Re: Linux patch for reading ufs2

Hi! very interesting patch, it would be very useful :) Its a pity that i havent any linux to test it. I hope more people help you and having it soon in the linux tools/kernel :) Regards, scalopus On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:12:49 +0530 Niraj Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to

Re: routing, 2 nics, and a default gateways

You wrote: I have 2 nics. The first has about 30 ips assigned to it and working correctly. The other was a backup nic for the ISP backup network, but its now I was asked to assign ips and a default gateway specification to it,because we ran out of usable ips on the 1st nic, so we have a new

RealTek 8139 PC Card

I'm trying to get a realtek 8139 pcmcia network card to work with FreeBSD, it was working nicely with linux using the standard 8139 driver so I'm sure the card is good. I have the rl driver compiled staticly into the kernel, but I'm not sure if this works with pc cards as the device isn't present

FreeBSD Locked Up

I have been using FreeBSD 4.9 on a Compaq Presario laptop for about 3 1/2 months now without any troubles, and before that RedHat Linux for about a year and a half. Just yesterday morning though I awoke to find my system completely frozen, no screensaver was on, but I couldn't move the mouse

Re: RealTek 8139 PC Card

pciconf -lv will show you very beautiful output of pci devices. -Craig - Original Message - From: Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 4:20 AM Subject: RealTek 8139 PC Card [snipped, OE sucks]

Re: FreeBSD Locked Up

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:28:57 -0800 Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Also, on reboot, I notice fsck took a considerable time to check the disk, though nothing major was found that interrupted the boot process. Is this because FreeBSD doesn't use a journalling filesystem? I think I

Re: RealTek 8139 PC Card

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:20:44 -0800 Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get a realtek 8139 pcmcia network card to work with FreeBSD, it was working nicely with linux using the standard 8139 driver so I'm sure the card is good. I have the rl driver compiled staticly into the

Re: Compaq RAID on 4.9-RELEASE?

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Tim Pushor wrote: Hi all, We are going to be replacing one of our older systems here with a new HP/Compaq server and want to buy a (cheap) supported hardware raid adapter. Compaq/HP used to be so easy. The system we are looking at has either a Compaq 532 or 641

Re: FreeBSD Locked Up

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Loren M. Lang wrote: I have been using FreeBSD 4.9 on a Compaq Presario laptop for about 3 1/2 months now without any troubles, and before that RedHat Linux for about a year and a half. Just yesterday morning though I awoke to find my system completely frozen, no

Re: touchpad mouse not working with freebsd

Peter Kurpis wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.7 on my Toshiba Satellite 1135 laptop, and I couldn't get the mouse working. (Windows says it's an Alps Pointing Device, on interrupt 12, plugged into the PS/2 port.) On further investigation, when I tried moused -p /dev/psm0 -i all the daemon

Re: Standby mode for monitor.

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:23, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 12 February 2004 07:13 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: I'd like to be able to switch the monitors on a number of our computers into standby mode from a software program running on a virtual

freebsd5.2 and kdm - what is wrong?

Hi! First of all - Thank You for FreeBsd! Unitl now I've used Linux, but when time comes to set my own www server (apache) I tried bsd and now I'm totally convinced. However, some things are diifferent and I have few problems that I can't solve linux-way. As in the topic: I want to have

Andy Magana

I have recently installed BSD. My card is a Visiontek Xtasy Radeon 128MB AGP card. Can you reply with some recommendations because it is installed but I don't sse anything for my cardl. Thank you Andy Magana GetGibve ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

pkgs managing

Hello everyone. How do I know what package does the file belong? Thx. -- Best regards, flux mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: pkgs managing

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:23:50PM +0300, flux wrote: How do I know what package does the file belong? If you have portupgrade installed (/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade) you can use the pkg_which(1) command. For example: 14:32 (5) pkg_which /usr/local/bin/animate ImageMagick-5.5.7.15_1

Re: pkgs managing

On Friday 13 February 2004 04:23 am, flux wrote: Hello everyone. How do I know what package does the file belong? Thx. for a file, try the following example of using pkg_which # locate libXs /usr/X11R6/lib/libXss.a # pkg_which /usr/X11R6/lib/libXss.a XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6 -- Kent

Re: pkgs managing

flux wrote: Hello everyone. How do I know what package does the file belong? man pkg_which -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

4.x disk slice missing in 5.2.1-RC

Hi all! On one of my hard disks, I have two slices. The first, /dev/ad4s1, is fromatted FAT32 and contains a Windows installation. The second, /dev/ad4s2, contains a FreeBSD 4-STABLE installation. The FreeBSD slice, of course, is further split into the usual partitions (/dev/ad4s2a and so

Pnmscale on 4.8 i386 stable

Hi List, I cant find pnmscale on my system anywhere :-( How can I get it ? Any help Is appreciated. Dave C --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.585 / Virus Database: 370 - Release Date: 11/02/2004

Re: pkgs managing

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:23:50PM +0300, flux wrote: Hello everyone. How do I know what package does the file belong? Thx. pkg_info -W file --Stijn -- Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be

Re: Pnmscale on 4.8 i386 stable

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:05:06PM -, Dave Carrera wrote: I cant find pnmscale on my system anywhere :-( How can I get it ? It's part of the netpbm suite of programs, available from ports in graphics/netpbm: % pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/pnmscale /usr/local/bin/pnmscale was

RE: Pnmscale on 4.8 i386 stable

Thanks Matthew, I do not have the port skel on my system so how do I get the port local to make it ? Thanks for any help Dave C -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 February 2004 13:13 To: Dave Carrera Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pnmscale

Re: First time building new kernel 5.1-RELEASE

Do you need to be using 5.1? It's an outdated early adopters' release, after all... Edward Carmody [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trying to build a new kernel, having some issues... And you didn't show the kernel configuration. First, I tried to follow the FreeBSD Handbook, Section 9.3,

Re: 5.2 Bridging issue

I asked: I've got a bridge(4) issue on a BSD 5.2.1 box. The bridging box has three ethernet interfaces, two bridged together in a single cluster, and one connected to the internet. The box acts as a bridge for the two network segments, and as a router to the Internet (it's the default

Unsolved: 5.2 Bridging issue

I originally wrote: I've got a bridge(4) issue on a BSD 5.2.1 box. The bridging box has three ethernet interfaces, two bridged together in a single cluster, and one connected to the internet. The box acts as a bridge for the two network segments, and as a router to the Internet (it's the

shutdown -p now causes auto power up at midnight

running 5.2.x current w/acpi active on an hp dl140 when i shutdown -p now the system powers off, then at exactly midnight the system powers on. does the now/0 become a boot time instead of a shutdown time on some systems? when i shutdown -h now and manually press the pwr button, the system

net-snmp kvm_read: Bad address

Hi :) I'm running 5.2.1-RC2 and I have problem with the net/net-snmp port. I use mrtg to collect stats from localhost snmp and I get those strange logs in /var/log/snmpd.log: Connection from 127.0.0.1 kvm_read(*, 1, 0xbfbfd89c, 4) = -1: kvm_read: Bad address auto_nlist failed on nswdev at

Re: USB2 external hard drive too slow ....

ivan georgiev wrote: Hi, I just bought 80GB WD USB2 hard drive. Everything works. I have formated it with ext2 file system, so that I can share file with linux. But the problem is that it is very slow compared to linux. When I transfered some files under linux the speed of the transfer is

No More Daily Run Output

All, We've got a FreeBSD 4.7 box that's been running great for the last year and a half or so. We host our customer's email on this box using postfix. Before the FreeBSD box, we had two Linux boxes that hosted all of the email. We've since migrated over the accounts just recently.

RE: Firewall rules for ftp

It would help if you posted you ipfw rules file so people can review them to look for your problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Schweizer Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 2:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Firewall rules for ftp

Re: USB2 external hard drive too slow ....

On Friday 13 February 2004 16:02, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi Ivan, did you get any reply to your posting? I am having the same problem: Maxtor 250 GB external USB2 drive, Belkin USB2 card, FreeBSD 5.1, but i get only 1MB/sec. Does FreeBSD support USB 2.0 at all? Did you add device ehci in

Re: SYN Attacks - how i cant stop it

Hi, I got this error when i tried to type for some of those. sysctl: unknown oid any idea.. my server seems to be very lagged, where else the network connection seems fine, i think BSD itself as my other redhat box is fine. What else can i do to get optimum protection. Thanks. -

OT: sound recording problem

Greetings: I am recording audio from my windows pc to my freebsd machine. When I do this I get a lot of static noise along with the expected audio. Is there setting in windows to only output line volume? mixer =rec line sox -V -c 2 -r 44100 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp /home/henninb/test.wav Thanks, Brian

Re: Andy Magana

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:12:10 -0800 (PST), Andreas Magana [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have recently installed BSD. My card is a Visiontek Xtasy Radeon 128MB AGP card. Can you reply with some recommendations because it is installed but I don't sse anything for my cardl. I assume that the it that

Re: Compaq RAID on 4.9-RELEASE?

Olaf, Its an ML350. I know they are real cheap, however the alternative is clone based servers, so I'm real happy there is a budget line. Now there is no excuse not to have server class machines. I should have checked the source myself. I see that 4.9-RELEASE uses an older version of ciss.c

Re: Why would drive run at UDMA33? (Segate 80GB)

(Still going through some old messages, but this thread had some misconceptions and myths that I'd like to straighten out): ATA channel 0: Master: ad0 ST380021A/3.19 ATA/ATAPI rev 5 Slave: acd0 CD-RW 24X10X40/Y.IW ATA/ATAPI rev 0 ATA channel 1: Master: ad2 ST380011A/3.06 ATA/ATAPI

Re: Creating mp3

Hello, On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:51:19 -0600 Quintin Riis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mp3 is outdated, use vorbis. I wouldn't say so. Unless you show me an affordable hardware-vorbis-player. There's plenty of CD-Players that will also play mp3-CDs, just like most standalone-DVD-players. Also, I

Re: touchpad mouse not working with freebsd

hi try insert into /boot/device.hints: hint.psm.0.flags=0x1000 that works fine for on my toshiba satellite 1100-z20 regards michael Francesco Casadei schrieb: Peter Kurpis wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.7 on my Toshiba Satellite 1135 laptop, and I couldn't get the mouse working. (Windows

reboot record information

I was interested to find from a system mail this morning that my system had been rebooted three days ago. As far as I was aware, the last reboot was about two months ago. The following lines in /var/log/messages give me a clue that the reboot happened after Feb 10 02:51:52: Feb 10 02:51:52

Re: SYN Attacks - how i cant stop it

Spades wrote: Hi, I got this error when i tried to type for some of those. sysctl: unknown oid any idea.. my server seems to be very lagged, where else the network connection seems fine, i think BSD itself as my other redhat box is fine. What else can i do to get optimum protection. Thanks.

RE: reboot record information

All reboot messages go to /var/log/messages. The message file is archived, so just go the /var/log directory and look at your message files and look for msgs before the boot msgs of that date. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John DeStefano

Re: USB2 external hard drive too slow ....

Heinrich Rebehn wrote: ivan georgiev wrote: Hi, I just bought 80GB WD USB2 hard drive. Everything works. I have formated it with ext2 file system, so that I can share file with linux. But the problem is that it is very slow compared to linux. When I transfered some files under linux the speed

RE: SYN Attacks - how i cant stop it

You talk about the net.inet.tcp.syncookies=1 knob, how about an description on what it does and why you are recommending using it. How would one go about mirroring back the attackers syn packets to port 80 or 22? Please describe this easy method of yours. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Pnmscale on 4.8 i386 stable

[The graphics/netpbm port] On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:49:11PM -, Dave Carrera wrote: I do not have the port skel on my system so how do I get the port local to make it ? Well, assuming that the obvious recourse of just using cvsup(1) to grab the ports tree is not feasible for you -- it's

RE: reboot record information

JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All reboot messages go to /var/log/messages. The message file is archived, so just go the /var/log directory and look at your message files and look for msgs before the boot msgs of that date. That's what I thought too. However, according to my system status message

Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

Peter Leftwich wrote: Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs) partition FROM WITHIN Windows XP Pro SP1 (transparently)? I am not familiar with any such software, regrettably. You'd need a Windows developer experienced with their kernel and filesystem management code

Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Chuck Swiger clacked the keyboard to produce: Peter Leftwich wrote: Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs) partition FROM WITHIN Windows XP Pro SP1 (transparently)? I am not familiar with any such software, regrettably. You'd need a

RE: Why would drive run at UDMA33? (Segate 80GB)

I have an PC with mfg date of 5/2003 and the motherboard manually has warning note about separating the cdrom drive to the secondary IDE controller because it will force the IDE controller to step down the max speed to the slowest device. This was not only for cdrom drives but also mixing UDMA100

Re: SYN Attacks - how i cant stop it

JJB wrote: You talk about the net.inet.tcp.syncookies=1 knob, how about an description on what it does and why you are recommending using it. The net.inet.tcp.syncookies 'knob', if set to 1, enables syn cookies. Syn cookies were invented specifically for syn flood protection. A brief description

Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

Quoting Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Chuck Swiger clacked the keyboard to produce: Peter Leftwich wrote: Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs) partition FROM WITHIN Windows XP Pro SP1 (transparently)? I am not familiar with any such software,

irssi, ld-elf.so.1, and perl something

/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: irssi: Undefined symbol Perl_eval_pv this is the error i'm receiving when i try to run irssi installed from ports. it used to work and has broken recently, perhaps through some complication with buildworld or portupgrade -arR. In any case, i'm running fbsd 4.9 with a

RE: reboot record information

When an FBSD system crooks, and It reboots it's self, very seldom does any of issued problem messages have time to be posted completely before the rug is pulled out from under the log write process by the reboot occurring. All you can find out from the logs is yes indeed it did reboot. You are

Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Kenneth Culver clacked the keyboard to produce: Quoting Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Chuck Swiger clacked the keyboard to produce: Peter Leftwich wrote: Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs) partition FROM WITHIN

Re: cdrom

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:02:18 +0100, you wrote: I have an old pc on witch I want to install freebsd, only when the bios does not see the cdrom drive. But windows does. It is a normal IDE cdrom and set to slave (hard disk primary). Also when I run the installation it stops when it has to read

RE: How to deal with package conflicts (apache)?

Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:24:32PM +1030, W. Sierke wrote: How should I deal with package conflicts such as apache13/apache13-mod_ssl... I've installed apache13-mod_ssl but a couple of other ports I want to install want apache13 (specifically apache-1.3.29_1) which

Re: cdrom

Save yourself the $50 investment in the old hardware and do a network installation. You'll need a floppy drive and a network card. Create the boot floppies and choose FTP installation. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES Yank that old

Re: shutdown -p now causes auto power up at midnight

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:01:29 -0800 (PST), you wrote: when i shutdown -p now the system powers off, then at exactly midnight the system powers on. does the now/0 become a boot time instead of a shutdown time on some systems? Check the BIOS settings for Wake up time, wake on alarm or similar. The

Re: need help on CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf please

Hi, Paul-- There is little point to crossposting between -questions and -hackers; dropping the latter. Actually, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is probably the most appropriate place... Paul Seniura wrote: My question for this discussion is specifically how to prevent overriding a port's own setting for

RE: SYN Attacks - how i cant stop it

Very interesting reading about net.inet.tcp.syncookies 'knob'. Thank you for such an curious and informative reply. I am running 4.9 and net.inet.tcp.syncookies=1 is the default. I am writing an 'Harding you FBSD system' article for the local FBSD club, would you please review the following.

Re: Compaq RAID on 4.9-RELEASE?

Hi, I´m running 4.9-RELEASE on a pair of ML350 G3 with SA 641 controller. Haven´t had any problems so far.. dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights

Re: freebsd5.2 and kdm - what is wrong?

I've had the same problem with 5.2, and I fixed it with removing the -nodeamon part from you /etc/ttys Cheers, Jorn On Friday 13 February 2004 12:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! First of all - Thank You for FreeBsd! Unitl now I've used Linux, but when time comes to set my own www server

RE: How to deal with package conflicts (apache)?

At 03:21 14.02.2004 +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:24:32PM +1030, W. Sierke wrote: How should I deal with package conflicts such as apache13/apache13-mod_ssl... I've installed apache13-mod_ssl but a couple of other ports I want to install want

colors in vim.....how?

how can i add colors to my vim editor. reply soon cheers manish Yahoo! India Education Special: Study in the UK now. Go to http://in.specials.yahoo.com/index1.html ___ [EMAIL

No sound (was Re: kernel compilation problems - 5.1 (long) )

Hello all Thanks Mike and Peter. I have been able to successfully compile the new kernel install it. BUT, though I compiled with: device pcm #TK: for sound blaster pro 16. I get no sound. (I tried to play an audio file with amp). The sound card is a SOUND BLASTER PRO 16 Compatible. Here

Re: colors in vim.....how?

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 05:57:02PM +, manish gautam wrote: how can i add colors to my vim editor. Add 'syn on' on a single line in your ~/.vimrc file and make sure your TERM environment variable is set to 'xterm-color'. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/

using NDIS

I'm trying to use NDIS and have read a few posts from the archives by Bill Paul. I'm having one some problem. There are no Makefiles and no if_ndis in the /sys/modules directory. Here is my uname: FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: What do I need to install? I have the ndis and

Re: Using dhclient to update zoneedit with my dynamic IP address

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:32:42PM -0500, JJB wrote: The zonedeit FAQ says this command can be used in dhclient to update my dynamic ip address at zoneedit when ever dhclient gets an new IP lease from my ISP. wget -O - --http-user=username --http-passwd=password

RE: reboot record information

--- JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When an FBSD system crooks, and It reboots it's self, very seldom does any of issued problem messages have time to be posted completely before the rug is pulled out from under the log write process by the reboot occurring. All you can find out from the logs is

Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

Well On Friday, February 13, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Bob Collins wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Chuck Swiger clacked the keyboard to produce: Peter Leftwich wrote: Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs) partition FROM WITHIN Windows XP Pro SP1 (transparently)? I am not

Re: Andy Magana

--- Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:12:10 -0800 (PST), Andreas Magana [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have recently installed BSD. My card is a Visiontek Xtasy Radeon 128MB AGP card. Can you reply with some recommendations because it is installed but I don't sse

5.2.1-RC2

I see the above mentioned is on the site under ISO's -- Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using log_in_vain shows error message Connection attempt to 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:4102

Julie Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to track down the cause of this error message, that starts to show up when I enable log_in_vain in rc.conf - I'm running FreeBSD 4.9 Stable. Any direction greatly appreciated. Feb 12 15:00:00 server1 /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP

RE: Using dhclient to update zoneedit with my dynamic IP address

Ceri Thanks for the pointer to the 'man dhclient-script'. I read through it 3-5 times and the best I can make out of what it says is, that if I create an file like this /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks.sh with this content #! /bin/sh wget -O - --http-user=username --http-passwd=password,

Re: Using dhclient to update zoneedit with my dynamic IP address

JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the pointer to the 'man dhclient-script'. I read through it 3-5 times and the best I can make out of what it says is, that if I create an file like this /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks.sh with this content #! /bin/sh wget -O - --http-user=username

Re: portversion error after cvsup

Petre Bandac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: after I cvsup-ed and portsdb -Uu pkgdb -Fvu, portversion | grep shows me almost all the ports I have installed (on a closer look, almost all the ports shown erroneously were portupgraded once) Is there any reason you *think* that those ports *aren't*

Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

On Feb 13, 2004, at 1:45 PM, Matthew Marino wrote: Samba works but the configuration can be a cuss. It's the NetBEUI name server that takes a deeper understanding of Microsoft Networking than the average Joe has. If your really up for a challenge try sharing the same ufs volume with Windows and

RE: Using dhclient to update zoneedit with my dynamic IP address

Thanks for this sample, but it exceeds my script coding ability. I added some comments to your sample but I may be lost. #!/bin/sh updater_prog = /usr/local/bin/noip2# program to run if [ x$reason = xREBOOT ] || \ # is this an reboot or [ x$old_ip_address = x ] || \ #

Re: portversion error after cvsup

true indeed almost all are the same version, with an _1 at the end thank you for enlightening me :-) petre On Friday 13 February 2004 21:27 Anno Domini, Lowell Gilbert wrote using one of his keyboards: Petre Bandac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: after I cvsup-ed and portsdb -Uu pkgdb -Fvu,

Re: Creating mp3

Yes, mp3 does suck. Vorbis, AAC, and WMA are superior. Vorbis is better at all bitrates, not just above some magical number. I use my PDA to play files when I'm out and about, $80 for a cheap one on eBay. As you said though, there might be a few reasons for someone to use mp3. There are

Re: Creating mp3

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:16:12PM -0600, Earl wrote: What is a good program to create mp3s with? /usr/ports/audio/lame http://lame.sourceforge.net/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Performance over network with mount_smbfs (warning large mail)

I have a Windows 2003 machine(2) with a share mounted on a Freebsd machine (1) via mount_smbfs Hardware Machine 1 FreeBSD pcmarpxy.mine.nu 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #1: Fri Jan 30 23:33:38 CET 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MARK i386 PIII 650, 392mb ram system : ata-100

Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

I look into this issue an average of once a year, because it's always been my dream to have a dual boot machine in which XP can read/write my UFS/ext2/etc. partitions and FreeBSD/Linux/etc. can read/write my NTFS partitions. I've seen a handful of 3rd party software out there that seems to come

rc.conf not working

I just cvsup'd from 4.9 to 5.2. After the reboot I noticed that my nics weren't configured. Tried reconfiguring them using /stand/sysinstall but no luck. I tried manually sourcing /etc/rc.conf but nothing changes. I can't find any errors in syslog. Any ideas? Thanks

abcde build loops endlessly

I've been trying to compile abcde in FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE from the ports tree (/usr/ports/audio/abcde). When I type make all install clean it nicely fetches everything and compiles, but I noticed it wasn't finished after 3 hours. I took a peek and I noticed it was endlessly trying to configure

Determining free memory on FreeBSD 4.8-REL

I know this question has been asked, but the answers I find tend to be along the lines of Well, it's complicated. How do I determine if my FreeBSD is actually low on memory not? And what is Inact? I did read the manpages, but even they seem to skirt how I should view Inact vs. Free. (I did read

Re: Why would drive run at UDMA33? (Segate 80GB)

JJB wrote: This is not true. With today's computers, all disks will operate at their highest speed, not matter what other device they are paired with. Their transfer rate may be slowed down if *both* devices are accessed at the exact same time, but that's nothing to worry about generally. So just

Re: Changing Boot Location

On Feb 12 at 09:42, Adam Seniuk spoke: I have some Desktop archtechture pc's that is running my servers. I went out and got dell 1650's and the dell servers run there IDE chain on the secondary channel. So my installs which are based on the primary IDE channel do not boot up in the

Re: How to deal with package conflicts (apache)?

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 03:21:16AM +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:24:32PM +1030, W. Sierke wrote: How should I deal with package conflicts such as apache13/apache13-mod_ssl... I've installed apache13-mod_ssl but a couple of other ports I

Re: 5.2.1-RC2

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:55:16PM -0600, Chris wrote: I see the above mentioned is on the site under ISO's But the release candidate has not yet been announced, so these may change at any time. Don't use them until the announcement comes out, because you might encounter a bug that was fixed in

5.x stable cvsup

Hi, I got a question, my dedicated server provider has installed 5.1-Release and refuses to install 4.7 for me. Can I recompile to 5.1-STABLE using the same method as 4.7 and same 4.x-stable-supfile and kernel config file. OR do i need to use a 5,x-stable method? any idea any url i can find

Re: Determining free memory on FreeBSD 4.8-REL

Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:28:34PM -0600, dap wrote: How do I determine if my FreeBSD is actually low on memory not? And what is Inact? I did read the manpages, but even they seem to skirt how I should view Inact vs. Free. (I did read the tuning manpage.) Let's say I have

pthread on freebsd 5.2...?

does anyone could paste the working /etc/libmap.conf to me please ? some program is working but some program don't because pthread lib problem, I am running freebsd 5.2 Thanks. -- HK Celtic Orchestra leader and coordanator: Thomas Graham Lau Phone number: 852-93239670(24hours a day, 7days a

Re: pthread on freebsd 5.2...?

Thomas Graham wrote: does anyone could paste the working /etc/libmap.conf to me please ? some program is working but some program don't because pthread lib problem, I am running freebsd 5.2 Thanks. What program does not work? I did a recent upgrade to current and ran into this problem with

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I have a new IBM server (P4-3.06 with HT) and with 4.9REL, when I type in 'halt' - the machine stops and then when I hit the power button, it shuts off immediately. On 5.2 (with all defaults and booting ACPI) - when I type in 'halt' - the machine stops...but: 1. the CPU gets really hot quite

startup daemon as unpriviliged user

Hey everyone. Here's a general question for you. I have a FreeBSD 4.8 system that runs fetchmail for me as an unprivileged everyday userid. The problem is that the machine isn't on the most reliable powergrid one could hope for. So when the system comes back up after going down, I ALWAYS

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I am trying to setup a pc with FreeBSD 5.2 as a router. I've got two NICs setup. My laptop can ping the LAN side of the router (192.168.200.1), and it can also ping the WAN side of the router (172.16.20.10). However, I cannot get past the WAN side of the router to other pcs or the internet, but

Re: rc.conf not working

Michael Goodman wrote: I just cvsup'd from 4.9 to 5.2. After the reboot I noticed that my nics weren't configured. Tried reconfiguring them using /stand/sysinstall but no luck. I tried manually sourcing /etc/rc.conf but nothing changes. I can't find any errors in syslog. Any ideas? Thanks

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: startup daemon as unpriviliged user

man 5 crontab -- check out @reboot Or, for something crazy, man gettytab; you can autologin on a tty and then use a shell script to do all kinds of fun things. I used to run X without xdm that way. Hope this helps. -Craig - Original Message - From: Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

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