Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install

2004-05-07 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:01:29PM +0900, Rob wrote: Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the login prompt, which I do not understand :(. You probably need to tell the kernel to use the serial console: # echo '-h'

Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install

2004-05-07 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 08:06:37PM +0900, Rob wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:01:29PM +0900, Rob wrote: Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the login prompt, which I do not understand

Promise ATA100 controller and 160G disks

2004-05-26 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, does anyone know if the Promise ATA100 controller PCI card supports 160 G disks on -STABLE? Thanks, --Stijn -- Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. pgpM1IBIPl6pf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Promise ATA100 controller and 160G disks

2004-05-26 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:15:02AM +0200, Frank Mueller wrote: I have FBSD -STABLE running on a Promise Fasttrak 100 TX2 (latest BIOS) with 2 160GB HDDs as RAID1 and it is running fine. OK, but I have the older non-raid just ATA100 controller version, which is why I suspect it might not work.

Re: Promise ATA100 controller and 160G disks

2004-05-26 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:28:09AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: does anyone know if the Promise ATA100 controller PCI card supports 160 G disks on -STABLE? I'm not 100% sure that the Promise controller is the problem here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions

Re: uuencode(1) doesn't work?

2004-06-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:41:08PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: I'm trying to uuencode some data, but uuencode doesn't seem to work properly. I'm using FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p22. Here are some examples: $ date | uuencode usage: uuencode [-m] [-o outfile] [infile] remotefile b64encode

Re: How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 01:22:27PM -0400, JJB wrote: DO any of the suggestions made so for work from the command line or do they all just run under x? If in X but you want a command line, install ImageMagick and use $ convert X: screenshot.jpg then point to the window you want a screenshot

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:21:40PM -0500, Scott wrote: As a newbie to FreeBSD, I may be way off base, but it seems very logical to me that the size of your drive or partition would make a difference on at what percentage full one would start to notice problems. In terms of megs/gigs 80%

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:59:00PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:21:40PM -0500, Scott wrote: As a newbie to FreeBSD, I may be way off base, but it seems very logical to me that the size of your drive or partition would make

vinum disks references crashed state

2004-06-22 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, I just had a crash on two of the drives on one vinum RAID-5 volume; fortunately I could recover the data and build a new one. However, while doing this I did something 'stupid', which I managed to fix, but I wanted to know what the right way would have been. Like I said one RAID-5 volume was

PEAP (wireless authentication) support

2003-09-14 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, here at my workplace they're installing a wireless network. Since this is all new to me, I was asking around a bit and discovered that they're using the PEAP protocol for authentication on the network. Unfortunately my search for network software that supports this on FreeBSD has turned up no

Re: trouble with kernel

2003-09-15 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:54:46AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: george [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why is it that we have had sound cards on computers for practically 20 years yet device pcm is not compiled into the default kernel.? Because it's not needed to actually accomplish the

Re: XF86Config weirdness

2003-09-18 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:44:54AM +0200, Joan Picanyol wrote: [please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] Hi, When I add the following lines to my XF86Config file, I can't startx anymore (Fatal error: could not open default font fixed). FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi

Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.

2003-09-23 Thread Stijn Hoop
Congratulations, you just found out that FreeBSD is not for you! --Stijn -- Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good

Re: Fixing vinum after removing a HDD

2004-02-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:41:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on a system with 5 HDD's. ad0 is to be removed from the system. ad1, ad2 and ad3 contain my vinum drives. FreeBSD resides on the last disk (da0). Can anyone tell me if the following procedure is the

Re: pkgs managing

2004-02-13 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:23:50PM +0300, flux wrote: Hello everyone. How do I know what package does the file belong? Thx. pkg_info -W file --Stijn -- Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be

Re: gramofile, mkisofs howto??

2002-12-17 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:08:04AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to digitize my old vinyl records and I am somehow missing something along the way. I can make wav files from the records with gramofile and from there, I can make an image with mkisofs, mount it with vnconfig and

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:22:32AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote: I just hosed one of my boxes by recursively setting all my file permissions incorrectly: $ su $ cd /data $ chown -R andrew:wheel * This is all ok. $ chown -R andrew:wheel .* This isn't.

Re: attaching a umass device?

2003-01-08 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:13:24PM +1100, David Gerard wrote: This is probably really simple, but I couldn't see it in the handbook ... I've plugged a umass device (a camera) into a USB port. What do I do now to get access to the data? You need to have usbd running (usbd_enable=YES in

Re: attaching a umass device?

2003-01-09 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:56:19AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robin Damm [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:13:24PM +1100, David Gerard wrote: This is probably really simple, but I couldn't see it in the handbook ... I've plugged a umass device (a

Re: Renaming files with spaces in the name to files without spaces..

2003-01-09 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:49:18AM +1030, Rob wrote: If you want to do it for all files in a directory: # for file in *; do mv $file `echo $file | sed -e 's/ /_/g'`; done should do the trick. I think Perl is overkill for something this simple. Someone else suggested tr, which probably

Re: how do i log another device to syslog?

2003-01-15 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:01:50AM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: i finally was able to get configuration on my Cisco 806 to allow for a hole though my reflexive access lists. anwyays, that's not really important now. what i need to know is how i enable syslog to log messages from my

Re: how do i log another device to syslog?

2003-01-16 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:55:01PM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: --- Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: syslogd_flags=-a 1.2.3.4/32 in /etc/rc.conf should work according to the manpage. Maybe even syslogd_flags= is enough, but by default syslogd_flags is -s which doesn't allow peer

Re: how do i log another device to syslog?

2003-01-16 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:07:05AM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: --- Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See 'man syslog.conf'. You need to edit /etc/syslog.conf to tell syslogd to route all messages from a host to separate files. They will appear in /var/log, just like your 'regular' logs

Re: Installing customized mod_php4 port

2003-01-28 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:00:41AM -0800, Adam Weinberger wrote: Just run 'make' from the mod_php4 directory. You set all those options interactively. Or for the noninteractive version: # make PHP4_OPTIONS='\option1\ \option2\ ...' BATCH=yes install The quotes backslashes are necessary

Re: Need Vinum help

2003-08-26 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:26:48PM -0700, Thomas Smith wrote: The config file is as follows: drive a1 device /dev/ad0a drive a2 device /dev/ad1e You are using slice 'a' on ad0 and slice 'e' on ad1. Typo? --Stijn -- MY HATE OF D02 KNOW NO LIMIT -- A Silent Wail,

replace a working vinum drive in RAID-5 config

2003-09-10 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, I'm trying to find out how to replace a drive in a vinum RAID-5 volume that's still working. I have the following volume (copied by hand, sorry): V local State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 167 GB P local.p0 R5 State: up Subdisks: 4 Size:

Re: replace a working vinum drive in RAID-5 config

2003-09-10 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:16:09PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: I'm trying to find out how to replace a drive in a vinum RAID-5 volume that's still working. I have the following volume (copied by hand, sorry): V local State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 167 GB P

Re: cleaning out files

2003-04-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:27:46PM +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote: How do I clean the contents of text files without actually removing the files? $ echo -n $FILE Works for me, there are various other ways. You will end up with a 0-byte file, is that what you mean by 'cleaning'? --Stijn -- I

Re: [mail_lists] Re: cleaning out files

2003-04-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:00:52AM -0800, Jim wrote: The best way is simply doing: bash]$ filename This clears the file out without destroying any open file descriptors on the file. Does echo -n 'destroy' an open file descriptor on the file? Does the above work with other shells? Just

got load 1 but no CPU state is showing?

2003-06-16 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On a lightly loaded server top is misbehaving: it continuously shows all CPU states at 0.0% yet my load varies from 0.50 to about 3. Is there any explanation for this? Obviously, my kernel + world are in sync, running 4.8-RELEASE. Rebuilding top did no good. --Stijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: got load 1 but no CPU state is showing?

2003-06-16 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:14:39AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Load averages and current load are two different things. I suspect you didn't catch it when it was busy. I know, but I've been running top for about 15 minutes now, and it consistently shows 0.0%. I can also assume that top

Re: got load 1 but no CPU state is showing?

2003-06-16 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:25:24AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Any chance you are running an SMP system? You might be seeing the usage of only one CPU? Nope, UP only. --Stijn -- Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't

Re: got load 1 but no CPU state is showing?

2003-06-16 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 01:19:59PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: On a lightly loaded server top is misbehaving: it continuously shows all CPU states at 0.0% yet my load varies from 0.50 to about 3. Is there any explanation for this? Maybe. :-) I was going to say

Re: Tools to modify shared libraries

2003-06-18 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:38:29AM -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote: Basically, what I want to do is remove several entries from the *front* of the dynamic section. Actually, I would settle for just removing all of a certain tag (such as DT_NEEDED) from the dynamic section. I'm very interested,

Re: got load 1 but no CPU state is showing?

2003-06-27 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:34:29PM -0500, Michael D Hughes wrote: What does systat -vm show? OK, it happened again, so I tried your suggestion. Guess what, it waits 5 seconds then prints this: The alternate system clock has died! Reverting to ``pigs'' display. I don't know what the 'alternate

Re: Php Binary

2002-09-17 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:49:18PM +0200, Patrick Holahan wrote: Hi.. I'm trying to find the php binary for FreeBSD kernel release 4.6 The program cacti requires the php binary, not merely php compiled on the system. Is there a way to compile php4.2.1 so that it gives you a binary? Or

Re: Need help debugging Windowmaker coredump

2002-10-29 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:06:44PM +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to figure out how to get more debugging info out of my core dump. Here's all I have so far: local:~ gdb -c wmaker.core GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD) Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is

Re: Need help debugging Windowmaker coredump

2002-10-30 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi Jonathon, On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:58:23AM +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Here's what I have so far: - Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.^M [snip] #0 0x80b4545 in WMGetFromPLDictionary (plist=0x0, key=0x8137b50)^M ---Type return to

Re: using ssh-agent with kdm login manager ...

2002-10-30 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:16:15AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I've searched the web (and am still searching), but for the life of me, I can't get ssh-agent 'active' when using kdm for the login manager ... I've tried setting up a simple .xsession file: cat .xsession ssh-agent

Re: Easter Eggs

2002-11-07 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:02:49AM +, Ceri Davies wrote: On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:13:40AM -0500, Lord Raiden wrote: This might sound like a silly question, but does Freebsd or any of it's component programs have known easter eggs? Just curious. :) The binaries don't,

Re: perl version in -STABLE build

2002-11-21 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:04:10AM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote: branch. Note, however, that on 4.x there's no problem with keeping 5.8 installed from ports, and the default system perl in its usual place. There's a nice mechanism installed for choosing between them at will. And that

Re: Hostname failure

2002-12-02 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:28PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: and /ect/hosts looks like: 127.0.0.1 localhost deamon ^^ That's not spelt like 'daemon'. Typo? --Stijn -- Tact, n.: The unsaid part of what you're thinking.

Re: your mail

2002-12-09 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:56:14PM +0200, Voicu Liviu wrote: I'm a newbiew in FreeBSD ( usage 2 weeks ) and almost 1 year of Gentoo that works ( in fact gentoo was created by *BSD ports ) almost like Freebsd (i mean to the ports ) The problem is how do I see what is going to be installed

Re: grip cd ripper - which one

2002-12-10 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:59:25AM -, local.freebsd.questions wrote: On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 00:31:01 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Bleichert) wrote: Whoops!! I never installed cdrtools, burncd has been working well. Thanks for the pointer! Surely it only works for SCSI CDs though? If

Re: How do I patch my change into a source file in ports?

2002-12-13 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:17:00PM -0800, BSD baby wrote: I made a change to this file: /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools/work/cdrtools-1.11/cdda2wav/cdda2wav.c and I want my change to the source file to stick when building the port. Seems if I do a make clean install it kills my change to the

Re: curious if anyone noticed the perl-5.8.0_04 seems a bit whacky ?

2003-02-06 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:01:10PM -0600, Sean O'Neill wrote: I just portupgraded from perl-5.8.0_01 to perl-5.8.0_04 - or more appropriately I tried. Anyone noticed that the perl-5.8.0_04 port installs stuff in /usr/local/scripts, e.g. h2ph and others, but a pkginfo -L shows these same

Re: RSI ports?

2003-02-10 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:35:08PM +0100, Alex wrote: I have bin using a anti-RSI program under Windows with good results and was wondering about the options i have with FreeBSD. Do any anti-RSI ports exist under FreeBSD? (I didn't find any, which do you prefer?) xwrits is in the ports, but

Re: can't peform blankspace escape - sh command substitution bug or feature?

2003-02-12 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:06:29PM +0300, Denis N. Peplin wrote: I try to escape blankspace in filenames by using backslash First, i'm test sed expression: $ sed 's/ /\\ /g' long file name long\ file\ name this ok. second, include this sed expression in sh command substitution: $

Re: FreeBSD Media Player equivalent...

2003-02-18 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 08:24:26PM +, Rus Foster wrote: O,n Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Daxbert wrote: ,'ve finally decided to run FreeBSD as my primary workstation environment. Previously I have only used it as a server platform. I've managed to replace most of the desktop utilities I need,

Re: FreeBSD Media Player equivalent...

2003-02-19 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:13:09AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Tuesday 18 February 2003 21:44, Stijn Hoop wrote: Even better, check out http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/. A simple cvs co gmake will do. I can't make it work with Konqueror... Anyone succeded in making in work

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 05:24:21PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-03-02T22:15:59Z, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: portupgrade -puf portupgrade portupgrade -pufr png portupgrade -pufr fontconfig portupgrade -pufr libxml2 portupgrade -pufr ghostscript-gnu Interesting. I

Re: Ok, KDE/Help .. after my moans what now ?

2003-03-03 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 07:16:37PM -0800, Gary D Kline wrote: I've been having much the same experience. Trying to upgrade things let go too long on my 4.7-PRE system has been nearly' futile. I like having src, like most of us hackers. But take Redhat that

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:42:02PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: I learned something out of this too. Fontconfig was modified and so I tried -Rup fontconfig. Portupgrade just built fontconfig. Next I tried -pur fontconfig. It rebuild Xft, which had also been upgraded, and just repackaged

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:45:19AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2003 12:16 am, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:42:02PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: I learned something out of this too. Fontconfig was modified and so I tried -Rup fontconfig. Portupgrade just

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:06:44PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: Hope this helps to clear up some of the confusion. --Stijn Oh Mr Stijn. Listen, I am not tellimg you off, or making fun of you..Ok ? I promise. But my eyes

Re: Sparc64 install

2003-03-10 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:00:40AM -0500, Slade Griffin wrote: I was attempting to install FreeBSD 5.0 on a Sparc Ultra 60 but cannot get the menu to work. Is there a way to skip the interactive menu and head straight into the install? Thanks for your time. AFAIK, you need to install

Re: Bind9 install

2003-03-13 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:27:15AM +0100, Ahmed SAHNOUN wrote: Hi all, I would like to install bind9 on my FreeBSD 4.7, So I'm using ports for that : cd /usr/ports/net/bind9 make make install after those steps, when I invoke named -version command, I see that's 8!! also man named

Re: No xvideo support for ATI Rage Pro?

2003-03-20 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:35:22AM -0500, Paul Murphy wrote: MPlayer command line: mplayer -vo x11 -stop_xscreensaver -zoom filename But now you're not using xv according to 'mplayer -vo help': Available video output drivers: xv X11/Xv x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) Does

Re: Matrox G450 support in FreeBSD 5.0

2003-03-20 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi Peter, On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:27:47PM -0500, Peter Gervais wrote: The Matrox G450 video card is supposed to able to handle 2 monitors on the single PCI card. It is, I'm running on one right now: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ dmesg | grep -i matrox pci1: Matrox MGA G400 AGP graphics accelerator

Re: Missing X fonts (was: in regrade to yr Sony LPt)

2003-03-19 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:36:08AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config Where did you get this X11 configuration file from? Is it old? Check the date with ls -l. Nowadays the config file gets put in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config, though it's

Re: Attempting to 'make buildworld' (Makefile problem)

2003-03-26 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:24:30PM +1100, Adam Carmichael wrote: Now when I run make buildworld I get the following: make buildworld Makefile:137: *** missing separator. Stop. *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src. You are running GNU make instead of BSD make. GNU make is installed as

CA-cert

2005-01-09 Thread Stijn Hoop
Offtopic, but... On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 09:22:48PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Pointless for us, as CAcert's root certificate isn't included in I.E., so the end users have to go through the same honky-tonk to include it in their browsers as if you just make

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Stijn Hoop
off-topic, but... On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:43:54AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: AV BTW, an old AMD 2000 XP+ would in any case almost outperform a P4 3GHz, AV but that's another story. An AMD processor will also melt or catch fire if the CPU fan fails, whereas an Intel processor won't.

Re: Kris' World

2005-01-15 Thread Stijn Hoop
You know, I've never even seen anyone come close to this absurd display of self-proclaimed godliness. If you have so much clue, please go *FIX* something instead of ranting about it. I also don't know how you manage to change your email adresses, but I'd really like you to get out of my sight.

Re: Growing out a second head

2005-01-15 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:06:30AM +0530, Subhro wrote: I am running FBSD 5.3-R amd64 on a AMD 3000+ with a nVidia GeForce Fx 5700LE (256M) card plugged into the AGP slot. Two monitors are fixed to the card. One goes in the normal VGA slot, the other goes into the DVI slot via a VGA-DVI

Re: Growing out a second head

2005-01-15 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:18:21AM +0530, Subhro wrote: Is your box amd64? Whoops, sorry -- no it's i386 and I planned to put that information in my previous mail also... --Stijn -- From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend

Re: Hardware RAID

2005-01-21 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:22:36AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:57:21 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but didn't think too much about. That is, a software array is no substitute for a

Re: Hardware RAID

2005-01-22 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:42:32PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Stijn Hoop said: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but didn't think too much about. That is, a software array is no substitute for a hardware array

Re: Can't get rid of screen 'saver'

2005-01-25 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:12:29PM +0100, Joachim Dagerot wrote: I'm running a picture slideshow on a laptop (TFT screen) and I dont want a screen saver/blanker or whatever it's called. No, I don't want it at all. If you're running X, it has it's own set of DPMS powersave rules. Try xset

Anthony

2005-02-14 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:34:24AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: MSIE has traditionally followed HTML standards more closely than almost any other browser. Firefox does pretty well, tough; Opera much less so. Thank you for giving me another reason to killfile you again, after you resurfaced

Re: Anthony

2005-02-15 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:56:06PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I think most of the time Anthony *does* know what he writes about He certainly know more about some subjects than I do, I will not dispute that. However in all these e-mails I've never seen him back off once on subjects that I *do*

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:15:00AM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote: I have run with softupdates on for '/' on all my systems, for a few years now. It has not caused me any problems that I know of, but then the way I define my partitions is probably a lot different than what most people do.

Anthony's issues

2005-03-22 Thread Stijn Hoop
Can we please STOP fueling Anthony's drivel? --Stijn -- Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. pgpNgpdLy84Lz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Anthony's issues [Slightly OT]

2005-03-22 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:55:01AM -0600, Duo wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Stijn Hoop wrote: Can we please STOP fueling Anthony's drivel? I have two words for you: Mail Filtering. Use it. It can work wonders on signal to noise ratio. He is not going to quit, ever. Well, I'm

Re: Moving vinum drives to a new system?

2004-08-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:40:10PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: Am not so much as moving the vinum drives so much as replacing the system drive FreeBSD 5.2.1 was installed upon. The same system which created my striped vinum volume. System drive was a parallel ATA 40G. Two SATA 160G drives

Re: RAID 5 stripe size

2004-08-05 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:02:25PM +0800, H. Sandring wrote: Is there an intelligent way of choosing the stripe size of a RAID 5 array? From man vinum: For optimum performance, stripes should be at least 128 kB in size: anything smaller will result in a significant increase in I/O activ-

vinum rebuildparity, when?

2004-08-25 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, I was wondering about the vinum 'rebuildparity' command, especially the times when one needs to use this. I just recently found out, based on reading the RAIDframe documentation, that you're supposed to recheck/rebuild the parity after every disk crash. As I hadn't been doing that that would

Re: vinum rebuildparity, when?

2004-08-27 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, thanks for your response, I didn't notice it at first because it only went to the mailing list :) On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:08:53PM +0200, Christian Laursen wrote: Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering about the vinum 'rebuildparity' command, especially the times when

vinum revive does not rebuild parity (was vinum rebuildparity, when?)

2004-08-29 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 02:24:46PM +0200, Christian Laursen wrote: Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:08:53PM +0200, Christian Laursen wrote: When reviving a disk the data on that disk is calculated from the data and the parity on the other disks. Yes

Re: vinum revive does not rebuild parity (was vinum rebuildparity, when?)

2004-09-02 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, back with another episode in this continuing saga: On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 04:26:57PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: Witness this (after yet another fake disk crash): %%% vinum - ls -v local.p0.s0 Subdisk local.p0.s0: Size: 31457129472 bytes (2 MB

Re: vinum revive does not rebuild parity (was vinum rebuildparity, when?)

2004-09-07 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [...] the parity surely is not correctly recalculated during the revive. If that were the case, the parity would be incorrect at offset 0. Yes, it is recalculated. Of course -- I hadn't thought of that. Greg, can you

Re: CLI tool for motherboard/CPU temp monitoring.

2004-09-08 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:23:36PM -0700, Kenji M wrote: Does anyone know if there are any tools in ports that allows me to monitor the CPU and motherboard temperatures? I am running 4.10 and 5.2.1 with assorted Intel and AMD x86 based mobos. For some mobo's, /usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon will

cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?

2005-10-31 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card associates fine, but then fails to send any IP packets in the air, or at least that's what I presume is going on. I cannot ping the AP, I

Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?

2005-10-31 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:28:51PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-10-31 19:25, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card

Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?

2005-11-01 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:44:49PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-10-31 19:40, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:28:51PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Any hints on where I might go from here to debug this? I know the setup should work because

Re: What about for Palm's and Pocket PC's in FreeBSD?

2005-11-15 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:59:00PM +0200, Andrew Pogrebennyk wrote: Could anyone tell me if there's a good support for Palm's and Pocket PC's in FreeBSD, especially for Bluetooth connectivity? I'm going to buy one and if I learn that Palm is supported much better, It'll be one more it's

Re: sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name ...

2005-11-29 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote: I recently installed a fileserver which is restricted to the internal network and which I refer to simply as 'fileserver' (pretty creative, right). However, sendmail doesn't seem to work correctly. When the machine boots and/or I

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-03 Thread Stijn Hoop
Kristian, On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:58:37AM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: The single user boot seems interesting, but is it really necessary? Isn't it just for temporary security reasons? No. You need to reboot to actually use (and test) your new kernel, the single user part is helpful so that

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:45:29PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: At 12:05 03.03.2006, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:58:37AM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: I run the script to save time. Basically I'd run the exact same chain of commands otherwise. You're missing the point

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-07 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:29:36PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: At 22:08 04.03.2006, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:45:29PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: At 12:05 03.03.2006, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:58:37AM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: I run the script

Re: KDE + GNOME?

2006-04-20 Thread Stijn Hoop
[lots of religous Gnome vs KDE stuff snipped] Guys, can we lay off the FUD? It's just a matter of taste. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. Both have great support in FreeBSD, and both ports teams work together to produce two great desktops. The existance of one does not belittle the

Re: defaultroute not loading

2006-01-13 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:49:07PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: On 12 Jan 2006, at 23:37, Michael Zimmer wrote: hostname=#.com defaultrouter=1.2.3.4 # previously 1.2.3.4; removed Could you post the output of sh -x /etc/rc.d/routing start? Please try to resist

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-28 Thread Stijn Hoop
Thanks for this! I was trying to restore some sanity to this new browser -- it keeps hanging / crashing. Will try this ASAP. --Stijn On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:50:11PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 14:49, Mark Kane wrote: Anish Mistry wrote: On Friday 27 January

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-28 Thread Stijn Hoop
For those interested, paste the inline patch below in /usr/ports/www/firefox/files/patch-bugzilla305970 And reinstall your firefox. Thanks again, Anish, it certainly seemed to help me! --Stijn --- widget/src/gtk2/nsWindow.cpp.orig Thu Aug 18 10:11:23 2005 +++ widget/src/gtk2/nsWindow.cpp

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-29 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:22:45PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Frank Staals wrote: Hmm I got a question regarding to Fx 1.5. Has anyone else noticed a tremendous slowdown when using 1.5 ? I especially mean when the popup-window opens to ask what you want to do with a

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote: Garrett Cooper schrieb: Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there should be a noticeable difference. The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile all in all because of its

Re: REPOST: null device in linux jail root

2003-12-16 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:15:07PM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: Surely, *someone* who reads this list has upgraded the linux_base port, and figured out the proper way to respond to this prompt. I apply for item A but not item B -- in other words, I also don't have a clue why this happened to me

Re: SanDisk CompactFlash card reader problem

2004-01-01 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:19:47AM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: I'm having some strange problems with my SanDisk CompactFlash reader. [snip] Any ideas or pointers to specific docs? Is this on -STABLE? I had to remove 'device ugen' from my kernel because I also had problems using the automatic

Re: FreeBSD AGP or Nvidia AGP?

2004-01-05 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:46:53AM -0500, Dany wrote: What is the preferred method ? The one that would give the most stability (I don't really care about performance and fps). Just one thought: if you don't want 3D support, just go with the 2D 'nv' driver -- that should be stable.

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