Re: Jails not quite stable..

2004-01-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on a project to move various services running directly under FreeBSD 4.8-REL to run under jails on the same servers. Setting up the jails is no problem at all (I can follow manpages), and bringing the jails up using either '/bin/sh

Re: tail tip to Fortune?

2004-01-11 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:01:22AM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:39 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 09), Dru said: I remember coming across a trick (which I can't find now) which allowed you to

The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-12-21 - 2004-01-10

2004-01-11 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: (Yet Another) Home Networking Question

2004-01-11 Thread Rishi Chopra
I was able to get my network up and running with the suggestions below. To review, my setup is the following: ISP FreeBSD Gateway Win2k Box --rl0--rl1--- ALL DHCP 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 rl0 is connected to the modem by

CVSup checkout mode for FreeBSD doc tree

2004-01-11 Thread Robert Downes
The quick start instructions for the FreeBSD documentation project say 2. Get a local copy of the FreeBSD doc tree. Either use CVSup in checkout mode to do this, or get a full copy of the CVS repository locally. I have, so far, used CVSup to reconcile sources and ports and docs, but I'm

Re: aic7xxx/FreeBSD/Linux can't find disk drives

2004-01-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 10 January 2004 09:06 pm, Matt Bjornson wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge 2400 with dual 733 Mhx CPUs. I have tried to install several distros of Linux (Red Hat 9.0 and Gentoo 1.4) and FreeBSD 4.8, 5.0 and while I can get the kernels to recognize the Adaptec 7890 and the Adaptec

Re: gtk-gnutella-0.93.2 crashing frequently..

2004-01-11 Thread clayton rollins
Quoting Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: anyone else seeing this app dumping core very frequently? a core file can be seen at http://monsterjam.org/core/ the previous version I portupgraded from 0.91 I believe was working fine and dandy before I portupgraded it. regards, Jason Hi Jason, I can't access

Re: CVSup checkout mode for FreeBSD doc tree

2004-01-11 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:33:53AM +, Robert Downes wrote: The quick start instructions for the FreeBSD documentation project say 2. Get a local copy of the FreeBSD doc tree. Either use CVSup in checkout mode to do this, or get a full copy of the CVS repository locally. I have, so

Re: perl script question.

2004-01-11 Thread Bernard El-Hagin
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:26:30PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 06:02 PM 1/10/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:39:07PM +0100, Bj?rn Andersson wrote: If this occures more than once on a line we should have the line as this: perl -pi.bak

Re: tail tip to Fortune?

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 11 January 2004 01:55 am, Jez Hancock wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:01:22AM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:39 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 09), Dru said: I remember coming across

automatic dump and restore over

2004-01-11 Thread Rickard Dahlstrand
Hi, I think I have a plan for upgrading a large number of computers over the network. I would really appreciate some help finding flaws in this idea. All the servers is installed with one partition for /, one for /var/. When I do the initial install I move the /etc to /var/etc and synlink /etc

Re: perl script question.

2004-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:34:34PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:02:18PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: perl -pi.bak -e 's/\s*\w+_\w+\.?//g;' filename The lines do indeed wrap so this does the job on a test file. I do have the re-exp book but this one is

Re: Download contents of http directory?

2004-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 04:53:52PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: This raises a question for which I don't know the answer: How does one list an http directory that does allow it? Basically, you shouldn't. If the web site administrator has set up index.html files or otherwise prevented you from

Re: automatic dump and restore over

2004-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:00:12PM +0100, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: All the servers is installed with one partition for /, one for /var/. When I do the initial install I move the /etc to /var/etc and synlink /etc to point at /var/etc. This should make the / partition exactly the same on all

Re: What are _p. files that break installworld?

2004-01-11 Thread Carolyn Longfoot
ARRGGGHH I knew it was something simple like this. I compiled on one box and installed on another, so /etc/make.conf on one was used during compile and another make.conf during install. Big trap. Thanks a lot! Caro From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] The _p.a files are profiled versions of

Re: Download contents of http directory?

2004-01-11 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 22:35, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 04:53:52PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: This raises a question for which I don't know the answer: How does one list an http directory that does allow it? Basically, you shouldn't. If the web site administrator has set

Using a usb compact flash card reader

2004-01-11 Thread Thomas Pasch
Hello, I'm successfully using a usb compact flash card reader with FreeBSD-5.2-RC2/amd64. It is a _intern_ reader (and because of this constantly attached to the usb bus). However, I can only use it when I plug the memory card in BEFORE BOOTING. When I try to attach the memory card later, it

Sane USB problem with HP ScanJet 5300C on FreeBSD-5.2-RC2/amd64

2004-01-11 Thread Thomas Pasch
Hello,    I'm trying to get my scanner to work on FreeBSD 5.2-RC2/amd64. I can see  the scanner with sane-find-scanner and usbdevs but scanimage seems to hang.    I'm using the sane-backends-1.0.12_3 and sane-frontends-1.0.11 and  libusb-0.1.7_1 from the package tree (but also tried ports and a

Re: Custom kernel config for Dell PowerEdge 1750 w/RAID

2004-01-11 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Eivind Hestnes wrote: Hi, Anyone out there with a complete custom kernel config for the Dell PowerEdge 1750 w/PERC4 RAID-controller (one of those pizzaboxes :-) Well, the GENERIC will work fine, just strip out the surplus bits of drivers ;-) You will need at least

Re: X problems

2004-01-11 Thread Lance Earl
The Monitor section of XF86Config includes Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor Model Name Monitor Model HorizSync31.0 -70.0 VertRefresh 55.0 - 120.0 My Monitor is a NEC FE700+ so these settings seem to be correct. I see taht the refresh rates are not in quotes like the

sendmail aliases not worked as expected

2004-01-11 Thread mgmcomm @hotmail.com
I am having trouble getting /etc/mail/aliases to properly forward system messages such as cron or periodic events. Actually this problem affects even mail input using the mail command or any other method. Although the cron/periodic is what I require the most. When a cron or periodic task

Re: Download contents of http directory?

2004-01-11 Thread Lucas Holt
If the admin does allow downloading, you will simply see the list by typing the path to the directory in the url you wish to look at. For example, lets say that you have a directory /music/ . If the webserver has directory listings on, you can simply type http://www.mydomain.com/music/ and

Installation Process

2004-01-11 Thread Ian Ripley
While trying to boot from the 5.2 miniinst ISO the CD started booting but only reached Verifying DMI Pool Data Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM : 1. FD 2.88MB System Type-(00) Any ideas would be appreciated. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

scanning for bad blocks before install

2004-01-11 Thread mgmcomm @hotmail.com
disclaimer-rant I have read many messages concerning the topic of bad blocks...most of them more than 4 years old and quite obsolete now. And I have read the faq and understand about modern ide drives and the automatic block mapping and the fact that my drive in question is quite possible past

Re: 5.2-RELEASE - Show stopper problem

2004-01-11 Thread Ted Wisniewski
Dan, Thanks for your response... As you can see in this output from the ps command you suggested, the processes are dfinitely waiting on the disk. BTW.. The syste in question was a fresh install from yesterday with no users other than myself (I did the cvsup to get it to

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Re: aic7xxx/FreeBSD/Linux can't find disk drives

2004-01-11 Thread Matt Bjornson
Kent, Thanks, still nothing... you're right I forgot to change my email to /dev/da for FreeBSD (/dev/sda is Linux scsi drive) Any other ideas? I thought there might be some IRQ conflicts but there isn't when I look in kernel config before install... These aren't RAID so I thought it'd be

Re: Download contents of http directory?

2004-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:18:52AM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 22:35, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 04:53:52PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: This raises a question for which I don't know the answer: How does one list an http directory that does allow it?

where are the jabber man pages?

2004-01-11 Thread David Fleck
4.9-RELEASE-p1. I've installed jabber (successfully, as far as I can tell) from ports, cvsup'ed Jan. 10. But I can't find any documentation for it on my system, either as man pages, docs in /usr/local/share/doc, info pages... I know I can wade through information on the jabberstudio.org web

Re: sendmail aliases not worked as expected

2004-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:50:03PM +, mgmcomm @hotmail.com wrote: When a cron or periodic task creates an email to say root...it gets mailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which results in an error message That's by design, believe it or not. 'root' is a member of

Re: where are the jabber man pages?

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 11 January 2004 10:36 am, David Fleck wrote: 4.9-RELEASE-p1. I've installed jabber (successfully, as far as I can tell) from ports, cvsup'ed Jan. 10. But I can't find any documentation for it on my system, either as man pages, docs in /usr/local/share/doc, info pages... I know I

Re: where are the jabber man pages?

2004-01-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 11:17:56 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A list of files that are installed by a port can be found in the pkg-plist file of the ports directory. man-pages aren't listed in the plist in the ports directory (but they are listed in /var/db/pkg/port/+CONTENTS),

Re: where are the jabber man pages?

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:43 am, Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 11:17:56 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A list of files that are installed by a port can be found in the pkg-plist file of the ports directory. man-pages aren't listed in the plist in the

Re: sendmail aliases not worked as expected

2004-01-11 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: mgmcomm @hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:50 AM Subject: sendmail aliases not worked as expected I am having trouble getting /etc/mail/aliases to properly forward system messages such as cron or periodic

routing to specific network

2004-01-11 Thread Dinesh Nair
hey, i'm on a multihomed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, cvsupped and built to -STABLE as of two weeks ago. the two NICs on the box each go to different ADSL providers. right now, i can switch which provider i use by just manually changing the default route. however, what i'd like to do is to have the

Re: aic7xxx/FreeBSD/Linux can't find disk drives

2004-01-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:29 am, Matt Bjornson wrote: Kent, Thanks, still nothing... you're right I forgot to change my email to /dev/da for FreeBSD (/dev/sda is Linux scsi drive) Any other ideas? I thought there might be some IRQ conflicts but there isn't when I look in kernel config

Re: 5.2-RELEASE - Show stopper problem

2004-01-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 11), Ted Wisniewski said: Thanks for your response... As you can see in this output from the ps command you suggested, the processes are dfinitely waiting on the disk. BTW.. The syste in question was a fresh install from yesterday with no users other than myself (I

Re: aic7xxx/FreeBSD/Linux can't find disk drives

2004-01-11 Thread Matt Bjornson
Kent, Thanks again. I've spent the weekend trying to get this thing going... I know both scsi hosts are supported by FreeBSD and Linux, there aren't any IRQ conflicts between the devices I am perplexed. thanks again, Matt On Jan 11, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 11

Re: cdbakeoven errors when burning multiple tracks

2004-01-11 Thread Paul Murphy
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:32:39 -0800 (PST) Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up cdbakeoven on FreeBSD 4.8 and I'm trying to burn a set of MP3 files to an audio CD. Everything works fine if I only burn a single track, but when I try to do more than one it appears to trip over itself

Re: routing to specific network

2004-01-11 Thread David Miller
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Dinesh Nair wrote: hey, i'm on a multihomed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, cvsupped and built to -STABLE as of two weeks ago. the two NICs on the box each go to different ADSL providers. right now, i can switch which provider i use by just manually changing the default route.

Speak Freely

2004-01-11 Thread David Miller
Hi All; I've spent the last two days trying to get speak freely (Internet voice program with encryption, see I believe I have a full duplex card running properly. I can play a CD and mp3's at the same time, and have both come out the speakers at once. It shows up as: pci1: Matrox MGA G200

Re: 5.2-RELEASE - Show stopper problem

2004-01-11 Thread Ted Wisniewski
(* In the last episode (Jan 11), Ted Wisniewski said: (* Thanks for your response... As you can see in this output from the (* ps command you suggested, the processes are dfinitely waiting on the (* disk. BTW.. The syste in question was a fresh install from yesterday (* with no users other

Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

2004-01-11 Thread Greg Bernard
Is there another way to limit the amount of space occupied by mail files on a per user basis using another method than quotas ? I would like to limit the amount of space available for each user's e.mail so e.mail file size will not go crazy. Thanks for your advices...

Alternatives to zcat ?

2004-01-11 Thread rob.c
Hello All, I used to peruse my logs (when prompted by events in the periodic script output emails) using zcat, however i've just tried again for the first time recently and appears the logfile compression format has changed. This is in turn means that i can no longer use a command like zcat

Re: Alternatives to zcat ?

2004-01-11 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:27:35PM -, rob.c wrote: Hello All, I used to peruse my logs (when prompted by events in the periodic script output emails) using zcat, however i've just tried again for the first time recently and appears the logfile compression format has changed. This is in

Re: Alternatives to zcat ?

2004-01-11 Thread Scott W
rob.c wrote: Hello All, I used to peruse my logs (when prompted by events in the periodic script output emails) using zcat, however i've just tried again for the first time recently and appears the logfile compression format has changed. This is in turn means that i can no longer use a command

Re: where are the jabber man pages?

2004-01-11 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:36:49AM -0600, David Fleck wrote: 4.9-RELEASE-p1. I've installed jabber (successfully, as far as I can tell) from ports, cvsup'ed Jan. 10. But I can't find any documentation for it on my system, either as man pages, docs in /usr/local/share/doc, info pages...

Re: cdbakeoven errors when burning multiple tracks

2004-01-11 Thread Alex
Thanks for the response. Yes, I do have cdrecord installed and everything seems to be in the correct place: u ~$ which cdrecord /usr/local/bin/cdrecord u ~$ which cdbakeoven /usr/local/bin/cdbakeoven If anyone can think of something I can do to correct this problem I would be forever grateful.

Re: cdbakeoven errors when burning multiple tracks

2004-01-11 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:54:40PM -0800, Alex wrote: Thanks for the response. Yes, I do have cdrecord installed and everything seems to be in the correct place: u ~$ which cdrecord /usr/local/bin/cdrecord u ~$ which cdbakeoven /usr/local/bin/cdbakeoven Hi, Unless you insist on using

cvsup from RC to 5.2-RELEASE

2004-01-11 Thread Chris
What would I use in my cvsup file as a rel-tag to nab 5.2-RELEASE -- Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Resolved (Re: Alternatives to zcat ?)

2004-01-11 Thread rob.c
- Original Message - From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: rob.c [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 8:35 PM Subject: Re: Alternatives to zcat ? On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:27:35PM -, rob.c wrote: Hello All, I used to peruse my

Re: cvsup from RC to 5.2-RELEASE

2004-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:34:07PM -0600, Chris wrote: What would I use in my cvsup file as a rel-tag to nab 5.2-RELEASE Once it has been released you will be able to use RELENG_5_2 It possibly works already, but no guarantees until it's announced. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr

Re: cvsup from RC to 5.2-RELEASE

2004-01-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 11 January 2004 01:34 pm, Chris wrote: What would I use in my cvsup file as a rel-tag to nab 5.2-RELEASE I was going to send you to the handbook section on CVS tags but there isn't anything for 5.x. You shouldn't install a 5.x-release anyway but follow the security tag, which is

Re: cvsup from RC to 5.2-RELEASE

2004-01-11 Thread Chris
On Sunday 11 January 2004 03:51 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 01:34 pm, Chris wrote: What would I use in my cvsup file as a rel-tag to nab 5.2-RELEASE I was going to send you to the handbook section on CVS tags but there isn't anything for 5.x. You shouldn't install a

Re: where are the jabber man pages?

2004-01-11 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: pkg_info -L jabber-1.4.2 | grep /man should work thanks... dcf$ pkg_info -L jabber-1.4.2 Information for jabber-1.4.2: Files: /usr/local/sbin/jabberd /usr/local/etc/jabber.xml.sample /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jabberd.sh

Re: cvsup from RC to 5.2-RELEASE

2004-01-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 11 January 2004 01:53 pm, Chris wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 03:51 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 01:34 pm, Chris wrote: What would I use in my cvsup file as a rel-tag to nab 5.2-RELEASE I was going to send you to the handbook section on CVS tags but

Re: Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

2004-01-11 Thread Mike Maltese
Is there another way to limit the amount of space occupied by mail files on a per user basis using another method than quotas ? I would like to limit the amount of space available for each user's e.mail so e.mail file size will not go crazy. Is there an option to limit message size with the

Re: automatic dump and restore over

2004-01-11 Thread Rickard Dahlstrand
Thanks for all the good answers. Just one final question. Do you think it is at all possible to do this update without rebooting? It would save time but I assume that this is impossible. The reason I thinking of doing it this way is because I need to distribute the update on a bootable cd. I

All mbufs exhausted/Random spontaneous reboots started today

2004-01-11 Thread Chris Byrnes
Sorry for the crosspost, not sure where this should go. Please cc me in replies because I am not subscribed. Server was up almost 134 days and spontaneously rebooted this morning saying All mbufs exhausted, please see tuning(7). Had never seen it before, read up on it and figured something just

Re: All mbufs exhausted/Random spontaneous reboots started today

2004-01-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 11 January 2004 02:49 pm, Chris Byrnes wrote: Sorry for the crosspost, not sure where this should go. Please cc me in replies because I am not subscribed. Server was up almost 134 days and spontaneously rebooted this morning saying All mbufs exhausted, please see tuning(7). Had

Re: All mbufs exhausted/Random spontaneous reboots started today

2004-01-11 Thread Chris Byrnes
I don't think I did, but if that were the case, wouldn't it have been patched with the upgrade to -STABLE? Chris - Original Message - From: Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris Byrnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 4:57 PM

Trouble getting network card to work

2004-01-11 Thread Jared Cheney
Hello, I've just installed FreeBSD 4.9 and am having trouble getting my network card to work. It is very odd, because it appears as though the kernel recognizes the card just fine and is using the pcn module to bring it up, etc. It is an AMD 79c79x card (according to FreeBSD). I can view/set

Re: All mbufs exhausted/Random spontaneous reboots started today

2004-01-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 11 January 2004 02:59 pm, Chris Byrnes wrote: I don't think I did, but if that were the case, wouldn't it have been patched with the upgrade to -STABLE? Yes, wirh a recent stable. It could be other things such as Apache. Kent Chris - Original Message - From: Kent

Re: All mbufs exhausted/Random spontaneous reboots started today

2004-01-11 Thread Einstein Oliveira
Chris Byrnes wrote: Sorry for the crosspost, not sure where this should go. Please cc me in replies because I am not subscribed. Server was up almost 134 days and spontaneously rebooted this morning saying All mbufs exhausted, please see tuning(7). Had never seen it before, read up on it and

agp error with Radeon 7500 disables DRI

2004-01-11 Thread David Fleck
4.9-RELEASE-p1. At boot, the agp module appears to load OK: # dmesg | grep agp Preloaded elf module agp.ko at 0xc03d336c. agp0: VIA Generic host to PCI bridge mem 0xe000-0xe7ff at device 0.0 on pci0 agp0: allocating GATT for aperture of size 256M However, when starting X, the kernel

Re: where are the jabber man pages?

2004-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 04:00:12PM -0600, David Fleck wrote: ...that's it. No documentation *at all*. That just doesn't seem right. Heck, I'd be happy to cough up a minimal man page... Please coordinate your efforts with the jabber developers. Thanks, Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Best practices - USB 2.0 PCI card and gigabit ethernet PCI card for FreeBSD 4.9

2004-01-11 Thread Joe Schmoe
I am running freebsd 4.9 and want to add: - a USB 2.0 PCI card and - a gigabit ethernet (copper - cat-5 wiring) PCI card What is the best and best supported choices for each of these ? I am happy to blindly follow whatever suggestion for the USB 2.0 card, however for the gigabit card I have

RE: Trouble getting network card to work

2004-01-11 Thread fbsd_user
I just went through that on my pre Y2K PC using 4.9. Different PCI Nic card, but same symptoms. Had to enable verbose boot messages. Saw that every time I rebooted system the boot log showed an msg saying something about unrecognized ID. I know the card was good so I just kept moving the Nic card

vlan support

2004-01-11 Thread Kurilov D.I.
How do you do! I've got FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org I have a small net with switch Cisco Catalyst 2950 and Cisco Router 2650. The purpose is to replace 2650 router. I've include vlan support in kernel. Correspondingly, my /etc/rc.conf : ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.10.1 netmask

FreeBSD 4.4 not available !!

2004-01-11 Thread mohanlal jangir
I want to download FreeBSD version 4.4 but this seems to be not available at links specified at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html Could you tell me where can I download it. Is it available in CVS? Regards Mohanlal

Re: FreeBSD 4.4 not available !!

2004-01-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:30 pm, mohanlal jangir wrote: I want to download FreeBSD version 4.4 but this seems to be not available at links specified at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html Could you tell me where can I download it. Is it available in

How do I add a third ATA controller to 4.8?

2004-01-11 Thread Paul Hoffman
Greetings again. I have a Dell 600SC that has three ATA controllers on the motherboard, and I'm running 4.8 quite happily on it. The GENERIC kernel has the following: device ata0at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 device ata1at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15 Since I didn't know the irq used

Re: perl script question.

2004-01-11 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:52:37AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:34:34PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:02:18PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: perl -pi.bak -e 's/\s*\w+_\w+\.?//g;' filename The lines do indeed wrap so this does the

Re: Speak Freely

2004-01-11 Thread Q
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 05:52, David Miller wrote: Hi All; I've spent the last two days trying to get speak freely (Internet voice program with encryption, see If you are intending to use this out of more than just curiosity you might want to look at alternatives like some of the OpenH323

Re: sendmail aliases not worked as expected

2004-01-11 Thread mgmcomm @hotmail.com
From: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mgmcomm @hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sendmail aliases not worked as expected Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:06:48 -0600 - Original Message - From: mgmcomm @hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail aliases not worked as expected

2004-01-11 Thread mgmcomm @hotmail.com
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:50:03PM +, mgmcomm @hotmail.com wrote: When a cron or periodic task creates an email to say root...it gets mailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which results in an error message That's by design, believe it or not. 'root' is a member of

panic: contigmalloc1 size must be 0 - interim fix

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew Kozak
Hi all I am a very stubborn user and refuse to return to windows, even in the face of a kernel panic ;-)~. I posted last week on this problem I havce of the contigmalloc1 error associated with the Ali (Alladin) chipset. Instead of going forward (newer releases) I have had some limited success so

Re: How do I add a third ATA controller to 4.8?

2004-01-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 11 January 2004 09:13 pm, Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. I have a Dell 600SC that has three ATA controllers on the motherboard, and I'm running 4.8 quite happily on it. The GENERIC kernel has the following: device ata0at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 device ata1at

Re: How do I add a third ATA controller to 4.8?

2004-01-11 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 9:54 PM -0800 1/11/04, Kent Stewart wrote: I have used several mobos that had 4 controllers on them. I did't have to do anything but add an HD and turn them on in the bios. I would have hoped that that was the case here too, but it doesn't seem to be. The new drive is definitely listed in the

Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot

2004-01-11 Thread Kevin Berrien
I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled 4.9 install buglet. I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100% of the time. After install, after system reboot, the boot loader comes up with F1: FreeBSD, and reboots continually forever. To

Re: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot

2004-01-11 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 at 09:10 -0400, Kevin Berrien wrote: Check your system clock. Its way off. I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled 4.9 install buglet. I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100% of the time. After install,