Re: Stand-alone GRUB HELP

2005-09-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 12, 2005, at 2:17 PM, John Do wrote: Hi Glen, Thanks for the reply I tried the following and there was no change to the boot menu: boot0cfg -B -s 5 ad0 boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2 All I can say is, have you read the handbook yet, and please bottom post from now on in emails.

Re: can't install /sysutils/dvd+rw-tools

2005-09-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
The only problem I see with that is cjk-cdrtools has built in internationalization for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean input somehow, so watch out because you might want to built a compatible version of dvdrw+tools from ports with internationalization enabled in that way. -Garrett

Re: Deleting directories

2005-09-12 Thread Ivailo Bonev
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:21:40 +0300, Rem P Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one go about deleting directories and their contents? RMDIR will only delete empty directories. Thanks, Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Stand-alone GRUB HELP

2005-09-12 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:17 PM 9/11/2005, John Do wrote: Hi Glen, Thanks for the reply I tried the following and there was no change to the boot menu: boot0cfg -B -s 5 ad0 boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2 What does boot0cfg -v show for the two disks you have? Output from fdisk and bsdlabel for both would be helpful

tcpdump problem

2005-09-12 Thread bannour souha
Hello, I am working on PPPoE. I use FreeBSD 5.3. I want to capture packets from the interfaces eth and ppp. I used for that this command tcpdump -e -i rl0 -n -s0 -w /home/dump_eth when I analyse the packets with ethereal, I have all details, but when I read the content of the file dump_eth

Re: Unable to Replace Currently Running IPF Rules With IPF Command

2005-09-12 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Bob Perry thusly... I notice that when I attempt to replace the currently running ruleset, my system (FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE) is unable to recognize the file name. For instance, the command, ipf -Fa -f /etc/ipf.rules results in 26: unknown words at end: [/],

Re: tcpdump problem

2005-09-12 Thread Peter Matulis
You do not have all the details with ethereal. That's because you are *telling* tcpdump not to sniff them. You are instructing it to take just the headers with the '-s' switch (zero payload: -s0). Try 1500 instead of 0 and you will get what you desire. -- Peter --- bannour souha [EMAIL

Re: printer causing computer to reboot

2005-09-12 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Peter Matulis thusly... Hi, I am running FreeBSD 5.4. I have upgraded my ports and recompiled the system and kernel. I have a USB laser printer (Lexmark E310) that is recognized automatically when attached. (That allows use of parallel port too.)

bus error on build/ portupgrade is doing nothing

2005-09-12 Thread Axel . Gruner
Hi, two questions: (1) bus error I receive the following output on each port i try to upgrade. So, i thought it could be a problem of RAM, after changing the RAM twice, the problem ist still there, so what could be the problem? #portupgrade unzip --- Upgrading 'unzip-5.52_1' to 'unzip-5.52_2'

Re: Laptop questions

2005-09-12 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Jerry McAllister thusly... I have had good success using Partition Magic from PowerQuest to manipulate disk slices including NTFS types. Same here. Unless you are working on a separate disk from the one you are booting the machine you cannot run from the

Is anxiety becoming too much for you? Valiu_m is just what you're looking for, locksmith thither

2005-09-12 Thread Mohammad Reza Derakhshan
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RFP from Mediaexpertts.com

2005-09-12 Thread Vaidheeswaran S
Hi, This is Vaidhy(Vaidheeswaran) from India,running a small but well-organised,professional Multimedia development setup in Chennai, India. Our content development team is pretty strong and we promise, we can deliver 100% quality products. We have delivered quiet a few projects for clients

Antwort: Re: bus error on build/ portupgrade is doing nothing

2005-09-12 Thread Axel . Gruner
Hi, bus error I receive the following output on each port i try to upgrade. So, i thought it could be a problem of RAM, after changing the RAM twice, the problem ist still there, so what could be the problem? #portupgrade unzip --- Upgrading 'unzip-5.52_1' to 'unzip-5.52_2' (archivers/unzip)

Re: tcpdump problem

2005-09-12 Thread bannour souha
I tried using -XX and -s1500 like it was advised by Peter, but the problem persists : I have the content of the PPP Compressed packets, but I haven't the content of the RTP packets not compressed. My work consists on compressing a video stream before sending it and I capture the packets to

Special Hardware Request: SAN-boot

2005-09-12 Thread mgedv online
dear list, i wrote a similar mail a few weeks ago. today i can specify more precisly what we want: we are an ISP and search for working SAN solutions, where we can setup SAN-storage disks as root disks for freebsd installations which are detected as SCSI devices by freebsd and where we can boot

Re: can't install /sysutils/dvd+rw-tools

2005-09-12 Thread bob self
My solution was to completely de-install gnome2 and it's associated ports. That removed about 100 ports. It's hard to believe that gnome would take over the system so thoroughly. Fluxbox works fine for me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

building parallel builds of mysql40 and mysql41

2005-09-12 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I'm presently running mysql40-server from ports. I'd like to jump up to mysql41-server. However, Ive tried to build the port for the new one before the old one is deinstalled (just so the dbs dont have to be down during a long build) and the ports tree doesn't seem to like this.

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird

2005-09-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Michael Louie Loria wrote: I solve the problem by deleting compreg.dat but it is too tiresome to delete compreg.dat everytime I had to open firefox and thunderbird. I have no clue about the underlying problem but you could make life a little less frustrating before you find a fix with

Problems making CD backups

2005-09-12 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
I'm trying to use a cron script with mkisofs and burncd every weekend. But after taking a long time to do nothing, burncd never returns from burning and fixating the CD, and looking at the CD itself shows no recorded area reflecting. Trying to mount the CD gives a 'device busy' error. Is my

Re: Laptop questions

2005-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Jerry McAllister thusly... I have had good success using Partition Magic from PowerQuest to manipulate disk slices including NTFS types. Same here. Unless you are working on a separate disk from the one you are booting the machine you cannot

make creates a make.core each time

2005-09-12 Thread james.power
Hi, I was trying to install rote and anyterm. I tried to do a make on the /usr/ports/devel/rote I got the following error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rote]# make = rote-0.2.6.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch from

gcc broken in my userland

2005-09-12 Thread Axel . Gruner
Hi, i am running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6. If i try ro upgrade a port, i receive a bus error from gcc. So i installed the gcc34 from the ports, did the changes in /etc/make.conf, and upgrading of the ports works fine. The problem is, how to build the world if the gcc in the base system is broken?

Re: Problems making CD backups

2005-09-12 Thread Fabian Keil
Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use a cron script with mkisofs and burncd every weekend. But after taking a long time to do nothing, burncd never returns from burning and fixating the CD, and looking at the CD itself shows no recorded area reflecting. Trying to

5.4-RELEASE and VMWare 3.2.1 build-2242

2005-09-12 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hi, I've compiled the VMware support in 5.4R from the ports collection /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3: PORTNAME= vmware3 PORTVERSION=3.2.1.2242 After installing and fixing a bug in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/001.vmware.sh where is a line networking= and later asked the variable with:

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird

2005-09-12 Thread Michael Louie Loria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 alias firefox '/bin/rm ~/wherever/you/get/to/compreg.dat; /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox' and similar for thunderbird. - - I'm currently using your suggestion Alex and thunderbird w/ enigmail works perfectly Here's the log when I run the

Re: tftpd does not respond to connections

2005-09-12 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:01:23PM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote: This has got me thoroughly stumped. On both stock FreeBSD 4.9 and FreeBSD 5.4 installs, tftpd does not and will not work. I uncomment out the first tftpd line found in /etc/inetd.conf, kill -HUP `/var/run/inetd.pid` and then attempt

Re: one answer

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/11/05, legalois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: legalois wrote: I've been using FreeBSD for quite a few years, and I've sometimes wondered but never asked before: In the FreeBSD standard distribution, why is the user root always named Charlie? There must be some bit of Unix lore or

centralized address book

2005-09-12 Thread Jerod Prothe
My organization lost its Exchange server, and now users are wanting to have a common address book that they call all use, so anyone can start typing Joe Blo.. and his address pops up in their mail client. They're all using Outlook and I was thinking - is this a job for openldap? I haven't

Re: Recompiled freebsd 5.4 cannot boot up with geom_mirror

2005-09-12 Thread Ng Pek Yong
--- Christian Hiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 10 September 2005 04:06:04, Ng Pek Yong wrote: --- Christian Hiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 17:04:17, Ng Pek Yong wrote: Hi, I am having some problem with geom_mirror on a

Re: centralized address book

2005-09-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jerod Prothe wrote: My organization lost its Exchange server, and now users are wanting to have a common address book that they call all use, so anyone can start typing Joe Blo.. and his address pops up in their mail client. They're all using Outlook and I was thinking - is this a job for

problem with 'make installkernel' over NFS on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Chalmers
Hi, I am in the process of trying to do an update of kernel and world on an old machine (machine A), using a newer, faster, machine (machine B). Machine B is set up as an NFS server for machine A. The /etc/exports file on machine B inculdes: /usr -maproot=root:0 -alldirs -network 192.168.0.0

Re: PL 5000 Random Reboots

2005-09-12 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 09:56, Robert Slade wrote: Hi, I have been having problems with random reboots when using the SMP Kernel on the above Quad processor machine. It occurs with bot 5.4 and 6.0B4. It does not happen with a single processor kernel, well not in the last 12 hours.

Re: Laptop questions

2005-09-12 Thread Derrill Guilbert
Jerry McAllister wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Jerry McAllister thusly... I have had good success using Partition Magic from PowerQuest to manipulate disk slices including NTFS types. Same here. Unless you are working on a separate disk from the one you are

Re: gcc broken in my userland

2005-09-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 03:04:07PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i am running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6. If i try ro upgrade a port, i receive a bus error from gcc. So i installed the gcc34 from the ports, did the changes in /etc/make.conf, and upgrading of the ports works fine. The

Which CPUTYPE?

2005-09-12 Thread Kiffin Gish
I'm a bit confused which CPUTYPE I should be using in the make.conf file. For my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop, dmesg shows the following: CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz (1993.54 686-class CPU) and for my web server, dmesg shows the same thing although is has a AMD

5.4 SSH Timeout help

2005-09-12 Thread Sean Murphy
I am using FreeBSD 5.4 I SSH into the server with no problem and I'm able to do work however when I walk away from my desk SSH closes the session. It seems the timeout is 5 or 10 min how can I change this setting for all of our users? Thanks, Sean

Shell scripting question

2005-09-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
I've written a script to check apache to make sure it's running *and* logging. One of the variables I create is named DATEHOUR, and it's created by parsing the output of date in such a way that all I get is the hour (using awk and cut.) I'm comparing DATEHOUR to LOGHOUR, which represents the

Re: Which CPUTYPE?

2005-09-12 Thread richard cinema
try the cpucaps,which is good for check your cpu abilities. On 9/13/05, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit confused which CPUTYPE I should be using in the make.conf file. For my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop, dmesg shows the following: CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU

Re: Which CPUTYPE?

2005-09-12 Thread richard cinema
or if you can access a windows install, use cpuz do it On 9/13/05, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit confused which CPUTYPE I should be using in the make.conf file. For my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop, dmesg shows the following: CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz

Re: Shell scripting question

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH
To get the date in the right format you could simply use date +%H Greetz, Ice Paul Schmehl schrieb: I've written a script to check apache to make sure it's running *and* logging. One of the variables I create is named DATEHOUR, and it's created by parsing the output of date in such a way

Re: 5.4 SSH Timeout help

2005-09-12 Thread Will Maier
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:24:19AM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: I SSH into the server with no problem and I'm able to do work however when I walk away from my desk SSH closes the session. It seems the timeout is 5 or 10 min how can I change this setting for all of our users? What shell are the

Re: Which CPUTYPE?

2005-09-12 Thread Charles Swiger
On Sep 12, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Kiffin Gish wrote: CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz (1993.54 686- class CPU) and for my web server, dmesg shows the same thing although is has a AMD Sempron 1800BOX3100+ I see in the documentation that CPUTYPE=i686 is for older Pentium

Re: problem with 'make installkernel' over NFS on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Chalmers
Oops, Forgot to mention that after mounting /usr/src and /usr/obj on the client machine, that I had issued the 'shutdown' command, as per the Handbook Thanks! --- Stuart Chalmers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am in the process of trying to do an update of kernel and world on an old

Floppy MBR? Compaq Proliant 3000

2005-09-12 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I have a compaq proliant 3000 E39 and have FreeBSD installed to a 40G IDE drive I installed. It lets me install anyithing I want but the BIOS/Firmware will not support booting from teh IDE HD's. I want to keep the SCSI array for clean data on this server. How do I go about actually booting with

Re: Shell scripting question

2005-09-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, September 12, 2005 20:37:22 +0200 Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To get the date in the right format you could simply use date +%H That solves one-half of the problem. I would still have to get the hour from the file into the correct format. Otherwise

pkg_add -r not working

2005-09-12 Thread jean
Hi All, I have newly installed FreeBSD, but seem to be having a problem with pkg_add, when I use pkg_add -r then package name I get an error: pkg_add -r nano Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest /nano.tbz: File unavailable (e.g.,

Re: Shell scripting question

2005-09-12 Thread David Kirchner
On 9/12/05, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I strip the leading character from the string so that I can test to see if it's zero? This'll strip the 0, while leaving other numbers intact: $ X=09 $ echo ${X#0} 9 ___

Re: pkg_add -r not working

2005-09-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:06:59PM +0100, jean wrote: Hi All, I have newly installed FreeBSD, but seem to be having a problem with pkg_add, when I use pkg_add -r then package name I get an error: pkg_add -r nano Error: FTP Unable to get

Re: pkg_add -r not working

2005-09-12 Thread Josh Ockert
jean wrote: Hi All, I have newly installed FreeBSD, but seem to be having a problem with pkg_add, when I use pkg_add -r then package name I get an error: pkg_add -r nano Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest /nano.tbz: File

Re: 5.4 SSH Timeout help

2005-09-12 Thread Sean Murphy
Will Maier wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:24:19AM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: I SSH into the server with no problem and I'm able to do work however when I walk away from my desk SSH closes the session. It seems the timeout is 5 or 10 min how can I change this setting for all of our users?

Re: Shell scripting question

2005-09-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, September 12, 2005 13:17:05 -0700 David Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/05, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I strip the leading character from the string so that I can test to see if it's zero? This'll strip the 0, while leaving other numbers intact: $

HP Pavillion laptop work with any version of FreeBSD?

2005-09-12 Thread WOB
I have never been able to get through an install of either 5.4 or 6.0 on my HP Pavillion zv5445us laptop. Trying to install 5.4 would poweroff the latop, and 6.0 hangs during the install. I have not tried 4.10, and was hoping I wouldn't have to. I had tried earlier version of 5.x when

RE: FreeBSD 4.11 minimal install man pages

2005-09-12 Thread David Christensen
Gary W. Swearingen wrote: See what manpath command gives you. If bad, read it's manpage. Thanks for your reply. :-) The machine has been acting flaky, so I downloaded and burned the hard drive diagnostic ISO and found out that *both* of my Quantum LPS 240's are bad. That would explain the

Re: Unable to Replace Currently Running IPF Rules With IPF Command

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Perry
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 03:54 -0400, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Bob Perry thusly... I notice that when I attempt to replace the currently running ruleset, my system (FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE) is unable to recognize the file name. For instance, the command, ipf -Fa -f

memory test off of a 'DISK-ON-KEY' device ... ?

2005-09-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm trying to run some tests on a new server that I'm putting together, and would like to run some memory tests ... I found memtest86, but it runs on floppies, which doesn't help me, since I don't have a floppy drive on this thing :( I've been doing my BIOS updates using a bootable USB

Firefox Java

2005-09-12 Thread Beecher Rintoul
I am attempting to get java working with firefox. I have both jdk 1.4 and 1.5 installed. Per google, I symlinked libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins, but firefox doesn't work with either jdk. No errors, just comes up saying plugin required. What else do I need to do? I'd

Re: grab video and sound bktr

2005-09-12 Thread Gunter Wambaugh
Ok, so I confirmed that the sound from my tv card is fed into the line in on my sound card. I set the recording source to line and adjusted the volume levels so that my mixer looks is thus: Recording source: line Mixer vol is currently set to 50:50 Mixer pcm is currently set to

pptp microsoft vpn

2005-09-12 Thread Gunter Wambaugh
I am sending this again because I haven't gotten any responses. I refuse to believe that everyone on this mailing list has the good fortune of NOT using M$ VPNs. Someone out there is just as unlucky as I am. All I am asking for is an example ppp.conf, or alternative. It doesn't have to

Re: Unable to Replace Currently Running IPF Rules With IPF Command

2005-09-12 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Bob Perry thusly... On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 03:54 -0400, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Bob Perry thusly... I notice that when I attempt to replace the currently running ruleset, my system (FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE) is unable to

Re: pptp microsoft vpn

2005-09-12 Thread WOB
I had a thread on 8/31/2005 about getting VPN to work, maybe it will help: Is there a way to connect to a Microsoft VPN? I had left the domain out of my login. I ending up using pptpclient. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Web forum tools -recomendations please

2005-09-12 Thread Chris St Denis
Pre 2.0 has some major security problems that have no patches available. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Virus Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 10:26 AM To: Vizion; freebsd Subject: Re: Web forum tools -recomendations please Vizion

Fixing a MBR (and more) that ??? trashed

2005-09-12 Thread Gayn Winters
I recently installed Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 5.4 on an old HP Pavilion XG836. [The FreeBSD installation was a breeze (Kudos to the FBSD hardware team), while w2k was a disaster! But, that's another story...] For reasons of space and cabling (it is a very small box) I put the CD as the master

Re: Unable to Replace Currently Running IPF Rules With IPF Command

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Perry
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 00:24 -0400, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Bob Perry thusly... On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 03:54 -0400, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Bob Perry thusly... I notice that when I attempt to replace the currently running

Re: memory test off of a 'DISK-ON-KEY' device ... ?

2005-09-12 Thread Will Maier
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 01:03:08AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm trying to run some tests on a new server that I'm putting together, and would like to run some memory tests ... I found memtest86, but it runs on floppies, which doesn't help me, since I don't have a floppy drive on this

usb advice

2005-09-12 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
FreeBSD-ers, I'm putting together a new amd64 system and would like to get some feedback on using USB for devices. I have a machine with six USB ports (two on the front) and I would like to use them much as I would on a windows machine. The machine will sit (mostly) as a headless server and only