Re: Cvsup src-all and installworld process question

2006-04-04 Thread Andy Reitz
total of my /usr/src directory. So, I would say that if you are sensitive about disk space, be sure to clean up '/usr/obj' after doing a build/install world. That is a pretty low-hanging fruit, in terms of cleanin up disk space. Good luck, -Andy Reitz

Re: Access ip local

2006-04-06 Thread Andy Reitz
luck, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NAT, VPN and other SOHO router advice

2006-04-06 Thread Andy Reitz
the firewall_type to be either open or client in rc.conf. Good luck, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reboot hangs on xeon server

2006-04-11 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Christopher McGee wrote: The server I have is using an Intel SE7501CW2 server board with 1 Xeon 2.0Ghz processor. It's got a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 card with 6 - 36GB scsi drives. When I reboot the machine, via ctrl-alt-del, or typing reboot, it syncs disks, then gives

Re: pow function working unexpectedly

2006-04-11 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Jonathan Herriott wrote: Question then. Why would it work when I don't use variables if I don't include the library? This question is just out of curiosity. That's a pretty good question. In the case where we have pow(x,y), I see this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/src]$ gcc -c

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-12 Thread Andy Reitz
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Ashley Moran wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:15, you wrote: I forwarded this license issue to an engineer I know there. His response was positive. We'll have to see how it goes with their management and legal. Cool From reading the license I got the impression

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Andy Reitz
Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar you installed from ports. The last directory will det all of your user's data.

Re: How do I change hostname in freebsd?

2006-04-17 Thread Andy Reitz
Hi Matt, As root, type hostname new hostname, and the hostname will be changed immediately. To make this change permanent across reboots, edit the file '/etc/rc.conf', and add the following line: hostname=new.host.name The '/etc/rc.conf' file is described here:

Re: SYSTEM HANG - NATD running FINE

2006-04-19 Thread Andy Reitz
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Ben and Jen wrote: My system has recently locked up after 65 days uptime, running only natd for my local network. Natd still works fine and routes information properly - but I am no longer able to telnet or login to my machine even from a local console(alt f1-fx). After

Re: Remote screen control software - recommendations please

2006-04-21 Thread Andy Reitz
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Graham Bentley wrote: (OK I know this is OT but theres alot of good experience here so please dont flame me :)) What are people using for this ? I have used VNC and TighVNC in the past to good effect although they do seem a bit laggy. I notice that GoToMyPC is

Re: How to do physical-to-virtual translation in FreeBSD? Does FreeBSD support kmap() or kmap_atomic()?

2006-04-21 Thread Andy Reitz
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys: We are doing HBA driver (Soft Raid5) porting from Linux to FreeBSD. As we need to do XOR in kernel space, we need to map a physical address into a virtual address. In Linux, we use kmap_atomic() to implement it, and could you tell me

Re: HTTP

2006-05-05 Thread Andy Reitz
On Fri, 5 May 2006, jason zeng wrote: Hi, I need some basic helps! :) our sytem run at FreeBSD 5.3, and my team leader let me change logo in a PHP file because our company will change name. I do but not really finished. I changed the index.php file, so every time if I entered

Re: ftp install / base not found

2006-05-11 Thread Andy Reitz
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Mike Hunter wrote: Dear FreeBSD Questions, I have a not-so-new laptop that I tried to install FBSD on yesterday. This laptop can only be made to boot from floppies (usb boot doesn't work, no cdrom) and I happen to have some 5.3-RELEASE boot floppies laying around. I

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-11 Thread Andy Reitz
On Thu, 11 May 2006, NAOD TSIGHE wrote: Hi, Is it possible to attach two monitors, 2keybord and 2 mouse to one PC, by just buying some card that will connect with a PC. I just want to know if it is possible for me to just buy 1 more monitor, a mouse and a keyboard so that two students

Re: ftp install / base not found

2006-05-11 Thread Andy Reitz
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Johan Nilsson wrote: But can you do a ftp-install from an archived version? If, how? Johan, While I have never tried this, sysinstall appears to support entering non-standard FTP URLs. After you choose the FTP option, you can choose the FTP server. The second option in

Re: ping on desktop

2006-05-18 Thread Andy Reitz
-natd.html HTH, -Andy Reitz. [1] Well, but all traffic, I really mean most traffic. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A neural/distributed FreeBSD network

2006-05-19 Thread Andy Reitz
On Fri, 19 May 2006, Kyrre Nygard wrote: Hello! Got a weird question here ... I'm a bit curious as to how one can make multiple computers act as one network. I'm not talking merely /etc/hosts and gateways or some VPN where connections are just encrypted, but like something more ...

Re: audio playback glitches while using CD drive

2006-05-30 Thread Andy Reitz
in a general fashion: http://dmzweb4.europe.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=173,E=00127129525,K=5503,Sxi=1,Kb=ww_english_add,VARSET=ws:http://us.creative.com/,Case=obj(6516) Good luck, -Andy Reitz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: portupgrade question

2006-06-07 Thread Andy Reitz
that there was a way to convince the ports to use a different file retreiver, but I don't see anything in the handbook. Have you tried setting the ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment variables, so that fetch can work with your proxy? HTH, -Andy Reitz

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Andy Reitz
-wm.html In the KDE section, there are instructions for installing KDE, and for enabling it so that KDE starts when you login. Hope this helps, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk

2006-06-08 Thread Andy Reitz
://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6013296355.html Good luck, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it. Now, is there a way to rebuild world with 64-bit support from there? Hi Mike, I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of the

Re: smp kernel

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, Is SMP enabled in the GENERIC kernel? I have a hyperthreading box, and on Linux it shows up with two cpus. When I do a top on the box in FreeBSD I still see only one CPU. Also, sysctl -a | grep cpu only shows a dev.cpu.0. Hi Mike, If

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael Collette wrote: Any and all feedback is appreciated. For as nice as the AMD64 processor may be, sounds like things are a ways off before the software has fully caught up. In 64-bit mode, that does appear to be the case. However, it sounds like you could purchase

Re: find misbehaving??

2006-06-23 Thread Andy Reitz
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Robert Huff wrote: Can anyone explain what's happening here? [EMAIL PROTECTED] find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/ -name Net_SNMP_util,pm Looks like a typo - you have a comma (',') in the target for find. -Andy.

Re: place to obtain 4.11 install ISOs

2006-06-26 Thread Andy Reitz
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, D G Teed wrote: Hi, I cannot locate 4.11 installer CD ISOs. The mirror says they are moved to the archive FTP site, but they are not in that site, at least not as an ISO. Anyone have a hint/tip? Actually, the I believe that the ISOs are stored on the archive FTP

Re: Reload commands

2006-07-21 Thread Andy Reitz
, then the cache will be refreshed. You could also try simply exiting your shell, and re-logging in. It is very rare to need to reboot in UNIX. Good luck, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-25 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way of saving *.[ra|ram|smil] or any real audio type files locally? I've poked around and haven't found any means of saving real* stuff. Hi Gary, I think you might be able to convince mplayer to do it, depending on the

Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-25 Thread Andy Reitz
, RTSP-style URLs). You can feed those URLs directly to mplayer, which in my testing should work fine. -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-25 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Gary Kline wrote: How best to decode this:: + fetch http://web.lightningcast.net/servlets/getAd?version=4.5anaid=175playerid=1streamref=1session=8AB1883F11EB3EE3spot=[0,0]ext=.rm Hi Gary, Try pointing mplayer at that URL. -Andy.