Re: rsync does not --exclude: (??)

2006-10-28 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:39 am, Lars Kristiansen wrote: Gary Kline skrev: People, Weeks ago I tried this *without* the --exclude flags and overwrote DOT file that I didn't want to. Iust rechecked this use of rsync, saving important files from my work server elseswhere, and

IPFW and PF

2006-10-28 Thread David Schulz
Hi all, IPFW seems to be the same IPFW that is used on MacOSX, so it seems to make sense to learn and lean on IPFW when using in a mixed Machine Environment. On the other side, many People seem to say PF is easier to manage once a setup gets complicated. As usual, both sides have their

Your message to Dysphagia awaits moderator approval

2006-10-28 Thread dysphagia-bounces
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Re: Nvidia on CURRENT...

2006-10-28 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 10/27/06, Anders Troback [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone out there how can verify that the nvidia-driver are working on current? Yes. It does work on current. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to know what DNS server is being used

2006-10-28 Thread Robert Huff
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: On my registrars site I have two DNS servers listing. How would I know that 1) both are working. 2) which one is being used. For #2, do you mean by the world at large? Which one is being used when people look up your domain and hosts in your

Re: Automated installations

2006-10-28 Thread Chris Whitehouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? Best

Re: system crontab

2006-10-28 Thread Martin Hepworth
This will happen regularly anyway. If you want to shorten this time, look in the exim /usr/local/etc/exim/configure file for how to shorten/change timeout delays then you won't need to do this. -- martin On 10/27/06, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to daily run

slimserver port

2006-10-28 Thread Vincent Zee
Hello, I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and installed 6.1 on my computer. Then installed Slimserver from /usr/ports/audio/slimserver. But I have no idea how to start the program. There is no man page, or information in /usr/local/share. Can anyone shed some light on this? /\ Vincent

Re: Nvidia on CURRENT...

2006-10-28 Thread Rod Person
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 21:59 +0200, Anders Troback wrote: Is there anyone out there how can verify that the nvidia-driver are working on current? I've been running the nvidia driver on CURRENT since Feb with no problems. -- Rod it takes an unusual mind to see the obvious. - Alfred Whitehead

Re: how to know what DNS server is being used

2006-10-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Robert Huff wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: On my registrars site I have two DNS servers listing. How would I know that 1) both are working. 2) which one is being used. For #2, do you mean by the world at large? Which one is being used when people look up your domain

Re: slimserver port

2006-10-28 Thread Vincent Zee
On Saturday, 28 October 2006 at 16:28:12 +0200, Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: Vincent Zee wrote: Hello, I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and installed 6.1 on my computer. Then installed Slimserver from /usr/ports/audio/slimserver. But I have no idea how to start the program. There is no man

Re: slimserver port

2006-10-28 Thread Vincent Zee
On Saturday, 28 October 2006 at 16:28:12 +0200, Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: Vincent Zee wrote: Hello, I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and installed 6.1 on my computer. Then installed Slimserver from /usr/ports/audio/slimserver. But I have no idea how to start the program. There is no man

RE: slimserver port

2006-10-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
Can anyone shed some light on this? /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ holds the startup scripts for this kind of server. Further you'll need slimserver_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf I added slimserver_enable=YES and mysql_enable=YES (I think it is needed by slimserver) to /etc/rc.conf and

RE: how to know what DNS server is being used

2006-10-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
On my registrars site I have two DNS servers listing. How would I know that 1) both are working. 2) which one is being used. 1) http://dnsreport.com 2) # tcpdump -n -i iface | grep .53 | grep domain.com (where domain.com == the domain I want to find out if the server is answering for)

Re: slimserver port

2006-10-28 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
Vincent Zee wrote: Hello, I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and installed 6.1 on my computer. Then installed Slimserver from /usr/ports/audio/slimserver. But I have no idea how to start the program. There is no man page, or information in /usr/local/share. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Re: slimserver port

2006-10-28 Thread Vincent Zee
On Saturday, 28 October 2006 at 11:18:29 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Can anyone shed some light on this? /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ holds the startup scripts for this kind of server. Further you'll need slimserver_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf I added slimserver_enable=YES and

Re: slimserver port

2006-10-28 Thread Vincent Zee
On Saturday, 28 October 2006 at 17:28:53 +0200, Vincent Zee wrote: On Saturday, 28 October 2006 at 11:18:29 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Can anyone shed some light on this? /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ holds the startup scripts for this kind of server. Further you'll need

apache.tar.gz

2006-10-28 Thread justinsc
Hello, I need to install apache on a hp-unix machine. I`m looking for a ftp site where i can fetch the tar.gz file in order to compile the server. I thought maybe my freebsd friends can give me a hint of where to look for the apache.tar.gz file. Thanks in advance, Justin.

freebsd equivelent to the linux ethtool command?

2006-10-28 Thread Jonathan Horne
i have a computer that recently stopped obeying WOL packets, after i did a dual boot of freebsd/suse 10.1. before i put suse on there, WOL always worked just fine. apparently, the linux driver for my network card, put the nic in always off mode, and in order to be able to WOL later, i have to

Re: apache.tar.gz

2006-10-28 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 28 October 2006 09:31, justinsc wrote: Hello, I need to install apache on a hp-unix machine. I`m looking for a ftp site where i can fetch the tar.gz file in order to compile the server. I thought maybe my freebsd friends can give me a hint of where to look for the apache.tar.gz

Instable machine; hardware or not?

2006-10-28 Thread Ronald Paul
Hello group, I have a small server (AMD XP 2400+, ASRock K7VM4+lan, no ECC) running 4.9-RELEASE since February 2004. It is being used for some small dynamic websites (FAMP), e-mail and some other small stuff. It got an uptime of 400+ days last year but since a few months, the machines seems

Re: freebsd equivelent to the linux ethtool command?

2006-10-28 Thread Eric Schuele
On 10/28/06 12:45, Jonathan Horne wrote: i have a computer that recently stopped obeying WOL packets, after i did a dual boot of freebsd/suse 10.1. before i put suse on there, WOL always worked just fine. apparently, the linux driver for my network card, put the nic in always off mode, and

Re: freebsd equivelent to the linux ethtool command?

2006-10-28 Thread Eric Schuele
On 10/28/06 15:00, Eric Schuele wrote: On 10/28/06 12:45, Jonathan Horne wrote: i have a computer that recently stopped obeying WOL packets, after i did a dual boot of freebsd/suse 10.1. before i put suse on there, WOL always worked just fine. apparently, the linux driver for my network

Re: Totally hosed up filesystem..wtf?

2006-10-28 Thread Jeff Mohler
Appears the issue is in the IBM servers RAID. Its a RAID1, and the mirror raid is totally hosed according to the machine bios, and that hung up the primary side of the mirror when the backup side went tango uniform. On 10/27/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reboot single user, cd

Re: Totally hosed up filesystem..wtf?

2006-10-28 Thread Derek Ragona
You should be able to remove the bad drive leaving the good one in use. -Derek At 03:18 PM 10/28/2006, Jeff Mohler wrote: Appears the issue is in the IBM servers RAID. Its a RAID1, and the mirror raid is totally hosed according to the machine bios, and that hung up the primary side of

mount inside jails

2006-10-28 Thread Alain Wolf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello dear list, My FreeBSD 6.0 has several Jails, all running fine. One of the Jails has installed Bacula Backup Software. And for its File Deamon (the backup storage server) I would like to mount and unmount the backup device (an external USB

Re: Totally hosed up filesystem..wtf?

2006-10-28 Thread Jeff Mohler
Not if fsck wont fix it. ;( But..will give it a shot On 10/28/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to remove the bad drive leaving the good one in use. -Derek At 03:18 PM 10/28/2006, Jeff Mohler wrote: Appears the issue is in the IBM servers RAID.

packet loss to firewall while Internet link is down

2006-10-28 Thread D G Teed
Hi all, When the Internet link goes down, ssh refuses to allow connection from within the LAN to our BSD firewall/gateway. An existing ssh connection might stay up, but be very sluggish. We run our own DNS, so that can't be the reason for timeouts. When the Internet is down, the CPU load

Re: packet loss to firewall while Internet link is down

2006-10-28 Thread Lane
On Saturday 28 October 2006 17:41, D G Teed wrote: Hi all, When the Internet link goes down, ssh refuses to allow connection from within the LAN to our BSD firewall/gateway. An existing ssh connection might stay up, but be very sluggish. We run our own DNS, so that can't be the reason for

Unable to get fetch expat-2.0.0._1 from selected media

2006-10-28 Thread Matthew Pope
Environment: FreeBSD 6.1 (p10) Release Asus motherboard on Intel P4 IDE drives Realtek network adaptor chipset (no problems so far with that) ATAPI CDROM/writer Behind firewall. (no problems so far with that) Hello, I'd like to add the xorg distribution set to my existing FreeBSD system

Re: Unable to get fetch expat-2.0.0._1 from selected media

2006-10-28 Thread Matthew Pope
Addendum (clarification) to my question: - When I boot from the Hard disk, and start /stand/sysinstall with FTP1 as the source (since CDROM as source doesn't work), when the Xorg packages are attempted to be added, the download from the FTP server completes but at the end a quick error

Re: Unable to get fetch expat-2.0.0._1 from selected media

2006-10-28 Thread Lane
On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:15, Matthew Pope wrote: Addendum (clarification) to my question: - When I boot from the Hard disk, and start /stand/sysinstall with FTP1 as the source (since CDROM as source doesn't work), when the Xorg packages are attempted to be added, the download from the

Re: replacing ^M with emacs

2006-10-28 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:27 pm, Noah wrote: well I am pressing control-J for return not control-M so I dont understand your rationale. There seems to be considerable confusion in this thread between keystrokes and the codes they produce. Most modern keyboards report some form of scan code for

Re: replacing ^M with emacs

2006-10-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 07:57:08PM -0700, Noah wrote: well I am pressing control-J for return not control-M so I dont understand your rationale. I don't understand your comment. There was no rationale. That is just what the ASCII characters are used for and a little of the history of how

Re: replacing ^M with emacs

2006-10-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:30:45AM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:27 pm, Noah wrote: well I am pressing control-J for return not control-M so I dont understand your rationale. There seems to be considerable confusion in this thread between keystrokes and the codes

boot loader choices

2006-10-28 Thread Andy Harrison
I was looking at the man pages and such for loader.conf, loader.4th, and loader.rc, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to do what I want. I'd like to make a choice on my beastie.4th menu so that I can have network choices for home and work. For home, I'm wireless and dhcp and I need to

Re: freebsd equivelent to the linux ethtool command?

2006-10-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 28), Jonathan Horne said: i have a computer that recently stopped obeying WOL packets, after i did a dual boot of freebsd/suse 10.1. before i put suse on there, WOL always worked just fine. apparently, the linux driver for my network card, put the nic in always off

More questions on sr sync driver, packet filters, and altq

2006-10-28 Thread John Levine
I am putting together a FreeBSD router to replace a tired old BSD/OS one. My external line is a T1, so I got a Wanic 400 on ebay. I have a /24 that is about half full so I don't do NAT and don't expect to need to do so. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to do the packet filtering.

Re: Unable to get fetch expat-2.0.0._1 from selected media

2006-10-28 Thread Matthew Pope
Lane wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:15, Matthew Pope wrote: Addendum (clarification) to my question: - When I boot from the Hard disk, and start /stand/sysinstall with FTP1 as the source (since CDROM as source doesn't work), when the Xorg packages are attempted to be added, the

Re: apache.tar.gz

2006-10-28 Thread Cristian Mijea
On 10/29/06, justinsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can not reach the url by browser cause I haven`t got any on this server. So I got to have a link like ftp.etc,etc Thanks, Justin. ftp://ftp.b.astral.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.apache.org/httpd/ ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/apache.org/httpd/