Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew P.
like to try something else. Thanx in advance! Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew P.
wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: different behaviour between 4.x and 5.x (ping response/disk io) [was Re: ]

2005-01-16 Thread Andrew P.
at me, I'm still waiting for SPDIF support in ALC658 driver to dump my last running Windows for good :-) Very best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: I only want stable software

2005-01-29 Thread Andrew P.
, and you should use it for ports-all. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Concealing short disconnects

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew P.
that FreeBSD is full of magic, is there any way to conceal these reconnects as short moments of 100% packet loss? I am ashamed to know very little about protocols' technicalities, but I'll look into any sources you advise. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd

Re: Concealing short disconnects

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew P.
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 12), Andrew P. said: I have a few machines behind my FreeBSD box. The box connects to ISP via ppp (PPPoE protocol). It's all working very nicely, but the ISP is a pain - it disconnects every 24 hours. I can reconnect in just a moment - so the diconnect

Re: Concealing short disconnects

2005-02-12 Thread Andrew P.
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 12), Andrew P. said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 12), Andrew P. said: I have a few machines behind my FreeBSD box. The box connects to ISP via ppp (PPPoE protocol). It's all working very nicely, but the ISP is a pain - it disconnects every

DHCP and PPP - dns/routes mess

2005-02-28 Thread Andrew P.
they should really be taken into account). I'd probably forget it and continue killing dhclient every time I need to use ppp, but it all works so nicely in Windows. Please, people, help me fix it :) Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Spare local IP address - not physical alias

2005-03-16 Thread Andrew P.
want applications to be able to query this very address and get answers. Is there a totally secure way to set up a permanent address? Thanks! Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: 5.3-release-p5 pptp stoped working

2005-03-17 Thread Andrew P.
mention it: did you update your kernel after updating world? Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mount a tar archive?

2005-03-30 Thread Andrew P.
Hello! I have a 80G tar archive which I have nowhere to extract to. Could I mount it as a filesystem? Read-only would suffice. Thanks, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Mount a tar archive?

2005-03-30 Thread Andrew P.
Danny Howard wrote: Andrew P. wrote: Hello! I have a 80G tar archive which I have nowhere to extract to. Could I mount it as a filesystem? Read-only would suffice. Andrew, Short of that solution, why not tar -t to get a list of files in the archive, then you can tar -x the files you actually

Re: SATA II NCQ Sil3124 AMD64 NForce4 Ultra Support?

2005-03-31 Thread Andrew P.
. Consider sticking to what is supported best. Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: From Rumiancev Alexander

2005-04-02 Thread Andrew P.
rumiancev-psu wrote: Hello! I have a problem! I have the FreeBSD 5.3. And some day ago, when I wrote command make the output was ... ! , , . : ) www.opennet.ru ) -. , freebsd-questions . , Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions

Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD?

2005-04-02 Thread Andrew P.
? C'mon guys, just one step forward to perfection :) Very best wishes, Andrew P. P.S.: M$ SUS 1.x sucks so hard that I can't even find the right words to describe it. Sorry :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD?

2005-04-03 Thread Andrew P.
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 10:57 am, Andrew P. wrote: Hello! I know this has been brought up a number of times and I doubt that it is the right place to post to or even a right subject to raise, but still. It seems we lack some update system in FreeBSD. I have only 2

Re: Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD?

2005-04-03 Thread Andrew P.
Fabian Keil wrote: Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dream about a server running on my main machine, which gets queries from intranet freebsd boxes that want to be updated. The server negotiates with each client and acts as requested: 1.1) fetches a binary package, or 1.2

Re: Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD?

2005-04-03 Thread Andrew P.
Chris wrote: Andrew P. wrote: Thanks, Andrew P. P.S. Still, IMHO a nicely-designed port would be great. I mean we do have portupgrade for crying out loud. If we have something for a network of freebsd boxes, we could start talking enterprise-level management. P.P.S. What a pity that we don't have

Re: Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD?

2005-04-03 Thread Andrew P.
them all, but instals teh first one on this machine. Would it build all the modules three time, I wonder? Thanks, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: AMD64 optimization on FreeBSD 5.4 i386

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
.'' The only reason one would want to use -O2 would be perfectionism, I think :) Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: exec make buildworld

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
comfortable is # at + 1 minute make buildworld Ctrl-D Some time after I have new mail, containing all the output (stdout and stderr) from the task. That's cute. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
Gert Cuykens wrote: Who do i ask if he / she would like to put this to the distribution list [ ] cvsupdate-nogui Cant we make some user freebsd-voting list were we can vote for changes :) Come to think about it, I kinda miss this option, too. Best wishes, Andrew P

Re: Will Sempron 754 run with FreeBSD i386?

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
Gareth Bailey wrote: I just got a Sempron 754, will it run under FreeBSD 4.11 i386? Yes, sure I don't have time to reinstall the OS, so if the 754 doesn't run on i386 i'll swop the chip for a socket A. ... or will the 754 be substantially quicker that the equivalent speed Socket A? Not really, no

Re: arplookup failed

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
, shows up about every 20 minutes. Any ideas? Maybe a direct route to that host is specified in your routing table. Provide the output of `netstat -rn` please. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Will Sempron 754 run with FreeBSD i386?

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
in favour of s939. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Will Sempron 754 run with FreeBSD i386?

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 3:33 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gareth Bailey wrote: Thanks. Can anyone else comment on the following points?: The 754 Sempron: - Will run in FreeBSD 4.11 i386? - Will not be faster than Sempron socket A? Sempron cores are identical in Socket

Re: Will Sempron 754 run with FreeBSD i386?

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 6:13 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure? The s754 versions have an on die memory controller and a K8 core (although with disabled 64-bit mode), which should make it significantly faster then the K7 based Sempron on sA. Yeah, it appears I got

Re: arplookup failed

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
Pat Maddox wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 5:48 AM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat Maddox wrote: I've got a system running 5.3-p6, and am getting this error every 20 minutes or so: kernel: arplookup 69.61.54.33 failed: host is not on local network I get that the host isn't on the network, but I

Re: Outgoing port 113 connections

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
, . , , ?FreeBSD, ,, . smbfs smbclient ( samba). Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 12:04 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Who do i ask if he / she would like to put this to the distribution list [ ] cvsupdate-nogui Cant we make some user freebsd-voting list were we can vote for changes :) Come to think about it, I

cvsup, mirrors and data integrity

2005-10-22 Thread Andrew P.
to deal with data corruption? I know about the -s switch, but it doesn't help to disable it in my situation. How do I repair broken sources or repo, using a good cvsup repo. How do I prevent this from happening again without disabling soft- updates? Thanks, Andrew P

Re: Learning to write FreeBSD Device Drivers

2005-10-22 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/21/05, Peter Clutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, hope this isn't too off topic. I'm a sysadmin who taught myself programming (and have worked as a PHP ad MYSQL developer) and really want to develop my FreeBSD skills, and hopefully one day be able to give something back to

Re: cvsup, mirrors and data integrity

2005-10-22 Thread Andrew P.
? Thanks, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvsup, mirrors and data integrity

2005-10-22 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/22/05, Dimitar Vasilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I'll have to escalate the importance of this machine being shutdown correctly and stop all cvsup processes before doing something risky. Yup - try putting the CVSUP under DJB daemontools or something like this. If that

Re: cvsup, mirrors and data integrity

2005-10-22 Thread Andrew P.
behind over a 100Mbit link. But I'm thinking about gigabit - and cvs instead of cvsup. That's where your recommendations will come into play. No, I haven't been growing any stripes in my garden lately :-) Thanks, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Bind question

2005-10-22 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/23/05, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a FreeBSD machine runing Bind 9.3 that needs to zone transfers from a Solaris 8 machine running Bind 8.3.3 I'm getting errors about failed transfers. This is showing up in the logs on the Solaris machine: Oct 21 14:30:33 cor-day-dns4

Re: cvsup, mirrors and data integrity

2005-10-22 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/23/05, Dimitar Vasilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess that's why we let cisco handle bgp (and ntp, by the way). Thanks, I will have it in mind next time if I'm to setup these two services. The bottleneck is insufficient memory for BGP. In a week or so there will be another chip.

Re: Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1

2005-10-24 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/24/05, Nick J. Date [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya! I've just upgraded my FreeBSD installation from 5.4-RELEASE to 6.0-RC1. With 5.4 I learnt that my sound card (SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit) wasn't supported by the drivers that come with FreeBSD, so I was using the free version of the

Re: Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1

2005-10-24 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/24/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/05, Nick J. Date [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya! I've just upgraded my FreeBSD installation from 5.4-RELEASE to 6.0-RC1. With 5.4 I learnt that my sound card (SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit) wasn't supported by the drivers that come

Re: traffic accounting per username with ipfw in 5.4 ?

2005-10-24 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/25/05, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember that ipfw had been augmented some time ago to do traffic counting, etc., based on usernames ... but I see no mention of that in the ipfw man page on my 5.4-RELEASE system. Is this something that only exists in IPFW2 ? Does ipfw2 even

Re: traffic accounting per username with ipfw in 5.4 ? (more)

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/25/05, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Andrew P. wrote: On 10/25/05, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember that ipfw had been augmented some time ago to do traffic counting, etc., based on usernames ... but I see no mention of that in the ipfw

Re: NEC DVD_RW - file read problems.

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have the following problem: OS: FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE. DVD RW: acd0: DVD-R _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG at ata1-master UDMA33 I use DVD R's primary for data backup. The backup data is archived and splitted on files ~500Mb

Re: How do I name my network interface?

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/25/05, Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Lun 24 Oct 2005 18:17, Teo De Las Heras escribió: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10:0: class=0x02 card=0x100a15bd chip=0x432011ab rev=0x13 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)' device =

Re: telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/25/05, Mohan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I need to test a mail/ssh/web server, I usually just telnet or nc into the appropriate port, i.e.: $ echo GET / |nc -v yahoo.com 80 $ nc -v localhost 22 Connection to localhost 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded!

Re: telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/25/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/25/05, Mohan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I need to test a mail/ssh/web server, I usually just telnet or nc into the appropriate port, i.e.: $ echo GET / |nc -v yahoo.com 80 $ nc -v localhost 22 Connection

Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew P.
How to tell? Apart from trying to launch it on different versions without COMPAT* in the kernel? One can always carefully examine the output of ldd, readelf and other such tools, but that requires much knowledge and a small lab with all kinds of BSD's set up. Is there a better way?

Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-26 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/26/05, Will Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:24:54AM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: How to tell? Apart from trying to launch it on different versions without COMPAT* in the kernel? file (1) I don't mean to push it, but how file would ever help me to know subj

Re: optical mouse problem

2005-10-26 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/25/05, Zsolt Kúti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I've got a Samsung PS/2 (SMOP5000WX) mouse that does not work. While the pointer appears, it hectically wanders around the screen and suddenly produces false keystroke-like actions. Applying hint.psm.0.flags=0x0200 makes it a plain

Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-26 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/26/05, Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 00:01, Andrew P. wrote: On 10/26/05, Will Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:24:54AM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: How to tell? Apart from trying to launch it on different versions

Re: Speed question

2005-10-26 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/26/05, Sasa Stupar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On 26. oktober 2005 9:46 +0200 Sasa Stupar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have on my LAN a server FBSD 5.4 on DMZ. The router is made of linux (yes I'll change it to FBSD ASAP) with 3 NIC: eth0 (inet), eth1 (LAN), eth2 (DMZ).

Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-26 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/26/05, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. writes: file /usr/bin/man on my machine outputs: /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.4-CURRENT (rev 3), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/27/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...snip... After clearing out the ports, updating ports (with portsnap) and source, and rebuilding the system and kernel... it seemed the ultimate problem was actually a dependency of the package to apache1.3. After I ran 'pkgdb -F' and

Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/27/05, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed 26 Oct 05 09:18, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/05, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. writes: file /usr/bin/man on my machine outputs: /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable

Re: finding the correct man page ???

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/27/05, ke.han [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I am working on configuring a new system and have run across maillist comments such as: The comment in GENERIC is not accurate, the bge driver supports 5721 based cards for a couple of month now (the manpage in RELENG_5 is correct).

Re: Upgrading from 5.3 to 6.0 (was: no subject)

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/27/05, George Katsanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello , Since the actual 6.0 Release is taking too long , would you suggest me installing 6.0 RC-1 and then then 6.0 is out , can I just apply some patches , or I should Re-makeworld everything?... And another question , I'm on a PIII

Re: lost in nowhere land on 5.2.1

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/27/05, Brian Howick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set up a copy of 5.2.1 RELEASE a few years back and I am trying to upgrade it. The problem is I set it up over the net and not from a CD.. so when I try to upgrade I am told that whatever FTP server I connect to does not have the files...

Re: Hardware Donation?

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/27/05, Darren Sessions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if the FreeBSD project is in need of any server hardware. If so, I would like to make a donation. Thanks, - Darren ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: increasing mount size

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/27/05, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello My /var mount has no more space left. I was wondering if there is some way to increase the size of it without loosing anything? Thanks Eoghan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/28/05, Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 October 2005 18:49, Eric F Crist wrote: On Oct 27, 2005, at 8:32 PM, John DeStefano wrote: On 10/27/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/27/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After clearing out

Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-28 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/28/05, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Kirchner wrote: On 10/27/05, Will Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Must be -- some flag produces unique bits in the executables. I'm a little surprised there isn't (AFAICT) anything descriptive in file(1)'s manpage or /u/s/mi/magic that would

Re: Re[2]: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/28/05, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I feel that portmanager does a much better job of updating without the problems that seem to crop up so often using portupgrade. I've always been scared off by the comparatively young age of portmanager. Besides, portupgrade

Re: IPFW - Counter

2005-10-28 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/28/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is is possible, to make a single rule counter, or, a multiple rule counter (maybe that pies to 1 single counter), so one can track inclomming and outgoing bandwidth? I would like to say: 01 count from any to any via 1.2.3.4 or

Re: Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server?

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/28/05, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/05 21:28 Paul Hamilton said the following: Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.11 running nicely on a HP DL-140 (80GB Parallel ATA HD), but is anyone running FreeBSD on a HP DL-140 *G2* (80GB SATA HD)? works with the HP ML110 G2 with the

Re: ports manager vs. portupgrade

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/29/05, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, October 28, 2005 8:33:50 PM, Elliot Finley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ports manager vs. portupgrade Wrote these words of wisdom: pros and cons anyone? I've always used portupgrade and it works pretty well, but I'm curious as

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep this from happening again? What can/can't I safely include in cron to automate database and index maintenance? cvsup or portsnap, then portsdb -uUF. Work under any

Re: 5.4 CD and floppies enter boot loop

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/28/05, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got an older, as of june/july 5.4-release official disk. Whenever i try to boot a box with it the system enters a boot loop, creating floppies also gives me this behavior. This is on a pair of p3 733 mhz systems. I've tried new

Re: compiling chrooted kernel makes drive unbootable

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/30/05, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a box that has died. The data on it is rather important and a reinstall is not feasible. I put the hard drive in a test box, mounted all the partitions of the previous drive under /mnt then did a chroot /mnt and compiled a generic

Re: Can a process be made immune to out-of-swap-space kills?

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/30/05, Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes, I accidentally run something that eats up too much memory and causes the pager to run out of swap space and start shooting down processes to rectify the situation. Sometimes, the process chosen for demolition happens to be `screen.'

Re: Installation failure

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/30/05, some one [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install FreeBsd 5.0 on i386 and it hangs in the middle of installation process with a ata0: resetting devices.. I thought it was a graphic card, i put a diff one, same error I changed alot of stuff in the BIOS setup trying to make

Re: compiling chrooted kernel makes drive unbootable

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/30/05, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for your reply. I've not lost any data yet doing a reinstall would not be possible at this point. It's a matter of time which i don't have a lot of. As i said i've not lost data, on the drive, just the motherboard died, i think it

Re: Buildworld and Security advisories.

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Grigory O. Ptashko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, list. I am new to FreeBSD source upgrading/patching source tree system. After reading the following chapters from the handbook: 14.14 FreeBSD Security Advisories 20 The Cutting Edge (about rebuilding world) I have some

Re: acd0 Hardware error

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Friends. Every time i use my DVD player unit, i get on the kernel messages console, repeated many times, this: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x03 error=0 What is the mean of this line?. With others

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep this from happening again? What can/can't I safely include

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say

Re: make.conf - question

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Vladimir Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, where can I found ALL parameters suited for /etc/make.conf ? For example, I wanted install some software from ports without X11, but man 5 make.conf doesn`t include WITHOUT_X11 option. Fortunatelly I found this page

Re: File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Edward Lichtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154

Re: Basic Port Management.Is there any?

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, George Katsanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ! , As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X environment and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff. Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers. So after I see some screenshots [it would be

Re: Teamspeak Server

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Jerahmy Pocott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I recently tried running the Teamspeak linux server on a 4.7ish something box with linux compat installed but all I got was daemon failed to start or a message similar to that with no reason or errors.. Has anyone had any success

Re: SAP R/3 ISO images

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Vishal Ballabh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have seen the document regarding installation of SAP R/3 on FreeBSD. I am interested in installaing a stand alone system for learning purporse. I am unable to find the SAP ISO images that you have mentioned in the document. It would

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, Andrew P

Re: Covert m4p to mp3 (in FreeBSD ?)

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Family, Does anyone know how to convert a .m4p file to a .mp3 file? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Login Max Chr?

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more characters? The reason is I would like to do first initial last name for the login. However some last names are longer than eight characters.

Re: Login Max Chr?

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. wrote: On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more characters? The reason is I would like to do first initial last name

Re: MAC_by_default

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew P.
On 01 Nov 2005 07:16:06 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Максим Голунов [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello my friends.I want to SORRY from my English. I'm from Russian. I happy that I'm using FreeBSD. And I've got some questions. I know where is setupping MAC-policy by default.

Re: WiFi Nintendo-DS and FreeBSD

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/1/05, Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In november my DS goes WiFi (in Holland). Naturaly I want to play games that support this feature. (MarioKart-DS i.e.) at home ;-) The FreeBSD related question is: My main server runs 4.11-stable, some other machines run 5.4 What do I

Re: Freebsd 5.4 smp on amd64

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/1/05, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I compiled my kernel using options SMP it seems to work, I now see 4 cpus on my server (2 xeon with HTT) so It seems fine. Following the documentation I tried to use either device apic or options APIC_IO both are refused by

Re: cloning machines with 5.4-REL

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've setup one notebook with 5.4-REL and used the ports collection to pick up what I wanted (KDE and all other stuff); this took some time, of course but run without big trouble; now I want to setup a second notebook with the

Re: wrkdirprefix default?

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/30/05, Anthony M. Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Sometime back, I posted a message mentioning that I planned on installing OpenOffice once it reached 2.0 status on my FreeBSD machine using a nonstandard wrkdirprefix path (original email is shown via the below link).

Re: Removing kernel options and devices in today's world

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/29/05, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been using FreeBSD since 2.1.5 and have dutifully tweaked my kernels to include devices I need, and remove unwanted things. This made a big difference on 486's with 16MB of memory. Over the years I've developed a procedure for

Re: M audio 24/96 driver

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/2/05, Makisupa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone successfully got a Maudio Delta 24/96 soundcard working in 6.0 or 5.4 for that matter? If so, what sound driver or kernel parameters where used? Help is much appreciated...i think this is the only thing holding me back from moving my

Re: Script help for updating routine

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/2/05, Denny White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a script, pasted in below, which does various things on a daily basis, like cvsup src, docs, ports, portsdb, portversion, portupgrade, so on. I finally figured out how to do the

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/3/05, Aggelos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself...

Re: Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/3/05, paul thodiyil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having great trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on my AMD64 desktop running FreeBSD ver 6.0. I had added this package during the installation process. With the

Re: MySQL port not d/loading

2005-11-03 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/2/05, tim cle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm attempting to install MySQL via ports but its not d/loading. I know my system should do this, because I just finished installing apache via ports, and it d/loaded fine. So, is anyone having problems d/loading the MySQL port(s) - i

Re: OPen Office 2.0 via packages

2005-11-04 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/4/05, Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! For the sake of a continuing happy marriage ! I really need to install OPenOffice 2 on a machine at home - soon to be running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) :-) I can't build the port because the hard drive is too small - just enough

Re: MySQL port not d/loading

2005-11-04 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/4/05, tim cle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, I have successfully installed MySQL - but the mirror system still doesnt seem right - it went through all the mirrors, and wouldn't d/l from them - then it finally worked from the main bsd ftp site - I've put the output underneath - note

Re: port status

2005-11-04 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/4/05, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Im wondering if there is a status page that show work on ports/pkg's? Much like freshports, but for instance if I wanted to see the current work on kde 3.4.3 for example - would there be a place where I could get such info? The ports system is

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

2005-11-04 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/4/05, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 November 2005 10:22, Chuck Swiger wrote: Multigigabyte? Find another approach to solving the problem, a text-base diff is going to require excessive resources and time. A 64-bit platform with 2 GB of RAM 3GB of swap

Re: 4.11 release-p13. Just to be sure.

2005-11-04 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/5/05, Grigory O. Ptashko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, list. I've just now cvsup'd my 4.11-RELEASE source tree with the tag RELENG_4_11. From 4.11 RELEASE it became 4.11 RELEASE-p13. Just to be sure - do I have to apply any other security patches that are announced in freebsd

Re: ULE or 4BSD

2005-11-05 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/5/05, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi anybody All is in the subject...on FreeBSD 6.0 i've see the default generic kernel is compiled with SCHED_4BSD and SCHED_ULE is in comment. Can'I use SCHED_ULE on 6.0 ? Is he stable now ? Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7

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