The fact that just because you haven't bothered about that setting, or PASV etc, doesn't mean the client should crash. Under the default setup on IE, nearly every one of those sites crashes IE. Now of course it makes sense that if these settings haven't been set, that you might get an error message and have to set things right, but not to crash the application every single time without a clue as to what went wrong. Now of course I could take screen shots and get these sites to work aswell, believe me it's not some advanced windows knowledge that you're claiming ownership to here, but if you leave the settings on defualt, it crashes the browser. Plain old run of the mill, office and home environment set up, it crashes the application. Even microfts own ftp site. Oppose this to Firefox's ftp implementatoin which works out of the box, and gives you an error if you need to change something. Of course everything crashes, let's not be silly, but to crash categorically every time unless you've set it the way it should be, is an immature piece of software. On top of these are problems with standards implementations, in the same way that the IE html engine doesn't render in accordance with the standards (I can tell you this after having worked full time in web design and php/mysql, and the joy you get when you see the way things should look, according to standard html and xhtml and css texts, in other browsers, but never in IE.) But in the end it's just the fact that it's crashed in it's default setting in every Windows release I've used. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD telnetd and Microsoft Internet Explorer
On 12/1/05, Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 06:37 schrieb Peter Clutton: Thanks for your off-topic message... You helped very well to solve a problem. :-( Well actually I did help solve the problem, because the problem is most likely your client. It is impossible for anyone to look at what else could be causing problems, when your particular client in known to have very major problems. It's not that it's windows, we help here alot to connect the two, but the ftp client in particular, just plain out doesn't work. There are many ftp-sites where IE can access them without problems. I beg to differ, and so would anybody else who uses ftp on a regular basis. Do what i did today on my Win2k machine with IE and firefox and go to the site http://www.ftp-sites.org/ Find a locale near you, and go down the first 20 (or 100 if you have time) on the list and tell me how many work with IE and how many with Firefox. I got a 20 - 0 in favor of Firefox. In all cases i had to ctr-alt-del the IE because it failed. I mean it just isn't normal or acceptable for software to completely crash that often. Here's another one i had to ctl-alt-del for IE: ftp://ftp.windows.com . Works great out of Firefox! Pretty funny really. The point is you are asking us in our free time to chase a wild goose, because you're using a known broken ftp implementation. Someone might be more inclined if you suggested just about any other ftp client. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD vs Linux Threads
On 12/2/05, Cody Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well in the past it was stated that on a MySQL server installed using Linux threads was faster than using the native BSD threads. I'm in the process of building a new MySQL 5 server with FreeBSD 5.4 and was wanting to know if using the Linux threads was still faster. I think this has been around the bends a bit, and people might be reluctant to start on it again. The best thing is to look through the archives, and also run some tests if you have the time and resources. Having said that hopefully you will get some helpful feedback on this thread. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie
On 12/2/05, Douglass, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After being an Windows/Cisco IT professional for the past 7 years, I have decided to make the plunge over to FreeBSD on my own time. I have it installed, and it is quite overwhelming. If anyone has any recommendations/tips or books for acquainting one's self with FreeBSD with no *nix experience I would greatly appreciate them. I found Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD a very helpful resource. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: motion detection software
On 12/1/05, laszlo vagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone know of a port/package that can detect motion from a usb camera or a logitech par port and save the image? one of the ones i found was motion but it was for linux. If you don't find one, you can run linux programs on FreeBSD through linux emulation. It can be instaled from the ports, or you might have selected it during install. In which case just follow the instruction for your the motion software and install. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD telnetd and Microsoft Internet Explorer
On 12/1/05, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-11-30 14:05, Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Internet Explorer is showing the filenames and time (of the ftpd) together as one filename?!? That means on ftpd: $ ls -al .login -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 248 29 Nov 14:39 .login and in IE I see the icon with filename 14:39 .login!!! Too bad for IE's broken FTP client :P Is there a workaround for that? Yes. Use a *REAL* ftp client and not that braindead Redmond crap :) rant That is completely true. Why anybody would use IE for ftp is baffling. Through every release of Windows, IE has been incapable of visiting 99% of FTP sites. In older versions of Windows it would crash the whole comp, and in recent releases you might get away with it crashing the browser. Very occasional is you have 15 minutes to spare, you might get to see the contents of the directory. For years i thought there must be something wrong with FTP in general, until one day, after failing to get to ftp.freebsd.org my life was changed by trying firefox. It opened in less than a second. Feel free to try it in IE right now, i just did, and after a good five minutes, it gave me an error. I was just relieved it didn't crash anything. I could drop a list of a random 50 popular ftp sites and you would get the same dichotomy of results, and you would be lucky if one in that 50 worked. Keep in mind this is on a Celeron 2.4Ghz 256MB ram, and like 10 megs worth of internet pipes coming into the place i work. I mean i don't make a habit of frothing at the mouth about Windows, but this is supposedly an FTP client, and it has _NEVER_ worked! Is everyone blind to this? How can anyone, even m$, call that a product? /rant Having said that i do hope there is a solution for you if you need to use IE. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where can I find Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD OS book?
On 11/24/05, db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 23 November 2005 21:45, Javier Matos wrote: Anyone know if there are more information in freebsd website???, I spend to much time searching but I can´t find it. I will recommend: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201702452/102-5278219-2697763?v=glancen=283155n=507846s=booksv=glance Agreed, the above book would be better if you're looking at FreeBSD. In either case, amazon, and i also have no problem finding them in good local bookstores. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
On 11/17/05, Dev Tugnait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound drivers...then go from there Ok i have done a kldload snd_driver and it recognises it perfectly. Got Ac97 and ID and memory info etc on the dmesg line. However nothing actually comes out of the speaker. I am using gnome. It asked me to run esd which i did, and esd program didn't return my prompt. I left it, and even after a reboot it was avaliable in my Multimedia Selector which also lets you run a test on output. I got no sound from speakers, or from connecting to external speaker/headphones. Also tested CD's, which I could see the program were playing but nothing coming out. However when I open Volume Control it is set to OSS - Null and not esd. Could this be causing a problem? I did play around with OSS at one stage trying to get it work. Is there any other way to test the device? By the was, the speakers themselves are turned up, as well as the Volume control in gnome. It seems strange as the driver recognises the sound device perfectly (i added snd_driver_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf and that works too) but yet there is no sound. Any ideas?? Thanks very much for the help so far. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
On 11/17/05, Owen Jeremiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, the recommended step to do is do: kldload snd_driver and then do: cat /dev/sndstat to get the correct driver (in my case it is snd_ich). After that you put the driver into loder.conf (in my case: snd_ich_load=YES). Thanks but i have done that, and the driver seems to be working fine. The problem is that nothing is coming out of the speakers. I have a feeling that it has something to do with the Volume Control applet in gnome pointing to OSS Null and giving me no other option (eg esd). Only other thing could be these on touch sound buttons on the laptop, for mute and outside sound (by default), but they are really soft keys, so they couldn't really have turned off the sound, and now be not responding (which was one of my early theories. Any help would be appreciated, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Web host manager
On 11/18/05, Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 November 2005 15:27, the author Peter Clutton contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Web host manager: On 11/15/05, Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I need a web host manager -- something that does the job of cpanel Any suggestions? This might suit your needs: http://www.raqdevil.com/ Thanks for the information. I do not know how well developed for use with freebsd this is yet. I must say the installation instructions sounded very off putting..do not install on any thing other than a bare system seemed to be the implication. Although I did notice that someone is apparaently working on a port so maybe - just maybe-- it will work out fine. I am running freebsd 5.3 atm and they say they have only tested on 5.4. Those are all valid points. There are a few i believe in the ports system. Have a browse of http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ and you will probably find a few good possibilities. It is quite a long browse, but there is a convenient short description, and link to the main website, for each port, which make finding something appropriate easy enough. I always end up finding a hundred other useful things while searching for something, so try not to get sidetracked. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows Compatibility?
On 11/18/05, Augusto Montenegro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking into changing my Windows Operating system toFreeBSD or Linux. Most of my programs run in Windows. Can I use FreeBSD as my OS to run my programs? You can, with tools such as Wine, but all is not guaranteed to run smoothly. I have pretty much found a much much better replacement for everything I used to use on windows, and would never go back. If you search around, and have a willingness to learn, you will probably find the same. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmirror, gvinum or ccd to mirror root-filesystem under 6.0R
On 11/17/05, Reinhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: currently i use gvinum under 5.4-R to mirror (raid-1) my root-file-system. works nice but was a little bit complicate/nasty to setup ( i plan to install 6.0-R in near future and ask myself if i should use gmirror, ccd or gvinum (again) for software-raid for mirroring the root file-system, as to: - reliability, stability issues - performance issues - minimum installation/configuration effort - advantages / disadvantages of gmirror vs. ccd vs. gvinum From what i know, vinum is very powerful, and currently has the most extensive set of tools. However, for a simple root raid1, i find gmirror simple, straightforward, and pretty much error free. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
On 11/17/05, Dev Tugnait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound drivers...then go from there Thanks for that, I forgot to mention I had tried that to no avail. It doesn't seem to recognise it. I will do it again so I can say exactly what happens when i do that. I was wondering if anyone knew a specific kernel option, like snd_sbc that supports this chip, and what steps others have gone through with this chip. I may have done something wrong when doing kldload snd_driver so will go through it again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you but I did read the manual online, as always before posting. I also have the printed versions, to support the docos. I just did not find anything specific to this chip (understandable, not every chip can be mentioned) nor did i find much about it in association with freebsd when googling it, and was worrying it may not be supported, or might take some knowledge i don't have, or is not listed, to configure it. I will go back to googling. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with vim!
On 11/16/05, Quintin Riis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is... with my old version of vim, when I edited .php files it would auto-indent html elements, so that it looked something like... etc. and it would line up all the closing elements automatically. now however... it will not do this when I edit php files! it will do it for html files though. So my question is how do I resolve this? In essence, I guess what I would like is for .php files to have same indent / color / etc as .html, along with also having indents / color / etc for .php files. http://www.schlitt.info/applications/blog/index.php?/archives/331-Comfortable-PHP-editing-with-VIM-3.html http://www.eandem.co.uk/mrw/vim/usr_doc/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
Hi everyone, wondering if anybody could help me out. I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-release on a Sony Vaio, and just about everything worked right off the bat. However when starting Gnome, i get a message about how it can't open the sound device, and sound just isn't working for me. The sound device listed in Sony's specs says ac97-compatible on board sound. I tried the open source sound drivers with no luck. Has anybody else been successful getting this sound device up and running? I know it's quite a common chip (my desktop, m$, uses it aswell). Is there perhaps just an option I can add to the kernel? That would be a no-brainer, i just need to know what to add. Feel free to ask for more info, I will post exact messages, specs, and output from any commands that may help you. Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop
On 11/15/05, Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My quess from the below snippet of dmesg is that there's something fishy about the second controller (where the disk is attached) that is tolerated by 5.4's ata driver, but not by 6.0's ad4: 76319MB FUJITSU MHV2080BH/0025 [155061/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA33 Why is it connected to the secondary slave? It's also only achieving UDMA33. Unless it's an old laptop, that should be at least 66 or 100. Did you move the drive and change the cable? I would have guessed that putting it there behind your DVD would be enough to cause a couple of problems in itself. Although order and such doesn't matter too much, that will cause a slow down. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAS
On 11/15/05, Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can freeBSD be used as RAS server for windows boxes? Yes i beleive it can If freeBSD can do it, where can I start, I mean, services do I have to download and install? I'm not too sure of the specifics. Have a browse of the handbook:http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ and google ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Web host manager
On 11/15/05, Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I need a web host manager -- something that does the job of cpanel (I think there is a version of cpanel for freebsd but its commercial). Any suggestions? This might suit your needs: http://www.raqdevil.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Has anyone tested *BSD on a Insprion 9300?
On 11/15/05, Eric Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im looking to see how well freebsd, or any bsd for that matter runs on a 9300.. This page might help: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop
On 11/14/05, Derek Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have finally decided to ditch Gentoo for FreeBSD especially since the new release is out now, but I have ran into a huge problem. Upon trying to boot the install CD (I have tried both the bootonly and official cd1) I get to sysinstall but when I try and partition the disks it tells me it can not find any of the disks. I have been doing some research on this and a few people were able to install the 5.4 release (I have not Well I'm afraid I can only make a similar comment. I have FreeBSD 5.4 release running smoothly on my Vaio. I wouldn't imagine the device.hints can help you, it sounds like the hardware isn't compatible or something and it can't see it. Exactly what is the laptop - make/model/specs. What hard drive, and what bus is it attached to? Are there any error messages on the emergency holographic shell, i think you can check with alt-F4. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: schedulers and compatibility options in 6.0-r
On 11/11/05, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a 6.0-RELEASE machine and am going to compile a new kernel on it. I've got a few questions as to the best options. This is a single-processor machine, going to run only 6.0. Which of the schedulers should i use SCHED_4BSD or SCHED_ULE From what I have heard (I have not tested) SCHED_ULE will have its advantages, but they are not necessarily showing at the moment as it is still in development. I think it is recommended until then, to test it first to see if you notice any advantages for your setup, but otherwise stick to 4BSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with hard drives
On 11/13/05, Javier Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to install FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT in my box but when I do it... Usually my hard drive make a strange noise... and the screen show DMA problems . . Anyone is having problems with FreeBSD and Seagate hard drives? My system is so unstable and I don´t know how to solve the situation... hard drives hare Seagate 160 Gb SATA I had a similar issue, and from memory it was the cable. For instance you probably need an 80 pin cable, or your current cable may have something wrong with it (happens eventually with all the twisting etc). Also check that master/slave/primary/secondary is all correct etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Better laptop support in 6.0?
On 11/11/05, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A while back I spent a lot of time trying to get FreeBSD 5.3 working on my Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 laptop with no success. I was wondering if version 6 adds anything that would be more likely to make it possible to install FreeBSD on my laptop? I currently use it on a server system with no problems and it would be nice to have it on another system as well. I've found the hardware support for desktop machines to be good, but when it comes to laptops it seems to be a pain to get even the CDs to boot sometimes - though NetBSD and various Linux distributions work. I can't comment on your previous problems, as I've got FreeBSD 5.4 running on a state of the art Sony vaio laptop, I use it for everything. Not sure what could be causing the CDs not to work, without error messages, but by that description it may not have been OS related. However FreeBSD 6 being the latest release, it does offer better hardware support for the latest devices, with obviously more and more drivers added with each release. One of the focuses was on Wireless support aswell, if you had any trouble with that. All in all, giving FreebSD 6 a go on the laptop would probably be a very good idea, and your chances would definitely be improved, but there's no guarantee. If you have any problems with it, this is the list to post them to. Good Luck! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd on PPC platform
On 11/10/05, AZ POČÍTAČE - vše kolem počítačů a internetu - Marek Klobáska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a question: Can I run freebsd on these machines ? http://www.genesippc.com/products.php I would say so, as they appear just to be power pc based systems. You can find information on this (including links to downloadable ISOs) here: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html Good luck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Corrupt Packages
On 11/11/05, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am upgrading my applications using portupgrade and many of the builds are reporting that 'the package info for package 'insert package name here' is corrupt'. Any suggestions on how to correct these problems? I'm not sure, the only thing I can suggest is, did you run: pkgdb -F before running portupgrade as mentioned in the docos:http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html If not, have a look at the docs and give it a go. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems
On 11/11/05, Michael Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its the same for the Internet if Gates had not put a 'get on the Internet now' icon on all those win95 and 98 during the pc boom days to trigger peoples interest the Internet it wouldn't be as cheap or as fast as it is for end consumers. That's hilarious really. To mention that the internet was developed long before this on BSD systems probably isn't necessary. It also shouldn't be necessary for anyone who has followed the internet to mention Bill Gates' famous 1994 speech where he said that the internet was a play thing for researchers and academics and that Windows would never need to support TCP/IP. Next year (after someone obviously had a word in his ear) he basically said that Microsoft had just invented TCP/IP. Maybe this is where your confusion is coming from. And in the end I doubt that FreeBSD core team will be responsible for the end of the world lol. It's going a long way past reasonableness, and to answer it adequately would require a flame. Thus this will be my last post on this thread. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New boot-up message
On 11/10/05, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Updating KDM configuration Information: reading old kdmrc /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (from kde = 2.2.x) Information: old kdmrc is from kde = 3.1 (config version 2.3) how should I go about correcting it? I could be wrong but i think running : pkgdb -F might help, as it seems to be a version thing. But as it's a file and not a port that seems to be the problem, this might not be what you need. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is GDM ?
On 11/10/05, ptitoliv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops sorry it was my fault. Just a little path problem. Also for future, you asked the correct question: Where is gdm. Typing it in thus, will give you the answer for future path problems. %whereis gdm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless Card Suggestion
On 11/11/05, Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend who's using a Linksys card, but he's uses a Linksys router. The one he uses is 54Mbps, and I've seen a number of 108Mbps and 125Mbps. Since I'm using this for a gateway, should I go for a card with higher Mbps? Or do you really think that will make a difference? I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that the speed is somewhat reliant on the protocol. For instance, the older 802.11a/b are like 11Mbps, whereas the newer 802.11g runs at 54Mbps. I am not aware of any faster cards, but I haven't been keeping up to date with wireless. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel option question
On 11/6/05, Mihai Tanasescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems with a piece of software that I'm running. That software causes quite a high load on my machine and gets automatically killed after some time. How can I configure FreeBSD not to kill the high cpu consuming tasks taking into account the risk of my machine getting to be unavailable. Well first of all what is the program, how did you install it etc. That will help for getting an answer. The reason being FreeBSD doesn't kill a program just for using alot of CPU, i suppose unless it is using up everything and making a nuisance of itself, which the program shouldn't really be reaching that point, so i don't think my next paragraph is the reason, but something to with the program. However the freebsd sheduler does lower the priority for programs that use up their entire slice of CPU time, rather than using some up, and then sleep - ing themselves , or blocking, waiting for something. Therefore a program that is continuous, gets lower and lower priority, while something that has to wait for, say, input, line an interactive program (eg text-editor) gets higher and higher priority (until it enters a while bunch of characters, at which stage it's priority lowers and the process start over again) If you really believe that it's being stopped because of this, look into the nice command (man page) Otherwise, let everybody know what the program is. Also, is it writing any error files? Check your logs, and post any output. Just my thoughts (could be wrong) hope you get some more answers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there /etc/groups limits?
On 11/5/05, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a limit on how many groups a user can belong to? I believe you can enter in the groups file as many as you want, but only 16 will be used, so the limit is 16. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd install
On 11/7/05, Aubrey{Al} Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am currently trying to install freebsd 6.0 and the problem is that
freebsd will not see my windows or netbsd side at all. All it See's
is the whole disk and nothing else. I would like to install freebsd
on the netbsd side but I do want to lost my windows installation.
I think if you actually make a fat32 partition from inside Windows,
then do the install on that, that will work, and you should be able to
see it. Could be wrong though.
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Re: GAMING
rick wrote: how is freebsd for gaming needs ive used linux and windows for years.??? Andrew wrote: *BSD is still a few years (months?) off from entering the desktop (and gaming) market, but it will, and when it does, all its strengths will shine. Commercially speaking, if you want to see (preview) the future now, learn FreeBSD, use it, love it. Wow, it's cool to hear someone say that! I really hope it is a serious player in the desktop and especially gaming market soon. Absolutely the _only_ thing i use Windows for is computer games. In every other area of the desktop (server goes without saying) I've found a better tool for the job on FreeBSD. My main desktop now is my Sony Vaio running FreeBSD 5.4. Game developers need to start making everything for OpenGLout of the box. Yesterday, I spent 4 hours playing UT2004. And it seemed to run faster than on Windows. At least it felt much cooler :-) Nice, it definitely would feel cooler! With all that in mind, i might focus on switching over the last dregs of Windows, and doing my gaming on FreeBSD. New project! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i need some suggestions
On 11/6/05, Bob Ababurko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has any ideas or options of why we should not use plesk, I would like to hear some refreshing insight other than my brain at the moment. Well, what reason do you really have for not wanting plesk? That would be a good place to start. If it is just plesk in particular, there are some alternatives. All conspiracy theories aside, most companies such as yourself, do implement something similar. Here are some alternatives: News Article: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/9/emw282859.htm Actual Site: http://www.raqdevil.com/ Webmin is also an option. Still, like you said, you're not sure what it is wanted for. If you find out first, you will be able to make a sensible case for using it or not using it, or for any of it's alternatives. Hope that helps. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmirror on 1 or 2 IDE cables
On 11/4/05, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using gmirror to mirror two identical drives, how much of a performance hit is it to have 1. Both drives on one IDE cable? Compared to: 2. One drive primary on one cable and one secondary on the other cable? Compared to: 3. Both drives primary but on separate IDE cables? My understanding that only a single drive on each IDE channel can be accessed at any one time. Thus, if you put one drive on one channel, and the other drive on the second channel, they can be accessed simultaneously. The location on the cable(s) does not matter, That is correct about the two channels, one should be on each. However it does make a difference as to primary or secondary, if you have other drives attached (such as cdrom). Try putting the cdrom as primary, then secondary, and have a watch to discover the difference. This might not be noticed with a normal secondary hard drive, as you may not write to it much. However in a mirror the second is always written to, and you will notice the difference if you are also using the cdrom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Logo
On 11/4/05, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Clutton wrote: Ted wrote: Your opinion, they probably wouldn't agree. If you decide Beastie isn't important enough to bother defending, that's your choice. Of course I will note that you had no problem getting the attention for your books by using Beastie images on their covers. [...] And if you're referring using the beastie on his book The Complete FreeBSD, I hardly think it was responsible for it's success. Might have something to do with being one of the best books on FreeBSD sysadmin out there at the moment. Can't comment on his other books, haven't read them. Indeed, I expect the book was successful because it got good word-of-mouth reviews, though I also expect that anyone still buying things from a bookshop would have instantly recognised it as a FreeBSD book thanks precisely to Beastie on the cover. If Beastie is on the spine as well, then it makes it easy to pick out from your bookshelf. While I have no disagreement with what you've said, and while i personally like the beastie, and the new design, I have to push the point that no, it wasn't the beastie that let me know it was about FreeBSD, it was, well, the very large letters that say FreeBSD on the cover and spine! I would have had to have been walking around with a large magnifying glass to spot the beasties from afar on that book, they are tiny. Anyway, it isn't really the point, (it was about personal attacks not being necessary), and your opinion of this way of doing things not discouraging argument has merit. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Logo
On 11/4/05, Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to me like those who are up in arms over this: (a) had every chance to participate in the process (b) did not participate in the process except to heartily denounce the very existence of the process and its goal (c) even now outright refuse to go and be part of the advocacy@ community where this discussion is germane to that list charter (d) need a real big mop for all the spilled milk and tears Yeh, and if their parent really is the best designer and artist who _ever_ lived in the _entire_ history of the universe, and are much better than anybody elses parents, and thus is the smartest kid on the block, why didn't they design something? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader
On 11/4/05, Robert Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Music cd's can not be mounted. However in gnome, if you use the gnome audio tools, like totem?? you do not need to mount, it will automatically start playing. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Logo
On 11/2/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 10:15 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: New Logo On Tuesday, 1 November 2005 at 21:48:57 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [missing attribution to Greg Lehey] On Tuesday, 1 November 2005 at 14:15:30 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On Tuesday, November 01, 2005 12:32 PM, Chad Leigh wrote: And I suspect the majority of people are of the same mind. Quite obviously, the boot-lickers of the conservative right don't understand this - my choice of language was intended to knock some sense in to them. Greg, I don't know why I bother even trying to be nice to you, you can be such a puffed up crumb when you want to be. And now would you please shut up? Yes, there are others on the list who are behaving just as badly as you. Your opinion, they probably wouldn't agree. If you decide Beastie isn't important enough to bother defending, that's your choice. Of course I will note that you had no problem getting the attention for your books by using Beastie images on their covers. You are embarrassing yourself. Greg is a great contributor to freebsd, who also just made probably the first mature post on this topic. Making it a personal attack makes you look like a baby. I hope some of the people acting the same way aren't representative of the freebsd community. So much is said about the mature community of freebsd and so much derision often directed to linux script kiddies. Well this post makes me long to read a list of slashdot replies. And if you're referring using the beastie on his book The Complete FreeBSD, I hardly think it was responsible for it's success. Might have something to do with being one of the best books on FreeBSD sysadmin out there at the moment. Can't comment on his other books, haven't read them. Anyway I'm sure he could defend himself, not that he needs to. The point is, why is everyone making things personal? Like a personal attack on the artist who made the logo? If you don't like a piece of art, or music, it doesn't mean the artist or composer is a loser, it's just your personal opinion. If you say you don't like it, people respect your opinion. If you make an unnecessary, scathing, frothing at the mouth personal attack, people realise you must have some vested interest that makes you so critical. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: C/C++ Editor with auto completion for FreeBSD
On 10/26/05, Lukas Razik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know C/C++ Editors/IDEs for X11 under FreeBSD with auto code completion and for example information boxes about the parameters of functions etc. Emacs can do autocompletion, and you can use etags for finding functions etc. I don't know about information boxes, but there are many extensions available. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Editor for C C++ language
On 10/23/05, Johnny Billquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emacs can do anything. Put it might not be graphical enough for your taste if you come from Windows... I agree that Emacs rocks. I come from a Windows background and appreciated the control, and just plain coolness of Emacs. Took a little getting used to, but a fine book by O'Rielly, and alot of practice helped ease the transition. A useful group of indenting styles for C and C++ makes it easy to find the appropriate one, or make your own. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Learning to write FreeBSD Device Drivers
Hi everyone, hope this isn't too off topic. I'm a sysadmin who taught myself programming (and have worked as a PHP ad MYSQL developer) and really want to develop my FreeBSD skills, and hopefully one day be able to give something back to FreeBSD. I want to start writing device drivers, and would love any pointers to resources and tips from anyone. At the moment I'm reading a good C primer, along with The Design and Implementation of The FreeBSD Operating System ( a great book), and browsing the relevant sections in the Handbook and the source code. I'm wondering what else i could look at to help join the ends if you know what i mean. I know there is a comprehensive book on writing device drivers for Linux, would it help conceptually, or at all (i know the system calls are different) to read this as a beginning? Would looking at two drivers for the same hardware, for Linux and FreeBSD, looking at the difference, and maybe first try porting a new one be a good idea? Are there any other good resources anyone could point me to? I hope you don't think I'm too focused on linux resources, if I wanted to take the easy way, I'd be interested in it, but i much prefer FreeBSD. Any tips or pointers to resources would be much appreciated!! Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freeBSD 5.4 install problem
On 10/19/05, kenneth hatteland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 succesfully on an old p133 compaq armada 1550 with kde. But when I boot the machine I get this : F1 ??? default F2 freebsd pressing anything except F1 makes the box beep, and nothing happens when pressing F1.. Could you describe more fully please? What exactly happens after it beeps? What exactly does nothing mean, does it just stay with the text on the screen or what? How do you know the installation was succesfull, have you booted to it? Default partitioning, multiple hard drives? What options during install? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware selection for comment.
On 10/18/05, Murray Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mental question marks against the graphics card and the response time of the monitor (I intend to use KDE and Xorg, am not interested in flashy games / video, but do want sharp, full colour resolution) If you do not desire to play flashy games, the monitor is absolutely fine. Actually if all you want is a nice sharp full colour resolution, 21ms would be enough, but for price difference, you may as well go with 12. I spend many hours (not on a freebsd machine) playing half-life, counter-strike, Tiger Woods, with all settings turned on full, with a 16ms monitor. It looks great. Sure, I would be able to notice the difference if i got one of the new 8ms or 6ms, but hey, that's because of the games I'm playing. So rest assured 12ms will meet your needs. Hope that helps. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACPI on 6.0-RC1
On 10/20/05, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: acpi0: reservation of fec01000, 1000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of fee0, 1000 (3) failed I notice that in 'dmesg' - but this machine has been running fine for days under a good load. Is this anything to be concerned (or fixed) about though? There is alot of good information about acpi here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html One of the things mentioned is that you have the latest BIOS on your machine, but there is much more useful information aswell. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: one way network issue
On 10/19/05, Mohan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/05, Mohan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To answer my own question, I didn't add a gateway for the subnet in question from this machine. Added it and everything is working now! Strange that it could go out into the subnet, but nothing could come in. *shrugs* That's not strange at all. The default gateway for your other subnet was obviously set, so you could get in. You had not set a default gateway for that one, so you could not get out. It just means that packets addressed to a subnet which doesn't match it's own, it doesn't know what to do with it. This won't affect packets coming in. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended partitioning
On 10/16/05, Teo De Las Heras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting ready to set up a single system as a mail, print, web, and file server. I may be installing other applications but nothing as intense as Xorg. If at all, I'll probably just install some network monitoring tools. I'm placing all of these roles on a single system because it is only for my lab. I have a 160 GB to use and I'm thinking about laying out the partitions as follows: If all the fine advice above somehow leaves you wanting more: #man tuning ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: User configurable swap files
On 10/18/05, Alistar Erlas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a feature idea that might be interesting and I think would be very useful. I think it would be an excellent feature to be able, in addition to using a swap partition, also be able to create files in a filesystem that can be used for additional VM space, especially which can be created while the kernel is running and a maximum size that can also be configured during run time. I have run into the problem of where the system has run out of VM space on the system, but I would rather not have to repartition. Users could for instance define swap files on filesystems on flash memory sticks that you plugin to USB ports. Instant memory upgrade. Or they could set them up on remote filesystems. many possibilities. Thank you, for your attention it is I believe this is already in place. Is this maybe what you are looking for?: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html http://www.freebsddiary.org/swap.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bluetooth to Cellphone (As a Modem)
On 10/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a usb bluetooth dongle and a SE T610 cellphone... I want FreeBSD (5.4 or 6.0-RC1; whatever floats your boat as I run both) to use the cellphone as a modem through bluetooth. FreeBSD just needs to dial *99# then so it uses gprs. I checked the handbook but I really couldn't get much out of that as for how you'd use a bluetooth enabled cellphone as a modem. If anyone could either point me to some type of tutorial to do this; or tell me how, i'd appreciate it. Well not sure if you've seen this page in the handbook, but it covers setting up bluetooth. At the bottom of the page, it covers Dial Up Networking and using a phone for this. Often googling the subject will bring up the appropriate handbook page as the first result; I googled bluetooth freebsd for this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bluetooth.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Support (USB)
On 10/14/05, T3chn0Phr34k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mouse is a USB mouse, optical from the Gateway house, well none of the drivers supports it I was wandering if its posible to configure the kernel before starting the installation, Well everything doesn't need to be stopped because of it, unless you have some special need, there is no necessity for the mouse to be configured before installation. The installation does not require a mouse. What makes you think the mouse is not supported? Because you haven't seen the name in the docs? Well this may not be a problem. I would start the installation and attempt to have the system auto detect it at the appropriate part of the installation, or run when you run xorg -configure after installation. When booting option 8 may help - Start system with USB mouse or some such. Also if this is the main server you would probably find it a better approach to not use a GUI, and thus a mouse at all. You can do everything necessary for a server from CLI, at the console or through SSH, or if you want a GUI system for controlling services, maybe Webmin, which you can access across the network. Hope that helps. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd has problems with bios
The bios has 4 modes auto, large, lba, chs in which to access the hard disk. I ttried all 4 modes and it doesn't solve the problem. No, i didn't say to try different bios modes. I said (which fdisk also says) that you should: 1. Go into the bios, see what it reports as the CHS 2. Reboot (i thought this part was a given to get back to Fdisk) 3. When you get up to the fdisk section, enter the CHS value given to you by the bios using the g key, and writing it manually. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd has problems with bios
For some reason, the values of hard disk geometry (cylinders/head/ sectors( are not accrptable to fdisk and when i agree to using freebsd 's idea of disk geometryt, during sysinstall -I get an error:-0 UDMA_100 error:READWRITE Failure ICRC error. Usually fdsisk asks you to check what the bios reports as the CHS and enter that manually, using the g option i believe. Have you tried this? However as stated above, and looking at those errors, this may be a hardware problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?
On 10/6/05, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 October 2005 01:44 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy protection product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the [1] user cannot touch it, [2] a format will not erase it, [3] and Norton Ghost will not find it. 1) No such animal. 2) Ah - the bootblock, as others have mentioned. 3) Of course, that doesn't say anything about Ghost v$(current + 1). To be blunt, your vendor is lying to you. I'm not quite so unbelieving. I mean there are always ways to get at data, hell, you could just rip the drive out and take a hex image. But that isn't the point. There are software and hardware devices which can do this for you, and their claim could be true to a certain extent. There are a few other places to hide data: servo tracks, and tracks where data about bad sectors are kept, but this sometimes requires hardware to write to it. Just my two cents on an interesting subject:) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Boot, Boot manager
On 10/6/05, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 5.4 on a second drive and I realize now the boot manager I installed is on the second drive and not loaded in the MBR of my Primary drive. Is there a way to load the FreeBSD boot manager onto my primary drive from within windows? Or do I have to reboot to the CD and load it from there? My fear is I am going to screw up my windows drive while in the FreeBSD installer. I was tring to avoid touching that drive from the installed becuae it is a new enviornment I am afraid I will make a mistake. Well i'm not really sure what you mean, but if you installed freebsd on your second drive, and selected to load it's MBR, everything should be fine, and i don't think you should be worrying about anything. Having said that if you would rather use the windows MBR, you need to modify the boot.ini file in windows to look on the second disk for freebsd. You shouldn't have any problem on finding documentation for the boot.ini syntax from google. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help setting up Vinum mirror
In some releases 'vinum_enable=yes' in /etc/conf caused a kernel panic at boot. Hence my question what OS... Arno Thanks for the replies everyone and sorry for the slow reply. I'm running 5.3 , and realised i had to run newfs and mount etc to get it going. I was getting confused thinking that it wouldn't add the mount to /etc/fstab , and if i put it in there myself. Apart from adding the vinum_enable etc, will i need to add the info to /etc/fstab referring to the name i gave it in vinum.. I'm starting to get it alot more after reading the man page a few times, and Greg Lehey's info in the Complete FreeBSD, and was happy to get it running. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help setting up Vinum mirror
Hi, I have gone through the docs on this but am just missing a couple of points conceptually, and would be grateful for any help. Basically i have created two slices on two IDE drives and mounted them (through fdisk, label etc), and had that all up and running correctly. I then went into Vinum in interactive mode and (hopefully) created a mirror by typing mirror -d /dev/ad0s2d /dev/ad1s1d . It then gave me successful messages and gave the drive a name and said it's up. I'm just wondering after this point, can i just type quit and it's up and running? I noticed on reboot the directories that were my mount point for these partitions say they are not a directory now. Do i need to go on and mount the mirror? Or did i make a mistake mounting these partitions before creating the mirror. How do i utilize it after issuing the mirror command. Many thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4
What's the deal? I've read the upgrade documentation, but it's just not clear to me what's going on - can someone point me to a better/more detailed source of documentation on the upgrade process (in particular wrt HD config)? This might help: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html No hard drive messing required. You will also need to read up on csv in handbook. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bye-bye beastie ...
Kiffin Gish wrote: I would like to have a different bootup screen appearing which looks more professional (sorry), e.g. removing that awful looking beastie thingie on the side. Here is how to change it: http://www.baldwin.cx/splash/ . Also has links to already-correct-size images. What of? The beastie mainly. Why? Because he's cool! But anyway, you can use your own correctly sized image of whatever you want. The instructions are good. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql port install
It just the way it got pasted. I grabbed it from samba (yep, got that working :) )... theres no actual spaces in the file. Im not sure what David means? If i run pkg_info | grep mysql i see version 4.1.14 for I had exactly the same problem you are having until i enabled it in rc.conf with mysql_enable=YES . Every time i started the mysql-server.sh i got the socket error. As soon as i enabled it in rc.conf , it worked fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NEWBIE: how-to for feeding file to gnomealyzer.sh?
On 9/23/05, Gregory Nou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should install port textproc/p5-XML-Parser, and if already installed, verify that the link are well done in your /usr/local/bin (eg : not something like using perl5.8 and having perl pointing on perl5.6.2) Thanks for that. I usually check out the port it mentions in it's output, but the XML-parser thing threw me. Will have a look tonight and let you know. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI frontend
On 9/22/05, Michael Louie Loria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know a good frontend for ipfw in freebsd? Webmin gives you good GUI front end to quite a few things. Through your browser, and over the network if necessary, you can manage firewall rules, bind, apache etcetc. I think it's in /usr/ports/sysutils/webmin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NEWBIE: how-to for feeding file to gnomealyzer.sh?
On 9/22/05, David Armour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was trying to install the plugger-plugins-hubbe port as a way to get plugins to work with firefox. . . checking whether gmake sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for intltool = 0.30... 0.33 found checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... === Script configure failed unexpectedly. i have the directed output file (make_failure_file), gnomelogalyzer.sh, and pages of non-helpful googled info. where would i find out how to feed a file to a script? thanks in advance, both for your patience, and for any info. When you've run it, would you let us know the outcome? I had *exactly* the same error messages multiple times trying to installing gnome, stuff bout XML Parser script configure failed unexpextedly. I haven't had a chance to feed it to gnomealyzer, but will post if i get something good from it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Performance of mailserevr in FreeBSD 5.4
Well, rumor is that at one time FreeBSD+qmail was yahoo's primary email solution, serving millions of accounts. I'm pretty sure they've gone on to use another solution since then, They most definitely still use FreeBSD, and I'm fairly sure they still use qmail. Coincidentally that's the setup Hotmail had, and although most has been switched to M$, some of it is still on that setup i believe. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hi list
On 9/22/05, Chezangla, Engineer, DrukNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for Apache 1.x module support via DSO through checking for Apache 1.x module support... no checking for member fd in BUFF *... no checking for mod_charset compatibility option... no checking for Apache 2.0 filter-module support via DSO through APXS... no checking for Apache 2.0 handler-module support via DSO through APXS... apxs:Error: Invalid query string `BINDIR' apxs:Error: Invalid query string `MPM_NAME' apxs:Error: Invalid query string `APU_BINDIR' apxs:Error: Invalid query string `APR_BINDIR' ./configure: /apr-config: not found ./configure: /apu-config: not found configure: error: You have enabled Apache 2 support while your server is Apache 1.3. Please use the appropiate switch --with-apxs (without the 2) any suggestions plez. Well i can point to at least one possible problem, your output says it: You have enabled Apache 2 support while your server is Apache 1.3. When you install, don't toggle enable support for Apache 2, because your server is Apache 1.3. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hi list
On 9/22/05, Chezangla, Engineer, DrukNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how to disable apache2 which i might have enabled during the installation... in rc.conf i have ' apache_enable=YES ' No, rc.conf just loads it at boot time. As far as i know the only way is to reinstall it correctly. It should pop up an ncurses menu with options. Don't select Apache 2, and it should work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Game server
On 9/20/05, Eros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please, How can I make a game server with FreeBSD ? I want run every game from one ferver with out need to install the games on the clients. Can i make that ? There are quite a few game servers for various things like Quake etc in /usr/ports/games . Install one with make install clean , and read the docos, or tell what game exactly you want to run. Of course you will need things like Static IP address, domain name etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there anyway to mount linux xfs filesystems in 5.4
On 9/20/05, jdonahue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is something really important if I am going to use FreeBSD more. I need to mount my Gentoo linux which I have on XFS REISERFS partitions. -- You can use mount -t ext2fs /drive /mnt Drive is like /dev/ad1 etc and /mnt is mount point Not sure bout Reiserfs, might not be able to ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intranet/Internet Gateway - Intranet requests to Internet ip time out
On 20 Sep 2005 13:40:17 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Dimson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is my problem: whenever a person on the internal network tries to connect to my web server (or anything else) on my public IP, the request times out. I type in www.presidenturkel.comhttp://www.presidenturkel.com(my domain name) on any computer in my university and it appears like it exists, but does not return any signals. If I manually type in the ip 127.97.245.108 http://127.97.245.108, it works perfectly. You need to have DNS set up correctly on your internal network, tha's why IP works but domain name doesn't. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd for windows PC games
I am presently using windows XP as my OS using a LAN and I want to switch to Freebsd, but I have a few questions regarding the compatibility of the OS with windows PC games? Can I still run those games even if I am using the freebsd OS? If not, are there any more alternatives to run those PC games, and can those games run smoothly? (especially the multiplayer games).. There are linux ports of games available in the ports which you can often run if you have the full pc version cd. Just follow the instructions of the port to copy the right files in and you can play (FreeBSD has a linux emulator). On the question of running them smoothly , as long as you have the hardware for it, you will just need to install an up to dat FreeBSD driver for you graphics card. Other than that, shouldn't be any slower than your used to. If you go the linux port direction, it is said that often these apps run faster than on linux itself. And talking about multiplyer games, there are some cool ports for running servers like quake etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing 5.4 BSD
If I stayed with the default then the system found acd0 to load the base distribution otherwise it would not load the base distribution or even find the acd0. Any ideas!!! As I said already, verify that your 5.4 install CD is not corrupted. Kris Kris sounds correct. I actually had a similar problem loading distributions, and downloading a new cd was all it took. Having the same problems on multiple machines would also point to that. You also might have downloaded the Mini disc for minimum install, that's probably not what you want, download the first disc. pgpOdunaGla0N.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: two questions in one
On 9/20/05, steve lasiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My web server is up and running well and I can test all by going to 192.168.0.2 http://192.168.0.2 from any internal workstation, but if I try to go to www.mywebsite.comhttp://www.mywebsite.com from any internal workstation, which maps to the 66.190.xxx.xxx IP directed to web server port 80 as it should, my attempt will time out. If I run next door to my buddies and hit it from his PC I get there just fine. Sounds like your clients aren't set up correctly with DNS to me. Are they pointing to DNS server, is it serving? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
