Re: installing 6.1 on Compaq Proliant 5000

2006-09-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
This isn't unusual, it happens with certain array cards. If the disk drivers of each different operating system don't agree in how the disk is laid out that the intelligent driver array controller presents to them, then your screwed - you cannot use the array card for a multi-boot system.

Re: Getting GELI Keys from Floppy

2006-09-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 07 September 2006 00:00, Frank Steinborn wrote: Hello, i want to encrypt my HDD's with GELI (not the root-fs, though). I want to do the encryption without password, just with a key. The key should be stored in a floppy disk, and the read should be read automatically on boot, from

Do I not understand shared-lib versions? (Re: OpenOffice port vs Firefox)

2006-09-07 Thread Perry Hutchison
Having gotten a sufficiently-recent version of glib, I am now several hours into the build of OpenOffice, and I've discovered that Firefox has quit working. When I try to start it: GThread-ERROR **: file gthread-posix.c: line 187 (): error 'Invalid argument' during

Can't run openoffice on amd64

2006-09-07 Thread Stroganov A. V.
Hi. I've downloaded latest package of OOo for FreeBSD 6.1 for amd64 from good-day, installed it, but it doesn't run, saying 3 times: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: unsupported file layout any advice? uname -a: FreeBSD savs.home 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #1: Tue Jul 25

Re: Xorg install

2006-09-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
g wrote: how do i do that? i'm a newbie. Well, for starters, try not top posting. Are you familiar with the process of updating the ports system either with cvsup or portsnap? If not, read the man pages. If yu still have questions, then check back here. I am assuming that you have never

Firefox: anti-alias issue

2006-09-07 Thread Kyrre Nygård
Hello, Has anybody else noticed that not all fonts in Firefox get anti-aliased? Only like half? I'm using Ifirefox-1.5.0.1_1,1 and I think it's rather unfortunate that Firefox acts like this by default. Poor guy at http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43683 never found a

Re: Xorg install

2006-09-07 Thread Anthony Agelastos
On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:09 AM, g wrote: how do i do that? i'm a newbie. In being new to FreeBSD, you should read the Handbook (or at least peruse it so you have some idea what is contained within it). If you go to the FreeBSD home page and click on Documentation, you will be taken to a

Re: Xorg install

2006-09-07 Thread J65nko
You can download the latest ports tree from http://www.freebsd.org/ports/installing.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg install

2006-09-07 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, September 07, 2006 a las 01:09:33PM +0200, J65nko escribió: You can download the latest ports tree from http://www.freebsd.org/ports/installing.html Hello, One question concerning this: Can this be used regardless of the underlaying FreeBSD system 6.0-REL versus 6.1-REL or

Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 19:05, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Wednesday 06 September 2006 13:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/6/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and

Re: LVM support in FreeBSD

2006-09-07 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 05/09/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm wondering whether FreeBSD is able to support reading (at least, but preferably also writing) Linux LVM volumes? I have an itch to try FreeBSD on a desktop but all my data is in a Linux LVM. Is it possible? TIA, Jeff Rollin --

cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After cvsupping my ports tree to fix a couple of security problems I decided to install cups for printing. Yea I know it isnt the freebsd default -- thats for another day. Anyway This new version of cups 1.2.2 is really cool, I like the interface and the web admin portal has really undergone

Re: Getting GELI Keys from Floppy

2006-09-07 Thread Frank Steinborn
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Are you sure you want to trust a floppy disk for your keys?? It's not the most safe medium these days... I'll backup the keys on CD. It's just that I don't want to waste a CD-ROM drive in this server. There is a problem here, because GELI initializes _before_

Re: Xorg install

2006-09-07 Thread Vince
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 07, 2006 a las 01:09:33PM +0200, J65nko escribió: You can download the latest ports tree from http://www.freebsd.org/ports/installing.html Hello, One question concerning this: Can this be used regardless of the underlaying FreeBSD system

cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-07 Thread Robert Huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anybody seen this behavior before? or have a clue? I don't know if this is your problem, but I have seen similar issues. _In my case_, CUPS as ported does not like the permissions on /dev/lpt0*. They default to crw---; setting them to crw-rw-rw-

Re: LVM support in FreeBSD

2006-09-07 Thread Vince
Jeff Rollin wrote: On 05/09/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm wondering whether FreeBSD is able to support reading (at least, but preferably also writing) Linux LVM volumes? I have an itch to try FreeBSD on a desktop but all my data is in a Linux LVM. Is it possible?

Efficacy vs. friendliness [Was: How to fix init - /etc/ttys?]

2006-09-07 Thread Pete Slagle
Gary Kline wrote: SOAPBOX Anyway, this is to the entire list: A week or so ago I loaned my 5.3 set to a non-geek friend who had occasionally been using RH. He brought the box of discs back and said it was too hard to install; that RH had a much easier

Please Help AMD, mysql, FreeBSD 64

2006-09-07 Thread VeeJay
Hello Just wondering if I can get an advice from this forum? What kind of hardware i.e.(Processor, RAM) I need to accomplish following jobs on a FreeBSD plateform: I have some mysql dumps around 2 GB eachwith each record is 100 KB... 1. What is the best method to import them into a mysql

Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-07 Thread Jona Joachim
Robert Huff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anybody seen this behavior before? or have a clue? I don't know if this is your problem, but I have seen similar issues. _In my case_, CUPS as ported does not like the permissions on /dev/lpt0*. They default to crw---;

Re: solaris

2006-09-07 Thread Freminlins
On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is a totally unqualified evaluation. No it's not. It's in response to YOUR comment that A very large majority of users simply want to use their PCs for email, occasional word processing and possible game playing. And OpenOffice fits that

Re: need a restricted shell

2006-09-07 Thread David Robillard
I am looking for a shell that will allow Subversion to be run over ssh but not allow interactive login or if it allows interactive login, will only allow Subversion commands to be run... Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Hi Chad, You could install the shells/scponly port and build it with

Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-07 Thread Robert Huff
Jona Joachim writes: _In my case_, CUPS as ported does not like the permissions on /dev/lpt0*. They default to crw---; setting them to crw-rw-rw- makes the parallel printer appear. There should be a way to tall devfs to change those permissions automatically, but I

Re: Efficacy vs. friendliness [Was: How to fix init - /etc/ttys?]

2006-09-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Pete Slagle wrote: Gary Kline wrote: SOAPBOX Anyway, this is to the entire list: A week or so ago I loaned my 5.3 set to a non-geek friend who had occasionally been using RH. He brought the box of discs back and said it was too hard to install; that

Re: LVM support in FreeBSD

2006-09-07 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 07/09/06, Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Rollin wrote: On 05/09/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm wondering whether FreeBSD is able to support reading (at least, but preferably also writing) Linux LVM volumes? I have an itch to try FreeBSD on a desktop but

Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robert Huff wrote: Jona Joachim writes: _In my case_, CUPS as ported does not like the permissions on /dev/lpt0*. They default to crw---; setting them to crw-rw-rw- makes the parallel printer appear. There should be a way to tall devfs to change those permissions

Re: OpenOffice port vs Firefox

2006-09-07 Thread Jerold McAllister
Perry Hutchison writes: Having gotten a sufficiently-recent version of glib, I am now several hours into the build of OpenOffice, and I've discovered that Firefox has quit working. When I try to start it: GThread-ERROR **: file gthread-posix.c: line 187 (): error 'Invalid argument' during

Re: rc.firewall rule for passive FTP

2006-09-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what is a good rule to allow passive FTP to work. the following rules still blocks passive FTP. #/** Allow setup of FTP PASSIVE **/ ${fwcmd} add allow tcp from any to ${ip} 49152-65534 setup If the passive FTP client is on ${ip}, then that's the

Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-07 Thread Robert Huff
Alex Zbyslaw writes: Did you as root do sh /etc/rc.d/devfs start AFAIK rules are only applied when the node is created, which it already would have been when you added/changed your rule. Also not /dev/lpt0 but just lpt0. Devfs rules only apply to /dev! That /seems/

Re: Efficacy vs. friendliness [Was: How to fix init - /etc/ttys?]

2006-09-07 Thread Jerold McAllister
Alex Zbyslaw writes: Pete Slagle wrote: Gary Kline wrote: SOAPBOX Anyway, this is to the entire list: A week or so ago I loaned my 5.3 set to a non-geek friend who had occasionally been using RH. He brought the box of discs back and said it was too

Re: Xorg install

2006-09-07 Thread Jerold McAllister
g writes: how do i do that? i'm a newbie. Avoid top posting. Then, check out cvsup and keeping your source and ports up to date in the handbook. It is all there in pretty plain descriptions. Even I was able to do it, so anybody can. jerry g. On Sep 6, 2006, at 10:22 PM, Pablo

Re: Please Help AMD, mysql, FreeBSD 64

2006-09-07 Thread Derek Ragona
You would do better posting to the mysql lists, as this isn't really related to the OS. I would suggest you use the command line utilities to load the records. I would first slice them into chunks not too big, then iterate through them. If the records are in some order, if you get an error,

Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-07 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Robert Huff wrote: # make lpt0 available to CUPS perm/dev/lpt00666 Doesn't seem to work. :-( You need devfs_system_ruleset=system in /etc/rc.conf Tom Veldhouse ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: need a restricted shell

2006-09-07 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:55:25PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I am looking for a shell that will allow Subversion to be run over ssh but not allow interactive login or if it allows interactive login, will only allow Subversion commands to be run... Any ideas on how to

Re: acpi: bad read from port 0x71:: FreeBSD 6.1 /boot fault (solution)

2006-09-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:30:05PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Does anybody know what to tweak in /boot/* to stop bad read/write messages from/to the BIOS? [At least so fare as I can tell? I've triied everything suggested on Google; rebooted, no-joy. The BIOS

ports/java/jdk15

2006-09-07 Thread B. Cook
Hello All, Trying to build java 1.5.0 and it looks like it's needs linux java 1.4.2? is this right? === linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.12 You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform (j2sdk-1_4_2_12-linux-i586.bin) from

Re: Please Help AMD, mysql, FreeBSD 64

2006-09-07 Thread Ralph Ellis
On Thursday 07 September 2006 6:17 am, VeeJay wrote: Hello Just wondering if I can get an advice from this forum? What kind of hardware i.e.(Processor, RAM) I need to accomplish following jobs on a FreeBSD plateform: I have some mysql dumps around 2 GB eachwith each record is 100 KB...

Re: ports/java/jdk15

2006-09-07 Thread Jona Joachim
B. Cook wrote: Hello All, Trying to build java 1.5.0 and it looks like it's needs linux java 1.4.2? is this right? === linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.12 You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform (j2sdk-1_4_2_12-linux-i586.bin) from

Re: ports/java/jdk15

2006-09-07 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
On 07/09/2006 18:05, B. Cook wrote: Hello All, Trying to build java 1.5.0 and it looks like it's needs linux java 1.4.2? is this right? Yes, jdk port needs java tools to build itself, it uses precompiled linux binary (linux-sun-jdk14) for the first time. Note you can use diablo-jdk15 or

Re: ports/java/jdk15

2006-09-07 Thread B. Cook
Jona Joachim wrote: B. Cook wrote: Hello All, Trying to build java 1.5.0 and it looks like it's needs linux java 1.4.2? is this right? === linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.12 You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform (j2sdk-1_4_2_12-linux-i586.bin) from

Re: ports/java/jdk15

2006-09-07 Thread Gábor Kövesdán
B. Cook wrote: Hello All, Trying to build java 1.5.0 and it looks like it's needs linux java 1.4.2? is this right? === linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.12 You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform (j2sdk-1_4_2_12-linux-i586.bin) from

Xfce 4.3.90.2 + Xorg 6.9.0 with Compositor == SUPER buggy ?

2006-09-07 Thread Frank Staals
I recently decided to have some fun with the latest Xfce release ( or well; when I installed it it was, at the moment there is an RC1 ) and composite stuff. Allthough what I found out was that xfwm4 crashed when I enabled transparency for inactive windows and moved some aterms around. So my

Re: Getting GELI Keys from Floppy

2006-09-07 Thread Matt Piechota
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Frank Steinborn wrote: I could use /dev/fd0 directly but then I had to use the same key for all 6 HDD's in the server. I got a solution by hacking /etc/rc.d/geli - I'm just mounting the floppy there before it tries to read the key. You could read different parts of the

Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950

2006-09-07 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: All: Does anyone have details about the new PERC 5/E SAS RAID controller Dell is (or will soon be) shipping in the 1950/2950? For the record, this is mfi(4). Yay! ~BAS ___

Re: LVM support in FreeBSD

2006-09-07 Thread David Robillard
Hi list, I'm wondering whether FreeBSD is able to support reading (at least, but preferably also writing) Linux LVM volumes? I have an itch to try FreeBSD on a desktop but all my data is in a Linux LVM. Is it possible? I really have no idea if it works, but have you tried to export your LVM

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 7, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Tom Ierna wrote: For the purposes of ease of software and hardware management, I'm attempting to run a set of PXE-booted Client machines as web/db or mail servers. It is perhaps reasonable to run a diskless webserver, especially if it is serving mainly

Re: LVM support in FreeBSD

2006-09-07 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 07/09/06, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm wondering whether FreeBSD is able to support reading (at least, but preferably also writing) Linux LVM volumes? I have an itch to try FreeBSD on a desktop but all my data is in a Linux LVM. Is it possible? I really have

Re: solaris

2006-09-07 Thread backyard
--- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried Open Office. No matter what anyone says, it is just not as full featured as Word 2003. It is not even close. yeah cause most

Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-07 Thread Paul Mather
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:42:11 -0400, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anybody seen this behavior before? or have a clue? I don't know if this is your problem, but I have seen similar issues. _In my case_, CUPS as ported does not like the

Re: solaris

2006-09-07 Thread Jona Joachim
White Hat wrote: --- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried Open Office. No matter what anyone says, it is just not as full featured as Word 2003. It is not even close. True, but also compare the cost. Not even close...

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:34:08PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: Hello, list. For the purposes of ease of software and hardware management, I'm attempting to run a set of PXE-booted Client machines as web/db or mail servers. The NFS/DHCP/YP servers are running on a 5.4-STABLE Server. I

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Tom Ierna
On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:34:08PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: Sporadically, there appear to be stalls on some locks with rpc.lockd. rpc.lockd is unreliable in all versions of FreeBSD (although it may be worse in 5.x), see the mailing list

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:12:26PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:34:08PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: Sporadically, there appear to be stalls on some locks with rpc.lockd. rpc.lockd is unreliable in all versions of

rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Tom Ierna
Hello, list. For the purposes of ease of software and hardware management, I'm attempting to run a set of PXE-booted Client machines as web/db or mail servers. The NFS/DHCP/YP servers are running on a 5.4-STABLE Server. I mostly followed the PXE guide when building these systems. All

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Tom Ierna
On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Trying to run a database server or mail server without a disk strikes me as a very bad idea. This is unfortunate - the client machines I have chosen have no front-panel disk sleds. Hardware administration will be a bear if they each have to

Re: rc.firewall rule for passive FTP

2006-09-07 Thread Noah
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what is a good rule to allow passive FTP to work. the following rules still blocks passive FTP. #/** Allow setup of FTP PASSIVE **/ ${fwcmd} add allow tcp from any to ${ip} 49152-65534 setup If the passive FTP

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 7, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Tom Ierna wrote: On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Trying to run a database server or mail server without a disk strikes me as a very bad idea. This is unfortunate - the client machines I have chosen have no front-panel disk sleds. Hardware

rc.firewall rule for passive FTP from FTP server side

2006-09-07 Thread Noah
It appears that FTP clients using FTP are not able to interact passively with my FTP server. I am wondering if there is a rule somebody could point me to that works rather well. ${ip} is the IP address fo the server (not the client). this does not work. snip #/** Allow

Re: solaris

2006-09-07 Thread backyard
--- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the lack of documentation is a shame. In Windows, yes. In FreeBSD I can't see a lack. You are kidding right. I can find vastly more documentation available for a win32 machine than for FBSD. In fact, the lact of documentation is one of

Migrating from postfix to postfix

2006-09-07 Thread Hair
Hello, the company I work for has decided to host web and mail internally instead of paying a hosting company. I have gotten freebsd set up and postfix and squirrelmail up and running. Is there a way to migrate saved messages from the old server to the new one? I tried simply stopping postfix

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:19:51PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: On Sep 7, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:12:26PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: Is there a way to note -L via fstab? Since these machines are PXE booted, unmounting and re-mounting with -L will be

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Tom Ierna
On Sep 7, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:12:26PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: Is there a way to note -L via fstab? Since these machines are PXE booted, unmounting and re-mounting with -L will be problematic, and I'd like them to inherit this property at reboot.

Re: Migrating from postfix to postfix

2006-09-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, the company I work for has decided to host web and mail internally instead of paying a hosting company. I have gotten freebsd set up and postfix and squirrelmail up and running. Is there a way to migrate saved messages from the old server to

Re: Migrating from postfix to postfix

2006-09-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 7, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Hair wrote: Hello, the company I work for has decided to host web and mail internally instead of paying a hosting company. I have gotten freebsd set up and postfix and squirrelmail up and running. Is there a way to migrate saved messages from the old server to

Re: Migrating from postfix to postfix

2006-09-07 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, Hair wrote: Hello, the company I work for has decided to host web and mail internally instead of paying a hosting company. I have gotten freebsd set up and postfix and squirrelmail up and running. Is there a way to migrate saved messages from the old server to the new one? I tried

Re: ports/java/jdk15

2006-09-07 Thread Jona Joachim
B. Cook wrote: Jona Joachim wrote: B. Cook wrote: Hello All, Trying to build java 1.5.0 and it looks like it's needs linux java 1.4.2? is this right? === linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.12 You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform

Re: Xfce 4.3.90.2 + Xorg 6.9.0 with Compositor == SUPER buggy ?

2006-09-07 Thread Jud
On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:58:49 +0200, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I recently decided to have some fun with the latest Xfce release ( or well; when I installed it it was, at the moment there is an RC1 ) and composite stuff. Allthough what I found out was that xfwm4 crashed when I

Re: Xorg install

2006-09-07 Thread g
i'm sorry what is top posting? if it is offensive, i certainly don't mean to do it. thanks for the advise. g. On Sep 7, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Gerard Seibert wrote: g wrote: how do i do that? i'm a newbie. Well, for starters, try not top posting. Are you familiar with the process of

Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950

2006-09-07 Thread ke han
On Sep 8, 2006, at 12:49 AM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: All: Does anyone have details about the new PERC 5/E SAS RAID controller Dell is (or will soon be) shipping in the 1950/2950? For the record, this is mfi(4). Have you done an

Re: Xorg install

2006-09-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:58 PM, g wrote: i'm sorry what is top posting? Compare: A: Putting the reply above the question. Q: What is top posting? ...to: Q: What is the preferred way to exchange email on the FreeBSD lists? A: Quote what you reply to [1], then put your response or answer

Strange processes left over from periodic daily

2006-09-07 Thread Glenn Gillis
In attempting to track down some odd new sluggishness in my FreeBSD 4.11 mail server, I have run across some odd processes that seem to be hanging on from the daily periodic cron jobs. Attached are the output from top and ps showing these lingering processes. I learned from this list's archives

make config display problem while installing samba3

2006-09-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've finally gotten around to adding samba3 to my home router box I cd'd into /usr/ports/net/samba3 and issued a make install clean and figured that would be the end of it. the options selection screen that comes up when you make config or try to install the port for the first time is

Re: Xorg install

2006-09-07 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 08/09/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:58 PM, g wrote: i'm sorry what is top posting? Compare: A: Putting the reply above the question. Q: What is top posting? ...to: Q: What is the preferred way to exchange email on the FreeBSD lists? A: Quote what you

Strange processes left over from periodic daily

2006-09-07 Thread Glenn Gillis
[Not sure what happened to the last copy of this message, but it looks like crap in the archive! G.] In attempting to track down some odd new sluggishness in my FreeBSD 4.11 mail server, I have run across some odd processes that seem to be hanging on from the daily periodic cron jobs. Attached

Re: Efficacy vs. friendliness [Was: How to fix init - /etc/ttys?]

2006-09-07 Thread jdow
From: Pete Slagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gary Kline wrote: SOAPBOX Anyway, this is to the entire list: A week or so ago I loaned my 5.3 set to a non-geek friend who had occasionally been using RH. He brought the box of discs back and said it was too hard to install; that RH had a much easier

whowatch port not working on AMD64 machines

2006-09-07 Thread stan
I'm having probelms with the whowatch port on my AMD64 6.1 machines. Does anyone know how I can make this work? I really use this tool a lot. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___

Re: DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram

2006-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:50:48PM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: Hello, I've got a DL 380/G5 as an evalu unit. It has 16 gig of ram. I compiled a PAE kernel but I'm finding that it is not very stable. It crashes during heavy disk activity, ie. portupgrade -rav. Does anyone have experience

Re: whowatch port not working on AMD64 machines

2006-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:10:09PM -0400, stan wrote: I'm having probelms with the whowatch port on my AMD64 6.1 machines. Does anyone know how I can make this work? I really use this tool a lot. Try talking to the developers of the software. Kris pgpK2JzktdKSJ.pgp Description: PGP

6.1 recommended instead of 5.x for new installations [was: Efficacy vs. friendliness]

2006-09-07 Thread Pete Slagle
jdow wrote: I noticed that FreeBSD 5.x was somewhat quicker than that to get up, running, and up to date. I can't think of a good reason to use FreeBSD 5.x for a new installation; 6.1 contains so many reliability and performance improvements that it is the clear choice over 5.5. (Upgrades are

Re: DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram

2006-09-07 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 7, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Josef Grosch wrote: Hello, I've got a DL 380/G5 as an evalu unit. It has 16 gig of ram. I compiled a PAE kernel but I'm finding that it is not very stable. It crashes during heavy disk activity, ie. portupgrade

portconf port

2006-09-07 Thread Doug Hardie
I have been trying to figure out how to configure portconf. The 3 examples given are not much help with complex ports. I am starting with the dspam port (mail/dspam) as if I can figure that one out the rest should be easy. I first tried to use the arguments from the configure command:

Thunderbird isntall error

2006-09-07 Thread Joshua Lewis
Can anyone tell me how Bind can cause a problem with my Thunderbird install? Should I remove the option that is causing the problem and reinstall Thunderbird? %make install clean === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Found saved configuration for thunderbird-1.5.0.5 ===

FreeBSD Shells

2006-09-07 Thread Joshua Lewis
My shell mysteriously changed. I don't know what port changed the shell but how do I put it back to normal. I liked how when I was logged in or su'ed to root I had a prompt with the computer name and a hash sign. Now I have a percent sign and when I try to change the shell with chsh I can not get

trouble with a pair of bind9 servers

2006-09-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
i have 2 servers im working with for a test im doing with bind9. a 6.1-p4, and a 5.5-p3. both have bind9-9.3.2.1 from ports, without replace base version checked. both are responding correctly for general lookups of hosts out on the internet, even based on the querying clients ip vs the acl

hp or Toshiba laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
Hi guys, I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week, due to budget, time and the fact that I'm near the end of civilization right now, I have the following choices: Toshiba Tecra A6-SP3032 (Core Duo 1.83GHz, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11a/b/g), Intel PRO/1000 VE 10/100/1000

OpenOffice build crashes the compiler

2006-09-07 Thread Perry Hutchison
Anyone seen this and know how to get past it? Configuring out the failing component would be fine, if possible, since I really only need the word processor. Making: ../../../../unxfbsdi.pro/slo/SlideSorterView.obj g++-ooo -fmessage-length=0 -c -Os -fno-strict-aliasing -fvisibility=hidden -I.

Re: FreeBSD Shells

2006-09-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9/7/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My shell mysteriously changed. I don't know what port changed the shell but how do I put it back to normal. I liked how when I was logged in or su'ed to root I had a prompt with the computer name and a hash sign. Now I have a percent sign and when

Re: need a restricted shell

2006-09-07 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 7, 2006, at 7:35 AM, David Robillard wrote: I am looking for a shell that will allow Subversion to be run over ssh but not allow interactive login or if it allows interactive login, will only allow Subversion commands to be run... Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Hi Chad, You

DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram

2006-09-07 Thread Josef Grosch
Hello, I've got a DL 380/G5 as an evalu unit. It has 16 gig of ram. I compiled a PAE kernel but I'm finding that it is not very stable. It crashes during heavy disk activity, ie. portupgrade -rav. Does anyone have experience with this sort of machine and would you care to share your kernel

Re: DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram

2006-09-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Josef Grosch wrote: Hello, I've got a DL 380/G5 as an evalu unit. It has 16 gig of ram. I compiled a PAE kernel but I'm finding that it is not very stable. It crashes during heavy disk activity, ie. portupgrade -rav. Does anyone have experience with this sort of machine

Re: DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram

2006-09-07 Thread Brad Miele
I have 2 new dl380/G5s which threw the Memory above 4G ignored errors unless i used a PAE kernel. my kernel config is below, the machine has been up and has had no trouble with portupgrade/buildworld, etc. but it is not in production yet either and i have not put a ton of stress on it. I have

Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Joel Dahl
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:38 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: Hi guys, I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week, due to budget, time and the fact that I'm near the end of civilization right now, I have the following choices: Toshiba Tecra A6-SP3032 (Core Duo