The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-02-05 - 2006-02-25

2006-02-26 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: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:26:00PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:22:59PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: re0: diagnostic failed to receive packet in loopback mode re0: attach aborted due to hardware diagnostic failure panic: mtx_lock() of

cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread Dmitri Pisarev
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer. The question is, is it posible to copy the freebsd patition to

Re: 10 years of The Complete FreeBSD (5150)

2006-02-26 Thread vittorio
Alle 23:18, venerdì 24 febbraio 2006, Bill Schoolcraft ha scritto: Greg, I want to thank you for you help in making FreeBSD what it is today. ... I want to thank Greg too for his great book. As an experienced linux user after reading it I was able to move safely and

Re: A question on console and UTF-8

2006-02-26 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 2/26/06, Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:35:51PM +0200, a wrote: How to force a console to use a multibyte character set (UTF-8)? I use FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. AFAIK, FreeBSD does not support UTF-8 locales on text console.

Re: Desperate - FreeBSD 6.0 Freezing

2006-02-26 Thread Grant Peel
Derek, all, Regarding my recent system freeze ups, here is a list of software and hardware. Some other notes: At one point a week or so ago, I setup a ipfw firewall rule to allow access in port 3396 for a client who required remote access to it. I am still awaiting work to see if thier

Re: Unable to find 'automake'

2006-02-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 06:23:42PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: Using FreeBSD 5.4 While building 'portmanager', I noticed this error message: Making all in libMG Making all in src cd ../.. /bin/sh

Problem with Samba after upgrade

2006-02-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
I just updated to the newest version of Samba (3.0.21b,1). The old version was working fine, but since there were a number of ports that I had that were out dated, I simply updated them all. The problem is that Samba does not appear to be working correctly now. I can access the FreeBSED machine

Re: Unable to find 'automake'

2006-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:17:30AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 06:23:42PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: Using FreeBSD 5.4 While building 'portmanager', I noticed this error message: Making all in libMG Making all in src cd

lpr - cups

2006-02-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
I'm thinking of changing my printing system from good-old lpr to cups. Mainly because my (home) network computers can find the main printer more easy with cups than with /etc/printcap (windows and os-x machines) Installing cups should not be too difficult. I have a very goo how2 for it. However,

Re: Updating OpenSSH

2006-02-26 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Daniel A. wrote: So, basically, if I want the newest version of OpenSSH running on my system, I have to not use the one shipped with 6.0-RELEASE, and install OpenSSH from ports? Please don't toppost. Installing from ports you'll get version 3.6.1. Before you get paranoid, check the changelog

solution: pf with multiple external interfaces for incoming and going traffic.

2006-02-26 Thread Leon Botes
I am posting this soultion in the hope that it might help someone else that has been searching for the answer to running multiple external interfaces and wishes to load balance outgoing private lan traffic and also have all these interfaces available for incoming connections to a dmz server. I

imap problem with blackhole

2006-02-26 Thread Perttu Laine
Hello! I have problem with imap. Works fine if blackhole (tcp) is set to 0, but I set it 1 or 2 imap stops responding (timeouts). Dovecot imap and freebsd 5.4. So. What could be case here? -- kpn @ IRCnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-26 Thread ptitoliv
Donald J. O'Neill a écrit : I guess you're right to say there's a misunderstanding. Ok I understand. I would want to say on this post that I made tests from the BSD box to a Debian box, both located on the 100 Mbits/s network. And I made others tests between the same BSD box (still located on

Palm TX hotsync question.

2006-02-26 Thread Eugeny Kuzakov
hi all, I have purchased Palm TX. The big difference with old palms is that serial device (ucom/cuaU0) is always present -- not only whan I press hotsync buttom. In this case the most progs think is reason for sync and tries to connect with palm. What really happens? When I insert Palm

Re: imap problem with blackhole

2006-02-26 Thread Kees
Perttu Laine wrote on Sunday 26 February 2006 13:26: Hello! I have problem with imap. Works fine if blackhole (tcp) is set to 0, but I set it 1 or 2 imap stops responding (timeouts). Dovecot imap and freebsd 5.4. So. What could be case here? Strange, I use FreeBSD-5.4 and dovecot with imap

Re: Unable to find 'automake'

2006-02-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:17:30AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 06:23:42PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: Using FreeBSD 5.4 While building 'portmanager', I noticed this error message: Making all in

Re: imap problem with blackhole

2006-02-26 Thread Perttu Laine
On 2/26/06, Kees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have problem with imap. Works fine if blackhole (tcp) is set to 0, but I set it 1 or 2 imap stops responding (timeouts). Dovecot imap and freebsd 5.4. So. What could be case here? Strange, I use FreeBSD-5.4 and dovecot with imap as well, but it

Re: imap problem with blackhole

2006-02-26 Thread Perttu Laine
Oh damn. It was problem with dummy sysadmin only (me). I tried to connect localhost instead of real hostname and dovecot didn't answer there. So. You all can forget earlier posts. :) -- kpn @ IRCnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Desperate - FreeBSD 6.0 Freezing

2006-02-26 Thread Ceri Davies
On 26/2/06 09:24, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ACPI APIC Table: DELL PE BKC Ha ha - does that stand for what I think it stands for? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere

Wireless Keyboard/Mouse: how to configure?

2006-02-26 Thread Rob
Hi, I have a wireless combo of keyboard and mouse. The basic functionality is OK. However, some of the extra features do not work yet: 1) The middle mouse button is also a scroll wheel. I can't get the scroll wheel working. I have added the option ZAxisMapping 4 5 to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but

snd_neomagic crashes on FreeBSD 5.4

2006-02-26 Thread Lila
Hello! sorry for troubling you, I'm and absolute FreeBSD beginner and I need some help with configuring devices. Last week I tried to install FreeBSD on my laptop, a Omnibook 900, wich has been consdered FreeBSD Compatible long time ago. Everything was fine, at least I can access my FreeBSD login

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-26 Thread ptitoliv
Hello Everybody, I made lots of searches on the Internet and I found something about the option net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable. If I set this value to 0, my bandwitdh problems are resolved. Does anybody knows something about this options and why can it be the origin of this problem ? Regards,

Re: imap problem with blackhole

2006-02-26 Thread Kees
Perttu Laine wrote on Sunday 26 February 2006 14:37: Oh damn. It was problem with dummy sysadmin only (me). I tried to connect localhost instead of real hostname and dovecot didn't answer there. So. You all can forget earlier posts. :) I have a bad memory anyway :-)

RE: Problem with Samba after upgrade

2006-02-26 Thread Gayn Winters
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerard Seibert Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 2:27 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with Samba after upgrade I just updated to the newest version of Samba (3.0.21b,1). The old version was working fine, but since there were a

Re: changing Sendmail server's IP address, nightmare!

2006-02-26 Thread Derek Ragona
As far as I know, sendmail uses DNS and the server's name resolution it is running on for the IP's. There is nowhere I know in sendmail where an IP is hard coded. If you are having any difficulty it is due to changes to your DNS, and the time it takes for DNS changes to propagate across the

Help with IP Filter 4.1.8

2006-02-26 Thread Roman Serbski
Hi all, I am having a problem with ipf after recent upgrade to 6.1-PRERELEASE. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ipf: IP Filter: v4.1.8 (416) Kernel: IP Filter: v4.1.8 Running: yes Log Flags: 0 = none set Default: pass all, Logging: available Active list: 0 Feature mask: 0xa I am trying to

Re: Desperate - FreeBSD 6.0 Freezing

2006-02-26 Thread Derek Ragona
Grant, The first few things I would try are: Update the BIOS, and any other firmware that may have an update. Run the Dell diagnostics and make sure there are no errors the diagnostics finds. Check your temperatures, excess temperature can cause system lockups. If you do those and still are

rl0 discard oversize

2006-02-26 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) I have a fbsd 5.4 today while copy a lot files (several Gb) the network saturation...and don't responding of ping :-( in dmesg i see: rl0 discard oversize frame (ether type 4a82 flags 3 len 38118 1514 ok, i tried ifconfig rl0 mtu 1400 but i have the same problem, i tried 1420,

Re: arp: XXX is on rl0 but got reply from ...

2006-02-26 Thread Andrei Iarus
--- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read a lot about this error message, but I have another questions: What actually happens when this error occures? I mean what can this error lead to? Is it enough to switch the specific sysctl

Re: lpr - cups

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Maness
dick hoogendijk wrote: I'm thinking of changing my printing system from good-old lpr to cups. Mainly because my (home) network computers can find the main printer more easy with cups than with /etc/printcap (windows and os-x machines) Installing cups should not be too difficult. I have a very

Re: rl0 discard oversize

2006-02-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Pol Hallen wrote: Hi all :-) I have a fbsd 5.4 today while copy a lot files (several Gb) the network saturation...and don't responding of ping :-( in dmesg i see: rl0 discard oversize frame (ether type 4a82 flags 3 len 38118 1514 [ ... ] where is the problem? With the rl0 hardware,

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer. The

Re: ATAPICAM?

2006-02-26 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:06:22 -0800 Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I load atapicam at boot time? I can load it with no problems after the system has started, but I if I ad the line atapicam_load=YES in /*boot*/loader.conf, the kernel turns to fried chicken at boot time. Is there

Re: ATAPICAM?

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Maness
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:06:22 -0800 Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I load atapicam at boot time? I can load it with no problems after the system has started, but I if I ad the line atapicam_load=YES in /*boot*/loader.conf, the kernel turns to fried chicken

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-26 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 26 February 2006 08:10, ptitoliv wrote: Hello Everybody, I made lots of searches on the Internet and I found something about the option net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable. If I set this value to 0, my bandwitdh problems are resolved. Does anybody knows something about this options

RE: Help with IP Filter 4.1.8

2006-02-26 Thread fbsd_user
Since you say the same ipf rules work on your 5.3 system and you are trying to run them on 6.1-PRERELEASE, I would say the problem is 6.1-PRERELEASE. Prereleases versions and RC version are not intended for public use. They are version for people who know how to debug kernel code and help the

Re: Help with IP Filter 4.1.8

2006-02-26 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 26 February 2006 11:19, fbsd_user wrote: Since you say the same ipf rules work on your 5.3 system and you are trying to run them on 6.1-PRERELEASE, I would say the problem is 6.1-PRERELEASE. Prereleases versions and RC version are not intended for public use. They are version for

Heimdal Key Table Entry Not Found

2006-02-26 Thread Jason C. Wells
I am not able to use heimdal kerberos telnetd on FreeBSD-6 to provide remote access to a host. I get this error from my Kermit client: Kerberos authentication failed! Kerberos V5 refuses authentication because Read req failed: Key table entry not found The keytab has

automatically starting gnome-2.10

2006-02-26 Thread Hèrvé Simplice van der Eijk
Hallo FreeBSD users I just install gnome-2.10 on my freebsd 5.4 release machine, and it's working, but I want it to start automatically afther rebooting the system. I dont want to start it typen startx each time. please can somebody tell me how can i start gnome2.10 automatically or what is

Why doesn't burn cdrdao BIN/CUE on 6.0-R ?

2006-02-26 Thread Robert Eckardt
Hi, after trying for some hours now to burn a videocd with cdrdao under 6.0-R, I reverted to nero on XP. :-( Any idea, why cdrdao exits with RC=1, but w/o any message? Greetings, Robert 18:44 gluon: roberte/CD-Stuff/tmp 0%# cat Video1.cue FILE Video1.bin BINARY TRACK 01 MODE2/2352 INDEX

Re: VPN Jail(s) ...

2006-02-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Igor Robul wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:03:26PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I asked this a little while ago, and had alot of good answers ... but, after doing some thinking, I'm wondering if there might be a better way of doing it, that removed the requirement for

can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/libtool13

2006-02-26 Thread Xn Nooby
I fixed most of the errors from my upgrade from 6.1 p#1 to 6.1 p#2, and in the process apparently upgraded to 6.1 p#3. I am still getting a libtool error. Earlier, I did a make deinstall clean on all ports that were using libtool, and after removing about 10, I thought I had it fixed. It

advice on upgrading production FreeBSD 5.4

2006-02-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I inherited a production FreeBSD 5.4 used as a web/mail server (Apache, PostgreSQL, php, qmail, vpopmail, Courier). Could anybody help me with information about a web resource on upgrading such system (all, OS only or component by component) with minimum downtime. I looked into cvsup and

Re: automatically starting gnome-2.10

2006-02-26 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 18:12, Hèrvé Simplice van der Eijk wrote: Hallo FreeBSD users I just install gnome-2.10 on my freebsd 5.4 release machine, and it's working, but I want it to start automatically afther rebooting the system. I dont want to start it typen startx each time. please can

Re: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/libtool13

2006-02-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 26 February 2006 10:42, Xn Nooby wrote: I fixed most of the errors from my upgrade from 6.1 p#1 to 6.1 p#2, and in the process apparently upgraded to 6.1 p#3. I am still getting a libtool error. Earlier, I did a make deinstall clean on all ports that were using libtool, and after

Re: automatically starting gnome-2.10

2006-02-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 26, 2006 7:12:51 PM +0100 Hèrvé Simplice van der Eijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo FreeBSD users I just install gnome-2.10 on my freebsd 5.4 release machine, and it's working, but I want it to start automatically afther rebooting the system. I dont want to start it typen

Re: Why doesn't burn cdrdao BIN/CUE on 6.0-R ?

2006-02-26 Thread Fabian Keil
Robert Eckardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after trying for some hours now to burn a videocd with cdrdao under 6.0-R, I reverted to nero on XP. :-( 18:45 gluon: roberte/CD-Stuff/tmp 0%# cdrdao write --device 0,1,0 --driver generic-mmc-raw --speed 16 Video1.cue Did the same command work before?

Build on one CPU, run on different ones? (AMD, VIA, Intel)

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Shenton
I've got a variety of boxes around the house which all share /usr/local and /usr/X11 binaries, libraries and such. These boxes are of different vintages ranging from an ancient P60 to a new Pentium D, but also an older AMD K6 cpu and a VIA EPIA. My main NFS server is a 4-year old Intel and isn't

Re: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 25 February 2006 22:13, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:08:47PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:33:06PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: I just had my -CURRENT* machine crash under moderate load. No dump is available

Startup script

2006-02-26 Thread Joacim Melin
Hi all, newbie question: which script do I put stuff that needs to be booted during system startup, like apache httpd, spamd, named, etc? Joacim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list (Digest mode)

2006-02-26 Thread Fred McCann
I'm trying to configure mod_authn_dbd to use a mysql database. I'm running MySQL 5.0.18 and Apache 2.2 on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. Here's what I have for configuration: # Database Management DBDriver mysql #Connection string: database name and login credentials DBDParams dbname=UserDirectory

Re: Startup script

2006-02-26 Thread Daniel A.
On 2/26/06, Joacim Melin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, newbie question: which script do I put stuff that needs to be booted during system startup, like apache httpd, spamd, named, etc? Joacim /etc/rc.conf For example, apache_enable=YES If you are in doubt of which string you should type

Startup script

2006-02-26 Thread Robert Huff
Joacim Melin writes: newbie question: which script do I put stuff that needs to be booted during system startup, like apache httpd, spamd, named, etc? Investigate the contents, and proper usage, of /usr/local/etc/rc.d. It is also possible to put things in /etc/rc.local.

Re: VPN Jail(s) ...

2006-02-26 Thread Fabian Keil
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Igor Robul wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:03:26PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I asked this a little while ago, and had alot of good answers ... but, after doing some thinking, I'm wondering if there might be a

Re: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/libtool13

2006-02-26 Thread Xn Nooby
That port no longer exists. You can delete it and that is it. I did a pkg_delete on the libtool package, and that seemed to work. I was able to re-install most of the packages that I had to remove when fixing libtool, for example xine abd vlc. I am having a problem with rox-filer though, I

RE: setting up french keyboard

2006-02-26 Thread Peter
--- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:34 To: Webster, Andrew; freebsd-questions Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard --- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/libtool13

2006-02-26 Thread Xn Nooby
Have you tried /sysutils/portmanager yet? If not, you could try installing it and then running it, as root obviously, as thus: I'm trying to avoid portsnap and portmanager for now, since I don't really understand them - and they don't seem to be the official way (yet). I actually wish there

Re: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/libtool13

2006-02-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 26 February 2006 12:10, Xn Nooby wrote: That port no longer exists. You can delete it and that is it. I did a pkg_delete on the libtool package, and that seemed to work. I was able to re-install most of the packages that I had to remove when fixing libtool, for example xine abd

Re: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/libtool13

2006-02-26 Thread Micah
Xn Nooby wrote: That port no longer exists. You can delete it and that is it. I did a pkg_delete on the libtool package, and that seemed to work. I was able to re-install most of the packages that I had to remove when fixing libtool, for example xine abd vlc. I am having a problem with

Re: Heimdal Key Table Entry Not Found

2006-02-26 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:08:53AM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: I am not able to use heimdal kerberos telnetd on FreeBSD-6 to provide remote access to a host. I get this error from my Kermit client: Kerberos authentication failed! Kerberos V5 refuses authentication because

Re: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:24:28AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: Unfortunately without a traceback the panic string is useless since it gives you no clue about how the system got into that state. This kind of panic is often a secondary effect of some other problem. I can cause this to

Re: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/libtool13

2006-02-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 26 February 2006 12:10, Xn Nooby wrote: That port no longer exists. You can delete it and that is it. I did a pkg_delete on the libtool package, and that seemed to work. I was able to re-install most of the packages that I had to remove when fixing libtool, for example xine abd

Re: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 26 February 2006 12:29, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:24:28AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: Unfortunately without a traceback the panic string is useless since it gives you no clue about how the system got into that state. This kind of panic is often a secondary

Re: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/libtool13

2006-02-26 Thread Xn Nooby
I think I got it working now, I had to run the perl fixing script, then I did a make install clean on rox-filer. I hope they don't take it out, since that is the only file-manager I use! I'm running fluxbox, so I was surpised by all the gnome-stuff that was complaining. To FreeBSD's credit,

Re: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/libtool13

2006-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:25:05PM -0800, Micah wrote: Xn Nooby wrote: That port no longer exists. You can delete it and that is it. I did a pkg_delete on the libtool package, and that seemed to work. I was able to re-install most of the packages that I had to remove when fixing

Re: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:39:22PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2006 12:29, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:24:28AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: Unfortunately without a traceback the panic string is useless since it gives you no clue about how the

RE: setting up french keyboard

2006-02-26 Thread Peter
--- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to output French characters? If so, how? Try this when X is running: setxkbmap

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread Dmitri Pisarev
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). I need to install freebsd on to my

Re: Build on one CPU, run on different ones? (AMD, VIA, Intel)

2006-02-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 26), Chris Shenton said: I've got a variety of boxes around the house which all share /usr/local and /usr/X11 binaries, libraries and such. These boxes are of different vintages ranging from an ancient P60 to a new Pentium D, but also an older AMD K6 cpu and a VIA

Re: Startup script

2006-02-26 Thread Joacim Melin
And if there isn't any /etc/rc.local I just create one and put stuff in there? The absence of that file confused me a bit. Joacim On 26 feb 2006, at 20.42, Robert Huff wrote: Joacim Melin writes: newbie question: which script do I put stuff that needs to be booted during system

Re: Startup script

2006-02-26 Thread Robert Huff
Joacim Melin writes: And if there isn't any /etc/rc.local I just create one and put stuff in there? Yes. Also: I'm not sure when in the boot process rc.local is read (answer is probably in rc) but by default any programs started from there will not be able to take advantage

Getting current BSD version information

2006-02-26 Thread David Pratt
Is there a command to obtain ther current version of FreeBSD in use. I have a virtual server that the host upgrades from time to time so this information would be helpful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Getting current BSD version information

2006-02-26 Thread Joseph Vella
On Sunday 26 February 2006 1:32 pm, David Pratt wrote: Is there a command to obtain ther current version of FreeBSD in use. I have a virtual server that the host upgrades from time to time so this information would be helpful. ___

Re: Getting current BSD version information

2006-02-26 Thread David Pratt
Joseph Vella wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2006 1:32 pm, David Pratt wrote: Is there a command to obtain ther current version of FreeBSD in use. I have a virtual server that the host upgrades from time to time so this information would be helpful.

Re: Startup script

2006-02-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 26, 2006 9:54:45 PM +0100 Joacim Melin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if there isn't any /etc/rc.local I just create one and put stuff in there? No, no, nowhen you install ports, their scripts are installed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. System daemons are installed in

Re: Help with IP Filter 4.1.8

2006-02-26 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Roman Serbski wrote: Hi all, I am having a problem with ipf after recent upgrade to 6.1-PRERELEASE. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ipf: IP Filter: v4.1.8 (416) Kernel: IP Filter: v4.1.8 Running: yes Log Flags: 0 = none set Default: pass all, Logging: available Active list: 0 Feature

Re: Why doesn't burn cdrdao BIN/CUE on 6.0-R ?

2006-02-26 Thread Robert Eckardt
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:12:05 +0100, Fabian Keil wrote Robert Eckardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after trying for some hours now to burn a videocd with cdrdao under 6.0-R, I reverted to nero on XP. :-( 18:45 gluon: roberte/CD-Stuff/tmp 0%# cdrdao write --device 0,1,0 --driver

Re: advice on upgrading production FreeBSD 5.4

2006-02-26 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 2/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I inherited a production FreeBSD 5.4 used as a web/mail server (Apache, PostgreSQL, php, qmail, vpopmail, Courier). Could anybody help me with information about a web resource on upgrading such system (all, OS only or component by

How to upgrade portsnap in freebsd 6.0?

2006-02-26 Thread Steve P.
I am attemping to upgrade my portsnap program as a result of this: $ pkg_version -v | grep portsnap portsnap-0.9.4 needs updating (port has 1.0) When I attempt to upgrade via portupgrade, I get this: # portupgrade portsnap /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:213: warning:

Re: How to upgrade portsnap in freebsd 6.0?

2006-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:29:26PM -0500, Steve P. wrote: I am attemping to upgrade my portsnap program as a result of this: $ pkg_version -v | grep portsnap portsnap-0.9.4 needs updating (port has 1.0) When I attempt to upgrade via portupgrade, I get this: #

portupgrade -s and NFS /usr/ports?

2006-02-26 Thread Scott Mitchell
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone else out there has a similar setup to this and can offer any hints on improving it: - NFS-exported /usr/ports, permissions set so it's writable by anyone in the 'ports' group. - Mount this on various client machines where portupgrade will be run to build

Re: How to upgrade portsnap in freebsd 6.0?

2006-02-26 Thread Steve P.
pkg_delete worked, as confirmed by pkg_version does not show it anymore. However, when I attempt to make install it from ports, I get this: # make install === portsnap-1.0 portsnap now contained in the base system. *** Error code 1 Any idea? - Original Message - From: Kris

Re: Help with IP Filter 4.1.8

2006-02-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-26 20:15, Roman Serbski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am having a problem with ipf after recent upgrade to 6.1-PRERELEASE. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ipf: IP Filter: v4.1.8 (416) Kernel: IP Filter: v4.1.8 Running: yes Log Flags: 0 = none set Default: pass all,

Re: Help with IP Filter 4.1.8

2006-02-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-26 12:19, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you say the same ipf rules work on your 5.3 system and you are trying to run them on 6.1-PRERELEASE, I would say the problem is 6.1-PRERELEASE. No, that's false. Prereleases versions and RC version are not intended for public use.

Re: How to upgrade portsnap in freebsd 6.0?

2006-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:50:30PM -0500, Steve P. wrote: pkg_delete worked, as confirmed by pkg_version does not show it anymore. However, when I attempt to make install it from ports, I get this: # make install === portsnap-1.0 portsnap now contained in the base system. *** Error code

Re: How to upgrade portsnap in freebsd 6.0?

2006-02-26 Thread Colin Percival
Steve P. wrote: pkg_delete worked, as confirmed by pkg_version does not show it anymore. However, when I attempt to make install it from ports, I get this: # make install === portsnap-1.0 portsnap now contained in the base system. *** Error code 1 Any idea? # /usr/sbin/portsnap

Re: How to upgrade portsnap in freebsd 6.0?

2006-02-26 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 26 February 2006 16:50, Steve P. wrote: pkg_delete worked, as confirmed by pkg_version does not show it anymore. However, when I attempt to make install it from ports, I get this: # make install === portsnap-1.0 portsnap now contained in the base system. *** Error code 1 Any

Re: How to upgrade portsnap in freebsd 6.0?

2006-02-26 Thread Steve P.
I understand. Thanks to all. Steve. - Original Message - From: Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to upgrade portsnap in freebsd 6.0? Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:13:33 -0600 On Sunday 26 February 2006 16:50, Steve P. wrote:

building for diskless support: unknown option mfs

2006-02-26 Thread Guido Van Hoecke
Hi, I try to build a kernel that supports dsikless booting (on a FreeBSD-RELEASE-6.0). I have copied the GENERIC config file as DISKLESS and added following lines (as described in /usr/share/examples/diskless/clone_root: options MFS options BOOTP options

Re: rl0 discard oversize

2006-02-26 Thread Chris
On 26/02/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pol Hallen wrote: Hi all :-) I have a fbsd 5.4 today while copy a lot files (several Gb) the network saturation...and don't responding of ping :-( in dmesg i see: rl0 discard oversize frame (ether type 4a82 flags 3 len 38118

Re: Updating OpenSSH

2006-02-26 Thread Chris
On 26/02/06, Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel A. wrote: So, basically, if I want the newest version of OpenSSH running on my system, I have to not use the one shipped with 6.0-RELEASE, and install OpenSSH from ports? Please don't toppost. Installing from ports you'll get

RE: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
It has already been suggested but obviously you have ignored it so I'll say it again - get the hosting provider on the horn and have them lock the switch port to 100baseT-half duplex, you then do the same, then try the test, then have them lock to 10base t full, you do the same, try the test

RE: changing Sendmail server's IP address, nightmare!

2006-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
It is not a nightmare to change a mailserver's IP number, but it is a long process to change a DNS servers IP number if that server was fully registered in the root nameservers. Generally, putting your main mailserver and main DNS server on the same box is considered not very smart these days.

Re: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/libtool13

2006-02-26 Thread James Long
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:15:40 -0500 From: Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/libtool13 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Have you tried /sysutils/portmanager yet? If not,

Re: building for diskless support: unknown option mfs

2006-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:25:54AM +0100, Guido Van Hoecke wrote: Hi, I try to build a kernel that supports dsikless booting (on a FreeBSD-RELEASE-6.0). I have copied the GENERIC config file as DISKLESS and added following lines (as described in /usr/share/examples/diskless/clone_root:

ogle-gui needs liba52, but its already there ?

2006-02-26 Thread Xn Nooby
I havent't been able to build ogle-gui. It complains about 'liba52', which I believe is already installed. I deftly checked the UPDATING files, and did not see any mention about issues with liba52. I also tried Google to no avail. This failed about a week ago, and I was hoping it would be

Re: ogle-gui needs liba52, but its already there ?

2006-02-26 Thread Xn Nooby
Oops. Never mind. I was running the install on a machine I was shelled in to. Sorry about that. I'm going to step away from the computer for a while. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: anyone recognize this panic?

2006-02-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 26 February 2006 12:42, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:39:22PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2006 12:29, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:24:28AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: Unfortunately without a traceback the panic string is

dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state

2006-02-26 Thread Vitalie Apostu
Does anybody have this kind of errors in /var/log/messages? Feb 26 12:00:27 v kernel: dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state Feb 26 12:00:27 v kernel: dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state How to fix it? Thanks. ___

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