Re: freeBSD 4.8

2003-09-12 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Hi John, So I am sure the replies you have recieved will help you. I would, however, suggest you post beginner questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will get a more patient hearing there. But before posting, go to docs.freebsd.org and search for their archive of questions and other documentation

Sendmail newbie questions

2003-09-12 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Hello folks, I would like to have a mail server running on my oh-so-humble 866MHz PIII FreeBSD 4.5 machine. I want to use sendmail (it is available as a package). I have a few questions to ask. 1. This is a standalone machine at home, I don't have any network cards. Do I need one? I can connect

Re: Is there cool download manager in FreeBSD?

2003-09-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:08:40AM +0300, Alex Zivenko typed: Hi people! Is there cool download manager in FreeBSD? Like Reget, or Flashget in WIN, Don't disturb me about KGet (he can't to continue download, when connection has broken) fetch(1) works for me. Check out the -a and -r flags

Re: Is there cool download manager in FreeBSD?

2003-09-12 Thread rk47
Alex Zivenko wrote: Hi people! Is there cool download manager in FreeBSD? Like Reget, or Flashget in WIN, Don't disturb me about KGet (he can't to continue download, when connection has broken) Best regards, Alex Zivenko http://www.netgen.com.ua Also look at wget (/usr/ports/ftp/wget), it

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2003-09-12 Thread FRANE Jan
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Re: Joining SAMBA-domain

2003-09-12 Thread Ryan Merrick
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up a SAMBA-PDC for our school's network and find a strange Problem with two Win2k workstations. When I try to join the SAMBA domain I receive an error which says the user account - I am using root - is unknown. I call this strange because other

Re: Retry: Problem with boot/loader I can't seem to solve. Ideas anyone?

2003-09-12 Thread Ryan Merrick
Frank Masolijn wrote: L.S. For about a week now I've been trying unsuccesfully to solve the problem below. My machine was installed with 4.8-Release. The problem started after compiling and installing a new kernel to replace kernel.GENERIC What happens is: The system starts. Detects the AH2940

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2003-09-12 Thread Paul Cocker
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whereis fails

2003-09-12 Thread Paul Cocker
Trying to use the whereis command, e.g. whereis XFree86-4 only to get the error: Warning: Couldn't stat file /usr/local/man! Warning: Couldn't stat file /usr/X11R6/man! XFree86-4: Neither of these directories exist (local, X11R6). When I installed FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE I installed bin, crypto,

Re:

2003-09-12 Thread Guy Van Sanden
We'll try to keep it a secret :-) On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 11:00, Paul Cocker wrote: PLEASE NOTE: ~~~ This e-mail message is confidential and privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient,

RE:

2003-09-12 Thread Paul Cocker
Oops :) -Original Message- From: Guy Van Sanden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 September 2003 10:30 To: Paul Cocker Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: We'll try to keep it a secret :-) On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 11:00, Paul Cocker wrote: PLEASE NOTE: ~~~ This e-mail message

Re: nis security

2003-09-12 Thread Guy Van Sanden
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 02:15, Tillman Hodgson wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:02:06PM -0500, Bruce Pea wrote: xnip I'm a bit biased, however: I use NIS with Kerberos and think it's the cats pajamas :-) Hey Tilman, s/l/ll/ :-) This sounds exactly like what we are looking

Re: Software patents

2003-09-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:58:23PM -0700, Kris Kennaway typed: On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:53:37AM +0200, Mickael Suzenne wrote: Hi the team ! I was wondering why you haven't placed any advert to protest against software patents european directive ? Nor you, neither Net team, neither

Re: Software patents

2003-09-12 Thread Todd Stephens
On Friday 12 September 2003 06:05 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: I think he was talking about putting a protest on the freebsd website, like some linux distributions have done (eg http://www.debian.org) This would be free, wouldn't it ? A large part of the reason of why I switched to FreeBSD from

Re: whereis fails

2003-09-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 10:10:22AM +0100, Paul Cocker wrote: Trying to use the whereis command, e.g. whereis XFree86-4 only to get the error: Warning: Couldn't stat file /usr/local/man! Warning: Couldn't stat file /usr/X11R6/man! XFree86-4: Neither of these directories exist (local,

New Locale Creation

2003-09-12 Thread Progga
I am interested to create file(s) for a new locale (bn_BD.UTF-8). Can someone please tell me which list (or whom) should I contact. It looks like FreeBSD doesn't use the 'localdef' utility to compile(?) locale files and hence I havn't found any doc on creating locale file(s). The man pages of

color in Xwindows

2003-09-12 Thread Gerald S Stoller
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 I am trying to put color in some of my messages (I am using Xwindows ). One place where I found mention of color is in the manual page of the ls

FW: How can I install FreeBSD on my server?

2003-09-12 Thread Thapavee Chatchavalchotikul (TCS)
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help

2003-09-12 Thread deepak patil
Dear sir/ Madam, We are having Server with FreeBSD 4.6.2 - Release. I would like to know Some basic paths Commands to start, stop the apache, sendmail , ftpd, mysqld services. How or Where Iwill find these services means what is the path for those. Please help me in this issue. Thanks

ports/53019 still open

2003-09-12 Thread Andreas Stegmaier
Hello, I write Problem Report ports/53019 which include a new port of kvirc3, which is a irc client. My question is why is this port not processed. Is there somthing wrong with it? kind regards A. Stegmaier ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: MAIL FOLDER - DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Hovey
Its created by UW's imap/pop stuff - if you actually SEE it then you must be also using something else from time to time to access your mail folder. On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, David Banning wrote: I get the following message in my mailbox from time to time. Is it really necessary to keep it there?

Resizing FreeBSD partitions/filesystems

2003-09-12 Thread
I have HD splited as folows: [FAT32] [--free-400M--] [FreeBSD] On other hand, FreeBSD partition contains next [SWAP] [/tmp] [/var] [/] (/ contains /usr) I need to add those 400M to / filesystem. The best way, I think, is to move FreeBSD partition to the blank 400M block start,

Re: help

2003-09-12 Thread Joseph Begumisa
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, deepak patil wrote: Dear sir/ Madam, We are having Server with FreeBSD 4.6.2 - Release. I would like to know Some basic paths Commands to start, stop the apache, sendmail , ftpd, mysqld services. How or Where Iwill find these services means what is the path for those.

passwort create with perl

2003-09-12 Thread thomas may
Hi, iam searching for a perl programm to create an freebsd user account password, i dont want to change a password, i want to see it on the command line, to copy and paste it into another application. Has anyone an idea ? thanx thomas ___ [EMAIL

Re: help

2003-09-12 Thread Kliment Andreev
We are having Server with FreeBSD 4.6.2 - Release. I would like to know Some basic paths Commands to start, stop the apache, sendmail , ftpd, mysqld services. How or Where Iwill find these services means what is the path for those. Please help me in this issue. If they were installed from the

Sendmail Spam Block question.

2003-09-12 Thread Micheal Patterson
I'm getting numerous spam messages that are coming in with headers such as: snip Received: from 67.66.xxx.x. ([220.201.80.37]) Where 67.66.xxx.x is the actual Ip of my sendmail server and the actual sending host is 220.201.80.37. Is there any way to block this type of spam other than blocking

Re: nis security

2003-09-12 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:35:16AM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 02:15, Tillman Hodgson wrote: The rough instructions are fairly simple: * Set up Kerberos and ensure you have a working realm * Set up NIS, but set all the passwd fields to something that doesn't

Re: Is there cool download manager in FreeBSD?

2003-09-12 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 01:08, Alex Zivenko wrote: Hi people! Is there cool download manager in FreeBSD? Like Reget, or Flashget in WIN, Don't disturb me about KGet (he can't to continue download, when connection has broken) Have you tried D4X? http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/

Please Verify My Routing Setup is Correct

2003-09-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a box running 4.8 that is my gateway. I've used this box with 2 NICs, one to my internal LAN and one to the Internet, and it works well. Now I've added a third NIC and attached a Netgear wireless/ethernet bridge (ME101) which I want to use to connect to a wireless access point (my

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] J 1.) Where is my Free memory going? given what you say custom-python-qmail-scanner-clamd-qmail-queue This whole scenario is very memory intensive. First you have each email pythonized and then qmail-scanner is *very* memory intensive, as it has initially

Sound Device Toruble

2003-09-12 Thread admin
I have a problem with my Toshiba Satellite 2105 CDS laptop I compiled the kernel with device pcm option, and I can see the card in dmesg, but when I'm trying to play smth to /dev/dsp0 the system is not respondig till hard-reboot. There is an ESS Maestro-2E Soundcard, and it works fine under

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: 1.) Where is my Free memory going? I can't account for it in the SIZE and RES columns of the various processes. These are relatively constant. Disk cache. I thought it might be something like that. My large test

Dummynet Pipes

2003-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
I've got a question about dummynet pipes, basically I've installed two rules per user to control their traffic flow: add 150 pipe 15 ip from 78.77.76.21 to any out pipe 15 config bw 512Kbit/s queue 10 add 160 pipe 16 ip from any to 78.77.76.21 in pipe 16 config bw 512Kbit/s queue 10 However,

Re: Quantum DLT4000 on 4.5-R: Device busy

2003-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Greetings, (Apologies in advance if this is not the correct list for this question) I am attemping to get a new tape drive (Quantum DLT4000, external) working on my FreeBSD (4.5-R, i386) machine. The kernel detects the drive during boot: ahc0: Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter port

Re: whereis fails

2003-09-12 Thread peter lageotakes
I am not 100 percent sure but if memory serves; the man pages are a port by themselves (for xfree), at which point they get installed separately. Those ports should be on disc 1. You can use /stand/sysintall to get back into those ports. My second thought is building/rebuilding the locate

Where can I find a log file for this ... ?

2003-09-12 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi, one FreeBSD machine at work froze, saying something about some kind of panic. I simply rebooted it, because I had no time then to have a close look at it. Is there some kind of log file where I could see this message again? Regards, Uli. +---+ |

Re: user-ppp faster then pppd ?

2003-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:37:59AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference is too small to be meaningful. when you have 56k modem and ~4.5KB throughput 0.5KB can make a big difference I wonder if we're thinking of the same numbers. I've seen 56k modems run at 14,000 bps on

Re: ports/53019 still open

2003-09-12 Thread Tuc
Hello, I write Problem Report ports/53019 which include a new port of kvirc3, which is a irc client. My question is why is this port not processed. Is there somthing wrong with it? I use it myself, unpatched but its still in beta and not released, no? I just submitted a

Re: freeBSD 4.8

2003-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am a very-very new LINUX/UNIX user. After being convinced by friends that it is far better and stablethan windows architechture. So I bought the LINUX Format magazine because it offered a full OS called FREEBSD 4.8 I tried to install it and after a few a attempts I managed to

RUS, 4.8

2003-09-12 Thread Alex Zivenko
Hallo all! I am russian, but I have FreeBSD 4.8 installed with onlu eng support. How can I add ru support in my X (I am using KDE), and in console? Thank's ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Inquiry Into Japanese-English Translation Opportunities

2003-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
Good afternoon, I recently visited your website and was wondering if you might have occasional need of assistance. I am a Japanese-English interpreter/translator based in Las Vegas, NV. I am a court experienced interpreter with 30 years legal as well as technical translation

RE: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?

2003-09-12 Thread John Straiton
The first step would be to try to quantify the performance difference in serving the actual web pages. Find a single page that you think is slow on the production system and that can be accessed without having to be part of a session, and quantify the performance difference for that page.

Re: help

2003-09-12 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
deepak patil wrote: Dear sir/ Madam, We are having Server with FreeBSD 4.6.2 - Release. I would like to know Some basic paths Commands to start, stop the apache, sendmail , ftpd, mysqld services. How or Where Iwill find these services means what is the path for those. Please help me in this

Re: Sound Device Toruble

2003-09-12 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with my Toshiba Satellite 2105 CDS laptop I compiled the kernel with device pcm option, and I can see the card in dmesg, but when I'm trying to play smth to /dev/dsp0 the system is not respondig till hard-reboot. There is an ESS Maestro-2E Soundcard, and

Samba domain and guest users - security advice needed

2003-09-12 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi, I set up a FreeBSD/Samba server for our schools network and I think we need some kind of guest accounts, because students who don't visit one of our regular computer courses frequently forget their usernames or passwords. What would be the best way to achieve this? I could think of three

Re: color in Xwindows

2003-09-12 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:03:19PM -0400, Gerald S Stoller wrote: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 I am trying to put color in some of my messages (I am using Xwindows ). One

built-in ftpd and uploaded file permissions

2003-09-12 Thread Sergei Vyshenski
Dear experts, Using built-in ftpd, is it possible to control permissions of uploaded files for user anonymous? Files, uploaded by anonymous, have permissions 644 irrespective of mask values requested by 1) option -u for ftpd, and 2) from file login.conf I would prefer to have 660 for uploaded

GTK2 build error

2003-09-12 Thread Joseph Dunn
Hi all, I'm trying to build GAIM, and it depends on GTK2. Everything works up to the point where is tries to build scalable fonts for pango, and then the Makefile dies. Anyone have any ideas on what's causing this? I'm using the latest ports, AFAIK, just checked out yesterday with CVS. The

Re: passwort create with perl

2003-09-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:22:11PM +0200, thomas may wrote: iam searching for a perl programm to create an freebsd user account password, i dont want to change a password, i want to see it on the command line, to copy and paste it into another application. You want to input the password to

Re: Long-running connections stop working through a FreeBSD 5.1R firewall/NAT box...

2003-09-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Douglas Carmichael wrote: HTTP connections across the firewall work fine (ie. web browsing) and I can maintain a connection to a streaming radio station just fine from my PowerBook inside the firewall, but AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo Messenger seem to stay up for a while and then just unexpectedly

Re: Sendmail Spam Block question.

2003-09-12 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 7:58 AM Subject: Sendmail Spam Block question. I'm getting numerous spam messages that are coming in with headers such as: snip Received: from 67.66.xxx.x.

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 12), Jesse Guardiani said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: 2.) What, exactly, is RES? `man top` describes it as this: RES is the current amount of resident memory, but does that mean RES is included in SIZE? Or

Mac OS 9.2 won't start

2003-09-12 Thread lawrence lee
Hi. My Mac OS starts but the cursur is stuck and the system is frozen, even after I restart the computer over and over. Does anyone have any idea to fix this??? I hope someone will answer my question soon... thank you. (the mouse is new so it is not a battery probelm)

*how to obtain a better result from this list*

2003-09-12 Thread Paredes Sánchez Martín A.
Hi: I am looking for a mail that says how to obtain a better result from this list. Does someone can send to me? maps ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Multimedia type of keybord....

2003-09-12 Thread Denis
Hi! Has KDE support for multimedia keyboards I have many externel buttons on my keybord such as mute, volume, play/stop/pause /etc. How I can to use it In FreeBSD KDE? -- Best Regards, Denis. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: 1.) Where is my Free memory going? I can't account for it in the SIZE and RES columns of the various processes. These are relatively constant. Disk cache. I

Re: *how to obtain a better result from this list*

2003-09-12 Thread David Landgren
Paredes Sánchez Martín A. wrote: Hi: I am looking for a mail that says how to obtain a better result from this list. Does someone can send to me? I forwarded How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions, so there's no need to spam him with 10 copies :) David

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 12), Jesse Guardiani said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: 2.) What, exactly, is RES? `man top` describes it as this: RES is the current amount of resident memory, but does that mean RES is

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 12), Jesse Guardiani said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 12), Jesse Guardiani said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: 2.) What, exactly, is RES? `man top` describes it as this: RES is the current

Script doesn't complete via Cron

2003-09-12 Thread Gerard Samuel
Script - #!/bin/sh # # To roll up a zip file of source code # date=`date '+%Y-%m-%d'` cd ~/temp rm -rf foo_dev foo.zip export CVS_RSH=ssh export CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/xxx/yyy/zzz cvs -Q export -D $date -d foo_dev foo zip -q -r foo foo_dev scp -q foo.zip server_name: rm -rf

Re: Script doesn't complete via Cron

2003-09-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
- Original Message - From: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 1:26 PM Subject: Script doesn't complete via Cron When I execute the script by hand, it completes without any problems. When I let a cronjob handle it,

Re: Script doesn't complete via Cron

2003-09-12 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 14:26 12.09.2003 -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote: ... scp -q foo.zip server_name: rm -rf foo_dev foo.zip -- Cron job - -- # export, zip up and scp foo source to server_name 17 14 * * * /home/bar/bin/export-foo 2 /dev/null /dev/null -- When I execute the

How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Vincent Zee
Hello, How do I add a disk containing data to a new system without erasing that data. I searched the mailinglist and the documentation but could not find information for this scenario. The system in question is running 4.8 The disk is coming from a 5.1 system and uses ufs with softupdates.

Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Kliment Andreev
Hello, How do I add a disk containing data to a new system without erasing that data. Check dmesg output to see the device name. Then try to mount that hard disk. If everything went fine, you might want to mount that HDD on every boot so check /etc/fstab.

yet another newbie ppp/modem question

2003-09-12 Thread Alex
I'm having some trouble getting my modem up and running on FreeBSD 4.8. A search through the mailing list archives shows that many of the problems I've been wrestling with seem to have cropped up before, yet I haven't been able to follow any of the discussion to a workable answer. My modem is

Re: Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Vincent Zee
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:14:46 +0200, Vincent Zee wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:06:37 -0400, Kliment Andreev wrote: Hello, How do I add a disk containing data to a new system without erasing that data. Check dmesg output to see the device name. Then try to mount that hard disk. If

Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Veritas
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:16:45 +0200 Vincent Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In the dmesg it comes up as ad5 but when I mount it, it can't find the device. mount ad5 /music2 mount: ad5: No such file or directory Try it as /dev/ad5 instead.

Re: Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
In the dmesg it comes up as ad5 but when I mount it, it can't find the device. mount ad5 /music2 mount: ad5: No such file or directory How many partitions were on the old drive? You might want to try # mount /dev/ad5s1x /music2 (where x == a,c,e,f or g, depending on the number of

Re: Mac OS 9.2 won't start

2003-09-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:45:28AM -0700, lawrence lee wrote: Hi. My Mac OS starts but the cursur is stuck and the system is frozen, even after I restart the computer over and over. Does anyone have any idea to fix this??? I hope someone will answer my question soon... thank you. (the mouse

Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Vincent Zee
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:19:42 -0400, Veritas wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:16:45 +0200 Vincent Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In the dmesg it comes up as ad5 but when I mount it, it can't find the device. mount ad5 /music2 mount: ad5: No such file or directory Try it as

Re: Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Vincent Zee
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:21:04 -0400 (EDT), Steve Bertrand wrote: In the dmesg it comes up as ad5 but when I mount it, it can't find the device. mount ad5 /music2 mount: ad5: No such file or directory How many partitions were on the old drive? You might want to try # mount

Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Bob Collins
At 03:28 PM 9/12/2003, Vincent Zee wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:19:42 -0400, Veritas wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:16:45 +0200 Vincent Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In the dmesg it comes up as ad5 but when I mount it, it can't find the device. mount ad5 /music2 mount: ad5: No

Re: Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
just the one partition. I tried: /dev/ad5 /dev/ad5s1 /dev/ad5s1a with the same response incorrect super block What is the output from: # disklabel -r ad5 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Vincent Zee
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:36:34 -0400 (EDT), Steve Bertrand wrote: just the one partition. I tried: /dev/ad5 /dev/ad5s1 /dev/ad5s1a with the same response incorrect super block What is the output from: # disklabel -r ad5 disklabel -r ad5 # /dev/ad5c: type: ESDI disk: ad5s1 label:

Re: Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 2401074270unused0 0# (Cyl.0 - 14945*) d: 24010742704.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 # (Cyl.0 - 14945*) super block size 0 Ok, try # mount /dev/ad5s1d /music2

56k pccard modem connect speed?

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, I use: ppp -auto MyProvider to connect to the internet with my 56k pccard. How do I glean the connection speed? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f)

Re: RUS, 4.8

2003-09-12 Thread Daniela
On Friday 12 September 2003 14:34, Alex Zivenko wrote: Hallo all! I am russian, but I have FreeBSD 4.8 installed with onlu eng support. How can I add ru support in my X (I am using KDE), and in console? Thank's I think you need to modify the LANG environment variable in your .cshrc (or

Re: Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Vincent Zee
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:42:54 -0400 (EDT), Steve Bertrand wrote: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 2401074270unused0 0# (Cyl.0 - 14945*) d: 24010742704.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 # (Cyl.0 -

max physical memory per process?

2003-09-12 Thread Steven G. Kargl
Assuming that a user has the proper resource limits set and assuming that the system has sufficient physical memory, what is the maximum amount of physical memory that a process can allocate? In particular, if I have a Tyan K8W (dual opteron platform) with 16 GB of memory, can my numerical

Re: max physical memory per process?

2003-09-12 Thread Charles Swiger
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 04:19 PM, Steven G. Kargl wrote: Assuming that a user has the proper resource limits set and assuming that the system has sufficient physical memory, what is the maximum amount of physical memory that a process can allocate? In particular, if I have a Tyan K8W

Securing the FreeBSD Console by removing OS Version

2003-09-12 Thread Ray Seals
I don't want the console to display the OS version number. I have removed the %h variable from gettytab for my remote login users. Where can I remove this info from the Console screen? -- Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

nforce 2 drivers aren't working

2003-09-12 Thread jason
Has anyone with a nforce2 board got the agp working? I have been trying on my machine with the new driver /usr/src/sys/pci/agp_nvidia.c. When I load it as a module or compile it in I have problems. The cml is fine. When I start gnome or X the system freezes with a black screen, there is

RE: 56k pccard modem connect speed?

2003-09-12 Thread fbsd_user
Issue this command from console after modem connection is complete Cat /var/log/ppp.log | grep CONNECT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jesse Guardiani Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 56k pccard modem

Re: nforce 2 drivers aren't working

2003-09-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:41:05PM -0400, jason wrote: Has anyone with a nforce2 board got the agp working? This driver is supported by nvidia, not FreeBSD. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Trying to secure PostgreSQL

2003-09-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm running PostgreSQL 7.3 on a FreeBSD 5.1 server. The databases are working well and it's humming along nicely, but I really want to secure it. In particular, my pg_hba.conf looks like: local all pgsql trust hostall all

Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Dan Strick
How do I add a disk containing data to a new system without erasing that data. I searched the mailinglist and the documentation but could not find information for this scenario. The system in question is running 4.8 The disk is coming from a 5.1 system and uses ufs with softupdates. The

Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vincent Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, How do I add a disk containing data to a new system without erasing that data. I searched the mailinglist and the documentation but could not find information for this scenario. The system in question is running 4.8 The disk is coming

Re: Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Vincent Zee
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:04:22 -0700 (PDT), Dan Strick wrote: How do I add a disk containing data to a new system without erasing that data. I searched the mailinglist and the documentation but could not find information for this scenario. The system in question is running 4.8

RE: 56k pccard modem connect speed?

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
fbsd_user wrote: Issue this command from console after modem connection is complete Cat /var/log/ppp.log | grep CONNECT Sweet. I must have missed that line in all the noise. Thanks. Another question: I know that WingNET's 3com Total Control Chassis (modem terminal server) will modulate

Re: Software patents

2003-09-12 Thread Jens Rehsack
Todd Stephens wrote: On Friday 12 September 2003 06:05 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: I think he was talking about putting a protest on the freebsd website, like some linux distributions have done (eg http://www.debian.org) This would be free, wouldn't it ? A large part of the reason of why I

Re: Trying to secure PostgreSQL

2003-09-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 12 September 2003 03:59 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm running PostgreSQL 7.3 on a FreeBSD 5.1 server. The databases are working well and it's humming along nicely, but I really want to secure it. In particular, my pg_hba.conf looks like: local all pgsql

RE: Script doesn't complete via Cron

2003-09-12 Thread Jim
I'm extremely new to scripted scp, so this may be idiotic: Assuming you are using rsa or dsa public key authentication for the transfer, you need to make sure the crontab was setup from the account of the authenticated user. Setting it up under root's crontab won't work - the script will request

Re: Script doesn't complete via Cron

2003-09-12 Thread Gerard Samuel
Ok, I figured out the problem. The step that creates the zip file, wasn't creating the zip file, because, I wasn't using the full path to the zip command. Since there was no files to scp, the script ended. Once I started using /usr/local/bin/zip, things started working correctly with cron.

Re: Trying to secure PostgreSQL

2003-09-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-12T21:39:14Z, Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're looking for something difficult when the easier answer is correct. As root, set pgsql's password by executing: passwd pgsql What would that buy me? After doing that, I can still access any database on the system

Re: RUS, 4.8

2003-09-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:43:21PM +, Daniela wrote: On Friday 12 September 2003 14:34, Alex Zivenko wrote: Hallo all! I am russian, but I have FreeBSD 4.8 installed with onlu eng support. How can I add ru support in my X (I am using KDE), and in console? Thank's I think you need to

Re: max physical memory per process?

2003-09-12 Thread Steven G. Kargl
Charles Swiger wrote: On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 04:19 PM, Steven G. Kargl wrote: Assuming that a user has the proper resource limits set and assuming that the system has sufficient physical memory, what is the maximum amount of physical memory that a process can allocate? In

Re: Re: How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

2003-09-12 Thread Vincent Zee
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:12:07 +0200, Vincent Zee wrote: How do I add a disk containing data to a new system without erasing that data. I searched the mailinglist and the documentation but could not find information for this scenario. The system in question is running 4.8

Re: Map Windows Key under syscons

2003-09-12 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: Hi I would like to be able to use the Windows Key as Meta while using syscons - it much easier to reach then escape. I have found out with xev that the scancode of this key is 115. After this I opened the German-Iso-Keymap with an editor

ppp -auto dials immediately? (already tried the usual things)

2003-09-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi - I'm setting up ppp for the first time and it works with one exception. It always dials immediately. I've done the usual things and stopped all the processes, etc... What's weird is that logging seems to indicate that this is causing it: tun0: TCP/IP: OUT 0:

Re: Securing the FreeBSD Console by removing OS Version

2003-09-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:44:14PM -0500, Ray Seals wrote: I don't want the console to display the OS version number. I have removed the %h variable from gettytab for my remote login users. Where can I remove this info from the Console screen? Edit /etc/motd ? If you've got an /etc/issue

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