Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:49:29PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On 11/9/05, John Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember back a while when 5.x had been recently released as STABLE and the conventional wisdom said not to use it in production until the 5.3 release. Is there any such

adding a second hard drive

2005-11-10 Thread Dave Webster
To solve a problem I'm having with /var running out of space, I decided to add a second hard drive. I found info at freebsd.org on adding disks using sysinstall and followed the advice. The old disk is a Maxtor 6Y080L0 80G as ad0 and the new disk is a Maxtor 6Y120P0 as ad3. I ran sysinstall,

FreeBSD 6 DVD

2005-11-10 Thread stefanos sofroniou
Dear sirs, I would like to know when you will release the official FreeBSD 6 DVD so I can purchase it from FreeBSDMall. Also I want to know what is including this DVD. I think must be like other UNIX-like environments that have all the OS files plus some extra software that you can download them

RE: Configuring default 6.0 install to send mail

2005-11-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brooke Landers Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:38 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Configuring default 6.0 install to send mail Hello list. I am learning FreeBSD and I'd like to know how to

RE: Configuring default 6.0 install to send mail

2005-11-10 Thread Mario Lobo
On 9 Nov 2005 at 19:20, Gayn Winters wrote: Check out section 22.8 of the Handbook regarding ssmtp. -gayn Acctually, it´s section 23.8 -- //| //|| // | // || -//--//---|| ARIO LOBO // //|| - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ipad.com.br

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
There are some things broken in 5.4 that are still broken in 6.0 with regards to support of older hardware. In particular the ida driver is a mess - EISA support in that was busted years ago, then 5.X busted support for more 'modern' systems like the Compaq 1600R HP DL series of systems are

Out of range starting Xorg on dual display

2005-11-10 Thread Pat Maddox
I've got a dual display setup, and it had been working fine once I finally got the config done. They're two displays running off one graphics card, one through the DVI output and one through the D-SUB. Today I had to switch the inputs that the monitors use, and it just doesn't work anymore. I

Re: Masquerading Virtual domains in sendmail

2005-11-10 Thread Ahnjoan Amous
On 11/9/05, Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing sendmail.8.13.3 on FBSD 5.4 on node.domain1.com. I've configured /etc/mail/local-host-names to accept mail for domain1.com and domain2.com. My user names look like bob.domain1.com and (a different Bob) bob.domain2.com.

Re: Mysql server not able to stay running on anything but Linux?

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Bastedo
Hey everyone, Not trying to beat a dead horse or anything but was wondering if any resolution was found for this on either end. We are about to launch another site and can easily forsee my load getting close to this size within 6 months. Just need to find out any concerns with growth we might have

Upgrading to 6.0 - Would this backup strategy work?

2005-11-10 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, I'm thinking of upgrading my 5.4 box to 6.0 mainly becuase I've never done a buildworld I've always installed a fresh. The box is not production quality just something for me to learn BSD on. I have a 7006-2 3ware raid controller miroring on 2 drives. If I was to remove one of the drives

Re: After 6.0-RELEASE, still cannot find ATA disk com VIA8235

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/10/05, João Carlos Mendes Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After 5.4-RELEASE I did try to install FreeBSD on a spare desktop at work, but it failed to boot, with a kernel trap 12 and ATA_IDENTIFY time out. Knowning that 6.0 has a completely new ata driver, I did it again.

Re: Good idea or Bad idea?

2005-11-10 Thread Blake Darche
-fomit-frame-pointer IS EVIL. Do not use it. portupgrade won't build with it, cause ruby hates -fomit-frame-pointer. I would just do a fresh binary install. 6.0 is quite an amazing release... The speed is remarkable. My machine goes way faster than it did before. I am using the following

Re: Mysql server not able to stay running on anything but Linux?

2005-11-10 Thread Jens Holmqvist
On 11/9/05, Justin Bastedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, Not trying to beat a dead horse or anything but was wondering if any resolution was found for this on either end. We are about to launch another site and can easily forsee my load getting close to this size within 6 months.

Searching for Aureal A3D Demos AUREAL Vortex AU8830

2005-11-10 Thread Christian Delgado
Hello- I am trying to fix my computer. It's audio has not been working and sound can not be heard on any application except ONLY when windows is starting up.I am hoping by downloading this application will fix the problem. However I am unable to download it. Can you send instructions on

Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-10 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 11:13, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:44, Kent Stewart wrote: If you aren't going to rebuild everything, every time you cvsup, don't do it. Out of curiosity, are 10 small cvsup sessions worse than 1 session with 10 times the changes?

usb flashdrive not working on 6.0

2005-11-10 Thread Roland Smith
Hi, After my old flashdrive broke down, I bought a new one and updated my machine to 6.0-STABLE (amd64). The new flashdrive is not recognized when I plug it in. There is no reaction whatsoever from the usb subsystem. This is the flash drive in question:

Re: Antivir for mail server

2005-11-10 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi I use Clam-AV and Sophos at work on the email gateway (a MailScanner implementation). -- Martin On 11/7/05, Fatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doubting about to install CLAM or DR.WEB antivir in the mail server. What do you advise to me? thnkx.

Incorrectly followed steps to re-sync vinum subdisk

2005-11-10 Thread Ahnjoan Amous
Tonight while checking a few things on my personal machine I noticed that one of my vinum sub disks was stale. Included below are the steps I took attempting to remedy this. Clearly I did not follow the proper procedures and now the volume is un-mountable. Currently when I attempt to mount the

Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/9/05, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:44, Kent Stewart wrote: If you aren't going to rebuild everything, every time you cvsup, don't do it. Out of curiosity, are 10 small cvsup sessions worse than 1 session with 10

Re[2]: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-10 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Szia Andrew, Thursday, November 10, 2005, 3:47:32 PM, you wrote: There are a couple more points against portsnap: - it lags behind by a few hours. Actually, even cvsup is behind by a few hours, if you are not syncing agains cvsup-master (to which only official cvsup mirrors have access, and

Re: HP DL380 hangs on boot

2005-11-10 Thread Miguel
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: try to boot 6.0 with acpi disabled Ted Ok, i will try that, is this thing (ACPI) really needed, i mean, what harm will cause disable it, i have googled around and the frecuent answer is try with ACPI disabled, is this support a bleeding edge future?, is its

Re: HP DL380 hangs on boot

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/10/05, Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: try to boot 6.0 with acpi disabled Ted Ok, i will try that, is this thing (ACPI) really needed, i mean, what harm will cause disable it, i have googled around and the frecuent answer is try with ACPI disabled, is

Re: How do I chroot rsync like I chroot ftp ?

2005-11-10 Thread user
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: user writes: What is the equivalent mechanism for rsync ? I have not used it myself, but was looking at rssh tonight. There is also a program, not in the ports, called scopy or something of the like. Check the rssh port in the

Re: Kernel build failed in/usr/src/sys/modules/i2c/controllers/viapm

2005-11-10 Thread Alex Kelly
I learned to use diff recently, so that I could submit a patch with a pr. It's handy. On 11/9/05, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While compiling a fresh kernel for a 5.4 system cvsup-ed as per today the build process ran into a stop with the exact messages below. Please

multiple wireless networks

2005-11-10 Thread stan
I just got the wireless network card working in FreeVSD 4 laptop. Good work devlopers Now, I have access to several wireless networks, all do not broadcats ssid, and some require an encryption key. Is there a way to atumate aquiring these? -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Gayn Winters
There are some things broken in 5.4 that are still broken in 6.0 with regards to support of older hardware. In particular the ida driver is a mess - EISA support in that was busted years ago, then 5.X busted support for more 'modern' systems like the Compaq 1600R HP DL series of systems

Re: New boot-up message

2005-11-10 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/10/05, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Updating KDM configuration Information: reading old kdmrc /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (from kde = 2.2.x) Information: old kdmrc is from kde = 3.1 (config version 2.3) how should I go about correcting it? I could be wrong but i think

Comapq N401C and Wireless LAN W200

2005-11-10 Thread stan
I'd like to use my Compaq Wireless LAN W200 card under FreeBSD. This card is a bit odd, in that it's actullay connectd via USB. I appears thet the wi drive may support this card, but I don't see it in ifconfig after booting. Is there soem special magic to get it detected? Herre's my dmesg:

Re: How do I chroot rsync like I chroot ftp ?

2005-11-10 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, user wrote: scponly is another restricted shell like rssh. It is under more active development, and seems to have more features. It's in the ports tree under shells. I was looking for it under security. Will try it this weekend.. Have you tried it yet? I am also

Re: xorg.conf

2005-11-10 Thread Alex Kelly
if you're just interested in seeing if it's there, try this: find / -name xorg.conf if nothing comes up, the following may be helpful: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html On 09 Nov 2005 15:30:03 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eoghan [EMAIL

Re: Comapq N401C and Wireless LAN W200

2005-11-10 Thread stan
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:36:26AM -0500, stan wrote: I'd like to use my Compaq Wireless LAN W200 card under FreeBSD. This card is a bit odd, in that it's actullay connectd via USB. I appears thet the wi drive may support this card, but I don't see it in ifconfig after booting. Sorry

pkg_add and package options...

2005-11-10 Thread Eric Schuele
Hello, I generally build everything from the ports tree. But I'm tired of building openoffice. It takes an enormous amount of time. Additionally, the last few times it failed to build completely anyways (after quite a few hours of trying). When I build it though... I prefer to set

Re: portmanager -slid deletes the wrong port!

2005-11-10 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 22:53, Danny MacMillan wrote: Hi, I'm running portmanager to do some port maintenance on one of my servers. I'm trying to delete devel/cvs2svn. Each time I try to delete it, it deletes devel/python instead. This is exceedingly disconcerting. Has anyone else

Incorrectly followed steps to re-sync vinum subdisk

2005-11-10 Thread Ahnjoan Amous
Tonight while checking a few things on my personal machine I noticed that one of my vinum sub disks was stale. Included below are the steps I took attempting to remedy this. Clearly I did not follow the proper procedures and now the volume is un-mountable. Currently when I attempt to mount the

remove -tag=CC from libtool

2005-11-10 Thread Jeff Kreska
I am running 5.3-RELEASE I think, it says 5.3-SECURITY in the sysinstall prog I am having a heck of a time getting my newly supped ports tree to compile. Several of the programs are calling libtool with a --tag=CC and then it fails with the following error: libtool15: link: unable to infer

IPFW policy routing...

2005-11-10 Thread Marcelo Celleri
Hi, I'm trying to move from Linux to FreeBSD, but the most difficult part in this change it seems to be the transition from iproute2 to ipfw to make policy routing, this case works on Linux but I'm still not able to get it works on FreeBSD. Net1: 192.168.0.0/25 Net2: 192.168.0.128/25

(6.0) Suspend kills usb CDRW drive :(

2005-11-10 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I have 6.0-REL running fine on my T21 Thinkpad and have a USB (Memorex) CD+RW drive hooked up to it. Now for the USB CD+RW, dmesg saw it as /dev/cd0 so I read a little and edited /etc/devfs.conf to show /dev/cd0 and it was at that point, after rebooting, that I was able to start

Issue with frontpage

2005-11-10 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, I am having issue with frontpage on most of my freebsd servers. The apache version is 1.3.33 and having frontpage version 5 I am having freebsd 5.4 as my OS. the issue with frontpage is that it doesn't connect to the server. ___

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-10 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, Thank you all. I did install on another machine and shifted the HDD to the old machine. Initially it didn't work. With the help of the archives and mails from you people I could solve the issue. Now it is up and running :) On 11/9/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vulpes Velox

Re: FreeBSD 6 DVD

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/10/05, stefanos sofroniou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear sirs, I would like to know when you will release the official FreeBSD 6 DVD so I can purchase it from FreeBSDMall. Also I want to know what is including this DVD. I think must be like other UNIX-like environments that have all the

Re: After 6.0-RELEASE, still cannot find ATA disk com VIA8235

2005-11-10 Thread João Carlos Mendes Luis
Andrew P. wrote: On 11/10/05, João Carlos Mendes Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After 5.4-RELEASE I did try to install FreeBSD on a spare desktop at work, but it failed to boot, with a kernel trap 12 and ATA_IDENTIFY time out. Knowning that 6.0 has a completely new ata driver, I

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Danny Howard
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:14:25AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: As I understand it, 6.0 is primarily concentrating on improving some of the major stuff introduced in 5.x, and shouldn't take nearly as long to become a stable platform. Even so, conventional wisdom generally warns against

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Colin Percival
Danny Howard wrote: So ... I am genuinely curious ... if 6.0 is basically 5.4 plus improvements, why isn't it called 5.5? FreeBSD numbers releases based on compatibility, not based on features. You can take programs compiled for FreeBSD 5.3 (the first release from the 5-stable branch) and run

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Danny Howard
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:10:28AM -0800, Colin Percival wrote: Danny Howard wrote: So ... I am genuinely curious ... if 6.0 is basically 5.4 plus improvements, why isn't it called 5.5? FreeBSD numbers releases based on compatibility, not based on features. You can take programs compiled

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Colin Percival
Danny Howard wrote: So, the 6.0 denotes some note-worthy realignment of the symbol table or such. Thank you for an excellent answer, Colin. Some of us were secretly worried that FreeBSD was catching a case of the Sun Marketing. :) If we were suffering from versionitis, we would have

Re: Where is GDM ?

2005-11-10 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/10/05, ptitoliv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops sorry it was my fault. Just a little path problem. Also for future, you asked the correct question: Where is gdm. Typing it in thus, will give you the answer for future path problems. %whereis gdm

Re: After 6.0-RELEASE, still cannot find ATA disk com VIA8235

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/10/05, João Carlos Mendes Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. wrote: Please, do some research (googling) before asking such questions, as they usually require much more info. I did, indeed, and found absolutely nothing. Do you have some info I don't? Please tell me. I

Re: Out of range starting Xorg on dual display

2005-11-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Nov 10, 2005, at 3:10 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: I've got a dual display setup, and it had been working fine once I finally got the config done. They're two displays running off one graphics card, one through the DVI output and one through the D-SUB. Today I had to switch the inputs that the

Re: Where is GDM ?

2005-11-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Peter Clutton wrote: On 11/10/05, ptitoliv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops sorry it was my fault. Just a little path problem. Also for future, you asked the correct question: Where is gdm. Typing it in thus, will give you the answer for future path problems.

save-entropy on 6.0 release bit sensitive to rc.conf

2005-11-10 Thread Mark Rowlands
I enabled inetd in my usually sloppy fashion in 6.0 release (which so far is making me smile in a way i haven't since 4.something, three cheers for the developers hip hip..) inetd_enable=YES# -- enabled inetd 10-11-2005 -- mwr (note the missing space between and #. this does not break

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:00:48AM -0800, Danny Howard wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:14:25AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: As I understand it, 6.0 is primarily concentrating on improving some of the major stuff introduced in 5.x, and shouldn't take nearly as long to become a stable

Re: pkg_add and package options...

2005-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:04:57AM +, Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, I generally build everything from the ports tree. But I'm tired of building openoffice. It takes an enormous amount of time. Additionally, the last few times it failed to build completely anyways (after quite a few hours

Re: remove -tag=CC from libtool

2005-11-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 10), Jeff Kreska said: I am running 5.3-RELEASE I think, it says 5.3-SECURITY in the sysinstall prog I am having a heck of a time getting my newly supped ports tree to compile. Several of the programs are calling libtool with a --tag=CC and then it fails with the

Re: (6.0) Suspend kills usb CDRW drive :(

2005-11-10 Thread Fabian Keil
Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 6.0-REL running fine on my T21 Thinkpad and have a USB (Memorex) CD+RW drive hooked up to it. Now for the USB CD+RW, dmesg saw it as /dev/cd0 so I read a little and edited /etc/devfs.conf to show /dev/cd0 and it was at that point, after

RE: remove -tag=CC from libtool

2005-11-10 Thread Jeff
I am not sure how this happened. I was having some problems with php shared modules and decided to update my ports collection to see if the problem was fixed. At that time I could no longer build apache because of the libtool problem. I tried rebuilding libtool port which didn't help. I found

Jail cloning problem

2005-11-10 Thread patrick
I built a jail, and then I tar'd it up after some setup so that I could create new jails quickly. When I start up a cloned jail, everything works except SSH. If I try to ssh outside of the jail, I just get: Host key verification failed.. I know from past experience that if I rebuild the second

Re: Good idea or Bad idea?

2005-11-10 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 23:09, Mike Hernandez wrote: ... I have no trouble following docs, so I'm not really worried about blowing everything up in the process (even though I might haha...) I'm just wondering if there are any real (noticeable) performance increases if I build my kernel

Re: Jail cloning problem

2005-11-10 Thread Glenn's mailing lists
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, patrick wrote: I built a jail, and then I tar'd it up after some setup so that I could create new jails quickly. When I start up a cloned jail, everything works except SSH. If I try to ssh outside of the jail, I just get: Host key verification failed.. I know from past

Re: Out of range starting Xorg on dual display

2005-11-10 Thread Pat Maddox
On 11/10/05, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2005, at 3:10 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: I've got a dual display setup, and it had been working fine once I finally got the config done. They're two displays running off one graphics card, one through the DVI output and one

Re: pkg_add and package options...

2005-11-10 Thread Eric Schuele
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:04:57AM +, Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, I generally build everything from the ports tree. But I'm tired of building openoffice. It takes an enormous amount of time. Additionally, the last few times it failed to build completely anyways

Re: Jail cloning problem

2005-11-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 10 November 2005 13:01, patrick wrote: I've rebuilt the dev folder using MAKEDEV jail, and have also tried ensuring that permissions are correct in /tmp and /var, but to no avail. Which version of FreeBSD? 5.x and onward use devfs and not MAKEDEV; perhaps your device nodes

Re: Jail cloning problem

2005-11-10 Thread patrick
So is it a repairable permissions issue, or is it something that I could never fix? The jail wasn't built on its own filesystem, and because I don't have a spare drive to do that, I'm hoping that there is some way possible to make cloning work using tar. Thanks, Patrick On 11/10/05, Glenn's

Re: Jail cloning problem

2005-11-10 Thread patrick
Whoops, that's something I should have mentioned. :) I'm on FreeBSD 4.11. Patrick On 11/10/05, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2005 13:01, patrick wrote: I've rebuilt the dev folder using MAKEDEV jail, and have also tried ensuring that permissions are correct

Re: Good idea or Bad idea?

2005-11-10 Thread Mike Hernandez
On or near Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:02:06PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote something along the lines of: There are definitely security benefits from stripping unwanted services from your system and I rather like to know that my system (and ports) are up to date with the latest patches which

Re: xorg.conf

2005-11-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Kelly wrote: if you're just interested in seeing if it's there, try this: find / -name xorg.conf Try: locate xorg.conf first. Much quicker. If that doesn't find anything then try find, but with huge disks searching everywhere would take, well, a while. --Alex

Re: xorg.conf

2005-11-10 Thread Alex Kelly
On 11/10/05, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Kelly wrote: if you're just interested in seeing if it's there, try this: find / -name xorg.conf Try: locate xorg.conf first. Much quicker. If that doesn't find anything then try find, but with huge disks searching

Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-10 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 10 November 2005 06:55 am, Daniel Gerzo wrote: Szia Andrew, Thursday, November 10, 2005, 3:47:32 PM, you wrote: There are a couple more points against portsnap: - it lags behind by a few hours. Actually, even cvsup is behind by a few hours, if you are not syncing agains

Re: KDE Konqueror:Can i have konqueror without KDEstuff port

2005-11-10 Thread Jack L.
On 11/9/05, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George Katsanos wrote: KDE is a huge package , and if you're trying to portupgrade to p3 550 that's a hard thing to do.3 days now! :-( I just want konqueror , is there any way [or do you know the exact port] that will save me from

Re: Out of range starting Xorg on dual display

2005-11-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: On 11/10/05, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2005, at 3:10 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: I've got a dual display setup, and it had been working fine once I finally got the config done. They're two displays running off one graphics

Re: xorg.conf

2005-11-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Alex Kelly wrote: On 11/10/05, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Kelly wrote: if you're just interested in seeing if it's there, try this: find / -name xorg.conf Try: locate xorg.conf first. Much quicker. If that doesn't find anything

Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-10 Thread Colin Percival
Andrew P. wrote: There are a couple more points against portsnap: - it lags behind by a few hours. This is true (well, 1-2 hours). However, the reason for this is that portsnap builds ports INDEX files, and since portsnap is usually more up-to-date than the INDEX files fetched by make

Re: After 6.0-RELEASE, still cannot find ATA disk com VIA8235

2005-11-10 Thread João Carlos Mendes Luis
Andrew P. wrote: On 11/10/05, João Carlos Mendes Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. wrote: Please, do some research (googling) before asking such questions, as they usually require much more info. I did, indeed, and found absolutely nothing. Do you have some info I don't? Please

Re: Out of range starting Xorg on dual display

2005-11-10 Thread Greg Barniskis
Garrett Cooper wrote: Pat, That's not the actual refresh range for the monitor, it's just the currently used range. What you want to do is search for {maker} {model} horizontal refresh in google; the pages which come up are the ones you want to refer to for your xorg.conf

Re: xorg.conf

2005-11-10 Thread Alex Kelly
On 11/10/05, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Alex Kelly wrote: On 11/10/05, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Kelly wrote: if you're just interested in seeing if it's there, try this: find / -name xorg.conf Try:

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gayn Winters Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:03 AM To: 'Ted Mittelstaedt'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems There are some things broken in 5.4 that are

RE: HP DL380 hangs on boot

2005-11-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
man acpi tells all. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Miguel Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:14 AM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: HP DL380 hangs on boot Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: try to boot 6.0 with acpi disabled Ted Ok, i

Re: xorg.conf

2005-11-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Alex Kelly wrote: On 11/10/05, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Alex Kelly wrote: On 11/10/05, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Kelly wrote: if you're just interested in seeing if it's there, try this: find /

illegal option in mergemaster

2005-11-10 Thread Luke Dean
I synchronized my sources to RELENG_6 built the world, built the kernel, and installed the kernel. When I run mergemaster, it always dies with the following message. It's trying to use a -l option with cap_mkdb and that's not a legal switch. I can't find any documentation on that switch

Re: After 6.0-RELEASE, still cannot find ATA disk com VIA8235

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/10/05, João Carlos Mendes Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. wrote: On 11/10/05, João Carlos Mendes Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. wrote: Please, do some research (googling) before asking such questions, as they usually require much more info. I did, indeed,

Re: illegal option in mergemaster

2005-11-10 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Luke Dean wrote: I synchronized my sources to RELENG_6 built the world, built the kernel, and installed the kernel. When I run mergemaster, it always dies with the following message. It's trying to use a -l option with cap_mkdb and that's not a legal switch. I can't

Re: HP DL380 hangs on boot

2005-11-10 Thread Miguel
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: man acpi tells all. Ted thanks Ted, i have read that man, but couldnt find any entry related to my problem. A follow up: I cant use the cdrom I wanted to recompile my kernel for SMP support, but im getting the same Write failure on transfer on acd0 error

Re: cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/10/05, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. wrote: There are a couple more points against portsnap: - it lags behind by a few hours. This is true (well, 1-2 hours). However, the reason for this is that portsnap builds ports INDEX files, and since portsnap is usually

Re: Out of range starting Xorg on dual display

2005-11-10 Thread Pat Maddox
On 11/10/05, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: On 11/10/05, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2005, at 3:10 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: I've got a dual display setup, and it had been working fine once I finally got the

Re: xorg.conf

2005-11-10 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:21:06 -0800 Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even quicker method (as compared to refreshing a locate database) for searching for a .conf file... find /usr/local/etc /etc -name BLAH.conf I just searched for BLAH.conf and didn't find a thing.

Question about x64 and running x86 programs

2005-11-10 Thread Kris Moore
Hi there! I'm currently working on a port of PC-BSD for AMD64 systems. Everything looks and works great, but i've run into a snag with running x86 binaries on the platform. All the kernel options for compat are enabled, and some simple C programs will run, but if I try to run a bigger

Dear People Advantages of BSD Especially in Java 1.5_05 Programming

2005-11-10 Thread markchilds
Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:47:27 Dear People Where may I find documentation and discussion about FreeBSD and Java from Sun MicroSystems. I have a Windows 98 SE Intel Machine that is mostly dedicated to Java1.5_05, JMF Media and Java 3D all from Sun Microsystems. It

Re: Out of range starting Xorg on dual display

2005-11-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Nov 10, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Pat Maddox wrote: On 11/10/05, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: On 11/10/05, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2005, at 3:10 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: I've got a dual display setup, and it

Ruby core dumping in portsupgrade

2005-11-10 Thread stan
I'm trying to udate one of my machines, and I seem to have gotten things in a bad stae. When I try to run portupgrade, I get a bunch of page is already frred errors from ruby, and it core dumps. I rebuilt teh ruby18 port, but thgis did not fix things Any sugestions? -- U.S. Encouraged by

Dealing with ipcheck output

2005-11-10 Thread Joe Kraft
I'm running ipcheck as a cron job, it runs fine and seems to keep my address updated with dyndns.com but I'm trying to figure out how to deal with the e-mails I get from cron. I would prefer to not get the ones that don't show anything abnormal, but keep the ones that show something else like

freebsd 5.4 or 6 on a winbond motherboard

2005-11-10 Thread Dave
Hello, If anyone is running 5.4 or 6 on a winbond motherboard specifically a winbond w836627hf-aw please contact me. I'm having issues related to random reboots and i'd like to get them fixed. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Ruby core dumping in portsupgrade

2005-11-10 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 10 November 2005 16:34, stan wrote: I'm trying to udate one of my machines, and I seem to have gotten things in a bad stae. When I try to run portupgrade, I get a bunch of page is already frred errors from ruby, and it core dumps. I rebuilt teh ruby18 port, but thgis did not fix

Incorrectly re-synced vinum subdisk

2005-11-10 Thread Ahnjoan Amous
Tonight while checking a few things on my personal machine I noticed that one of my vinum sub disks was stale. Included below are the steps I took attempting to remedy this. Clearly I did not follow the proper procedures and now the volume is un-mountable. Currently when I attempt to mount the

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Vince
Gayn Winters wrote: There are some things broken in 5.4 that are still broken in 6.0 with regards to support of older hardware. In particular the ida driver is a mess - EISA support in that was busted years ago, then 5.X busted support for more 'modern' systems like the Compaq 1600R HP DL

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread stan
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:35:16PM +1100, Michael Vince wrote: Gayn Winters wrote: I prefer the idea of the FreeBSD team aiming at only the latest hardware, all I use is brand new server equipment. I don't like the idea that FreeBSD features and performance development could be hampered

Re: Ruby core dumping in portsupgrade

2005-11-10 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 10 November 2005 19:58, stan wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:36:58PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2005 16:34, stan wrote: I'm trying to udate one of my machines, and I seem to have gotten things in a bad stae. When I try to run portupgrade, I get a

[Newbie] Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3. How-to 'fix the problem'?

2005-11-10 Thread David Armour
hello listers, I'm getting the following error while trying to cvsup: # [...earlier output appended below ... (*more* available!] ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! x11/kdebase3 (kdebase-3.4.2_2)(unknown build error) * x11-themes/kdeartwork3

sdl doesn't work

2005-11-10 Thread Michael C. Shultz
For some unknow reason sdl refuses to work on my system I've tried everything suggested on their site with no luck. Here are a couple examples where it won't start, from a kde terminal: qemu freeBSDminimal.img Could not initialize SDL - exiting from mplayer: Playing house.s01D01a.avi. AVI file

Wireless Card Suggestion

2005-11-10 Thread Tim Holmes
I've finally decided to add wireless to my gateway. It's already doing all my gateway and firewall duties, and more and more people are coming over with wireless devices and I'd like to offer them the option of using my network. Instead of buying a wireless router, I plan to just add a card to

Re: Wireless Card Suggestion

2005-11-10 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/11/05, Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend who's using a Linksys card, but he's uses a Linksys router. The one he uses is 54Mbps, and I've seen a number of 108Mbps and 125Mbps. Since I'm using this for a gateway, should I go for a card with higher Mbps? Or do you really

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:35:16PM +1100, Michael Vince wrote: I don't like the idea that FreeBSD features and performance development could be hampered by the core guys trying to make stuff work on old hardware, in fact if it was a fact that a lot more performance and features could be in

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