Re: wireless networking

2003-11-24 Thread Kim Fredenberg
sudo ifconfig wi0 ssid kieran I still cannot ping either by ip or dns. Here is the output of ifconfig: What are you trying to ping, your gateway or something in the Internet? If your pinging outside of your network your route (default gateway) settings might be incorrect. Try pinging

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-24 Thread Mark Terribile
[Rahul Fernandez] Hi, I shall certainly try installing a port instead. I am rather new to FreeBSD and am unclear as to how I can obtain new packages [Matthew Seaman] ... Even better, use the ports tree. This may sound terrifying ... but that's the beauty of the ports system. It

Quick Mailing List Solution

2003-11-24 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi Guys, I just got handed a job to do that involves me mailing 6000 people. I was wondering if there was a way i could use my FreeBSD server to do this that wont upset my ISP.. LDAP? Scripts? -- Regards, Carmoda [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Restricting SSH access to only a users home directory.....

2003-11-24 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, This depends on the shell not ssh configuration. Install rbash and assign it to the user having ssh access. Regards SSR From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restricting SSH access to only a users home directory. Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:59:00 -0800 (PST) Hi there ,

Linksys WPC11 ver4 troubles

2003-11-24 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello all, I recently (today) got FreeBSD 4.8 installed on my Compaq Presario 2100. I have a working Xserver with KDE, and working integrated touchpad, etc. My biggest problems are audio and my wireless network card. The following is the output of pccardc dumpcis command: nomad# pccardc

Unisntall Network PCI Card

2003-11-24 Thread Jake Stride
I have recently started using freebsd since the debacle with redhat, and have a question that I am not sure of the answer too. I have a freebsd 4.8 machine running as a print server, and I wish to uninstall a network card from it (wi0). Can I just remove the card (and associated start_if.wi0

Re: startx and numlocks

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Dru: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chris Pressey wrote: Thanks, that does the trick. For those that want to try it, after you've installed the port, add this line to the beginning of your ~/.xinitrc: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/numlockx No, no and no! The exec statement replaces the current process,

Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist during install

2003-11-24 Thread john
Apprently quite a few people have had this problem. During the install for 5.0 or 5.1 Release, immediately after I select my installation means, I'm given the error Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/output error (5) after which I'm told unable to initialize selected media. Would you like to

Re: install problem

2003-11-24 Thread radoslaw . zukowski
Hi, OK problem resolved, ufff :-)) Finally it wasn't problem with ACPI. I have unfrozen my FreeBSD 5.1 instaler when I set USB IRQ to Enabled status into BIOS(Award bios, motherboard P2L97) setup. Thanks, Radek Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-11-21 14:52

KDE and US International keyboard

2003-11-24 Thread ogautherot
Hi! I am running FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE. My X environment is KDE (the one coming with the install). I tried to configure the keyboard as US International in the KDE config panel but, for some reason, it won't work. The ISO alternative (using Alt-Graph for accent composition) is fine but I would

Re: No sound when playing a CD in FreeBSD 4.9

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Rahul Fernandez: Hi, Thanks for the responses. My understanding from the handbook was that I did not need to do this as I simply loaded a module (by editing the 'loader.conf' file). Am I mistaken? I am able to hear sound when watching films using mplayer. Does that not mean that

Re: Emails and charset issue

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Pierrick Brossin: so here is a UTF-8 mail (???) No it's not. It is encoded as ISO8859-1 (ISO Latin 1). You should ask your software vendor instead. If you can edit software settings, I'd recommend using Latin 1 as the default. Be sure to [1]check your environment for LANG or

Re: Installed ports

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Valerian Galeru: Pls tell me where are all the installed ports? After i installed the port, where i can find the bin file for the port? Information about packages is kept in /var/db/pkg. To have a list of all installed packages, see pkg_version(1). Cheers, -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 01:19:21AM +, Jez Hancock wrote: - for each pid, send a CHLD signal to the pid Careful -- not all processes will be set up to deal with SIGCHLD, and some of them will be set up to deal with it in ways that don't meet your expectations. You can use signal '0' to test

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-24 Thread Mathieu Arnold
+-le 23/11/2003 16:46 -0800, Will Prater écrivait : | Sorry, I mispoke. I will be using Nagios to monitor, but I need to make | sure they will restart if there is an error. Will nagios do this as well? Nagios can make use of net/nrpe, which can restart services. -- Mathieu Arnold

Re: wireless networking

2003-11-24 Thread Bruce Mackay
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 01:51:39 -0500 William O'Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much effort I found a wireless PCMCIA card that is supported by FreeBSD. Now I have to get connected to a wireless network, and I need some help. I have read man wi, and the Handbook, but I'm still missing

Re: Quick Mailing List Solution

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:52:21PM +1000, Anthony Carmody wrote: I just got handed a job to do that involves me mailing 6000 people. I was wondering if there was a way i could use my FreeBSD server to do this that wont upset my ISP.. You would be well advised to discuss what you're going to

strange scsi devices and isa problem

2003-11-24 Thread Martin Va
Hi, I've got some strange things in my dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #4: Mon Nov 24 12:23:31 CET 2003

Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-11-24 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! Just for the record I have the kind of setup you're talking about - I successfully 'hot swapped' a 40Gb IDE disk using a hdd caddy tray but there are caveats (mostly highlighted above) - using the term 'hot swap' loosely here because it just doesn't feel too clever doing it :P I found

Re: strange scsi devices and isa problem

2003-11-24 Thread Ilya Varlashkin
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 12:45:32PM +0100, Martin V??a wrote: Hi, I've got some strange things in my dmesg: [...] config di bt0 No such device: bt0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config di aic0 No such device: aic0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config di

NFS mount problems

2003-11-24 Thread Marcel de Reuver
Hi, I moved a RedHat Linux box for obvious reasons to FreeBSD v5.1 It is main job for that box is act like a mailhub. Also it servers Windows clients as a Samba server. There are two NFS mounts of a HP-UX workstation. With RedHat no problems, with FreeBSD noting but trouble with these mounts.

RE: Unisntall Network PCI Card

2003-11-24 Thread fbsd_user
Just remove the Nic card from your motherboard and FBSD will be just fine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jake Stride Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unisntall Network PCI Card I have recently started

Re: Quick Mailing List Solution

2003-11-24 Thread Josef Grosch
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:33:50AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:52:21PM +1000, Anthony Carmody wrote: I just got handed a job to do that involves me mailing 6000 people. I was wondering if there was a way i could use my FreeBSD server to do this that wont upset

Re: Restricting SSH access to only a users home directory.....

2003-11-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sunil Sunder Raj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This depends on the shell not ssh configuration. Install rbash and assign it to the user having ssh access. Just remember that restricted shells like rbash are not very hard to break out of, so you can't rely on them as a security measure. It's a

Re: newbie: use CR in RE?

2003-11-24 Thread M.D. DeWar
i find this and seems to work good. cat {filename} | tr -d '/r' out; mv out {new filename} It gets rid of all them ^M from the files for me. HTH Mark - Original Message - From: Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 8:00 AM Subject:

RE: Arplookup error.

2003-11-24 Thread Sorin Chiorean
I doesn't seem to show up on a regular base. This is an example from a log file : Nov 24 12:16:45 nira /kernel: arplookup 100.93.140.1 failed: host is not on local network Nov 24 12:17:40 nira /kernel: arplookup 100.93.140.1 failed: host is not on local network Nov 24 12:21:18 nira /kernel:

services bootup order

2003-11-24 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) When I startup my server, I get the following message: kernel: WARNING: Xmimedefang: local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/ mimedefang.sock missing I know this error appears because sendmail starts before MIMEDefang, so my question is: how can I make MIMEDefang starts before sendmail ?

Piping from one printer queue to another?

2003-11-24 Thread Dr Lyman Hazelton
I am trying to get a networked old HP printer to work. I have the following printcap entries for it, using gs filtering: # Entry for device ljet3 (output to ljet3.raw, I hope) lp|ljet3|Ghostscript device ljet3:\ :lp=ljet3.raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/ljet3:\

Re: Restricting SSH access to only a users home directory.....

2003-11-24 Thread shrikant
Hello, Here is a method whihc i followed , http://www.tjw.org/chroot-login-HOWTO/ This one is for linux I made the dummy structure for the user as per freeBSD architect but all atlast gave me an error su: /bin/userchroot: No such file or directory when i tired to login by that

Re: Material

2003-11-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I am a student at Minot State University in Minot,ND. I work in the computer lab and was noticing all the posters that we have up are getting old and out dated. Some one mentioned to me FreeBSD (rocks). I have never heard about freebsd so I was wondering do you have any material that you

Newbie question with Squirrelmail 1.41 and IMAP

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew A. Lee
I just recently installed 4.9 on a fresh server. I was also installing squirrelmail 1.41 from the ports directory and also imap-uw (imap4rev1). I pointed my virtual server to the squirrelmail directory. I can get the login prompt, but when I login with a username and password, I receive an

Mozilla not a menu choice in Gnome

2003-11-24 Thread lrnobs
I have a FreeBSD 4.8 server set up. During the sysinstall I specified that I wanted Mozilla to install. From the Gnome gui, Mozilla is not a menu choice. How do I get it onto the menu? Thanks, Larry Nobs ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

i have linux mandrake

2003-11-24 Thread james
I am trying to migrate to free bsd is there a way for me to put freebsd on with it woth out loosing mandrake or the files in it ? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: newbie: use CR in RE?

2003-11-24 Thread Ilya Varlashkin
- Original Message - From: Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 8:00 AM Subject: newbie: use CR in RE? Hello. Just want to know how to use special character in Regular Expression. I wish to remove all the carrier returns

Re: services bootup order

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Antoine Jacoutot: I know this error appears because sendmail starts before MIMEDefang, so my question is: how can I make MIMEDefang starts before sendmail ? The MIMEDefang startup script is located under /usr/local/etc/rc.d Make a symlink from /etc/rc.d/mimedefang.sh to

Re: services bootup order

2003-11-24 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Monday 24 November 2003 16:50, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote: Make a symlink from /etc/rc.d/mimedefang.sh to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mimedefang.sh, as sendmail is started from /etc/rc.d in FreeBSD 5.1. Wow, it was THAT simple :) Thanks for the tip... You could also disable entirely sendmail, and

Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-11-24 Thread Jez Hancock
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 02:26:39PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: Hi! Just for the record I have the kind of setup you're talking about - I successfully 'hot swapped' a 40Gb IDE disk using a hdd caddy tray but there are caveats (mostly highlighted above) - using the term 'hot swap' loosely

Re: i have linux mandrake

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 07:32:53PM -0300, james wrote: I am trying to migrate to free bsd is there a way for me to put freebsd on with it woth out loosing mandrake or the files in it ? If you just want to try FreeBSD without installing on your HD yet: http://www.freesbie.org/ It's kind of

Re: Newbie question with Squirrelmail 1.41 and IMAP

2003-11-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:34:40AM -0500, Matthew A. Lee wrote: I just recently installed 4.9 on a fresh server. I was also installing squirrelmail 1.41 from the ports directory and also imap-uw (imap4rev1). I pointed my virtual server to the squirrelmail directory. I can get the login

Re: Mozilla not a menu choice in Gnome

2003-11-24 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, lrnobs wrote: I have a FreeBSD 4.8 server set up. During the sysinstall I specified that I wanted Mozilla to install. From the Gnome gui, Mozilla is not a menu choice. How do I get it onto the menu? Have a look at gnome help (Desktop). They describe how to set up all

Re: i have linux mandrake

2003-11-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am trying to migrate to free bsd is there a way for me to put freebsd on with it woth out loosing mandrake or the files in it ? The basic answer is yes. Then the follow up is that it depends on how much disk you have and what condition it is already in. First, comment is make a good

Re: 5.0 vs. 5.1

2003-11-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 08:12:08PM -0500, john typed: I'm currently running 5.0 release and am wondering about the possible positives/negatives of switching to another release, particularly 5.1 current. I'm running it as my work machine for programming and school type things, side by side

stop_cmd=: in pccard

2003-11-24 Thread Jan Stary
Hello, sorry for reposting, but I could only google my original messages, and did not find the possibly simple answer anywhere. Why does /et/rc.d/pccard say stop_cmd=:? This does, of course, not 'stop' pccardd. Is there some deeper ... you know ... sense ...? Thanks

serial port programming

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Marc Francois
Sir, I've posted this question on a newsgroup, but got no response. Is there a cuaa-guru out there ? :-) Thanks ! Jean-Marc Francois Université de Liège --- I got a strange problem. I want to send a binary string to a small device I made via /dev/cuaa0. The port settings should be

pccardd of 5.1R-p10 not recognizing card(s)

2003-11-24 Thread Jan Stary
Hello, I am running 5.1-RELEASE-p10 hapilly on an Acer Aspire laptop, except for one thing: the pccardd does not recognized PC cards. I tried ZCom XI-325 and Micronet SP905B. They are both recognized fine under 4.7, but 5.1 only says No card in database for (null)((null)) Trying 'pccardc

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-24 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 09:02:29AM +0300, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:11:39 +0100 Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Dear Will, I've moved you text to the buttom so its more readable for other. On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 04:46:09PM -0800,

Party Stream-URL from SFrancisco?

2003-11-24 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hi all, today's the 10 year FreeBSD party at DNA Lounge in San Francisco (see http://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash.html#event2003October22:0). I remember that there should be a live streaming. Does anybody know more about that? Thanks, -Harry pgp0.pgp Description: signature

RE: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-11-24 Thread Brent Wiese
Hello! I'm looking for a cheap solution to back up a FreeBSD 4.8 machine. Cheap meaning that tape drives are out of question. Even external FireWire drives are deemed a bit too expensive by the folks for whom I'm doing this research. This leaves one option I can think of - standard

Re: Mozilla not a menu choice in Gnome

2003-11-24 Thread lrnobs
Thanks, Larry - Original Message - From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lrnobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 10:52 AM Subject: Re: Mozilla not a menu choice in Gnome On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, lrnobs wrote: I have a FreeBSD 4.8 server

Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK

2003-11-24 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! If the drive worked in the 4.7 machine, what was the fstab entry there? I cant recall the fstab entry but the drive was as Master on the secondary IDE channel and had only one partition using all diskspace. In the 4.9 machine the drive is on a DMA-66-Controller. Under Win2000

Connection attempt to TCP messages in /var/log/messages

2003-11-24 Thread Spades
I did a tail -f /var/log/messages and got all these.. previously before my cvs and recompile kernel to 4.9 stable it didn't have below.. now it does.. Nov 25 03:09:56 asia /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 202.79.180.131:80 from 65.217.41.66:1681 Nov 25 03:09:58 asia /kernel: Connection attempt

options PNPBIOS unrecognized in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-11-24 Thread Nick Tonkin
Hello, I have been trying unsuccessfully to get my on board sound card working in 5.1 RELEASE. This is an Intel 82801BA ICH2 device on a D845HV motherboard. Following the instructions in the Handbook at 16.2.1.5 Onboard Sound (which were confirmed by a couple of archived messages on the

Re: Connection attempt to TCP messages in /var/log/messages

2003-11-24 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 24 November 2003 11:11 am, Spades wrote: I did a tail -f /var/log/messages and got all these.. previously before my cvs and recompile kernel to 4.9 stable it didn't have below.. now it does.. Nov 25 03:09:56 asia /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 202.79.180.131:80 from

Piping from one printer queue to another?

2003-11-24 Thread Dr Lyman Hazelton
Problem solved! -Lyman ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Postfix/procmail/fetchmail/spamassassin setup

2003-11-24 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Jonas Manalive [freebsd] [23-11-03 13:54 -0800]: | Hello, | | I am having terrible time trying to figure out why I can't get any | emails. I used to be able to receive them before, but since reinstalling | FreeBSD (new harddrive), I am not able to get any emails again. I am | using FreeBSD

Re: KDE and US International keyboard

2003-11-24 Thread Olivier Gautherot
Just realized that I should be more specific... I tried to use the keymap us_intl uner OpenOffice but it won't work; actually, I can't even type a single quote. Any clue? It may be related to OpenOffice itself but I'm not sure. On Monday 24 November 2003 11:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi!

RE: options PNPBIOS unrecognized in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-11-24 Thread fbsd_user
I've found that FreeBSD so far has supported every odd sound card I've thrown its way. Even (especially!) those on-board sound things built into motherboards and laptops these days. FreeBSD supports them all (and Windows usually doesn't without the special CD-Rom from the motherboard

Savage4, DRI, and NWN

2003-11-24 Thread Aaron Dalton
Before I pull out my hair seeking for answers that don't exist, I would appreciate confirmation of the following points: 1) There is currently no DRI driver for the Savage4 graphics card, meaning no matter how I configure XFree86, glxinfo will always tell me that Direct Rendering is not enabled.

USB2.0 support for Intel ICH5 chipset?

2003-11-24 Thread Kelsey Cummings
I've got a Asus P4P8x motheboard with the ICH5 chipset runing 5.1-r-p10. The USB2 controller is properly detected at boot (as a generic 2.0 controller) but any attempts at using a USB 2.0 device fail and the port locks. If the ehci device is disabled, USB 1 access works properly and dismally

RE: Connection attempt to TCP messages in /var/log/messages

2003-11-24 Thread fbsd_user
Sounds like you have this enabled in rc.conf log_in_vain=YES # NO is default. YES enables logging of # connection attempts to ports that have no # listening socket on them. Put msg on console -Original Message- From:

Building Automated Custom Install CD

2003-11-24 Thread Jim Sims
I am looking for information/pointers/HowTo about creating an automated custom install CD. The CD would have a sysinstall script and custom packages so that upon bootup it does a complete install without asking. (I know... Dangerous TM) For the interested this CD will be used to install FreeBSD

RE: Arplookup error.

2003-11-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Sorin Chiorean wrote: I doesn't seem to show up on a regular base. This is an example from a log file : Nov 24 12:16:45 nira /kernel: arplookup 100.93.140.1 failed: host is not on local network Nov 24 12:17:40 nira /kernel: arplookup 100.93.140.1 failed: host is not on local network Nov 24

freebsd bootmanager reboots immidiatly

2003-11-24 Thread mikael backman
Hello. I am a newbie I installed FreeBSD 4.9 release to dualboot with winXP. All went well untill it was time to finish the installation and reboot. I got the options F1 ?? F2 winxp F3 Freebsd on the screen. When I press F2 winxp is booted fine. But when I press F3 the computer just reboots

postfix/amavisd, fbsd 5.1

2003-11-24 Thread dave
Hello, I have upgraded a system to the latest postfix and amavisd port, a FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE box. Sending mail works fine, however receiving mail, does not. Incoming messages get deferred because a connection to 127.0.0.1:10025 times out. I can telnet successfully to that port so i am at a loss

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Will Prater wrote: List, What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there any others that you reccomend? If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I get some more examples? I am primarily trying to

strange kernel option USER_LDT suggested in wine doc

2003-11-24 Thread DG
Greetings, I installed the wine port onto FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and noted that the doc suggested the following: To use Wine, your kernel must be rebuilt with the following lines added to the kernel config file (/sys/i386/conf/YourMachine): options USER_LDT options SYSVSHM options

Re: usb digital camera

2003-11-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, Is there some trick to using USB devices? I'm trying to access my Nikon coolpix 5000 (latest firmware PTP mode) from 4.9-STABLE with no luck. usbdevs sees the camera, as does gphoto2 --auto-detect. However, I'm unable to access the camera data with gphoto2

Re: Connection attempt to TCP messages in /var/log/messages

2003-11-24 Thread Mohsin Rahman
sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=1 sysctl -w net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=1 turns em on and sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=0 sysctl -w net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=0 turns them off. Hope this helps. Anyone know how to add a time/date to this log entry and which file to modify? -- Mohsin Rahman

Re: strange kernel option USER_LDT suggested in wine doc

2003-11-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:11:14AM +1100, DG wrote: Greetings, I installed the wine port onto FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and noted that the doc suggested the following: To use Wine, your kernel must be rebuilt with the following lines added to the kernel config file (/sys/i386/conf/YourMachine):

Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK

2003-11-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi! If the drive worked in the 4.7 machine, what was the fstab entry there? I cant recall the fstab entry but the drive was as Master on the secondary IDE channel and had only one partition using all diskspace. In the 4.9 machine the drive is on a DMA-66-Controller. Under Win2000

Re: CUPS problem

2003-11-24 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:22:38 +0100 DanGer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have installed CUPS on my computer which is running FBSD4.9 release. when i started cupsd and connected to localhost:631 and wanted to add new printer there was a screen with name location and description. i filled in all

Re: pccardd of 5.1R-p10 not recognizing card(s)

2003-11-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jan Stary wrote: Hello, I am running 5.1-RELEASE-p10 hapilly on an Acer Aspire laptop, except for one thing: the pccardd does not recognized PC cards. I tried ZCom XI-325 and Micronet SP905B. They are both recognized fine under 4.7, but 5.1 only says No card in database for

Re: Party Stream-URL from SFrancisco?

2003-11-24 Thread Andreas Kohn
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 18:52, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Hi all, today's the 10 year FreeBSD party at DNA Lounge in San Francisco (see http://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash.html#event2003October22:0). I remember that there should be a live streaming. Does anybody know more about that?

Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK

2003-11-24 Thread Robert Neumann
Hi Jerry, Jerry McAllister wrote: NOTE: If you run disklabel and do not use the -r switch, then what you are seeing is the socalled 'in-cure' version of the disklabel and if no FreeBSD label has been written on the disk, the system will make up some default stuff. So, just seing # /dev/ad6

Re: USB disks on FreeBSD 4.7

2003-11-24 Thread JacobRhoden
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:56 pm, Mike Jeays wrote: I have a 4.7 system, and have trouble with an Apacer Flash Memory 64 MB disk. I can read and write the FAT system on it if it is plugged in at boot time, but I cannot remount it if I unmount it, unplug it, and then plug it in again. da0 at

sis0 / sis1 dont play nice together

2003-11-24 Thread JacobRhoden
Hey, I have 3 network cards, and no matter what combination of two of them being plugged in, (Two are netgear, one is 3com) they dont work together. Is there something I am missing? Do I need to do anything special to get them both working at the same time. - They are always both recognised

Re: PHP failure/SSH down--Finally completely offline

2003-11-24 Thread Antonio Lupher
I have looked at the log files in /var/log, but can't find anything out of the ordinary. Which should I be looking and (what should I be looking for?). How can I tell if /tmp is a disk filesystem or a ramdisk? I have also noticed two processes running that I hadn't seen before: 6 con Is+

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-24 Thread Will Prater
On Nov 24, 2003, at 1:10 PM, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Will Prater wrote: List, What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there any others that you reccomend? If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I get

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-24 Thread Will Prater
List, On Nov 24, 2003, at 3:14 AM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: +-le 23/11/2003 16:46 -0800, Will Prater écrivait : | Sorry, I mispoke. I will be using Nagios to monitor, but I need to make | sure they will restart if there is an error. Will nagios do this as well? Nagios can make use of net/nrpe,

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Will Prater wrote: On Nov 24, 2003, at 1:10 PM, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Will Prater wrote: List, What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there any others that you reccomend? If DJB's

RE: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-11-24 Thread Brent Wiese
Hello! I'm looking for a cheap solution to back up a FreeBSD 4.8 machine. Cheap meaning that tape drives are out of question. Even external FireWire drives are deemed a bit too expensive by the folks for whom I'm doing this research. This leaves one option I can think of -

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2003-11-24 Thread Scott Owen
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2003-11-24 Thread Scott Owen
Scott Owen System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] (408) 523 1100 DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission is intended by 3Ware for the use of the named individual or entity to which it is directed and may contain information that is confidential or

Re: usb digital camera

2003-11-24 Thread Cordula's Web
Is there some trick to using USB devices? I'm trying to access my Nikon coolpix 5000 (latest firmware PTP mode) from 4.9-STABLE with no luck. usbdevs sees the camera, as does gphoto2 --auto-detect. However, I'm unable to access the camera data with gphoto2 --auto-detect --summary

FAQ answer unclear: filesystem size limit

2003-11-24 Thread Dan Pelleg
I am trying to determine the maximum filesystem size on -STABLE. Assuming I have a hardware RAID device that appears as a single 1.5TB drive, can I use it for UFS1 on -STABLE? The FAQ is saying: For ffs filesystems, the maximum theoretical limit is 8 terabytes (2G blocks), or 16TB for the

removing scsi drivers from kernel conf

2003-11-24 Thread David Bear
Is it a 'good idea' to removed unused scsi devices from a custom kernel, ie is it worth the time to reduce the kernel size? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be

help, i'm a newbie

2003-11-24 Thread NYROSS29
i'm a newbie and i just installed freebsd 4.8. the basic installation seemed to have gone fairly well, i can use the console mode fine enough. the problem is when i try to load a window manager, KDE, Afterstep, Windowmaker (the ones i've tried thus far) i get a blank screen when i use the

Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK

2003-11-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi Jerry, Jerry McAllister wrote: NOTE: If you run disklabel and do not use the -r switch, then what you are seeing is the socalled 'in-cure' version of the disklabel and if no FreeBSD label has been written on the disk, the system will make up some default stuff. So, just

RE: Building Automated Custom Install CD

2003-11-24 Thread fbsd_user
I believe this is what you are looking for http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Sims Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Building Automated Custom

antivirus for FreeBSD

2003-11-24 Thread Ben H.
Hello All, Guidance anyone? I would like to deploy an Anti virus software on a FreeBSD v4.9 server hosting Samba. I wanted to look at the Ports Collection... the only thing I can find there is something called UV-Scan and only enough extra info to know I can only run it for a month. I have

fbsd 5.1 setup problem, too many active children of 'whole'

2003-11-24 Thread F. Even
Hello all, I have recently completely cleared all the cruft off of this P3-700 with 2 9GB Seagate SCSI drives, and 1 Maxtor 40GB drive. I ran this on it apparently successfully (after booting from the 5.1 live filesystem cd): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 dd

Block Devices

2003-11-24 Thread Jeff Shevlen
Hey, I've got a book that talks about block devices in Freebsd 3.4. I got curious and went looking for some, but my 4.8 distro doesn't seem to have any. When did they disappear? Why did they leave? Will they ever return? I poked around in google and freebsd.org but didn't turn anything up.

Re: antivirus for FreeBSD

2003-11-24 Thread Jamie
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Ben H. wrote: Hello All, Guidance anyone? I would like to deploy an Anti virus software on a FreeBSD v4.9 server hosting Samba. I wanted to look at the Ports Collection... the only thing I can find there is something called UV-Scan and only enough extra info to

Using multiple zip disks

2003-11-24 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I have an external USB Iomega Zip 250 drive that is working properly after I configured it using sysinstall. I have added an entry to fstab that allows me to just enter mount /zip to mount it. /dev/da0s1e /zipufs rw,noauto 0 0 The problem is that I

Re: antivirus for FreeBSD

2003-11-24 Thread Dave Cantrell
On Mon November 24 2003 18:43, Jamie wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Ben H. wrote: Hello All, Guidance anyone? Yes, I suggest Clam Antivirus. http://clamav.elektrapro.com/ Take a look at f-prot (http://www.f-prot.com/), also in ports/security. Free for personal use, not sure what

Re: Block Devices

2003-11-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:39:38PM -0500, Jeff Shevlen wrote: Hey, I've got a book that talks about block devices in Freebsd 3.4. I got curious and went looking for some, but my 4.8 distro doesn't seem to have any. When did they disappear? They disappeared from FreeBSD 4-CURRENT in Nov

Re: Building Automated Custom Install CD

2003-11-24 Thread Jim Sims
Not exactly. FreeBSD From Scratch requires a working system and several other items (See #3 Prerequisites). What I am looking for is information for making install CDs (binary install is ideal) that will complete the whole process start to finish without requiring anything from the user. I

Re: Arplookup error

2003-11-24 Thread Michael L. Squires
Sorin Chiorean wrote: I doesn't seem to show up on a regular base. This is an example from a log file : Nov 24 12:16:45 nira /kernel: arplookup 100.93.140.1 failed: host is not on local network I've seen this when the IP number is not in the network defined by the IP number and netmask

Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-11-24 Thread Scott W
Brent Wiese wrote: Hello! I'm looking for a cheap solution to back up a FreeBSD 4.8 machine. Cheap meaning that tape drives are out of question. Even external FireWire drives are deemed a bit too expensive by the folks for whom I'm doing this research. This leaves one option I

RE: sis0 / sis1 dont play nice together

2003-11-24 Thread fbsd_user
First try some simple fixit steps below. Verify that the PCI Nic cards is not in the first PCI expansion slot. Slot closest to power supply. Try pciconf -lv command to see if it gives you any useful info. Disable any Bio's plug-n-play option. Disable or set to auto any Bio's option to assign

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