Re: freebsd mount nwfs

2003-12-11 Thread Feroz F. Basir
Hi, At the moment no problem. So far so good. If you have lost connection to novell server and want to reconnect automatically, I suggest create a script to check if you lost connection to novell. Run it every 5 minutes or less through cron job. feroz --- Cristian Salan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Leased line server configuration via analogue modem

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Grove
Hello there How do would I go about configuring FreeBSD 5.1 to be a leased line server? Basically a mail server and gateway. I can get a null modem to connect and obtain an IP address. But I am only able to access the machine from outside if there is a default_router for my network. Here is

Problem with mount

2003-12-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
uname -a | FreeBSD villa.fixer.com 4.8 RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE #0:TUE DEC11 20:54:12 GMT 2003 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/VILLATV i386 --- I'm having a problem mounting dos files from

Re: Problem with mount

2003-12-11 Thread Georg Klein
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uname -a | FreeBSD villa.fixer.com 4.8 RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE #0:TUE DEC11 20:54:12 GMT 2003 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/VILLATV i386

ASUS A7N8X's 3Com chip / Sil 3112

2003-12-11 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
Hi, Will FreeBSD 5.2 (RC1, 2 or RELEASE) support the 3Com 3C90x based n/w controller (Broadcom PHY) present on the A7N8X Deluxe motherboard? Also, will there be a driver for the Sil 3112 SATA driver? Thanx and Regards Gautham ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-11 Thread Simon Barner
You are comparing apples and oranges. Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. Distributions is a specially ill-choosen word in the Linux world. There are several operating systems, Debian, RedHat, Mandrake, which only have in common to use the Linux kernel. Well, this is what I indendet

Re: sed from a shell script - invalid command code

2003-12-11 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:10, Jez Hancock wrote: #!/bin/sh sed=/usr/bin/sed passwd_file=/etc/passwd ignore_users=root|toor|daemon|operator|bin|tty|kmem|games|news|man|smmsp|b ind|uucp|xten|pop|nobody|mysql|www|sshd|ftp|cyrus cmd=$sed -E -e '/^(#|$ignore_users)/d' -e 's/:.*//' $passwd_file

Router/Gateway

2003-12-11 Thread Extech
Hello I have looked through the archives and I have read the manual (Advance Networking) but could not find specific to address my question. I want to set up a FreeBSD 5.x box as a router/gateway on a permanent connection with a fixed IP address, there will also be other machines with fixed IP

cvsup from 4.7-REL to stable

2003-12-11 Thread Adrian Pircalabu
Hi, I have recently installed 4.7-REL succesfully. After that, I tried to run cvsup to RELENG_4 as in: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html I intend to sync src and ports trees. After running cvsup, all content from /usr/ports (excepting distfiles and dirs. listed

Re: scp between windows and freebsd

2003-12-11 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:20, KURT BUFF wrote: All, I'm following the directions here: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/postfix-exchange-users.html to improve the gateway to our Exchange box, and am stuck on a particular step. I just can't seem to make the Putty SCP work from my workstation.

RE: cvsup from 4.7-REL to stable

2003-12-11 Thread Philip Payne
Hi, I'm 99% your sufile needs to read (but nowhere near my machine to check): src-all ports-all release=cvs ports-base release=cvs ports-all tag=. So that you get the head of the source tree for ports. Phil. /usr/sup/refuse looks like this: src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc*

Re: ufs problem (mounting ufs under linux-2.6.0-test11)

2003-12-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:32:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hello, I don't seem to be able to mount the FreeBSD-5.1-RELEASE's ufs partition in linux-2.6.0-test11, which occupies another partition on the same machine (which is Acer Aspire 1304XC). Has the ufs format changed in 5.1?

Setting locales

2003-12-11 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hiya, I set the following locales in my .bash_profile: export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 But I get these warnings when I try to run some script: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = en_US.UTF-8,

NFS problem at boot-up: nfsd: RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Port mapperfailure - RPC: Unable to send

2003-12-11 Thread Rob
Hi, All my PCs are running up-to-date FreeBSD-stable. I had set up an NFS server (800 MHz) and client (500 MHz), which was all working fine. At boot-up it nfs-mounts two nfs file systems. Today I replaced the client 500 MHz with a 2 GHz Pentium 4 PC. Now the client gives the following during

Re: Adelphia at home and NAT...

2003-12-11 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:42:39 -0500, Alex ander Sendzimir wrote: I chose Adelphia for my high speed internet service here in lovely Vermont. Same here! By the way, let me point you to a site I just started, http://www.vtbsd.net/ while we're at it. :) Feel free to stop by and hang out

Re: group limits

2003-12-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to know if there is a maximum number of group a user can be member of. If yes, can that maximum number can be set to an higher value. Any help or suggestion will be appreciated. See NGROUPS_MAX in sys/syslimits.h. It will require rebuilding

Re: NGROUPS_MAX

2003-12-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, i'm jonathan and i'm running a freebsd 4.8 box. i wish to increase the value of NGROUPS_MAX into /usr/src/sys/sys/syslimits.h. I'd like to know how increasing that number to permit users from /etc/passwd to be member of more than 16 groups will

ppp setup

2003-12-11 Thread marcelo cardoso martinelli
i made a clean install of freebsd 5.0-release in my home machine and i am having trouble setting up my box for dial-up access to the internet. my modem is connected to com4 but my dmesg entry shows that the kernel is only tracking up to com2. i tried looking at my kernel configuration file but it

Dual-hosting current stable.

2003-12-11 Thread Robin P. Blanchard
Currently I maintain two separate 'host' boxes: 1) -stable, nfs exporting src and obj for -stable clients 2) -current, nfs exporting src and obj for -current clients I'd like to eliminate one of these boxes, having one box building and nfs exporting both -stable and -current. I've been reading

Notebook Mouse and 5.x

2003-12-11 Thread Minnesota Slinky
Hello, I'm still using 4.x, but I'm really aching to move to the 5.x series. I've been successfully using it on my desktop since 5.0-CURRENT and now I'm using 5.1-RELEASE. I have a laptop that can get everything working ok, but I can't get my PS/2 port or the integrated touchpad to work. Does

Adding SCSI Scanner

2003-12-11 Thread Dr. Lyman Hazelton
I didn't have my SCSI scanner (UMAX Astra 1200S) powered up when I loaded FreeBSD 5.1. I turned it on and re-booted the system, and it certainly sees it (as seen in the dmesg report), but it simply says it's part of pass4:... in other words, no driver associated with it. Is there some nice

List Failures

2003-12-11 Thread Eric F Crist
Is there something in the list configuration to prevent Outlook MIME or html messages? I think I finally got it fixed so I can post. TIA Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Stupid vinum questions

2003-12-11 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: 3) Is there some fine manual around, that could be used as a starting point for reading? (I had a look at at my copy of The Complete FreeBSD, but I guess I wouldn't ask these questions, if I had understood it.) Maybe it would be a

Re: Adding SCSI Scanner

2003-12-11 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:47:09AM -0700, Dr. Lyman Hazelton wrote: I didn't have my SCSI scanner (UMAX Astra 1200S) powered up when I loaded FreeBSD 5.1. I turned it on and re-booted the system, and it certainly sees it (as seen in the dmesg report), but it simply says it's part of

Re: Adding SCSI Scanner

2003-12-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 11), Dr. Lyman Hazelton said: I didn't have my SCSI scanner (UMAX Astra 1200S) powered up when I loaded FreeBSD 5.1. I turned it on and re-booted the system, and it certainly sees it (as seen in the dmesg report), but it simply says it's part of pass4:... in other

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-11 Thread Mark Terribile
Marco Beizhuizen writes: I did notice an increase of speed (when I changed the resolution from 600x600 to 300x300) of data sent to the printer. Probably due to the decrease of the amount of data sent. But it didn't influence the speed of printing itself, so no 10ppm but more like a few ppm

Priority Notification - Potential UK Lottery Winner

2003-12-11 Thread Susan Kennedy
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p5 random password ports

2003-12-11 Thread Dru
Has anyone on the list ever used any of the following to create their own custom random password generator script: /usr/ports/security/p5-Crypt-GeneratePassword /usr/ports/security/p5-Crypt-PassGen /usr/ports/security/p5-Crypt-RandPasswd If so, could you please contact me off list. I may have a

Re: Upgrading

2003-12-11 Thread Pete Renshaw
If it is your second buildworld you have to do something like this # cd /usr/obj # chflags -R noschg * # rm -rf * Or the build may fail. See http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html Pete On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:36:43 -0500, Marius Kirschner wrote I

Re: I can't connect to internet. Plz help me

2003-12-11 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ nil ban [freebsd] [10-12-03 13:11 -0800]: | Hello, | I'm a novice linux user currently switched over to freebsd | when many linux users told me that freebsd is real unix | and only slackware is somehow matched with it. So I installed | feeebsd 4.8 but I am getting few problems I can't handle.

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread paul beard
On Dec 10, 2003, at 8:34 PM, Tony Jones wrote: At this point, /usr/local/perl/bin/perl is installed why is it in /usr/local/perl/bin? As far as I have seen, the ports collection doesn't do that. did you install as a port (make install in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8)? What would happen if you were

kernel tcp connection logging

2003-12-11 Thread David Bear
I'm runnining a generic release-4.7 kernel. at some point I must have set some sysctl option because I get a lot of message like: Dec 11 10:35:18 recsrv1 /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 129.219.208.171:135 from 129.219.90.69:4449 Dec 11 10:35:19 recsrv1 last message repeated 2 times I am

php error

2003-12-11 Thread Dzevad Fazlic
Hello there I am trying to install freBSD 4.9 but all the time i am getting error while installing php . I try 5 times all the time same error . So i try to change ftp server still same error look like there is an error while installing php Can somebudy help me please Thanks Dzevad

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread Tony Jones
why is it in /usr/local/perl/bin? As far as I have seen, the ports collection doesn't do that. did you install as a port (make install in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8)? Yes. make install PREFIX=/usr/local/perl Is that bad? I like to have large packages installed into seperate sub-directories

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread Tony Jones
why is it in /usr/local/perl/bin? As far as I have seen, the ports collection doesn't do that. did you install as a port (make install in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8)? Yes. make install PREFIX=/usr/local/perl I of course also did 'make PREFIX=/usr/local/perl' before doing the install.

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-11 Thread Allan Bowhill
On 0, Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:37:48AM +0200, : Vahric MUHTARYAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : a message of 46 lines which said: : : Why some programs are in base system . What is the meaning of : Sendmail or SSH in base system . Programs are only

Re: Question about ports...

2003-12-11 Thread C. Ulrich
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:04, Payne wrote: Hi, I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't want to have to reinstall ports everytime I add something new. Thanks, Payne Does postnuke require a

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread paul beard
On Dec 11, 2003, at 9:54 AM, Tony Jones wrote: I'm very unfamiliar with the ports system. I've never heard of portinstall or portupgrade. Just running make make install in the appropriate port subdirectory. It seems to me you're making this really complicated: I don't know what difference

Re: Setting locales

2003-12-11 Thread Rogelio Rodríguez
Odhiambo Washington (2003-12-11): Hiya, I set the following locales in my .bash_profile: export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 But I get these warnings when I try to run some script: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale

Heavy Gear 2 under linux compat...

2003-12-11 Thread kitsune
I was just wondering if any one has managed to getting Heavy Gear 2 working? The problem I start the game and the shell/begining menu part/whatever comes up fine, but when I go and begin the game I get Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed) Any one have any success or ideas?

php5 compile fail

2003-12-11 Thread Aleksander Rozman - Andy
Hi ! I am having weird problem. I tried to install php5 but it seems that FreeBSD has some stuff missing. In resolv.h, we are mising 4 aliases res_ninit, res_nmkquery, res_nsend, res_nclose. I was working with some people on php site, to disover why my compile fails and we came to this

RE: Upgrading

2003-12-11 Thread Marius Kirschner
This will be the first buildworld on that machine. Thanks, ---Marius -Original Message- From: Pete Renshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:38 PM To: Marius Kirschner Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrading If it is your second buildworld

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-11 Thread C. Ulrich
I don't wish to get into a shouting match, but I don't think I completely agree with some of the things you say here. On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 11:39, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: You are comparing apples and oranges. Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. Distributions is a specially

Re: problem with perl 5.8 on 4.9-PRERELEASE

2003-12-11 Thread Anton Berezin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:54:27AM -0800, Tony Jones wrote: LD_LIBRARY_PATH is in the environment in all cases (=/usr/lib). Anyone got any ideas. It's probably something obvious but it isn't dawning on me. Yes, I have rebooted post installing perl. This is all 4.9 FreeBSD. It is very very

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-11 Thread Cordula's Web
There are several operating systems, Debian, RedHat, Mandrake, which only have in common to use the Linux kernel. This is incorrect. All relevant Linux distributions are not only based on the same kernel, but almost almost all of the same userland software as well. (Specifically, GNU

umounting /

2003-12-11 Thread Dru
Is this the only way to unmount the root filesystem: umount -a When I try umount /, I get this error: umount: unmount of / failed: Invalid argument The manpage doesn't give any hints on why that argument is invalid... Dru ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
I don't wish to get into a shouting match, but I don't think I completely agree with some of the things you say here. OK. Well, just toddle on over to the advocacy list where this can more appropriately be hashed out. jerry On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 11:39, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

Re: umounting /

2003-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
Is this the only way to unmount the root filesystem: umount -a When I try umount /, I get this error: umount: unmount of / failed: Invalid argument The manpage doesn't give any hints on why that argument is invalid... You can't un mount root. You can only reassert the mount.

Re: php error

2003-12-11 Thread Mike Maltese
Hello there I am trying to install freBSD 4.9 but all the time i am getting error while installing php . I try 5 times all the time same error . So i try to change ftp server still same error look like there is an error while installing php Can somebudy help me please This is like calling

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:56:27AM -0800, Tony Jones wrote: why is it in /usr/local/perl/bin? As far as I have seen, the ports collection doesn't do that. did you install as a port (make install in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8)? Yes. make install PREFIX=/usr/local/perl I of

Re: List Failures

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:45:53AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Is there something in the list configuration to prevent Outlook MIME or html messages? I think I finally got it fixed so I can post. Yes: See Section C.1.4 in

Re: kernel tcp connection logging

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:43:59AM -0700, David Bear wrote: I'm runnining a generic release-4.7 kernel. at some point I must have set some sysctl option because I get a lot of message like: Dec 11 10:35:18 recsrv1 /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 129.219.208.171:135 from

USB Web Cam

2003-12-11 Thread Bryan Cassidy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How does one go about configuring and using a usb wecam? I want to take a couple of pictures but not sure how to go about doing this. Here is the output from dmesg for my webcam ugen0: Logitech Camera, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 3 Thanks -BEGIN PGP

dd of mounted filesystem

2003-12-11 Thread Dru
Can anyone describe or point me to resources explaining why it is dangerous to dd a filesystem while it is mounted? Is it still considered to be dangerous if the system is first dropped down to single-user mode? Dru ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: umounting /

2003-12-11 Thread Dan Strick
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the only way to unmount the root filesystem: umount -a When I try umount /, I get this error: umount: unmount of / failed: Invalid argument The manpage doesn't give any hints on why that argument is invalid... From the unmount(2)

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Staroscik
I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't want to have to reinstall ports everytime I add something new. I recently installed PHPNuke and have some observations that might be relevant to your situation.

Re: dd of mounted filesystem

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:54:12PM -0500, Dru wrote: Can anyone describe or point me to resources explaining why it is dangerous to dd a filesystem while it is mounted? Is it still considered to be dangerous if the system is first dropped down to single-user mode? I assume you're talking

Re: dd of mounted filesystem

2003-12-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 11), Matthew Seaman said: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:54:12PM -0500, Dru wrote: Can anyone describe or point me to resources explaining why it is dangerous to dd a filesystem while it is mounted? Is it still considered to be dangerous if the system is first dropped

Re: dd of mounted filesystem

2003-12-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: Dru [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:54 AM Can anyone describe or point me to resources explaining why it is dangerous to dd a filesystem while it is mounted? Is it still considered to be dangerous if the system is first dropped down to

strange kernel problem

2003-12-11 Thread Chris McGee
The machine I'm having problems with seems to boot normally and will operate normally for a couple of minutes, a couple of hours, but it seems to vary. When the machine fails, the console displays this: Dec 11 11:38:50 out3 /kernel: (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS mode change from LVD to HVD.

When FreeBSD have higer performans than Linux and When Linux have higher performans than FreeBSD

2003-12-11 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi Everybody , I red Explaining BSD documents and on 4.7 Which should I use , BSD or Linux section it said that BSD systems , in particular FreeBSD , can have notably higer performans than Linux but this is not accross the board In many cases , there is little or no difference in

configuration info for NUT

2003-12-11 Thread David Bear
I just installed nut. however, I can seem to find how it was 'configured', ie per the instructions from the net website. So, I don't know where the man pages were placed, I don't know what the nut user/group is etc. Any pointers? I am using an APC smartups connected with a usb monitor cable.

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread Tony Jones
The main reason for doing that sort of thing with most unixoid systems is that using a unique prefix for every software package you install means that you can easily identify which files belong to what package when later on it comes time to update things. I understand this, but I still like

last question about up-to-date ( I hope )

2003-12-11 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi , For keep up to date FreeBSD I think all people are using source update method ( When I sent a message to list almost everybody adviced this ) Only one person said that binary update but this is not recommanded because compiled version always work better and I saw that compile update

Re: last question about up-to-date ( I hope )

2003-12-11 Thread Cordula's Web
I'm just wonder Why patching is not used instead of source update.. it's patching source tree too for security bugs ... I checking output of the cvsup -g -L 2 stable-supfile command . it's only download openssh , bind and like this almost what writen in security advisories . Personally, I

About FreeBSD more then Kernel

2003-12-11 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi Everybody , I asked before why FreeBSD is more then Kernel , people in the list gived different answer and I checked Explaining BSD . it comes to me this subject was coming from the pest ATT , UNIX and BSD . I know that it's not available now but SCO UNIX was coming like this some

Advice on a DVD burner compatible with FreeBSD

2003-12-11 Thread Bill Moran
I'm helping a client set up a backup system based on FreeBSD where archive copies will be burned to CD or DVD (depending on the space required). He's looking at a LG 2X DVD burner. I guess the price is right. Does anyone have any experience with this particular unit working or not working under

Re: ufs problem (mounting ufs under linux-2.6.0-test11)

2003-12-11 Thread Jan . Stary
Hello, I don't seem to be able to mount the FreeBSD-5.1-RELEASE's ufs partition in linux-2.6.0-test11, which occupies another partition on the same machine (which is Acer Aspire 1304XC). Has the ufs format changed in 5.1? I specify ufstype=44bsd in the mount command. Thank you

Powering off after shutdown...

2003-12-11 Thread ander Sendzimir
I have an Intel MS440GX motherboard and I can't find any information on the net regarding its soft power off feature which I believe it has (I could be wrong). When I issue the command shutdown -p now the system shuts down normally. However, I have to manually turn the power off. Does anyone

Re: Notebook Mouse and 5.x

2003-12-11 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:29:55AM -0800, Minnesota Slinky wrote: working ok, but I can't get my PS/2 port or the integrated touchpad to work. Does anyone have any Is this what you're looking for? http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/mouse.html Gautam ___

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER
Given PHPNuke's security track record, I would say that this is sound advice. I would suggest going from the latest source as well. Chris Matt Staroscik wrote: I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't

Re: umounting /

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:22AM -0800, Dan Strick wrote: (Why did you *want* to unmount the root? To fsck it or dump it?) Forcing it to be remounted read-only may help in such cases. wopr:~# mount -u -o ro -f / wopr:~# mount /dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only) /dev/da0s1f on /home

Re: Powering off after shutdown...

2003-12-11 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 11, 2003, at 5:32 PM, Alex (ander Sendzimir) wrote: When I issue the command shutdown -p now the system shuts down normally. However, I have to manually turn the power off. Does anyone know how to get the system to turn power off? I have wake-on-lan working. So, this is the other end of

Re: a technical how to

2003-12-11 Thread David Carter-Hitchin
Hiya, no-one has mentioned 'head' yet: head -100 file newfile to save the first 100 lines of file into newfile. You can also use a combination of head and tail to take a portion of the file, e.g: head -100 file | tail -3 newfile to save off lines 98,99 and 100 of file into newfile. I've

RE: scp between windows and freebsd

2003-12-11 Thread KURT BUFF
Thank you Malcom! I've found that specifying another account (didn't want to enable remote root login) and putting either authorized_keys or authorized_keys2 into the proper directory worked like a champ. On to more and better work. Kurt | | On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:20, KURT BUFF wrote: | All,

Re: a technical how to

2003-12-11 Thread David Carter-Hitchin
no-one has mentioned 'head' yet: head -100 file newfile to save the first 100 lines of file into newfile. You can also use a combination of head and tail to take a portion of the file, e.g: head -100 file | tail -3 newfile to save off lines 98,99 and 100 of file into newfile. I've known

puc driver -- config problem?

2003-12-11 Thread David Brodbeck
I'm sure this is something really simple I'm missing, but after an hour of tinkering and doing Google searches I'm at a loss. I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE on an Alpha. I just installed an NM9835 2-port PCI serial card. I added 'device puc' to my kernel configuration file, as suggested in

Laptop for unique educational project.

2003-12-11 Thread Norm Miller
Greetings, In March I will be retracing the Lewis Clark route solo by canoe from Illinois to the Pacific. I have created an educational web site called In The Wake Of Discovery and will involve schools, organizations, history buffs or anyone with Internet access. I will be documenting the LC

Re: Powering off after shutdown...

2003-12-11 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:42:48 -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: # Power management support (see LINT for more options) device apm0at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management ...to enable and rebuild your kernel. I don't know about 5.x, but in 4.x you also need

/usr/ports/java/jdk13 - make all dumps - any suggestions ?

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Shea
Hi - I'm trying to get the JDK working on FreeBSD 4.8. I have CVSUP'd the ports tree and am following the instructions on http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3558 (for which I'm grateful !). My current problem is that when I do make all install clean in /usr/ports/java/jdk13 we get to a

Re: Terminal setting

2003-12-11 Thread David Carter-Hitchin
Greetings, There are (at least) two sides to this problem. Firstly you must ensure the FreeBSD is using the right keymap for your country and keyboard. For example to get my standard UK keyboard working I had to put the following line in my configuration: /etc/rc.conf.local:keymap=uk.iso.kbd

Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Shea
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:41:50 -0800, Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:14:38 +1300 Richard Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:40:39 -0800, Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:00:15 +1300 Richard Shea [EMAIL

Re: Powering off after shutdown...

2003-12-11 Thread ander Sendzimir
Yup. I've recompiled my kernel with device apm0 and added appropriately to rc.conf. So, far no luck. Perhaps the motherboard doesn't support it. I need to track down the board's manual. Thanks, Alex On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 06:25 PM, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003

Re: Powering off after shutdown...

2003-12-11 Thread Chris Readle
I couldn't get this to work with my mobo(not the same brand) on 4.x as well. Now that I've upgraded to 5.1 it's working with no problems. crr --- Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup. I've recompiled my kernel with device apm0 and added appropriately to rc.conf. So, far no luck. Perhaps the

startup scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d

2003-12-11 Thread David Bear
I am wondering if scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d MUST be owned by root in order to be run. If I have a daemon on want started, AND I want it to run as user DORK, can I have the binary and the startscript owned by user DORK in order to have it started that way? the more I think about this, the

Re: Powering off after shutdown...

2003-12-11 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Alex (ander Sendzimir) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:50 AM Subject: Re: Powering off after shutdown... # Power management support (see LINT for more options) device

Re: Powering off after shutdown...

2003-12-11 Thread jimmie james
I have an Intel MS440GX motherboard and I can't find any information on the net regarding its soft power off feature which I believe it has (I could be wrong). I'm not sure what mine is, but it's from a Dell, and all I really know about it, is it's an Intell too, with Wake-on-LAN. shutdown -p

CVSup to local copy

2003-12-11 Thread chael
Hello, I need to update the sources of several servers in my network. I have already made a cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile on one of the servers and placed all under /home/ncvs. Would anyone be so kind to tell me what to do next? Can't seem to find the concrete steps on the net. Thanks.

Bind a process to a specific CPU

2003-12-11 Thread twig les
Can anyone point me to a man page or something on how to bind a specific process to a specific cpu? I have a couple non-multi-threaded programs to run on dual-CPU boxes and I'd like to split them up as I see fit. Thanks for anything. Keith __ Do you Yahoo!?

Re: CVSup to local copy

2003-12-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:00 AM +0800 12/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to update the sources of several servers in my network. I have already made a cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile on one of the servers and placed all under /home/ncvs. I assume that /home/ncvs is a directory that is NFS-exported to all of

Re: umounting /

2003-12-11 Thread Ian Dowse
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Strick writes: You can't unmount the root file system. Even the mere notion makes me feel a little queasy. There is an explicit test in the kernel that stops you from unmounting the root file system, I guess as an anti foot shooting measure. If you disable that

/usr/ports/textproc/dict

2003-12-11 Thread Alex Wilkinson
Has anyone suceesfully got dict to work via a proxy ? I can't seem to find anything that talks about connecting to a dict server via a proxy ? Thanks - aW ps please CC me as I am not subscribed to the list. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: CVSup to local copy

2003-12-11 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to update the sources of several servers in my network. I have already made a cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile on one of the servers and placed all under /home/ncvs. Would anyone be so kind to tell me what to do next? Can't seem to find the concrete steps on the

Re: Powering off after shutdown...

2003-12-11 Thread ander Sendzimir
Okay. I'll try again. Alex On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 07:45 PM, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Alex (ander Sendzimir) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:50 AM Subject: Re: Powering off after

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2003-12-11 Thread Monique van Groeninge
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RE: Notebook Mouse and 5.x

2003-12-11 Thread Minnesota Slinky
Thanks, but no. I have always been able to get the mouse working, even in 5.x, but I can't get my integrated mouse working/touchpad working for my laptop. I can occaisionally get an external PS/2 to work, but it's not stable. I have to have it plugged in before I boot. TIA Eric F Crist

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-11 Thread C. Ulrich
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 14:08, Jerry McAllister wrote: I don't wish to get into a shouting match, but I don't think I completely agree with some of the things you say here. OK. Well, just toddle on over to the advocacy list where this can more appropriately be hashed out. jerry

RE: Laptop for unique educational project.

2003-12-11 Thread Minnesota Slinky
You know, You _can_ buy a brand-new laptop from Gateway for about $600. This might be an easier way to go. You also get to keep it when you're done with your journey... Good Luck! Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread Pete Renshaw
Did you try make install FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes clean See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.1-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html Many people don't know to use the =yes for FORCE_PKG_REGISTER. After you get Postnuke installed you may have to make these

Re: cvsup from 4.7-REL to stable

2003-12-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:23:17PM +0200, Adrian Pircalabu wrote: Hi, I have recently installed 4.7-REL succesfully. After that, I tried to run cvsup to RELENG_4 as in: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html I intend to sync src and ports trees. After running

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