KBD_INSTALL_CDEV in kernel config. What for?

2005-11-03 Thread Rob
Hi, In the kernel config file there is a line options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev I do have this line in my kernel config, but no such thing as 'CDEV' in the /dev directory. There is /dev/devctl and /dev/devstat, but I don't think that is related, or is it? Can I remove

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
This is not funny at all since Windows viruses often use these reserved DOS devices to hide themselves, see the following: http://www.seifried.org/security/advisories/kssa-010.html Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aggelos Sent:

custom kernel problem

2005-11-03 Thread Laslo Holifeld
Hi there, I have a problem running my custom kernel on 5.4 fbsd. It compiles and loads properly but during hardware setup I get following errors: ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out Hire is my configuration: (any idea?) # # GENERIC

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:32:20PM -0700 or thereabouts, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Even though I was in favor of a logo being made for FreeBSD (we can keep beastie as a mascot), the winner is not what I would call a good logo for the purposes for which logos are used...

sk0: watchdog timeout

2005-11-03 Thread Vladimir Dvorak
Hello, I have a problem with network card. From time to time kernel says sk0: watchdog timeout It has (probably) random behavior. I use FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8, motherboard is ASUS A8V Deluxe (AMD64, Athlon64XP 3200+) and internal network card from pciconf -v -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10:0:

PC card has no functions!

2005-11-03 Thread gabriel n/a
Im sure that this problem has been solved before but looking through all the other posts i cant seem to find any information about it. i just installed freebsd 5.4 i386 on my old ibm thinkpad. now that im starting to get familiar with this new operating system i want to be able to

Re: Upgrading 4.11-STABLE to 5.4-STABLE

2005-11-03 Thread Krzysztof Nakielski
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:07:25PM +, Chris Howells wrote: Hi, I want to upgrade my 4.11-STABLE server to 5.4-STABLE. I'm very used to using cvsup to upgrade between minor releases (IIRC the box was 4.9 or 4.10 originally) but a jump between major versions is scaring me a bit :) Has

RE: FreeBSD 5.4 on HP ML370 G4

2005-11-03 Thread Srinivasu.Kakumani
Hi I configured ML 350 G4 as you said. Configured Raid 5 and boot through FreeBSD 4.8 CD, booting is Ok.It detected 642 Array controller also. But when I tried to Partition, It is saying Disk not found. Please help me. Thanks for your support. Regards K.Srinivasu. -Original

Re: FreeBSD auth

2005-11-03 Thread Dan Toganel
--- Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not recommended directly use /etc/passwd, you your program need authentification, then use PAM (man 3 pam). If you still want ignore PAM, you can use getpwent(3) family of functions. Thanks for your interest. Well, the problem with

volunteer computer-geek to help us for FREE? please contact !

2005-11-03 Thread jan tore
Hello !!! we send out donation links now a days! pluss send old computers for Africa. we register importent books/articles/science ALL from prosessors of all kinds pluss much much more to translate print free etc. we do more importent stuff but red cross still

volunteer computer-geek to help us for FREE? please contact !

2005-11-03 Thread jan tore
Hello !!! we send out donation links now a days! pluss send old computers for Africa. we register importent books/articles/science ALL from prosessors of all kinds pluss much much more to translate print free etc. we do more importent stuff but red cross still

Fwd: coruscant: daily maintenance

2005-11-03 Thread Nednieuws
Begin forwarded message: ### UPDATING PORTS DATA BASE Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait../libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicudata.so.32 not found, required by postmaster erserver-1.2_3: /usr/ports/databases/postgresql-server non- existent -- dependency list incomplete ===

ldap + nss_ldap

2005-11-03 Thread cristi tauber
hello, i had a nice-working ldap server (2.2) and i decided to upgraded to 2.3 (i couldn't make it work with sasl). openldap-server-23 is working great, but i want to install nss_ldap and it's complaining about this new ldap version. nss_ldap wants openldap-client-2.2.29 but now i have

Re: FreeBSD auth

2005-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dan Toganel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not recommended directly use /etc/passwd, you your program need authentification, then use PAM (man 3 pam). If you still want ignore PAM, you can use getpwent(3) family of functions. Thanks for

Re: FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.

2005-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Glenn Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since upgrading to FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8, and completeing a ports cvsup (29 Oct) and portsupgade -arR I have been getting the following error when the gnome desktop starts and during shutdown. FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread Jason Stewart
On 03/11/05 05:31 +0200, Aggelos wrote: An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... Not funny.

Re: How much can I upgrade?

2005-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running 5.4 stable. How much can I upgrade without losing Beastie? On the boot menu? If it's not there by default, it's trivial to add back in by hand. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

CPU Hang after upgrade to -STABLE

2005-11-03 Thread budsz
Hi Folks I use FreeBSD 4.10 -RELEASE for gateway with DSL Modem connection, so far so good, but one day I decide to upgrade to 4.11 -STABLE version, I don't know why with the same hardware suddenly my CPU hang, nothing to do except press riset button. I didn't find any log message so very

Re: ldap + nss_ldap

2005-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
cristi tauber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello, i had a nice-working ldap server (2.2) and i decided to upgraded to 2.3 (i couldn't make it work with sasl). openldap-server-23 is working great, but i want to install nss_ldap and it's complaining about this new ldap version. nss_ldap wants

Re: periodic scripts execution order

2005-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Russell Cloran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question regarding the execution order of periodic scripts. In the default configuration, scripts in /etc/periodic/*/ are executed before /usr/local/etc/periodic/*/, regardless of numbering. Surely the sensible thing to do would be to

RE: volunteer computer-geek to help us for FREE? please contact !

2005-11-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hmm, I would feel a lot more comfortable that you weren't just a spammer asking for help if I didn't see that spray.no domain showing up as a spamhaus here: http://www.spamreg.com/reg40987.htm http://idunno.org/spam/dailyBreakDown.aspx?date=20051011

Re: FreeBSD auth

2005-11-03 Thread Dan Toganel
--- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: getpwent() *does* give you the encrypted password. It's the second field in the structure passed back. Well, i did: includesys/types.h #includepwd.h extern int errno; int main() { char *name=dan; struct

Re: FreeBSD auth

2005-11-03 Thread Igor Robul
Dan Toganel wrote: --- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: getpwent() *does* give you the encrypted password. It's the second field in the structure passed back. Well, i did: includesys/types.h #includepwd.h extern int errno; int

Problem installing ROracle package under R

2005-11-03 Thread Vittorio
Context: Pentium 4 with FreeBSD 5.4 and R 2.2.0 I'm trying to install the package ROracle under R. To start with I installed the oracle8- client from the ports and referred to it via the variable $HOME_ORACLE as /usr/local/oracle8-client. Then I started R. After issuing install.

How to clear an improperly unreferenced file in multi-user mode?

2005-11-03 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, When doing some maintenance on my fall-back server I ran into something weird. When running df it turned out /var was for 90% full. I then manually deleted some files (as root over SSH), amongst which the 'maillog' logfiles in /var/log, I also killed sendmail (as it was generating the

Re: [solved] FreeBSD auth

2005-11-03 Thread Dan Toganel
Sorry,me stupid. Of course, i wasn't root. Thanks for help. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Duo
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com/ Seems to me a fairly nice contribution to the project, It is all irrelevant. I am sure it is a nice book and Ted is knowledgeable in a lot of areas I am sure. Neither he nor I are members of the project and

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Duo
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Offense is in the eye of the beholder. If you choose to be offended, don't make us all suffer from your sufferings. Similarly, if you choose to be offensive, go somewhere else. -- Duo ___

RE: Upgrading 4.11-STABLE to 5.4-STABLE

2005-11-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
Oddly enough, and a little OT, (but semi-within the topic) I'm trying to update a 5.0 box to RELENG_5 right now with several different errors, too many to mention (generally they occur after rebooting after my installkernel. I can subsequently reboot off of kernel.old, as always).

Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

2005-11-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:39:07AM +, Ceri Davies wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:20:51PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Let's say we request people submit only their sh script (to start). What would the format need to be so that a script could parse email and auto-HTML the

Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

2005-11-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:14:40PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: CATEORY: foo FUNCTION: it_does_this OPTIONS: can_do_this_or_that BEGINSCRIPT !#/bin/sh echo hello world ENDSCRIPT What happens when the script itself contains a line that starts

Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

2005-11-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:47:43PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-11-02 12:42, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:14:40PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: CATEORY: foo FUNCTION: it_does_this OPTIONS: can_do_this_or_that

Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having great trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on my AMD64 desktop running FreeBSD ver 6.0. I had added this package during the installation process. With the 'whereis wine' command, I get: /usr/ports/emulators/wine

Re: Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/3/05, paul thodiyil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having great trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on my AMD64 desktop running FreeBSD ver 6.0. I had added this package during the installation process. With the

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Peter Clutton wrote: Ted wrote: Your opinion, they probably wouldn't agree. If you decide Beastie isn't important enough to bother defending, that's your choice. Of course I will note that you had no problem getting the attention for your books by using Beastie images on their covers.

Re: Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
Many thanks. Saves me a lot of sweat. On 11/4/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/3/05, paul thodiyil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having great trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on my AMD64 desktop

Re: HELP

2005-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HEY I GOT NO SOUND ON MY PC IT HAD IT BUT IT CRASH AND NOW I CANT HEAR NOTHING CAN YOU HELP Is it recognized at boot? Is there a /dev/sndstat? What does it contain? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ldap + nss_ldap

2005-11-03 Thread cristi tauber
On 03 Nov 2005 07:20:13 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cristi tauber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello, i had a nice-working ldap server (2.2) and i decided to upgraded to 2.3(i couldn't make it work with sasl). openldap-server-23 is working great, but i want to

Re: MySQL port not d/loading

2005-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
tim cle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm attempting to install MySQL via ports but its not d/loading. I know my system should do this, because I just finished installing apache via ports, and it d/loaded fine. So, is anyone having problems d/loading the MySQL port(s) - i tried 4.0 and 4.1 and

Re: PC card has no functions!

2005-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
gabriel n/a [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Im sure that this problem has been solved before but looking through all the other posts i cant seem to find any information about it. i just installed freebsd 5.4 i386 on my old ibm thinkpad. now that im starting to get familiar with this

Re: MySQL port not d/loading

2005-11-03 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/2/05, tim cle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm attempting to install MySQL via ports but its not d/loading. I know my system should do this, because I just finished installing apache via ports, and it d/loaded fine. So, is anyone having problems d/loading the MySQL port(s) - i

Re: sk0: watchdog timeout

2005-11-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello, I have a problem with network card. From time to time kernel says sk0: watchdog timeout It has (probably) random behavior. I use FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8, motherboard is ASUS A8V Deluxe (AMD64, Athlon64XP 3200+) and internal network card from pciconf -v -l

Apache + PHP : Exec format error

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Linton
I can't get the package WebCalendar-1.0.0 to work; I always get following error in /var/log/httpd-error.log (8)Exec format error: exec of '/usr/local/www/data-dist/WebCalendar/index.php' If I put #!/usr/local/bin/php at the beginning of the index.php it works, however I would like to use the

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:32:20PM -0700 or thereabouts, Chad Leigh -- Shir= e.Net LLC wrote: Even though I was in favor of a logo being made for FreeBSD (we can keep = beastie as a mascot), the winner is not what I would call a good=20 logo for the purposes for which logos

gmirror on 1 or 2 IDE cables

2005-11-03 Thread Gayn Winters
Using gmirror to mirror two identical drives, how much of a performance hit is it to have 1. Both drives on one IDE cable? Compared to: 2. One drive primary on one cable and one secondary on the other cable? Compared to: 3. Both drives primary but on separate IDE cables? Thanks, -gayn

RE: gmirror on 1 or 2 IDE cables

2005-11-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
Using gmirror to mirror two identical drives, how much of a performance hit is it to have 1. Both drives on one IDE cable? Compared to: 2. One drive primary on one cable and one secondary on the other cable? Compared to: 3. Both drives primary but on separate IDE cables? My

Re: How to clear an improperly unreferenced file in multi-user mode?

2005-11-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 03), Olaf Greve said: When doing some maintenance on my fall-back server I ran into something weird. When running df it turned out /var was for 90% full. I then manually deleted some files (as root over SSH), amongst which the 'maillog' logfiles in /var/log, I also

creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
Does anyone know how to create shortcut icons to the gnome desktop for commonly used devices such as floppy drive; cd/DVD rom drive and USB compact flash card reader. FreeBSD 6.0 RC1; AMD64 Many thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

building HTML::Mason to use mod_perl2

2005-11-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hello, If I build the www/p5-HTML-Mason port, it seems to require mod_perl. I'm using apache2 with mod_perl2, and I'm wondering if there's a way to get it working with those. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: suPHP - secure/reliable?

2005-11-03 Thread jonas
Hi M.L., Sam, Does anyone have anything to say about suPHP, either good or bad stuff ? I'd like your opinions. this reply is a bit late, but still helpfull I hope, since nobody using suPHP answered your request. I am currently using suPHP and it works quite nice. It's not as strict as

Re: Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread RW
On Thursday 03 November 2005 14:29, paul thodiyil wrote: On 11/4/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/3/05, paul thodiyil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having great trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on

Re: Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:11:52AM +1100, paul thodiyil wrote: I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having great trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on my AMD64 desktop running FreeBSD ver 6.0. I had added this package during the installation process.

Compaq Evo 510 PC DMA

2005-11-03 Thread Vittorio
Some time ago I had posted a problem I was suffering trying to install freebsd 5.4 on a Compaq evo 510 PC. The boot immediatedly stopped with weird indications on the causes. Freesbie also failed. Surfing the net I understood that the problem with that specific PC was already known and no real

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread RW
On Thursday 03 November 2005 04:27, Moffatt, Chris wrote: It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn) Now that is funny - prn is where the texting generation will expect to store their porn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
Many thanks Roland .. Great help. I will try your suggestions. I had installed the AMD 64 version of FreeBSD on my AMD64 CPU - I will try the i386 version. PT On 11/4/05, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 November 2005 14:29, paul thodiyil wrote: On 11/4/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, November 02, 2005 21:17:27 -0700 Moffatt, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn) I think it stands for console Actually, you can't create a folder named: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8,

sysinstall install.cfg questions

2005-11-03 Thread Todd
I'm trying to figure out how to use the sysinstall using a install.cfg script to install on multiple machines without floppies, and without needing any interaction other than putting in the CD. I can create the script but don't know where to put it on the modified installation CD, or how to

Re: suPHP - secure/reliable?

2005-11-03 Thread Sam Nilsson
jonas wrote: I'd be really intrested to hear some few details about installation through the ports. From what I saw in the FastCGI documentation you need to do some strange configuration changes to your httpd.conf, so that .php files are properly passed to the FastCGI handler and that they'll

nss_ldap-243 FreeBSD/amd64 ... anyone? (build/errors/info attached)

2005-11-03 Thread Nathan Vidican
Wasn't sure which list to post to entirely, so sorry if seems off-topic. I can't seem to get nss_ldap-243 to compile at all under FreeBSD-6.0RC1/amd64, nor under 5.3-RELEASE, nor 5.4-RELEASE... all produce similar errors, however my development machine happens to be FreeBSD 6.0RC1/amd64 at the

Re: Script help for updating routine

2005-11-03 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/2/05, Denny White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a script, pasted in below, which does various things on a daily basis, like cvsup src, docs, ports, portsdb, portversion, portupgrade, so on.

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:46:26PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I am not 100% convinced, but if you say so. It seems to be that the religious fundamentalist who thinks Beastie is the Devil, or something, will sooner or later look at the new logo and think: ``It looks like a head. A

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread DAve
cpghost wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:46:26PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I am not 100% convinced, but if you say so. It seems to be that the religious fundamentalist who thinks Beastie is the Devil, or something, will sooner or later look at the new logo and think: ``It looks

MAKEDEV FreeBSD 5.x or higher.....

2005-11-03 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Dears,FreeBSD community removed MAKEDEV script in FreeBSD 5.x or later. I have refered to online handbook,But it explains everything with MAKEDEV script. Please introduction a replacement of MAKEDEV. Yours,Mohsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: MAKEDEV FreeBSD 5.x or higher.....

2005-11-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:28:56PM +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dears,FreeBSD community removed MAKEDEV script in FreeBSD 5.x or later. I have refered to online handbook,But it explains everything with MAKEDEV script. Please introduction a replacement of MAKEDEV. 5.x and later don't

cvsup mirror is failing

2005-11-03 Thread stan
I went to update one of my machines today, and as a precaution, i checked the local cvsup mirro log. here's what I found: CVSup update begins at 2005-11-03 05:33:00 Updating from cvsup-master.freebsd.org Connected to cvsup-master.freebsd.org No record for server freefall.freebsd.org in

Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Brandon Hinesley
I've been trying to get this working for quite a while, maybe you guys can help me out. This is my first time administering a FreeBSD server (or any server for that matter) and I've only been using FreeBSD (or any other *nix for that matter) for about 6 months. The script below works perfectly

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:51:25PM -0500, DAve wrote: cpghost wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:46:26PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I am not 100% convinced, but if you say so. It seems to be that the religious fundamentalist who thinks Beastie is the Devil, or something, will sooner or

Re: MAKEDEV FreeBSD 5.x or higher.....

2005-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:28:56PM +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dears,FreeBSD community removed MAKEDEV script in FreeBSD 5.x or later. I have refered to online handbook,But it explains everything with MAKEDEV script. Please introduction a replacement of MAKEDEV. See the devfs.conf(5)

Re: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Brandon Hinesley wrote: The script below works perfectly when I run it from a console, however, nothing at all seems to happen as evidenced by the backups not being rotated. I don't know if this makes a difference, but the Backup folder is a file system on an external hard drive. I am also

RE: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Brandon Hinesley
Well that's embarrassing. Good eye, thank you. Still not working though. -Original Message- From: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 12:37 PM To: Brandon Hinesley Subject: Re: Cron Job will not run. Brandon Hinesley wrote: Here's a copy of my backup

Re: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Chris
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Brandon Hinesley wrote: The script below works perfectly when I run it from a console, however, nothing at all seems to happen as evidenced by the backups not being rotated. I don't know if this makes a difference, but the Backup folder is a file system on an external

RE: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Brandon Hinesley
I forgot to mention that I've already tried giving the absolute path to every executable mentioned in the script, but to no avail. -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 12:56 PM To: Alex Zbyslaw Cc: Brandon Hinesley;

FW: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Brandon Hinesley
I added /usr/local/bin to /etc/crontab PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin It's still not working. It doesn't seem to run anything in the script at all; rotations or rsync'n. -Original Message- From: Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Nathan Vidican
May be a really dumb question here, but like all technical problems, start with the simple stuff: ps ax | grep cron Is cron even running? -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ Brandon Hinesley wrote: I forgot to mention that I've

RE: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Brandon Hinesley
If it's not, then someone's inserting things into my /var/log/cron! Here's some of /var/log/cron: Nov 3 09:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[56343]: (operator) CMD (/usr/libexec/save-entropy) Nov 3 09:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[56344]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Nov 3

nssswitch - anyone using nss_X ? nss/freebsd complete?

2005-11-03 Thread Nathan Vidican
Anyone using any sort of nss_X.so module? Are there any open issues with FreeBSD/amd64 and nssswitch? I've been reading a good deal of archived mailing list messages regarding development/threading issues, but to no avail have I found any definitive answer as to if nssswitch works correctly and

Re: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-11-03 13:01, Brandon Hinesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Hinesley wrote: The script below works perfectly when I run it from a console, however, nothing at all seems to happen as evidenced by the backups not being rotated. I don't

Re: cvsup mirror is failing

2005-11-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 03 November 2005 12:10 pm, stan wrote: I went to update one of my machines today, and as a precaution, i checked the local cvsup mirro log. here's what I found: CVSup update begins at 2005-11-03 05:33:00 Updating from cvsup-master.freebsd.org Connected to

Re: How to clear an improperly unreferenced file in multi-user mode?

2005-11-03 Thread Eric F Crist
On Nov 3, 2005, at 7:00 AM, Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, When doing some maintenance on my fall-back server I ran into something weird. When running df it turned out /var was for 90% full. I then manually deleted some files (as root over SSH), amongst which the 'maillog' logfiles in /var/log, I

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: I point out that removing beastie was not the point of the exercise (contrary to Ted's paranoid fantasies of a right-wing Christian fundamentalist cabal dictating policy to the core team). In point of fact, the logo idea started right here when a

Re: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Nathan Vidican
lol - sorry to point out the obvious, but ya never know ;) - have seen worse/done worse myself... Anyhow, try modifying the script so it just outputs something to the console, see if cron logs/emails the output or not, then take it step-by-step from there; have it actually print out/echo the

RE: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Brandon Hinesley
Okay, I exported the updated path to include /usr/local/bin. Still not working though. My script is in /usr/local/Backup/scripts/bkup-daily. Since I'm referencing the absolute path in /etc/crontab like this: 35 13 * * * root /usr/local /Backup/scripts/bkup-daily I

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Pete Slagle
The thought occurs that the annoying religious fundamentalists are those that revere an amateurishly drawn cartoon. (Of all things.) Idol worship, sect-like fulmination, and blind allegiance to mere symbols representing obscure events in ancient history were never more in evidence.

Re: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-11-03 13:41, Brandon Hinesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I exported the updated path to include /usr/local/bin. Still not working though. My script is in /usr/local/Backup/scripts/bkup-daily. Since I'm referencing the absolute path in /etc/crontab like this: 35 13 *

Re: sysinstall install.cfg questions

2005-11-03 Thread Antony Mawer
On 4/11/2005 6:52 AM, Todd wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to use the sysinstall using a install.cfg script to install on multiple machines without floppies, and without needing any interaction other than putting in the CD. I can create the script but don't know where to put it on the

RE: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Brandon Hinesley
Yes, it is. -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 1827 Nov 3 12:43 bkup-daily I don't have to export /usr/local/Backup/scripts, right? Hmmm, no, but is the script executable? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-11-03 13:51, Brandon Hinesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it is. -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 1827 Nov 3 12:43 bkup-daily I don't have to export /usr/local/Backup/scripts, right? Hmmm, no, but is the script executable? That's odd. You'll have to schedule this script to run some

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:34:27PM -0600, Lars Eighner wrote: On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: I point out that removing beastie was not the point of the exercise (contrary to Ted's paranoid fantasies of a right-wing Christian fundamentalist cabal dictating policy to the core team).

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: I point out that removing beastie was not the point of the exercise (contrary to Ted's paranoid fantasies of a right-wing Christian fundamentalist cabal dictating policy to the core team). In point of fact, the logo idea started right here

New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Jim Pazarena
after reading the original competition posting, it seems that it was orchestrated by the core @ freebsd it would be interesting to learn the total # of core members, and how the vote went, yay and nay, and whether, it at all, the core is hearing the message which seems to be emanating from the

Re: Release Information : A standard question !...:/

2005-11-03 Thread martinko
Erik Norgaard wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, George Katsanos wrote: Is there any information that you can give to the freebsd fans about the 6.0 RELEASE [ releng] and its ..'release' date ? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/schedule.html Erik well, the page appears very static. i myself

Re: Upcoming FreeBSD releases...

2005-11-03 Thread martinko
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:01:32AM +0300, Casper wrote: Hi, I`m trying to make little schedule for upgrading and wanted to know when approximate will be new FreeBSD releases... How I understand in few weeks must be FreeBSD 5.5 release, but I can`t find schedule for

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 3 November 2005 at 14:26:24 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: after reading the original competition posting, it seems that it was orchestrated by the core @ freebsd Since this is a question, I suppose it's worth answering here. No, this wasn't orchestrated by the FreeBSD Core Team. As

Re: Upcoming FreeBSD releases...

2005-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:07:09AM +0100, martinko wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:01:32AM +0300, Casper wrote: Hi, I`m trying to make little schedule for upgrading and wanted to know when approximate will be new FreeBSD releases... How I understand in few weeks

Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 02:41:24 +1100 paul thodiyil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to create shortcut icons to the gnome desktop for commonly used devices such as floppy drive; cd/DVD rom drive and USB compact flash card reader. FreeBSD 6.0 RC1; AMD64 Many thanks mkdir

6.0-RELEASE ISO's

2005-11-03 Thread Chris
I see we have the 6.0-RELEASE ISO etc up on the site: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/ -- Best regards, Chris I think ... therefore I am confused. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 6.0-RELEASE ISO's

2005-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:25:03PM -0600, Chris wrote: I see we have the 6.0-RELEASE ISO etc up on the site: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/ Subject to change without notice until announced...careful you don't download a coaster :) Kris pgp3iqwekdn5h.pgp

Re: 6.0-RELEASE ISO's

2005-11-03 Thread Chris
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:25:03PM -0600, Chris wrote: I see we have the 6.0-RELEASE ISO etc up on the site: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/ Subject to change without notice until announced...careful you don't download a coaster :)

Re: sysinstall install.cfg questions

2005-11-03 Thread Todd
Thank you! Excellent, exactly what I needed. The plan is to use disc1 of the release and modify it with a few packages and config changes to make an easily installable version of our modified desktop (Waimea/ROX/Webmin). I was going to use the BSD installer (bsdinstaller.org) but this way

Re: sk0: watchdog timeout

2005-11-03 Thread martinko
Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello, I have a problem with network card. From time to time kernel says sk0: watchdog timeout It has (probably) random behavior. I use FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8, motherboard is ASUS A8V Deluxe (AMD64, Athlon64XP 3200+) and internal network card from pciconf -v -l [EMAIL

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