Re: FBSD-4.4 vs 4.5-4.7 for fdisk, disklabel newfs

2003-01-21 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 03:12 PM 1.21.2003 -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: I ran into a snag using my HD backup script that works like a charm on FBSD-4.5-4.7, but won't when I just tried it on 4.4. The script uses Fdisk, Disklabel and Newfs. Seems to fdisk disklabel okay, but when I try to then run the newfs on a

error in ipv6.html of handbook(?)

2003-01-21 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
(Plz. let me know if this is wrong list to ask this ques.) Following is the part from handbook/ipv6.html -- BEGIN 19.14.2 Reading IPv6 Addresses The canonical form is represented as: x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x, each ``x'' being a 16 Bit hex value. For example

Re: HTTP servers?

2003-01-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:13:32AM -0800, James Powell wrote: Dear Sir or Ma'am: Do you have alternative servers for HTTP transactions? Currently I am using software which doesn't support FTP transactions very well. Is there one avaliable to download FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE from or will be

Re: ISO 5.0 - is this all ?

2003-01-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:23:29PM +, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Hi, does anybody know if there will also be a disc3 and disc4 ISO for 5.0 (i386) ? It is not planned due to the workload involved in producing them for 4 architectures. The packages are, as always, available for download. Kris

Re: FreeBSD 4.7 - 5.0 (Removing Perl/UUCP safly?)

2003-01-21 Thread Elden Fenison
* Doug Reynolds [01/21/2003 22:22]: according to /usr/src/UPDATING, multiuser updating from 4.7 to 5.0 is slim to impossible. Sorry, I should have clarified... it was the first part of his question that interested me... and that isn't answered in UPDATING... about getting rid of the old

Network Devices dc0 receives just errors

2003-01-21 Thread Mantas Kriauciunas
Hi, can someone explaine to newbie why this is happening? hare are my old(233 MMX) computers phpSysInfo: http://mntkz.net/data/phpSysInfo/ now the question is why on Network Devices dc0 it counts only errors. Network is working prety fine, kind of slow but it works. Any ideas? And one more thing.

Re: FreeBSD 4.7 - 5.0 (Removing Perl/UUCP safly?)

2003-01-21 Thread Elden Fenison
* Alex [01/21/2003 21:01]: How to safly and completely remove Perl / UUCP and maybe others which have been removed from the source tree. UPDATING doesnt mention anything about it. I'm no expert... but I just successfully upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0 today. It didn't seem too hard to just

new BSD user wish to install WSAD

2003-01-21 Thread Zhang Weiwu
I wish to install IBM WSAD on my FreeBSD 4.7 on Thinkpad R30. I already have RPM installed from ports. I also have Linux compatibility installed and working. I got the error message, so what do I do? Error. /bin/sh is needed by IBMAppDev-preview-4.0-3 /bin/sh is needed by

ata1 resetting

2003-01-21 Thread Marc Schneiders
Does someone see some sort of pattern in the times (from /var/log/messages) below? I do but know not what. And what could explain it? Please, note that it occurs on both harddisks and on both controllers. Something cron related? Something swap related, since there is swap space on both disks? I

Re: Help! Errors in /var/log/messages after upgrade

2003-01-21 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: - Original Message - From: Andreas Widerøe Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 7:37 AM Subject: Re: Help! Errors in /var/log/messages after upgrade Mark wrote: - Original Message - From:

Re: Question about serial connections via nullmodem

2003-01-21 Thread Marisa
Well I have seen with SLIP seems easier, but I need to do it with ppp if possible, because it gives me the possibility to negociate/change parameters (MTU , for example) between computers. --- Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:50:33AM -0800, Marisa wrote:

Re: FreeBSD 4.7 - 5.0 (Removing Perl/UUCP safly?)

2003-01-21 Thread Karl M. Joch
Elden Fenison schrieb: * Alex [01/21/2003 21:01]: How to safly and completely remove Perl / UUCP and maybe others which have been removed from the source tree. UPDATING doesnt mention anything about it. I'm no expert... but I just successfully upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0 today. It didn't seem

New to FreeBSD

2003-01-21 Thread JCBotha
Dear Sir I am new to this operating system and became interested when I started to look at a solution for a network set-up. I do not know if I will be able to master this OS because I grew up with Windows and know nothing about UNIX OS systems. With windows I at least can help myself and find my

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