Re: quotas on 5.3

2004-11-19 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, dave wrote: Hello, Hello. Got a question on quotas. I've enabled them on /usr and /var filesystems by adding the userquota option to their options in fstab. This is after i recompiled my kernel with the QUOTA option in it and rebooted. I then added: enable_quotas=YES

/bin/rm: Argument list too long.

2004-11-19 Thread Mipam
Hi, I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message: /bin/rm: Argument list too long. So, no go. newfs is also no option, because the dir is not a seperate fs. Any hints exept for manual labour? Bye, Mipam. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card Question

2004-11-19 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:21:58PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 12:42 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:30 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I have just put FreeBSD 5.3 Release on my Dell Latitude C600

will this update strategy work?

2004-11-19 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi all, I'm using FreeBSD 4.10 on my toshiba sattelite pro 4600 laptop together with win98. During the past months I've noticed i'm doing less with win98 and more and more with FreeBSD (replaced quicken with gnucash and much more). The only reason I have win98 is because I never managed to get my

Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

2004-11-19 Thread Dennis Koegel
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:58:40AM +0100, Mipam wrote: I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message: /bin/rm: Argument list too long. You probably did rm *, and * expanded to too many files. One way is to simply remove the directory completely (rm -r /foo/bar), but this

Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer

2004-11-19 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:43:50PM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 07:08 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Ivan Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 18 November 2004 06:00 pm, Sebastian Holmqvist wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:44:05 -0500, Ivan Georgiev [EMAIL

Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

2004-11-19 Thread Brian Bobowski
Mipam wrote: Hi, I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message: /bin/rm: Argument list too long. So, no go. newfs is also no option, because the dir is not a seperate fs. Any hints exept for manual labour? Bye, Mipam. I gather it's rm * that's not working? If so, try a

Postfix/fetchmail problem

2004-11-19 Thread Mark Ovens
I've set up postfix, fetchmail, and courier-imap on a FreeBSD box (4.10) and got it working - for one account. When I added a second account it goes wrong; all mail gets sent to the user that fetchmail is running as. My .fetchmailrc contains poll pop.myisp.com protocol POP3 user mark

Re: will this update strategy work?

2004-11-19 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On Friday, 19 November 2004 at 1:03:55 -0800, Dino Vliet wrote: I have the following questions. 1) Will this update strategy work? 2) Is the 1.6GB partition big enough for a basic FreeBSD 5.3 install? This is the output of df -h after a recent basic 5.3R install: Filesystem SizeUsed

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 with 4GB RAM - memory ignored

2004-11-19 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Axel S. Gruner wrote: Our new x345 Server with 1 XEON 2.8GHz CPU (second one will be built in next week) has 4GB RAM. I see the following message while the system is booting: 131072 of memory aboce 4GB ignored Well, i will use all the memory i paid for ;-), so what

bridging tapX interfaces only

2004-11-19 Thread spambait701
I have been trying to create an isolated virtual LAN with the following configuration. A single FreeBSD v4.10 server with one physical NIC (fxp0) is connected to two remote client Windows XP machines via OpenVPN tunnels. OpenVPN v1.6 on the server and v2.0 on the clients. There are therefore

Re: BlackBox slow

2004-11-19 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
and it doesn't change much if I add or remove a line. What is your experience with BlackBox? Is there a BB clone without slit and taskbar or something like that? You may want to look into openbox. It's like all the other boxes only with no slit... -- If I write a signature, my emails will

Re: Patching

2004-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:43:00AM -0500, RL wrote: Hi, if you update your source tree through cvsup now and them, is it still necessary to follow the FreeBSD security advisories and patch your system? In others words, when you cvsup the source through RELENG_5_3 and make the world, does it

Problem with gvinum on 5.3RC

2004-11-19 Thread Willem Jaap Zwart
Hi I've upgraded my 5.1xx box to 5.3 and run into problems with vinum I've followed the instructions of upgrading from vinum to gvinum (disabled vinum in rc.conf, add geom_vinum_load to loader.conf and changed /etc/fstab). Before 'install makeworld' the vinum volume mounted correctly After the

Re: desktop-file-utils

2004-11-19 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:54:36PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: Hello Am I the only one who cannot build gnome2.8 from ports? I get stopped because it cannot download desktop-file-utils-0.9.tar.gz. This should be found at http://freedesktop.org but the site was compromised and is not back

Re: BlackBox slow

2004-11-19 Thread Karel Miklav
Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: You may want to look into openbox. It's like all the other boxes only with no slit... Thanks man. I just threw my eyballs on hackedbox and wmi; we'll se what will become of it. Hackedbox doesn't have nor slit neither toolbar, that's what I was looking for.

Dual NICs in BSD

2004-11-19 Thread Trevor B. Sullivan
Hi, I have a Compaq Proliant 3000 server with a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 on it. It has an Intel Dual-port NIC (of which I'm using one port), and a Netgear GA620 Gigabit fiber card. The copper port is referred to as fxp0 and the fiber, ti0. I'm having a problem getting the two network

Something about booting bsd on the second disk from windows loader

2004-11-19 Thread hu shouwen
Mr Answer: Sorry having troubled you to give me reasons about the solution to the question 9.10. How can I use the Windows NT loader to boot FreeBSD? listed on bsd site. I have installed my first bsd on the second disk with whole space, and I have chosen to install bootmgr. But when reboot, I

can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

2004-11-19 Thread Andy Firman
I was editing my named.conf and somehow saved the file with a trailing backslash and I can't get rid of it. -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:35 named.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:07 named.conf.save.11-18 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind17389 Nov 18 10:58 named.conf\

Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

2004-11-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:19:39AM +0100, Dennis Koegel typed: snip find /foo/bar -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs rm -n100 or just ls | xargs rm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

2004-11-19 Thread Alexander Petry
Hi! * Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-19 04:34:43 -0900]: I was editing my named.conf and somehow saved the file with a trailing backslash and I can't get rid of it. -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:35 named.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:07

Re: can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

2004-11-19 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:42:01PM +0100, Alexander Petry wrote: Hi! * Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-19 04:34:43 -0900]: -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:35 named.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:07 named.conf.save.11-18 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind

Re: Dual NICs in BSD

2004-11-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:09:02AM -0600, Trevor B. Sullivan typed: Hi, I have a Compaq Proliant 3000 server with a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 on it. It has an Intel Dual-port NIC (of which I'm using one port), and a Netgear GA620 Gigabit fiber card. The copper port is referred to as fxp0

Re: Req: Good virtual mail server howto

2004-11-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hello Chris, On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:07:40PM + or thereabouts, Chris Smith wrote: Has anyone got any good resources for configuring a virtual pop3/imap server under FreeBSD 5.x? I need to host mail for more than one domain and do not wish to give users system accounts. Go for

squid

2004-11-19 Thread dextermetall
how can i deny websites in squid? for example: i don`t want that clients could connect to www.example.com how can i do this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Req: Good virtual mail server howto

2004-11-19 Thread CHris Rich
I personally like qmail, we use it on our mail server, and like you we didn't want to give system accounts so we did it with a mysql patch. It took awhile to get up and running but now that it is running we have a php script which handles user management, etc. www.lifewithqmail.org is a good

Re: squid

2004-11-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
how can i deny websites in squid? for example: i don`t want that clients could connect to www.example.com how can i do this? Install squidGuard, or better yet, dansguardian. I believe both are in ports, however, dansguardian requires a license for commercial use. Steve

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card Question

2004-11-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 19 November 2004 03:03 am, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:21:58PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 12:42 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:30 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I

Re: Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Moyer
I'm looking for an easy way to obtain all the packages/port distfiles at once and then put them on a cd so I can do that. I would like to be able to do it without having to manually fetch all the dependancies as well. On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:22:22 -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: squid

2004-11-19 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:04:27 +0300 (MSK), dextermetall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can i deny websites in squid? for example: i don`t want that clients could connect to www.example.com how can i do this? http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-10.html#ss10.23 Nelis

RE: Req: Good virtual mail server howto

2004-11-19 Thread Haulmark, Chris
Someone broke the silence: I personally like qmail, we use it on our mail server, and like you we didn't want to give system accounts so we did it with a mysql patch. It took awhile to get up and running but now that it is running we have a php script which handles user management, etc.

Re: can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

2004-11-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 19, 2004, at 9:09 AM, Hexren wrote: AF I was editing my named.conf and somehow saved the file AF with a trailing backslash and I can't get rid of it. AF -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:35 named.conf AF -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:07 named.conf.save.11-18 AF

Re: firefox thunderbird upgrade problem

2004-11-19 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Gary Aitken wrote: Hello all, I upgraged thunderbird and firefox via portupgrade. Things kinda work ok, except I cannot modify preferences, and it doesn't see any of my old mail, which leads me to believe it doesn't like my .thunderbird and .mozilla directory hierarchy. All of the subdirectories

Re: can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

2004-11-19 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 19 November 2004 14:50, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Nov 19, 2004, at 9:09 AM, Hexren wrote: AF I was editing my named.conf and somehow saved the file AF with a trailing backslash and I can't get rid of it. AF -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:35 named.conf AF

Re: can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

2004-11-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 19, 2004, at 3:54 AM, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Friday 19 November 2004 14:50, Bart Silverstrim wrote: My first instinct would be cp named.conf backupnamed.conf rm named.con* mv backupnamed.conf named.conf :-) I'm too paranoid that I know what *should* work wouldn't or would still end up

/etc/rc.d/mountcritremote and nfsserver

2004-11-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
This is a short question, but I'll make it long anyway. Those short on time may want to skip to the last paragraph. I run several servers that each host a few jail environments, and I use NFS as a kind of loopback filesystem to share common directories among them. For example, my /etc/fstab is

Re: Req: Good virtual mail server howto

2004-11-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:35:22AM -0500, Haulmark, Chris typed: Someone broke the silence: I personally like qmail, we use it on our mail server, and like you we didn't want to give system accounts so we did it with a mysql patch. It took awhile to get up and running but now that it is

Re: /etc/rc.d/mountcritremote and nfsserver

2004-11-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:17:47AM -0600, Kirk Strauser typed: As someone new to the whole rc.d idea, I have to ask: is it OK to add `nfsserver' to the REQUIRE line in `mountcritremote'? Is there any reason not to? Would this make sense as a patch for FreeBSD in general? Since

RE: Req: Good virtual mail server howto

2004-11-19 Thread Haulmark, Chris
Someone broke the silence: If you opt for using postfix, I like using the www.high5.com howto which also includes using postfix admin to manage your virtual users. Excuse my typo, I meant www.high5.net sorry. Chris Haulmark ___ [EMAIL

5.3/AMD64 fails to detect ARAID-99 PATA unit when booting Tyan S2882 from a SATA drive

2004-11-19 Thread Cesium
Yesterday I received hardware to complete a Tyan S2882 based system. In just a few hours I had FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE / AMD64 running with all memory and processors accounted for. I have two hotswap IDE RAID devices installed. I have an old ARAID-99 from the previous 4.x system where it

Cross-compiling Linux binaries

2004-11-19 Thread Mike Meyer
Anyone ever tried building Linux rpm's on freebsd? If so, any hints for someone thinking of trying it? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.

Re: Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Tom Moyer wrote: I'm looking for an easy way to obtain all the packages/port distfiles at once and then put them on a cd so I can do that. I would like to be able to do it without having to manually fetch all the dependancies as well. In theory, one could cd /usr/ports make fetch. In practice,

Nothing works right when i try it, buildkernel problems..

2004-11-19 Thread CHris Rich
I'm trying to upgrade from 5.3RC1 to 5.3-RELEASE i cvsupped the src following the instructions given by Adam Smith(?) in a recent thread. I've read the handbook pages and some other things on the web on upgrading your system buildworld completes no problem, but when i try do a make buildkernel

Re: pf/altq prioritisation (for ssh).

2004-11-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Lewis Thompson wrote: I'm pretty sure this ``works'' but I was really hoping for more. Without the 5.3 miniinst ISO downloading a SSH connection is perfect (no lag, just like the local machine) but as soon as I set it going it becomes a bit laggy. Am I expecting too much to have a lag-free SSH

Snapshot filesystem - kernel: WARNING: Expected rawoffset...

2004-11-19 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've discovered that during creation of a snapshot-filesystem I get an error message written to my log that says: Nov 19 17:36:25 io kernel: WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 32 To be specific, this happens every time when I run mdconfig for the root partition. I've used the following

Xnest from x.org

2004-11-19 Thread Alex Kapranoff
Good day! I'm trying to run Xnest (nested X server) from x.org and getting core dumps with the following message: capella:~[0]% Xnest :1 _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/capella.domain.ru:1

Re: Nothing works right when i try it, buildkernel problems..

2004-11-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-19 10:27, CHris Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to upgrade from 5.3RC1 to 5.3-RELEASE i cvsupped the src following the instructions given by Adam Smith(?) in a recent thread. I've read the handbook pages and some other things on the web on upgrading your system buildworld

Re: Nothing works right when i try it, buildkernel problems..

2004-11-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:27:05AM -0600, CHris Rich typed: I'm trying to upgrade from 5.3RC1 to 5.3-RELEASE i cvsupped the src following the instructions given by Adam Smith(?) in a recent thread. I've read the handbook pages and some other things on the web on upgrading your system

Re: Nothing works right when i try it, buildkernel problems..

2004-11-19 Thread CHris Rich
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:46:38 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-11-19 10:27, CHris Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to upgrade from 5.3RC1 to 5.3-RELEASE i cvsupped the src following the instructions given by Adam Smith(?) in a recent thread. I've read the

Re: Nothing works right when i try it, buildkernel problems..

2004-11-19 Thread CHris Rich
Hrmm perhaps how do I check this? On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:51:57 +0100, Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:27:05AM -0600, CHris Rich typed: I'm trying to upgrade from 5.3RC1 to 5.3-RELEASE i cvsupped the src following the instructions given by Adam Smith(?)

Re: Nothing works right when i try it, buildkernel problems..

2004-11-19 Thread CHris Rich
I think you accidentally cvsupped 4.x sources. perl is not required by any part of the 5.x world/kernel build. regards, Ruben Yes this is what i did do, what do i put in my supfile to get 5.x sources? *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 that perhaps? or do you recommend

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-11-19 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ 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

2004-11-19 Thread Greg Lehey
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: /etc/rc.d/mountcritremote and nfsserver

2004-11-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 19 November 2004 09:55, Ruben de Groot wrote: Since 'mountcritremote' is in the REQUIRE line of 'nfsserver', that would create a loop. Ugh. You're right, and I managed to miss that when running rcorder. I think in your case though you can savely replace the 'mountcritremote'

Thank you FreeBSD community

2004-11-19 Thread Gary Hayers
Today I had a Mac OSX come my way for a simple application installation of Thunderbird. Unbeknownst to me, I interupted a system update that was in progress (Kernel + others) and proceded to install Thunderbird. When the iBook was rebooted it wouldnt load its GUI. Thanks to the FreeBSD

GEOM: create disk during runtime? (security run output)

2004-11-19 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I'm hoping somebody on this list can shed some light on this. My boss sent me a copy of his daily cron security run output, which contained this: localhost.local kernel log messages: GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc6b77d60 GEOM: create disk cd0 dp=0xc69a8600 We're all running

Re: Unable to create the partition. Too big?

2004-11-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
David E. Meier wrote: Yep, that did work. I did not delete the swap partition before. After deleting all of the partitions I was able to create the table as intended. However, I've installed FreeBSD in a similar way a couple of times before and never seen this happen. Does anyone know the reason

Yep - Firefox again.

2004-11-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
I can't get Firefox to start. I'm on a 5.3 system with all ports rebuilt on November 8, so there shouldn't be an obsolete library issues. I've completely removed ~/.mozilla. I initially tested with Firefox built from the port, but have also tried installing the pre-built package. When run

MySQL problems on FBSD 5.2.1

2004-11-19 Thread steveb99
I installed mod_PHP which installed Apache 2 from ports. All that works fine. I then install MySQL4 port and have it working fine standalone. What I can't get to work is calling MySQL from PHP code. The code hits the call to MySQL functions and does nothing, just stops at that line and

Re: MySQL problems on FBSD 5.2.1

2004-11-19 Thread Zeroke
Don't know if the ports automaticly compile PHP with MySQL support. Maybe install PHP from source with the --with-mysql parameter? (Since version 5 of PHP it does not include MySQL support from its own.) Good luck, Zeroke [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: steveb99 [EMAIL

Re: MySQL problems on FBSD 5.2.1

2004-11-19 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:49:37PM +0100, Zeroke wrote: Don't know if the ports automaticly compile PHP with MySQL support. No - it doesn't. Look for the entry tagged 20040719 in /usr/ports/UPDATING. It will tell you all about it. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key:

Virtual IP/DNS test results

2004-11-19 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im trying to setup virtual IPs/DNS/Apache, and it seems to be working within the LAN so far. Box 1: Firewall/Router/DNS/DHCP Server Box 2: Virtual IPs Box 3: DHCP client. This is where Im getting an oddity (see below). If I were to ping a hostname that is using a virtual IP address, or if I

Re: MySQL problems on FBSD 5.2.1

2004-11-19 Thread Peter Risdon
Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:49:37PM +0100, Zeroke wrote: Don't know if the ports automaticly compile PHP with MySQL support. No - it doesn't. Look for the entry tagged 20040719 in /usr/ports/UPDATING. It will tell you all about it. A good debugging technique here is to make a

BIND 9.3.0 not restarting

2004-11-19 Thread Cezar Fistik
Hello group, I have a problem with BIND 9.3.0. Everything works just fine until i try to restart the service. When sending to it kill -HUP, named daemon just gets killed and not restarted. Does any body have an idea why this happens? Thanks, Cezar

Re: quotas on 5.3

2004-11-19 Thread dave
Hello, I set the check_quota option to no in rc.conf because on boot i did not want the long delay in startup that quota checks cause. Is this my issue? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Virtual IP/DNS test results

2004-11-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Gerard Samuel wrote: If I were to ping a hostname that is using a virtual IP address, or if I ping a virtual IP address from just this one of the machines on the LAN, [ ...you get an ICMP redirect... ] Is this indicative that there is a problem with the setup??? No. What happened was you local

Re: firefox thunderbird upgrade problem

2004-11-19 Thread Gary Aitken
I tried removing the directories, uninstalling, reinstalling, etc. All to no avail. It's clearly looking at somethig else. I also see the same problem Kirk Strauser is seeing with # firefox *** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching exception so finalize

Re: BIND 9.3.0 not restarting

2004-11-19 Thread Gerard Samuel
Cezar Fistik wrote: Hello group, I have a problem with BIND 9.3.0. Everything works just fine until i try to restart the service. When sending to it kill -HUP, named daemon just gets killed and not restarted. Does any body have an idea why this happens? If you're using 5.3 (or at least a version

Re: BIND 9.3.0 not restarting

2004-11-19 Thread Kees Plonsz
Cezar Fistik wrote: Hello group, I have a problem with BIND 9.3.0. Everything works just fine until i try to restart the service. When sending to it kill -HUP, named daemon just gets killed and not restarted. Does any body have an idea why this happens? Thanks, Cezar That same thing

Re: BIND 9.3.0 not restarting

2004-11-19 Thread Panagiotis Christias
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:51:06 +0100, Kees Plonsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cezar Fistik wrote: Hello group, I have a problem with BIND 9.3.0. Everything works just fine until i try to restart the service. When sending to it kill -HUP, named daemon just gets killed and not restarted.

Re: Disk Space

2004-11-19 Thread Darkbackwardz
Preloaded elf kernel kernel at 0xc0557000. Preloaded elf module if_rl.ko at 0xc055709c. rl0: Ethernet address: 00:40:ca:4f:4d:18 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: Lexmark USB Hub, class 9/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 ugen0: Lexmark All-in-One, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 3

Re: Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Moyer
Fortunately, you can still use the ports collection for your offline machine, by using a machine which is connected and doing the make package-recursive or make fetch-recursive commands to grab all of the dependencies as well. Is there any way I can force it to fetch packages when they exist

Re: No output from Kernel Booting Up or /dev/console

2004-11-19 Thread Tabor Kelly
Tabor Kelly wrote: [snip] I have no idea what file it was or how it got changed, but thanks Ash. I figured out what I did. I overwrote the default /boot/device.hints with the 4 lines in my original email (I didn't realize there was a default /boot/device.hints). This was all accomplished with

Re: quotas on 5.3

2004-11-19 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, dave wrote: I set the check_quota option to no in rc.conf because on boot i did not want the long delay in startup that quota checks cause. Is this my issue? I think so. About the long startup delay, as an example, I have a server (Dell 2850) which spends less than 2

Re: quotas on 5.3

2004-11-19 Thread David E. Meier
Hi Dave, you can run the command: # /sbin/quotacheck -avgu This will create your quota.user file. Because you have set check_quotas=NO you can run the quotacheck command via cron task: 0 4 * * * root /sbin/quotacheck -avgu /dev/null HTH, Dave. Hello, Got a question on quotas. I've

Re: Yep - Firefox again.

2004-11-19 Thread Tabor Kelly
Kirk Strauser wrote: I can't get Firefox to start. I'm on a 5.3 system with all ports rebuilt on November 8, so there shouldn't be an obsolete library issues. I've completely removed ~/.mozilla. I initially tested with Firefox built from the port, but have also tried installing the pre-built

FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How?

2004-11-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I just picked up a PM25 for our colo facility, so that I can do remote admin on the FreeBSD boxes ... our two Tyan servers are a piece of cake, as they have DB9 Serial, like I'd expect ... but the Intel motherboards have External RJ45 serial, internal serial header on all of there boards, from

Re: BIND 9.3.0 not restarting

2004-11-19 Thread Kees Plonsz
Panagiotis Christias wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:51:06 +0100, Kees Plonsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cezar Fistik wrote: Hello group, I have a problem with BIND 9.3.0. Everything works just fine until i try to restart the service. When sending to it kill -HUP, named daemon just

Re: MySQL problems on FBSD 5.2.1

2004-11-19 Thread DanGer
Hi steveb99, Friday, November 19, 2004, 6:39:01 PM, you wrote: I installed mod_PHP which installed Apache 2 from ports. All that works fine. I then install MySQL4 port and have it working fine standalone. What I can't get to work is calling MySQL from PHP code. The code hits the call

Portmaster - FreeBSD Serial Console ...

2004-11-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I've been searching, and not finding, settings to use on the port of a portmaster so that it will act as a proper serial console ... I swear I saved it the last time it went around the lists ... can someone please send me the settings? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org

Re: Cross-compiling Linux binaries

2004-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:19:32AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: Anyone ever tried building Linux rpm's on freebsd? If so, any hints for someone thinking of trying it? Start by installing linux_devtools and chroot into /compat/linux Kris pgpznFXRsEWqZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Nothing works right when i try it, buildkernel problems..

2004-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:57:01AM -0600, CHris Rich wrote: I think you accidentally cvsupped 4.x sources. perl is not required by any part of the 5.x world/kernel build. regards, Ruben Yes this is what i did do, what do i put in my supfile to get 5.x sources?

pci bus bootup issues with 5.3

2004-11-19 Thread dave
Hello, Ever since recompiling a custom kernel on 5.3 whenever i reboot the box either from warm or cold boot i am getting the error at the end of this message. The motherboard in this box is an Abyt kd7-e motherboard. The system freezes at pci0 no debug output it just stops. I can get it to

Re: can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

2004-11-19 Thread David Landgren
Bart Silverstrim wrote: [...] I'm too paranoid that I know what *should* work wouldn't or would still end up deleting the original file I wanted, so I'd have to make a backup of the file and do it that way rather than play with escapes and quotes. Cant' you escape the \ with a \? rm named.conf\\

Call for help: -lkse (libkse trouble)

2004-11-19 Thread klr
Hey list, I just got back from a friend's house, after having his workstation at my home compiling KDE for 3 long days and introducing him to open source software.. Everything was working great, except for one small detail: I have cable and a LAN at home, so all I really needed to do was dhclient

ssh slowness

2004-11-19 Thread Brian Henning
Greetings All, I am running FreeBSD 4.10 stable. I connect to the internet via dialup so I have an entries in my /etc/hosts for all my local machines and I have an entry in my /etc/resolv.conf for my isp's dns server. when I am not connected to my isp and I try to ssh to a local machine from a

Re: BIND 9.3.0 not restarting

2004-11-19 Thread Cezar Fistik
Hello group, Thank you all for your suggestions. I don't know why but I didn't have named in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ at all, so I copied it from /usr/src/etc/rc.d/ but it didn't work either. No restarting, just stopping. BTW bind9 user guide on isc site says that SIGHUP should restart the service

Re: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How?

2004-11-19 Thread Samuel Clements
The RJ-45 should be pinned exactly like the cisco RJ-45's. If you can get a console to a cisco router off of one of your PM ports, you should be able to plug it into the serial B be header on the server and be able to talk to it. The second problem of management (watching POST and kernel

Re: ssh slowness

2004-11-19 Thread Alfredo Finelli
-- On Friday 19 November 2004 23:37, you wrote: Greetings All, I am running FreeBSD 4.10 stable. I connect to the internet via dialup so I have an entries in my /etc/hosts for all my local machines and I have an entry in my /etc/resolv.conf for my isp's dns server. when

newsyslog and chrooted bind on 5.3

2004-11-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi all, since i updated my server to 5.3 and went with the default option of chrooting bind, anytime named recives a HUP signal it dies. Is this expected ? its a bit of a bugger as i will have to use cron and a short shell script instead of an entry in newsyslog.conf. Vince

reading a dos cdrom with .pdf files.

2004-11-19 Thread Gary Kline
People, I have several CDROMS all of which seem to be DOS type. At first I tried the disc in my CD player. Nope; then in one of my 5.3 machines using mount_msdosfs. (probably with the wrong flags, I admit.) As a last resort I put the disc in my

Gnome Ethernet Very Slow

2004-11-19 Thread Danny Browne
Basically my internet connection is very very slow whe using gnome browsers (or any app). but its a DSL line, and its as fast as it should be when downlaoding something from teminal??? Free BSD 4.10 i386 Gnome 2.8 Realtek ethernet card ?? Any ideas?

xorg vs vfree86

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Neustrup
I am running a 5.3 stable box and XFree86. I am installing the openoffice 1.1.3. But it wants some xorg fonts, etc. I have not yet seen any reason to convert to the x.org stuff. Since the openoffice requires some, maybe this is the time. I am afraid that when I move to the x.org server, fonts,

cpu choice

2004-11-19 Thread Dude Dude
Hey, i've a Athlon XP 1.8 and i want to rebuild my system. I was thinking in a AMD athlon barton 3.1 and a good socket A mobo like Asus A7N8X E-Deluxe, howvere barton is not anymore avaiable at the market, so what you think i shuld do ? Buy a socket 939 board and a Athlon64 3.2 or Buy a socket A

video guru needed - installing driver for ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP

2004-11-19 Thread Osvaldito
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Re: reading a dos cdrom with .pdf files.

2004-11-19 Thread Ash
Gary Kline wrote: People, I have several CDROMS all of which seem to be DOS type. Data CDs are generally IS0-9660 with various extensions. At first I tried the disc in my CD player. Nope; then in one of my 5.3 machines using mount_msdosfs. (probably with the wrong flags, I admit.)

Re: postfix launch at system startup - followup

2004-11-19 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey all. Just following up on the postfix issue. The startup problem is gone. Works like a charm. I've come across a new problem though. Daily security run mailings aren't getting sent all of a sudden. They were fine before the startup problems started, but after the buildworld/installworld

Re: Gnome Ethernet Very Slow

2004-11-19 Thread Tim
Danny Browne wrote: Basically my internet connection is very very slow whe using gnome browsers (or any app). but its a DSL line, and its as fast as it should be when downlaoding something from teminal??? Free BSD 4.10 i386 Gnome 2.8 Realtek ethernet card ?? Any ideas?

Re: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How?

2004-11-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Samuel Clements wrote: The RJ-45 should be pinned exactly like the cisco RJ-45's. If you can get a console to a cisco router off of one of your PM ports, you should be able to plug it into the serial B be header on the server and be able to talk to it. The second problem of

Re: ssh slowness

2004-11-19 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 10:06 am, Alfredo Finelli wrote: -- On Friday 19 November 2004 23:37, you wrote: Greetings All, I am running FreeBSD 4.10 stable. I connect to the internet via dialup so I have an entries in my /etc/hosts for all my local machines and I have an

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