Sendmail 8.13.1 oddities

2005-02-16 Thread Chris Boyd
Here's one for the sendmail gurus: I have a FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0 box with sendmail 8.13.1 built from source. I've hacked on the host.mc file a bit, adding delay_checks, a few DNSBLs, and a config for authenticated relaying. I also have a largish access database, a few domains in

named error in /var/log/messages

2005-02-16 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 88, Issue 54 Message: 4 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:21:32 -0500 From: Benjamin Dover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: named error in /var/log/messages I am running fBSD 5.3 Release. I get this message repeated in /var/log/messages Feb 15 17:27:09 w00f

Re: How do I set the source address on a multi-homed host?

2005-02-16 Thread Jan Grant
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Daniela wrote: Well, if the OS selects the source IP, can't I just modify the code that selects it? Will this work all the time, or just when the application lets the OS select an address for it? It should just work - that is, the source address for internal packes

Re: Cialis etc.

2005-02-16 Thread Nicholas Wieland
- Richard Meyer : I've been inundated by hundreds of Cialis, Taladafil, etc spam e-mails. More than one hundred requests to unsubscribe (I never subscribed to begin with) have gone un-implemented. What can I do ? Install mail/py-spambayes. -- checking for life_signs in -lKenny... no

Resize a ufs partition

2005-02-16 Thread Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
Hi there, Is there any tool for resizing a UFS partition or slice? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Operation: ipfw on a gateway box

2005-02-16 Thread Hiram Abiff
Quoting Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hiram Abiff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I followed your advice and rewrote my firewall rules. Although, even now, there are some major difficulties. Please remember that you sent this message to a mailing list with a very large number of people.

mountmsdosfs(): bad FAT32 filesystem

2005-02-16 Thread Freek Nossin
Hello, I have a computer with 2 disks. On one of them freebsd is installed. The other one is a FAT32 drive. I would like to mount the FAT32 drive, but my dmesg log reports errors (see below). The drive still contains some data I'd like to retrieve (after that is done a format of the drive would

scripting crontab entries

2005-02-16 Thread Peter Risdon
I want to be able to update a user's crontab from a script. tabs in /var/cron/tabs carry a warning that the file should not be edited directly, so presumably something like #echo 5 * * * * /some/script.sh /var/cron/tabs/$USER is the wrong approach. Is the right approach: #cat ~/.mycrontab 5

Which list for ULE issues?

2005-02-16 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've been playing with ULE on 5.3-STABLE and have come up with some repeatable issues. To which list should I post these? -STABLE, -CURRENT, -QUESTIONS? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Sendmail masquerading configuration

2005-02-16 Thread Ian Moore
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:14, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ian Moore wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:21, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I would probably install src/usr.sbin/ and recompile cron to use the -f flag. The flags are settible in cron/config.h in the source, FreeBSD uses #define MAILARGS %s

Re: Which list for ULE issues?

2005-02-16 Thread Simon Barner
Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've been playing with ULE on 5.3-STABLE and have come up with some repeatable issues. To which list should I post these? -STABLE, -CURRENT, -QUESTIONS? Since it's on -stable, I'd suggest freebsd-stable@, like last time :-) Simon pgphMIxxw9MVR.pgp Description:

Re: What just happened with portversion?!

2005-02-16 Thread Vincent Bachelier
Perhaps you have update ruby after portupgrade ? uninstall portupgrade with pkg_delete et rebuild it. See if it's work --- Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Can someone explain to me what just happened?! This system ran fine and hasn't been updated in a while, and I tried to do a cvsup

Re: ping question

2005-02-16 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:56:49AM -0800, ann kok wrote: Hi Loren Thank you for your mail again For the monitor sofeware iptraf , I can't get it in the port. Why freebsd doesn't support it! I tried to install in freebsd from the tarball and got an error messages! Well, the program seems

Re: Ports

2005-02-16 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:54:05PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, February 14, 2005 11:53:04 AM -0500 Christopher McGee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please give some detail about setting options for individual ports in make.conf? Maybe I missed something in 'man make.conf'

Re: SpamAssassin help...

2005-02-16 Thread Vincent Bachelier
You can't run spamassassin as root (see your configuration). Well, it fall back to nobody user, because you don't specify anything. The problem is that the working directory is in root dir (/root) Well, spamassassin running in nobody try to write in root directory ! It's forbidden Edit you conf

Re: Resuming compilation sesssion

2005-02-16 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 12:12:12PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Vittorio wrote: With a FBSD 5.3 box I use to compile my favourite programs from scratch with: cd /usr/ports/prog_I_want make make install clean But sometimes I have to interrupt the compilation because the PC is shared with

Re: SCSI device numbers

2005-02-16 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 10:52:54PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: I have at present two emulated SCSI devices on my system; a USB flash drive, and a DVD-writer. They get assigned: 0,0,0 0) 'SanDisk ' 'Cruzer Micro' '2033' Removable Disk 2,0,0 200) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-4160B'

mlock: not setgid mail

2005-02-16 Thread Vonleigh Simmons
I asked this question before but I haven't found a solution. I'm getting in my mail log the following entry repeated: usr/local/libexec/mlock[755]: (64) not setgid mail And I can't figure out what it's complaining about. Below is the previous thread questions which ruled out some things.

Mounting discimages in FBSD 4.X

2005-02-16 Thread Bernt Hansson
Is that possible? How if it's possible? Read the handbook, but nothing conclusive. -- Freon? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Configuring PF

2005-02-16 Thread Volker Kindermann
Hi Pat, Is there any place I can find a good default ruleset for a server, and just change what ports I want open? pf originates at openbsd. There you'll find lots of documentation, the pf-faq, and the (as always in the BSD world) excellent manpages. In addition there's the pf-repository at:

UDMA ICRC error

2005-02-16 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello FreeBSD friends. I have read that others had this problem before. I just write this report for you to know. I received yesterday two old computers retired from a school and finally I was able to build a decent machine mixing the best parts of each one. The machine is an AMD K6 400 MHz

ipf, ipnat and Bittorrent

2005-02-16 Thread Paul
I am trying to forward bittorrent ports on FreeBSD 5.3 with ipf and ipnat. But the bittorrent indicator stays yellow which means it isn't set up correctly. Also, I don't get as many connections to peers as I should and download speeds are very poor. My ipnat.rules and ipf.rules files are shown

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: It's not part of the OS! Fine. Will MS let me buy just the kernel? No, but you don't have to buy or install most of the drivers. If you run with only required default drivers, the system will be stable. Let's pretend

Re: ipf, ipnat and Bittorrent

2005-02-16 Thread Warren
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:04 pm, Paul wrote: I am trying to forward bittorrent ports on FreeBSD 5.3 with ipf and ipnat. But the bittorrent indicator stays yellow which means it isn't set up correctly. Also, I don't get as many connections to peers as I should and download speeds are very poor.

RE: mountmsdosfs(): bad FAT32 filesystem

2005-02-16 Thread Freek Nossin
My fstab files looks as follows: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/acd0 /cdrom

Re: Firefox and java

2005-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:00:51PM -0500, Benjamin Dover wrote: ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ Hope this helps. BINGO! Geez! That's great - but how the HECK did you know this was

Re: Firefox and java

2005-02-16 Thread John
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:37:11AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:00:51PM -0500, Benjamin Dover wrote: ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ Hope this helps.

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: They were an outside team that worked on VMS. They started NT before Windows became a marketing drone's dream. The Windows subsystem became the default subsystem after Windows 3.x took off. Originally it wasn't

Re: Resize a ufs partition

2005-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any tool for resizing a UFS partition or slice? growfs(8) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: scripting crontab entries

2005-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to be able to update a user's crontab from a script. tabs in /var/cron/tabs carry a warning that the file should not be edited directly, so presumably something like #echo 5 * * * * /some/script.sh /var/cron/tabs/$USER is the wrong

RE: Setting upFreeBSD with D-Link Wireless Router

2005-02-16 Thread Timothy Radigan
If you have a wireless-AP you can hook that directly into a standard PCI nic on the BSD machine. I have a similar setup where I'm at. I'm letting the BSD do dhcp/firewall/nat/router/dns for each of my LANs. The AP is doing WEP but for added security I have an encrypted VPN for the wireless LAN

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2005-02-16 Thread Leandro
Hello, I wish to know if freeBSD supports the usb ethernet adapter unex hu001 Tnx Best regards, Leandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-02-16 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 14/02/2005

Re: Firefox and java

2005-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:37:11AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The firefox port wilil make that link for you, automatically, if the JDK is installed when you're building firefox. Yes, I've heard that. Sorry - my original question was how to do it if you

Re: Configure X Server

2005-02-16 Thread Zlatozar Zhelyazkov
I will suggest different way just type: xorgcfg -textmode In this way you will avoid editors ;) Best, Zlatozar On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:49:07 -0600, W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:23 2/15/2005, Peterhin wrote: OK thats great, now that I am there, my problem is with say 'ee' how do I

Re: Firefox and java

2005-02-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:09:48PM -0600, John wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:00:51PM -0500, Benjamin Dover wrote: ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ Hope this helps. BINGO! Geez! That's great - but how the HECK

where to change config for pkg_add

2005-02-16 Thread David Board (dacoto.com)
I want to change the ftp location that pkg_add goes to when I want to add a new pkg. I am running 5.3 Release and currently pkg_add looks in Latest for the pkg. I would like to be able to pick pkgs from the entire list instead of just Latest section because some apps I want are not available.

Re: Firefox and java

2005-02-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:42:27PM -0500, RL wrote: This now works and all, but java on FreeBSD is far from perfect. One of my favorite sites, www.espn.com, freezes when loaded in firefox with java enabled (try it out for yourself). I had this same issue a while back when I installed java on

Re: UDMA ICRC error

2005-02-16 Thread Rob
Ramiro Aceves wrote: I have read that others had this problem before. I just write this report for you to know. When I installed FreeBSD 5.3 R, I get some errors like this, but I could end the install: ad0: WARNING -READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=5313599 ad0:

Re: Apache modules

2005-02-16 Thread Ean Kingston
I have installed apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22, and, when trying to add php4-4.3.10_2 and mod_perl modules, I observed that they depend on apache-1.3.33_1. But I didn`t find a ssl module for apache-1.3.33_1. What does it mean, that I can`t run a apache server with perl, php and ssl modules

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Ean Kingston
I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using the native card. Is this true? Doubtful, though I have heard that there are

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Peter C. Lai
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:58:17AM -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using the native

Re: UDMA ICRC error

2005-02-16 Thread Peter Risdon
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 06:31 -0800, Rob wrote: Ramiro Aceves wrote: I have read that others had this problem before. I just write this report for you to know. When I installed FreeBSD 5.3 R, I get some errors like this, but I could end the install: ad0: WARNING -READ_DMA UDMA

Physical ethernet interface and TAP in same bridge group

2005-02-16 Thread Sergey Evteeff
Hello. First, I have a question about correct TAP interface bringing up. How I must do it? Some people recommend do it like this: dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/tap0 bs=1500 count=1 dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/tap1 bs=1500 count=1 dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/tap2 bs=1500 count=1 All ok, but I think it's not

Trouble with sshd in jail

2005-02-16 Thread musikcom
I have some trouble with sshd in jail. This is description of the problem: I have host system based on FreeBSD 5.1 Release with IP 161.66.11.1 Futher I do these steps for creating jail on host system: cd /usr/src mkdir -p /jail make world DESTDIR=/jail cd etc make distribution DESTDIR=/jail

Error I received this morning...

2005-02-16 Thread Mike Alich
Can anyone tell me what this means? I have been running my server for several months and no problems. I just go this error.What do I need to fix it? -- Feb 15 09:14:50 s1 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device:

Re: proxy client for FreeBSD

2005-02-16 Thread messmate
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:22:54 -0800 Thomas Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: export HTTP_PROXY=proxy.whatever.name:port number export FTP_PROXY=proxy.whatever.name:port number Not necessarely... IMHO, You'd better configure your ftp/http clients of your workstation. For excluding localhost and your

Re: Hula Server -- Mail/Cal Server

2005-02-16 Thread Phil Brennan
Hi Nick We are currently trying to install it at a freebsd site. We have gotten to the stage where it expects atomic.h from linux, so it doesn't look like it will work without patching. On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:43:11 -0700, Nick Pavlica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I just noticed that Hulu

umask

2005-02-16 Thread koen de wijs
Hello, I have a question aboout the umask under FreeBSD. I couldn't find what it exactly is. It is something for setting files how you set the 'xrwxrwxrw' I found a file where you could chance it but don't knwo anymore what it was. I want to use this for my ftp-server with FreeBSD. I have a

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Ean Kingston
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:58:17AM -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using the

Re: Hula Server -- Mail/Cal Server

2005-02-16 Thread Nick Pavlica
I haven't done this yet, but do the Linux compatibility libraries provide support for this? On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:46:23 +, Phil Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nick We are currently trying to install it at a freebsd site. We have gotten to the stage where it expects atomic.h from

Re: umask

2005-02-16 Thread albi
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:50:56 +0100 koen de wijs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question aboout the umask under FreeBSD. I couldn't find what it exactly is. It is something for setting files how you set the 'xrwxrwxrw' I found a file where you could chance it but don't knwo anymore what it

Re: ipfilter flags s keep state question

2005-02-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 16 Feb Murray Taylor wrote: tcp rules can use 'keep frags' TCP packets allow fragmentation by intermediate routers that need re-assembly at the final destination On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 08:36, dick hoogendijk wrote: I read a lot of rulesets for ipfilter just to study how others do the

Re: netstat -rn error

2005-02-16 Thread Chris Hodgins
Robert Stevenson wrote: Help. I get an error when I execute netstat -rn command. I'm using FreeBSD 5.3 release. command: #netstat -rn error: netstat: kvm not available Routing tables rt_tables: symbol not in namelist # How do I fix this? Thanks, Robert Stevenson

Re: Trouble with sshd in jail

2005-02-16 Thread ANISH MISTRY
Do you have your resolv.conf and hosts file setup correctly in the jail? I had the same problem yesterday when I moved my jailed system to a new network. -- Anish Mistry - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:35 am Subject: Trouble with sshd

installing java on a box?

2005-02-16 Thread Ken Hawkins
I have seen a few things on how to do this however I can't find the java file:j2sdk-1_3_1_14-linux-i586.bin on any of sun's servers. in lieu of what I have been doing how can i install java on a FreeBSD box? thanks, ken; ___

moving files from bad sectors

2005-02-16 Thread David Bear
I have a hard disk that looks like its going out. So far, there are 6 reported crc errors. However, I have a file that I would like to read as much as possible of using tar, but the whole job stops like this: # tar cvf /dev/nrsa0 /home /root/tarhome.cat tar: Removing leading `/' from member

Re: Hula Server -- Mail/Cal Server

2005-02-16 Thread Nick Pavlica
That's good news! Please keep me posted on how this is coming together. I will probably try to install it in a couple of days. --Thanks Nick On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:11:54 +, Phil Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just heard that they will be committing a fix for the atomic.h

Re: moving files from bad sectors

2005-02-16 Thread Ean Kingston
I have a hard disk that looks like its going out. So far, there are 6 reported crc errors. However, I have a file that I would like to read as much as possible of using tar, but the whole job stops like this: # tar cvf /dev/nrsa0 /home /root/tarhome.cat tar: Removing leading `/' from

Makefile and directory layout

2005-02-16 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Hi all, I'm about to port several libraries to *nix because a new customer needs it to run on an open source OS. I need some ideas for how to set this up. It's going to be a binary-only distribution, AFAIK, but I don't know if that should affect the directory layout. What I have are a lot of

Re: installing java on a box?

2005-02-16 Thread cyb
Hi Ken, I'm not sure if you really want to use this old Java version, if not, then going to these sites and updating your ports will help you a lot. http://www.freebsd.org/java/ http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/index.html Regards, Andreas On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:20 -0500, Ken

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-16 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Bart Silverstrim writes: Um, no. OS/2 had the Presentation Manager layer on it for the GUI. Presentation Manager was an afterthought, once they realized how far they had gone astray. True to a point. Just because you have a GUI as the primary interface it doesn't mean that the OS *must*

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Festival and vchans

2005-02-16 Thread Chad Albert
I recently set hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 on a FreeBSD 5.3 box and now when I try to get festival to speak I just get silence. I can play sound files with sox and if I copy a file to /dev/dsp I get noise as I would expect. Festival worked before I turned on virtual channels but now I get nothing. I

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

2005-02-16 Thread Sajith K
i did create the slices using default option (A) and partions using default option (A). now i see the following problem: mounting error /mnt/dev/ad0s1f on /mnt/usr : Input/output error i think it is the problem with the disk geometry i don't know what. i have a 80GB disk, and i tried changing

Re: Error in port upgrade (was Re: portmanager hosed)

2005-02-16 Thread Brian John
- Original Message - Ignore my last message! change assert(0); to break; not continue; # On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:52 pm, Brian John wrote: Brian, I can't send this to you as a patch because it would conflict

Managing bad sectors during install

2005-02-16 Thread Pásztor Richárd
I have 2 small problems about installing FreeBSD. 1) My HDD is a 8,4 Gb quantum, which has 1 bad sector laying on it somewhere. I created ntfs partition on it, and format detected that sector, and marked as bad so there was no problem of data loss because writing to that sector. Now, if i fdisk

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-16 Thread aj34381244
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:45:52AM -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Read ShowStopper!. It's an excellent history of the background of NT (and Cutler). You can also read the Why I Hate Microsoft rant posted at http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html . I find it an

Re: Setting upFreeBSD with D-Link Wireless Router

2005-02-16 Thread Dustin Wilhoit
Yes it's very possible. :-) You may want to check out FreeRadius (http://www.freeradius.org/). It is a free radius server which is what I think you are looking for. I will state that you need to take some time to read up on this a little bit as it can be irritating to set up a radius server

Re: Error in port upgrade (was Re: portmanager hosed)

2005-02-16 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:50 am, Brian John wrote: - Original Message - Ignore my last message! change assert(0); to break; not continue; # On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:52 pm, Brian John wrote: Brian,

Re: Error in port upgrade (was Re: portmanager hosed)

2005-02-16 Thread Brian John
- Original Message - On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:50 am, Brian John wrote: - Original Message - Ignore my last message! change assert(0); to break; not continue; # On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:52

can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-16 Thread aklist_061666
Hi All: I was editing my rc.conf file and left off a quote mark, and now when I try to reboot I get an error and am prompted to drop into shell to fix it. The default prompt is /bin/sh, and if I hit return I get a prompt. How can I edit the file while I'm in that prompt? VI doesn't work...is

Running news.expire - permission denied...

2005-02-16 Thread Kiffin Gish
In my daily run output email, I get the following error message: Running news.expire: /etc/periodic/daily/330.news: /etc/news.expire: Permission denied Any ideas what is happening here and how I can correct this? -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands

Re: mlock: not setgid mail

2005-02-16 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:04:55AM -0800, Vonleigh Simmons wrote: I asked this question before but I haven't found a solution. I'm getting in my mail log the following entry repeated: usr/local/libexec/mlock[755]: (64) not setgid mail And I can't figure out what it's

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-16 Thread Kyle Mott
mount -a vi /etc/rc.conf Running fsck is your prerogative. -Kyle Mott aklist_061666 wrote: Hi All: I was editing my rc.conf file and left off a quote mark, and now when I try to reboot I get an error and am prompted to drop into shell to fix it. The default prompt is /bin/sh, and if I hit

Cvsup Source

2005-02-16 Thread Cody Holland
I've been using cvsup to upgrade the ports on my Freebsd box, and it works great. My question is how often should you cvsup the src and do a buildworld? Thanks Cody ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

no crash dump generated

2005-02-16 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hi. A couple of days ago I upgrades the system and a few ports on a 5.3 box and since then I'm often getting crashes. -bash-2.05b# uname -a FreeBSD jupiter.noonlights.net 5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Sun Feb 13 22:56:47 CET 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JUPITER i386

Re: Cvsup Source

2005-02-16 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:50:28PM -0600, Cody Holland wrote: I've been using cvsup to upgrade the ports on my Freebsd box, and it works great. My question is how often should you cvsup the src and do a buildworld? Subscribe to FreeBSD-security-notifications, and you will receive mail when a

kern.ipc.nmbclusters in version 4.11

2005-02-16 Thread ann kok
Hi all I installed freebsd 4.11 in amd64 machine. but I can't set kern.ipc.nmbclusters in loader.conf It reboots automatically! pls help Thank you __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search.

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-16 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 16, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Bart Silverstrim writes: Um, no. OS/2 had the Presentation Manager layer on it for the GUI. Presentation Manager was an afterthought, once they realized how far they had gone astray. anthony: But IBM wanted a CLI, like DOS or OS/2, whereas

IPF, VOIP, packet priority?

2005-02-16 Thread Matt Staroscik
I use a 4.10 FreeBSD box as a NAT device, IPF firewall and DHCP server. I recently got VOIP service from my ISP (Speakeasy). The VOIP box they sent me goes in between the NAT box and the DSL modem, and it is supposed to prioritize VOIP traffic so calls are clear. But, if I am doing a download

multi-version jumpstart

2005-02-16 Thread Jamie Novak
I currently have a jumpstart server setup in such a way that we can specify on a configure command-line various install options (which 4.x-RELEASE we want to use, server config type, etc.). This part is working great and has saved us a ton of time. Now that 5.x is moving into the realm of being

Re: Cvsup Source

2005-02-16 Thread Robert Huff
Daniel Bye writes: I've been using cvsup to upgrade the ports on my Freebsd box, and it works great. My question is how often should you cvsup the src and do a buildworld? Subscribe to FreeBSD-security-notifications, and you will receive mail when a fix is applied. Other than

Re: ipf, ipnat and Bittorrent

2005-02-16 Thread Fabian Anklam
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:04:28 -, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to forward bittorrent ports on FreeBSD 5.3 with ipf and ipnat. But the bittorrent indicator stays yellow which means it isn't set up correctly. Also, I don't get as many connections to peers as I should and download

Add Printer wizard grayed out?

2005-02-16 Thread Jason Zimberoff
Howdy all. I just installed Free BSD 5.3 RELEASE on a PC based machine. It is connected to the LAN here at work. (Internet connectivity seems to be fine) After installing KDE (this is the first time for me) I decided to try to install a printer. (KDE version 3.3) All the docs say that I

Re: login error:cannot not find root directory

2005-02-16 Thread perikillo
Yes, i check, the /root /.* but they looks correct, i check the propierties and attr of that directory and files, but they look correct. I dont know what more to check :-? Another error i found is went i try to see a manpage the system send this error: mistake# man ls

Re: how to configure a port for install

2005-02-16 Thread Bob Ababurko
Peter Risdon wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 11:48 +, Peter Risdon wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:48 -0500, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello- I am trying to figure out how to configure the portswhat I am trying to do is add mhash to my system that a new script needs and I have to add the

Recomendations for Video Capture Cards

2005-02-16 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
Hi all, I've recently had a PC become available, and I would like to set it up as a kind of video recorder. I would like to purchase a card of some sort that would allow me to connect the PC to my TV, and record television programmes on the hard-drive. The reverse also - playing back the

Re: multi-version jumpstart

2005-02-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jamie Novak wrote: I'm able to get the jumpstart server to export the 5.3-RELEASE partition and pass the GENERIC kernel and install.cfg over to the network-booting machine, but when it comes time to actually NFS mount the install partition on the target server to run the install, it returns an NFS

Re: Error I received this morning...

2005-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:41:14AM -0500, Mike Alich wrote: Can anyone tell me what this means? I have been running my server for several months and no problems. I just go this error.What do I need to fix it? -- Feb 15

sockstat -4 not showing all open ports for apache2

2005-02-16 Thread Grant Cooper
I just installed apache 2 and was trying to see if port 80 was open by doing a sockstat -4 but I couldn't see the port so I thought it didn't install right. So I did a sockstat -6 and noticed port 80 is showing up for IPv6 sockets. Is this a default feature for Apache 2 on freebsd.

FSCK on Reboot

2005-02-16 Thread Matt LaPlante
Right now I've got a server running FreeBSD 4.11. My question is, is there a way to automatically run fsck on a system reboot, without having to go through the process of sitting at the computer, changing the run level, etc, etc. Clearly it's beneficial in a work environment to be able to wait

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Peter C. Lai wrote: I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using the native card. Is this true? Should I not bother with

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-16 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:42, aklist_061666 wrote: Hi All: I was editing my rc.conf file and left off a quote mark, and now when I try to reboot I get an error and am prompted to drop into shell to fix it. The default prompt is /bin/sh, and if I hit return I get a prompt. How can I edit

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a This seems to have difficulty wrapping quotes. On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 10:52:24 -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:58:17AM -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: I have a box

Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

2005-02-16 Thread Andy Firman
I have a 5.3-stable system that I am trying to update. This is my stable-supfile: *default host=cvsup14.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all ports-all tag=. doc-all tag=. These are the 7 commands I do

Re: FSCK on Reboot

2005-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:40:42PM -0500, Matt LaPlante wrote: Right now I've got a server running FreeBSD 4.11. My question is, is there a way to automatically run fsck on a system reboot, without having to go through the process of sitting at the computer, changing the run level, etc, etc.

Re: installing java on a box?

2005-02-16 Thread Pat Maddox
Hi Ken, The best thing I saw on installing Java is below. It worked flawlessly. http://www.brettsbsd.net/~estrabd/blog/index.php?/archives/21_Java_1.4_on_FreeBSD_4.10_in_8_steps.html Pat On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:20:04 -0500, Ken Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen a few things on how

Updating Ports

2005-02-16 Thread Cody Holland
After running cvsup, I then ran portdb -Uu and received the following error. Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..gnustep-slideshow-0.3: /usr/ports/graphics/slideshowkit non-existent -- dependency list incomplete === graphics/gnustep-slideshow failed *** Error code 1 1

Re: Updating Ports

2005-02-16 Thread Marijn van Vliet
try: pkgdb -F -- Marijn van Vliet, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lassie.student.utwente.nl/rodin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UDMA ICRC error

2005-02-16 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Rob wrote: Ramiro Aceves wrote: I have read that others had this problem before. I just write this report for you to know. When I installed FreeBSD 5.3 R, I get some errors like this, but I could end the install: ad0: WARNING -READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=5313599 ad0:

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