Re: Zabbix Port

2006-09-22 Thread Charles Trevor
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:56:58 +0800 David Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The /usr/ports/net-mgmt/zabbix Port consists out of two components, Server and Agent. I would like to install the Agent only, so it shouldnt need all these large dependencies such as mysql etc,

Adaptec 1200A atacontrol

2006-09-22 Thread Enrique Ayesta Perojo
Hello, recently i have had a problem with one of the disks attached to an Adaptec 1200A RAID controller doing a 0+1 RAID. After replacing the disk and rebuilding the array FreeBSD says the array is degraded, marking the new disk and the other in the same channel as FREE. Is there anything

Serial port speed Terminal configuration

2006-09-22 Thread Philippe Lang
Hi, I've just installed a nanobsd soekris box next to the serial port of my server, in order to be able to boot in single-mode from a remote network location. Everything runs fine, except two things: 1) I am unable to connect to the server with anything else than 9600 bds. I've tried setting

Re: next episode, continuing saga

2006-09-22 Thread Mario Lobo
On Friday 22 September 2006 02:33, Bill Moran wrote: jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again; With FreeBSD and in general, If the monitor is turned off is it safe to disconnect it from the machine while the machine is running? AMD64 socket 754 with separate PCI video card on ECS

RE: Partitions???

2006-09-22 Thread Brown, Steve
You need to check out the gparted-livecd. This will allow you to grow or shrink partitions, just like Partition Magic. It should work with all the filesystems in question here. I have recently used it and will never go back to Partition Magic. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php

make installworld fails error 126

2006-09-22 Thread B. Cook
Hello All, I have always had this problem on the one or two (web) servers that I have a separate /tmp partition defined. I found the answer a long time ago to unmount /tmp and try again and that always works.. but I've never found a way to make installworld with a separate /tmp partition on

Re: next episode, continuing saga

2006-09-22 Thread Greg Groth
Mario Lobo wrote: On Friday 22 September 2006 02:33, Bill Moran wrote: jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again; With FreeBSD and in general, If the monitor is turned off is it safe to disconnect it from the machine while the machine is running? AMD64 socket 754 with separate PCI video

Re: make installworld fails error 126

2006-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
B. Cook wrote: Hello All, I have always had this problem on the one or two (web) servers that I have a separate /tmp partition defined. I found the answer a long time ago to unmount /tmp and try again and that always works.. but I've never found a way to make installworld with a separate

Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/libexec/save-entropy

2006-09-22 Thread Martin McCormick
I must have dome something wrong setting up a FreeBSD5.4 system, but I haven't a clue as to what. The script is called save-entropy, a great idea, but it acts as if lots of the configuration it needs is missing. I do have ipfw running and it got all the rules I put in to it via a

Re: next episode, continuing saga

2006-09-22 Thread Josh Tolbert
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:41:02AM +, Mario Lobo wrote: And the keyboard mouse too. Actually, not quite. If the keyboard and mouse are PS/2, then they are not technically hot-swappable. Lots of people get away with it just fine, but every now and then someone fries a keyboard controller

Re: next episode, continuing saga

2006-09-22 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 22 September 2006, at 09:24, Greg Groth wrote: Mario Lobo wrote: On Friday 22 September 2006 02:33, Bill Moran wrote: jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again; With FreeBSD and in general, If the monitor is turned off is it safe to disconnect it from the machine while the machine is

Is /boot/device.hints required if kernel is built with hints?

2006-09-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I was trying to build a kernel with statical device hints by uncommenting the following line in my kernel configuration file: # To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints hints VT.hints # Default places to look for devices. Before doing this I

Re: next episode, continuing saga

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Huff
Josh Tolbert writes: Actually, not quite. If the keyboard and mouse are PS/2, then they are not technically hot-swappable. Lots of people get away with it just fine, but every now and then someone fries a keyboard controller s/keyboard controller/keyboard controller or even

Re: next episode, continuing saga

2006-09-22 Thread Greg Groth
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 22 September 2006, at 09:24, Greg Groth wrote: Mario Lobo wrote: On Friday 22 September 2006 02:33, Bill Moran wrote: jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again; With FreeBSD and in general, If the monitor is turned off is it safe to disconnect it

Re: next episode, continuing saga

2006-09-22 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 22 September 2006, at 10:03, Robert Huff wrote: Josh Tolbert writes: Actually, not quite. If the keyboard and mouse are PS/2, then they are not technically hot-swappable. Lots of people get away with it just fine, but every now and then someone fries a keyboard controller

Re: next episode, continuing saga

2006-09-22 Thread Josh Tolbert
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 10:27:11AM -0500, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: Really? I've never seen a mobo... well, you learn something new every day. :-D Yeah, I'd never seen a whole motherboard get toasted cause of that, but I suppose it could happen. Thanks, Josh -- Josh Tolbert [EMAIL

Help about dynamic rule dummynet

2006-09-22 Thread budsz
Hi, I've old problem with dynamic rule dummynet. I've internet cafe and of couse they could using download accelerator for download large file from HTTP/FTP server. In this case they use Freshget or something like that. In /etc/rc.firewall I have rule like: # Downstream for client

Creating a bootable CD with CD Loader

2006-09-22 Thread Chris
Hi, I'm looking to create my own custom boot CD that will be used to bootstrap fully encrypted system using GEOM ELI. All the CD needs to do is load a kernel to initialize the encrypted root partition on the HDD, and read a key file to decrypt it. Ive looked at some tutorials for creating your

Re: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/libexec/save-entropy

2006-09-22 Thread Martin McCormick
Martin McCormick writes: I must have dome something wrong setting up a FreeBSD5.4 system, but I haven't a clue as to what. This is still Martin McCormick. I haven't found exactly what I did yet, but I remembered that I do have a second 5.4 box and it appears to be fine so I can

Re: Is /boot/device.hints required if kernel is built with hints?

2006-09-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 03:59:45PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I was trying to build a kernel with statical device hints by uncommenting the following line in my kernel configuration file: # To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints hints VT.hints

Re: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/libexec/save-entropy

2006-09-22 Thread Bernd Trippel
Quoting Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I must have dome something wrong setting up a FreeBSD5.4 system, but I haven't a clue as to what. The script is called save-entropy, a great idea, but it acts as if lots of the configuration it needs is missing. I do have ipfw

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2006-09-22 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2006-09-22 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: next episode, continuing saga

2006-09-22 Thread Mario Lobo
On Friday 22 September 2006 15:36, Josh Tolbert wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 10:27:11AM -0500, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: Really? I've never seen a mobo... well, you learn something new every day. :-D Yeah, I'd never seen a whole motherboard get toasted cause of that, but I

Bug in 6.1 acpi?

2006-09-22 Thread up
(Please respond directly, as I am not subscribed) I've asked about this error message before, but this has gotten serious. Not sure if it's related, but this server keeps spontaneously having what appear to be power events every 13-40 hours or so. No errors or panic messages or core dumps. The

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then still able to run adduser and so on ? Safely? No. But then, flock() doesn't work via NFS even if rpc.lockd is running, so you aren't any worse off. flock() .. hmm yeah, I discoverd trouble with sendmail as well, it

Re: Bug in 6.1 acpi?

2006-09-22 Thread Drew Sanford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Please respond directly, as I am not subscribed) I've asked about this error message before, but this has gotten serious. Not sure if it's related, but this server keeps spontaneously having what appear to be power events every 13-40 hours or so. No errors or panic

Savecore Errors?

2006-09-22 Thread Jeff Cross
I have noticed the following messages when booting up my laptop recently. Can anyone explain this to me, if it is good or bad (it looks bad), and how I can correct it? Sep 19 08:57:54 xtop savecore: reboot after panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs Sep 19 08:57:54 xtop savecore: no dump, not enough free

Re: Bug in 6.1 acpi?

2006-09-22 Thread up
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Drew Sanford wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Please respond directly, as I am not subscribed) I've asked about this error message before, but this has gotten serious. Not sure if it's related, but this server keeps spontaneously having what appear to be power

Resizing Partitions, Losing Windows XP...

2006-09-22 Thread Jeff Cross
I have been dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP for quite sometime. However, I never boot into Windows XP any longer. I can pretty much do everything I need to do from within FreeBSD. Is there a way that I can wipe out the Windows XP partition, resize the FreeBSD partition, and install a

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 22, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Robert Joosten wrote: Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then still able to run adduser and so on ? Safely? No. But then, flock() doesn't work via NFS even if rpc.lockd is running, so you aren't any worse off. flock() .. hmm yeah, I

Re: Resizing Partitions, Losing Windows XP...

2006-09-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 22 September 2006 14:23, Jeff Cross wrote: I have been dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP for quite sometime. However, I never boot into Windows XP any longer. I can pretty much do everything I need to do from within FreeBSD. Is there a way that I can wipe out the Windows XP

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, I observed running a pxe client running fbsd 5.[45] being served by nfs-box running 5 (and 4 nowadays because of asr0 trouble due to geom) having disabled rpc.lockd the box doens't let me run adduser, but with rpc.lockd enabled it's fine with 'em. Is that strange or am I missing

Re: Resizing Partitions, Losing Windows XP...

2006-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:23:28PM -0500, Jeff Cross wrote: I have been dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP for quite sometime. However, I never boot into Windows XP any longer. I can pretty much do everything I need to do from within FreeBSD. Is there a way that I can wipe out the Windows

Re: Resizing Partitions, Losing Windows XP...

2006-09-22 Thread Jeff Cross
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:23:28PM -0500, Jeff Cross wrote: I have been dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP for quite sometime. However, I never boot into Windows XP any longer. I can pretty much do everything I need to do from within FreeBSD. Is there a way that I

Re: Resizing Partitions, Losing Windows XP...

2006-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:50:31PM -0500, Jeff Cross wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:23:28PM -0500, Jeff Cross wrote: I really like the way I have my stuff setup within FreeBSD and would hate to have to recreate a lot of it as well as install applications

File and folder permissions

2006-09-22 Thread Caleb Flynn
Hello list, This has probably come up before, but I can't seem to find any entries for it. I'm helping a new public radio station to implement a shared music library via NFS ( Samba for 1 Windows box) on 6.1. The library needs to be accessible by everyone in the station, and we'd like

Re: Resizing Partitions, Losing Windows XP...

2006-09-22 Thread backyard
--- Jeff Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really like the way I have my stuff setup within FreeBSD and would hate to have to recreate a lot of it as well as install applications over again. Could I do a dump of my current FreeBSD partition, reformat and partition the whole drive,

5th European Conference on Tropical Medicine and International Health - May 24-28, 2007, Amsterdam

2006-09-22 Thread info
5th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health May 24 - 28, 2007 - Amsterdam, Netherlands UPDATED WEBSITE Please visit our website www.trop-amsterdam2007.com in order find the - Latest scientific program - Register online - Book your hotel online -Submit your

FreeBSD locale and sympa

2006-09-22 Thread RJ45
Hello, I installed sympa5 from the FreeBSD ports collection. I am running FreeSBD 6.1 The problem is that the main sympa web interface does not show me the language options, so I cannot choose a language, and also the language menu is filled of spaces, empty spaces. Also I can't even set a

keepassX and FreeBSD?

2006-09-22 Thread Henrik Hudson
Hey List- anyone had luck compiling keepassX on their box? I know it required QT 4,1 and I compiled and installed the QT 4.1.1 in it's own directory (/usr/local/qt-4.1) and then I wrote a quick script to set the following environment variables: setenv QTDIR /usr/local/qt-4.1 setenv PATH

Re: Savecore Errors?

2006-09-22 Thread Jeff Cross
Jeff Cross wrote: I have noticed the following messages when booting up my laptop recently. Can anyone explain this to me, if it is good or bad (it looks bad), and how I can correct it? Sep 19 08:57:54 xtop savecore: reboot after panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs Sep 19 08:57:54 xtop savecore:

Re: Savecore Errors?

2006-09-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 06:12:55PM -0500, Jeff Cross wrote: Jeff Cross wrote: I have noticed the following messages when booting up my laptop recently. Can anyone explain this to me, if it is good or bad (it looks bad), and how I can correct it? Sep 19 08:57:54 xtop savecore: reboot

Re: Savecore Errors?

2006-09-22 Thread Jeff Cross
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 06:12:55PM -0500, Jeff Cross wrote: Jeff Cross wrote: I have noticed the following messages when booting up my laptop recently. Can anyone explain this to me, if it is good or bad (it looks bad), and how I can correct it? Sep 19 08:57:54 xtop

Re: csh as default root Shell

2006-09-22 Thread Darren Henderson
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, RW wrote: What you shouldn't do is set a shell installed from packages as the root shell, such as bash. This has become so what canonized however... there is no problem in running your chosen shell. If you boot single user it will ask you for a shell to use. Just use

Creating a bootable CD with CD Loader

2006-09-22 Thread Gary Newcombe
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:45:36 +0100 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking to create my own custom boot CD that will be used to bootstrap fully encrypted system using GEOM ELI. All the CD needs to do is load a kernel to initialize the encrypted root partition on the HDD, and read a

Problems during installing FreeBSD

2006-09-22 Thread Sunil Kumar
Hi: I have been trying to install FreeBSD on a system which already has Red Hat Linux installed with grub boot loader on a x86 hardware. I managed to provide one of the partitions for FreeBSD and use the option A' (Auto Defaults) for creating the /, /var, '/usr and /swap configuration inside

Gnome 2.14

2006-09-22 Thread azhar freebsd
*How do I upgrade to GNOME 2.14?* The answer is much simpler than it has been in the past: 1. To build GNOME 2.14, you need to obtain the latest ports tree skeleton. This is most easily accomplished with portsnap(8) or

Re: nested labels

2006-09-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9/21/06, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/06, Jeffrey Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have hit the limit of 8 disklabels per slice. Supposedly, one can create lables within a label, thus overcoming this limit. I googled everything but could only find references to gpt--