thread safety and host lookups

2003-10-09 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey folks. I'm working on a port from Solaris to FreeBSD. For the most part, things are pretty straightforward, but I can't seem to find the details on thread safety for some system calls. gethostbyname_r() is the thread safe call that replaces gethostbyname() on Solaris. Is there a similar alt

uucp + email...

2003-10-09 Thread Chris P
Hello, Has anyone had any experience with getting email that has been stored on a remote machine via uucp? I have a friend who held my email while my server is down. He cannot re-que it up, so I need to find a way to uucp down load it via the net. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.. C

uucp + email...

2003-10-09 Thread Chris P
Hello, Has anyone had any experience with getting email that has been stored on a remote machine via uucp? I have a friend who held my email while my server is down. He cannot re-que it up, so I need to find a way to uucp down load it via the net. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.. C.

uucp + email...

2003-10-09 Thread Chris P
Hello, Has anyone had any experience with getting email that has been stored on a remote machine via uucp? I have a friend who held my email while my server is down. He cannot re-que it up, so I need to find a way to uucp down load it via the net. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.. C.

Re: uucp + email...

2003-10-09 Thread Tuc
> Has anyone had any experience with getting email that has been stored on > a remote machine via uucp? I have a friend who held my email while my > server is down. He cannot re-que it up, so I need to find a way to uucp > down load it via the net. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.. >

XFree86 and Cirrus 5446

2003-10-09 Thread Eduardo Huertas
Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 4.8 Release on a Gateway 2000 Pentium 120 with 64 MB and cirrus 5446 video card. I've been trying to configure X with no luck. I used xf86config and used the cirrus 544x drive everything seems OK except that when the server starts it shows two cursors and part of the

Re: uucp + email...

2003-10-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 7 October 2003 at 20:31:07 -0700, Chris P wrote: On Wednesday, 8 October 2003 at 10:25:52 -0700, Chris P wrote: On Wednesday, 8 October 2003 at 12:51:23 -0700, Chris P wrote: Once is enough. Sending multiple messages is a good way to be ignored or removed from the mailing list. Se

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > Anyway, nullfs is great for "remounting" > > parts of the file system. > > Yeah, right now I'm using NFS mounts, which is a bit ugly, to say the > least. Since I had troubles with union I steered clear of nullfs, since > the same ``slippery dog'' wa

Re: uucp + email...

2003-10-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003, Tuc wrote: >> Has anyone had any experience with getting email that has been stored on >> a remote machine via uucp? I have a friend who held my email while my >> server is down. He cannot re-que it up, so I need to find a way to uucp >> down load it via the net. Any hel

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:17:12PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > > > Anyway, nullfs is great for "remounting" > > > parts of the file system. > > > > Yeah, right now I'm using NFS mounts, which is a bit ugly, to say the > > least. Since I had trou

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:17:12PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > > > > > Anyway, nullfs is great for "remounting" > > > > parts of the file system. > > > > > > Yeah, right now I'm using NFS mounts, w

Re: Errors with smbstatus, Samba 3.0.0b3

2003-10-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:45:16PM -0700, Rick Duvall wrote: > I don't get this error in Linux, but I do when I run it on FreeBSD. Try asking the samba people, since smbstatus is not part of FreeBSD. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Membership disabled?

2003-10-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 03:56:47PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > I received the following from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > earlier today: > > -- > Your membership in the mailing list freebsd-questions has been > disabled due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you > was da

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:31:05PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > Just causing system reboots. Randomly. > > > > Also, for some reason it doesn't seem to propogate permissions, which > > is annoying for using them as the bases for jails. > > syst

change the mouse (from PS to USB)

2003-10-09 Thread MPAREDES
Hi: FreeBSD 4.8 I had a problem with my mouse in the PS port so I need to configure a mouse in the USB port. In sysinstall I can't specify a USB port, how can I enable. maps ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: XFree86 and Cirrus 5446

2003-10-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:57:33PM -0500, Eduardo Huertas wrote: > Where can I look for some documentation for this > driver to operate decently? Visit www.xfree86.org for XFree86 support. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: thread safety and host lookups

2003-10-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 07:31:05PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Hey folks. I'm working on a port from Solaris to FreeBSD. For the > most part, things are pretty straightforward, but I can't seem to find > the details on thread safety for some system calls. > > gethostbyname_r() is the thread sa

Re: uucp + email...

2003-10-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003, Chris P wrote: >Hello, > ... >> My main question is whether the mail got dumped out of the queue on the >> remote uucp host or on his machine locally? The uuclean routines on most >> uucp hosts nukes expired messages completely, and doesn't move it to >> another directory whe

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:00:02PM -0400, Kenny Freeman wrote: > > I've been reading about unionfs and nullfs (well, more skim reading > > really; I'm not FS guru, which is why I'm asking here) and one of these > > sounds like it could be the idea solution. At first glance I'd say that > > unio

Re: Crash under disk writes (vinum?)

2003-10-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 9 October 2003 at 13:28:48 +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running 5.1-RELEASE (latest patch version) on a machine with a > couple of disks set up in a concatenated vinum-type config. > > Periodically if I do some ``heavy'' writes to the concatenated disk it > causes the

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
> 5.1-RELEASE, latest patches. I think this might be the problem. I'm > having vinum issues too. 'K, haven't started to play with 5.1 yet, since its still label'd as "not production quality" ... or at least it was when I asked before installing my last server a month or so ago ... > > permissi

Re: floppy

2003-10-09 Thread Lee Harr
> I am trying to mount a floppy. Don't know what is it that I do wrong, > cause it doens't work... I have asked for help before, even here, but the > problem still is not solved :( . > Do not mount a DOS floppy. Use mtools instead. /usr/ports/emulators/mtools ___

RE: Mouse

2003-10-09 Thread Gil Agno Virtucio
I also had a simmilar problem before. I also tried using /dev/sysmouse but in my case it also didn't work. Have you tried looking at the output of "dmesg -a"? Try to look for the exact name of the device mine was assigned to /dev/psm0 try using that instead of /dev/sysmouse. I also tried to dis

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:00:02PM -0400, Kenny Freeman wrote: > > > > I've been reading about unionfs and nullfs (well, more skim reading > > > really; I'm not FS guru, which is why I'm asking here) and one of these > > > sounds like it could be the

Re: floppy

2003-10-09 Thread Technical Director
Hello, You can mount MS-DOS floppies by doing: mkdir /floppya mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /floppya df -k <-- Should show your mounted floppy. If you have a problem you can check and see if: options MSDOSFS in your kernel configuration file. R. On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Lee Harr wrote: > > I am tr

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:55:26PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:00:02PM -0400, Kenny Freeman wrote: > > > > > > I've been reading about unionfs and nullfs (well, more skim reading > > > > really; I'm not FS guru,

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:19:46PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > If I use unionfs as the ``base'' for the jail then every directory seems > > to be automagically owned by the person that mounted it (i.e. root). > > This causes me problems for stuff like mailspool, etc. I think this is > > th

ipfilter/ipnat weirdness

2003-10-09 Thread J. Seth Henry
Hello all, I could use a bit of help with a networking problem. I am trying to replace a dying Netgear RT314 with a FreeBSD 4.8-REL system configured as an Internet gateway. My network is as such: \ | /-

Ongoing USB messages in /var/log/messages

2003-10-09 Thread Chris
How might I stop this? By stopping USBd support? Some facts, 4.8-STABLE, Athlon XP +2100, 1 gig ram > tail -f /var/log/messages Oct 9 22:33:08 racerx /kernel: usb0: scheduling overrun Oct 9 22:33:08 racerx /kernel: usb0: scheduling overrun -- Best regards, Chris __

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Yes, it's a good thing that some developers are finally working on > fixing some of the problems, but the fact remains that nullfs/unionfs > *are not known to work in all situations* (indeed, I was able to trigger > unionfs bugs within a few minutes of t

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:19:46PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > If I use unionfs as the ``base'' for the jail then every directory seems > > > to be automagically owned by the person that mounted it (i.e. root). > > > This causes me problems f

Re: Jail FS questions. (Columbus ref)

2003-10-09 Thread Pat Lashley
--On Thursday, October 09, 2003 22:55:26 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You know, its this attitude that would have kept Christopher Columbus in Europe ... all the "big scary warnings" said that the world was flat back then, no? No, not at all. Because by the time of Columbu

Ubsa, Ucom and serial problems

2003-10-09 Thread Jeffrey Lang
I have a FreeBSD-5.1 Stable system running on an Intel motherboard, P4, 2.4Ghz, 1G ram. I'm trying to attach my APC UPS Backup Pro 1000 and 1100 to this system to monitor them. One is attached to the serial port and the other a Belkin F5U103 USB to serial adaptor. I'm using the latest version of N

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:48:49AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:19:46PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > > If I use unionfs as the ``base'' for the jail then every directory seems > > > > to be automagical

Re: Ongoing USB messages in /var/log/messages

2003-10-09 Thread Chris
On Thursday 09 October 2003 10:36 pm, Chris wrote: > How might I stop this? By stopping USBd support? > Some facts, 4.8-STABLE, Athlon XP +2100, 1 gig ram > > > tail -f /var/log/messages > > Oct 9 22:33:08 racerx /kernel: usb0: scheduling overrun > Oct 9 22:33:08 racerx /kernel: usb0: scheduling

Re: Jail FS questions.

2003-10-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:46:18AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Yes, it's a good thing that some developers are finally working on > > fixing some of the problems, but the fact remains that nullfs/unionfs > > *are not known to work in all situa

Re: How to find out the type of CD in burner from script ?

2003-10-09 Thread aleksandr . derevianko
No, i can't use cdrecord. It is for SCSI CD-writers, and i have ATAPI. Best regards, Alexander Shantanoo Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09.10.2003 17:34:03 To: Aleksandr Derevianko/RU/Transport/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Security Level:? Internal Subject: Re: How

Re: 4.8-RELEASE-p13 -and- ntpd

2003-10-09 Thread nw1
After reading further, we've retired ntpdate from this network. Our issue may have been the order in which we ran ntpdate and xntpd within /etc/rc.conf ; subsequently (post reboot) immediately trying to run 'ntpdate xxx.xxx.x.x' would fail (as we posted on http://69.3.136.141/freebsd/ntpd/ntpd_is

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