RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread pauls
--On May 3, 2006 10:39:52 PM -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's still not working then yes. Incidentally you need to turn off SSL on your e-mail, I cannot open your mails with my normal mail client. It's working fine since I installed 6.1. The odd thing is, I thought I

Re: Inappropriate file type or format error when accessing berkely DB file via perl

2006-05-04 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote mark thusly... I am trying to access my squidguard berkely db files via perl and DB_File (as per the SquidGuard docs) ... #!/usr/bin/perl use DB_File; my (%url,%domain); $DB_BTREE-{compare} = \domainmatch; ^

Re: R 2.3.0 fails to compile: undefined reference to `R_running_as_main_program'

2006-05-04 Thread Christopher Illies
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:24:13AM +0100, Vittorio wrote: Last night , after portsnap(-ping) and trying to recompile the statistical software R from 2.2.1 to 2.3.0 I get the following: [...] cc -export-dynamic -L/usr/local/lib -o R.bin Rmain.o -L../.. /lib -lR Rmain.o(.text+0x14): In

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-05-04 Thread Yousef Raffah
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 01:38 +0200, FreeBSD mailing list wrote: On 29 apr 2006, at 15:28, Yousef Raffah wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote: I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with UFS when you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then

quick question regarding security advisories

2006-05-04 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, Those security advisories posted in www.freebsd.org... will they be applied once I rebuild my entire system?? My default /usr/share/example/cvsup/stable-supfile contains this line: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 Are those security patches constantly being applied in the source tree of

RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
You may get lucky and get a DL320 G4 that does not have the specific Broadcom chip in it. not sure, but maybe you can specify at least the chipset you DON'T want in your order (hp should be able to figure it out using the serial#, and this no. is on the boxes. the order way would be: check

RE: wanted: hp-ux glance pendant [SOLVED]

2006-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
Systat doesn't like it if it has no stdin; adding a /dev/ttyv9 to your commandline should make it behave. adding your suggestion fixes the problem, but i'd like to run it w/o enabling any user keystrokes/input to systat. tried /dev/null and an empty file, obviously w/o success

RE: encrypted file sharing bsd--winxp/2k3 [SOLVED]

2006-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
[original post from 10/2005... better late than never!] we have been searching for a proper solution to encrypt filesharing data between a windows client and a freebsd fileserver (because freebsd provides a good solution for disk encryption -- GELI). we wanted to use them as simple network

Re: encrypted file sharing bsd--winxp/2k3 [SOLVED]

2006-05-04 Thread Igor Robul
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:28:36PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net wrote: our choices (after some test/research) are: SMB over SSL. IPsec on Windows + IPsec on FreeBSD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On May 3, 2006 10:39:52 PM -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's still not working then yes. Incidentally you need to turn off SSL on your e-mail, I cannot open your mails with my normal mail client. It's working fine since I installed 6.1.

DVB Cards

2006-05-04 Thread Enrique Ayesta Perojo
Hello, ¿does anyone know any DVB-T card that works on FreeBSD? Thanx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-05-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi All, Actually I think I figured out the problem in the driver and I'm going to test this tomorrow. For those of you smart guys who like math, take a look at the following change that was made in the driver CVS a couple years ago:

Re: Inappropriate file type or format error when accessing berkely DB file via perl

2006-05-04 Thread mark
P5-BerkeleyDB proved to be a functional solution for me at any rate, many thanks for the pointer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

ssh and minmssoverload

2006-05-04 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
For certain reasons I have minmssoverload set to small values (like 50) on some of the gateways I admin. The problem is when I ssh from such a gateway, I often exceed the limit and the connection get dropped. Is there a way to throttle ssh to a smaller packets per second? I tried compression,

Re: quick question regarding security advisories

2006-05-04 Thread Frank Steinborn
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, Those security advisories posted in www.freebsd.org... will they be applied once I rebuild my entire system?? My default /usr/share/example/cvsup/stable-supfile contains this line: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 Are those security patches constantly

Re: public samba share annoyingly asking for password

2006-05-04 Thread vittorio
Alle 17:47, martedì 02 maggio 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On 5/2/06, Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Context: pentium 4, freebsd 6.0, samba 3.0.22, 6 windows 2000, NT,XP samba clients Dear friends, I'm writing to this ML because, googling the net on the subject reported

Kernel Panic when using mpd VPN Tunnel

2006-05-04 Thread Shawn Guillemette
Hello all, I have a Digital AlphaPC 164LX 533 MHz, running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE I have installed /usr/ports/net/mpd and attempted to make a vpn connection and after authenticating it seems to bring the machine to a panic with the following info in the messages file. May

Re: dhclient-exit-hooks

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel Bye
(Apologies for the rather fragmentary nature of this post - I've been typing and reading the scripts and man pages, trying to get my head round what's going on...) On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:43:48PM -0400, fbsd wrote: I figured the Shared object not found error is another sign of what is wrong

RE: public samba share annoyingly asking for password

2006-05-04 Thread Scott Hiemstra
No, it doesn't work. The problem is still there on win 2k or NT clients. Any other option? Vittorio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Kernel Panic when using mpd VPN Tunnel

2006-05-04 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 04 May 2006 15:52, Shawn Guillemette wrote: Hello all, I have a Digital AlphaPC 164LX 533 MHz, running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE I have installed /usr/ports/net/mpd and attempted to make a vpn connection What kind of VPN? mpd does ppp over serial lines, ethernet, udp

pgadmin text entry gone slow

2006-05-04 Thread Ashley Moran
Hi Recently my pgadmin started playing up. Typing text into a query window doesn't work unless I type REALLY slow, otherwise it can't keep up and misses characters. Here is I probably shouldn't type so fast! at my normal typing speed: Irbal sol'ttyp fa! It was definitely working before I

FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread Noah
Hi there, What are people using for their ftpd these days? I am looking for something easy to initiailize, configure, and is very secure. Looking foward to your responses. Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread albi
Noah wrote: What are people using for their ftpd these days? I am looking for something easy to initiailize, configure, and is very secure. http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ /usr/ports/ftp/vsftpd/ not too difficult to configure -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc |

Shared Library Error

2006-05-04 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
Hi, I have upgraded gtk, expat, and etc from the ports. (I had to do make deinstall reinstall for this.) After that, I get a shared library error if I try to run any X application. For example, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox Share object libgmodule-2.0.so.600 not found, required by

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi there, What are people using for their ftpd these days? I am looking for something easy to initiailize, configure, and is very secure. Looking foward to your responses. Using what comes with the base system. Having no problem. jerry Cheers, Noah

RE: Shared Library Error

2006-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
If I do [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$locate libgmodule-2.0.so.600 then I get /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.600 but actually the libgmodule-2.0.so.600 is not in that directory. try running ldconfig -R to rescan the directories and check you ldconfig settings

RE: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
What are people using for their ftpd these days? I am looking for something easy to initiailize, configure, and is very secure. you definitely look for vsftpd (vsftpd.beasts.org) you'll find it in the ports ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Shared Library Error

2006-05-04 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
How do I check/modify ldconfig settings? Would you give me some examples? Thanks, On 5/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I do [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$locate libgmodule-2.0.so.600 then I get /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.600 but actually the

Re: dd question

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:36:46PM -0500, Andrew wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 14:11 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Can I used dd from my freebsd box to completely copy the whole disk, partition tables and all, to another disk? ... have another suggestion. If you think the

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread Greg Barniskis
Jerry McAllister wrote: Using what comes with the base system. Having no problem. Same here. If functionality is in the base, my philosophy is that replacing it violates the KISS principle unless the replacement offers some additional functionality that justifies the change. Security

installing mod_jk connector

2006-05-04 Thread Tomas Palfi
Dear all, I am trying to install the tomcat connector on freebsd-6.0 and I am constantly having the following problems. I have tried various versions but with no luck, the problem is still the same. Has someone came across the same problem? Configuration run with apxs options only but that

RE: dhclient-exit-hooks

2006-05-04 Thread fbsd
Today I installed the isc-dhcp-client package. It installs a completlly different dhclient-script. One that looks like it matchhes what your begin/exit scripts are designed to work with. # base version /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks.sav /etc/dhclient.conf /sbin/dhclient

Re: Cupsd strangeness....

2006-05-04 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Eric Schuele wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2006, Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, While this should be of absolutely no real concern my lack of ability to resolve it is causing me sleepless nights. I'm sure this should be an easy one... I just can't seem to fix

RE: Shared Library Error

2006-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
How do I check/modify ldconfig settings? Would you give me some examples? ! man ldconfig ldconfig -r ls -l /etc/ld* ls -l /var/run/ld* echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: glib20

2006-05-04 Thread Arno Schleich
Hi, thanks for all Your replies. None solved the problem, but all contributed a bit to the eventual solution. pkg_delete -rf pkgconfig* cvsup -L2 all-ports cd ports/x11/gnome2 make clean make install clean restored things to sanity (apart from the usual build inconsistencies). This was the

Re: Shared Library Error

2006-05-04 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
I did ldconfig -R and ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib but I still get the error message. So, how would you explicitly do with that if you get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$firefox /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgmodule-2.0.so.600 not found, required by libgtk-x11-2.0.so.600 Thanks, On 5/4/06,

DCSSI Authorisation for Free BSD Software

2006-05-04 Thread Bethan Phillips
Good Afternoon, We are working with our client Reuters to help them comply with EU and US export control regulation. In this regard, Reuters have some Free BSD v4.1 software, which they are sending to France. A declaration or authorisation may be needed for this software for import into, use in,

RE: Shared Library Error

2006-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
I did ldconfig -R and ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib but I still get the error message. So, how would you explicitly do with that if you get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$firefox /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgmodule-2.0.so.600 not found, required by libgtk-x11-2.0.so.600 if an executable is

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread Philip Hallstrom
What are people using for their ftpd these days? I am looking for something easy to initiailize, configure, and is very secure. pure-ftpd http://pureftpd.sourceforge.net/ I've got it set up with my own SSL cert and dissallow plain text FTP. You can also configure it to use completely

Re: DCSSI Authorisation for Free BSD Software

2006-05-04 Thread Bill Moran
Bethan Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Afternoon, We are working with our client Reuters to help them comply with EU and US export control regulation. In this regard, Reuters have some Free BSD v4.1 software, which they are sending to France. A declaration or authorisation may be

Re: Shared Library Error

2006-05-04 Thread Kalashnikov Ilya
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 16:34 +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: I did ldconfig -R and ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib but I still get the error message. So, how would you explicitly do with that if you get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$firefox /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgmodule-2.0.so.600 not

Re: Shared Library Error

2006-05-04 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
Hi, It is not solving the problem. :-( Thanks, On 5/4/06, Kalashnikov Ilya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 16:34 +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: I did ldconfig -R and ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib but I still get the error message. So, how would you explicitly do with that if you

Help with isc-dhcp dhclient from port collection

2006-05-04 Thread fbsd
I installed the isc-dhcp-client port. I have this in my rc.conf dhcp_program=/usr/local/sbin/dhclient dhcp_flags=-q ifconfig_dc0=DHCP I get these error messages over and over. Have to reboot in single user mode to edit rc.conf to fix. Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use Please

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread Greg Barniskis
Greg Barniskis wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Using what comes with the base system. Having no problem. Same here. If functionality is in the base, my philosophy is that replacing it violates the KISS principle unless the replacement offers some additional functionality that justifies the

How do I set up an IRC site?

2006-05-04 Thread Gary Kline
Folks, I'm thinking of setting up an IRC page on my website so I can chat (live) with just a few people. Are there any tutorials on this? Othr than using GAIM and ymessenger, the last time I did live chat was circa 1991 with the write utility. So beyond

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread Andy Greenwood
I've used pure-ftpd for some time and really like it's virtual user implementation. Doesn't hurt that (from thier site) Unlike other popular FTP servers, the number of root exploits found since the very first released version is zero. On 5/4/06, Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What

which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Kep Woof
hi, i'm about to build a new system and obviously it would be nice if everything worked nicely. my plan is to one of the asus A8V motherboards, but i've just spent a while reading nvidia forums and it seems there aren't any amd64 drivers for freebsd, or even any plans to release them. i need

Re: dd question

2006-05-04 Thread Andrew
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 10:15 -0400, Paul Chvostek wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:36:46PM -0500, Andrew wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 14:11 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Can I used dd from my freebsd box to completely copy the whole disk, partition tables and all, to

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 4, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Kep Woof wrote: it seems like a huge waste to run the i386 version on an amd64 machine, but can anyone comment on the performance difference? Sure. For the most part, if you don't have more than 4GB of RAM, there is little point to running in 64-bit mode. A

Re: How do I set up an IRC site?

2006-05-04 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 04 May 2006 08:15, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, I'm thinking of setting up an IRC page on my website so I can chat (live) with just a few people. Are there any tutorials on this? Othr than using GAIM and ymessenger, the last time I did live chat was

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kep Woof wrote: i need to have direct rendering and dual head dvi. in 2006, decent 3d performance doesn't seem unreasonable, even if it is just to run a swanky screen saver. i've got an xfx geforce 6800GT sitting around here that i'd like to use, but it seems this is currently impossible on

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread Allen D. Tate
What are people using for their ftpd these days? I am looking for something easy to initiailize, configure, and is very secure. http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ /usr/ports/ftp/vsftpd/ not too difficult to configure I agree. I've had this running without issue on a FreeBSD 6.0 machine for

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Kep Woof
hi, On 5/4/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't comment on the difference because I didn't bother with amd64 for the very reasons you mention. But, for me, A8V plus single core AMD 4000 + 6800GT is plain bloody fast. It'll certainly run your screen saver :-) Runs cool too.

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-04 Thread N.J. Thomas
* Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-04 05:48:40 -0800]: What are people using for their ftpd these days? I am looking for something easy to initiailize, configure, and is very secure. Another vote for vsftpd: http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ Trivial to setup/configure, very secure. In addition to

add DVD Burner and file system setup?

2006-05-04 Thread Sean
I just added a DVD burner to my system and am trying to figure out how to setup the fstab. The device is showing up on acd1 but what file system type should be specified? Thanks Sean ___

Re: graceful way of stopping X remotely

2006-05-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Noah wrote: Hi there, Its been a while since I've had to admin X. What is a graceful way to stop X when I am remote to the machine? Cntl-alt-backspace on many systems, but certainly not all. epends on what's been programmed into the keyboard macros ... seee the xkb facilities in X11

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Schmehl
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: It's working fine since I installed 6.1. The odd thing is, I thought I needed the bce driver, but the 6.1 install detected the NIC and used the bge driver. That driver is available in 6.0 as well, yet it didn't work in that install. Why is this confusing? Drivers get

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 4, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Kep Woof wrote: Sure. For the most part, if you don't have more than 4GB of RAM, there is little point to running in 64-bit mode. A more fine-grained analysis: I think I get it now.. having seen loads of adverts and hype (particularly from apple) bigging up

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Bill Moran
Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you saying that it just means you can address more memory? No, the CPU registers and the address bus can be wider (not just the memory bus) with Intel EM64T or AMD64 architectures, and can get more work done per clock for some tasks, but can

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paul Schmehl wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: It's working fine since I installed 6.1. The odd thing is, I thought I needed the bce driver, but the 6.1 install detected the NIC and used the bge driver. That driver is available in 6.0 as well, yet it didn't work in that install. Why is this

Re: add DVD Burner and file system setup?

2006-05-04 Thread Fabian Keil
Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just added a DVD burner to my system and am trying to figure out how to setup the fstab. The device is showing up on acd1 but what file system type should be specified? cd9660. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP

file system full

2006-05-04 Thread Rodrigo Mufalani
Hi all, My /var is fully 99%, because I create one tar.gz of the squid logs. I was move for smbfs, then network die!!! I try: rm -rf file.tar.gz and don't have more free space oon the file system. Somebody help me? Att, Rodrigo Mufalani

Re: file system full

2006-05-04 Thread Atom Powers
`du -h / | grep ...M ' will show you all files that are more than 1.0MB in size. `find /var -type d | sed 's/.*//' | xargs du -sm | sort -g` will do the same thing, but list them with the largest files last. 'df -h' should show you free space, but does not always update immediatly. If that

Re: file system full

2006-05-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi all, My /var is fully 99%, because I create one tar.gz of the squid logs. I was move for smbfs, then network die!!! I try: rm -rf file.tar.gz and don't have more free space oon the file system. Somebody help me? Do you have any other disk space large

Re: file system full

2006-05-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rodrigo Mufalani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, My /var is fully 99%, because I create one tar.gz of the squid logs. I was move for smbfs, then network die!!! I try: rm -rf file.tar.gz and don't have more free space oon the file system. Somebody help

Runaway Apache

2006-05-04 Thread Linda
Hello, Can you tell me if anything was ever figured out with this thread? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-December/068462.ht ml I have a freebsd machine that is running apache version 1.3.33 and I am getting thousands of the message httpd in free(): warning:

Re: add DVD Burner and file system setup?

2006-05-04 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:54:37PM -0400, Sean wrote: I just added a DVD burner to my system and am trying to figure out how to setup the fstab. The device is showing up on acd1 but what file system type should be specified? This is typical of what sysinstall writes if a CD/DVD is found

Re: dhclient-exit-hooks

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:41:05AM -0400, fbsd wrote: Today I installed the isc-dhcp-client package. 'K. Hope you have better luck. I have never used it, so don't know anything about it. I think this is another indicator of a bug with the base dhclient and that this bug makes the pkg

Re: add DVD Burner and file system setup?

2006-05-04 Thread Sean
David Kelly wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:54:37PM -0400, Sean wrote: I just added a DVD burner to my system and am trying to figure out how to setup the fstab. The device is showing up on acd1 but what file system type should be specified? This is typical of what sysinstall writes if a

newbie wanting to switch to FreeBSD - planning stage question

2006-05-04 Thread Barnaby Scott
I am new to FreeBSD (or any other Unix operating system) but am very keen to make the switch. I have read as much as I can over the last couple of years, and am very nearly ready to ditch the various Windows versions on my network - however there is one Windows-only application I really cannot

Re: newbie wanting to switch to FreeBSD - planning stage question

2006-05-04 Thread Eric Schuele
Barnaby Scott wrote: I am new to FreeBSD (or any other Unix operating system) but am very keen to make the switch. I have read as much as I can over the last couple of years, and am very nearly ready to ditch the various Windows versions on my network - however there is one Windows-only

Re: newbie wanting to switch to FreeBSD - planning stage question

2006-05-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 04 May 2006 15:55, Barnaby Scott wrote: I am new to FreeBSD (or any other Unix operating system) but am very keen to make the switch. I have read as much as I can over the last couple of years, and am very nearly ready to ditch the various Windows versions on my network - however

Re: newbie wanting to switch to FreeBSD - planning stage question

2006-05-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Barnaby Scott wrote: I am new to FreeBSD (or any other Unix operating system) but am very keen to make the switch. I have read as much as I can over the last couple of years, and am very nearly ready to ditch the various Windows versions on my network - however there is one Windows-only

Re: file system full

2006-05-04 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all, My /var is fully 99%, because I create one tar.gz of the squid logs. I was move for smbfs, then network die!!! I try: rm -rf file.tar.gz and don't have more free space oon the file system. Somebody help me? Also, be sure that no process (ie. squid, syslog, etc.) still has

interrupt storm

2006-05-04 Thread Mark Busby
Checking /var/log/messages after loading snd_emu10k1, I see the following. muz kernel: pcm1: Creative EMU10K1 port 0xd800-0xd81f irq 4 at device 9.0 on pci0 muz kernel: Interrupt storm detected on irq4: atapci0; throttling interrupt source muz kernel: pcm1: SigmaTel STAC9708/11 AC97 Codec muz

Why do I have to keep doing portsnap extract?

2006-05-04 Thread Peggy Wilkins
I just recently started using portsnap in lieu of cvsup on my ports tree for FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE. I thought it was supposed to be more efficient than cvsup, but I'm finding it to be worse. I followed the directions from the Handbook that say to run portsnap fetch update to update the ports tree

Re: Installation date ?

2006-05-04 Thread Hunter Fuller
On 02 May 2006, at 5:41 PM, S t i n g r a y wrote: Its been a long time since i installed my FreeBSD server its been running since then , how can i find the installation date time of my server ? If it's been running since you installed it, do 'uptime'. It'll tell you how long the

Intel 945GM chip support

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Schmehl
Is there support for the Intel 945GM chipset in 6.1? Or in CVS? It's not listed in man (4) agp. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Re: Why do I have to keep doing portsnap extract?

2006-05-04 Thread Jason Morgan
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:40:32PM -0500, Peggy Wilkins wrote: I just recently started using portsnap in lieu of cvsup on my ports tree for FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE. I thought it was supposed to be more efficient than cvsup, but I'm finding it to be worse. I followed the directions from the

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the controller, so I have removed the RAID arrays and loaded

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 00:37 +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Ian Jefferson
I have been uable to get vinum to work under 6.0. I'm no expert though. Vinum became gvinum in 6.0 and is implemented using geom. Recently the gvinum man page has been updated and it available in 6.1 RC-1. I think if you want mirroring only you should consult the geom pages. It seems as

ipfw: denied frags

2006-05-04 Thread Dennis Olvany
I've traced a problem to IPFW dropping frags, but have no idea what to make of the log or how to go about fixing the issue. Please advise. Possibly, someone could decode this: (frag 13695:[EMAIL PROTECTED]). 10600 is a default deny and a dynamic rule exists to allow this traffic. The only

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the controller, so I have removed the RAID arrays and loaded

Re: ipfw: denied frags

2006-05-04 Thread Dennis Olvany
Dennis Olvany wrote: May 4 19:06:02 b1 kernel: ipfw: 10600 Deny UDP 195.16.84.250 192.168.102.10 in via ste0 (frag 33624:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) I see. The frags don't contain ports and therefore do not match the dynamic rule. A static rule took care of it.

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 19:59 -0400, Ian Jefferson wrote: I think if you want mirroring only you should consult the geom pages. Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk issue may be with the message 'fdisk: Geom not found', but all looks to have setup properly. Now,

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Cheng-Lung Sung
You can try gmirror(8) Ref: 1. http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ 2. http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6309 On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:24:15PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Cheng-Lung Sung
IMHO, fdisk is unnecessary. I got my two brand new HDs ad[46] mirrored w/o fdisk. On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:15:39PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 19:59 -0400, Ian Jefferson wrote: I think if you want mirroring only you should consult the geom pages. Great, I

openbsd's pf port

2006-05-04 Thread Miguel
Hi, what specific feautures are missing in the freebsd's pf port? i want to install a proxy/firewall server and im very used to freebsd, if posible i would not like to install openbsd but im worried about some security feauture missing in freebsd, what do you recomend? are the ports smiliar

Creating Vinum Volume during install

2006-05-04 Thread Loren M. Lang
I am trying to create a vinum file system during the install so I can also use it for the root filesystem as described in the handbook, but it appears that the geom_vinum modules are not available from the FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 disc 1 LiveCD shell. Are the modules not available or do I need to load

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:20 +0800, Cheng-Lung Sung wrote: Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk issue may be with the message 'fdisk: Geom not found', but all looks to have setup properly. Now, just to have a clear understanding, what is the purpose of

Weird / FS behavior

2006-05-04 Thread Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls ~/S56/vcs/20060504/ 000_29.10.05_Meeting.vcs 019_24.02.06_Meeting.vcs 038_03.04.06_Meeting.vcs 001_02.11.05_Memo.vcs 020_25.02.06_Meeting.vcs 039_13.04.06_Meeting.vcs 002_05.11.05_Meeting.vcs 021_26.02.06_Call.vcs 040_14.04.06_Meeting.vcs

Re: Weird / FS behavior

2006-05-04 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On May 4, 2006, at 10:30 , Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat S56/vcs/20060504/*.vcs S56/vcs/20060504/cal.vcs /: write failed, filesystem is full cat: stdout: No space left on device The shell expands the * after creating the output file for the redirection

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Cheng-Lung Sung
Hi, newfs first? In my experiment, there is only one mirror/gm0s1 exists (no s1a, s1c...) On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:40:17PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:20 +0800, Cheng-Lung Sung wrote: Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk

Re: Weird / FS behavior

2006-05-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:30:23PM -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat S56/vcs/20060504/*.vcs S56/vcs/20060504/cal.vcs What is wrong with this picture: echo foo a cat a a :-) Kris pgpuayAlZFmFU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Weird / FS behavior

2006-05-04 Thread Johny Mattsson
On 05/05/06 12:30, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: I'm posting this to -questions and -stable, since I'm not sure if it is a problem or if I'm simply overlooking something. You're overlooking something :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat S56/vcs/20060504/*.vcs S56/vcs/20060504/cal.vcs

Re: Weird / FS behavior

2006-05-04 Thread Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
Mattsson wrote: On 05/05/06 12:30, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: I'm posting this to -questions and -stable, since I'm not sure if it is a problem or if I'm simply overlooking something. You're overlooking something :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat S56/vcs/20060504/*.vcs S56/vcs

Re: Why do I have to keep doing portsnap extract?

2006-05-04 Thread Peggy Wilkins
On 5/4/06, Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:40:32PM -0500, Peggy Wilkins wrote: I just recently started using portsnap in lieu of cvsup on my ports tree for FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE. I thought it was supposed to be more efficient than cvsup, but I'm finding it to

Re: Why do I have to keep doing portsnap extract?

2006-05-04 Thread Colin Percival
Peggy Wilkins wrote: On 5/4/06, Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you run `extract' after your original `fetch'? Yes, I did; I followed the instructions exactly. I ran portsnap for the first time a couple weeks ago after which I successfully did a bunch of portupgrades. Then the

RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Schmehl Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:06 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized Alex Zbyslaw wrote: It's working fine since I installed 6.1.

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