> fetch: ftp://ftp.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/toby/gpc/gpc231.tar.Z: Connection refused
Try again; that's the site listed by openoffice.org, and I just got a copy
from there.
It's now about 6 PM in the UK; if the site is busy you may have to wait for
5 or 6 hours.
Mike Squires
> 40 gigs. Would it be easier to install FreeBSD on the unformatted partition
> or the new hard drive for the purpose of dual booting with xp? Also, does
> anyone know how to set up a dual boot system or know of a good guide to doing
> so?
I have one system which uses XOSL with separate disks
> Sorin Chiorean wrote:
>
> > I doesn't seem to show up on a regular base.
> > This is an example from a log file :
> > Nov 24 12:16:45 nira /kernel: arplookup 100.93.140.1 failed: host is not
> > on local network
I've seen this when the IP number is not in the network defined by the
IP number an
> I found that the NFS server in the 5.x series (currently 5.1) crashes
> during portscans (because of the aborted connection to it).
> Running nmap or Nessus against the machines requires a manual restart of
> nfsd.
I just portscanned my 5.2-BETA box running NFS server, no problems.
What paramet
> What might be the reasons for this behaviour? - I can't see any
> error messages on the screen.
You may need to change the log level in smb.conf to catch more
information. It's also very difficult to impossible to help much
without at least samba and FreeBSD versions. What's in your
smb and nm
> Anyway right know I am having too many system freezes
> when trying to start X.. most of the time starting X will
I'm entering this message from a KDE Konsole screen running on a Tecra
8100 under 5.2-CURRENT of 12/22. I usually use the 8100 in a docking
station with an external monitor, but the
I had to add the following when moving from Xorg 6 to 7 since moused no
longer manages the mouse - hald and dbus do:
In /etc/rc.conf
# X11 7.4
#moused_enable="YES"
moused_enable="NO"
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
which turns on hald and dbus.
Mike Squires
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I had similar problems with the mouse and keyboard when Xorg 7.4 first
came out. I had upgraded to 7.X from 6.X by cvsup/compile/install
process, and then did a portupgrade. After
the portupgrade neither my Xinerama setup, the mouse, nor the keybord
worked. There was an interim fix which inv
I'm in the process of installing amanda 3.2 (misc/amanda-server) using
ports with an Overland AIT-3 library as the storage medium.
So far I haven't had a problem with going through the "Build a Basic
Configuration" instructions on wiki.zmanda.com. I did have to create a
different "amanda" log
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, erikmccaskey64 wrote:
Is it safe to always run tcpdump on the server, e.g.: like this:
tcpdump -qn dst net 192.168.1.0/24
Depends on who's watching; running tcpdump on a network managed by someone
else might be noticed by the network admin if they're looking for NICs
bei
I haven't seen a verbose dmesg output booting from a non-RAID hard drive.
I have 7.4-STABLE working on several multi-CPU Opteron systems, but they
are all Tyan motherboards. Are Rioworks/Arima still in business?
Rather than use the on-board controllers I've just bought some of the LSI
300-8X
I just compiled maxima from ports using default settings under
FreeBSD 8-STABLE (updated 12/24/2011) and had no problems with the compile
(i.e., I just su'd to root, did a "cd /usr/ports/math/maxima;make").
This was under the amd64 version of FreeBSD (hardware is a Tyan S4882 quad
Opteron).
I've only installed a few programs from packages at installation time;
almost all of my installations and upgrades have been by compiling from
ports and then upgrading (with recompilation) using portupgrade.
This is a habit I got into a long time ago, and which I continue without
any specific
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Anthony Philipp wrote:
Hello,
I was doing an upgrade today and one of the ports failed. I have
since checked /usr/ports/UPDATING, the mailing list and then
updated my ports tree again, all to no avail. Here is the error:
---
f77 -O -c ssyr2k.f
f77 -O -c strmm.f
f77 -O -c
The build error vanished after cvsup'ing on 2/15.
Mike Squires
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On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Chris Ryan wrote:
I am trying to turn a p2 - 233 with 128mb RAM into a
FW / router . and need to run natd
I found that I had to go to more RAM, or use sysctl to set the maximum
files open, with 4.10-STABLE on a PII/300 with 128MB of RAM doing what
you describe,
I just built xorg from scratch under 5.2-CURRENT (of the past few days)
and didn't have this problem.
Mike Squires
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
I'm getting an error message (below) when trying to upgrade the xorg-clients
port, and I'm not at all sure how to fix it. Am running 5.2.1-R
A couple of problems that might cause this have been discussed recently in
the freebsd-kde mailing list. One of them involved not having the correct
KDE startup files in /usr/local/share/config/kdm (where kdmrc lives,
apparently) and another had to do with commands in the shell startup
scripts
This was discussed some time ago on freebsd-databases, and there is a web
page around (URL is mentioned there) showing how to do it, but I don't
have the URL here.
A search of the freebsd-databases mailing list should turn it up quickly.
Even with LINUX (at least WBEL) a number of RPMs have to b
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
I read that somewhere, but then every example shows 256k as being the strip
size :( Now, with a 5 drives RAID5 array (which I'll be moving that server
to over the next couple of weeks), 256k isn't an issue? or is there
something better i should set
>
> Hi,
>
> This problem even appears when installing the OS though
> sysinstall. Disabeling acpi was the solution.
>
I just did a "buildworld" from 5.2-CURRENT and haven't had any problems. I
did install by putting 5.1-RELEASE on the 8100 via ftp and then cvsup'ing
sources. The only boot er
> I am trying to install KDE, but it fails with the message that it requires
> a working libXext.
I installed KDE from the original 5.1-RELEASE, did a cvsup to get the
source tree and ports tree upgraded, ran "pkgdb -F" and "portupgrade -a"
and I'm now running KDE 3.1.3.
Only problem I have (mino
> I have an old 9 track tape that, as luck would have it, contains a
Don't know where you are, but in Indianapolis there were several service
bureaus which do this kind of work. The cost was in the hundreds of
dollars range. All of them had 9-track drives, and they would write
the data to a CD.
> Here's the real question: Is anyone out there linking CLIENT
> applications that successfully connect to a separate Oracle server?
Procedures for installing Oracle 9i under FreeBSD 5.X were posted to
the freebsd-databases mailing list recently. Since the server install
also installs client sof
> I'm trying to configure and tune postgresql on FreeBSD 4.9. We want to
> allow at least 128 concurrent connections but preferably 256.
My memory is that there was some extensive discussion of this on the
freebsd-databases mailing list, and a search of the archives at
lists.freebsd.org should tu
> A few days ago KDE under root account wouldn't start (startx). Howevere
> KDE started under a regular user account works perfectly (and continues
> to do so).
>
> Furthermore, Gnome (2.4) under root starts (half-way?) up to the point
> of the banner and then hangs.
>
> Here is the error mes
> linprocfs.o: In function `linprocfs_doversion':
> /usr/src/sys/compat/linprocfs/linprocfs.c:464: undefined reference to `linux_get
> _osname'
> /usr/src/sys/compat/linprocfs/linprocfs.c:465: undefined reference to `linux_get
> _osrelease'
> linprocfs.o: In function `linprocfs_donetdev':
> /usr/sr
> i'm having trouble building kde3 on a freshly installed box. the ports tre=
> e has been cvsupp'ed, i've portupgraded -rf gettext, and portupgraded -rf t=
> extproc/expat2.
There was a problem with glib20 (causing audio/arts to fail to compile) which
got fixed a day or so ago. See the kde-free
I have as similar setup on my Toshiba 8100 notebook (XP Pro on ad0,
FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and an NTFS partition on ad1); if you install XP first
and then FreeBSD second the FreeBSD boot manager works as well as anything
I've used to manage the process. The installation is also automatic, as
long
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, dick hoogendijk wrote:
Is FreeBSD ready for running 24/7 a day in a *stable* way.
If yes, I'll upgrade my 4.11 server.
The only show-stopper I've run into has been my inability to get "gvinum"
or "vinum" (my understanding is that "gvinum" has replaced "vinum" in
5.4-ST
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, ExTaZyTi wrote:
Hi,
I'm new in FreeBSD, I want to conf and re-build my kernel but the directory
/usr/src is empty.
I'm with FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE, PLEASE HELP :(
You didn't install sources hwen you installedyour system. The short
answer is that you need to read the secti
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote:
Hello List,
I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2
was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid
worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was
somewhere between very painf
I use
tar cvf //.tar 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
cd
tar xvf //.tar
I usually do
cd
find . ! -type d -print > files.txt
vi files.txt - edit out files I don't want
tar cvfT //.tar files.txt
cd
tar xvf //.tar
which lets me copy files beginning with "." in the root of the directory
(tar will skip these
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Gerard Seibert wrote:
I am running FreeBSD 5.4. This is a new installation.
I am unable to get kde3 (meta port) installed. It hangs after almost a day of
compiling.
(cd /usr/ports/print/cmpsfont/work/cmpsfont/pfb; /usr/local/bin/type1inst
-nolog)
*** Error code 127
I have Xinerama working with two HP P1110 monitors and a single Matrox
G450 dual-head card. The only problem I have is that the system
dual-boots MS Windows XP Pro and if I don't do a cold reboot after running
XP I sometimes get artifacts (for example, the borders around Firefox
running under
s that having the mailing list query tool out of whack is not
a good way to attract new users.
Michael L. Squires
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> I've got a box on which 5.0-RELEASE was installed. I updated the source
> tree using cvsup to RELENG_5_1 and tried to recompile, and now every
RELENG_5_1 is compiling for me (as of 7/4).
Are you running
mergemaster -p
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=
make installkernel KERNCONF=
ma
Search the freebsd-messages mailing list, I think there is a web site
which discusses Oracle installations later than 7.x.
The other method I've seen discussed is to set up a LINUX box and install
on that onto an NFS mounted directory (which has the same directory path
on both the FreeBSD and LI
Do you have "options NETATALK" in your kernel? It's not in the GENERIC
kernel, and you'll need to compile a new kernel (or at least I did, the
last time I installed netatalk).
Mike Squires
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On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Gary Gatten wrote:
Surely there's a native Oracle SQL or ODBC client in the ports
collection. Have you checked there?
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote:
Using kenv smbios.system.product might be a good indication of what you
have too.
Running "kenv smbios.system.product" on two of my machines with Supermicro
motherboards gives me "P4SSE" and "P4DC6" which are both correct.
I know Super
> How do u install tar.gz packages from terminal.
cd
tar xvfz /.tar.gz
or am I missing something?
Mike Squires
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I'd take a look at vinum, the software RAID array. Performance seems as good
as hardware-based RAID solutions.
Under 5.1-RELEASE I've been told that the boot partition can be on a vinum
volume; in 4.8 that's not possible but I've used extra space to create several
duplicate boot partitions.
I've
I have 5.1-RELEASE running on a dual PIII/850 SM P6DGH; lots of APIC errors
on boot, but no obvious effects. I was able to complete a complete
"make buildworld ... mergemaster" cycle, plus rebuild ports (including
OpenOffice) with no errors.
"mptable" won't completely run, but, again, no obvious
> I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled
> "4.9 install buglet".
>
> I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100%
> of the time. After install, after system reboot, the boot loader comes
> up with F1: FreeBSD, and reboots continually fore
> I recently brought up an old 700MHz P3 4.9 machine and added a 3ware IDE raid
I had similar behavior on a 5.x-CURRENT machine which was solved by
moving the IRQs assigned to
cards around; the BIOS set up the SCSI controller, the AGP card, and
the Ethernet card to share the same IRQ and this wa
Dan Rue
>
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:22:51AM -0600, Dan Rue wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Ok, Here's the brief specs
> > dual 2.4 Xeons
> > Adaptec Raid-5 SCSI
> >
>
> Is SMP flaky in 4.9 or something? This is my first SMP build..
No problems here with two SMP systems, but they are both older
Have you looked at /var/log/messages? I've found error messages written
there when trying to write to a tape which showed that I needed to change
the block size.
I've used DLT tapes with a variety of SCSI controllers from 4.X to 6.X,
and don't remember having to change anything to use "tar cv
offset 127, 16bit)
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Jaime wrote:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Michael L. Squires wrote:
Have you looked at /var/log/messages? I've found error messages written
there when trying to write to a tape which showed that I needed to change
the block size.
Good idea, but
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