RE: sendmail init error: Can't assign requested address

2007-05-17 Thread Ernest Sales
On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 6:29 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 15, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Ernest Sales wrote: [ ... ] Honestly, I don't understand what each of this four daemons is supposed to do. I just want the minimal working sendmail config in a NATed host, the /etc/defaults/rc.conf

RE: .login_conf ignored [solved]

2007-05-17 Thread Ernest Sales
On Wednesday, May 16, 2007 9:20 AM, Christopher Illies wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:39:05PM +0200, Ernest Sales wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:14:42 +0200, Christopher Illies wrote: The locale settings in my .login_conf are ignored: [...] Try compiling just your

Re: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?

2007-05-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 15 May 2007 00:16:34 -0500 WizLayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 08:27:48 pm you wrote: On May 13, 2007, at 7:13 PM, WizLayer wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007 07:17:14 pm Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: Would it recharge the battery fully after discharge? I dont

Re: In regard to SATA controllers.

2007-05-17 Thread Peter Schuller
SATA controller and continue using geom_raid3? This particular card uses a Marvell controller, so I would guess that it would be detected by FreeBSD without issue. If someone could confirm this, it would be much appreciated. See the stable many-port SATA controller thread. So far it's

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-17 Thread Peter Schuller
Also, dump/restore allows you to use snapshots on a live filesystem (I would test it properly on a large FS with heavy activity). But it's worth pointing out that this is fully possibly with any backup tool - just run mksnap_ffs and backup a mounted snapshot. I do this with rdiff-backup for

Re: ports updates

2007-05-17 Thread Fabian Keil
[CC'ing freebsd-questions@ again] Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:06:20AM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: Paul V. Belyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why ports updates recently occur so seldom? Because of the ongoing tests for the xorg 7.2 integration.

Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 - 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Duane Hill
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: Duane Hill wrote: I have a server that, at first, required 5.5 because of the MTA that was running on the server. It no longer is running that particular MTA anymore. I need to upgrade the server to release 6.2. Is it just a matter of changing the

Re: 32bit apps on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64

2007-05-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, everybody I own a Canon iP1600 printer and its driver was made for linux i386. What should I do in order to run this driver on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64? I've heard of upgrading to 6.2 in order to retrieve linux_base-fc4. Just this? Thanks

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread David Landgren
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 14/05/2007, at 10:41 AM, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Sam Lawrance wrote: On 13/05/2007, at 6:15 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: [...] the drive, and likely to remain that way until the

Re: Lexmark E120 (with CUPS or apsfilter)

2007-05-17 Thread Marcelo Souza
Hi Roland, I'll take a look there. Thank you. On Wed, 16 May 2007, Roland Smith wrote: |On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:40:04PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi All, | | Has Anyone successfully installed this printer on a FBSD machine? | | I tried it using CUPS, it works but

A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, This question probably hasn't much to do with CVS directly but using cvsup. I want/need to update a 6.0-RELEASE system. However, this system has some critical data on it and I'd rather not move to code that is perhaps experimental or bleeding-edge technology. I see in

Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup

2007-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 17 May 2007 11:04:06 am Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, This question probably hasn't much to do with CVS directly but using cvsup. I want/need to update a 6.0-RELEASE system. However, this system has some critical data on it and I'd rather not move to code that is perhaps

Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup

2007-05-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, This question probably hasn't much to do with CVS directly but using cvsup. I want/need to update a 6.0-RELEASE system. However, this system has some critical data on it and I'd rather not move to code that is perhaps experimental or bleeding-edge technology. I see

looking for ethernet errors, collisions

2007-05-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, I'm used to this showing on the interface in the ifconfig output on Linux, but on FreeBSD it doesn't seem to show errors, collisions, etc. What's the standard way to show that on FreeBSD? I'm finding my network connection very bursty of late, sudden lags for no apparent reason, etc. Mike

Re: looking for ethernet errors, collisions

2007-05-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, I'm used to this showing on the interface in the ifconfig output on Linux, but on FreeBSD it doesn't seem to show errors, collisions, etc. What's the standard way to show that on FreeBSD? netstat -i sounds like what you want. --Alex

smb_maperror

2007-05-17 Thread Lyle Matthews
The logs on our FreeBSD system are repeatedly filling up with the following message: smb_maperror: Unmapped error 1:158 It seems as though this error or something related to it is causing our server to occasionally lock up. We are using FreeBSD 6 and Samba 3. After much searching on Google, I

RE: looking for ethernet errors, collisions

2007-05-17 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hi: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Zbyslaw Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:09 AM To: Michael P. Soulier Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for ethernet errors, collisions Michael P. Soulier

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on shutdown... how do you shutdown

ifconfig seems to not accept inet and ether parameters on one line

2007-05-17 Thread Angelin Lalev
Hi everyone, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. and I'm trying in short to change the MAC address of my network interface at boot. So I wrote something like this in my rc.conf file: ifconfig_xl0=inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:11:11:22:22 at next boot the interface was not configured

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread Victor Engmark
On 5/17/07, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 17 May 2007, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David Hmm, I've

Re: ifconfig seems to not accept inet and ether parameters on one line

2007-05-17 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Angelin Lalev wrote: Hi everyone, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. and I'm trying in short to change the MAC address of my network interface at boot. So I wrote something like this in my rc.conf file: ifconfig_xl0=inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:11:11:22:22 at next boot the

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-17 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:30:00 +0200 Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, dump/restore allows you to use snapshots on a live filesystem (I would test it properly on a large FS with heavy activity). But it's worth pointing out that this is fully possibly with any backup tool -

hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?

2007-05-17 Thread Mike Barborak
Hello, I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p28 server that was initially configured with the hostname mydomain.com. I am trying to permanently change that to be www.mydomain.com. I have added this line to my /etc/rc.conf file: hostname=www.mydomain.com but after restarting the server it continues to

Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?

2007-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 17 May 2007 01:27:52 pm Mike Barborak wrote: Hello, I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p28 server that was initially configured with the hostname mydomain.com. I am trying to permanently change that to be www.mydomain.com. I have added this line to my /etc/rc.conf file:

RE: smartmontools on Compaq smart array fails

2007-05-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
smartmontools isn't the appropriate program you need to use a program called idacontrol get it from ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/idacontrol.tar More on PR i386/70482 Use smartmontools on ATA disks. Your 360 uses SCSI disks on a proprietary controller which doesen't support the interface needed

RE: SMP issues with i386/6.2 RELEASE and Compaq DL360 g1

2007-05-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Yes, here is the magic needed for this: 1) make sure you have select UNIX-LINUX 2.x as the OS type in the BIOS (use the HP smartcd to access this) 2) Do not strip out unused CPU's like I486_CPU, I586_CPU from your kernel config file. 3) Make sure to either build a GENERIC or SMP kernel with

RE: DNS Cache - Bind

2007-05-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
if your not running with -4 you will get this, unless you have IPv6 configured of course... Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Barnett Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:46 PM To: freeBSD Subject: DNS Cache - Bind I'm running

Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?

2007-05-17 Thread Mike Barborak
No, there's not. This is the entire rc.conf file: hostname=www.mydomain.com sshd_enable=NO vsapd_enable=YES enable_quotas=YES clamav_clamd_enable=YES spamd_enable=YES spamd_pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid spamd_flags=-c -d -r ${spamd_pidfile} --socketpath=/var/run/spamd.sock mysql_enable=YES

Re: Startup errors....su:/bin/csh Perm denied..

2007-05-17 Thread doug
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Agus wrote: 2007/5/16, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2007/5/16, Oliver Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:24:27PM -0300, Agus wrote: ... Here is part of the boot.. Updating motd Starting mysql. su: /bin/csh: Permission denied Configuring syscons:

Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/17/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: You can find a description of release tags in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html and also a description of -STABLE and -CURRENT

Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup

2007-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 17 May 2007 02:31:59 pm Andrew Falanga wrote: On 5/17/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: You can find a description of release tags in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html and also a description of

Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/17/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 02:31:59 pm Andrew Falanga wrote: On 5/17/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: You can find a description of release tags in the handbook.

RE: looking for ethernet errors, collisions

2007-05-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Note that error counters are often bogus because so many cards today filter errors out in hardware, long before the OS driver gets them. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael P. Soulier Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:26 AM To:

Kernel build question (options and so forth)

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, In addition to my quest to upgrade this 6.0-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE-p4, I have a question about the kernel and SMP. This system has two processors and I want to make sure I'm going to build an SMP capable kernel, especially, considering I'm going from 6.0 to 6.2. I managed to find a past

NEW MAILING LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In an attempt better co-ordinate both the use of jails, as well as to help improve the focus on the various patches available for it that are going around, but not committed yet, I put in a quick request to have a jail specific mailing list

Re: NEW MAILING LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 5/17/07, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those using jail(s) in FreeBSD, and/or those that have been working on various patches for them, you will want to subscribe to the new list Done, thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: NEW MAILING LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-05-17 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Marc G. Fournier escribió: In an attempt better co-ordinate both the use of jails, as well as to help improve the focus on the various patches available for it that are going around, but not committed yet, I put in a quick request to have a jail specific mailing list created ... which was

Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?

2007-05-17 Thread Mike Barborak
Thanks for the suggestions. That's right, I'm not using DHCP. I searched through /etc and /usr/local/etc for calls to hostname and for the string www.mydomain.com and all I found was a call to the command hostname in /etc/rc.network and my setting of the hostname variable in /etc/rc.conf. After

Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Huff
Mike Barborak writes: Perhaps another tack, what is the last script executed during boot up? If I add a line like /bin/hostname www.mydomain.com to /etc/rc.local should this force the hostname change? Start with man rc.d. Robert Huff

Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?

2007-05-17 Thread Mike Barborak
Thanks. For posterity then, anyone who unwisely wishes to give up the hunt and use this hack, one solution is to add this line to /etc/rc.conf: local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d /usr/local/etc/rc.after_everything.d Then create the directory

Netgear WG111 / WG111T USB NICs

2007-05-17 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Running 6.2-STABLE on i386... Anyone know if there is support for USB Wireless NICs? I have a Netgear WG111 that is recognized as /dev/ugen0, but that's it. Netgear also makes their T model (WG111T) that has their Super G technolgy that often uses Atheros chipsets. Since Atheros is

Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer

2007-05-17 Thread Eric Mesa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Hi Eric, Have

pppoe (userland PPP) and nat 'loopback'

2007-05-17 Thread JD Bronson
Can this be configured? What I need is a way to go from one LAN machine to the WAN and loopback to the other LAN machine. LAN-WAN-LAN simple pf.conf: binat on $bge1 from 192.168.82.170 to any - 67.x.x.1 binat on $bge1 from 192.168.82.171 to any - 67.x.x.2 binat on $bge1 from 192.168.82.172 to

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread David Landgren
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on shutdown...

Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer

2007-05-17 Thread Chris Slothouber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-05-17 16:50, Eric Mesa wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5.

Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer

2007-05-17 Thread Eric Mesa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-17 16:50, Eric Mesa wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL

RE: Kernel build question (options and so forth)

2007-05-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
try the generic kernel and see if it works. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Falanga Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:11 PM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Kernel build question (options and so forth) Hi, In addition

How to change Font FreeBSD 6.1

2007-05-17 Thread Oscar Chavarria
I haven't been able to change the font appearing on my monitor. Where should I look for that format? -- Regards Oscar Chavarria Mobile: +506 814-0247 *** The more I know people the more I love my FreeBSD *** --- In a world without boundaries, we don't need Windows or Gates ---

Re: mysql start error...

2007-05-17 Thread Hanatsu Tori
Hi! Please id ls -la /bin/csh ls -la /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server Dmitry 2007/5/17, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am getting an error while trying to run mysql-server... Wired thing is that it was running ok for a month.suddenly i got this error.. su: /bin/csh: Permission denied

Re: How to change Font FreeBSD 6.1

2007-05-17 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
Hello... El Jue, 17 de Mayo de 2007, 17:26, Oscar Chavarria escribió: I haven't been able to change the font appearing on my monitor. Where should I look for that format? Please review de handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html And this

Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer

2007-05-17 Thread Eric Mesa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-17 16:50, Eric Mesa wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL

Re: smartmontools on Compaq smart array fails

2007-05-17 Thread Nick Jagger
- Original Message smartmontools isn't the appropriate program you need to use a program called idacontrol get it from ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/idacontrol.tar More on PR i386/70482 Use smartmontools on ATA disks. Your 360 uses SCSI disks on a proprietary controller which doesen't

Re: Kernel build question (options and so forth)

2007-05-17 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
El Jue, 17 de Mayo de 2007, 15:11, Andrew Falanga escribió: Hi, Hello, In addition to my quest to upgrade this 6.0-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE-p4, I have a question about the kernel and SMP. This system has two processors and I want to make sure I'm going to build an SMP capable kernel,

Re: scponly chroot doesn?t work FB6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Marcelo Maraboli
Hello all I would like to thank david.robillard and j65nko for their efforts in trying to help with this problem. I finally got a working solution. The problem is not scponly nor rssh but the CHROOT jail implementation in FreeBSD 6.2, since the ONLY solution to both problems are solved by a

configuring network connection via proxy

2007-05-17 Thread martinko
Hello, I need to plug my company laptop in to different networks many of which make use of some sort of proxy for accessing the internet. And every time I face this challenge of changing connection settings of different applications in many places. This is of course very inconvenient. What I

re: problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older comptuer

2007-05-17 Thread Eric Mesa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As Chris Slothouber said, it's probably an issue with the floppies. My resolution was to remove the hard drive, place it into a machine I knew was capable of installing freeBSD and installing it. Am now in the process of putting it back into its

cvsup ports

2007-05-17 Thread David Coder
i'm finding that cvsup comes up empty in trying to update the port tree from cvsup2 cvsup3 (haven't tried others). is there something wrong w/ them or have i missed a crucial turn of events? thx. regards, David Coder Network Engineer Emeritus, Verio/NTT Telluride, CO Washington, DC

Re: cvsup ports

2007-05-17 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
David Coder wrote: i'm finding that cvsup comes up empty in trying to update the port tree from cvsup2 cvsup3 (haven't tried others). is there something wrong w/ them or have i missed a crucial turn of events? The ports are being frozen due to Xorg integration[1]. Just hang on for a few

Re: cvsup ports

2007-05-17 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Coder said: i'm finding that cvsup comes up empty in trying to update the port tree from cvsup2 cvsup3 (haven't tried others). is there something wrong w/ them or have i missed a crucial turn of events? The ports tree is in a freeze state right now pending the

acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-17 Thread Joe Altman
The subject line contains the dmesg that indicates...something; the symptom is that CDs aren't seen by the drive: acd0: CDRW PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A/1.04 at ata1-master PIO4 uname -a FreeBSD chthonic.chthonixia.net 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Wed May 16 00:16:21 EDT 2007 [EMAIL

Re: configuring network connection via proxy

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
I need to plug my company laptop in to different networks many of which make use of some sort of proxy for accessing the internet. And every time I face this challenge of changing connection settings of different applications in many places. This is of course very inconvenient. I think doc@

Re: problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older comptuer

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
I'm a bit frustrated, but what can you do? It would be impossible for the freeBSD team to cater to all the corner cases. You can move the HD as you did ;) Technically, if you really wanted, you could be the impossible FreeBSD team member who reaches into the corner you've needed catered to.

Re: cvsup ports

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
David Coder wrote: i'm finding that cvsup comes up empty in trying to update the port tree from cvsup2 cvsup3 (haven't tried others). is there something wrong w/ them or have i missed a crucial turn of events? Beyond what others have said about the 'freeze', it may be advisable that you

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 17/05/07, David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :)