Re: sendmail/strace hanging

2004-04-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 06:27:42PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 10:16:42AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:08:39PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > > > > > Stopping sendmail with `sh /etc/rc.sendmail stop` works quickly. Starting it > > > takes

GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale?

2004-04-10 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, For a certain niche market, I am considering selling a software application by pre-installing it on a small machine running FreeBSD, and then selling the whole thing. Are there any implications arising from the GPL (or other more-restrictive-than-BSD licensed) code in the tree? Would it b

Re: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale?

2004-04-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 05:15:15PM +0930, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > For a certain niche market, I am considering selling a software > application by pre-installing it on a small machine running FreeBSD, > and then selling the whole thing. Are there any implications arising > from the GPL (or other

direction needed [ part of 5.2 portupgrade hairball ]

2004-04-10 Thread Jay Moore
I'm still trying to bring the portupgrade process to successful conclusion on my 5.2 system. I'm trying to avoid any more "well, let's try this and see what happens" experiments as they simply take so long - so I'm asking for some directions to help me reach the end from here. I've completed 'p

Re: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale?

2004-04-10 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 05:15:15PM +0930, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > Hello, > > For a certain niche market, I am considering selling a software > application by pre-installing it on a small machine running FreeBSD, > and then selling the whole thing. Are there any implications arising > from the GP

Re: FreeBSD and Debugging?

2004-04-10 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Saturday 10 April 2004 07:23, Brandon Erhart wrote: > Thank you. You are my new god. I had checked out a version of valgrind for > BSD (one of the patches) and it failed to compile. > > Everything seems to be working, except I get this warning at the beginning > of the program: > > "Warning: ign

Re: direction needed [ part of 5.2 portupgrade hairball ]

2004-04-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 02:51:07AM -0600, Jay Moore wrote: > I've completed 'portupgrade -fr gettext'. At the tail end of that process I > received a list of ports that were skipped or failed (see below). I'm > guessing that these exceptions are a result of unsatisfied dependencies, but > I do

Re: direction needed [ part of 5.2 portupgrade hairball ]

2004-04-10 Thread Jay Moore
On Saturday 10 April 2004 04:01 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > ---> Skipping 'x11-toolkits/eel2' (eel2-2.4.1) because 'x11-toolkits/ > > libbonoboui' (libbonoboui-2.4.1) failed > > You need to work out why the update to libbonoboui-2.4.1 failed. Once > you've got that to compile correctly you sho

Re: direction needed [ part of 5.2 portupgrade hairball ]

2004-04-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 03:16:06AM -0600, Jay Moore wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 04:01 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > > ---> Skipping 'x11-toolkits/eel2' (eel2-2.4.1) because 'x11-toolkits/ > > > libbonoboui' (libbonoboui-2.4.1) failed > > > > You need to work out why the update to libbono

Remote Single User Mode.

2004-04-10 Thread Grant Peel
Happy Easter all! Here is an off-the-wall question I have 4 servers in Toronto (I live in London, about 120 miles south). Most admin I can do remotely of course, but I was wondering, if there exists a software/hardware solution that might actually allow one to reboot any one of the machines

Re: vmware trouble

2004-04-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 09 Apr Yuriy Gerasimov wrote: > I have FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and installed vmware > vmware3-3.2.1.2242_6,1. > > I cannot Power it On. I have just error > > Cannot attach shared memory segment: Invalid argument. > Failed to initialize SVGA device. > > I tryed to set up different OS there (DOS an

WRITE_DMA failure during install of 5.2.1-RELEASE

2004-04-10 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, I am seeing following error during instalation of base system to / as: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=2305439 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 error=84 LBA=2305439 System being installed is: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE Hardware is: Athlon XP2200+,

Re: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale?

2004-04-10 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:46:29AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > There's no problem with selling GPL'd programs for money. As the > cant goes "Free speech, not free beer". I guess I'm interpreting Section 1 too restrictively then. I took "You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferri

Re: Remote Single User Mode.

2004-04-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:03:48AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: > I have 4 servers in Toronto (I live in London, about 120 miles south). Most admin I > can do remotely of course, but I was wondering, if there exists a software/hardware > solution that might actually allow one to reboot any one of th

Re: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale?

2004-04-10 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 01:55:23AM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > Your own proprietary binaries you can distribute along side the GPL > and BSD code, provided you don't have GPL code within your programs. > It can all be bundled together as long as you have licensing, > copyrights and required sou

Re: direction needed [ part of 5.2 portupgrade hairball ]

2004-04-10 Thread Jay Moore
On Saturday 10 April 2004 04:57 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Well, start with the output from trying to compile the > x11-toolkits/libbonoboui port. I did this: # cd x11-toolkits/libbonoboui # make and got the output shown below at the end of the process. If I read this correctly (and I probabl

Re: KMail seeing local maildirs differently than IMAP-server

2004-04-10 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:48:23 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > i see some ambiguity in using maildirs through IMAP and directly through > the filesystem, especially when using KMail. It's one of the issues that I've been fighting for quite a long time, and still haven't found a final answer. >

mailman - partition virtual domain name?

2004-04-10 Thread Noah
mailman-2.1.4 sendmail-8.12.11 freeBSD-4.9-STABLE I am placing listnames in the /etc/mail/aliases file to have the forwarded to mailman for processing. I running virtual hosts on a machine and I want to stop people from sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and only allow people to post to [EMAIL PROTEC

static NAT and firewalls

2004-04-10 Thread Sebastian Kutsch
Hi, if have have configured static NAT on machine A do the TCP/IP-packeges get injectet into the firewall of the machine A or do they reach machine B unfiltered? Sebastian -- If you share pain there is less of it. If you share joy there is more of it. __

Re: Remote Single User Mode.

2004-04-10 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Grant Peel wrote: > Happy Easter all! > > Here is an off-the-wall question > > I have 4 servers in Toronto (I live in London, about 120 miles south). Most admin I > can do remotely of course, but I was wondering, if there exists a software/hardware > solution that might

Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-10 Thread Julien Gabel
Hello, Here is my problem. I had a hard disk for one year now, working together with an other identical disk in a _hard_ mirror. One month ago, I noticed the mirror was not active, found that the second part of the mirror was not responding and decided to recreate completely the mirror after makin

Traceroute issue

2004-04-10 Thread Jeff Coleman
I am a new user of BSD and have set up a machine to learn on, I have version 5.2 on it and it cannot traceroute out. none of the hops resolve Pings work fine, and nslookup does as well. Help? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Traceroute issue

2004-04-10 Thread Bob Johnson
On Friday 09 April 2004 09:51 am, Jeff Coleman <"Jeff Coleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > I am a new user of BSD and have set up a machine to learn on, > I have version 5.2 on it and it cannot traceroute out. none of the > hops resolve > Pings work fine, and nslookup does as well. > In my exp

Re: direction needed [ part of 5.2 portupgrade hairball ]

2004-04-10 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:16 am, Jay Moore wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 04:01 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > ---> Skipping 'x11-toolkits/eel2' (eel2-2.4.1) because > > > 'x11-toolkits/ libbonoboui' (libbonoboui-2.4.1) failed > > > > You need to work out why the update to libbonoboui-2.4.

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-10 Thread Andreas Davour
I wanted to send my heartfelt thanks to all who chimed in with helpful suggestions on my portupgrade problem. I have now learned that ports-all is proably the best option for a ports-supfile, and I'll have to look into the issue about a refuse file instead when I want to limit the selection. I h

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-10 Thread Martin Hudec
You're welcome :). Cheers, Martin On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 04:51:10PM +0200 or thereabouts, Andreas Davour wrote: > > I wanted to send my heartfelt thanks to all who chimed in with helpful > suggestions on my portupgrade problem. > > I have now learned that ports-all is proably

RiscOS Window Decorations

2004-04-10 Thread Andreas Davour
So, now I have a new and shiny KDE3.2 installed. Great desktop and all, I still have hit ona minor snafu, though. I hope anyone here can help me with it. If there is a better list for KDE related questions, please let me know. Well. I used RiscOS looking window decorations before, but now after t

Changing the default text size on console session

2004-04-10 Thread Colin J. Raven
Hi all! My question may not be specific to FreeBSD, but can anyone tell me how to change the default font size on a console (directly connected monitor) session when there is no X running? I'm used to accessing BSD boxes remotely via Putty, but now I have one at home plus a decent size monitor, a

Re: Changing the default text size on console session

2004-04-10 Thread David Fleck
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Colin J. Raven wrote: > My question may not be specific to FreeBSD, but can anyone tell me how to > change the default font size on a console (directly connected monitor) > session when there is no X running? I don't remember exactly, but the first step is 'man vidcontrol' fol

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-10 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 10 April 2004 07:51 am, Andreas Davour wrote: > I wanted to send my heartfelt thanks to all who chimed in with > helpful suggestions on my portupgrade problem. > > I have now learned that ports-all is proably the best option for a > ports-supfile, and I'll have to look into the issue ab

RE: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-10 Thread Nick
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Supote Leelasupphakorn > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How can I remove this file ? > > Hi lists > > How can I delete file named prefix with "

Re: static NAT and firewalls

2004-04-10 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Sebastian Kutsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:17 AM Subject: static NAT and firewalls > Hi, > > if have have configured static NAT on machine A do the TCP/IP-packeges > get injectet into the firewall of the mac

Re: Changing the default text size on console session

2004-04-10 Thread Josh Paetzel
> I'm used to accessing BSD boxes remotely via Putty, but now I have one at > home plus a decent size monitor, and the text size is just overwhelming. > Since you can't page up/down in a console session, it's proving to be > somewhat of a problem. > > Regards to all & TIA, > -Colin There's always

Re: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-10 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Nick wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Supote Leelasupphakorn Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How can I remove this file ? Hi lists How can I delete file named prefix with "-" ? TIA

Re: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
i normally keep a -stable and a -current. when removing -stable rm -rf ./\-stable path here is relative, abspath works as well. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Mounting a NTFS (read-only) disk...

2004-04-10 Thread Ralph M. Los
Hi, I've got my FreeBSD box as a file-server. I added in a 60gb disk I want to copy the data off of, and format for FreeBSD, slice out, etc. When I go to /stand/sysinstall and try to label "ad5" (the added 60gb disk), I get an error. I go to Label, and select "Mount Point" by pressing "m

Re: Mounting a NTFS (read-only) disk...

2004-04-10 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:46:41PM -0400, Ralph M. Los wrote: > Hi, > I've got my FreeBSD box as a file-server. I added in a 60gb > disk I want to copy the data off of, and format for FreeBSD, slice out, > etc. When I go to /stand/sysinstall and try to label "ad5" (the added > 60gb disk), I

RE: Mounting a NTFS (read-only) disk...

2004-04-10 Thread Ralph M. Los
-Original Message- From: Josh Paetzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 12:56 PM To: Ralph M. Los Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mounting a NTFS (read-only) disk... On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:46:41PM -0400, Ralph M. Los wrote: > Hi, > I've got my FreeBSD

Re: Changing the default text size on console session

2004-04-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 11 April 2004 00:32, Colin J. Raven wrote: > Hi all! > > My question may not be specific to FreeBSD, but can anyone tell me how to > change the default font size on a console (directly connected monitor) > session when there is no X running? > > I'm used to accessing BSD boxes remotely vi

Re: Changing the default text size on console session [SOLVED]

2004-04-10 Thread Colin J. Raven
Greetings and thanks/kudos to all respondents on this issue. The short form of the answer - for the archives - is: man vidcontrol (yes, really) Scroll lock to give some control over screenfuls of stuff that normally go whizzing by. (Dunno why I didn't know this, but that's why we ask questions

Re: Remote Single User Mode.

2004-04-10 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004, Grant Peel wrote: >Happy Easter all! > >Here is an off-the-wall question >I have 4 servers in Toronto (I live in London, about 120 miles south). Most >admin I can do remotely of course, but I was wondering, if there exists a >software/hardware solution that might actually

make buildworld sendmail problem

2004-04-10 Thread Chris Strzelczyk
Hello, I am trying to upgrade my 4.8 box to 4.9. A while back I recompiled my sendmail so that I could run SpamAssasin. Now when I try to run a make build world I get the following: m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/usr/src/etc/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/cf/ /usr/src/etc/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/cf/

Re: Remote Single User Mode.

2004-04-10 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 10:29:31AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004, Grant Peel wrote: > >Happy Easter all! > > > >Here is an off-the-wall question > > >I have 4 servers in Toronto (I live in London, about 120 miles south). Most > >admin I can do remotely of course, but I was

Networking Questions

2004-04-10 Thread Rob G
Hi All, I am new to the list, but I have tried researching the archives and couldn't find exactly what I am looking for and would like your opinion on how to do this: I have a 4Meg DSL connection with Multiple Static IPs. 69.63.33.### is my main IP that my router or System that does authenticati

Re: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale?

2004-04-10 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
"Paul A. Hoadley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:46:29AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> There's no problem with selling GPL'd programs for money. As the >> cant goes "Free speech, not free beer". We all use loose language like that, but a "software seller" should kee

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Kent Stewart wrote: On Saturday 10 April 2004 07:51 am, Andreas Davour wrote: Now I think I know how to do these things and after another upgrade I think I'm ready to at least do the cvsup part using cron. The hardest part of a cron job is finding that magic time after the hour that never fails be

Re: WRITE_DMA failure during install of 5.2.1-RELEASE

2004-04-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Martin Hudec wrote: I am seeing following error during instalation of base system to / as: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=2305439 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 error=84 LBA=2305439 Looks like the hard drive is failing. You ought to try running a dia

Re: WRITE_DMA failure during install of 5.2.1-RELEASE

2004-04-10 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello Chuck, well I tried hutils diagnostics utility from samsung site, which showed up errors (both during selftest or low level format), then I took the hard drive and put it into another computer, where I was able to run both diagnostics and low lever format successfully without any er

spam in an inbox.

2004-04-10 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
Hello, FreeBSD gurus! I have a system that uses procmail & spamassassing to filter spam, but there is an old account of a friend of mine that had not activated its filter and received a lot of spam messages. Now, we have his inbox and about 9000 messages which are spam and messages he wants to r

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-10 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:05 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Kent Stewart wrote: > > On Saturday 10 April 2004 07:51 am, Andreas Davour wrote: > >>Now I think I know how to do these things and after another upgrade > >> I think I'm ready to at least do the cvsup part using cron. > > > > The hardest pa

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Kent Stewart wrote: On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:05 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] I could do the && thing but I want the log more than I care if it runs or not. I could cut back on some of the tee but I see mail after it runs. That's OK-- the "&& thing" is mostly useful within a one-liner anywa

Bandwidth tracking/monitoring on Freebsd

2004-04-10 Thread Dragoncrest
Hi all. Got a question. I got a box on my network that I'd like to be able to track bandwidth usage on. Just to see how much traffic is passing through it in a one month period and daily over a 24 hour period. Is there some kind of application I can use to log total bytes sent and total bytes r

Re: spam in an inbox.

2004-04-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: Is it possible now to filter the already received messages and discard the spam from them? How can I do that? Hav him open the messages using an MTA which performs it's own spam filtering, such as Mozilla or Apple's Mail.app. Use that MTA to zap and delete the spam,

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-10 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 10 April 2004 01:17 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Kent Stewart wrote: > > On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:05 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > I could do the && thing but I want the log more than I care if it > > runs or not. I could cut back on some of the tee but I see mail > > after

Re: Bandwidth tracking/monitoring on Freebsd

2004-04-10 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, There is MRTG (/usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg) for constant monitoring of inbound/outbound traffic, data are also available in graph format. Or you can try ntop (/usr/ports/net/ntop). Or you can write your own script analyzing data from ipfw counting :). I use mrtg and ntop for monitoring

Re: Bandwidth tracking/monitoring on Freebsd

2004-04-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Dragoncrest wrote: Hi all. Got a question. I got a box on my network that I'd like to be able to track bandwidth usage on. Just to see how much traffic is passing through it in a one month period and daily over a 24 hour period. Is there some kind of application I can use to log total bytes sen

Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
I have a freebsd box that was configured by Interland. They offer no support on sendmail configuration and I would like to add some of the dnsbl lists to stop some of the spam received by the server. I have looked over the sendmail.org site and now I think I'm even dumber that I was before. I hav

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread jan . muenther
> Can someone point me in the right direction so I can get this working. Just use the Makefile in /etc/mail (or switch to postfix, cough). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Yeah, I tried that... I just got an 'unable to make" error. At this point, postfix is looking very attractive. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 4:42 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail hel

Re: problems with Mutt and esmtp

2004-04-10 Thread Ross A. Beyer
> > I'm having a problem getting the Mutt and esmtp programs to work > > together. What happens is that when I run Mutt and hit send, Mutt > > will just hang forever displaying its "Sending message..." message. > > I think that it might be something to do with the sending of the > > control charac

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 04:07 PM 4/10/2004, you wrote: Yeah, I tried that... I just got an 'unable to make" error. At this point, postfix is looking very attractive. Postfix is very easy to install and configure. Sendmail is not for the faint of heart. However, once you learn how to use m4 to make sendmail.cf it rea

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: > I have a freebsd box that was configured by Interland. They offer no support > on sendmail configuration and I would like to add some of the dnsbl lists to > stop some of the spam received by the server. The FreeBSD /etc/mail/Makefile makes this pretty easy. Edi

Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-10 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:22:16 +0200, Julien Gabel wrote: > Hello, > > Here is my problem. I had a hard disk for one year now, working together > with an other identical disk in a _hard_ mirror. What's a '_hard_ mirror'? How did you set it up? > - But when I tried to create a slice on it, I get: >

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error: make: don't know how to make install. Stop I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts. :-) -Original Message- From: Warren B

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: > Thanks for the help, > > I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when > I try to make I get this error: > > make: don't know how to make install. Stop > > I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts. >

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
That's really strange then. The Makefile is right there in the /etc/mail directory and this is what it looks like: # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/sendmail/etc.mail/Makefile,v 1.1 2000/07/07 21:06:52 qzhou Exp $ all: access.db mailertable.db virtusertable.db catchall.db aliases.db access.db: access

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: > Thanks for the help, > > I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when > I try to make I get this error: > > make: don't know how to make install. Stop > > I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts.

Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-10 Thread Julien Gabel
>> Here is my problem. I had a hard disk for one year now, working together >> with an other identical disk in a _hard_ mirror. > What's a '_hard_ mirror'? How did you set it up? I want to say that it is a mirror created with a hardware HighPoint HPT374 (channel 2+3) UDMA133 controller ; not crea

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Yes. Is this correct? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:40 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: > Thanks for the help, >

Re: Networking Questions

2004-04-10 Thread Bob Johnson
On Saturday 10 April 2004 01:54 pm, Rob G <"Rob G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to the list, but I have tried researching the archives and > couldn't find exactly what I am looking for and would like your > opinion on how to do this: > > I have a 4Meg DSL connection with Mult

5.2.1 FTP install over ISDN com-port ppp

2004-04-10 Thread Srdjan Kupresanin
Hi! I am a new addition to the FreeBSD community and don't even have a working installation yet. Please help with that, as I tried all other resources on the net (or at least I think I did). Anyway, I am trying to install 5.2.1 over FTP (I have downloaded the bootable CD image) and when I conn

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: > That's really strange then. The Makefile is right there in the /etc/mail > directory and this is what it looks like: > # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/sendmail/etc.mail/Makefile,v 1.1 2000/07/07 21:06:52 > qzhou Exp $ That's really old. And it's telling you the truth--

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: > Yes. Is this correct? > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo > Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:40 PM > To: Rob > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed > > > On

gbde: total_sectors disagree

2004-04-10 Thread Maarten
Hi, I wanted to toy around with an encrypted drive, so I added the GEOM_BDE option to my 5.2.1-P4 kernel and installed a 40Gb Maxtor I had laying around in an old Compaq PII. Now, all is well, until I try to initialize the drive: $ gbde init ad2s1c -L /etc/gbde/ad2s1c.lock gbde: total_sectors

java

2004-04-10 Thread nathan owens
Should i get 4.9 or 5.2.1 if i want java? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Bandwidth tracking/monitoring on Freebsd

2004-04-10 Thread Jorge Mario G.
Hi there I use IP Accouting It does that and whole lot more, like quotas, reminders and stuff like that http://ipa-system.sourceforge.net/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en htt

Re: java

2004-04-10 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 06:06:53AM -0500, nathan owens wrote: > Should i get 4.9 or 5.2.1 if i want java? Java 1.4 is officially supported on 4.9, but it should work on 5.2.1 with a couple of tweaks. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: spam in an inbox.

2004-04-10 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, albi wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:03:09 -0500 (CDT) > Eduardo Viruena Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a system that uses procmail & spamassassing to filter spam, but > > there is an old account of a friend of mine that had not activated > > its filter and rece

Tracerouting

2004-04-10 Thread Jeff Coleman
I have a Dlink 614 + router I use on my network using roadrunner as my isp I am running 5.2 freebsd I installed the MTR package and it can resolve names when it runs Ping works fine, and using Links text browser I can access the net. Traceroute itself however will not resolve names of hops past t

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
It does nothing at all, just right back to the prompt. I think Warren has found the answer to the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:36 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Yeah, I believe it's 4.4 and I've been on this server for years. They are supposed to take care of the upgrades but they never do. I would do it myself but if anything goes wrong they charge to fix it and so I've pretty much left it alone up until now. I'll probably end up switching providers in a

Re: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale?

2004-04-10 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:04:46AM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > We all use loose language like that, but a "software seller" should > keep in mind that usually he's really doing two things: publishing > (or at least distributing) copies of the software and licensing use > of the software. T

Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-10 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:45:14 +0200, Julien Gabel wrote: >> GEOM doesn't let you touch the disk if some partition is mounted off it. >> Try setting kern.geom.debugflags to 1 I suck. This should have said: GEOM doesn't let you write to an active device, except if you set kern.geom.debugflags=16 >

Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 11 April 2004 07:15, Julien Gabel wrote: > I want to say that it is a mirror created with a hardware HighPoint HPT374 > (channel 2+3) UDMA133 controller ; not created using software, like vinum > for example. > > >> - But when I tried to create a slice on it, I get: > >> # fdisk -BI ad

nForce2 Soundstorm on 5.2.1 Release

2004-04-10 Thread Casey
Hello, I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard, which has a nVidia Soundstorm audio chipset on it. However, I can't seem to get this chipset to detect in 5.2.1 Release, no matter what I try. Being relatively new to FreeBsd, I don't really know that many ways to go about trying to get it t

enabling splash screen delays booting

2004-04-10 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
hi all, I wanted to have an image flash up on the screen instead of having to watch lines scroll on the screen when the system boots up. (device splash is enabled in GENERIC by default) SO I did: 1.kldload splash_bmp 2.then copied a BMP file(PEA.bmp) to /boot/kernel 3. to /boot/loader.conf 3.1

AGP Probe problems (5.2.1/5.2/4.9)

2004-04-10 Thread nathan swenson
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD for the first time, but I've run into a problem. I have tried 4.9, 5.2, and 5.2.1. There are a couple of symptoms for what I think are the same problem. 1. On booting from the CD, during the machine hangs after the following message (I'm guessing it is probing the

Re: Tracerouting

2004-04-10 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jeff Coleman wrote: I have a Dlink 614 + router I use on my network using roadrunner as my isp I am running 5.2 freebsd I installed the MTR package and it can resolve names when it runs Ping works fine, and using Links text browser I can access the net. Traceroute itself however will not resolve n

Re: nForce2 Soundstorm on 5.2.1 Release

2004-04-10 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Casey wrote: Hello, Also, on a completely unrelated note, how do you get the mouse scroll wheel to work? I've got a Microsoft Optical mouse(PS/2) and while I can use the wheel as a middle button, the scroll function doesn't seem to help. Thank you Casey Hi, Casey! Check the FAQ

Which compiler is used for ISO binaries?

2004-04-10 Thread Seunghun T. Lee
Hello, I was just wondering which compiler is used to compile the binaries on the freebsd iso's. I am holding out from upgrading until it is compiled with gcc3 preferably gcc3.3. I remember it was a big deal when RH linux was shipped compiled with gcc3 and advertised speed increase. I'm currently

quick audio question-- Real Player 8

2004-04-10 Thread Jeronimo Romero
Running FreeBSD 4.9 release on IBM R30 Laptop.installed realaudio player 8 from ports. works great. But sometimes I get following error: "Cannot Open Audio Device. Another Application may be using it." I almost always seem to get this message after turning on gaim (gnome aim). tried running lsof

Re: java

2004-04-10 Thread Ruslan N. Gogunsci
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:06:27PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 06:06:53AM -0500, nathan owens wrote: > > Should i get 4.9 or 5.2.1 if i want java? > > Java 1.4 is officially supported on 4.9, but it should work on 5.2.1 > with a couple of tweaks. I use Java 1.4 on 5.2.1 w

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 11 April 2004 07:02, Rob wrote: > That's really strange then. The Makefile is right there in the /etc/mail > directory and this is what it looks like: > > > # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/sendmail/etc.mail/Makefile,v 1.1 2000/07/07 > 21:06:52 qzhou Exp $ > > all: access.db mailertable.db virtuse

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 11 April 2004 10:40, Rob wrote: > It does nothing at all, just right back to the prompt. I think Warren has > found the answer to the problem. I think it probably has done something. But traditional BSD utilities don't flash lights or make a song and dance unless something is wrong. Se

Re: Which compiler is used for ISO binaries?

2004-04-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 10:10:00PM -0700, Seunghun T. Lee wrote: > Hello, > > I was just wondering which compiler is used to compile the binaries > on the freebsd iso's. I am holding out from upgrading until it is > compiled with gcc3 preferably gcc3.3. I remember it was a big deal > when RH linux