Frequent NMI warnings

2013-10-11 Thread Peter Risdon
+NMI ... 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, Pe

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 bui

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 /et

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 ho

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 wrot

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

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: 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

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 o

[Fwd: Re: mot de passe root]

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Risdon
--- Begin Message --- 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

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 +0000, 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

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 Russi

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 > t

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 be

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 > &

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 an

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 sta

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)

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: 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

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 thi

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. >

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 driver

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

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: > > > http://www.bsdguide

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 r

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 q

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 de

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: 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

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: > > > > > > [...] > > > &

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 Re

Re: FreeBSD Mail Server

2005-02-17 Thread Peter Risdon
, it must be /etc/rc.conf 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 &

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 Lewi

RE: FreeBSD Mail Server

2005-02-17 Thread Peter Risdon
m > -;-)---- > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Risdon > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: freebsd-questions

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: courier_imap_imapd_s

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 h

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 -

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

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

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

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 h

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 fire

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/cl

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

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: > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 10:49 AM > Subject: Re: live mir

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 confi

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 emplo

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 b

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 be

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: 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

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 suff

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: 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 mon

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 shedloa

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 > > >

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 ch

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 07:39 -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: > Peter Risdon wrote: > > > > >>>#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 po

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

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 b

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 +0000, Peter Risdon > > > > > How about: > > > > > > #mv /sbin /usr/sbin > > > #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin >

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

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

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 bitstrea

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

[Fwd: Re: question]

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
For google. --- Begin Message --- 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

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 +0000, Peter Risdon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

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 >

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... > > &

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

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

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 ag

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 i

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

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 page

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: 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: 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: 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 adapte

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 d

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 For some reason, FreeBSD and Xorg is only using a small square

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 http://www.

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 h

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 upgradi

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),

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 o

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 o

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 /usr/s

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 unmount

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: 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: 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 watch

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. T

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 h

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% into

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 \ o

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 connect to the share, ask the Administrator" (sorry, translating from V> Italian) V> PLEASE HELP V> Ciao V> Vittorio -

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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