upgrade by hand

sd base -- I only use 3 items from the ports collection and I don't mind rebuilding these. (perhaps I'm stuck on the word 'upgrade' when there is a better word for a format and reload but preserve user/group/file system mode bits etc) -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 f

bad tape hanging machine

run a tar job to it okay. Run a dump of all file systems, ok. Now I wondering, could a bad tape cause the whole system to lock up? That seems really BAD to have a single cassette tape bring a whole system down. Anyone else seen this? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 Colle

best practices for administration

iveledges. hopefully, I'm not being too obscure. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" _

user owned groups

ehind this? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

portupgrade overview

ports, how to only allow security updates to happen, etc. Does any such document exist? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of t

Re: awk print

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:19:26PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:40:10PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > > I'm using awk to parse a directory listing. I was hoping there is a > > way to tell awk to print from $2 - to the end of the columns > >

awk print

I'm using awk to parse a directory listing. I was hoping there is a way to tell awk to print from $2 - to the end of the columns available. find ./ -name '*stuff' | awk '{FS="/" print $3---'} the $3-- I want to mean -- print from col 3 to the end. Any awk pr

moving files from bad sectors

hat will permit me to cp as much of this file as possible, ie all sectors up to, and then past, the bad spot? as another possibility, are there any tools that I can use with fsck that would mark the sector as bad so its not reused? David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College o

dell poweredge servers

I was looking at the support hardware list for Fbsd 5.x and could find no mention of the PERC3-DI scsi controller.. so I was wondering if anyone has used a dell poweredge 2650, and what your experience was running Freebsd 4.X and 5.x on it. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189

Re: gtar failing, please help!

ant to restart?: ("yes" or "no") > > I just don't know what to do. I'm half tempted to use Windows for > the fileserver at this point. I *need* working backups! > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

hard drive errors

sn 58) status=59 error=40 -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

sudo syntax

y to be certain that sudo is doing what I want? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" ___

Re: securing postgresql on fbsd

stead of dbsrv1 > > Something like > > ssh -L 5001:127.0.0.1:5432 [EMAIL PROTECTED] many thanks... this worked that way I wanted. > > Jason > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Bear > Sent: Thursday, Au

securing postgresql on fbsd

he remote "localhost"'.. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" - End forwarded message - -- David Bear

making without threads

I'm trying to use the python 2.3.4 port. I tried to issue make --without-threads but its still is making it with threads. make help doesn't.. the pkg_* files don't seem to be much help. how do I list and change make options? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-9

cvsupfile checkup

? *default host=cvsup10.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix *default tag=RELENG_4_10 ports-all tag=. src-all tag=. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College

Re: cvsupdate and make totally hoses the system

yes.. this explains it. I need to be more carefull with my reading. On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:14:25PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:28:29PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > > I've done this twice now.. I install a clean 4.10-Release from ftp. > > I insta

cvsupdate and make totally hoses the system

e-rel-suffix *default tag=RELENG_4_10 *default tag=. ports-all tag=. src-all tag=. - -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of t

device hints issue

/boot/device.hints file first. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC. *** Error code 1 ... this seems stranges since according the handbook device.hints is a feature of 5.x. It does not exist in /boot anywhere. should I touch /boot/device.hints and just let it go? -- David Bear

stop in make buildworld

/usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 I did a make clean and tried again.. got the same error. Any advice? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP

Re: problems with make buildworld

OTECTED] On Behalf Of David Bear > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 3:53 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: problems with make buildworld > > I received the following make error during a system update. I had > cvsup'ed to the latest RELENG4. I googled for some of the search

problems with make buildworld

data definition has no type or storage class *** Error code 1 Stop in /mnt/wd/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools. *** Error code 1 Stop in /mnt/wd/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /mnt/wd/src. *** Error code 1 -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson

anyone using vmware to run freebsd

7;s. Something like knoppix which launches and loads a complete working freebsd from cdrom? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be su

sendmail local mta mode only

andle sending messages destined for external systems. any pointers ? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of t

tape block size and dump block size

using dump and restore I ran into an error with restore. the error message is tape block size (512) is not a multiple of dump block size (1024) Can anyone suggest a way to work around this? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232

Re: CMS on FreeBSD

and? > Can I do everything I want to with Plone without having to become a Python > expert, code my own modules, etc? don't know anything about Nukes but Plone is very good. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe,

dump/restore issue

ice, I went ahead and set -b to the max... But now what do I do about restore? Is there a better way to control tape block size when piping through ssh? ie, dd of=/dev/nrsa0 bs=512?? But then what meaning does the -b parm have in dump? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9

Re: scsi tape errors

that it is powered) Are there any additional tools that I can use to check whether this is really a tape device issue, a scsi device issue... etc.? On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:18:03PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 16), David Bear said: > > I am getting error messages

scsi tape errors

): unable to rewind after test read ==== -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" _

issue with simple script

ot;Please swap tapes on srvx" | mail iddwb -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of tres

variable assignment in shell script

e script. Why would this assignment fail? I am running this as root. root definately has write access the /dev/nrsa0. This is really maddening. Any pointers? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the

formail recipe

ed to trim it down. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: one simple question

main,.Lfe1-main > .ident "GCC: (GNU) c 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]" > > > > No such thing as: > > and $0xfff0,%esp > > Are you using gcc 3.3.x? > > Anyway, this code looks like it would align the st

problem with tape units

code 0 (sa0:ahc1:0:10:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 0 0 c 0 (sa0:ahc1:0:10:0): error code 0 (sa0:ahc1:0:10:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 0 0 c 0 (sa0:ahc1:0:10:0): error code 0 - End forwarded message - -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Program

reliable tape units

only last 3 years... but then, I don't know what to expect. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of t

netgear nic

the NIC selection at the local store was terrible. I ended up buying a netgear FA311. I cannot tell what chipset this has.. It is the numbers VS318AG in it.. anyone used a netgear nic with fbsd 4.9? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson

hard drive test

ata100 cable. now I'm nervous. don't know why the drive would have had the error. Are there any freebsd utils that I can use to test the drive? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware t

opinion on NICs in mulithomed host

other? This will not be doing any bridge/routing... I will be using the secondard NIC as a private rfc1918 network. The bsd box will be a proxy machine. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Bew

/dev/sa and rsa was multiple dumps to single tape

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:06:15PM +1000, anubis wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:55 am, David Bear wrote: > > if I am writing multiple dumps to a single tape, is it wise to have mt > > write a setmark after dumping each file system? > > There is no real need to do this. >

using ldap for multiple fbsd servers

59000 hits.. So, I'm hoping there is someone here who's knows of a 'good' writeup. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portf

multiple dumps to single tape

if I am writing multiple dumps to a single tape, is it wise to have mt write a setmark after dumping each file system? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be su

Re: awk question, maybe

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:39:06PM -0300, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, David Bear wrote: > > > i would like to do something like > > > > df | awk '{print $1}' > > > > to capture all the current file systems. But I would like to

awk question, maybe

s on a box. any pointers? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

startup scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d

it up to the program itself to change who it runs as? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" __

configuration info for NUT

a usb monitor cable. Any configuration samples for usb monitor would be appreciated. thanks. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will

kernel tcp connection logging

I am using log_in_vain='1' in rc.conf but, do have samba listening on port 135. Any way I can quash these messages? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyon

scripting make buildworld cycle

ike this one to handle 4.9-Release? preferrably someplace that I can cut-n-paste it from? or, is there an improved version? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be su

ssh issue

_keys PasswordAuthentication no = I chmod'd my .ssh dir as 700 on system A and B. Then restart sshd on system B explicitly using -f /etc/ssh/sshd_config . the ssh'ing into system B I'm still prompted for a password. I'm lost. Any advice. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-

updating make.conf for buildworld

ld uucp related programs NO_MAKEDEV= true BOOTWAIT=1 USA_RESIDENT= YES DOC_LANG= en_US.ISO8859-1 -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP

removing scsi drivers from kernel conf

Is it a 'good idea' to removed unused scsi devices from a custom kernel, ie is it worth the time to reduce the kernel size? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, e

nfsiod starting

d_enable="YES" usbd_enable="YES" = and I don't see where it's enabled in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.. any idea what started these and how to disable them.. btw, the only thing in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ is postfix.. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965

staring sendonly sendmail

ot way too many hits. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

which apache

frequently;-) 2) that works as well as apache ever did 3) that plays will with freebsd 5.x... going through the apache faq's now, but thought I'd get good insight here. thx. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ

detecting the size of a tarball

e accomplished. any idea's? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" ___

errors with orb drive

else using orb drives? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

procmail, forward, and postfix

rward "|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #Metropolis" 'Metropolis' is the name of the account. Any pointers? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wil

cvsup and portupgrade

ll it plays with cvsupdate. The other rotten thing here is that cvsupdate requires modula-3 -- and portupgrade requires ruby... It would really be nice if all this were done in the most perfect language, python;-) looking for some advice.. thx. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480

advice re mail

s the same kind of file the postfix does... but here I'm showing my ignorance. I will be using python as my language and there are modules for MH, maildir, mbox, and mailbox... Anyone have any recommended reading for me to better understand what I need to do? -- David Bear phone: 480-96

Re: Backup router, new hard drive.

Le 14.09.03, à 17:09, DanB s'est exclamé : >How do I copy the whole harddrive to a larger drive than the one being >copied? >This is an router that cant go down for more than a few minutes. I >want to replace whole system to the new harddirve old one has noisy >bearings. I have no backup at

fsck -F

were salvaged and run GREAT with fbsd) may need a fsck. However, I cant ssh into them and drop them to single user mode to fsck them. I would like to just tell them to reboot and do any file system maint that needs to be done. But I don't see a way do to it.. any pointers? -- David Bear p

scsi errors on orb drive

20 14 138 137 136 135 134 133 132 131 130 Untagged Q(5): 114 sg[0] - Addr 0xe1bc000 : Length 2048 (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): no longer in timeout, status = 34b ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 1 SCBs aborted (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): Invalidating pack - End forwarded message - -- David Bear phone: 48

japanese consultants

no, I don't need consulting in japanese. Is there a list of consultants fluent in all the issues of running freebsd in japan, ie internationalizing, character sets, etc. I found one listed on the freebsd.org web site. I was hoping for more.. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:48

tape driver turmoil

--- Current Driver State: at rest. - File Number: 0 Record Number: 0Residual Count 0 not also that in the man page for mt, there is no 0x30 density mode listed.. And I have tried other modes as well. They all th

tape errors

yet, i/o residual and control residual is 0. my understanding of this is getting worse. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect o

shell script help

.cat" 9 datetime=`date "+DATE: %Y-%m-%d%nTIME: %H:%M"` 0 taroptions="--create --verbose --block-size 1 --read-full-blocks --block-compress --gzip --file " 1 tapedev="/dev/sa0" 2 echo "tar "${taroptions}${tapedev}" /var/log " 3 tar ${taroptio

invalid argument

file, with tar tzvf /dev/nsa0 tar happily lists all files in the archive, but ends with: gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file I'm wondering if I have a blocking factor problem? This is a DAT/dds4 tape unit. Any advice would be appreciated. -- David

getting the mdate of a file

were changed since home.catalog was written. Tar has --newer DATE option but I would like to set the DATE according to the last modified time of the home.catalog. So, question 1 is how do I get the last mod date of a file? Question 2 is, is there a better way that I'm missing? -- David Bear p

sybase connection

has anyone made a connection to a sybase db from freebsd? I'm looking at the netlibs from sybase. they are binaries for linux. I was hoping there is some connector for freebsd... -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Temp

fscking remotely

ut... any recommendations? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

ftpchroot issue

tend with the syntax mentioned in the man page, yet when I attempt to log in as softsys, I get the message === Name (:): softsys 331 Password required for softsys. Password: 550 Can't change root. Login failed. === any advice? -- David Bear phone: 480

ftpd doc

t it doesn't seem to work with the syntax ftpd -D -h using ftpd -Dh I still get unknown option, illegal flag. Is my ftp deamon wrong, or the man page? using FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe,

ftp daemon

i find myself needing to run an ftp daemon. is the stock ftpd with freebsd safe, or are there any recommended alternatives? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone wi

max group name length

was just trying to determine the maximum string length of a group name. found struct group { char*gr_name; /* group name */ but no size. any pointers (with limits)? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232

good mass storage backup solution

dia I thought it was okay (more expensive than tape but I liked direct access style media) Any votes for DASD style systems? Sequential media is still kind of a pain in the rear so I'm looking for suggestions of new/good/innovative technology. tx -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:48

versioning file system

thing like that for FreeBSD? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Loading kernel modules twice

I was using 5.0 as my NAT router and everything was fine, then I upgraded to 5.1 and I get this error, and I can no longer ping the computers, it has two intel etherexpress cards in it, and the first one still works dialing the dsl: module_register: module pci/if_fxp already exists! Module pci/if_

tar or gnutar

dvice? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://li

restoring accounts

I'm wondering, if I have a copy of /etc/master.password, is it better to just copy that over the default installed version? or to try write some kind of script to read it, and recreate accounts from it using pw? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Pro

Re: scsi tape curiousity

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:43:48PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 27), David Bear said: > > I called the cybernetics people (maker of the tape unit) and their > > recommendation was to put the tape unit on a separate scsi controller > > from the hard driv

NAT clients behind FBSD

Does anyone know how many NAT clients can be effectively served by a FBSD NAT box? I know a lot will be determined by RAM, but I'm looking for guidelines and experience. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287

scsi tape curiousity

g paradigm regarding scsi cause it looks like everything I thought was wrong... tia -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will

error making postfix

.1.11-20021115,1 >> Checksum OK for postfix/postfix-1.1.11-20021115.tar.gz. ===> Patching for postfix-1.1.11-20021115,1 /usr/local/bin/sed_inplace: not found *** Error code 127 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/postfix-current. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/postfix-current. -- David Bear C

Re: WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 1 0 MEDIUM ERROR asc:3b,0

I'm very curious how many people use dat/ait style tape units for bsd backups. I've yet to ever get a response from anyone regarding a tape 'issue' (messages like the above) > -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

pkg_upgrade ?

n (or make install) This seems rather poor as I don't want to have all the downtime between deinstalling and installing again. If I cvsup ports and then make install, is there a fix to update the pkg data base? -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe:

make error for postfix

rrent or not. My FreeBSD is FreeBSD urbansrv1.pp.asu.edu 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 What am I missing? -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [

Savemail problem

Everytime Cron tries to send me the results of the daily output I get: sendmail(24163]: h1QB4MMr024163: losing ./qfh1QB4MMr024163: savemail panic sendmail(24163]: h1QB4MMr024163: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere I get that error from a fresh FreeBSD 5.0-release inst

procmail question a little off topic

cyrus, smb/web server :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] syslogs/ppsrv5 # db2srv1, development machines :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] syslog/db2srv1 # recsrv1, smb server recreation mgt :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] syslog/recsrv1 === end procmailrc = -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Cod

DHCPD Error

I just cvsup'd to the most recent FreeBSD 5.0-release. And I downloaded the most recent port of ISC-DHCP3-3.0.1.r11_1 I then configure the dhcpd.conf in /usr/local/etc When I restart my computer I get an error that tells me I need "ddns-update-style ad-hoc;" in my conf file for it to work. So I add

Re: running an x app remotely via ssh

running on your home machine when you shell into your office machine? also, when using ssh I need to use -X at the end of the command line to instruct it to tunnel X. don't know about putty. -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: how to delete a file called ????

7; > rm "" > > all do not work. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

fouled up cvsup

/ukrainian ports/vietnamese doc/de_DE.ISO8859-1 doc/el_GR.ISO8859-7 doc/es_ES.ISO8859-1 doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1 doc/it_IT.ISO8859-15 doc/ja_JP.eucJP doc/nl_NL.ISO8859-1 doc/pt_BR.ISO8859-1 doc/ru_RU.KOI8-R doc/sr_YU.SIO8859-2 doc/zh_TW.Big5 = -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code

Re: Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog message wrt inodes)

r/log would still function. but then, this is an old box and I don't have another hard drive to throw in it... I think stopping and restarting snort did the trick though. -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

syslog message wrt inodes

24212 26% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% 255075% /proc Last week my var volume did run out of inodes. I erase some snort logs to free up the inodes. But it appears the kernel or syslogd doesn't know about it. any pointers on letting the kernel know I

Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch

rtup or windows doesn't think there's a mouse.. -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

to make or add a package

ation. Maybe there would be no significant difference. But, if I have the time to wait, is it worth it? -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

scsi tape device issue

ts a dds-4 unit? -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

difs between 4.6.2 and 4.7

mendations) and zope tia. -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Shell guru needed.

would confront this. It will >save me hours if not days so thanks in advance. I'm no shell guru but how about something like find ./yourdirectory -name "*pdf" -exec mv {} ./newdirectory \; you may have to play with the syntax a little but wouldn't this do it? > -- D

LPRng libraries not installed

I just installed FreeBSD 4.6.2-releeas 0 via ftp. I used /stand/sysinstall and installed various ports via ftp as well. I wanted LPRng and selected that. However, when I attempt to use any of the lprng programs I get and error: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object "liblpr.so.0" not found.

LPRng pkg issue

d-efl.so.1: Shared object "liblpr.so.0" not found. Seems this should have been installed. Is it not or do I need to modify and LD-Path? -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

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