Re: cisco-sccp tcp port 2000 Asterisk on Freebsd

2008-06-27 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:02 AM 6/26/2008, Michael Fleming wrote: Can anybody point me in the right direction to open TCP port 2000 for cisco-sccp. I've installed Asterisk Ok but the phones can't make a connection on that port, plus trying to connect localhost has the same affect connection refused. I know if I

Re: why can't I use $1 in .cshrc ?

2008-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:04 AM 6/26/2008, Juri Mianovich wrote: I am trying to use this alias in my root .cshrc file: grep $1 /some/file but .cshrc _refuses_ to expand $1 as a proper variable (in this case, the first argument to the alias...) I _think_ it's because $1 is being interpreted as a argument to

Re: URGENT: Need help rebuilding iir RAID5 array with failed drive

2008-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:49 AM 6/26/2008, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello, First off sorry for the cross-post. I typically don't do this but this is an important question, so please bear with me. I'm just trying to get more eyes on the subject so I can (maybe) get a reply quicker... I'm running 8-CURRENT

Re: URGENT: Need help rebuilding iir RAID5 array with failed drive

2008-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:38 AM 6/26/2008, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Casey Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:49 AM 6/26/2008, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello, First off sorry for the cross-post. I typically don't do

Re: Windows Unix volunteers

2008-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:17 AM 6/26/2008, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. As a FreeBSD fan, I'd

Re: to scsi or not to scsi

2008-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:25 AM 6/26/2008, prad wrote: i've heard scsi hard drives are really good. i've also seen at least one site which claims that ide easily outperform scsi. for the server we got (dual P3 1GHz 2M which will use raid), is one preferable over the other? and what about sata? -- In friendship,

Re: Slow internet conection with FreeBSD (PPPoE)

2008-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:04 PM 6/26/2008, Andrei Brezan wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 01:17 PM 6/25/2008, Andrei Brezan wrote: Hello list :) I have a problem with my so called server, i'm using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. I connect to it trough ssh because i'm not in that location. Everything is ok i'm using /usr

Re: FreeBSD and Active Directory

2008-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:20 PM 6/26/2008, Chris Edwards wrote: I have been put in charge of creating a single sign-on mechanism for our Windows 2003 and FreeBSD servers. We are wanting to use Active Directory as our LDAP server. I know of four different methods that could possibly work. 1. OpenLDAP 2. Radius 3.

Re: Windows Unix volunteers

2008-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:44 PM 6/26/2008, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hi all, N. Raghavendra: At 2008-06-26T18:17:19+02:00, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on

Re: to scsi or not to scsi

2008-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:59 PM 6/26/2008, prad wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:53:00 +0200 Jos Chrispijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at this URL: http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=19 this was very interesting and thorough. and thanks to everyone else who responded especially david and bill.

Re: why an old operating system

2008-06-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:59 AM 6/25/2008, prad wrote: in our search for servers we contacted genstor (on the freebsd compatible hardware list) and a very nice fellow talked to us and sent us a quote. it was out of our price range, but i was very puzzled to see that the brand new and powerful system they were

RE: Unstable File Server

2008-06-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:37 AM 6/25/2008, Marcel Grandemange wrote: If you see in forum I had replaced all cables with brand new ones, upgraded the PSU three times, and even tried multiple PCI controllers. The only place I have not picked up issues yet is with the aacd array, almost everything else has been giving

RE: Unstable File Server

2008-06-25 Thread Derek Ragona
replace the RAID card since you already tried new cables. -Derek From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:08 PM To: Marcel Grandemange; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Unstable File Server At 09:37 AM 6/25/2008

Re: Crontab Not Sending Email - nrcpts=0

2008-06-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:34 PM 6/25/2008, Schiz0 wrote: Hey, I have another odd problem. Cron refuses to send any emails. Here's what DID work: -Sending email via /usr/bin/mail on command line -Having a crontab run a script which in turn sends an email -Piping the output of a crontab command into /usr/bin/mail.

Re: Slow internet conection with FreeBSD (PPPoE)

2008-06-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:17 PM 6/25/2008, Andrei Brezan wrote: Hello list :) I have a problem with my so called server, i'm using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. I connect to it trough ssh because i'm not in that location. Everything is ok i'm using /usr/sbin/ppp to connect to the internet as i have a pppoe account with

Re: unwanted text before shell prompt

2008-06-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:42 AM 6/23/2008, Noah wrote: Hi there, I just upgraded my FreeBSD box and now I am find that the is an almost blank line above my shell prompt that contains a % (without the quotes) about 20 columns in. What would be the places that this line could be defined? Cheers, noah Check

Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?

2008-06-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:06 PM 6/23/2008, George Hartzell wrote: DA Forsyth recently mentioned the coretemp driver, which fetches the core temperatures for Core 2 Duo chips. I'm in the middle of building up a Shuttle SG31G2 (7-STABLE) and loaded the driver to see what it told me. I've noticed that cpu.0 is

Re: {Spam?} Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?

2008-06-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:24 PM 6/23/2008, Josh Carroll wrote: Not sure if the core duos work the same as older 2 CPU and 4 CPU motherboards, but there are some BIOS functions that always use the first CPU. So you never get true SMP because the hardware uses the first CPU more to service interrupts. True,

Re: Upgrading problem: confused dependencies

2008-06-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:11 PM 6/16/2008, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Im sorry to repeat a thread from last week, but ive been trying ever since to upgrade a port and havent been able to. If someone can make another suggestion, i would be very very greatful. As i said in the libcdio upgrade problems thread, i

Re: Upgrading problem: confused dependencies

2008-06-16 Thread Derek Ragona
recall any major issues. -Derek --- On Mon, 6/16/08, Derek Ragona lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: From: Derek Ragona lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; Subject: Re: Upgrading problem: confused dependencies To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, June 16, 2008, 1:09 PM

Re: FreeBSD and Xorg: session ending ends up in locked up Xorg server

2008-06-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:46 AM 6/15/2008, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I have a strange problem on one of my FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE boxes. The machine is a FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE/AMD64 box, most recently built-world. Whenever I logout from a local X11 session (using Xorg, most recent, and Windowmaker, also most recent,

Re: ssh Public Keys Suddenly Stopped working for one account.

2008-06-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:02 PM 6/14/2008, Martin McCormick wrote: We have an account on several FreeBSD systems that is used for automation. Several systems can talk to each other via ssh by using public keys so that scripts don't have to hold passwords. Last night, an account that has been

Re: Unable to reach hosts outside my subnet after initial install

2008-06-13 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:14 AM 6/13/2008, Edward Lay wrote: After a fresh installation of freeBSD 7.0, I am unable to communicate with any hosts beyond the local subnet. All important values (gateway, netmask,etc) were copied from other unix hosts on the same subnet. Presumably I've either failed to include

Re: sendmail: stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address

2008-06-13 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:16 PM 6/12/2008, jonathan michaels wrote: greetings, derek, much appreciated the prompt reply On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:43:42PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 06:36 AM 6/11/2008, jonathan michaels wrote: bit of history trimed for brevity in teh freebsd.mc/sendmail.mc and a 'make

Re: Restoring freeBSD boot loader

2008-06-13 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:12 PM 6/13/2008, Lionel wrote: I've had to install Windows XP in dual boot on a freeBSD box, and of course it erased the bootloader to replace it with its own. Now I'd like to restore the freeBSD bootloader. I've tried booting with the install CD and I use the fdisk utility to mark

Re: Samba FreeBSD

2008-06-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:36 PM 6/12/2008, white list wrote: hope to be in the right place, I'm seeking help join a FreeBSD 6.2 machine to a ADS Windows 2008. when I execute net ads join -U Administrator I get a /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.8: Undefined symbol init_error_table error message. [global]

Re: sendmail: stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address

2008-06-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:36 AM 6/11/2008, jonathan michaels wrote: greetings all, firstly, i am not subscribed, please cc: responces, appreciated. i have been using freebsd v2.2.5-release (as my domains mx host on a 486dx33 .. that was upgraded after 20 years running with 6 years on v2.2.5 to a p5-133 mhz into

Re: no reverse DNS causing connectivity problems

2008-06-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:57 PM 6/9/2008, Jake Evans wrote: [Please cc in replies, not currently subscribed. Thank you.] I have a quick question that I can't seem to find an answer to via Google so far. I've had a few people complain that when they telnet/ssh/ftp/web to our server, it's slow... I've traced the

Re: Denyhost

2008-06-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:56 PM 6/5/2008, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:19:26PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 04:36 PM 6/5/2008, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Anyone using this? I've used it for a long time on a 6.x box and it worked fine. Recently I had to deactivate it since it seems to lock away

Re: rc.d/named

2008-06-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:19 PM 6/6/2008, Casey Scott wrote: I have quite a bit of trouble with the /etc/rc.d/named script. The source of the biggest issue was the rc_run_command was not issuing the run command with /usr/sbin/named. It was just running the arguments w/o the executable. e.g. -t /var/named vs.

Re: Denyhost

2008-06-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:36 PM 6/5/2008, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Anyone using this? I've used it for a long time on a 6.x box and it worked fine. Recently I had to deactivate it since it seems to lock away every IP which is listed in the logs. Any hint? bye Thanks av. I believe denyhost has been

Re: Samba in Windows XP Error

2008-06-04 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:14 AM 6/4/2008, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi ALL I have installed the samba package 3.0.28 in my freebsd 7.0, the installation all goes well my problem only is when i add the samba in an existing workgroup i can access it in my windows xp client however if it has its own workgroup i always

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:12 PM 5/31/2008, Kurt Buff wrote: All, I'm looking to replace my current printer - a Dell 1700n - because I can't make it work with FreeBSD/Linux. To replace it, I'd like to get a duplex printer, as I really hate to waste paper. Does anyone have good experience with one that isn't

Re: FreeBSD crashed

2008-05-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:52 AM 5/25/2008, gahn wrote: Hello all: My FreeBSD crashed. It boots fine but can't mount root directory. Here is the message: / ... Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a Manual root filesystem specification:

Re: Unix command-line tools to edit SharePoint site?

2008-05-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:58 PM 5/24/2008, Kelly Jones wrote: I begrudgingly use a Windows SharePoint server at a customer's request. I'd like to automate (command-line) updating and creating documents, lists, etc. Is there a Unix tool that does this? I know SharePoint has an API, which basically spoofs the

Re: Bind DNS

2008-05-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:10 PM 5/22/2008, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi ALL, Is it possible in BIND DNS to block images in a certain sites? like for example the popular friends site ( friendster), i want to block most images in that site so that client will be irritated that their images don't load perfectly. but s

Re: Bind DNS

2008-05-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:07 AM 5/23/2008, Steve Bertrand wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 09:10 PM 5/22/2008, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi ALL, Is it possible in BIND DNS to block images in a certain sites? like for example the popular friends site ( friendster), i want to block most images in that site so that client

Re: vi secure

2008-05-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:26 AM 5/22/2008, William O. Yates wrote: On 21/May/2008 19:26 Frank Shute wrote .. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:51:03PM -0700, William O. Yates wrote: [sent the below message thru the freebsd-security list with no answers, hope for more from freebsd-questions] Recently started

Re: Samba/Winbind/nsswitch problem

2008-05-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:47 AM 5/22/2008, Stephen Allen wrote: Hello, I've installed and configured samba with winbind, to allow Windows Active Directory users to login without me having to create a local account for them. Generally speaking, it works (I can login, wbinfo -u|-g returns the correct data). I

Re: Unusual use of ssh

2008-05-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:35 PM 5/21/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: I have an unusual situation that I suspect is not practical, but just in case... I have a class C network with a T1 to the internet. There are a number of hosts on that network. Unfortunately the T1 line is just part of a path with several additional

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:17 AM 5/20/2008, Alan Gilmour wrote: Hey all, We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. The CPU is consistently during busy periods using 100% utilisation. When this happens we have approx 150 apache threads, and the loads goes way above 15. However recently the

Re: Samba, AD, nsswitch, freebsd idmap

2008-05-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:22 PM 5/19/2008, Aaron Holmes wrote: I'm not sure where this issue should go, or if it's even a bug. If it's not, please help! https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5468 There are known issues with the utilities than work with winbind, but the basic functionality does work. Some

Re: Adding Modules to Apache Port Post Install

2008-05-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:44 PM 5/18/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I configured and installed an Apache server on my FreeBSD box about a week or so back. Now I'm looking into installing subversion using this guide:

Re: 486 Install??

2008-05-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:46 PM 5/16/2008, Thomas F Simpson Jr wrote: I have a 486 DEEP GREEN system I would like to put some version of FreeBSD on (I have my reasons). I have other inquiries out on this, but if I correctly recall (and that is a real rusty recall at best), the max memory you could get on one of

Re: 486 Install??

2008-05-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:23 PM 5/16/2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: 402.896.1157 I have one system running 6.3 with 48 MB ram, but it does freeze from time to time. I believe it does need more ram and is a system slated for it doesn't freeze because of that. there are other reason. It could be for other

Re: force file permission

2008-05-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:41 PM 5/15/2008, Mister Olli wrote: hi list... I have to administrate a fileserver based on freebsd-7 where users have access to via SMB and SSH. my permission setup is configured, so that a user needs to be in a special group to have access to certain files. for that all file must have

Re: SRCSAS144e raid controller

2008-05-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:44 PM 5/13/2008, Aaron Holmes wrote: Is the Intel SRCSAS144e RAID controller supported by FreeBSD? Or are there any hacks to get it working? A quick google didn't reveal very much. It depends on what support you need. I've not used this exact controller but have used similar older

Re: arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network

2008-05-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:22 AM 5/14/2008, Christer Solskogen wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: Yes aliases should have a netmask of 255.255.255.255 Still no go. 192.168.0.255 is showing up in arp -a and netstat -rn. (and the arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network in /var/log/messages) nfe0: flags

Re: arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network

2008-05-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:50 PM 5/14/2008, Christer Solskogen wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: I would do a traceroute from all your hosts there. When you do keep an eye out for the arp error message. This should help find the host causing these errors and then look at that systems configuration. Also do you have

Re: Configuring Bash

2008-05-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:20 PM 5/14/2008, Montag wrote: This should be a fairly simple process, I don't really know what I am missing. I've got the following in the .bash_profile of a basic user account: # set prompt [EMAIL PROTECTED]/dir] $ (# for root) PS1 = ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' case `id -u` in 0)

Re: Configuring Bash

2008-05-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:10 PM 5/14/2008, Montag wrote: ### SNIP ### Are you saying it works if you: su - root Yes, that's correct. But logging in as a regular user. So, can you: login as a regular user su - root su - [regular user] Interesting, this produces the correct output. Login : ${PS1} $ $

Re: Converting AVI and MPEG Into Still Images

2008-05-13 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:31 PM 5/13/2008, D Hill wrote: Is there anything in the ports tree I can use to convert AVI and/or MPEG videos into individual frames as jpg or a different still graphic format? -d videolan offers the ability to do screen caps. videolan is cross platform, so you can run it on most

Re: {Spam?} Re: agp problems in 7.0-RELEASE

2008-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:54 PM 5/11/2008, Novembre wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Derek Ragona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:17 PM 5/11/2008, Novembre wrote: Hi all, I have upgraded my home desktop (1.4GHz P-IIIS) machine from 6.2-RELEASE-p9 to 7.0-RELEASE some time ago. When

Re: arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network

2008-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:55 PM 5/12/2008, Christer Solskogen wrote: Christer Solskogen wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: Sounds like you have 0.0.0.0 configured on an ethernet interface. I would check all your systems, and be sure it isn't used. I checked, and there is no interface with that ip address. But thanks

Re: arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network

2008-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:44 PM 5/12/2008, Christer Solskogen wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: You may want to do traceroutes from the systems that do find the 0.0.0.0 interface. I would bet you have a default route and/or netmask sending the traffic. You will get those arp messages if you run two different

Re: agp problems in 7.0-RELEASE

2008-05-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:17 PM 5/11/2008, Novembre wrote: Hi all, I have upgraded my home desktop (1.4GHz P-IIIS) machine from 6.2-RELEASE-p9 to 7.0-RELEASE some time ago. When comparing the two dmesg outputs from 6.2 and 7.0, I realized that some things aren't the same anymore. Probing agp gives the following

Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:39 PM 5/9/2008, prad wrote: i can't seem to boot the cdrom on older hardware (500MHz and down). i read somewhere that the older drives aren't supported by the installation cdrom. i want to create a series of 'dumb terminals' which can ssh -Y into a faster machine. if necessary i suppose i

Re: arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network

2008-05-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:39 PM 5/11/2008, Christer Solskogen wrote: Hi! I have been seeing a lot of warnings in syslog the last week. Do anyone have a tip for where to begin searching for the sinner? arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network

Re: Nut problem and last message repeated in dmesg

2008-05-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:01 AM 5/1/2008, Olivier GARNIER wrote: There are my questions: Does anyone become to correct the same problem and can help me to correct this? Can anyone tell my how to see the last message which is repeated hundred times? I've got an MGE ellipse 750 USBS. I've connected it to my

Re: raid and dump/restore after the disaster

2008-04-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:09 AM 4/30/2008, Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hi! Anybody on this, plase? :) Am I missing something basilar, or it's a FreeBSD bug? Incomplete support for the ICH9R? I cannot attach the boot log, because the boot process panics just before mounting the disks and nothing is logged on

Re: Username groups

2008-04-17 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:19 AM 4/17/2008, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hello, Can you help me on this... I have a directory in the server this is what is looks like drwxrwx--- 12 root plusmate 512 April 13 14:46 plusmate shared ...this directory is shared in my network, and i dont recieve any complain in any user

Re: Estimating bandwidth requirements for web/mail server

2008-04-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:20 AM 4/16/2008, John Almberg wrote: I have a FreeBSD web/mail server in a colocation facility. They offer many fixed and burstable bandwidth options. I am currently using 512Kbits fixed, which limits data transfer to around 64K up and down, simultaneously. This works okay at the moment,

Re: Using flags with portinstall of apache?

2008-04-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:09 AM 4/16/2008, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, Im having trouble doing a simple Apache22 install. I first installed it just using portinstall apache. Then i saw that i needed to specify flags during hte process, to get the modules i wan't, but i cant figure out how to do it. I first

RE: Using flags with portinstall of apache?

2008-04-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:16 AM 4/16/2008, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: --- Barry Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:09 AM 4/16/2008, Dr

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:48 AM 4/16/2008, Daniel Tourde wrote: Hi Robert, The expression terrible performances was maybe not the best way to express myself. My intentions were not to step on anyone's toe or being nasty. Sorry about that. To describe things shortly, the problem is responsiveness. I have been

Re: file/directory names with space in between

2008-04-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:25 PM 4/14/2008, Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I need to work on some files and directories that have spaces in them like: interesting story\2008 March\{story one,story two}. When using find with -exec, part of the file/directory name will be missing and therefore lead to error. What should I

Re: cutecom requires sudo to work, but minicom works without - permissions?

2008-04-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:39 PM 4/14/2008, Steve Franks wrote: I have two terminal programs - cutecom and minicom, both built from ports with no tweaks. Minicom will fire up and hit the serial port just fine, but cutecom can't open it except with sudo. I tried tweaking devfs.conf (as well as a straight chmod on

Re: Can't log in as root on new 7.0 install

2008-04-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:35 AM 4/14/2008, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I've recently installed FreeBSD 7.0 on a new server. I seem to be unable to log in as root in any way, and I'm not sure why. Furthermore I'm now physically separate from the machine, and have been relying on a (non-computer-literate) colleague with

Re: Can't log in as root on new 7.0 install

2008-04-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:30 AM 4/14/2008, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:04:21AM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 09:35 AM 4/14/2008, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I've recently installed FreeBSD 7.0 on a new server. I seem to be unable to log in as root in any way, and I'm not sure why

Re: HDD partitioning question...

2008-04-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:27 PM 4/14/2008, Dharma Wolford wrote: Hi folks, (I'm a relative newcomer to all this... thanks for your patience help.) I've installed FreeBSD 6.2 on a system that will be primarily used as an FTP server. It has 2 drives - one for the OS and the other for the FTP storage. My question

Re: start up scripts stopped working

2008-04-13 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:02 PM 4/13/2008, Eric wrote: hello, does anyone know what I can do to fix the following problem? Every time my FreeBSd 6.2 machine reboots, none of the scripts in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory launch the various programs i have defined in my rc.conf file. when i added

Re: spamassassin and amavisd with stock sendmail

2008-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:12 PM 4/11/2008, Eric Melville wrote: I've got a very plain and standard sendmail configuration running on a machine as a primary mail exchanger. After years of running without any kind of automated spam filtering, it's just gotten too poor and I have to turn to rejecting mail. I

Re: Milters or SpamAssassin plugings

2008-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:10 PM 4/11/2008, Robert Davison wrote: I'm running the base Sendmail with Mailscanner and SpamAssassin from the ports. A simple question I'm installing SPF to help the fight against spam. Which is the most efficient way of doing it.Sendmail milter or the p5-Mail SpamAssassin

Re: Milters or SpamAssassin plugings

2008-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:04 PM 4/11/2008, Robert Davison wrote: Thanks, but that was not exactly what I was asking. I know I can configure it in MailScanner, but - which is the best way of doing it. Through Sendmail as a milter or the p5-mail-SPF plugin ?? Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:10 PM 4

Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad

2008-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:30 PM 4/10/2008, Shelby Cain wrote: Greetings list. I'm a new user to FreeBSD and I just managed to introduce myself to ldconfig's default behavior. I'm currently locked out of my remote server since bash isn't statically compiled and will have to get physical access to correct my

{Disarmed} Re: network configuration problem

2008-04-08 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:08 AM 4/8/2008, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote: Hello, at the moment I'm using internet an emails via a 56k modem and ppp. I want to change to DSL -- but I'm not able to do it without help. I've bought a router/gateway from my provider (Telekom/T-Online) which is called Speedport W

Re: need a shell script that can be executed manually or as part of the rc process. How can the script detect WHERE it is being called from to know how to handle various options.

2008-04-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:21 PM 4/4/2008, Rance Hall wrote: I have a sh script im working on that is going to be able to run by the init/rc process. That same script can also be run after the system is started. I need a way to have the sh script detect WHERE in the boot process the server is when it is being

Re: Internet Access problem

2008-04-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:30 PM 4/6/2008, comperr wrote: Hi, I am having trouble accessing the internet with my freeBSD 6.2 computer. The router is a Lynksys router. When I do a tcpdump I see a series of requests that have something like pathcost 0 max 20 or something like that.. (sample:

Re: Console Random Text

2008-03-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:27 PM 3/21/2008, Andy Christianson wrote: Hello everyone, I am having a very strange problem. My sever stopped responding in SSH. At the time, a co-worker said he was importing a MySQL database from a USB drive mounted as ext2fs. I went back to check on the console, and it was

Re: PS/2 mice suddenly stopped working

2008-03-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:02 PM 3/22/2008, Greg Mars wrote: I just turned on today and my ps/2 mouse (actually SB with a ps/2 adapter) was not working. Tried reconfiguring in sysinstall to no avail. Tried another pure ps/2 mouse and it didn't work either. Took off the usb-ps/2 adapter off the original mouse,

Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:24 PM 3/20/2008, Peter Boosten wrote: Novembre wrote: I've read UPDATING before doing anything, but I assumed that portupgrade -faP also covers that part about gnutls as well. Isn't it true? Unless portupgrade did upgrade samba first and then gnutls, which means it's not smart enough!

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:56 AM 3/21/2008, Joe Demeny wrote: I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone have experience with these? Any suggestions for

Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:54 AM 3/21/2008, Martin McCormick wrote: I think I fixed it but I am not sure I would have figured it out quickly without the help from the list. It seems that FreeBSD defaults to a chroot of bind with the tree owned by root. You can run bind in a sandbox as the

Re: Various X errors (difficult to see)

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:18 AM 3/21/2008, Luca Presotto wrote: Hi, I have a freebsd 7.0 release with xorg 7.3 installed on a i386 with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 Official nvidia drivers installed and apparently no problems. In the xorg.0.log file there aren't any errors, glx is correctly loaded etc.. My system

RE: Various X errors (difficult to see)

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:14 AM 3/21/2008, Luca Presotto wrote: You should run startx and redirect the output to a file and check the errors and then try to fix them. To do this try: startx /tmp/somexerrorlogfile 21 Done that! Here-s the first error(s): DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open

Re: help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:39 PM 3/21/2008, William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and

RE: Various X errors (difficult to see)

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:07 PM 3/21/2008, Luca Presotto wrote: This error refers to the artsd daemon already running, or the system thinks this daemon is running. You should open a terminal window and do: ps -ax|grep -i art and see if the artsd daemon is running or not. If it is not, you may need to force it

Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-20 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:30 PM 3/20/2008, Martin McCormick wrote: About half of the 7 FreeBSD systems I run exhibit a very annoying behavior that I have not pinned down yet as to why and how to correct it. I reboot. Soon, I find that bind isn't running. It runs as a low-priority process and is

Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-20 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:10 PM 3/20/2008, Novembre wrote: Hi all, I have a couple of questions regarding my upgrade from 6.2-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE following the instructions from the handbook step by step. After the upgrade, I made a custom kernel, and the only option I've added to /etc/make.conf is

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 nvidia-driver woes

2008-03-18 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:58 AM 3/18/2008, Darren Spruell wrote: New installation of FreeBSD 7.0 i386, updated to 7.0-STABLE Mon Mar 17 18:04:24 MST 2008. Attempting to use the nvidia-driver-169.12 package for: NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI (NV41GL) at PCI:7:0:0 When I start X using the Xorg 'nv'

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 nvidia-driver woes

2008-03-18 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:51 PM 3/18/2008, Darren Spruell wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:58 AM 3/18/2008, Darren Spruell wrote: Xorg + nvidia-driver woes... I also have a server running FreeBSD 7.0 with xorg 7.3 and an older Nvidia card. I first had

Re: C compiler issue perhaps?

2008-03-17 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:29 AM 3/17/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: On Mar 15, 2008, at 05:59, Derek Ragona wrote: At 09:49 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: On Mar 14, 2008, at 18:31, Derek Ragona wrote: At 06:56 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: There is no code running at that point. Its just sitting

Re: Urgent: filesystem full, though space is available

2008-03-17 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:34 AM 3/17/2008, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, Ive got a big problem now on a production server. When i do various things, i am getting write failed, file system full messages all over the place. Ive gone through and deleted things i can, and i should have the space now, but its just

Re: Bus error: 10 (core dumped) on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-03-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:51 AM 3/16/2008, Vladimir Ch. wrote: After upgrading to FreeBSD 7.0 some of the programs stopped working: when trying to launch emacs or sbcl I am getting Bus error: 10. Searching the internet revealed that this could be hardware problem - but 6.2, 6.3 ran the same box before without any

Re: C compiler issue perhaps?

2008-03-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:49 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: On Mar 14, 2008, at 18:31, Derek Ragona wrote: At 06:56 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: There is no code running at that point. Its just sitting there waiting for me to enter a gdb command. On Mar 14, 2008, at 15:16, Derek Ragona wrote: At 05

Re: C compiler issue perhaps?

2008-03-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:02 PM 3/15/2008, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Ragona wrote: At 05:10 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: I have a program I was testing with gdb. I was trying to figure out why c.rmonths was always zero when it should have been 6. Stepped

Re: Major version binary upgrade 6.3-RELEASE - 7-RELEASE

2008-03-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:22 AM 3/14/2008, Daniel Demacek wrote: Hi, in my testing environemnt I've tryied binary upgrade from 6.3-RELEASE - 7-RELEASE by following Colin Percival's article at http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html I am stuck at the step portupgrade -f

Re: portupgrade -fa after system upgrade from 5.5 to 6.3

2008-03-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:59 AM 3/14/2008, bsd wrote: Hello, I have updated from 5.5 to 6.3 and wanted to know if It advisable to make a : # potupgrade -fa Knowing that I have kept my port tree up to date and have no outdated ports. Simply put, the question is: should I force recompile all my installed ports

Re: C compiler issue perhaps?

2008-03-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:10 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: I have a program I was testing with gdb. I was trying to figure out why c.rmonths was always zero when it should have been 6. Stepped through using the gdb n command. Here is the output: (gdb) 215 c.rmonths = (edate -

Re: C compiler issue perhaps?

2008-03-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:56 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: There is no code running at that point. Its just sitting there waiting for me to enter a gdb command. On Mar 14, 2008, at 15:16, Derek Ragona wrote: At 05:10 PM 3/14/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: I have a program I was testing with gdb. I was trying

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