can I use info from gentoo installation?

2007-04-03 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I've been a big fan of FreeBSD for a few years using it on desktop/headless 
servers and want to use it on my laptop (clevo m38aw, sager 3880). I 
couldn't find much on the web regarding hardware compatibility or 
installation guides for FreeBSD for this specific laptop, but did find the 
following guide for Gentoo linux


http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Clevo_M38AW

but, I really want to stick with FreeBSD (love the ports collection, etc.). 
I have a few questions about possible paths to take.


1) If I try installing FreeBSD, will I be using much of the information 
about the drivers etc. from linux (linux binary compat, etc.)?


2) I've tried getting FreeBSD (4.9, 5.X, 6.2) to work before on this laptop 
and couldn't even get the NIC to light up (neither of them) and the system 
doesn't have a floppy drive, so getting downloaded files onto the machine is 
tough, at best. When I tried using the USB stick, the machine would reboot 
each time I removed the stick. A no-go for use in my book. Are these 
troubles fixed in the 6.2?


3) Will I be generating a one time thing by installing BSD on this laptop 
using the linux guide or are there others that need this information. I 
don't mind spending some time (I do have to get real work done) if it 
benefits others, but I don't have the time, if I can spend it better (like 
earning income!)


3) Is this really worth the trouble, or does anyone have any experience with 
gentoo that they're willing to share that is convincing enough to simply 
forget this exercise and move on :-(


Jeff.


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adding an old' disk as a new mount point?

2006-06-14 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I'm sure this is a very RTFM question, but I'm getting a little lost in the 
minutae about just exactly what I'm looking for.


I've got an old freebsd 4.4 system (single hard disk) and a new server 
with 6.0 installed. The new system is working just fine and I would like to 
install the disk from the old server as a data disk in the new machine for a 
little while until I can kick it loose and use it for new data. What am I 
looking for becuase each time I try to search the internet for the question, 
i get results about adding brand new disks, adding swap space or converting 
filesystems...


I'm thinking I can simply plug in the older drive, find out what partition 
it's been named and then count it like I would any other mount point, 
provided I create the infrustructure to do that (creat mount point, fstab, 
etc.)


Is it that simple, or should I be afaid, very afraid...

Thanks,
Jeff.


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good blogging port?

2006-01-07 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I need to start a blog. does anyone have any recommendations for a
blogging tools from the ports collection? Preferrably one I can hook up to
php and postgresql...

thanks,
Jeff.


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Re: getting an old server up to scratch...

2005-12-20 Thread Jeff D. Hamann

This is the result after a cvsup attempt using the following cvsupfile:

stimpy# cd /etc
stimpy# cat cvsupfile
*default  host=cvsup5.FreeBSD.org
*default  base=/usr
*default  prefix=/usr
*default  release=cvs
*default  tag=RELENG_4
*default  delete use-rel-suffix
*default  compress
src-all
*default tag=.
ports-all
doc-all
stimpy#


stimpy# make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL

--

Kernel build for MYKERNEL started on Tue Dec 20 21:18:33 PST 2005

--
=== MYKERNEL
mkdir -p /usr/obj/usr/src/sys
cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf; 
PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin 
config  -d /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL

ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel!
config version = 400018, version required = 400019

Make sure that /usr/src/usr.sbin/config is in sync
with your /usr/src/sys and install a new config binary
before trying this again.

If running the new config fails check your config
file against the GENERIC or LINT config files for
changes in config syntax, or option/device naming
conventions

*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
stimpy#



- Original Message - 
From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: Jeff D. Hamann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: getting an old server up to scratch...



On 12/20/05, Jeff D. Hamann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been trying to build a new server and I've gotten to stage where I 
can
start moving some of the data over from the old server. In the process 
I've

decided to move my version control software from cvs to svn and have been
using svn nicely now for some time. My old machine is a FreeBSD 4.4 
machine

and the ports trees simply doesn't work anymore. I only get:

stimpy# cd /usr/ports/devel/cvs2svn
stimpy# make install
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 4942: Malformed conditional
(defined(USE_RCORDER) || defined(USE_RC_SUBR)  ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != 
YES)

/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 4952: Malformed conditional
(defined(USE_RC_SUBR)  ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != YES)
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 4963: if-less endif
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 4963: Need an operator
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 5272: if-less endif
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 5272: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
stimpy#

for practically every port these days. I've tried installing from source 
and

I need to upgrade python (which doesn't work using portupgrade either). I
see it isn't possible to use cvs2svn on the new machine were I get to 
pass
in the cvs path as :pserver:/blah,blah,blah... and I can't make a dump 
file

on the old machine...

now what?

For svn users, is there a way to dump the cvs repos without using 
cvs2svn?


and for FreeBSD users,

Is it possible to get the port working or should I just move on and lick 
my

wounds?



Have you tryed updating your ports system with cvsup and/or updating
that system to 4.11 (RELENG_4_11) ?





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getting an old server up to scratch...

2005-12-19 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I've been trying to build a new server and I've gotten to stage where I can 
start moving some of the data over from the old server. In the process I've 
decided to move my version control software from cvs to svn and have been 
using svn nicely now for some time. My old machine is a FreeBSD 4.4 machine 
and the ports trees simply doesn't work anymore. I only get:


stimpy# cd /usr/ports/devel/cvs2svn
stimpy# make install
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 4942: Malformed conditional 
(defined(USE_RCORDER) || defined(USE_RC_SUBR)  ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != YES)
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 4952: Malformed conditional 
(defined(USE_RC_SUBR)  ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != YES)

/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 4963: if-less endif
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 4963: Need an operator
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 5272: if-less endif
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 5272: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
stimpy#

for practically every port these days. I've tried installing from source and 
I need to upgrade python (which doesn't work using portupgrade either). I 
see it isn't possible to use cvs2svn on the new machine were I get to pass 
in the cvs path as :pserver:/blah,blah,blah... and I can't make a dump file 
on the old machine...


now what?

For svn users, is there a way to dump the cvs repos without using cvs2svn?

and for FreeBSD users,

Is it possible to get the port working or should I just move on and lick my 
wounds?


Thanks,
Jeff.



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httpd_flags=-DSSL?

2005-12-18 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I've searched plenty looking for the proper method to get apache2 to start 
up at boot time with little success. I've tried the various combinations of 
httpd_flags/apache2_flags/apache_flags= to my rc.conf file to no avail:


bobby# cat rc.conf
blah, blah, blah...
apache_enable=YES
httpd_flags=-DSSL
blah, blah, blah...
bobby#

What's the trick? I've fixed the cert file to not require the dialog on 
startup and have been able to start apache2 using the command:


/usr/local/sbin/apachectl startssl

and then it starts without the dialog.

Ideas?

Jeff. 



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acpi_perf0: invalid _PSS package?

2005-12-18 Thread Jeff D. Hamann

I've been noticing this message on startup (using dmesg)

acpi_perf0: invalid _PSS package

and can't figure out what it is, what it's for and why there are so many?

FreeBSD bobby.somewhere.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #2: Sun Nov 27 
14:07:55 PST 2005 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64


and


bobby# dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
   The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #2: Sun Nov 27 14:07:55 PST 2005
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
ACPI APIC Table: A M I  OEMAPIC 
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (1995.01-MHz K8-class CPU)
 Origin = AuthenticAMD  Id = 0xf4a  Stepping = 10
 
Features=0x78bfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2
 AMD Features=0xe0500800SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow+,3DNow
real memory  = 1576271872 (1503 MB)
avail memory = 1511051264 (1441 MB)
ioapic0 Version 1.4 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
acpi0: A M I OEMRSDT on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
pci_link0: ACPI PCI Link LNKA irq 0 on acpi0
pci_link1: ACPI PCI Link LNKB irq 11 on acpi0
pci_link2: ACPI PCI Link LNKC irq 10 on acpi0
pci_link3: ACPI PCI Link LNKD irq 10 on acpi0
pci_link4: ACPI PCI Link LNKE irq 5 on acpi0
pci_link5: ACPI PCI Link LNKF irq 10 on acpi0
pci_link6: ACPI PCI Link LNKG irq 5 on acpi0
pci_link7: ACPI PCI Link LNKH irq 5 on acpi0
Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0
acpi_perf0: invalid _PSS package
acpi_perf0: invalid _PSS package
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argh with freebsd's networking!

2005-12-15 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I've been a big fan of FreeBSD for a few years now, expect for the fact that 
getting a NIC is always a gamble. Since time is limtied (and most costly) I 
can't afford to spend another minute trying to get my new laptop up and 
running with FreeBSD.


I've recently purchased a laptop (sager 3880 -- very nice so far) and have 
had no success getting either the rj-45 network interface ot the wireless 
interface (Intel 2915abg) to work. When I run the install, it does detect a 
ethernet-firewire device (fwe0) and I have no idea how to use that. 
Regardless, I've found a couple of references to the to the network drivers 
found at


http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html

the instructions seem to be clear enough but the problem is is that I don't 
have any network connection so I can't install ports and packages. I can't 
find instructions clear enough to be able to at least get one of the network 
devices running Are not sure which set of instructions are the appropriate 
ones.  I've got an old PC card wireless network card (netgear ma401 --  
16-bit)  and tried to hook that up to my network which has wep security and 
had difficulty getting that to work. I'm experienced enough to be able to 
recompile the kernel so if that's the hang up that's no problem but I simply 
need a way to get either support or the package onto the machine. 
Unfortunately the machine doesn't have a floppy drive and the USB support 
seems to be shaky at best so I've created a dual boot machine with the fat32 
file system to it least get files into FreeBSD. I've wasted at least a day 
and a half on this and I can't spend anymore time on this and I'm getting 
really bummed since I won't be able to run FreeBSD on the new machine. If 
anyone has any meaningful assistance in getting the wireless or the wired 
ethernet working please assist.


I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 i386. I downloaded the ISO images last week.  I would 
love to recompile the kernel so that neither works.


Thanks,
Jeff.



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getting iwi_firmware to work

2005-12-13 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I'm in the processing of putting together my new FreeBSD 6.0 (downloaded the 
iso image yesterday) laptop which has a Intel Pro/Wireless 2915ABG wireless 
card (as well as a firewire ethernet something?). The machine doesn't have a 
floppy drive and I haven't been able to build the drivers using the 
documentation at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ipw-freebsd.html and I 
think the links for the two freebsd ports located at 
http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/download.html are incorrect (maybe? both 
links point to the ipw-firmware).


Does anyone have any instructions on how to get the wireless working without 
first having to use a third pccard since I can't use cvsup or download the 
ports as usual? I have a dual boot machine which I can read the primary ntfs 
partition  (but not the fat32 partition -- very unhappy about that).


ifconfig reports (and I typing to recreate this)

fwe0: 
flags=108943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMSIC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT mtu 
1500

   options=8VLAN_MTU
   inet6 fe80:f5ff:fe00:1c%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
   ether 02:90:f5:00:00:1c
   ch 1 dma 0
lo: blah, blah, blah

Is that the hardwire ethernet device? This is a new laptop (sager3880) and 
so far the machine running xp has been really nice. I'd like to be able to 
run the real deal now...


Jeff.

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can't mount msdos fs on freebsd6?

2005-12-13 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
Strange, but I can mount an ntfs filesystem (dual boot machine) but not the 
fat32 partition on a new freebsd 6.0 installation. The drive contains three 
paritions:


/dev/ad0s1 -- 30GB NTFS (winxp) mounted on /winxp
/dev/ad0s2 -- 30GB FAT32 (data to be accessed by both winxp and freebsd 6.0) 
mount point /data
/dev/ad0s3 -- 30GB UFS (or whatever freebsd's file systems are) 
/ad0s3(blah,blah,blah)


The results I get back from mount are:

mothra# mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /data
mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s2: Invalid argument
mothra#

I don't get it. it's a fat32 partition (formatted using winxp -- default 
block size). Is there anything I'm missing here? It IS the second slice on 
the drive. Do I need to make the filesystem using FreeBSD? There must be 
some simple thing I'm not doing correctly, yes?


Help?

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Re: can't mount msdos fs on freebsd6?

2005-12-13 Thread Jeff D. Hamann

ah... that's the ticket!

thanks!

jeff. 

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Cc: Jeff D. Hamann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: can't mount msdos fs on freebsd6?



Jeff D. Hamann wrote:


mothra# mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /data
mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s2: Invalid argument


I remember having had a similar problem and it was just a that it was an 
extended partition and somehow it was not displayed with the correct 
number in some utility. If that's your case you might just need another 
device-name. I think numbering for extended partitions starts at 5 (eg. 
ad0s5).


regards
Tino






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partion and fs advice...

2005-12-10 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I've just recieved a new laptop and need (yes actually need) to run both 
winxp and freebsd. I've got software on both systems and need to be able to 
access data on one of the other. I have a 100GB hard drive with XP installed 
onthe first 20 GB and my question is this:


What file systems can I choose from to be able to create a partition I can 
read/write from both FreeBSD and WinXP.


It's been too long since I've tried to have my cake and eat it too and I'm 
not sure if there are drivers out there for reading extfs from win32 and 
vice-versa. I need to have a common (hopefully *NOT* a DOS partition) place 
for data (databases, scripts, etc.) and would like to have two partions for 
the OSes so something like,


20GB - windows xp
20GB - freebsd
60GB - data/scripts/etc (would be the D drive for winxp and the /usr/home 
for freebsd)


The laptop has 2gb ram (not sure if that's important) and a real niec lcd 
screen and more ports than i've ever seen on a machine (sager 3880)


I'll need lots of space for compiling ports (GRASS, postgis, R, etc.) and 
really, REALLY, *REALLY* don't want to use cygwin anymore.


Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
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can't get subversion+apache2 to install

2005-12-05 Thread Jeff D. Hamann

FreeBSD-ers,

I've been trying to get a new FreeBSD 6.0 machine up and I've having a 
little trouble with the subversion port with the WITH switches to no avail.



bobby# make install -DWITH_MOD_DAV_SVN -DWITH_BOOK
===  Installing for subversion-1.3.0.r2
===   subversion-1.3.0.r2 depends on executable:  - not found
===Verifying install for  in /usr/ports/www/apache20
===   Returning to build of subversion-1.3.0.r2
===   subversion-1.3.0.r2 depends on shared library: expat.5 - found
===   subversion-1.3.0.r2 depends on shared library: neon.24 - found
===   subversion-1.3.0.r2 depends on shared library: intl - found
-e -S LIBEXECDIR=/usr/local/libexec/apache2 -a -n dav 
libexec/apache2/mod_dav.so

-e: not found
*** Error code 127

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/subversion.
bobby#

I've got a perfectly good running version of apache2+mod_ssl running on my 
new machine and can't seem to get the mod_dav_svn.so working.


A google search yielded a similar report @

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-November/104359.html

the file dav libexec/apache2/mod_dav.so is in the correct place and I'm not 
sure why the port won't build, or why it wants to create the apache2 port 
all over again. When I went into the /usr/ports/devel/subversion/work to 
find the rogue file, I couldn't find one.


I'm always pressed for time so if  a port doesn't install with a simple make 
install [switches], then it doesn't get installed, period and I don't have 
the time to hunt around to manually install a port. I've updated the ports 
using cvsup already, etc. etc. etc.


Any ideas?



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missing $libdir in/for postgis?

2005-11-27 Thread Jeff D. Hamann

I'm sure this is a really lamo question but...

I'm trying to get the postgis port up (which it has installed with 
postgresql81 just fine so far) and when I went to add the spatial caps to a 
simple database using the script lwpostgis.sql, I got the following:


test=# \i lwpostgis.sql
BEGIN
psql:lwpostgis.sql:35: NOTICE:  type histogram2d is not yet defined
DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition.
psql:lwpostgis.sql:35: ERROR:  could not access file 
$libdir/liblwgeom.so.1: No such file or directory

...blah, blah, blah...
psql:lwpostgis.sql:3149: ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands 
ignored until end of transaction block

ROLLBACK
test=#

I thought to myself, odd, but no big deal. I thought I should verify the 
file liblwgeom.so.1 is in the /usr/local/lib dir. It is.


$ ls /usr/local/lib/liblw*
/usr/local/lib/liblwgeom.so /usr/local/lib/liblwgeom.so.1
$

The $libdir isn't assigned to anything becuase I didn't see anything when I 
typed the command:


$ echo $libdir

$

So should I simply set this variable in one of my login scripts (.cshrc, 
.bshrc,.shrc, .login) or is this something that should be (have been) set 
somewhere else?


I'm installing the latest port on FreeBSD 6.0 amd64.

$ uname -a
FreeBSD bobby.forestinformatics.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #2: Sun 
Nov 27 14:07:55 PST 2005 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

$


Jeff.

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Re: broken openssl on freebsd60

2005-11-26 Thread Jeff D. Hamann

OpenSSL is in the base system and the library version should be 4, not
3.  Is there some reason you're installing it from the ports?


I have no idea. I didn't know it was part of the base system, but when I 
went to install apache2, postgresql, etc, those ports wanted to install the 
openssl port or at least they used to.





- Original Message - 
From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: Jeff D. Hamann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: broken openssl on freebsd60



Jeff D. Hamann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


I should preface this with I'm not sure if this is correct but I've
got a server running that doesn't make exstensive use of openssl and
everything seems to run alright for the apps I've been running...

so,

I've been trying to install a new server using the openssl port and
keep finding problems with the openssl libs...

$ pwd
/usr/local/lib
$ ls -la libssl*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  516602 Nov 26 12:23 libssl.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  11 Nov 26 12:23 libssl.so - libssl.so.4
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  318507 Nov 26 12:23 libssl.so.4
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  12 Sep 16 09:59 libssl3.so - libssl3.so.1
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  155344 Sep 16 10:00 libssl3.so.1
$

should those be:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  12 Sep 16 09:59 libssl3.so - libssl.so.3
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  155344 Sep 16 10:00 libssl.so.3

or some such thing, because when I attempt to start something like
postgresql81, I get:

$ psql
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libssl.so.3 not found, required
by psql
$

I need to get the following apps running on the new FREEBSD 6.0 machine:

1) openssl

then,

2) apache2
3) subversion
4) uw-imap
5) postgresql81 or postgresql80+postgis
6) php

etc, etc, etc and I'm concerned that none of those will work with the
current status of openssl on freebsd 6.0. I'm running

$ uname -a
FreeBSD bobby.xxx.xxx 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Fri Nov 18
10:47:37 PST 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64


OpenSSL is in the base system and the library version should be 4, not
3.  Is there some reason you're installing it from the ports?



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can't build apache2 + openssl 0.9.8 beta to get around 0.9.7 problems

2005-11-25 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I've been trying to build the apache2 port with the openssl 0.9.8 beta (becuase 
I keep getting errors with the port built with the 0.9.7i openssl port when 
attempting to start apache2. 

I'm working on FreeBSD6 -amd64 (trying to get 
apache+openssl+subversion+postgresql+blah,blah,blah working):

bobby# uname -a
FreeBSD bobby.. 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Fri Nov 18 
10:47:37 PST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64


making all in tools...
===  Installing for openssl-stable-0.9.7i
===   Generating temporary packing list
===  Checking if security/openssl already installed
===   An older version of security/openssl is already installed 
(openssl-beta-0.9.8a)
  You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
  by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
  If you really wish to overwrite the old port of security/openssl
  without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER
  in your environment or the make install command line.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/security/openssl.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache2.
bobby# 

Since I've installed openssl-beta-0.9.8a and don't want to build apache2 with 
0.9.7i, how can I tell apache to use the newest port?

I can get the openssl 0.9.8 port to build just fine and the apache2 port to 
build with the openssl-0.9.7i port, but I can't get apache2 to build with the 
openssl-0.9.8a port. I was searching in the Makefile for apache2 and found the 
following line:

# patch files   
  
EXTRA_PATCHES+= ${FILESDIR}/build-fix-openssl_beta

and I'm not sure how (or if) this applies to my situation. And since the port 
isn't older (I don't know if it really is or isn't), I've decided not to 
force the registration. 

and the version command in openssl yields, 

bobby# openssl 
OpenSSL version
OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004
OpenSSL 

which I don't think is correct either, is it?


Any help would be great. 
Jeff. 

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broken openssl on freebsd60

2005-11-25 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I should preface this with I'm not sure if this is correct but I've got a 
server running that doesn't make exstensive use of openssl and everything 
seems to run alright for the apps I've been running...


so,

I've been trying to install a new server using the openssl port and keep 
finding problems with the openssl libs...


$ pwd
/usr/local/lib
$ ls -la libssl*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  516602 Nov 26 12:23 libssl.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  11 Nov 26 12:23 libssl.so - libssl.so.4
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  318507 Nov 26 12:23 libssl.so.4
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  12 Sep 16 09:59 libssl3.so - libssl3.so.1
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  155344 Sep 16 10:00 libssl3.so.1
$

should those be:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  12 Sep 16 09:59 libssl3.so - libssl.so.3
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  155344 Sep 16 10:00 libssl.so.3

or some such thing, because when I attempt to start something like 
postgresql81, I get:


$ psql
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libssl.so.3 not found, required by 
psql

$

I need to get the following apps running on the new FREEBSD 6.0 machine:

1) openssl

then,

2) apache2
3) subversion
4) uw-imap
5) postgresql81 or postgresql80+postgis
6) php

etc, etc, etc and I'm concerned that none of those will work with the 
current status of openssl on freebsd 6.0. I'm running


$ uname -a
FreeBSD bobby.xxx.xxx 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Fri Nov 18 
10:47:37 PST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
amd64

$

and need to know if I should downgrade to an older version of freebsd (I've 
been running 4.4 forever now and while it continues to perform well, I need 
to start adding features and functionality and too many ports simply don't 
show up there anymore).


When I attempt to install apache2, I get the following:

bobby# make install
===   apache-2.0.55 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.3 - not 
found
===Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.3 in 
/usr/ports/security/openssl

===  Installing for openssl-stable-0.9.7i
===   Generating temporary packing list
===  Checking if security/openssl already installed
===   An older version of security/openssl is already installed 
(openssl-beta-0.9.8a)

 You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
 by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
 If you really wish to overwrite the old port of security/openssl
 without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER
 in your environment or the make install command line.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/security/openssl.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache2.
bobby#

When I attempt to install postgresql81-server (hopefully that's the one that 
contains postgis as well), I get the following:


bobby# pwd
/usr/ports/databases/postgresql81-server
bobby# make
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libssl.so.3 not found, required by 
pg_config
===  postgresql-server-8.1.0 is marked as broken: the port wants 
postgresql81-client but you have postgresql-client installed.

bobby#

I'll need to get this server up and running by the end of the year and don't 
know what would be the smartest decision to move forward.


Help?
Jeff. 



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postgresql80-server port broken?

2005-11-19 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
FreeBSD-ers,

I've been trying to get the postgresql80-server port to
work/install/anything (and actually I need to get the postgis port
working) with no success. Following the in(de)structions to install the
port (fbsd6):

MD5 (postgresql/postgresql-base-8.0.4.tar.bz2)

bobby# cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql80-server
bobby# make install

... blah, blah, blah...

then

bobby# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh initdb
The program postgres was found by /usr/local/bin/initdb
but was not the same version as initdb.
Check your installation.
bobby#

I've attempted to deinstall, reinstall, repeat until I'm blue in the face
(sign of insanity?). Has anyone gotten pgsql80 to install and work
properly under FreeBSD 6.0 (amd64)?

Is this something I'm (not)doing or is the port broken?

Jeff.

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laptop question...

2005-09-18 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I'm about to purchase a sager np3880 laptop:

http://www.discountlaptops.com/index.php?section=specsmodel_id=1176category_id=category_theme=c1

and want to know if there might be any problems with the hardware
especially the usb and video. Has anyone been able to get wuxga (1900x1200
screen sizes) while running freebsd? I'm in the middle of purchasing new
machines and I'm struggling with the concept of running wine so I can run
MS Windows apps (ms office access+vba) or should I not bother with freebsd
(5.4/6.0) and stick with xp?

The video data is

PCI Express x16 3D Accelerator
128MB DDR2 PCI-e nVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 Video Memory

and what is the experience with power management. I've seen lots of
complaints about laptops going to sleep and never waking up...

Jeff.



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mounting usb on fbsd6beta4...

2005-09-16 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
  10,  47 Sep 17 14:26 ttyd0
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  32 Sep 17 14:26 ttyd0.init
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  33 Sep 17 14:26 ttyd0.lock
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  37 Sep 17 14:26 ttyd1
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  38 Sep 17 14:26 ttyd1.init
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  39 Sep 17 14:26 ttyd1.lock
crw--w   1 hamannj  tty10,  82 Sep 17 16:27 ttyp0
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  48 Sep 17 14:27 ttyv0
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  49 Sep 17 14:27 ttyv1
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  50 Sep 17 14:27 ttyv2
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  51 Sep 17 14:27 ttyv3
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  52 Sep 17 14:27 ttyv4
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  53 Sep 17 14:27 ttyv5
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  54 Sep 17 14:27 ttyv6
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  55 Sep 17 14:27 ttyv7
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  72 Sep 17 14:26 ttyv8
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  73 Sep 17 14:26 ttyv9
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  74 Sep 17 14:26 ttyva
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  75 Sep 17 14:26 ttyvb
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  76 Sep 17 14:26 ttyvc
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  77 Sep 17 14:26 ttyvd
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  78 Sep 17 14:26 ttyve
crw---   1 root wheel  10,  79 Sep 17 14:26 ttyvf
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel6 Dec 31  1969 urandom - random
crw-rw   1 root operator   10,  21 Sep 17 14:26 usb
crw-rw   1 root operator   10,  20 Sep 17 14:26 usb0
crw-rw   1 root operator   10,  22 Sep 17 14:26 usb1
crw-rw   1 root operator   10,  23 Sep 17 14:26 usb2
crw-rw   1 root operator   10,  40 Sep 17 14:26 usb3
crw---   1 root operator   10,  70 Sep 17 14:26 xpt0
crw-rw-rw-   1 root wheel  10,  15 Sep 17 14:26 zero
bobby#

and I know that normally to mount drives, I need to type:

bobby# mount -v -t msdos /dev/something-something-something /mnt/usb

I've tried using the usb0,1,2,3 devices with no success but since I don't 
see any da*, I'm not sure how to mount this thing. It's a msdos (fat) 
formatted drive and it's been used most everywhere. I've tried mounting 
almost every combination of the following:


bobby# mount -v -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb
mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: No such file or directory
bobby# mount -v -t msdos /dev/usb0s1 /mnt/usb
mount_msdosfs: /dev/usb0s1: No such file or directory
bobby# mount -v -t msdos /dev/usb0 /mnt/usb
mount_msdosfs: /dev/usb0: Block device required
bobby#

and just can't get it to go. This is really getting me down on the beta6 
stuff. Will I have this kind of trouble when I attempt to use a usb keyboard 
and mouse? can I use a wireless usb kb and mouse? should I even try or would 
spending the $ be a waste?


Whoa. After about six minutes the following popped up on my screen...I 
checked the /var/log/messages file and found...


Sep 17 16:30:21 bobby kernel: Opened disk da0 - 5
Sep 17 16:35:47 bobby kernel: Opened disk da0 - 5

so,

bobby# mount -v -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt/usb
mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0: Device busy

argh.


Jeff.



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automount wireless usb keyboard and mouse?

2005-09-16 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I've been having so much trouble with using a usb memory stick that I'm 
having little faith that being able to automount a wireless usb keyboard and 
mouse for my headless server will be possible? Has anyone accomplished this? 
I'm working on setting up a FreeBSD 6Beta4 system and I've not even been 
able to mount a USB storage device


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more weirdness with usb...

2005-09-16 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I posted a message that contained some output from dmesg... Before when I 
would simple get fed up, yank out the usb device, the machine would 
reboot...


After letting the machine sit for about 40 mintues with the usb key in the 
port, the following messages would scroll by every five minutes or so,


Sep 17 16:30:21 bobby kernel: Opened disk da0 - 5
Sep 17 16:35:47 bobby kernel: Opened disk da0 - 5
Sep 17 16:41:12 bobby kernel: Opened disk da1 - 5
Sep 17 16:46:37 bobby kernel: Opened disk da1 - 5
Sep 17 16:52:02 bobby kernel: Opened disk da1 - 5
Sep 17 16:58:36 bobby kernel: Opened disk da1 - 5
Sep 17 17:19:58 bobby kernel: Opened disk da0 - 5

I got fed up (actually I need the usb key) and pulled it out of the port and 
this time the machine didn't reboot, but gave the following messages:


Sep 17 17:27:55 bobby kernel: umass0: at uhub2 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected
Sep 17 17:27:55 bobby kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device
Sep 17 17:27:55 bobby kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry
Sep 17 17:27:55 bobby kernel: (da1:umass-sim0:0:0:1): lost device
Sep 17 17:27:55 bobby kernel: (da1:umass-sim0:0:0:1): removing device entry
Sep 17 17:27:55 bobby kernel: umass0: detached

and this is what was printed out on the screen...

umass0: vendor 0x090a product 0x1001, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: STORIX AXIS 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
da0: 250MB (512000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 250C)
da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 1
da1: STORIX AXIS 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da1: 1.000MB/s transfers
da1: 250MB (512000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 250C)
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x4, scsi status 
== 0x0

Opened disk da0 - 5
Opened disk da0 - 5
Opened disk da1 - 5
Opened disk da1 - 5
Opened disk da1 - 5
Opened disk da1 - 5
Opened disk da0 - 5
umass0: at uhub2 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry
(da1:umass-sim0:0:0:1): lost device
(da1:umass-sim0:0:0:1): removing device entry
umass0: detached
bobby#

Does this help anyone? I still can't figure out what's going on here




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building/porting linux SIS965L driver

2005-09-15 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I'm building (or trying to build) an amd64 FreeBSD machine to replace my 
FreeBSD 4.4 server. I purchased an ASUS Vintage-AE1 MB that uses the 
following chipsets:


Northbridge: SiS760GX
Southbridge: SiS965L

I've not been able to get the on-board NIC to light up, so I purchased 
another NIC which works alright. It's bothering me too much that the chipset 
isn't supported (http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html) 
but many of the other ASUS MB chipsets are. This seems like a great machine 
and I suspect there are plenty more machines that will be using this 
barebones box as a starting place (of course, I'll be wrong in a year 
anyways). I've found the linux driver for the on-board NIC and since I've 
never ported a driver for FreeBSD, I'm trying to figure out how much work it 
will be to port the driver to FreeBSD-6.0? I've snooped around in the


/usr/src/sys/pci/if_sis.c
/usr/src/sys/pci/if_sisreg.h

6.0Beta4 files to simply examine the bsd code. To my novice eyes, the files 
look completely different from the linux drivers and I'm not sure I can 
takle this myself since I've never done anything like this. Can someone help 
me through this process, or is this not worth the trouble?


Jeff.

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usb advice

2005-09-12 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
FreeBSD-ers,

I'm putting together a new amd64 system and would like to get some
feedback on using USB for devices. I have a machine with six USB ports
(two on the front) and I would like to use them much as I would on a
windows machine. The machine will sit (mostly) as a headless server and
only rarely will I need to connect directly to the machine (mostly I will
connect using SSH). When I do connect directly, I would love to be able to
simply plug in a mouse and keyboard into the two ports on the front of the
machine (automount?) and then yank them out when I'm done with my chores.
Is this even possible?

More importantly, I would like to utilize a USB hard drive connection
(maybe one of those hard drive cases for laptops) for creating a nightly
backup of the data on my hard drive. I could store much more data than
either tape drive of DVD drive and could rotate a couple of disks for
additional security. Can FreeBSD handle this or would I seimply need to
install the addtional hard drive within the machine itself and use it as a
backup? This isn't really an option since the backup would need to go off
site (vault storage).

I get the feeling that USB support on FreeBSD isn't grand and I'm working
with FreeBSD 6.0BETA4 right now and when I tried to automount a USB flash
drive, the machine rebooted when I pulled the drive out of the port.

Comments?

Jeff.


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rebuilding kernel 6.0beta4 for amd64?

2005-09-08 Thread Jeff D. Hamann

I've just put together a new amd64 machine in an ASUS Vintage-ae1 barebones
system. After giving up on FreeBSD 5.4 when it gagged on my hard drive, I
decided to try going all the way to 6.0beta4. Almost everything went without
incident except for mounting usb sticks and the on-board network card isn't
coming up. It seems to get detected, but not initialized.

When I run dmesg, I get the following lines (I can't post the whole thing
since I can't get files from the bsd box to my windows box -- no mcopy and I
don't know how to mount the usb stick either):

plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0

and when I type ifonfig, I get:

plip0: flags=108851UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT
mtu 1500
lo0: flags=blah,blah,blah

I think my chipsets for the asus vintage-ae1 is/are:

northbridge: SIS 760GX
southbridge: SIS 965L

and so doing a little research, I think the sis device driver might work
(maybe?) and so I need to recompile the kernel to get the onboard nic to
light up.
So I've been hunting around to see if I can recompile the kernel to include
the SIS ethernet driver and I'm having some trouble with the process of
building a new kernel under 6.0-BETA4...


From re-reading my references, compiling a new kernel is accomplished with

the following steps:

1) cd /sys/amd64/conf
2) cp KERNEL MYKERNEL
3) make the edits to MYKERNEL (adding the line device sis to the file)
4) cd /usr/src
5) make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
6) make installkernel  KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
7) reboot

okay, so when I attempt to build a new kernel, I get the following:

bobby# make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
make: don't know how to make buildkernel. Stop
bobby#

now what?




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Has anyone gotten the sentinel port to work?

2003-07-31 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
Has anyone gotten the sentinel port to work with FreeBSD 4.4?

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/usr/ports/mail/sentinel is broken...

2003-07-30 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
: syntax error before `*'
sentinel.c: In function `mlfi_eom':
sentinel.c:3048: `ctx' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3059: syntax error before `status'
sentinel.c:3069: `SMFIS_ACCEPT' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3072: `SMFIS_TEMPFAIL' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3237: `status' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3243: `SMFIS_REJECT' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3243: `SMFIS_DISCARD' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c: At top level:
sentinel.c:3248: syntax error before `mlfi_close'
sentinel.c:3248: syntax error before `*'
sentinel.c: In function `mlfi_close':
sentinel.c:3249: `ctx' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3257: `SMFIS_CONTINUE' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c: In function `mlfi_log':
sentinel.c:3281: `SMFIS_REJECT' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c: At top level:
sentinel.c:3291: syntax error before `mlfi_abort'
sentinel.c:3291: syntax error before `*'
sentinel.c: In function `mlfi_abort':
sentinel.c:3292: `ctx' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3303: `SMFIS_CONTINUE' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c: At top level:
sentinel.c:3306: syntax error before `mlfi_cleanup'
sentinel.c:3306: syntax error before `*'
sentinel.c: In function `mlfi_cleanup':
sentinel.c:3307: `ctx' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3317: `rc' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c: In function `smfTestMessage':
sentinel.c:3365: `SMFICTX' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3365: `ctx' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3366: syntax error before `int'
sentinel.c:3368: syntax error before `)'
sentinel.c:3370: `fd' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3373: `i' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3413: `SMFIS_CONTINUE' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c:3444: `len' undeclared (first use in this function)
sentinel.c: In function `main':
sentinel.c:3589: `smfilter' has an incomplete type
sentinel.c:3589: `MI_FAILURE' undeclared (first use in this function)
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/sentinel.


Why are there so many errors? Does this:

sentinel.c:22: libmilter/mfapi.h: No such file or directory

have anything to do with it?  When I ran

stimpy# make search key=libmilter

I didn't get any returns.

I'm searching my system fot the mfapi.h file and will see if there's a path
problem, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeff.

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(office) 541-753-7333
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best method to upgrade 4.4 to latest?

2003-01-20 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I'd like to upgrade my system and I have a nervousness about the process. I
would like to upgrade my XFree86, samba, smbfs_mount, Qt, GRASS, etc and
have been trying to do this by cvsup and upgrading one at a time. Is it
better to simply upgrade the entire system to the latest and greatest or
upgrade one at a time? I currently have 4.4 and don't know if 4.7 or 5.0
would be better. The machine is my company server and if anything goes
wrong, I'd be dead meat, which I'd rather avoid.

Thanks,
Jeff.


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network config or apache config or neither?

2002-11-05 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I've got a freebsd 4.4. machine (which rocks!)  that acts as my server
behind a
router to handle web servering, email, etc and have had almost zero problems
with the setup. When I attempt to set a browser from outside my lan (say
from a college campus nearby) I cannot get to my domain
(www.hamanndonald.com) with the www on the front. My ISP assures me that the
the values are in the DNS tables in their machines. The host command returns
the following

$ host -all hamanndonald.com
rcode = 0 (Success), ancount=2
Found 1 addresses for ns2.peak.org
Found 1 addresses for ns.peak.org
Trying 206.163.129.2
Server failed, trying next server: Query refused
Trying 198.88.144.2
hamanndonald.com10800 INSOA ns.peak.org
hostmaster.peak.org(
2002101102  ;serial (version)
21600   ;refresh period
900 ;retry refresh this often
360 ;expiration period
43200   ;minimum TTL
)
hamanndonald.com10800 INNS  ns.peak.org
hamanndonald.com10800 INNS  ns2.peak.org
hamanndonald.com10800 INA   198.88.146.57
hamanndonald.com10800 INMX  5 stimpy.hamanndonald.com
stimpy.hamanndonald.com 10800 INA   198.88.146.57
www.hamanndonald.com10800 INCNAME   stimpy
hamanndonald.com10800 INSOA ns.peak.org
hostmaster.peak.org(
2002101102  ;serial (version)
21600   ;refresh period
900 ;retry refresh this often
360 ;expiration period
43200   ;minimum TTL
)

I don't know if this means the entry for www.hamanndonald.com is actually a
usable entry or not. I do know that when I set a browser to
http://hamanndonald.com the web page comes up, if I use www.hamanndonald.com
( I get the cannot find page). The actual name of the machine that
handles the internet traffic is named stimpy...

Is this an issue with the DNS entry?
Is this a problem with my apache config?
Is this a problem with some other network setting in FreeBSD?

Help?

Jeff.

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swapping out hardware?

2002-10-23 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I'm replacing a tape drive (scsi) and have a couple of ide cd-rom drives on
my system. I have some scsi cd drives in another system (reader and burner)
that I would like to add/replace on the server that will be getting the new
tape drive.

can I shutdown the freebsd machine, disconnect the ide cdrom drives and
install the scsi devices and have freebsd detect the changes in the
configuration? will I manually have to go in to fstab, etc an manually
change the values?

Jeff.


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