pkg_info output?

2005-05-01 Thread David Armour
hello, I just used the following log-on tip to produce the list of duplicate pkg/ports installations below. pkg_info | sort | sed -e 's/-[0-9].*$//' | uniq -c | grep -v '^[[:space:]]*1' 3 autoconf 3 automake 6 docbook 2 gcc 2 glib 2 gtk 2 libtool 2 perl 2

The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-04-10 - 2005-04-30

2005-05-01 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Free BSD Heartbeat + Samba + Rsync

2005-05-01 Thread Robert Slade
Hi, I'm new to the world of HA and Unix having just moved from a windows based system. What I am trying to do is provide a network of XP, W2k and FreeBSD (5.3) machines a central File store. This store also needs to provide for backing up of off site machines. My problem is that I am not up

Re: My BIND is tWisted!!!

2005-05-01 Thread Fafa Diliha Romanova
I haven't done anything out of the ordinary. /etc/rc.d/named reload (or stop or start) doesn't say anything weird. Thanks, -- Fafa - Original Message - From: Ed Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fafa Diliha Romanova [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: My BIND is tWisted!!! Date: Sat, 30 Apr

question about mksnap_ffs and NFS interaction

2005-05-01 Thread Alan Horn
Folks, I have some NFS exported filesystems (home directories) that I'm placing under snapshots. Timing of making a snapshot on a 140GB filesystems running about 90% full takes about 17 seconds. Given that these filesystems are fairly heavily used homedir filesystems, what is the expected

Re: NETWORK DESTROYED!!! hieeelp

2005-05-01 Thread awad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey! No, I haven't done a build/installworld. Nor upgraded any ports. /usr/src and /usr/ports/UPDATING are in the clear. I've realized now too, that I cannot ping my server's IP from an outside computer. (Yeah I do manage to SSH to ONE server)

Re: NETWORK DESTROYED!!! hieeelp

2005-05-01 Thread awad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 this is really strange maybe its a bug in the driver code (for lnc0) or firewall code (though pf is disabled now) that just tickled by something? outside my server, i can traceroute to ip but there is a timeout between 195.190.249.8 and me. both my

Re: question about mksnap_ffs and NFS interaction

2005-05-01 Thread antenneX
- Original Message - From: Alan Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 5:44 AM Subject: question about mksnap_ffs and NFS interaction Folks, I have some NFS exported filesystems (home directories) that I'm placing under snapshots.

New and strang log messages.

2005-05-01 Thread Laurence Sanford
I saw this in my daily emails this morning. What does it mean? I find this strange as I have not connected any new accessories to my computer in over a year, and this is the first time I've ever seen this.: cam_periph_mapmem: attempt to map 87192 bytes, which is greater than DFLTPHYS(65536)

AC'97 Support?

2005-05-01 Thread Mihail Stoyanov
Hello! I recently installed the FreeBSD 5.3-BETA4-STABLE version of the FreeBSD operating system. I have a MSI mainboard with AC'97 built-in sound card. I compiled my kernel with device sound but it doesn't seem to get the job done. Is there a way to activate my sound card with this version

To compile or not to compile the system

2005-05-01 Thread Vittorio
Using cvsup, after having issued make update, it takes a long time to recompile the OS sources and kernel by means of make buildworld make kernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL and then.. mergemaster -p make installworld etc... If I frequently update the OS and ports this procedure becomes time-consuming

Re: AC'97 Support?

2005-05-01 Thread Rob
Mihail Stoyanov wrote: I recently installed the FreeBSD 5.3-BETA4-STABLE version of the FreeBSD operating system. I have a MSI mainboard with AC'97 built-in sound card. I'm not an expert here, but I have solved this problem for other soundscards, by loading the additional sound modules

Re: question about mksnap_ffs and NFS interaction

2005-05-01 Thread ianchov
Glad to see a question on this subject and my reply is just more questions rather than an answer. I've just moved to 5.4RC3 read most of the docs and this snap issue is new to me too. Howe are you scheduling? I noticed I never got a snapshot until I ran the command to do snaps on each

Re: To compile or not to compile the system

2005-05-01 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Sun, 1 May 2005 15:19:24 +, Vittorio wrote Using cvsup, after having issued make update, it takes a long time to recompile the OS sources and kernel by means of make buildworld make kernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL and then.. mergemaster -p make installworld etc... If I frequently

Re: AC'97 Support?

2005-05-01 Thread Björn König
Mihail Stoyanov wrote: I have a MSI mainboard with AC'97 built-in sound card. I compiled my kernel with device sound but it doesn't seem to get the job done. Is there a way to activate my sound card with this version of FreeBSD and how? Tell the output of 'pciconf -lv | grep -B4 audio'

keyboard problem X won't start

2005-05-01 Thread andy
I just upgraded from 5.3 to 5.4 RC3 via sysinstall from a cd.The upgrade was successful however, when I try startx I get the following error: (EE) Failed to load module speedo (module does not exit,0) (EE) Failed to load module Keyboard (module does not exit,0) (EE) No input driver matching

Re: Looking for a KATE replacement

2005-05-01 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Frank Staals [freebsd] [30-04-05 10:35 +0200]: | Hey everyone, | | When I started using FreeBSD for desktop usage ( about a year ago ) I | used KDE as desktop manager, but now I am using XFCE4.2.1 for that | purpose. But when writing html pages, scripts, programs etc I still use | KATE (

A rather unusual install situation

2005-05-01 Thread Wesley Groleau
I have looked at the install doc, and I don't think this is covered. I have an older Intel box that is unable to boot the 5.x CDs, and is unable to create CDs from images anyway. I am also unable to create floppies, nor do I have enough space to build from source. I do have 4.9 installed and

Re: A rather unusual install situation

2005-05-01 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 17:29, Wesley Groleau wrote: I have looked at the install doc, and I don't think this is covered. I have an older Intel box that is unable to boot the 5.x CDs, and is unable to create CDs from images anyway. I am also unable to create floppies, nor do I have enough

burncd in FBSD 5.4-STABLE does not fixate

2005-05-01 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. Before doing again a send-pr, I would like to spread out that burncd still has problems fixating CD-RW/CD-R. Burning CD-R and/or CD-RW with command line #hello: burncd -v -f /dev/acd1 data foo.iso fixate leaves the CD-R or CD-RW unfixated and I need to fixate the CD-R or CD-RW with

Xorg glitches

2005-05-01 Thread Subhro
Hello Folks, I have just install 5.4-RC3 and cvsuped to 5.4-STABLE. I have also installed the Xorg 6.8.2 port from /usr/ports/x11/xorg after the port tree has been cvsupped. But when I try Xorg -configure, as indicated in the handbok, I get an error: Failed to load module pcidata As a result

5.1 Support

2005-05-01 Thread Subhro
Hello Folks, Is there any way to generate 5.1 output with Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 sound card when a 5.1 souce file like AC3 is played? The driver which is included with the 5.4 is just stereo :-( Regards S. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: My BIND is tWisted!!!

2005-05-01 Thread Ed Stover
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 05:32 -0500, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: I haven't done anything out of the ordinary. /etc/rc.d/named reload (or stop or start) doesn't say anything weird. Thanks, -- Fafa - Original Message - From: Ed Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fafa Diliha Romanova

Re: 5.1 Support

2005-05-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
Subhro wrote: Is there any way to generate 5.1 output with Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 sound card when a 5.1 souce file like AC3 is played? The driver which is included with the 5.4 is just stereo :-( Give the drivers at http://www.opensound.com a shot. -- -Chuck

X11 Forwarding Apps already running

2005-05-01 Thread Ryan Winograd
Is it possible to forward an already running X application? And then send it back to its original location so that I can close the remote workstation and leave the app running? I've been trying google for an answer, and some man pages, but can't find an answer. Thanks for help, Ryan

Domain Name in postfix on a Local Network

2005-05-01 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I've been struggling through setting up a mail server on my home network, with the goal to be running an imap server. As I've indicated on some other related postings I've made, networking is probably my weakest side and I need a little help. I have no real internet name for the box, which I

Tun/tap question

2005-05-01 Thread Maarten Sanders
Hi list, I am currently trying to get tun or tap working (with vde and qemu) but for some reason things don't work as I expect them: ten# vde_switch -tap tap0 -daemon ; ifconfig tap0 192.168.1.254 ; chmod 777 /tmp/vde.ctl ifconfig: interface tap0 does not exist Could it be I am missing a kernel

Re: X11 Forwarding Apps already running

2005-05-01 Thread Anish Mistry
On Sunday 01 May 2005 02:15 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote: Is it possible to forward an already running X application? And then send it back to its original location so that I can close the remote workstation and leave the app running? I've been trying google for an answer, and some man pages, but

OpenGL packages

2005-05-01 Thread Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
Hi. I want to do OpenGL programming under my FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 system, but i am not able to find what packages i must have installed. Any kind of help, please?. Sorry for the simple question, but really i can't find the name of the packages for the OpenGL programming. Thanks you, very

DHCP using ifconfig doesn't work ...

2005-05-01 Thread Kiffin Gish
I want to use DHCP for my wireless connection by placing the following lines in my /etc/rc.conf file: ifconfig_wi0=DHCP ifconfig_wi0=ssid GISH mode auto wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 I have also tried running sysinstall again and reconfiguring my wireless connection by answering 'yes' to DHCP.

Re: My BIND is tWisted!!!

2005-05-01 Thread Fafa Diliha Romanova
Hehe :) Yeah named is running. /etc/rc.d/named start ps -ax | grep named: 247 ?? Ss 0:00.79 /usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log -s 261 ?? Ss 0:37.36 /usr/sbin/named -u bind -t /var/named -- Fafa - Original Message - From: Ed Stover [EMAIL

Re: DHCP using ifconfig doesn't work ...

2005-05-01 Thread Tobias Fendin
Kiffin Gish wrote: I want to use DHCP for my wireless connection by placing the following lines in my /etc/rc.conf file: ifconfig_wi0=DHCP ifconfig_wi0=ssid GISH mode auto wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 I have also tried running sysinstall again and reconfiguring my wireless connection by

Re: OpenGL packages

2005-05-01 Thread Jan C. Meyer
Hello, Jose. I want to do OpenGL programming under my FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 system, but i am not able to find what packages i must have installed. Any kind of help, please?. If you have X11 in place, everything is probably already there, you just need to link to the right libraries. I compile my

Re: 5.1 Support

2005-05-01 Thread Chuck Robey
Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, Is there any way to generate 5.1 output with Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 sound card when a 5.1 souce file like AC3 is played? The driver which is included with the 5.4 is just stereo :-( I don't think that's true at all. First requirement, though, is digital

pdksh and binding escape sequences to shell commands

2005-05-01 Thread Tom McLaughlin
I'm wondering if any pdksh users can tell me how to bind an escape sequence to a command. I want to bind the Home key (^[OH) to beginning-of-line. I tried the following but I get a weird result. bind '^[OH'=beginning-of-line When I hit the home key the cursor jumps to the beginning of the line

Re: DHCP using ifconfig doesn't work ...

2005-05-01 Thread ckleski
You can make a file /etc/start_if.wi0 which has the line ifconfig ssid GISH mode auto wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 Keep ifconfig_wi0=DHCP in /etc/rc.conf. That should do it. On Sunday 01 May 2005 07:35 pm, Kiffin Gish wrote: I want to use DHCP for my wireless connection by placing the

ipf out rule

2005-05-01 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, Can anyone take a minute to just explain to me why ipf is blocking this... ipf.rules: # rl0 - Outgoing pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from x.x.x.120/29 to any flags S keep state keep frags pass out quick on rl0 proto udp from x.x.x.120/29 to any keep state keep frags pass out quick on rl0

RE: ipf out rule

2005-05-01 Thread bob
When asking for help with firewall rules you have to post complete content of firewall rule set file because some previous rule may be dropping all packets. If this is your complete rule set them you are missing the mandatory L0 interface rule to pass quick all. rl0 must be Nic connected to

freebsd 5.3

2005-05-01 Thread netroot
freebsd 5.3 is release and become stable version soon, i have a question, i wanna secure my freebsd box what should i do to optimize it? - Get your free email account with : http://www.everyday.com.kh

make x11 tiff

2005-05-01 Thread vizion
Hi Trying to install x11 make is looking for tiff-3.6.1.tar.gz in my\usr\ports\distfiles failing which it searches on internet but isunable to find. I have obtained 3.7.1.tar.gz via ftp which is now in my distfiles. Should I: (a) Find version 3.6.1 (if so does anyone know where from) or (b) make

Re: make x11 tiff

2005-05-01 Thread jason henson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Trying to install x11 make is looking for tiff-3.6.1.tar.gz in my\usr\ports\distfiles failing which it searches on internet but isunable to find. I have obtained 3.7.1.tar.gz via ftp which is now in my distfiles. Should I: (a) Find version 3.6.1 (if so does anyone know

Scanning under FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE

2005-05-01 Thread iqgrande
Hello everyone, I posted an email sometime back asking for help getting my scanner to work under FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. Upon not receiving any responses, I did some more research and tinkering and decided to update to FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE to see if that would fix the problem and it has not. In any

Re: Ports update gone badly wrong

2005-05-01 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 17:44, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:37:10PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: I think I have made a horrendeous mess of my workstation. I have been running 5.3 with no problem, and then I tried to csvup the ports files, using the following section in

Re: Ports update gone badly wrong

2005-05-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:57:05PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 17:44, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:37:10PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: I think I have made a horrendeous mess of my workstation. I have been running 5.3 with no problem, and then I tried to

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-05-01 Thread Joel
Eventually I would like to achieve this: (B I have another, very old, PC with following (B configuration: (B IDE/0 (on motherboard) master and slave HDs (B IDE/1 (on motherboard) -broken- (B (B I like to use this soundcard/IDE controller for (B adding a CDrom to this

mail/sendmail submit question

2005-05-01 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Hi I am trying to allow mail submission and sending on a 5.3-RELEASE box from inside a jail, but not a running MTA... I have the following in the rc.conf sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO# Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission sendmail_outbound_enable=YES # Dequeue

Re: freebsd 5.3

2005-05-01 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 16:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: freebsd 5.3 is release and become stable version soon, i have a question, i wanna secure my freebsd box what should i do to optimize it? Try the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security.html Rob

Re: What is ata2 ?

2005-05-01 Thread Rob
Joel wrote: Yet another question could be how much the lab wants to invest on a slow motherboard with broken curcuitry (which might also depend on what borked the on-board ATA controller). Although it's going a bit out-of-topic, the situation is that the Windows desease is very effective