Gnome for newbies

2003-12-18 Thread Steven T. Sacco
How do I un-install Gnome so I can install Gnome2.4? Steve in Charlotte... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome for newbies

2003-12-18 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 02:07, Steven T. Sacco wrote: How do I un-install Gnome so I can install Gnome2.4? You'll want to have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome, but in general, you simply pkg_delete the GNOME 1.x packages, then install x11/gnome2. Joe Steve in Charlotte...

Re: FreeBSD newbie general and SMP questions for i386]

2003-12-18 Thread Elijah Plunkett
Hi there Mark! - Original Message - From: Mark Wolfskehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: FreeBSD newbie general and SMP questions for i386] Hi, I'm a FreeBSD newbie. I'm considering installing either FreeBSD i386 or Linux

Re: CGI_Lite module installation to perl 5.8.2

2003-12-18 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, Okay I apologize for crossposting :). I mailed error and my workaround to author of CGI_Lite. I tried to reproduce this error in default system perl environment (v5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd), but everything was okay. On Thursday 18 December 2003 02:04, Doug White wrote: Don't

Re: make buildkernel KERNCONF=PETCOM fail

2003-12-18 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 18 December 2003 12:17 am, Je Zhechev wrote: Hi, that is my kernel and it's fail when: cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNCONF=PETCOM #To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints #hintsGENERIC.hints #Default places to look for

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread David D.W. Downey
Go through these 3 books in the order listed FreebSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Developer Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ Porters Handbook:

Re: How do I have sendmail forward emails from root...

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:21:55PM -0500, Michael E. Mercer wrote: In /etc/mail, I ran: make cf maps aliases install stop start after every change... More info, now that I think of it. The mail server is getting the emails, but kicks it back because the the From: header has an unknown

Use of the BOOT.FLP floppy disk.

2003-12-18 Thread Arne Engø
Hello, I have been using FreeBSD earlier, but am new to the 5.0-Release. The boot.flp image seems to be twice the size of an ordinary floppy, while the other four images in the floppies-directory fits on exactly one disk each. What are the BOOT.FLP disk for ? How is it to be used, and how do

[Fwd: fixit.flp or fixit via live filesystem CD]

2003-12-18 Thread Peter Leftwich
RE2: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/4-STABLE/installation/i386/trouble.html The page above always makes a skirting blow or furtive glance at what is possible with a fixit.flp (namely that /stand and /mnt2/stand have some goodies) but without the use of the ls binary command I am a fish driving a

Re: Use of the BOOT.FLP floppy disk.

2003-12-18 Thread Niraj Kumar
I guess you have to use kern.flp and mfsroot.flp for installing FreeBSD 5.x. It is clearly mentioned in the readme.txt file . Niraj Arne Engø wrote: Hello, I have been using FreeBSD earlier, but am new to the 5.0-Release. The boot.flp image seems to be twice the size of an ordinary floppy,

Re: Use of the BOOT.FLP floppy disk.

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:27:51AM +0100, Arne Engø wrote: I have been using FreeBSD earlier, but am new to the 5.0-Release. The boot.flp image seems to be twice the size of an ordinary floppy, while the other four images in the floppies-directory fits on exactly one disk each. What are the

Re: [Fwd: fixit.flp or fixit via live filesystem CD]

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:32:19AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: RE2: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/4-STABLE/installation/i386/trouble.html The page above always makes a skirting blow or furtive glance at what is possible with a fixit.flp (namely that /stand and /mnt2/stand have some

Re: identity using send-pr with dynamic address

2003-12-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Dec 17 at 02:57, Simon Barner spoke: although you seem to already have set up your email mail, the following article of mine might help you anyway: http://home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/articles/mailsetup/article.html Hi Simon, yes, it's a very interesting article! Especially 2.3

Re: Promise Ultra133 TX2

2003-12-18 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 03:31:50AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote: Hi, all. Does anybody know could FreeBSD 4.8 boot from HDD, connected by Promise Ultra133 TX2? Absolutely. Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: master.passwd -- securing

2003-12-18 Thread hugle
RJ Ive been playing with vipw trying to change passwords into * for a RJ slightly higher level of security but ran into some very big problems. From RJ reading through the FreeBSD handbook it seemed all i had to do was replace RJ the encrypted password with *, which is what i did. I thought it

Re: master.passwd -- securing

2003-12-18 Thread Rhys John
Both accounts are now active but i would like to remove the encrypted password from master.passwd and replace it with a *. Is this possible with vipw? Thanks for your reply hugle From: hugle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: hugle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: master.passwd --

Re: identity using send-pr with dynamic address

2003-12-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Dec 16 at 19:01, Lowell Gilbert spoke: You should be able to send PRs with *any* DNS name that maps to your address. If you want a permanent one, there are some free dynamic DNS services out there. If you just want to set the hostname automatically, note that dhclient will do it

Re: master.passwd -- securing

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:28:36AM +, Rhys John wrote: Ive been playing with vipw trying to change passwords into * for a slightly higher level of security but ran into some very big problems. From reading through the FreeBSD handbook it seemed all i had to do was replace the encrypted

Squid not accessible

2003-12-18 Thread Roland Giesler
I had squid running on my FBSD box, but after restarting after a power-failure, squid doesn't allow clients to connect any more. Here's the cache.log after starting squid: 2003/12/18 13:51:50| Starting Squid Cache version 2.4.STABLE7 for i386-portbld-freebsd4.7... 2003/12/18 13:51:50| Process ID

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 PowerPak Installation problem

2003-12-18 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
[cc'ed back to the list] On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:36:37 - Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ion-Mihai Tetcu, Hi, Please use reply all, so that a copy of the message gets to questions list also. The minimal system which I built earlier on my P4 2.53GHz system got corrupted during adding

port question...

2003-12-18 Thread Xpression
Hi list, I've running FreeBSD-4.5, after reinstalling squid proxy, users cannot access irc servers throught squid, do I need to open any port on the server ??? Before I have installed squid too and give me no errors, there is server problem or squid, i guess squid...any suggestion ???

shutting down network interfaces

2003-12-18 Thread flux
I have two netcards and want to shut down one of them without rebooting. -- Best regards, flux mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: shutting down network interfaces

2003-12-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
flux wrote: I have two netcards and want to shut down one of them without rebooting. As root: #ifconfig xl1 down where xl1 is the name/number of the interface. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

see release version in /usr/src

2003-12-18 Thread Lev Klimin
Hi! How can I see, what is release version in my /usr/src? -- Lev Klimin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread Cordula's Web
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What programming languages do you use for interacting with freebsd( the kernel,ports)? FreeBSD and most other third-party applications are written in C. You can also program in other languages if you like: just have a look at the huge collection of compilers and

Re: DOS of named

2003-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:58:41PM +0100, Robert Eckardt wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:28:10 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:01:33PM +0100, Robert Eckardt wrote: Hi, what measures can I take against this irregular appearing Denial-Of-Service attacks of named

Re: shutting down network interfaces

2003-12-18 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:02:48 -0800 flux [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: I have two netcards and want to shut down one of them without rebooting. What do you mean by shutting it down? Not sure, but may it be # ifconfig down /dev/whatever ? -- Best regards, flux

Re: master.passwd -- securing

2003-12-18 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:44:14 + Rhys John [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Both accounts are now active but i would like to remove the encrypted password from master.passwd and replace it with a *. Is this possible with vipw? It doesn't matter what you use for editing your password

Re: identity using send-pr with dynamic address

2003-12-18 Thread Simon Barner
Especially 2.3 Address Rewriting which mentions the genericstable feature helped me. Obviously it's the genericstable which is effective for outbound aliases. Yes, it permits you to rewrite the envelope from-addresses, which is necessary to trick the other mail server. (Yes, I really should

how do I change ftp site pkg_add -r uses

2003-12-18 Thread fbsd_user
I want to change the default ftp site and release level pkg_add -r uses. Where in FBSD does pkg_add get it's default info from and can I change it? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

DAC906 (was RE: Installation troubles)

2003-12-18 Thread michael Alexander
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of michael Alexander Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installation troubles Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD (have tried 4.9, and the 5.1 ISO's) It

Re: shutting down network interfaces

2003-12-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
I have two netcards and want to shut down one of them without rebooting. You have been directed to the man page for ifconfig several times now. Probably it is about time to look it over. Also, try setting your system clock correctly. jerry -- Best regards, flux

RE: DAC960 (was RE: Installation troubles)

2003-12-18 Thread michael Alexander
Corrected subject in case someone else is searching for this later on. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of michael Alexander Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installation troubles

Re: FreeBSD newbie general and SMP questions for i386]

2003-12-18 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:42:19PM -0800, Mark Wolfskehl wrote: Hi, I'm a FreeBSD newbie. I'm considering installing either FreeBSD i386 or Linux on a 2 AMD Athelon CPU machine. The motherboard is an ASUS A7M266-D, and the machine has 2GB memory installed. I'm working on trying to

Re: master.passwd -- securing

2003-12-18 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Rhys John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:44 AM Subject: Re: master.passwd -- securing Both accounts are now active but i would like to remove the encrypted password from master.passwd and replace it with a *. Is

RE: how do I change ftp site pkg_add -r uses

2003-12-18 Thread fbsd_user
Yes I read that, but it does not say how to display current setting or how to change it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 10:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re:

Question about daily run output

2003-12-18 Thread samy lancher
Hello, I have freeBSD 4.5 server. I check daily run output sent by server everyday. I notice some change in the output from past few days. In Checking for rejected mail hosts: I see following output: 14 miltnews.com 1 ohhello.com 1 OUTGOING25.myaccountemail.com 1

Re: Question about daily run output

2003-12-18 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
samy lancher wrote: Hello, I have freeBSD 4.5 server. I check daily run output sent by server everyday. I notice some change in the output from past few days. In Checking for rejected mail hosts: I see following output: 14 miltnews.com 1 ohhello.com 1 OUTGOING25.myaccountemail.com 1

Squid not accessible

2003-12-18 Thread Roland Giesler
I had squid running on my FBSD box, but after restarting after a power-failure, squid doesn't allow clients to connect any more. Here's the cache.log after starting squid: 2003/12/18 13:51:50| Starting Squid Cache version 2.4.STABLE7 for i386-portbld-freebsd4.7... 2003/12/18 13:51:50| Process ID

Re: how do I change ftp site pkg_add -r uses

2003-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
top-post. don't Please http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/T/top-post.html There's an environment variable described in the manual page for pkg_add which claims to do that. Yes I read that, but it does not say how to display current setting or how to change it. To see the current setting,

Re: see release version in /usr/src

2003-12-18 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 16:16, Lev Klimin wrote: Hi! How can I see, what is release version in my /usr/src? try: grep BASE /usr/src/release/Makefile Not sure if that works for 5.x though..

Re: (UPDATE) apcupsd 3.10.8 master/slave setup(whoops 3.10.6)

2003-12-18 Thread Dave McCammon
For the record. The quick fix for Apcupsd 3.10.6 hangup problems was to delete the apcaccess status parts out of the scripts in /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/. (commok, onbattery, etc...). Event messages still get walled and mail still gets sent. Just non of the UPS status information in messages. The

Apache2 - suexec

2003-12-18 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, I looked at the make file for apache2 in /usr/ports/www/apache2/, there is only one mention of suexec and that's it's man page. Is mod_suexec and the suexec binary included automatically when the system is built ? Jeff. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: master.passwd -- securing

2003-12-18 Thread Eric F Crist
Why do you want to do this? master.passwd already is inherantly secure. The /etc/passwd file is what's used by most programs, and master.passwd only for login purposes. You have to have the password stored somewhere or there can be no authentication, unless you go with some sort of hardware

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 PowerPak Installation problem

2003-12-18 Thread Admin
Hi Ion-Mihai Tetcu, Thanks for the response. I did create the user account using sysinstall and failed to login after system reboot. I deleted the profile and recreated the adduser command. It works. I have created a log file using dmesg, but, I am unable to copy on to the floppy disc. When I

Two programs trying to handle the mouse?

2003-12-18 Thread Kai Grossjohann
When the system boots, it will show a mouse cursor at some point. Then, later, I see Starting moused:, and then it will say it's unable to open /dev/psm0 because there's no such file or directory. Does it mean that there is another program than moused displaying the mouse pointer and does it mean

Pease add to posrts collection Ukrainian.el

2003-12-18 Thread Alexey Tatarnikov
Pease add to posrts collection Ukrainian.el Thks -- ___ . . ISP Work: http://www.tsua.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 42530090 Home:

RE: Two programs trying to handle the mouse?

2003-12-18 Thread fbsd_user
Mouse is started from /etc/rc.conf Sounds like you did not config your mouse during the sysinstall when you installed FBSD from CD. You can execute /stand/sysinstall again, pick post install config, and then config your mouse. It will rebuilt the moused statements in rc.conf for you.

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread zaphod
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Simon Barner wrote: [...] Apart from the online books mentioned by David, you should certainly have a look at some books on C and C++ Programming, Programming in a UN*X, TCP/IP networking, Operating Systems in general (I have some books in mind, but need to look up the

RE: New name for Floppy disk devices?

2003-12-18 Thread fbsd_user
Try mount /dev/fd0 /mnt 0=zero -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dr. Lyman Hazelton Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New name for Floppy disk devices? OK, so sometimes serial devices

thanks..........

2003-12-18 Thread soultrax
i want to thank you all for your help. im in considering very much a career in programming. Many of you have showed a way to start in want i want. These are my other questions... If anybody knows of a good college in new jersey, please give a hint. let`s suppose

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:55:50PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Simon Barner wrote: [...] Apart from the online books mentioned by David, you should certainly have a look at some books on C and C++ Programming, Programming in a UN*X, TCP/IP networking,

Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP )

2003-12-18 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi Everybody , I watching freebsd-stable list I saw that somebody have a problem with SMP support which they are using 4.9 . I know that some improvement are coming with 5.x But this problem are very important for example somebody when enable SMP support system start to reset

Re: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP )

2003-12-18 Thread Mike Woods
I wonder Does anybody use SMP Support without Problem . Because SMP is very important things ... http://geofront.co.uk/cgi-bin/geo-stats.pl That box has happily been running SMP under 5.0 for well over six months now without a single glitch :) Mike Wood IT Techncian

Re: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP )

2003-12-18 Thread Michael E. Mercer
I am using 4.9-Stable on a Dual Xeon 450MHz processors and have not had any problems as reported by others. Been running SMP from the beginning later MEM On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:32, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi Everybody , I watching freebsd-stable list I saw that somebody have

Xfree86 install on 5.1

2003-12-18 Thread Chris Neustrup
I recently upgraded from 5.0 to 5.1 on my thinkpad. When this worked OK, I tried to upgrade to the newest XFree86 4.30.x It filed due to patch mismatches. As I tried other earlier flavors of 4.X it never worked cleanly. Does anyone have a suggestion to get a stable 3.X X server running

Re: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP )

2003-12-18 Thread John Ekins
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:32:38 +0200 Vahric MUHTARYAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Hi Everybody , - - - I watching freebsd-stable list I saw that somebody have a problem - with SMP support which they are using 4.9 . I know that some improvement are - coming with 5.x But this problem are

Re: Xfree86 install on 5.1

2003-12-18 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:18:30 -0500, Chris Neustrup wrote: I recently upgraded from 5.0 to 5.1 on my thinkpad. When this worked OK, I tried to upgrade to the newest XFree86 4.30.x It filed due to patch mismatches. As I tried other earlier flavors of 4.X it never worked cleanly. Does

Getting a new system to see an old disk

2003-12-18 Thread Paul Hoffman
Greetings again. I have a well-running 4.8 system. I have created a new 4.9 system on a new hard drive, and I want to be able to mount the old drive so I can copy all the relevant stuff from it. However, the simple-minded stuff fails. For example, trying to mount the old / partition on the new

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread Cordula's Web
Apart from the online books mentioned by David, you should certainly have a look at some books on C and C++ Programming, Programming in a UN*X, TCP/IP networking, Operating Systems in general (I have some books in mind, but need to look up the exact references - maybe someone else can

Re: Just a question.....

2003-12-18 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:30:34PM +0100, Cordula's Web wrote: Apart from the online books mentioned by David, you should certainly have a look at some books on C and C++ Programming, Programming in a UN*X, TCP/IP networking, Operating Systems in general (I have some books in mind, but

Re: Two programs trying to handle the mouse?

2003-12-18 Thread Kai Grossjohann
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It will rebuilt the moused statements in rc.conf for you. Moused is starting, and the mouse is working. I have moused_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf (and moused_flags=-z 4, but no other mouse-related settings afaict). My question was: why does the mouse

Vinum problem: Incompatible sector sizes

2003-12-18 Thread Joachim Dagerot
I have mailed about this problem a few times now, and I have got responses from Greg very quick where he asks for more information, but I never get any replies on my replies. This makes me worried that I'm doing something wrong or that I appear to be rude, something I certainly don't want to be,

Hard drive stress test

2003-12-18 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Could somebody please recommend a utility or script suitable for stressing a hard disk to check for possible errors? Thanks, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: port failures

2003-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've seen a couple of port failures.. I'm all cvsup'ed and have been trying daily the passed couple of days.. Pretty weird; time to check with the port maintainer... From: Andrew Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: port failures To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installworld problem

2003-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Hunter Pine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: === gnu/usr.bin/groff/font/devascii Making R expr: not found *** Error code 127 Is your system clock correct? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

RE: installworld problem

2003-12-18 Thread Hunter Pine
That was the problem in the end. The server had been installed with an incorrect time in the bios, and running an ntpdate messed up all kinds of things. Wiping /usr/src and doing a new cvsup rectified the problem. I hadn't followed up that this was resolved since no one had replied until now. :)

Re: Hard drive stress test

2003-12-18 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:28:49PM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Could somebody please recommend a utility or script suitable for stressing a hard disk to check for possible errors? Thanks, Depending on what sort of errors you are looking for you can usually find diagnostic utilities

Re: shutting down network interfaces

2003-12-18 Thread dave
At 08:02 PM 12/18/2003, you wrote: I have two netcards and want to shut down one of them without rebooting. man ifconfig will tell you what to do. the short answer: ifconfig interface_card down ie : ifconfig ed0 down cheers dave ___ [EMAIL

Re: thanks..........

2003-12-18 Thread Cordula's Web
let`s suppose i go to any college, study computer science, what chances are to get a job in any freebsd related group? 1. FreeBSD itself is not a company. We don't offer jobs. However, there are many software shops (companies) that develop or support Unix (Linux, BSD, ...)

RE: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP )

2003-12-18 Thread Lawrence Farr
I have around ten SMP machines, some Quads, rest Dual CPU machines. I genuinely cannot remember the last time one of them crashed that wasn't hardware related (ie physical failure, not software) (PS I started using FreeBSD around 2.8). Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited -Original

RE: port failures

2003-12-18 Thread fbsd_user
The port collection is in flux right now as things are being readied for the stable production release of 5.2. Give it time and it should clear up on it's own. An new stable production release is the benchmark where all the ports are updated with new versions from the original software

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 PowerPak Installation problem

2003-12-18 Thread Dorin H
I have created a log file using dmesg, but, I am unable to copy on to the floppy disc. When I try to mount the floppy with mount /dev/fd0 /mnt, it gives me error message: Device is not configured. Try: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt with any DOS formated disc. If you want to mount a UFS

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation problem

2003-12-18 Thread Dorin H
--- Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir/ Madam, After installing the FreeBSD minimum installation, I, installed the ports using the sysinstall. But, when I tried to install XFree86 package, it failed to complete the installation. Now, it has corrupted the root (/) and /tmp partition.

Re: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP )

2003-12-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
I have 5 (iXsystems) dual processors, all running 5.0-RELEASE or safely behind -CURRENT, with one box unsafely at -CURRENT, so I can't comment on the -STABLE question. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [Fwd: fixit.flp or fixit via live filesystem CD]

2003-12-18 Thread Dorin H
--- Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RE2: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/4-STABLE/installation/i386/trouble.html The page above always makes a skirting blow or furtive glance at what is possible with a fixit.flp (namely that /stand and /mnt2/stand have some goodies) but without

Re: fixit.flp or fixit via live filesystem CD

2003-12-18 Thread horio shoichi
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 02:23:39 -0800 (PST) Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RE: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/installation/i386/trouble.html Is there a manpage or FAQ explaining the basic commands available to users during a fixit session? I understand how to change to that

Re: how do I change ftp site pkg_add -r uses

2003-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the pointer to the handbook section on shells. The setenv command worked for me. Now sorry about top posting, but I use ms/outlook and it top posts and I know of no option to change this. Not all mail clients work like the ones used in

Re: can't figure out a problem with sudo

2003-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
KURT BUFF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm starting to lose some hair, running a command through sudo. Other commands work just fine through sudo, just one of them doesn't work. The command is this: sudo cp /home/filter/pfm/relay_recipients /usr/local/etc/postfix. It fails with the

Re: auth.log

2003-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this a stuck key or an attack?? Looks like a stuck key to me. It's on the console, so if it was an attack, you'd've seen the attacker. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at

hlsd on FreeBSD anyone?

2003-12-18 Thread shawn
Thinking of using FreeBSD for a Half Life Counter strike server. Hoping to support like 20 players. Looking for thoughts on requirements.. Shawn There is no place like 127.0.0.1 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: hlsd on FreeBSD anyone?

2003-12-18 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Thinking of using FreeBSD for a Half Life Counter strike server. Hoping to support like 20 players. Looking for thoughts on requirements.. I run just such a server. It is a 1800XP with 1/2 gig ram running 4.7-RC. We can handle 20 ppl easily, could probably get close to 32 if ever

Kernel build failure - on joy.sh?

2003-12-18 Thread The Bean
Hi all, I recently updated my source to 4.9-Stable from 4.2-Release. I did everything according the Handbook, and it seems to be working fine. I'm now trying to enable the kernel for firewalls. I made a copy of GENERIC made the attendant changes. make buildkernel KERNCONF=MyNewfile works

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2003-12-18 Thread JJod111
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Re: Kernel build failure - on joy.sh?

2003-12-18 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 18 December 2003 05:21 pm, The Bean wrote: Hi all, I recently updated my source to 4.9-Stable from 4.2-Release. I did everything according the Handbook, and it seems to be working fine. I'm now trying to enable the kernel for firewalls. I made a copy of GENERIC made the

trouble with 3ware Escalade 8006-2 RAID

2003-12-18 Thread LeChuck
I have recently purchased a 3ware Escalade 8006-2 SATA RAID card to serve as a simple mirror raid in a small server. I already have a server running a 3ware PATA raid using twe and I heard that twe supports the 8506 series as well so I thought this would be a piece of cake. Well it isnt. I booted

krunk! unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0

2003-12-18 Thread Vince Diana
I tried to install freebsd os 5.1 from your site...i downloaded the iso's burned the cd's read the read me createed a fs partition and a swap partition...only to get a krunking unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0 i am very unhappy to say the least,,, if this keeps up I will

RE: can't figure out a problem with sudo - SOLVED

2003-12-18 Thread KURT BUFF
Lowell, Well, as I'm sure you (and anyone else who's been working with it) know, sudo is a picky little beast. This was my first attempt at setting it up. After banging my head against this for a while longer this morning, I changed my sudoers file with the following: Old: | # Cmnd alias

trouble with 3ware Escalade 8006-2

2003-12-18 Thread LeChuck
I have recently purchased a 3ware Escalade 8006-2 SATA RAID card to serve as a simple mirror raid in a small server. I already have a server running a 3ware PATA raid using twe and I heard that twe supports the 8506 series as well so I thought this would be a piece of cake. Well it isnt. I booted

nis, dhcp and dynamic dns updates

2003-12-18 Thread Benjo
greetings all, this is kinda messy so please bear with me. i have a fairly large LAN set up on 10.60.37.0/24 class c. there's a router at 10.60.37.1, there's an nis/dhcp server on 10.60.37.59 that also holds my users' homedirs which are mounted to the workstations over NFS. let me note here

Re: Kernel build failure - on joy.sh?

2003-12-18 Thread The Bean
--- Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joy.sh was retired but the Makefile still refers to it as an afterinstall option. The joy.sh script was never removed from my /usr/src by cvsup. You could grab joy.sh from the attic. The script that I still have, simply does kldload joy. Thank

Re: Pease add to posrts collection Ukrainian.el

2003-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:15:28PM +0200, Alexey Tatarnikov wrote: Pease add to posrts collection Ukrainian.el Thks Please see the Porter's Handbook on the FreeBSD website for more information about how ports are added to the ports collection. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Is something broken in the 5.1 BSD Boxed Distribution of CUPS?

2003-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:46:14PM -0700, Dr. Lyman Hazelton wrote: I have installed CUPS on two separate machines (very different machines, too) from the distribution disks in the Boxed set of FreeBSD release 5.1. I can connect to the daemon on localhost:631 and read the documentation,

Re: make buildkernel KERNCONF=PETCOM fail

2003-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:17:25AM +0200, Je Zhechev wrote: Hi, that is my kernel and it's fail when: cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNCONF=PETCOM These are almost always caused by omitting something mandatory from your kernel config, or failing to follow the upgrade directions. In this case

Re: port question...

2003-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:24:52AM -0500, Xpression wrote: Hi list, I've running FreeBSD-4.5, after reinstalling squid proxy, users cannot access irc servers throught squid, do I need to open any port on the server ??? Before I have installed squid too and give me no errors, there is server

Re: Kernel build failure - on joy.sh?

2003-12-18 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 18 December 2003 06:49 pm, The Bean wrote: --- Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joy.sh was retired but the Makefile still refers to it as an afterinstall option. The joy.sh script was never removed from my /usr/src by cvsup. You could grab joy.sh from the attic. The

Re: DOS of named

2003-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:26:18PM +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote: ./Kris Kennaway wrote: I was; if you're complaining about bugs in old versions of the software, then the first thing to do is check whether those bugs have been fixed in later versions. Not all bug fixes are properly

Re: Xfree86 install on 5.1

2003-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:18:30AM -0500, Chris Neustrup wrote: I recently upgraded from 5.0 to 5.1 on my thinkpad. When this worked OK, I tried to upgrade to the newest XFree86 4.30.x It filed due to patch mismatches. As I tried other earlier flavors of 4.X it never worked cleanly.

Re: krunk! unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0

2003-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:59:48PM -0800, Vince Diana wrote: I tried to install freebsd os 5.1 from your site...i downloaded the iso's burned the cd's read the read me createed a fs partition and a swap partition...only to get a krunking unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0

Problems setting up Identd

2003-12-18 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to get my identd server setup correctly so I can chat on IRC. Port 113 is open on my firewall, rc.conf is running inetd, and inetd has identd uncommented. This is the line in my inetd.conf file: auth stream tcp waitroot

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