App like M$ Project
I am looking for a nice Open Source app like Microsloth's Project. I have Googled a bit and find nothing interesting. Do any of you have a suggestion for such a thing, assuming it even exists? Of course, I would also like to run it on FBSD, but if it could also run on Winderz, for some of my (L)users, that would be good too. Thank you. -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: App like M$ Project
On Mon, May 24, 2004, Andreas Ntaflos clacked the keyboard to produce: Thank you both, I shall look into each one. -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process
Robert Huff wrote: [snip] An easier solution is to login to a second virtual terminal by hitting Alt-F2 (all the way up to F7). Then just switch back by pressing Alt-F1, or whichever terminal you were on before. And its Ctl-Alt-Fn, not Alt-Fn on my -Current system IIRC, Ctrl-Alt-Fn is for when using GUI. My 4.9 and 5.0 systems do fine between terminals with Alt-Fn --Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printing to a Xerox Document Centre 332 (escape seq.)
We have a Xerox Document Centre 332 on our network. LPD is running on it. I can send print jobs to it from the FBSD boxes, however I get the staircase effect. I cannot find at Xerox, nor Googling the escape sequence required to curtail the staircase effects. Has anyone figured this out? And if so, would you be willing to share the codes? Thank you -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: thinkpad 600
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] clacked the keyboard to produce: Hi Please can you tell me how to install freebsd on my thinkpad 600 as I have win 98 on it and it is a refurbed unit I would like to investigate freebsd as an os and use it in an everyday enviroment and say good riddens to MS and hopefolly do my bit for the other battlers in the field Thanks gary Sure, you will need to start at the FreeBSD web pages and read up on the install methods etc. Next you will want to download some form of the media, either the floppy images or a full CD iso image. Or better yet, purchase them from the FreeBSD mall. If not purchase, you can make a donation to the project, but I digress. Once you have the media, assuming the CD, you can set the Thinkpad BIOS to boot from the CD. When you boot from the CD, you will begin the install and just follow through. Your best bet will be to delete the partition set up for Windows 98 and use the full disk and auto slices from the install routine. It should be obvious when you run through it. Just take your time and read each screen well and make sure you understand what you are doing at each screen. I have read it here before that if this is your first go at FreeBSD, like Window$, you will want to install more than once, just because as a newbie you will make a mistake or two. No worries though, there are many people here who will help when you have troubles. Just be sure to read as much as you can prior to asking a question, and maybe search google or dogpile or something like that to get answers prior to asking. Almost all the questions you will have in the beginning will have already been answered many times before. Finally, you will most likely want to ask Thinkpad specific questions on the `mobile' FreeBSD mailing list. The address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions about FreeBSD belong here. Just so you know, FreeBSD runs great on the 600 series. It is running nicely on my 600X and also on my T22. Good luck and enjoy. -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: thinkpad 600
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004, Jerry McAllister clacked the keyboard to produce: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] clacked the keyboard to produce: I would like to investigate freebsd as an os and use it in an everyday enviroment and say good riddens to MS and hopefolly do my bit for the other battlers in the field Works real well. I would suggest FreeBSD 4.9 for now. Same here. Have tried some of the 5.x, and ran into some kookiness, if you will. The 4.9 is quite good right now. Your best bet will be to delete the partition set up for Windows 98 and use the full disk and auto slices from the install routine. I am not sure why this would be recommended. If you have enough disk, then just shrink the Win-98 slice to make room for another one and install FreeBSD on it. Then you can dual boot the machine - that is you can have both systems available and choose at boot time which to bring up. The OP notes, as seen above, that he is after using FreeBSD daily and to be rid of Microsoft, hence my suggestion of a single boot device. -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: False positives from chkrootkit? or hacked test server?
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004, Mike clacked the keyboard to produce: Greetings: My test system: FreeBSD 4.9-stable Pentium III 800 I read an earlier post about using chkrootkit to check for root kits (intrusions). I'm still learning about FreeBSD so I thought I would run this too. Well... I installed and ran chkrootkit. And the output shows that: Checking `chfn'... INFECTED Checking `chsh'... INFECTED Checking `date'... INFECTED Checking `ls'... INFECTED Checking `ps'... INFECTED No rootkits were found. This FreeBSD system is a test server running Postfix, Samba, Apache, PHP4, MySql, and akpop3. For a firewall I run IPFW. This computer sits behind a NAT router (linksys BEFSR41). The Linksys router forwards a few ports (25, 110, 80) to a different server (a Redhat-9 system). However, NO PORTS are forwarded to this FreeBSD system. My Redhat-9 server that runs Apache, Mysql, php4, and postfix. Question: Does chkrootkit ever generate false positives? Michael, I cannot answer your question, but rather throw in my false positive question as well. I am running FBSD 5.0 release with named, Apache, MySQL, and Samba too. I receieved the exact same positives from my system. Everything else is fine. In Googling I found a question as such and the only reply was FAQ and read the archives, to wit, some joker has a name of chkrootkit and you get a zillion of his mails, yet nothing helpful otherwise. Looking forward to hearing something too. -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd in the architect office
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004, jsha clacked the keyboard to produce: hi. i have a dying passion for freebsd and the concept of open source, and now i intend to patch it into the way architects shape our environments. architects need two things: autocad, and be able to print (plot). besides that, it's pretty much up to me how i want to set up this network. the first thing that entered my mind was freebsd. however, i have an additional set of windows software that i need them to use in order to increase productivity and quality in less time. these are products from the same people who made autocad: revit, architectural desktop etc. doing freebsd vmware/wine autodesk software seems like a difficult task. would it be best for me to stick to samba and perhaps run the windows version of blackbox, or are there some other hidden open source technologies (like there always are) that might benefit this office? thanks. -- j. Hey, you say you have a dying passion for freebsd, does that mean your passion is in fact dying? ;-) Or maybe you meant undying? hehehe Being a registered Architect in Florida, I too would love such a thing, but as far as I know, there is no good way to run AutoCAD on a *nix system, emulated or otherwise. My current situation is to use FBSD for file storage and the like. I let the CAD guys run Wintel and AutoCAD. Yes, I am using Samba for that. I have not tried wine in about two years, but even then I could not even install AutoCAD, much less run it. I think that AutoCAD is to Windows dependent to be emulated and you may be stuck with a not so perfect situation. Perfect being a FBSD environment. -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Inexpensive wireless suggestions?
On Tue, Apr 6, 2004, Jonathon McKitrick clacked the keyboard to produce: I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive wireless setup for home that will work with FreeBSD and an older laptop. Does anyone have any suggestions? NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. Post it here, read it here. jm -- My other computer is your windows box. Man wi will help with wireless cards. Any card should would with any WAP using the same protocol, if not a multi protocol WAP. I went with a cheapo Belikn WAP $20.00 USD and a Spectrum second0hand card $25.00 USD. Works fine for me. -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Inexpensive wireless suggestions?
On Tue, Apr 6, 2004, Aleksandar Simic clacked the keyboard to produce: On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:31:52PM -0400, Bob Collins wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2004, Jonathon McKitrick clacked the keyboard to produce: I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive wireless setup for home that will work with FreeBSD and an older laptop. Does anyone have any suggestions? NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. Post it here, read it here. Any particular reason for this attitude ? No attitude. Many of the listers see hundreds if not thousands of emails a day. This is a list. If we on the list are wanting to respond, we will respond, but fullfilling special orders is not the idea of a list. Again no attitude, if you took it that way, maybe you should review how email lists function. Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Server down regularly
On Fri, Apr 2, 2004, meimi clacked the keyboard to produce: Hello, My server is down regularly. Could anyone tell what thing I should check? Thanks Meimi We could use a little more information. Not to be rude, but are you using FreeBSD as an OS? If so, what version? Describe the hardware please. Where is the system, is it in a room that is a hundred degrees hot? A shot in the dark: your power supply is going away. Or maybe, bad Ram. Well, perhaps an overheating CPU. Maybe an HD that is getting flaky. Who knows? We need info please to help you. -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Server down regularly
On Sat, Apr 3, 2004, meimi clacked the keyboard to produce: Hello, From the messages log, the error I found: /kernel: arplookup xx.xx.xx.xx failed: host is not on local network And warning I got /kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted The first is I have got the wrong netmask, but the error is always in the log and i don't think it is the problem. The second one is just because I issued a reboot from my apc reboot interface. Also, I shouldn't say regularly, it should be frequently. It has been 4 times this weeks. Do you feel that it is very secure? Anyone else have access to this box? I am not sure it is very secure and, yes, other people can access but not root access. Thanks Meimi In my experience arplookup should not cause a shutdown if it fails. Are you *ABSOLUTELY* sure the others have no root acces? Are they wheel group? Do they know root's password? -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Top posting
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004, Charles McManis clacked the keyboard to produce: Perhaps it isn't logical, if you've read all the email then the quoted thread is just reference anyway. This is the new stuff. I love being able to read mail in the preview-pane vs next message , jump to the bottom, next message jump to the bottom. It comes down to opinion I think --Chuck On Friday 19 March 2004 09:46, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 03/19/04 09:21 AM, Joshua Lokken sat at the `puter and typed: http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+postingsourceid=mozilla-searchst art=0start=0ie=utf-8oe=utf-8 Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted. People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too) that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter- intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of RFC 1855. Please, it has been requested from many users of this list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;) Yes, it has been requested from many users, and quite a few have flat out refused to follow this logical norm. Others simply follow the precedent set in any given thread, and some few will go so far as to delete the trailing messages and try to herd an already errant thread in the right direction. For my part, my reply behavior depends on the audience. One would think that a company with so many geeks (from developers to SW architects) would tend to do this right, but not so. Bottom line, don't hold your breath. Unfortunately, many mail clients don't show the replied email during reply composition but place it below the response, and most default to replying at the top anyway. Most users just don't bother to correct it when the option is there. I feel your pain dude. Lou [format broken, see above and then back down to here] No, it is not logical. If everyone top-posts, the email must be read in reverse to recapture thoughts of others or points made. If twleve people reply properly and you reply the way your `opinion' tells you too, you have broken the path or reading, by forcing people to jump to the bottom to refresh the last message and then back to the top to get the latest thoughts or info. It is also quite obnoxious to review such top-posters threads that are intermixed when looking through the archives. Finally, as pointed out previously, it does not follow convention. It is much like Microsft `enhancing' an industry standard, which actually breaks the standard. -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache
On Tue, Mar 2, 2004, Michael Banta clacked the keyboard to produce: Hello. I just installed Apache wilthout error. I started apache and did a ps aux. It appears to be running fine. However I cannot bring up the default webpage. Doing lynx localhost does not work. I set the Servername variable in the config file to localhost, just to test. Everything appears to be in order. Any suggestions? Thanks Mike It sounds like a hostname error. Does Apache know it is answering as localhost? You may want to double-check your `Listen' and `ServerName' directives. A quick test is to try lynx to the local ip address and see what happens. BTW, did you run `apachectl configtest' prior to starting Apache? That will help you with any issues, although if it is running, I am not sure configtest would find it. -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WiFi card Netgear WG511
Anybody using one of these under 4.9? I see a good deal for this with a large local retailer and would consider it for my TP600X if it is known to work. Thanks -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Chuck Swiger clacked the keyboard to produce: Peter Leftwich wrote: Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs) partition FROM WITHIN Windows XP Pro SP1 (transparently)? I am not familiar with any such software, regrettably. You'd need a Windows developer experienced with their kernel and filesystem management code to write a filesystem adaptor, or whatever the Windows phrase is... -- -Chuck Why not Samba? -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Kenneth Culver clacked the keyboard to produce: Quoting Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Chuck Swiger clacked the keyboard to produce: Peter Leftwich wrote: Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs) partition FROM WITHIN Windows XP Pro SP1 (transparently)? I am not familiar with any such software, regrettably. You'd need a Windows developer experienced with their kernel and filesystem management code to write a filesystem adaptor, or whatever the Windows phrase is... -- -Chuck Why not Samba? Because most likely both filesystems are on the same machine. Ken Perhaps I missed the OP, but it was not obvious this was what was intended. -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CVSup question, which tag for 4.9-RELEASE?
I am running a few boxes(n) on 4.9-RELEASE and am wondering about updating the ports and source. Using CVSup, should I tag src with RELENG_4, or RELENG_4_9? And what if any are the differences, that are not already noted in the handbook? Up to this point, I have not updated the system since install I think I have a rather good grasp of the topic, but there is a little confusion on my part. I am thinking if I read correctly, using RELENG_4 will update to the latest in the 4.x branch and I'll be at 4.9-Current, no? And RELENG_4_9 will be only updates to the 4.9 branch? Thanks for the clarification. -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless network support
On Mon, Feb 9, 2004, Per Hallstrm clacked the keyboard to produce: 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 using in the cards). So, to people successfully using a wireless network card with FreeBSD: what card should I buy? Full model name etc is appreciated, of course. 11 Mbit cards are totally out of the question, by the way. Thanks in advance! Since I don't want to expose my email (getting enough crap already), please reply to the list. man wi will list quite a few cards with model numbers. -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
uname -a was(Cvsup and RELENG_4 or RLENG_4_9)
This is a follow-up question regarding uname -a. After CVSup, making world, making a new kernel etc, when I run uname -a it reports 4.9-RELEASE #0. Should the #0 portion be a higher number? Also what exactly does that number represent? I assume an RC Thanks -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: uname -a was(Cvsup and RELENG_4 or RLENG_4_9)
On Tue, Feb 3, 2004, Jonathan Chen clacked the keyboard to produce: On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:39:10AM -0500, Bob Collins wrote: This is a follow-up question regarding uname -a. After CVSup, making world, making a new kernel etc, when I run uname -a it reports 4.9-RELEASE #0. Should the #0 portion be a higher number? Also what exactly does that number represent? I assume an RC It represents the number of times you've built the kernel using the current sources. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by - Douglas Adams Me too to your sig. Thank you for the clarification. This list and FBSD are truly amazing. Fast answers and lots of help, and I learn something new every day. Thanks all! -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cvsup and RELENG_4 or RLENG_4_9
I have read through the keeping current section of the book a few times and I am a bit lost. If I read correctly, to upgrade source(I am running RELEASE-4.9) I can use either RELENG_4 or RELENG_4_9. Although I am not sure if I need one, the other, or both. And if both, which order, if it matters? Further reading indicates that cvsuping with RLENEG_4_9 will update only critical items. Again, if I am reading this correctly, should I then cvsup both so I have all the sources corrected, or is RELENG_4_9 enough for a production machine? Thanks for your patience with this. I have also searched a bit about it and I am on the right track, I just think I need some clarification as to which one is `best' for a production machine. FWIW, this will be for a dual processed server. -- Bob Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom. -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-12-07 - 2003-12-27
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003, Dan Langille wrote: On 28 Dec 2003 at 3:17, Dev Tugnait wrote: * Dan Langille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list archives http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and/or The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/. quick question why do you keep mailing the same thing voer and over again? Why do you not use spell checking? ;-) The message is posted by a cron job. The purpose of the message is to inform, and to reduce the load on the mailing list. For what it's worth, I asked the list some time ago (years perhaps) if it was acceptable to post such a message. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ And for some of us, me, it is nice to be reminded of these pages. They have proven to be extremely helpful. Thanks Dan for it! -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DAT drives
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003, Mike Maltese wrote: Okay, probably a dumb question but I can't readily find an answer in the archives.. I just picked up a (used) surestore C1533A (thats an HP device) and am having some problems getting it work quite right. I've got the dip switches set correctly (I was able to find at least 3 corroborating pages for that) but can't manage to get it to write correctly. It will only write about 50 megs using 0a as dump flags. Trying to specify -B and estimating compression got me to about 200 but it's a 4 gig drive. All it wants to do is write a few blocks, sit and sputter for a second or two, write a few more, (repeat for about 15 minutes) and then tell me it's at EOM well before it should be. There are notes in the hardware compatability section that says this drive has been made to work onder FreeBSD so I know at least that it's not simply an unsupported device. Any suggestions from the folks in the audience? This is a DDS2 SCSI drive, correct? I have a C1553A in an autoloader and it works flawlessly. I would check the following: 1. Since you're getting EOM, check that the tape is, in fact, rewound. 2. Try a new tape. 3. Run a cleaning tape. 4. Ensure that the SCSI bus is correctly configured and terminated. I would add a second to the SCSI termination. I ran into an error with my DDS-2 a few weeks back due to a failing or flaky terminator in the tape drive. I had to add a true terminator to the SCSI cable. I had many such troubles with tape errors EOM etc., until I checked the termination. FWIW, I had read that the internal terminator on many older SCSI devices are often flaky and touch and go. Good Luck. -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vinum error Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, Marc Smits wrote: Hello, I am running FreeBSD-4.7-realease and want to create a striped plex from 2 new 80Gb disks. Here's my vinum-description: drive a device /dev/ad2s1e drive b device /dev/ad3s1e volume stripe0 plex org striped 256k sd length 78159m drive a sd length 78159m drive b When I run 'vinum create vinum.conf' The message I get is: 1: drive a device /dev/ad2s1e ** 1 Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument 2: drive b device /dev/ad3s1e ** 2 Can't initialize drive b: Invalid argument 0 drives: 1 volumes: V stripe0 State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 152GB 1 plexes: P stripe0.p0 S State: faulty Subdisks: 2 Size: 152GB 2 subdisks: S stripe0.p0.s0 State: crashed PO:0 B Size: 76GB S stripe0.p0.s1 State: crashed PO: 256 kB Size: 76GB I used sysinstall to fdisk and label the partitions. What do need to do diffrent to get vinum to use the partitions? Did you disklabel the slices to be of type vinum? I had a similar trouble due to the fact I had labeled the disks as BSD4.0 or some such. Once you have the disks labeled, you have to disklabel -d ad2 I think and change the label to `vinum' without the single quotes. Also, do you have a mount point /a and /b ? -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vinum error Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, Bob Collins wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, Marc Smits wrote: Hello, I am running FreeBSD-4.7-realease and want to create a striped plex from 2 new 80Gb disks. Here's my vinum-description: drive a device /dev/ad2s1e [snippage] 76GB I used sysinstall to fdisk and label the partitions. What do need to do diffrent to get vinum to use the partitions? Did you disklabel the slices to be of type vinum? I had a similar trouble due to the fact I had labeled the disks as BSD4.0 or some such. Once you have the disks labeled, you have to disklabel -d ad2 I think ^^^ That should be disklabel -e ad2 Bob typing too fast... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ejecting a Zip disk using eject(1)
On Tue, Dec 2, 2003, DG wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew Emmerton Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:32 AM To: DG; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ejecting a Zip disk using eject(1) I tried that too. The eject command accepts just the device name without a prefix, and prepends /dev/ as necessary. Specifically from man eject(1): SYNOPSIS eject [-fnv] device It's probably the case that the actual Zip drive itself doesn't have the hardware to eject the disk automatically -- you have to push the eject button on the front (like a floppy) -- at least with the Zip drives I've used. CD-ROMs, OTOH, can be ejected through software since the tray is motorized. -- Matt Emmerton Not so. The Zip drive ejects quite happily under a different open source UNIX-like operating system, and a similar IDE Zip drive in a different PC ejects quite happily under Windows 98. Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a quick question. Did you umount the zip disk prior to ejecting it? IIRC, I had to umount my old zip drive prior to eject working just my 0.02 -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GIS server and client?
I am unfortunately running ESRI's ArcIMS GIS server on M$ 2000 server and would like to move it to FreeBSD. So, the question is; are there any known GIS servers that run on FBSD as well as clients? I am not afraid of hard work and troubles installing, but sure would like to do this. I also know ESRI's ArcIMS runs on Red Hat, but I would rather not do that if possible. I want to stick with FreeBSD. Any and all suggestions, as related to the questions ;-) are appreciated. Thanks -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GIS server and client?
On Tue, Dec 2, 2003, Ray Seals wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 10:26, Bob Collins wrote: I am unfortunately running ESRI's ArcIMS GIS server on M$ 2000 server and would like to move it to FreeBSD. So, the question is; are there any known GIS servers that run on FBSD as well as clients? I am not afraid of hard work and troubles installing, but sure would like to do this. I also know ESRI's ArcIMS runs on Red Hat, but I would rather not do that if possible. I want to stick with FreeBSD. Any and all suggestions, as related to the questions ;-) are appreciated. Thanks I'm currently doing some research on this subject. GRASS seems to be the big one that is used on FreeBSD. This is a full featured GIS system. There is also Mapserver which is just a tool for displaying maps on the web using GIS shapefiles, etc. Mapserver just has some good API's for using perl and C to manipulate the images as they are being displayed. I don't know much about GIS. If you wouldn't mind fielding a few questions over the next week or so I would appreciate any insight you could give me. Ray I would be delighted to answer what I can. I am also somewhat new to GIS, but getting better each day with it. I have built quite a few maps for display over the net, and set up the map server to send to the net as well, so at this time, I am a jack of all trades and a master of none, in the GIS realm. It prolly makes sense to keep this off-list, unless others want it there. Even with that, we should stay off list, I think, as it is not germain to FreeBSD. What I can do, is hold our mail on a web site for future reference for those who might like to follow in our footsteps. Also, FWIW, I am setting this up as a test bed on an IBM Thinkpad 600X running FreeBSD 4.9-Release. It is 450MHz with 256MB -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie install question
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've had so many truncated d/l's trying to install the Mysql server from the port that came with my 4.8 mini iso that I decided instead to d/l the mysql-max-4.0.16-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz from mysql.org and install from there. How is this done? Do I just drop the tar.gz into the ports dir and then make install; make build after make dist-clean? Which subdir does the .gz file go into? distfiles [man ports(7)] Also note the -F and -R options for fetch, which is the default program used for the downloads. I did mine the hard way. I grabbed that file and put into /tmp. I then gunzipped un-tarred and configured and made. It worked, but surely the distfiles methods is easiest. Have you resolved the truncated downloads? I would make sure that is not an issue prior to installing from the gz. You sure don't want the further aggravation of some file broken while installing. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie install question
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did mine the hard way. I grabbed that file and put into /tmp. I then gunzipped un-tarred and configured and made. It worked, but surely the distfiles methods is easiest. It also means you can't use the package tools on the program should you want to remove it in the future (or update it, etc.). Yes, I know. I seem to have great aim when it comes to shooting myself in the foot. ;-) Fortunately, I see no pressing need for me to upgrade or remove MySQL, as the current config is exactly what I need. I'll remember this for next time. BTW, I guess I am not the only one to not be able to install MySQL from ports. I have tried on three different machines all running 4.9 and it never worked. Go figure. Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie install question
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Marty Landman wrote: At 12:15 PM 11/26/2003, Bob Collins wrote: Have you resolved the truncated downloads? I would make sure that is not an issue prior to installing from the gz. You sure don't want the further aggravation of some file broken while installing. What can/should I do other than make dist-clean prior to the rest? Guess I didn't think about the issue being on my end. But of course it's possible, not sure how to check it though. Hmm, maybe I should try another port, something small perhaps and see if it has problems as well. I did several installs from the ports no problem e.g. Apache, PostgreSql and then things got a little chaotic. Samba afaik installed fine but my configuration attempts quickly became fubar'd. I will get back to that eventually, using ssh and ftp from my workstation is just fine for now. And my X11 install didn't complete cuz I ran out of space on my /usr partition so I cleared all that out. Other than that haven't had any problems... and have been up and running for 2 1/2 weeks now. :) Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml Make distclean is a good start. I found on my Bellsouth DSL at home, I often have intermittent troubles installing from ports with the DSL router being (seeming) flaky during the day. I have found, empirically, during the later evening hours (9:00 or later) the same installs proceed flawlessly. Installing Apache and PostgreSQL are fairly large and would have shown troubles if your were also having intermittent connectivity like I was. Is there a chance that the limited space on /usr is the trouble with the install process now? One thing you could do, is try a simple ftp download to your /usr/ports/distfiles directory to then run the install. It is a bit of a stop gap measure, but at least get you running as you want. -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too
Date sent: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:16:49 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: The FreeBSD Project Copies to: FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single-line paragraphs. On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 13:03:47 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: At 07:30 PM 11/21/2003, you wrote: On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 9:25:58 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: vinum - list 4 drives: D d State: up Device /dev/da1s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) D c State: up Device /dev/da2s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) D b State: up Device /dev/da3s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) D a State: up Device /dev/da4s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) 1 volumes: V raid State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 25 GB 1 plexes: P raid.p0R5 State: init Subdisks: 4 Size: 25 GB 4 subdisks: S raid.p0.s0State: emptyPO:0 B Size: 8747 MB S raid.p0.s1State: emptyPO: 512 kB Size: 8747 MB S raid.p0.s2State: emptyPO: 1024 kB Size: 8747 MB S raid.p0.s3State: emptyPO: 1536 kB Size: 8747 MB This doesn't agree with what you say above. It also looks fine to me. My apologies, Greg. Quite right. I was messing with the system right before the response about sa4 device nodes in /dev. Once I made the da4 devices, then the disklabel worked. My mistake jumping the gun. One follow-up question if I may. I assume that the init process for a RAID5 takes quite some time, no? This has been in the init stage for 3 days. The vinum daemon is running as I can see it listed in ps -ax. This is the init state, which means it needs initializing. To initialize, issue the 'init' command. The state will change from 'init' to 'initializing', and the list command shows the progress of the initialization. This writes zeroes to the drives in parallel; expect it to take an hour or two on drives of this size. Greg -- Thanks Greg, that did the trick. The initialization only took 19 minutes. The newfs took about 5 minutes, and it is now running perfectly. Thank you again. Bob -- Bob Collins Anything-inc.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too
At 07:30 PM 11/21/2003, you wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quotation broken. On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 9:25:58 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: At 08:41 PM 11/19/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quotation broken. On Wednesday, 19 November 2003 at 9:13:43 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: At 10:46 PM 11/17/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Do you have device nodes for da4? Has it been labelled at all? I did not have `all' the nodes for da4 in /dev. So, I ran #sh MAKEDEV da4 in the /dev directory. After that, there were what appeared to be all the device nodes for da4. I was able to label the drive and use it with vinum under 5.0-RELEASE FWIW. Under 4.9-RELEASE (which is what I now run) it will not label through /stand/sysinstall. I can now newfs the drive and mount it and copy files to and fro, however I cannot use it with vinum. I did umount the drive and then disklabel -e da4 and changed the e: to h: and the filesystem type to vinum. It was da4s1e. When I create the vinum configuration, I either get that drive d (da4s1h) is referenced and in the down state while the other three drives are up, or the other three drives a b c are referenced and in the down state while drive d is up. I need the information I ask for in http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE No changes to sources vinum - list 4 drives: D d State: up Device /dev/da1s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) D c State: up Device /dev/da2s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) D b State: up Device /dev/da3s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) D a State: up Device /dev/da4s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) 1 volumes: V raid State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 25 GB 1 plexes: P raid.p0R5 State: init Subdisks: 4 Size: 25 GB 4 subdisks: S raid.p0.s0State: emptyPO:0 B Size: 8747 MB S raid.p0.s1State: emptyPO: 512 kB Size: 8747 MB S raid.p0.s2State: emptyPO: 1024 kB Size: 8747 MB S raid.p0.s3State: emptyPO: 1536 kB Size: 8747 MB This doesn't agree with what you say above. It also looks fine to me. Greg -- My apologies, Greg. Quite right. I was messing with the system right before the response about sa4 device nodes in /dev. Once I made the da4 devices, then the disklabel worked. My mistake jumping the gun. One follow-up question if I may. I assume that the init process for a RAID5 takes quite some time, no? This has been in the init stage for 3 days. The vinum daemon is running as I can see it listed in ps -ax. Thank you Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too
At 08:41 PM 11/19/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quotation broken. On Wednesday, 19 November 2003 at 9:13:43 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: At 10:46 PM 11/17/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Do you have device nodes for da4? Has it been labelled at all? I did not have `all' the nodes for da4 in /dev. So, I ran #sh MAKEDEV da4 in the /dev directory. After that, there were what appeared to be all the device nodes for da4. I was able to label the drive and use it with vinum under 5.0-RELEASE FWIW. Under 4.9-RELEASE (which is what I now run) it will not label through /stand/sysinstall. I can now newfs the drive and mount it and copy files to and fro, however I cannot use it with vinum. I did umount the drive and then disklabel -e da4 and changed the e: to h: and the filesystem type to vinum. It was da4s1e. When I create the vinum configuration, I either get that drive d (da4s1h) is referenced and in the down state while the other three drives are up, or the other three drives a b c are referenced and in the down state while drive d is up. I need the information I ask for in http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE No changes to sources vinum - list 4 drives: D d State: up Device /dev/da1s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) D c State: up Device /dev/da2s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) D b State: up Device /dev/da3s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) D a State: up Device /dev/da4s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) 1 volumes: V raid State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 25 GB 1 plexes: P raid.p0R5 State: init Subdisks: 4 Size: 25 GB 4 subdisks: S raid.p0.s0State: emptyPO:0 B Size: 8747 MB S raid.p0.s1State: emptyPO: 512 kB Size: 8747 MB S raid.p0.s2State: emptyPO: 1024 kB Size: 8747 MB S raid.p0.s3State: emptyPO: 1536 kB Size: 8747 MB 18 Nov 2003 21:03:29.947426 *** vinum started *** 18 Nov 2003 21:03:29.948250 *** Created devices *** 18 Nov 2003 21:03:30.242946 create -f /etc/vinum.conf # Vinum configuration of freebie, Wed Nov 13 drive /dev/a device /dev/da1s1h drive /dev/b device /dev/da2s1h drive /dev/c device /dev/da3s1h drive /dev/d device /dev/da4s1h volume raid plex org raid5 512k sd len 8747m drive /dev/a sd len 8747m drive /dev/b sd len 8747m drive /dev/c sd len 8747m drive /dev/d 18 Nov 2003 21:03:30.407281 *** Created devices *** 18 Nov 2003 21:03:29.948250 *** Created devices *** Nov 18 21:03:24 freebie /kernel: vinum: loaded Nov 18 21:03:30 freebie /kernel: vinum: drive /dev/a is up Nov 18 21:03:30 freebie /kernel: vinum: drive /dev/b is up Nov 18 21:03:30 freebie /kernel: vinum: drive /dev/c is up Nov 18 21:03:30 freebie /kernel: vinum: raid.p0.s3 is crashed Nov 18 21:03:30 freebie /kernel: vinum: raid.p0 is initializing Nov 18 21:03:24 freebie /kernel: vinum: loaded Nov 18 21:03:30 freebie /kernel: vinum: drive /dev/a is up Nov 18 21:03:30 freebie /kernel: vinum: drive /dev/b is up Nov 18 21:03:30 freebie /kernel: vinum: drive /dev/c is up Nov 18 21:03:30 freebie /kernel: vinum: raid.p0.s3 is crashed Nov 18 21:03:30 freebie /kernel: vinum: raid.p0 is initializing ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too
At 10:46 PM 11/17/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 14 November 2003 at 11:50:09 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: Running FBSD 4.9 on an Intel SMP mobo w/ 2 Intel PII 350s. Onboard SCSI is recognized and sees all my drives. One SCSI 3 drive is 4.5G for the OS and /usr. I have 4 identical IBM SCSI3 disks 9G each, however one of those 4 will not disklabel. The other three will. This leads to troubles then, obviously, to setting the 4 drives for vinum use. Was using these 4 drives on 5.0-RELEASE with vinum previously no troublesdowngraded for some backup software (bacula) compatibility reasons. In dmesg, da1, da2, da3, da4 all show as identical drives, model number, capacity, etc. I have not removed the drive to see if there is a special jumper to protect such things, I shall do this later today. When I try to `disklabel -e da4', I get the info open, I can change whatever I like, then when I save the file it complains; that the device does not support this feature. The other 3 drives all did `disklabel -e dax' with no trouble. Do you have device nodes for da4? Has it been labelled at all? Greg -- I did not have `all' the nodes for da4 in /dev. So, I ran #sh MAKEDEV da4 in the /dev directory. After that, there were what appeared to be all the device nodes for da4. I was able to label the drive and use it with vinum under 5.0-RELEASE FWIW. Under 4.9-RELEASE (which is what I now run) it will not label through /stand/sysinstall. I can now newfs the drive and mount it and copy files to and fro, however I cannot use it with vinum. I did umount the drive and then disklabel -e da4 and changed the e: to h: and the filesystem type to vinum. It was da4s1e. When I create the vinum configuration, I either get that drive d (da4s1h) is referenced and in the down state while the other three drives are up, or the other three drives a b c are referenced and in the down state while drive d is up. Thank you. Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too
Running FBSD 4.9 on an Intel SMP mobo w/ 2 Intel PII 350s. Onboard SCSI is recognized and sees all my drives. One SCSI 3 drive is 4.5G for the OS and /usr. I have 4 identical IBM SCSI3 disks 9G each, however one of those 4 will not disklabel. The other three will. This leads to troubles then, obviously, to setting the 4 drives for vinum use. Was using these 4 drives on 5.0-RELEASE with vinum previously no troublesdowngraded for some backup software (bacula) compatibility reasons. In dmesg, da1, da2, da3, da4 all show as identical drives, model number, capacity, etc. I have not removed the drive to see if there is a special jumper to protect such things, I shall do this later today. When I try to `disklabel -e da4', I get the info open, I can change whatever I like, then when I save the file it complains; that the device does not support this feature. The other 3 drives all did `disklabel -e dax' with no trouble. One note, when I `disklabel -e da4' (the drive in question) it has Name: DNES something and for Label: IBM? The other 3 did not have this. TIA Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS/Webhosting question
At 04:23 PM 11/14/2003, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, What tools exist in Freebsd to determine the primary dsn server for a domain ? Also, is there a way to determine the company hosting a website ? Thanks, D nslookup, dig (I think) whois ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PLS answer my question!
At 02:51 PM 11/6/2003, Valerian Galeru wrote: I installed x windows with sysinstall, then i installed blackbox (a window manager). Then if x server is not started and i execute blackbox command i get a error like this: x server not started something like this. If i start xserver and then run the blackbox command, i get another error (something like this one: another windows manager started, but i didnt install any window manager). And then, i can configure ~/.xinitrc but i cant find it in my home directory (in /home/val (val is my username) and in root the same). Ok. In man xstart it is said that this file can miss, and then i must go to /usr/.. after i configure that file and run startx nothing happens. What is the problem? How can i deinstall x windows and start it again? Or what can i DO??? 10x for help A more direct subject line would help. Why not try startx at your command prompt? If .xinitrc is not there, why not make it? Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cannot boot, at mountroot prompt
I have a system running 5.0-RELEASE on an AMD 667Mhz processor with 256MB ram, Soyo mobo. Install was no trouble, and setup of X, KDE, MySQL, Apache went fine. I ran a setup of both xmms and mplayer as well. Then I went for an install of Webmin. Once webmin was complete, I was running in KDE, I closed the term window and the machine rebooted immediately, no shutdown, nothing. Question, does this sound like a bad drive, RAM, or perhaps my bad luck. Second question, how can I address the mountroot prompt? Per the instructions at the prompt, I put in ufs:/dev/ad0s1a and hit the return key. The system then reboots. Thanks Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Networking
At 10:55 AM 10/24/2003, Sandbox Video Productions wrote: I would like a tutorial on how to newtork freebsd to windowsXP via linksys modem. i can ping the windowsXP but i can't connect nor can i install mozilla. it seems that it's not connecting to the internet. the handbook gives good descriptions but not step by step instructions. please help a newbie. thanks We need a bit more clarification as to the setup. For example, does the Linksys connect to the ISP and BOTH FreeBSD and XP? Or are you trying to use the Internet connection sharing from XP to support FBSD? Not sure what installing Mozilla has to do with your network. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Solutions
At 12:26 PM 10/14/2003, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Hi, I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run well on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking for software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. Thank you, Stephane. In my small environment I am using Bacula (www.bacula.org) also it is available on sourceforge. It runs quite well, and the documentation is above the quality of any commercial software I have seen lately. Oh, BTW, it is open source. And the developer is only an email away. Response time for him is usually in an hour or so! I am not related to, get no kickback from, nor even any attaboys from Bacula, but am pleased with the product and am quite happy to make mention of it! Someone on the list recommended it to me, and I forgot to say thanks. It works well and will handle Windows clients as remote backup clients. I cannot help you with commercial backup software. Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Solutions
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:38:54 -0400 To: Stephane Raimbault [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup Solutions Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:26 PM 10/14/2003, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Hi, I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run well on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking for software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. Thank you, Stephane. I am sure Bacula can handle your setup. I am also sure Amanda will do the job. If I were in your position, I would try both. Run one for a week or two and then the other. See which works best for you. There are some minor catches with Bacula on FreeBSD for running under the 5X branch with the latest version of bacula. You can follow the threads at the bacula email archive on sourceforge. If you are running FBSD 4.8 you should be fine. There was/is some change to the SCSI (if I recall correctly) coding that Bacula has trouble with. You would be most welcome to email the bacula list at: bacula-users (at) lists.sourceforge.net and ask about your setup and possibilities as well as what you want to do per schedules, drives, etc. Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question
I'm a Unix newbie who just installed BSD 5.1. I made it through the installation without too much of a hassel and I went ahead and added XFree86 in the installation, along with the BSD Boot Manager since I'm dual booting with Windows. I have a 40 gig HD for Windows then I have 2 separate 120 gig HD raided in 0 config for BSD. The boot manager is installed with the rest of BSD on the raid but when it loads and I go to pick, both options boot to BSD. F1 is labeled FreeBSD and F5 is labeled Drive 1, which I was under the illusion should be windows but it turns out its not. [snip] When you installed XFree86, did you also install a desktop manager? You can install X without a window manager ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI DAT tape drive
At 03:40 PM 9/30/2003, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I just finished installing FreeBSD 4.7 on my box. My machine has an adaptec SCSI host adapter and a SCSI Dat tape drive. I expected to access my tape drive through the /dev/rmt device, but instead must use /dev/sa0 (I think this is right. I'm going from memory as I'm not at the machine right now). Is this the normal device to reference when reading/writing to the scsi dat tape drive ? thanks, -D My IBM DDS2 drive is attached to my onboard Adaptec SCSI port and it only works when referred to as /dev/sa0. There are many /dev/listings for the drive, however there are complaints with some software, like Bacula, when I try to use the /dev/rsa0. So, I assume that /dev/sa0 is okay. Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Limit login attempts (how do I do it)
A NB question here. I am trying to limit the number of allowed login attempts against my FreeBSD box. I cannot find anything for a limit to this other than; login-retries=x in the /etc/login.conf. This does not seem to work with 5.0 Release, which is what I am running. A nudge to the FM or Man Pages would be helpful. Thanks Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?
At 03:28 PM 9/12/2003, Vincent Zee wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:19:42 -0400, Veritas wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:16:45 +0200 Vincent Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In the dmesg it comes up as ad5 but when I mount it, it can't find the device. mount ad5 /music2 mount: ad5: No such file or directory Try it as /dev/ad5 instead. Hi, I tried that and I got the same response. I also made a device entry for it in /dev cd /dev sh MAKEDEV ad5 mount /dev/ad5 /music2 mount: /dev/ad5 on /music2: incorrect super block /\ Vincent You need a slice there. If the system found the disk and booted fine. Look in /dev and see what is listed as ad5? Is there an ad5s1 ad5s2 ad5s3 ad5s4 etc? You will need to mount one of them. ad5 is the disk, you need a slice or partition... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA NIC
At 07:55 AM 9/11/2003, you wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:21:18PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: I have FreeBSD installed on a laptop, but I am having trouble with setting up networking. ifconfig does not show the PCMCIA NIC (3Com 10/100, pretty standard and works under Linux, so I expect it's supported), and after some looking I think that I have the necessary kernel parameters built, but I'm definitely missing something. -- yours, William FWIW, on my Thinkpad 600X w/ Linksys pcmcia, I had to use OLDCARD to configure a kernel that would use the card. I may be missing the point, but it might be worthy to note it also. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xmail and filters
I have just installed xmail 1.16 on a FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE box. I cannot get filters to run against the mail moving through this email system. Has anybody here gotten both to work? In particular, there is a filter script for attachment checking written in perl. I do have perl installed. I also installed the 2.117 MIME::Lite, as it is required with the attach.pl filter script. And yes, I have exhausted the xmail forum with no luck that is why I am here to ask the FBSD-ers about it. I assume someone here is running the same with luck, I hope! Thanks Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Required
At 03:53 PM 8/28/2003, Ahmad Memon wrote: Hello.. We are having presentations on different OS in our class.. and i chose the Unix freeBSD for my group to do a presentation on.. i would like some info - if possible - on this system, or anything that could help me with that presentation. So i thought maybe u could give me some tips or some websites where i could find some info that could give me an edge over the other students of my class. Waiting for reply.. Thank You. Thank You... Smells like homework. One tip, go to www.freebsd.org read everything. You are welcome You are welcome ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba and $
At 02:07 PM 8/4/2003 -0500, gfsd wrote: Why can't i create a user with a $ on the end? For machine trust accounts i need to add each one by hand, instead of on the fly creation. When I use adduser it will not let me add a user with a $ on the end, is there a way around that? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is to be expected in FreeBSD and Samba. It is in the notes. So, what you do, is make your user. The edit, by hand, the password file. vipw is the command to use. Add the $ and save the file. No real way around it that I know of. -- Bob NOTICE TO BULK E-MAILERS: Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, 227, and all unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to this address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of $500 US ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
At 03:59 PM 7/31/2003 -0500, Ken Copling wrote: hello is there a command in the shell that will let me connect to my service provider so i can get on the internet to do things like web search I just dont like having to open up the x window just to get on the net so is there a way of doing it in the shell Assuming your networking is fine, you can do a text only web link with lynx. Otherwise, surfing the web, as it were, is supposed to be graphical. -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: emachine x window trouble
At 12:40 PM 7/30/2003, Ken Copling wrote: hello i bought an emachine and i chose to put freebsd on it to try it out and when i go to use the x window it goes and shows it to big on my screen so i went to the manufacturers website to get the specs of the system so i can get the display to show correctly like the book said but they wouldnt give out the information so what is there that i can do now to get it to work properly Have you tried the key combination Ctrl + Alt + plus sign on the keypad? You should be able to cycle through different resolutions. Otherwise, you should modify the X config file to address your resolutions. -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...
At 11:05 AM 7/25/2003, Jerry McAllister wrote: At 2003-07-25T14:33:09Z, Charlie Schluting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess ...i'm a christian speaks for itself. On the behalf of Christian FreeBSD users everywhere: screw you. Kirk Strauser That is at least as ignorant and worthless a comment as the original poster who at least was just asking a question even if it was coming from ignorance and possibly a limited outlook. Worse, it is abusive and the original poster was not that. Why don't you grow up? By the way, I wear my T-shirt with the FreeBSD daemon to church occasionally when we are working on something or having meetings. No one even seems to notice or care. A few know the origin of the logo, but most do not. What about the first follow-up poster who called the Christian stupid? Funny how tolerance is such a one-way street. -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dump from cron job, need to change tape
At 03:52 PM 7/21/2003, Matthew Bettinger wrote: On Monday 21 July 2003 02:02 pm, Mike Maltese wrote: I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. The tape runs to the end, issues the end of tape, and then dump fails. I would like to be able to change the tape and get a backup. I use bacula for my home lan and fbackup on hpux. bacula uses a mysql database to keep track of your tapes (which I thought was very cool) Thanks to all who addressed my question. Further study showed, obviously, there is no way to let dump be interactive from cron, regardless of switches. So, I shall research bacula, amanda, screen, and tar, and to get going immediately, I'll run a manual 0 level dump and then cron for level 1 for a bit. I do have a couple of BIG files which will not be updating, so once on tape, they will be fine. Again thanks to all for the help and suggestions. Great email list. -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dump from cron job, need to change tape
At 02:06 PM 7/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:54:48AM -0400, Bob Collins wrote: At 03:52 PM 7/21/2003, Matthew Bettinger wrote: On Monday 21 July 2003 02:02 pm, Mike Maltese wrote: I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. The tape runs to the end, issues the end of tape, and then dump fails. I would like to be able to change the tape and get a backup. I use bacula for my home lan and fbackup on hpux. bacula uses a mysql database to keep track of your tapes (which I thought was very cool) Thanks to all who addressed my question. Further study showed, obviously, there is no way to let dump be interactive from cron, regardless of switches. Have you forgotten my screen suggestion? Seriously, it works for `dump' too! [see http://www.geocities.com/conor_daly/mondo-with-cron/mondo-with-cron.html -- different backup program, same concept] So, I shall research bacula, amanda, screen, and tar, and to get going No, I have not forgotten your screen suggestion, it is here in the above line. I am going to research all of them. :-) Just not sure yet if cron will call both screen and then dump and leave me interactive. If so, cool, otherwise I'll consider my options. immediately, I'll run a manual 0 level dump and then cron for level 1 for a bit. I do have a couple of BIG files which will not be updating, so once on tape, they will be fine. If you won't use dump, I recommend afio (/usr/ports/sysutils/afio). It has much better integrity than compressed tar and is the same size. With screen if you want. -- Josh Dump is still in contention. I'll add afio to the research list and see what works best for my environment. Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cron job dump requires tape change
I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and cron and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND allow user intervention to change the tape. I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. The tape runs to the end, issues the end of tape, and then dump fails. TIA Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cron job dump requires tape change
I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and cron and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND allow user intervention to change the tape. I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. The tape runs to the end, issues the end of tape, and then dump fails. TIA Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and cron and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND allow user intervention to change the tape. I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. The tape runs to the end, issues the end of tape, and then dump fails. I would like to be able to change the tape and get a backup. Do I need to use some other software, or am I missing a switch or something somewhere? TIA Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP or Compaq servers.
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:14:40 -0400 To: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HP or Compaq servers. At 02:30 PM 7/15/2003, you wrote: Grzegorz Czaplinski wrote: [ ... ] That would be good to have a webpage with server configurations that run under FreeBSD. Don't you think so? Keeping the list of supported individual components up-to-date is a significant challenge. Trying to keep a list of complete system configurations available is exponentially more difficult, but you're welcome to try. You first might want to compute the number of permutations from choosing, say, 6 components per system out of 1000 components. -- -Chuck Sure it would be. But it might be interesting to let users input what hardware they are currently using and any notes about weirdness, etc. Perhaps a volunteer project to list these things is in order. -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE process is unkillable
At 03:20 PM 7/15/2003, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 July 2003 02:14 pm, Marc Wiz wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:11:24PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a bunch of non-sense! :) nobody will notice.. If they do then you show'em who's boss: rmuser * :-) No, I'm nice to my users. Kill them! Kill them all!!! Any ideas why it crashed? Could this be a serious bug (4.8-STABLE)? If yes, how do I get a core dump, or at least some more information? I have debug symbols everywhere. It is a clean system, freshly installed a few days ago. I'd really like to know what's going on. I would suggest using lsof and find out which file the process is waiting on. It seems rather strange that the process is in a disk wait state for so long. Marc -- Best regards, Chris Did anybody mention Ctrl + Alt + Backsapce to kill the X session? This has worked for me in the past... -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: KDE process is unkillable
At 04:30 PM 7/15/2003, you wrote: Dear God! REBOOT it man! Here here! While it may be a noble experiment to keep the server running, it is after all, a home server. Reboot it when you are having dinner. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re-building sendmail
At 11:16 AM 6/27/2003, Jonathan Arnold wrote: For an excellent fix for sendmail see: http://www.postfix.org/ I'm actually thinking of going this route. Is the migration that difficult? Any special gotchas for someone who has been using the default sendmail stuff in FreeBSD? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. Mark Twain I have used Postfix on both FreeBSD and Solaris. No worries and quite easy to set up. There is suppose to be better security in postfix than sendmail. Also should be rather easy to configure in comparison. I think you will like it. I have never migrated, so I cannot offer any comments. --Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: please help me
At 04:26 PM 6/25/2003, you wrote: selfghe edherh wrote: what is this error (this error about XWindows) DCOPSERVER? I had a similar trouble way back when. Take a look at this message http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1790237+0+archive/2001/freebsd-questions/20010805.freebsd-questions and that should help. It was something with the sticky bit on the .ICE-unix directory. -- Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
swap not being mounted (or so I think)
I am running 5.0 Release on an i386 Intel system. I have 256MB ram and in /etc/fstab swap is called out for 492MB. How can I tell if this is mounted and in use? Mount does not indicate swap (/da0s1b) is mounted. I ask, as I cannot use dump to backup my raid. My raid is /dev/vinum/raid and mounted at /raid. When I try to dump either /dev/vinum/raid or /raid, the system panics and halts. I am thinking the dump is bombing due to lack of swap space. I was able to dump previously, until I added the raid. The raid is (4) 9GB SCSI drives on the second SCSI controller while the boot drive is /da0 on the first SCSI controller. Both controllers are on-board. The first dump encounter left the system in a single user state with all file systems requiring manual fsck. After doing such, I was able to go to multi-user mode. The raid is back and visible through the network. Just very concerned about the tape (dump) not being able to run. TIA Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
