Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters)

2003-03-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
not correct as BIND does adhere to the RFC. RFC952 still holds sway as confirmed in RFC1123. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634

Re: which video cards work best for stable

2003-01-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
and may be there of the 8500. Support for the newer ATi cards in in CVS and the 4.3 pre-release distros (4.2.99). 4.3 is expected out shortly. I have no experience with nVidia, but they do provide a binary FreeBSD driver for 3D support of their new cards. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy

Re: ThinkPad R31 - Lucent windmodem woes....

2002-11-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
use a modem, it would be fine if there was an available driver. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: ThinkPad R31 - Lucent windmodem woes....

2002-11-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
is included in the very popular ICH sets, I am hopeful that it won't take too much longer, but I don't have a clue about Linux kernel modules, so I am not in a position to contribute much to this. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National

Re: ThinkPad R31 - Lucent windmodem woes....

2002-11-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
WinModem. At this time I am unsure if anyone is working on this seriously. Larry Rosenman was trying to track something down on this, but I have not seen any recent messages. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab

Re: Fwd: Re: DVD quality problem

2002-11-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
If your DVD is ATAPI, make sure that you have DMA enabled. It is off by default. hw.ata.ata_dma and hw.ata.atapi_dma should both be 1. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kernel crashes during boot

2002-10-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
cvsup about an hour to 2 hours earlier. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Updating world with least downtime

2002-09-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:20:24 -0700 From: David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thus spake Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For a modern system and a reasonable disk, this is trivial. I have a system which MUST not be down for over 15 minutes and I can do it quite easily unless I really

Re: 4.6 stable to 4.6.2 stable

2002-08-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
KERNCONF=MYKERNEL shutdown -r now boot -s fsck -p mount -u / mount -a -t ufs swapon -a cd /usr/src make installworld mergemaster mergemaster -C And, don't forget 'adjkerntz -i' before you 'make installworld' so that you won't be installing files before they were built. R. Kevin Oberman

Re: cdrom: device not configured error

2002-08-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
, that is likely your problem. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: No root crontab in 4.6-RELEASE?

2002-07-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
in periodic.conf(5). R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body

Re: ssh to remote machines problem after cvsup

2002-07-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
an impact on me. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body

Re: 4.6-RELEASE problems with xinit, Xircom pccard ethernet

2002-07-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
adding the line machdep.pccard.mem_start=0xd to /boot/loader.conf. See Scott Mitchell's response to the same question on freebsd-mobile on June 16. If you do a Google search on mailing.freebsd.mobile and search for Xircom Scott, it will be about the most recent. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer

Re: Upgrade from 4,5Stable-4,5-RELASE . refuse to accept setting from rc.conf

2002-04-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
won't boot, it's pretty easy to back up to kernel.old and modules.old and try to figure out whet went wrong. If the kernel is broken and you have already installed world, you have the potential of having no choice but to rebuild the system from scratch, not something you want to do. R. Kevin Oberman

Re: *** HEAD'S UP ***

2002-04-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
have messed up when updating an important server and not watching all of the things mergemaster showed in an effort to get the system back on-line quickly. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: options PNPBIOS

2002-04-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
information on all device. It eliminates the need to specify all sorts of stuff like iomem, irq, and drq in the kernel for ISA devices. I generally find it annoying and go ahead and define all of the parameters in my kernel config. Of course, it's entirely possible that I don't understand it. R. Kevin

Re: Network stalls with 4.5

2002-03-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
. If it's a hub or if the interface is running half-duplex, it's possible that the NIC is defective and that could be the source of the problems. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: parameterize named log

2002-03-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
if periodic.conf would allow configuration of the filename. i can supply the trivial patch if anyone cares. Randy, I would appreciate it. It's been on my TODO list or a while and I just printed out the periodic job yesterday in hopes of doing exactly what you did. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer

Re: Request for testers of MFC'd ATA driver take 2.

2002-03-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
Soren, I have installed the latest patches on all the the system that had problems with the prior patches and all is well. Both the Dell and the ThinkPad are over their panics. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Re: XFree86 4.2

2002-03-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:25:26 -0500 From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:31:47AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: From: Mike Murphree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 06:32:34 -0600 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 05 March

Re: compile error

2002-02-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
to uninstallworld. You usually have to re-install! That all said, many people do the entire installation without a reboot and do it remotely with no console access. (I've done it and probably will again.) It USUALLY works, but when it fails, you are in VERY deep weeds! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy

Re: cvsup to 4.4-stable

2002-01-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
wish to make to the defaults. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: System trying to start sshd twice

2002-01-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
to the installed, standard V2.9. It's not quite the latest and greatest, but it does get all security patches and is consistent across FreeBSD systems. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: 4.5-RELEASE

2001-12-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:34:57 -0800 (PST) From: Holt Grendal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Its 4.5-RELEASE still planned for January 15, 2002? The latest information is always at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ It's January 20, 2002. R. Kevin Oberman, Network

Re: Ports not building!

2001-12-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
only about 135 KB, you have replaced make with gmake. It's also possible that gmake is really aliased to make. This won't work, either since emacs20 uses gnu make while the ports part of the make uses make. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence

Re: SSH Problem

2001-10-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 22:54:22 -0400 From: parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] this was, on the fateful occasion around Oct 02 21:07 -0400, sent by Kevin Oberman It does not distribute 2.3 with either stable or current. It was included (with security

Re: hw.ata.wc hw.ata.tags softupdates short question

2001-09-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
was released. I assume it defaults to on in 4.4, although I have not checked. This makes me suspect that he decided that the risk was reasonable. But I really should not speak for him. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley

Re: Please test boot patch

2001-08-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:58:36 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 13-Aug-01 Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:52:59 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If for some reason this doesn't work (it should work fine

Re: USB question

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
for others). http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/pcic-stable.diff.15b (the version is subject to change and may be different by now.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: soft update should be default

2001-05-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
laptop as I know that it has a LONG battery backup. For a worst-case type of operation (dd), I get 4x faster writes with write-cache enabled on my laptop. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail

Re: secure-supfile ?

2001-04-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body

Garbled keymaps in RC1

2001-03-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
normally used this keymap in the past with no problems. I switched to us.iso and everything was back to normal. I then had to re-enter the root password as it was totally hosed when entered in sysinstall. Has anyone else seen this? R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet

Files in /usr/src

2001-03-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
weirdness back then in the buildkernel stuff? I seem to recall that the building of modules was moved out of buildworld and into buildkernel at about that time. Thanks, R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E

Re: options USER_LDT *(solved)

2000-12-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:44:08 -0500 (EST) From: Donn Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Evren Yurtesen wrote: is it enough if I make make buildworld ? anyway thanks for the help. now I could compile kernel without any problem. I didnt know

Small ssh problem in latest STABLE

2000-11-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
of sshd_config. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-s

Re: affordable wireless

2000-09-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
till use ssh whenever possible. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: some problems with 4.1 stable

2000-09-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
option should cause these errors, though. I would be more suspicious of -Os. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail

pcm device locks on some errors

2000-08-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
the integral Crystal Semiconductor audio and the pcm device. Thanks, R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Crystal Semi (pcm) Audio card probing problem

2000-08-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
ation on that system, in any case. It's been doing this since I upgraded to 4.0-Stable about a month after 4.0 was released and about three days after Xircom Ethernet support went in. It may have been doing it under 3.4, but I never used the audio, so I really don't know. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engi

Re: can't load kernel after build/install world/kernel

2000-07-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
If you specified a kernel name to buildkernel and installkernel, use that name in place of 'GENERIC'. You can always boot this way, although, if the 'kernel' file exists, you need to so an 'unload' before booting. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrenc

Re: Custom boot disks

2000-03-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
file on the floppy...kernel.gz. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

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