Re: cvsup vs portupgrade

2004-06-07 Thread Adam Smith
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 01:34:33PM +0800, Stephen Liu said: > Hi folks, > > I am still not very clear on the function between > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile > > and > > # portupgrade -aRr > > I have following questions; > > 1) What will be their diffenece in function > >

4.10 Release & Exim 4.32

2004-06-07 Thread Lonnie Santella
I'm struggling here. I have read all the docs I could possibly find - from both the Exim website and FreeBSD.org. I also tried newsgroups. Installing Exim from the ports is easy - installs fine, and with couple edits to mailer.conf and rc.conf - exim starts right up and works fine. But I need t

Re: 4.10 Release & Exim 4.32

2004-06-07 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 09:17, Lonnie Santella wrote: > I need to add some build-time settings beyond the defaults in order to run > Exim on my system. I'm thinking that I'm making a fundemental mistake here, > but I can't figure out what it is. > Hi! Generally, all build-time settings are done

Re: Please help me understand pciutils output

2004-06-07 Thread Luke
I suspect that my PCI bus is incompatible with some of the PCI cards I'm trying to use with it. The motherboard was made in 1996 and these cards are all much newer. One of the cards gives USB 2.0 support, but I'm not getting anywhere near USB 2.0 speed out of the USB 2.0 devices I plug into i

Small Postfix Question

2004-06-07 Thread Jorn Argelo
Hi all, I was wondering if Postfix could follow symbolic links, since I only have an 512M /var partition. I would rather link it to the /usr partition, which is about 55G. My common sense tells me that I should just link /var/mail to /usr/mail or something like that, and to copy the original /v

Re: cvsup vs portupgrade

2004-06-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Remko, Tks for your advice. - snip - > > 2) If having run > > > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile > > > > Whether I still need to run > > > > # portupgrade -aRr > > Yes you can do this, since cvsup retrieve's the > latest so

PPPoE/tun0 doesn't work after upgrade to 4.10 Stable

2004-06-07 Thread mypop
Hello All, i run into somekind of trouble after upgrading to the latest stable version of FreeBSD. After building and installing a new kernel and world from 4.9-Stable to 4.10-Stable the ppp-Deamon can't connect to my isp anymore. I have to switch to the old kernel to get it up and running again

Re: Small Postfix Question

2004-06-07 Thread Frank Bonnet
Jorn Argelo a écrit : Hi all, I was wondering if Postfix could follow symbolic links, since I only have an 512M /var partition. I would rather link it to the /usr partition, which is about 55G. My common sense tells me that I should just link /var/mail to /usr/mail or something like that, and t

malloc()

2004-06-07 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hi gurus, What's the maximum memory can be allocated to a single process by default ? -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +==+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,

re: Small postfix question

2004-06-07 Thread Remko Lodder
Hey Jorn, > Hi all, > I was wondering if Postfix could follow symbolic links, since I only > have an 512M /var partition. I would rather link it to the /usr > partition, which is about 55G. > My common sense tells me that I should just link /var/mail to /usr/mail > or something like that, and to

Re: cvsup vs portupgrade

2004-06-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Viktor, Tks for your advice. - snip - > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile > > > > Whether I still need to run > > > > # portupgrade -aRr > > > > 3) If NO to 2) above > > When shall I need to run > > # portupgrade -aRr > > > > 4)

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-07 Thread Dan Strick
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 19:31:48 +0100, Ben Paley wrote: >> > ... > > *** Working on device /dev/ad1 *** > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > paramete

Re: malloc()

2004-06-07 Thread George Keramidas
On 2004-06-07 12:23, Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi gurus, > > What's the maximum memory can be allocated to a single process by default ? If memory limits aren't at work, all available memory. But the default is to have user limits, so you should probably check /etc/login.c

Re: cvsup vs portupgrade

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:13:14PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > After running > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile > before running > # portupgrade -aRr > > whether I need to run > > # pkgdb -F You don't generally need to run this e

ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Lenny Thompson
Hi Nicole I wonder if you can help me. I saw your message on the Net regarding ISPs Blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space. I have a problem now that didn't exist 6 months where my mail gets returned when emailing a specific address, the error is 550: SPAMMER and all my I

Thumbnail Creator (jpgtn)

2004-06-07 Thread extra xtra
Greetings! How can I get jpgtn to work on FreeBSD? I just want to generate thumbnails of jpeg images. Thanks! Vinny. - Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger ___ [EMAIL P

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-07 Thread Ben Paley
On Monday 07 June 2004 11:17, Dan Strick wrote: > > Partition 2 (sysid 14, start 156296385) is bogus. I don't have a clue as > to how it might have been created. I *guess* it was the W98 installer - if you boot into DOS and invoke setup.exe it's fairly polite, but if you boot from the cdrom, w

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-07 Thread Robert Storey
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:10:48 +0100 Ben Paley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is very scary, but thanks for the advice. I had some more advice > (not sure if it went to the list or not) to try setting the second > partition as unused (sysid=0), so I might try that first to see > whether I can avo

Re: Thumbnail Creator (jpgtn)

2004-06-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
extra xtra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I get jpgtn to work on FreeBSD? I just want to generate thumbnails of jpeg > images. It's in the ports system: [1014] (be-well) lowell> locate jpgtn /usr/ports/graphics/jpgtn /usr/ports/graphics/jpgtn/Makefile /usr/ports/graphic

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
"Lenny Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Nicole > > I wonder if you can help me. I saw your message on the Net regarding ISPs > Blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space. I have a problem now > that didn't exist 6 months where my mail gets returned when emailing a > specif

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Andreas Carnaily
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:17:12 +0100, Lenny Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Nicole I wonder if you can help me. I saw your message on the Net regarding ISPs Blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space. I have a problem now that didn't exist 6 months where my mail gets returned

Re: PPPoE/tun0 doesn't work after upgrade to 4.10 Stable

2004-06-07 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:22:45 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > > i run into somekind of trouble after upgrading to the latest stable >version of FreeBSD. > > After building and installing a new kernel and world from > 4.9-Stable to 4.10-Stable the ppp-Deamon can't connect to my isp >

Scripting backup of file naming?

2004-06-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Hello scripting gurus.. I'm sure this is an easy one for someone out there. Here's what I'd like to do, and hoping someone out there knows a simple way to do this without ripping my hair out. Scenario: *Two servers, Server1 and Server2. *I want Server1 to copy a set of files from Server2 on a

RE: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Lucas Holt
Just make sure they are truly dynamic ips. Many people block ips identified as "DSL" connections. Those are not necessarily dynamic ip based. My mail server runs on a business package dsl with 5 static ips. Not everyone can afford T1/T3 connections. As for getting a "real mail server", that

RE: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-07 Thread Lucas Holt
Of course you wouldn't want to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 remotely. You have to fix things between these two releases in single user. In my case, the userland wouldn't completely install. I had to manually copy files from the build directory to their locations on the file system in order to get thi

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
"Lucas Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just make sure they are truly dynamic ips. Many people block ips identified > as "DSL" connections. Those are not necessarily dynamic ip based. It's wonderful that most ISPs haven't figured out how to play nicely with the rest of the world. I only block

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-07 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Monday 07 June 2004 04:01, Ben Paley wrote: > su-2.05b# fdisk ad1 > *** Working on device /dev/ad1 *** > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > par

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Bill Moran wrote: "Lucas Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just make sure they are truly dynamic ips. Many people block ips identified as "DSL" connections. Those are not necessarily dynamic ip based. It's wonderful that most ISPs haven't figured out how to play nicely with the rest of the world.

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > "Lucas Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Just make sure they are truly dynamic ips. Many people block ips identified > >>as "DSL" connections. Those are not necessarily dynamic ip based. > > > > > > It's wonderful that mo

HP all in 1 2510 printer

2004-06-07 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey everyone. I have a question I'm not really expecting a completely positive answer to, but I'm gonna ask it anyway. I just got a nice shiny new HP PSC 2510 printer, scanner, copier, fax doodad. It's network capable, running its own print server, etc. Thing is, I don't want it to be totally wa

[from newbies] portupgrade -a

2004-06-07 Thread clayton rollins
On June 6, 2004, "Joshua Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, After running portsdb -Uu I ran a portupgrade -a. Other than taking two days to finish is there a reason why upgrading "ALL" ports at one time is a bad idea? one other thing. I got hundreds of _POSIX_C_SOURCE: not defined errors. I

CVS vs CVSup

2004-06-07 Thread Joshua Lewis
What is the difference between CVS and CVSup? Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Converting/Manipulating RPMs for FBSD environment

2004-06-07 Thread Gerard Samuel
A few weeks ago, I purchased a network printer, but unfortunately, I was unable to print to it from FreeBSD. They (Brother), recently release LPR drivers for the printer, but unfortunately, only as RPMs, intended for Linux distros. I have installed the rpm port, but trying to extract it, gives me

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004, Lucas Holt wrote: > > >Just make sure they are truly dynamic ips. Many people block ips identified >as "DSL" connections. Those are not necessarily dynamic ip based Some of the largest ISPs in the country, including AOL, are blocking what they consider ``residential dsl

Mail Scan Alert!

2004-06-07 Thread Email Administrator
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Re: Please help me understand pciutils output

2004-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Luke wrote: I suspect that my PCI bus is incompatible with some of the PCI cards I'm trying to use with it. The motherboard was made in 1996 and these cards are all much newer. One of the cards gives USB 2.0 support, but I'm not getting anywhere near USB 2.0 speed out of the USB 2.0 devices I

Re: suggestions for optimal filesystem-layout over multiple harddrives?

2004-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Geert Hendrickx wrote: using multiple harddisks can increase performance, since I/O can be done in parallel. But what would be an optimal filesystem-layout on, say, two disks of equal size? Swap should evidently be spread equally over the different drives. As for the filesystems, say I'd have a

Printing to a network photosmart printer

2004-06-07 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I don't know why I never saw my original post come through, but I can only assume it got shot down between me and the list server. Regardless, this is a repost of the following query: Since I've just gotten hold of a shiny new HP PSC photosmart 2510 printer, I'd really like to get some use out of

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 06/07/04 12:36 PM, Bill Moran sat at the `puter and typed: > Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bill Moran wrote: > > > > I think something has changed in this respect lately. I've sent close > > to a dozen messages to the FreeBSD list since Saturday, and not one has > > gotten

Re: CVS vs CVSup

2004-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Joshua Lewis wrote: What is the difference between CVS and CVSup? The cvsup manpage quite reasonably provides a description: DESCRIPTION CVSup is a software package for distributing and updating collections of files across a network. The name CVSup refers to the package as a whole.

Re: Please help me understand pciutils output

2004-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Luke wrote: [ ... ] More details about the USB performance in terms of numbers you are seeing from some benchmark would be very useful. I agree. How can I benchmark my just my USB controller? Using a mass storage device like an external hard drive is probably the best bet. In the message you re

Re: Scripting backup of file naming?

2004-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bart Silverstrim wrote: [ ... ] *problem; on server1, I'm going to have two directories: ~/archive and ~/workingdir. I want the scp to move the files from server2 to ~/workingdir, tar and zip them as a file name with a date attached (like backup06072004.tgz) to make the filename distinctive, th

port upgrades

2004-06-07 Thread Tim Traver
Hi all, Is there a way to do a quick update of a particular port directory ??? I don't necessarily want to do the portupgrade, but just get the latest port files for a particular port. Right now, if i want to make sure the ports are up to date, I have to use sysinstall to downloa

Re: Converting/Manipulating RPMs for FBSD environment

2004-06-07 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Gerard Samuel wrote: > A few weeks ago, I purchased a network printer, but unfortunately, > I was unable to print to it from FreeBSD. > They (Brother), recently release LPR drivers for the printer, but > unfortunately, only as RPMs, intended for Linux distros. > I have installe

Re: Maximum Swap Size

2004-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Scott Ballantyne wrote: Hmmm... I didn't know there was a maximum swap size on FreeBSD 4.10 of 1677216 blocks... Is there an easy way to reduce this partition without redoing the entire install? Yes. Delete just the swap partition in place, then recreate it using a smaller size (using /stand/sysi

Parallel Printer Problem

2004-06-07 Thread Donald Szatkowski
Thank you for considering my question. I am having trouble getting a direct parallel port printer to work. I have narrowed the problem down to the initial boot process, but am unable to resolve the problem of no printer port. The problem is that the parallel port fails to initialize at startup.

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Wow. Looks like all my other emails are starting to come through. I don't know why, but it seems email slowed down to snail-mail pace this weekend. Bill, if you see anything in the headers to my messages that might seem wrong, and have some idea, I'd be infinitely grateful for any pointers. To

[from newbies]: XP + FreeBSD

2004-06-07 Thread clayton rollins
On June 6, 2004, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, This has probably been answered before, but I was unable to find explicit confirmation. The installation guide (2.5.3) states that "You now have the option to install a boot manager. In general, you should choose to install the FreeBSD boot manager i

Re: port upgrades

2004-06-07 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 07 June 2004 10:28 am, Tim Traver wrote: >Hi all, >Is there a way to do a quick update of a particular port directory > ??? I don't necessarily want to do the portupgrade, but just get the > latest port files for a particular port. >Right now, if i want to make sure the ports

Re: HP all in 1 2510 printer

2004-06-07 Thread jan . muenther
> I just got a nice shiny new HP PSC 2510 printer, scanner, copier, fax > doodad. It's network capable, running its own print server, etc. > Thing is, I don't want it to be totally wasted on the Windoze machine, > so I'd like to at least print from FreeBSD. Hm, as a matter of fact, if it has a NI

Re: crom output?

2004-06-07 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! > I had the memory replaced and am no longer losing tons of > file to badly alloc'd index nodes. *but*, over the weeks > that I've ket a /var/log/console.log, tao has usually gone > down just after 03:00, when the periodic/daily scripts are > run. > >

Re: port upgrades

2004-06-07 Thread Daniela
On Monday 07 June 2004 17:28, Tim Traver wrote: >Hi all, >Is there a way to do a quick update of a particular port directory ??? >I don't necessarily want to do the portupgrade, but just get the >latest port files for a particular port. >Right now, if i want to make sure the por

Re: Small Postfix Question

2004-06-07 Thread Jorn Argelo
Thanks for the replies everyone. I'll just try the symbolic link thing first. If that doesn't work, I'll just adjust the config file, as Frank mentioned. Cheers, Jorn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

SSH

2004-06-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
-e in ssh-keygen is my friend...it seems to be working now. Thank you! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [from newbies]: XP + FreeBSD

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
"clayton rollins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On June 6, 2004, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > >This has probably been answered before, but I was unable to find > >explicit confirmation. > > > >The installation guide (2.5.3) states that "You now have the option to > >install a boot ma

SSH question

2004-06-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Hello... Sorry if this is too OT, but I recently posted about copying some files from one server to another using scp...I thought I could get that set up easily since I've done it before. Silly me! The primary server is running # ssh -V OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030924, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, Ope

Re: [from newbies]: XP + FreeBSD

2004-06-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:59:59 + "clayton rollins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On June 6, 2004, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > >This has probably been answered before, but I was unable to find > >explicit confirmation. > > > >The installation guide (2.5.3) states that "You now ha

RE: FreeBSD on Gigabyte Motherboard GA-7N400 Pro2

2004-06-07 Thread hauan david
> -Original Message- > From: Technical Director [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:30 PM > To: Red > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Gigabyte Motherboard GA-7N400 Pro2 > > > > Red, > > Wow, Ma'am or Sir... <-- > > I do believe the nVIDIA nFOR

Re: suggestions for optimal filesystem-layout over multiple harddrives?

2004-06-07 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 06 June 2004 10:10 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Geert Hendrickx wrote: > > using multiple harddisks can increase performance, since I/O can be > > done in parallel. But what would be an optimal filesystem-layout > > on, say, two disks of equal size? Swap should evidently be spread > > equa

Re: SSH question

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:31:43PM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > While the server I want to copy FROM is apparently running > sshd2: SSH Secure Shell 3.2.3 (non-commercial version) on > i686-pc-linux-gnu > > I have created the pub key on the FreeBSD system with > ssh-keygen -t dsa > then copi

Re: Scripting backup of file naming?

2004-06-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-07 11:01, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *problem; on server1, I'm going to have two directories: ~/archive and > ~/workingdir. I want the scp to move the files from server2 to > ~/workingdir, tar and zip them as a file name with a date attached > (like backup06072004.tgz

Re: pf

2004-06-07 Thread Nagilum
Not just CURRENT, you can have pf on STABLE too: http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ ALTQ is not ready for all interfaces but the apart from that it's fully functional. Have fun, Alex. Reed L. O'Brien wrote: I thought I read in the CURRENT docs somewhere that pf was going to be the default packet

Re: port upgrades

2004-06-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:14:34PM +, Daniela wrote: > On Monday 07 June 2004 17:28, Tim Traver wrote: > >Hi all, > >Is there a way to do a quick update of a particular port directory ??? > >I don't necessarily want to do the portupgrade, but just get the > >latest port files fo

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-07 Thread Ben Paley
On Monday 07 June 2004 16:44, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > Notice the size recorded for this slice is zero. > > If the "cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63" is somewhere > near the reasonable possible geometry description then virtually > the entire disk has been allocated to the FreeBSD slice.

Re: port upgrades

2004-06-07 Thread Daniela
On Monday 07 June 2004 19:35, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:14:34PM +, Daniela wrote: > > On Monday 07 June 2004 17:28, Tim Traver wrote: > > >Hi all, > > >Is there a way to do a quick update of a particular port directory > > > ??? I don't necessarily want to do the

OT: group coding standards

2004-06-07 Thread Goodleaf, John
Hello, I'm abusing the mailing list because many of you are sickeningly clever and have long experience in IT. I'm working to establish a document (yep) providing guidance for our company's small-but-growing IT group with regard to coding standards and practices. It seems rife wi

Re: [from newbies]: XP + FreeBSD

2004-06-07 Thread FreeBsdBeni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 June 2004 20:49, Bill Moran wrote: > "clayton rollins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On June 6, 2004, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >This has probably been answered before, but I was unable to find > > >explicit confirmati

Re: perl -MCPAN problem

2004-06-07 Thread Greg Barniskis
At 02:22 PM 6/6/2004, JJB wrote: When I run perl -MCPAN -e shell from the command line I get "no route to host" message. [snip] I all ready issued this command from the command line setenv FTP_PASSIVE "1" I've had my share of difficulties with this too, in the past, and found that the immediate

Re: port upgrades

2004-06-07 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 07 June 2004 02:01 pm, Daniela wrote: > On Monday 07 June 2004 19:35, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:14:34PM +, Daniela wrote: > > > On Monday 07 June 2004 17:28, Tim Traver wrote: > > > >Hi all, > > > >Is there a way to do a quick update of a particular p

mouse doesn't work correctly

2004-06-07 Thread Janet Doong
Hello Sir, I bought a box of CDROM of FreeBSD couple month ago and try to install to my PC (COMPAQ presario 8000T) with 80G hard drive and Pentium 4 processor. I have followed the instruction of sysinstall to install the software but the mouse alway doesn't work correctly (when I test the mouse, th

Re: NIS - FreeBSD server and Linux clients

2004-06-07 Thread Joe Rhett
Did you enable the insecure option from /var/yp/Makefile so that passwords appear in the passwd map? By default I believe it expects clients to read the master.passwd map, which naturally Linux does not. On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:50:14PM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > > This should work; I've g

Re: OT: group coding standards

2004-06-07 Thread Daniela
On Monday 07 June 2004 20:10, Goodleaf, John wrote: >Hello, >I'm abusing the mailing list because many of you are sickeningly >clever and have long experience in IT. I'm working to establish a >document (yep) providing guidance for our company's >small-but-growing IT group with

Re: OT: group coding standards

2004-06-07 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Goodleaf, John wrote: >the hell out of programmers, but which ensure that legibile, >maintainable code is left? style(9) comes to mind there... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nich

Re: OT: group coding standards

2004-06-07 Thread Joe Rhett
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:55:10PM +, Daniela wrote: > I would have no problems with coding standards that allow you to clean up > _after_ a session, because I lose half of my good ideas while bothering with > coding standards. Good would be some convention where you can just modify > your c

RE: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-07 Thread Roman Kennke
Ok, thank you all for response. As far as I see things now, the best way to upgrade from one stable release to the next is via source upgrade. Configuration files probably need some attention, because mergemaster cannot be run remotely. Upgrading from one major release to the next (4.x -> 5.x) is p

Re: mouse doesn't work correctly

2004-06-07 Thread arden
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 21:38, Janet Doong wrote: > Hello Sir, > > I bought a box of CDROM of FreeBSD couple month ago > and try to install to my PC (COMPAQ presario 8000T) > with 80G hard drive and Pentium 4 processor. > > I have followed the instruction of sysinstall to install the > software but

Re: OT: group coding standards

2004-06-07 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:10:06 -0700 "Goodleaf, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, >I'm abusing the mailing list because many of you are sickeningly >clever and have long experience in IT. I'm working to establish a >document (yep) providing guidance for our company's >small

Re: Printing to a network photosmart printer

2004-06-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Since I've just gotten hold of a shiny new HP PSC photosmart 2510 printer, I'd really like to get some use out of it from my FreeBSD system (don't want to waste it on the Windoze box). Does anyone know if and how this can be done? First, check for informati

Re: port upgrades

2004-06-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:01:15PM +, Daniela wrote: > On Monday 07 June 2004 19:35, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:14:34PM +, Daniela wrote: > > > On Monday 07 June 2004 17:28, Tim Traver wrote: > > > >Hi all, > > > >Is there a way to do a quick update of a par

Re: OT: group coding standards

2004-06-07 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 07 June 2004 02:55 pm, Daniela wrote: > On Monday 07 June 2004 20:10, Goodleaf, John wrote: > >Hello, > >I'm abusing the mailing list because many of you are sickeningly > >clever and have long experience in IT. I'm working to establish > > a document (yep) providing guidance

Re: Please help me understand pciutils output

2004-06-07 Thread Luke
Right now all I can say is that I've got a Netgear FA120 network interface plugged into a USB port and I can't squeeze more than 4Mb/s out of it. It's USB 2.0 compliant and should get close to 100Mb/s. I get faster results out of my old 10Mb ISA card. That almost sounds like the NIC is running

tcllib

2004-06-07 Thread tscheng
Hi freebsd people, i just install devel/tcllib1.6, and it started to do this self-test thing, after it finished it just hanged there, here is the final output: --snipped--- Tests ended at 一 6 07 21時31分54秒 EDT 2004 all.tcl:Total 4841Passed 4741Skipped 85 Failed 15 Source

Trouble with GUI

2004-06-07 Thread Earl Larsen
I was wondering if anyone else is having trouble with their GUI. The trouble that I am having is that the GUI frezes while loading something, GUI sends a kill for itself. And rebooting. I updated FreeBSD 4.9 to 4.10 through cvsup and did a build world.

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Jay Moore
On Monday 07 June 2004 10:29 am, Bill Moran wrote: > > Just make sure they are truly dynamic ips. Many people block ips > > identified as "DSL" connections. Those are not necessarily dynamic ip > > based. The easiest way I've found to learn if your IP address is "listed", and who is listing it

Ernesto Ortiz

2004-06-07 Thread Ernesto Ortiz
I have been doing some research on FreeBSD and I want to use it as my OS but i have no idea on what files I need to download from the ftp sites. If anyone can help with my problem I would appreciate it a lot. I have a really good computer and I am sure that is more than capable of running FreeB

Re: Ernesto Ortiz

2004-06-07 Thread Thorsten von Plotho-Kettner
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:45:35 -0700 "Ernesto Ortiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...But I lack the understanding on what I need to get to install it > in my PC. Just look in here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books

Re: Ernesto Ortiz

2004-06-07 Thread Andreas Carnaily
I recommend you first file to download: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/INSTALL.TXT ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/README.TXT There is ALL information you need and to read this will be much-much faster than you will wait any reply. ALL questi

FreeBSD.org e-mail addresses

2004-06-07 Thread Andreas Carnaily
Hello All! I have a strange question and I couldn't answer it myself in any documentation. Can I get some e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I can, what should I do or who should I be? I need this for working with FreeBSD people and mailing lists. ___ [

fstab

2004-06-07 Thread Joshua Lewis
The last time I edited this file my system ceased to boot. I have made what looks to me like a valid entry. This is the same thing I entered in last time. I am not going to save this but does it look valid to anyone out there? # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump

Re: fstab

2004-06-07 Thread Andreas Carnaily
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 21:39:52 -0700, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The last time I edited this file my system ceased to boot. I have made what looks to me like a valid entry. This is the same thing I entered in last time. I am not going to save this but does it look valid to anyone out

Re: fstab

2004-06-07 Thread Andreas Carnaily
If new disk is not preformatted and have no filesystem it wil not boot. On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 21:39:52 -0700, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The last time I edited this file my system ceased to boot. I have made what looks to me like a valid entry. This is the same thing I entered in last

Re: Converting/Manipulating RPMs for FBSD environment

2004-06-07 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Monday 07 June 2004 01:36 pm, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Gerard Samuel wrote: > > A few weeks ago, I purchased a network printer, but unfortunately, > > I was unable to print to it from FreeBSD. > > They (Brother), recently release LPR drivers for the printer, but > > unfortun

Re: FreeBSD.org e-mail addresses

2004-06-07 Thread dvv
Andreas Carnaily writes: Hello All! I have a strange question and I couldn't answer it myself in any documentation. Can I get some e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I can, what should I do or who should I be? I need this for working with FreeBSD people and mailing lists.

virtual memory allocation

2004-06-07 Thread Odhiambo Washington
My colleague is trying to find the maximum amount of virtual memory that FreeBSD is able to allocate to a program. He's trying 4*1020*1024*1024 for kern.maxdsiz and FreeBSD fries up. Where can we find information on this? Grep-ping through the sources but not good clue ... -Wash http://www.ne

Re: fstab

2004-06-07 Thread Anubis
Joshua Lewis wrote: The last time I edited this file my system ceased to boot. I have made what looks to me like a valid entry. This is the same thing I entered in last time. I am not going to save this but does it look valid to anyone out there? # DeviceMountpoint FStype O

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2004-06-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004, Jay Moore wrote: >On Monday 07 June 2004 10:29 am, Bill Moran wrote: > >> > Just make sure they are truly dynamic ips. Many people block ips >> > identified as "DSL" connections. Those are not necessarily dynamic ip >> > based. > >The easiest way I've found to learn if your

Re: fstab

2004-06-07 Thread Joshua Lewis
> /dev/ad1s1 what? a, d, e, f,g ?? Do I specify? I am using the whole drive. should I change it to /dev/ad1s1a? Thank you, Joshua Lewis Anubis > Joshua Lewis wrote: >> The last time I edited this file my system ceased to boot. I have made >> what >> looks to me like a valid entry. This is th

Help:Lilo killed Beastie!!!

2004-06-07 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, I'm currently using freebsd 4.10 and after installing slackware on the primary partition I have reserved for it, when I booted to Freebsd... These are the errors that I have encountered: Problem: # Manual root filesystem specification : mountroot> I've tried typing ufs:/dev/ad0s1a

Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-07 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I correct this? Any good reading material? Also, what should I do when I shutdown my system incorrectly and boot up again? Last questions! I promise. Is there a file th

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-07 Thread Murray Taylor
Fragmentation is a non-event in 99.999% of cases. It is nothing like micro$lop fragments and (before you ask, no there is no defrag tool, 'cos it is not required) The shutdown question -- well you should not shutdown incorrectly ;-) - see man shutdown and friends (BTW - letting the FreeBSD box

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