Re: core dump location

2004-07-03 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:14:28PM -0500, Chris wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* 5.2.1-RELEASE I tried using this command to change the location where my core dump is being written: sysctl kern.corefile=/var/coredumps/%U/%N.core

Re: make buildworld: build changes only?

2004-07-03 Thread Geert Hendrickx
make -DNOCLEAN buildworld See /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 for all the various switches that are available. You may want to set some of them permanently in /etc/make.conf. Just do be aware that doing this can lead to trouble sometimes. Ok, I think this is what I was looking for. But what's

Re: make buildworld: build changes only?

2004-07-03 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On 03-Jul-2004 Geert Hendrickx wrote: make -DNOCLEAN buildworld See /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 for all the various switches that are available. You may want to set some of them permanently in /etc/make.conf. Just do be aware that doing this can lead to trouble sometimes. Ok, I think this

Install errors on old HP machine

2004-07-03 Thread David Fleck
Fishing for insight here. Trying to install FreeBSD on an HP Pavilion 7050 from around 1996 or so. Here's what I've tried so far: Boot from 4.9 install CD, burned from ISO. I've used this CD successfully on other machines, so I assume it's OK. The HP ignores it completely and only boots from

NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Happy belated Canada day to all my Cunuk bros :-) and an early happy 4th of July all as well! I have recently decided to use some extra disk space on one of my servers as backup space. I have NF client and Servers running OK, but was wondering how secure it really is. In the nfsd setup,

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 09:08:35AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Happy belated Canada day to all my Cunuk bros :-) and an early happy 4th of July all as well! I have recently decided to use some extra disk space on one of my servers as backup space. I have NF client and Servers running

Re: strange pw behaviour

2004-07-03 Thread Jonas Sonntag
On Friday 02 July 2004 20:25, Charles Swiger wrote: How many groups is the www user in?  By default, the system only permits a user to belong to up to 16 groups... That fits. User www is in 19 groups total and gets Permission denied on three. Thanks a lot for the hint Chuck! I found the sysctl

RE: [WAAAY OT]

2004-07-03 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Mike Jeays wrote: I am afraid it doesn't stand for impedance. It is the symbol used for current throughout electromagnetic theory, and I don't think it does stand for an English word. It isn't impedance. impedance is equivalent to resistance in mixed (with both reactive

Re: Install errors on old HP machine

2004-07-03 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 06:30:28AM -0600, David Fleck wrote: ... I'm pretty much at a standstill here. My current working hypothesis is that my main machine's floppy drive is writing crap, or the HP's floppy drive is reading crap. I can live with that, but is there any other way to get

Adding FBSD to existing GRUB

2004-07-03 Thread Trey Sizemore
I have a multiboot machine with Linux and FBSD currently set up as follows: /dev/hda1 5GB Linux SUSE root partition from 0 -652 /dev/hda2 40.5GB Extended partition from 653 - 5945 /dev/hda3 19.5GB FreeBSD partition from 5946 -8494 /dev/hda5 5GB /usr partition for SUSE from 653 - 1305 /dev/hda6

Softpartitioning on FreeBSD ? (vinum?)

2004-07-03 Thread Stephan van Beerschoten
Hi, I have been working with FreeBSD for a while now (several years), but never on any professional grade hardware. Well, this is going to change with my new server. It will have a hardware raid attached to it. For this purpose I am looking for an implementation of Softpartitions as they exist

Re: Adding FBSD to existing GRUB

2004-07-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 03 July 2004 11:01 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: I have a multiboot machine with Linux and FBSD currently set up as follows: /dev/hda1 5GB Linux SUSE root partition from 0 -652 /dev/hda2 40.5GB Extended partition from 653 - 5945 /dev/hda3 19.5GB FreeBSD partition from 5946 -8494

Re: Adding FBSD to existing GRUB

2004-07-03 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 12:01 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: I have a multiboot machine with Linux and FBSD currently set up as follows: /dev/hda1 5GB Linux SUSE root partition from 0 -652 /dev/hda2 40.5GB Extended partition from 653 - 5945 /dev/hda3 19.5GB FreeBSD partition from 5946 -8494

CVSUP Mirror

2004-07-03 Thread Lonnie Santella
FreBSD 4.10 Release CVSUP-MIRROR v. 1.3_2 freshly installed. I got the cvsup-mirror port installed without any errors. The CVSUPD daemon is running. I can connect to my mirror from another server. When I try to update a ports collection (i.e. ports-editors) is will spit out the error:

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Grant Peel wrote: I have recently decided to use some extra disk space on one of my servers as backup space. I have NFS client and Servers running OK, but was wondering how secure it really is. NFS is not secure at all. If you don't trust the local subnet, don't use NFS there. Certainly don't

What is the function of the archived flag?

2004-07-03 Thread edalley
What is the function of the archived flag? I am running FreeBSD 4.9 with kern.securelevel = -1. I am using vnconfig with a msdos diskimage to mount it using the command: mount -t msdos /dev/vn0c /usr/wine/disk After I mount it I notice that the /usr/wine/disk directory and

Re: CVSUP Mirror

2004-07-03 Thread Tom Parquette
Lonnie Santella wrote: FreBSD 4.10 Release CVSUP-MIRROR v. 1.3_2 freshly installed. I got the cvsup-mirror port installed without any errors. The CVSUPD daemon is running. I can connect to my mirror from another server. When I try to update a ports collection (i.e. ports-editors) is will spit

Re: Gnome installing Mozilla by default

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 18:32, epilogue wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:21:19 -0400 Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 23:50, epilogue wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:40:08 -0400 Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:45, epilogue

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 10:20, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 09:08:35AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Happy belated Canada day to all my Cunuk bros :-) and an early happy 4th of July all as well! I have recently decided to use some extra disk space on one of my

Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
Happy 4th! okay, now that's out of the way. I am bored with freebsds' boot loader and want to install Grub from the ports collection. My question is: When grub installs, will it find my partitions and set everything up for me? So, when I reboot grub is working. Here is my hard drive setup

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread cpghost
As for security, NFS is well-known for *NOT* being secure. Do not use NFS over networks where you don't trust all the machines. What should you use instead of NFS? I like the fact that I can open up a window and throw some files to my server. Maybe, something can be accessed through a

Error building py-kde from ports

2004-07-03 Thread Jorn Argelo
Hi folks, I'm trying to build py-kde from the ports tree, but it ends up at the following error: gimli# make all install clean === py23-kde-3.11.1 depends on executable: pyuic - not found ===Verifying install for pyuic in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/py-qt === Building for py23-qt-3.12 c++

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bruce Hunter wrote: What should you use instead of NFS? I like the fact that I can open up a window and throw some files to my server. Maybe, something can be accessed through a firewall? rsync over ssh is very good for this. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 03:01:07PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: Happy 4th! okay, now that's out of the way. I am bored with freebsds' boot loader and want to install Grub from the ports collection. My question is: When grub installs, will it find my partitions and set everything up for me?

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Geert Hendrickx
title FreeBSD 5.2.1 root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader Sorry, this should be (hd0,1,a) ! The first slice (windows) is (hd0,0) and the second is (hd0,1), and you want the root-partition within that (hd0,1,a). GH ___ [EMAIL

[Fwd: Re: Well here's a bit of a stupid question.]

2004-07-03 Thread Remko Lodder
and for the list as well (: Original Message Subject: Re: Well here's a bit of a stupid question. Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:44:38 +0200 From: Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Glenn Sieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glenn Sieb wrote: I have recently upgraded

Intel i845G chip and TV out?

2004-07-03 Thread Alex K
Hello everyone! I have spent some time googling around, but found no usefull information about enabling TV out on i845G under freebsd. On Linux it is avaible with Intel supplied XF86 driver. As described in: http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/manuals/27404103.pdf Anyone have any information on

Any open issue on yppush from 4.9 to 4.10

2004-07-03 Thread Jin Guojun [NCS]
It seems that pushing YP from 4.9 to 4.10 does not work. Case: YP master is 4.9 YP slave is 4.10 In 4.9 (master) host in /var/yp directory, typing make (with PUSH enabled), nothing is updated on 4.10 slave. Tcpdump shows that infinite data transfer happens between 4.9 and 4.10 hosts over

allowing users to mount cdrom

2004-07-03 Thread jobse
Dear List, When trying to mount the cdrom I get Operation not permitted. sysctl: vfs.usermount=0(what does that mean and how can I *permanently* change it to 1) I'd rather not set the sticky bit on mount/umount if I mustn't. suggestions? /jobse

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 16:17, Geert Hendrickx wrote: title FreeBSD 5.2.1 root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader Sorry, this should be (hd0,1,a) ! The first slice (windows) is (hd0,0) and the second is (hd0,1), and you want the root-partition within that (hd0,1,a). GH

Re: allowing users to mount cdrom

2004-07-03 Thread Simon Barner
jobse wrote: Dear List, When trying to mount the cdrom I get Operation not permitted. sysctl: vfs.usermount=0(what does that mean and how can I *permanently* change it to 1) It means, that users are not allowed to mount file systems. To change it, run (as root) # sysctl vfs.usermount=1 To

Re: allowing users to mount cdrom

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 17:09, jobse wrote: Dear List, When trying to mount the cdrom I get Operation not permitted. sysctl: vfs.usermount=0(what does that mean and how can I *permanently* change it to 1) I'd rather not set the sticky bit on mount/umount if I mustn't. suggestions? /jobse

Re: allowing users to mount cdrom

2004-07-03 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, jobse wrote: Dear List, When trying to mount the cdrom I get Operation not permitted. sysctl: vfs.usermount=0(what does that mean and how can I *permanently* change it to 1) I'd rather not set the sticky bit on mount/umount if I mustn't. suggestions? /jobse vfs.usermount allows

IBM T41 crash on boot when swapping drives

2004-07-03 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi list, I wonder if you could help me analyze a problem using different storage devices in Ultrabay on a IBM Thinkpad T41? Primary HD installed with FreeBSD -current, sources are from June 26th. Secondary HD in Ultrabay Slim with Win XP If I swap the secondary(XP) HD for a CDRW it's fine up

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:35:35PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 16:17, Geert Hendrickx wrote: title FreeBSD 5.2.1 root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader Sorry, this should be (hd0,1,a) ! The first slice (windows) is (hd0,0) and the second is (hd0,1), and you

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 18:02, Geert Hendrickx wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:35:35PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 16:17, Geert Hendrickx wrote: title FreeBSD 5.2.1 root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader Sorry, this should be (hd0,1,a)

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Grant Peel
So, If I set the exports so that it used 192.168.x.x, and, my managed switch is only set to alow members of my vlan to use those IPs, I should be OK in that case? -Grant - Original Message - From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Serial communications help.

2004-07-03 Thread Greg Hormann
I'm working to develop a communications program to control a piece of vendor supplied hardware. (They only provide a control program for Windows.) I think I'm close. The device uses a RS-232 - RS-485 convert which I belive is powered by either the RTS or DTR line of the serial port. How can I

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Thanks for the help, I think I will be able to get it working now, after that information. The only question I have or comment is. Shouldn't I have the stages and grub.conf in /boot/grub ? You said /boot. Just wondering which it is. Thanks again.. Bruce I'm sorry, you're right. (I

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
I moved all the files and ran the commands that you said. I am having this problem. GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible

disk image software

2004-07-03 Thread Marty Landman
I'm thinking of replacing the 1 GB and 2 GB hard drives on my FBSD 4.8 machine with 4 GB and 6 GB hd's that have become available. Is there a way to do this which will be worth the trouble? Considering the FBSD box isn't highly configured or busy right now is it better to just start from

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Seems as you don't have write permission for /dev/ad0. Did you run grub as root? GH On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:21:45PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: I moved all the files and ran the commands that you said. I am having this problem. GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper

Wireless Networking in FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-07-03 Thread Eric Crist
Hey all, I'm trying to get wifi working in freebsd 5.2.1. This card WAS working in 4.9 and 4.10, but I get an error similar to: Error: busy bit won't clean on wi0 Or something to that effect. If I boot the system without the card, I can see it and make lights blink, but it never associates to

Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hmm.. I'm root I even tried changing the permissions on /dev/ad0 the device has read and write access.. wierd. Maybe instead of setup (hd0) it should be setup (ad0) But device.map sets the hd0 pointer to /dev/ad0 any other ideas? Bruce On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 19:31, Geert Hendrickx wrote:

Time issues between Winblows and FreeBSD on same system.

2004-07-03 Thread Eric Crist
Hey all, I've got a laptop with FreeBSD 5.2.1 and Windows XP. Using network time update on freebsd, I can keep the time on my laptop accurate. However, windows falls behind by about half an hour when I do so. If I set Windows to use 'internet time', using the same time server (time.nist.gov),

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread cpghost
I have recently decided to use some extra disk space on one of my servers as backup space. I have NFS client and Servers running OK, but was wondering how secure it really is. NFS is not secure at all. If you don't trust the local subnet, don't use NFS there. Certainly don't

Re: Time issues between Winblows and FreeBSD on same system.

2004-07-03 Thread Dan Strick
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 10:53:59 -0500, Eric Crist wrote: I've got a laptop with FreeBSD 5.2.1 and Windows XP. Using network time update on freebsd, I can keep the time on my laptop accurate. However, windows falls behind by about half an hour when I do so. If I set Windows to use 'internet

Re: Time issues between Winblows and FreeBSD on same system.

2004-07-03 Thread orv
Eric Crist wrote: Hey all, I've got a laptop with FreeBSD 5.2.1 and Windows XP. Using network time update on freebsd, I can keep the time on my laptop accurate. However, windows falls behind by about half an hour when I do so. If I set Windows to use 'internet time', using the same time server

the Donations Liaison Officer

2004-07-03 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
Hello. Who is the Donations Liaison Officer? It's not clear from http://www.freebsd.org/donations/index.html -- Sem. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

sound-card // dsp1

2004-07-03 Thread Hugo Silva
Hi, I need to create a dsp1 device. I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 I've tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev]# mknod /dev/dsp1 c 30 0x0013 mknod: /dev/dsp1: No such file or directory but no luck.. I need this device because I need to use two programs who will put dsp device in r/w. So the

Re: What is the function of the archived flag?

2004-07-03 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 18:42:54 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the function of the archived flag? I am running FreeBSD 4.9 with kern.securelevel = -1. I am using vnconfig with a msdos diskimage to mount it using the command: mount -t msdos /dev/vn0c

Re: the Donations Liaison Officer

2004-07-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-07-04 06:25, Sergey Matveychuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who is the Donations Liaison Officer? It's not clear from http://www.freebsd.org/donations/index.html Originally, it was Michael Lucas who was the DLO, if my memory doesn't fail me. Unless this changed during the one year I've

Re: sound-card // dsp1

2004-07-03 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 23:48:24 - (GMT), Hugo Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to create a dsp1 device. I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 I've tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev]# mknod /dev/dsp1 c 30 0x0013 mknod: /dev/dsp1: No such file or directory but no luck.. I need

Re: the Donations Liaison Officer

2004-07-03 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-07-04 06:25, Sergey Matveychuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who is the Donations Liaison Officer? It's not clear from http://www.freebsd.org/donations/index.html Originally, it was Michael Lucas who was the DLO, if my memory doesn't fail me. Unless this changed

IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT ignored by recent kernel/world?

2004-07-03 Thread Rob
Hello, I have one PC with updated kernel/world from June 25th, and another from June 10th, all with sources for STABLE. Both PCs have a firewall. Neither of the two seems to obey the verbose limit of 100, that I put in the kernel configuration file. In the past, /var/log/secure used to rotate once

Re: disk image software

2004-07-03 Thread Brian McCann
What about simply using tar to backup the directories on the old drives, and extracting the contents to the new drives. Then you should just have to worry about moving the boot loader, which you can probably use dd for (just read/write the first 512 bytes I think it is). If all you want to keep