Re: Looking for ipfw info.

2004-03-20 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:13:08PM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: Thanks for the resources. A couple of questions (because I'm new to FreeBSD): The ipfw man page in 5.2.1-RELEASE says that ipfw in CURRENT is ipfw2 and that ipfw in STABLE is ipfw1. I still don't understand the

Re: Growing RAID5 (using RAID0).

2004-03-05 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:15:14PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: I've been thinking about this and I'm wondering if it is possible to do something like the following: I have an existing RAID5 volume, comprised of just 3 120GB disks. However, I've just bought three more 250GB

Re: vinum crashed

2004-03-05 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:14:06AM +0100, Axel S. Gruner wrote: I setup a disk stripping with two disks and vinum. I was impressed about the quick and easy setup. The configuration is, that i installed FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 on /, a little bit of swap, and the gave the rest for vinum.

Re: RAID (ccd/vinum) with 2 harddisks

2004-02-23 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:32:40AM +0100, Axel S. Gruner wrote: Hi. Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 23 February 2004 at 8:27:33 +0100, Axel S. Gruner wrote: Hi. I want to use RAID on a IBM xSeries 345 with two harddisks. So the problem is, i can not setup a RAID System via

Re: Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

2004-02-23 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:46:07AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: On Feb 23, at 09:12 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D J Hawkey Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : True or False: Setting CPUTYPE to the lowest target CPU (p2) in : a build machine's

Re: Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

2004-02-22 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:23:28AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: On Feb 21, at 05:56 PM, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: DJHJ Second, two machines are of the same architecture, but they have different DJHJ CPUs: One is an Intel PIII, but the other is a PII. Will the world built DJHJ on a PIII

Re: ahc + vinum raid5 deadlocks?

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, Cross posting to -scsi as it seems maybe related to my scsi setup. At least, the problems currently only appear when the scsi parts are in use. On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 02:47:49PM +1100, Tony Frank wrote: Refer earlier thread on -stable for more background. 4.9-STABLE (cvsup 20th Feb

Re: dialup question ?

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:37:49PM -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote: A question: I want to configure a simple dial-up server and have this ppp.conf -- default: pap: set debug phase lcp chat set timeout 0 set debug phase lcp chat enable pap

Re: Custom startup+shutdown scripts

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:38:39PM -, Dominic Bishop wrote: I am shortly going to try and install a Belkin universal UPS on one of my FreeBSD machines running 5.2 using the nut utility. Something I've been thinking of doing for many months now. Due to a failing in the Belkin

Re: DHCP access

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 04:05:54PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have a wireless home network with an 802.11B router which assigns IPs via DHCP. what method is appropriate to access one fbsd box from another when I don't actually know the IP which has been assigned to any given box.

Re: USB modem support?

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 02:26:24AM +, Daniela wrote: I'm having problems with an USB ADSL modem (Alcatel Speed Touch). It is recognized at boot time, but when I try to connect, it tells me that the modem is busy. I symlinked /dev/cuaa3 to /dev/ugen1 (that's the device that showed up

Re: NFS and different exports to the same host

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:17:37PM -0600, dap wrote: Per the FreeBSD handbook, I have to follow the rule that for a specific host I have to export everything the same for a particular filesystem. So let's say I have one filesystem, /. So I can't have: /export1-roserver1

Re: Copy old drive to new drive - is it possible?

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 09:38:41PM +1100, Tig wrote: Hi, I have a hard drive which is on its last legs. I also have new hard drive to replace the old one. I was wondering if it is possible to simply copy everything from the old drive to the new (after formating the new drive) and

Re: How to convert GNU make files to FreeBSD make?

2004-02-20 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:02:43AM +0300, Igor B. Bykhalo wrote: How can this GNU make constuct converted to FreeBSD: SRCDIRS = convert/c misc/c string/c memory/c handleio/c startup/c environ/c vpath %.c $(SRCDIRS) ? Is there some guide on the topic? I am new to this... While I

Re: endless sysquery: no addrs found for root

2004-02-20 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:46:34AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 06:35:51PM +1100, Tony Frank wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:25:04PM -0600, John wrote: OK. I'm stumped. Hopefully we can help. Yes - forward-only does get rid of the symptom. I should have mentioned

Re: Boot loop in FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE after install - FIXED!

2004-02-20 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 04:49:00PM -0500, Mike Newell wrote: Well THAT'S weird... I wondered if there might be some strange data left on the drive (I had a 4.7-RELEASE install on it prior to this), so I stopped the system in POST and entered the Adaptec system utilities. I then did a

ahc + vinum raid5 deadlocks?

2004-02-20 Thread Tony Frank
Hi again, Refer earlier thread on -stable for more background. 4.9-STABLE (cvsup 20th Feb) Kernel was compiled with DDB, INVARIANTS, DIAGNOSTICS. All options removed from /etc/make.conf except 'NOPROFILE=TRUE' I get the following on the console before system freezes: ahc0: WARNING no command for

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-19 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:46:35AM +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: Thanks for the information... I really need the space now so I am going to wipe it and start from scratch, although I am not sure if I will use vinum again. I guess my main concern is that when one of my disks crashed, the

Re: Boot loop in FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE after install

2004-02-19 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:48:04PM -0500, Mike Newell wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Tony Frank wrote: tfrank While I cannot perhaps comment on your problem, you can try either pressing tfrank 'pause' key or 'scrolllock' which might help depending on where the problems tfrank are occuring

Re: vinum - suitablity for use with removable disks

2004-02-19 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:46:48AM +1100, Pietralla, Siegfried P wrote: i want to use vinum with some removable ( e.g. usb2 ) hard disks. i want to use vinum because : it lets me create as many appropriately sized volumes as i need ; and, it doesn't matter whether the disk connects

Re: endless sysquery: no addrs found for root

2004-02-19 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:25:04PM -0600, John wrote: OK. I'm stumped. Hopefully we can help. This is on a FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE system with named 8.3.7-REL Fairly standard setup. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [119]:/usr/src uname -a FreeBSD marvin.home.local 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #122: Fri

Re: continued make world problems...

2004-02-19 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:53:15AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: I've managed to get cvsup working (after my botched make world and a power failure a couple days ago). I deleted the /usr/src tree, and the /usr/obj tree and tried to complete a make world afterwards. No matter what I do, I

Re: power point

2004-02-19 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 08:26:15AM +0100, Martin Vana wrote: is there a way to convert ms powerpoint presentation into jpegs? or to view it under Freebsd? One of the following ports may help you: /usr/ports/textproc/xlhtml /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1 /usr/ports/editors/staroffice60

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-18 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:34:29AM +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If this volume has only one plex, you're lost, unless you can bring up the failed disk long enough to make a backup. Here is the output: 20 drives: D data1

Re: make is not working for me

2004-02-18 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:37:54AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive the newbie question please I am trying to install a package called bpalogin (it authorises Bigpond Broadband Cable users (Bigpond is an ISP in Australia)) and I have followed the instructions from the

Re: Name Server error / problem with Win XP

2004-02-18 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:30:49PM -0500, Ajitesh K wrote: We are running NameServ1 Name server on Freebsd 4.8 We are getting some kind of error on my name server nameserv1. FYI, TM25 is laptop of out side client and OS is Windows XP Home. nameserv1.lan.company.com kernel log

Re: Video card compatibility

2004-02-18 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:10:37PM -0500, bradford fligor wrote: I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old computer nut son for Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version. When asked for video card on installation, I don't' know what to select. I have

Re: Boot loop in FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE after install

2004-02-18 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:26:18AM -0500, Mike Newell wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 410 workstation. The system has two 18G SCSI drives (Seagate ST318203LW) on an Adaptec 7890 SCSI adaptor (BIOS V2.01.05). I've gone through the entire install and when

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-18 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: Quoting Tony Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So you have a subdisk down which means Vinum can still read from the plex but has to manually calculate the missing subdisk data. But I assume it cant write till I replace it.. I

4.9-stable system lockup with vinum raid5 activity

2004-02-18 Thread Tony Frank
Hi all, I'm running 4.9-STABLE built 17th Feb based on cvsup on same day. Custom kernel in use with device polling enabled on fxp0. Kernel config is attached in case anyone can spot anything obvious there. It's an 'older' system, Pentium2-200, 132mb ram, basic Asus slot1 m/b (Via chipset) with 2

Re: vinum raid5 subdisks keep changing length?

2004-02-17 Thread Tony Frank
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:53:06PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 17 February 2004 at 11:39:26 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:51:30AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 16 February 2004 at 22:04:44 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: [... snip ...] OK, I

Re: vinum raid5 subdisks keep changing length?

2004-02-17 Thread Tony Frank
Hi again, On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:01:36PM +1100, Tony Frank wrote: [ ... ] Despite this logging oddity everything else appears to work just fine using 4.9-RELEASE. I am currently building world based on RELENG_4 cvsup from this evening. Will try it all again with the new kernel world

vinum raid5 subdisks keep changing length?

2004-02-16 Thread Tony Frank
Hi all, Running vinum on RELENG_4. No changes to source, vinum loaded as a KLD as per instructions in handbook man pages. As per the subject I am having what appears to be strange behaviour with vinum. After a number of teething problems I eventually setup a vinum root for my system which

Re: vinum raid5 subdisks keep changing length?

2004-02-16 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:51:30AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 16 February 2004 at 22:04:44 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: Running vinum on RELENG_4. No changes to source, vinum loaded as a KLD as per instructions in handbook man pages. As per the subject I am having

Re: 3Com USRobotics 5699B 56k fax modem install

2004-02-08 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:46:35AM -0800, Alex Teslik wrote: Arg! This is indeed a winmodem according to the USRobotics website. I knew to avoid those like the plague, but since the modem cost twice as much as all the other modems and it didn't say winmodem anywhere on the box I

Re: Starting two instances of bind - method?

2004-02-08 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:45:10PM -0500, Chad M Stewart wrote: I want to run two instances of Bind 9 on the same box. Both will be chrooted and have their own IPs. At some point I may choose to put them in jails, but for now no. One step at a time. :) I'm wondering what

Re: [maybe OT] IP/UDP/DNS packet manipulation question

2004-02-08 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:46:46PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: That is to say it will accept DNS requests from local agents, filter out IPV6 request packets, and forward IPV4 requests to our backend DNS server in a way that the backend server will believe it has received them

Re: Differences between net/vnc ports ?

2004-02-08 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:15:11AM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: In ports/net/ there are 6 vnc ports. Leaving alone vnc2swf could someone tell from experience the difference between them ? For now I am interested in vnc clients to access a mixture of 98/xp/2000 machines, but any other