ICP Vortex Controller CLI under FreeBSD 4.x ...

2005-12-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Specifically, how does one get it to work? I downloaded icpcon4.tgz, and did a pkg_add ... the controller is working fine, but when I start up icpcon, it tells me No Controllers Found ... Help? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL

The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-11-13 - 2005-12-03

2005-12-04 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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

qemu, usb and usb_add

2005-12-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
I think it can be done. I have XP running under qemu fine. Yesterday I got a samsung 760 mobile and connected it to my fbsd-6. I read: ugen0: SAMSUNG SAMSUNG Mobile USB Modem, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 So it's seen ;-) Then I read about the -usb option of qemu. OK, XP knows USB. But it does not see

Re: how to copy MBR??

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 01:49, Javier Matos wrote: Hi, I will change the hard drive of my computer and I was thinking that maybe it can run if I make partitions in the new hard drive (the same number of partitions using the same device name), copy all the files contained in the old hard drive

Re: BSD vs Linux Threads

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Vince
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-12-02 14:00, Michael Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For 6 Linux threads from my benchmarking and from what I have seen some peoples posts gives poor performance compared to libthr or libpthread I am using more of libthr over libpthread in 6.0 and have been

Re: Automating a 5.4 install

2005-12-04 Thread Thomas Linton
For problem 2 have a look at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-November/103093.html On 11/30/05, Raistlin Majere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use netboot to automate the install of FreeBSD 5.4. I can get new servers to boot, mount the NFS partition which

Re: BSD vs Linux Threads

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Vince
Michael Vince wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-12-02 14:00, Michael Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For 6 Linux threads from my benchmarking and from what I have seen some peoples posts gives poor performance compared to libthr or libpthread I am using more of libthr over libpthread

Re: FreeBSD telnetd and Microsoft Internet Explorer

2005-12-04 Thread Peter Clutton
On 12/3/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoah whoah whoah Guys, I have several 5.4 servers. Hitting them with IE 6.0.2800.1106 ftp client I get NO PROBLEMS seeing dot files. I DO NOT see the behavior that the OP claims. NOR do I see the behavior that you guys are

Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-04 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:18:12PM -0500, Ian Lord wrote: Hi, I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to run under a specific uid... I don't see anything for this in man cron... Try 'man 5 crontab' - there's an @reboot string that can be used instead of the

Re: How often portupgrades?

2005-12-04 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:51 -0800, Vizion wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:29, the author Kiffin Gish contributed to the dialogue on- How often portupgrades?: Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run portupgrades. I figure that once a week should be

Re: How often portupgrades?

2005-12-04 Thread albi
Kiffin Gish wrote: Then one seriously wonders what the benefit is of upgraded more than once every few months or so. install portaudit, run portaudit -Fda, and make your own choice about what to upgrade with portaudit installed you will also see nightly portaudit-checks in your daily

releng for 6

2005-12-04 Thread eoghan
Hi Im going to upgrade to 6, I was wondering if someone could tell me the RELENG for 6, for my supfile? Should it be tag=RELENG_6_0? Thanks Eoghan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mkisofs on 5.4

2005-12-04 Thread Fabian Keil
Jonathan Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you see the problem if you only use mkisofs? Yes. I just tried it and got the same problem with an iso image using mkisofs. This is starting to look like a timezone issue. The date/time difference between the date displayed via ISO and the

sylpheed --compose + attachment??

2005-12-04 Thread Johan Spee
In sylpheed a new message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] can be opened from the command line like this: # sylpheed --compose [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to do something similar with an attachment. But when I try this: # sylpheed --compose somefile.txt the 'somefile.txt' part is interpreted as an

Re: releng for 6

2005-12-04 Thread ivan . roth
eoghan wrote: Hi Im going to upgrade to 6, I was wondering if someone could tell me the RELENG for 6, for my supfile? Should it be tag=RELENG_6_0? Thanks Eoghan yes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: sylpheed --compose + attachment??

2005-12-04 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:06 AM 12/4/2005, Johan Spee wrote: In sylpheed a new message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] can be opened from the command line like this: # sylpheed --compose [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to do something similar with an attachment. But when I try this: # sylpheed --compose somefile.txt the

Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-12-04 Thread martinko
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Nate, 2005/11/30, Nate Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You should send the full output of sysctl dev.cpu. There is no cpufreq driver (est, acpi_perf, or other) driver running. Perhaps look at your dmesg to see if one is probing/attaching. sysctl dev.cpu

Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-04 Thread Werther Pirani
Ian Lord wrote: I guess there might be a way to put a script in /etc/rd.d/ but I don't know how to run it under a specifid uid Create a script (name is not important as long as it ends in .sh) and put it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Also, make sure the script is executable and contains lines like:

Re: how to copy MBR???

2005-12-04 Thread Damon Blom
javier Take a look at freebsd cheat sheets - moving to a larger hard drive. Damon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

buildworld with 6.0

2005-12-04 Thread eoghan
Hi Ive cvsup my src to 6.0 and ran: /usr/src make buildword however im getting the following error: === sbin/ipf/ipf (obj) mkdir: /usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/ipf/ipf: File exists *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sbin/ipf/ipf. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sbin/ipf. *** Error code 1 Stop in

Re: buildworld with 6.0

2005-12-04 Thread Björn König
eoghan schrieb: [...] Ive cvsup my src to 6.0 and ran: /usr/src make buildword however im getting the following error: === sbin/ipf/ipf (obj) mkdir: /usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/ipf/ipf: File exists *** Error code 1 [...] Can someone help me with this? Im currently running 5.4-RELEASE. [...] Remove

Re: buildworld with 6.0

2005-12-04 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, eoghan wrote: Ive cvsup my src to 6.0 and ran: /usr/src make buildword however im getting the following error: === sbin/ipf/ipf (obj) mkdir: /usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/ipf/ipf: File exists *** Error code 1 As seen in the handbook: cd /usr/obj chflags -R noschg * rm -rf * Do

Re: Setting up a print-server

2005-12-04 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Charles Howse wrote: On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Charles Howse wrote: I now have the both printers set up and can print to them from FreeBSD. Problem is, I can't print to them from the Mac. The error is always, Printer HP1100 is busy, trying again in 30 seconds. I take that to

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-04 Thread martinko
Mr. Albritton wrote: How viable is it to install FreeBSD along side WinXP? (Dual Boot) Also, can the BSD MBR be removed once it's installed? I've tried FIXMBR with the WinXP CD and it didn't work sigh Any suggestions? --- Mike Albritton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cd9660 problem

2005-12-04 Thread Incoming Mail List
On FreeBSD 5.4 I'm seeing a strange problem with cd9660 and DVD+RW media. I use growisofs() to burn the DVD, which works fine. However, when I mount the DVD, ls() reports the date/time of the files on the DVD five hours behind the date/time of the original files (as reported by UFS2). It seems

Re: How often portupgrades?

2005-12-04 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:51 -0800, Vizion wrote: I have been using freebsd for quite a long time and I find that sometimes I am constantly upgrading a machine which is being used for development something and then when I just need systems to carry on

Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Ian Lord [2005-12-03 20:18 -0500] I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to run under a specific uid... I don't see anything for this in man cron... See crontab(5) You can use the @reboot magic to make cron run a script once, at startup.

error when i change the sysctl env

2005-12-04 Thread 赵铭
freebsd6.0+ipfilter , i use the ipfilter like a firewall proxy my lan connect to the internet , on my old computer , i use freebsd5.4 and write the follow lan to the file sysctl.conf net.inet.ipf.fr_tcpclosewait=120 net.inet.ipf.fr_tcplastack=120 net.inet.ipf.fr_tcptimeout=240

Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-04 Thread 赵铭
sometime ,you can use the commant : su - usename -c commant man su you will find it..good luck On 12/4/05, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Ian Lord [2005-12-03 20:18 -0500] I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to run under a specific

Re: How often portupgrades?

2005-12-04 Thread martinko
Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:29:41 +0100 Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run portupgrades. I figure that once a week should be sufficient, however each time it runs it can take up to a few hours to complete

Re: buildworld with 6.0

2005-12-04 Thread eoghan
On 4 Dec 2005, at 15:10, Chris Hill wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, eoghan wrote: Ive cvsup my src to 6.0 and ran: /usr/src make buildword however im getting the following error: === sbin/ipf/ipf (obj) mkdir: /usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/ipf/ipf: File exists *** Error code 1 As seen in the handbook:

libstdc++.so.5 howto ...

2005-12-04 Thread Kiffin Gish
I have installed another linux application (komodo 3.5) that requires the 'libstdc++.so.5' library. I did a install linux_base install from the default which results in /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.4 being created. The file /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 is present (after installing the

Re: releng for 6

2005-12-04 Thread Mario Hoerich
# eoghan: Im going to upgrade to 6, I was wondering if someone could tell me the RELENG for 6, for my supfile? Should it be tag=RELENG_6_0? Either RELENG_6_0 or RELENG_6. RELENG_6_0 tracks 6.0.x, i.e. 6.0 + critical fixes. This is the least risky update path, but you'll have to switch to

cvsup update and source sync confusion

2005-12-04 Thread Jon Hancock
I am confused about how to cvsup my freeBSD 6 system. I understand the ports update stuff. Lots of good doc on this. Its updating the rest of the system that don't understand. My current adventure beging when I read the 3ware knowledgebase article

cvsup update and source sync confusion

2005-12-04 Thread ke.han
I am confused about how to cvsup my freeBSD 6 system. I understand the ports update stuff. Lots of good doc on this. Its updating the rest of the system that I don't understand. My current adventure beging when I read the 3ware knowledgebase article

Re: cvsup update and source sync confusion

2005-12-04 Thread Chris
Jon Hancock wrote: I am confused about how to cvsup my freeBSD 6 system. I understand the ports update stuff. Lots of good doc on this. Its updating the rest of the system that don't understand. My current adventure beging when I read the 3ware knowledgebase article

how to track 6.0 increments ?

2005-12-04 Thread ke.han
I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes before something labeled 6.1 comes out. What is the prescribed method for this? I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't think). I just want security fixes and other changes that might be termed 6.01 if there were such

Veritas backup exec with ralus (remote agent for linux and unix servers)

2005-12-04 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, Does anyone managed to install ralus and make it works on freebsd ? We have a veritas backup exec server that backups all of the m$ servers and we would like to backup freebsd servers from the same location.. Veritas (now symantec) doesnt supports freebsd but supports linux... I

Re: how to track 6.0 increments ?

2005-12-04 Thread Chris
ke.han wrote: I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes before something labeled 6.1 comes out. What is the prescribed method for this? I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't think). I just want security fixes and other changes that might be termed 6.01 if

Re: how to track 6.0 increments ?

2005-12-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:20:06AM +0800, ke.han wrote: I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes before something labeled 6.1 comes out. What is the prescribed method for this? I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't think). I just want security fixes and

Re: how to track 6.0 increments ?

2005-12-04 Thread ke.han
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:20:06AM +0800, ke.han wrote: I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes before something labeled 6.1 comes out. What is the prescribed method for this? I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't think). I just want

Re: Setting up a print-server

2005-12-04 Thread Charles Howse
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Charles Howse wrote: On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Charles Howse wrote: I now have the both printers set up and can print to them from FreeBSD. Problem is, I can't print to them from the Mac. The error is always, Printer HP1100 is busy, trying again in 30 seconds. I take that

Re: how to track 6.0 increments ?

2005-12-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:39:34AM +0800, ke.han wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:20:06AM +0800, ke.han wrote: I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes before something labeled 6.1 comes out. What is the prescribed method for this? I don't

RE: how to copy MBR??

2005-12-04 Thread Gayn Winters
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Javier Matos Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 5:50 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to copy MBR?? Hi, I will change the hard drive of my computer and I was thinking that maybe

Fedora Directory Server Project (release 1.0)

2005-12-04 Thread Forrest Aldrich
The posted requirements appear to be basic, though I'm wondering if anyone (with sufficient Linux experience) can comment on whether this might be successfully built on FreeBSD. http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Main_Page _F ___

Questions on disk quota

2005-12-04 Thread Edwin
Hi I am using FreeBSD 6.0 Release. I have enabled disk quota in kernel, things look fine but I have some questions: 1. The quota information seems static. It does not update immediately according to user's disk usage. Is it normal? 2. I found that those quota files are not accessible by

Re: Setting up a print-server

2005-12-04 Thread Charles Howse
Look at this (moe is the print-server, listening on port 515): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ telnet moe 515 Trying 192.168.254.4... Connected to moe. Escape character is '^]'. lpd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Print-services are not available to your host (larry). Connection closed by foreign host. So what's my

The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?

2005-12-04 Thread wrangled
I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have 512MB RAM. According to this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html I should use: / = 100MB

Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?

2005-12-04 Thread Subhro
wrangled sat at his 'puter and typed on 12/5/2005 0:10: I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have 512MB RAM. According to this page:

Re: how to track 6.0 increments ?

2005-12-04 Thread martinko
ke.han wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:20:06AM +0800, ke.han wrote: I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes before something labeled 6.1 comes out. What is the prescribed method for this? I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't

Re: The question that wont die:  What size parti tions should I         make?

2005-12-04 Thread Uncle Deejy-Pooh
I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have 512MB RAM. According to this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html I should use: / =

Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?

2005-12-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:40:01PM -0500, wrangled wrote: I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have 512MB RAM. According to this page:

Cannot boot with newly compiled kernel, or kernel.old after upgrading to RELENG_6

2005-12-04 Thread Torgeir Hoffmann
Hi, I have been so unfortunate to be left with a completely unusable system after updating to RELENG_6 from RELENG_5. I am quite sure that I followed the step from the handbook correctly, but as mentioned the system is unbootable. The error when trying to boot the new kernel makes the system

InstantBSD via VMWare player ?

2005-12-04 Thread wrangled
VMWare has a free VMWare Player, perhaps someone could make a slick desktop-ish FreeBSD virtual machine - so that people considering FreeBSD could download it and see what FreeBSD is like? http://www.vmware.com/products/player I would do it, except I have an older (4.5) version of VMWare,

Re: Cannot boot with newly compiled kernel, or kernel.old after upgrading to RELENG_6

2005-12-04 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 04 December 2005 11:43 am, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: Hi, I have been so unfortunate to be left with a completely unusable system after updating to RELENG_6 from RELENG_5. I read that the path was to RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and then to stable. I just finished upgrading 2 machines that

Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?

2005-12-04 Thread wrangled
I'd make /home into a separate slice. Easier for backups. You can easily reinstall ports, but if you loose your personal data... Thats a good idea. I will digest what eveveryone said, and post what I did. Currently I'm installing Win2k, since this will be a dual-boot machine. FreeBSD is

Re: Fedora Directory Server Project (release 1.0)

2005-12-04 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le Dim 4 déc 05 à 19:11:09 +0100, Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : The posted requirements appear to be basic, though I'm wondering if anyone (with sufficient Linux experience) can comment on whether this might be successfully built on FreeBSD.

Re: Cannot boot with newly compiled kernel, or kernel.old after upgrading to RELENG_6

2005-12-04 Thread Lars Kristiansen
--On Sunday, December 04, 2005 12:03:15 PM -0800 Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 04 December 2005 11:43 am, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Hei! I have been so unfortunate to be left with a completely unusable system after updating to RELENG_6 from RELENG_5. I read that

Re: Cannot boot with newly compiled kernel, or kernel.old after upgrading to RELENG_6

2005-12-04 Thread Torgeir Hoffmann
Hi, thanks a lot for quick reply. Did you copy the 6.0 GENERIC config file into the one your buildkernel make uses? No, actually I didn't. From what I could see on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html, I didn't think it was necessary. The error when trying

Problems with 170MB HD (FreeBSD 6.0)

2005-12-04 Thread Christian Wurst
Hello, I've been trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 on an old Pentium MMX 200MHz this weekend. The box has two HDs, a ~10GB one, which I wanted to use for / and a really old ~170MB one, which I wanted to use for swap. (Of couse there would be enough space on the first disk for swap, but I had this

Re: Cannot boot with newly compiled kernel, or kernel.old after upgrading to RELENG_6

2005-12-04 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 04 December 2005 12:56 pm, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: Hi, thanks a lot for quick reply. Did you copy the 6.0 GENERIC config file into the one your buildkernel make uses? Probably GENERIC. I use the equivalent of make buildkernel KERNCONF=RUBY make installkernel KERNCONF=RUBY but

Re: how to copy MBR??

2005-12-04 Thread Steve Quinn
--- Javier Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I will change the hard drive of my computer and I was thinking that maybe it can run if I make partitions in the new hard drive (the same number of partitions using the same device name), copy all the files contained in the old hard drive to

Re: How often portupgrades?

2005-12-04 Thread Vizion
On Sunday 04 December 2005 03:41, the author Kiffin Gish contributed to the dialogue on- Re: How often portupgrades?: On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:51 -0800, Vizion wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:29, the author Kiffin Gish contributed to the dialogue on- How often portupgrades?:

Re: Cannot boot with newly compiled kernel, or kernel.old after upgrading to RELENG_6

2005-12-04 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 04 December 2005 01:18 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 04 December 2005 12:56 pm, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: I thought that I should pass on problems that I encountered during my update from 5-stable to 6-stable. I cvsup to 6.0-release, copied GENERIC to RUBY. Ruby is the computer

RE: FreeBSD telnetd and Microsoft Internet Explorer

2005-12-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Peter Clutton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 3:16 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Stevan Tiefert; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD telnetd and Microsoft Internet Explorer On 12/3/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?

2005-12-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey all, I'm reading BSD Hacks by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the filesystem, you'll get a kernel panic. Is this true? If so, it would be the very first

Re: kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?

2005-12-04 Thread David Gerard
Michael P. Soulier wrote: I'm reading BSD Hacks by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the filesystem, you'll get a kernel panic. Is this true? If so, it

Too many files crashing services

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I posted this issue yesterday sometime and have been trying to track down the problem with the help of the Postfix list. There, Weitse has suggested tracking down the culprit using lsof, which I know nothing about. I tried 'lsof|less', but that doesn't even show anything via SSH, related to

Re: Java error.[solved]

2005-12-04 Thread Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT
thank you for your attention Gregory. i think i got the error due to one missing one. download and moved it to the /usr/ports/distfiles and then tried to install again and succeeded. Regards. bye ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: newbie

2005-12-04 Thread arden
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 23:30:25 +0100 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:54:46PM -0600, Douglass, Erik wrote: After being an Windows/Cisco IT professional for the past 7 years, I have decided to make the plunge over to FreeBSD on my own time. I have it installed,

Re: Cannot boot with newly compiled kernel, or kernel.old after upgrading to RELENG_6

2005-12-04 Thread Torgeir Hoffmann
On Sunday 04 December 2005 12:56 pm, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: Hi again, tried to rebuild the base once more, after syncing up with RELENG_6_0, and as far as I can see it worked like a charm. However, I still can't boot the system after building a new kernel. Even when booting the system with

Re: Too many files crashing services

2005-12-04 Thread Norberto Meijome
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: [...] Dec 4 17:54:34 esmtp kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 88, please see tuning(7). man 7 tuning Dec 4 17:54:39 esmtp last message repeated 5 times [...] Dec 4 18:02:57 esmtp postfix/smtpd[15794]: fatal: socket: Too many open files Dec 4

Re: Too many files crashing services

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Norberto Meijome wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: [...] Dec 4 17:54:34 esmtp kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 88, please see tuning(7). man 7 tuning So, you think this is what is contributing to my problem? Yeah, I have never ran tunefs on the RAID 5 system running FreeBSD

Re: Too many files crashing services

2005-12-04 Thread Norberto Meijome
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: [...] Dec 4 17:54:34 esmtp kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 88, please see tuning(7). man 7 tuning So, you think this is what is contributing to my problem? Yeah, I have never ran tunefs on the

Re: Cannot boot with newly compiled kernel, or kernel.old after upgrading to RELENG_6

2005-12-04 Thread Lars Kristiansen
--On Monday, December 05, 2005 01:06:09 AM +0100 Torgeir Hoffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 04 December 2005 12:56 pm, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: Hi again, tried to rebuild the base once more, after syncing up with RELENG_6_0, and as far as I can see it worked like a charm.

Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel Rudy
At about the time of 12/3/2005 5:18 PM, Ian Lord stated the following: Hi, I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to run under a specific uid... I don't see anything for this in man cron... is there a way to do it with cron ? or otherwise is there another way

Re: How do I know if my internal PCI modem works on FreeBSD?

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel Rudy
At about the time of 12/3/2005 7:38 AM, Wojciech Puchar stated the following: Basically, it all depends on how much you spent for the modem. A $15-20 modem is more than likely a WinModem (software modem) which FreeBSD does *NOT* support without a third party driver. If the modem cost $70-100,

Fwd: How does carp computes the MAC address of the a certain Virtual IP?

2005-12-04 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 15:59:39 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: How does carp computes the MAC address of the a certain Virtual IP? Hi, How does carp computes the MAC address of the

Fwd: How does carp computes the MAC address of the a certain Virtual IP?

2005-12-04 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 15:59:39 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: How does carp computes the MAC address of the a certain Virtual IP? Hi, How does carp computes the MAC address of the

Problems with glx;/dev/agpgart doesn't exist

2005-12-04 Thread Rechistov Grigory
I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE on Samsung V30 laptop, ATI Radeon 7500 videocard on board. X Window system runs perfectly till I don't try to deal with applicatons which use Glx, e.g. xscreensaver. I tried to tweak xorg.conf by enabling glx,dri. Now, after X starts, the kernel says: kernel:

Re: install freebsd with usb keyboard

2005-12-04 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
I've recently installed FBSD 5.4 onto a Dell via a USB keyboard without much ado. The trick may be in your bios: you may want to check if you enabled USB keyboard during bootup. - Original Message - From: Don LoCrasto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday,

Upgrading xorg-server

2005-12-04 Thread Anthony M . Agelastos
Hello everyone, Today, I tried updating xorg-server and it failed. Here is the primary error message: make: don't know how to make /diskad3/portsBuild/Usr/ports/x11- servers/xorg-server/work/xc/extras/Mesa/src/mesa/glapi/glapi.h. Stop *** Error code 2 I tried updating it via portupgrade

Re: kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?

2005-12-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:32:42PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey all, I'm reading BSD Hacks by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the filesystem,

Re: How do I know if my internal PCI modem works on FreeBSD?

2005-12-04 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
Thanks for the good feedback. Is there a particular modem chipset which if it is spotted on the card, it is confirmed that it's more than a WinModem? - Original Message - From: Daniel Rudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Foo

Re: Upgrading xorg-server

2005-12-04 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 04 December 2005 19:34, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello everyone, Today, I tried updating xorg-server and it failed. Here is the primary error message: make: don't know how to make /diskad3/portsBuild/Usr/ports/x11- servers/xorg-server/work/xc/extras/Mesa/src/mesa/glapi/glapi.h.

Can't reboot

2005-12-04 Thread Jose Borquez
I attempted to reboot my pc using FreeBSD 5.4 and it appears to begin the process of rebooting and then I get the following message. After this message it just hangs and I can't do anything to reboot it. Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60

Re: Setting up a print-server

2005-12-04 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I have the task of setting up a FreeBSD box as a print-server for the lan here at home. I've used FreeBSD for quite a while, but am currently just a little rusty. I was hoping the list members could help me with planning a strategy, and possibly

Bootloader Freezes with timer. Ok if press enter

2005-12-04 Thread Francisco Reyes
My first 6.0 machine destined for production (not to worry.. will test thoroughly before it goes live ;-) and it freezes on the initial boot screen. If I press enter right away upon the boot menu appearing the machine boots fine. However, if I let the countdown start it freezes when there are

5.3 6.0 - make buildworld libkrb5 failure

2005-12-04 Thread Vizion
make buildworld from # $FreeBSD: src/Makefile,v 1.319.2.1 2005/11/16 06:56:09 ru Exp $ on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC --

Re: 5.3 6.0 - make buildworld libkrb5 failure

2005-12-04 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 04 December 2005 20:49, Vizion wrote: make buildworld from # $FreeBSD: src/Makefile,v 1.319.2.1 2005/11/16 06:56:09 ru Exp $ on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Did you try it with ccache turned off? -Mike

Re: 5.3 6.0 - make buildworld libkrb5 failure

2005-12-04 Thread Vizion
On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:01, the author Michael C. Shultz contributed to the dialogue on- Re: 5.3 6.0 - make buildworld libkrb5 failure: On Sunday 04 December 2005 20:49, Vizion wrote: make buildworld from # $FreeBSD: src/Makefile,v 1.319.2.1 2005/11/16 06:56:09 ru Exp $ on FreeBSD

Re: 5.3 6.0 - make buildworld libkrb5 failure

2005-12-04 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:07, Vizion wrote: On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:01, the author Michael C. Shultz contributed to the dialogue on- Re: 5.3 6.0 - make buildworld libkrb5 failure: On Sunday 04 December 2005 20:49, Vizion wrote: make buildworld from # $FreeBSD: src/Makefile,v

Re: Too many files crashing services

2005-12-04 Thread Norberto Meijome
Norberto Meijome wrote: No, you are running out of maxfiles, as per kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid ... . errr... of course, i meant to say, you have more open files than allowed by kern.maxfiles. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: 5.3 6.0 - make buildworld libkrb5 failure

2005-12-04 Thread Vizion
On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:14, the author Michael C. Shultz contributed to the dialogue on- Re: 5.3 6.0 - make buildworld libkrb5 failure: On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:07, Vizion wrote: On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:01, the author Michael C. Shultz contributed to the dialogue on-

Re: Setting up a print-server SOLVED

2005-12-04 Thread Charles Howse
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I have the task of setting up a FreeBSD box as a print-server for the lan here at home. I've used FreeBSD for quite a while, but am currently just a little rusty. I was hoping the list members could help me with planning a strategy, and

fedora directory server 1.0

2005-12-04 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Anyone know if a port is in progress? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cannot run FreeBSD 6.0-R in Mac Virtual PC 7

2005-12-04 Thread wrangled
I have not been able to get any version of FreeBSD (5.x or 6.x), PC-BSD, or DesktopBSD to run inside Virtual PC 7 on my Mac Mini. The installs hang on the message: Extracting base into / directory 2% Supposedly FreeBSD did run in older versions of Virtual PC (I

Re: 5.3 6.0 - make buildworld libkrb5 failure

2005-12-04 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 04 December 2005 09:21 pm, Vizion wrote: On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:14, the author Michael C. Shultz contributed to the dialogue on- Re: 5.3 6.0 - make buildworld libkrb5 failure: On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:07, Vizion wrote: On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:01, the author

Re: A stupid 64bit question ... but ...

2005-12-04 Thread Guillaume R.
2005/12/5, David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:50:55PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I recently bought a new Intel Xeon server, and when I put it together, I didn't realize that the newer Xeon's were 64bit ... now, I've just built perl 5.8.7, and its reporting: