lingering problems with ports collection

2004-05-25 Thread paul beard
I have been having (and reporting) some problems with my ports collection and I can't seem to get them resolved. For some reason, the system is rejecting the ports collection like a mismatched organ. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-March/ 040320.html

Kernel compile failing

2004-05-25 Thread Odhiambo Washington
FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE here. I have done cvsup several times hoping the problem would go away but no. The log of the kernel compiling is here: http://ns2.wananchi.com/~wash/pain/KERNEL.TXT Please tell me what you think is screwing this up .. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

install ipsec tools

2004-05-25 Thread xavier collot
Hi !! I have mandrake 9.1 with a 2.6.6 kernel and I want to install the ipsec-tools3.2 on my server (freebsd 5.2) but I don't understand how I can do that? Sorry if it seems stupid but I don't find the rpm file (if it exists). If I make a ./configure in the directory ipsec-tools3.2 I have an

Re: which kinds of AMD work withh FBSD?

2004-05-25 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 24 May 2004 10:53 pm, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:30:09PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:45:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Fellow BSD'ers, What kinds of the newer AMD processors worth with FreeBSD? All. Kris Memory:

Security run question

2004-05-25 Thread Edd
I recieved my security run today (as usual) and an error which I have never seen before appeared: hitbox.monsternet.lan kernel log messages: tabase /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory A quick locate shows that there is no such command as tabase! Any ideas what this might be?

Re: Security run question

2004-05-25 Thread Uwe Doering
Edd wrote: I recieved my security run today (as usual) and an error which I have never seen before appeared: hitbox.monsternet.lan kernel log messages: tabase /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory A quick locate shows that there is no such command as tabase! Any ideas what this might be? That

Re: Security run question

2004-05-25 Thread white vamp
I had the same thing show up today .. and what it wound up being was postfix gt;From: Uwe Doering lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gt;Subject: Re: Security run question gt;Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:35:56 +0200 gt;MIME-Version: 1.0 gt;Received: from mx2.freebsd.org

Re: Getting source by anoncvs

2004-05-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 08:48:35PM -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: I just failed at an attempt to pull down the latest sources via anoncvs using the instructions found at the URL below. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html Looks like the docs have got a

Re: UsersFiles and Quota

2004-05-25 Thread Uwe Doering
Chris Collins wrote: Hello All Is there a way to list files on my system that belong to a certain user. I have quotas enabled and cannot find out where all the space is being used. With quotas enabled this should be easy. Use 'repquota' and sort the list by allocated disk space: repquota -u

RE: Help to start BIND on boot

2004-05-25 Thread Nuno César Pires
The problem is that this behaviour occurs also in a fresh installation (4.9/8.3.6) in a different box (following the same installation checklist). At this moment I'm considering to install and setup BIND 8.3.7 in the same box that is running BIND 8.3.6 manually, i.e. not on boot. :-(( Thanks

amd64 (Intern)

2004-05-25 Thread Christer.Solskogen
I`m very close to byu a AMD64 system, but I`m not quite sure how it will work on FreeBSD. Is there something I should be aware about? Some mainboards maybe? And how about S-ATA on these boards? (I will probably run 5-CURRENT) -- Med vennlig hilsen Christer Solskogen Telenor Forhandlerservice

Re: dump to a samba mounted FAT32 disk can't handle bigfiles?

2004-05-25 Thread anubis
On Tue, 25 May 2004 9:56 am, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2004, Joachim Dagerot wrote: The man page for dump states this: [] -B records The number of kilobytes per output volume, except that if it is not an integer multiple of the output block size, the command uses the

Re: Sounds breaks up with 5.2-STABLE

2004-05-25 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday, May 24, 2004 10:59:45 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:16:52 -0400 |From: Andrew Kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Sounds breaks up with 5.2-STABLE |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii | |Hi, |

Re: amd64 (Intern)

2004-05-25 Thread Jorn Argelo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I`m very close to byu a AMD64 system, but I`m not quite sure how it will work on FreeBSD. Is there something I should be aware about? Some mainboards maybe? And how about S-ATA on these boards? (I will probably run 5-CURRENT) -- Med vennlig hilsen Christer Solskogen

2 ISP on one FreeBSD router

2004-05-25 Thread Piotr Gnyp
Hi. Right now we have one ISP, our servers that uses IP from this ISP are running several services (dns, www, databases, mta etc). We want to increase stability of our network access by obtaining backup internet connection from another ISP. My question is: Is there a way to configure FreeBSD, so

Re: Kernel compile failing

2004-05-25 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 24 May 2004 11:13 pm, Odhiambo Washington wrote: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE here. I have done cvsup several times hoping the problem would go away but no. The log of the kernel compiling is here: http://ns2.wananchi.com/~wash/pain/KERNEL.TXT Please tell me what you think is screwing this

buildworld/installworld failure 5.2.1

2004-05-25 Thread Steven McMaster
I am in a spot of bother. I have successfully buildworld, buildkernel and installkernel on 5.2.1-RELEASE... but when i came to installworld i ran into a problem. I now know that this was a simple problem with the Makefile, but unfortunately i cannot go back. i am now trying to boot into my

Re: Solved: FreeBSD as print server w/CUPS + samba + apsfilter

2004-05-25 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On May 24, 2004, at 9:56 PM, Mike wrote: Greetings: This post is a result of 2 days of thrashing trying to get FreeBSD (4.9) to act as a print server to Win2K/XP clients. I have included links to a how-to that I wrote that includes a full install and configuration of CUPS and Samba so that

Re: which kinds of AMD work withh FBSD?

2004-05-25 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 24 May 2004, Gary Kline wrote: What kinds of the newer AMD processors worth with FreeBSD? It might be better long-run to buy a barebones system than mess with upgrading 5-yr-old boxen. I'm thinking of something in the = 2GHz rangewith 512MB and a 60 or 80G drive. So far I've stuck

Re: Problem after running portupgrade

2004-05-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Chris, Tks for your advice. Look into /var/log for a list of files like this example: cron.0.bz2 maillog.1.bz2 sendmail.st.0 cron.1.bz2 maillog.2.bz2 sendmail.st.1 Note the bz2 extensions and the files that have digits at the end.

freebsd MRTG nn7j

2004-05-25 Thread Dan
What file has to run on a remote freebsd box to run MRTG I have MRTG on a FreeBSD admin box. wanting to get stat from other freebsd box. Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Sysinstall failing to install from CD-ROM

2004-05-25 Thread putnam
I was trying to use sysintall to install additional packages. When specifying the FreeBSD CD as the source, I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/Output Error (5) Whenever I cat /dev/acd0 or try to mount the device to /cdrom I get the same error. What

Re: UsersFiles and Quota

2004-05-25 Thread Mat Kovach
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-24 23:58:30 -0500]: Is there a way to list files on my system that belong to a certain user. I have quotas enabled and cannot find out where all the space is being used. man find something like : find / -type ff -userusername username_files should work for you.

Re: freebsd MRTG nn7j

2004-05-25 Thread Brad Tarver
you have to run an SNMP daemon for the box you want to monitor with MRTG Dan wrote on 05/24/04 09:51 AM: What file has to run on a remote freebsd box to run MRTG I have MRTG on a FreeBSD admin box. wanting to get stat from other freebsd box. Dan ___

SNMP in FreeBSD

2004-05-25 Thread Alper Yurdakul
Hi, How can I enable SNMP in FreeBSD 5.2.1 ? I am trying to monitor bandwidth usage via MRTG but I always get SNMP Error: no response received Thanks in advance, Alper ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

`call' function in `make'

2004-05-25 Thread N. Raghavendra
Hi, Is there an analogue in BSD `make' of the `call' function in `gmake': $(call VARIABLE,PARAM,PARAM,...)? Thanks, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details.

Re: SNMP in FreeBSD

2004-05-25 Thread Jorn Argelo
Alper Yurdakul wrote: Hi, How can I enable SNMP in FreeBSD 5.2.1 ? I am trying to monitor bandwidth usage via MRTG but I always get SNMP Error: no response received Thanks in advance, Alper ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

CDrom problems

2004-05-25 Thread Donald Szatkowski
It appears that there are quite a few problems with basic setup and cdrom. Could someone please post a copy of associated files to give an example of setup? The kernel.GENERIC is okay for root access to the cdrom, but there are problems allowing general users access. Just the general

Question regarding reported directory sizes.

2004-05-25 Thread Jason DiCioccio
I know this question may seem silly.. However, here's my scenario. I have a very large directory (say, a mail spool) whose directory entry is approx 606K.. drwx-- 5 cyrus cyrus 606208 May 25 10:29 . Now.. That directory had a lot of files in it. However, after deleting all of the files

Re: `call' function in `make'

2004-05-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:25:59PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote: Is there an analogue in BSD `make' of the `call' function in `gmake': $(call VARIABLE,PARAM,PARAM,...)? Not as such. You can however use the '!=' operator to assign a value to a variable based on the output of some external

two nics, one dhcp server

2004-05-25 Thread dave
Hello, I've got a machine that i need to give two separate addresses to using two nics, both of which are 3c905's, working fine under 5.2.1. I've got lines in rc.conf set so they both get their addresses via dhcp, however this isn't working. Having both cards in the box neither gets an IP,

Re: Question regarding reported directory sizes.

2004-05-25 Thread Cordula's Web
I have a very large directory (say, a mail spool) whose directory entry is approx 606K.. drwx-- 5 cyrus cyrus 606208 May 25 10:29 . Now.. That directory had a lot of files in it. However, after deleting all of the files in that directory, the directory entry's size stays the same.

Stupid question

2004-05-25 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all A stupid question : Anyone have some idea when the 5.3 is released ? (juste some idea : it's in middle of year or end of year) Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local time: Tue May 25 17:40:22 CEST 2004

Re: Question regarding reported directory sizes.

2004-05-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 25), Jason DiCioccio said: I know this question may seem silly.. However, here's my scenario. I have a very large directory (say, a mail spool) whose directory entry is approx 606K.. drwx-- 5 cyrus cyrus 606208 May 25 10:29 . Now.. That directory had a lot

cheap sun machine

2004-05-25 Thread arden
hi all I'm looking for a cheap sun system to play with solaris 9 and BSD on Ive seen some on ebay but unsure of what to go 4 and who's trust worthy has anyone any suggestions of where to get one (needs to be cheap) skint at the moment i live in the north of england arden

Re: Stupid question

2004-05-25 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 10:41 am, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all A stupid question : Anyone have some idea when the 5.3 is released ? (juste some idea : it's in middle of year or end of year) Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques.

Re: Solved: FreeBSD as print server w/CUPS + samba + apsfilter

2004-05-25 Thread Mike
Bart Silverstrim wrote: On May 24, 2004, at 9:56 PM, Mike wrote: Greetings: This post is a result of 2 days of thrashing trying to get FreeBSD (4.9) to act as a print server to Win2K/XP clients. I have included links to a how-to that I wrote that includes a full install and configuration of

cvsup kills /etc/ipf.rules !?

2004-05-25 Thread Yaraghchi, Stephan
Hi fellows, I was running cvsup on a FBSD 4.9-RELEASE #5 box with the following supfile: *default host=cvsup6.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all when suddenly all ip connections broke

IPFW2 Mac Address Filtering

2004-05-25 Thread Elijah A . Chancey
I've searched high and low, and have read many times that doing mac address filtering with ipfw is possible. I'm running 4.9, have recompiled the kernel with 'options ipfw2', and have recompiled libalias ipfw with ipfw2 support. I've read through the man pages, and I can't make this

Tape support with mtx

2004-05-25 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Hi all, I've checked the mtx compatibility list, but I can't find any mention of the tape drives that I'm considering as a replacement for my dead DAT autochanger. I've e-mailed the mtx list as well, but I thought I'd take a chance on mailing here as well. If anyone is running any of the

Re: cvsup kills /etc/ipf.rules !?

2004-05-25 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 10:57 am, Yaraghchi, Stephan wrote: Hi fellows, I was running cvsup on a FBSD 4.9-RELEASE #5 box with the following supfile: *default host=cvsup6.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9 *default delete use-rel-suffix

Re: Kernel compile failing

2004-05-25 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Odhiambo Washington thusly... FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE here. I have done cvsup several times hoping the problem would go away but no. The log of the kernel compiling is here: http://ns2.wananchi.com/~wash/pain/KERNEL.TXT I recently compiled 4.9-p8. I see

analysing swap usage

2004-05-25 Thread Stephan van Beerschoten
Is there a way to see which programs have been swapped out / eg. use up swap ? I am recently seeing an increase in swap usage where no real change has been made and I'm just curious if there is anything more to 'swap' then /usr/sbin/swapinfo. /Stephan -- Stephan van Beerschoten

Alternate file for log_in_vain

2004-05-25 Thread Reuben A. Popp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Morning all :) I was asked by a friend recently if log_in_vain messages could be redirected to another file besides /var/log/messages. After doing some sleuthing I pretty much couldn't find anything. The farthest I got was seeing in the source

Re: Problem after running portupgrade

2004-05-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Remko, Tks for your advice. It says to you that the var drive is full, the var drive keeps logs etc so pretty crucial that it has some space. Go to /var/log and check which files are a bit big and rotate them. You can do that by entering single user mode, mount the /var, go to

RE: SNMP in FreeBSD

2004-05-25 Thread Andras Kende
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alper Yurdakul Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNMP in FreeBSD Hi, How can I enable SNMP in FreeBSD 5.2.1 ? I am trying to monitor bandwidth usage via MRTG but I always

Re: 2 ISP on one FreeBSD router

2004-05-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Piotr Gnyp wrote: My question is: Is there a way to configure FreeBSD, so the NATed workstations will use two ISP at once and in case of one ISP failure the whole traffic will be put on one connection? Sure, that's a standard multihoming scenario. Get an AS number (www.arin.net) and set up BGP

Re: Detect CD Media Type?

2004-05-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Warren Block wrote: Are there any simple utilities that can detect the type of media loaded in a CD or DVD recorder? For example, a CD-R, or DVD+R, or CDRW. I'd like to make a backup script auto-sensing. The sysutils/dvd+rw-tools port comes with dvd+rw-mediainfo... -- -Chuck

Re: two nics, one dhcp server

2004-05-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
dave wrote: I've got a machine that i need to give two separate addresses to using two nics, both of which are 3c905's, working fine under 5.2.1. I've got lines in rc.conf set so they both get their addresses via dhcp, however this isn't working. Having both cards in the box neither gets an

Re: CDrom problems

2004-05-25 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:25:34AM -0500, Donald Szatkowski wrote: It appears that there are quite a few problems with basic setup and cdrom. What does this mean? Please elaborate: do you mean that setup beginning with sysinstall is problematic, in that you cannot use your cdrom drive during

Re: Solved: FreeBSD as print server w/CUPS + samba + apsfilter

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Alas, too late I see this thread :) I have written (some months ago) a guide covering the installation and configuration of CUPS+Samba with printing from Windows (2k, NT, XP) clients via the Samba/Windows Network-Interface (the one where you can download printer drivers from the print server).

Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-25 Thread Jorn Argelo
Hi all, Recently I came across something which kind of bothered me. Every time when pkg_info removes and/or registers a package it gives this output: pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBD-mysql-2.9003 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBI-1.42 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package

Re: Question regarding reported directory sizes.

2004-05-25 Thread Jason DiCioccio
Thanks Dan.. However, this does not appear to be happening... I could of course create a new directory and move everything into it as was suggested earlier. However, this is more of a curiosity thing than anything.. I'm wondering if at any point the entry does become truncated, because it

Re: Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jorn Argelo wrote: Recently I came across something which kind of bothered me. Every time when pkg_info removes and/or registers a package it gives this output: pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBD-mysql-2.9003 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBI-1.42 has no origin recorded pkg_info:

Imap Proxy server?

2004-05-25 Thread whizkid
Hey all, I have looked into this before but never really found too much info on it. On one of my FreeBSD boxes I run Squirrelmail. I was told that there is a Imap Proxy server that can be ran on the local box to help with some slowness with accessing email. I have installed the Imap Proxy

Re: Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-25 Thread Jorn Argelo
Chuck Swiger wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: Recently I came across something which kind of bothered me. Every time when pkg_info removes and/or registers a package it gives this output: pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBD-mysql-2.9003 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBI-1.42 has no origin

Re: IPFW2 Mac Address Filtering

2004-05-25 Thread Christian Hiris
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 17:57, Elijah A.Chancey wrote: I've searched high and low, and have read many times that doing mac address filtering with ipfw is possible. I'm running 4.9, have recompiled the kernel with 'options ipfw2', and have recompiled libalias ipfw with ipfw2 support. I've

Re: Imap Proxy server?

2004-05-25 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 20:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I have looked into this before but never really found too much info on it. On one of my FreeBSD boxes I run Squirrelmail. I was told that there is a Imap Proxy server that can be ran on the local box to help with some

Re: openssh port not uptodate ?

2004-05-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Thomas May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have now downloaded the new ports.tar.gz file and if i want to install the openssh port, because of the security hole, i see the old version 3.6.1 I don't know which hole you're referring to, but all the ones I've heard of are fixed by patches that are

Re: 2 ISP on one FreeBSD router

2004-05-25 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 12:44:04PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Piotr Gnyp wrote: My question is: Is there a way to configure FreeBSD, so the NATed workstations will use two ISP at once and in case of one ISP failure the whole traffic will be put on one connection? Sure, that's a standard

Re: Security run question

2004-05-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Uwe Doering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Edd wrote: I recieved my security run today (as usual) and an error which I have never seen before appeared: hitbox.monsternet.lan kernel log messages: tabase /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory A quick locate shows that there is no such

RE: which kinds of AMD work withh FBSD?

2004-05-25 Thread Derrick Ryalls
snip FWIW, none of my new systems have floppies and the smallest has 3 x 40GB HDs. The new HDs all run ATA-133 and have 8MB of cache. I have about 40GB of mp3 and wma that I have created from CDs that I own and backup on one of the 2400's. It isn't the one with the 3-40's :). None of

Re: Question regarding reported directory sizes.

2004-05-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 25), Jason DiCioccio said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (May 25), Jason DiCioccio said: I have a very large directory (say, a mail spool) whose directory entry is approx 606K.. drwx-- 5 cyrus cyrus 606208 May 25 10:29 . Now.. That directory

config is out of sinc

2004-05-25 Thread Earl Larsen
I installed FreeBSD 4.9-stabel, and used cvs to update everything. And when I tried to build my personel Kernel by using. Make build KERNCONF... it came up with the fallowing : main# cd /usr/src main# make buildkernel KERNCONF = KERNEL make installkernel KERNCONF = KERNEL make: no target to

Re: which kinds of AMD work withh FBSD?

2004-05-25 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 11:36 am, Derrick Ryalls wrote: snip FWIW, none of my new systems have floppies and the smallest has 3 x 40GB HDs. The new HDs all run ATA-133 and have 8MB of cache. I have about 40GB of mp3 and wma that I have created from CDs that I own and backup on one of the

bootloader? question

2004-05-25 Thread stan
Today I tried to move a 20G drive that is running hapily in a P75 macghine to a P2. Unfortunately it would not boot. I got a message like READ ERROR early in the boot process. I think this must be a bootlaoder issue? I tried booting the machine of a disk I had just installed FreeBSD on, and

Re: Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-25 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:01 PM -0400 5/25/04, Chuck Swiger wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: Recently I came across something which kind of bothered me. Every time when pkg_info removes and/or registers a package it gives this output: pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBD-mysql-2.9003 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package

bochs

2004-05-25 Thread Brian Henning
I am running freebsd on bochs emulator as a guest os, but i can't get it to recognize my pci devices. here is what happens. any thoughts? thanks, brian FreeBSD 4.10-RC2 (GENERIC) #0: Fri Apr 30 18:33:49 GMT 2004 testrouter# pciconf -l pciconf: /dev/pci: Device not configured

RE: Alternate file for log_in_vain

2004-05-25 Thread JJB
Sure you can. In etc/syslog.conf say kern.=info /var/log/loginvain.log -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Reuben A. Popp Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Alternate file for log_in_vain -BEGIN PGP

Re: cvsup kills /etc/ipf.rules !?

2004-05-25 Thread Stephan F. Yaraghchi
Hi Chris, I didn't get that far (to run mergemaster). I started cvsup and in the process of syncing the sources the ssh session to the machine died... You're right: The file with the rules for ipf is defined in /etc/rc.conf which didn't got changed in any way... My assumption was that once the

Re: install ipsec tools

2004-05-25 Thread Ben Timby
Xavier, you should attempt to install the package from the ports tree. FreeBSD uses the ports tree much like mandrake uses RPM files. The difference of course is that RPM files are binary packages while the ports tree simply provides a makefile which will fetch the source, configure and

Running FreeBSD 4.9 Jails on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 system

2004-05-25 Thread Kung Foo Ham[p]?ster
I'm looking at upgrading my main system from FreeBSD RELENG_4 to RELENG_5_2. I'll probably start with a clean sate for the system for that transition. I have a few users who run their own systems on jails on my machine... My question is: When I install FreeBSD 5 on my system can I run those

Re: Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Garance A Drosihn wrote: [ ...snip thread about pkg_info: ... has no origin recorded messages... ] In my case, it was happening on something that I had always upgraded via ports portupgrade. It was not bsdpan (which I do not even have installed...), but I do not remember what it was. If you

how to find and start talkd for use it with talk command ?

2004-05-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi! on free bsd 5.2 how can i find and start talkd for use it with talk command ? can i? or if i cant - can i use some similar instead ...? 10x in advance. regards! __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger.

Re: Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-25 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 14:01:11 EDT, Chuck Swiger scribbled these curious markings: pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBD-mysql-2.9003 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBI-1.42 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-GD-1.19 has no origin recorded Should I be worried about

Re: Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-25 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:49 PM -0400 5/25/04, Chuck Swiger wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: [ ...snip thread about pkg_info: ... has no origin recorded messages... ] In my case, it was happening on something that I had always upgraded via ports portupgrade. It was not bsdpan (which I do not even have

Re: bell through sound card

2004-05-25 Thread Chris Pressey
On 25 Apr 2004 00:07:40 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Shuttle box that (to my surprise) doesn't have a standard PC feeper. Has anyone done any work on making the standard bell go through a sound card? Has anyone given any thought to what would be the right way to do it? Would

Re: Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 4:49 PM -0400 5/25/04, Chuck Swiger wrote: If you install perl from ports, you apparently get bsdpan included. Hmm. How would I know if I had it? I don't seem to have any port with the letters 'pan' in it. and `locate bsdpan' does not find anything. I guess I don't

Re: Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Christopher Nehren wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 14:01:11 EDT, Chuck Swiger scribbled these curious markings: Elbereth...? :-) pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBD-mysql-2.9003 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBI-1.42 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-GD-1.19 has no origin

Re: Getting source by anoncvs

2004-05-25 Thread Simon Barner
Raymond Lillard wrote: I just failed at an attempt to pull down the latest sources via anoncvs using the instructions found at the URL below. Hi, it seems that this server has been shut down due to security concerns. See this thread on -current for more information:

Re: which kinds of AMD work withh FBSD?

2004-05-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 12:41:47AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 10:53 pm, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:30:09PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:45:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: [[ ... ]] It will be slow by modern

Device Driver issues on 4.7

2004-05-25 Thread Joe Kelsey
I have taken several existing device driver sources and used them to create a new device driver. However, I cannot seem to get the system to probe for my device. I created a device driver named vsbc which can get configured at either 0x0e0 or 0x1e0 depending on BIOS settings in a PC-104 mobo.

portupgrade configuration

2004-05-25 Thread Robin Becker
I've been using the cvsup/portsdb/portupgrade mantra and have found problems recently with subversion. Basically I needed to do make deinstall SVNREPOS=/svn SVNGROUP=rptdev WITH_APACHE2_APR=1 make install by hand as portupgrade didn't seem to know what settings it should use. Is there a way to

Re: Running FreeBSD 4.9 Jails on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 system

2004-05-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:38:50PM -0500, Kung Foo Ham[p]?ster wrote: When I install FreeBSD 5 on my system can I run those FreeBSD 4 Jails on it and then upgrade them individually without much pressure. Afraid not. The jails have to run the same version of the OS as the host system.

Re: Running FreeBSD 4.9 Jails on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 system

2004-05-25 Thread Pavel Duda
Kung Foo Ham[p]?ster wrote: I'm looking at upgrading my main system from FreeBSD RELENG_4 to RELENG_5_2. I'll probably start with a clean sate for the system for that transition. I have a few users who run their own systems on jails on my machine... My question is: When I install FreeBSD 5 on my

Re: how to find and start talkd for use it with talk command ?

2004-05-25 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 01:52:55PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi! on free bsd 5.2 how can i find and start talkd for use it with talk command ? can i? Uncomment the ntalk line in /etc/inetd.conf, and: kill -HUP pid of inetd -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: bootloader? question

2004-05-25 Thread stan
Sorry if this is a repeat. I sent it about 4 hours agoa, and have yet to see it come back. Today I tried to move a 20G drive that is running hapily in a P75 macghine to a P2. Unfortunately it would not boot. I got a message like READ ERROR early in the boot process. I think this must be a

Re: cvsup kills /etc/ipf.rules !?

2004-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 05:57:42PM +0200, Yaraghchi, Stephan wrote: Hi fellows, I was running cvsup on a FBSD 4.9-RELEASE #5 box with the following supfile: *default host=cvsup6.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9 *default delete

Re: Running FreeBSD 4.9 Jails on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 system

2004-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:38:50PM -0500, Kung Foo Ham[p]?ster wrote: I'm looking at upgrading my main system from FreeBSD RELENG_4 to RELENG_5_2. I'll probably start with a clean sate for the system for that transition. I have a few users who run their own systems on jails on my machine...

Re: App like M$ Project

2004-05-25 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 13:05, Bob Collins wrote: I am looking for a nice Open Source app like Microsloth's Project. I have Googled a bit and find nothing interesting. Do any of you have a suggestion for such a thing, assuming it even exists? Of course, I would also like to run it on FBSD, but

Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall

2004-05-25 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:10:16PM -0400, JJB wrote: : The log-in-vain feature is an good thing to keep. In your case it is Okay, I'll put it back, then. : The other post about firewall rules has nothing to do with your : problem. The poster just did not recognize the messages as coming : from

Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall

2004-05-25 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 08:50:17AM -0400, JJB wrote: : The messages you are getting are generated from the log-in-vain : option you have turned on. Every night when the cron management : reports run they post email from root to root using the 127.0.0.1 If I disable this 'feature' and adjust my

Re: config is out of sinc

2004-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 01:40:36PM -0500, Earl Larsen wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.9-stabel, and used cvs to update everything. And when I tried to build my personel Kernel by using. Make build KERNCONF... it came up with the fallowing : It looks like you've accidentally updated your sources

GCC Query.

2004-05-25 Thread dan
Hello, Which release of FreeBSD by standard has GCC 3.3.3 or higher? Otherwise, are there any decent guides of how to setup GCC properly after upgrading 2.95 (FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE). I've had major troubles since updating it - that things aren't being recognised as new - and have had to use

Re: GCC Query.

2004-05-25 Thread Simon Barner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which release of FreeBSD by standard has GCC 3.3.3 or higher? 5.2.1 has GCC 3.3.3 - don't know whether some lower versions of FreeBSD 5.x also had it (they're all GCC 3.x based), but you wouldn't want to install anything below 5.2.1 anyway (if you decide to go for

Re: App like M$ Project

2004-05-25 Thread Murray Taylor
M I thought that mrproject was in the ports tree .. but I cant find it... Im sure I had it installed once when I was running Gnome rather than KDE as I do now On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 10:01, Frank Knobbe wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 13:05, Bob Collins wrote: I am looking for a nice Open

'#periodic monthly' '#periodic weekly' '#periodic daily' problems

2004-05-25 Thread Bull TORS
hi to everyone, I have been using my freebsd system for almost 7-8 months. I have read in my internal help documents about newbies that I should run #periodic monthly #periodic weekly #periodic daily from time to time...I still have not really grasp the importance of it but I have developed

SMTP AUTH

2004-05-25 Thread Noah
sendmail-8.12.11 freeBSD-4.9-STABLE I must be doing something wrong. SMTP AUTH is not working very well for me. I have been trying to authenticate with user and password to port 25. I prefer to send all auth user and password information with SSL encryption. would like SSL Version 3

Package database corruption... need assistance

2004-05-25 Thread Scott I. Remick
Hello. A friend of mine is running 5.1-REL and has somehow managed to get some serious corruption on her package database. It's more than I've come across before so I wanted to find out the easiest way to clean this up. The way things stand now, she gets lots of stale dependency errors when doing

ethernet card not coming up on reboot

2004-05-25 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha I have a little annoyance on one of my boxes. The box has an Asus P4P800 mobo with a 2.6GHz P4 and 1GB of DDR-400 Ram. I have FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 loaded on a 120Gig SATA Hard disk. My ouput of uname -a: p4# uname -a FreeBSD p4.hawaii.rr.com 5.2-RC1 FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 #0: Sun Dec 7 22:15:14

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