Re: 4.10 stable release info

2004-05-07 Thread anubis
On Thu, 6 May 2004 10:36 pm, JJB wrote: The official 4.10 schedule says 4.10 stable release was scheduled for May 5. The FTP sites still have RC2 and the 4.10 to-do list talks about RC3. Anybody from the release team care to comment on what is the holdup and when 4.10 going to be updated to

Re: APC Back-UPS XS1500VA

2004-05-02 Thread anubis
On Sun, 2 May 2004 6:08 am, dave wrote: Hello, I'm trying to determine if this UPS will work wih FreeBSD, i want to use it to control two computers, a switch, and a cable modem. I have not been able to find any information on it pertaning to nut or apcupsd. Does anyone know if this is a

Re: Data Storage Plan?

2004-05-02 Thread anubis
Does any one have Company-wide (LAN) Data Storage Plan? My requirement are PC Users: 50 Users OS: Win 3.1, Win 9x, Win Pro2000, Win XP, Lindows, FreeBSD My plan is to take weekly backup of 15 PCs as well as company data store/file such as Finance/Accounts spreadsheets, Administrator/HR

Re: Harddrive Failure

2004-05-04 Thread anubis
On Tue, 4 May 2004 12:36 am, Reuben A. Popp wrote: Morning all, snip busted drive story Could be the board if both drives appear busted. It could be the o/s. My 5.2.1 system has been getting similar errors and halting. See if maxtor has a drive checking utility. Some manufacturers like

Re: Intel Pro 1000 MT Dual port comptability under 5.1

2004-05-04 Thread anubis
On Tue, 4 May 2004 3:01 pm, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: Is the referenced NIC comptable under 5.1? My understanding was yes from reading the hardware notes (datasheet is here: http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/resources/doc_library/dat a_sheets/pro1000mt_sa_dual.pdf) but it seems my system is

Re: Disk Usage

2004-05-05 Thread anubis
On Wed, 5 May 2004 10:38 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Michael Conlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas what would cause the df -k and du -k discrepancy? FAQ entry: The du and df commands show different amounts of disk space available. What is going on?

Re: cdrw PIO4

2004-05-08 Thread anubis
On Sun, 9 May 2004 3:17 am, w sx wrote: Thank you! I used atacontrol to set it until I rebooted... and after a reboot.. its detected correctly. --- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: w sx wrote: Does anyone have any tips on getting the CDRW drive set to UDMA mode? Add the

Re: Third IDE hard disk

2004-05-15 Thread anubis
On Sat, 15 May 2004 8:26 am, Mark wrote: I installed my new FreeBSD 4.9R on my new ASUS KV8 Deluxe board. Everything work fine... except, FreeBSD cannot find the third harddisk! (the third IDE, as master on the third IDE port). How do I enable it? Or make FreeBSD see it? (please, please, let

Re: c and freebsd

2004-05-21 Thread anubis
On Fri, 21 May 2004 2:15 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: After seeing the results you got, I'm going to adopt that as my new .sig. Thanks for the tip! -- Kirk Strauser i'm 16 by the way - sexy brittany spears LOL Love it! my new sig Im 37 by the way - Sexy Aria Giovanni Will only make people

Re: dump to a samba mounted FAT32 disk can't handle bigfiles?

2004-05-25 Thread anubis
On Tue, 25 May 2004 9:56 am, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2004, Joachim Dagerot wrote: The man page for dump states this: [] -B records The number of kilobytes per output volume, except that if it is not an integer multiple of the output block size, the command uses the

Re: fstab

2004-06-07 Thread Anubis
Joshua Lewis wrote: The last time I edited this file my system ceased to boot. I have made what looks to me like a valid entry. This is the same thing I entered in last time. I am not going to save this but does it look valid to anyone out there? # DeviceMountpoint FStype

Re: fstab

2004-06-08 Thread Anubis
Joshua Lewis wrote: /dev/ad1s1 what? a, d, e, f,g ?? Do I specify? I am using the whole drive. should I change it to /dev/ad1s1a? Thank you, Joshua Lewis Anubis Joshua Lewis wrote: The last time I edited this file my system ceased to boot. I have made what looks to me like a valid entry

Re: fstab

2004-06-09 Thread Anubis
It would be whatever you used in the disklabel run (or the one done for you if you use sysinstall). 'd' is unlikely and so is 'c' d is highly likely and is what you get if you use sysinstall in 5.x. I have about 25 drives with a d partition. d certainly is unlikely in 4.x c will appear in the

Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-15 Thread Anubis
Thompson, Jimi wrote: SNIP From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because they have religious objections to a product that is promoted by a devil. Why should The

Re: Verifying integrity of Backup Tapes

2003-11-01 Thread anubis
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 02:31 pm, Rick Duvall wrote: I have some backup tapes that I have been using each once per week for about 8 months. I am getting errors when running amverify on a couple of them. To be sure that my tapes are still good and not just the system giving me fits, it would be

Re: Via EPIA 800Mhz

2003-11-01 Thread anubis
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:39 am, Pranav A. Desai wrote: I have the same options in the kernel config ... it still does the same thing :( ... now I am certain I am doing something wrong ... I think I will the GENERIC kernel config and see if that works ... Thanks for your help -Pranav

Re: Real Time FreeBSD?!!!

2004-01-19 Thread anubis
Dude, could you rephrase that? Its a bit hard to understand On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 04:09 pm, sam Long wrote: I have a system FreeBSD 5.1-p11. How will develop further FreeBSD? How real time is possible to make from FreeBSD operational system? I know, that in FreeBSD there are expansions real

Re: Big troubles running FreeBSD on a Shuttle nForce2

2004-01-20 Thread anubis
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:26 am, Raphael Dinge wrote: Hi, I've installed a long ago FreeBSD 5.1 on my mother's computer which is a shuttle with nvidia nforce2 motherboard. The computer crashes for reasons I can't explain. Since 5.2 was out, I installed it, and the problems are still

Re: If you would like to comment on the death penalty go to www.newsc hat.org

2004-01-21 Thread anubis
I think it is perfectly justified for people who post crap to this list. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-22 Thread anubis
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 8:36 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very much since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying to think of something interesting to do with it now. I don't really need a separate firewall,

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-26 Thread anubis
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:54 pm, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hello, I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but lsof | grep dsp yields nothing. Can anyone help me with this mystery?

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-26 Thread anubis
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 5:39 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:23:52PM +1000, anubis wrote: : We have an old laptop and are going to turn it into a music on hold : service for our pabx. : : Will be uploading files to it via ftp and running a cron job to list all : files

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-26 Thread anubis
SNIP --DUN DUNH-- Dude, that is the worst sound for an admin to hear. Never heard it while working on any of my bsd boxes. Heard it twice this weekend. Upgrading a windas 2000 sbs to windas 2003 sbs box. Then I went Aiee. I like the fact that freebsd just works with no problems or

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-26 Thread anubis
I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than Linux? Honest question. It makes you smarter. I learnt more about computing and networking setting up freebsd boxes for 1 month than years of being a gui jockey for the other systems, including linux. Now the tables have been turned. I am in

Re: backup question

2004-02-06 Thread anubis
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:52 am, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Darryl Hoar wrote: I have a Freebsd 5.1-release box with samba installed, configured and working. On my network I have an NT 4 server (can't change this right now). It has a share on it called publications. I

Re: rip a datacd

2004-02-07 Thread anubis
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 5:30 am, Brian H wrote: Greetings: is there an x app out there that can be used to rip a data cd. Thanks, Brian _ Get some great ideas here for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day - and beyond.

Re: how do I remove Apache installs?

2004-02-09 Thread anubis
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:45 am, Marty Landman wrote: I don't see where this is covered in the FreeBSD Handbook. I have a couple of Apache installs (1.3 2) and would like to remove them from my system. And then start over again. How is this sort of thing normally done? Really depends on how you

Re: SMBFS VFS.USEROMUNT BUG OR MY STUPIDITY?

2004-02-12 Thread anubis
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:00 pm, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi there. I think i may have discovered a bug in free bsd 5.2-RELEASE, it may be in earlier versions too, but I have not tried it (maybe someone running 4.x could try it) I have made an fstab entry and nsmbrc file for a smb share. vfs.usermount

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-20 Thread anubis
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 1:46 pm, Robert Storey wrote: I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used FBSD or even Linux, they are 100% Windows. They are interested in letting their students gain experience with non-Windows software. So I need to prove to them that

Re: problem with SCSI disk

2004-02-20 Thread anubis
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 1:56 am, RJ45 wrote: Hello FreeBSD 5.2/alpha I have 3 scsi disk, one of the disks I don;t know why is not working. it is not seen by sysinstall and when I try to do sauron# disklabel -e da2 disklabel: /dev/da2: no valid label found GEOM: create disk da2

Re: problem with tape units

2004-02-21 Thread anubis
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:52 am, David Bear wrote: I recently replace an ait tape drive with another one of the same model,, a sony sdx 300. Now, when I try to do anything with /dev/sa0 like get status or erase, I get a ton of errors. Below is the output of dmesg from it. Do I need to remake

Re: backup

2004-02-28 Thread anubis
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 9:32 am, Richard Beyer wrote: We're currently doing a back up of a FreeBSD 4.9 (2) server by plugging a USB external drive in and then doing cp /dev/ad0 /dev/da0 This takes about 30 hours, (USB 1). Is this the best way to do it, or can someone suggest a better

Re: Firewall blocking natd redirect

2004-02-28 Thread anubis
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 3:47 am, Derrick Ryalls wrote: I have a port redirect, public port 5001 to an internal machine port 3389, for Remote Desktop that works well in natd as long as I don't fire up my custom firewall: 0005023427286 divert 8668 ip from any to any via sis0 00100 24

Re: backup

2004-03-04 Thread Anubis
Toomas Aas wrote: Hi! On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 9:32 am, Richard Beyer wrote: We're currently doing a back up of a FreeBSD 4.9 (2) server by plugging a USB external drive in and then doing cp /dev/ad0 /dev/da0 This takes about 30 hours, (USB 1). To which anubis answered: Why not use

Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread anubis
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 6:16 pm, Loren M. Lang wrote: I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might be setting up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating whether I should use FreeBSD or some Linux

Re: burncd and cdrecord

2004-03-08 Thread anubis
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I backed some files up using burncd and cdrecord. The files burned fine. But the problem that I am having. Is that I am unabel to see the files. The command I used for burn cd was: burncd -f /dev/asc1c -s max -e data *.* fixate. And the

Re: migrate system to new HD question

2004-03-16 Thread anubis
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 2:11 pm, Terrac Skiens wrote: Hello All, I have been running a FreeBSD system for fun semi-pro uses for about 4 years. In all that time I only upgraded the Hard Disk once. That upgrade came at the same time as an OS upgrade, and at that time the server was used for

Re: RM 1U server for FreeBSD

2004-03-17 Thread anubis
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 5:19 pm, stepan wrote: hello all! Advise Rack Mount a server 1U for installation FreeBSD. Stepan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: cdrom mount problem

2004-03-19 Thread anubis
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 1:35 am, Chris wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* In summary: the only way to mount my cdrom after burning an ISO is to reboot first. Prior to 5.2.1-RC1, I was able to burn ISO imaged onto a CDRW using burncd, then

Re: Best *nix OS for a laptop?

2004-03-22 Thread anubis
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 9:42 am, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list, I've been using freebsd 4.x on a laptop for 6 months or so now, and I'm not entirely happy with it. Mostly, it lacks multimedia support and power management. I don't want to start some flame war here, but here goes. Could some

Re: Probelms and Inconsistencies with Portupgrade

2004-03-25 Thread anubis
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 1:00 pm, Aeefyu wrote: Deal All, My problems surfaced when I updated Portupgrade with reference to item 20040226 in /usr/ports/UPDATING (though I suspect this is just a catalyst -- actual problem lies elsewhere) I had a similar problem. I saw another thread where they

Re: Repairing XFree86

2004-03-25 Thread anubis
2) use of fixit mode I have found other questions on this list about this topic. As suggested, I used the live CD and the CDROM/DVD option and then: mount -t ufs /mnt2/dev/ad0s1a /mnt ... but I get: mount: /mnt2/dev/ad01sa: Operation not permitted I dont know about the rest but the above

Re: KVM Switches

2004-04-03 Thread anubis
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:19 am, Ron wrote: Need information on how to get a KVM switch to work with the FreeBSD mouse driver. The Monitor and keyboard work fine but I have to hook a mouse directly to the box for it to work. Does it work with another machine or O/S? I have had kvm switches DOA

Re: 2.6 out performs FreeBSD?!

2004-04-05 Thread anubis
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 5:10 pm, paul wrote: I know this benchmark is a little outdated and has probably been discussed before http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ but I was like wtf when I saw this, is this a legit benchmark? Anyone out there in the FBSD community wanna benchmark 5.2.1 or 4.x vs

Re: 5.3 current from cvs

2004-04-06 Thread anubis
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 5:01 am, Feczak Szabolcs wrote: How can I get the latest bugs ? :) Can I ? I can cough on you that out to do it... Sorry couldnt resist ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: dump restore

2004-04-12 Thread anubis
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 3:51 pm, Oliver Breuninger wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files afterwards. This should possible, butg I've been see a solution for this until yet. regards You know that you can split dump files during the dump See man dump for the -B

Re: installed freebsd on ibm thinkpad a21e

2004-04-12 Thread anubis
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 2:51 pm, Joe Shmoe wrote: After i installed freebsd on my machine it would no longer boot. I found out after about the critical error and all the posts about freebsd not working on a2 thinkpads. If i hit f1 or f12 it gives me the loading screen and nothing happens and boot

Re: installed freebsd on ibm thinkpad a21e

2004-04-13 Thread anubis
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 2:51 pm, Joe Shmoe wrote: After i installed freebsd on my machine it would no longer boot. I found out after about the critical error and all the posts about freebsd not working on a2 thinkpads. If i hit f1 or f12 it gives me the loading screen and nothing happens and boot

Re: Serial ATA questions

2004-04-14 Thread anubis
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:32 am, mark wrote: Hi Big question, I need to set up a FreeBSD server with serial ATA hardware raid. What serial raid controller, or what motherboard with a supported serial raid controller is recommended? I was thinking of staying with 4.9-STABLE or should I rather

Re: SMP problems - hardware?

2004-04-16 Thread anubis
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argh, I almost forgot this part of dmesg: SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! This is the second cpu firing up I dont know about the rest. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: need BSD

2004-04-19 Thread anubis
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 7:20 am, wrote: Hello I need BSD news questions Sloan Moscow Russia ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well you

Re: Backing up my system

2004-04-21 Thread anubis
You can use dump/tar to back up the actual data. You can use disklabel and fdisk to dump the current partition scheme to a text file prior to backing up. Then, if you needed to restore/rebuild from scratch, you could boot a CD (such as FreeSBIE) partition the new disk based on the

Re: automatically adjusting time

2003-07-21 Thread anubis
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:09 am, Dragoncrest wrote: Hi all. I've got a server that keeps advancing it's local time by about a minute every 3-4 days and I'm curious what steps I need to do to syncronize the time with a given server so that it doesn't keep advancing like this? I know I saw it

Integrating windows and freebsd

2003-07-21 Thread anubis
I have 4 freebsd boxes and 1 windows 2000 server box acting as servers for about 50 windows clients. The boxes are used for file serving, printing, intranet, database, firewall etc. In the future all files will be served by samba and all web pages will be served by apache but are now served

Re: make depend fails, cc1: no such file

2003-07-23 Thread anubis
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:12 am, Stephen G Smith wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and I want to add firewall support to my kernel. So, I carefully read and followed the instructions in section 9.3 of the FreeBSD Handbook. But when I run make depend i get this error: cc: installation

Re: Newbie...

2003-07-25 Thread anubis
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:45 am, Robert wrote: I've been messing around with the installion of Freebsd and think I've got it after a few tries (I think). I'm at the username # command line. It also says I got mail. But now I'm so lost. I've downloaded Doc's, handbooks and other information but I

Re: nforce2 audio?

2003-07-31 Thread anubis
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 06:33 am, Daniel Nielsen wrote: Hi. It seems my nforce2 onboard audio is not detected by freebsd 5.1 plain install... dmesg says: uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 2.2 (no driver attached) pci0: network, ethernet at device 4.0

Re: adding user and group on redhat.

2003-08-06 Thread anubis
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 03:14 pm, Anil Garg wrote: hi, On red hat ..commands 'adduser' and '/stand/sysinstall' doesnt work. Can someone help me by telling how to add user and group in redhat. Thanks and Regards Anil. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-12-02 Thread anubis
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 06:31 am, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I'm looking for a cheap solution to back up a FreeBSD 4.8 machine. Cheap meaning that tape drives are out of question. Even external FireWire drives are deemed a bit too expensive by the folks for whom I'm doing this research. This

Re: ASUS A7N8X's 3Com chip / Sil 3112

2003-12-13 Thread anubis
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:25 pm, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: Hi, Will FreeBSD 5.2 (RC1, 2 or RELEASE) support the 3Com 3C90x based n/w controller (Broadcom PHY) present on the A7N8X Deluxe motherboard? Also, will there be a driver for the Sil 3112 SATA driver? Thanx and Regards Gautham

Re: IBM xseries 305

2003-12-13 Thread anubis
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 05:46 am, J.D. Bronson wrote: Does anyone have 4.9 running on the above platform and if so could you kindly post a dmesg output? I have just bought 2 of these units (IDE) and pondering which flavor of *bsd to run on them. thanks! I have one happily running 5.1 The

Re: Installing 5.1 on a Proliant 3000

2003-12-13 Thread anubis
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 04:04 am, Michael L. Hostbaek wrote: Hola, I am trying to install 5.1-RELEASE on an old Compaq Proliant 3000. When I boot on the cd, and choose 'default' in the bootloader - I get the following error message - followed by a panic: acpi: bad RSDP checksum (182) NMI ISA

Re: multiple dumps to single tape

2003-12-16 Thread anubis
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:55 am, David Bear wrote: if I am writing multiple dumps to a single tape, is it wise to have mt write a setmark after dumping each file system? There is no real need to do this. If you want to write dump after dump onto a tape in the one session use the /dev/nsa0

Re: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP )

2003-12-22 Thread anubis
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:32 am, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi Everybody , I watching freebsd-stable list I saw that somebody have a problem with SMP support which they are using 4.9 . I know that some improvement are coming with 5.x But this problem are very important for example

Re: Hard drive stress test

2003-12-22 Thread anubis
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:28 am, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Could somebody please recommend a utility or script suitable for stressing a hard disk to check for possible errors? Thanks, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: What's the purpose of the 2nd CD?

2003-12-22 Thread anubis
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:27 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I burned the 2 iso images for 5.2 RC1, but during the install (even when choosing to install everything), I'm never prompted for the CD. What is it used for? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 Can't find second CPU ...

2003-12-25 Thread anubis
Dec 25 20:30:33 freebsdcgp /kernel: SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! The second cpu is going as stated above as opposed to the first cpu #0 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: I can't install FreeBSD5.0 or FreeBSD5.1R on Dual Computer ....

2003-12-25 Thread anubis
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:45 am, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi Everybody , I can't install FreeBSD on my Dual Computer .. When I boot the computer for install FreeBSD from 5.0 CD it stopped on TimeCounter ACPI-SAFE frequency 3579545 line ... After That I try to install from

Re: Does it possible VPS with FreeBSD ?!

2003-12-27 Thread anubis
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 07:00 pm, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi Everybody , Maybe you know Ensim , Vmware have a software ( Virtul Private Server ) which you can divide computer into seperate portions and everybody can manage their portions like his server ... One main computer and several

Re: 4.9, 5.1 boot failure after install

2003-12-28 Thread anubis
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 02:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I had 4.9 release working and did a clean install of 5.1 release over the 4.9 and ended up with boot failure after install. Using allBSD partition and standard MBR I get a missing operating system error. If I use the FreeBSD boot

Re: 5.2 where is /kernel.GENERIC

2003-12-29 Thread anubis
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:31 am, fbsd_user wrote: snip Are you telling me that the kernel binary is moved from an easy uncluttered location in 4.9 of / to a location 2 directory levels deep and surrounded with a bunch of clutter? What king of stupid system design decision is that? Is it

Re: 5.2-RC Status

2003-12-29 Thread anubis
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:04 am, Chris wrote: Hi everyone, Ok, I see that 5.2-RC2 has made it to the site. Is there a time frame on RC3 (if there is indeed going to be one)? See here http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=17238 and here

Re: Backup Server

2003-12-29 Thread anubis
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 03:30 am, samy lancher wrote: Hello all, I have a 4.5 FreeBSD server. It is our Email, web and database server. I would like to setup a backup server so that when the main server goes down the backup server takes over its job. Could some one please tell me the best way to

drbd

2003-12-29 Thread anubis
Linux has a thing called drbd which is a block device that allows the duplication of data across a network. The system writes to the local disk first then the remote disk keeping them in sync. Is there an equivalent in FreeBSD or is there one planned or is there another way of going about

Re: 5.2-RC Status

2003-12-30 Thread anubis
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:31 pm, Chris wrote: On Monday 29 December 2003 08:33 pm, anubis wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:04 am, Chris wrote: Hi everyone, Ok, I see that 5.2-RC2 has made it to the site. Is there a time frame on RC3 (if there is indeed going to be one)? See here

Re: mplayer gui?

2004-01-05 Thread anubis
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 02:13 pm, chip wrote: Now I installed mplayer. The man pages shows gmplayer as a gui version of mplayer. When I enter gmplayer I get command not found. Mplayer works otherwise. I see a port for skins for the gui, but no port for the gui itself. Am I missing something here?