Re: nvidia-driver segmentation fault

2007-05-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:26 AM 5/24/2007, Ernest Sales wrote: To celebrate te Xorg upgrade I got rid of all ports installed in my system, then did a fresh install. No problems building; well, I installed first gnome-lite expecting it would pull the complete xorg meta-port and finally had to install this to get all

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:30 AM 5/24/2007, kalin mintchev wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? > hi all.. > > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has > two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of > slices. > under dev

Re: Missing MBR ?

2007-05-13 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:09 PM 5/13/2007, Joseph Marah wrote: All of a sudden my MBR prompt has disapeared and replaced by the following: Intel(R) Boot Agent FEv4.1.17 Copyright (C) 1997-2004, Intel Corporation Intel(R) BootAgent PXE Base Code (PXE-2.1 buildbuild 085) Copyright (C) 1997-2004, Intel Corpora

Re: Sendmail mail.local Failure

2007-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:48 AM 5/12/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, my local mailer is failing. I can send and receive to remote servers just fine, but I can't transfer mail locally. /var/log/maillog says: sm-mta[31955]: starting daemon (8.14.1): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 sm-mta[31955]: started as:

Re: No SMB/Samba support on Windows Home Editions

2007-04-27 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:49 PM 4/27/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I've been working feverishly to set up a Samba share on FreeBSD 6.2 server to provide file storage for clients running Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista Home Premium. I just had a long talk with the ISP's tech support, and was told a number of things that I

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:31 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 01:16 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>Both of those checked OK. Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S >> >>incorrectly during setup? >> >> >> >>Thanks, >> > >> > What is your

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:16 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Both of those checked OK. Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S >>incorrectly during setup? >> >>Thanks, > > What is your type and model hard drive? Did you specify the geometry when > you ra

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both of those checked OK. Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S incorrectly during setup? Thanks, What is your type and model hard drive? Did you specify the geometry when you ran sysinstall? How did you partition and slice the hard driv

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:49 AM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 on an HP Proliant G5 server with an E200i Smart Controller installed. The installation was flawless. When I reboot the server after the installation, the boot loader screen is displayed. I press F1 and the system beep

Re: can't add any new users

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:31 PM 4/25/2007, Charlie McElfresh wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded all my machines to 6.2 RELEASE. All my machines except one work fine. On one of my machines, I can log in from the console to the super user account, but I could not su to my user account. So, I backed up all my data, and

Re: first of misc questions....

2007-04-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:29 AM 4/25/2007, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, This is an awk-type question. Hopefully a one-liner. If I need to use #!/usr/bin/awk and a BEGIN/END (or whatever it is), that's okay... I want to do an ls -l in a /home/kline/ and find and edit fi

Re: raid controller intel 82801GR/GH

2007-04-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:23 PM 4/24/2007, J.C. França wrote: greetings, does anyone know about freebsd 6.2 compatibility with intel controller 82801GR/GH, running RAID 10? Have you tried creating your RAID 10 array first and installing FreeBSD? -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and da

Re: Samba connection fails

2007-04-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:38 PM 4/24/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I installed the samba-3.0.23c_2,1 package on a server destined for a small office network running Windows clients. Have not yet configured the network settings. Am trying to test the Samba configuration "offline" before connecting it to the network (route

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:01 PM 4/23/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as a Samba share. I also p

Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail

2007-04-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:19 PM 4/23/2007, Andrew Fremantle wrote: Hello, I've got a machine on the local network, with a local DNS name (which is not a valid name in the global DNS). My problem is that I cannot kludge sendmail into behaving nicely and allow the periodic(8) mailings to get through. The machin

Re: Monitor and X

2007-04-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:38 PM 4/22/2007, Richard Knebel wrote: here is the xorg.conf file. It almost seems that the message is coming from my monitor. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputD

Re: Monitor and X

2007-04-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:19 AM 4/22/2007, Richard Knebel wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up m y computer to use X in 6.2 I edited the xorg.conf file with my monitors Horiz and Vert freq, but whenever I try and do startX I get this message Out of Range Hfreq 81 khz VFreq 65 hz Thanks Rick

Re: Anti Spam

2007-04-20 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:43 AM 4/20/2007, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I am posting this question here because I know there are alot of ISPs using FreeBSD (including me) and am hoping to get feedback, either directly to me or to the list. We are wrestling (as I am sure many are), with spam. Up until now we have

Re: Missing all video drivers

2007-04-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:07 PM 4/19/2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: If a fresh install is missing *all* the video drivers except vga, what went wrong? My box has a boatload of drivers; s3-virge, radeon, ati, etc. This new install (6.2 RELEASE) has *no* video drivers at all. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior I

Re: Xorg crashing without overt error messages

2007-04-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:31 AM 4/19/2007, Rob wrote: Hi All, I am having a problem with a new laptop where Xorg crashes but doesn't give any explicite info as to why. I have added at the end some of the output. Thanks! Rob Rob, I have seen this on some systems running nvidia drivers. I found if I cvsup'd

Re: random hangs/reboots with Dell servers

2007-04-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:54 AM 4/19/2007, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: Dear all, I am trying to understand some long standing issues we have with freebsd and Dell servers. Over the last 3 year we have installed freebsd 5.x and 6.x, with currently deployed version being 6.1, to a variety of of Dell rack mo

Re: FW: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI

2007-04-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:32 PM 4/18/2007, Murray Taylor wrote: In our initial posts, we stated that we seemed to be having issues getting the machine to boot with the 4 processors, so to bypass this we disabled ACPI on boot. This allowed us to get past the CPU error and continue to boot. However down the track we

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:07 AM 4/18/2007, Murray Taylor wrote: Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-17 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations. Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, wha

Re: Cant boot fresh install of freebsd 6.2 or dell poweredge 6650

2007-04-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:21 AM 4/12/2007, Craig Russell wrote: I am a newbie using freebsd and have run into a problem on a new install on a dell poweredge 6650. I am installing to a hardeware raid 1 on an LSI Logic raid controller. The installation appears to go well but after a reboot the freebsd boot manager c

Re: Unable to load a kernel !

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:34 PM 4/11/2007, Oscar Chavarria wrote: Error Message: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf Unable to load a kernel ! ' can't load 'kernel' System: AMD Athlon 64 +3000 1.8GHz - 1.0GB RAM - Windows Server 2003 originally installed. Background: Booting from CD FreeBSD seems to install without

Re: default shell behavior with aterm

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:42 PM 4/11/2007, Chad Perrin wrote: I've had to solve a problem with unexpected shell behavior when using aterm (my favorite terminal emulator) a couple of times now. This seems to be limited to aterm -- the same problems do not arise at the TTY console or in xterm. Back when I first set

Re: fetchmail checksum mismatch error

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:50 AM 4/11/2007, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I tried updating fetchmail today from 6.3.6 to 6.3.8. I used portupgrade to do it. However, I got an error message about checksum mismatch. I suspect it may have something to do with me stopping the upgrade process because while downloadi

Re: Chroot/jail mechanism in ssh and sftp connections

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
ut you'd probably want to remove any symlinks that shouldn't be there. Derek Ragona wrote: > At 10:28 AM 4/10/2007, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote: >>Hello, >>I want to use the chroot/jail mechanism in user's ssh and sftp >>connections. I've read some >

Re: "No CD/DVD devices found" after booting from FreeBSD 6.2 CD 1

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:07 AM 4/11/2007, Isaac Grover wrote: Good morning, I am attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell Dimension C521n (no Windows pre-installed) with a Sony model DDU1615S CD/DVD drive as the chosen boot media. Booting from the CD shows that the CD drive shows up as cd, and after do

Re: awk question

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:43 PM 4/10/2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:35:33PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: > At 06:17 PM 4/10/2007, Gary Kline wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:54:07PM -0700, Rick Olson wrote: > >> I'm assuming you've already taken care of this, but

Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:54 PM 4/10/2007, RW wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:52:43 -0500 Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:48 PM 4/10/2007, L33T Networks wrote: > >What is the second line with 10.20.30.199, and the hostname ends in a > >period? I've never seen this in a host

Re: awk question

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:17 PM 4/10/2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:54:07PM -0700, Rick Olson wrote: > I'm assuming you've already taken care of this, but to answer your > original question in AWK form, you could have done the following: > > ls -l | awk '$8 == 2006 {system("rm " $9)}' >

Re: disklabel error in 4.11 release

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:21 PM 4/10/2007, fbsd bsd wrote: Hey *, having a bit of a problem with disklabel. A bit of background. I'm building a lab with Olive boxes in it (http://juniper.cluepon.net/index.php/Olive), which are basically i386 machines running JunOS. Please note that this whole procedure is entir

Re: flp floppies

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:03 PM 4/10/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first post. Apologies if I am directing the question to the wrong area. I am determined to load a copy of FreeBSD, for development purposes, on to my machine. I will then have windows XP Professional and FreeBSD on the same machine, sharing

Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:48 PM 4/10/2007, L33T Networks wrote: What is the second line with 10.20.30.199, and the hostname ends in a period? I've never seen this in a host file previous to FBSD v.6. apollo# cat /etc/hosts #::1localhost.mydomain.com localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.my

Re: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ...

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:11 PM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know of a reasonably priced one? Our newer servers, we've been using HP servers, so that we have this built in, but I have 6 older servers that I'd love to be able to deal with remotely wit

Re: Chroot/jail mechanism in ssh and sftp connections

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:28 AM 4/10/2007, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote: Hello, I want to use the chroot/jail mechanism in user's ssh and sftp connections. I've read some tutorials and possible solutions to jail/chroot the users into their own home directories. One is to install the openssh-portable(with chro

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:55 AM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ... Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to a server *after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have

Re: Boot failure after installation

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:14 PM 4/9/2007, L Goodwin wrote: Derek Ragona said: > Go into the SCSI BIOS and reset the SCSI to default values. > If it still gives the same error on bootup, I would go into the SCSI BIOS and > low-level format that first drive, and reinstall FreeBSD. > On the reinstall,

Re: Boot failure after installation

2007-04-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:56 AM 4/9/2007, L Goodwin wrote: Hello. I tried posting this issue a few hours ago, but it did not appear in my inbox, so I'm trying once more. I've included details of the install in case it matters (sorry about length). I'm having trouble getting FreeBSD 6.2 to boot after installation.

Re: creating device node?

2007-04-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:15 PM 4/6/2007, Franz Wegwerf wrote: A program wants to have access to /dev/tap3 which doesn't exist on my machine. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD running FreeBSD 6 and trying wesside but got stuck with this error message: "Can't open tap: ..." Any help apreciated! Franz In FreeBSD 5.X and b

Re: lpd refuses to print from a machine with a DHCP assigned IP address...

2007-04-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:16 AM 4/6/2007, Amarendra Godbole wrote: Hi, My FreeBSD box picks up its IP through DHCP. Now I configured a printer on this machine, using apsfilter. So far so good. Now when I try to print anything, I see the following error in the lpd-errs file: Apr 6 11:00:03 zimbu lpd[15

Re: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology

2007-04-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:36 PM 4/5/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the int

Re: remote printing question

2007-04-04 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:25 PM 4/4/2007, David Banning wrote: > >I don't want to use a server. So the router would have to do NAT. > >Is it possible that way for the outside world to address the > >printer directly since it has a network address, and not a > >www IP? > > You can probably setup the router to forward

Re: remote printing question

2007-04-04 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:30 PM 4/4/2007, David Banning wrote: > Well, if your printer has its own Ethernet card and an IP address > you can just set things up to go directly to it with no server. > > Or, what is that router? If it is something like a FreeBSD box or > other more full service system, it can probabl

Re: Kernel source

2007-04-04 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:25 PM 4/4/2007, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have a 6.1 server that I need to install the source for recompiling quotas support. It is at a remote location without the CD and when I try FTP, it declares 6.1-SECURITY is not available on any ftp server. Is there anywhere to download from? --

Re: remote printing question

2007-04-04 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:56 PM 4/4/2007, David Banning wrote: I have a someone who wants to have a remote printer without using a server at the printing location. Is it possible to do; DSL Line->Modem -> router -> printer | - | |

Re: pop3 problems

2007-04-04 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:11 PM 4/4/2007, David Southwell wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 09:12:01 Tommy Scheunemann wrote: > On Mi, 04 Apr 2007 David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > I am trying to get pop3 working on freebsd 6.1 but am having no success. > > > > mail ports installed: > > [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: pop3 problems

2007-04-04 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:06 PM 4/4/2007, David Southwell wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 09:29:13 Derek Ragona wrote: > At 11:20 AM 4/4/2007, David Southwell wrote: > >On Wednesday 04 April 2007 08:57:51 David Southwell wrote: > > > I am trying to get pop3 working on freebsd 6.1 but am havin

Re: pop3 problems

2007-04-04 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:20 AM 4/4/2007, David Southwell wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 08:57:51 David Southwell wrote: > I am trying to get pop3 working on freebsd 6.1 but am having no success. > > mail ports installed: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw]# pkg_info |grep mail > cclient-2004g,1 Mark

Re: var Filesystem Full Help

2007-04-03 Thread Derek Ragona
I would reboot and run fsck in single user mode. The reboot will clear any old open files that may be causing the drive full problem. -Derek At 11:59 AM 4/3/2007, Sean Murphy wrote: Sean Murphy wrote: I am getting these errors on my var filesystem but df -h shows there is plenty of

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

2007-04-03 Thread Derek Ragona
My guess is that DNS was propagated and now athome.net is in the maps of the DNS server you query. Just change your /etc/hosts file, you can use a domain suffix that does not exist for instance. -Derek At 12:18 PM 4/3/2007, V.I.Victor wrote: >I don't think your hosts file is correc

Re: var Filesystem Full Help

2007-04-03 Thread Derek Ragona
Run fsck on /var also check that /var doesn't exist elseware like from a symbolic link. -Derek At 11:18 AM 4/3/2007, Sean Murphy wrote: I am getting these errors on my var filesystem but df -h shows there is plenty of space available. I am running FreeBSD 5.4 muse2# df -h Filesystem

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

2007-04-03 Thread Derek Ragona
I don't think your hosts file is correct, unless you are telling me you own the domain athome.net. You need to use a domain name you own or one that is not in use. -Derek At 10:42 AM 4/3/2007, V.I.Victor wrote: >Check that localhost is defined in /etc/hosts and your name resolution

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local

2007-04-03 Thread Derek Ragona
Check that localhost is defined in /etc/hosts and your name resolution is working in /etc/nsswitch.conf -Derek At 09:40 AM 4/3/2007, V.I.Victor wrote: >Your domain is not set correctly, or you set it to athome.net. Sendmail is >just trying to deliver the email. Normally you don't ne

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local

2007-04-03 Thread Derek Ragona
Your domain is not set correctly, or you set it to athome.net. Sendmail is just trying to deliver the email. Normally you don't need the domain to send to root. As long as you have root defined in /etc/mail/aliases you should be able to send to just root. @reboot /bin/echo "reboot" |/usr/bi

RE: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld

2007-04-02 Thread Derek Ragona
/usr/ports/UPDATING /usr/ports/mail/dspam/files/UPDATING /usr/ports/mail/dspam-devel/files/UPDATING -- From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:02 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or

Re: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld

2007-04-02 Thread Derek Ragona
The difference is a binary upgrade using sysinstall booting a later version CD or using cvsup and a source install. Both should work fine for your setup. If you want to go to 6.X you should go to 5.5 first. Read /usr/src/UPDATING in all cases. -Derek At 09:44 AM 4/2/2007, Jean-Paul

Re: deleting file '--preserve-permissions'

2007-03-31 Thread Derek Ragona
try: rm -i * only answer y to the one you want deleted. -Derek At 02:36 PM 3/31/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made mistake with tar. Something like tar cvfz --preserve-permissions home.tgz * or tar cvfz --preserve-permissions * home.tgz As result I have a file with name '--p

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Derek Ragona
from windows with partition magic? I supose that on the same way freebsd does with it's partitions? Ivan On 3/30/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not that I know of. The extended partitions are implemented as linked-lists, and not in a partition table as standard partit

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:54 AM 3/30/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ivan_Zenzerovi=E6?= wrote: Ok, I think I understand, but tell me, is there any way I can read those partitions from freebsd? If this helps, on that disk are no windows, there are 3 ntfs partitions. Ivan On 3/30/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Derek Ragona
You are able to mount the primary partition, not the extended partitions. This is a also a limitation mounting ms-dos fat drives. The extended partitions are done differently and are outside the partition table. -Derek At 07:58 AM 3/30/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ivan_Zenzerovi=E6?= wrote:

Re: How to retrieve installed version ?

2007-03-29 Thread Derek Ragona
uname -a -Derek At 02:39 PM 3/29/2007, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, how to retrieve installed FreeBSD version ? Thanks. -Bruno ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-28 Thread Derek Ragona
, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 27/03/07 Derek Ragona said: > Which FreeBSD version are you running? In 6.X the devs are created > automatically on bootup. In earlier versions you may need to make > it. Look at the Makefile in /dev for the correct make option. I'm running 5-STABLE.

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-27 Thread Derek Ragona
Which FreeBSD version are you running? In 6.X the devs are created automatically on bootup. In earlier versions you may need to make it. Look at the Makefile in /dev for the correct make option. -Derek At 05:39 PM 3/27/2007, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 26/03/07 Derek Ragona said

Re: sample cds

2007-03-26 Thread Derek Ragona
You can download the ISO images and make all you want. -Derek At 05:25 PM 3/26/2007, stefan broos wrote: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Stefan _

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-26 Thread Derek Ragona
I use nut-ups on a number of systems both attached to a UPS and some as network slaves. In all my systems I use UPS's that have serial interfaces and USB, but connect them via serial. If you read the docs on nut-ups you will see some drivers do support the USB's. You will need to specify the

Re: Installing on large disk

2007-03-26 Thread Derek Ragona
The 1023 cylinder limit is BIOS limit for booting. If your BIOS is more modern it will support booting from translated cylinder addresses > 1023. The easiest way to tell is to try updating your BIOS, and trying the install. With older hardware I would have to have boot partitions all located

Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2007-03-24 Thread Derek Ragona
You can boot the windows repair console and use fixmbr command from there. -Derek At 08:06 PM 3/24/2007, Jim Priovolos wrote: How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing

Re: FreeBSD 5.4, installation hangs

2007-03-24 Thread Derek Ragona
I think you need more memory for the installer. If you can, try adding more RAM to the system board. -Derek At 06:21 PM 3/23/2007, Moon Shine wrote: Hello! The Problem: installation hangs after the menu. I try to install FreeBSD 5.4 - RELEASE. I use 3 diskettes and CD. Here that I se

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread Derek Ragona
You can bring up multiple IP's on the same NIC on the same server if you would like to do that. You simply add lines to /etc/rc.conf to add aliases. ifconfig_dc0_alias1="###.###.###.### netmask 0x The NIC device name should be used in the alias. -Derek At 11:40 AM 3/23/2007, D

Re: ssh via html

2007-03-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Why don't you put putty on a USB thumb drive and run it from there? -Derek At 08:28 AM 3/22/2007, Koen de Wijs wrote: Hello, I want to login on my freebsd remotely by ssh. I don't want to download putty every time I want to login in my compter from a computer that isn't mine. I woul

Re: How to use vsftpd with wirtual users without LinuxPAM ?

2007-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
For so few users, you can use regular accounts with the shell set to: /usr/bin/false -Derek At 11:47 AM 3/21/2007, Vincent Bolinard wrote: Hello, I'd like to know how can I set up virtual users without pam_userdb.so (which is not included in OpenPAM). vsftpd needs pam_userdb.so to au

Re: strange installworld issue

2007-03-20 Thread Derek Ragona
You may have foobar sources, or your awk isn't there. check your awk. If awk is ok, I'd suggest deleteing /usr/src and pulling down fresh sources. If you do this be sure to save your kernel configuration file. -Derek At 10:33 AM 3/20/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: im trying to insta

Re: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Derek Ragona
I have moved my root partition on one server. I copied the entire partition to a new partition on a different drive using cpio as I wanted /dev moved too. At the time this was running 4.x. After moving the root partition I rebooted and made sure the new partition was still fine. Then I chan

Re: sendmail name resolution

2007-03-19 Thread Derek Ragona
Sendmail uses the system calls to resolve names. You need to check: /etc/nsswitch.conf In that file check the hosts line, this gives the order for hostname resolution, typically it is files then dns. Then you should check your /etc/hosts file to be sure that localhost is there and correct.

Re: Simple sendmail.cf question

2007-03-18 Thread Derek Ragona
Don't build them there. There are sample .mc files and a make file in /etc/mail. You will find one you can copy for your system, and make whatever customizations you need. There is also one for the submit.mc too. -Derek At 06:01 PM 3/18/2007, Bob Applegate wrote: I'm trying to figu

Re: Problem with X11 and S3 Savage video card

2007-03-15 Thread Derek Ragona
If your video is AGP, it is likely an AGP issue. AGP cards can be managed by the driver or by the kernel. You need the correct AGP setting. -Derek At 08:36 AM 3/15/2007, Lubomir Toshev wrote: Hello, I am trying to run X11 on a machine with FreeBSD 6.2 and S3 Savage video card. The

Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?

2007-03-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Just download the disk1 iso image then use nero or cdcreator to burn the CD. -Derek At 04:14 AM 3/15/2007, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? If yes, how? Will this process build build

Re: sendmail not working?

2007-03-14 Thread Derek Ragona
: Derek Ragona wrote You need to make sure sendmail is starting and running. Check your rc.conf and any variables that might need to be set. Thanks! In my rc.conf: sendmail_enable="NO" However, as I wrote, I was using postfix. I'm not a big guru but I believe that postfix has its ow

Re: sendmail not working?

2007-03-14 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to make sure sendmail is starting and running. Check your rc.conf and any variables that might need to be set. -Derek At 03:58 PM 3/14/2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi All, Got a problem with FreeBSD 6.2 (upgraded from 6.1): cron is not sending out e-mails. However, it is run

Re: Installing a second hard disk

2007-03-13 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your BIOS and possibly update the BIOS. Also low-level format the disk to ensure there is nothing on the disk causing any issues. -Derek At 12:05 PM 3/13/2007, Aitor San Juan wrote: Hi List, I am trying to install a secondary hard disk in a Intel-based PC with FreeBSD 5.4 Thi

Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-12 Thread Derek Ragona
If you look below the port directory, there is a work directory and in that a directory where the actual files are configured and Make files created named for the port and version. In that directory is a file called: config.log This file at the top has the actual configure line used.

Re: Anyone use KSH?

2007-03-12 Thread Derek Ragona
Those work fine for me, just add: set -o emacs to your login file(s). I actually have added to my .profile: if [ "$SHELL" = "/usr/local/bin/ksh" ] ; then if [ -f $HOME/.kshrc ] ; then . $HOME/.kshrc fi fi and have the ksh customizations in: .kshrc -Dere

Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
leaving sysinstall. -Derek At 06:19 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: if I attempt to exit sysinstall then it says the only other option is to reboot. Derek Ragona wrote: If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external drive. If you can mount it, then rerun

Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external drive. If you can mount it, then rerun sysinstall and choose to install from a mounted file system instead. -Derek At 05:45 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: More details: I am able to boot and get to the installation u

Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
If your system's BIOS will support booting from that drive, select it as the first boot device. -Derek At 05:41 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive? I am at a loss of how to do it. Cheers, Noah __

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
You will want the swap to some other device such a a regular hard drive. A flash drive can get worn out cells and fail. -Derek At 02:09 PM 3/9/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nejc_=A9koberne?= wrote: Hello, I plan to install a FreeBSD 6.2 router/gateway/DHCP server on a EPIA box with 1GB Trans

Re: Epson P2100 parallel port mode

2007-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
You may be able to change the port setting in your BIOS, most newer BIOS allow this. -Derek At 01:25 PM 3/9/2007, Milan Knizek wrote: Hello list! I have spent some time installing Epson P2100 (aka P2200 in the U.S.) - the USB connection did not work (printer was recognised, but any a

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
3/9/2007, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. I've passed over the man page and even over the "man 3" page. What exactly should I look for ? Thank you. Dima. output of 'sysctl -a' is attached. On 3/9/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: check out your sysctl values. man

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
check out your sysctl values. man sysctl for more information. -Derek At 08:32 AM 3/9/2007, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. On FreeBSD 6.2 i386 with 2GB of physical memory I can't allocate more than 500Mb for my program. I'm a new to FreeBSD. Is this limitatin is something known, how do I ove

Re: Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-08 Thread Derek Ragona
You need a first line in your script to choose what shell to run it: #!/usr/local/bin/bash You should add a line: /usr/bin/su [to your username] Then try it at bootup as an rc script. -Derek At 08:24 AM 3/8/2007, Gerard Seibert wrote: I am trying to get gpg-agent to start at boot tim

Re: Problem Launching Applications in Gnome

2007-03-08 Thread Derek Ragona
You might want to try rebuilding vim and all dependencies. -Derek At 08:57 PM 3/7/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I haven't been able to figure this out, and am hoping someone has some ideas. I can't seem to find any previous mention of a similar problem, so I hope I'm not missing

Re: mount_smb shows no files

2007-03-07 Thread Derek Ragona
It is not clear what you are trying to do. Are you mounting Windows shares on a FreeBSD server? Or mounting FreeBSD samba shares onto a Windows XP client? -Derek At 10:35 AM 3/7/2007, Daniel Feenberg wrote: We are starting to use mount_smbfs to mount backup shares on our Windows X

Re: reprocess mails in sendmail

2007-03-07 Thread Derek Ragona
Depending on the version of FreeBSD and the version of sendmail in that version will determine how sendmail is started by default. Look in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf for specific settings. Typically sendmail will process queues on its own on a regular interval. No cron job requir

Re: Bind9 question

2007-03-07 Thread Derek Ragona
The base bind is in /usr/sbin, if you installed your own it is in /usr/local/sbin You set the path to bind in /etc/rc.conf named_program="/usr/sbin/named" for the base one. There are other variables you can set for the jail, etc if you want to change those. -Derek At 06:07 AM 3/7/2

Re: awk question

2007-03-06 Thread Derek Ragona
You can loop through them using a shell script: for i in `ls -lt | awk '{if ($8 == 2006) print $9}'`;do rm $i;done -Derek At 06:35 PM 3/5/2007, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Having found $9 , how do I /bin/rm it (using system()--yes??) in an awk one-liner?

Re: RAID5 degraded - system hangs

2007-03-05 Thread Derek Ragona
I'm no expert, but have experienced a few RAID issues. First, RAID 5 will become degraded and will try to rebuild upon a drive failure, once the failed drive is replaces. In Mirrored RAID, RAID 1, or RAID 10, the system will continue to function on the good drive but will alert the administra

Re: Starting a service on boot

2007-03-05 Thread Derek Ragona
rc scripts should accept a few arguments: start stop restart You can usually find one in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to copy from. In most cases you want the service to write the PID to a file in /var/log so only one instance is started. Also be sure you use full pathnames in your scripts, don't assu

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