Re: How to get out of GNOME?

2004-10-31 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:27:41PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: Andrew Jones wrote: Jay O'Brien wrote: Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running? ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit. Nope. It doesn't work for me. With gdm/X running,

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 03:20:39PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on the motherboard is fine,

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: Here is a better idea! Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram). Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the dumpster. Step 3: Install

Re: Soekris engineering routers

2004-10-31 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 08:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: IIRC one set of scripts and utilities for creating a minimal FreeBSD for Soekris is called MiniBSD. You probably mean nanobsd, on FreeBSD 5.X: /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd Cheers, cpghost. -- Cordula's Web.

Re: vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....

2004-10-31 Thread matt virus
nobody ??? matt virus wrote: Hi all! I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5 array with. the devices are: ad4ad11 All drives have been fdisk'd and such, ad4s1d.ad11s1d The first step of setting up vinum is changing the disklabel disklabel -e /dev/ad4 The

Re: How to get out of GNOME? (resolved)

2004-10-31 Thread Jay O'Brien
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:27:41PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: Andrew Jones wrote: Jay O'Brien wrote: Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running? ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit. Nope. It doesn't work for me. With

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread Dick Davies
* Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1036 04:36]: On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200 Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to be used as temporary routers. They

The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-10-10 - 2004-10-30

2004-10-31 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list

Re: How to print to hp JetDirect/LaserJet

2004-10-31 Thread Jay O'Brien
Mike Jeays wrote: Add rm=192.168.1.40 to the /etc/printcap entry. My example is (faraday is the name of the machine with the printer): lp|hp710c:\ :lp=::rm=faraday:rp=lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sd=/var/spool/lpd:mx#0: Mike, Thanks much, but that doesn't work for me. I also tried

5.3-RC1 problem with SiI 3114 (Tyan S2882 in i386 mode) with some disks

2004-10-31 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Hi I have a Tyan S2882 dual opteron running 5.3-RC1 (I think -- uname says 5.3-STABLE but I did it soon after RC1 came out -- I must have misread which branch to synch with). I have 1 WD 36GB Raptor SATA drive and 2 WD 200GB SATA drives. These are not the boot drives or anything. An Adaptec

Raidframe problem

2004-10-31 Thread Lorant Leopold
Hi All, I have a pair of IDE disks which have FreeBSD 4.9 installed on them on two mirrored (raid1) raidframe partitions: raid0 mounted as / raid1 as /usr Something went wrong with this installation as it hangs at the startup, regardless whether one or both disks are present and I am not able to

Re: How to get out of GNOME? (resolved)

2004-10-31 Thread yuri van Overmeeren
Jay O'Brien wrote: Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:27:41PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: Andrew Jones wrote: Jay O'Brien wrote: Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running? ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but

Re: FireFox crash on Print

2004-10-31 Thread Jason Taylor
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: Why don't you try a fresh cvsup of your ports tree. Then, upgrade to firefox-1.0.1.p_4. I think that's pretty much taken care of the problem for anyone who's done that. Don -- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] FWIW, I'm seeing the same problem. aurvandil# pkg_info | grep

Re: ACX100 Firmware Licensing

2004-10-31 Thread Jay Moore
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 11:16 am, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Compared to other types of hardware, the support for wireless cards is lacking on *BSD because many vendors don't provide documentation or the cards require the upload of a binary firmware image that, absurdly as it sounds, may

Re: Soekris engineering routers

2004-10-31 Thread Jay Moore
On Saturday 30 October 2004 07:45 pm, LiQuiD wrote: I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a hard drive. Has anyone

Re: Compatible NIC

2004-10-31 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 29 October 2004 at 18:09:25 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/29/04 3:27:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just voiced my opinion. If you want to use them, feel free. Use 5.2.1. with the rl driver. Have the slowest server on the block. What

Exim with Courier Maildir

2004-10-31 Thread Kevin Gilpin
Hi, I have been tasked with moving our current sendmail system currently running on fedora to Exim with Courier Imap using Maildir on FreeBSD. Does any one know of any good howto to carry out this operation. Thanks in advance Zen ___

Re: entertainment side of fbsd

2004-10-31 Thread Henrik W Lund
asolomon15 wrote: I was woundering if anyone ever got a game called Unreal Tournament 2004 running on freebsd? I did google search but didn't find anything. Greetings! I got UT2K3 working all right on my old i386 box. You need to enable Linux emulation, as there only exists builds of that game

Re: cvsup....base and prefix???

2004-10-31 Thread Henrik W Lund
Aaron P. Martinez wrote: I have successfully used cvsup a few times now...and i am comfortable with what the base and the prefix do. My question is why would someone put things in different locations than for instance./usr for both base and/or prefix? I have seen a few different

FreeBSD support of 3Com 3C2000-T NIC

2004-10-31 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, is 3Com gigabit 3C2000-T nic supported in FreeBSD4/5? If not, which gigabit nic can you recommend to use? thank you. -- martin hudec * 421 907 303 393 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.aeternal.net Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception

mysql and system/nice cpu usage

2004-10-31 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I have web server which uses php+mysql. As far as I have searched the best thing to use mysql on FreeBSD is to use linuxthreads. For the performance and stability I have done following things on my FreeBSD-4.X Stable system: Compile mysql with linuxthreads and as static binary. I have

Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage

2004-10-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Omer Faruk Sen wrote: I have web server which uses php+mysql. As far as I have searched the best thing to use mysql on FreeBSD is to use linuxthreads. [ ... ] 240 processes: 7 running, 233 sleeping CPU states: 10.9% user, 73.9% nice, 12.5% system, 2.7% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 244M Active,

Re: Soekris engineering routers

2004-10-31 Thread David Kelly
On Oct 31, 2004, at 1:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 08:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: IIRC one set of scripts and utilities for creating a minimal FreeBSD for Soekris is called MiniBSD. You probably mean nanobsd, on FreeBSD 5.X: /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd Thats

Re: vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....

2004-10-31 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 31 okt 2004, at 07:41, matt virus wrote: nobody ??? OK I'll give it a try. I have a vinum RAID 1 running though, but the way to get it tunning isn't very different. matt virus wrote: Hi all! I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5 array with. the devices are:

Re: ACX100 Firmware Licensing

2004-10-31 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Sunday, 31. October 2004 09:51, Jay Moore wrote: 2) Wouldn't voting with your pocketbook be more persuasive than whining? I recently bought two WiFI cards that use the Prism chipset (seattlewireless.net) 'cause they've got better support in the systems I use. This purchase represents a

compiling openoffice 1.1.3 error

2004-10-31 Thread FreeBsdBeni
Hi, I'm trying to install openoffice 1.1.3 from the ports, but keep getting the following error message : checking for X11/extensions/XIElib.h... no configure: error: Could not compile basic X program. === Script configure failed unexpectedly. Please direct the output of the failure of the

MySQL not responding

2004-10-31 Thread steveb99
I have a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server with Apache 2, mod_php4, and MySQL4. Individually all the pieces work. Apache up and serving pages, PHP pages work, and MySQL is working and I restored my databases from a Linux project. I also moved all my working code from an old Linux project. I also checked the

Re: VPN questions

2004-10-31 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Chris PPTP works also behind NAT and key is 128 bit long. In most parts 12b bit are enough. PPTP is also a vpn solutions. Am Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:28:10PM -0400 Chris Shenton schrieb: Aaron P. Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggest looking at openvpn, it is a ssl based vpn

Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-31 Thread Michael L. Squires
Search the freebsd-messages mailing list, I think there is a web site which discusses Oracle installations later than 7.x. The other method I've seen discussed is to set up a LINUX box and install on that onto an NFS mounted directory (which has the same directory path on both the FreeBSD and

Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage

2004-10-31 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Everything that is stated in tuning man page was done. What is interesting that this site was running more than 8 months without problem. But a few weeks ago system was started to behave like that. By the way isn't it interesting that mysql creates load on system and nice? I think mysql

Determining original FBSD version

2004-10-31 Thread Gerard Samuel
I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world. If there is way to find out, that it would be interesting to know. If

Re: MySQL not responding

2004-10-31 Thread David Jenkins
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:51:41 -0800, steveb99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server with Apache 2, mod_php4, and MySQL4. Individually all the pieces work. Apache up and serving pages, PHP pages work, and MySQL is working and I restored my databases from a Linux project. I

Re: Determining original FBSD version

2004-10-31 Thread jason
Gerard Samuel wrote: I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world. If there is way to find out, that it would be

Re: Soekris engineering routers

2004-10-31 Thread Chris Howells
On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:45, LiQuiD wrote: I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a hard drive. Has anyone

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sun, 31 Oct 2004 it looks like Emanuel Strobl composed: Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more

Re: Compatible NIC

2004-10-31 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/31/04 5:00:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No one is forcing you to read anything. I never copy you on anythere, I'm not sure what anythere means, but by sending messages to the mailing list, you're copying Kris and everybody else who is on the

5.3-RC1 - Hangs on high net load(?)

2004-10-31 Thread Joshua Beard
After upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3-RC1 (including a recompile of all ports), I noticed my system locking up when there was a high network load. A common way to reproduce this is to run a BiTTorrent client and, say, copy a file to another local machine over NFS. The computer does not respond to

A question about X

2004-10-31 Thread baguio_sun
Hi! I have Freebsd 5.1 installed (never cvsup'ed). Yesterday my box was running all the day(without rebooting), and during that time i've installed many of ports(Krusader, Psi, mplayer, and so on). Everything was fine, but when I booted freebsd today, typed startx, (I'm using GNOME), I found,

Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage

2004-10-31 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/31/04 11:03:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but never come across with a problem like that. I am thinking to use Zend Optimizer. Maybe that helps me .. If that doesn't help I was thinking to run sql on a seperate machine. You might try tuning

Re: 5.3-RC1 - Hangs on high net load(?)

2004-10-31 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/31/04 11:56:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3-RC1 (including a recompile of all ports), I noticed my system locking up when there was a high network load. A common way to reproduce this is to run a BiTTorrent client

A simple question

2004-10-31 Thread baguio_sun
Hi! Can anyone tell me the size of folder '/usr/src' when the cvsup is complete? I ran cvsup 8 hours ago and it's still running ... my network is very slow... :( Thanks in advance! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: ACX100 Firmware Licensing

2004-10-31 Thread Jay Moore
On Sunday 31 October 2004 07:41 am, Michael Nottebrock wrote: 2) Wouldn't voting with your pocketbook be more persuasive than whining? I recently bought two WiFI cards that use the Prism chipset (seattlewireless.net) 'cause they've got better support in the systems I use. This purchase

DVD burners

2004-10-31 Thread R. W.
I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new double-layer type. Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid? My computer is a 700 MHz P3 coppermine with 512 Mbytes of PC100 ram, is it going to be fast enough? TIA

Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage

2004-10-31 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi The oid you are talking about is not valid in FreeBSD-4. Maybe you are talking about FreeBSD-5 sysctl oids? But it does worth to try but I am not sure which oid it is in FreeBSD 4.. REGARDS PS: I have found vm.kvm_size. I think it is the one that corresponds in your email? [EMAIL

Re: ACX100 Firmware Licensing

2004-10-31 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Sunday, 31. October 2004 18:21, Jay Moore wrote: And I think you may under-estimate just how many people and organizations are using open source and/or free software. No, it doesn't work that way. You as a *BSD/Linux user were never meant to purchase a $40 wireless NIC with a TI chipset

Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage

2004-10-31 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
By the way here is my vmstat -m output: Memory statistics by bucket size Size In Use Free Requests HighWater Couldfree 16 105747917787211280 0 32 653 16512086878 640 19 64 130358 18122 19867705 320 27489 128 3120 2032

Re: ACX100 Firmware Licensing

2004-10-31 Thread Jay Moore
On Sunday 31 October 2004 11:36 am, Michael Nottebrock wrote: And I think you may under-estimate just how many people and organizations are using open source and/or free software. No, it doesn't work that way. You as a *BSD/Linux user were never meant to purchase a $40 wireless NIC with a

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- Why going outside and searching the internet? You have a complete operating system, and it's one of the best documented out there. Just 'man ata', 'man atacontrol' and 'man gmirror'. Remember that FreeBSD isn't just a hacked kernel with lots of

Re: A simple question

2004-10-31 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 11:20:08PM +0600, baguio_sun wrote: Hi! Can anyone tell me the size of folder '/usr/src' when the cvsup is complete? About 350 MB. I ran cvsup 8 hours ago and it's still running ... my network is very slow... :( If you have a slow network connection, then it can

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 19:01 schrieb Matthias F. Brandstetter: -- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- Why going outside and searching the internet? You have a complete operating system, and it's one of the best documented out there. Just 'man ata', 'man atacontrol' and 'man

how to convert a non-RAID system to gmirror?

2004-10-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have two disk ad0 and ad2. FreeBSD 5.3 is installed on ad0, I can boot from it. Now I want to create a software RAID via gmirror with ad2. My question is: how can I create the array with the spare disk so that I can reboot from it without loosing any data or reinstall the whole

Re[2]: A simple question

2004-10-31 Thread DanGer
Hello baguio_sun, Sunday, October 31, 2004, 7:23:06 PM, you wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 11:20:08PM +0600, baguio_sun wrote: Hi! Can anyone tell me the size of folder '/usr/src' when the cvsup is complete? About 350 MB. I ran cvsup 8 hours ago and it's still running ... my network

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- You can use 'atacontrol detach' then powerdown, replace the drive and after booting you can 'atacontrol addspar ar0 ad6' (or what ever drive and array failed) and 'atacontrol rebuild ar0'. Problem is, that man page says atacontrol rebuild is only

Admin-visible differences between 4.10 and 5.3

2004-10-31 Thread Paul Hoffman
Greetings again. At one point, I think I heard that there was going to be a big change in the bootup (rc.foo) stuff in FreeBSD 5, but I don't see anything about that in the Early Adopter Guide. Assuming that I'm quite comfortable with day-to-day system administration under FreeBSD 4 but want

Re: Determining original FBSD version

2004-10-31 Thread Gerard Samuel
jason wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world. If there is way to find out, that

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter -- Problem is, that man page says atacontrol rebuild is only valid on RAID capable ATA controllers. But since I have no such controller, I can't use this command. Ahh, would it be possible to dd data to the new disk? And if yes: Is this the

5.3-STABLE slower than 5.3-beta3 (gnome)

2004-10-31 Thread Jorge Mario G.
Hi there I just upgraded from beta3 to STABLE (NO -RELEASE this time) and gnome takes like 10 secs more to start any particular reasson for that??? the scheudeler swtch maybe? it's not a conf file I think I've checked everthing PS: the boot time improved a lot Jorge

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: Here is a better idea! Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram). Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the

Re: A question about X

2004-10-31 Thread Subhro
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:09:36 +0600, baguio_sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #XFree86 -version XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 [ELF] Build Date: 24 May 2003 # I would recommend you to

Re: DVD burners

2004-10-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
R. W. wrote: I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new double-layer type. Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid? Your mileage may vary. Consider: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/hcn.html My computer is a 700 MHz P3 coppermine with

Re: DVD burners

2004-10-31 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:30:05 + R. W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new double-layer type. Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid? I have a Plextor PX-708 that is working perfectly on a 5.3-STABLE, but

Re: Xorg86 -config error

2004-10-31 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Yes, it's a 6 year old Gateway Laptop. I thought this informations was for new users of their port system. Anyway, I found a solution. I installed v5.2.1 on it. I still have a few errors that I am working out, but the Xserver starts fine. I'll start a new thread for them. Lloyd Hayes Email:

External Hard drive

2004-10-31 Thread Lloyd Hayes
I took the 10 GB hard drive out of a 4 year old laptop, which had died, and put it into a generic hard drive box, which connects to my laptop by USB cable. It pulls it's power from the computer. It sometimes worked with Windows 98SE. But it would not work with Windows 98SE if I also had my

xfmail install problem.

2004-10-31 Thread Lloyd Hayes
I replaced v5.3 with v5.2.1. I have a few problems and errors, that I'll setup as separate threads. During the install process, xfmail was read, but would not install. It said to refer to the error log. 1st, I'm not familiar with the log and can't find information about it. (Or else I am

WiFi 802.11b or g setup

2004-10-31 Thread Lloyd Hayes
I have several wifi modems. I've read where the Linksys 802.11b seems the most compatable with UNIX type systems. I bought this one recently. I also have the US Robodics 802.11g, Netware 802.11b, and a generic wavelan 802.11b PCMCIA card. I have yet to get any of these to work under a UNIX

Re: Admin-visible differences between 4.10 and 5.3

2004-10-31 Thread David Jenkins
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:49:07 -0700, Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings again. At one point, I think I heard that there was going to be a big change in the bootup (rc.foo) stuff in FreeBSD 5, but I don't see anything about that in the Early Adopter Guide. Assuming that I'm quite

Re: Admin-visible differences between 4.10 and 5.3

2004-10-31 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 8:02 PM + 10/31/04, David Jenkins wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:49:07 -0700, Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings again. At one point, I think I heard that there was going to be a big change in the bootup (rc.foo) stuff in FreeBSD 5, but I don't see anything about that in the

ipfw configuration to intercept SMTP traffic

2004-10-31 Thread Bill Eccles
Gentleones, I have a commercial website/mail product running on a box. Unfortunately, the product is not so smart and when it needs to bounce something, it ignores the SMTP Always Relay Via setting and attempts to connect directly to the mail exchanger for the domain it's bouncing to. So what I

Re: sun box

2004-10-31 Thread Scott W
Hexren wrote: KC Hi there KC Two very simple questions, can I run FreeBSD on a Sun box and is it possible to run BSD on VMware KC Kim KC ___ KC [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list KC http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions KC To

Re: Determining original FBSD version

2004-10-31 Thread Eihab E. Ibrahim
- Original Message - From: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsdquestions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:20 PM Subject: Determining original FBSD version I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to

Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-31 Thread Jon Adams
Michael L. Squires wrote: Search the freebsd-messages mailing list, I think there is a web site which discusses Oracle installations later than 7.x. I am using a tutorial I found using this method, but this person's install didn't run into the ins_precomp.mk bug which requires the glibc

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 19:42 schrieb Matthias F. Brandstetter: -- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- You can use 'atacontrol detach' then powerdown, replace the drive and after booting you can 'atacontrol addspar ar0 ad6' (or what ever drive and array failed) and 'atacontrol

Re: sun box

2004-10-31 Thread Jon Adams
Scott W wrote: Hexren wrote: KC Hi there KC Two very simple questions, can I run FreeBSD on a Sun box and is it possible to run BSD on VMware http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html there are a long list of supported hardware using the Sun Sparc chip, essentially everything except stuff

Re: missing kernel and kernel.old

2004-10-31 Thread M. Warner Losh
because the kernel now lives in /boot/kernel Warner ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread Luke
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using old computers I have some general tips for you: 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc. http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml To go off on a bit of a

Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage

2004-10-31 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/31/04 12:35:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi The oid you are talking about is not valid in FreeBSD-4. Maybe you are talking about FreeBSD-5 sysctl oids? But it does worth to try but I am not sure which oid it is in FreeBSD 4.. REGARDS PS: I

Re: 5.3-RC1 - Hangs on high net load(?)

2004-10-31 Thread TM4525
Are you certain that its not NFS that's locking up? Certainly the use of NFS muddies the issue, as it doesnt like losing packets and isn't very eloquent in its handling of adversity. I'm positive. The machine itself locks up. I cannot ctrl+alt+del, can't switch VCs; it freezes. NFS isn't

Re: Determining original FBSD version

2004-10-31 Thread jason
Gerard Samuel wrote: jason wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world. If there is

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- I don't know why this is in the man page, last time I read it (some years ago) it was not in there. You can use the rebuild command also on non-raid controllers, at least it was possible for me when I did some tests about 3 months ago. As I can see

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- Problem is, that man page says atacontrol rebuild is only valid on RAID capable ATA controllers. But since I have no such controller, I can't use this command. I don't know why this is in the man page, last time I read it (some years ago) it

FreeBSD box as a VOIP gateway for calling card co.

2004-10-31 Thread Hadi Maleki-Baroogh
Hi, Anyone have any howto pages or any web sites where I can find on setting up a freebsd box as a voip gateway for a phone card co im looking into? _ MSNĀ® Calendar keeps you organized and takes the effort out of scheduling

Re: ipfw configuration to intercept SMTP traffic

2004-10-31 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:39, Bill Eccles wrote: Gentleones, I have a commercial website/mail product running on a box. Unfortunately, the product is not so smart and when it needs to bounce something, it ignores the SMTP Always Relay Via

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
Luke wrote: If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using old computers I have some general tips for you: 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc. http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml To go off

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread R. W.
On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:54, Luke wrote: If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using old computers I have some general tips for you: 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc.

my /var is full when I pkg_add --r openoffice

2004-10-31 Thread Jian Guang Xu
Is there any way I could resize this partition? PEARLBSD# df Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a253678 139846 9353860%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s3e253678 108 233276 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s3f 10275212

Re: FreeBSD box as a VOIP gateway for calling card co.

2004-10-31 Thread Eihab E. Ibrahim
- Original Message - From: Hadi Maleki-Baroogh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 1:39 AM Subject: FreeBSD box as a VOIP gateway for calling card co. Hi, Anyone have any howto pages or any web sites where I can find on setting up a freebsd box as a

Will this program work as a server program?

2004-10-31 Thread H Boyer
I am the president of the worlds smallist film and video online school.The Hirsute film Institute juet recieved its 501c3 this year.Now I need to learn how to operate a server program and some revevant IT techie stuff.The objective is to start putting up the schools actual web site then find

Re: Determining original FBSD version

2004-10-31 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:59, Gerard Samuel wrote: jason wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. Usually I upgrade the

Re: Will this program work as a server program?

2004-10-31 Thread Eihab E. Ibrahim
- Original Message - From: H Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 3:09 AM Subject: Will this program work as a server program? I am the president of the worlds smallist film and video online school.The Hirsute film

Is my computer under spec?

2004-10-31 Thread Loren M. Lang
I have been having performance problems with my computer for months, ever since I did a fresh install of freebsd 5.2.1. I thought the situation might change after debugging was turned off in RELENG_5 so I upgraded a couple weeks ago to 5.3-BETA7, but only saw slight improvements. I'm running

Re: ipfw configuration to intercept SMTP traffic

2004-10-31 Thread Bill Eccles
Actually, you bring up an interesting point that, yes, I'd forgotten about natd. However, I realized after watching a tcpdump that the outgoing port is a random port--only the destination port is 25 on the upstream box. So, somehow I have to rig up something that listens for an SMTP connection

Re: Determining original FBSD version

2004-10-31 Thread Gerard Samuel
Jeremy Faulkner wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:59, Gerard Samuel wrote: jason wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes.

Re: Is my computer under spec?

2004-10-31 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]... I have been having performance problems with my computer for months, ever since I did a fresh install of freebsd 5.2.1. I thought the situation might change after debugging was turned off in RELENG_5 so I upgraded a couple weeks ago

Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
Jon Adams wrote: BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in this hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current setup as much as possible. What about PostgreSQL? :-) I had a hard enough

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:54:33PM -0800, Luke wrote: To go off on a bit of a tangent here, I find the idea of replacing hard drives with flash memory intriguing. When I first heard someone talk about doing this several years ago, the idea was quickly shot down by people saying that flash

Re: Is my computer under spec?

2004-10-31 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 00:35, Loren M. Lang wrote: I have been having performance problems with my computer for months, ever since I did a fresh install of freebsd 5.2.1. I thought the situation might change after debugging was turned off in RELENG_5 so I upgraded a couple weeks ago to

Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-31 Thread Jon Adams
Nikolas Britton wrote: Jon Adams wrote: BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in this hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current setup as much as possible. What about PostgreSQL? :-)

Re: my /var is full when I pkg_add --r openoffice

2004-10-31 Thread Matt Navarre
On Sunday 31 October 2004 04:02, Jian Guang Xu wrote: Is there any way I could resize this partition? PEARLBSD# df Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a253678 139846 9353860%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s3e

Re: throttling cpu speed to run cooler

2004-10-31 Thread jason
Hanspeter Roth wrote: On Oct 30 at 13:42, jason spoke: man acpi_thermal and man acpi. There are sysctl knobs to throttle your cpu. I have 5.3-RC1 GENERIC and acpi enabled on a Centrino and on a Sempron but no hw.acpi.thermal. What is required to make hw.acpi.thermal appear? -Hanspeter

USB Double-layer DVD Burner

2004-10-31 Thread Choy Kho Yee
I am thinking of buying a USB double-layer DVD Burner to backup my data from both my desktop and laptop. And perhaps some multimedia contents occasionally. What should I take note of when choosing one? Thanks. --- Choy Kho Yee url: http://dotkoyi.infoseek.ne.jp/ blog: http://dotkoyi.blogspot.com/

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