backup with tar: Which dirs

I have a large usb harddisk with a 60GB freebsd slice that I want to use to backup the FreeBSD 5.4 installation on my laptop once in a while. I think that tar is the right tool for this purpuse. Now I ask: What directories do *** NOT *** require to be backed up? I know this is the case of /tmp

Mounting USB mass storage

I have configured my laptop to mount a USB mass storage automagically. When I plug the device the following messages appear: umass0: SWISSBIT Twist, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 4 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: SWISSBIT Twist 2.00 Removable

PCCARD WIRELESS

Carissimi, già esperto di linux sto cercando di configurare la mia cisco aironet 350 pccard (sicuramente supportata) sul mio laptop sotto freebsd 5.4, ma proprio non ci riesco. Nel kernel sono configurati ovviamente i device pccard, wlan, an. In rc.conf ho pccard_enable. A scheda pcmcia

RE: PCCARD WIRELESS

Sorry this message wasn't directed to this mailing list. Sorry again Vittorio :-- Messaggio originale -- :Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:57:05 +0200 :From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org :Subject: PCCARD WIRELESS : : :Carissimi, : :già esperto di linux sto cercando di

Problems with /var/spool/hylafax

Under FBSD 5.3 I've just compiled hylafax from the ports, set up the modem with faxsetup and then started /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hylafax.sh.sample start ... BUT.. /var/log/messages complains that: VicBSD FaxQueuer[668]: /var/spool/hylafax: Can not change directory VicBSD HylaFAX[669]: Can not

Printing problems

I have many problems in setting an epson stylus color 640 up on my FreeBSD 5.3 box. I compiled apsfilter to be used with the UNIX lpd and obviously configured it with the eps640pl.upp (360x360 dpi) gs driver. To put it in a nutshell my FreeBSD box prints BUT it is : (i) Unbelievably slow

Not naming the printer in the log

I installed 5.3, tailored and recompiled the kernel. Now I don't see the name of my printer (an epson stylus color 640) any longer in /var/log/message while, I remember, before recompiling the kernel and using freesbie I could can see it. What shall I do? Vittorio

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

:-- Messaggio originale -- :From: Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] :To: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:46:22 +0100 :Cc: Katsuki Hirata [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Cc: freebsd-questions-en freebsd-questions@freebsd.org :Subject: Re: Just installed FreeBSD : : ..

Cannot print

I've just installed apsfilter on the latest FreeBSD 5.3 to print with my epson stylus color 640 (driver eps640lp.upp) following both the handbook chapter on printing an artcle in freebsddiary.org. But: 1) If I - running apsfilter SETUP - use the 'T'(est) option, the PC tiringly, after un

Cannot compile koffice - missing libfpx-1.2.0.11.tar.bz2

I'm trying to compile and install koffice BUT freeBSD 5.3 doesn't find the libfpx-1.2.0.11.tar.bz2 (see below an extract of the log). I've checked the various directory searched and a more recent version libfpx-1.2.0.12.tar.bz2. Please help. Thanks Vittorio make install === koffice-1.3.5_2,1

Weird character representation in console

After years of linux distributions now I'm having a go at FreeBDS. Therefore, as a perfect newbye in FreeBSD I have just installed the developer stuff with x support and the ports of version 5.3. After having compiled the Midnight Commander mc from the ports' sources I noticed that running mc the

mail-reader M$ exchange

Context Server postgresql on Pentium 3 with FreeBSD 5.3; the server is connected to a big win 2k LAN on which there's also an exchange 2003 server. I administer the pgsql server from my office winXP box (compulsory use, I must saddenly admit) via a PUTTY window. Outlook is the official mail

Samba not showing public share et al.

Server Box (): Pentium 3 FreeBSD 5.3 Samba 3.0.7 connection to a windows 2000 LAN Samba on the freebsd side has the following smb.conf: [global] workgroup = MYCO # server string = VicBSD load printers = no log file =

cvsup http proxy problems

On a pentium box with FreeBSD 5.3 stable behind a proxy which needs authentication I'm able to download the ports I need compile them. To do so, you correctly suggested in this ML to put the following lines in /etc/make.conf FETCH_ENV= FTP_PROXY=http://myuser:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080 FETCH_ENV=

Samba doesn't umount a share

Dear All, always fighting with samba 3.0.7! I'm trying to umount an smb share with (/mnt/smb is part of FBSD filesystem): VicBSD# umount /mnt/smb/Utenti umount: /mnt/smb/Utenti : not a file system root directory Samba seems not to be running anymore

First start with Samba 3

After installing and launching samba 3.0.7 daemons under my postgresql FBSD5.3 stable server at office, I'm having trouble in connecting to whatever windows share in the M$ LAN. Here you are what's going on: 1) I can ping to my windows server srvs1.myco; 2) If I issue smbclient -L srvs1.myco

Restarting rc.conf

I set up a postgresql server under FreeBDSD 5.3 stable. My question: if I modify rc.conf either directly or via sysinstall how can I make the system be aware of that WITHOUT REBOOTING, in other words, how can I make FreeBSD execute the modified rc.conf? Thanks Vittorio

Postgresql not starting...

I'm accustomed to work with postgresql under linux both debian and gentoo. Now on my pentium 3 box under freeBSD 5.2.1 I've just compiled the following ports: postgresql7 postgresql7-client postgresql7-opt In /usr/local/etc/rc.d I find 010.pgsql.sh to start the service but