Re: Hell Installing OpenLDAP/Berkeley-DB/Java

2006-09-11 Thread Ted Johnson
I found a different file to build BerkeleyDB and built it successfully: /usr/ports/databases/p5-BerkeleyDB Then I rebuilt OpenLDAP from here: /usr/ports/net/openldap23-server Following the OpenLDAP tutorial, I edited slapd.conf and created an example.ldif file. Then I ran: ldapadd -x -D

Re: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-11 Thread jdow
From: Ian Graeme Hilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] May I point out that I was not interested in CHS alone. My focus was the origin of the hard drives parameters i.e. geometry, which is the subject of discussion. From this discussion and other sources I have learned that CHS, as you say, is arbitrary

Re: Making startup order static

2006-09-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
White Hat wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I need to keep several programs starting in a particular order. clamav-clamd clamav-freshclam clamsmtpd saslauthd dovecot postfix fetchmail By default, they do not start in that order. I have modified the rc.d files to force them to start in the order specified

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Bill Moran
Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made the decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a Unix or Linux system. With office suites like OpenOffice, I felt that I would be able to transition away from Windows

how to get one OBJDIR per kernel

2006-09-11 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
I have several systems which all use the same /usr/obj over NFS. In the make.conf of those systems WRKDIRPREFIX is set to /usr/obj/${HOST}, which keeps machines from messing with each other while they build ports. Those machines have their own kernel configurations, which reside in /root/kernels/

Re: Making startup order static

2006-09-11 Thread White Hat
--- Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I believe 6.1 uses rcorder for scripts from /usr/local/etc/rc.d, in which case you might be able to create local patches in the relevant ports which added appropriate e.g. # BEFORE: # PROVIDES: # REQUIRE: lines to force the order you

NAT+IPSEC toubles

2006-09-11 Thread Administrators
Hi, I'm building VPN connected to CISCO device. I NEED to translate my LAN adress to a given adress. The VPN work well when I try doing ifconfig em0 alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] ping -S [EMAIL PROTECTED] dest_@ but I didn't manage to translate LAN adresse AND having VPN used. I can pass throug VPN

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 11/09/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made the decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a Unix or Linux system. With office suites like OpenOffice, I felt that

Re: how to get one OBJDIR per kernel

2006-09-11 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: ... The trouble is that different kernels still clash in the same OBJDIR. I would like to have something like MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/${KERNCONF} , the trouble being that it cannot be set in make.conf . Is there a way around this restriction? Just for the record I

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 11 September 2006 05:29, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 11/09/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made the decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a

kernel version changes release version. (was Re: How to change kernel version tag?)

2006-09-11 Thread Spencer PriceNash
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:22:42PM +0800, Yuan, Jue wrote: Hi all. Could I change the kernel version tag manually? say, I have a kernel which is 7.0-CUREENT, but for some reasons I wanna it be something like 6.1-RELEASE, while the kernel itself does't change from 7.0-CURRENT to

Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest

2006-09-11 Thread Igor Robul
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:06:54PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: On 09/04/2006 16:00, Peter wrote: Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. Have you considered Virtual PC from MS? I believe its free. As VMware

Re: mod_ntln for apache2

2006-09-11 Thread Igor Robul
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:20:35PM +0600, Клопотнюк Михаил Сергеевич wrote: I have FreeBSD 5.4 and Apache2 (Apache2-2.0.53_1). I need compile module mod_ntlm for apache. Compiling stops with this errors: # make install === Building for mod_ntlm-0.4 You need mod_ntlm2 It is not in ports,

Sequence of execution of getopt() and usage()...

2006-09-11 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi, This is a general FreeBSD source related question, and I am posting it here, as it did not fit in any other FreeBSD lists... While browsing through sources for different userland utilities (cat, chmod, and so on), I noticed that in main(), first getopt() is called in a while loop, and then

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-11 Thread Alexandre Vieira
That makes me kind angry too but many other failed to show the big corps what the bsd* OSs worth. Macromedia know about freebsd, the linux dev coordinator posts about freebsd in his product blog but they don't care.. they know that having a linux driver is enough to have a good reputation in the

Newbie Experience #2

2006-09-11 Thread Bob Walker
Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I am going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS products. Regards, Bob Walker Surveys Forecasts, LLC 2323 North Street

Re: Making startup order static

2006-09-11 Thread RW
On Sunday 10 September 2006 19:11, White Hat wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I need to keep several programs starting in a particular order. ... The problem is that every time I update these programs the rc.d startup file is modified which destroys the changes I have made. I've got around this problem

Re: kernel version changes release version. (was Re: How to change kernel version tag?)

2006-09-11 Thread Yuan, Jue
/sys/conf/newvers.sh This file will determine the kernel version tag showed at booting time. Don't know if it has anything to do with your problem. HTH :-) On 9/11/06, Spencer PriceNash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:22:42PM +0800, Yuan, Jue wrote: Hi all. Could I

Re: Newbie Experience #2

2006-09-11 Thread Jud
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:46:13 -0400, Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I am going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS

Putting a command/script as a user's shell

2006-09-11 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Good day everyone, I'm trying to make it possible to restart (as in 'shutdown -r now') a FreeBSD based router from LAN network as easy as possible so it can be used by non-technical people. I'm sure some will ask why would I need that - it's an USB modem connecting to ADSL line that locks up

FreeBSD installer (was Re: Newbie Experience #2)

2006-09-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote: everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a better (meaning, at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical) installer would be nice Perhaps as an option. The problem is that you need to install a graphical environment to run a graphical

Re: Putting a command/script as a user's shell

2006-09-11 Thread backyard
--- Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day everyone, I'm trying to make it possible to restart (as in 'shutdown -r now') a FreeBSD based router from LAN network as easy as possible so it can be used by non-technical people. I'm sure some will ask why would I need that -

device vt causes boot freeze

2006-09-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I installed a custom kernel with vt console driver enabled. I also enabled vt in /boot/device.hints. Now my boot process freezes just after the countdown finishes. The hard drive busy indicator is always on. If I disable vt and enable sc at the boot loader prompt (set hint.vt.0.disabled=1,

Re: FreeBSD installer (was Re: Newbie Experience #2)

2006-09-11 Thread Jud
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:26:33 +0200, Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote: everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a better (meaning, at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical) installer would be nice Perhaps as an option. The

Re: Putting a command/script as a user's shell

2006-09-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 11 September 2006 09:20, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Good day everyone, I'm trying to make it possible to restart (as in 'shutdown -r now') a FreeBSD based router from LAN network as easy as possible so it can be used by non-technical people. First of all, it's easy enough to do this

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:32:40 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are a community. We're not Microsoft. We're not interested in driving users away by saying here's everything you need, don't bother us again. Our limited resources are focused on developing the really important parts

Re: FreeBSD installer (was Re: Newbie Experience #2)

2006-09-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:26:33 +0200 Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote: everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a better (meaning, at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical) installer would be nice Perhaps as an option. The

Re: Torrentflux, PHP, and Apache

2006-09-11 Thread Andy Greenwood
torrentflux has it's own forum for problems like this. Please consult http://www.torrentflux.com/forum for help. I don't check that forum anymore as I'm a dev for b4rt's mod. If you can't get any help from the official TF folks, email me off-list and I'll see what I can do. On 9/10/06, Ryan

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++_p

2006-09-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get the message /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++_p while building the xfe X11 file manager. A google did not give any ideas. Need help. Well, start with whether libstdc++_p.a actually exists in /usr/lib. ___

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the most important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think that having both a ncurses and a GUI (non-ncurses ;) )based installer would be quite nice and

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:42:19PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Too bad you felt it was that horrific. In my experience FreeBSD is sometimes a bit harder than modern Linux distros to install, but are much nicer to maintain and use. I found leaning linux was much harder because there wore

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On 2006 Sep 11, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the most important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think that having both a ncurses and a GUI (non-ncurses ;)

Re: FreeBSD installer (was Re: Newbie Experience #2)

2006-09-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:51:28 +0200 Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: absolutely. but you don't need to install anything to run a graphical installer. And, ideally, you wouldn't be forced to have only the graphical installer option, you'd still be able to use the good old ncurses or

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2006 Sep 11, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the most important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think

Re: installing 6.1 on Compaq Proliant 5000

2006-09-11 Thread Lee Shackelford
Good morning, Mr. Mittelstaedt. Again, many thanks for your response to my question. My original purpose in purchasing the computer was to install multiple operating systems for hobbyist purpose. The computer's major selling point was that it has five hard drives. My original idea was to

Re: Window Manager Recommendations

2006-09-11 Thread Joel Adamson
Gerard, Thanks for the recommendations. I'm still using Windows at work, so I'll keep your recommendations in mind. Let me explain the situation, just for your peace of mind: Let's say I'm writing something in a word processor; I want to check something on the internet, or I want to initiate

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-11 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 8 September 2006, at 08:10, Lasse Edlund wrote: If I have two files foo and bar and try to run diff on them I write: $diff foo bar I can also write $cat foo | diff - bar But how do I give a program two (2) commands? not only to diff but to any program that wants double input... I wanna do

Re: NAT+IPSEC toubles

2006-09-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Administrators wrote: Hi, I'm building VPN connected to CISCO device. I NEED to translate my LAN adress to a given adress. The VPN work well when I try doing ifconfig em0 alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] ping -S [EMAIL PROTECTED] dest_@ but I didn't manage to translate LAN adresse AND having VPN

Re: Network mail

2006-09-11 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 8 September 2006, at 11:45, Jerold McAllister wrote: hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) writes: I'm old school. Back in my day, we didn't have the Internet we have today, and our UNIX boxes could mail over the network we had strung. I don't care what mail app I use. I just want to be able

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread jan gestre
On 9/11/06, Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made the decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a Unix or Linux system. With office suites like OpenOffice, I felt that I would be able to transition away

Restore master.passwd from pwd.db and spwd.db

2006-09-11 Thread Leo Mrafko
Hello, after some weird disk accident I have only pwd.db and spwd.db from my passwd files left. Passwd and master.passwd are missing. Couln't find them in /lost+found too. The system is running, but I can not add new users, of course (baybe only using pwd_mkdb -u ). Is there any way how to

Re: Restore master.passwd from pwd.db and spwd.db

2006-09-11 Thread michael johnson
On 9/11/06, Leo Mrafko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, after some weird disk accident I have only pwd.db and spwd.db from my passwd files left. Passwd and master.passwd are missing. Couln't find them in /lost+found too. The system is running, but I can not add new users, of course (baybe only

Re: Sequence of execution of getopt() and usage()...

2006-09-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 11, 2006, at 5:27 AM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: This is a general FreeBSD source related question, and I am posting it here, as it did not fit in any other FreeBSD lists... This list is a quite reasonable choice to ask such questions. :-) While browsing through sources for different

Re: Restore master.passwd from pwd.db and spwd.db

2006-09-11 Thread Leo Mrafko
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, michael johnson wrote: On 9/11/06, Leo Mrafko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, after some weird disk accident I have only pwd.db and spwd.db from my passwd files left. Passwd and master.passwd are missing. Couln't find them in /lost+found too. The system is running,

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 11/09/06, jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/11/06, Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made the decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a Unix or Linux system. With office suites like

Re: Restore master.passwd from pwd.db and spwd.db

2006-09-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Leo Mrafko wrote: /var/backups contains a few files you may need. Yeah, really, thanks, I found there some backup. But I still wonder, if there is a possibily to reconstruct master passwd back from .db files, e.g. in case this backup is not up-to-date. I think

Re: Restore master.passwd from pwd.db and spwd.db

2006-09-11 Thread Leo Mrafko
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Leo Mrafko wrote: /var/backups contains a few files you may need. Yeah, really, thanks, I found there some backup. But I still wonder, if there is a possibily to reconstruct master passwd back from .db files, e.g.

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote: Discussions like these leave me lost for words... Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-) Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I really don't see what the problem is with sysinstall. Credits: It's highly

IBM Netfinity 3500 and 5.5

2006-09-11 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! Is anyone successfully running RELENG_5_5 on IBM Netfinity 3500? I have one such machine here (Type 8644-10X, with IBM ServeRAID 3L) that was running RELENG_5_4 (and 5.3 before that, IIRC) quite happily. Now I cvsupped to RELENG_5_5 and built a new world and kernel, but when booting the

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread jdow
From: Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:42:19PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Too bad you felt it was that horrific. In my experience FreeBSD is sometimes a bit harder than modern Linux distros to install, but are much nicer to maintain and use. I found leaning

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-11 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 8 September 2006, at 08:10, Lasse Edlund wrote: If I have two files foo and bar and try to run diff on them I write: $diff foo bar I can also write $cat foo | diff - bar But how do I give a program two (2) commands? not only

Extensions and Themes in Firefox

2006-09-11 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi list, I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're not supported in Unknown. Any ideas on how to fix this, please? TIA Jeff Rollin -- ___

Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox

2006-09-11 Thread michael johnson
On 9/11/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're not supported in Unknown. What theme/extension are you trying to install? Any

ATA driver

2006-09-11 Thread Danial Thom
Has anyone ported the ata drivers with SATA support back to 4.x? It is doable or are there some new kernel structures that won't port? DT __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel that FreeBSD will never achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum building for alternative OS) among people with modest technical proficiency and fairly simple requirements (i.e., spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, email).

samba and localhost?

2006-09-11 Thread Henrik Hudson
Hey List- running: 6.1-stable samba: 3.0.23b Question about the loopback interface for sambaI've got a dual-homed host and when I set this in my smb.cnf bind interfaces only = yes interfaces = em0 lo0 hosts deny = ALL hosts allow = 10.0.0.0/24 127. I get errors when running samab tests

Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox

2006-09-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi list, I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're not supported in Unknown. Any ideas on how to fix this, please? TIA Jeff Rollin --

Re: Window Manager Recommendations

2006-09-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On 2006 Sep 11, Joel Adamson wrote: Gerard, Thanks for the recommendations. I'm still using Windows at work, so I'll keep your recommendations in mind. Let me explain the situation, just for your peace of mind: Let's say I'm writing something in a word processor; I want to check

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Ralph Ellis
On Monday 11 September 2006 2:12 pm, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel that FreeBSD will never achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum building for alternative OS) among people with modest technical proficiency and fairly simple

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread backyard
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote: Discussions like these leave me lost for words... Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-) Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I really don't see what the

just what does kserel mean?

2006-09-11 Thread Nestor Wheelock
I have searched all over the net for a good definition of what the top state, kserel means. When I run mysql this is the state in which it runs. PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 2117 mysql 17 200 323M 59080K kserel 0 0:02 0.00% mysqld

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread backyard
--- Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel that FreeBSD will never achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum building for alternative OS) among people with modest technical proficiency and fairly simple requirements (i.e.,

Re: Question

2006-09-11 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Jonathan Chen wrote: To unzip ZIPs, you need to install archivers/unzip. To unzip RARs, you need to install archivers/unrar. The new bsdtar (by way of libarchive) can read zip files quite nicely. At least most of them, in my experience. According to the man page libarchive-formats(5): Zip

Re: just what does kserel mean?

2006-09-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 11), Nestor Wheelock said: I have searched all over the net for a good definition of what the top state, kserel means. When I run mysql this is the state in which it runs. PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 2117 mysql

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread Jerold McAllister
backyard writes: --- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote: Discussions like these leave me lost for words... Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-) Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I really don't see what

Re: just what does kserel mean?

2006-09-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 11, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Nestor Wheelock wrote: I have searched all over the net for a good definition of what the top state, kserel means. When I run mysql this is the state in which it runs. PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 2117 mysql

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread backyard
--- Jerold McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard writes: --- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote: Discussions like these leave me lost for words... Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-)

Upgrade server from i386 - amd64 kernel ...

2006-09-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Just had a new 64bit server installed at the colo, but they accidentally installed a i386 ISO, instead of an AMD64 one ... is it possible to build / install an amd64 world, or do I have to re-install from a proper ISO first ? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking

Re: Upgrade server from i386 - amd64 kernel ...

2006-09-11 Thread Leo Mrafko
Yes, in fact it's pretty simple, quoting /usr/src/Makefile: # If TARGET_ARCH=arch (e.g. ia64, sparc64, ...) is specified you can # cross build world for other architectures using the buildworld target, # and once the world is built you can cross build a kernel using the # buildkernel target.

Re: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-11 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
On Monday 11 September 2006 2:42 am, jdow wrote: From: Ian Graeme Hilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] May I point out that I was not interested in CHS alone. My focus was the origin of the hard drives parameters i.e. geometry, which is the subject of discussion. From this discussion and other sources

Re: Upgrade server from i386 - amd64 kernel ...

2006-09-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
'k, I knew about cross-compiling, just wasn't sure if it was that simple to upgrade the system being cross-compiled onto ... thanks ... On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Leo Mrafko wrote: Yes, in fact it's pretty simple, quoting /usr/src/Makefile: # If TARGET_ARCH=arch (e.g. ia64, sparc64, ...) is

Re: Upgrade server from i386 - amd64 kernel ...

2006-09-11 Thread RW
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 02:18, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, I knew about cross-compiling, just wasn't sure if it was that simple to upgrade the system being cross-compiled onto ... thanks ... I don't think it is that simple. I'd search the amd64 list if I were you.

Re: Upgrade server from i386 - amd64 kernel ...

2006-09-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, RW wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 02:18, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, I knew about cross-compiling, just wasn't sure if it was that simple to upgrade the system being cross-compiled onto ... thanks ... I don't think it is that simple. I'd search the amd64 list if I

Re: Upgrade server from i386 - amd64 kernel ...

2006-09-11 Thread Leo Mrafko
Yes, I've done it a few months ago.. Just read through the files.. As far as I remember you need to build amd64 world, then kernel, installworld, installkernel, reboot, voila, it works.. I had some small problems which I don't remember now, you will able to solve them for sure. Maybe don't forget

Re: just what does kserel mean?

2006-09-11 Thread Eric Schuele
On 09/11/06 17:14, Nestor Wheelock wrote: I have searched all over the net for a good definition of what the top state, kserel means. When I run mysql this is the state in which it I don't mean to be stating the obvious... but as a newbie you might not know that KSE == Kernel Schedulable

Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox

2006-09-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting Xiao-Yong Jin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi list, I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're

RSS feeds for important sites?

2006-09-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer miss anything ... or, at least, make it easier to keep on top of everything ... I can't seem to find stuff like DaemonNews and such ... Does anyone have a list of BSD related RSS feeds that they'd be willing to share?

Re: RSS feeds for important sites?

2006-09-11 Thread Napoleon Dynamite
On Monday 11 September 2006 19:21, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer miss anything ... or, at least, make it easier to keep on top of everything ... I can't seem to find stuff like DaemonNews and such ... Does anyone have a list of BSD

Re: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-11 Thread jdow
From: Ian Graeme Hilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 11 September 2006 2:42 am, jdow wrote: From: Ian Graeme Hilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] May I point out that I was not interested in CHS alone. My focus was the origin of the hard drives parameters i.e. geometry, which is the subject of discussion.

Re: RSS feeds for important sites?

2006-09-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Napoleon Dynamite wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 19:21, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer miss anything ... or, at least, make it easier to keep on top of everything ... I can't seem to find stuff like DaemonNews

Re: Upgrade server from i386 - amd64 kernel ...

2006-09-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Leo Mrafko wrote: Yes, I've done it a few months ago.. Just read through the files.. As far as I remember you need to build amd64 world, then kernel, installworld, installkernel, reboot, voila, it works.. I had some small problems which I don't remember now, you will able

Baud rate change on ex-console line without reboot?

2006-09-11 Thread Doug Lee
I use a serial console (sio0 flag 0x10, /boot/loader.conf console=comconsole, /boot.config -h, /etc/make.conf BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=115200), but I suddenly have need to quit doing that that and to use that line for a serial output device at 9600 baud. I am trying to do this without a reboot. Is