Re: FreeBSD 5.4 sparc64 netboot install?

2005-09-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:48:56PM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote: On 9/8/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you think it's no longer supported? You can certainly install sparc machines by netbooting them. Kris Partly because there is nothing in the handbook[1], release

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 sparc64 netboot install?

2005-09-09 Thread Aaron Glenn
On 9/8/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:48:56PM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote: If you can point me to a resource I've overlooked, please do so. I would greatly appreciate a hit with the cluestick on this one. You don't need a special bootloader any longer.

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 sparc64 netboot install?

2005-09-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:08:36PM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote: On 9/8/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:48:56PM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote: If you can point me to a resource I've overlooked, please do so. I would greatly appreciate a hit with the cluestick

Re: question about zlib security patch

2005-09-09 Thread Chantal Rosmuller
Thanks everyone for the advice, I installed the sources and applied the patch, so I guess I took care of the zlib security issue The clamav error remained though but someone at the qmail rocks mailinglist suggested that clamav cannot see that zlib is patched so it is safe to ignore the error. To

pkg_create and srcdir

2005-09-09 Thread James Goldsmith
Hi list :) This is a two part question, but they are vaguely related, so bear with me... Firstly, using pkg_create in a sh script in the following way works fine: pkg_create -v -s $SRCDIR -d $DESC -c $COMMENT -I $POST_INSTALL -p $INSTALLDIR/$packagename -f $PLIST -o net/$packagename $packagename

tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date

2005-09-09 Thread Gareth Bailey
Hi there, I have a directory I want to backup at /usr/dir_a/dir_b. I want to back the content of this dir to /usr/backups/dir_b so I tried the following: # cd /usr/backups/dir_b # tar -cf dir_b.tar /usr/dir_a/dir_b Now I have dir_b.tar which is 65MB in size. If i then try to update modified

Re: hi list

2005-09-09 Thread K Anderson
- Original Message - From: Chezangla, Engineer, DrukNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 7:23 PM Subject: hi list Can anyone give me the detail steps for installing and configuring mysql server on freebsd. I have

Recommendations on Proliant DL-360 server with FreeBSD?

2005-09-09 Thread Remy de Ruysscher
Hi, We are about to invest in a new server farm, which will consist of the HP Proliant DL-360 (2Gb ram, 2x 3.0Ghz Xeon, 2x 73Gb SCSI 15k, RAID-1, redundant powersupply, iLO). We have already 2 of these beauties running, but the management wants proof this server is robust and stable for

GPIB support

2005-09-09 Thread Loren M. Lang
Recently, I discovered that FreeBSD supports at least one GPIB PCMCIA card in it's kernel sources. There also seems to be a userspace library for accessing it. I had done some work with GPIB in the past, but I never realized FreeBSD had any support for it, so we stuck with windows. How come this

Re: Conflicting CDRW and DVDRW

2005-09-09 Thread Fabian Keil
Michael Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to burn a DVD with my Pioneer DVD writer (usb), but when I open K3B, the device is not listed. In fact the IDE CD burner isn't listed there as well. The kernel is configured with SCSI and ATAPICAM devices. It seems to me that my writers IDE

sysinstall

2005-09-09 Thread mats . lindberg
How can I have an interactively invoked sysinstall to load a config-file from something else than a floppy e.g. a CD-ROM? ___ This e-mail communication (and any attachment/s) may

How to install Vmware5 in FreeBSD?

2005-09-09 Thread Kenny
Well, I have downloaded the official Vmware5 package from the official site. However, it is a Gzipped tarball rather than a normal package. I know how to install Linux RPMs in FreeBSD. But this time, I have no idea. Quite puzzled, and needing help. Many thanks in advance.

Fwd: Re: C program to write to the com port - RESOLVED

2005-09-09 Thread vittorio
As a C++ absolute beginner I'm trying to compile your testssc.c file with g++ testssc.c -o testssc (under freebsd 5.4, gcc version 3.4.2) But... I only get: SerialPort.C: In function `int main(int, char*)': SerialPort.C:62: error: invalid conversion from `unsigned char*' to `char*'

Re: How to install Vmware5 in FreeBSD?

2005-09-09 Thread Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH
I'm sorry to have to inform you that vmware5 does not run on FreeBSD. Latest version available for FreeBSD is AFAIK 3.x. Greetz, Ice Kenny schrieb: Well, I have downloaded the official Vmware5 package from the official site. However, it is a Gzipped tarball rather than a normal package. I

Re: Fwd: Re: C program to write to the com port - RESOLVED

2005-09-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-09 13:53, vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a C++ absolute beginner I'm trying to compile your testssc.c file with g++ testssc.c -o testssc (under freebsd 5.4, gcc version 3.4.2) It's not a C++ program. You should use `cc', not `g++'. SerialPort.C: In function `int main(int,

RE: Re: C program to write to the com port - RESOLVED

2005-09-09 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi vittorio, Hey I am just a beginner myself, but this is a C program, not a C++ program. My gcc is version 3.4.2 too. Hmm, did you cut and paste ALL of the source code, including the #include statements? I also see that it's mentioning code on lines 62, 66 and 69. My testssc.c only has around

Re: Conflicting CDRW and DVDRW

2005-09-09 Thread Michael Sherman
I must have been too tired last night. They are indeed on a different scbus, I was just looking at target and lun IDs. The problem was the permissions on the /dev/passX. Thanks a lot. On 9/9/05, Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to burn

Re: How to install Vmware5 in FreeBSD?

2005-09-09 Thread Yance Kowara
have you tried qemu? Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I'm sorry to have to inform you that vmware5 does not run on FreeBSD. Latest version available for FreeBSD is AFAIK 3.x. Greetz, Ice Kenny schrieb: Well, I have downloaded the official Vmware5 package from the

Re: Fwd: Re: C program to write to the com port - RESOLVED

2005-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:53:49PM +0200, vittorio wrote: As a C++ absolute beginner I'm trying to compile your testssc.c file with g++ testssc.c -o testssc (under freebsd 5.4, gcc version 3.4.2) The C and C++ languages are different. Use cc or gcc instead of g++ to compile C code. Roland

Help running shell script from cron

2005-09-09 Thread Sandy Knight
I am having trouble configuring my shell scripts to run under cron (user level, not root). I have set up a test.sh script which sends me an email, it works fine from the command line (ssh). the script is as follows: #!/bin/sh echo helloworld | mail -s helloworld [EMAIL PROTECTED] php

Re: moving everything except a directory

2005-09-09 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:40:00PM -0500, Brian John wrote: Say I am at ~ and I have 10 directories inside named 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. What command can I use to move everything but directory 2? What if I wanted to move everything but directories 2 and 7? find ~ -mindepth 1

Re: atacontrol

2005-09-09 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:54:10PM +0200, G?ran Nilsson wrote: Hi. I have recently installed Freebsd 5.4 . I have also installed a cheap raidcontroller . On the controller i put on a 200+120gb disk. In the raidcontroller i create a JBOD raid, showing me that i now have 301gb of disk.

Re: Fwd: Re: C program to write to the com port - RESOLVED

2005-09-09 Thread Helge Preuss
vittorio wrote: [...] SerialPort.C: In function `int main(int, char*)': SerialPort.C:62: error: invalid conversion from `unsigned char*' to `char*' SerialPort.C:62: error: initializing argument 1 of `int snprintf(char*, size_t, const char*, ...)' SerialPort.C:66: error: `err' undeclared

Re: Help running shell script from cron

2005-09-09 Thread jdyke
there is a possibility that the 'not found' is coming from your call to php and not that it can't find test.sh either comment out that php line, or use /full/path/to/php /home/a_user/cron/test.php HTH Jeff Sandy Knight wrote: I am having trouble configuring my shell scripts to run under cron

Re: Printing MAN pages

2005-09-09 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Stijn and everyone else, any particular preference for the text that we add? Would something like the following be ok? -t Use ``/usr/bin/groff -S -man'' to format the manual page, passing the output to stdout. The

Re: How to install Vmware5 in FreeBSD?

2005-09-09 Thread Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH
Qemu is running flawlessly on FreeBSD 5.4 here! ;) Yance Kowara schrieb: have you tried qemu? Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I'm sorry to have to inform you that vmware5 does not run on FreeBSD. Latest version available for FreeBSD is AFAIK 3.x. Greetz, Ice Kenny

Re: Help running shell script from cron

2005-09-09 Thread Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH
Always use full path in Scrips, e.g. /bin/echo ... /usr/local/bin/php .. Greetz, Ice Sandy Knight schrieb: I am having trouble configuring my shell scripts to run under cron (user level, not root). I have set up a test.sh script which sends me an email, it works fine from the

Re: Printing MAN pages

2005-09-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-09 07:36, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Stijn and everyone else, any particular preference for the text that we add? Would something like the following be ok? -t Use ``/usr/bin/groff -S -man'' to format the manual page,

Re: Help running shell script from cron

2005-09-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Sandy Knight wrote: I am having trouble configuring my shell scripts to run under cron (user level, not root). I have set up a test.sh script which sends me an email, it works fine from the command line (ssh). the script is as follows: #!/bin/sh echo helloworld | mail -s helloworld [EMAIL

Re: How to install Vmware5 in FreeBSD?

2005-09-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día viernes, septiembre 09, 2005 a las 03:41:47 +0200, Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH escribió: Qemu is running flawlessly on FreeBSD 5.4 here! ;) Yes. I've qemu version qemu-0.7.0s.20050717 up as well in my 5.4R; do you know if kqemu works as well and how I plug it in? matthias --

Re:VMWare

2005-09-09 Thread Daniel Gonzalez
Well, I have downloaded the official Vmware5 package from the official site. However, it is a Gzipped tarball rather than a normal package. I know how to install Linux RPMs in FreeBSD. But this time, I have no idea. Quite puzzled, and needing help. Many thanks in advance. Ken- Assuming

Re: question about zlib security patch

2005-09-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 09), Chantal Rosmuller said: Thanks everyone for the advice, I installed the sources and applied the patch, so I guess I took care of the zlib security issue The clamav error remained though but someone at the qmail rocks mailinglist suggested that clamav cannot see

Re: How to install Vmware5 in FreeBSD?

2005-09-09 Thread Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH
Before installing the qemu port, just edit your make.conf and add WITH_KQEMU=YES This will build and install the appropriate Module. When install is finished u can use it as usual kldload kqemu That's it! ;) GL, Ice Matthias Apitz schrieb: El día viernes, septiembre 09, 2005 a las 03:41:47

Re: How to install Vmware5 in FreeBSD?

2005-09-09 Thread Yuan Jue
On Friday 09 September 2005 22:06, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día viernes, septiembre 09, 2005 a las 03:41:47 +0200, Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH escribió: Qemu is running flawlessly on FreeBSD 5.4 here! ;) Yes. I've qemu version qemu-0.7.0s.20050717 up as well in my 5.4R; do you know if

Home Network Setup Problem

2005-09-09 Thread deltaski
Thank you all, who have considered this message! I am learning BSD with 3 successful units. 1-100mhz pent. running 4.11 1-180mhz pent. running 5.4 and one 266mhz AMD running 5.4 I have learned the ins and outs of X, changing rc.conf and am quite good at reinstalling the system after a few

Re: Home Network Setup Problem

2005-09-09 Thread Greg Barniskis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all, who have considered this message! I am learning BSD with 3 successful units. 1-100mhz pent. running 4.11 1-180mhz pent. running 5.4 and one 266mhz AMD running 5.4 I have learned the ins and outs of X, changing rc.conf and am quite good at reinstalling

Re: Home Network Setup Problem

2005-09-09 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 09 September 2005 07:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all, who have considered this message! I am learning BSD with 3 successful units. 1-100mhz pent. running 4.11 1-180mhz pent. running 5.4 and one 266mhz AMD running 5.4 I have learned the ins and outs of X, changing

Re: Porting from LInux to FreeBSD

2005-09-09 Thread RW
On Thursday 08 September 2005 11:25, Subhro wrote: Deepak Naidu sat at his 'puter and typed on 9/8/2005 15:16: ... for mailing server. I used raiserfs in linux. Which ... Just something off topic, did you have any reasons for using ReiserFS in Linux and not use EXT2/3? See:

Recompiled freebsd 5.4 cannot boot up with geom_mirror

2005-09-09 Thread Ng Pek Yong
Hi, I am having some problem with geom_mirror on a freebsd 5.4. I followed the steps described in http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and got geom_mirror up on a stock freebsd 5.4, including / partition itself. The problem came when I compiled the kernel. After pulling in the latest source

Re: Stupid working too late..

2005-09-09 Thread Vizion
On Thursday 08 September 2005 21:35, the author Glenn Dawson contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Stupid working too late..: At 08:58 PM 9/8/2005, Vizion wrote: OK Here is what I did before i packed up - having been working late just changed ownerships of files in a virtual web chown -R www

Re: Porting from LInux to FreeBSD

2005-09-09 Thread RW
On Thursday 08 September 2005 10:46, Deepak Naidu wrote: 2)How to i find memory, cpu information in freebsd, apart from TOP. In linux we have free and /pro/cpuinfo. I dont see any files under /proc On the subject of /proc see: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/01/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html

Re: hi list

2005-09-09 Thread Miguel Cárdenas
hello go to http://www.mysql.com and download the sources (4.1) and in the FreeBSD section in downloads take a look at FreeBSD downloads (platform notes), click on platform notes. basicly, the only difference with compilation under FreeBSD is the way you configure the makefiles and

Re: dhcrelay is setting the relay ip address wrong

2005-09-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ihsan Dogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, input from this socket is dropped. See 'fallback_discard' in common/socket.c. You're railing against a very commonly reported problem. The IO system was designed for the server

Re: pptp using tun0 to work

2005-09-09 Thread Eric Schuele
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Hi, I'm on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386 pptpclient-1.5.0 installed via pkg_add -r GENERIC kernel for now. cat /etc/ppp/ppp.conf LSI: set authname pgollucci set authkey xxx set timeout 0 set ifaddr 0 0 add w.x.y.z/24 alias enable yes as root user: route

software updating for multiple machines

2005-09-09 Thread dave
Hello, I've got four physical machines, all running 5.4, three of them have between 1 and 3 jails on them, and all have similar software installed. Updating each box and jail manually is becoming tedious manually, even with portupgrade saving my make options. I was wondering if anyone had a

Re: Home Network Setup Problem

2005-09-09 Thread deltaski
On Friday 09 September 2005 09:52 am, you wrote: Answers to requested information: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all, who have considered this message! I am learning BSD with 3 successful units. 1-100mhz pent. running 4.11 1-180mhz pent. running 5.4 and one 266mhz AMD running 5.4

Re: Home Network Setup Problem

2005-09-09 Thread deltaski
On Friday 09 September 2005 09:58 am, you wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 07:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all, who have considered this message! I am learning BSD with 3 successful units. 1-100mhz pent. running 4.11 1-180mhz pent. running 5.4 and one 266mhz AMD running 5.4

RE: Recommendations on Proliant DL-360 server with FreeBSD?

2005-09-09 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Your not going to find much because when people don't have problems with something they generally don't post about it. Also, there's a couple different hardware configurations for the DL360, that model number is kind of a catchall. The biggest complaint about these is with the SCSI RAID

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 sparc64 netboot install?

2005-09-09 Thread Robert Slade
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 07:08, Aaron Glenn wrote: On 9/8/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:48:56PM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote: If you can point me to a resource I've overlooked, please do so. I would greatly appreciate a hit with the cluestick on this one.

Fingerprint Reader?

2005-09-09 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Does anyone know of a fingerprint reader that has been successfully used with FBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

need more info

2005-09-09 Thread Nathansm
What exactly is FreeBSD? Can it be used by the computer beginner or do you need to be a very knowledgable computer user? Is it compatible with my computer? It is a compaq presario 5000 series with an AMD Duron 750MHz processor. ___

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-09-09 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2005-09-09 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

php compile options

2005-09-09 Thread Vizion
Hi Some compile configuration questions: 1. When php5 is compiled from ports I understand a file is generated to hold the compiled options. On my system there is a file with the following data: dns1# cat /var/db/ports/php5/options # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'. # No

Will USB serial ever be fixed?

2005-09-09 Thread Paul Marciano
I have a general question on the status of USB to serial support in FreeBSD (specifically the ucom and ftdi drivers). I need an extra serial port on my system and for reasons outside the scope of this email I can't just plug in a PCI card. I'm trying to use USB, but it seems that ucom is broken

Beta-3 Install

2005-09-09 Thread Pablo Ruggia
Hi !! Just a simple Question. If I install Freebsd Beta 3, will I be allowed to update easyly all applications when freebsd 6.0 becomes final released. Thanks !! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Beta-3 Install

2005-09-09 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Pablo Ruggia wrote: If I install Freebsd Beta 3, will I be allowed to update easyly all applications when freebsd 6.0 becomes final released. Beta 4 is out, so you might as well skip ahead to that. It is a well described process to upgrade, and only minor changes will be applided to the

Re: need more info

2005-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:56:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly is FreeBSD? See the freeBSD homepage: http://www.freebsd.org/ Can it be used by the computer beginner or do you need to be a very knowledgable computer user? Some knowledge definitely comes in handy. For an

Re: software updating for multiple machines

2005-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:39:59AM -0400, dave wrote: Hello, I've got four physical machines, all running 5.4, three of them have between 1 and 3 jails on them, and all have similar software installed. Updating each box and jail manually is becoming tedious manually, even with portupgrade

Re: php compile options

2005-09-09 Thread Vizion
On Friday 09 September 2005 09:59, the author Vizion contributed to the dialogue on- php compile options: Hi Some compile configuration questions: 1. When php5 is compiled from ports I understand a file is generated to hold the compiled options. On my system there is a file with the

Re: need more info

2005-09-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
What exactly is FreeBSD? Can it be used by the computer beginner or do you need to be a very knowledgable computer user? Is it compatible with my computer? It is a compaq presario 5000 series with an AMD Duron 750MHz processor. FreeBSD is an operating system. If you are familiar with

sysctl or system tweak for symbolic links?

2005-09-09 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Hi, Using FreeBSD_6.0_Beta4 (applies to Beta2, also). I'm trying to track down a problem I've been having with apache-2.0.54 not following symbolic links. It's basically come down to my being able to follow the link if it's in the same directory structure (ie: .. or /path/to/..), but fails

Re: php compile options

2005-09-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Vizion wrote: Hi Some compile configuration questions: 1. When php5 is compiled from ports I understand a file is generated to hold the compiled options. On my system there is a file with the following data: dns1# cat /var/db/ports/php5/options # This file is auto-generated by 'make

Re: Beta-3 Install

2005-09-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:34:01PM -0300, Pablo Ruggia wrote: Hi !! Just a simple Question. If I install Freebsd Beta 3, will I be allowed to update easyly all applications when freebsd 6.0 becomes final released. The only changes that will occur to the third-party applications shipped

Re: tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date

2005-09-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gareth Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a directory I want to backup at /usr/dir_a/dir_b. I want to back the content of this dir to /usr/backups/dir_b so I tried the following: # cd /usr/backups/dir_b # tar -cf dir_b.tar /usr/dir_a/dir_b Now I have dir_b.tar which is 65MB in

Re: need more info

2005-09-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:56:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly is FreeBSD? See the freeBSD homepage: http://www.freebsd.org/ Can it be used by the computer beginner or do you need to be a very knowledgable computer user? Some

keyboard bug?

2005-09-09 Thread Lucas Galete
i have a nootebook toshiba satellite a20. i've installed the freebsd 5.4-release with the X and enliigghtenment.. buut sometimes when I press a key, this''s show twice onn screen. (just readind this email you'll seen what's goinng wroonng here! ) i hhave no ideia whhat is going on... theree is

Re: php compile options

2005-09-09 Thread Vizion
On Friday 09 September 2005 11:13, the author Kevin Kinsey contributed to the dialogue on- Re: php compile options: Vizion wrote: Hi Some compile configuration questions: 1. When php5 is compiled from ports I understand a file is generated to hold the compiled options. On my system there

fwcontrol: unknown format 0x1e

2005-09-09 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Hi, I am trying to transfer digital video over firewire from my camera (Canon MXV200, PAL) to my laptop using fwcontrol, but whenever I try I get something like this: # fwcontrol -R tmp/test.dv (EAGAIN) (EAGAIN) fwcontrol: unknown format 0x1e If I first press play then run the command I get:

Fibre Channel disks to two Systems?

2005-09-09 Thread Danny Howard
[NOTE: If posting followup, please mind the cross-post to -questions and -scsi.] Hello, We host our PostgreSQL database on FreeBSD. Until now, we have just built the beefiest DB server we can spec, and then dump the data every thirty minutes to a backup DB server, so if the primary DB

Re: Will USB serial ever be fixed?

2005-09-09 Thread Frank Mayhar
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 10:09 -0700, Paul Marciano wrote: I have a general question on the status of USB to serial support in FreeBSD (specifically the ucom and ftdi drivers). I need an extra serial port on my system and for reasons outside the scope of this email I can't just plug in a PCI

Can't execute a script

2005-09-09 Thread bob self
I have a simple test script called 'scripttest' in /root/bin: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 121 Sep 9 14:55 scripttest my $PATH IS /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:*/root/bin* #!/bin/sh echo pinging #end of scripttest If I run

MYSQLD mysql-server for 5.2.1

2005-09-09 Thread John Do
I installed mysql-server and mysql-clients but can't find the mysqld executable to start the mysql server. What is it that I'm missing? Thanks guys __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca

Can't access db with pgaccess

2005-09-09 Thread stan
I'm install postgress V7 on a 5..4-STABLE machine. I;ve installed it from ports, and I've added myself as a user, and created a database. I can access this database using psql dbname and all works fine. I can't seem to get pgaccess to connect at all. I;ve checked and sockstat reports: pgsql

RE: Serial Port data dumping program

2005-09-09 Thread Ian Smith
Hi Paul, catching up on a week's digests .. and seeig no further messages on this topic so far, I don't know whether you've sorted this out yet. Anyway.. Message: 20 Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 17:32:41 +0800 From: Paul Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Serial Port data dumping program

Re: Home Network Setup Problem

2005-09-09 Thread Greg Barniskis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it a switch, is it a router, or is it really both (high end thingy like Cisco 35xx?). Probably it is just a plain old switch with no routing capabilities. To avoid confusion, you should call it what it is. Oh my, sorry. It is an 8-port 10/100Mbps Ethernet Switch!

Re: Will USB serial ever be fixed?

2005-09-09 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Paul Marciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So without wanting to offend (whilst secretly being pretty frustrated with the corner I find myself in) I would like to know, hopefully from someone responsible for the subsystem, if ucom/ftdi is likely to be fixed in the next six months. You can

Re: Can't execute a script

2005-09-09 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:01 PM 9/9/2005, bob self wrote: I have a simple test script called 'scripttest' in /root/bin: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 121 Sep 9 14:55 scripttest my $PATH IS /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:*/root/bin* #!/bin/sh echo

Re: Will USB serial ever be fixed?

2005-09-09 Thread Warner Losh
Be honest. Be brutal. I need to know where FreeBSD stands on this. Personal opinion: You overstate the probelems, and have a bad attitude. More details: I use umodem + ucom all the time for connecting to the internet on my laptop. I've had exactly 0 problems doing this for the past 4

Re: Can't execute a script

2005-09-09 Thread bob self
Glenn Dawson wrote: Assuming you're using csh, did you rehash after creating the script? Did you try to execute it with it's full path? like: /root/bin/scripttest -Glenn Yes, I did 'rehash'. I'm running tcsh as root, FreeBSD 6.0. Also, I ran /root/bin/scripttest and I still get command not

Re: Will USB serial ever be fixed?

2005-09-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:59 PM 09/09/2005, Frank Mayhar wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 10:09 -0700, Paul Marciano wrote: I have a general question on the status of USB to serial support in FreeBSD (specifically the ucom and ftdi drivers). I need an extra serial port on my system and for reasons outside the

Re: Home Network Setup Problem

2005-09-09 Thread deltaski
On Friday 09 September 2005 02:14 pm, Greg Barniskis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it a switch, is it a router, or is it really both (high end thingy like Cisco 35xx?). Probably it is just a plain old switch with no routing capabilities. To avoid confusion, you should call it what it is.

onboard sata raid freebsd 5.4 need help

2005-09-09 Thread jstarng
I have the OS installed on an IDE and i want to add two drives for RAID-0 striping (1 large drive). They are two 200GB maxtor SATA HDD's i plugged them in, and used the bios utility to create the array. when i start Freebsd i can see the MB's onboard controller listed in dmesg as: atapci0

Re: Can't execute a script

2005-09-09 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 9/9/2005 11:01, bob self seems to have typed: If I run which scripttest, I get /root/bin/scripttest But if I try to run this test script I get scripttest: Command not found. Its a stupid thought, but could you run which sh? ___

Re: Can't execute a script

2005-09-09 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:49 PM 9/9/2005, bob self wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: Assuming you're using csh, did you rehash after creating the script? Did you try to execute it with it's full path? like: /root/bin/scripttest -Glenn Yes, I did 'rehash'. I'm running tcsh as root, FreeBSD 6.0. Also, I ran

Re: onboard sata raid freebsd 5.4 need help

2005-09-09 Thread jstarng
*mans atacontrol then types: atacontrol RAID0 512 ad4 ad6 wowwy... ... now will i have to do this each time i reboot or is there something i can do in fstab or something to have it start the raid automatically? On 9/9/05, jstarng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the OS installed on an IDE

Re: onboard sata raid freebsd 5.4 need help

2005-09-09 Thread jstarng
atacontrol create RAID0 512 ad4 ad6 ..rather On 9/9/05, jstarng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *mans atacontrol then types: atacontrol create RAID0 512 ad4 ad6 wowwy... ... now will i have to do this each time i reboot or is there something i can do in fstab or something to have it

Re: Can't execute a script

2005-09-09 Thread bob self
Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 9/9/2005 11:01, bob self seems to have typed: If I run which scripttest, I get /root/bin/scripttest But if I try to run this test script I get scripttest: Command not found. Its a stupid thought, but could you run which sh? [EMAIL PROTECTED]/bin#

Re: Can't execute a script

2005-09-09 Thread bob self
Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 9/9/2005 11:01, bob self seems to have typed: If I run which scripttest, I get /root/bin/scripttest But if I try to run this test script I get scripttest: Command not found. Its a stupid thought, but could you run which sh?

dhcp client in freebsd 6 beta

2005-09-09 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
Hi people i upgrade my system from 5.4 to 6 Beta 4 and i am using dhclient for my network card i boot without problems get my IP, etc etc but if i do /etc/rc.d/dhclient stop , or start nothing happens . in 5.4 this works perfectly i Know that freebsd changes the dhclient but now how can i

Re: php compile options

2005-09-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Vizion wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 11:13, the author Kevin Kinsey contributed to the dialogue on- Re: php compile options: Vizion wrote: I do wish thiss kind of info was documented, for every port in Port_Install.readme or something similar- I have spent ages trying to get

Re: Can't execute a script

2005-09-09 Thread N.J. Thomas
* bob self [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-09-09 15:01:25 -0400]: #!/bin/sh echo pinging #end of scripttest If I run which scripttest, I get /root/bin/scripttest But if I try to run this test script I get scripttest: Command not found. Why is that happening? I've seen something like this

Re: keyboard bug?

2005-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:38:29PM +, Lucas Galete wrote: i have a nootebook toshiba satellite a20. i've installed the freebsd 5.4-release with the X and enliigghtenment.. buut sometimes when I press a key, this''s show twice onn screen. (just readind this email you'll seen what's

lphp extensions compile error libmagic

2005-09-09 Thread Vizion
Can anyone advise please With so many magic packages I am uncertain which packages to reinstall when I get the following error in # cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions. dns1# make config . . . dns1# make === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Found saved configuration for

Re: php compile options

2005-09-09 Thread Vizion
On Friday 09 September 2005 14:21, the author Kevin Kinsey contributed to the dialogue on- Re: php compile options: Vizion wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 11:13, the author Kevin Kinsey contributed to the dialogue on- Re: php compile options: Vizion wrote: I do wish thiss kind of info

Re: MYSQLD mysql-server for 5.2.1

2005-09-09 Thread Miguel Cárdenas
Try to find mysql* using find command, maybe the location is not included into the PATH variable, so you should do it in ~/.profile or something like regards I installed mysql-server and mysql-clients but can't find the mysqld executable to start the mysql server. What is it that I'm

Re: lphp extensions compile error libmagic

2005-09-09 Thread Vizion
On Friday 09 September 2005 14:37, the author Vizion contributed to the dialogue on- lphp extensions compile error libmagic: Can anyone advise please With so many magic packages I am uncertain which packages to reinstall when I get the following error in # cd

/dev/mem /dev/kmem jails and using netstat -r and snmp

2005-09-09 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Hi all, I seem to be a bit stuck here. I seem to need access to /dev/mem and /dev/kmem from inside a jail . Specifically to be able to use netstat –r and snmp in jailed environments. I’m running FBSD 5.4-RELEASE. Could anyone help me shed some light on this problem ? Thanks. Regards,

USB2 on 5.3 and 5.4

2005-09-09 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
Hi, Hardware: A7N266 motherbord (USB1.1) USB2 PCI card (USB2) IDE-USB2 converter OS: FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4 HDD is detected as da0. I always get USB1.1. In dmesg speed is shown as 1 Mbps. Did 'dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=10240' on one terminal and on other one 'iostat -w 1 da0'. The speed

Re: dhcp client in freebsd 6 beta

2005-09-09 Thread Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH
The Script needs the Interface as second argument, e.g. /etc/rc.d/dhclient stop fxp0 Greetz, Ice Osmany Guirola Cruz schrieb: Hi people i upgrade my system from 5.4 to 6 Beta 4 and i am using dhclient for my network card i boot without problems get my IP, etc etc but if i do

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