Frequent NMI warnings

2013-10-11 Thread Peter Risdon
... going to debugger Can anyone suggest how I could diagnose these errors? I saw some suggestions that memory faults might be a cause of similar problems but Memtest came up clear. Please cc me because I'm not a subscriber. Thanks in advance, Peter Risdon

Re: Pico Editor for FreeBSD5.3

2005-05-05 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 11:57 -0700, Dixit, Viraj wrote: Hi Peter, Let me ask you a question, since the last time you gave me an answer that was to the point. Is there a version of Pico editor for Free BSD 5.3, I have tried installing pine 4.63 the latest, I get this error, Problems building

Re: mot de passe root

2005-03-25 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 16:42 -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: Peter Risdon wrote: I have no idea why you're trying to misrepresent what I was saying. It's starting to feel mildly bizarre. Peter. I am not trying to misrepresent anything, and I don't believe that I am. From your initial

Re: mot de passe root

2005-03-25 Thread Peter Risdon
Josh, On the grounds that this a new front, I'll post on this thread one last time, but I have been suggesting for several posts now that we've all expressed our views and other people can make up their minds without constant repetition from us. On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 13:18 +0100, Josh Ockert

Re: sFTP nologin

2005-03-25 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 09:19 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Going blind again. Is there a quick - secure way to allow the sshd sFTP subsystem to allows sftp connections without allowing shell accounts? I can't answer this directly - I did look for the same thing but couldn't see how to

Re: sFTP nologin

2005-03-25 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 10:59 -0500, Eric McCoy wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Is there a quick - secure way to allow the sshd sFTP subsystem to allows sftp connections without allowing shell accounts? Create the account and set its shell to /sbin/nologin. You can safely add that to

Re: mot de passe root

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 08:54 +0100, Josh Ockert wrote: I've noticed that nobody responds negatively to questions by Russian speakers, but that French speakers are told not to ask questions here. I don't believe this is a fair response. Perhaps, though I'm not sure myself what is said in Russian

Re: mot de passe root

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:05 +0100, Josh Ockert wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:51:51 +, Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 08:54 +0100, Josh Ockert wrote: I've noticed that nobody responds negatively to questions by Russian speakers, but that French speakers

[Fwd: Re: mot de passe root]

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Risdon
---BeginMessage--- On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:30 -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: No, I'm sorry but that seems to me to be a non sequitur. We can understand questions we are not competent to answer if they are in English, learn from the replies and if we hit the same issues ourselves we can google

Re: mot de passe root

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 12:49 -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: There is no call to splinter into many languages. *sigh* The starting point for this was a post which seemed to me to be doing just that. If you interpret that posting differently, and you haven't said whether you do, then that's our

Re: mot de passe root

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:45 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Mar 24, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Peter Risdon wrote: I have no idea why you're trying to misrepresent what I was saying. It's starting to feel mildly bizarre. You say this as if it is the first time, being a system admin, you have

Re: mot de passe root

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 16:02 -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: As much as I would like to ban the French to their own list, I can't think of any legitimate reason to do so other than personal prejudice. Well, it's good to see you strike a light-hearted note. There are an impressive number of straw

Re: PHP / Apache bus error

2005-03-23 Thread Peter Risdon
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 09:49 -0700, Tom Vilot wrote: Peter Risdon helpful contributes: [...] On the 4.9 server, what should my supfile's tag be? *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_11 If you like. I'd use *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 The difference has been discussed exhaustively

Re: Problem Help!

2005-03-23 Thread Peter Risdon
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 12:41 -0800, Dixit, Viraj wrote: Hi, In my haste I edited my rc.conf file and knowing well that if I make a mistake I will get hung the system at that point. I need an expert help to get me out of this situation. I spent days building the system, I don't want to do

usb interface boards and drivers

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Risdon
I'm trying to determine the best way to interface a device like a servo motor controller to a usb bus. Boards such as those produced by FTDI would be useful but they have no FreeBSD drivers. http://www.ftdichip.com/FTProducts.htm If anyone knows of any similar products that do have FreeBSD

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 10:13 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: [...] Only one thing has changed in this machine: I replaced Windows NT with FreeBSD. Windows NT had no problem with the SCSI drives; FreeBSD has a problem with them. Therefore FreeBSD is defective.

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 11:40 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Peter Risdon writes: 1. Does either Windows 2003 or XP SP2, the only versions of Windows that are meaningful comparisons with the latest versions of FreeBSD, fully and without errors support this SCSI adapter and drive

Re: usb interface boards and drivers[solved]

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Risdon
I was forgetting that this is FreeBSD, with unparallelled breadth of hardware support 8-) So of course these chips are supported. device uftdi device ucom Peter. On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 09:10 +, Peter Risdon wrote: I'm trying to determine the best way to interface a device like

old scsi adapters and the benefits of open source [was: Anthony's issues [Slightly OT]]

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 08:55 -0600, Duo wrote: Honestly, the whole disk thing reminds me of an experience with FreeBSD and an old gateway solo laptop. [...] I acquired an old Initio SCSI card (9100) around the time of FreeBSD 4.5. A driver was available from the manufacturer's website for

Re: PHP / Apache bus error

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 09:22 -0700, Tom Vilot wrote: I've done a lot of snooping around Google to figure this out. I've come to the conclusion that PHP just plain sucks ;c) I am fairly consistently getting bus errors in Apache when I use PHP (or at least, I'm fairly sure it is due to PHP).

Re: PHP / Apache bus error

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 10:02 -0700, Tom Vilot wrote: But then, I've found most apache/php errors actually derive from some php extension and this can be traced by a process of elimination. It's often then a dependency of the extension that has been updated, or something. I'm starting to

Re: PHP / Apache bus error

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 19:31 -0700, Tom Vilot wrote: Peter Risdon wrote: Can you explain why? What is it about 4.11 vs 4.9 with regard to this issue? Just that it's an up-to-date release. PHP and its extensions do depend on bits of the base system. You are using the very latest

Re: old scsi adapters and the benefits of open source [was: Anthony's issues [Slightly OT]]

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 18:58 -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Mar 22, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Peter Risdon wrote: By contrast, I maintain a networked Windows machine that controls plasma cutting systems for a manufacturing business. It uses a serial port connection to send cutting patterns

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 12:23 +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this windows machine? I mean, can my login to my FreeBSD server at home be *monitored* by someone while I'm

Re: accounting package

2005-03-16 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:30 -0500, Harry Reid wrote: I am looking for a client server accounting package for industrial equipment dealers and distributors that will handle serialized whole good inventory, parts inventory and a service shop. Text based Unix or Linux platform is fine. Any

Re: Need help setting up qmail / binc imap on FreeBSD

2005-03-16 Thread Peter Risdon
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:11 -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: Hi I am trying to implement a qmail based mailserver with binc imap on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE using the instructions found on : I don't use binc-imap, so was reluctant to answer. But nobody else has, so:

Re: Qmail / FreeBSD / vqadmin problem

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:12 -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: Hi I am new to both FreeBSD and qmail. However, I am definitely not new to unix/linux (2 years of HP-UX and 7 years of Linux experience). I am using a pf firewall on a machine that will host a webserver as well as my mailserver.

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-02 Thread Peter Risdon
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 06:08 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: The AIC7880 stuff is in the good category of stuff from Adaptec, not the junk category. Well, that's nice to hear. I guess my $9000 wasn't entirely wasted. The people that can answer questions don't

Re: Creating a boot diskette that does nothing but boot from hard disk

2005-02-24 Thread Peter Risdon
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:28 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Is it possible to create a boot diskette that does nothing more than boot from a specific hard disk? How would I go about doing so? Assuming you are unable to boot after completing the installation, have you tried a third-party boot

Re: web software

2005-02-24 Thread Peter Risdon
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 13:44 -0500, Hilda Jones wrote: Do you have something similar to FrontPage? It might be an idea to flesh out your question a bit. FrontPage runs on MS Windows computers and is used as a graphical development tool for websites. It includes some synchronisation stuff that

Re: high latency

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Risdon
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:52 +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: Hi, I have 4 FreeBSD Servers connected to a Cisco 2950 all doing inter-VLAN routing. Everything is working right, but one server is getting absurdly high latency through the VLANs. [...] Now, the problematic box is running a RealTek

Re: NFS hangs on 5.3-RELEASE-p5

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 21:28 -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 07:09, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Peter Risdon wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:23 +0200, Simonas Kareiva wrote: [...] The problem is, that the nfs server hangs after running

RE: high latency

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Risdon
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 03:48 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:52 +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: Hi, I have 4 FreeBSD Servers connected to a Cisco 2950 all doing inter-VLAN routing. Everything is working right, but one server is getting absurdly high

Re: NFS hangs on 5.3-RELEASE-p5

2005-02-17 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:23 +0200, Simonas Kareiva wrote: [...] The problem is, that the nfs server hangs after running for a while, like, 20 minutes. Any file operations (at the nfs mount points and below) hang on the ftp server too, making it inaccessible. I'm having the same problem

Re: FreeBSD Mail Server

2005-02-17 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 10:48 -0800, Joshua Lewis wrote: Do I need to have a *_enable=YES line in my rc.conf in order to start my courier-imap-pop3 and courier-imap-imap servers? Or do I have to enable inetd? Yup. The full set, if you include the secure versions too is:

RE: FreeBSD Mail Server

2005-02-17 Thread Peter Risdon
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Risdon Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mail Server On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 10:48 -0800, Joshua Lewis wrote: Do I need to have a *_enable=YES line in my rc.conf in order

Re: FreeBSD Mail Server

2005-02-17 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:59 -0800, Joshua Lewis wrote: What if there is a problem starting one of the servers? Should I look at /var/dmesg ? Or is there a different log to look at? /var/log/maillog and sometimes /var/log/messages Peter. Thank you, Joshua Lewis Peter Risdon

Re: FreeBSD Mail Server

2005-02-17 Thread Peter Risdon
Peter. Thank you, Joshua Lewis Peter Risdon On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 10:48 -0800, Joshua Lewis wrote: Do I need to have a *_enable=YES line in my rc.conf in order to start my courier-imap-pop3 and courier-imap-imap servers? Or do I have to enable inetd? Yup. The full set

scripting crontab entries

2005-02-16 Thread Peter Risdon
I want to be able to update a user's crontab from a script. tabs in /var/cron/tabs carry a warning that the file should not be edited directly, so presumably something like #echo 5 * * * * /some/script.sh /var/cron/tabs/$USER is the wrong approach. Is the right approach: #cat ~/.mycrontab 5

Re: UDMA ICRC error

2005-02-16 Thread Peter Risdon
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 06:31 -0800, Rob wrote: Ramiro Aceves wrote: I have read that others had this problem before. I just write this report for you to know. When I installed FreeBSD 5.3 R, I get some errors like this, but I could end the install: ad0: WARNING -READ_DMA UDMA

Re: FTP server problem

2005-02-15 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 01:16 -0500, Jon Bruce wrote: Hi there, just trying to install FreeBSD, I am in the install section and can seemingly login to an ftp server. However everyone I try just brings me back to the ftp server listing. Any help would be great. Thanks Are you behind a

Re: probably a simple problem with permissions

2005-02-15 Thread Peter Risdon
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 23:53 -0500, David Wassman wrote: I am probably understanding this problem incorrectly meaning there is a simple explanation that is escaping me. My /dev/cd0 is owned by root so I have tried to change both the owner and the group so I can use it as a user. I have

Re: how to configure a port for install

2005-02-15 Thread Peter Risdon
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:48 -0500, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello- I am trying to figure out how to configure the portswhat I am trying to do is add mhash to my system that a new script needs and I have to add the --with-mhash=[dir] when I compile php. Well I installed php with the ports

Re: how to configure a port for install

2005-02-15 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 11:48 +, Peter Risdon wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:48 -0500, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello- I am trying to figure out how to configure the portswhat I am trying to do is add mhash to my system that a new script needs and I have to add the --with-mhash

Re: live mirroring

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Risdon
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 10:22 +0100, Gerard Meijer wrote: Hi all, I have a question. I want to set-up a site on 3 identical FreeBSD servers, using Round Robin to distribute the load. The site will be running some .cgi and .php scripts and when those scripts make changes to the

Re: live mirroring

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Risdon
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 10:59 +0100, Gerard Meijer wrote: - Original Message - From: Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gerard Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 10:49 AM Subject: Re: live mirroring On Mon, 2005-02-14

Re: ppp_mode and ipfw

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Risdon
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 14:50 +0100, Hiram Abiff wrote: Hi! I've been trying to set up ipfw on my FreeBSD box which I use as a gateway to the Internet on my LAN. I compiled the kernel with options IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT, edited rc.conf and some other files. Now I have 2 problems: 1.)

Re: dumping a samba directory

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 12:46 -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: does anyone know how to dump a samba directory i keep getting this error dump: /usr/local/samba/export/classic: unknown file system Kilobytes Out 0 ERROR: non-zero exit from: dump -0 -b 10 -a -f - /usr/local/samba/export/classic

Re: SQL Questions

2005-02-11 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 18:42 -0500, Sean wrote: I would like to install SQL here for my own use, not for any real life currently, round now for learning. Right now plan to install MySQL. Looking through the ports there is numerous version and some say for server, some say for client.

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:56 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 8:00 AM -0500 2/11/05, Bart Silverstrim wrote: [...] Since when did FreeBSD, a project always driven by volunteers and not by commercial matters, FreeBSD is a commercially viable operating system. I happen to think it's the best

Re: SQL Questions (MySQL or PostgreSQL?)

2005-02-11 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:17 -0500, Sean wrote: What is the difference between PostgreSQL and MySQL? From what I see MySQL seems to be more common. They are completely separate projects. Postgresql grew out of an academic project (ingres), mysql was developed by a commercial organisation

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Peter Risdon
Can I suggest a new mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter. On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 23:42 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Andrew L. Gould writes: That's an assumption. The project needs to ask for proof of this, and not simply assume it. We could as easily assume that the employers:

disk quotas and nfs

2005-01-27 Thread Peter Risdon
If machine A exports an nfs filesystem and machines B and C both mount it as, say, /usr/home then how is it best to enforce common disk quotas? If machine A is enforcing quotas and all the password files are synchronised so user uids and gids are identical across all the machines, will this be

Re: disk quotas and nfs

2005-01-27 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:25 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 27), Peter Risdon said: If machine A exports an nfs filesystem and machines B and C both mount it as, say, /usr/home then how is it best to enforce common disk quotas? If machine A is enforcing quotas and all

Re: 300GIG SATA drives

2005-01-21 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 02:42 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors that lock up the system. Assuming you are using FreeBSD 5.x then yes, this is a known problem, there has been some traffic about this issue on this list in recent

Re: 300GIG SATA drives

2005-01-21 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 17:24 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: [top post moved down] On Friday 21 January 2005 02:55 am, you wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 02:42 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors that lock up the system.

RE: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

2005-01-10 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 22:17 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:59 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: On Jan 6 at 21:41, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream: Use IMP. [...] Now you mention it, I seem to recall a shedload of issues if you had to

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 07:53 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 12:36 AM 1/7/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does. You might want to try something like: du -x / | sort -rn | head -15 to figure out wheer your diskspace has gone. Ok, I've cleared half the space by rm -r /root/.cpan.

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:24 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 08:55 AM 1/7/2005, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:05:42 +, Peter Risdon How about: #mv /sbin /usr/sbin #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin #mv /root /usr/root #ln -s /usr/root /root I've run into a little bit

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 06:39 -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: Peter Risdon wrote: How about: #mv /sbin /usr/sbin #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin #mv /root /usr/root #ln -s /usr/root /root Isn't this a bad idea if you ever have to boot to single user mode and only have / mounted? I have

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:48 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 09:30 AM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: # mv /sbin /usr/sbin # ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin # mv /root /usr/root # ls -s /usr/root /root Typo here: ls instead of ln - that's why there's no link. Oh man, could I be any

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 07:39 -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: Peter Risdon wrote: snip #mv /sbin /usr/sbin #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin [...] I was in reference to the /sbin moving to /usr/sbin. Yes, that's a very good point, which I'd missed completely. /sbin/mount Peter

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:41 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 10:15 AM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: Boot into single user mode. Scratch that. This has become a problem. Took a working keyboard from another box and it won't work. Unless by some weird chance I should reboot first

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:59 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 11:32 AM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:41 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: This has become a problem. Took a working keyboard from another box and it won't work. Unless by some weird chance I should reboot

RE: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:59 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: On Jan 6 at 21:41, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream: Use IMP. Of course, some people pooh-pooh it saying it's hard to setup. However, IMP is one of those programs that is worth the effort, as if you install the

RE: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:12 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: On Jan 7 at 09:41, Peter Risdon launched this into the bitstream: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:59 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: On Jan 6 at 21:41, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream: Use IMP. [...] Now you mention

Re: atheros (ath) wifi driver problem

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 18:18 -0800, Mo Po wrote: Hello, I installed FreeBSD 5.3 today (coming from linux/debian). I need to use the atheros wifi driver (man page ATH(4)), which is included in 5.3. (I have an atheros based PCI card in an athlon xp based system). I get the following error

Re: question

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 16:13 +0200, Ludwig Mey wrote: hi my problem is as follows. i am trying to connect a Prolific Technology USB to serial connecter. but i am unable to get anything right after that. i have tried using minicom and pointing it to where the system is telling the device

Re: 5.3 backup solution needed (non-SCSI)

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 07:33 -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: I finally found the reason my 5.3 machine was randomly rebooting. It is either the scsi HBA and/or the drive. Although the same exact hardware runs any other OS fine :-/ well with that in mind, I am now all IDE and USB capable. No more

Re: 5.3 backup solution needed (non-SCSI)

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 08:36 -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: At 08:32 AM 1/6/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 07:33 -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: [...] I need to backup only about 4-5GB at once. My DDS SCSI drive handled that fine... Does anyone know of an IDE based solution

Re: finally a crash dump on 5.3

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 09:44 -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: At 09:32 AM 1/6/2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-06 08:56, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was up for 2wks and today saw this: Fatal trap 12 - page fault while in kernel mode CPUID 0 APIC ID 0 Fault write

Re: question

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:11 +0200, Ludwig Mey wrote: [top post moved down so the mail reads coherently. CC'd to list in case anyone else has this problem in the future and tries googling for it] On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:27:23 +, Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 16

[Fwd: Re: question]

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
For google. ---BeginMessage--- hey thanks what i did wrong was... i was still compiling the kernel the old way. once i did it the new way, it worked like a bomb. thanks alot! Ludwig On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:32:10 +, Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:11 +0200

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT the saga continues.

2005-01-04 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 00:33 -0800, borg wrote: Today is the second time I get this message on my console: ad0: Timeout - write_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=18576259 [...] It only happens on 5_3 raw install no apps no services running. I filed a pr on this a couple of weeks ago. I

Re: Fw: What do these PHP ports mean?

2004-12-22 Thread Peter Risdon
Adam wrote: I'm porting PHP, Installing? I looked at the 5 different PHP 5.0.3 version descriptions on http://www.freebsd.org/ports/www.html they all have the same long description and different Requires What are the differences in these? php5-5.0.3_1 The base port. Without additional arguments,

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2004-12-22 Thread Peter Risdon
P. B. S. wrote: How can I do that? explore2fs is for ext2/3 only. IIRC, explore2fs is a software utility that allows you to mount Linux ext2/3 drives directly on a Windows box. There's no similar utility for UFS. So you can't. You can, however, mount them across a network from a running FreeBSD

Re: fsck locks up SMP system (5.3-REL)

2004-12-22 Thread Peter Risdon
Marco Beishuizen wrote: On stardate Wed, 22 Dec 2004, the wise O. Hartmann entered: Dear Marco. Thanks. In my case, FreeBSD 5.3 dies in single user mode on nearly each disk activity (it is obviously a FreeBSD 5.3-issue with my ASUS CUR-DLS based system). Please take a look at fsck_ffs(8) man

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2004-12-22 Thread Peter Risdon
Frank Laszlo wrote: Peter Risdon wrote: IIRC, explore2fs is a software utility that allows you to mount Linux ext2/3 drives directly on a Windows box. There's no similar utility for UFS. So you can't. This is untrue. OK, thanks for the update. There was a thread earlier this year

Re: Plesk FreeBSD

2004-12-22 Thread Peter Risdon
Clay Culver wrote: Hi, Anyone have experience running Plesk 7.1.x with FreeBSD? Since it looks like they are not supporting this line anymore I wish to upgrade PHP and am trying to figure out how they have PHP configured. So I would like to know if anyone has configured PHP (4.3.10

Re: ifconfig for WLAN using WEP

2004-12-21 Thread Peter Risdon
Scott Bennett wrote: Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Monday, December 20, 2004 02:14:20 AM -0600 Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been asked in freebsd-newbies to move this to freebsd-questions, so I'll start with my original message content after this line.

Re: Simple, graphic, desktop calculator

2004-12-20 Thread Peter Risdon
Alasdair Lumsden wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 14:02, edwinculp wrote: IIRC, kde had a simple desktop calculator. Either it has been removed or I can't find it. I have also checked ports and haven't found anything similar except add. It is for may wife so after using the kde one for years she

Re: problem with intel pro/100 S 82550 adapter on freebsd 4.7

2004-12-20 Thread Peter Risdon
Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I tried to install a intel pro/100 S desktop adapter w/ 82550 chip on my freebsd 4.7 release. Since my custom kernel has no fxp driver compiled. I edit /boot/loader.conf and add a line: if_fxp_load=YES After reboot, freebsd can identify this adapter as fxp0.

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Risdon
Bomgardner,Jon wrote: -Original Message- From: Doug Poland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:54 AM To: Bomgardner,Jon Cc: Henry Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop snip For some reason, FreeBSD and Xorg is only using a small

Re: need help

2004-12-12 Thread Peter Risdon
angelito munez wrote: Hi,,. i just formatted freeBSD 4.9 i want it to run firewall and a router... but i need help in configuration..i really wanna what packages do i need i want to run in dhcp..waht packages do i want and software need to laod on my bsd 4.9... thnx u guys more power

Re: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ and reboots under load...

2004-12-11 Thread Peter Risdon
Minnesota Slinky wrote: Hello list. I am in the process of doing a major upgrade to my home server. I purchased an Asus A7V600-X motherboard, an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ processor, and installed 1GB of DDR 400 memory. If it matters, I've got two 120 GB Maxtor HDDs in a RAID 1 array. The problem I'm

Re: mysql connect problems

2004-12-11 Thread Peter Risdon
John DeStefano wrote: [...] When I specify a value for MySQL server and for DB root password on the MediaWiki 1.3.8 installation page, I get Couldn't connect to database with a script note MySQL error 1250: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading

Re: mysql connect problems

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Risdon
Jorn Argelo wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:13:40 -0500, John DeStefano wrote On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:08:48 +0100, Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: select user, password, host from user; on 'mysql' returned 3 'root' entries using 2 different passwords (localhost, %, and the actual host name), 2

Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Risdon
Damien Hull wrote: I've been a FreeBSD user for a while now and I love it. I'm running 4.10 and plan on upgrading soon. I'm also an OpenBSD user but I tend to use it for firewalls and routers. I setup Apache and Subversion on OpenBSD 3.6 last week. This is the first time I have ever done anything

Re: Problems upgrading from 5.2.1-RELEASE-P9 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-12-01 Thread Peter Risdon
Jorn Argelo wrote: Hi folks, I've been trying to upgrade my 5.2.1-P9 server to 5.3, but when I try to build the kernel it says: ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! config version = 500012, version required = 500013 Make sure that /usr/src/usr.sbin/config is in sync with your

Re: ServRAID 5i and DLT

2004-12-01 Thread Peter Risdon
Alexandre Vasconcelos wrote: Hello All, I've searched for this on google and list archives without success.. You haven't had any replies yet (at least on-list), so... I have on IBM xSeries 235, ServRAID 5i adapter, 3 disks on channel 0 and a Benchmark DLT tape on channel 1. The adapter bios shows

Re: Samba doesn't umount a share

2004-11-30 Thread Peter Risdon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, always fighting with samba 3.0.7! I'm trying to umount an smb share with (/mnt/smb is part of FBSD filesystem): VicBSD# umount /mnt/smb/Utenti umount: /mnt/smb/Utenti : not a file system root directory You're trying to

Re: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)

2004-11-29 Thread Peter Risdon
craig wrote: DanGer wrote: [...] i have the same issue on brand new 200gb ata maxtor hard drive. i had the same issue on 5.2.1, but when i upgraded to 5.3 i decided to turn on ata dma but after 9 days of uptime it froze..no logs, whatever...so i turned ata dma off for now, and i will stay and

Re: Caching DNS for dialup

2004-11-29 Thread Peter Risdon
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:07:20PM +, Peter Risdon wrote: : A caching DNS server would help conserve bandwidth on a dialup : connection - I generally run one myself with any connection with limited : bandwidth. After RTFM, I believe I have it up and running

Re: Wireless Card and SSID

2004-11-29 Thread Peter Risdon
RL wrote: Sending again... I really need to solve this. I have a Netgear WAG511 PC Card and am using the ath driver. In my /etc/rc.conf I have ath0 to use DHCP and also I have: ifconfig_ath0=ssid myssid. Now, I can set this all up manually using ifconfig and it works till I reboot. When I set

Re: fsck inadequacies

2004-11-27 Thread Peter Risdon
Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 26 November 2004 03:16 pm, Mardoc Inc wrote: I run a FreeBSD system at a remote site. It costs me over $4000 to visit the site (northern arctic). It, along with some other equipment, runs off 2 x 50 kW diesel generators which are swapped by a mechanic once per week.

Re: Problems with samba under FreeBSD, not under Linux

2004-11-26 Thread Peter Risdon
Hexren wrote: V Dear All, V From the win 2000 box I can see my freebsd box fqdn but can't connect V any share. Win 2000 keeps compalining You have no authorization to V connect to the share, ask the Administrator (sorry, translating from V Italian) V PLEASE HELP V Ciao V Vittorio

Re: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)

2004-11-26 Thread Peter Risdon
craig wrote: hi, i wrote about this issue some weeks back, but have still not yet adequately resolved it. (http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-November/0638 07.html) [...] to repeat the original problem, when installing 5.3R it fails about 12% into extracting base into \

Re: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)

2004-11-26 Thread Peter Risdon
Peter Risdon wrote: craig wrote: hi, i wrote about this issue some weeks back, but have still not yet adequately resolved it. (http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-November/0638 07.html) [...] to repeat the original problem, when installing 5.3R it fails about 12

Re: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)

2004-11-26 Thread Peter Risdon
DanGer wrote: [...] i have the same issue on brand new 200gb ata maxtor hard drive. i had the same issue on 5.2.1, but when i upgraded to 5.3 i decided to turn on ata dma but after 9 days of uptime it froze..no logs, whatever...so i turned ata dma off for now, and i will stay and watch what will

Re: Don't know what else to do - NetGEAR WG311 54Mbps PCI card not recognized

2004-11-25 Thread Peter Risdon
Dundar Turker wrote: Hi There, I installed FreeBSD 5.3 from CD and later downloaded RELENG_5_3 from a FreeBSD CVS site, then added ath and ath_hal as devices in the kernel configuration file. I generated the new kernel and rebooted the machine with it successfully. However, still I cannot get the

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