video playback not working

2005-07-28 Thread Mike Meyer
I moved a bunch of mpegs (and other video formats) to a 5.4 box running on a P4 from a 5.3 box running on a Thunderbird of some flavor or another. On the 5.3 box, they worked just fine. On the 5.4 box, they don't display any video. Instead, they display a black and red checkerboard. I get the

RE: Problem with isc-dhcp3-server and etherboot

2005-07-28 Thread Norbert Koch
after upgrading isc-dhcp3-server to 3.0.3, my etherboot bootprom (5.4.0, PXE) stopped working. It reports No IP Address. Has anyone else observed this? (I will also report this to the etherboot ML). I just upgraded to 3.0.3. I can only report to have no problems with etherboot 5.2.4.

Grub not working

2005-07-28 Thread Valerio daelli
Hello I am trying to install grub as a boot loader on my disk. I installed it from ports. When I try to install it on the MBR I get the error Running install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.l st ... failed Error 29: Disk write error I tried to install it with

Re: Shutdown -r now will not reboot pc

2005-07-28 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Ivan Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/27/2005 02:16 PM To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject Shutdown -r now will not reboot pc Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 5.3 When I try to reboot the pc with shutdown -r now the system gets as far as rebooting and hangs there.

Re: QUESTION.

2005-07-28 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
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Re: Problem with isc-dhcp3-server and etherboot

2005-07-28 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Jörg Reisenweber wrote: Moin Heinrich, Am 27.07.2005 um 16:53 schrieb Heinrich Rebehn: - Is there any way to downgrade to a previous version? (In this case i was lucky that there still was an old binary package) I just saw portdowngrade (/usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade - http://

Re: make buildworld fails in openssl/colldef [SOLVED]

2005-07-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Marius Korsmo wrote: It took two weeks to fix this problem, and therefore I do have a few questions. The error turned out to be in err.h. The file located in /usr/include was totally different from the one located in /usr/src/include. /*- * Copyright (c) 1993 *The Regents of the

groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

2005-07-28 Thread Xu Qiang
Hi, all: I am installing MySQL 4.1.13 into my machine. It has finished successfully. But before or after that, I need create some user account rather than root by the command groupadd mysql and useradd -g mysql mysql. However, these commands are not found in my FreeBSD 5.3 system. Any help

Re: Shell script frustration

2005-07-28 Thread martin
At 11:14 PM +0100 7/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: echo ldapdelete -W -D $binddn \cn=$1, $group_base\ ldapdelete -W -D $binddn \cn=$1, $group_base\ when run ('./rmgroup users') it outputs - ldapdelete -W -D cn=Manager,dc=orbweavers,dc=co,dc=uk cn=users, ou=groups,dc=orbweavers,dc=co,dc=uk

Re: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

2005-07-28 Thread Jörg Reisenweber
Hi, Am 28.07.2005 um 11:11 schrieb Xu Qiang: I need create some user account rather than root by the command groupadd mysql and useradd -g mysql mysql. pw groupadd mysql ; pw useradd mysql -g mysql Jörg___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Problems with booting MBR

2005-07-28 Thread vdm . fbsd
In the first disk ad0 (master) of a computer at office I had installed linux to be used as a postgresql server. Later I installed FreeBSD 5.4 (just to have a go at it) on a partition of the second disk ad1 (slave) to be a postgrresql server too. Linux lilo was the boot loader, booting linux by

Re: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

2005-07-28 Thread John Oxley
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:11:29PM +0800, Xu Qiang wrote: Hi, all: I am installing MySQL 4.1.13 into my machine. It has finished successfully. But before or after that, I need create some user account rather than root by the command groupadd mysql and useradd -g mysql mysql. However,

RE: cat /dev/urandom

2005-07-28 Thread mdff
shell# cat /dev/urandom can that executed as root cause any harm to the system? What if a random sequence of `rm *` was generated... would it be executed? the question is: WHAT FOR should someone logged in as root execute cat /dev/urandom without redirecting the output? anyway, from

Re: problems burning multi session dvd-rw

2005-07-28 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:15:06PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: i'm having some troubles burning a multi session dvd-rw. i blanked te dvd to make sure it was in sequential mode %dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0a -blank * DVD\uRW format utility by [EMAIL PROTECTED], version 4.9. * 4.7GB DVD-RW

Re: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

2005-07-28 Thread J. Martin Petersen
Xu Qiang wrote: Hi, all: I am installing MySQL 4.1.13 into my machine. It has finished successfully. But before or after that, I need create some user account rather than root by the command groupadd mysql and useradd -g mysql mysql. However, these commands are not found in my FreeBSD 5.3

RE: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

2005-07-28 Thread Xu Qiang
Jörg Reisenweber wrote: pw groupadd mysql ; pw useradd mysql -g mysql Thanks for providing the correct usage of pw useradd. At first sight, I thought your pw useradd mysql -g mysql is a typo, which misplaced the first mysql and -g option, so I used pw useradd -g mysql mysql, but got an

RE: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

2005-07-28 Thread Xu Qiang
Btw, Just think of this problem: Although I have added the user mysql to my machine, I didn't set its password. When does this newly added user get his/her password and change it? thanks, Regards, Xu Qiang ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

RE: I got my vsftpd core dumped.

2005-07-28 Thread mdff
Hello guys, i always got my vsftpd core dumped and i have no idea why is that happening all the time... There 's some informations below. www# tail /var/log/messages Jul 27 11:07:59 www kernel: pid 28994 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 httpd=vsftpd here? if not, both have

boot problem

2005-07-28 Thread asd asd
Hello! I have problem with booting FreeBSD 5.4 on my laptop Toshiba Satellite 2410-304: sometimes it boots without problem but sometimes it stops at line uhci0: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A port 0xefe0-0xefff irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0. Previous line is initialization of the

Re: Problem with Opera Plug-ins

2005-07-28 Thread lars
Jonathan Glaschke wrote: I think you need linux-opera because this is a linux plugin. -Jonathan Installing linux-opera solved the problem, thanks a lot. Kind regards, lars. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: delete partition from MO

2005-07-28 Thread Benjamin Lutz
then , the MO capacity is 2.6G. But the real mounted capacity is 1.2G. [...] What's wrong about to delete original partition and the capacity ? Nothing, works as advertised. It's a bad habit of manufacturers of backup hardware to advertise twice the capacity that their hardware actually has,

Re: Grub not working

2005-07-28 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Valerio daelli wrote: I am trying to install grub as a boot loader on my disk. I installed it from ports. When I try to install it on the MBR I get the error [...] Error 29: Disk write error Two guesses: - You can't write to a disks MBR while it's being used. I've seen this myself, but

Can someone clarify ipfw's in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts?

2005-07-28 Thread Ian Smith
(Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 105, Issue 7) Gary writes: I see in another msg that I'm not the only one scratching my head over the ipfw manpage's explanation of in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts. I've spent many hours reading that manpage and working on my rc.firewall (and it seems to

Question about FreeBsd 5.4 + BIND 9.3.1 and threads

2005-07-28 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have a FreeBSD 5.4R box running BIND 9.3.1 from base on a dual Xeon with hyperthreading enabled. According to the man page for named: -n #cpus Create #cpus worker threads to take advantage of multiple CPUs. If not specified, named will try to

Re: Epson 2480/2580 scanner support

2005-07-28 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:39:34PM +0200, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Hi, Sorry if this question is misplaced, but the sane project hosts no user mailing list, and the hardware list brought no luck. Looking at the handbook it seems that ny scanner supported by the sane backend is supported on

Boot page fault - alternative kernel needed?

2005-07-28 Thread Jason Morgan
I have an old laptop that I am finally trying to get FreeBSD installed on. It was recently running Linux just fine, but I am having a tough time getting FreeBSD installed on it. Here is the error I get when booting. I have typed all that is visible on the screen when it crashes. # Begin

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-28 Thread Victor Semionov
This is one of the things I find really hard to get Windows users to understand. They just won't believe that a company like Microsoft would still be using a filesystem that needs defragmenting if it were possible to design one that didn't. I often wonder why myself - after all, they must

Re: Power cut during portupgrade -NRP kde

2005-07-28 Thread RW
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 07:58, Gareth Bailey wrote: Hi all, I believe that a kde install using packages where possible is the quickest route. I started the kde install using portupgrade -NRP kde, but had a power cut half way through :-( How might i continue where I left off? Just run it

Questions

2005-07-28 Thread Razvan
Hi, What version of FreeBSD is indicat for my server ? I have: MB: X5DA8 - Supermicro dual XEON 2.40 GHz ( http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7505/X5DA8.cfm ) , with AIC-7902, 4xHDD SEAGATE 36G SCSI, 512DDRAM, video ATI RADEON9550. I use for server www, ftp, mail, router.

Re: Problem report rejected

2005-07-28 Thread Qiu Quan
Thanks to all who helped! I went to the web form at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html, but didn't find an appropriate place to attach some file. Then, I noticed that the GMail's web interface tried to expand tabs to spaces when forwarding my original message, which was unacceptable. Finally, I

Boot page fault - alternative kernel needed?

2005-07-28 Thread Jason Morgan
I have an old laptop that I am finally trying to get FreeBSD installed on. It was recently running Linux just fine, but I am having a tough time getting FreeBSD installed on it. Here is the error I get when booting. I have typed all that is visible on the screen when it crashes. # Begin

make buildworld error

2005-07-28 Thread Jason Morgan
I keep getting the following on a 4.9 system when trying to move to 4.11. rm -f sa main.o pdb.o usrdb.o sa.8.gz sa.8.cat.gz rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS === usr.sbin/setkey .depend, line 1: Need an operator .depend, line 2: Need an operator .depend, line 3: Need an operator .depend,

Port Scan

2005-07-28 Thread Cody Holland
Does anyone know what could be causing this? Some of these are probes from external IP's, but a lot of these are the servers probing itself. Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:65215 flags:0x02 Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:65215 flags:0x02

RE: make buildworld error

2005-07-28 Thread Norbert Koch
I keep getting the following on a 4.9 system when trying to move to 4.11. rm -f sa main.o pdb.o usrdb.o sa.8.gz sa.8.cat.gz rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS === usr.sbin/setkey .depend, line 1: Need an operator .depend, line 2: Need an operator .depend, line 3: Need an operator

Re: Port Scan

2005-07-28 Thread Hornet
On 7/28/05, Cody Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what could be causing this? Some of these are probes from external IP's, but a lot of these are the servers probing itself. Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:65215 flags:0x02 Connection attempt to TCP

RE: Port Scan

2005-07-28 Thread Norbert Koch
Does anyone know what could be causing this? Some of these are probes from external IP's, but a lot of these are the servers probing itself. Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:65215 flags:0x02 Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:65215 flags:0x02

RE: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-28 Thread MikeM
On 7/27/2005 at 7:30 PM Mike Jeays wrote: |This is one of the things I find really hard to get Windows users to |understand. They just won't believe that a company like Microsoft would |still be using a filesystem that needs defragmenting if it were possible |to design one that didn't. I often

Re: make buildworld fails in openssl/colldef [SOLVED]

2005-07-28 Thread Marius Korsmo
Quoting Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marius Korsmo wrote: It took two weeks to fix this problem, and therefore I do have a few questions. The error turned out to be in err.h. The file located in /usr/include was totally different from the one located in /usr/src/include. /*- *

pkg_create: correct usage?

2005-07-28 Thread mdff
i'm trying to create packages on freebsd-5.4-RELEASE. can anyone tell me how to define a packinglist for pkg_create with the ability to remove the directories after pkg_delete and not getting complaints if they are not empty? if i specify @dirrm dir in the packinglist, i get these errors, if

Backup kernel - confirmation

2005-07-28 Thread Norberto Meijome
quick question - I have a remote box with SMP/HTT disabled, but I'd like to see how it works with it. If I make a copy of my current kernel to /kernel_orig, I should be able to install the SMP one as /kernel, and if hell breaks lose, I should be able to point it to /kernel_orig ... right? any

Re: Problems with booting MBR

2005-07-28 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad1s2b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad1s2a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1a /usr/local

Re: FreeBSD file system example and question

2005-07-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marcin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, where can i find information or examples of how to write a file system for FreeBSD, apart from /usr/src/sys/* and /usr/share/man/*? The Architecure Handbook. (/usr/share/doc/en/arch-handbook) The old McKusick book (/usr/share/doc/en/design-44bsd) The

Re: Grub not working

2005-07-28 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Benjamin Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Two guesses: - You can't write to a disks MBR while it's being used. I've seen this myself, but I'm not exactly why this is, or how it can be circumvented (other than booting from another device). Yes. It wasn't always this way. You can make a

Re: Questions

2005-07-28 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Razvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What version of FreeBSD is indicat for my server ? You should have put that in the Subject line. I'd use 5.4-RELEASE until I encounted serious problems with it, when I'd switch to 5.4-STABLE before retrying and reporting the problems.

Re: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

2005-07-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 28), Xu Qiang said: Btw, Just think of this problem: Although I have added the user mysql to my machine, I didn't set its password. When does this newly added user get his/her password and change it? No-one usually logs in as the mysql user, so you don't need to

Re: Problems with booting MBR

2005-07-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gary W. Swearingen wrote: If you're sticking to FreeBSD's boot0 MBR, you'll have to put one on each disk. I don't know if boot0 can remember F5 as the default choice for auto-booting or not. But one way or another the first disk's boot0 needs to use F5 to start the second disk's MBR/boot0

Re: make buildworld fails in openssl/colldef [SOLVED]

2005-07-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Marius Korsmo wrote: That does not look like an *old* version, it looks like a completely different file. Did you install anything not from ports that might have overwritten it? Did you try and install a port into a target hierarchy that /usr/local? (The same copyright header as the real

Re: apache13-modssl-1.3.33+2.8.22_1 port broken??

2005-07-28 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Viren Patel wrote: I am trying to install apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22_1 and get the following: #make === apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22_1 has known vulnerabilities: = apache -- http request smuggling. Reference:

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

2005-07-28 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, FreeBsdBeni wrote: Is there an easy way to get to know the volume id or disclabel of a cd or dvd ? Mounting the cd/dvd just gives me the contents of the disc, but not its name. In k3b one can ask the info about a disc and get all the info about the inserted cd/dvd (disc

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

2005-07-28 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 16:49 CEST schrieb Warren Block: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, FreeBsdBeni wrote: Is there an easy way to get to know the volume id or disclabel of a cd or dvd ? Mounting the cd/dvd just gives me the contents of the disc, but not its name. In k3b one can ask the info

Re: Boot page fault - alternative kernel needed?

2005-07-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jason Morgan wrote: I have an old laptop that I am finally trying to get FreeBSD installed on. It was recently running Linux just fine, but I am having a tough time getting FreeBSD installed on it. Here is the error I get when booting. I have typed all that is visible on the screen when it

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-28 Thread Bob Johnson
Message: 6 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:20:31 +0300 From: Victor Semionov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 This is one of the things I find really hard to

Re: FreeBSD file system example and question

2005-07-28 Thread Marcin
Thanks! The arch-book is something i was looking for. Somehow i missed that when seeking doc/ m. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Backup kernel - confirmation

2005-07-28 Thread Bryan Maynard
On Thursday 28 July 2005 02:10 pm, Norberto Meijome wrote: quick question - I have a remote box with SMP/HTT disabled, but I'd like to see how it works with it. If I make a copy of my current kernel to /kernel_orig, I should be able to install the SMP one as /kernel, and if hell breaks lose, I

Re: boot problem

2005-07-28 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 7/28/05, asd asd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have problem with booting FreeBSD 5.4 on my laptop Toshiba Satellite 2410-304: sometimes it boots without problem but sometimes it stops at line uhci0: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A port 0xefe0-0xefff irq 11 at device

Re: FreeBSD 5.4+SMP, severe network degredation

2005-07-28 Thread dpk
By the way, I also compared GENERIC performance against GENERIC w/ options SMP added, and had the same results. On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, dpk wrote: We just received several SuperMicro servers, 3.0Ghz Xeon x 2, 4GB RAM. They're using the em driver and the ports are set to 1000Mbit (we also tried

Re: FreeBSD 5.4+SMP, severe network degredation

2005-07-28 Thread dpk
Woah. Well, I guess I didn't try *everything*. Removing device acpi from the kernel config leaves me witih a PAE+SMP kernel that works fine. I can fetch files at wire speed and everything. So, I guess this issue is closed. acpi was the ultimate culprit. On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, dpk wrote: By the

Re: how to run 2 instance of memcached from rc.conf?

2005-07-28 Thread Danny Howard
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:59:59PM -0700, Lei Sun wrote: Yeah, the tricky part is not to what to do, but how to do it. I know I need to configure 2 ip or 2 ports. As the memcached.sh is using run_rc_command, and somehow, even if when I am giving it 2 arguments with different port, it still

Re: sterminal or alternative

2005-07-28 Thread Danny Howard
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:07:35AM +0200, Maarten wrote: Is anyone aware if there have been efforts to port sterminal? If not, are there any ported alternatives which I have overlooked? Maarten, Perhaps you can get it ported easily. :)

Re: Shell script frustration

2005-07-28 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:10 AM +0100 7/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Garance wrote: What I do in this cases is create a script called list_args.sh: #!/bin/sh printf \nlist_args.sh at `date +%H:%M:%S` with \$# = $#\n # Process all parameters. N=0 while test $# != 0 ; do N=$(($N+1)) printf

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-28 Thread Freminlins
On 7/28/05, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it unnecessary to defragment UFS? In normal use, files never become fragmented enough to affect performance. In a (loose) sense, files are intentionally fragmented in a controlled way so that fragmentation doesn't cause problems.

Re: how to run 2 instance of memcached from rc.conf?

2005-07-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:36 AM 7/28/2005, Danny Howard wrote: How are you giving anything different arguments? I only see one service configured in your rc.conf. So how do I use the same script to run 2 instance of memcached? From my original email: then, you can use two sets of variables in /etc/rc.conf

Samba over VPN

2005-07-28 Thread cell
Hello , i have created a VPN ( with openvpn-2.0_3 on freebsd 5.4 ) between my network who has a gateway on freebsd 5.4 and others computer on win xp, and a network who has windows xp home as gateway.Windows xp home gateway used openvpn 2 too and i have created a bridge in my freebsd gateway

script for adding a samba-user

2005-07-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, been working on a script to add a samba-user, below an example which is not working, can someone provide the fix here to make it work properly ? #!/bin/sh adduser -G data -s scponly $1 smbpasswd $1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Wireless with Aironet 350 Card Help needed

2005-07-28 Thread Reeves, Brandon
I have a Freebsd 5.3 Laptop with an Aironet 350 Card. I can get the card associated with the AP using WEP etc. However, I still can not ping the outside internet. I had this working while I was initially toying with the card but for some reason it no longer works. This is a new card I have added

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-28 Thread Freminlins
Gayn Winters wrote: What I get from reading this article is that if the use of the file system is to store lots of small files, then use a small block size. Am I missing something? No and yes! There is a minimum block and fragment size. In this case there were not enough contiguous

Re: xorg keyboard layout

2005-07-28 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:00:47PM +0400, Igor Robul wrote: Dikshie wrote: Dear All, because my laptop is Japanese laptop so I define keymap=jp.106 on /etc/rc.conf BUT when I do startx (using XORG 6.8.2) the keyboard layout back to default (generic english keyboard) ! How to keep

Re: FreeBSD 5.4+SMP, severe network degredation

2005-07-28 Thread Benson Wong
I've been having similar issues after upgrading to the latest 5.4-STABLE. I used to have it running 5.4-STABLE with the GENERIC PAE kernel. I rebuilt the world, and the kernel and now my bge (1Gbit) gets a lot of watchdog timeout -- resetting issues. I have acpi enabled in my kernel as well,

Re: huh?

2005-07-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 10:39, Chris wrote: Do you have curses like cisco rhce msce CCNA , maybe for free ? YOU - are an idiot... Read the list name... FreeBSD Questions... I think he meant to ask, are there FreeBSD certifications similar to RHCE, MSCE, etc.?, which is a perfectly

Re: Wireless with Aironet 350 Card Help needed

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 28 July 2005 01:28 pm, Reeves, Brandon wrote: I have a Freebsd 5.3 Laptop with an Aironet 350 Card. I can get the card associated with the AP using WEP etc. However, I still can not ping the outside internet. I had this working while I was initially toying with the card but for

Re: script for adding a samba-user

2005-07-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:25 AM 7/28/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, been working on a script to add a samba-user, below an example which is not working, can someone provide the fix here to make it work properly ? It's difficult to help since you didn't provide a description of the problem beyond not

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Message: 6 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:20:31 +0300 From: Victor Semionov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251

Re: Samba over VPN

2005-07-28 Thread Chris Haulmark
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 20:06 +0200, cell wrote: Hello , i have created a VPN ( with openvpn-2.0_3 on freebsd 5.4 ) between my network who has a gateway on freebsd 5.4 and others computer on win xp, and a network who has windows xp home as gateway.Windows xp home gateway used openvpn 2 too

Re: script for adding a samba-user

2005-07-28 Thread Chris Haulmark
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 12:02 -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 11:25 AM 7/28/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, been working on a script to add a samba-user, below an example which is not working, can someone provide the fix here to make it work properly ? It's difficult to help since you

Re: script for adding a samba-user

2005-07-28 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, been working on a script to add a samba-user, below an example which is not working, can someone provide the fix here to make it work properly ? #!/bin/sh adduser -G data -s scponly $1 smbpasswd $1 Assuming you use samba3 something like

Re: script for adding a samba-user

2005-07-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:02:08 -0700 Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: been working on a script to add a samba-user, below an example which is not working, can someone provide the fix here to make it work properly ? It's difficult to help since you didn't provide a description of the

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gayn Winters wrote: What I get from reading this article is that if the use of the file system is to store lots of small files, then use a small block size. Am I missing something? No and yes! There is a minimum block and fragment size. In this

Re: FreeBSD 6

2005-07-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: One more thing... Will FreeBSD 5.4 kernel modules work under 6.x? No, you have to recompile them. Kris pgptKs7RhvAiz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 6

2005-07-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:00:49PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: Do I always need to run 'make cleandepend' when rebuilding a kernel, normally I build my kernels the old school way? Is it just me or is -O2 now the default for kernel builds? What about -Os, safe to use? Should be OK. The

Re: FreeBSD 6

2005-07-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:33:55PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: At boot up I get these errors / warnings: kenv: unable to get dumpdev How are you setting up your dumpdev? Show us your config. no such user: _dhcp, falling back to nobody I left groups and master.passwd files to deal with

Re: Samba over VPN

2005-07-28 Thread cell
The VPN network is look like http://www.linux-win.org/reseau.png - Original Message - From: Chris Haulmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:07 PM Subject: Re: Samba over VPN On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 20:06

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-28 Thread Bob Johnson
On Thursday 28 July 2005 03:07 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Victor Semionov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Why is it unnecessary to defragment UFS? In normal use, files never become fragmented enough to affect performance. In a (loose) sense, files

Re: Can someone clarify ipfw's in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts?

2005-07-28 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see in another msg that I'm not the only one scratching my head over the ipfw manpage's explanation of in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts. I've spent many hours reading that manpage and working on my rc.firewall (and it seems to work OK,

Re: huh?

2005-07-28 Thread Bryan Maynard
On Thursday 28 July 2005 06:55 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Wednesday 27 July 2005 10:39, Chris wrote: Do you have curses like cisco rhce msce CCNA , maybe for free ? YOU - are an idiot... Read the list name... FreeBSD Questions... I think he meant to ask, are there FreeBSD

Re: Samba over VPN

2005-07-28 Thread Chris Haulmark
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 15:44 -0400, cell wrote: The VPN network is look like http://www.linux-win.org/reseau.png Which of those machines are configured to be a bridge device? Please don't top post. Reply under the original poster's lines. Chris ___

MySQL - Cannot access as root

2005-07-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
I have just installed MySQL 5. I can access the program as a regular user, but not as root. As I regular user I have no privileges. If I attempt to access as root, I receive this error message. ERROR 1045 (28000) Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) I can access

Dead disk? READ_DMA Failure

2005-07-28 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Hi, Please read on although this is a long one... I might panic and coredump myself if I don't get this fixed. I have a one year old Hitachi Travelstar 60GB/4200RPM disk. This night and since then, I get these errors: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=48926527 ad0: TIMEOUT -

Determine processing holding open a 52+Gig file ...

2005-07-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
'k, this is the second time its happened ... on a file system that is currently 35% full (52G free), all the disk space disappeared ... Is there a way of finding out what process is holding open this immense file? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services

Re: MySQL - Cannot access as root

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 28 July 2005 04:20 pm, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have just installed MySQL 5. I can access the program as a regular user, but not as root. As I regular user I have no privileges. If I attempt to access as root, I receive this error message. ERROR 1045 (28000) Access denied for user

Freebsd testing with squid. User authentication works, now trying to get group based auth

2005-07-28 Thread Derrick MacPherson
as the subject says, when I try to test group auth, I get: /usr/local/libexec/squid/wb_group -d /wb_group[19095](wb_check_group.c:344): External ACL winbindd group helper build Jul 27 2005, 17:33:37 starting up... /wb_group[19095](wb_check_group.c:308): Can't contact winbindd. Dying proxy1# ps

Re: Determine processing holding open a 52+Gig file ...

2005-07-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:40 PM 7/28/2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, this is the second time its happened ... on a file system that is currently 35% full (52G free), all the disk space disappeared ... Are you out of inodes? df -i Is there a way of finding out what process is holding open this immense file?

Re: Determine processing holding open a 52+Gig file ...

2005-07-28 Thread Philip Hallstrom
'k, this is the second time its happened ... on a file system that is currently 35% full (52G free), all the disk space disappeared ... Is there a way of finding out what process is holding open this immense file? I'm pretty sure lsof can tell you... either just plain lsof or maybe with the

Sendmail help needed

2005-07-28 Thread Alexandre Vieira
Hello folks, I'm trying to get past a standard in sendmail which is very simple. I have several machines reporting mails trough local MTA's (sendmail) in each one of the boxes to our main mailserver. The thing is, I did not developed the scripts and they are using mailx -s subj user which

need some advice

2005-07-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have the chance to buy a new computer. It will take a long time before I can do this again. My options are: Athlon64-3000+ (Newcastle) on a MSI K8T NEO-FSR board (1Gb 3200 mem) Athlon64-3400+ (Clawhammer on the same board Intel Prescott 3.4Mhz on a Intel 915p board (1024 Mb DDRII pc4300

Re: Sendmail help needed

2005-07-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:17 PM 7/28/2005, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to get past a standard in sendmail which is very simple. I have several machines reporting mails trough local MTA's (sendmail) in each one of the boxes to our main mailserver. The thing is, I did not developed the scripts

Re: Large filesystem woes

2005-07-28 Thread dpk
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Are you trying to start from scratch, or just making changes to the existing table? If it's the second, then try the -u option: # fdisk -u /dev/da0 This should give you a chance to interactively change the partition table of the disk.

Re: Large filesystem woes

2005-07-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-28 15:52, dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Are you trying to start from scratch, or just making changes to the existing table? If it's the second, then try the -u option: # fdisk -u /dev/da0 This should give you a chance to

Re: need some advice

2005-07-28 Thread Benjamin Lutz
dick hoogendijk wrote: Is there much difference between the athlon3000/3400 ?? Will the intel platform have (dis)advantages ? Well, the 3400+ will be slightly faster when it comes to number crunching. They'll be up to par to the Intel chip, but the Intel system will cost more. If price is

Re: need some advice

2005-07-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, dick hoogendijk wrote: I have the chance to buy a new computer. It will take a long time before I can do this again. My options are: Athlon64-3000+ (Newcastle) on a MSI K8T NEO-FSR board (1Gb 3200 mem) Athlon64-3400+ (Clawhammer on the same board Intel Prescott 3.4Mhz on

Re: Large filesystem woes

2005-07-28 Thread dpk
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: It won't wipe away the table. It will just let you edit the existing table interactively, through a series of questions like: - Do you want to edit partition 1? - Do you want to edit partition 2? - Do you want to edit

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