Problems with GRUB

2004-02-09 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello, I have recently managed to install grub-0.94 on a machine running XP and FreeBSD 5.2. Could not do it through the ports and later could not do it with the make command. Had to do with gmake, for only then in worked. Now, when trying to run grub-install

changing the source address of an ICMP TTL exceeded message

2004-02-09 Thread Guy Antony Halse
Hi I've got two FreeBSD routers that act as redundant backups of each other using VRRP. Both these machines bind their own interfaces for administration purposes and the VRRP handles which one binds the gateway address. My problem is that, because the admin interface is bound before the gateway

Re: How to deal with package conflicts (apache)?

2004-02-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:24:32PM +1030, W. Sierke wrote: How should I deal with package conflicts such as apache13/apache13-mod_ssl... I've installed apache13-mod_ssl but a couple of other ports I want to install want apache13 (specifically apache-1.3.29_1) which complains of a package

Re: quick java question.

2004-02-09 Thread peter lageotakes
--- r.w.h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello its me again. now that i have freebsd 90% working the way i want. i have one final ok 2 final questions for now. some of the websites i use require java and flash. i know were the flash-plugin is but as far as java is. i have yet to find it in

Re: how do I remove Apache installs?

2004-02-09 Thread anubis
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:45 am, Marty Landman wrote: I don't see where this is covered in the FreeBSD Handbook. I have a couple of Apache installs (1.3 2) and would like to remove them from my system. And then start over again. How is this sort of thing normally done? Really depends on how you

problem with cyrus-imapd and sendmail

2004-02-09 Thread RJ45
Hello, I have a problem with FreeBSD and cyrus-imapd. I have never been able to solve this. The problem is intermittent and it happens from time to time after a system rebooot. Jun 17 00:00:11 postino sm-mta[201]: h5GM0A7T000201: [EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00,

builworld failure after cvsup on 4.9

2004-02-09 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi, I am busy setting up a new dual HP server ( ML350 Xeon 2.8ghz ) and have cvsup the latest source and compiling just the basic options to get SMP working so I can continue my work. Make buildworld is failing with the following error which makes no sense to me. ( using FreeBSD 4.9 - RELENG_4 )

Re: Differences between net/vnc ports ?

2004-02-09 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:07:44 +1100 Tony Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: bsd equiv of trace?

2004-02-09 Thread Dev Tugnait
Isnt this a freebsd Mailing List? try the Solaris lists please. * Chad M Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I think I answered my own question, ktrace and kdump Now if I can just figure out why dhcpd won't do dynamic DNS updates. :) -Chad- On Feb 9, 2004, at 12:34 AM, Chad M Stewart

problems reading compactflash with USB

2004-02-09 Thread Jim Blomo
Hi, thanks for listening. I have USB card reader that has worked in both linux and windows. It is being recognized during boot time on my 4.9-RELEASE machine: ohci1: AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller mem 0xdff5c000-0xdff5cfff irq 10 at device 20.0 on pci0 usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy

slow ipfw rules

2004-02-09 Thread Wayne Swart
Helo everyone I have a nat box with a default to deny ruleset, but whenever i ftp through it i get a transfer rate of + - 3kb/s (over lan) Below are what i have in my firewall script: ipfw disable firewall ipfw -f flush int_if=fxp0 ext_if=rl0 # IPFW Count Rules for MRTG ipfw add 10001 count

Re: sendmail to a smarthost?

2004-02-09 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Allan Bowhill wrote: On 0, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Hello. In my LAN the DNS server is my ADSL modem ... small device that :cannot do MX type of address lookup. I wish to configure a fax server :(FreeBSD 5.2 + Hylafax) in the LAN to send emails to a group of people upon

Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)?

2004-02-09 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:12:51 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a summary of my problem so far: Server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from csh, ttyv0 and ps) when power was cut; server reports a problem mounting /usr partition upon reboot. I have

Why /usr/doc/Makefile uses passive cvsup ?

2004-02-09 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
Anyone knows why ? I'm asking this because all my usual cvsup serves are refusing passive mode: Establishing passive-mode data connection Cannot connect to data port: Connection refused -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)?

2004-02-09 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:44:46 +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:12:51 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a summary of my problem so far: [..] To summarize: 1. See if you have disk activity when fsck seems to be stuck. 2. Try fsck

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2004-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Is it possible to specify the originating port when connecting to a mysql server? The problem I have is that the box from which I wish to connect using some script have some ports firewalled, and I want to avoid them. Thank you. Cristian Salan

Specify the originating port when connecting to a mysql server.

2004-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, And please excuse me for sending previous mail without Subject. Is it possible to specify the originating port when connecting to a mysql server? The problem I have is that the box from which I wish to connect using some script have some ports firewalled, and I want to avoid them. Thank

Re: Specify the originating port when connecting to a mysql server.

2004-02-09 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
Please wrap at 72 chars, thanks On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:39:16 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, And please excuse me for sending previous mail without Subject. Is it possible to specify the originating port when connecting to a mysql server? The problem I have is that

/usr/ports/net/cvsupit

2004-02-09 Thread Rod Brookes
Hi For some time now i have been installing FreeBSD from 4 to 5 although still a newbie, now all of a sudden which i can't understand when i run cd /usr/ports/net/cvsupit it does'nt work when first installing a cvsup in the pseudo-portcan anyone help please? Rod

Re: builworld failure after cvsup on 4.9

2004-02-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:12:20AM +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Hi, I am busy setting up a new dual HP server ( ML350 Xeon 2.8ghz ) and have cvsup the latest source and compiling just the basic options to get SMP working so I can continue my work. Make buildworld is failing with the

Re: Specify the originating port when connecting to a mysql server.

2004-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Mesaj Inclus-- Date: 9-Feb-2004 13:15:59 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Specify the originating port when connecting to a mysql server. Please wrap at 72 chars, thanks Sorry for this too.

mysql40 and FBSD 4.9

2004-02-09 Thread Stefan Moro
Hi, First of all I just want to say that I've never used mysql before so there might not be any problem at all, except me not understanding how to do =) I'm trying to setup mysql40. I installed it from the ports via the mysql40-server port. The installation went just fine. Afetr the installation

Re: /usr/ports/net/cvsupit

2004-02-09 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:28:23 + Rod Brookes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi For some time now i have been installing FreeBSD from 4 to 5 although still a newbie, now all of a sudden which i can't understand when i run cd /usr/ports/net/cvsupit it does'nt work when first installing a cvsup in

Re: How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-09 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:46, Rob wrote: Hi, I have a hard disk, on which I would like to merge two slices into one single slice. The disk slices are as follows: /dev/ad1s1a98M43M47M48%/home/userB /dev/ad1s1d64G45G14G77%/home/userA /dev/ad1s1e 3.0G

Re: builworld failure after cvsup on 4.9

2004-02-09 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 13:32, Kris Kennaway wrote: Please post your supfile; it's possible you have updated to the wrong version. I'm using *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 as mentioned. I have several servers using the same but I suspect the src distribution on the disk to be at fault and

Re: sendmail to a smarthost?

2004-02-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:56:53AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:31:10PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. In my LAN the DNS server is my ADSL modem ... small device that cannot do MX type of address lookup. I wish to configure a fax server

Re: How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-09 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:25, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:46, Rob wrote: Hi, I have a hard disk, on which I would like to merge two slices into one single slice. The disk slices are as follows: /dev/ad1s1a98M43M47M48%/home/userB /dev/ad1s1d64G45G

What OS should I use?

2004-02-09 Thread Strangehue
I have a question on what would be the best OS for me. freeBSD another Unix/BSD or a brand of Linux. Here's what I have, tell me what you think. I have an old used Gateway (Solo 9100) laptop with a Pentium2, 4-GB, 640k RAM, the system is x86 based physical memory is 191.51mb total and 91.57mb

Re: How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-09 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:46, Rob wrote: Hi, [snip] Rob. Asking a question and giving a non-existent email address Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] is quite rude. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: What OS should I use?

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Schuller
I have an old used Gateway (Solo 9100) laptop with a Pentium2, 4-GB, 640k RAM, the system is x86 based physical memory is 191.51mb total and 91.57mb available. First of all let me say that I don't know the status of hardware support with that laptop on any of the linux/unixe. I would expect

Re: builworld failure after cvsup on 4.9

2004-02-09 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 09 February 2004 01:12 am, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Hi, I am busy setting up a new dual HP server ( ML350 Xeon 2.8ghz ) and have cvsup the latest source and compiling just the basic options to get SMP working so I can continue my work. Make buildworld is failing with the following

moderator approval in moderated FreeBSD mailing list

2004-02-09 Thread Rostislav Krasny
Hello At Sun, 08 Feb 2004 16:38:31 +0200 I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because this is a moderated mailing list my email is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. Either the message will get posted to the list, or I will receive notification of the moderator's

Re: mysql40 and FBSD 4.9

2004-02-09 Thread Jez Hancock
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:54:06PM +0100, Stefan Moro wrote: I'm trying to setup mysql40. I installed it from the ports via the mysql40-server port. The installation went just fine. Afetr the installation I was trying to set the mysql root-users password with mysqladmin -u root password

Error installing MySQL server from ports

2004-02-09 Thread Martyn Hill
Dear list I have upgraded the ports tree on our FreeBSD 4.5 box this morning in preparation to install MySQL. Running make fetch in the databases/mysql5-server directory gives the following error and then stops. Makefile, line 156: Malformed conditional (exists(${DB_DIR}) defined(OVERWRITE_DB)

Re: moderator approval in moderated FreeBSD mailing list

2004-02-09 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:56:24 +0200 Rostislav Krasny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello At Sun, 08 Feb 2004 16:38:31 +0200 I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because this is a moderated mailing list my email is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. Either the

Re: builworld failure after cvsup on 4.9

2004-02-09 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 14:45, Kent Stewart wrote: On Monday 09 February 2004 01:12 am, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Hi, I am busy setting up a new dual HP server ( ML350 Xeon 2.8ghz ) and have cvsup the latest source and compiling just the basic options to get SMP working so I can continue my

java question part 2.

2004-02-09 Thread r.w.h
ok someone said goto freebsd foundation. here is what thay said. The current release of the JDK and JRE available via the FreeBSD Foundation is 1.3.1. These binaries have been tested and certified to run with FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE but may also work on other 4.x releases. These binaries are not

FDISK Can Not Find FreeBSD Drive

2004-02-09 Thread chaucer
Hello, I have installed FreeBSD on a separate HardDrive which is D: and my Win ME is on the other physical drive C: When I ran and FDISK the FreeBSD, D: does not show. Also, in Win ME the D: is non-existent--I am only 2 days old with FreeBSD--does FreeBSD make Windows unable to see the drive

where can I download freebsd4.2

2004-02-09 Thread kyue
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Re: /usr/ports/net/cvsupit

2004-02-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rod Brookes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For some time now i have been installing FreeBSD from 4 to 5 although still a newbie, now all of a sudden which i can't understand when i run cd /usr/ports/net/cvsupit it does'nt work when first installing a cvsup in the pseudo-portcan anyone help please?

Re: Error installing MySQL server from ports

2004-02-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Martyn Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have upgraded the ports tree on our FreeBSD 4.5 box this morning in preparation to install MySQL. Running make fetch in the databases/mysql5-server directory gives the following error and then stops. Makefile, line 156: Malformed conditional

Re: bsd equiv of trace?

2004-02-09 Thread Chad M Stewart
Dev, No offense, but did you actually *read* my question? Regards, Chad On Feb 9, 2004, at 4:17 AM, Dev Tugnait wrote: Isnt this a freebsd Mailing List? try the Solaris lists please. * Chad M Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I think I answered my own question, ktrace and kdump Now if I can

Re: mount a smb filesystem

2004-02-09 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
[ cc'ed back to questions ] On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:18:14 GMT vext01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i has this problem. You must use /etc/nsmb.conf See the man page! Thanks. However, if I have the password in /root/.nsmbrc, the mount /vol/fnan/d doesn't promt for password. So it seems that

Re: svgalib ,vesa and mplayer

2004-02-09 Thread mikael backman
Dev Tugnait wrote: Thats the message i get but mplayer then crashes with a bug, i dont really use it but i had to be root cuz it says svga Input/Output error as normal user * mikael backman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi. I use FreeBSD 5.2 I try to watch a movie with mplayer in the console

Re: Problems with GRUB

2004-02-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Golovniov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have recently managed to install grub-0.94 on a machine running XP and FreeBSD 5.2. Could not do it through the ports and later could not do it with the make command. Had to do with gmake, for only then in worked. Now, when trying

Re: bsd equiv of trace?

2004-02-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
Isnt this a freebsd Mailing List? try the Solaris lists please. That doesn't make any sense. He is asking a question about BSD. He is asking for something to use on BSD that would do something similar to the trace utility he had been using on Solaris. Why would you expect a Solaris list to

gnome screensaver

2004-02-09 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I've searched all over and posted a question to gnome mailing lists, and still don't have an answer to this annoyance. Hopefully somebody here might know a solution, even though this isn't freebsd-specific. How can I fix the gnome screensaver so that it utilizes my full 1280x1024 screen

Re[2]: Problems with GRUB

2004-02-09 Thread Robert Golovniov
On Monday, February 9, 2004, 4:15:35 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: LG Not installing from the ports system, for one thing... That was the first thing I tried to do, Lowell. :-) Did not work, although I dont remember what were the error messages. -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov |

Fw: problem with mouse driver during install / toshiba satellite 1135 laptop

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Kurpis
[A user in newbies@ suggested cross-posting this message to questions@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am installing FreeBSD 4.7 on my laptop, and when I get to the mouse configuration part, it seems I can't get any combination of protocol and port to test right (i.e. for mouse movement). Windows says

Re: Can't start rshd

2004-02-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having problems starting rshd. I tried it on two different computers (yes, I know about the security risks, but the port is firewalled off). I can't use alternatives because some software I'm using depends on it. The error is: It terminates with status

onboard sound does not work

2004-02-09 Thread by way of Gaf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello. I am a newbie to both unix and FreeBSD. I am trying to configure my onboard sond without success. My motherboard: ASUS P4S800-MX Audio spec: ADI AD1888 6channel audio codec. pciconf -lv says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:7: class=0x040100 card=0x810d1043 chip=0x70121039 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00

Re: FDISK Can Not Find FreeBSD Drive

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Risdon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have installed FreeBSD on a separate HardDrive which is D: Not according to FreeBSD. Drive letters are used by DOS and Windows but not many other operating systems. FreeBSD organises disks differently. Maybe try reading the handbook, including but not

5.2 install hangs after menu

2004-02-09 Thread Kathy Quinlan
I am trying to install FreeBSD5.2 on an Athlon XP 2100+ machine with 512Mb ram and 20gb hdd (5gb partition for FreeBSD)MSI 745 Ultra motherboard. If I select any option on the menu, it tries to install and then hangs saying BTX halted. Even if I use option 3 (safe mode) If I select option 5

Root filesystem cannot be created

2004-02-09 Thread Teilhard Knight
In my post: Is this an stupid question, I forgot to say I am trying to install FreeBSD in the second HD, nor the first boot disk. Not long ago, when 5.0 and 4.7 were the main releases, everybody advised me not to fiddle with 5.0, but to go with 4.7 as I am a newbie. 4.7 installed all right in

Re: 5.2 install hangs after menu

2004-02-09 Thread Dimitri Aivaliotis
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:05:09 +0800 Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I select option 5 (verbose debug) it gives the following error message: ACPI autoload failed - no such file or directory. Have you tried option 2 (no ACPI)? - Dimitri

RE: 5.2 install hangs after menu

2004-02-09 Thread Kathy Quinlan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dimitri Aivaliotis Sent: Monday, 9 February 2004 11:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 5.2 install hangs after menu On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:05:09 +0800 Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Compaq Alpha FreeBSD 5.2 CANNOT FIND DISK

2004-02-09 Thread Rich Paredes
I need help with my Compaq AlphaServer DS20E. I was able to easily install Redhat 7.2 on the machine but I cannot install FREEBSD 5.2 on the box. The kernel boots and then I try to continue with the install and I receive NO DISKS FOUND Please verify that your disk controller is being properly

library/linking problems

2004-02-09 Thread Joey Mingrone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have some sort of problem with my c++ stream libraries. A bunch of ports that rely on things like cerr are giving linking errors. (lots of undefined reference to `cerr', undefined reference to `ostream::operator(char const *)'). I've

Server connectivity problem (firewall?)

2004-02-09 Thread listmail
Hardware setup: MSN -- DSL -- [ (nic rl0) fbsd (nic dc0) ] -- lan -- The problem: Any operation initiating within the FBSD box works normally (such as nslookup, web surfing, and so on). Additionally, any operations initated on the LAN side (pings, web surfing, etc.) work just

Re: 5.2 install hangs after menu

2004-02-09 Thread Dimitri Aivaliotis
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:26:51 +0800 Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I select option 5 (verbose debug) it gives the following error message: ACPI autoload failed - no such file or directory. Have you tried option 2 (no ACPI)? Yeap, only option that does not hang is

Re: Compaq Alpha FreeBSD 5.2 CANNOT FIND DISK

2004-02-09 Thread Dimitri Aivaliotis
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:33:19 -0500 Rich Paredes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty much at a loss and cannot understand why it cannot find the disks. It has an Adaptec AIC-7895 controller and 4 IDE hard drives (Cypress 82C693 IDE) Just a few guesses here, as I don't have an AlphaServer...

Re: How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I have a hard disk, on which I would like to merge two slices into one single slice. The disk slices are as follows: First, in the df output I see below, there is only one slice showing. That would be slice 1 of the /dev/ad1 disk eg. /dev/ad1s1. Second, it would be more useful in

pkg database corrupted ? (LONG)

2004-02-09 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) Somehow, my ports DB got corrupted or something, so I cannot portupgrade anymore :( I updated by cvsup to see if it changed something, but id didn't... This is the command I issued after cvsuping: # cd /usr/ports # make index portsdb -u pkgdb -Fvu If you have any idea, I would really

AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
G'day all ... Simple question, I would hope ... I want to spec out a new server, and want to compare AMD vs Intel ... is there anything online that gives approx equivalents? ie. a Xeon 2.4Ghz processor would be approx equivalent to an AMD ... ?? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier

Re: bsd equiv of trace?

2004-02-09 Thread Dev Tugnait
oh jumbled it up my bad monday blues, sorry about the mix up * Jerry McAllister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Isnt this a freebsd Mailing List? try the Solaris lists please. That doesn't make any sense. He is asking a question about BSD. He is asking for something to use on BSD that would

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2004-02-09 Thread Matt Gostick
No, the cd is not mounted when I try to use burncd. As I stated, the same thing works when I try to burn a regular cdr disc. burncd with blank or erase produce the same result... CDIOCSTART. Matt Gostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:47:09 -0500 Matt Gostick [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wireless network support

2004-02-09 Thread Per Hallström
Hi! I need a wireless network card which will work with FreeBSD, and according to the handbook there are some supported chipsets. However, I am unable to find a network card with any of those chipsets (I am having a hard time just finding manufacturers that tells me what chipsets they are

Re: bsd equiv of trace?

2004-02-09 Thread Julien Gabel
What is the BSD equivalent of trace on Solaris? ktrace(1) then kdump(1) on both 4.X and 5.X. truss(1) can be used too, but work in conjunction with /proc which is not mounted by default on 5.X due to security reasons. A work is in progress as it is a required feature for 5.3:

Re: Can't start rshd

2004-02-09 Thread Daniela
On Monday 09 February 2004 14:43, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having problems starting rshd. I tried it on two different computers (yes, I know about the security risks, but the port is firewalled off). I can't use alternatives because some software I'm using

supfile tag to use? port/src

2004-02-09 Thread Drew
Greetings, I am a little confused by what the website says and what the example supfiles have. I have two questions. 1. When do I use tag=.? T he website says only use this for ports, but in my /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile the tag is set to tag=.. I thought tag=. was saying

Re: pkg database corrupted ? (LONG)

2004-02-09 Thread Julien Gabel
Somehow, my ports DB got corrupted or something, so I cannot portupgrade anymore :( I updated by cvsup to see if it changed something, but id didn't. This is the command I issued after cvsuping: # cd /usr/ports # make index portsdb -u pkgdb -Fvu 1/ After ran cvsup(1), have you tried to

Re: Server connectivity problem (firewall?)

2004-02-09 Thread Joe Lewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] From /etc/rc.conf: firewall_enable=YES # Set to YES to enable firewall functionality firewall_script=/etc/rc.firewall # Which script to run to set up the firewall firewall_type=OPEN# Firewall type (see /etc/rc.firewall)

Re: supfile tag to use? port/src

2004-02-09 Thread Julien Gabel
I am a little confused by what the website says and what the example supfiles have. 1. When do I use tag=.? T he website says only use this for ports, but in my /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile the tag is set to tag=.. I thought tag=. was saying 'gimme the lastest thing

Re: Re[2]: Problems with GRUB

2004-02-09 Thread Jud
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 16:43:06 +0200, Robert Golovniov [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Monday, February 9, 2004, 4:15:35 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: LG Not installing from the ports system, for one thing... That was the first thing I tried to do, Lowell. :-) Did not work, although I dont

rsync question

2004-02-09 Thread Darryl Hoar
I'm running 5.1-release. I've installed rsync from ports. I've looked at the man pages and only saw where I can specifiy the log format. How do I specify a log file? or must I : rsync -av /test/ /tmp/test mylog.txt ? Thanks in advance, Darryl ___

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-09 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: G'day all ... Simple question, I would hope ... I want to spec out a new server, and want to compare AMD vs Intel ... is there anything online that gives approx equivalents? ie. a Xeon 2.4Ghz processor would be approx equivalent to an AMD

Re: What OS should I use?

2004-02-09 Thread Jud
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:47:50 +0100, Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip] I also think there may be another issue I haven't diagnosed yet. I tried a version of KNOPPIX WFTL edition from a book (Moving to Linux) but it wouldn't load on my machine. It asked me to insert another disk

Standard and rebuild 5.2 freezing or giveing a warning

2004-02-09 Thread jens
Hi , I tried to build a custom kernel with the latest src 5.2 . With the standard kernel provided with the iso image a get the following warning. Part of the dmesg output. ad0: 29325MB Maxtor 6E030L0 [59582/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 GEOM: create disk ad1 dp=0xc4819460 ad1: 19092MB

Re: pkg database corrupted ? (LONG)

2004-02-09 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Monday 09 February 2004 18:21, Julien Gabel wrote: 1/ After ran cvsup(1), have you tried to regenerate the INDEX file in addition to INDEX.db? # portsdb -Uu 2/ Then, maybe you can try to re-create all the package database with: # pkgdb -fu Well, as I said in my previous mail,

Re: rsync question

2004-02-09 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 9, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Darryl Hoar wrote: I'm running 5.1-release. I've installed rsync from ports. I've looked at the man pages and only saw where I can specifiy the log format. How do I specify a log file? or must I : rsync -av /test/ /tmp/test mylog.txt ? The rsync documentation

I'm really upset with my new computer

2004-02-09 Thread Rob2
I can't even log in without permission errors, yet all the files in my home directory are rob.rob permissions. I end up at the root directory where all homeless users end up Nvidia video doesn't work. I downloaded the latest binary from Nvidia and I don't know where it went on my computer.

Re: How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-09 Thread Rob
Malcolm, Thank you for your detailed answer to my question. Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:46, Rob wrote: Do not change the offset of 'f'. If 'g' does not physically follow 'f' on the disk then this is not going to work -- give up now!!! How can I find that out? Is it the

Re: Re[2]: Problems with GRUB

2004-02-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Golovniov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday, February 9, 2004, 4:15:35 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: LG Not installing from the ports system, for one thing... That was the first thing I tried to do, Lowell. :-) Did not work, although I dont remember what were the error messages.

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-09 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: G'day all ... Simple question, I would hope ... I want to spec out a new server, and want to compare AMD vs Intel ... is there anything online that gives approx equivalents? ie. a Xeon 2.4Ghz

LAN w/ 2 Hubs

2004-02-09 Thread Elsie Rae Bryan
We are in the design phase for a small business LAN and want to use FreeBSD as our DSL router/gateway/firewall/DHCP. We need to run a backbone cable to a second hub in an adjacent building. Rather than connecting the two hubs via a switch box, can a third NIC be used to connect the second hub or

Sendmail questions

2004-02-09 Thread Jason Williams
Morning everyone. I have a few questions in general about Sendmail and a few in regards to sendmail on FreeBSD. (NOTE: I do use postfix for a lot of my mail servers, but for one particular instance, I need to use Sendmail.) My first question is about resources for learning Sendmail. I

Re: supfile tag to use? port/src

2004-02-09 Thread Drew
You are right. /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile is more... explicit :) What do you mean? The handbook says don't use tag=., except for ports, but the standard file has such. Which is it? Use it or don't? And if I do what branch will I be getting?

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Charles Swiger wrote: On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: G'day all ... Simple question, I would hope ... I want to spec out a new server, and want to compare AMD vs Intel ... is there anything online that gives approx equivalents? ie. a Xeon

Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)?

2004-02-09 Thread Rishi Chopra
Please see my reply below: Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:12:51 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a summary of my problem so far: Server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from csh, ttyv0 and ps) when power was cut; server reports a problem

raster text mode for ATI Mach64

2004-02-09 Thread Will Saxon
Hello, I have a machine with an integrated Mach64 adapter and I would like to use the VESA_800x600 raster text mode. I have the appropriate options in my kernel and when loading the vesa kernel module it reports VESA v2.0 support. However, setting the video mode always fails with 'Operation

Re: LAN w/ 2 Hubs

2004-02-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Elsie Rae Bryan wrote: We are in the design phase for a small business LAN and want to use FreeBSD as our DSL router/gateway/firewall/DHCP. We need to run a backbone cable to a second hub in an adjacent building. Rather than connecting the two hubs via a switch box, can a third NIC be used to

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-09 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 9, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Charles Swiger wrote: I know you're not a troll, Marc, but this question is much like asking whether emacs or vi makes a better editor. :-) Actually, I wasn't asking which one was better though :) I'm only curious as to how

Re: java question part 2.

2004-02-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:40:11AM -0500, r.w.h wrote: ok someone said goto freebsd foundation. here is what thay said. The current release of the JDK and JRE available via the FreeBSD Foundation is 1.3.1. These binaries have been tested and certified to run with FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE but

Re: I'm really upset with my new computer

2004-02-09 Thread Craig Reyenga
I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed into the source tree. -Craig - Original Message - From: Rob2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:41

RE: I'm really upset with my new computer

2004-02-09 Thread Jason Lavigne
This might help http://www.angermgmt.com/angertoolkit.html Jay -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob2 Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I'm really upset with my new computer I can't even log in

Re: Can't login to 5.2-RC1, must hard reboot

2004-02-09 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, sammy!!! wrote: I get the following error messages in my logfile, a lot. Feb 7 18:40:22 cooper sshd[806]: set class 'me' resource limit datasize: Operation not permitted Feb 7 18:40:22 cooper sshd[806]: set class 'me' resource limit stacksize: Operation not permitted

Re: supfile tag to use? port/src

2004-02-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:21:48AM -0800, Drew wrote: You are right. /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile is more... explicit :) What do you mean? The handbook says don't use tag=., except for ports, but the standard file has such. Which is it? Use it or don't? And if I

Re: 5.2 install hangs after menu

2004-02-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:05:09PM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD5.2 on an Athlon XP 2100+ machine with 512Mb ram and 20gb hdd (5gb partition for FreeBSD)MSI 745 Ultra motherboard. If I select any option on the menu, it tries to install and then hangs saying BTX

Re: I'm really upset with my new computer

2004-02-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed into the source tree. That doesn't make any sense. No hard drive vendor supports UNIX permissions on their hard drives. File permissions are

Re: I'm really upset with my new computer

2004-02-09 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:09:15PM -0500, Craig Reyenga wrote: I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed into the source tree. I'm a little confused on how a hd from dell or sony could

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