Re: Shell line parse needed

2003-06-09 Thread Steve Sapovits
On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 23:02:42 -0700 Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to help from here I have MRTG setup on a 4.7 server, but now I need help with parsing console info. I want a script to report CPU utilization by a specific process. When I type this: top | grep hlds it

Problem with starting X: drm:r128_cce after upgrade to 5.1

2003-06-09 Thread Alexey Chuprinin
Hello I've upgraded to 5.1 from 5.0. Now I can't start X. I rebuild X collection via ports, but it doesn't help. In messages.log I have a lot of lines like: kernel: error: [drm:r128_cce_start] *ERROR* r128_cce_start called without lock held kernel: error: [drm:r128_cce_idle] *ERROR* r128_cce_idle

Re: Ghost images?

2003-06-09 Thread Tobias Roth
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 11:14:53PM -0700, Remington L. wrote: I am looking for software that has the capabilities of Norton Ghost for FreeBSD. I am having problems finding such an application. Does one exist? I do not exactly know what Norton Ghost is capable of, but I think dump(8) or dd(1)

Re: Safely removing USB hard drive

2003-06-09 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 02:36, Remington L. wrote: I have a USB keychain storage device. I can get it working fine but I cant figure out how to properly disconnect it. In windows I can detach the drive and the LED on the USB keychain goes off. Can this be accomplished in FBSD 5.1? Or is

Re: ADSL: Using mpd(8) for PPPoE [solved?]

2003-06-09 Thread Rob
I just found a posting[1] from Archie Cobbs to freebsd-net@ where he suggested loading the ng_ether module before running mpd(8). That's silly, thought I, there's already a bunch of modules loaded automatically. And indeed, after an unsuccessful attempt, kldstat(8) shows the following: Id Refs

saving realaudio files

2003-06-09 Thread Kent Hauser
Hi, Is there a way to save a realaudio file later write it to an audio CD? Thanks, Kent ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

5.1 ethernet device problems? QWE

2003-06-09 Thread Anthony Wyatt
Hi, I've just built a FreeBSD 5.1 system by hand, and I'm having some problems. I suspect I've missed a config file somewhere but I know not where, and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. When my system starts up it tries to DHCP an IP address and I

Re: saving realaudio files

2003-06-09 Thread Kliment Ognianov
- Original Message - From: Kent Hauser To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:58 PM Subject: saving realaudio files Hi, Is there a way to save a realaudio file later write it to an audio CD? Thanks, Kent ___

Re: Newbie wirless install question

2003-06-09 Thread sektie
windows. After I boot into freebsd I use ifconfig to set the SSID and the wepkey. The link light on the card is solid (this usually means the card is configured and connected correctly). Heh, I'm wondering if you did the same thing I did. You set the WEP key, but did you turn WEP on? ;)

quation about using email

2003-06-09 Thread Marcos . Melaku
Hi as I have asked abut using email If I would not put any thing on cc Is the message still wiil sena or not or what is the use of cc .what wiil i put *** For more information on the Foreign Commonwealth Office

Re: Safely removing USB hard drive

2003-06-09 Thread John Baldwin
On 09-Jun-2003 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 02:36, Remington L. wrote: I have a USB keychain storage device. I can get it working fine but I cant figure out how to properly disconnect it. In windows I can detach the drive and the LED on the USB keychain goes off. Can

RE: Mount command...again

2003-06-09 Thread John DeStefano
::bump:: Has anyone got a suggestion for this? I've also tried to do this in the same manner (a la Linux) and been equally as frustrated. man mount describes lots of options for the command, but it does not go into all of the -o options, which are (apparently) what we're looking for here.

RE: Newbie wirless install question

2003-06-09 Thread Scott Miller
It should get an address via DHCP. (I did not see where this was indicated in ifconfig.) ifconfig shows that wi0 is: associated SSID=Donner Pass (this is correct) wep is on, channel 1, and 128 bit key (all correct) Thanks, Scott -Original Message- From: sektie [mailto:[EMAIL

Dead keys on Toshiba laptop - 4.8-STABLE - XFree 4.3

2003-06-09 Thread Florian Ponroy
Hello, I've recently installed FreeBSD on my laptop, fetched the kernel sources to upgrade from 4.8-RELEASE to 4.8-STABLE, and now i'm trying to make these dead-keys working under XFree :) Well, it doesn't work at all. 8 bits caracters are perfectly supported by the terminal (aterm), since i can

Re: Safely removing USB hard drive

2003-06-09 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 01:36, Remington L. wrote: Can this be accomplished in FBSD 5.1? Or is unmounting and simply removing it safe? I use one here at work on a linux machine, and umounting it works just fine with no problems. Haven't tried it on my FBSD machine yet. -- Douglas G. Phillips

RAID, Vinum and different disksizes

2003-06-09 Thread freeBSD
I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming a raid-5 volume using Vinum and the last one is just fooling around without any purpose. Can I add this 170GB to the raid5 volume in any way at all? I do realise that I will loose 50Gb, but that's better than not using it at

Handspring Visor and J-Pilot

2003-06-09 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
I've been trying to get my Handspring Visor and J-Pilot to work on my FBSD 5.0-REL machine. The syslog shows that the system is recognizing the connection and disconnection of the visor, but J-Pilot can't seem to talk to the PDA. Any ideas? I've tried using /dev/usb[0,1,2] in the settings, but

ramdisk howto???

2003-06-09 Thread romero3000
I want to to know how to create a ram file system for /var and /tmp so that i can boot from flash memory and mount those two file systems on ramfs. I've looked for howto's online but haven't found anything. any suggestions ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dynamic DNS Updates

2003-06-09 Thread Tim Radigan
Hey peoples, Have a quick question for anyone who is up for it. Trying to use DHCP to issue Dynamic DNS Updates for my internal zone. I keep getting the following error message on the console: Jun 9 11:00:39 ns2 dhcpd: unable to add reverse map from 243.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. to

Re: Reliable USB NIC?

2003-06-09 Thread J. Seth Henry
I have had very good luck with the Linksys USB100TX adapters. I have four of them supporting small X terminals, and they have turned out to be more reliable than the terminals (they crash for reasons unrelated to their network connections). They also have decent performance for a USB 1.x device.

RE: /dev/tty keeps changing permissions..?

2003-06-09 Thread Thomas Park
-Original Message- From: Matthew D. Fuller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:21:17PM -0700 I heard the voice of Thomas Park, and lo! it spake thus: I've been having an interesting problem with my FreeBSD 5.0 install - for whatever reason, the permissions

2 filesystem problems: blst_radix_free and bad inode number

2003-06-09 Thread Michael A. Smith
I've got an AMD Duron-700 running FreeBSD 4.8-RC. It's got a Promise IDE RAID card and two identical 40GB Maxtor drives (less than six months old) -- mirrored. No floppy, no CD-ROM, no other IDE drives. The machine is a headless Samba fileserver in my office. A few days ago, it became

RE: /dev/tty keeps changing permissions..?

2003-06-09 Thread John Straiton
I'm pretty sure the ssh problem is with /dev/tty - I've scoured quite a few message boards and newsgroups looking for a solution to the SSH problem. The symptom:a user who doesn't currently own /dev/tty attempts to open an outbound SSH session and gets a permission denied error with an

RE: /dev/tty keeps changing permissions..?

2003-06-09 Thread Thomas Park
Hi John, I'm pretty sure the ssh problem is with /dev/tty - I've scoured quite a few message boards and newsgroups looking for a solution to the SSH problem. The symptom:a user who doesn't currently own /dev/tty attempts to open an outbound SSH session and gets a permission denied

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2003-06-09 Thread Schalk Erasmus
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how to talk to the serial and parallel ports through a C program

2003-06-09 Thread Dan Malaby
I was wondering if there was a good place to go to get programing examples on how to talk to the serial and parallel ports. I have looked in the developers handbook but have not any luck finding what I want. Any pointers would be appreciated Thanks Daniel Malaby voice:(510) 531-6500

Re: Dynamic DNS Updates

2003-06-09 Thread David Varieur
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 11:12:48 -0400 Tim Radigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey peoples, Have a quick question for anyone who is up for it. Trying to use DHCP to issue Dynamic DNS Updates for my internal zone. I keep getting the following error message on the console: Jun 9 11:00:39 ns2

RE: /dev/tty keeps changing permissions..?

2003-06-09 Thread Thomas Park
...Wow - this is definitely what I'd call going above and beyond the call of duty. Thanks so much for your insights; I'll try this patch and let you know if it works! ^_^ Best, thomas -Original Message- From: Matthew D. Fuller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09,

PCI modem configuration

2003-06-09 Thread Chris Staskewicz
I have a PnP PCI modem that I think the kernel recognizes (I added device puc to a new kernel build). dmesg added a new line (new in the sense that the older dmesg on the older kernel didn't have it) with something like, pci0 Unknown Card irq=9 ... I would email the exact text, however, I can't

Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes

2003-06-09 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Monday 09 June 2003 5:10 pm, freeBSD wrote: I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming a raid-5 volume using Vinum and the last one is just fooling around without any purpose. Can I add this 170GB to the raid5 volume in any way at all? I do realise that I will

Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes

2003-06-09 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:10:37PM +0200 or thereabouts, freeBSD seemed to write: I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming a raid-5 volume using Vinum and the last one is just fooling around without any purpose. Can I add this 170GB to the raid5 volume in any

Re: Mount command...again

2003-06-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:45:04PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here is what I am trying to do. I am trying to mount a samba served directory on a remote system onto my local system. Both servers are running freebsd4.8. I want to mount the remote directory with the priveliges of the

Re: Dead keys on Toshiba laptop - 4.8-STABLE - XFree 4.3

2003-06-09 Thread Florian Ponroy
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:57:47PM +, Florian Ponroy wrote: Hello, I've recently installed FreeBSD on my laptop, fetched the kernel sources to upgrade from 4.8-RELEASE to 4.8-STABLE, and now i'm trying to make these dead-keys working under XFree :) Well, it doesn't work at all. 8 bits

How is it possible to pass options to if filter foomatic-rip withFreeBSD version of lpr/lpd?

2003-06-09 Thread ariel . burbaickij
Hello mailing list participants, Does someone use foomatic-rip as if filter on FreeBSD machine and has found out how is it possible to pass options to foomatic-rip on lpr command line? Please be so kind as to CC answer to my e-mail adress because I am currently not subscribed to the list

Alternate websites

2003-06-09 Thread Ian Barnes
Hi, I have an idea. I dont know if it is possible, but here goes. First my server layout. Server 1 --- * Primary DNS * Mail * Web Server Server 2 --- * Secondary DNS Right, what I would like is that if server one goes down, it will redirect web trafic to Server 2,

Re: /dev/tty keeps changing permissions..?

2003-06-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:21:17PM -0700 I heard the voice of Thomas Park, and lo! it spake thus: Hello, I've been having an interesting problem with my FreeBSD 5.0 install - for whatever reason, the permissions and ownership on /dev/tty keep on being automatically changed in such a way that

Re: /dev/tty keeps changing permissions..?

2003-06-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:41:01AM -0700 I heard the voice of Thomas Park, and lo! it spake thus: Interesting. I have access to several FreeBSD 4.6 STABLE boxes, and /dev/tty on each of them looks thusly: 4.x doesn't have devfs, so /dev is static. It's just internally (in the kernel) that

Re: ADSL: Using mpd(8) for PPPoE

2003-06-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 10:35:25PM -0700 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: ppp(8) also uses netgraph for PPPoE. Anyway, are you sure you need to worry about mpd? My Pentium 120 router handles my 1.5MBit ADSL at full speed with ppp(8)'s pppoe. Don't be silly8-}

Re: /dev/tty keeps changing permissions..?

2003-06-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:59:18AM -0700 I heard the voice of Thomas Park, and lo! it spake thus: By God, I see that you're right! This is what I've been telling you8-} I think the problem arises when I su into another account and try to ssh outbound. Which should arguably be possible

newbie: webalizer V2.01-10 DNSChildren query

2003-06-09 Thread admin
OS: freeBSD 4.8 Stable How can I stop webazolver and webalizer asking for the DNSChildren when the -N switch is defined in the command line and the DNSChildren is defined in the webalizer.conf file? snip webazolver -N 20 -D /usr/local/etc/webalizer/dns_cache.db $i Webalizer V2.01-10

Re: ramdisk howto???

2003-06-09 Thread Tobias Roth
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:14:21AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to to know how to create a ram file system for /var and /tmp so that i can boot from flash memory and mount those two file systems on ramfs. I've looked for howto's online but haven't found anything. any suggestions

Re: Reliable USB NIC?

2003-06-09 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:24:24PM -0400, J. Seth Henry wrote: I have had very good luck with the Linksys USB100TX adapters. I have four of them supporting small X terminals, and they have turned out to be more reliable than the terminals (they crash for reasons unrelated to their network

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 12, Issue 2

2003-06-09 Thread J. Seth Henry
Actually, this should work, but it will require some twiddling with the disks partition table in disklabel. I used to have an old drive array with a bunch of HP labelled Seagate ST32550WD drives. For some unearthly reason, some of the drives were formatted to have only 2 billion bytes (2000MB),

Giant freakin' kernels?!?

2003-06-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/relnotes-i386.html: Due to code size limitations, the i386 boot loader can only load kernels from root file systems that are 1.5TB or smaller in size. I originally parsed that as: Due to code size limitations, the i386 boat loader can only

Re: Alternate websites

2003-06-09 Thread Moritz Fromwald
From: Ian Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 20:42:15 +0200 Subject:Alternate websites Hi, I have an idea. I dont know if it is possible, but here goes. First my server layout.

RE: Alternate websites

2003-06-09 Thread Ian Barnes
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Moritz Fromwald Sent: 09 June 2003 09:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Alternate websites From: Ian Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date

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2003-06-09 Thread d . fiehn
Hi Missing a howto boot from grub and maybe (if possible) how to mount reiser fs. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html sorry if its written somewhere else, never used freebsd but thinking of giving it a try. Greets Kessel ___

Re: Changing to a PS/2 keyboard after install

2003-06-09 Thread clayton rollins
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 12:26:39 Gary Schenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed FreeBSD on this machine which came with a USB keyboard and mouse. The keyboard has problems, and for various reasons, I'd like to replace it with a PS/2 keyboard. Only problem is I can't figure out how to do it. Getting

RE: Alternate websites

2003-06-09 Thread Moritz Fromwald
From: Ian Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: Alternate websites Date sent: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:58:05 +0200 From: Ian Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: how to talk to the serial and parallel ports through a Cprogram

2003-06-09 Thread Andreas Kohn
Am Mon, 2003-06-09 um 18.44 schrieb Dan Malaby: I was wondering if there was a good place to go to get programing examples on how to talk to the serial and parallel ports. I have looked in the developers handbook but have not any luck finding what I want. Any pointers would be

Complete system restore software for FreeBSD?

2003-06-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have used the Mondo Rescue backup and restore system before with my Linux machines with great success. What Mondo allows one to do is a complete system backup and restore from a bootable CD, meaning a system can survive a harddrive failure without a whole lot of fiddling around in

IBM serveraid controllers????? FreeBSD Support?????

2003-06-09 Thread romero3000
We just got a couple of IBM X220 Eservers at my office from an old client who did not want them anymore. Does anybody know if FreeBSD supports IBM serveRaid Controllers? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: russian freetype fonts

2003-06-09 Thread S. Niunco
Hi, You can find a lot of info on that subject on http://www.opennet.ru and http://www.freebsd.org.ru The second site gives general info and help, on the first you can find information regarding applications and their russification as well as links to fonts. Hope this helps Sergey. On Fri, 6

Re: IBM serveraid controllers????? FreeBSD Support?????

2003-06-09 Thread Matthew Emmerton
We just got a couple of IBM X220 Eservers at my office from an old client who did not want them anymore. Does anybody know if FreeBSD supports IBM serveRaid Controllers? They are supported by the ips driver in FreeBSD 5.1. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/relnotes-i386.html -- Matt

Re: Giant freakin' kernels?!?

2003-06-09 Thread Nikolay Denev
From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/relnotes-i386.html: Due to code size limitations, the i386 boot loader can only load kernels from root file systems that are 1.5TB or smaller in size. I originally parsed that as: Due to code size limitations, the i386 boat loader can only

gcc me harder: -Wconversion bug?

2003-06-09 Thread Sean Chittenden
[ Please CC: me on replies, not on questions@ ] Is this a GCC bug with the -Wconversion flag or am I doing something wrong? I know it's just a warning, but it's irritating me more than that dumb Dan Quayle quote, if it weren't for that horse, I wouldn't have spent an extra year in college...

Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes

2003-06-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 9 June 2003 at 17:10:37 +0200, freeBSD wrote: I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming a raid-5 volume using Vinum and the last one is just fooling around without any purpose. Can I add this 170GB to the raid5 volume in any way at all? There's

Re: Changing to a PS/2 keyboard after install

2003-06-09 Thread Gary Schenk
On Monday 09 June 2003 01:08 pm, clayton rollins wrote: On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 12:26:39 Gary Schenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed FreeBSD on this machine which came with a USB keyboard and mouse. The keyboard has problems, and for various reasons, I'd like to replace it with a PS/2

any IDE raid controllers with supported CLI in freeBSD ?

2003-06-09 Thread Josh Brooks
Hello, I am looking for a IDE raid card to use with FreeBSD. Presumably a few are supported, but I am looking specifically for a card that also has a command line interface that I can run in FreeBSD while the system is running. Sort of like aaccli for aacX scsi raid controllers in freeBSD. Do

vinum-booting is working?

2003-06-09 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hi all, just read the 5.1-release notes and I'm not sure what the line The root file system can now be located on a vinum(4) volume. really means. Is it now possible to boot from a degraded 5 plex or a mirror? I'd greatly appreciate any link. Best regards, -Harry

Re: Changing to a PS/2 keyboard after install

2003-06-09 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:06:36PM -0700, Gary Schenk wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but that did not work. After rebooting not only did I not have a PS/2 keyboard, I no longer could plug in the USB keyboard. This is very perplexing. There must be a way to install a new keyboard.

Converting Linux passwd to FreeBSD

2003-06-09 Thread Scott St. John
After spending a year converting my ISP to Linux I have had enough and am ready to come back home to FreeBSD. The ips driver in 5.1 also helps since I am running IBM Netfinity's. Is anyone familiar with a tool to convert my Linux passwd files to FreeBSD so I don't have to manually recreate

Re: vinum-booting is working?

2003-06-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 June 2003 at 2:20:29 +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Hi all, just read the 5.1-release notes and I'm not sure what the line The root file system can now be located on a vinum(4) volume. really means. Is it now possible to boot from a degraded 5 plex or a mirror? Yes. It

Re: Converting Linux passwd to FreeBSD

2003-06-09 Thread Henrik Hudson
Depending on the hash algorithm used you might not have to do anything except change some UIDs. Is 5.1 still using MD5 as default? and is your Linux using MD5 as default in the shadow file? Henrik On Monday 09 June 2003 19:37, Scott St. John wrote: After spending a year converting my ISP to

RE: VPN from one Win2k host to a FreeBSD network?

2003-06-09 Thread Brent Wiese
Use MPD (its in the ports) for PPTP support, which is built into w2k. On the user side, its friendly to set up because it presents the user w/ a modem-type setup where you dial a vpn box. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Kelly

Re: Converting Linux passwd to FreeBSD

2003-06-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Is anyone familiar with a tool to convert my Linux passwd files to FreeBSD so I don't have to manually recreate the accounts? I'd say, as the passwords are cripted with a non reversible function, either both systems use the same function and you don't have to convert anything, else you're dead.

Re: VPN from one Win2k host to a FreeBSD network?

2003-06-09 Thread David Kelly
Thanks! I knew there had to be something out there but in the wealth of ports, I couldn't find it. On Monday 09 June 2003 08:20 pm, Brent Wiese wrote: Use MPD (its in the ports) for PPTP support, which is built into w2k. On the user side, its friendly to set up because it presents the user w/

Can't delete files after mergemaster.

2003-06-09 Thread Supote Leelasupphakorn
Hello, I've already MERGEMASTERed due to updating from FREEBSD-4.7 to FREEBSD-4.7-p10. My question is why I could't delete /var/tmp/temproot. No matter what's about permission because I logged as root. What is deny root from delete file ? Pote

Re: VPN from one Win2k host to a FreeBSD network?

2003-06-09 Thread Chris
On Monday 09 June 2003 08:43 pm, David Kelly wrote: Thanks! I knew there had to be something out there but in the wealth of ports, I couldn't find it. Allow me to ask this once again also then. In my situation, I have my FreeBSD box here at home. Periodically I need to VPN into my work.

Re: Can't delete files after mergemaster.

2003-06-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: I've already MERGEMASTERed due to updating from FREEBSD-4.7 to FREEBSD-4.7-p10. My question is why I could't delete /var/tmp/temproot. No matter what's about permission because I logged as root. What is deny root from delete file ? The system immutable flag

ibm thinkpad x24 and 5.1-release

2003-06-09 Thread Andrew Thomson
i'm having problems running 5.1-release on my thinkpad. just updated the bios to the lastest and greatest from ibm however 5.1 doesn't want to play nice with my laptop. i have finally managed to get through a custom install however once I've rebooted and using the machine, after a random period

Re: Converting Linux passwd to FreeBSD

2003-06-09 Thread Benjamin Mayer
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:25:27 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone familiar with a tool to convert my Linux passwd files to FreeBSD so I don't have to manually recreate the accounts? I'd say, as the passwords are cripted with a non reversible function, either both

Networking problems

2003-06-09 Thread Eduardo Huertas
Hi Everybody, I'm having conceptual problems, I think :-) My objective is to install a firewall with OpenBSD which will be the gateway of my LAN. Right now I have a unique server with the following services: Gateway to Internet mail: qmail and serialmail, fetchmail DataBase: MySQL SAMBA, DNS,

nutball video question

2003-06-09 Thread J. Seth Henry
Ok, I'm not sure if this will work (or if it does, how well), but I'm curious to see what happens. I have one of the older Happauge WinTV boards (that is supported by FreeBSD). Unfortunately, the only machine with an open PCI slot is my headless server. I have a number of IBM netstations attached

Re: nutball video question

2003-06-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
I have one of the older Happauge WinTV boards (that is supported by FreeBSD). Unfortunately, the only machine with an open PCI slot is my headless server. I have a number of IBM netstations attached to this server via a 100Mbps switched ethernet LAN. Currently, I am using KDE as my desktop

Re: Mount additional hard drive (ufs)

2003-06-09 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Jack and others Am Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 10:48:05AM -0500 Jack L. Stone schrieb: At 05:48 PM 6.8.2003 +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: I installed a second hard drive (ufs) and mount it (like described in the handbook) but if I reboot it isn't anymore mounted? After a reboot I have to

Re: nutball video question

2003-06-09 Thread yussef
If i understand what you want to do, i have something similar setup. i stuck my tv card [device bktr] in my headless server. Installed X on the server, along with xawtv and fxtv. i then ssh -X into the server from a client running X, i then execute the command for one of the tv viewing apps

Terminal utility for serial and ethernet link

2003-06-09 Thread Vinay Tiwari
Dear friends, (B (BI am working on an application that needs support from serail as well as (Bethernet communication link. I am looking for such terminal utility that can (Bwork with both the connection. minicom is available but is only works with (Bserial link. any suggestion ? (B (Bbest

Re: Changing to a PS/2 keyboard after install

2003-06-09 Thread Gary Schenk
On Monday 09 June 2003 05:30 pm, Scott Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:06:36PM -0700, Gary Schenk wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but that did not work. After rebooting not only did I not have a PS/2 keyboard, I no longer could plug in the USB keyboard. This is very

R5.0 without keyboard

2003-06-09 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 4.8 I recompiled the kernel with appropriate options and I could unplug and reconnect the keyboard at will and it worked. Not so on 5.0 What is the apropriate kernel options for this to work on 5.x? Help appreciated, Kjell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2003-06-09 Thread elias rivas galarza
- Yahoo! Sorteos Juega a la LoterĂ­a Primitiva sin salir de casa ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

newbie: webalizer V2.01-10 DNSChildren query

2003-06-09 Thread admin
OS: freeBSD 4.8 Stable How can I stop webazolver and webalizer asking for the DNSChildren when the -N switch is defined in the command line and the DNSChildren is defined in the webalizer.conf file? snip webazolver -N 20 -D /usr/local/etc/webalizer/dns_cache.db $i Webalizer V2.01-10

Re: any IDE raid controllers with supported CLI in freeBSD ?

2003-06-09 Thread Matt Bettinger
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:12:47 -0700 (PDT) Josh Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am looking for a IDE raid card to use with FreeBSD. Presumably a few are supported, but I am looking specifically for a card that also has a command line interface that I can run in FreeBSD while the

Re: Ghost images?

2003-06-09 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+-- Remington L. [freebsd] [08-06-03 23:14 -0700]: | I am looking for software that has the capabilities of Norton Ghost for | FreeBSD. I am having problems finding such an application. Does one exist? | | Search for ghost for unix on google. Check out the 1st link.