Re: Need help getting FreeBSD to run

2003-04-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
rts at your ISP to boot FreeBSD on this box again and give you some more information on what's actually going wrong? ie, commands they're trying, error messages they're getting, etc. Cheers, Scott -- ======

Re: Strange crash, possibly vinum-related

2003-03-18 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:22:36AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 17 March 2003 at 10:58:28 +, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:15:32PM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > > No takers? > > I've been intending to do

Re: Strange crash, possibly vinum-related

2003-03-17 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:57:52PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:58:28AM +0000, Scott Mitchell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No takers? Maybe someone who's done this (replacing a failed Vinum drive > > on hot-swap SCSI hardw

Re: Strange crash, possibly vinum-related

2003-03-17 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:15:32PM +, Scott Mitchell wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder if anyone out there can shed any light on this: > > A drive failed on one of our Vinum-powered RAID-5 arrays over the weekend. > This morning, we swapped out the offending drive (hot-swappab

Re: portupgrade mess

2003-03-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
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Re: Connecting FreeBSD to my home network..

2003-03-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
have you configured the Linksys? - Can you ping other machines on the local net by name? By IP address? Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, Eng

Re: DNS messed up on new IP:s

2003-03-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
address on Saturday. > > Please, someone? > > Thanks, > ---johann Seems to be working fine from here on the office connection but not from home... when did you make these changes? It's possible the updates just haven't propagated everywhere yet. Scott -- =

Re: Connecting FreeBSD to my home network..

2003-03-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
s add a line: ifconfig_foo="DHCP" to your /etc/rc.conf file (replace foo with the name of your Ethernet interface, of course). DHCP should pick up all the necessary settings from the Linksys. Cheers, Scott -- ===

Re: good compact flash/smart card readers?

2003-03-11 Thread Scott Mitchell
past, too. HTH, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B |

Re: freebsd nis server with debian clients

2003-03-11 Thread Scott Mitchell
t from Mike Galvez points to a very similar patch. I should point out that I did this to support RedHat boxes here; it should work on Debian as well, but YMMV. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Ke

Strange crash, possibly vinum-related

2003-03-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
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Re: freebsd nis server with debian clients

2003-03-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
te likely using the same NFS code, so this might help you as well. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines&

Re: dump exept "dir"

2003-03-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
n the dump command line for nodump to be honoured for a level 0 dump. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 |

Re: scroll mouse

2003-02-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
t; Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" Option "Buttons" "5" EndSection Hope that's useful to someone. Scott -- ==

Re: MINUID in NIS Makefile

2003-02-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 05:16:15PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > ??? I know that. > But still, you first need to copy /etc/master.passwd to /var/yp, then edit > /var/yp/master.passwd before exporting to clients. > I think it is easier to say "hey, just pick up UID higher then 1000 in > /etc/ma

Re: MINUID in NIS Makefile

2003-02-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:30:21PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Thursday 20 February 2003 16:17, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 20), Antoine Jacoutot said: > > > Is there a way to use the MINUID and MINGID options in a NIS Makefile > > > or is it Linux only ? > > > You'll ha

Re: Where can i find a startup log

2003-02-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:34:05AM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: > Ahh ok. What confused me was that there were similar > looking statements already contained in the > syslog.conf file. > > With that in mind I now see the purpose of all of the > commands except the last one. For what reason does one >

Re: Where can i find a startup log

2003-02-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:50:16AM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: > > I don't understand what exactly is being suggested > here. > > The part I don't understand is what is being said to > done with > > > Then: > > > > # touch /var/log/console.log > > # chmod 600 /var/log/console.log > >

Re: Forcing a Line Break in .profile

2003-02-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
want. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 0xAA775B8B |

Re: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514)

2003-02-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
lem doesn't happen in 4.x anyway, so you only need to worry about it at all if you're running 5.0. Hope that helps, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, E

Re: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514)

2003-02-12 Thread Scott Mitchell
that the ether driver was not snipping off the 16bit > checksum > on full-length frames? > Don Yes. Specifically, it wasn't telling the higher layers of the stack that the checksum bytes were always there, but it does that now. Scott -- ====

Re: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514)

2003-02-12 Thread Scott Mitchell
et away with just pulling the latest if_xe.c, though). Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engi

Re: Why should I use `config;make depend;make...` instead of `make kernel` when building from a stock source tree? (ref. Handbook sec. 9.3)

2003-02-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
x27;t, but that paragraph seems to imply that I do. Assuming Mike is right (and I tend to assume he is :-) about buildkernel using the installed toolchain if it can't find one in /usr/obj, the rest of the page makes perfect sense. Scott -- =

Re: Why should I use `config;make depend;make...` instead of `make kernel` when building from a stock source tree? (ref. Handbook sec. 9.3)

2003-02-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
your about to install with 'make installworld'. If you're just building a new kernel from the same sources, I guess either method would work, although you'd need to have the /usr/obj from your last buildworld still hanging around, so using config might be more conv

Re: pc-card modem setup, device, ppp.conf

2003-02-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
7; entry for the card occurs first in /etc/pccard.conf (or /etc/defaults/pccard.conf). Unless you've changed /etc/pccard.conf yourself you should get the sio version of the card. Hope that helps, Scott --

Re: How to read core dump

2003-01-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
tem calls, so that could be useful as well. Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines&quo

Re: drivers.flp - How to use ???

2003-01-16 Thread Scott Mitchell
ad a KLD in the 5.0 sysinstall -- I think right at the end of the 'Configure' menu. You have to scroll down to see it, but it is there. If you want to load them in the loader (before actually booting the kernel) you have to give the full path, eg. load /if_wi.ko I guess either m

Re: entropy

2003-01-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
uses so you can go directly to the page you want, without all that tedious searching :-) Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 |

Re: /usr/src/UPDATING

2003-01-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
he 'Set' button. I assume that the CDs would have been cut using the RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE tag, so the version you want is probably the last one on the page, 1.73.2.74. I suspect Matthew is right and you were really looking for the release notes, though. Scott -- ==

Re: CD to MP3

2003-01-12 Thread Scott Mitchell
oder, though. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsub

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
. Exceed is an X server for Win32 machines. I assume he's been using it as an X terminal onto the FreeBSD machine. I should have noticed that earlier, but the X server/client distinction always confuses people, especially when you're dealing with X terminals :-( Scott --

Re: Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
nstall I have now and try again from a clean start. I'd still love to know if that extra +CONTENTS file is good for anything though... Thanks, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may s

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
ions on it? The server seems not to be able to read it, for some reason. See XF86Config(5) for the full list of possible locations for the config file. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles ma

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
in /tmp, for instance I have: .ICE-unix/ .X0-lock .X110unix/ You might try deleting all of those (if you have them) and restarting xdm again. I'm not entirely sure it'll help, but it's worth a try. HTH, Scott -- ===

Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages

2002-12-31 Thread Scott Mitchell
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Re: Changing Colocation site. help: ifconfig

2002-12-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
The switch probably won't care, but you might have ARP problems with that kind of setup. I really not sure though... maybe someone else can clarify what the problems might be? Hope that helps, Scott --

Re: starting ppp on boot up

2002-12-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
with the rc.conf variables and use pppctl to shut down the daemon if I ever needed to, but I think it's down to personal preference at this point. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don

Re: starting ppp on boot up

2002-12-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
quot;adsl" You might want ppp_nat="YES" in there as well Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 0xAA775B8B |

Re: Power off problem

2002-11-17 Thread Scott Mitchell
and halts the system... you need the -p flag to turn off the power. Make sure power management is turned on in your BIOS as well. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, bu

Re: USB mouse oddity

2002-11-17 Thread Scott Mitchell
uld load it for me when it saw something that claimed to be a mouse, but apparently it doesn't work that way :-( Apologies if you've already tried these steps... it's all I can think of that might help you. Scott -- ==

Re: After editing freebsd.mc, how do I use this m4 processor?

2002-09-17 Thread Scott Mitchell
sn't something you actually need to know in order to reconfigure sendmail. This make has nothing to do with rebuilding the sendmail binaries -- it just deals with the configuration files. Cheers, Scott -- ==

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