daily log reports

2005-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5.3 everything was working fine, I would be emailed daily/weekly/ monthly log reports. But now after upgrading to 5.4 I am seeing all those log report emails being queued up in postfix. The problem is it is trying to connect to the wrong IP... the machines default IP is 1.1.1.1 (for

Re: daily log reports

2005-05-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-05-15 02:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5.3 everything was working fine, I would be emailed daily/weekly/ monthly log reports. But now after upgrading to 5.4 I am seeing all those log report emails being queued up in postfix. The problem is it is trying to connect

Itanium 64bit under FreeBSD

2005-05-15 Thread Andre Nas
Dear, Is there any experience successful Install FreeBSD in HP Integrity rx2600, is there any problem when using FreeBSD ia64? How to know/check that the system OS or application can running pure in 64bit? can FreeBSD ia64 running pure 64bit ? Thanks, Andre

The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-04-24 - 2005-05-14

2005-05-15 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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

Re: sendmail NOINET6=true

2005-05-15 Thread Abu Khaled
On 14 May 2005 09:33:26 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abu Khaled [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sendmail[1579]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 279: Unknown address family inet6 in Family=option Comment out that line and the message will go away. Comment

Re: LBA and CHS parameters of my FBSD partition differ!

2005-05-15 Thread Marcello Maggioni
Very bad... My motherboard (Abit KV7) has 8 different bios release and none of these seems to solve this issue. My 30GB disk on the other IDE channel seems to work fine with FreeBSD. Is this problem present silently with every OS (the problem exists but is not reported) or only with FBSD?

RE: LBA and CHS parameters of my FBSD partition differ!

2005-05-15 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Is this problem present silently with every OS (the problem exists but is not reported) yes. But, why is it a problem? It really isn't, you know. The only BIOS thing concerning hard disks that any modern operating system uses is the BIOS routines to load the kernel. Whether the kernel is a

Re: LBA and CHS parameters of my FBSD partition differ!

2005-05-15 Thread Marcello Maggioni
So are you saying that I should ignore the message during FBSD setup and also ignore the message from PM too? Just another question, is this fact common or I'm just the only one who get it ?:D Thanks again Marcello 2005/5/15, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is this problem present

Re: ps: bad namelist

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Stover
Jerry Bell wrote: Typically this is caused by a kernel and utilities (like ps and w) being out of sync. It sounds like you don't think that is the case, though. I suppose it could be a problem with your procfs, but I'm not sure that would cause this kind of symptom. My suspicion is still on

Re: FreebSD 5.3

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Stover
Richard Verwayen wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 11.05.2005, 16:53 -0700 schrieb Dixit, Viraj: Folks, I have accidentally changed the permissions to my directories on my test system. Now I cannot login either on console using root or any other login account. I simply cannot login, the permissions

Re: Slow DNS

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Stover
Xian wrote: I have just set up a router and would like DNS caching on it. I have tried to set it up an it kind of works, just computer using it as their nameserver take ages on DNS queries, up to 4-5 seconds. To set up the DNS caching I added the ip of another DNS server to

Re: Strange kernel messages

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Stover
Colin J. Raven wrote: Hi all! I occasionally get these in my daily security run output (which is worrying in itself) Limiting closed port RST response from 1629 to 200 packets per second the number of these can range from one or two, to sometimes 25 - 30 although the latter case is

Re: Filesystem was not properly dismounted (5.4-RELEASE)

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Stover
VnPenguin wrote: Hi all, On my FreeBSD 5.4 system, when I do reboot or shutdown -h and reboot, there is always a warning at boot time: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted and fbsd starts filesystem check over / partition (~5GB) :( Anyone could explain me why this ? Any solution for

RE: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive

2005-05-15 Thread fbsd_user
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of fbsd_user Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive Power management and APIC have been bios

Re: Cannot mount ThinkPad removable cdrom device under FreeBSD-5.4

2005-05-15 Thread Fabian Keil
Eirik Fossgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an IBM removable cdrom device which I'm trying to use under FreeBSD-5.4 RELEASE. I connect it on the USB ports on my ThinkPad X40, insert a cdrom (neil young) but I cannot mount it: mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt/cdrom yields: cd9660:

Too many unknown dynamic rule type 244 in syslog..

2005-05-15 Thread BigBrother-{BigB3}
hi, For the past weeks I have been receiving in my syslog the following message ikaros /kernel: unknown dynamic rule type 244 ikaros last message repeated XXX times ipfw -d show | grep 244 does not show anything I have rebooted the machine, I have flushed reloaded the ruleset...the message

Re: Itanium 64bit under FreeBSD

2005-05-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:02:16PM +1000, Andre Nas wrote: Dear, Is there any experience successful Install FreeBSD in HP Integrity rx2600, is there any problem when using FreeBSD ia64? How to know/check that the system OS or application can running pure in 64bit? can FreeBSD ia64

sysinstall Unable to find device node...

2005-05-15 Thread Juan Flores
Hello: I am sorry to bother you. But I was wondering if you found a solution to your problem at the following site: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-March/ 042082.html Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! I am having the same problem with FreeBSD 5.4

Re: clone cd disk to cd disk

2005-05-15 Thread Fabian Keil
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 5:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: clone cd disk to cd disk Its my understanding

FBSD 5.4 netstat -an

2005-05-15 Thread Mathieu CHATEAU
Hello freebsd-questions, i have 2 freebsd 5.4 running . On one of them, if if do the classic netstat -an i do NOT see tcp connection while i can see them on the other.. There are tcp connection on the box, at least me trough ssh (tcpdump show it). Any clue ? thank you -- Best regards,

Re: write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4

2005-05-15 Thread platanthera
On Saturday 14 May 2005 23:30, Ross Adams Lippert wrote: I'm sorry I was not more specific. /var has 256MB /tmp has 256 / has 256 /usr has 4500MB newfs had been run on everything. ftp was passive. Since base is about 46MB of material, it seems it could put it anywhere. This occurs 3%

Re: daily log reports

2005-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That is not my IP address or what is assigned, i was just using it for simplicity... How can I change the address it sends mail to? I rather change it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead or [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can probably do that by changing /etc/aliases but it's strange since I didn't need to do

Spam Problems

2005-05-15 Thread Kevin Pang
Hello All, I'm a newbie and manage a FreeBSD server, which only hosts my own websites, also only me have shell accounts on this server. Someone sent out lots of spams from my server today. I have stopped postfix and disabled mail command to make sure no any emails will be sent to from this

Re: Spam Problems

2005-05-15 Thread Jerry Bell
web script. The sender was specified as [EMAIL PROTECTED] according to the complaint email. I use phpBB, vBulletin and Awstats. Most likely the attacker used a flaw in phpBB or awstats. Are you running the latest versions of those? Otherwise, it is possible they found a vulnerability in

Re: Spam Problems

2005-05-15 Thread Chris
Jerry Bell wrote: web script. The sender was specified as [EMAIL PROTECTED] according to the complaint email. I use phpBB, vBulletin and Awstats. Most likely the attacker used a flaw in phpBB or awstats. Are you running the latest versions of those? Otherwise, it is possible they found a

Help with Expect Script

2005-05-15 Thread Phusion
I'm new to writing expect scripts and need some help. The script will telnet to a host and run some commands. I want the script to ping the host to see if it's alive first before it telnets into it. Also, I know the host is pingable meaning it responds to pings. If the host doesn't respond to a

Re: xconfiguration

2005-05-15 Thread wizlayer
On Saturday 02 January 1999 11:20 pm, paul klatt wrote: I am having a problem configuring x in free bsd I am having problem disabling the virtual desktop the desktop is to large for my monitor and the mouse does not work correctly. I would appreciate the help. I am using the kde desktop Being

simple? sh problen

2005-05-15 Thread Ian Smith
Hopefully not too OT .. the only silly question being the unasked one .. How do I test whether a sh argument is an integer or not, so as to avoid failing on a syntax error from otherwise working code such as: [ $3 -lt 10 -o $3 -gt 600 ] echo $0 $1 $2: $3 invalid exit 1 when $3 is a

ata1-slave: FAILURE

2005-05-15 Thread Gerard Seibert
I just did a clean install of FreeBSD 5.4. While booting up, the following messages appears: as0: 7665MB QUANTUM Bigfoot TX8.0AT/A04.0V00 [15574/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA 33 ata1-slave: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=1ERROR error=4ABORTED acd0: DVDROM COMPAQ DVD-ROM

Re: Spam Problems

2005-05-15 Thread Jim Trigg
Kevin Pang wrote: Hello All, I'm a newbie and manage a FreeBSD server, which only hosts my own websites, also only me have shell accounts on this server. Someone sent out lots of spams from my server today. I have stopped postfix and disabled mail command to make sure no any emails will be sent to

Re: Help with Expect Script

2005-05-15 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 14:09, Phusion wrote: I'm new to writing expect scripts and need some help. The script will telnet to a host and run some commands. I want the script to ping the host to see if it's alive first before it telnets into it. Also, I know the host is pingable meaning it

can't connect to mysql

2005-05-15 Thread Eric Cheney
Hello. I'm trying to get MySQL4.0 working. I've installed it using /stand/systinstall (as well as ports method on another attempt). I got a report from sysinstall that MySQL was installed. That's both the client and the server (it caught the dependencies.) But here's the problem: I can't

Re: can't connect to mysql

2005-05-15 Thread Chris Knipe
vi /etc/rc.conf mysql_enable=YES :wq /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start mysql and you should be fine. read what the port installation says the next time you install a port ;-) -- Chris. I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by... - Douglas Adams,

Re: can't connect to mysql

2005-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 15 May 2005 15:37:11 -0400 Eric Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the error I get begin error message** max# mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) cut So then I did this,

Re: can't connect to mysql

2005-05-15 Thread Eric Cheney
On Sunday, 15 May 2005 at 21:53:01 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2005 15:37:11 -0400 Eric Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the error I get begin error message** max# mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL

configuring KDE

2005-05-15 Thread Zaid Dashti
Hello, I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 and configured the X server by using (xorgcfg -textmode) command. when i write startx, the X server is started, but where is the kde ? when i write startkde, i got error message, that needs some configuration! anyone know how to configure it? Regards,

Re: simple? sh problen

2005-05-15 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Ian Smith wrote: Hopefully not too OT .. the only silly question being the unasked one .. How do I test whether a sh argument is an integer or not, so as to avoid failing on a syntax error from otherwise working code such as: [ $3 -lt 10 -o $3 -gt 600 ] echo $0 $1 $2: $3

Re: configuring KDE

2005-05-15 Thread Kees Plonsz
Zaid Dashti wrote on Sunday 15 May 2005 22:32: Hello, I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 and configured the X server by using (xorgcfg -textmode) command. when i write startx, the X server is started, but where is the kde ? when i write startkde, i got error message, that needs some

Re: can't connect to mysql

2005-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 15 May 2005 16:17:01 -0400 Eric Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you have to specifically enable it in /etc/rc.conf : mysql_enable=YES it's documented in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh Thank you; that did it! My apologies for not reading the documentation---but I

Re: configuring KDE

2005-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 15 May 2005 23:32:00 +0300 Zaid Dashti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i write startx, the X server is started, but where is the kde ? when i write startkde, i got error message, that needs some configuration! anyone know how to configure it? you can try : echo startkde .xinitrc and

Re: simple? sh problen

2005-05-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2005, Ian Smith wrote: How do I test whether a sh argument is an integer or not, so as to avoid failing on a syntax error from otherwise working code such as: [ $3 -lt 10 -o $3 -gt 600 ] echo $0 $1 $2: $3 invalid exit 1

BIND and NAT

2005-05-15 Thread Joe Wood
Hello all, I have a small question regarding a DNS issue I am having. I have a bsd box setup for a domain I am hosting..it has FBSD 5.3 and Bind 9.3. It sits behind a NAT device and is in a DMZ. The problem is when I setup the domain I told it to point to the public ip which is translated to

virtualdesktop

2005-05-15 Thread Paul Klatt
Could nayone please help me configure the virtual desktop correctly so that the desktop does not go off of the monitor, and also the mouse does not work correctly. I would appreciate the help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: virtualdesktop

2005-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 15 May 2005 15:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Paul Klatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could nayone please help me configure the virtual desktop correctly so that the desktop does not go off of the monitor, and also the mouse does not work correctly. I would appreciate the help. how did you configure

Re: BIND and NAT

2005-05-15 Thread Paul Waring
On 5/15/05, Joe Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a small question regarding a DNS issue I am having. I have a bsd box setup for a domain I am hosting..it has FBSD 5.3 and Bind 9.3. It sits behind a NAT device and is in a DMZ. The problem is when I setup the domain I told it to point to the

NSSwitch settings on 5.4

2005-05-15 Thread Ian Moore
Hi, I'm trying to configure an openldap server on 5.4 and I'm unsure of what the correct settings in nsswitch.conf should be for a 5.4-Release system, since the default seems to be different to previous releases. Perhaps someone here might know? I've been using the guide at

RE: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive

2005-05-15 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
PR i386/81082 Once again, I don't think the problem is in the build process they used for making the ISO. As a matter of fact I just yesterday did a 5.4 install on a system, booting from CD, which I burned from disc1.iso that I downloaded from one of the FTP mirrors, on the one machine I

Epson Stylus C86 Printer

2005-05-15 Thread Mike Jeays
I have just bought one of these printers, and am having trouble getting it to work with ghostscript. It is connected via a USB port, and it responds momentarily when I send anything directly to /dev/ulpt0. I would appreciate the correct parameters for ghostscript - I think it should work with

RE: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive

2005-05-15 Thread fbsd_user
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Mittelstaedt Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 8:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive You also might consider that

Re: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive

2005-05-15 Thread Eric Schuele
I don't have any more pull getting PR's worked on, but I have found that if they are properly filed then they get worked on faster. For example, the PR system isn't an appropriate place for complaining that a mirror site is missing miniinst.iso file - you should contact the mirror administrator

Re: silencing the boot beep

2005-05-15 Thread Eric Schuele
Allan Bowhill wrote: Does anyone know how to turn off the annoying beep when BSD partition selector comes up? Wish I knew... I could use this as well. Also, has anyone got a decent setup for a synaptics touchpad attached to a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? To /boot/device.hints add

Working Keyboard in 5.x

2005-05-15 Thread Holtor
Hello, Does anyone know how to make a PS/2 keyboard work when plugged into a system booted without a keyboard on FreeBSD 5.x? It doesn't seem to work. For example in 4.x the default GENERIC kernel line is: device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 If you leave that line alone, the

Re: silencing the boot beep

2005-05-15 Thread John Pettitt
Eric Schuele wrote: Allan Bowhill wrote: Does anyone know how to turn off the annoying beep when BSD partition selector comes up? Wish I knew... I could use this as well. If I recall correctly the beep comes from the PC BIOS and indicates the POST passed.My suggestion - unplug the

Sound playing through mic jack

2005-05-15 Thread Christopher Cox
Hello, I am having a problem in FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE where all audio is being played through the mic jack instead of the one it is supposed to. I have read problems like this before about AC97 audio chips. I have been able to play MP3 music through this jack, so I know the snd_ich driver is

RE: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive

2005-05-15 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: fbsd_user [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 6:39 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: RE: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive There is a 80 pin cable and its good because I tested it in another pc. I

how to format an external usb drive with a freebsd partititon under freebsd 5.3

2005-05-15 Thread Steve
I've done a google search, read the freebsd handbook and searched the mailing list archives...maybe I'm not using the right search terms but I'm not finding the information I need...or I'm misunderstanding something on a fundamental level. I have a 120 gig western digital usb drive with a

Newbie: fonts c.

2005-05-15 Thread Moy Easwaran
I use mainly Fedora and OS X on desktops and OpenBSD on servers (so no GUI there). I'm trying to play with FreeBSD 5.4 a little and having trouble with look-and-feel issues. Fonts, menus, and sometimes icons look a bit ugly. Here are some screenshots:

Re: Newbie: fonts c.

2005-05-15 Thread Mantas Smelevicius
try to install /usr/ports/x11-fonts/webfonts or alternative /usr/ports/x11-fonts/arkpandora then enter on of the following lines into X config FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font/webfonts/ or FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font/arkpandora/ Also look at the Modules section into X config.

Proliant 1600 with 2 CPUs

2005-05-15 Thread Turker Dundar
Hi, I am trying to create a new kernel to use both the cpus installed in my Proliant 1600 system. The machine can see both the cpus when it starts up, but kernel fails to do so. I am using 5.4-Release. In the kernel configuration file I have this parameter defined already. options SMP Kernel