Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-26 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:52 PM 9/26/2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: I would like to have a different bootup screen appearing which looks more professional (sorry), e.g. removing that awful looking beastie thingie on the side. What's the best way to do this? (Sorry to all those beastie lovers out there, but really)

Re: mysql port install

2005-09-26 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:04 PM 9/26/2005, eoghan wrote: On 26 Sep 2005, at 20:40, Glenn Dawson wrote: Make sure you have mysqld_enableYES in your /etc/rc.conf and then use /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start to start the server. (you may nee to copy mysql-server.sh from mysql-server.sh.sample first) Hi

Re: mysql port install

2005-09-26 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:28 PM 9/26/2005, eoghan wrote: On 26 Sep 2005, at 21:17, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 01:04 PM 9/26/2005, eoghan wrote: On 26 Sep 2005, at 20:40, Glenn Dawson wrote: Make sure you have mysqld_enableYES in your /etc/rc.conf and then use /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start to start

Re: SSI error message

2005-09-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:22 PM 9/25/2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: I inserted the XBitHack on statement into a .htaccess to turn on the SSI function. I then made the necessary modification to the httpd.conf file so that the file would be used. Now, I receive this error message in the httpd-error.log and I have no

Re[2]: SSI error message

2005-09-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:24 PM 9/25/2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:40:21 -0700, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SSI error message Wrote these words of wisdom: At 03:22 PM 9/25/2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: I inserted the XBitHack on statement into a .htaccess to turn on the SSI

Re: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:16 PM 9/24/2005, Joe Graham wrote: Hello, I've been playing off and on with FreeBSD for a bit of time now, but I would still consider myself a relative newbie. I've read enough and played enough to know how to install applications from ports (e.g., I was able to successfully install Moria

Re[2]: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:05 PM 9/24/2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:30:43 -0700, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help! Stupid Newbie Question Wrote these words of wisdom: If the port you installed was relatively recent, you just need mysql_enable=YES in your rc.conf. If it's

Re[2]: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:51 PM 9/24/2005, Robert Huff wrote: Glenn Dawson writes: I don't believe I've ever seen a port install itself so that it starts at boot time. As I understand it, up until recently (advent of rcNG ??) that was the default, i.e. ports routinely installed foo.sh in /usr/local

RE: Sendmail not listening correctly

2005-09-20 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:01 PM 9/19/2005, Mike Loiterman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sendmail is running # grep sendmail_submit_enable /etc/defaults/rc.conf sendmail_submit_enable=YES# Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission I think the key words above are localhost-only.

Re: I need url for source code

2005-09-19 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:01 AM 9/19/2005, satish bn wrote: where do I get Tcp/ip implementation BSD code? You can browse the CVS repository here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ The stuff you're looking for is probably in src/sys/netinet -Glenn Satish N Bandimata

Re: Boot Loader Problem

2005-09-18 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:00 AM 9/18/2005, John Do wrote: Hi guys I still can't boot BSD :( I have tried everything I can and bla bla read etc etc :( Here is the setup (I boot off ad0) ad0 - boot loader and Windows XP ad2 slice 2 - FreeBSD Install Exactly from the emergency shell do I need to type to configure

Re: bsdlabel and c partition

2005-09-17 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:23 PM 9/16/2005, Valerio daelli wrote: Hi I have partitioned a disk using bsdlabel and I have used the c partition for the entire disk. According to the manual this mean I have used the disk in dedicated mode. Is there any danger in it? Is it preferable to use another partition? As long

Re: File-Backed Memory Disks: Performance and Manipulation

2005-09-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:44 PM 9/14/2005, David Marshall wrote: Hi, Scenario: We have millions of little (almost all 10 kB), about 30 GB total. It takes 24 hours to either tar them up or then untar them. It finally occured to us to put them into a file-backed memory disk. Questions: 1. How does the

Re: TempFS in FreeBSD 5.4

2005-09-13 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:01 AM 9/13/2005, Deepak Naidu wrote: Hi all, I waned to create a RAM disk, rather tempfs. How do I do it in FreeBSD. man mdconfig In Linux there is a fund of tempfs like below... mounted in fstab(content of fstab) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) and one more thing can I

Re: Stand-alone GRUB HELP

2005-09-12 Thread Glenn Dawson
. -Glenn --- Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:18 PM 9/11/2005, John Do wrote: Hi guys I have been reading documentation and I'm still confused. I have Windows on ad0 and FreeBSD on ad2 I installed the BSD bootloader but it is only booting Windows. There is some

Re: make flag to build on a separate disk

2005-09-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:19 PM 9/11/2005, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, Once OpenOffice.org 2.0 is released, I plan on building it from Ports on my machine (currently 5.4-STABLE... will be 6.0-STABLE after 6.0's release). There may be one problem, though, which is my /usr/ partition only has about 2.4 GB

Re: Raid / Dual booting / Really need help.

2005-09-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 07:26 PM 9/11/2005, jon.why wrote: hi -- my hardware configuration: Asus K8S-MX AIO Athlon 64 Motherboard SEMPRON 2600 1 Gig DDR MEMORY SEAGATE 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB MAXTOR 100GB 7200 RPM 8MB --- i want to: -partition the Maxtor into 80G

Re: Question

2005-09-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:05 PM 9/11/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are running FreeBSD 4.7 and 4.10 on Intel SR2300 servers with 1-2 GB of memory and Adaptec 2100s or 2010s raid cards. We are also using Seagate 73gb and 146GB 15k drives. We mirror drives 0 and 2 with drive 1 ad the back up. But we get alot of

Re: Stand-alone GRUB HELP

2005-09-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:18 PM 9/11/2005, John Do wrote: Hi guys I have been reading documentation and I'm still confused. I have Windows on ad0 and FreeBSD on ad2 I installed the BSD bootloader but it is only booting Windows. There is some limitation or problem and no matter what I try in the emergency shell

Re: Can't execute a script

2005-09-09 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:01 PM 9/9/2005, bob self wrote: I have a simple test script called 'scripttest' in /root/bin: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 121 Sep 9 14:55 scripttest my $PATH IS /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:*/root/bin* #!/bin/sh echo

Re: Can't execute a script

2005-09-09 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:49 PM 9/9/2005, bob self wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: Assuming you're using csh, did you rehash after creating the script? Did you try to execute it with it's full path? like: /root/bin/scripttest -Glenn Yes, I did 'rehash'. I'm running tcsh as root, FreeBSD 6.0. Also, I ran /root/bin

Re: Running Program memory limit

2005-09-08 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:16 AM 9/8/2005, Mark Ruggles wrote: Hi Guys, I'm using the pan newsreader in FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 #0 build from ports. Pan operates normally on small newsgroups with not to many articles, however if i try to load a group with 100+ articles (my servers have good retention) Pan seems to

Re: atacontrol

2005-09-08 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:54 AM 9/8/2005, Göran Nilsson wrote: Hi. I have recently installed Freebsd 5.4 . I have also installed a cheap raidcontroller . On the controller i put on a 200+120gb disk. In the raidcontroller i create a JBOD raid, showing me that i now have 301gb of disk. That's a loss of 19gb, i can

Re: Stupid working too late..

2005-09-08 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:58 PM 9/8/2005, Vizion wrote: OK Here is what I did before i packed up - having been working late just changed ownerships of files in a virtual web chown -R www ./* fine folllowed by change of group with the dreaded typo of: chown -R www /* oops

Re: Sendmail not using aliases

2005-09-07 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:50 AM 9/7/2005, Steve Suhre wrote: No, just a generic DSN: Data format error. The bounced message just says user unknown. If I rebuild the aliases and virtusertable db's I get nothing but new db files, no errors. No errors of any kind in the log files when sendmail starts during boot.

Re: FDISK cannot write

2005-09-07 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:29 AM 9/7/2005, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm trying to add a partition to an existing disk at 5.4-R on a HP XW 4200 (SATA) FDSIK fail with an error message cannot write ... The bizarre thing is I have installed this machine from CDROM and partitionning the disk was OK ... any idea on

Re: Interests in *BSD

2005-09-07 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:13 PM 9/7/2005, Maxime Paquin wrote: Hello, I am part of a LUG or Linux Users Group at my school. Our goal is to help spread free and open source software and operating systems. We are also doing some kind of demonstrations where we install *Nix distributions and show how to use them. The

Re: IPFW counters.

2005-09-06 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:54 AM 9/6/2005, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I am in the midst of setting up bandwidth monitoring for all my domains and IPs. To do this I will be using IPFW counter rules and ipa. Question: I have about 250 domains on each box. to monitor all of them, I would need to set up over 500

Re: Serial Port data dumping program

2005-09-05 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:08 AM 9/5/2005, Paul Hamilton wrote: Hi, I am trying to debug a Mini SSC FreeBSD program that I am trying to write. It would be nice to be able to be able to see what is being transmitted. It would help in the debugging of my program. Here is a link to a Windows based Mini SSC program:

RE: Serial Port data dumping program

2005-09-05 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:32 AM 9/5/2005, Paul Hamilton wrote: Here is a dump of the collected data (via minicom): #hexdump minicom.cap 000 45ff 49ff 4cff 50ff 53ff 57ff 5aff 57ff 010 53ff 50ff 4cff 49ff 45ff 45ff 01ff ff82 020 8101 01ff ff80 8202 02ff ff81 8002 03ff 030 ff83 8203 03ff ff81

Re: Query on building world

2005-09-04 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:29 AM 9/4/2005, Stuart Chalmers wrote: I was wondering if there was something that one could pass to the make buildworld command to set up a different target to build the world to? If I had mounted the old disk under /mnt, maybe something like 'make -j4 target=/mnt/ buildworld'??? Any

Re: How should I partition 2 80 gig drives?

2005-09-04 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:00 PM 9/4/2005, bob self wrote: I want to set up FreeBSD 5.4 Release to fully use 2 80 gig hard drives. I'm not sure how I should set these up in disklabel editor. I just want to use this as a general purpose machine. The defaults are usually fine for general purpose. If you're not

Re: How to create *exactly* the same partitions in different disks

2005-08-31 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:07 AM 8/31/2005, Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi, pretty simply, how do I create slices (fdisk) that are exactly the same throughtout different drives so they can be used in a RAID5 config? I tried using sysinstall and typing the SAME values but they result is always slightly off. I tried

Re: compiling kernel

2005-08-30 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:14 PM 8/30/2005, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, Trying to compile the kernel I found this problem: My PC has not ISA slot and I want to disable it from /sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL but on /boot/device.hints I found some devices pointing to isa. Can I remove those devices declarations? Because for

Re: `du -h` not printing out the filesystems?

2005-08-30 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:43 PM 8/30/2005, Robert G. wrote: chkn# du -h 12K. chkn# Anyone know what that is? This is a brand new FreeBSD 5.4 install. A bit of a guess, but it looks like you're running du in a dir that has no subdirs. -Glenn Thanks -- Robert G.

Re: well-supported multiport serial cards

2005-08-30 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:31 PM 8/30/2005, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi, I'm curious about what multiport (8, 16, 32 port) serial cards people have had good luck with. I'm currently using two 8-port RocketPort cards in a console server, and while they generally work, I have to use the undocumented nrp driver to

Re: Please with alias!!!!

2005-08-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:55 AM 8/28/2005, Carstea Catalin wrote: i can't setting-up alias at my interface em0. Why? netmask 0xfff8 can't work?! ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): file exists If the alias is on the same network as the primary IP address, the alias has to use a netmask of 255.255.255.255. -Glenn --

Re: Mysql without linuxthreads on 5.4?

2005-08-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:39 AM 8/28/2005, Matt Virus wrote: In trying to install mysql40-server on a newly-installed and cvsup'd 5.4 installation, while installing mysql the install process dies during the linuxthreads dependancy install. I read that freebsd post-5.3 has a new threading method and linuxthreads

Re: challenge with dummynet+ipfw

2005-08-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:19 PM 8/28/2005, vladone wrote: Hi! I want to organize my bandwith in this mode # download section 1000kbit/s | | || || ||

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:04 AM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the following example from the handbook FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: from my reading this is a boot2 stage

Re: shell usage (syntax) question

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:25 AM 8/27/2005, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Hello, how can I delimit a program parameter from a shell instruction? Example: I want to tell the shell that stderr should be redirected to file /tmp/test, not cpio to use /file/test: # /usr/bin/cpio -idmuv /dev/ad0h 2 /tmp/test In sh try:

Re: Boot loader won't start windows on other HD

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:24 AM 8/27/2005, Barnaby Scott wrote: I know questions like this have been asked before, but I can't find a straight answer! Forgive me though if I have missed one. I have a Windows 2000 machine into which I wanted to put an extra hard disk to run FreeBSD. In my pre-installation reading,

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:13 PM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 06:04 AM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the following example from the handbook FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0

Re: interface alias at start-up

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:40 PM 8/27/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:26:32 -0700 Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how tu setting-up interface alias at start-up # example /etc/rc.conf part defaultrouter=192.168.2.1 ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.2.222 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:40 PM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 02:13 PM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 06:04 AM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the following

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:47 PM 8/27/2005, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I doubt there's nothing wrong with the MBR per se, but if it's looking in the wrong place for the third stage loader you'll see exactly the problem you have. Where it's probably refers to boot code

Re: interface alias at start-up

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:54 PM 8/27/2005, John Barbieri wrote: FWIW: That doesnt work for me :( It should. Can you send the relative parts of your rc.conf? -Glenn any other way? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:26:32 -0700 Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how tu setting-up

Re: interface alias at start-up

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:54 PM 8/27/2005, John Barbieri wrote: FWIW: That doesnt work for me :( One other thing. If the aliases you're trying to create are on a different network, the subnet mask of the first one has to be the real mask, and any further aliases in that same network have to use a mask of

Re: Sending files to Win/Linux client from FreeBSD server?

2005-08-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:57 AM 8/25/2005, Jamie Ann P. Zamodio wrote: Hi everyone :) I'd just like to ask if there's a specific command I can use to send files from my FreeBSD 4.3 server to my Windows XP/ Red Hat Linux clients. I'm totally stuck to mounting and unmounting a floppy disk and transferring the files

Re: no aide.conf.sample in 5.4?

2005-08-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 07:17 PM 8/25/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While installing the 5.4 release, following instructions from How to Build a FreeBSD-STABLE Firewall with IPFILTER the AIDE package failed and there is no aide.conf.sample In what way did the aide package fail? (it just built fine one of my

Re: cvsup multiple RELENGs?

2005-08-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:15 AM 8/24/2005, Joel Hatton wrote: Hi, Situation - I have a machine that I use to build the base system for others. I'd like to be able to have multiple copies of /usr/src for different releases - in particular, RELENG_5_3 and RELENG_5_4. Rather than just changing my RELENG in the

Re: Booting FreeBSD over network or serial links?

2005-08-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:54 PM 8/24/2005, Sarath Kamisetty wrote: Hi, I have two PCs, one with linux installed and another one is a old PC. I would like use my linux pc to make modifications to freebsd code base and then test it on my old PC. After compiling freebsd image on my linux pc, how do I boot this image

Re: Few simple questions..

2005-08-21 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:50 PM 8/20/2005, Eric Murphy wrote: QUESTION 1 Hey guys I use gnuls for colorizing my outputs such as ls..ect.. its really just an alias. When i added the alias to my /etc/profile I noticed that under X my terminals were not colorized but if i were to LOGIN to another TTY without

Re: mail not being delivered

2005-08-21 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:56 PM 8/21/2005, Joe Wood wrote: I am running fbsd 5.4, this server has been up for about 70 days and just recently (maybe within the last 4 days) I have not been receiving the usual security and daily summery reports, but every 2 or 3 days I will get the message undeliverable email. Is

RE: mail not being delivered

2005-08-21 Thread Glenn Dawson
email just stopped. Depending on what those reconfigurations were, they may or may not be related. This is just a guess, but make sure that the machine in question can resolve names properly. -Glenn Sorry for the lack of information Joe -Original Message- From: Glenn Dawson [mailto

Re: Ntpd problems

2005-08-20 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:37 PM 8/20/2005, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 8/20/05, fire67 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello , i'm on freebsd 5.4 and i tried to configure ntpd but i have this problem : ntpd[546]: bind() fd 16, family 28, port 123, addr fe80:9::2bd:a0ff:fe08:0, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=0 fails:

Re: What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list?

2005-08-20 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:08 PM 8/20/2005, Gary Kline wrote: People, Can any one on-list clue me in on what kind of file(s) to create that will let me mail one file a day (or week) in both ASCII and HTML to people who subscribe to my list from my website. I can

Re: What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list?

2005-08-20 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:01 PM 8/20/2005, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:40:38PM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 01:08 PM 8/20/2005, Gary Kline wrote: People, Can any one on-list clue me in on what kind of file(s) to create that will let me mail one file a day (or week

Re: User admin question..

2005-08-20 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:51 PM 8/20/2005, Eric Murphy wrote: Hey guys I orgionally created my account with a username called greed. as root I ran chpass and changed my username from a lowercase g to an uppcase G so its not Greed. I rebooted and loged in and my prompt still shows me as a lowercase g. logging

Re: External Modem Speaker

2005-08-20 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:07 PM 8/20/2005, Gareth Campbell wrote: Hello everyone, Just wondered if there's a way to run my external modem without the speaker? It doesn't have a switch on it or anything, thought their might be a ppp command or FreeBSD command or something? If it's a typical hayes compatible

Re: can not change a sysctl value

2005-08-17 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:08 AM 8/17/2005, dave wrote: Hello, I've added: kern.randompid=1 to my /etc/sysctl.conf file, but on boot the value isn't reset it's still zero, does anyone know why i can't reset this value? The box is not operating at an increased security level. It's probably read only. Try

Re: backing up remote servers

2005-08-17 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:54 PM 8/17/2005, Noah wrote: Hey there, Well I just built a nice happy Fedora box with a ton of dirve space here at home and trying to get a scheme for using it to backup two servers I have at my colo facility. what are my other options for backup? I know there is rsync. is rsync

Re: FreeBSD Gateway problems

2005-08-15 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:46 AM 8/15/2005, Tim Holmes wrote: For years I've used a FreeBSD as my gateway. Well I haven't had a high speed connection for 3 years now, and I've just gotten it back. Since then I've reloaded the machine from 4.3 to 5.3. I thought I had it all set up so when I did get connection, I

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 VPN

2005-08-15 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:36 PM 8/15/2005, Vasili S. wrote: Hi ! I planing create VPN by FreeBSD 5.4 In documentation discribed utility - gifconfig ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html ) After instalation i don't find gifconfig :( Please, help me, what i must to do, where find

Re: disk fragmentation, 0%?

2005-08-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:54 PM 8/13/2005, Lei Sun wrote: Hi, I know this question has been raised a lot of times, and most of people don't think it is necessary to defragment ufs, and from the previous posts, I got to know there are sometimes, disksize can be more than 100% But... I got ... /dev/ar0s1a: ...

Re: disk fragmentation, 0%?

2005-08-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:18 PM 8/14/2005, cpghost wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:09:19AM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote: 2. How come /tmp is -0% in size? -278K? What had happened? as I have never experienced this in the previous installs on the exact same hardware. Not sure about that one. Maybe someone else

Re: Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk?

2005-08-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:11 PM 8/13/2005, Bo Xiao wrote: Hi, Having trouble install a 300G SATA with 5.4 release. HW is Dell PowerEdge. First disk is a 80G SATA. All is good. When adding the 300G, sysinstall cant understand the geom, 581421/16/63. It thinks it is 36481/255/63. Cant write to the

Re: Mounting on da0s1c or da0s1d?

2005-08-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:16 PM 8/14/2005, Joachim Dagerot wrote: From my Vinum period I recall that mounting should be done on d, not c or whatever it was. Today I'm running a hardware IDE RAID and though I read the handbook I can't find any recommendation on where to mount. Any help is appreciated. The 'c'

Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-12 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:44 PM 8/11/2005, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: Hello, I have a small FreeBSD machine at home used as a file server and a gateway to the Internet. Currently when a new version of FreeBSD is released (and I have enough time), I copy all the data to another machine, reinstall FreeBSD from scratch,

Re: about VPN solution

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:15 AM 8/11/2005, vladone wrote: IPSEC not work on Win98 systems, and is not a very apreciated solution! You can use mpd which is in ports (/usr/ports/net/mpd) to set up a PPTP server that will work with the windows VPN client. -Glenn ___

Re: Need help with Pancho

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:46 AM 8/11/2005, Phusion wrote: I've got some questions about pancho (tftp server). When I install it from the ports, how can I make it automatically start on boot? Normally with ports it puts a shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. I tried to start it by doing the following with no

Re: How to use Bochs?

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 07:53 AM 8/11/2005, Kenny wrote: I have installed Bochs successfully from ports. At first, I planned to install Windows in Bochs, but soon I found that Bochs needed to be configured before functioning properly. How to configure? I have no idea. I visited the homepage of Bochs just now, but

Re: Problem with Seagate hdd

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:36 PM 8/11/2005, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, I tried to install freebsd in a pc with a seagate ST340014A (40Gb Barracuda7200.7) hdd but the installer doesn't find the drivers. I've checked http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#DISK but it doesn't have any seagate hdd

Re: freebsd utilization bandwidth statistics

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:04 PM 8/11/2005, Noah wrote: Hi ther,e is there a Program out there that can be used to graphically show how much bandwidth is being used for specific applications or ports? ntop can do that, it's in ports. -Glenn thanks in advance, Noah

Re: Problem with Seagate hdd

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:14 PM 8/11/2005, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, The problem is most likely the hard drive controller on your motherboard. I don't think so, 'cause I've installed winXP on it. My hdd has two partitions, one of them is WinXP. What motherboard do you have?

Re: fsck says UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:49 PM 8/11/2005, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 66322510, Sounds like a HW issue to me. Anyway to confirm this? It is not a very old drive and the filesystem is still readable, I suppose it could have developed some bad sectors.. If you have

Re: 5.4 -- bridging, ipfw, dot1q

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:08 PM 8/11/2005, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Okay, here's the situation. PLEASE let me know if there's a better place to ask. (isp@, kernel@, something) I'm setting up a bridging firewall where the packets are passing through on dot1q trunks. The bridge works. Packet counts

Re: Problems with DNS

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:07 PM 8/11/2005, perikillo wrote: HI all. I have one freebsd box running 5.3, i get my IP from one internal DHCP running NT 4.0, here we have one PDC on NT 4.0, to get to the outside we pass thru one http proxy and one firewall, i have my user and password for the proxy, i want to

Re: xmms, stupid question

2005-08-10 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:46 AM 8/10/2005, slack _usr wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to FreeBSD, so I'm using DesktopBSD. But I think, it uses FreeBSD ports collection. So, question is, where I can find only xmms (plain player). I can find MANY MANY plugins and etc, but I can't find simple xmms. Please, help me If

Re: about VPN solution

2005-08-09 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:15 AM 8/9/2005, vladone wrote: Hi! I have an private network, that acces the internet via an freebsd gateway. I want to buil some authentication for my users, to prevent ilegal connections. When an user want to connect to my gateway (to acces the internet), require to enter user and

Re: question about compile options

2005-08-09 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:05 PM 8/9/2005, David Banning wrote: I am wondering how to know what compile options are available for a given ports package. For instance I want to compile /usr/ports/www/php4-cgi with support for mysql and fastcgi, but looking in the port, all there exists is a Makefile containing little

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 install problem. Newbee needs help.

2005-08-09 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:11 PM 8/9/2005, William Manley wrote: I am a new FreeBSD user and I have an installation that has gone bad. My problems started when I enabled XDM for a graphical logon into Gnome. When I logged in as root the system just looped back to the logon screen. I then assumed I had configured

Re: creation and deletion of ramdisk does not free up kernel address space

2005-08-08 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:27 AM 8/8/2005, Munjal Kapadia wrote: Hi all, I do the following: 1. I create a ramdisk the following way: mdconfig -a -t malloc -o reserve -s 128M 2. then I delete the ramdisk: mdconfig -d -u md3 3. next, I load a kmod. But I notice that the address the kmod gets loaded is off by

Re: My /var disk has crashed, how do I proceed?

2005-08-07 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:35 AM 8/7/2005, Joachim Dagerot wrote: My /var disk crashed this weekend. Now when I boot the system stops direct after the boot-loader starts processing. No errormessages no nothing. You should be able to boot into single user mode. From there you should be able to do whatever you

Re: My /var disk has crashed, how do I proceed?

2005-08-07 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:19 AM 8/7/2005, Joachim Dagerot wrote: My /var disk crashed this weekend. Now when I boot the system stops direct after the boot-loader starts processing. No errormessages no nothing. You should be able to boot into single user mode. From there you should be able to do whatever you need

Re: gateway configuration

2005-08-07 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:13 PM 8/7/2005, steve lasiter wrote: I am researching and accumulating information on setting up my small office network and using a FreeBSD Gateway/Firewall as my entry point. I am seeking general FreeBSD advise, know problems, and input on this topic. I currently have all the equipment

Re: Can file-backed memory disks act like slices?

2005-08-06 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:13 PM 8/6/2005, Michael Dexter wrote: Hello all, I trust this is a Seldom Asked Question... I am using file-backed memory disks (as in mdconfig -f) to prototype filesystems. root.img gets mounted first and usr.img, var.img and tmp.img get mounted below it and as such they are

Re: How can i monitor my server?

2005-08-06 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:46 PM 8/6/2005, nawcom wrote: Theres always php that you can use which can report shell command results on a web page. since ifconfig is a root command (assuming that no one else has access to files which report net status), you can cron it to a file. A normal user can execute ifconfig,

Re: WinXP and FreeBSD configuration problems

2005-08-05 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 07:44 PM 8/4/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, OK it is now day three and I have given up. This will be a long one just to warn you now. I have a 320 GiB HD and a 5 GiB HD. The 320 is faster than the 5 (yes, it is that old). I want to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD. The main issue

Re: NATM question

2005-08-05 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:06 AM 8/5/2005, User Tarc wrote: Hello all! I see the NATM drivers in kernel LINT config and interest, what are them? How can I use them, etc. ? Since you mentioned LINT, I'm assuming you're using 4.x. Those are drivers for ATM. Unless you have ATM hardware, They probably

Re: ATA over 127 GByte on FBSD 4.8 ?

2005-08-02 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:32 AM 8/2/2005, Mark Terribile wrote: [materribile wrote] ===I recently replaced smaller drives with a 160G and 250G drives (IDE). They were on the Gigabyte motherboard's SiS 963 chipset. I discovered that attempts to access anything above 127G resulted in errors: ... [Kris

Re: ATA over 127 GByte on FBSD 4.8 ?

2005-08-02 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:14 AM 8/2/2005, Mark Terribile wrote: Glenn, At 12:32 AM 8/2/2005, Mark Terribile wrote: [materribile wrote] ===I recently replaced smaller drives with a 160G and 250G drives (IDE). ... attempts to access anything above 127G resulted in errors: [Kris Kennaway wrote] Try

Re: ATA over 127 GByte on FBSD 4.8 ?

2005-08-02 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:10 AM 8/2/2005, Mark Terribile wrote: Glen, I didn't see your first email. I went back and read it though, and the SIS 963 south bridge isn't supported (recognized) at all in 4.x. Based on CVS logs, it looks like support for SIS 963 south bridge wasn't available until 5.1

Re: version 6 ?

2005-07-31 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:10 AM 7/31/2005, Justin Wert wrote: To whom it may concern, im just a little confused, im seeing a many referances to version 6 on your website, but i can't physically find it anywhere. is this a version currently being worked on? or released for certain architectures? some more

Re: Freebsd patches fail

2005-07-31 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:57 PM 7/31/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the ports: samba3 and proftpd I recieved errors while applying Freebsd patches for the ports .. its says 1 out of * hunks failed -- , and failed to apply cleaning .. I cvsup ports right before hand. I just cvsupped ports, and tried building

Re: Acess 127.0.0.1 from FreeBSD jail

2005-07-30 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:35 PM 7/29/2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 29, 2005, at 11:25 PM, Chatchawan Wongsiriprasert wrote: Hi, I am now using chroot apache+php, and want to move to more secure FreeBSD jail. After read the FreeBSD handbook, I have been successfully created a jailed

Re: bsdlabel question..

2005-07-30 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:59 AM 7/30/2005, J.D. Bronson wrote: # /dev/da0s1: type: SCSI disk: da0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 2234 sectors/unit: 35889147 rpm: 15000 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 #

Re: network info

2005-07-30 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:08 AM 7/30/2005, Sean wrote: What command can display all the network parameters assigned from dhcp, such DNS? I have looked at ifconfig and netstat but unless I missed a switch I do not see them as correct choices. Not exactly one command, but you could do ifconfig cat

Re: bsdlabel question..

2005-07-30 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:59 AM 7/30/2005, J.D. Bronson wrote: # /dev/da0s1: type: SCSI disk: da0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 2234 sectors/unit: 35889147 rpm: 15000 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 #

Re: Using a hard drive without partitions

2005-07-30 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:58 AM 7/30/2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/30/05, Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Drive: Dangerously dedicated /dev/da0s1 newfs -O2 -U I think you're using dangerously dedicated wrongly. A DD disk is one which has

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