Lost /etc/group after installing mtools installed

2005-05-24 Thread Paul Dufresne
I am on 5.4-RELEASE. Like I said in previous mail, my /etc/group file have become 0 bytes long after some problem. I first thought it was after rebooting following a computer hang (was hanging when dd if= of=/dev/fd0, but after having load default values in BIOS, seems to be fixed, was

Re: dvi to PCL filter

2005-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 05:37:32PM -0700, sealbeam wrote: Hi I am a complete newcomer to unix and have just created a dual-boot between FreeBSD 5.2.1 and Win2K (each on a separate hard drive). Now I'm trying to get my HP 1160 Laserjet to print dvi files. snip Can anyone tell me what I've

Re: help please

2005-05-24 Thread Eric Cheney
On Monday, 23 May 2005 at 17:53:54 -0700, pete wright wrote: On 5/23/05, Paul B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed freebsd (may 23, 2005) and when i start up my pc it goes to a text screen (which i know it is s'posed to do) but how do you go to the graphics side of freebsd

libiptc equivalent in FreeBSD ipfw

2005-05-24 Thread C.G.Senthilkumar.
Hi, I want to add some rules to the ipfw kernel table directly from my program rather than going through the ipfw user-space program. Is there some control library analogous to libiptc in Linux's netfilter/iptables that would let me do that? If yes, where could I learn more about it? Thanks

Re: Lost /etc/group after installing mtools installed

2005-05-24 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 5/24/05, Paul Dufresne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still looking for a default /etc/group file. If you have the source installed. /usr/src/etc/group nelis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Freebsd pxeboot problem

2005-05-24 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, Below are all the details I can provide you. dhcpd.conf == ddns-update-style none; option routers 10.0.0.1; subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 10.0.0.22 10.0.0.24; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255; option domain-name-servers

how can I make xterm just like the console ? (colors, etc.)

2005-05-24 Thread Joe Schmoe
Hello, I am used to using the console for things like bitchx, nethack, etc. Now I have started using Xorg in 5.4-RELEASE (with the ion window manager). I notice that the xterm program comes up with black text on a white background, and that colors in BitchX, etc., are not the same as they were

Merging a directory to the search path of includes and libs permanently(ldconfig -m....)

2005-05-24 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, Is there a way to merge a certain directory to the library search path or include search path permanently? ldconfig -m works only while the computer have not yet been rebooted. I have an experienced that I was able to install a certain application that depends on a library not found in the

mapping mouse clicks to keystrokes in X ?

2005-05-24 Thread Joe Schmoe
I want my two mouse buttons to create the letters z and x when I press them, instead of the normal actions that those mouse buttons send to X. Don't ask. It's as simple as it sounds: if I click mouse button one, it is as if I press z on the keyboard, if I click mouse button 2, it is as if I

Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet on freebsd 5.3

2005-05-24 Thread eodyna
hi everyone, im trying to get gigabit to work with my dell optiplex machine. i read from another message Answering (maybe) my own question, it looks like the changes to miidevs and brgphy didn't make the 5.3 cut, even though the changes to bge did. Will advise. That was it. Pulled in

5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

2005-05-24 Thread Timothy Smith
is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Samba Config

2005-05-24 Thread Joseph Borg
Hi, I don't know whether this is the appropriate list to ask but since my install is on FreeBSD, I thought I'd try. I've got a FreeBSD server 5.4 running samba 3.x. I then have 3 Windows XP Pro Stand Alone PCs. I'd like to use the samba server as a simple file share/network drive server. I would

Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

2005-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? What do you mean by extra? What have you done so far? Have you recompiled the kernel with device lines for ath and ath_hal? Andrew Gould

Re: folding client stopped working, is it because of linux?

2005-05-24 Thread matti k
On Mon, 23 May 2005 23:21:21 -0400 jason henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linux is already installed from before the update and even after reinstalling after the update the systems seems to forget it is there after a reboot. Check that /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf contain

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:47:21PM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. How did you learn about these tools? From the pages i've read (most of) the handbook, I didn't see it mention them. I came across one of the

Re: gnome-update.sh

2005-05-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Timothy Smith wrote: how likely is the gnome upgrade script to work on a 4.10 system? i have a few manully updated ports related to wxpython and wxGTK. basicly what i'm intrested in, is can the gnome upgrade script totally blow apart my gnome installation/system, or is it intellegent enough

Re: securing SSH, FBSD systems

2005-05-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Francisco Reyes wrote: I found it got too messy to read firewall rules when I had blackholing there too. Also the feedback I got was that firewall rule was a flat list, while the route system used some type of tree. This is true if you use one rule per blocked address, but not true, I

AppendRows() broken?

2005-05-24 Thread Timothy Smith
http://www.open-networks.net/Main_example.py the above example code uses AppendRows() to add a row. AppendRows() exists, but appears to have no effect? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: tracking down network load?

2005-05-24 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 23 May 2005 14:35:25 -0500 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (May 23), Louis LeBlanc said: I have a strange question. Well, maybe not so strange. I am working on my 5.3 RELEASE system, and I notice my network monitor on gkrellm is showing unexplained loads

How to integrate ECN in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-05-24 Thread Mark
Could someone please tell me how to integrate ECN in FreeBSD 4.11. I hear people talk about ALTQ. But I find the info to be rather sparse -- if not as good as absent. A good how-to document would be nice, or at least a few clues. And the only potentially viable patch I found was against 4.9.

ipf + ipfw + divert = no go

2005-05-24 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, Quick question... dmesg: IP Filter: v3.4.35 initialized. Default = pass all, Logging = enabled ipfw2 initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging limited to 1024 packets/entry by default shell: bash-2.05b# ipfw add 50 fwd 192.168.0.237,3306 tcp

Multiple bootable FreeBSD disks in the same system

2005-05-24 Thread aleksandr . derevianko
Hello ! I'm attempting to build the Vinum-based file server. The structure is following: 1. 5 equial-sized drives, 180 real Gbytes. 2. All drives have the same structure. 1 Partition (adXs1) divided in 3 slices: adXs1a - 128Mb ufs adXs1b - 128 Mb swap adXs1d - vinum partition. /usr, /var,

Re: AppendRows() broken?

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:20:48PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: http://www.open-networks.net/Main_example.py the above example code uses AppendRows() to add a row. AppendRows() exists, but appears to have no effect? This doesn't appear to be a FreeBSD question. Look for a more relevant

Re: ipf + ipfw + divert = no go

2005-05-24 Thread Tomas Quintero
On 5/24/05, Chris Knipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Quick question... dmesg: IP Filter: v3.4.35 initialized. Default = pass all, Logging = enabled ipfw2 initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging limited to 1024 packets/entry by default

Polarbar: which jdk?

2005-05-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. As per subject: I'm trying to run PolarBar Mailer. If anyone has some experience about it, which jdk do you use? I tried all the native ones and they run it horribly. linux-sun-jdk works a little better (tried 1.4 and 1.5), but still with some hitches and frequent lockups. bye Thanks

Re: AppendRows() broken?

2005-05-24 Thread Timothy Smith
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:20:48PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: http://www.open-networks.net/Main_example.py the above example code uses AppendRows() to add a row. AppendRows() exists, but appears to have no effect? This doesn't appear to be a FreeBSD question.

Re: ipf + ipfw + divert = no go

2005-05-24 Thread Chris Knipe
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:56:06PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: Hi, Quick question... dmesg: IP Filter: v3.4.35 initialized. Default = pass all, Logging = enabled ipfw2 initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging limited to 1024 packets/entry by

Re: ipf + ipfw + divert = no go

2005-05-24 Thread Joost Bekkers
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:38:58PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:56:06PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: Hi, Quick question... dmesg: IP Filter: v3.4.35 initialized. Default = pass all, Logging = enabled ipfw2 initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding

Re: ipf + ipfw + divert = no go

2005-05-24 Thread Chris Knipe
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:54:45PM +0200, Joost Bekkers wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:38:58PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:56:06PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: Hi, Quick question... dmesg: IP Filter: v3.4.35 initialized. Default = pass all, Logging

Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

2005-05-24 Thread Timothy Smith
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? What do you mean by extra? What have you done so far? Have you recompiled the kernel with device lines for ath and ath_hal? Andrew Gould

Strange behaviour of my script within /etc/rc.d

2005-05-24 Thread Peter van Swieten
Hi, While trying to get my script within the /etc/rc.d tree operational I ran into some strange behaviour. I intended to start a vncserver as part of the boot process. I build the script based on several existing scripts (a.o. the apache script). The script works as expected when run from

Installing on multiple machines

2005-05-24 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'd like to install 5.4 on several machines. The hardware is similar, but not exactly equal (different size HDs, different amount of memory). Is there any way to install 5.4 on different machines with the same options, i.e. same set of packages, same settings (e.g. keyboard) etc. without

Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

2005-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? What do you mean by extra? What have you done so far? Have you recompiled the kernel with

Re: mapping mouse clicks to keystrokes in X ?

2005-05-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Schmoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want my two mouse buttons to create the letters z and x when I press them, instead of the normal actions that those mouse buttons send to X. Don't ask. It's as simple as it sounds: if I click mouse button one, it is as if I press z on the keyboard,

Re: Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet on freebsd 5.3

2005-05-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
eodyna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: im trying to get gigabit to work with my dell optiplex machine. i read from another message Answering (maybe) my own question, it looks like the changes to miidevs and brgphy didn't make the 5.3 cut, even though the changes to bge did. Will advise.

slow download, quick upload

2005-05-24 Thread User Patrice
Hello I m running freebsd 5.3 the freebsd is connected to 2 PC in a DMZ. Upload and download from both PC are OK but when the freebsd try to download a file from a PC, it is slow. The speed is around 5M bytes/s when the DMZ download a file from DMZ or from fre The speed is around 120K Bytes/s

Mysql startup question

2005-05-24 Thread Philip Wege
Hi When i run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start i get the following error : touch /var/db/mysql/mail.int.diesel-electric.com err: Permission denied chown /var/db/mysql/mail.int.diesel-electric.com cannot create /var/db/mysql/mail.int.diesel-electric.com Permission denied Running

Re: QoS and guaranteed bandwidth

2005-05-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the best sollution (and also simple) to guarantee a bandwidth? For example if I have an 1024 kbps conection and i want to share this to 30 users and also guarantee 32 kbps to every user so if one of them is doing intense FTP the others to easely browse the

Re: Mysql startup question

2005-05-24 Thread Steven Enderle
Are you sure you did run this as root? Regards Steven -- ++ message delivered by gizm0.org http://gizm0.org/ ++ free webmail - imap, pop3, ssl secured Philip Wege wrote: Hi When i run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start i get the following error : touch

Re: Mysql startup question

2005-05-24 Thread Philip Wege
Yes i am logged in as root directly on the box. On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 15:43 +0200, Steven Enderle wrote: Are you sure you did run this as root? Regards Steven -- ++ message delivered by gizm0.org ++ free webmail - imap, pop3, ssl secured Philip Wege wrote: Hi When i run

Fw: help please

2005-05-24 Thread Randy Dawson
On 5/23/05, Paul B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed freebsd (may 23, 2005) and when i start up my pc it goes to a text screen (which i know it is s'posed to do) but how do you go to the graphics side of freebsd where it looks like (this is a bad example) windows and you

Re: Mysql startup question

2005-05-24 Thread Steven Enderle
Could you check the directory by hand? ls -aol /var/db/mysql/ and touch /var/db/mysql/mail.int.diesel-electric.com Regards, Steven -- ++ message delivered by gizm0.org http://gizm0.org/ ++ free webmail - imap, pop3, ssl secured Philip Wege wrote: Yes i am logged in as root directly on the

Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

2005-05-24 Thread Timothy Smith
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? What do you mean by extra? What have you done

3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Hello, I have an interesting question, I have a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz (No HT Enabled), 2x80GB SATA Hard Drives in RAID 1. The box boots, works, etc. However, whenever you try and do an fsck -y, it says: [EMAIL PROTECTED](~)% fsck -y ** /dev/twed0s1a (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on / ** Root file system

BASIC WEB SERVER HELP

2005-05-24 Thread Ed Acebo
Hey Dale! Whats happening? Its been a few years since we've been in contact. How is Ann? I've got some questions about importing and I am wondering if either you or her could help me. For the last five years I've been translating some of our Vedanta literture into spanish . I'm working with an

Re: Mysql startup question

2005-05-24 Thread Philip Wege
No problems there , and all files and folders owned by root. touch command no errors, goes to next blank line. On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 15:50 +0200, Steven Enderle wrote: Could you check the directory by hand? ls -aol /var/db/mysql/ and touch /var/db/mysql/mail.int.diesel-electric.com

Re: Mysql startup question

2005-05-24 Thread Gerhard Schmidt
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:02:45PM -0700, Philip Wege wrote: No problems there , and all files and folders owned by root. That's the problem /var/db/mysql should be owned by mysql:mysql because mysqld is started as user mysql. bye Estartu

about SMBus and IBM xSeries 226 (type 8648)

2005-05-24 Thread Andrea Riela
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I've that SMBus controller: ichsmb0: Intel 82801EB (ICH5) SMBus controller port 0x1100-0x111f irq 10 at device 31.3 on pci0 smbus0: System Management Bus on ichsmb0 smb0: SMBus generic I/O on smbus0 ichsmb0: irq 0x04 during -1 ichsmb0:

Re: QoS and guaranteed bandwidth

2005-05-24 Thread ovidiue
I know alot about ipfw, dummynet pf, altq and stuff, I am looking for somebody who implemented in on a large scale so I do not waste time with testing and configuring, that's why I've looked for the best solution i know altq is the best but. is reliable as is HTB or CBQ from linux? Citat

Re: Mysql startup question

2005-05-24 Thread Philip Wege
Thanks done mysql is started. On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 16:15 +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:02:45PM -0700, Philip Wege wrote: No problems there , and all files and folders owned by root. That's the problem /var/db/mysql should be owned by mysql:mysql because mysqld

Re: tracking down network load?

2005-05-24 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 05/24/05 12:28 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu sat at the `puter and typed: On Mon, 23 May 2005 14:35:25 -0500 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (May 23), Louis LeBlanc said: I have a strange question. Well, maybe not so strange. I am working on my 5.3 RELEASE system,

Re: libiptc equivalent in FreeBSD ipfw

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 23), C.G.Senthilkumar. said: I want to add some rules to the ipfw kernel table directly from my program rather than going through the ipfw user-space program. Is there some control library analogous to libiptc in Linux's netfilter/iptables that would let me do that?

RE: Merging a directory to the search path of includes and libspermanently(ldconfig -m....)

2005-05-24 Thread Keith Bottner
One way is to set ldconfig_paths in rc.conf. Does anybody know of a better way? Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:15 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Merging a

Re: Samba Config

2005-05-24 Thread John Hoover
I've got a mixture of ME and XP machines, this has been working well as public storage without dealing with individual permissions. I don't think I had to do anything beyond the normal setup, I don't remember. [global] workgroup = GAISERCO netbios name = GSRCOFS security = SHARE disable spoolss

Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

2005-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:51 am, Timothy Smith wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? What do you mean

Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-24 Thread Aaron C. Meadows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there. I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 server I just picked up, and it has an Adaptec AAA-131U2 (aic7815 chipset) RAID card in it, attached to 5 IBM Branded (Seagate ST39204LC) Hot Swap Ultra160 9.1gig SCSI Harddrives. My question is, since that

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
For fsck to work (to actually correct any problems you may have), partitions should be umounted first. Are you sure you have umounted /dev/twed before running fsck? 2005/5/24, Jonathan M. Slivko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I have an interesting question, I have a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz (No

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Yes, this is actually the autoboot fsck thats breaking, the one that is called from /etc/rc (via /etc/rc.d/). I can physically take the box down and do an offline fsck of it and that works fine, it's just when it's in multi-user mode thats the problem. -- Jonathan Franco Bruno Borghesi

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
Could you post your /etc/fstab? 2005/5/24, Jonathan M. Slivko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, this is actually the autoboot fsck thats breaking, the one that is called from /etc/rc (via /etc/rc.d/). I can physically take the box down and do an offline fsck of it and that works fine, it's just when

question about dhcp client

2005-05-24 Thread perikillo
Hi all, iam going to setup one firewall for a friend, i need to use the dhcp client to get the IP, my question is: 1; I need to have the BPF device enable, is a rule? Because normally, by security is recomend that this option need to be disable!!! Is all my question, i am using freebsd

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
[EMAIL PROTECTED](~)% cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/twed0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/twed0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/twed0s1g /home

Re: question about dhcp client

2005-05-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 24, 2005, at 11:08 AM, perikillo wrote: Hi all, iam going to setup one firewall for a friend, i need to use the dhcp client to get the IP, my question is: 1; I need to have the BPF device enable, is a rule? You need BPF if you want dhclient to work, yes. Because normally, by

Re: how can I make xterm just like the console ? (colors, etc.)

2005-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:10:12AM -0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: Can someone tell me what configuration I need to make the colors (and as much other behavior as possible) in xterm identical to the normal FreeBSD console ? Edit the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color-static, and

Hylafax on FreeBSD 5.4x (upgrading from 4.11)

2005-05-24 Thread Stephen Hilton
I am getting ready to wipe a FreeBSD 4.11x box clean and reinstall with 5.4x. One of the tasks this machine does is Hylafax. In looking at the Hylafax port Makefile I see that the uucp user is needed for install, but do not see where the uucp port is brought in as a dependency. Do I need to

Articles, Tutorials hardware setting in loader.conf

2005-05-24 Thread vdm . fbsd
As a newbye I just need a pointer, a hint to the following two subjects: 1) Where can I find a clear explanationt on how to use the many, multilingual articles, books, tutorials and documentation coming with a standard 5.4 version (in sgml format). In a nutshell, how can I obtain a readable

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
Your fstab is OK. I don't exactly understand the problem. When you boot fsck will run automatically if the system did not correctly shut down. This is done *before* disks are mounted rw, so there's no way you will see the (NO WRITE) message. If system was not correctly shut down, fsck will

Re: Articles, Tutorials hardware setting in loader.conf

2005-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:33:10PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a newbye I just need a pointer, a hint to the following two subjects: 1) Where can I find a clear explanationt on how to use the many, multilingual articles, books, tutorials and documentation coming with a standard 5.4

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Whether I run fsck manually or if I run it automagically at boot via rc (which happens every reboot), it fails. As I'm not at console, I can't tell whether the same things happen if the box is physically taken down. and fsck'd in single user mode. The better part of the question is, could this

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
You can see the file that my box is choking on in /etc/rc.d/fsck. -- Jonathan Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote: Your fstab is OK. I don't exactly understand the problem. When you boot fsck will run automatically if the system did not correctly shut down. This is done *before* disks are mounted

Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm running a 5.4-STABLE system (updated as of May 16). My kernel is basically GENERIC with a few small tweaks, like commenting out extraneous cpu lines and adding options SMP. My problem is that although dmesg shows every sign of having launched both logical CPUs: $ dmesg | grep -i cpu CPU:

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:53:29AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm running a 5.4-STABLE system (updated as of May 16). My kernel is basically GENERIC with a few small tweaks, like commenting out extraneous cpu lines and adding options SMP. My problem is that although dmesg shows every

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Actually, I have a similar issue on a Pentium 4 box that's supposedly HT: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (2410.53-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Tim Kellers
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 11:53 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm running a 5.4-STABLE system (updated as of May 16). My kernel is basically GENERIC with a few small tweaks, like commenting out extraneous cpu lines and adding options SMP. My problem is that although dmesg shows every sign of having

Re: Articles, Tutorials hardware setting in loader.conf

2005-05-24 Thread Greg Barniskis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a newbye I just need a pointer, a hint to the following two subjects: 1) Where can I find a clear explanationt on how to use the many, multilingual articles, books, tutorials and documentation coming with a standard 5.4 version (in sgml format). In a nutshell, how

/usr backup/remove issue

2005-05-24 Thread Mike Fern
hi all, i have freebsd 5.1 running with 4 x 200GB ATA HD. let's say i have /usr installed in hd1. i want to move /usr to a larger partition in hd4. how can i do that? here is my scenario. i backed up all /usr data to /usr1 in hd4. then i checked the location of ln and mkdir to make sure that

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
If it fails it's because there are certain inconsistencies that need user confirmation before they are corrected. You can add fsck_y_enable=YES to your /etc/rc.conf so if default fsck fails, fsck -y is run. Check the fsck man page before doing so. Anyway, I don't understand why fsck is run

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Kris Kennaway wrote: Read the security advisories issued for FreeBSD. I thought that I had. I missed the we're now disabling HTT by default unless you set a new sysctl part. :-) -- Kirk Strauser pgp5vJSWjc6sa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Backup software comparison

2005-05-24 Thread scuba
Hi all, I´ve used AMANDA for my backup solution for a long time, and now I decided to look for an alternative with multi-volume, disk-to-disk, network copy, among other features. Does anyone had compared other open source backup software? I´ve seem something about:

Linux library conversion

2005-05-24 Thread Valerio Daelli
Hello we have a linux perl program to run in FreeBSD. We need to convert this library from Linux to FreeBSD: msparser.so:ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), not stripped Is there any tool similar to brandelf to convert this library and make it

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
OK, I added that. (it was actually already in /etc/defaults/rc.conf) -- Jonathan Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote: If it fails it's because there are certain inconsistencies that need user confirmation before they are corrected. You can add fsck_y_enable=YES to your /etc/rc.conf so if default fsck

Re: Linux library conversion

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:33:52PM +, Valerio Daelli wrote: Hello we have a linux perl program to run in FreeBSD. We need to convert this library from Linux to FreeBSD: msparser.so:ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), not stripped Is

Re: Linux library conversion

2005-05-24 Thread Tony Shadwick
I know it isn't a permanent fix, but could you temporarily use compat_linux to run the Linux library on FreeBSD? On Tue, 24 May 2005, Valerio Daelli wrote: Hello we have a linux perl program to run in FreeBSD. We need to convert this library from Linux to FreeBSD: msparser.so:

Re: 3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

2005-05-24 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
Yes, but the default value is NO. If you still have problems, ask again. 2005/5/24, Jonathan M. Slivko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, I added that. (it was actually already in /etc/defaults/rc.conf) -- Jonathan Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote: If it fails it's because there are certain

Using a logitech mx700 with scrollwheel and thumb buttons in xorg

2005-05-24 Thread Joe Schmoe
Hello, I have a logitech mx700 - it has a scrollwheel and two thumb buttons (designed for forward and back in your browser) as well as some other launch button on the top that I guess is for launching an app. I am using FBSD 5.4-RELEASE with xorg installed from the ports tree. I have tried

Re: /usr backup/remove issue

2005-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
hi all, i have freebsd 5.1 running with 4 x 200GB ATA HD. let's say i have /usr installed in hd1. i want to move /usr to a larger partition in hd4. how can i do that? here is my scenario. i backed up all /usr data to /usr1 in hd4. then i checked the location of ln and mkdir to make

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Tim Kellers wrote: The acpi_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf might do the trick. Actually, it turns out that I have to set machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 for HTT to work now. Speaking of which, is that tunable documented anywhere besides the HTT security PR?

Re: Some HTTP clients only receive first 4k

2005-05-24 Thread Scott Stevenson
On May 23, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Mykel wrote: 1. Affected clients consistently receive only the first 4096 bytes of .html and .css files. After that, they encounter a single garbage character (looks like a memory stomp), and then nothing. 2. At least two of the sites hosted on the machine

Files corrupt after copy!!!

2005-05-24 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hey! I just copied my entire home directory from my Windows XP harddrive (ad6) running NTFS over to my FreeBSD harddrive (ad4) running UFS2: ad4: 152627MB ST3160023AS/3.20 [310101/16/63] at ata2-master SATA150 ad6: 152627MB ST3160023AS/3.20 [310101/16/63] at ata3-master SATA150 But when I go

mlock: not setgid mail

2005-05-24 Thread Richard McIntyre
All, I have searched several places and everything I have seen reports that the only thing I need to do is chown /usr/local/libexec/mlock to root:mail but it currently is... take a look: May 24 12:54:59 tco1 /usr/local/libexec/mlock[29327]: (64) not setgid mail May 24 12:57:08 tco1

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Where did you actually set that, in /etc/sysctl.conf? Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Tim Kellers wrote: The acpi_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf might do the trick. Actually, it turns out that I have to set machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 for HTT to work now.

RE:VM pager read error

2005-05-24 Thread Bigbrother
I have a distributed network of systems running FreeBSD 4.10-Release, and periodically, I see the following errors on the console: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 1 (init) I have also a network with many diskless boxes of 4.11 FreeBSD and every now and then I see messages like this. The

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
I'm curious... doesn't enabling ht make your system run slower? That's what I had found searching on google a while ago, and that's why I have never enabled ht on my kernels. 2005/5/24, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Tim Kellers wrote: The acpi_load=YES

Re: RE:VM pager read error

2005-05-24 Thread Christopher Black
Good food for thought. I'm not using NFS, so there should be no issues related to dropped packets. Also, I've never seen the swap being touched, which makes me doubt the boxes are just running out of memory. Is it possible that cheap hardware or buggy RAM could be causing this, or is it more

installing / updating ports on an older (4.8 system)

2005-05-24 Thread Joey Mingrone
Hi, I have a box running 4.8. I only have ssh access so I can't update the OS at the moment, but I would like to update certain ports. I'm running into a few problems. The worst is when I update a port it tries to update / install dependencies that are already up to date. For example, when

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Tim Kellers
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 01:00 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Tim Kellers wrote: The acpi_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf might do the trick. Actually, it turns out that I have to set machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 for HTT to work now. Speaking of which, is that

gdm_enable and graphical greeter: enter password twice

2005-05-24 Thread maarfree
Hi, I just found out when I change the greeter in the gnome login screen setup from default to the one where you can double click the username you have to enter your password twice. I have gdm_enable in rc.conf. Does anyone know a workaround? Maarten

re: procfs in 5.4

2005-05-24 Thread martinko
hi, i've been wondering long time what's the actual state of procfs in freebsd. yes, i added procfs line to fstab but i do not mount it automatically at system startup. yet i'm still able to use ps(1) unlike the originator of this thread. how come? i believe i've read somewhere that (use of)

Re: procfs in 5.4

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:50:47PM +0200, martinko wrote: hi, i've been wondering long time what's the actual state of procfs in freebsd. yes, i added procfs line to fstab but i do not mount it automatically at system startup. yet i'm still able to use ps(1) unlike the originator of this

Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system

2005-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:20:46PM -0300, Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote: I'm curious... doesn't enabling ht make your system run slower? That's what I had found searching on google a while ago, and that's why I have never enabled ht on my kernels. That's a common experience, but it depends on

Re: Freebsd pxeboot problem

2005-05-24 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:52:18PM +, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: Hi, Was trying to install freebsd 5.3 via pxeboot. The Dhcp server leases the Ip address, the tftp server is located fine and the pxeboot file gets downloaded at the client end. But this pxeboot is not getting the proper

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