sysctl variable descriptions

2003-09-02 Thread dave
Hello, Running 5.1-RELEASE, and was wondering is there a list of each sysctl variable with a coresponding description? I know about sysctl -a and i pipe that to a file, get something like 700 hits on it. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: no response on unnumbered bridged interface?

2003-09-02 Thread Aled Treharne
-Original Message- From: Micheal Patterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 September 2003 23:49 To: Aled Treharne; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: no response on unnumbered bridged interface? [SNIP] Is the system configured to forward packets? Assuming that 5.x has the following

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-02 Thread Todd Stephens
On Monday 01 September 2003 05:43 pm, Todd Stephens wrote: I have been trying to get this setup to work as it does on my Linux box. Has anyone gotten CUPS working using the foomatic-rip/gimp-print method outlined on Linuxprinting.org? I have an Epson Stylus C82 at /dev/lpt0. Everything

Re: how to mount a FAT floppy

2003-09-02 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 02:05, Devnull wrote: Mkdir /mnt/floppy/ mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ? mkdir /mnt/floppy mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy OR mkdir /mnt/floppy mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Malcolm Devnull -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

freshly cvsuped, buildkernel errors

2003-09-02 Thread chael
Hi, buildkernel on my freshly cvsuped (stable-supfile) 4.8 fails with the following errors: mkdep -f .depend -a -nostdinc -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -I- -I. -I@ -I@/../include -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include /usr/src/sys/modules/ida/../../dev/ida/ida.c

Re: freshly cvsuped, buildkernel errors

2003-09-02 Thread chael
doesn't matter. after i re-cvsuped it using another mirror, i have now successfully installed the new 4.9-PRERELEASE kernel. thanks anyway. :) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 8:26 AM Subject: freshly cvsuped,

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?

2003-09-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
I am trying to set up a FreeBSD 5.1 i386 box. Everything seems to be fine, except, incoming ftp is all rejected. Inetd.conf is set to allow ftp. Is there another switch to set somewhere to allow all incoming ftp? If so, what/where? is inetd even starting? I don't think that inetd starts

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?

2003-09-02 Thread Robertdkeys
As it turns out, a one liner: inetd_enabled=YES added to rc.conf caused it to come up correctly. Now it is running fine! Thanks all Bob Keys ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?

2003-09-02 Thread chael
Hmm... funny, i have thought that inetd_enabled=YES was default regardless if it's in rc.conf or not. Because even it it's not in rc.conf, you can still see it running when you ps -ax (/usr/sbin/inetd -wW). I have my pop3 (which requires editing the inetd.conf) working even if that line is not in

Re: Belkin PCMCIA wireless card (F5D6020 ver. 2)

2003-09-02 Thread Steven Ketcham
I am assuming this card is not supported? I did find this message on a linux newsgroup: Scott Waye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To finish my own thread, it turns out that the new Belkin cards do indeed use a different chipset. It is supported under the

Mozilla display issues, esp. with hover

2003-09-02 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I recently updated my Mozilla install, and since then have been having assorted display problems. These don't affect a similar install on Linux, so I'm imagining they're FreeBSD-related; if not, sorry for this OT post. In particular it seems that sites having particular links where there's

Re: mozilla-firebird dependency on gnomecontrolcenter?

2003-09-02 Thread Dany Cayouette
Chuck, Did you solve this issue? I had a similar problem on my first 4.8 install. I was getting No running window found. and then I got got the shell prompt back. I didn't keep track of the things I've changed... but I think it started to work after I ran fc-cache (It took a while for that

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?

2003-09-02 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... funny, i have thought that inetd_enabled=YES was default regardless if it's in rc.conf or not. Because even it it's not in rc.conf, you can still see it running when you ps -ax (/usr/sbin/inetd -wW). I have my pop3 (which requires editing

Can Freebsd provides tree-based quotas.

2003-09-02 Thread latin roy
Hi, Can you please tell me if linux or freebsd is providing Tree-based quotas (directory quota) ? Please inform me if any other vendor is prividing it. Thanks in advance. latin __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

RE: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?

2003-09-02 Thread liquid
It is turned on *IF* you say so during the install. What does or does not run by default is actually determined by /etc/defaults/rc.conf. /etc/rc.conf is an override file, if you will. My guess here is that if you choose not to use the internet super server during the installation, it alters the

Re: Mozilla display issues, esp. with hover

2003-09-02 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Are you using gnome? I've noticed similar behavior. Mozilla will often show the gnome foot print in black, and things are quite unreadable. It depends on the site. I've also observed similar things in other applications from time to time. I don't know if it's a bug in gnome, X or the applications.

nForce2 problems - xl and snd_ich dod not work

2003-09-02 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
Hi, I am having problems getting sound and networking with my A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard. This seems to be a common problem. I found a few posts which suggested using 'device xl' (3Com) in the kernel configuration file and adding snd_ich_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf to fix these problems. But I am

Re: Why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD?

2003-09-02 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I use Linux for surfing + mail , and Freebsd for coding + research. The choice of which to use for what was just how it happened - rather than any deficiency in either product. I think they are both great. Good to be spoilt for choice. P.s : notice I did not mention that other operationg

Re: playing a DVD with mplayer

2003-09-02 Thread Ganael Laplanche
Hi, Isn't there a mean to launch the full DVD and to navigate through the in a graphical way (as ogle or xine) ? Ganaël LAPLANCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24. -- Original Message --- From: Peder Blom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Antigen forwarded attachment

2003-09-02 Thread ANTIGEN_S01
The entire message Need help with sendmail, smart host and genericstable, originally sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), has been forwarded to you from the Antigen Quarantine area. This message may have been re-scanned by Antigen and handled according to the appropriate scan

Re: Newer names

2003-09-02 Thread Vitali Malicky
Vitali Malicky wrote: OK, Hendrik! On monday I'll take A Student's Guide To UNIX(C) by Harley Hann which I began with 5 years ago, and I'll quote for you and for all dear All the whole paragraph where it's explained. Deal? Why not? :) But I was more interested what the single letters

Problem Tuning Maxsockets

2003-09-02 Thread Company 2210
I am trying to alter the number of maxsockets allocated from the default of 2022 to 8192 on a FreeBSD 4.8 box. However, when I try to perform this operation via sysctl I'm informed the oid (kern.ipc.maxsockets) is read only. Does this mean I need to recompile the kernel? I've tried 'options

SH Core Dumps

2003-09-02 Thread Kim Needham
Im running 5.1-RELEASE-p2 which I updated last sunday. While I was rebuilding some of the packages, /bin/sh seems to randomly core dump, which is causing many things not to compile correctly. Is this a known problem? I generally get a signal 4, though occasionally a signal 11 when it fails. Any

RE: Problem Tuning Maxsockets

2003-09-02 Thread Yonatan Bokovza
-Original Message- From: Company 2210 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 14:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem Tuning Maxsockets I am trying to alter the number of maxsockets allocated from the default of 2022 to 8192 on a FreeBSD 4.8 box.

Re: Problem Tuning Maxsockets

2003-09-02 Thread Aaron Wohl
I changed maxusers to be: maxusers256 That ended up with 8192 files. There is probably a more direct way to set that ) On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 12:48:33 +0100, Company 2210 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am trying to alter the number of maxsockets allocated from the default of 2022 to 8192 on a

Help me.

2003-09-02 Thread Vofka
Hi! Please tell me what I work incorrectly. My ppp not reconnect after destroy connection. If disconnected after timeout then sucssefully reconnected. I send you ppp.cofg, ppp.log and command that i run ppp. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 94419787 ppp.log Description: Binary data

PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration.

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Vondung
Hello! This is my third month with FreeBSD, and while so far everything worked mostly fine, I think I now hit a wall. Hard. Please note that I lack Unix and networking background, so expect me to sound embarrassingly amateurish. The current situation: Over the past few weeks I used a network

Re: SH Core Dumps

2003-09-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:26:49PM +0930, Kim Needham wrote: Im running 5.1-RELEASE-p2 which I updated last sunday. While I was rebuilding some of the packages, /bin/sh seems to randomly core dump, which is causing many things not to compile correctly. Is this a known problem? I generally

Re: ATA command timeout

2003-09-02 Thread Malcolm Kay
I recall having the same or, from somewhat vague memory, similar problem some time ago. It was about the time when CD drives started being commonly installed as master on the secondary port instead of as a slave. At that time moving the CD to slave fixed the problem. But then it might not work

Re: Can Freebsd provides tree-based quotas.

2003-09-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Can you please tell me if linux or freebsd is providing Tree-based quotas (directory quota) ? As far as I know, FreeBSd does quotas based on per user/per filesystem. It does not do quotas based on subdirectories within a filesystem. If this has changed recently (eg 5.xx), I don't know.

Re: PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration.

2003-09-02 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 07:37, Michael Vondung wrote: Hello! Morning :) - I get a dynamic IP address whenever I connect to the ISP and I don't know this address before I connect. This is fine, unless of course you were planning on running a mailserver/webserver/someserver for the

Re: Dump

2003-09-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
I had a question I have 4 filesystems that I want to dump(8) to my SCSI Tape backup drive (Travan 4GB uncompressed). The filesystems are, /, /usr, /var, and /usr/home. All four filesystems equal about 2.5Gigs of data. I dumped the first filesystem / by executing, dump -0uf

Problems running new diablo-{jre,jdk} JVMs

2003-09-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
I've installed the new diablo-jdk and diablo-jre ports on my recently-upgraded-from-4.x FreeBSD 5.1 server. Whenever I try to run any of the JVMs, either by calling them directly or via the javavm script, I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib# /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.3.1/bin/java -version

XF86 Multiple Head video cards

2003-09-02 Thread Ted Wisniewski
Hi, Can anyone recommend a Multi-head video card (the more heads the better, I am thinking 4 heads if possible) that will work with XF86 and FreeBSD 4.8 or 5.1. The sooner the better. I may be able to get some Free FreeBSD press out of the results.. Thanks, Ted -- | Ted

Re: Local procmail mailer, bypassing aliases?

2003-09-02 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Dan Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29/08/03 19:06]: Easy enough: MAILER(`procmail') MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`PROCMAIL',`-A') Hm... Still can't get it to work: MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`procmailnoalias',`-A') MAILER(procmailnoalias) I've tried upper-casing the

information

2003-09-02 Thread Victoria Mah
Hello, I am an attorney at Cisco Systems, Inc. and have been asked to evaluate, from a legal perspective, obligations concerning usage of your code and whether making a donation would be appropriate. So for due diligence, while visiting your site, I noticed that at the Copyright and Legal

Isdn and PPP question

2003-09-02 Thread Ents
Hi I have just bought a New Asuscom 200 External ISDN TA, and ive changed my ppp.conf script for isdn. The problem im having is that sometimes it dials up fine, other times it says NO CARRIER, and ive read the manual, tried many different AT commands, everything. The modem however works

RE: USB Errors

2003-09-02 Thread Derrick Ryalls
I am seeing a lot of the following in my logs on a freshly installed system: Sep 2 09:01:39 bridge /kernel: usb0: scheduling overrun I am running 4.9-PRERELEASE. The really strange this is I have the following in my rc.conf so I should never even be getting these errors:

Re: Problem with my FreeBSD

2003-09-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
Hi, I need your help, I bougth FreeBSD4.8 (Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] ) from FreeBSD Mall, but I have problems I can't configure my xwindow I'm attachement the log file. My video card is: Nvidia TNT2 64m My monitor is: LG studioworks 500G 15''

Email: Helo Command Failed

2003-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
Just wondering what this error (Helo Command Rejected: Host not found) was referring too? I receive it in sendmail on messages I'm trying to fire off. I suspect (but have been unable to confirm) it may be reverse DNS related? Thanks Colin. ___ [EMAIL

Re: Problem with my FreeBSD

2003-09-02 Thread Mike Hogsett
Try (as root): # XFree86 -configure That *should* write a configuration file into root's home directory. Then run : # XFree86 -xf86config /path/to/the/new/config If it works you can tweak it from there (e.g. bit depth, screen resolution, refresh frequency, etc.). If not... um... your

Re: postfix problems

2003-09-02 Thread Simon J Mudd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kjell Rune Glærum) writes: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:31:09PM -0600, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: i keep geting this error in my postfix logs have tried newaliases command and it does not help also have tried to forward roots mail to a different accout and it does not seem

Problem with my FreeBSD

2003-09-02 Thread Ricardo Javier Aranibar León
Hi, I need your help, I bougth FreeBSD4.8 (Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] ) from FreeBSD Mall, but I have problems I can't configure my xwindow I'm attachement the log file. My video card is: Nvidia TNT2 64m My monitor is: LG studioworks 500G 15'' Please

Re: postfix problems

2003-09-02 Thread Simon J Mudd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kjell Rune Glærum) writes: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:31:09PM -0600, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: i keep geting this error in my postfix logs have tried newaliases command and it does not help also have tried to forward roots mail to a different accout and it does not seem

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-09-02 Thread Ralph Dratman
Gary, Thank you for your reply. Your comments are informative but I still don't know what to do! For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root. Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily cron logs. I can send mail to root from anyplace else, either inside or

File permissions suddenly change for /dev/null.

2003-09-02 Thread Ed Alley
I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null This has a devastating effect on user processes that want to open /dev/null. Whenever my system starts acting

Re: Email: Helo Command Failed

2003-09-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 06:51:59PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Just wondering what this error (Helo Command Rejected: Host not found) was referring too? I receive it in sendmail on messages I'm trying to fire off. I suspect (but have been unable to confirm) it may be reverse DNS related? Yes,

Re: File permissions suddenly change for /dev/null.

2003-09-02 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:32, Ed Alley wrote: I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null That's very strange indeed. Have you tried using chflags to prevent

RE: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-09-02 Thread Charles Howse
Well, it worked! After a fashion... This morning I swapped my small primary HDD and larger secondary HDD, then created the new slices/mount points, and re-installed: Primary Master 8.something G: / 500M Swap256M /var500M /tmp500M /usrremainder over 6G Secondary Slave 2.1G:

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-09-02 Thread gv-list-freebsdquestions
Hello Ralph, Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 1:27:16 PM, you wrote: RD For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root. RD Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily cron logs. RD I can send mail to root from anyplace else, either inside or outside RD the box, and

Re: Problem with my FreeBSD

2003-09-02 Thread Georg Klein
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Ricardo Javier Aranibar León wrote: Hi, I need your help, I bougth FreeBSD4.8 (Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] ) from FreeBSD Mall, but I have problems I can't configure my xwindow I'm attachement the log file. My video card is: Nvidia

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2003-09-02 Thread Ed Alley
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:32, Ed Alley wrote: I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null On Tue, 2003-09-02 Adam McLaurin wrote: That's very strange

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-09-02 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:27:16PM -0400, Ralph Dratman wrote: Gary, Thank you for your reply. Your comments are informative but I still don't know what to do! For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root. Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily

Re: File permissions suddenly change for /dev/null.

2003-09-02 Thread David Landgren
Ed Alley wrote: I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null This has a devastating effect on user processes that want to open /dev/null. Whenever my system starts

Re: your mail

2003-09-02 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:37:21PM -0700 or thereabouts, Ed Alley wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:32, Ed Alley wrote: I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20

Re: Problem with my FreeBSD

2003-09-02 Thread Vulpes Velox
Well thing that would be worth checking quickly would be is if XFree87 -configure produces a working config file. If it does, you just need to edit the monitor and res/depth stuff and you are set. On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 18:08:51 + Ricardo Javier Aranibar León [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

How to confirm the options for an NFS mount?

2003-09-02 Thread Tillman Hodgson
Howdy, How does one confirm that the options listed in /etc/fstab for an NFS mount are actually in place? For example, here's the abbreviated outpout of `mount`: athena:/usr/obj on /usr/obj (nfs, read-only) athena:/usr/src on /usr/src (nfs, read-only) athena:/usr/ports on /usr/ports (nfs) That

Konqueror as sftp client

2003-09-02 Thread Robert Froese
I've used Konqueror as a graphical sftp frontend in the past under GNU/Linux. It doesn't work on my FreeBSD 5.1 system. For example, if I type ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] It works fine. If I type sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] I get a dialogue box that says Error encountered while talking to ssh.

Re: your mail

2003-09-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:37:21PM -0700, Ed Alley wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:32, Ed Alley wrote: I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null get mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null

Re: Problem with my FreeBSD

2003-09-02 Thread Andrew L. Gould
In the advice below, I think 'XFree87 -configure' should be 'XFree86 -configure' See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html Best regards, Andrew Gould On Tuesday 02 September 2003 08:01 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: Well thing that would be worth checking quickly

cvsup from 5.0 to 5.1

2003-09-02 Thread Marian Dobre
Hello, I'm trying to buildworld on a box I just cvsuped from 5.0 to 5.1 and I get the error message listed bellow. I removed all the sources and installed fresh but I keep getting this error. This is what I'm running: FreeBSD cache2.onix.ro 5.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 #5: Wed Jul 16

Re: nForce2 problems - xl and snd_ich dod not work

2003-09-02 Thread Lee Harr
I am having problems getting sound and networking with my A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard. This seems to be a common problem. I found a few posts which suggested using 'device xl' (3Com) in the kernel configuration file and adding snd_ich_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf to fix these problems. But I am

Re: Konqueror as sftp client

2003-09-02 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 September 2003 22:31, Robert Froese wrote: I've used Konqueror as a graphical sftp frontend in the past under GNU/Linux. It doesn't work on my FreeBSD 5.1 system. For example, if I type ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Why don't you use

ISDN TA problem

2003-09-02 Thread Cole
Hi there I just bought a new Asuscom 200 External ISDN TA. The problem im having is that when using ppp, it says it cannot deterct carrier the exact error msg is NO CARRIER, ive read the manual and ive tried multiple different AT commands. The weird thing is sometimes it will dialup and

RE: PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration.

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Vondung
Henrik wrote: Not a lot of detailed help..sorry...I haven't setup a PPP connection in a LONG time. The good news is that in a year I'll relocate to an area where ADSL is available. Until then I'm stuck in a beautiful but telecommunication-wise terribly medieval area. I received an e-mail from

Simple biff daemon.

2003-09-02 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I figured this would be easy to find/do, but I've not managed it yet! I'm looking for a very simple biff daemon that checks a mailbox (preferably maildir, but IMAP/POP would do -- or even an external application) and executes a command if mail is found. I want to use this in conjunction

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-09-02 Thread Scott Ballantyne
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:27:16PM -0400, Ralph Dratman wrote: Gary, Thank you for your reply. Your comments are informative but I still don't know what to do! For some reason, I am not receiving mail sent from cron to root. Therefore, I cannot see any of my (rather important) daily

Re: information

2003-09-02 Thread Rob
Hi, You will find a brief reference to the different licensing models at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/introduction.html#FREEBSD-GOALS and the surrounding text. If you are evaluating a donation to FreeBSD, you may want to consider the hardware list on

Re: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE and LDAP authentication

2003-09-02 Thread Clement Laforet
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:22:20 +0200 Eivind Hestnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi ! We are interesting in using LDAP for authentication/indentification for our users (everything from sshd, login, samba, mail) Our servers are running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE, and we are currently not planning to

mplayer quicktime killing me

2003-09-02 Thread Monah Baki
Hi, I got mplayer and openquicktime running 3 days ago, don't know how I did and I can't seem to replicate the procedure. I'm running 5.1/Windowmaker, and I know I need to install from ports: multimedia/openquicktime multimedia/mplayer www/mplayer-plugin www/mozilla (1.4) When I go to

Problems with network cards

2003-09-02 Thread Chris Fisichella
Hi, I am coming from the worlds of AIX and macintosh. As a result, I have little knowledge about x86 boxes. I installed a 4.4-release after a few tries. I am having some problems with networking. I have a Pentium/P54C (133.64-MHz 586-class CPU) with 32MB of real memory. My first card was made

5.1R Install not Installing Kernel

2003-09-02 Thread Jason C. Wells
The 5.1R install that I just completed twice doesn't boot. The boot loader comes to a prompt for F1 or F2 and hangs. Pressing F1 or F2 results in a beep from the computer. F1 has a base install. F2 is an empty slice that I have set aside. When using kern.flp to boot the system, interupting the

Re: Problems with network cards

2003-09-02 Thread Jason C. Wells
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Chris Fisichella wrote: 1. Is there some network interface card that I can put in and will work? Any recommendations? If your time is worth more than ten bucks, get any generic RealTek PCI card? (Do you have a PCI slot?) They're cheap. I gave up monkeying with ISA cards.

dlint error in named file

2003-09-02 Thread Tony Sterrett
Hello, Maybe some of you know the dlint tool. Please note mail.foobar.net nor mail appear in any of the files. Names (and ips) have been changed to protect the guilty. When I run my foobar.net zone file I get the following: ;; All responding nameservers agree on the serial number. ;; Now

Re: Konqueror as sftp client

2003-09-02 Thread Paul Murphy
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 16:31:23 -0400 Robert Froese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used Konqueror as a graphical sftp frontend in the past under GNU/Linux. It doesn't work on my FreeBSD 5.1 system. For example, if I type I've never thought of using Konqueror as an sftp client! However it

Host system type: i386-unknown-freebsd5.1

2003-09-02 Thread Seamus Abshere
When I run ./configure on my machine, I get this: checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsd5.1 If the unknown were *known*, what else could this say? Does it mean that I configured something wrong? Thanks much! Seamus ___ [EMAIL

.ko files in /boot/kernel

2003-09-02 Thread Seamus Abshere
/boot/kernel is full of .ko files for kernel options that I did not select. Why are they there? Are they in use? [/boot/kernel]#ls -l kernel -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2317346 Jul 2 16:11 kernel I'm proud of this (supposedly) 2.3MB kernel, and I want to make sure that I have actually optimized my

Win2k to racoon Cookbook

2003-09-02 Thread Crist J. Clark
I know I've seen multiple howto's and mails describing how to do this in the past, but the heck if I can Google one or pull one out of the archives at the moment. I have Win2k at one end and FreeBSD/racoon on the other. The Win2k systems aquire addresses by DHCP. I've seen documents describing

Booting CDROM of FreeBSD 5.0

2003-09-02 Thread Gerald S. Stoller
I purchased the book The Complete Reference FreeBSD (published by McGraw Hill Osborne) which contained a CDROM of FreeBSD 5.0 . I read a few of the text files on it and then tried to boot it. Shortly after starting this, it wrote (to the screen) CD loader 1.01 Building the boot

Non working dvdrom drive.

2003-09-02 Thread subhro
Hello People, I have installed FreeBSD-4.8-stable on my Intel 815 chipset Pentium III box. It has a hard drive (Seagate ST-340014A)jumpered as primary master and a DVDROM (Asus E616) jumpered as the primary slave. I also have a CDWriter (Samsung SW-212B) on the secondary master. When FreeBSD

Need help with strange routing situation

2003-09-02 Thread Donald Burr of Borg
I recently switched to a new DSL provider (DSLExtreme), and in doing so, decided to opt to buy multiple static IP's. The idea is that I would like one static IP for the server, and separate static IP's for our desktop machines, so that things such as IRC DCC, streaming media, etc. will just work

Re: Need help with strange routing situation

2003-09-02 Thread Philip Kizer
Donald Burr of Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Description of:] Our gateway machine and server gets its own IP, IP A. My desktop machine is hooked up via ethernet. It should get IP B. Same thing as above for my roomie's desktop, except it gets IP C. [all else] Ideally I'd like them

FW: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-02 Thread Max Clark
Sorry for the cross post. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Max Clark Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 20TB Storage System Hi all, I need to attach 20TB of storage to a network (as low cost as

Re: FW: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Max Clark writ es: Given the above: 1) What would my expected IO be using vinum to stripe the storage enclosures detailed above? That depends a lot on the applications I/O pattern, an I doubt a precise prediction is possible. In particular the FibreChannel is hard

Re: FW: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-02 Thread Brooks Davis
[This isn't really a performance issue so I trimmed it.] On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:48:29PM -0700, Max Clark wrote: I need to attach 20TB of storage to a network (as low cost as possible), I need to sustain 250Mbit/s or 30MByte/s of sustained IO from the storage to the disk. I have found

Re: FW: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-02 Thread Petri Helenius
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: 2) What is the maximum size of a filesystem that I can present to the host OS using vinum/ccd? Am I limited anywhere that I am not aware of? Good question, I'm not sure we currently know the exact barrier. Just make sure you run UFS2, which is the default on

RE: FW: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-02 Thread Max Clark
Just make sure you run UFS2, which is the default on -CURRENT because UFS1 has a 1TB limit. - What's the limit with UFS2? Are there major requirements to run FreeBSD 5.x or can I still run stable with this? Thanks, Max ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

RE: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-02 Thread Max Clark
Depends on whether you plan on crashing or not :) According to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2003-July/000181.html, you may not want to create filesystems over 3TB if you want fsck to succeed. I don't know if that's using the default newfs settings (which would create an insane

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 02), Max Clark said: [ quoting format manually recovered ] Dan Nelson wrote Depends on whether you plan on crashing or not :) According to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2003-July/000181.html, you may not want to create filesystems over 3TB if you

Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster

2003-09-02 Thread Martin Brecher
First off, let me say that FreeBSD is one of the cleanest systems out there as the developers try to remove bigger packages from the base system instead of adding more bloat every release. One example would be the removal of perl from the base distribution in 5.x. As for perl and the other