Disabling Erratic Eraser Mouse on Armada 7400

2005-08-06 Thread linguae
Hello. I have a Compaq Armada 7400 laptop with FreeBSD 5.4 and X.Org 6.8.2 installed. My laptop has one of those eraser head laptop mice, and it isn't working very well. It conflicts with the PS/2 mouse that I have attached (since they both use the PS/2 port) and whenever I start X11, the

Linux compatibility and reverse channels

2005-08-06 Thread Milan Krivda
Hi. I need your help. I use a latest stable release freebsd 5.4 with sb live 5.1 sound card, driver is freebsd module snd_emu10k1, in native freebsd applications is all OK, but in applications running with linux compatibility is reversed left and right channel. For example audacity and unreal

How can i monitor my server?

2005-08-06 Thread Carstea Catalin
It is possible to monitoring activity of freebsd -services ( apache, mysqld, squid, named, postfix ) if it is down or up via internet with some scripts? I want to know if this services is running via internet ( web page - if it is possible) . ... I belive the

RE: How can i monitor my server?

2005-08-06 Thread Alexandre D.
you can do it with Big Brother www.bb4.org -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Carstea Catalin Envoyé : samedi 6 août 2005 11:46 À : freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Objet : How can i monitor my server? It is possible to monitoring activity of

Re: FW: Looking to get involved.

2005-08-06 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 8/6/05, Mitch Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a newbie to freeBSD. In my job I work with Solaris and RedHat Linux. Occasionally I work on AIX and HP-UX servers as well. I have been fascinated with Linux and would like to have a deeper knowledge of the OS. You might want

Re: How can i monitor my server?

2005-08-06 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 12:46:19PM +0300 or thereabouts, Carstea Catalin wrote: It is possible to monitoring activity of freebsd -services ( apache, mysqld, squid, named, postfix ) if it is down or up via internet with some scripts? I want to know if this services is

sockstat

2005-08-06 Thread virtual
I want to know if I can check the connections with sockstat for a particular group on the server, if not and you know another command that I can use please tell me! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

AMD64 vs. i386

2005-08-06 Thread Joseph Sniderman
Can I install the i386 version of FreeBSD on an AMD64(athelon64) based computer? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD64 vs. i386

2005-08-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 19:46:48 -0500 Joseph Sniderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I install the i386 version of FreeBSD on an AMD64(athelon64) based computer? Yes! Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

DNS caching: Squid, BIND or anything else?

2005-08-06 Thread Mark Terribile
+++ B. Bonev [05-08-05 12:02 +0300]: | My question is what's the difference between Squid DNS caching and | BIND | and other programs that cache DNS requests? | | BIND is a DNS server. It will reply to DNS queries from others. Squid | DNS won't reply to others DNS queries. | | I

how to deinstall the gnome2-lite port from my system completely?

2005-08-06 Thread richard cinema
hi everybody, i'm a newbie of freebsd although i 've had some exps in linux. so here comes my problem: i got 5.4-RELEASE-p6 installed in my pc. after finished the good world and kernel building stuff,i installed the xorg from port, and test it after that.it works well. then came the gnome2.

Re: FW: Looking to get involved.

2005-08-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/5/05, Mitch Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Mitch Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Looking to get involved. I am a newbie to freeBSD. In my job I work with Solaris and RedHat

libreadline.so.5 not found

2005-08-06 Thread Larry
I just upgraded to 4.11-STABLE and upgraded a lot of ports after that. Now I get the following message sometimes: Shared object libreadline.so.5 not found, required by bash. How can I fix this? Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 5.4-rel Bootloader Wedgie on Supermicro 5013C-MT

2005-08-06 Thread Joe Hamelin
On 04 Aug 2005 10:42:23 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't top-post. gotcha Joe Hamelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Correct. The boot selection screen locks and gets jumbled when booting from the 5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso disk. What happens when you boot from

ftp : 421 error service unvailable

2005-08-06 Thread bannour souha
Hello, I installed ftpd on my machine (freebsd 5.3). I tried it from a redhat machine and locally and it works good, but when I tried it from another freebsd machine (freebsd 5.3 also), it doesn't work :( I tried to connect to another ftp server, which is installed on redhat machine, from

Re: FW: Looking to get involved.

2005-08-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/5/05, Mitch Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With all of that said, is there a place I can help and learn at the same time? By the way, I live in Longmont and Work in Louisville. Personally I think the best way to learn and help at the same time is to answer questions on this list.

RE: ftp : 421 error service unvailable

2005-08-06 Thread bannour souha
Hello, I tried telnet localhost 21 from the ftpserver and telnet ftpserver 21 from the ftp client and I found the same thing!! I am not understanding what can be the problem? thank you for your help, Souha --- bannour souha [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello, I installed ftpd

Re: any backup utilities for ACLs?

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Dru [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I can't seem to find a backup program that will actually restore the ACLs. The day sent that message I tried looking too.. Interestingly enough tar describes that it can restore ACL.. yet it seems it fails to

SSH not working for particular user

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
Besides the AllowUsers parameter in sshd_config is there is anything else that would allow certain users, but not others to ssh to a machine? Have a machine that one id can connect to, but not a second one.. I inherited the setup (about 20 machines) so don't know yet what setups each machine

Re: libreadline.so.5 not found

2005-08-06 Thread Björn König
Larry wrote: I just upgraded to 4.11-STABLE and upgraded a lot of ports after that. Now I get the following message sometimes: Shared object libreadline.so.5 not found, required by bash. How did you build bash? The packages of 4.11-RELEASE and 4-STABLE don't require libreadline. Show the

Re: audio - mp3 kaudiocreator replacement

2005-08-06 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:43:21 +0200 dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I once used kaudiocreator to rip some CD's and convert them to MP3 files. Another approach would be a really good script to rip/encode CD's. Suggestions? Someone

Re: D-Link Wireless card

2005-08-06 Thread Fabian Keil
Beecher Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to get a D-Link DWL-AG530 wireless card to work in FreeBSD. Since the card is not supported, I fetched and built the driver with ndis which built and installed ok. I made sure to use the correct winblows XP drivers (I tried them in XP

Re: SSH not working for particular user

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, The WRS wrote: Thanks for the feedback Check /var/log/auth.log and perhaps sshd[28883]: error: PAM: authentication error for fran from my machine /var/log/messages for hints on why Same error on that file. /etc/hosts.allow may be the culprit The machines were

Re: libreadline.so.5 not found

2005-08-06 Thread bob self
Björn König wrote: Larry wrote: I just upgraded to 4.11-STABLE and upgraded a lot of ports after that. Now I get the following message sometimes: Shared object libreadline.so.5 not found, required by bash. How did you build bash? The packages of 4.11-RELEASE and 4-STABLE don't require

OpenLDAP and mails on freebsd

2005-08-06 Thread fire67
Hello , i'm on freebsd 5.4 and i use openldap-server-2.2.27 but i have a problem whith that : # ldapadd -x -D cn=admin, dc=linux-win, dc=org -W -f linux-win.ldif Enter LDAP Password: adding new entry o=france,dc=linux-win,dc=org ldap_add: No such object (32) My slapd.conf is : include

measuring avg cpu speed while powerd(8) is running

2005-08-06 Thread Joost Bekkers
Hi Is there a way to calculate (over eg. a 5 minute interval) the average amount the cpu was throttled? In this case by powerd(8). I was thinking there might be a counter/timer which is linked to the cpu clock, but sofar I haven't been able to find one. thanks -- greetz Joost [EMAIL

Re: DNS caching: Squid, BIND or anything else?

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: Better use djbdns :) It's simple, fast and reliable. Maybe I am dense, but I found it much simpler to setup Bind as caching DNS than to figure out how to setup djbdns. Perhaps I looked at the wrong tutorials for djdbns, but there are tons of

Re: Fw: DNS caching: Squid, BIND or anything else?

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, B. Bonev wrote: I think that Squid have a internal DNS server. Now, as understand I must have configure Squid for HTTP req, and BIND or another DNS cache server for DNS req... As others have mentioned perhaps you are missunderstanding what those programs do. It will help

Re: measuring avg cpu speed while powerd(8) is running

2005-08-06 Thread Philip S. Schulz
Joost Bekkers wrote: Hi Is there a way to calculate (over eg. a 5 minute interval) the average amount the cpu was throttled? In this case by powerd(8). No, powerd currently reads the CPU usage periodically and adjusts the clock speed based on the current CPU idle value. You can somewhat

Conflict between high resolution console and X

2005-08-06 Thread Mervin McDougall
Hi all I have been experimenting with FreeBSD 6.0 BETA 2 on my laptop which uses a ati radeon Mobile Utiliy 1 (IGP 320M) video vard. I have been able to configure both high console resolution MODE_279 and X on the laptop, however I have noticed that this error turns up whenever I boot the

HTDig on the forum archive is borked

2005-08-06 Thread Wesley Will
I get the first 25, and the next page gives an error, contact the mailman admin. You cannot initiate a new search from the results page, either, same error. I was searching the archives (trying to, anyway) to avoid subbing to yet another List to resolve my FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE issue at startup.

After Partitioning a Drive: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request)

2005-08-06 Thread Mark Kane
Hi everyone. I have searched the lists and Google about this, but none of the things I find seem to be my exact problem. I have an 80GB Maxtor IDE hard drive that was in NTFS yesterday. Last night, I copied all 75GB of data off that drive to another drive in the system. It took a while, but

Re: After Partitioning a Drive: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request)

2005-08-06 Thread Wesley Will
ad1: 76344MB MAXTOR 6L080J4/A93.0500 [155112/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA133 Do the errors go away if you switch the disk (in BIOS, and what are the BIOS settings for this drive right now?) to PIO mode? -- wes will ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re[2]: After Partitioning a Drive: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request)

2005-08-06 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Wesley, Saturday, August 6, 2005, 8:51:19 PM, you typed: ad1: 76344MB MAXTOR 6L080J4/A93.0500 [155112/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA133 Do the errors go away if you switch the disk (in BIOS, and what are the BIOS settings for this drive right now?) to PIO mode? or try to decrease it's speed

Re: After Partitioning a Drive: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request)

2005-08-06 Thread Mark Kane
Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello Wesley, Saturday, August 6, 2005, 8:51:19 PM, you typed: ad1: 76344MB MAXTOR 6L080J4/A93.0500 [155112/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA133 Do the errors go away if you switch the disk (in BIOS, and what are the BIOS settings for this drive right now?) to PIO mode? or

Process states lpd

2005-08-06 Thread Graham North
Can someone tell me whether an idling freebsd machine should be running two (2) lpd daemons? Both are running under root and one is running in nanslp the other select. This is something I just noticed after installig CUPS. That exercise was a bit of ordeal and finally with some help from

how to check CPU Heating Capacity (Temperature)

2005-08-06 Thread DeadMan Xia ....
I m using FreeBSD 5.4 on Intel Xeon Dual Processor machine, is there any command r utility which may give the specific details, abt how much percentage for cpu heat, means wat is specific temperature of cpu. Thanx in advance. DeadMan Xia ___

named / bind 9 and port 63548

2005-08-06 Thread Joe
Hello, I'm running bind, under FreeBSD. Its bind 9. I just started noticing a udp port being used, port 63548. udp4 0 0 *.63548*.* I then ran tcpdump on that port, and it seems that it is being used for dns queries. I'm not a named expert,

Re: AMD64 vs. i386

2005-08-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
Joseph Sniderman wrote: Can I install the i386 version of FreeBSD on an AMD64(athelon64) based computer? Yes, but what what libs and programs you may install that are i386 based as opposed to 64-bit. You can seriously 'screw' up your system by having several programs be unrunnable if

Re: how to deinstall the gnome2-lite port from my system completely?

2005-08-06 Thread RW
On Saturday 06 August 2005 15:38, richard cinema wrote: at first, i try to do a make deinstall under /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite . no error occured except i found all the gnome stuff stay there when i run pkg_info then. it seems the port did nothing with my make deinstall command.

RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-06 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... something bad happened last noght to a machine... something crashed... fsck stops randomly with stuff like: CANNOT READ BLOCK: evry time is different number and eventually i get: ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out what's

Boot manager behavior questions

2005-08-06 Thread Michael Dexter
Hello all, I am practicing x86 5.4-REL disaster recovery and perhaps someone intimate with the boot manager (perhaps boot2) could kindly explain a few things. Yes, I have attempted to answer these by reading: /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/* (BTW, why does only the recent list traffic

Re: AMD64 vs. i386

2005-08-06 Thread RW
On Saturday 06 August 2005 21:37, Garrett Cooper wrote: Joseph Sniderman wrote: Can I install the i386 version of FreeBSD on an AMD64(athelon64) based computer? Yes, but what what libs and programs you may install that are i386 based as opposed to 64-bit. You can seriously 'screw' up

Re: any backup utilities for ACLs?

2005-08-06 Thread Karl Vogel
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:17:36 -0400 (EDT), Dru [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: D I've enabled ACL support on a 5.4-RELEASE system and have no problems D creating and modifying ACLs. However, I can't seem to find a backup D program that will actually restore the ACLs. I've tried bsdtar, pax, D and

Re: 5.x separate /boot slice?

2005-08-06 Thread Michael Dexter
Hello Garance and all, Given how often this topic comes up, my hope is that other users might find these notes somewhat helpful. You had several good questions that are probably of general interest. For those who just tuned in, the question led to the can of worms of dual-booting FreeBSD

Re: SSH not working for particular user

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, The WRS wrote: Hmm, are the password fields in /etc/master.passwd using the same hash type? They should ALL either start with $1 - md5 $2 - blowfish They are all the same $1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: After Partitioning a Drive: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRCerror (retrying request)

2005-08-06 Thread Mark Kane
Wesley Will wrote: It almost assuredly means that the drive electronics are failing. The mag bubble is likely still intact but the controller isn't capable of keeping up with that data rate any longer. It could (easily) be an overheating issue causing the degradation of performance. These

Re: RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote: fsck stops randomly with stuff like: CANNOT READ BLOCK: evry time is different number and eventually i get: ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out Sounds like the HD may be near a fatal crash. I

jail question -- why can a user programatically see more than one IP address inside a jail?

2005-08-06 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
I have some jails. On 5.3R i386 Some software (some C based, some java) for various reasons, like licensing, look at all the IP addresses/interfaces available in the running system. Inside the jail they return more than just the jails IP address. For example, FrontBase database

(Solved) SSH not working for particular user

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
For the archives. Found the problem the rights for the .ssh directory were wrong. They need to be 700. Given that I used adduser to create that account I think umask or something else for the root user may be wrong or perhaps the adduser script. The other point worth mentioning for anyone

pkgdb -F still going after 12 hours

2005-08-06 Thread Robert S
I started pkgdb -F 12 hours ago on an amd XP 2000. Its still running. I was told a while ago that it took a long time, but this seems a bit excessive. If there is a problem with the package database, is there a way that I can reset it and start again, or is this expected behaviour?

Re: Can file-backed memory disks act like slices?

2005-08-06 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:13 PM 8/6/2005, Michael Dexter wrote: Hello all, I trust this is a Seldom Asked Question... I am using file-backed memory disks (as in mdconfig -f) to prototype filesystems. root.img gets mounted first and usr.img, var.img and tmp.img get mounted below it and as such they are

Can file-backed memory disks act like slices?

2005-08-06 Thread Michael Dexter
Hello all, I trust this is a Seldom Asked Question... I am using file-backed memory disks (as in mdconfig -f) to prototype filesystems. root.img gets mounted first and usr.img, var.img and tmp.img get mounted below it and as such they are behaving as partitions. Is there any way to get a

telnet/sshd limited by user?

2005-08-06 Thread Jeff Mitchell
Is it possible to set things so that 'telnet' is allowed only to one specific user, while everyone else needs sshd? ie: Obviously, nologin can be used as a shell to not permit any logins (but makes 'su' break too), but I'd like to allow telnet for one specific user only and keep everyone

Vending

2005-08-06 Thread jon freddy
To make FreeBSD even bigger, can I myself upload the ISO images onto my website and become a mirror? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Can file-backed memory disks act like slices?

2005-08-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-07 02:13, Michael Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I trust this is a Seldom Asked Question... A very good one though. I am using file-backed memory disks (as in mdconfig -f) to prototype filesystems. root.img gets mounted first and usr.img, var.img and tmp.img get

NTOP

2005-08-06 Thread Warren
will NTOP monitor SNMP or is it strictly local ? OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Vending

2005-08-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
jon freddy wrote: To make FreeBSD even bigger, can I myself upload the ISO images onto my website and become a mirror? Sure. Everything you might want to know about doing so is here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/article.html -- -Chuck

Re: Boot manager behavior questions

2005-08-06 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Michael Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Is there any equivalent to nextboot(8) for the boot manager such that a boot selection can be made prior to the boot sequence so that the choice can be made remotely instead of only at the console? Read about boot0cfg's -s. And please shorten

Re: How can i monitor my server?

2005-08-06 Thread nawcom
Theres always php that you can use which can report shell command results on a web page. since ifconfig is a root command (assuming that no one else has access to files which report net status), you can cron it to a file. thats one of many ways to do that. you can also use swatch to report it

Re: How can i monitor my server?

2005-08-06 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:46 PM 8/6/2005, nawcom wrote: Theres always php that you can use which can report shell command results on a web page. since ifconfig is a root command (assuming that no one else has access to files which report net status), you can cron it to a file. A normal user can execute ifconfig,