Invalid partition table after installation

2010-01-21 Thread John
I've tried the modern BIOS geometry and the 255 head geometry. I've ensured that the first slice (boot slice) is smaller than 1.5 Gb. I've tried to figure out what the BIOS thinks the geometry is, but it doesn't seem to want to tell me. At least, I can't find it in the BIOS menu anywhere. When

Re: NIS oops

2010-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
and thats the one error I made in setting it up likely... (I saw that note after rebooting in the handbook) I have been there, I have done that. Luckily my server is next door :) Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Invalid partition table after installation

2010-01-21 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:47:59 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: Suggestions, please? I'm making zero headway right now. :( Maybe it is just me, but somehow I am missing the problem / question. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D

Re: Invalid partition table after installation

2010-01-21 Thread Fbsd1
John wrote: I've tried the modern BIOS geometry and the 255 head geometry. I've ensured that the first slice (boot slice) is smaller than 1.5 Gb. I've tried to figure out what the BIOS thinks the geometry is, but it doesn't seem to want to tell me. At least, I can't find it in the BIOS menu

[URGENT] Problem with OpenSSL openssl-0.9.8l_3

2010-01-21 Thread bsd
I have a serious problem after an upgrade of openssl ! /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libcrypto.so.5 not found, required by sshd Gregober --- PGP ID -- 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz P

Re: [URGENT] Problem with OpenSSL openssl-0.9.8l_3

2010-01-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
bsd wrote: I have a serious problem after an upgrade of openssl ! /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libcrypto.so.5 not found, required by sshd Yes. The ABI version on the shlibs from the openssl port was incremented. You need to recompile everything that links against them: #

Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-21 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. Any clues? -- Christoph

Re: [URGENT] Problem with OpenSSL openssl-0.9.8l_3

2010-01-21 Thread bsd
I have downgraded to openssl-0.9.8l_1 and It has solved my problem… openssl-0.9.8l_3 is obviously boggus ! Le 21 janv. 2010 à 09:50, bsd a écrit : I have a serious problem after an upgrade of openssl ! /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libcrypto.so.5 not found, required by sshd

Re: VirtualBox - does it work for FreeBSD?

2010-01-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/21/10 08:11, Glyn Millington wrote: Good Morning :-) A quick question for anyone running VirtualBox on a FreeBSD _host_ machine, with Linux or Windows as a _guest_ OS. Does it work? Yes. at is, do the guest additions work fully for those guests, or are there limitations such those

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, January 14, 2010 a las 01:40:26PM +0100, Bas Smeelen escribió: I use Freecom hard drive XS 1.5TB USB2.0 on our fallback servers as back-up disks. These are always connected to the servers for over half a year now. I have not had any problems with them and the price was

Re: VirtualBox - does it work for FreeBSD?

2010-01-21 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:11:53 + at Glyn Millington g...@millingtons.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Good Morning :-) A quick question for anyone running VirtualBox on a FreeBSD _host_ machine, with Linux or Windows as a _guest_ OS. Does it work? That is, do the guest additions work fully for

Re: Receive email from Exchange 2003

2010-01-21 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Truong Thu Bac v...@foster.com.vn wrote: Dear Mr/Ms, I want to build a Internal Email System between a PC with FreeBSD OS and Exchange 2003 (Email Server) Current, I got  a Proxy Server (IP:10.20.1.10) within FreeBSD OS. I installed Sendemail Software

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-21 Thread Bas Smeelen
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, January 14, 2010 a las 01:40:26PM +0100, Bas Smeelen escribió: I use Freecom hard drive XS 1.5TB USB2.0 on our fallback servers as back-up disks. These are always connected to the servers for over half a year now. I have not had any problems with

Request for a free CD of Free BSD software through POST(for FREE OF COST)

2010-01-21 Thread Rajesh Makwana
Respected Sir, Myself Rajesh D Makwana from ahmedabad, india, a computer engineer,kindly request you for a free cd of free bsd software to install it on my computer. If your firm provide a free of cost service to provide this open source software to people round the

Re: Invalid partition table after installation

2010-01-21 Thread John
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: I've tried the modern BIOS geometry and the 255 head geometry. I've ensured that the first slice (boot slice) is smaller than 1.5 Gb. I've tried to figure out what the BIOS thinks the geometry is, but it doesn't seem to

Re: Request for a free CD of Free BSD software through POST(for FREE OF COST)

2010-01-21 Thread Bas Smeelen
Rajesh Makwana wrote: Respected Sir, Myself Rajesh D Makwana from ahmedabad, india, a computer engineer,kindly request you for a free cd of free bsd software to install it on my computer. If your firm provide a free of cost service to provide this open source

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, January 21, 2010 a las 01:37:55PM +0100, Bas Smeelen escribió: I have had two hard locks of the kernel until now using this drive; the 1st while running the dump(1M) (a second dump went fine); the 2nd while uncompressing the 88 GByte file of such a dump; this is with

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-21 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. Any clues? -- Christoph

Re: ssh to root

2010-01-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:49:09PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I need to set up a machine so that I can type ssh [host] as root from some other host and I get a prompt with super user privs... I already have set this up for u...@host for root and ssh host for normal users... but root

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-21 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. Any clues? --

hardening FreeBSD, already using GBDE

2010-01-21 Thread Henry Olyer
For example, the editor I use normally writes to /tmp -- I changed that, making it slower, but in the event that someone takes my laptop I want to sleep at night. I've no problem letting some poor person make a windoz machine out of my laptop -- but I don't want to share my work, my intellectual

Re: hardening FreeBSD, already using GBDE

2010-01-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/21/10 16:32, Henry Olyer wrote: For example, the editor I use normally writes to /tmp -- I changed that, making it slower, but in the event that someone takes my laptop I want to sleep at night. If you use a swap-backed memory drive (see http://man.freebsd.org/mdconfig) for /tmp and use

Re: hardening FreeBSD, already using GBDE

2010-01-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:32:01AM -0500, Henry Olyer wrote: For example, the editor I use normally writes to /tmp -- I changed that, making it slower, but in the event that someone takes my laptop I want to sleep at night. I've no problem letting some poor person make a windoz machine out

How to activate French locale ?

2010-01-21 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello The question is in the subject :-) Thanks a lot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: How to activate French locale ?

2010-01-21 Thread Leslie Jensen
01/21/10 17:28, Frank Bonnet skrev: Hello The question is in the subject :-) Thanks a lot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: How to activate French locale ?

2010-01-21 Thread Frank Wißmann
Frank Bonnet schrieb: Hello The question is in the subject :-) Thanks a lot ___ Hi! You may want to set setenv LANGfr_FR.ISO8859-15 in your .cshrc. Greetings Frank -- GU d- s:+ a+ C+$ UBS$ P L- !E--- W N+@ !o K--? !w--- O !M- !V- PS+

Unique id of a process (not pid)

2010-01-21 Thread cronfy
Hello, Is there any unique identifier of a process in FreeBSD (not PID)? I am trying to get list of processes and watch for changes with kvm_getprocs(). I want to catch every process start and exit (except those processes that were started and finished between calls to kvm_getprocs()). But

Re: VirtualBox - does it work for FreeBSD?

2010-01-21 Thread Glyn Millington
Daniel C. Dowse writes: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:11:53 + at Glyn Millington g...@millingtons.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Good Morning :-) A quick question for anyone running VirtualBox on a FreeBSD _host_ machine, with Linux or Windows as a _guest_ OS. Does it work?

cgiwrap

2010-01-21 Thread DAve
Anyone using cgiwrap? I am unable to get it to work. It continues to claim it is not set uid root, but it is. -rwsr-xr-x 2 rootnogroup 92396 Jan 21 11:33 cgiwrap I ask here first because I had the exact same problem with sbox. I am thinking now that it might be something FreeBSD.

Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread John
This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become rather dormant. Does that mean that all NICs are pretty much commodity with all the good features (unaligned scatter/gather, etc), or does it just mean that machine performance has grown to the point where we don't care anymore?

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:27 AM, John wrote: This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become rather dormant. Does that mean that all NICs are pretty much commodity with all the good features (unaligned scatter/gather, etc), or does it just mean that machine performance

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread John
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:12:29AM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:27 AM, John wrote: This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become rather dormant. Does that mean that all NICs are pretty much commodity with all the good features (unaligned

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread Robert Huff
Chuck Swiger writes: This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become rather dormant. Intel (fxp, em) and Broadcom (bce, bge) make fine NICs, and the older DEC/Intel 21x4x Tulip series (dc/de) was quite good as well. Let me add my vote for Intel: I have a

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 21, 2010, at 10:20 AM, John wrote: [ ... ] Thanks! That's perfect. I have a chance to buy a few Intel Pro 10/100 (fxp) cards. I guess I'll take it! If you don't need gigabit, the fxp cards are great-- very reliable and some even support interrupt mitigation in firmware (which

Re: cgiwrap

2010-01-21 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:26:58 -0500, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: Anyone using cgiwrap? No, so I may just give a quite generic advice, erm, guess. :-) I am unable to get it to work. It continues to claim it is not set uid root, but it is. -rwsr-xr-x 2 rootnogroup 92396

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:20:34PM -0600, John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:12:29AM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: Intel (fxp, em) and Broadcom (bce, bge) make fine NICs, and the older DEC/Intel 21x4x Tulip series (dc/de) was quite good as well. The Marvel Yukon (msk) and nVidia MCP

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread Nathan Vidican
Personally, I've had the best success with fxp and em cards (Intel), and the worst with broadcom-based on-board nics, but have tried and worked with many different cards over the years on FreeBSD. Hands-down though, I prefer Intel's NIC offerings. IIRC - Intel contributed to the development and

Re: cgiwrap

2010-01-21 Thread DAve
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:26:58 -0500, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: Anyone using cgiwrap? No, so I may just give a quite generic advice, erm, guess. :-) I am unable to get it to work. It continues to claim it is not set uid root, but it is. -rwsr-xr-x 2 root

Re: cgiwrap

2010-01-21 Thread DAve
DAve wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:26:58 -0500, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: Anyone using cgiwrap? No, so I may just give a quite generic advice, erm, guess. :-) I am unable to get it to work. It continues to claim it is not set uid root, but it is. -rwsr-xr-x

xdm and xdmcp

2010-01-21 Thread rhino64
Hi All, Is-it possible to run xdm with remote access through XDMCP protocol on freebsd 8 ? I have tried almost anything: commenting line about port 0 in xdm-config, modifying Xaccess, starting xdm with parameter udpPort 177. The command netstat -a never indicates that a process is listening

RE: NFS exporting mounted msdosfs subdir

2010-01-21 Thread sbremal
Hello, Found another supporting argument that an MSDOSFS path should be able to be exported through NFS is that -- beside UFS -- CDFS is also working fine. Whom would be the right forum / person to address the below error to? Checked the man for nfsd and no contact is mentioned there.

need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-21 Thread Gary Kline
guys, after days and weeks of portupgrading firefox35 is one of the two that still fail to build. both get wedged on /usr/local/lib/libspr4.so; can anybody tell me how to resolve this? gmake[3]: Entering directory

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-21 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:07:00 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I have looked for this library to rebuild it; can't find. Anybody know what's going on? Port: nspr-4.6.7 Path: /usr/ports/devel/nspr Info: A platform-neutral API for system level and libc like function

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: guys, after days and weeks of portupgrading firefox35 is one of the two that still fail to build. both get wedged on /usr/local/lib/libspr4.so; can anybody tell me how to resolve this? gmake[3]: Entering directory

Re: xdm and xdmcp

2010-01-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 21/01/2010 8:54 μ.μ., rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: Hi All, Is-it possible to run xdm with remote access through XDMCP protocol on freebsd 8 ? Yes. I have an entire lab working this way :) I have tried almost anything: commenting line about port 0 in xdm-config, This is needed.

/var/yp/securenets

2010-01-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Does the netmask in /var/yp/securenets have to match the one listed in ifconfig if both machines are on the same subnet specifically we get 5 static IP's from our ISP who also puts other customers in the same subnet (the mask if 255.0.0.0) and if possible I want to make an entry like this:

Re: pidgin 2.6.5 login QQ failed

2010-01-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:26:07PM +0800, wsk wrote: hi, upgrade all software after upgrade to 8.0. and now found that pidgin login qq failed. any ideas? If you're talking about AIM or ICQ, it seems that AOL has changed the way servers handle logins so that the previous method doesn't

mfsbsd Makefile

2010-01-21 Thread Martin McCormick
I would like to enable a serial tty login when running the mfsbsd suite. I thought I could just copy /etc/ttys in to mfsbsd-1.0-beta3/conf but the etc/ttys file shows ttyu0 as dialup off secure My ttys file has it vt100 on insecure I probably should make that secure since one

Re: xdm and xdmcp

2010-01-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:30:47PM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 21/01/2010 8:54 ??.??., rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: Hi All, Is-it possible to run xdm with remote access through XDMCP protocol on freebsd 8 ? Yes. I have an entire lab working this way :) I have tried almost

SOLVED: WAS: wireless ath - unable to get scan results

2010-01-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Warren, Paul, many thanks. I somehow missed your emails, just found your replies in on-line archives a hour ago. I got it all working now: HAMOR ifconfig wlan0 wlan0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:27:19:e1:b7:d9 inet 192.168.1.101

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:19:29PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:07:00 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I have looked for this library to rebuild it; can't find. Anybody know what's going on? Port: nspr-4.6.7 Path: /usr/ports/devel/nspr Info: A

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:30:36PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: guys, after days and weeks of portupgrading firefox35 is one of the two that still fail to build. both get wedged on /usr/local/lib/libspr4.so; can anybody tell me how

Re: Unique id of a process (not pid)

2010-01-21 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 21 January 2010 18:02:39 cronfy wrote: Hello, Is there any unique identifier of a process in FreeBSD (not PID)? I am trying to get list of processes and watch for changes with kvm_getprocs(). I want to catch every process start and exit (except those processes that were started

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-21 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:14:30 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks muchly. I'd like to know which pkg_* utility you used to find which port builds what. if there is one! There is, but I did it the old-fahioned way, shame on me. :-) % cd /usr/ports %

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread C. C. Tang
Let me add my vote for Intel: I have a dual-port Pro/1000, and the thing is a rock: I am planning to get a Pro/1000 MT dual port card, do you know that will it works well in 32bit PCI slot on FreeBSD? Thanks, C.C. ___

Re: need help with the last-two-ports!

2010-01-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:15:57AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:14:30 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks muchly. I'd like to know which pkg_* utility you used to find which port builds what. if there is one! There is, but I did it the

Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it from GPT to MBR partitioning. However, I was stumped, even though I had done everything right (or so I thought), the system would get stuck at Loader and refuse

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Thomas K.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: Hi, I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it from GPT to MBR partitioning. However, I was stumped, even though I had done everything

broswers that can use festival?? and other A/V things?

2010-01-21 Thread Gary Kline
is Konqueror the only browser that has festival capability? by which i mean, the browsers can use kttsd? one of my favorite browsers is links -G [GRaphical mode]. i know there are ways to add many, many things; i don't think it knows how to do streaming video,

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread Robert Huff
C. C. Tang writes: Let me add my vote for Intel: I have a dual-port Pro/1000, and the thing is a rock: I am planning to get a Pro/1000 MT dual port card, do you know that will it works well in 32bit PCI slot on FreeBSD? I have one of these: Pro/1000 GT Dual Port

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: Hi, I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it from GPT to MBR

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: Hi, I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and been reworking

portupgrade fail qt4-rcc-4.6.1

2010-01-21 Thread n dhert
Today there were about 7 portupgrades to qt4 packages. Upgrading 'qt4-rcc-4.5.3' to 'qt4-rcc-4.6.1' (devel/qt4-rcc) failed: ... c++ -c -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O2 -fPIC -Wall -W -DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DQT_ LITE_UNICODE -DQT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -DQT_NO_CODECS -DQT_N

pf rules

2010-01-21 Thread kalin m
hi all... doing testing with pf... how is it possible that if i have these rules below in pf.conf if i do: telnet that.host.org 25 i get: Trying xx.xx.xx.xx... Connected to that.host.org. Escape character is '^]'. ... etc ... pf.conf contetns: tcp_in = { www, https } ftp_in = {