Booting Issues - ACPI and HD

Hey all, Before I get into my FreeBSD issue, I would like to apologize for not being able to provide abundant details in this first submission. The server I am having trouble with is located at school (it's the tech club server) and so I don't have a lot of access to it when it is convenient.

Torrentflux, PHP, and Apache

Hi all, I have a strange problem here. I just installed torrentflux on my freebsd6.1 box and it was working great for a few minutes. Then, for some reason i can't figure out, i was no longer able to view index.php. Other php files were parsed by the server just fine, but for some reason whe

Phantom Files, Filesystem Full

I was editing a conf file in /etc and, when i tried to write the file vi told me it couldn't save because the filesystem is full! I ran df and, sure enough, the / fs has 245M of 258M used: Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a248M245M-17M 108%/ Th

Force install vulnerable port

How can I override portaudit when trying to install a port with vulnerabilities like jdk? My temp. solution is to remove portaudit, but would like a way to be able to keep it and still be able to build vulnerable ports. Unfortunately, I couldn't find an answer in either the handbook or google.

X11 Forwarding Apps already running

Is it possible to forward an already running X application? And then send it back to its original location so that I can close the remote workstation and leave the app running? I've been trying google for an answer, and some man pages, but can't find an answer. Thanks for help, Ryan ___

Clock running fast

Hi all, I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful? Thanks, Ryan ___ freebsd-que

Re: Clock running fast

Charles Swiger wrote: On May 4, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Ryan Winograd wrote: I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful? Try

Compiling jdk15

Hi all, I'm having problems compiling the jdk15 port on my machine. It's running 5.3-Release and also has the jdk14 and linux-sun-jdk14 ports installed. Here is the end of the make install output. Note: * uses or overrides a deprecated API. Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details. Not

firefox/mozilla wont start

im running 5.3 w/ KDE desktop and am having problems getting firefox and mozilla to start. when i try to start them from a terminal, nothing happens. there is no output. it simply skips to the next line and gives me a %. I have tried installing from package, port, and then resinstalling from bo

all users to mount cd's

Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo. There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying to meet. I would like the mounting process to be much easier. I am usi

Re: all users to mount cd's

Ryan Winograd wrote: On May 20, 2005 04:10 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote: Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo. There are, however, some requiremnents i am t

nfs: fstab or automount

If I set up a network in which the /home directory is shared to all client computers, is it better to have the clients mount the nfs share in fstab or to let automount handle the mounting? What are the pros and cons of each? Thnx in advance for all input, Ryan w ___