Re: problem with make

Hi list i just installed freeBSD 5.4 and i have tried to make buildworld but if fails. Anybody who has faced this before? these are the errors it generates After setting up my firewall cd /usr/src make buildworld error make: don't know how to make buildworld. Stop -- Ronnie Tash Everything

Re: portupgrade eats my swap space

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:50:10PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: OK, my problem doesn't seem to be exactly the same. My machine hangs, and when I check it the console screen is filled with the message, swap-pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 26650, size: 4096 and at that point

Re: problem with make

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:00:13AM +0300, Ronnie Napster Tash wrote: Hi list i just installed freeBSD 5.4 and i have tried to make buildworld but if fails. Anybody who has faced this before? these are the errors it generates After setting up my firewall cd /usr/src make buildworld

Cron script redirection (probably stderr problem ?)

Hello, I am using a little cron script to update my server that calls portsnap. Once this is done there is another piece of script that tells me which port(s) is to be updated with a simple call to a script that mainly execute portversion -l and mail me the output of the command.

Re: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 05:53 am, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: (snip) I think you need to look up the word xenophobe http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=xenophobe There is nothing in having an english-language-only list that fits the definition. Them dam furriners oughta get

Re: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 19:27, Micheal Patterson pondered: The 1663 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered) PORT STATE SERVICE 80/tcp open http 554/tcp open rtsp 1755/tcp open wms 5190/tcp open aol Kilian, what does a sockstat show you on those systems

Re: I killed my Flash player 7 in Konqueror

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 13:42, Ashley Moran wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/libmap.conf # Flash7 with Mozilla/Firebird/Galeon/Epiphany/Konqueror [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0                 pluginwrapper/flash7.so libdl.so.2                      

String variable expansion routine wanted

Hi folks, Is there a C-function that does string variable expansion like this: some text $(VARIABLE) text -- some text VALUE text I suppose this functionality is useful for many programs, so I'm looking for a simpe library to link with. Please CC me on reply. Thanks a lot! -- Alexander

How to install x-windows in freeBSD

Hi guys ,This is Anirban here.I have just installed freeBSD 6.0 and i have installed it properly.But i am not able to see any graphics on it.So my question is that how i can install x-window system in freeBSD environment. Hope i will receive my reply soon. with regards Anirban.

Re: How to install x-windows in freeBSD

Hi Anirban, a very good place to start is the handbook, chapter 5. Most important is to know the monitor specifications, video adapter chipset, the video adapter memory and to create a initial xorg.conf with Xorg -configure If you've done this already and still hung, you need to supply

Re: How to install x-windows in freeBSD

Hi Anirban, This is not your first post here but I can't understand how you can ask for such information. However, I am not the police and I found something, very miraculous for you. But please when you need informations, have a look to the handbook and on Google. We won't work for you.

RE: String variable expansion routine wanted

Hi, Well If I understood well you need printf() Definitely check the manual page: #man 3 printf You can use printf() like this: vartype Variable = declaration; /* string or int or double etc */ /* will print your text and the variable in the middle */ printf(some text... %type_of_variable

Re: How to install x-windows in freeBSD

hi Anirban, first update your ports tree using cvsup. [cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/ports-supfile this will do it. but ports-supfile might be somewhere else if u didnt edit then move it under /etc. for this check documentation.] then cd to /usr/ports/x11/xorg # make install clean. soon u done with this

RE: trouble installing new printer

Hi Ivan, OK I hope this isn't going to sound to nasty but I'm going to say it anyway. Did it ever occur to you that it might have been a better idea to post to the mailing list and ask what a good printer to buy would be BEFORE buying this printer? There are websites specifically

RE: trouble installing new printer

Hi Ted, don't worry about what your mail sounds, it is ok :) You're right on every points. I do not need to print so much. In fact, I am translating the printing chapter of the handbook to french and I just wanted to test the parallel interface. I bought this printer for 70$ (approx.). In fact,

urgent, agir vite

on dirait qu'il y a un bug là : http://www.fr.freebsd.org/cgi/search.cgi?max=25source=ords=TurboGXsubmit=Rechercher ça affiche tout le code perl ! de rien. Rol, fan de fribéhesdé #!/usr/bin/perl -T # # mail-archive.pl -- a CGI interface to a wais indexed maling list archive. # # Origin: #

no one here use restore/dump?

nobody here do backups of their systems? strange?! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: trouble installing new printer

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: trouble installing new printer Hi Ted, don't worry about what your mail

RE: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

Maybe it's just me but the idea of a bunch of English speakers sitting around and debating whether or not to permit foreign languages on the mailing list is a bit like a bunch of men sitting around and debating whether or not to legalize abortion. It's an issue that so obviously does not affect

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 121, Issue 28

On 2006-01-18 13:06, Rithy- System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got FreeBSD 5.3 release installed on my Server but its hard disk and mainboard are too old and i want to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.0 with new hard disk on the same PC how can i do this? is it necessary to install any

vinum RAID 1, FreeBSD 4-STABLE two different size drives

Hello :-) I've come across a deal where by I can either buy two identical 20GB drives, or a 20GB drive and a 40GB drive for the same price as the two 20GB's. I was intending to use the drives for a RAID 1 array and have read that ideally the drives should be identical, but it is do-able with

Re: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:29:38AM +0200, Kilian Hagemann wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 19:27, Micheal Patterson pondered: The 1663 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered) PORT STATE SERVICE 80/tcp open http 554/tcp open rtsp 1755/tcp open wms

Re: USB removable drive as dump device?

Mike Loiterman wrote: Using 6.0-RELEASE I'm trying to use a USB removable drive as a dump device. [...] The issue is when I try to dump to the device: # dump 0uafL /dev/da0 / I think this is telling dump to treat /dev/da0 as a normal file, which it isn't. it makes sense to say

Re: no one here use restore/dump?

Wojciech Puchar wrote: nobody here do backups of their systems? strange?! what do you base this (false comment) on? Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: no one here use restore/dump?

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:20:51PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: nobody here do backups of their systems? strange?! ___ Huh? I do. I'm sure a lot of people do. -- Ken Stevenson Allen-Myland Inc. ___

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

Windows almost runs everything Quite the opposite, try running some application from a few years back on windows 200 or XP, big chance it won't work. Unix has not matured yet to compete with Microsoft. Yeah, let's just forget that UNIX had stuff like network support before windows even

Re: PAE causing system crashes

You weren't by chance also using NFS? I was, all my other 5.x systems did not use NFS and are stable. I saw this same behavior and wound up going back to 4.11 to keep the system stable. Ted On Tuesday 17 January 2006 03:17 pm, Michael Barnett wrote: To ammend this slightly.. When running

Problem w/ vacation prg using NFS under 6.0p2

I am using 6.0-RELEASE-p2 (SMP PAE kernel) and have noticed that the vacation program does not work properly when the .vacation.db is on an NFS partition. The following shows up in the mailllog: Jan 18 07:56:59 mail sendmail[70185]: k0ICuv3r070159: to=| /usr/bin/vacation testuser, [EMAIL

I have been hacked (WAS: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?)

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:34, Ken Stevenson pondered: Is there any chance you have a router that's forwarding the ports in question to another computer? Not that I know of. The setup is quite simple: wireless ethernet(PPPoE) ethernet

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

[Let me first point out I've seen about 4 different 'unix/windows is teh gayz0r' threads on completely unrelated mailing lists in the last 24 hours. If I sound bored rigid with the whole subject that might be why.] Can we please stop comparing *NIX to windows. They're nothing like each other.

Re: I have been hacked (WAS: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?)

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:56:32PM +0200, Kilian Hagemann wrote: I have never even heard of frox before, but after some googling it turns out that it's a GPL'ed transparent ftp proxy... Where's it pointing? Also, I said smtp ports were open on the machines in question, I just verified that I

How to tell if IPF is running?

Howdy List... I am trying to figure out if ipf is running for certain. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE . I added the following to /etc/rc.conf : ipfilter_enable=YES ipmon_enable=YES ipmon_flags=-Dsvn ipnat_enable=YES ipfs_enable=YES I added a rule file /etc/ipf.conf , and flushed/reloaded ipf with the

Re: I have been hacked (WAS: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?)

Also, I said smtp ports were open on the machines in question, I just verified that I can send emails via BOTH these systems even though no sendmail/exim/whatever was ever installed by me and sendmail_enable=None on both. For what it's worth, to disable senmail on 5.0 and later, you need:

Re: I have been hacked (WAS: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?)

sendmail_enable=NONE would do the same as all that other crap mentioned i find it a waste of time trying to figure out how a hacker got in just format the machine reinstall freebsd and secure the box up a bit and try updating it when vulnerabilitie are out. And this shouldnt happen again Also, I

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

ipf runs as a kernel module or compiled into the kernel you will never see it running as a normal program you will know it is running by testing your firewall to make sure it does what it was meant to do Howdy List... I am trying to figure out if ipf is running for certain. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

Re: ataraid doesn't support dumps

Steven Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've recently upgraded from 5.4 to 6-Stable. I'm using the ar ataraid device on my Promise controller on the ASUS moboard. Are there any plans to add dump support to the ar driver? I'm not aware of any such limitation; you should probably talk

Re: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:28 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Maybe it's just me but the idea of a bunch of English speakers sitting around and debating whether or not to permit foreign languages on the mailing list is a bit like a bunch of men sitting around and debating whether or not to

Re: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

Wekk op n smehl da Kaffe, dood! Effn ah kaint reed et, how dew ah no et aint L kadeh plennen to rep muh guhrl? bee jes lahk duh bestads ta yoose Politch! -LenZ- C'est du Klingon ?? -- ivan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

Gable Barber wrote: Howdy List... I am trying to figure out if ipf is running for certain. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE . I added the following to /etc/rc.conf : ipfilter_enable=YES ipmon_enable=YES ipmon_flags=-Dsvn ipnat_enable=YES ipfs_enable=YES I added a rule file /etc/ipf.conf , and

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

--- Gable Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy List... I am trying to figure out if ipf is running for certain. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE . I added the following to /etc/rc.conf : ipfilter_enable=YES ipmon_enable=YES ipmon_flags=-Dsvn ipnat_enable=YES ipfs_enable=YES I added a

Re: I have been hacked (WAS: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?)

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 16:25, Will Maier pondered: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:56:32PM +0200, Kilian Hagemann wrote: I have never even heard of frox before, but after some googling it turns out that it's a GPL'ed transparent ftp proxy... Where's it pointing? No idea, I only went as

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

Yes, incorrectly, if you have any rules with the log key word, then you can se if you get any entries in your log files. I would have default rules first in my rule set: block log in all block log out all And then pass what I positively know is good. Cheers, Erik It seems

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

On 1/18/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switch over to pf. Why do you suggest PF over IPF? Hope I am not starting a war here.. but I am genuinely interested in the opinions. Gable ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: I have been hacked (WAS: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?)

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 17:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] pondered: sendmail_enable=NONE would do the same as all that other crap mentioned i find it a waste of time trying to figure out how a hacker got in just format the machine reinstall freebsd and secure the box up a bit and try updating it

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

--- Gable Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/18/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switch over to pf. Why do you suggest PF over IPF? All I can say is that I remember using ipf when I was on OpenBSD 2.9. At 3.0 it went to pf and ever since then I've been extremely pleased

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the essential difference between FreeBSD and Linux (Fedora for instance)? Where can I find any list of differences? What/Where are the advantages of FreeBSD vs Linux? Greetings Greg ___

Re: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wekk op n smehl da Kaffe, dood! Effn ah kaint reed et, how dew ah no et aint L kadeh plennen to rep muh guhrl? bee jes lahk duh bestads ta yoose Politch! -LenZ- C'est du Klingon ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) Martin ___

Share desktop with XOrg

Hello, Is it possible to share a desktop under the XOrg server? Is there a port for this? I'm aware of the -display option of X based programs. What I need is not a remote desktop connection. I would like to share my desktop to another user so he can see what I see. Thanks, Les

loosing hair inside canon printer...

Hi, Thanks all first, for the help you gave me yesterday. I begin hating Canon. Still nothing printed. I am going to gathered all information about what I did and hope you could give me something :) For the moment, I only want to be able to print the more disgusting raw text, even only hello

Re: Share desktop with XOrg

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 18:08, User Gandalf pondered: Is it possible to share a desktop under the XOrg server? Is there a port for this? I'm aware of the -display option of X based programs. What I need is not a remote desktop connection. I would like to share my desktop to another user

Re: create/symlink failed, no inodes free

The same error appeared frequently when I tried to install FreeBSD on an 8.5GB partition. Apparently it was because the root partition was running out of space. So instead of using the auto-option to divide up and create the different (logical?) partitions I created one root partition that is

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

Gable Barber wrote: On 1/18/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switch over to pf. Why do you suggest PF over IPF? Hope I am not starting a war here.. but I am genuinely interested in the opinions. I used IPF on FBSD until there was some bug in IPF for 5.x some version that forced me to

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

On 2006-01-18 16:55, Matias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the essential difference between FreeBSD and Linux (Fedora for instance)? Where can I find any list of differences? What/Where are the advantages of FreeBSD vs Linux? Give a look at gentoo it's

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

On Jan 18, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Matias wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the essential difference between FreeBSD and Linux (Fedora for instance)? Where can I find any list of differences? What/Where are the advantages of FreeBSD vs Linux? Greetings Greg

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

On 1/18/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gable Barber wrote: On 1/18/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switch over to pf. Why do you suggest PF over IPF? Hope I am not starting a war here.. but I am genuinely interested in the opinions. I used IPF on FBSD until there

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

Microsoft pays hardware manufacturers to make drivers for their OS, I seriously doubt it. They don't need to with their market share. Ok, what do you guys live in a shoe or something? For pete's sake, how can so many people be so patently clueless and still be able to find food and

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

On 18/01/06, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft pays hardware manufacturers to make drivers for their OS, I seriously doubt it. They don't need to with their market share. Ok, what do you guys live in a shoe or something? MS doesn't have to pay vendors, you toad. Did

Re: kernel memory tunables

Michael Barnett wrote: I am trying to figure out which system tunables determine memory resource usage by the amount of available physical memory in the box so i can hard code sane values on a system with a lot of memory. If the machine is properly configured, getrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, ...) is

Re: Share desktop with XOrg

Kilian Hagemann wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 18:08, User Gandalf pondered: Is it possible to share a desktop under the XOrg server? Is there a port for this? I'm aware of the -display option of X based programs. What I need is not a remote desktop connection. I would like to share my

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

On 1/17/06, Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The computer is currently without keyboard, mouse or monitor. I am adding applications to the computer via ssh while I work. As soon as I get openbox and tightvnc installed, I'll switch to tightvnc so I can disconnect without

freebsd 6.0 rc.conf

Hi all I have 2 questons about rc.conf 1/ I want to stop sendmail running in the box. in the man page in rc.sendmail. it said to put the following in rc.conf. to completely prevent any snedmail(8) daemons from starting. but my sendmail is still running in the box! sendmail_enable=NO

RE: FreeBSD vs Linux

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matias Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:55 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the essential difference

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

Dick Davies = Sorry for sending you this mail twice, accidently pressed enter...(shoudn't eat and write e-mails at the same time...) So what? That's exactly the same for FreeBSD, even it's core apps. And vendors rush to support MS' new OSes. There's a very big dump of unmaintained software,

Multiple install

Do you know of a drive clone that will work well with distributing freebsd installations to multiple servers via network. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: no one here use restore/dump?

___ Huh? I do. I'm sure a lot of people do. strange that nobody answerem by questions. it's quite impossible that only i have such problems. i really must be sure my dumps are restorable! :) ___

Re: no one here use restore/dump?

Wojciech Puchar wrote: nobody here do backups of their systems? strange?! I backup and restore using those self-named tools on a variety of DLT and 4mm DAT tape drives. 4mm DDS DAT kinda sucks, and they are super-sensitive to being cleaned a lot. Did you have a more specific question...?

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

On 18/01/06, Martin Tournoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what? That's exactly the same for FreeBSD, even it's core apps. And vendors rush to support MS' new OSes. There's a very big dump of unmaintained software, whenever I want to play an old classic game like cc, x-com or even system

again canon printer trouble

Ok, two short questions. -Is someone able to translate this for me (seems to be Czech)? http://www.abclinuxu.cz/hardware/show/65412;jsessionid=10vmgmw8u8l16 -May my problem be due to acpi in any way? I don't know acpi either. But may try something like debug.acpi.disabled=isa in

Re: KDE3 install problem n solution (BUG ????)

At 03:56 AM 1/18/2006, Mike Hernandez wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:04:10AM +0600, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: Installing compiling KDE3 in 4.7 had problem in line 275 of /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3/work/kdebase-3.4.3/kcontrol/usbview/usbdevices.cpp Not ready for 3.5 yet are you?

Re: PAE causing system crashes

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:03:44AM -0500, Ted Wisniewski wrote: You weren't by chance also using NFS? I was, all my other 5.x systems did not use NFS and are stable. I saw this same behavior and wound up going back to 4.11 to keep the system stable. Hmm, I didn't notice the 5.4 somehow.

Re: PAE causing system crashes

Nopers. No nfs... nothing at all fancy with the drives except the raid. -m On Jan 18, 2006, at 7:03 AM, Ted Wisniewski wrote: You weren't by chance also using NFS? I was, all my other 5.x systems did not use NFS and are stable. I saw this same behavior and wound up going back to 4.11

accounting - question on core usage

Hello, In the sa(8) manpage, I can find that it prints out somewhat mysterious values: k CPU-time averaged core usage, in 1k units k*sec CPU storage integral, in 1k-core seconds How are these values calculated and what do they really tell me? I know they're somehow related to

Re: create/symlink failed, no inodes free

On 1/18/06, progerstis (sent by Nabble.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The same error appeared frequently when I tried to install FreeBSD on an 8.5GB partition. Apparently it was because the root partition was running out of space. So instead of using the auto-option to divide up and create

Re: freebsd 6.0 rc.conf

ann kok, Here http://freebsd.qmailrocks.org/remove.htm are some instructions on uninstalling Sendmail. -David On 1/18/06, ann kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I have 2 questons about rc.conf 1/ I want to stop sendmail running in the box. in the man page in rc.sendmail. it said to put

Re: no one here use restore/dump?

___ Huh? I do. I'm sure a lot of people do. strange that nobody answerem by questions. it's quite impossible that only i have such problems. What question? No real question was asked. What do you want to know? Lots of people use

Why I haven't device /dev/cd0

Hello ! I want to use DVD+RW. I looked in handbook and I saw there: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html 16.7.5 Using a DVD+RW Unlike CD-RW, a virgin DVD+RW needs to be formatted before first use. The growisofs(1) program will take care of it

Re: I have been hacked (WAS: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?)

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:38:50PM +0200, Kilian Hagemann wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 16:25, Will Maier pondered: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:56:32PM +0200, Kilian Hagemann wrote: I have never even heard of frox before, but after some googling it turns out that it's a GPL'ed

Re: Why I haven't device /dev/cd0

cblasius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use DVD+RW. I looked in handbook and I saw there: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html 16.7.5 Using a DVD+RW Unlike CD-RW, a virgin DVD+RW needs to be formatted before first use. The growisofs(1)

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

--- Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/01/06, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft pays hardware manufacturers to make drivers for their OS, I seriously doubt it. They don't need to with their market share. Ok, what do you guys live in a shoe or

Re: Why I haven't device /dev/cd0

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:53 +0100, cblasius wrote: Hello ! I want to use DVD+RW. I looked in handbook and I saw there: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html 16.7.5 Using a DVD+RW Unlike CD-RW, a virgin DVD+RW needs to be formatted before first

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 18:15 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the essential difference between FreeBSD and Linux (Fedora for instance)? I have been following this thread (and similar ones over the past few weeks) and would like to offer my perspective on the FreeBSD versus Linux

Re: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;()

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 03:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wekk op n smehl da Kaffe, dood! Effn ah kaint reed et, how dew ah no et aint L kadeh plennen to rep muh guhrl? bee jes lahk duh bestads ta yoose Politch! -LenZ- C'est du Klingon ?? Not Klingon; Mercan, my native tongue.

vidcontrol does not give mode more 800x600

FreeBSD version: 6.0-RELEASE #0 video card: Nvidia Geforce4 MX 440 64M Kernel contains: devicevga deviceagp options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE when start on vmware `vidcontrol -i mode` list mode before 1920x1440 when start on real hardware `vidcontrol -i mode` list mode only

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

On 18/01/06, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/01/06, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (actually, no he didn't. your mail clients quoting is insane) (some guy:) Microsoft pays hardware manufacturers to make drivers for their OS,

Re: Why I haven't device /dev/cd0

If you look at /etc/fstab it should show you which device is assigned to /cdrom in my case (DVD+RW-DL), it is /dev/acd0 Since you have that device, that is probably yours as well. I wouldn't be surprised if you could simply: mount /cdrom Malachi On 1/18/06, cblasius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

64 Bit Questions

I have a couple questions about the AMD64 Project. 1. They page mentions that there is multiprocessor support. Does this include the dual core processors? Will the OS dispatch processes and threads to each core? 2. While the OS will use the 64 bit mode, will the applications still run in the

Re: loosing hair inside canon printer...

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This said, I have this in dmesg: [snip] Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: Canon i865/1.13 PRINTER BJL,BJRaster3,BSCCe [snip] simple question: how freebsd know about the name of my printer? I imagine FreeBSD queries the parallel

RE: freebsd 6.0 rc.conf

You are looking for this sendmail_enable=NONE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Stanford Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:04 PM To: ann kok Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 6.0 rc.conf ann kok, Here

Re: loosing hair inside canon printer...

Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This said, I have this in dmesg: [snip] Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: Canon i865/1.13 PRINTER BJL,BJRaster3,BSCCe [snip] simple question: how freebsd know about the name of my printer? I imagine FreeBSD

About VFS locking strategy...

Hi all. I'm speluking with source code of FreeBSD now, comparing VFS of FBSD and the linux's. I have a question related with concurrent accesses to the file system. It is seemed that VFS locks and unlocks each VNODEs before calling VNODE OPS provided by underlying FS. For example, it

6.0 for nfsd ?

Hi all I known that's a question come 1000 times when there are a new release... I must re-install my nfs server (actually run under FreeBSD 4.7 perfectly). I want to install FreeBSD 6.0-stable or FreeBSD 6.0-Release because on the www.freebsd.org this tag is «Production...». But is it a good

Re: 64 Bit Questions

Le 18/01/2006 à 17:40:00-0500, Anthony Dematteo a écrit I have a couple questions about the AMD64 Project. 1. They page mentions that there is multiprocessor support. Does this include the dual core processors? Will the OS dispatch processes and threads to each core? I only can answer

Re: again canon printer trouble

Michal Mertl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, two short questions. -Is someone able to translate this for me (seems to be Czech)? http://www.abclinuxu.cz/hardware/show/65412;jsessionid=10vmgmw8u8l16 -May my problem be due to acpi in any way? I don't know acpi either. But may try something

Re: 64 Bit Questions

On 2006-01-18 17:40, Anthony Dematteo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple questions about the AMD64 Project. 1. They page mentions that there is multiprocessor support. Does this include the dual core processors? Will the OS dispatch processes and threads to each core? Not sure if

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

--- Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gable Barber wrote: On 1/18/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switch over to pf. Why do you suggest PF over IPF? Hope I am not starting a war here.. but I am genuinely interested in the opinions. I used IPF on FBSD until there was

mencoder/mplayer slower on freebsd 6.0-amd64

Hi, I don't know if this is related, but I noticed that, when I run mkxvcd under amd64, it takes longer time to finish a movie conversion. I didn't do a side-by-side comparison between amd64 and i386 system, but usually a job will take less than an hour to finish on i386 would take more than

Re: About VFS locking strategy...

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:43:55AM +0900, Shin,Hee-Sub wrote: Hi all. I'm speluking with source code of FreeBSD now, comparing VFS of FBSD and the linux's. I have a question related with concurrent accesses to the file system. It is seemed that VFS locks and unlocks each

Re: 6.0 for nfsd ?

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 12:52:26AM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I known that's a question come 1000 times when there are a new release... I must re-install my nfs server (actually run under FreeBSD 4.7 perfectly). I want to install FreeBSD 6.0-stable or FreeBSD 6.0-Release because on

nsswitch.conf with ldap

Hi, I'm trying to use ldap database in /etc/nsswitch.conf but FreeBSD hangs on boot if it needs to bind a system user present in files, my nsswitch.conf: group: files ldap group_compat: nis hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: files ldap passwd_compat: nis shells: files Adding ldap after

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-01-18 16:55, Matias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the essential difference between FreeBSD and Linux (Fedora for instance)? Where can I find any list of differences? What/Where are the advantages of FreeBSD vs Linux? Give a

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