Re: seeking shell scripting resources

2004-02-22 Thread Quintin Riis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are you using bash? Try /usr/ports/shells/bash2/work/bash-2.05b/examples/ for a few examples. They should be "developed and used" to fit your needs. :) Quintin Marty Landman wrote: | I'm new to running my own unix systems and would like to start le

Re: DHCP access

2004-02-22 Thread Marty Landman
At 09:42 AM 2/22/2004, Olaf Hoyer wrote: The syntax to ping a whole /24 segment would be: Hi Olaf. Could you please explain what is meant by '/24 segment'? I'm new to networking as you can see! nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24 # nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24 Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Ho

Re: Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

2004-02-22 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Feb 23, at 01:05 AM, Tony Frank wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:23:28AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > On Feb 21, at 05:56 PM, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > > > > > DJHJ> Second, two machines are of the same architecture, but they have different > > > DJHJ> CPUs: One is an Intel PIII, but

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: Hi Heinrich Rebehn, you wrote. Make sure you've disabled write caching on the drive firmware itself... HR> Does this also apply for RAID disks (twe)? Also, there is no word about HR> this in man tuning(7). Is this more of a guess or is softupdates HR> definately dangerous

Is inetd a proxy server?

2004-02-22 Thread Rob
Hi, I don't know much about proxy servers, so I read the handbook on this issue. When reading the proxy server paragraph in the firewalls section, I concluded that my inetd superserver is a kind of proxy server. Is that right? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL P

tightvnc port broken?

2004-02-22 Thread sameer
anyways, that being said... i'm still having an issue with tightvnc and FreeBSD 5.2. 'make install clean' gives the following:: - . . . rm -f ../.././/exports/lib/libXdmcp.a cd ../.././/exports/lib && ln -s ../../lib/Xdmcp/libXdmcp.a . making all in lib/X11... making all in lib/font... m

[Fwd: Do I need Mozilla-1.6 and Mozilla-GTK2-1.6?]

2004-02-22 Thread Bob Perry
Please disregard. Original Message Subject:Do I need Mozilla-1.6 and Mozilla-GTK2-1.6? Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:54:58 -0500 From: Bob Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FreeBSD-Questions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, Just upgrade to 4.9-RELEASE and CVSup'd my system t

Re: DHCP access

2004-02-22 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Marty Landman wrote: > At 05:04 PM 2/21/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: > >Marty Landman wrote: > > > >>looks like arp is unreliable for a canonical list of plugged in ip's. > >>Curious about what would work. > > > >"nmap -sP 22 192.168.0.0/24" should do it > > %nmap -sP 22 192.168.

Re: Nvidia

2004-02-22 Thread Michael Hollmann
download the latest nvidia treiber for freebsd from http://www.nvidia.com and read the README. regards michael > how install nvidia drivers in freebsd 5.2? > > Tanks > > Eduardo Fernandes > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org

seeking shell scripting resources

2004-02-22 Thread Marty Landman
I'm new to running my own unix systems and would like to start learning the ropes on shell scripting. I've looked at the handbook and a few other sources... maybe haven't looked closely enough. Any recommendations on more involved manuals/explanations/examples of how shell scripts should be dev

Re: Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

2004-02-22 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:23:28AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > On Feb 21, at 05:56 PM, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > > > DJHJ> Second, two machines are of the same architecture, but they have different > > DJHJ> CPUs: One is an Intel PIII, but the other is a PII. Will the world built > > DJHJ>

reserving ATA channel numbers in kernel configuration files

2004-02-22 Thread Dan Strick
Is there any way to reserve specific ATA channel numbers for specific PCI ATA controllers? During bootstrap my kernel says: atapci0: port 0x8800-0x880f, 0x8400-0x8403,0x8010-0x8017,0x7c00-0x7c03,0x7810-0x7817 irq 16 at device 12.0 on pci3 ata2: at

Re: DHCP access

2004-02-22 Thread Marty Landman
At 05:04 PM 2/21/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marty Landman wrote: looks like arp is unreliable for a canonical list of plugged in ip's. Curious about what would work. "nmap -sP 22 192.168.0.0/24" should do it %nmap -sP 22 192.168.0.0/24 Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Target host

Nvidia

2004-02-22 Thread Eduardo Fernandes
how install nvidia drivers in freebsd 5.2? Tanks Eduardo Fernandes ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: I have a dream, of a help/manual/doc system, which is simple to use?

2004-02-22 Thread Aaron Peterson
> The website for freebsd is www.freebsd.org and on the main page you can > find the handbook which leads to www.freebsd.org/handbook > > -- > Alex and of course the manual pages that install with each of the some 1 add on programs. "man " ___ [EMAI

Re: obsolete files?

2004-02-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:24:28AM +0100, jsha wrote: > > hello. > > does make world leave obsolete files on your system > after install? without even the slightest effort to > remove them? > > please say it isn't so. i like make world. Hi, If it does then its written down in the handbook unde

Re: tripwire

2004-02-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:47:56AM -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: > Can someone recommend a program like tripwire for 5.2.1-RC2 FreeBSD? > > i was using tripwire in 4.x but the port is broken in 5.x. Tripwire 1.2 seem to work. The other two are down. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: h

authentication using openldap client.

2004-02-22 Thread falaki
Hello; My FreeBSD 4.9 server has to authenticate itÂ’s users through Openldap client from a Linux server. I have installed openldap-client-2.1.22 and pam_ldap-1.6.4. The ldapsearch gives the correct answer whet it is invoked with necessary arguments. I tried to configure pam.conf so

Re: framebuffer fro freebsd

2004-02-22 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 06:01:44PM +, Rahul Sawarkar wrote: > Maybe you are using the wrong fonts.Did you try both the 8x8 and 16x16 > fonts? Yes. It's nowhere near as ``pretty'' as doing the same under Linux. It's almost as though the Linux framebuffer does some anti-aliasing to make it

Kernel build problem after make world

2004-02-22 Thread fjaspers
Hi, I upgraded my system from RELEASE 5.0 to RELENG_5_2. Used cvsup to get the sources, made buildworld; made a generic kernel; installed world. Everything went well, i was able to boot into multi-user mode. BUT now i would like build a custom kernel. This doesnt work anymore. I tried it both way

Re: framebuffer fro freebsd

2004-02-22 Thread Rahul Sawarkar
Maybe you are using the wrong fonts.Did you try both the 8x8 and 16x16 fonts? Rgrds > Is it just me or does vidcontrol look ugly when compared to Linux's > console framebuffer that allows high-resolution console displays? > > -lewiz. > Lewis Thompson wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:58:53PM -050

Re: framebuffer fro freebsd

2004-02-22 Thread Rahul Sawarkar
Have you tried switching to 1024x768 mode using vidcontrol. I tried and did not suceed on my last hardware which was a mvp4 chipset with an 8mb blade3d graphics. Right now I have a radeon 7500 on a 440bx chipset. I'd assumed it wouldn't work, this time around also (ref: the url below), but mayb

Re: framebuffer fro freebsd

2004-02-22 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:58:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Rahul Sawarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > is there a framebuffer port for freebsd? > > i want to run my console in 1024x768. > > Why would you want a framebuffer for that? > Do you have frame grabber hardware or something? >

Re: Hardware or software error ?

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi list, does anybody have a clue, if the following is a hard or software error? # syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel kernel: kernel: kerne

Re: [FAQ pointer] Re: Copy old drive to new drive - is it possible?

2004-02-22 Thread Tig
On 21 Feb 2004 09:41:19 -0500 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, I have a hard drive which is on its last legs. I also have new > > hard drive to replace the old one. I was wondering if it is possible > > to simply copy everything from the old dr

Re: C++ Memory Profiling/Debugging

2004-02-22 Thread David Carter-Hitchin
Hi Lou, Thanks - I'll give it a spin. I read with some reservation on http://dmalloc.com/: "Dmalloc is not as good with C++ as C because the dynamic memory routines in C++ are new() and delete() as opposed to malloc() and free(). Since new and delete are usually not used as functions but rather

Re: Hardware or software error ?

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi list, does anybody have a clue, if the following is a hard or software error? # syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel kernel: kernel: kerne

Re[2]: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hi Heinrich Rebehn, you wrote. >> Make sure you've disabled write caching on the drive firmware >> itself... HR> Does this also apply for RAID disks (twe)? Also, there is no word about HR> this in man tuning(7). Is this more of a guess or is softupdates HR> definately dangerous with wite cache e

Re: Hardware or software error ?

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi list, does anybody have a clue, if the following is a hard or software error? # syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel kernel: kernel: kerne

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have had the above error 2 times now during fsck after an unclean shutdown. fsck -y yielded tons of entries in lost+found. man (7) tuning says that softupdates guarantees filesystem consistency in case of crash, but thousands of

Re: CURRENT: RAID1: use vinum(8) or motherboard support (VIA VT8237)?

2004-02-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hi Burkard Meyendriesch, you wrote. BM> Hi all, BM> for my new -CURRENT box I have to decide wether to use BM> vinum(8) or the on-board capabilities of my Asus K8V Deluxe BM> motherboard for RAID1 mirroring. Which solution would you BM> recommend? Personally, I've always found vinum to be a rath

Re: obsolete files?

2004-02-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 21 February 2004 11:24 pm, jsha wrote: > hello. > > does make world leave obsolete files on your system > after install? without even the slightest effort to > remove them? > > please say it isn't so. i like make world. > Worse, it is known to cause fatal situations where you have to u

obsolete files?

2004-02-22 Thread jsha
hello. does make world leave obsolete files on your system after install? without even the slightest effort to remove them? please say it isn't so. i like make world. -- j. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: tripwire

2004-02-22 Thread jan . muenther
> Can someone recommend a program like tripwire for 5.2.1-RC2 FreeBSD? Tried this one here? Port: aide-0.9 Path: /usr/ports/security/aide Info: A replacement and extension for Tripwire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: MySQL error 2013

2004-02-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hi Derrick Ryalls, you wrote. DR> I have even tried firing up mysqld with --skip-grant-tables to no avail. DR> Googling around, I see lots of reference to glibc issues, but I thought DR> that only applied to Linux. I have tried mysql41-server port (fresh DR> cvsup), mysql40, and a package mysql3

Re: Apache FreeBSD not executing

2004-02-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:02:04PM -0600, Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote: > Hello - > > I'm trying to get my Apache web server up and running with PHP support but am > running into problems. When I try to go to a .php web page I'm prompted to save the > page instead of having the browser show the pa

tripwire

2004-02-22 Thread Lucas Holt
Can someone recommend a program like tripwire for 5.2.1-RC2 FreeBSD? i was using tripwire in 4.x but the port is broken in 5.x. Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) 'I try to think

Re: I have a dream, of a help/manual/doc system, which is simple to use?

2004-02-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
The website for freebsd is www.freebsd.org and on the main page you can find the handbook which leads to www.freebsd.org/handbook -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECT

The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-02-01 - 2004-02-21

2004-02-22 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list arc

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