The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-02-01 - 2004-02-21

2004-02-22 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

tripwire

2004-02-22 Thread Lucas Holt
Can someone recommend a program like tripwire for 5.2.1-RC2 FreeBSD? i was using tripwire in 4.x but the port is broken in 5.x. Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) 'I try to think

Re: MySQL error 2013

2004-02-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hi Derrick Ryalls, you wrote. DR I have even tried firing up mysqld with --skip-grant-tables to no avail. DR Googling around, I see lots of reference to glibc issues, but I thought DR that only applied to Linux. I have tried mysql41-server port (fresh DR cvsup), mysql40, and a package mysql323,

Re: tripwire

2004-02-22 Thread jan . muenther
Can someone recommend a program like tripwire for 5.2.1-RC2 FreeBSD? Tried this one here? Port: aide-0.9 Path: /usr/ports/security/aide Info: A replacement and extension for Tripwire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Apache FreeBSD not executing

2004-02-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:02:04PM -0600, Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote: Hello - I'm trying to get my Apache web server up and running with PHP support but am running into problems. When I try to go to a .php web page I'm prompted to save the page instead of having the browser show the page.

Re: I have a dream, of a help/manual/doc system, which is simple to use?

2004-02-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
The website for freebsd is www.freebsd.org and on the main page you can find the handbook which leads to www.freebsd.org/handbook -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL

obsolete files?

2004-02-22 Thread jsha
hello. does make world leave obsolete files on your system after install? without even the slightest effort to remove them? please say it isn't so. i like make world. -- j. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: obsolete files?

2004-02-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 21 February 2004 11:24 pm, jsha wrote: hello. does make world leave obsolete files on your system after install? without even the slightest effort to remove them? please say it isn't so. i like make world. Worse, it is known to cause fatal situations where you have to use the

Re: CURRENT: RAID1: use vinum(8) or motherboard support (VIA VT8237)?

2004-02-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hi Burkard Meyendriesch, you wrote. BM Hi all, BM for my new -CURRENT box I have to decide wether to use BM vinum(8) or the on-board capabilities of my Asus K8V Deluxe BM motherboard for RAID1 mirroring. Which solution would you BM recommend? Personally, I've always found vinum to be a rather

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have had the above error 2 times now during fsck after an unclean shutdown. fsck -y yielded tons of entries in lost+found. man (7) tuning says that softupdates guarantees filesystem consistency in case of crash, but thousands of

Re: Hardware or software error ?

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, does anybody have a clue, if the following is a hard or software error? # syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel kernel: kernel:

Re[2]: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hi Heinrich Rebehn, you wrote. Make sure you've disabled write caching on the drive firmware itself... HR Does this also apply for RAID disks (twe)? Also, there is no word about HR this in man tuning(7). Is this more of a guess or is softupdates HR definately dangerous with wite cache

Re: Hardware or software error ?

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, does anybody have a clue, if the following is a hard or software error? # syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel kernel: kernel:

Re: C++ Memory Profiling/Debugging

2004-02-22 Thread David Carter-Hitchin
Hi Lou, Thanks - I'll give it a spin. I read with some reservation on http://dmalloc.com/: Dmalloc is not as good with C++ as C because the dynamic memory routines in C++ are new() and delete() as opposed to malloc() and free(). Since new and delete are usually not used as functions but rather

Re: [FAQ pointer] Re: Copy old drive to new drive - is it possible?

2004-02-22 Thread Tig
On 21 Feb 2004 09:41:19 -0500 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have a hard drive which is on its last legs. I also have new hard drive to replace the old one. I was wondering if it is possible to simply copy everything from the old drive to the

Re: Hardware or software error ?

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, does anybody have a clue, if the following is a hard or software error? # syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel kernel: kernel:

Re: framebuffer fro freebsd

2004-02-22 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:58:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Rahul Sawarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there a framebuffer port for freebsd? i want to run my console in 1024x768. Why would you want a framebuffer for that? Do you have frame grabber hardware or something? If all

Re: framebuffer fro freebsd

2004-02-22 Thread Rahul Sawarkar
Have you tried switching to 1024x768 mode using vidcontrol. I tried and did not suceed on my last hardware which was a mvp4 chipset with an 8mb blade3d graphics. Right now I have a radeon 7500 on a 440bx chipset. I'd assumed it wouldn't work, this time around also (ref: the url below), but

Re: framebuffer fro freebsd

2004-02-22 Thread Rahul Sawarkar
Maybe you are using the wrong fonts.Did you try both the 8x8 and 16x16 fonts? Rgrds Is it just me or does vidcontrol look ugly when compared to Linux's console framebuffer that allows high-resolution console displays? -lewiz. Lewis Thompson wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:58:53PM -0500,

authentication using openldap client.

2004-02-22 Thread falaki
Hello; My FreeBSD 4.9 server has to authenticate itÂ’s users through Openldap client from a Linux server. I have installed openldap-client-2.1.22 and pam_ldap-1.6.4. The ldapsearch gives the correct answer whet it is invoked with necessary arguments. I tried to configure pam.conf so

Re: obsolete files?

2004-02-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:24:28AM +0100, jsha wrote: hello. does make world leave obsolete files on your system after install? without even the slightest effort to remove them? please say it isn't so. i like make world. Hi, If it does then its written down in the handbook under the

Re: I have a dream, of a help/manual/doc system, which is simple to use?

2004-02-22 Thread Aaron Peterson
The website for freebsd is www.freebsd.org and on the main page you can find the handbook which leads to www.freebsd.org/handbook -- Alex and of course the manual pages that install with each of the some 1 add on programs. man program name ___

Nvidia

2004-02-22 Thread Eduardo Fernandes
how install nvidia drivers in freebsd 5.2? Tanks Eduardo Fernandes ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP access

2004-02-22 Thread Marty Landman
At 05:04 PM 2/21/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marty Landman wrote: looks like arp is unreliable for a canonical list of plugged in ip's. Curious about what would work. nmap -sP 22 192.168.0.0/24 should do it %nmap -sP 22 192.168.0.0/24 Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Target host

reserving ATA channel numbers in kernel configuration files

2004-02-22 Thread Dan Strick
Is there any way to reserve specific ATA channel numbers for specific PCI ATA controllers? During bootstrap my kernel says: atapci0: ITE 8212 ATA/RAID controller port 0x8800-0x880f, 0x8400-0x8403,0x8010-0x8017,0x7c00-0x7c03,0x7810-0x7817 irq 16 at device

Re: Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

2004-02-22 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:23:28AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: On Feb 21, at 05:56 PM, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: DJHJ Second, two machines are of the same architecture, but they have different DJHJ CPUs: One is an Intel PIII, but the other is a PII. Will the world built DJHJ on a PIII

seeking shell scripting resources

2004-02-22 Thread Marty Landman
I'm new to running my own unix systems and would like to start learning the ropes on shell scripting. I've looked at the handbook and a few other sources... maybe haven't looked closely enough. Any recommendations on more involved manuals/explanations/examples of how shell scripts should be

Re: Nvidia

2004-02-22 Thread Michael Hollmann
download the latest nvidia treiber for freebsd from http://www.nvidia.com and read the README. regards michael how install nvidia drivers in freebsd 5.2? Tanks Eduardo Fernandes ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: DHCP access

2004-02-22 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Marty Landman wrote: At 05:04 PM 2/21/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marty Landman wrote: looks like arp is unreliable for a canonical list of plugged in ip's. Curious about what would work. nmap -sP 22 192.168.0.0/24 should do it %nmap -sP 22 192.168.0.0/24 Starting

[Fwd: Do I need Mozilla-1.6 and Mozilla-GTK2-1.6?]

2004-02-22 Thread Bob Perry
Please disregard. Original Message Subject:Do I need Mozilla-1.6 and Mozilla-GTK2-1.6? Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:54:58 -0500 From: Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD-Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Just upgrade to 4.9-RELEASE and CVSup'd my system

Re: I have a dream, of a help/manual/doc system, which is simple to use?

2004-02-22 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Aaron Peterson wrote: and of course the manual pages that install with each of the some 1 add on programs. man program name ...with *each* of them? Ah, if only that were true.. dcf$ man aspell No manual entry for aspell -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: seeking shell scripting resources

2004-02-22 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Julien Gabel wrote: Haven't found much around at all on shell programming and would like to start learning it. Any more resources would be most welcome to find out about. Shells differ in their programming constructs, so anything you learn in one shell may not be

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:46:54 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all folks, Version 5.2 new installation I encountered problem in starting KDE after installation. 1) KDE installed pkg_info | grep kde kde-3.1.4 The meta-port for KDE kdeaddons-3.1.4 Additional plugins and

Re: MySQL error 2013

2004-02-22 Thread Erik Greenwald
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:38:11PM -0800, Derrick Ryalls wrote: snip Googling around, I see lots of reference to glibc issues, but I thought that only applied to Linux. I have tried mysql41-server port (fresh cvsup), mysql40, and a package mysql323, and they all have the same issue. That

ISP dialing with callback

2004-02-22 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko
This topic seems to be an elder one, but nobody around couldn't help me. I need to setup ppp (user) to dial to my callback-ISP. Here're useful info: 1). IPS uses PAP authentification. 2). Phone number negotiation is unsupported, I need to send it. When using Windows ppp-dialer (really buggy),

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: Hello Heinrich, Sunday, February 22, 2004, 5:00:27 PM, you wrote: Why that? I can imagine that i lose data in case of a power failure, but why in case of a crash? Well I guess the card COULD still commit the data, however, who knows if it actually does it? And why is

Re: Is inetd a proxy server?

2004-02-22 Thread Marty Landman
At 11:12 AM 2/22/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: A proxy listens to all of your request, and then opens up a second connection to the real server (or another proxy) for you and replays your request to it -- so all of the traffic is relayed through the proxy. Newbie here Matthew. Could you please

Re: DHCP access

2004-02-22 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Marty Landman wrote: At 09:42 AM 2/22/2004, Olaf Hoyer wrote: The syntax to ping a whole /24 segment would be: Hi Olaf. Could you please explain what is meant by '/24 segment'? I'm new to networking as you can see! Hi! Well, what is formerly called a Class C network

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-22 Thread Chris
On Sunday 22 February 2004 10:33 am, Mike Jeays wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:46:54 +0800 Create a file .xinitrc in the home directory, containing the single line 'startkde ' (without the quotes). Then try startx again. Kindly explain the difference between between the following in your

Re: Kernel build problem after make world

2004-02-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 22 February 2004 04:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I upgraded my system from RELEASE 5.0 to RELENG_5_2. Used cvsup to get the sources, made buildworld; made a generic kernel; installed world. Everything went well, i was able to boot into multi-user mode. BUT now i would like

xsnow not building

2004-02-22 Thread Noah
FreeBSD 4.8-stable still getting used to installing X applications here: xsnow is not building from /usr/ports # make install clean [/usr/ports/x11/xsnow] === Vulnerability check disabled xsnow-1.42.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to

gnome2 install failed

2004-02-22 Thread Noah
Hi, I am attempting to install gnome2 any clues what I am missing here. why is pkg-config so old? how do I update it? checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config configure: error: *** pkg-config too old; version 0.14 or better required. === Script configure failed unexpectedly.

Re: Nvidia

2004-02-22 Thread Uwe Laverenz
Eduardo Fernandes wrote: how install nvidia drivers in freebsd 5.2? AFAIK the nvidia drivers don't work with FreeBSD 5.2 anymore. Last time I tried was 2 weeks ago with -CURRENT and it did not work. I switched back to RELENG_4. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL

Re: xsnow not building

2004-02-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 22 February 2004 09:16 am, Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8-stable still getting used to installing X applications here: xsnow is not building from /usr/ports # make install clean [/usr/ports/x11/xsnow] === Vulnerability check disabled xsnow-1.42.tar.gz doesn't

Re: Nvidia

2004-02-22 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Sunday 22 February 2004 18:29, Uwe Laverenz wrote: AFAIK the nvidia drivers don't work with FreeBSD 5.2 anymore. Last time I tried was 2 weeks ago with -CURRENT and it did not work. I switched back to RELENG_4. Well... it works great under 5.2. $ cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver $ make

Re: Nvidia

2004-02-22 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am Sonntag, 22. Februar 2004 18:29 schrieb Uwe Laverenz: Eduardo Fernandes wrote: how install nvidia drivers in freebsd 5.2? AFAIK the nvidia drivers don't work with FreeBSD 5.2 anymore. Last time I tried was 2 weeks ago with -CURRENT and it did not work. I switched back to RELENG_4. They

Re: xsnow not building

2004-02-22 Thread Noah
O You have a mixed combo. You have part of 3.3.6 installed and 4.2. You need a clean XFree86-4 for anything to work. Do you have an XFREE86_VERSION in your /etc/make.conf. I can't think of anyway you would have both 3.3.6 and 4.2 installed unless you did. It also sounds like you might

Creative Extigy with FreeBSD 4.9?

2004-02-22 Thread Eric Rescorla
I've got a 4.9 machine which I'd like to interface to my Creative Extigy external amp for playing MP3s and the like. For obvious reasons, I'd like to have that connection be digital. After some research, it looks like there are two choices: (1) SPDIF I've got an Asus P4C-800E mainboard with a

Wrong Geometry Disk Problem (Seagate ST3200822A - 200 GB)

2004-02-22 Thread David Markle
Hello all, I have a problem installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 onto a Seagate Barracuda ST3200822A - 200 GB ATA/100 Hard Drive. Being a bit gun shy from a previous geometry problem mis-install where I almost lost some serious data, I am reluctant to just try things until they work. So here goes ...

Re: xsnow not building

2004-02-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 22 February 2004 09:44 am, Noah wrote: O You have a mixed combo. You have part of 3.3.6 installed and 4.2. You need a clean XFree86-4 for anything to work. Do you have an XFREE86_VERSION in your /etc/make.conf. I can't think of anyway you would have both 3.3.6 and 4.2 installed

Re[2]: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Heinrich, Sunday, February 22, 2004, 6:49:46 PM, you wrote: what you write does make sense, although i really can't understand why this important info is not in the FreeBSD documentation. I have disabled write cache, but i will keep softupdates disabled as well for now, and see how the

Re: I have a dream, of a help/manual/doc system, which is simple to use?

2004-02-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:18:12AM -0600, David Fleck wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Aaron Peterson wrote: and of course the manual pages that install with each of the some 1 add on programs. man program name ...with *each* of them? Ah, if only that were true.. dcf$ man aspell No

Re[2]: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-22 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Heinrich, Sunday, February 22, 2004, 5:00:27 PM, you wrote: Why that? I can imagine that i lose data in case of a power failure, but why in case of a crash? Well I guess the card COULD still commit the data, however, who knows if it actually does it? And why is write cache only

fully deinstall X

2004-02-22 Thread Noah
Hi, how can I fully deinstall X I will reinstall after I rebuild my machine with a 4.9-Stable system # !pkg [/usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui] pkg_info | grep XFree86 XFree86-FontServer-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Font Server XFree86-Server-4.2.0_3 XFree86-4 X server and related

Re: OT: Longest uptime

2004-02-22 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:49:22PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Doesn't (or didn't?) Linux have a 'feature' that allowed ppl to save their uptimes through a reboot? So, for instance, if it was a schedualed reboot, uptime still showed one continuous uptime? I'd imagine that this would be

zsh tutorial

2004-02-22 Thread Noah
Hi again, working on a few different things today. is there a good URL for understand zsh out there. I am trying to figure out the best and most practical way to setting up the .zsh configuration files. thanks in advance, Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:07:52 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 10:33 am, Mike Jeays wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:46:54 +0800 Create a file .xinitrc in the home directory, containing the single line 'startkde ' (without the quotes). Then try startx again.

Re: Is inetd a proxy server?

2004-02-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:58:10AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 11:12 AM 2/22/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: A proxy listens to all of your request, and then opens up a second connection to the real server (or another proxy) for you and replays your request to it -- so all of the traffic is

Re: OT: Longest uptime

2004-02-22 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 06:18:18PM +, Jez Hancock wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:49:22PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Doesn't (or didn't?) Linux have a 'feature' that allowed ppl to save their uptimes through a reboot? So, for instance, if it was a schedualed reboot, uptime

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:07:52AM -0600, Chris wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 10:33 am, Mike Jeays wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:46:54 +0800 Create a file .xinitrc in the home directory, containing the single line 'startkde ' (without the quotes). Then try startx again. Kindly

Re: OT: Longest uptime

2004-02-22 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:28:40PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 06:18:18PM +, Jez Hancock wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:49:22PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Doesn't (or didn't?) Linux have a 'feature' that allowed ppl to save their uptimes through a

Re: seeking shell scripting resources

2004-02-22 Thread Scott W
Marty Landman wrote: I'm new to running my own unix systems and would like to start learning the ropes on shell scripting. I've looked at the handbook and a few other sources... maybe haven't looked closely enough. Any recommendations on more involved manuals/explanations/examples of how

Re: DHCP access

2004-02-22 Thread Marty Landman
At 12:01 PM 2/22/2004, Olaf Hoyer wrote: Well, what is formerly called a Class C network is now in the new CIDR-notation a /24, meaning that there are 256 IP's in that network. Thanks for explaining Olaf. Little by little the fog is clearing before my eyes, and things which are just words to me

Re: fully deinstall X

2004-02-22 Thread David Kanter
I would look at pkg_deinstall. Noah wrote: Hi, how can I fully deinstall X I will reinstall after I rebuild my machine with a 4.9-Stable system # !pkg [/usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui] pkg_info | grep XFree86 XFree86-FontServer-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Font Server

Re: DHCP access

2004-02-22 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Marty Landman wrote: Seems to be a bug with nmap V3.00 I use 3.50, and it works. Solution could be an upgrade or exclusion of your own box from the scanning range. Could you explain how I can do either - or preferably both? My experience with ports btw is strictly

Re: fully deinstall X

2004-02-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 22 February 2004 10:17 am, Noah wrote: Hi, how can I fully deinstall X I will reinstall after I rebuild my machine with a 4.9-Stable system # !pkg [/usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui] pkg_info | grep XFree86 XFree86-FontServer-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Font Server

Re: USB modem support?

2004-02-22 Thread Daniela
On Saturday 21 February 2004 10:11, Tony Frank wrote: Hi, On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 02:26:24AM +, Daniela wrote: I'm having problems with an USB ADSL modem (Alcatel Speed Touch). It is recognized at boot time, but when I try to connect, it tells me that the modem is busy. I symlinked

Re: zsh tutorial

2004-02-22 Thread Gabriel Striewe
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:19:57AM -0800, Noah wrote: Hi again, working on a few different things today. is there a good URL for understand zsh out there. I am trying to figure out the best and most practical way to setting up the .zsh configuration files. thanks in advance, Noah

ed4 on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-02-22 Thread Banana Flex
hello! i'm a new user of FreeBSD and i have a little problem: i can not use my PCMCIA Ethernet card on FreeBSD 5.2.1 RC2 on an i386 platform. how do i install the ed4 driver? i think is the correct driver because on FreeBSD 4.9 my PCMCIA Ethernet card was properly detected and on FreeBSD

RE: seeking shell scripting resources

2004-02-22 Thread mark rowlands
Haven't found much around at all on shell programming and would like to start learning it. Any more resources would be most welcome to find out about. then you haven't looked http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=lang_en%7Clang_svie=UTF-8oe=UTF-

Re: OT: Longest uptime

2004-02-22 Thread Christian Kratzer
Hi, On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Daniela wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 20:47, Jamie wrote: I'm curious as to what the longest uptimes are people have seen on production servers. We've got a FreeBSD machine here with an uptime of 506 days. It is a file server and it also runs spamassassin

Re: Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

2004-02-22 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
OK, I've cross-posted this message to -hackers, to see if we can get some sort of definitive [to me] answer. Please forgive if it's considered bad form. -hackers: There is a thread in -questions in response to my query as to building the world and kernels for a variety of Intel CPUs on one

Re: Nvidia

2004-02-22 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:29:15 +0100 Uwe Laverenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eduardo Fernandes wrote: how install nvidia drivers in freebsd 5.2? AFAIK the nvidia drivers don't work with FreeBSD 5.2 anymore. Last time I tried was 2 weeks ago with -CURRENT and it did not work. I switched back

Re: DHCP access

2004-02-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marty Landman wrote: At 05:04 PM 2/21/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] % nmap -sP 22 192.168.0.0/24 I don't understand the man page though so assume it's me, not nmap. Whoops, I switched from recommending using -p 22 (to just scan the ssh port via TCP), to doing ICMP pinging, but I didn't make

Re: Is inetd a proxy server?

2004-02-22 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:26 PM 2/22/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: getty(8) is pretty light weight, and it doesn't take much extra memory to run multiple copies of it. It's also the case that while you may not need to log in via the console during normal usage, when you do need console access then you generally

won't buildworld

2004-02-22 Thread Bernardo Marcelo Brummer
I'm trying to upgrade from 4.7 to 4.9 I made cvsup (src-all), with no problems, then: cd /usr/src and: make buildworld It runs for a while (about 10 -15 minutes) and stops (see message bellow) I already tried cvsup three more times but always with the same result. Any upgrading hints?

Re: Is inetd a proxy server?

2004-02-22 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:19:05 -0500 Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My issue is one of UI, especially for top. It would be nicer imo if those 1/2 doz getty processes were to display on one line somehow... maybe indicating the number running and a way for me to expand them if needed

SMP Top program

2004-02-22 Thread Tim Aslat
Hi All, Just wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction here. I'm running a SMP system of dual Xeon CPU's with Htt and I'd like ot know if there is a version of top which will show information for each CPU as opposed to just the single set of data. Is this even possible,, or am I

Re: Is inetd a proxy server?

2004-02-22 Thread Marty Landman
At 05:41 PM 2/22/2004, Chris Pressey wrote: Have you tried pressing the 'i' key when top is running? It toggles the display of idle processes. (getty is generally idle.) This can save a lot of screen real estate. Thanks Chris, that's perfect. I gotta learn not to post before rereading the

RE: Wrong Geometry Disk Problem (Seagate ST3200822A - 200 GB)

2004-02-22 Thread JJB
The bios disk geometry bug has been an 5.2 release show stopper bug for a lone time. Looks like they still have not corrected it. You should submit an problem report containing much of the data you have in this post. The more people who report this bug the higher up in the severity list it moves

Re: Re: Kernel build problem after make world

2004-02-22 Thread fjaspers
Hi, you are right, should have included the messages in my first mail. Sorry.

mail question...

2004-02-22 Thread Xpression
Hi list, there is a package / tool to protect against spam ??? Thanks... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ISP dialing with callback

2004-02-22 Thread JJB
Try changing the following which you have sitel: set phone 2053203 set authname CALLER set authkey MYPASSWORD set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.255 add default HISADDR set callback auth cbcp E.164 6661313 set cbcp 6661313 To this sitel: set phone 2053203 set authname CALLER

Re: ssh no longer connecting automatically

2004-02-22 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:47:13AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Any idea why updating to 4.9 stable would give me this error? : I have to set it to protocol 1 and log in manually. The auto login with the : id_rsa and authorized_keys doesn't

5.2 acpi hangs on PowerEdge 4350 usb controller - should I file an bug report?

2004-02-22 Thread Stephen Hoover
When installing FreeBSD 5.2, booting with acpi enabled, the system hangs when it detects the server's usb controller. This server (PowerEdge 4350) has an Intel 440GX chipset with a usb host controller, but it does not have any usb ports. If I disable acpi, I can install fine. After compiling a

Disallowed attachment type found in sent message something for you

2004-02-22 Thread System Anti-Virus Administrator
Attention: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Disallowed attachment type was found in an Email message you sent. This Email scanner intercepted it and stopped the entire message reaching its destination. The Disallowed attachment type was reported to be: COM files not allowed per Central Online security

Re: Wrong Geometry Disk Problem (Seagate ST3200822A - 200 GB)

2004-02-22 Thread Robert Storey
Yes, I too have encountered the geometry bug a number of times on different machines, and for awhile it put me off to using FreeBSD. Then I discovered that if you just hit g during the partitioning process, it finds the correct geometry and you can continue with the installation. At least, this

glib trouble

2004-02-22 Thread Hugo (6s-gaming.com)
i, I have this problem on a 4.8-RELEASE-p13 server, whenever compiling something related with glib: (...) /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL

glib problems..

2004-02-22 Thread Hugo (6s-gaming.com)
Hi, I have this problem on a 4.8-RELEASE-p13 server, whenever compiling something related with glib: (...) /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL

Re: glib problems..

2004-02-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:30:05AM +0100, Hugo (6s-gaming.com) wrote: I initially added libstdc++ to the system via wget (googled it), because version 1.2 of Call of Duty server required it. I have another server on 4,8-STABLE, and I downloaded its libstdc++ (no problems compiling there) to

Re: Growfs Vinum on 5.2-RELEASE

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 8 February 2004 at 21:43:19 +1030, Michael Ritchie wrote: I have followed the method advocated by Drew Tomlinson on this list (October 2002) to create a Vinum volume without losing data. Everything worked ok for the first drive... and then I added the second, and grew the file

issue with building intltool-0.30

2004-02-22 Thread bsd neophyte
i was trying to make mozilla from the ports, when i noticed it was taking much longer than it should. in this case it would be 2 days straight (while this machine isn't a newer machine, it's a 360mhz sparc64... it shouldn't be THIS slow). i noticed what was happening was a constant looping of

Re: issue with building intltool-0.30

2004-02-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 06:50:33PM -0800, bsd neophyte wrote: i was trying to make mozilla from the ports, when i noticed it was taking much longer than it should. in this case it would be 2 days straight (while this machine isn't a newer machine, it's a 360mhz sparc64... it shouldn't be THIS

Re: Growfs Vinum on 5.2-RELEASE

2004-02-22 Thread Michael Ritchie
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: What file system? UFS 1 or UFS 2? growfs is suffering a bit from lack of love at the moment. It might be worth putting in a PR. Thanks for the response, File system UFS2 (with softupdates, if that matters?). I've sort of worked around the issue at the moment (backed

Re: Growfs Vinum on 5.2-RELEASE

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 23 February 2004 at 13:51:52 +1030, Michael Ritchie wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: What file system? UFS 1 or UFS 2? growfs is suffering a bit from lack of love at the moment. It might be worth putting in a PR. Thanks for the response, File system UFS2 (with softupdates, if

Re: Fixing vinum after removing a HDD

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 11 February 2004 at 19:30:52 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 4 February 2004 at 19:52:03 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:41:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on a

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-22 Thread Stephen Liu
Mike Jeays wrote: Version 5.2 new installation - snip - Create a file .xinitrc in the home directory, containing the single line 'startkde ' (without the quotes). Then try startx again. Hi Mike, Tks for your advice. Sorry I forgot to mention in my previous posting; 1) KDE could not start

Re: mail question...

2004-02-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Xpression wrote: Q: Hi list, there is a package / tool to protect against spam ??? Thanks... A: A few ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/ports] [21:49] #make search key=spam | grep port Path: /usr/ports/mail/adcomplain Path: /usr/ports/mail/bayespam Path: /usr/ports/mail/bogofilter Path:

Re: ed4 on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-02-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Banana Flex wrote: hello! i'm a new user of FreeBSD and i have a little problem: i can not use my PCMCIA Ethernet card on FreeBSD 5.2.1 RC2 on an i386 platform. how do i install the ed4 driver? i think is the correct driver because on FreeBSD 4.9 my PCMCIA Ethernet card was properly detected

Rebooting problem

2004-02-22 Thread Stephen Liu
** Hi all folks, Version 5.2 new installation On rebooting it hangs on . syncing disks, buffers remaining ... 5 5 done Uptime: 45m45s Shutting down ACPI Rebooting... Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown. It hanged here and I have to make a 'hard reboot' by pressing 'reset'

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