Re: MailScanner

2004-12-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi I think you meant to send this to the MailScanner list, but as I'm on both I'll bite.. Should still be going to maillog, possibly along with your MTA. have you changed you syslog.conf settings at all? -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 RL

Re: Typo in: cache-update (portindex) - hangs(?)

2004-12-13 Thread Christopher Illies
Thanks for your reply and sorry for the typo. Yes cache-init also took a couple of hours on my computer, but when it finished i got the command-promt back. But I am having problems with cache-update. I include the last paragraphs of my original post with the typo corrected: for

GPU / GPL

2004-12-13 Thread Amit Pandey
Hi Thinking of adding your version of Linux to my product base , can i do this as well as using any documentation and logos on your site - referring to your site with all texts / logos used Amit ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: GPU / GPL

2004-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
You got the wrong e-mail address, FreeBSD isn't a version of Linux. And, nobody that gets mail to this e-mail address can give you any permission to do anything anyway. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Amit Pandey Sent: Sunday,

Re: Your FreeBSD daemon logo

2004-12-13 Thread Josef Grosch
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:30:03AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD team, we've a question regarding the usage of your FreeBSD daemon logo on our webpage. On http://pan-data.dyndns.org/ccount we provide a free software for market research data analysis for Win, Linux and

Dmesg truncated

2004-12-13 Thread David Erickson
I've been having this problem for quite a whlie but it's never bothered me too much until I had some free time on my hand to look into it. Is there any kernel parameter that could be truncating my dmesg buffer. Dmesg only seems to have 1 line ever buffered which kinda sucks. I do have a custom

cvsup installing hekp

2004-12-13 Thread angelito munez
i wnt to install cvsup.. but i get some error and just stop cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile -h cvsup3.freebsd.org Parsing supfile /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile Connecting to cvsup3.freebsd.org Connected to cvsup3.freebsd.org Server software version: SNAP_16_1e

Re: Typo in: cache-update (portindex) - hangs(?)

2004-12-13 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:55:55 +0100, Christopher Illies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply and sorry for the typo. Yes cache-init also took a couple of hours on my computer, but when it finished i got the command-promt back. But I am having problems with cache-update. I

Re: Platform question

2004-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, I am very interested in using FreeBSD on my old Compaq box, but the only problem is, I can't seem to find where Windows holds the system information. (Stupid Windows) Does anyone have any ideas or know which port I should use? Huh???I can't think of anything you could learn

Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-13 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Is it possible to change the sysctl variable hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize (DMA buffer size for the soundcard) in FreeBSD 4.10? I know that in 5.x this is changed in devices.hints. I'm guessing that something in the kernel config file will do the job, but haven't been able to figure out what. I am

How to distribute MySQL over various machines (or otherwise up its performance)?

2004-12-13 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, I have been asked to assist in a most interesting challenge: getting rid of a Win2K server (running MySQL) on which MySQL takes up around 100% of the CPU. :) I have near total freedom in suggesting a replacement architecture (within some reasonable finacial limits, of course), and I am

Cleaning port config options

2004-12-13 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I was installing the mail/dspam port and the selection of options appeared for configuration, then after selecting, the configuration stopped with an error that I had selected too many back-end options. I did 'make distclean' and 'make clean', but the options list will not appear again for me to

Re: shared memory settings in 5.3

2004-12-13 Thread John
Thank you for the quick reply. That was very helpful. I thought I'd post what I found out for the next poor knob setting up sybase; The default setting of SHMMAXPGS appears to be 8192. Default page size is 4K, which gives you the 33554432 kern.ipc.shmmax value from sysctl. This means (if

Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
In FreeBSD 5.3 you can change the buffersize by adding hint.pcm.0.buffersize=foo to /boot/loader.conf, have you try'ed this with 4.x? Sandy Rutherford wrote: Is it possible to change the sysctl variable hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize (DMA buffer size for the soundcard) in FreeBSD 4.10? I know that in

Re: Cleaning port config options

2004-12-13 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:38:17 -0500 Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was installing the mail/dspam port and the selection of options appeared for configuration, then after selecting, the configuration stopped with an error that I had selected too many back-end options. I did

generating synthetic interrupt load

2004-12-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
How does one go about generating heavy interrupt loads? Running bonnie and nbench (at the same time) does not seem to be able to do it because when I look a systat (iostat) it shows no interrupt load. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:54:53AM -0600, Bomgardner,Jon wrote: As a followup to my last message, I found this in one of the readmes. Partial or complete DDC support is available in most of the video drivers. DDC is enabled by default, but can be disabled with a Device section entry:

5.2.1 install error

2004-12-13 Thread Gable Barber
Hello, I am trying to install FreebSD 5.2.1 from CD, on the following box, I am getting an error when it is installing /usr/ports. The gear: Duron 1000 512meg RAM Mylex Acceleraid 150 (DAC960) 4x9G IBM SCSI drives (7200rpm) The error : anic: free: address 0xc978f00 has not been allocated

Re: generating synthetic interrupt load

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 13), Nikolas Britton said: How does one go about generating heavy interrupt loads? Running bonnie and nbench (at the same time) does not seem to be able to do it because when I look a systat (iostat) it shows no interrupt load. Try something that generates network

Re: Can anyone tell me why my local cvsup mirror is failing?

2004-12-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
stan wrote: I went to update some machines this weekend, to find that my local cvsup mirror is not getting updated. Here is the log file: CVSup update begins at 2004-12-12 11:17:00 Updating from cvsup11.freebsd.org Connected to cvsup11.freebsd.org Updating collection cvs-all/cvs Append to

Re: Typo in: cache-update (portindex) - hangs(?)

2004-12-13 Thread Christopher Illies
The reason cache-update becomes idle is that it is waiting for input: specifically, it's waiting for something from which it can determine the latest changes to your /etc/ports hierarchy. (See the cache-update man page for more details.) In your case, you should just be able to pipe the

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Risdon
Bomgardner,Jon wrote: -Original Message- From: Doug Poland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:54 AM To: Bomgardner,Jon Cc: Henry Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop snip For some reason, FreeBSD and Xorg is only using a small

Re: generating synthetic interrupt load

2004-12-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 13), Nikolas Britton said: How does one go about generating heavy interrupt loads? Running bonnie and nbench (at the same time) does not seem to be able to do it because when I look a systat (iostat) it shows no interrupt load. Try something

FreeBSD support of RealTek sound chips (HP box)?

2004-12-13 Thread Doug Lee
I recently encountered an HP computer with what I regard as a unique built-in sound system based on RealTek chips: It breaks out (under Windows XP anyway) into five devices: one playback device and four recording devices. Most sound systems present one device with both record and playback

Handbook is unclear about the use of maxautovhans

2004-12-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
Excerpt from the handbook: To set the number of virtual channels, there are two sysctl knobs which, if you are the root user, can be set like this: # sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 # sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=4 The above example allocates four virtual channels, which is a practical number for

Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Sandy Rutherford wrote: Is it possible to change the sysctl variable hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize (DMA buffer size for the soundcard) in FreeBSD 4.10? I know that in 5.x this is changed in devices.hints. I'm guessing that something in the kernel config file will do the job, but haven't been able to

Re: GPU / GPL

2004-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi Thinking of adding your version of Linux to my product base , can i do this as well as using any documentation and logos on your site - referring to your site with all texts / logos used FreeBSD is not Linux.It is a different OS. It is not based on Linux.It has a different

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal alternative?

2004-12-13 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:05:23PM -0600, Mike Oliveri wrote: Greetings all, I'm seeking a reasonable alternative to WinXP/2000 Hyperterminal as a console application (for serial port access to a no-graphics card box). Are you looking for something to run under BSD? If so,

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Bomgardner,Jon extolled: Other than that I've just been learning a lot of nifty features like changing the number of rows on the display, changing colors, how to set up a splash screen, etc... Fun times! Thanks, Jon Maybe you can provide some links to some of these nifty features? I

Re: FreeBSD 5.3; hoto migrate from i386 to amd64 mode

2004-12-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Meyendriesch, Burkard wrote: hello folks, on my Athlon64 based box I installed 5-CURRENT about a year ago. Because at that time amd64 mode didn't work very well with a lot of ports I installed FreeBSD in i386 mode. Meanwhile I followed the release path to 5.3.Everything works very fine. Now I

Re: Cleaning port config options

2004-12-13 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 11:00, Miguel Mendez wrote: I was installing the mail/dspam port and the selection of options appeared for configuration, then after selecting, the configuration stopped with an error that I had selected too many back-end options. I did 'make distclean' and 'make

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal alternative?

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 13 December 2004 01:16 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: snip And, on that line of thought, I suppose that kermit is a/the canonical piece of software, traditionally speaking; but last I looked, it was a significant time investment unless you just pick up things like that

Re: When to use 'portupgrade -R'

2004-12-13 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 02:24:02PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: : If you're upgrading gnome2, what you *really* wanna : do is use the FreeBSD-Gnome Project's gnome_upgrade.sh : script. Can't say for sure about gnome-lite, though :-| This never works for me. Somewhere in the

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:05:00PM -0500, Dan Kilbourne wrote: Bomgardner,Jon extolled: Other than that I've just been learning a lot of nifty features like changing the number of rows on the display, changing colors, how to set up a splash screen, etc... Fun times! Thanks, Jon

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:16:10PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote: Here, the contents of my /etc/rc.conf font8x8=iso-8x8 font8x14=iso-8x14 font8x16=iso-8x16 allscreens_flags=80x60 The relevant lines from my kernel config: options VESA These are for my desktop. Some

CVSup Mirror Error (was Re: Fwd: option COMPAT_13 --- Sorry)

2004-12-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Yudi wrote: I'm using freebsd v4.9 I'm finished installed ezm3, but when I configure cvsup especially in : # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile there error for connecting to cvsup server ( I tried mirror on Japan , Korea and Indonesia) What happen and what should I do ??? Thanks, Best regard

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal alternative?

2004-12-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:05:23PM -0600, Mike Oliveri wrote: Greetings all, I'm seeking a reasonable alternative to WinXP/2000 Hyperterminal as a console application (for serial port access to a no-graphics card box). Are you looking for something to run under

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Bomgardner,Jon extolled: enough for me right now) Now I just need to figure out how to do that with the console (tty*). xdpyinfo will help you there drk:drk:[3:37pm]:~ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions dimensions:2304x864 pixels (666x252 millimeters) drk:drk:[3:37pm]:~ Glad to

need help with libchk

2004-12-13 Thread Steven Friedrich
I've been tracking stable and current on a couple machines and doing portupgrades. I noticed that super karamba started acting screwy, so I somehow stumbled across libchk and I ran it and I believe it said something about super karamba having an unresolvable link, so I de/reinstalled

Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.5 (was: I'm confused...)

2004-12-13 Thread Charlie Sorsby
First, thank you for taking time out of your weekend to respond to my query. It's much appreciates. I apologize for taking so long to reply. As you can imagine, my system has been up and down and e-mail with it. On Saturday, 11 December 2004 at 16:26:07 -0700, Charlie Sorsby wrote: Is the

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal alternative?

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 13 December 2004 03:48 pm, dave wrote: Hello, Everytime i've tried to get kermit to terminal, it's either trying to query a modem for dialup or if i can make it not do that I've never tried serial console access. My use has been limited to modems and ethernet. The tutorial at

Re: Qmail Problems

2004-12-13 Thread Mike Grissom
Anyone have an insights to this problem? - Original Message - From: Mike Grissom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 2:59 PM Subject: Qmail Problems I have been having a problem with qmail-send dying for a while now. In the log file it says that

Strange startup behavior on 5.3-release

2004-12-13 Thread Mike Meyer
I'm running 5.3-release, and seeing *very* strange behavior on startup. If I reboot the system, I get the following errors in /var/log/console.log: Dec 13 17:38:59 guru kernel: Starting sshd. Dec 13 17:39:00 guru kernel: sendmail: illegal option -- L Dec 13 17:39:00 guru kernel: sendmail: usage:

Re: just a couple quick pf/nat questions

2004-12-13 Thread Kees Plonsz
dave wrote: Hi, I use to use ipf under pre-5.3. NOw i have switched to pf for various reasons. I have not as of yet deployed it on my router, but i will be doing so. In looking it over, i do not believe pf needs nat_enable it does all it's nats within the pf.conf file. HTH Dave. Why

Re: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ and reboots under load...

2004-12-13 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
I tested with FreeBSD 4.10 and 5.3. The same problem ocurs, when the the machine not reboot, varios coredumps in as/gcc hapens during make buildworld. Hardware: Asus A7V600-X AMD Sempron 2400+ 512MB DDR 400 any ideas ?? On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:28:17 -0600, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Handbook is unclear about the use of maxautovhans

2004-12-13 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 December 2004 18:21, Nikolas Britton wrote: Excerpt from the handbook: To set the number of virtual channels, there are two sysctl knobs which, if you are the root user, can be set like this: # sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 # sysctl

Re: Extended fat32 partition, how to mount ?

2004-12-13 Thread Karel Miklav
Have you: 1. tried mounting ad2s5 and ad2s6? 2. checked the http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists? 3. searched the web (extended logical fat ad0s5 freebsd...)? -- Be well, Karel Miklav ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Strange startup behavior on 5.3-release

2004-12-13 Thread David Jenkins
On Mon, 13 December, 2004 23:56, Mike Meyer said: I'm running 5.3-release, and seeing *very* strange behavior on startup. If I reboot the system, I get the following errors in /var/log/console.log: Dec 13 17:38:59 guru kernel: Starting sshd. Dec 13 17:39:00 guru kernel: sendmail: illegal

Re: Strange startup behavior on 5.3-release

2004-12-13 Thread Gelsema, Patrick
On Mon, 13 December, 2004 23:56, Mike Meyer said: I'm running 5.3-release, and seeing *very* strange behavior on startup. If I reboot the system, I get the following errors in /var/log/console.log: Dec 13 17:38:59 guru kernel: Starting sshd. Dec 13 17:39:00 guru kernel: sendmail: illegal

Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
Ben Washington-Yule wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Ben Washington-Yule wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g. setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3?

Having trouble locating driver for the embedded ethernet controller on Epox 8RD+ Pro with Nforce2 Ultra Chipset

2004-12-13 Thread Bozhidar Batsov
Can you help me with a solution for my problem? I'm pretty sure there are no native drivers for that ethernet adapter and I should use the windows compatibility layer. But I cannot find the ethernet driver distributed stand-alone apart from the entire nforce 2 driver package . Any suggestions?

are you spam?

2004-12-13 Thread Koichi Mori
Dear Administrator, you are always SPAM by my spam filter. please check this URL http://spf.pobox.com/why.html?sender=freebsd.orgip=216.136.204.18 -- Koichi Mori ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

ftp-proxy, how to bind to localhost only addres

2004-12-13 Thread Didier Wiroth
hi, I installed freebsd5.3 on my soekris box. I'm using pf with ftp-proxy (started from inetd). I would like to bind the ftp-proxy to only listen to the localhost. Actually it listens to all adresses. root inetd 2756 4 tcp4 *:8021 How can I do this? In openbsd you set this in

RE: DHCP and 2 subnets

2004-12-13 Thread goose bla
GREAT, it's running for me OK. Thanks very much.. best regards goose - Original Message - From:Joerg Pulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: goose bla [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:03:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: DHCP and 2 subnets

OpenOffice 1.1.3 won't build under FreeBSD 5.3R

2004-12-13 Thread lordbad
I'm trying to install it from the ports.Here is most the error output: /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:360: `jbyte' declared as function re turning a function /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:362: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/include/jni.h:364:

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 won't build under FreeBSD 5.3R

2004-12-13 Thread Simon Burke
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:04:08 +0200, lordbad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install it from the ports.Here is most the error output: snip errors ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/ OOo_1.1.3_src/jurt/source/pipe dmake: Error code 1,

Re: swapfile

2004-12-13 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:35:49AM +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Hi, Checked the manual but couldn't find anything regarding this. If you have created more than one swap file how do you specify them in your rc.conf file ? Manually it works fine but obviously when the machine boots I want

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 won't build under FreeBSD 5.3R

2004-12-13 Thread Bozhidar Batsov
Simon Burke wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:04:08 +0200, lordbad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install it from the ports.Here is most the error output: snip errors ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/ OOo_1.1.3_src/jurt/source/pipe

Re: ftp-proxy, how to bind to localhost only addres

2004-12-13 Thread Paul Culmo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Didier Wiroth wrote: hi, I installed freebsd5.3 on my soekris box. I'm using pf with ftp-proxy (started from inetd). I would like to bind the ftp-proxy to only listen to the localhost. Actually it listens to all adresses.

OpenOffice - Java problems

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
I'm trying to compile OpenOffice 1.1 for FreeBSD 4.10 (may as well exercise the lap-top). After grabbing all the Linuxy bits for Java JDK14, I now find it wants a Solaris library under /compat/svr4/lib (libc.so.2 or similar), and this is found only on a Solaris/86 CD, which of course not

Re: are you spam?

2004-12-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:40:29PM +0900, Koichi Mori wrote: Dear Administrator, you are always SPAM by my spam filter. please check this URL http://spf.pobox.com/why.html?sender=freebsd.orgip=216.136.204.18 Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you believe there is a problem with mail

Re: Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-13 Thread Charles Ulrich
Robert Huff said: Nikolas Britton writes: Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g. setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3? As a general rule, this is _never_ safe. Unless you're prepared to locate

Re: HI

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 13 December 2004 12:25 pm, Leon wrote: Hi, I have unusual question. I have tried to install and configurate FreeBSD but unfortunately I couldn't do it myself. So I would like to know if you can give me a phone number of somebody who lives in Brooklyn, NY with whom I can contact

Re : Re: ftp-proxy, how to bind to localhost only addres

2004-12-13 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hi, Tthis was the output from sockstat: Have you tried changing the * to 127.0.0.1 i.e root inetd 27564 tcp4127.0.0.1:8021 But this is isn't working: 127.0.0.1:ftp-proxy stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftp-proxy ftp-proxy -a 172.16.43.50 -u proxy -n -m

Re: refuse

2004-12-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can somebody change the cvsup program so the refuse file can contain #comments please ? Why not just run it through cpp(1) and use the output? I used to do that with my sendmail configuration... ___ [EMAIL

RE: cannot mount cdrom - not a newbie problem

2004-12-13 Thread Haulmark, Chris
Someone broke the silence: i have a genuine problem here. i noticed my backup cdrw's had stopped working at some point. upon furthur investigation i find i cannot mount cd's full stop. titan# mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /mount cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument Is this a typo of acd0c

Re: cpu temperature

2004-12-13 Thread David Jenkins
On Tue, 14 December, 2004 14:19, Spades said: is there a program to check the cpu's temperature for 4.10-stable? the machine is in remote and i hope to monitor the cpu/system temperature stats via ssh. I use sysutils/xmbmon and it works great. Cheers, David

Re: cannot mount cdrom - not a newbie problem

2004-12-13 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:49 am, Haulmark, Chris wrote: Someone broke the silence: i have a genuine problem here. i noticed my backup cdrw's had stopped working at some point. upon furthur investigation i find i cannot mount cd's full stop. titan# mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /mount

Re: keyboard and x-win freeze up

2004-12-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
T.F. Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i am running freebsd 5.3 (x86) on amd64, not sure what happened, I just found out that my keyboard and x-window are not responsding to me. login from another computer from telnet, and look at dmesg, here it is: The dmesg looks okay. Are you having

IPFW2

2004-12-13 Thread Doloonkhuch
Dear sir, Now I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 release but now I can't compile new kernel with IPFIREWALL_FORWARD option. Please tell me port forwarding work or not work on FreeBSD 5.2.1 release. I think maybe IPFIREWALL options already included. Best regards Doloonkhuch.A

Your FreeBSD daemon logo

2004-12-13 Thread vhoff
Dear FreeBSD team, we've a question regarding the usage of your FreeBSD daemon logo on our webpage. On http://pan-data.dyndns.org/ccount we provide a free software for market research data analysis for Win, Linux and SunOS. Now, as of several requests from FreeBSD users, our intention is to

RE: GPU / GPL

2004-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Amit, There really isn't one because of the nature of the FreeBSD project. Everything that makes up FreeBSD including the documentation of it is licensed under either the GPL/GNU license or the BSD license, or some variant license that is similar to BSD. For example the documentation for

sl0 (serial IP) interface?

2004-12-13 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I can't see slx interface on my freshly installed FreeBSD 5 system even if I add device sl to my kernel configuration file. I have used network_interfaces=sl0 lo0... knob but I couldn't enable that interface. Does something chage between 4 and 5 series related to sl subsystem? Best

RE: Your FreeBSD daemon logo

2004-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Graphic images of the FreeBSD mascot, referred to as the BSD daemon in most literature on the subject, are copyright by the artists that draw them. You must get permission from those artists. For example, Marshall Kirk McKusick drew these here and if you use any of them you must get his

FreeBSD 5.3; hoto migrate from i386 to amd64 mode

2004-12-13 Thread Meyendriesch, Burkard
hello folks, on my Athlon64 based box I installed 5-CURRENT about a year ago. Because at that time amd64 mode didn't work very well with a lot of ports I installed FreeBSD in i386 mode. Meanwhile I followed the release path to 5.3.Everything works very fine. Now I want to use the full power

Re: cvsup installing hekp

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Kilbourne
angelito munez extolled: i wnt to install cvsup.. but i get some error and just stop What is the error? I do not see it listed here. -- ___ Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal alternative?

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Colin J. Raven extolled: Greetings all, I'm seeking a reasonable alternative to WinXP/2000 Hyperterminal as a console application (for serial port access to a no-graphics card box). Are you looking for something to run under BSD? If so, minicom is great. /usr/ports/comms/minicom/ --

Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Henry Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 4:28 PM To: Bomgardner,Jon Subject: RE: Xorg/laptop As a followup to my last message, I found this in one of the readmes. Partial or complete DDC support is available in most of the video

Can anyone tell me why my local cvsup mirror is failing?

2004-12-13 Thread stan
I went to update some machines this weekend, to find that my local cvsup mirror is not getting updated. Here is the log file: CVSup update begins at 2004-12-12 11:17:00 Updating from cvsup11.freebsd.org Connected to cvsup11.freebsd.org Updating collection cvs-all/cvs Append to

Re: Cleaning port config options

2004-12-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was installing the mail/dspam port and the selection of options appeared for configuration, then after selecting, the configuration stopped with an error that I had selected too many back-end options. I did 'make distclean' and 'make clean', but

RE: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Doug Poland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:54 AM To: Bomgardner,Jon Cc: Henry Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop snip For some reason, FreeBSD and Xorg is only using a small square in

Re: IPFW2

2004-12-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Doloonkhuch wrote: Dear sir, Now I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 release but now I can't compile new kernel with IPFIREWALL_FORWARD option. Please tell me port forwarding work or not work on FreeBSD 5.2.1 release. I think maybe IPFIREWALL options already included. Best regards Doloonkhuch.A There is

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal alternative?

2004-12-13 Thread Mike Oliveri
I just went throught he same, myself. I like minicom, and I also found CuteCom (http://cutecom.sourceforge.net/) a nice one with a GUI. This one doesn't dial, however. Just console connections. Take care, Mike www.mikeoliveri.com On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:48:43 -0500, Dan Kilbourne [EMAIL

Re: Platform question

2004-12-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Micheal Mand wrote: Hello, I am very interested in using FreeBSD on my old Compaq box, but the only problem is, I can't seem to find where Windows holds the system information. (Stupid Windows) Does anyone have any ideas or know which port I should use? Thanks in advance for any help, Mike

RE: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Peter Risdon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 11:08 AM To: Bomgardner,Jon Cc: Henry Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop snip OK, so I found a BIOS option that enabled me to stretch the

Re: Cleaning port config options

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Robert Fitzpatrick extolled: On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 11:00, Miguel Mendez wrote: Can there possibly be anything else not getting cleaned up? -- Robert Did you look in /var/db/ports/ ? There may be something in there that is missed by make rmconfig -- ___ Dan

RE: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Dan Kilbourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 1:05 PM To: Bomgardner,Jon Cc: Peter Risdon; Henry Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop Bomgardner,Jon extolled: Other than that I've just been

just a couple quick pf/nat questions

2004-12-13 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Ok, I'm slowly coming out of the fog here, but it looks like I might still have a way to go. I finally found the part in the handbook that said I didn't have to compile in the IPFW* and IPDIVERT configs into the kernel *UNLESS* I wanted NAT. Well, I do, but I didn't comple the kernel with

Re: Qmail Problems

2004-12-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-13 14:53, Mike Grissom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Grissom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been having a problem with qmail-send dying for a while now. In the log file it says that alert: oh no! lost spawn connection which leads me to believe the problem is with the

Re: just a couple quick pf/nat questions

2004-12-13 Thread dave
Hi, I use to use ipf under pre-5.3. NOw i have switched to pf for various reasons. I have not as of yet deployed it on my router, but i will be doing so. In looking it over, i do not believe pf needs nat_enable it does all it's nats within the pf.conf file. HTH Dave.

Extrange behavior using ppp, pf and altq on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-13 Thread Mauricio Brunstein
Please help! I am new to FreeBSD, and UNIX in general but form the beginning I'm fascinated. I had configured a FreeBSD 5.3 machine to be the Firewall/gateway of 8 windows PC's. The machine has 2 interfaces one (fxp0) is connected to the ADSL modem and the another (rl0) is connected to a switch

dspam

2004-12-13 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On our FreeBSD 5.2.1 box, I have postfix-2.1.5 running with amavisd-new-2.2.0 and Spamassassin-3.0. All works well and thinking of incorporating dspam. This postfix server serves as a transport only, no local user other than admin users. Does anyone have this type of setup going and possibly some

Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-13 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:59:51 -0600, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In FreeBSD 5.3 you can change the buffersize by adding hint.pcm.0.buffersize=foo to /boot/loader.conf, have you try'ed this with 4.x? Yes. Here are the contents of my /boot/loader.conf file: [szamoca:6] cat

Re: just a couple quick pf/nat questions

2004-12-13 Thread Jay Moore
On Monday 13 December 2004 02:35 pm, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Still, I'm planning to migrate to pf, since it's supposed to be better. It seems (from my murky understanding) like it would make tricky NAT stuff easier, so there would be some benefits (battle.net, here I come :). Problem is, it

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 83, Issue 4

2004-12-13 Thread microkernel
Message: 1 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:23:07 -0500 From: Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cleaning port config options To: Miguel Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 11:00,

Re: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ and reboots under load...

2004-12-13 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:19:25 -0600 (CST), draconius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are your temperatures inside the case? what kind of cooling / airflow do you have in the case? I have had heat problems before due to bad airflow in the case where all the hot air concentraded around the

Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:59:51 -0600, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In FreeBSD 5.3 you can change the buffersize by adding hint.pcm.0.buffersize=foo to /boot/loader.conf, have you try'ed this with 4.x? Yes. Here are the contents of my

Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-13 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:08:02 -0600, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm not sure if it makes a difference but 8192 is not in quotes like I have in my working example and man device.hints says it should look like this: hint.driver.unit.keyword=value, I added the quotes, but

Safe to just rebuild kernel after cvsuping src?

2004-12-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE, i.g. setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: just a couple quick pf/nat questions

2004-12-13 Thread Mauricio Brunstein
And are there any pf config generation pages out there yet? Look at this: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/06/26/ssn_openbsd.html?page=1 Regards, Mauricio ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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