The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-10-26 - 2003-11-15

2003-11-16 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list

Re: how to map pfkeys to screen -r cmds

2003-11-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:32, Marty Landman wrote: At 07:15 PM 11/15/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote: On my 4.7-STABLE machine I believe the default number of virtual consoles is 16 with the first 12 having by default /dev entries /dev/ttyv0 to /dev/ttyvb; certainly not /dev/stty0 ... and are selectable

Re: how to map pfkeys to screen -r cmds

2003-11-16 Thread Jez Hancock
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:04:18PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Thought I recently read something in the Handbook about being able to switch screens easily using the pfkeys but didn't see the how of it. Today learned the screen cmd following a tip from the fbds Diary but the usefulness would

Re: how to map pfkeys to screen -r cmds

2003-11-16 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 09:59:43AM +, Jez Hancock wrote: All of this is in the manual for screen, have a look. There's also a good site for screen hosted by sven guckes which has some ok stuff on it: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/screen/ This should be:

freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2003-11-16 Thread chrismo
I has a G3 iMac that has broken CD-Rom drive, can it be reformated comppletely from the web? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2003-11-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:40:25AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I has a G3 iMac that has broken CD-Rom drive, can it be reformated comppletely from the web? Ask on a Mac list. kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2003-11-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:40:25AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I has a G3 iMac that has broken CD-Rom drive, can it be reformated comppletely from the web? Not using FreeBSD it can't. FreeBSD on PPC processors is under development, but by no means ready for anyone to actually use yet.

seperating SQL and application server?

2003-11-16 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I am running apache + php + mysql on an PIII 800MHz server. Phpgroupware webpages takes several seconds to show up on a LAN (15 seconds at max). I mean each webpage takes several seconds to show up, even if I am the only user to access the server, and the server have no other works to

RE;ORDER

2003-11-16 Thread Ogunbanjo Akeem
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Re: failed X11 install, now what?

2003-11-16 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:46:14PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 01:55 PM 11/15/2003, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:44:43AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: make all install clean Did you execute this in /usr/ports? No, I forgot to say first cd'd to the X11/XFree86-4

Re: how to map pfkeys to screen -r cmds

2003-11-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 04:13 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote: I think you may have misunderstood the nature of the virtual terminals. What do you hope to do through ssh. The virtual terminal is relavent only to the local machine -- if pretends that there are 16 (or however many are set up) separate screens and

RE: seperating SQL and application server?

2003-11-16 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Could you see any bottleneck on CPU or I/0 at this slow response ?!! You can see it when you run wmstat for example freebsd# vmstat 10 procs memory pagedisks faults cpu r b w avmfre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 ac0 in sy cs us sy id 1 0 0

Re: Auto thumbnail/index.html generation program in ports?

2003-11-16 Thread Steve D
picfolio -- an image gallery generator To add to my previous (a couple weeks ago) response to a question about programs that might generate thumbnail-sized images and html galleries from directories of images, there is a great program called picfolio that does not appear within the FreeBSD

Re: how to map pfkeys to screen -r cmds

2003-11-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:28, Marty Landman wrote: At 04:13 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote: I think you may have misunderstood the nature of the virtual terminals. What do you hope to do through ssh. The virtual terminal is relavent only to the local machine -- if pretends that there are 16

I broke 5.0 while attempting upgrade to 5.1

2003-11-16 Thread Scott Renna
Hello Everyone, First off, I wanna say thanks to all the help this list has provided and continues to provide. With every new failure comes help from one of you and then I learn and can contribute to others as well. So here's what's going on now... I attempted an upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1(I've

Re: how to map pfkeys to screen -r cmds

2003-11-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 09:22 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote: Probably not what you want; but assuming the machine you are ssh'ing from is FreeBSD or Linux or something else with virtual terminals My workstation is windoz xp. It is also possible to funnel other ssh sessions or other types such as telnet through

Re: how to map pfkeys to screen -r cmds

2003-11-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:52, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:28, Marty Landman wrote: At 04:13 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote: I think you may have misunderstood the nature of the virtual terminals. What do you hope to do through ssh. The virtual terminal is relavent only to

Re: how to map pfkeys to screen -r cmds

2003-11-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 01:12, Marty Landman wrote: At 09:22 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote: Probably not what you want; but assuming the machine you are ssh'ing from is FreeBSD or Linux or something else with virtual terminals My workstation is windoz xp. Then you should be able to start

Re: Drive errors?

2003-11-16 Thread stan
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:24:11PM -0500, stan wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:30:29PM +0300, Joseph Begumisa wrote: atapci0: VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller port 0xa000-0xa00f at device 7.1 on pci0 atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data corruption bug ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14

Re: how to map pfkeys to screen -r cmds

2003-11-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 09:55 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 01:12, Marty Landman wrote: My workstation is windoz xp. Then you should be able to start multiple ssh sessions each in a separate xp window. That's true. :) And then alt-tab between these. Out of curiosity what is your ssh client

Re: how to map pfkeys to screen -r cmds

2003-11-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 01:58, Marty Landman wrote: At 09:55 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 01:12, Marty Landman wrote: My workstation is windoz xp. Then you should be able to start multiple ssh sessions each in a separate xp window. That's true. :) And then alt-tab

unrecognized hardware with 5.1

2003-11-16 Thread Jackie S. McCracken
I'm trying to build a Dell 1750 with 5.1. After the kern and mfsroot floppies have loaded and the system starts to come up it reports an unrecognized chip set then once I try to run the ftp utility to load a minimum configuration it cannot see the NIC interface i.e. it's not part of the

Re: Samba question

2003-11-16 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Marty Landman wrote: Ok, I think this is a mess now. First I tried the toot in the FBSD Diary, and now the chapter 2 toot from O'Reilly. My Samba install is likely way out of rhythm! Still it's so close - I can see the share on windoz explorer but can't access it that

using HEAD's /etc/rc.d/jail on RELENG_5_1

2003-11-16 Thread Joan Picanyol
Hi, I'd like get the enhancements of version 1.6 of /etc/rc.d/jail in RELENG_5_1, but I need some help/clarification: 1.- Is there any know pitfall? 2.- What's the safest easiest way to do it? assuming the answer to 2.- is patch your source and upgrade 3a.- What's the one liner to create the

Re: p5 ports don't respect LOCALBASE

2003-11-16 Thread Rich Winkel
According to Lowell Gilbert: Rich Winkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I support various types of servers and workstations which need different local software sets. I do all my building on one machine, so I use LOCALBASE and PKG_DBDIR in /etc/make.conf to keep the various configurations

Re: unrecognized hardware with 5.1

2003-11-16 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 16 November 2003 08:17 am, Jackie S. McCracken wrote: I'm trying to build a Dell 1750 with 5.1. After the kern and mfsroot floppies have loaded and the system starts to come up it reports an unrecognized chip set then once I try to run the ftp utility to load a minimum configuration

RE: Samba question

2003-11-16 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Ok, I think this is a mess now. First I tried the toot in the FBSD Diary, and now the chapter 2 toot from O'Reilly. My Samba install is likely way out of rhythm! Still it's so close - I can see the share on windoz explorer but can't access it that maybe others here can help. Here's

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2003-11-16 Thread paul beard
On Nov 16, 2003, at 2:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I has a G3 iMac that has broken CD-Rom drive, can it be reformated comppletely from the web? To expand on another answer, you can install NetBSD for PowerPC over the net, but I think you need a floppy or some kind of startup image to boot

C

2003-11-16 Thread Valerian Galeru
Can anyone tell the name of the package that contain the C, something simillar to Borland C++ in windows... __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ___

Re: C

2003-11-16 Thread Cordula's Web
Can anyone tell the name of the package that contain the C, something simillar to Borland C++ in windows... You can compile C/C++ programs with the 'cc' command, which is part of the FreeBSD base system: % cc -o hello hello.c % ./hello Or did you mean something like an IDE for C, which uses

Re: DNS/Webhosting question

2003-11-16 Thread JacobRhoden
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:43 am, Frank Knobbe wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:23, Darryl Hoar wrote: What tools exist in Freebsd to determine the primary dsn server for a domain Heh.. . everyone seems to be responding with 'nslookup -type=ns foo.com' or 'host -t ns foo.com', but those queries

Deinstalling

2003-11-16 Thread Valerian Galeru
Why when i run make deinstall in an installed port it takes just a few seconds (but when i installed the port it took 1 minute or more)? __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

Re: Deinstalling

2003-11-16 Thread Daniel
Because when you deinstall, it removes files. When you make install, it has to compile. -Daniel Hawton Valerian Galeru wrote: Why when i run make deinstall in an installed port it takes just a few seconds (but when i installed the port it took 1 minute or more)?

mailbox location problems

2003-11-16 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
I run freebsd 4.8 and postfix 2.0.0.16 when i try to access my mail using mail version Mail version 8.1 6/6/93 i always have 0 messages even though i have sent several messages and watched them being received and sent to maildir in the mailog file Nov 16 14:07:55 v21 postfix/master[193]: daemon

Re: C

2003-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
Can anyone tell the name of the package that contain the C, something simillar to Borland C++ in windows... I am not sure what you are asking for sure. Do you mean a port to install C? You don't need that. The system already will have a C compiler if you do a regular full install. Take a

DVD-RAM on FreeBSD 5.1R (LG 4040)?

2003-11-16 Thread Stefan A. Deutscher
Hi all, just got an ATAPI LG 4040 multiwriter (CD-R/RW, DVD+/-R,+/-RW, and DVD-RAM) and wish to use it on FreeBSD 5.1. While still having to configure the system to address it in UDMA rather than PIO 4 mode, it installed fine. Reading and writing CDs in all possible variations works fine with

Re: C

2003-11-16 Thread Cordula's Web
I mean something with a GUI, with a text editor in it, with a debugger, with many features? I don't know about a pure IDE for cc, but a few ports may be interesting: KDE/Qt development : /usr/ports/devel/kdevelop GNOME/Gtk+ RAD tool : /usr/ports/devel/glade2 Graphical Debugger :

Re: p5 ports don't respect LOCALBASE

2003-11-16 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
Rich Winkel wrote: According to Lowell Gilbert: Rich Winkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The p5 ports seem especially bad about this. I understand the need for perl to be able to find its local packages, so after I There are ways to find perl packages without expecting them in LOCALBASE. --- Sem.

Re: Deinstalling

2003-11-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 01:57:33PM -0800, Valerian Galeru wrote: Why when i run make deinstall in an installed port it takes just a few seconds (but when i installed the port it took 1 minute or more)? Why would you expect that removing a few files would take more than a few seconds? Kris

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2003-11-16 Thread Lucas Holt
You can get combo drives for G3 iMacs on ebay or by visiting one of the used Mac computer sites. G3 imacs can netboot.. maybe you can do something with that as an alternative. (i'm on one now) Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mysql can't finf shared library

2003-11-16 Thread Gary Kline
After upgrading to the latest mysql323-client and reinstalling my root password, here is what happens: mysqladmin -u root password 'fooobar1234' /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libmysqlclient.so.10 not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# locate libmysql

Re: mysql can't finf shared library

2003-11-16 Thread Scott W
Gary Kline wrote: After upgrading to the latest mysql323-client and reinstalling my root password, here is what happens: mysqladmin -u root password 'fooobar1234' /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libmysqlclient.so.10 not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# locate libmysql

Re: seperating SQL and application server?

2003-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
Zhang Weiwu wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello. I am running apache + php + mysql on an PIII 800MHz server. Phpgroupware webpages takes several seconds to show up on a LAN (15 seconds at max). I mean each webpage takes several seconds to show up, even if I am the only user to access the

Re: mysql can't finf shared library

2003-11-16 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 1:07 AM Subject: mysql can't finf shared library After upgrading to the latest mysql323-client and reinstalling my root password, here is what happens:

Re: OT : problems accessing sendmail from LAN

2003-11-16 Thread faisal gillani
yes sure no firewall yes no other firewall also ... am working on local LAN only --- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: faisal gillani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well i have a PC running sendmail pop3 deamon . when i try to access sendmail pop3 services from locally on the

what does this message mean ?

2003-11-16 Thread Petre Bandac
Nov 17 02:27:59 kgb /kernel: OUCH! cannot remove rule, count 1 why ouch and what rule ? TIA, petre -- Login: petreName: Petre Bandac Directory: /home/petre Shell: /usr/local/bin/zsh On since Sun Nov 16 09:43 (EET) on ttyv0, idle 16:45 (messages

Re: DVD-RAM on FreeBSD 5.1R (LG 4040)?

2003-11-16 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 16 November 2003 04:26 pm, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote: Hi all, just got an ATAPI LG 4040 multiwriter (CD-R/RW, DVD+/-R,+/-RW, and DVD-RAM) and wish to use it on FreeBSD 5.1. While still having to configure the system to address it in UDMA rather than PIO 4 mode, it installed fine.

BattStatApplet gone after upgrade to 4.9Stable

2003-11-16 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, Forgive me if this is the wrong list for this question. I've had Gnome-2.4.x FreeBSD-4.9Pre running on an HP XE2 laptop for sometime with no problems. I upgraded to 4.9Stable today, and noticed that the battery status applet no longer appears. I still see the BattStatApplet

lost mailbox

2003-11-16 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
I run freebsd 4.8 and postfix 2.0.0.16 when i try to access my mail using mail version Mail version 8.1 6/6/93 i always have 0 messages even though i have sent several messages and watched them being received and sent to maildir in the mailog file Nov 16 14:07:55 v21 postfix/master[193]: daemon

Re: mysql can't finf shared library

2003-11-16 Thread Ryan Merrick
Gary Kline wrote: After upgrading to the latest mysql323-client and reinstalling my root password, here is what happens: mysqladmin -u root password 'fooobar1234' /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libmysqlclient.so.10 not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# locate libmysql

RE: Samba question

2003-11-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 02:23 PM 11/16/2003, Derrick Ryalls wrote: CUPS is mentioned in the logs, and you don't seem to know what it is, so do you have a line similar to: printing = cups No, good point. I have ;printing = bsd so that was commented out. Also, did you define guest in smb.conf and did you create the

Re: what does this message mean ?

2003-11-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:30:30AM +0200, Petre Bandac wrote: Nov 17 02:27:59 kgb /kernel: OUCH! cannot remove rule, count 1 why ouch and what rule ? I think that's an ipfw message..it's probably an ipfw bug of some kind. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Samba question

2003-11-16 Thread Luke Kearney
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:08:12 -0500 Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: At 02:23 PM 11/16/2003, Derrick Ryalls wrote: CUPS is mentioned in the logs, and you don't seem to know what it is, so do you have a line similar to: printing = cups No, good point. I

ccd recipe for extending a filesystem

2003-11-16 Thread David Muir Sharnoff
Hi. I've come up with a recipe to grow a filesystem. I would like to do several things here: 1. Share the recipe so others can use it 2. Have someone verify my recipe -- I think it works, but another set of eyes would help 3. Ask if anyone knows a reason

RE: unrecognized hardware with 5.1 and Dell 1750

2003-11-16 Thread Jackie S. McCracken
Kent and Olaf, thank you for the suggestions! I believe that the root of the problem is the ServerWorks GC LE chipset. I forgot to mention that the system reports during initial startup that the Host to PCI bridge chipset is unrecognized which leads me to believe that it cannot see the NIC

non-proportional fonts for X

2003-11-16 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hi all, perhaps someone achieved something useful from the search for a good mail font. I don't like misc-fixed for mails (I use kmail) so I took courier-new 9pt. But with that font the 1 and l are looking very similar with less that 10pt. And 10pt is too big for me. So I switched to Lucida

Re: non-proportional fonts for X

2003-11-16 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Monday 17 November 2003 05:01, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Hi all, perhaps someone achieved something useful from the search for a good mail font. I don't like misc-fixed for mails (I use kmail) so I took courier-new 9pt. But with that font the 1 and l are looking very similar with less

Re: mysql can't finf shared library

2003-11-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:21:07AM +, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 1:07 AM Subject: mysql can't finf shared library After upgrading to the latest mysql323-client

Re: mysql can't finf shared library

2003-11-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 05:31:08PM -0800, Ryan Merrick wrote: Gary Kline wrote: After upgrading to the latest mysql323-client and reinstalling my root password, here is what happens: mysqladmin -u root password 'fooobar1234' /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object

need a HOWTO on upgrading 5.0 to 5.1

2003-11-16 Thread Scott Renna
I had posted earlier today and have managed to restore my old system to its former state. here's the trouble I had run into when trying to do a sysinstall upgrade from 5.0 Release to 5.1 Release(i need to do this for bluetooth). When trying to run a sysinstall upgrade I get kernel panics, yet

DHCP Configuration

2003-11-16 Thread germain
Hi, I got 5.x to install and got almost everything up and running. There was a DHCP configuration window on the install for my ethernet card. It sucessfully autodectected my IP address (its static even though it uses DHCP, don't ask me why) but wouldn't let me set it up without the host

Re: DHCP Configuration

2003-11-16 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Monday 17 November 2003 05:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I got 5.x to install and got almost everything up and running. There was a DHCP configuration window on the install for my ethernet card. It sucessfully autodectected my IP address (its static even though it uses DHCP,

Re: non-proportional fonts for X

2003-11-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 17), Harald Schmalzbauer said: perhaps someone achieved something useful from the search for a good mail font. I don't like misc-fixed for mails (I use kmail) so I took courier-new 9pt. But with that font the 1 and l are looking very similar with less that 10pt. And

mutt maildir and enviroment variables

2003-11-16 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Ok i need some help with Mutt but not really mutt more just Freebsd in general I run freebsd 4.8 something mutt version 1.4 something postfix 2.0.0.16 bincimap version 1.2.3 when i execute the command #mutt i get an empty /var/mail/user mailbox i use Maildir and my mail box is

Re: C

2003-11-16 Thread Jason
Cordula's Web wrote: Can anyone tell the name of the package that contain the C, something simillar to Borland C++ in windows... You can compile C/C++ programs with the 'cc' command, which is part of the FreeBSD base system: % cc -o hello hello.c % ./hello Or did you mean something like an