Re: Boot from CD (this time in ASCII :) )

2006-11-13 Thread Nils Vogels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13-11-2006 16:28: Now my question is this: how do the kernel know where to search the fstab (considered that the fstab says where to find the /etc)? I mean: I suppose I have to put on the CDROM an exact /etc/fstab for that installation?? Or this could be avoided?

Re: Boot from CD (this time in ASCII :) )

2006-11-13 Thread Nils Vogels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13-11-2006 16:28: Now my question is this: how do the kernel know where to search the fstab (considered that the fstab says where to find the /etc)? I mean: I suppose I have to put on the CDROM an exact /etc/fstab for that installation?? Or this could be avoided?

Re: Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-13 Thread Nils Vogels
Rachel Florentine wrote on 13-11-2006 19:40: That would set up the environment, and might actually be correct as written ;) I'm a whole lot less confident of the following: MAKE_ARGS = { '/usr/ports/net/openldap23-server'= [ '--localstatedir=/var/run/slapd',

Re: Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-13 Thread Nils Vogels
Rachel Florentine wrote on 13-11-2006 19:40: That would set up the environment, and might actually be correct as written ;) I'm a whole lot less confident of the following: MAKE_ARGS = { '/usr/ports/net/openldap23-server'= [ '--localstatedir=/var/run/slapd',

Re: Move /var/imap

2006-05-13 Thread Nils Vogels
Martin Schweizer wrote on 13-05-2006 10:26: Hello I want move /var/imap to another place because not enough space (I did move /var/spool/imap successfully). When I cp /var/imap cp says: cp: imap/socket/idle: Operation not supported and cp: imap/socket/lmtp: Operation not supported. I now

Re: Help: Unable to change to SU through SSH

2006-05-13 Thread Nils Vogels
Maan Jee wrote on 13-05-2006 10:31: Hi I have created a user admin and using that to login through SSH from a remote machine. But I CANNOT su, change to the root login? How can I do that? Add the user admin to the wheel group in /etc/groups. To Install a Web Server, which distribution I

Re: where is libkse?

2006-05-01 Thread Nils Vogels
snnn wrote on 01-05-2006 4:09: : undefined reference to `kse_create(kse_mailbox*, int)' I cannot find libkse under freebsd6.0. which library should I linked for sys/kse.h ? From the man page on kse_create(2) KSE(2)FreeBSD System Calls Manual KSE(2) NAME

Re: Hacked? How can I tell what process is sending packets from a particular port (udp/55613)?

2006-05-01 Thread Nils Vogels
Frank Steinborn wrote on 30-04-2006 22:58: boink wrote: Dear FreeBSD, I see outbound packets from udp/55613, one every 5 seconds, to a single non-routable (10) IP, with destination port increasing by 1 with each packet, with expected ICMP Destination net unreachables from an

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Nils Vogels
Hi Carlos! Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com wrote on 13-03-2006 9:20: I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server. My intention is that my server at home, download all the emails via imap to backup automatically everyday. But, I dont want that my server download

Re: Help Please

2006-03-07 Thread Nils Vogels
Marc Ravenor wrote on 07-03-2006 11:58: I work for a systems integrator based in the UK. I have a client that is currently using FreeBSD version 4.11 and version 6. He currently wants to use the software on an HP DL320 G4 server. The problem he is facing at the moment is that when the software

Compressed filesystem

2005-11-26 Thread Nils Vogels
Hi! I'm looking for a way to have an on-the-fly compressed filesystem, to use as an archive under FreeBSD. So far, I've only been able to find solutions for Linux, are there any for FreeBSD as well ? Gr, Nils -- Simple guidelines to happiness: Work like you don't need the money, love like

Makefile woes

2005-09-07 Thread Nils Vogels
Hi there ! I'm trying to write a Makefile and it's my first time writing a bit more complex one .. I seem to be stuck and examples currently are not very helpful, so I thought I'd try here: What I am trying to do is differ the way of building depending if a variable has been defined, my current

Re: the Installation package Apache Web Server Failure

2005-08-14 Thread Nils Vogels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mario Jose Canto Barea wrote: i had installed FreeBSD 5.4 from CD's ( ISO i get with ftp from freebsd.org and burned with nero 6 on windows) but the Installation package Apache Web Server Failure Install the ports tree collection from

How much performance loss?

2005-08-14 Thread Nils Vogels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there ! I am trying to get FreeBSD properly running on my Soekris net4801, and for that reason I have compiled a custom kernel that doesnt have support for the hardware that I do not have. When booting, the kernel gives me the following

Re: nmap install problems

2005-06-03 Thread Nils Vogels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... i'm trying to install nmap on a 4.10 machine... tried from ports. error applying patches. updated ports - same thing. downloaded sources for 3.78 and 3.81 and i get: /usr/local/src/nmap-3.78/service_scan.cc:1139:

Re: Sendmail (Deferred: Operation timed out...)

2005-06-03 Thread Nils Vogels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Nicholas, Nicholas Henry wrote: When sending messages out they are left in the mqueue directory. Examining the contents for files I find this error: Deferred: Operation timed out with mx3.megamailservers.com. This could be caused by a few

Re: P4B533 vs DDR Ram 400 MHz

2005-06-03 Thread Nils Vogels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Supote Lee wrote: Hi, Yes, it's so if you refer to Asus official website. But today I've just added such memory into a P4B533 box at my office. It can bootup and has no problem today so I think that I can't totally believe its document on

Re: VRRP

2005-02-05 Thread Nils Vogels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Knipe wrote: | Hi, | | Does FreeBSD have any support, or does anyone know of any open | source applications that can be used to get some form of VRRP into | FreeBSD 4.11 / 5.x? A quick make search learns: | cd /usr/ports | make search key=vrrp

Getting FAM up and running from inetd

2005-02-02 Thread Nils Vogels
Hi there! I'm looking for a way to get fam [devel/fam] up and running from inetd. I seem to have followed all the hints in the pkg-message, however it doesnt work: imhotep# ps auxwww|grep inetd root97100 0.0 0.1 1128 836 ?? Is 11:10AM 0:00.02 /usr/sbin/inetd -wW imhotep# ps

Re: help O_o

2004-01-25 Thread Nils Vogels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was securiting my Box ,,,and then i used to have alex on wheel group so i su to root, but i modify and change su to antother group and then i ,,, chmod o-xr /bin/su and chmod g-xy /bin/su ...no now i cannot login ..from my terminal or from my boz, i dont hace root

Re: Slow boot when not plugged into network

2004-01-06 Thread Nils Vogels
Duane Winner wrote: Does anybody know of a workaround for this? When I'm not connected to my ethernet network, it takes an extra 90 seconds to boot my FreeBSD laptop, as it hangs on this boot message before timing out: Doing initial network setup: hostname I'm guessing it has something to do

Re: driver for webcam?

2003-11-22 Thread Nils Vogels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) if I can use the linux driver on freebsd Not without modification, the kernels are *very* different 2) is there a freebsd driver for it http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/hardware-i386.html#AEN1838 3) is it possible to port the linux driver to freebsd and

Re: Staying current with 4.9 - which supfile?

2003-11-21 Thread Nils Vogels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But how - if at all - does CURRENT come in? Or does CURRENT wrt my installed 4.9 only relate to 5.x? CURRENT is the development version of FreeBSD, basically for developers only, those who want to test the finest and newest options, and do not fear a complete systems

Re: news/press page

2003-11-19 Thread Nils Vogels
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:02:14AM +, TEC Meganet wrote: HI, I send this only to say that this article is a little bit wired because the author is saying that a T1 link is pushing 20Mbit/s and he controlles it with dummynet at the end ... Sorry, what was your

Re: Okay, who broke sysutils/eject?

2003-11-02 Thread Nils Vogels
Rob wrote: Does 'cdcontrol eject' work? For me it doesn't and I'm stumped as to why :( kernel config bits: device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives device scbus # SCSI bus (required) device cd # CD device pass#

Re: running at as a user

2003-09-21 Thread Nils Vogels
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:38:59PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: How do you run at as a user? I get the following error: at: you do not have permission to use this program I thought it might work to change the permissions on the executable to 555, but that yields the same result.

Re: cvsup src help

2003-09-21 Thread Nils Vogels
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:27:24PM -0400, ALIAS wrote: i use used cvsup to update the src after that what do i do? i read that there are things like make world to install the new src files? how do i do that? This is all explained in the handbook:

Re: Postfix problems

2003-09-20 Thread Nils Vogels
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 07:33:48PM +0200, Guy Van Sanden (GVS) wrote: GVS I forgot to mention this, I did that first, than ran /bin/sh GVS /etc/rc.sendmail stop GVS Postfix appears to run, yet does not repsond... A small list of things to check :) 1) Is the master process running ? 2) Is the

Re: PASCAL in FreeBSD

2003-09-20 Thread Nils Vogels
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:31:49PM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote: Hi! I like FreeBSD and I like PASCAL language. But I want to compile my pascal programs in FreeBSD. But how I can do it # cd /usr/ports # make search key=pascal -- Simple guidelines to happiness: Work like you

Re: Mail Auth Daemon! how!

2003-09-20 Thread Nils Vogels
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 08:28:52PM +, Dead Line (DL) wrote: DLI succeed to install many web clients, such SquirrelMail, sqwebmail, DL nocc DLand all it goes fine, when i try to logon to any login interface, it DL always says incorrect user/pass DL DLSo, i relized (and someone

Re: IP Problems

2003-08-21 Thread Nils Vogels
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:00:32PM -0400, Ben Dover (BD) wrote: BD OK, this is difficult to explain and my problem is probably bigger than BD what I have found but here goes. I have a dedicated 5.1 FreeBSD box and BD when I did a dmesg I received a repeating message as follows: BD arplookup

Cannot change password?

2003-07-26 Thread Nils Vogels
Hi list! After upgrading a test-box I have from a fine working 4.8-REL to a 5.1-REL, I seem to be unable to change passwords from the commandline: severe# passwd nivo Changing local password for nivo severe# no password prompt, no nothing. When a user tries to change his own password, the same

VLAN limit?

2003-07-21 Thread Nils Vogels
Hi list, Currently I'm researching the maximum amount of possible VLANs for all kinds of network devices and one of them is a FreeBSD box with an FXP card in it. While the theorectical maximum is about 4096 VLAN's on one trunk, I've been seeing that several vendors impose different limits.

Re: Licencing

2003-05-27 Thread Nils Vogels
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:55:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote: Hello I work for Department National Defence in Canada. I am aquiring on using your OS to load on 6 or 4 stand alone computers. The purpose of these computers is to teach our naval personnal a basic unix knowledge for

Re: NAT clients behind FBSD

2003-05-27 Thread Nils Vogels
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:15:35PM -0700, David Bear (DB) wrote: DB Does anyone know how many NAT clients can be effectively served by a DB FBSD NAT box? I know a lot will be determined by RAM, but I'm looking DB for guidelines and experience. The largest numbers I've had working was a P2-450

Re: IP-change

2003-02-20 Thread Nils Vogels
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:43:58AM +, Mark wrote: I made a DNS change, more than a week ago, changing the IP address of my primary domain name. But I still get the FreeBSD list on the old IP. So, who do I talk to at FreeBSD to have them update their DNS cache? :) I'm sure that happens

NIS.wheel group oddity

2002-11-03 Thread Nils Vogels
? :) Gr, -- Nils Vogels PGP:0xC26BD15F Available on keyservers. S@H:6098WU/8.140yr -- setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu. Will you find aliens? Sometimes you can do everything right, and still lose -JL Picard To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Multiple NATd running on one box

2002-07-13 Thread Nils Vogels
-checking. Will this give me any unforseen issues ? Gr, -- Nils Vogels PGP:0xC26BD15F Available on keyservers. S@H:5118WU/6.940yr -- setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu. Will you find aliens? My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED