Problems with UDMA harddisks

Hi! I hope somebody on this list has another good idea, I haven't thought of yet: I have a machine that came with two Excel Stor 40 GB (Ganymede) UDMA/100 harddisks. To install FreeBSD 4.10 I had to disable UDMA in the BIOS, otherwise they wouldn't have booted (some complaint about ata0). Of

Re: IP bandwidth

John Lee wrote: dear all, i'm using a freebsd 4.10-stable server with 50 IP addresses. Is there any program i can install that will be able to tell me: - how much bandwidth (ie. kbps) each individual IP is using? trafcount seems to count total traffic only, any idea? I.e. ipfw + rrdtools or mrtg

ttyin

when i enabled xdm for graphical login , in my eterm window, i can su - root fine locally, but when i ssh to my other machine and su to root i am gettin: cmd: su 10097 [ttyin] 0.02u 0.04s 0% 1204k load: 0.08 cmd: su 10097 [ttyin] 0.02u 0.04s 0% 1204k i tried in aterm and xterm and it works

solved amavisd-new and postfix issue

Hello, My thanks to everyone who has helped me over these past few days. I did a total reinstall and clean configuration of postfix and amavisd-new, i did not get the error about the dictionaries again, but this time i got a message from amavisd: denied access to 192.168.0.3 for some reason

RE: [WAAAY OT]

Asked my father (who used to work for the standards lab at the Electricity Trust of South Australia) and .. He had no hesitation is saying it was Intensity. He said the P was originally for Pressure and the I for Intensity. He also said that some early PMG instruments, we would call them watt

Question reguarding /etc/hosts

I have a quake 1 server installed on my 4.9 release box. it works when I disable UDP support, but it core dumps when its enabled. I was told to check the /etc/hosts and make sure there is an entry ther for my machine and its there. any reccomendations?

RE: IPFW acting weird OR invalid ruleset?

steve, Yes everything else seems to work fine. There are currently 2 PCs with this issue. 1 is XP the other is Win2k. This ruleset worked fine on FreeBSD 5.1, but I reformatted the box, and install 5.2.1 uploaded the rc.firewall.rules and natd.conf files, since the network

RE: IP bandwidth

John Lee wrote: dear all, i'm using a freebsd 4.10-stable server with 50 IP addresses. Is there any program i can install that will be able to tell me: - how much bandwidth (ie. kbps) each individual IP is using? trafcount seems to count total traffic only, any idea?

Re: Converting crypted passwords

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:32:14AM +0200, Frank Altpeter wrote: Given is a system with md5 style passwords like that: $1$d61CkkOZ$BE/TofmL5h9gtfxKI6Vcy1 (This can be generated by openssl passwd -1 -salt d61CkkOZ test) Without knowing the password, i need to convert it to base64 encoded

Re: portupgrade fails on every port, undefined method 'each' for nil:NilClass

On Thursday 01 July 2004 09:44 pm, Akinori MUSHA wrote: Hi, I have just committed a fix against the undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass error that occurs typically when BEFORE_DEINSTALL is not defined in pkgtools.conf. Add BEFORE_DEINSTALL = {} to your pkgtools.conf and pkg_deinstall

xconq in ports doesn't work under freebsd 4.9

Has anyone gotten xconq to work ? Under 4.9 (actually 4.10-stable) it requires tk84.1 which does not exist. If i muck with the makefile to use tk84 (which turns out to be tk84.6) it builds fine but then it fails to because the args it pass to tk are incorrect.

Re: strange pw behaviour

Hi list, must ask again... I'm still stuck with this. It's pretty weird. I have 10 directories each owned by a unique group. All 10 directories are set 750. The groups have been added using pw and user www has been made a member of every group by using pw. This has worked a hundred times.

Re: Question reguarding /etc/hosts

On 2004-07-02 01:45, j0sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a quake 1 server installed on my 4.9 release box. it works when I disable UDP support, but it core dumps when its enabled. I was told to check the /etc/hosts and make sure there is an entry ther for my machine and its there. any

Nearly empty port directories and README.html. Esp. relating to GTK themes and engines.

Hello. I'm a bit confused as to the function of the README.html files located in otherwise empty ports directories from a cvsup from only a few minutes ago (Fri Jul 2 04:45:00 MDT 2004). Of particular interest to me are the gtk engine and theme ports such as x11-toolkits/gtk-engines-collection

RE: vi / EAGAIN Problem

Sergey, I have submitted the problem to FreeBSD using the send-pr program, as Jonathan Chen asked me to. I will follow up here with some details for you though. Once the problem starts happening, it seems that I have to log off the system and log back in again to fix it. This usually (95% of

Re: Nearly empty port directories and README.html. Esp. relating to GTK themes and engines.

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 05:04:51AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit confused as to the function of the README.html files located in otherwise empty ports directories from a cvsup from only a few minutes ago (Fri Jul 2 04:45:00 MDT 2004). Of particular interest to me are the gtk

Re: strange pw behaviour

Jonas Sonntag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, must ask again... I'm still stuck with this. It's pretty weird. I have 10 directories each owned by a unique group. All 10 directories are set 750. The groups have been added using pw and user www has been made a member of every group by

Re: REPOST: Performance problems with FTP

Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 29, 2004, at 11:08 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that does tend to rule out a bunch of issues. Have you tried changing the MTU of the FreeBSD box down to 1400 or so (or even 512), just to see whether

Graphics

Sir, I am FreeBSD fan. I was looking for some kinda graphics for FreeBSD like Powered By FreeBSD or such. Can you provide me with some such links. Thanking you. -- Muhammad Moinur Rahman Network Support Specialist Bass Computronics Ltd House#405(3rd fl), Road#27(old) Dhanmomdi,Dhaka - 1209

Re: mini itx

arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: im collecting some bits to start a mini itx project http://www.mini-itx.com/projects.asp i have the need for a small silent pc has anyone used these boards with bds? I'm using an EPIA 6000 as a workstation in the kitchen. I boot FreeBSD-5.2 diskless so it's

Re: strange pw behaviour

Hi Bill, first of all, thanks for the input! On Friday 02 July 2004 13:58, Bill Moran wrote: Did you add the users/groups to the jail, or to the host system? Make sure that the group file you added this to is the same group file that is being used by the program. For example, on one of my

RE: IP bandwidth

Bandwithd and IPaudit do a good job. I use both. Michael Clark Nemschoff Chairs Inc mclark at nemschoff dot com CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, MCP Voice: (920) 457 7726 x294 Fax: (920) 453 6594 -Original Message- From: Philip Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004

Re: strange pw behaviour

Jonas Sonntag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bill, first of all, thanks for the input! On Friday 02 July 2004 13:58, Bill Moran wrote: Did you add the users/groups to the jail, or to the host system? Make sure that the group file you added this to is the same group file that is being

Re: Graphics

Muhammad Moinur Rahman wrote: Sir, I am FreeBSD fan. I was looking for some kinda graphics for FreeBSD like Powered By FreeBSD or such. Can you provide me with some such links. Thanking you. comes in any apache install on your freebsd box ... http://beastie.flncs.com/icons/freebsd.gif

Re: Problems with UDMA harddisks

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:28:12 +0200 (CEST), Peter Ulrich Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi! I hope somebody on this list has another good idea, I haven't thought of yet: I have a machine that came with two Excel Stor 40 GB (Ganymede) UDMA/100 harddisks. To install FreeBSD 4.10 I had to

Re: strange pw behaviour

On Friday 02 July 2004 15:09, Bill Moran wrote: The only other thought I have is that you might have some invalid user names? (I'm really reaching here ...) Can you attach the group file so we can verify the syntax. I really don't think so... all entries come from pw and pw get's called the

Wireless client problems

Hi, I'm currently running fbsd 4.9 on a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221. The problem I am having is that after I install and configure the wireless card, I observe no activity between the card and the cpu. I know for certain that my pccard slots are fully functional and that fbsd is loading

Re: Graphics

Sir, I am FreeBSD fan. I was looking for some kinda graphics for FreeBSD like Powered By FreeBSD or such. Can you provide me with some such links. Check here:http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html and here: http://www.freebsd.org/art.html and here:

PMTUD, is it actually usable? (was Re: REPOST: Performance problems with FTP)

If you've been following this thread, you can probably guess the problem. If not, I'll summarize it briefly. I'm looking at a performance problem that appears to be caused by a combination of fragmented packets, and failure of PMTUD to work because of blocked/dropped ICMP packets. As I'm trying

Traffic shaping

I want to do traffic shaping with a FreeBSD firewall. The firewall uses IPF on FBSD 5.2.1-p8, and the only shaper I see in the ports is trickle. This doesn't even integrate into the firewall, so it would be useless to me for shaping traffic from other hosts on the protected network. Besides, I

Re: Newbie

Chintan,Jon, Jon Drews wrote: Hello Chintan: In addition to Chris' advice I heartily recommend the tutorials at FreeBSD basics: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/15 I also find Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD to be a very good reference book. On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:03:14 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with gateway and ipfw in FreeBSD 5.2

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:23:05AM +0800, Tony Liew wrote: Hi, Currently I am trying out FreeBSD 5.2. SDSL modem | FreeBSD Router | Internal network My problem, from FreeBSD I can ping outside and inside network. from Internal network, I can ping internal interface and

Re: Traffic shaping

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 07:35, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: I want to do traffic shaping with a FreeBSD firewall. The firewall uses IPF on FBSD 5.2.1-p8, and the only shaper I see in the ports is trickle. This doesn't even integrate into the firewall, so it would be useless to me for shaping

Re: Problem with gateway and ipfw in FreeBSD 5.2

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:23:05AM +0800, Tony Liew wrote: My problem, from FreeBSD I can ping outside and inside network. from Internal network, I can ping internal interface and external interface of FreeBSD Router. But I cannot ping the modem IP address so goes public DNS server on the

4.10-RELEASE kernel build fails on alpha

I have successfully installed 4.10-RELEASE on a CPQ Alpha DS20E. (Kern-Developer packages) Then tried to build a new kernel, in order to get ccd supported. The steps were: 1. insert pseudo-device ccd 4 into the kernel config, no other change was made 2. config 3 make depend It worked well so

usb audio

i'm having a problem with my usb audio. the sound is choppy, but if i move my usb mouse around it's normal. I found a similar problem in google but with no fix. Does anyone have any ideas? Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), Intel(0x),

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:17:35AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Me either. -current actually supports running i386 binaries in amd64 mode. Thats one of the processor's features. :-) You can't run amd64 binaries when booted into an i386 OS, of course.

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

Quoting David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:17:35AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Me either. -current actually supports running i386 binaries in amd64 mode. Thats one of the processor's features. :-) You can't run amd64 binaries when

syntax error

The pccard.conf that ships with 4.8 yields syntax error messages when trying to configure my pcmcia card. Could someone help me correct the following code from pccard.conf that applies to my card? # Farallon EtherMac card Farallon ENet config auto ep ? insert /etc/pccard_ether

Re: Newbie

On Friday 02 July 2004 00:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am new to this, just wandering if I could get some pointers in right direction into learning this software from basics to gaining intermidiate skills. I am a cisco engineer however want to learn the unix/linux too. any advice

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

RE: IP bandwidth

--- Michael Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bandwithd and IPaudit do a good job. I use both. Michael Clark Nemschoff Chairs Inc mclark at nemschoff dot com CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, MCP Voice: (920) 457 7726 x294 Fax: (920) 453 6594 -Original Message- From: Philip

Compatibility with VIA 6103/6306/6303 or Realtek 8201 Ethernet cards

Hey, Having a little trouble ensuring hardware compatibility. Some of the units we're considering have one of the following NIC chipsets: VIA 6103 VIA 6303 VIA 6306 Realtek 8201 Looking through the hardware compatibility notes, as well as the man pages for vr(4), ed(4), and rl(4) doesn't seem

Re: Compatibility with VIA 6103/6306/6303 or Realtek 8201 Ethernet cards

Some of the units we're considering have one of the following NIC chipsets: VIA 6103 VIA 6303 VIA 6306 Realtek 8201 Looking through the hardware compatibility notes, as well as the man pages for vr(4), ed(4), and rl(4) doesn't seem to confirm or deny whether any of these units will work

Re: DataTraveler 2.0

I can't add much to this except to say that I have the exact same problem with a Kingston DataTraveler2.0 USB flash drive on a 4.10 system (I've tried upgrading to both -STABLE and -CURRENT, didn't help). Also, after plugging in and unplugging the DataTraveler, my USB printer stops responding.

Reading from ATAPICAM DVD

I am attempting to use DVD::RIP to rip a DVD (or a piece of one). It tries to execute tcprobe -H 10 -i /dev/cd0c and fails with the error: [fileinfo.c:118] file read error: Invalid argument The code is (read(fdes, buf, bytes). (The value of bytes is 4.) I also log a system error of:

make buildworld: build changes only?

Hi, I'm keeping track of -STABLE on semi-regular basis. But when I cvsup to the latest sources and do make buildworld, it always starts to rebuild the world entirely from scratch. That's somewhat frustrating, especially if cvsup showed only a screenful of changes. Is it possible to rebuild

Re[2]: port upgrades

*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Have you tried running pkgdb -F? Yes, at some point. I did solve the problem: I finally deleted all packages that were installed directly from

Re: Question reguarding /etc/hosts

UDP works fine on the box. Alot of UDP traffic gets passed thru it daily. It is set up as a firewall/NAT box , but I dont block any traffic I dont see causing problems - Original Message - . From: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: j0sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004

Re: port upgrades

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:22:07PM -0500, Chris wrote: 5.2.1-RELEASE I've started using 'portupgrade' to update several ports to the latest versions, but have an odd problem when it comes to certain ports. For example: server# pkg_version -v | grep Spam bsdpan-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63

Re: sshd:

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:46:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I exec /usr/sbin/sshd, but got Privilege separation user sshd does not exist but I do have, in the /etc/group: sshd:*:22: and with vipw: sshd:*:22:22::0:0:Secure Shell Daemon:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin is there anything I

Re: Gigabit Adaptors

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:53:11AM -0500, Michael Clark wrote: After my recent disagreements with the em0 Intel MT adaptor, I have decided to order something else for my FreeBSD use. Anyone have any good suggestions for cards that they prefer to use in 5.x? I've had good experience with the

Re: Converting crypted passwords

The whole point of md5 digests is that you can't recover the password from it, you can only match it against the md5-sum of a given password. So I guess you cannot convert it to other formats without knowing the password itself. GH On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:32:14AM +0200, Frank Altpeter

cvsupdate and make totally hoses the system

I've done this twice now.. I install a clean 4.10-Release from ftp. I install cvsupdate without gui. I create my cvsupdate file in etc and run cvsupdate. then per instructions from the website # make buildworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel # reboot You should boot in single user mode

Re: Gnome installing Mozilla by default

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:21:19 -0400 Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 23:50, epilogue wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:40:08 -0400 Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:45, epilogue wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:46:04 -0700 Dan Finn

Re: cvsupdate and make totally hoses the system

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:28:29 -0700 David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done this twice now.. I install a clean 4.10-Release from ftp. I install cvsupdate without gui. I create my cvsupdate file in etc and run cvsupdate. then per instructions from the website # make buildworld # make

Syntax error-please

I have already posted a query about syntax errors in pccard.conf. Nobody responded to my most recent request. I would appreciate any help. The pccard.conf that ships with 4.8 yields syntax error messages when trying to configure my pcmcia card. Is there a problem with the following code? #

SIGURG

I have a fairly active program that forks and uses pipes to communicate back to the parent before exiting. When I go to wait() on the child, occasionally the status is signaled - SIGURG instead of exit()ing normally. It appears the child process is doing everything it needs to be doing. What

Re: make buildworld: build changes only?

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:54:53AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hi, I'm keeping track of -STABLE on semi-regular basis. But when I cvsup to the latest sources and do make buildworld, it always starts to rebuild the world entirely from scratch. That's somewhat frustrating, especially if

Re: [OT] fetchmail, procmail and mutt (oh my!)

Problem: If I put 'mda /usr/local/bin/procmail' in the .fetchmailrc lines, procmail puts the emails in the correct mbox files; but mutt complains that the files are not valid email files and refuses to read them. Make it 'mda /usr/local/bin/procmail -d %T' and it'll work fine. Without the

Re: cvsupdate and make totally hoses the system

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:28:29PM -0700, David Bear wrote: I've done this twice now.. I install a clean 4.10-Release from ftp. I install cvsupdate without gui. I create my cvsupdate file in etc and run cvsupdate. then per instructions from the website # make buildworld # make buildkernel

core dump location

*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* 5.2.1-RELEASE I tried using this command to change the location where my core dump is being written: sysctl kern.corefile=/var/coredumps/%U/%N.core After doing that, new core dumps didn't show up there. I tried

Re: make buildworld: build changes only?

On 2004-07-02 00:54, Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to rebuild these changes only? I know I could cd to the directory of each changed file and do a make install there, but that is of course not quite practical. I suppose this could be automated, since this was

Re: cvsupdate and make totally hoses the system

yes.. this explains it. I need to be more carefull with my reading. On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:14:25PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:28:29PM -0700, David Bear wrote: I've done this twice now.. I install a clean 4.10-Release from ftp. I install cvsupdate without gui.

TeamSpeak Client and Enemy Territory

Hi, I'm having a bit of a trouble trying to use teamspeak client and playing enemy territory or wolfenstein. Since both use /dev/dsp, if I start teamspeak and go to ET, et will be soundless; vice-versa. I tried to change the sound device on teamspeak to dsp0.1 but to no avail. My next guess was

Re: make buildworld: build changes only?

On 01-Jul-2004 Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hi, I'm keeping track of -STABLE on semi-regular basis. But when I cvsup to the latest sources and do make buildworld, it always starts to rebuild the world entirely from scratch. That's somewhat frustrating, especially if cvsup showed only a

RE: [WAAAY OT]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 20:43, Eric Crist wrote: That's it! Reason for my question was that a buddy asked me as a trivia question. Bet me $50 I couldn't figure it out (we both agreed any method I could use was OK) by the time he left for Vancouver, WA tomorrow morning. Thanks guys.

Re: sshd:

mm... no, I dont' think so . Best Regards, :-) On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Skylar Thompson wrote: On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:46:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I exec /usr/sbin/sshd, but got Privilege separation user sshd does not exist but I do have, in the /etc/group: sshd:*:22: and with vipw:

postfix postmap, when to use

Hello, I've got a confusion issue, regarding postfix's postmap and when to use it. I've read some documentation that suggests you don't need to run it when making regexp or pcre map types such as in header_checks, yet the header_checks file supplied with postfix 2.1 suggests to run it. In

Re: strange pw behaviour

On Jul 2, 2004, at 6:47 AM, Jonas Sonntag wrote: must ask again... I'm still stuck with this. It's pretty weird. I have 10 directories each owned by a unique group. All 10 directories are set 750. The groups have been added using pw and user www has been made a member of every group by using

Getting swap info without kvm access

I've written an Afterstep applet that retrieves and displays different time and system information. The Linux port uses a few functions like gmtime() and gethostname() and reads most of the info from /proc files. The FreeBSD port used the function calls and gets most of the info from sysctl()

Re: Getting swap info without kvm access

In the last episode (Jul 02), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've written an Afterstep applet that retrieves and displays different time and system information. The Linux port uses a few functions like gmtime() and gethostname() and reads most of the info from /proc files. The FreeBSD port used the

[Fwd: /etc/hosts and /etc/host.conf confusion]

bump. At the very least perhaps someone could point me to some docs that give a good explanation? Original Message Subject: /etc/hosts and /etc/host.conf confusion Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:40:10 -0700 From: David Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I'm

Re: [Fwd: /etc/hosts and /etc/host.conf confusion]

On Jul 2, 2004, at 20:39, David Fuchs wrote: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # First try the /etc/hosts file hosts # Now try the nameserver next. bind # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line # nis That's typical. Considering that 'hosts' is

RE: [Fwd: /etc/hosts and /etc/host.conf confusion]

-Original Message- On Behalf Of David Fuchs bump. At the very least perhaps someone could point me to some docs that give a good explanation? Hello, I'm having some difficulties understanding the semantics behind the resolver in FreeBSD, and how /etc/host.conf, /etc/hosts,

sasl server file not found

Hi, Postfix 2.1 cyrus-sasl2 and cyrus-sasl2-authd configured for authenticated smtp on a 5.2.1 box. I'm getting an error: Can not connect to sasl2, server not found. In my rc.conf i have: saslauthd_enable=YES saslauthd_flags=-a getpwent and in my /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf file i have: