Setting Variables in expect Scripts From Shell Output

While running an expect script, is it possible to set an expect script variable to the string kept in a shell variable? I can generate the shell variable just fine but when I try to export it to the expect script for later use with something like: set LOGFILENAME [exec echo

FreeBSD6.2 What is the easiest Way to Capture RS-232 Serial Data?

and terminals, but this is actually less complex. Many thanks for any good advice about stty or anything else that will allow one to use standard devices for this project. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

Re: FreeBSD6.2 What is the easiest Way to Capture RS-232 Serial Data?

ideas from both! Thank you. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bind 9.3.4P1 Wouldn't run in Sandbox in FreeBSD6.2p9.

as to where to read about this change. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

/bin/sh Can one Easily Strip Path Name from $0?

is in the execution path, you get an error because there are no slashes in the string so awk gets confused. Is there a better way to always end up with only the script name and nothing else no matter whether the path was prepended or not? Thank you. Martin McCormick

Re: /bin/sh Can one Easily Strip Path Name from $0?

The basename utility does the trick. Thanks to all of you who answered. Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modifying the FreeBSD6.2 ISO Image

Brian A Seklecki (Mobile) writes: The exact mksiofs(8)/mkhyrbid(8)/cdrtools flags are in a shell script burried in src/release/* somewhere. Its probably a matter of not-following-symlinks or crossing filesystem mount-points, etc. Most definitely. It obviously can be done as the image is

Modifying the FreeBSD6.2 ISO Image

so the problem appears to be something I am not setting in both tar and mkisofs. I am thoroughly stuck. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions

Re: tar Ignoring out-of-order file What Does that Mean?

Jonathan McKeown writes: [that was me - I'm glad I was of some help] Most definitely. You've been a tremendous help but I am still stuck and I believe all issues are known except this one. I should know when the unpacking/packing part is working by unpacking the FreeBSD iso image and

tar Ignoring out-of-order file What Does that Mean?

one of these installs in a day or so and it would be nice to know that all the image is there. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: 6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

I miss? B. Is there a way to work around this? As always, thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

Tim Kellers writes: Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? We recently installed Dell 2950's for DNS and DHCP server applications. They work great but some of their

Re: 6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

. I did go ahead and enlist the aid of a coworker on this system so the immediate problem is solved, but I have been experimenting with the CD this afternoon to see if the suggestion solved the problem. It should have so this is a bit strange. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems

6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

. If I have a cowworker help me and run the install off the new system's video display, all is well and we get a good FreeBSD installation. Can anybody think of a way to get the headless install to work in FreeBSD 6.2? Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK

Re: 6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

the headless install, the installation works properly. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Remote Execution of sudo Command Hangs.

on the remote system when you remotely run an ssh command. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Please Help with Confusion about ipfw rules. Solved.

fbsd2 writes: I use the sample ipfw rules with keep state as shown in the handbook they do work fine. They just aren't meant for the kind of load they were under. I needed to know how to get the same functionality by other means. If you use the keep-state directive, high traffic can

Re: awk question

n j writes: Or awk only i.e. no sed: awk '!(/^$/) { print $(NF-1) }' user.csv That's right. I originally suggested the sed and then was thinking about it as I walked home yesterday and knew that awk could test for the blank line condition before committing suicide.:-) Martin

Remote Execution of sudo Command Hangs.

We have 3 FreeBSD systems. One is trying to use ssh and sudo to run commands on two other systems. The remote command being executed is: ssh remote.system.domain sudo dhcpreset dhcpreset is an expect script most of which is shown here: spawn $env(SHELL) expect -exact \# send -- date\r

Please Help with Confusion about ipfw rules.

access. Thanks for your help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: awk question

Don Hinton writes: On Thursday 26 July 2007 15:26:02 Peter Boosten wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: awk '{print $(NF-1)}' user.csv Yup, those blank lines will kill it for sure. A sed filter to remove blank lines ahead of the awk statement should allow it to work properly. Martin McCormick

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

Paul Chvostek writes: This is actually just the difference between sh and bash. You'll see the latter error if you type `a = 5` in bash in any OS. It just so happens that most Linux distributions don't have a real sh: I kind of thought that was the real issue. While something like

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

system. It is just particular about who it makes friends with. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Can a Cisco Device use RSA authentication for SSH

algo not supported: client ssh-rsa, server ssh-dss Is there a safe way to make this work? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd

Can't Figure out What I Did to Our Environment FreeBSD6.2.

don't see it in the output of env. Thanks for any suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Can't Figure out What I Did to Our Environment FreeBSD6.2. fixed

Roland Smith writes: Maybe the ownership and/or permissions of /usr/share/misc are wrong? I checked against another system that isn't having any trouble and found the permissions to be exactly the same. I then ran strace -e trace=file to see what all it opens when being run. Bingo!

FreeBSD with Duel Processors

,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM Logical CPUs per core: 2 real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1041784832 (993 MB) Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology

Any Way to Plug This Hole in Local Sendmail Delivery?

be mechanically testable. Thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

php5 and SQL Scripts

worked fine until now for all these years. Any ideas are much appreciated. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: php5 and SQL Scripts

with. Our campus had Spring Break week before last and lots of systems were upgraded and or modified. It's like trying to find that one dead Christmas tree lamp in a series string of 100 which is killing the whole string. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd

Can cvs-sup Safely Upgrade a 5.3 System to 6.2?

The system is on, but not in production so I would like to upgrade it before we use it. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions

Can cvs-sup Upgrade a 5.3 system to 6.2?

The system is up and running, but presently not in production. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Sendmail on a new Freebsd6.2 Won't Send or Receive. Solved!

Ted Mittelstaedt writes: sendmail_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf? Many thanks. That's exactly what I had, but after looking at it again, I also had something much worse in the startup line. This new system is a replacement for the one I am on now and the name is similar. The rc.conf.local

Trying to Upgrade Version of Tar on a 5.3 System.

? Thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Sendmail on a new Freebsd6.2 Won't Send or Receive.

that say that a given message is deferred due to not being able to be delivered so it appears to be stuck both directions. Any suggestions on what else to look at? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network

DHCP Server V3.0.5 No BPF under chroot. Works normally otherwise.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group URL: http://screamingelectron.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-837.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

What cvs-supfile Directive did I Leave Out?

*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix src-all Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

Re: What cvs-supfile Directive did I Leave Out?

the security patches and bug fixes via cvsup. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Best anoncvs Site to Update 6.2 Sources

for FreeBSD6.2, is there a better choice of sites? I got these 2 site names from the FreeBSD handbook. We have been using FreeBSD here since 2001, but I have never seriously tried cvsup until now since we are installing several new servers, all using FreeBSD6.2. Thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ

Re: Best anoncvs Site to Update 6.2 Sources

Kevin Kinsey writes: The mirrors are in the form cvsupN.freebsd.org. I use cvsup12, cvsup13, cvsup6 from SW Missouri (and my upstream links go through NE Oklahoma, dunno if they are close to you or not). Probably close enough. It will probably work when I connect to the right site. It might

Re: vmware Questions

John Nielsen, referring to running multiple DHCPD's, writes: For what you're talking about, jails make a lot more sense than virtualization or emulation. Thank you! That is exactly the kind of input I was looking for. As soon as I read yours and Frank Staals' mention of jails, it

vmware Questions

if that makes any difference. There will be no X windows involved, just hopefully 2 DHCP servers running as if they were on two separate boxes. Any information to point me in the right direction or reasons why this is not a good idea are appreciated. Thank you. Martin

mysql5.1-server Refuses to Start.

some of the posters mentioned is no longer needed. Has anybody gotten sqld_safe to work in FreeBSD? Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions

What Happens When /proc is not Mounted in FreeBSD5.4?

in the first place. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: What Happens When /proc is not Mounted in FreeBSD5.4?

answers. I took it back off and commented out the line I added to /etc/fstab so it can be brought back temporarily when needed but isn't just sitting there waiting for lightning to strike. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Spam and Viruses, Vandalism-l, the Mailing List from Hell.

and is already busy enough that one notices slowdowns at times and, when we check, it is all legitimate. In this business, paranoia is a virtue. Again, thanks for your help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

Spam and Viruses, Vandalism-l, the Mailing List from Hell.

-bogom. It is probably fine, but it duplicates bogofilter's function on a system-wide basis. Any ideas are much appreciated. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

Trouble-shooting Cron Problems FreeBSD5.4

' crons are showing the same environments if I make them run the env command. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Trouble-shooting Cron Problems FreeBSD5.4

it wound up. I am sure that solves the problem. I'll know in 15 minutes when the next newsyslog command fires and I don't get the squawk.:-) Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

Leapseconds and zoneinfo

. So, for some reason, about 5 FreeBSD systems work properly without the leapseconds data base and one needed it. Why? It would stand to reason that all the systems need the leapseconds since that agrees with the rules for calculating correct time. Thank you. Martin McCormick

Why csh on Root?

default so I figured I would ask before changing it so as not to introduce hidden problems later. Basically, I like bash better and also add a couple more paths such as /usr/local/etc for home-grown applications. Thanks for your thoughts. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems

Re: Why csh on Root?

inhibit the beep so I am kind of stumped. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why csh on Root?

Alex Zbyslaw writes: set prompt=hello%{^G%}there where ^G is a single control char, not two chars. Thanks. It works perfectly. I am reading the man for tcsh again to attempt to figure out what I missed the first time. ___

A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation

the data we need. Are there any FreeBSD libraries we can use to help the process along? I am sure this notation has a name, but not knowing it, makes searching for information about it rather difficult. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU

Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation

Chuck Swiger writes: On Oct 6, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: Does anybody know what this notation is called? Does an explanation of the algorithm exist in public so one can convert the strings that are part of the call manager output in to the unsigned

Re: A Question of How to Handle Numerical Notation Solved

was populated but it silently failed on lines of real data because of blank fields. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/libexec/save-entropy

. What do I need to look at to fix this properly? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group --- Forwarded Message Date:Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:55:00 CDT From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron

Re: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/libexec/save-entropy

Martin McCormick writes: I must have dome something wrong setting up a FreeBSD5.4 system, but I haven't a clue as to what. This is still Martin McCormick. I haven't found exactly what I did yet, but I remembered that I do have a second 5.4 box and it appears to be fine so I can

Has Anyone Else Tried mha-mhedit?

-mhedit man page: repl -editor mha-mhedit Any constructive suggestions are much appreciated. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd

Re: Has Anyone Else Tried mha-mhedit?

to work properly with w3m. Again, many thanks. That will certainly save some typing energy in the future. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

How to Change the Time Zone Rules?

. Many thanks. For those who may be wondering, DST ends as it has for many years, on the last Sunday in October so the new rules don't take effect until March 11 of 2007. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

Re: How to Change the Time Zone Rules?

. This is what I needed. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

native application in FreeBSD that can do this? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

. Thanks to everyone for the help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Bourn Shell -n Flag Questions

of the flag? Thanks for your help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: ISO Image for FreeBSD5.4 that is Current

Lowell Gilbert writes: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/snapshots.html Thank you. That's what I needed to know. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

ISO Image for FreeBSD5.4 that is Current

The FreeBSD site has an installation ISO image for FreeBSD5.4 but it is dated last May. There have been several core security updates since then. should I be looking in a different place to find a stable 5.x ISO image that is current? Thank you very much. Martin McCormick

1,000 Days Up Time Freebsd4.7

OS's that can't even dream of that much uptime. Thanks for any useful information. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

Paul Schmehl quotes and then writes: Copying with dd(1) is not as fast :) Have you tried dcfldd? sysutils/dcfldd Thank you. I hadn't thought of that. This is what I appreciate about groups like this. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information

Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

it should have finished by now, but it is still running. Is this a valid method of copying the entire contents of one drive to another? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

I thought I was limited to only the block size of the disks. I am now trying a much larger block size as suggested and will see what happens. Many thanks. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Rescuing the Ethernet Interface after SCB Timeout

if it can since these things always happen on holidays or weekends or at 03:00 in the morning. This system doesn't die that often, but it is often enough to take measures to prevent it from needing our laying on of hands at odd hours. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK

Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

I can test next? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

Greg Barniskis writes: If I'm right, you'll see that something happens, in at least the target IP address is ARPed for and you should see the target's MAC in the arp table on the known good system, even if the pings never return. That should at least give you confidence that the NIC in

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

. Thanks to all. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

with firewall_rules.ns, then only those rules get added which is why the tcp/ip stack appeared dead. What do I need to put in /etc/rc.firewall so it just includes /etc/firewall_rules.ns like the #include directive usually does? Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

Greg Barniskis writes: This section of rc.firewall refers to valid values you can place in rc.conf for firewall_type. In rc.conf you can name any of the types defined in rc.firewall /or/ you can specify a file of your own (instead of rc.firewall). I don't think you can invoke rc.firewall /and/

Re: Expect-5.32.1 and Hangups when Spawning a Shell

of a hard drive on our master DNS last Summer means that it has version 4.11 and the rest need to catch up or go to version 5.x or 6.x. Many thanks. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Expect-5.32.1 and Hangups when Spawning a Shell

exp_send -s -- $arg } } spawn $env(SHELL) match_max 10 expect -exact bash-2.05b# When it fails, the prompt never appears. Any ideas as to why this occasionally happens or whether my slow-down of the typed output should help is much appreciated. Martin

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

the other examples, they should work also giving living proof that in UNIX, there are many perfectly valid ways to solve the same problem. Again, many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

Regular Expression Trouble

that is not too useful either. Putting double quotes around the RE didn't help either. It seems to match almost everything. Thanks for any good ideas. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

UNIX System Certification Programs

I do. Please tell me any thoughts you might have. Stating that I've been messing around with UNIX systems for about 14 years probably won't get me very far.:-) Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations

I've Created a Permission Problem which Baffles Me.

. Thank you for any help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: I've Created a Permission Problem which Baffles Me.

Alex Zbyslaw writes: Looks to me like you've taken away x bit for other (otherwise the t would be lower case). x permission on directories allows you to search that directory. Try chmod o+x /var/tmp (as root). Thank you! I did and the T changed to t, fixing the permission problems.

5.4 Headless Installation from FreeBSD Disk 1?

working again. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: installing kernel fails, make is ok

You might first try making a generic kernel with no customization and see if that works. If it does, you might be accidentally leaving out support for something vital like disk drives or something else equally vital causing the kernel to not get along far enough to produce error messages.

Re: Dell PowerEdge1850 Won't Take a Freebsd4.11 Installation.

away the special partition and then everything works like normal. Thanks to those who had helpful suggestions. It turned out not to be FreeBSD's fault at all. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group

Re: Dell PowerEdge1850 Won't Take a Freebsd4.11 Installation.

love to tinker, but sometimes there is a job to be done and the faster it gets done, the better. Thanks again. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Dell PowerEdge1850 Won't Take a Freebsd4.11 Installation.

. The CDROM drive works well enough to boot and the boot process looks right until I try to extract the distributions such as /bin, etc. Are there any other things to investigate before saying that 4.11 and Dell 1850's don't get along? Thanks for any ideas. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ

Virtual Interfaces and Subnet Masks

for now. The network mask is 255.255.252.0. Is there any way to have more than one interface on the same subnet with that same subnet mask? Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group

Re: Bourn Shell Scripts that Produce Multiple Files

to the disk before the abnormal end. My short-term problem is solved so thanks again, but it appears that even opening new files without appending them confuses the shell on previously-opened files such that you do not receive any data in any of the files. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK

Bourn Shell Scripts that Produce Multiple Files

happen from one script. Thank you for any suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

the users to be able to use C-kermit to talk to a remote device without them having to be root. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

My thanks to all who have responded with this and similar recommendations: Roland Smith writes: Making kermit users members of a group, and have that group own /dev/cuaa* with read/write privileges seems like a good idea. For instance, create a group kermit with 'pw groupadd kermit'.

Re: Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

are owned by uucp but are in a group called dialer and have a mode of 660 already set meaning I don't have to do anything but put those who would use them in the dialer group. Problem solved! Again, thanks to everyone who responded. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information

/dev/ttyd0 as an Input Device Works on some Systems but not others.

describing the serial ports from one of the 2-port systems reads as follows: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A Any suggestions are appreciated. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU

/dev/ttyd0 as an Input Device Works on some Systems but not others.

platforms with at least two serial ports need cuaaN if there is to be no hardware flow-control. ttydN calls just hang forever and may or may not unblock if they see DSR from the other system. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

UNIX-Based VPN Applications

a presence on our network. Thank you very much. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

How to Send a Bell Character as Part of the Prompt in CSH

`\!# with exactly the same results. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Defining Make Variables from the Command Line

don't remember the exact syntax. Sometimes, if you get those wrong, make still works but you get the build you didn't want. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ [EMAIL

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