Re: Help Finding ZFS snapshots

2011-09-05 Thread Gene
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:48:22 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote --As of September 5, 2011 8:13:52 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have said: Using FreeBSD 8.1, amd64 - I wanted to recover files from a snapshot of usr/home. Everything I've found via googling refers to a link such as path/zfs/.snapshot

Re: Help Finding ZFS snapshots

2011-09-05 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of September 5, 2011 10:23:32 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have said: On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:48:22 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote --As of September 5, 2011 8:13:52 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have said: Using FreeBSD 8.1, amd64 - I wanted to recover files from a snapshot of usr/home.

Re: Help Finding ZFS snapshots

2011-09-05 Thread Gene
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:35:34 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote --As of September 5, 2011 10:23:32 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have said: On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:48:22 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote --As of September 5, 2011 8:13:52 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have said: Using FreeBSD 8.1, amd64

Re: Help Finding ZFS snapshots

2011-09-05 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-09-05 17:23, Gene skrev: On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:48:22 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote --As of September 5, 2011 8:13:52 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have said: Using FreeBSD 8.1, amd64 - I wanted to recover files from a snapshot of usr/home. Everything I've found via googling refers to a link

Re: Help Finding ZFS snapshots

2011-09-05 Thread Carl Johnson
Gene f...@brightstar.bomgardner.net writes: On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:48:22 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote --As of September 5, 2011 8:13:52 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have said: Using FreeBSD 8.1, amd64 - I wanted to recover files from a snapshot of usr/home. Everything I've found via googling

setfib help

2011-09-04 Thread Monkeyfoahead
Hello, I wish to torrent (with transmission) over one interface and access my server from the web over another interface. I have compiled my kernel with 2 routing tables. Is there a way I can configure each table for each interface automatically? Thanks

looking for help

2011-08-16 Thread M.Hafez
hello; i do not have big idea abotu freeBSD , this is the first time i am using that, i do not want to lean any thing about freeBSD, i just want to using it to build a supper computer using MPI libraries, that to run octave application (matlab  like) to increase the process speedup , i hope

Re: looking for help

2011-08-16 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:46 PM, M.Hafez wdeln...@yahoo.com wrote: hello; i do not have big idea abotu freeBSD , this is the first time i am using that, i do not want to lean any thing about freeBSD, This is probably a language thing but it doesn't come on too great on your behalf. Posting

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness Logging

2011-08-06 Thread Tony
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jerry je...@seibercom.net Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 2:30 PM Subject: Re: Help with Bind Weirdness Logging On 8/5/2011 10:55 AM, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:25:13 -0700 Drew Tomlinson articulated: On 8/5/2011 9:40 AM, Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 05 Aug

Help with Bind Weirdness Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
What must I do to get more detailed logging that might help diagnose this problem? Or better yet, what is going on with my Bind installation? ;) Cheers, Drew -- Like card tricks? Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse to learn card magic secrets for free! http://alchemistswarehouse.com

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:15:21 -0500, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Just recently, I noticed that my server can't resolve for some names. The ones I've noticed are for Microsoft domains, specifically go.microsoft.com and time.windows.com. For example: What kind of

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 8/5/2011 9:40 AM, Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:15:21 -0500, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Just recently, I noticed that my server can't resolve for some names. The ones I've noticed are for Microsoft domains, specifically go.microsoft.com and time.windows.com.

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:25:13 -0700 Drew Tomlinson articulated: On 8/5/2011 9:40 AM, Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:15:21 -0500, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Just recently, I noticed that my server can't resolve for some names. The ones I've noticed are for

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:25:13 -0500, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Any ideas on how to get Bind logging going? Here's how we do it. named.conf: logging { channel my_syslog { syslog daemon; severity info; //print-time

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:30:39 -0700 Drew Tomlinson articulated: Thank you Jerry. In my case, the FreeBSD boxes are hard wired so I don't think this will be a problem. I use the wireless for two Windows laptops, a Lexmark printer, and a Motorola Droid X. My specific issues with the E3000

Re: help setup an HP 3300C scanner

2011-08-04 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 12:26:55AM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: [...] I added scanbuttond from ports to be safe :), I just copied your example (not looking that it was customized for epson :( libscanbtnd-backend_epson.so, but I have removed that and left it as you have suggested :) I was

Re: help setup an HP 3300C scanner

2011-08-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Marc Fonvieille black...@freebsd.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 12:26:55AM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: [...] I added scanbuttond from ports to be safe :), I just copied your example (not looking that it was customized for epson :(

Re: help setup an HP 3300C scanner

2011-08-04 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:38:27AM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Marc Fonvieille black...@freebsd.org wrote: I'm curious, what is the output of the id(1) command as olivares? -- Marc [olivares@quadcore ~]$ whoami olivares [olivares@quadcore ~]$ id

Progress! (was Re: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-04 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
Well, I'm very pleased to report that I now have a successful install of FreeBSD up and running! Finally! Don't know why I didn't think of it sooner, but I decided to try installing on an external USB drive I have here, and it worked just fine. Got X configured and running and everything. I am

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-03 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:35:30 -0400, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: ... Worse still, though, is what I ran across in the partitioning/labeling/boot record section of sysinstall; no more dangerously dedicated mode (unless you go into expert mode, which

Fw: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-03 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
there help me out of this predicament? Right now I feel like I'm doomed to keep running Linux or nothing at all! I am dying to get back to FreeBSD again. First try to use dd to clean the beginning of the hard disk. In _worst_ case, clean the whole disk. Then start sysinstall as usual

Re: Fw: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 02:06:51 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Interesting to see the changes that have taken place in the meantime. I've certainly got some catching up to do here. :-) You learn something new every day using FreeBSD. :-) I much prefer to use ports, myself. I just like to

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/08/2011 00:57, Polytropon wrote: The really crucial problem I'm facing right now is that I can't get Linux's damned grub off of my hard drive! This should be easy by dd'ing the beginning of the hard disk with /dev/zero's. Otherwise, overwriting with FreeBSD's standard booting

Re: Fw: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-03 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 08/03/2011 09:06 AM, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: I ran dd and zeroed out the entire first gigabyte of space on the drive, yet grub was still there! I couldn't believe it. I'm on the verge now of just zeroing out the entire drive. Hate to have to resort to such a ridiculously extreme

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-03 Thread Bernt Hansson
2011-08-03 01:06, Conrad J. Sabatier skrev: The really crucial problem I'm facing right now is that I can't get Linux's damned grub off of my hard drive! This might help, but I'm not sure. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2005-07/1509.html

help setup an HP 3300C scanner

2011-08-03 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I am sorry to bother you guys, but I need your help. I have a scanner HP 3300C scanner that is connected to one of my freebsd 8.2 amd machines. I have done my homework: read section scanners on FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/scanners.html looked at other

Re: help setup an HP 3300C scanner

2011-08-03 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear folks, I am sorry to bother you guys, but I need your help.  I have a scanner HP 3300C scanner that is connected to one of my freebsd 8.2 amd machines. I have done my homework: read section scanners

Re: help setup an HP 3300C scanner

2011-08-03 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear folks, I am sorry to bother you guys, but I need your help.  I have a scanner HP 3300C scanner that is connected to one of my

Re: help setup an HP 3300C scanner

2011-08-03 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: This as root though, but as simple user cannot do much :(, again xsane tells me that no devices were found :( Suggestions/Advice/comments are welcome and appreciated. To hit some relevant points... The uscanner device is gone, no longer needed

Re: help setup an HP 3300C scanner

2011-08-03 Thread Antonio Olivares
to the saned group: quadcore# cat /etc/group | grep 'saned' saned:*:194:olivares What else do I need to do? Thank you for your help suggestions. Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: help setup an HP 3300C scanner

2011-08-03 Thread Antonio Olivares
already running, pid: 801 /etc/rc.d/devd: WARNING: failed to start devd I have also added myself to the saned group: quadcore# cat /etc/group | grep 'saned' saned:*:194:olivares What else do I need to do? Thank you for your help suggestions. Regards, Antonio Warren, I have rebooted

Re: help setup an HP 3300C scanner

2011-08-03 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: Thank you for your message. I have added the following: # AAO # detect HP ScanJet 3300C attach 20 { device-name ugen[0-9].[0-9]; match vendor 0x03f0; match product 0x0205; action usb_devaddr=`echo $device-name | sed

Re: help setup an HP 3300C scanner

2011-08-03 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: Thank you for your message.  I have added the following: # AAO # detect HP ScanJet 3300C attach 20 {      device-name ugen[0-9].[0-9];      match vendor 0x03f0;      match

8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-02 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
tried numerous workarounds, using boot0cfg and both FreeBSD's and Linux's fdisk and friends, but to no avail. I'm stymied at this point, and desperately in need of some advice here. Can some sage person out there help me out of this predicament? Right now I feel like I'm doomed to keep running

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-02 Thread Polytropon
and anything you like. Can some sage person out there help me out of this predicament? Right now I feel like I'm doomed to keep running Linux or nothing at all! I am dying to get back to FreeBSD again. First try to use dd to clean the beginning of the hard disk. In _worst_ case, clean

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-02 Thread Michael Powell
with an error code. I've tried numerous workarounds, using boot0cfg and both FreeBSD's and Linux's fdisk and friends, but to no avail. I'm stymied at this point, and desperately in need of some advice here. Can some sage person out there help me out of this predicament? Right now I feel like I'm

Re: Help needed : My FreeBSD8.2-amd64 installation keeps crashing

2011-08-01 Thread Manish Jain
2) FreeBSD8.0-amd64 ran on my system without problems. Thanks in advance for any help. Meanwhile I am about to start running memtest86+ again to go through 2 Passes. Regards Manish Jain [2]invalid.poin...@gmail.com System Resource Report- Page: 1

RE: scrpt help neded...

2011-07-21 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of per...@pluto.rain.com Sent: Thursday, 21 July 2011 10:08 PM To: kl...@thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scrpt help neded... Gary Kline kl

scrpt help neded...

2011-07-20 Thread Gary Kline
Y'all, Not sure where it was the calendar or something else that suddenly made my tying go South. maybe both. --oh, yes, i still need to buy a new clicky kybd. but that won't help with the script i need. back hen i worked from cray reseach in WI, a shell /bin/sh wizard cooked up what i

Re: scrpt help neded...

2011-07-20 Thread perryh
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I'm looking for a script that takes on arg and lets me vi/vim into the r esults. Let's say that I'm looking for the string 201107 in a slew of files. the script find it with grep---not grep -w, just grep. collect es the filenames and lines (grep -n)

Help needed : My FreeBSD8.2-amd64 installation keeps crashing

2011-07-17 Thread Manish Jain
report below. (N: is an ext2fs slice and X: is the FreeBSD slice). Can somebody suggest what might the problem be ? There are a couple of points of interest : 1) there are no /dev/smbus* nodes 2) FreeBSD8.0-amd64 ran on my system without problems. Thanks in advance for any help

Re: help

2011-07-15 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:25:41 -0300 Mario Lobo articulated: On Thursday 14 July 2011 20:06:06 Erman Zülfükaroğlu wrote: Hi , I try to mount free bsd to Windows sharing folder. mount_smbs -I 10.0.0.x /10.0.0.x/share folder name /mnt/mount folder but i can't. mount_smbfs=unable open

help

2011-07-14 Thread Erman Zülfükaroğlu
Hi , I try to mount free bsd to Windows sharing folder. mount_smbs -I 10.0.0.x /10.0.0.x/share folder name /mnt/mount folder but i can't. mount_smbfs=unable open to connection syserr=connection refused samba installed. Please help , Thanks

Re: help

2011-07-14 Thread Mario Lobo
help , Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Which windows version? Is the folder shared

Re: help

2011-07-14 Thread Polytropon
for accessing is a bad idea, but it's not _my_ idea - I just found this little example shown above in my binary garbage can. :-) See man mount_smbfs for details. Still I hope this gives you some help and further inspirations on what to read. PS. It's useful specifying a subject related to your

Can someone please help me set up my tata-photon (huawei) modem ?

2011-06-28 Thread Manish Jain
site, for that matter), I always get Hostname lookup failure. BTW, I don't have an /etc/resolv.conf. I only configured ppp.conf (please see below for details). Can someone please help me set up the modem so that I can dial out and connect to the internet from my FreeBSD box ? Thanks

Re: Can someone please help me set up my tata-photon (huawei) modem ?

2011-06-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
'ppp -auto pmdemand' followed by 'ping [1]www.google.com' (or yahoo or any other site, for that matter), I always get Hostname lookup failure. BTW, I don't have an /etc/resolv.conf. I only configured ppp.conf (please see below for details). Can someone please help me set up the modem

Re: Can someone please help me set up my tata-photon (huawei) modem ?

2011-06-28 Thread Manish Jain
Hostname lookup failure. BTW, I don't have an /etc/resolv.conf. I only configured ppp.conf (please see below for details). Can someone please help me set up the modem so that I can dial out and connect to the internet from my FreeBSD box ? Thanks in advance. Manish Jain This is my

Re: Can someone please help me set up my tata-photon (huawei) modem ?

2011-06-28 Thread Manish Jain
), I always get Hostname lookup failure. BTW, I don't have an /etc/resolv.conf. I only configured ppp.conf (please see below for details). Can someone please help me set up the modem so that I can dial out and connect to the internet from my FreeBSD box ? Thanks in advance. Manish Jain

(email) server connection problem : Help

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Moellering
mail.domain_3.org ssh: connect to host mail.domain_3.org port 22: Connection refused shell$ My guess is that it might be sshguard but I see nothing in the logfiles. I can ping to the TLD, mx records, etc check out. Everything works except for my .org and .info domain Any help is greatly appreciated. I

Re: (email) server connection problem : Help

2011-06-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 20, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Mark Moellering wrote: I cannot log into the server via either ssl for email or ssh on the two domains that are .org and .info The connection is refused. Here is an example copied from a console; shell$ ssh -l LoginName mail.anadarkohs60.com The authenticity

Re: (email) server connection problem : Help

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Moellering
*.514 *.* Thanks for your help Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: (email) server connection problem : Help -- SOLVED

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Moellering
I want to thank everyone who helped me with this. It turned out that due to an administrative error, our hosting company had the ip addresses I was having trouble with routed to the wrong server. Everything is working now. Thanks again, Mark Moellering

Re: some help still needed....

2011-06-15 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/12/11 1:36 AM, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 06:22:57PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:22:57 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com Subject: Re: some help still needed To: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-13 Thread perryh
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Sun's OpenWin (X11+Motif+DPS extension, IIRC) ... I'm fairly sure OpenWin did not include Motif, at least initially (although it may have been added later -- my experience with OpenWin ended with SunOS 4). olwm had a look and feel all its own.

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg (Polytropon)

2011-06-13 Thread Graham Bentley
When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) Tom's Window Manager? A great little wm :) http://www.cpcnw.co.uk/twm/twmrc.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net To: John or Judy Hixson johnorj...@earthlink.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, June 10, 2011 8:24:23 PM Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg --As of June 10, 2011 4:26:27 PM -0700, John or Judy

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: I have installed and configured Xorg many times on several different machines. When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) [ ... ] twm doesn't stand for Trivial Window Manager-- it stands for Tom's Window Manager because it

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:25:02 -0700, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: I have installed and configured Xorg many times on several different machines. When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) [ ... ] twm doesn't stand

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: twm doesn't stand for Trivial Window Manager-- it stands for Tom's Window Manager because it was written by Tom LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 hardware back around X11R1. Stood for, you mean. It evolved to Tab Window

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Polytropon wrote: twm doesn't stand for Trivial Window Manager-- it stands for Tom's Window Manager because it was written by Tom LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 hardware back around X11R1. Without any further investigation and research, my brain seems to

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com To: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 2:43:16 PM Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg I stand corrected. Tab Window Manager

some help still needed....

2011-06-11 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, This is both an ACK of thanks to the many listmembers who helped with the last problejm , and a request for further help. There are at least a couple thing that plague me when I try to get back to where things were before I _finally_ tracked the named/bin problem to it being a bad switch

Re: some help still needed....

2011-06-11 Thread Ryan Coleman
Always on php the latest.. So php5. On Jun 11, 2011, at 18:11, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, This is both an ACK of thanks to the many listmembers who helped with the last problejm , and a request for further help. There are at least a couple thing that plague me when I

Re: some help still needed....

2011-06-11 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 06:22:57PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:22:57 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com Subject: Re: some help still needed To: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: iPad Mail

Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-10 Thread John or Judy Hixson
not work even when enabled for later Xorg versions. Nor does Ctrl+Alt+Fn.) I'm sure there are logs or files I could supply that would help sort out this problem; if I knew what they were I'd send them. As I don't have email configured of the FreeBSD machine, I'll have to manually copy those lines

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-10 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of June 10, 2011 4:26:27 PM -0700, John or Judy Hixson is alleged to have said: I'm having trouble getting Xorg to run on my just recently installed FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE(i386) system. I'm trying to follow the procedures in Sections 5.3 and 5.4 of the Handbook and can't seem to get startx

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-10 Thread Edward
On 6/11/11 7:26 AM, John or Judy Hixson wrote: I'm having trouble getting Xorg to run on my just recently installed FreeBSD [snip] Would appreciate anyone's suggestions. Thanks. John Hixson If you're trying to try FreeBSD as a Desktop, PC BSD (http://pcbsd.org/) would definitely make your life

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Dave
using: ezjail-admin create hostname.domain.net ip_address_of_jail you can logon to your jail using: ezjail-admin console hostname.domain.net It's quite easy Grtz Jack The problem is Jack, that build / make etc don't run. Just saying compile the complete system is not much help, when

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Dave
/handbook/jails.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-build.html Yes, I have been there many times. It must be me, because I do not find it much if any help. Cant see the wood for all the trees or something. Like I said, the handbook is a good Reference, but not a How To. Plus

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Dave
On 7 Jun 2011 at 15:23, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:53:13 +0100 Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk articulated: There is at the same time, not enough detailed info as to how to, and way too much detail of what there is. The Man pages are good references, but lousy how to's...

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Dave
On 8 Jun 2011 at 0:53, Julian H. Stacey wrote: and AFIK have downloaded all the sys and ports sources.. How do I confirm that, cd /usr/src make clean ; make cleandir ; make clean # gets rid of obj du -s -k 547684 . cant cd to /usr/src/share/info *** Error code 2 Stop in

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/06/2011 13:53, Dave wrote: As Andy and Kaya pointed out, I was missing the Base sources. As at some point, while fighting with the sysinstall menu system, the Base selection got un-selected. The best way to get along with sysinstall is not to use it. Or use it as little as possible.

Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Dave
instructions.. :-) I have even got the Meinberg port of NTP to work on an aged Win2k box, albeit with some help from others. But for the life of me, I can't figure out this BSD Jail stuff, as there is something missing from my understanding of it all. (Most of it I suspect...) None

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Dave wrote: For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how Exactly to create and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on FreeBSD V8.x Did you start with the Handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:53:13 +0100 Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk articulated: There is at the same time, not enough detailed info as to how to, and way too much detail of what there is. The Man pages are good references, but lousy how to's... (Sorry.) Many knowledgeable people consider man

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Jack Raats
- Original Message - From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 8:53 PM Subject: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help? Hi All. Total frustration here. Before I incinerate the luckless box and get my coat. For whatever

RE: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread a . smith
Hi Dave, I didn't find it total plain sailing myself when I did this for the first time a few months back. Ok, so I think you are sitting in /usr/src trying to run the make buildworld right? If you are getting the error you mentioned then I think it means you are missing the Makefile?

RE: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Silva, Thiago Alexandre Vitorino Da
...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of a.sm...@ukgrid.net Sent: terça-feira, 7 de junho de 2011 18:05 To: d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help? Hi Dave, I didn't find it total plain sailing myself when I did this for the first time

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi guys, just as I've been helping out already I did actually have this lot in my Wiki: http://wiki.optiplex-networks.com/xwiki/bin/view/FreeBSD/Installing_FreeBSD [quote] Please take note however that the *Buildworld* environment needs to have *all sources* installed into the system in

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
and AFIK have downloaded all the sys and ports sources.. How do I confirm that, cd /usr/src make clean ; make cleandir ; make clean # gets rid of obj du -s -k 547684 . find . -type d -print | wc 47344734 119623 cd /usr/ports du -s -k 477244 . find .

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Edward
On 6/8/11 2:53 AM, Dave wrote: Hi All. [snip] What I have learnt so far, is that (for the most part) all the BSD's behave and work much the same. Unlike the hoards of different Linux's, all with their different ways of doing things. Spleen vented, anyone want a challenge? I promise not

Re: Urgent: Under attack - need tcpdrop help

2011-05-25 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 5/24/11 10:29 PM, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, One of my FreeBSD servers is currently being attacked (DDOS) and I'm blocking IP addresses in my firewall. However, there are a large number of hung tcp connections and I want them gone. Can anyone help me with a script (command line) that can

Re: Urgent: Under attack - need tcpdrop help

2011-05-25 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 5/24/11 10:53 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, One of my FreeBSD servers is currently being attacked (DDOS) and I'm blocking IP addresses in my firewall. However, there are a large number of hung tcp connections and I

Urgent: Under attack - need tcpdrop help

2011-05-24 Thread Andy Wodfer
Hi, One of my FreeBSD servers is currently being attacked (DDOS) and I'm blocking IP addresses in my firewall. However, there are a large number of hung tcp connections and I want them gone. Can anyone help me with a script (command line) that can read a netstat -n and tcpdrop all IP addresses

Re: Urgent: Under attack - need tcpdrop help

2011-05-24 Thread Andy Wodfer
On 5/24/11 4:29 PM, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, One of my FreeBSD servers is currently being attacked (DDOS) and I'm blocking IP addresses in my firewall. However, there are a large number of hung tcp connections and I want them gone. Can anyone help me with a script (command line) that can

Re: Urgent: Under attack - need tcpdrop help

2011-05-24 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, One of my FreeBSD servers is currently being attacked (DDOS) and I'm blocking IP addresses in my firewall. However, there are a large number of hung tcp connections and I want them gone. I know it's not what you're

Re: Urgent: Under attack - need tcpdrop help

2011-05-24 Thread Greg Larkin
of my FreeBSD servers is currently being attacked (DDOS) and I'm blocking IP addresses in my firewall. However, there are a large number of hung tcp connections and I want them gone. Can anyone help me with a script (command line) that can read a netstat -n and tcpdrop all IP addresses

Re: Urgent: Under attack - need tcpdrop help

2011-05-24 Thread Andy Wodfer
Wodfer wrote: Hi, One of my FreeBSD servers is currently being attacked (DDOS) and I'm blocking IP addresses in my firewall. However, there are a large number of hung tcp connections and I want them gone. Can anyone help me with a script (command line) that can read a netstat -n

RE: Urgent: Under attack - need tcpdrop help

2011-05-24 Thread Gary Gatten
Wodfer Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 5:10 PM To: glar...@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Urgent: Under attack - need tcpdrop help Thanks a lot! That was very helpful! Things have calmed down now. However, I was surprised to see how quick the tcp connections came back in netstat. Have

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-10 Thread perryh
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: ... it was the _initials_ of the name 'visual iinterace to ed(1). To ed(1), or to ex(1)? (ed(1) being the older -- and by a considerable margin the lighter, which is why we even now keep it in /bin where it does not depend on /usr being mounted.)

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 1:06:31 AM Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help On Sun, 8 May 2011 17:17:48 -0700 John or Judy Hixson johnorj...@earthlink.net wrote

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread RW
On Sun, 8 May 2011 22:13:16 -0400 Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: The first need to change is your Windoze vocabulary, so the command line is called a shell. Next you will need to eventually master a text editor. The are literally hundreds of text-editor in the Unix world but there are

Re: Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread John or Judy Hixson
On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:49:55, Noel noeld...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/8/2011 7:17 PM, John or Judy Hixson wrote: (Clip) I'm trying to learn some FreeBSD in anticipation of eventually admining a FBSD server for my church office network. I've installed FreeBSD 7.4 on an old PC and am

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:04:36 +0100, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: There's also ee in the base system, which is good enough for editing configuration files, and is much easier for a casual user. The benefits of vi and emacs are mostly for developers. I'd like to mention the Midnight

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Polytropon
. The sections about how to upgrade your system will help you with that task, and they will also teach you very good knowledge about how things work. Once you've upgraded to the 8- branch, you'll find there aren't much differences that make the book appear being wrong. Do not fear to move

Re: Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Robert Huff
John or Judy Hixson writes: Actually I'm using 7.4 because that's the latest version Lucas' book covers and I learn better with a book in my hand. When I'm ready to actually use FBSD, I'll get going with the latest production release. At the level you're (probably) operating,

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:04:36PM +0100, RW wrote: There's also ee in the base system, which is good enough for editing configuration files, and is much easier for a casual user. The benefits of vi and emacs are mostly for developers. It's not just for software development. I use Vim for

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
There's also ee in the base system, which is good enough for editing configuration files, and is much easier for a casual user. The benefits of vi and emacs are mostly for developers. It's not just for software development.  I use Vim for writing code, but I also use it for writing in

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:44:57PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: There's also ee in the base system, which is good enough for editing configuration files, and is much easier for a casual user. The benefits of vi and emacs are mostly for developers. It's not just for software

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